I have always wanted a blog.But how can this be possible when you put this two in the equation: 1. I have no time + 2. I suck at writing! Anyway, I think Barry's status on Facebook must have inspired me and I just had to steal a bit of time from this lovely Saturday evening to make a headstart, now or never.
It seems like ages ago when I created the site kreees.com. I chose "kreees" as it was what a dear friend of mine, who has sinced passed on ,called me. The idea of the website was to complement its official web portat which was handled by TMNet. Bound by all sorts of franchisee restrictions of what could be put online and what couldn't, the official portal had limited resource to keep the online veiwers happy - and kreees.com came to the rescue. My job was to record the shows every week, edited it into smaller segments of performances and highlights ... too many sleepless nights.
I think I must have been inspired by Nikki's audition video! I just knew I had to broadcast it to the world to see! Nikki simply amazed me with her Mariah-trade-marked "whistling". Then came Jac's audition video, which blew me away ... And of course, many more of those hilarious ones which did not make it to the next round.
The first season had been great fun. The website received the great feedbacks from fans all over the world - then came discussion board, then came polls, then came forum ... The member base was 8000 strong on last count in Season 2. That amazing number though, most of them signed up to download video clips.
And thanks to some of these great fans, who contributed to the site, I managed to keep it running for a year or two as the bandwidth usage could really burn a hole in my pocket.
But I have no regrets. I learned something about myself - I do things which I am passionate about, never complain a single instance of being bored! There are just so many things in this world, you've got to have passion for.
Anyway, since 8TV has learned enough from running 2 seasons of Malaysian Idols, they dumped the ever increasingly expensive franchise and built their own formula - One in a Million. A formula which saw no return of a 3rd installment for MI.
So, MI is over. Now that kreees.com has become dormant. But along the line you've made some good friends with fans and Idol contestants like Farah, Jac ... , whom we still see and go places from time to time. For this kind of rewards, you can't buy from just watching these shows at your living room. :)
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