Febbraio Ventotto, 8:24 PM

Still cooking dinner. Tonight, we’ll gonna have eggs, fish and as usual, steamed rice. They say Filipinos can’t live without rice. But I could.

I was home just in time American Idol aired. Like what I’ve said earlier, it was the girls’ turn to perform. I didn’t memorize the order of their performances and unfortunately, I don’t know where to get the list, because even the bloggers of americanidol.com are still, maybe, doing their blogs right now. The the top ten girls’ performances just aired, you know.

TOP 10 GIRLS’ PERFORMANCES

1.) Alaina Whitaker- Not captivating. I easily forgot the performance.

2.) Alexandrea Lushington- Does this girl have a nickname? If she had, I like to know what it is. When she made it to being this season’s American Idol, I’d suggest for her to have a new, shorter nickname. It’s too long. Anyway, I didn’t like her perrformance this week, although the song was great.

3.) Amanda Overmyer- I would really love to see this girl go. I really, really do. I have nothing against rockers, in fact, I love rockers, and I think they’re cool, but this one is so annoying. I don’t like her her hair, her make-up, her fashion identity, her voice, her personality. I don’t like her at all. She scares me. I don’t know what she sang, and I wasn’t interested. In fact, when it was her turn to sing, I went to the kitchen and started cooking.

4.) Asia’H Epperson- I really love this girl! she’s my bet to win this year’s title. Before, I was wondering why she was so muscled up, and I just find out today. Her clip showed that she was a cheer leader in elementary and highschool. I like it better when her hair is straight. Although her voice wasn’t that good today, due to sickness, which the show failed to elaborate, I was still impressed on how she pulled a Celine Dion song. You know, I’ve never seen a person, except for amateur pinay singers, pulling of a Celine Dion, let alone “All By Myself”. It was captivating. In the middle of the song, she messed up with a line, because she failed to produce a voice for it. You know, it’s just like you’re listening to CD, then you suddenly mute it, or it skipped, or something like that. But in the end, she dropped a bombshell. Yay.

5.) Brooke White- Wow, it doesn’t really show on her appearance that she went to a beauty school. I don’t mean you have to be beautiful to be in a beauty school, but come on, you should be well groomed. Her hair looked like it wasn’t combed for a year…… Haha. I just realized that if you see me now, you’d say, “look who’s talking!” Yeah right, I don’t comb my hair for days, but I’m not a beauty school student, okay. Anyway, when I was a bit younger, my hair was insanely straight, and my classmates in highschool always ask me, “You’ve got a secret to that hair?” Actually I haven’t. It’s just smooth and silky because of the water in that place. I don’t comb at all, or use hair conditioner; I simplt wash it, and shampoo it every other day. But when I moved here, my hair went like this. It’s te same color, but it’s growing bushy and bushier everyday. It’s still straight but it wasn’t as smooth as before, and it was all tangly. And again, it’s just because of the water here.

Anyway, I enjoyed her performance with the guitar, but I was uncertain what will the judges say about her performances. I loved it, and when the judges gave their comments, I was glad that they agreed with me.

6.) Syesha Mercado- The performance wasn’t that captivating as just last week. But I think she’ll recover.

7.) Ramiele Malubay- She messed up this time. She should’ve performed another typical pinay audition song, or amateur singing contest song we used to here in the country, like “All By Myself” or “Through the Rain” or “To Love You More”. If she did that, she could’ve wowed the judges again. The judges said the performances was okay, but they think she could better than that. I think so. Next time, she needed to pull off a Whitney Houston song to make up for her mistake.

8.) Carly Smithson- Until now, I haven’t still developed affection for this contestant, because she was already a recording artist before. No surprises, that’s all. I haven’t got much to say for her, except for the fact that she’s beautiful. Well, second only to Asia’H Epperson.

9.) Kristy Leigh Cook- The amazing grace girl. I love her, and I think she’d be the next Carrie Underwood. But the thing is, she messed up with her performance tonight. And it was a boring song.

10.) Kady Malloy- As far as I could remember, she was the Britney slash Shakira impersonator. I was impressed on her, when she tried doing opera. So far, I’ve only liked one opera singer, and it’s Charlotte Church, and she’s my next favorite. The way she immitates people, it was crazy. I think she’ll have a better career in impersonating singers than having his own record.

She sang an unfamiliar song, and I thought it was Christina Aguilera’s song, because she completely sounded like Christina. Simon said that he heard the same thing. But I’m sure, we’ll be still seeing her on the show next week. I can’t wait for tomorrow’s episode.

On the other hand, before I logged out, I promised to write about the Immaculate Deception, by Iain Pears. I’ve seen a review in the cover of the book and it simple said, “Magnificent…” and I was like, “magnificent where?”

Let’s get started. Flavia was a head of detective whatever for art thievery whatever. Prime Minister Sabauda contacted her when the head curator of the museum, Macchioli lost a painting. Actually, the painting was stolen. It was stolen this way: the thief, who was wearing a Da Vinci mask went inside the museum, took hold of the painting Cephalus and Procris, which was painted by Claude whoever, based on Ovid’s story. The thief went out of the museum with it, having the employees put in a van at gunpoint and handed out Belgian chocolates. What a dramatic way of stealing. Flavia recovered the gun used by the thief, which was thrown away before driving off.

Flavia made further investigation and she found out by asking people, that the thief was Marizio Sabbatini. According to her mentor and friend, Taddeo, who also suggested Sabbatini, it’s just Sabbbatini who’s only capable to pull off such stunts.

After long hours of reading, at last, the book fed me something valuable, like Sabby finally asked for a ransom. It’s against the law to pay ransom, so Flavia was thinking about what to do, when an anonymous package arrived, with three million dollars on it. With further investigation, Flavia found out that the money was from Sabby’s brother-in-law, Di Lanna. Di Lanna knew that it was Sabbatini, so to avoid family name’s embarassment, he volunteered to pay the ransom, but he got the money from Sabby’s bank account. How he did that was also a mystery to me.

Swapping was about to made Friday night, Flavia was there with Taddeo. Taddeo, on the other hand, was afraid for Flavia’s life so he investigated on his own, and discovered that Sabby want something, and it was not money. Sabby’s sorella, Maria Di Lanna, was murdered years ago, and the case was just dropped because they didn’t find who did it. Sabby wanted the report, which was in the hands of Taddeo, but Taddeo wasn’t aware. It was just passed into his office from the former general, who just happened to die months ago.

Sabby was murdered, drowned in the tub of plaster, when he was about to take a bath, and Taddeo saw it, but shut his mouth because he didn’t want something to make his retirement postponed. Dossoni, the so-called journalist did it. Taddeo retrieved the painting, but hid, because he can’t think of an excuse how the heck he found it.

Taddeo made sure that he was the one to swap with Sabby. Sabby was dead, so he had no chance to show up, so Taddeo went to the dark corner, dropped the money and took the Claude painting. He’s fooling himself, there’s no one to swap with, you know. Then, he gave the money to Mary Verney, who was his lover.

Flavia took the painting from Taddeo and acted as if nothing happened. Taddeo disappeared, but I won’t leave you guessing where he went. He went to Mary Verney’s house in Tuscany.

Flavia soon discovered that Sabby had been dead couple of days before the swapping. She was after the money.

Meanwhile, Jonathan Argyll, Flavia’s husband, was on his own way finding out about an Immaculate Concepcion painting he saw on Taddeo’s apartment. He therefore realized that it was stolen so many times, and it was Mary Verney who gave it to Taddeo.

I don’t know what happened but the book ended this way: They all realized that Di Lanna was after the Sabbatini wealth, so he killed Maria Di Lanna (got her shot and dumper her somewhere public) and years after, he had Maurizio killed too. Maurizio stole the painting because he wanted Taddeo to go public about Maria’s death, in exchange for it. He’s the only person who knew the truth. Taddeo explained to the Newly Weds, and they were okay when Dossoni showed up, and wanted the four of them dead (Jon, Flavia, Taddeo and Mary), under Di Lanna’s order.

After long and boring exchange of creative litany and dramatic conversation, Flavia and Di Lanna agreed to keep each other’s mouth, just by having a deal to leave each other alone. Flavia was willing to put Di Lanna behind bars, then what? Same corrupt official will succeed his office, and Flavia’s right about thinking that she was just wasting energy. In exchange for her silence, Di Lanna would do nothing about on Flavia and Jonathan’s life.

The couples resigned their jobs, because Jonathan sold his collection, and made as much the three million dollars. Mary Verney kept the money, but they agreed to give it to charity, little by little.

What’s so deceptive about the Immaculate Concepcion painting? I don’t see its significance in the novel. The title “The Immaculate Concepcion” was totally captivating, but when you started reading it, you’ll wish that you’ve never bought it. Another thing, thieves in this book was proud of themselves. You read it right, they’re “proud of themselves”. It’s just like when someone asks you, what do you do for a living, and the you square your shoulders, bob your chest out and stuck your chin up high, and say, “I steal paintings and pictures,”

Stealing is a profession, and that’s what the book was trying to say. If I steal, even it’s just a hanky or candy, I’d surely feel guilty about it, and I won’t tell it to anyone, or admit it publicly. But in the book, the thieves are just so… proud, is the right word.

I gotta go and get some sleep.

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