Kpop Star O__O

So.. While bumming around at home today, I randomly flicked over to one of the music channels on TV and found that Kpop Star season 2 was playing. (Kpop Star is a reality show similar to Australian Idol where judges from the 3 biggest labels in Korea try to find potential new singers, aka fresh meat XD). As I looked at the rather girly-looking little boy on the screen, who was awaiting judgement from the likes of YG himself, JYP, and Boa from SM Entertainment, I was reminded of one of my old students from back when I used to work at the kindergarten.

This particular student had always stood out from the rest, image-wise anyway, because he grew his hair long (once he even got it permed XD) like some kind of pop singer. I remember asking my co-teacher once why he had hair like that, and she told me it was because both of his parents were singers.

When I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he replied that he wanted to be a singer too, and I remember just smiling and nodding at him, all the while musing to myself, "Can this kid even sing?" I guess I was going with the theory that when two beautiful people have children, their children usually turn out ugly, and so if two good singers have children, then logically wouldn't their children turn out to be bad singers? XD (Yeah, the ridiculous things I spend my time pondering, I know. =__=)

In the entire year that I had taught him, I had never once heard him sing other than in a huge group at graduation where the voices of a hundred other children pretty much drowned his out anyway. So, imagine my astonishment when I realised that the little boy on TV who reminded me of my former student was actually my former student!



Apart from some of the words being unrecognizeable (he's 11 years old and English is not his first language.. It's excuseable.. lol), I think he did a pretty good job. ^^

Here's his performance of Justin Bieber's "Baby", for which he wrote the Korean rap himself.



Now he's made it into the show's top 10, and officially found himself a new fangirl. *points at self* Muahaha.

I'm so proud of him! Fingers crossed for this little guy. :3