Finally! My aunt (dad’s eldest sister) has a website up and running: Nhã Uyên Fashion.
In fact, ever since I visited Vietnam for the first time… I have had pants made by her and I have never gone back to wearing or purchasing any slacks in America since. Yes, I am a very happy camper.
Some of my favorite blouses and shirts come from my aunt, or replicated from her fashion house. So yes… I may be a little bias.
In other news:
Finally we have the fourth and final team for whom we will look at the breakdown of the seven vocalists as they are whittle down to five.
Taking a look at the official posted results we can easily figure out at least two of the final five that will be moving forward.
First off let us get the runaway favorite out of the way for this team who happens to be Bùi Anh Tuấn who sang Hoang Mang (Bewildered). He received 47.2% of the total team vote.
The second place public vote recipient went to Đinh Thị Thanh Hương (13.81%) who sang Forever And One
So who were the lucky vocalists to be given a free pass by the judge to move on to the next round?
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As I have done in the past for the Thu Minh and Trần Lập Editions… this time around the vocalists for the teams of Đàm Vĩnh Hưng and Hồ Ngọc Hà.
First on the list: Đàm Vĩnh Hưng.
Now just like with the previous two teams, The Voice of Việt Nam have posted on their website the results of the public voting.
So just like the previous two teams, the top two contestants of the public vote get an automatic pass to the next round and they are:
Vũ Thanh Hằng who sang Thu Cuối (The End), she received 26.93% of the total vote for the team.
The second highest public vote went to Phan Ngọc Luân who sang You’ll Be Sorry with 17.92% of the total votes of the team:
This was one of several movies I watched on my flights between Chicago and Vietnam that I either
1: did not watch entirely on my own (meaning someone else had it on and I just happened to be watching over his shoulder and consequently I felt that I needed to watch it in its entirety later on
2: was watching on my own, however fell asleep at some point during the movie that I missed crucial moments and as thus didn’t have a chance to watch in its entirety
3: was watching but fast forwarded parts because I got bored quickly but wanted to see what happened towards the end.
So which movies had this dubious pleasure? Based on the above criterion:
1: Battleship
2: The Lorax, Puss in Boots
3: Footloose
I am sure there are others and eventually I will watch the above movies in their entirety in the comfort of my home and review about them.
Granted there were probably a lot of other movies I glanced at, but at the moment they escape me… however should I remember of any others than the above I am sure I will post the movies here and link back as well.
However in the meantime…
The first in the above series? Battleship and The Lorax.
As I did with the Thu Minh Edition… I will look into what happened with Trần Lập’s team and how they got whittled down from seven to five. If you do not remember how the breakdown happened go to the post of the Live Round Edition – Whittling Seven Down to Five.
Looking at Thu Minh’s team there is a massive run away winner in the public vote. In the case of Trần Lập’s team there were three member that got the lion’s share of the public vote with everyone one else trailing a bit behind them. The top two of the three got an automatic in via the public vote:
Nguyễn Thùy Linh (31.7%) who sang “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”
Trần Thi Kim Loan (31.63%) who sang “Và ta đã thấy mặt trời” (Finally I Saw the Sun)
With the second round of two teams of seven participating in the second Live Show from teams Hồ Ngọc Hà and Đàm Vĩnh Hưng, let’s look and see how the first two teams fared in the first set of Live Shows. In case you do not know how the teams are whittled from teams of seven to a team of five head to my post: Live Round – Whittling Seven Down to Five.
Taking a look at the online list of how the public vote was separated, Thu Minh’s team had a clear winner in the popular vote running away with more than half of the votes that were called in and everyone else just trailing behind.
The Public Vote winners of Thu Minh’s team were:
“Phạm Thị Hương Tràm” who sang “Anh” (You). According to statistics she apparently earned the lion’s share (57.23%) of the public vote from her team.
… in case you did not know, she sang a Whitney Houston classic during her blind audition.
As for her team mate Dương Trần Nghĩa he sang Bay which translates to Fly (mind you Bay is the Vietnamese word, not the English word). He got about 11.09% of the vote.
So I was catching up with The Voice of Việt Nam, Việt Nam’s version of the United States hit The Voice.
A lot of the premise is still the same, but there are some things that I found to be rather interesting.
First let’s go back to what I mentioned about reality television in Việt Nam in general
I didn’t realize this show existed until I was chatting with family in Việt Nam and noticed a news article on Yahoo.co.vn site about a contestant on Việt Nam’s version of The Voice… also known as “The Voice of Việt Nam”. Complete with a Facebook Page, “The Voice of Việt Nam” is similar to that of the first two seasons of America’s version of The Voice. The blind auditions, the battle rounds, then the live rounds.
Each judge/coach has to comprise teams of fourteen vocalists from the blind auditions, then during the battle rounds those fourteen are whittled down to seven. As of this past Monday (September 24) the Live Rounds have begun.
The judging / coaching panel includes:
- Thu Minh: Dance, Pop Ballad
- Trần Lập: Rock, hardrock
- Hồ Ngọc Hà: Pop, R&B, Ballad, Dance
- Đàm Vĩnh Hưng: Việt Nam PopUnlike the United States version of The Voice, the judging / coaching panel tend to stay more in the similar realms and don’t really stretch out that much.
So it has been two weeks and already there are changes between the Việt Nam version and what we know in the United States:
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