Pinay Sylvia Ratonel Makes it to Singapore Idol
October 3, 2009 by cd
Sylvia Ratonel, a Euro-Filipina working as a secretary in Singapore, made it in the Top 13 of Singapore Idol.
The third season of Singapore Idol kicked off with a top 13 contestants performing for the viewers’ votes.
In the Top 13 performance night, the contestants each sang a chart-topping song. Sylvia selected Alicia Keys’ “Fallin’” (click here to watch the video) and wowed the judges. She avoided the bottom three for the said performance.
In the Top 12 performance night, the contestants had to sing songs from the year they were born. Sylvia chose “Sweet Child of Mine” by Guns and Roses (click here to watch the video). Although she received mixed reviews from the judges, the pinay secretary survived the eliminations once again.
Sylvia is now becoming a singing sensation in Singapore and her performance videos are now getting thousands of hits in YouTube. The judges of Singapore Idol believe that her energetic nature would get her further in the competition.
If ever Sylvia wins the third season of Singapore Idol, she will be the next pinoy to win a foreign version of the Idol franchise outside the US and the Philippines after Christian Mendoza won Denmark Idol in 2003.
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January 21st, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Wikipedia:In 2009, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Singapore the tenth most expensive city in the world in which to live—the third in Asia, after Tokyo and Osaka.[13] The 2009 Cost of Living survey, by consultancy firm Mercer, has ranked Singapore similarly as the tenth most expensive city for expatriates to live in.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Levi’s 514 jeans costs $219 in Singapore. Perhaps a little less with the GSS on, but probably it’s still going to be over $150. I find this horribly expensive to pay for a pair of jeans. I bought this very same pair of Levi’s Jeans at $39.76. This is just a fraction of what you’d have to pay in Singapore stores. Can you guess where did I get the jeans?
Not in Singapore of course. Levi’s jeans are just too overpriced in SIngapore. It is so much cheaper in the US. I don’t know about other countries. In the US, it is not even like you have to travel hour to go to some factory outlet in the middle of nowhere. Yes, while I was in Orlando last week, I headed down to Florida Mall, and at Macy’s, I found this 514 jeans selling for US$28.96 after tax, which comes up to about S$39.76.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:14 pm
There are other things apart from clothing that are also overpriced in Singapore. For example, a battery for my MacBook 13.3″ costs S$232 in Singapore, but the equivalent of S$188 when purchased in the US. Exactly the same product.
With a globalized economy, online shopping, and declining international shipping rates… I certainly hope prices in Singapore start to make sense.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Wasted: I didn’t know you manufacture cars in Philippines .. wow, no wonder you are fiercely defensive of your country.
As for your crying rape about the cost of living, tell me what .. what are you trying to achieve ? Hmmm..
And how old are you, to be such an expert to analyse CPI ?? ha ha
BTW, tell that to the dozens of your countrymen, the top rung of your country, who fly in Business class and first class – to do what ?? Well, SHOPPING.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Sharer: Well, prices in US are low, and you can’t compare with anywhere in the world, because of the way the US market system runs.
And comparing the price of some stuff in US is absurd. Battery ? Well, why not buy it in China instead, if you are so cost conscious ?
Try to compare prices in Singapore with – well, another reasonably developed nation – Malaysia, for quality goods.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Assembly Plant of Toyota and Honda etc. are here. If you are right then our cars are made of low cost material?. Which these manufactures will certainly not agree.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:52 pm
hahaha! so youre scared of malaysian too huh! haha. I know you very well. you are what they said you are. hahaha! reasonably developed nation? hahaha! what the?
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:40 am
Wasted: you are such a troll.
I am 100% convinced you are a 100% true-to-word Filipino. You just removed all my doubts. Picking an argument as to whose is bigger than whose ..
And gosh, God Bless your wonderful country -you seem to find a twist in every statement until you twist it around and throw it back.
You do sound like my one and only filipina maid. She will pick a fight, and when I try to reason, she will turn around and blame me for the argument and hence I need to be punished and she will justify her tantrums. Little did she even consider that she was here on my sponsorship, and I am her boss, and it only takes a piece of paper for her to head back to the paddy fields in Isabella .. and to her tin-roof-shack. Thank God I didn’t give in to her concerted efforts to make her my lover.
Oh, I did forget something. While she didn’t have proper housing, she did have wheels – her family did own a jeepney, and they did have their priorities right. 4 Wheels are more important than a roof over your head.
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:27 pm
01/21/2010 Filipino-led team discovers malaria vaccine! wohoo!
January 23rd, 2010 at 2:19 am
Wasted, if you think it’s high cost living in Singapore, and many of you think that you are not paid well, then why are you still working here?
January 24th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
@ ohata – good question. lets put it this way – what these pinoys and pinays earn in their country, they have the luxury of one packet of potato chips. if they work in Spore, they have the luxury of getting 10 packets of potato chips. simple maths
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February 2nd, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Signing in from SF US of A!..I’m back fans!!!..Let get ready to rumblllllleee!!!!!
where are those f’ng mother f’ker singas now?
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:20 pm
wow……sneaking in after the heat had died down. how “valiant”. what a rat.