~~~~Family Tradition~~~~

A family tradition that we have is getting together on christmas day at my grandmother's house. Its a big party that my grandmother throws every year with a lot of family memebers..... everyone arrives at her house around 4pm...there are tables that are set up for majong, playing cards, and eating. Usually the older generation gathers around the piano and sings christmas carols while the younger generation is in the tv room watching tv or playing games. The type of food that is on the dinning room table is: fish, lumpia's, lecheon, chicken, rice, dinner rolls, different types of beef, ham , and more. Then on the dessert table there are many different types of cakes, cookies, fruit, and different fillipino desserts. We play christmas games and give out presents. My siblings and I are usaually behind the bar serving drinks, cleaning up tables and taking out the trash.

How "Real" Is Reality TV?

There are some shows that are "real" reality tv, some that are not and some that are "real fake". Dancing with the Stars is a real live show. You see the joy, the tears, the mess-ups and the fits that people throw because the dancing moves the Stars arent getting right away so they fusterated. You see the Stars mess-up on the dance floor, like Kelly Osbourne messed-up and you could see it on her face and once she knew she messed up, she just let the rest of the dance go. The in a season or two ago when Marie Osmond was the show, everyone saw her forgetting to breath and she fainted right there on the dance floor of course she was done dancing, it was when she was hearing what the judges have to say about her dance. Then one of the hosts, Tom Bergeron said lets go to commerical... like ten seconds after she fainted.... you can see that her dance partner and Tom try to help her out when she was laying on the ground. The other contestants were in the back room waiting for her to come back and to cheer her on for the dance she did and that little quick recovery she made from fainting...now she knows that she has to take a moment a rememeber to breath.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkl695BZjH0
American Idol is another real reality tv show that is flimed live, but when you see the contestant's perform infront of a crowd, they are lip-singing...they record their voices during thier rehersal earlier in the that day....but when the season comes to an end the two contestants that are left are actually really singing...like when Kelly Clarkson won the first season you saw her have joy of tears in her eyes in her final preformance and you can her actually trying to sing the song...so that goes to show how some live tv can be real....or fake in a way....

Music

The type of music that I listen to is white music---RB/ rock alternative. Its just the type of music I like to listen to. My brothers and sister, we all listen to the same type of music, but my brothers are a little bit more into rap. I listen to white music all the time, when I am at home, in my car, or even when I go out shopping I hear this type of music in the stores. I like to listen to N'SYNC, Back Street boys, Michael Buble, Rod Stewart, Nickel Back, Jonas Brothers, Justin Timberlake, Aly and AJ, Demi Lovato, Honor Society, Brittney Spears, etc.

Shaq Vs Michael Phelps

The one show that I watched this week was Shaq Vs Michael Phelps. Shaq Vs show is about Shq picking who he thinks is the greatest athlete out there, in different sports. This week Shaq chosed the sport swimming and picked to race Michael in his home town, Baltimore, Maryland. This was a great show..Shaq making joking jokes...saying he is gonna swim nija style....and try to scare Micahel....Shaq had it set in his mind that he was going to go beat the Baltimore Bullet. Shaq had made these rules about how the race was gonna go down and Michael excepted it all. Shaq had to swim 25m while Michael had to swim 50m, this was their race and their last race. Shaq had challenge the Baltimore Bullet to swim three races against him. When the second race came, Shaq had help from two olypmic gold medelist, and one world recorded holder, for the USA women's team to help him swim the relay race. While Phelps had to swim 200m relay by him self. Shaq had only won the first race and Michel won the other two. Micheal proved himself and others that he is the Baltimore Bullet; in the last race Phelps beat Shaq by .17 seconds, just like the shut out in Bejing.