XFactor - in all of us

BT and the Vibes, Dom (MC), Beau, Stevie and Nyssa...

Have enjoyed watching the last few episodes of New Zealand's XFactor and particularly now that it's come to the final 3: the band (BT & the V), Beau and Nyssa.

Interesting that never before in the history of Xfactors around the world that a band has made it to the finals. I think it's even more interesting that apart from the multicultural band that we have a Samoan young woman (whose parents are missionaries in Samoa) with a Cook Islands/Maori young man from South Auckland making it to the finals from the hundreds of contestants who had competed for a place on the programme.

I'm happy for any one of the 3 to win because they are all so talented and so deserving: BT & the V definitely have the Xfactor and multi faceted in playing musical instruments and singing as well as working on their own arrangements. Beau comes from parents who founded the band "Ardijah" and is also multi talented in beat boxing, singing, dancing etc. and who started busking in Manurewa outside Southmall shopping centre, a neat role model. And then there's Nyssa with her lovely voice and cool personality, so funny (I just don't like the way they dress her half the time) but she can surely sing and deserves to be in the finals.

Looking forward to watching the finals in weekend and may the best multi talented artist/s win. But it also makes me realise that each of these people have spent hours and possibly years of perfecting their talent that this wasn't a once in a lifetime shot but that it's a culmination of giving it a go - one day at a time and never giving up. It's an inspiration to us all that if there's something that you really enjoy and you're good at it - to keep striving at it and you never know, opportunities such as these could come your way or you could carve out a path and make it happen 'cos we all have an 'x factor'... we just have to discover what it is...