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Today marks the end of Channel U's singing talent show, Project Superstar! In my opinion the entire series beats the local spin-off of the 'Idol' merchandise hands-on. Firstly, Singapore Idol was hideously boring, and please, which local singer has made it big as an export market English crooner? A Mandarin singing contest made so much more sense, and therefore congratulations to Mediacorp for producing the 'right' reality TV show! But just one thing.. It seems to be a little too fair to divide the contestants so equally by sexes every week. Maybe they just didnt want to be too similar to 'the Other show'.

And the crown goes to... visually impaired busker Tan Wei Lian.

Runner-up is female champ Kelly Poon.

Without doubt Kelly is much more versatile in her delivery, but since those who bothered to spend money to ring in the votes preferred WeiLian, I've got no comments. Both of them got recording contracts anyway. Question remains though, it has been known that the 2 finalists will be signed either by local-based Play Music or Universal Music, so why has the runner-up gotten the kinda better company (Universal)? Probably the upper level execs saw who was the winner in Their eyes before tonight.

Yea. No "Singapore's Brainiest" prize for you if you guessed which contestant I supported.

A fine effort by Mediacorp, nevertheless. Cheers.