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WebJones brought this to attention a few days ago.
I did stumbled into it when I googled "Buffalo Soldiers." Apparently Buffalo Soldiers is a term used to nickname the soldiers who was.. how must I put it, not quite appreciated. The site WJ referred dubbed them as "American Unsung Heroes."

And how come a joke of a soldier (in terms of courage and die-for-your-nation ideals) like Joaquin's character was called the same? Before I even watched the movie, I did my own research. (That sounds cool, isn't it? But the fact was that the only deep searching and all that seemingly heavy scientific stuff I ever did was run a quick check over the Oxford Dictionary.)
I'd never heard of a term buffalo soldiers before and was wondering what it could possibly represent. Turned out, "buffalo" is often used to be in the stead of bafflement; some kind of a slang, apparently.
So (and what goes next is pure guess work) Miramax probably uses the term as some kind of cynical self-mock. After all, a soldier like Ray Elwood is sure baffling to someone pure and saintly like me. Ha!

I moved out today. Wait, "moved out" doesn't sound right. I just moved out of my old room into this bigger room. The bigger room is actually my old room before the last room... the room is actually oh, jeez forget it.
Anyway, I dragged myself outta bed early today - I just fell asleep at 5 past something in the morning, imagine the agony of having to get up at 9.30. Moving wasn't as bad as I imagined, though, but the dust...! Am surprised that I only sneezed once or twice.
My now room is bigger, actually the biggest in our lodging house, and since I'm now no longer at the corner, I won't be suffering noise attack from two angles no more.
(Nobody, I mean nobody can imagine the misery of falling asleep with three maids twiterring outside your window, banging at the trash can and cheerfully greeting other maids nextdoor.)

S'ley...! Happy Birthday, wish you a great year ahead!

Well, I've been a nice girl, can I talk about Clay now???

-- More various fast facts about Clay --

Rumour had it that there's something going on between Clay and fellow Idol finalist Carmen Rasmusen. Host Seacrest did poke at Carmen about it but she coyly chose neither to confirm nor deny it.

Glamour.com launched this poll, "Which Celeb Would You Love To Take A Bath With?" and published the result on this month's issue. Top three celebs picked by nearly 16,000 respondents were Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Clay Aiken.
This will certainly kill Jaded Journalist! And Simon would probably holler, "Buffalo soldier!"

Clay's afraid of water. No highfive there.

Ex's birthday tomorrow. Do I say Happy Birthday or do I not? (Oh, well, I've already send an e-card.)

Ha. Spawn is a fellow fan. Welcome aboard, bro!

Various Fast Facts on Clay:

During the first weeks of the season, Clay was dubbed "a headcrash between Alfred E. Newman and Howdy Doody" by Jaded Journalist, the one who writes recap for AI.
I know Clay isn't exactly George Clooney but at that time I thought JJ was being way too mean.
That was before I stumbled into a pic featuring Clay's first performances. Dios, no wonder he dedicated two bloody pages from the album cover to express his gratitute towards make-up team!

He doesn't like cat. Highfive!

Slipped somewhere between the many thanks he written is one towards Patrick L. "Thanks for not cutting me off, but scaring me to death instead."
Clay was a Wild Card, cut off somewhere along the line and was called back to be given a second chance. All three judges didn't pick him during the Wild Card Episode - so Clay's last and only hope was the live votes that was taking forever to be announced.
My favourite man Jaded Journalist wrote about the tension even from the start of the show. "The dramatic intro has obviously become too much for Clay, who looks like he is enduring the onset of a heart attack."
Producers (one of them supposedly the Patrick L. Clay mentions) and host Ryan Seacrest played with the audience and the contestants - results brought on stage only to be read out as: it's time for commercials. The second time that was being done, JJ was outraged and added, "The hilarity, the tension and the odds of Clay falling over dead before the show ends all rise!"
Back again and already JJ was saying that Clay looked like someone having a bad hangover from a cross country bus ride. And while Seacrest (finally) read the result for the 12th finalist; "Paramedics at the edge of the stage stare intently at Clay, ready to spring into action."
Oh well, the card read Clay so sure, he could now joke about it.



According to RollingStone mag, during Clay's performance of "Solitaire", guest judge Neil Sedaka was brought almost to tears and later (this is according to JJ) handed over ownership of the song to Clay.

Clay bites his toenails! Whee.