Some TV shows are realistically humanitarian!

Emmanuel Kelly auditioning
at X  Factor
 Pic Courtesy:
Channel 7 Supplied
TGIF! Yeah.. and I'm more than happy that I didn't worry myself too much, even I was told to come home via the most hectic bus routes. Simply, I managed to catch the bus :) and that "Langama" bus was awesome which made me to tweet couple of times, with the hashtag #langamarox. 

As soon as I got home, I had this article to put up about the SSC Open Badminton C'ships. As usual, I opened my word doc, parallely signing into my gmail and FB. Saw a link on one of my friend's wall, with no thumbnail, but something triggered me to click on that.

I was redirected to a Facebook video, one of those uploaded by an artist based in the Middle East. An 'X-Factor' video clip, showing a guy named Emmanuel Kelly, who's just another victim of these bloody wars, specifically at Iraqi blood sheds. 
Emmanuel, who's a guy with limb deficiencies today, sings 'Imagine' at 'X Factor' Australian auditions. 

No point in me explaining about him, this video got everything. This video is not owned by me, and I never wanted to upload 'my own version' to YouTube, coz Emmanuel Kelly X Factor is such a trending term on the premium video hosting / sharing site. 


Emmanuel, not only made the audience cry, neither he made Ronan Keating, Spice Girl Mel Brown, Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Guy Sebastian desperately feel sad about him, while on stage. 

He made his adopted mother, the lovely woman, who is overwhelmed by her 'love towards two limbless youths', a proud human being. If you happen to read the top couple of comments under this YouTube clip, you would come across this comment "I wish the judges would have brought his mom on stage too so that she could have gotten the applause that she so rightfully deserved as well", and who, in this world, would disagree with this comment? 


I was turned by the visual which shows Emmanuel's family when he was introducing them to the judges, and more importantly, by the reaction of Ahmed, Emmanuel's brother, as he hears Emmanuel mentioning his name. 


X Factor producers have made the show much attractive using Emmanuel's real story and leaving a message to this planet Earth. 


And that message, was earlier harmonized by Sir John Lennon, the great. 


Let the world get this simple fact...


Emmanuel, THIS IS FOR YOU brother.. ALL THE BEST IN YOUR WORK! 

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