After all the negativity I've gone through, with the really stupid bulimic and anorexic aspirations in The Biggest Loser Asia and the almost clueless Akademi Fantasia 8, mai aku start the morning a bit more interesting.
Any Jeremy Renner fans in the house (hell yeah!) And Pink fans in the house? Hell yeah.
So you're talking about one of my favourite actors EVER and one of my favourite singers EVER (I still remember meeting her... brings a smile to my face). Combine that? And put in a then unknown group called... Pussycat Dolls, and I have the perfect song to start my morning with.
This was the first single I believe off Pink's Try This album, called Trouble. My theme song for the day. Feeling inspired to go out and rip it up! Yeah! Nothing like starting the morning with a song like this (Play this loud! It's inspiring!), while watching Jeremy (yes, he's the sheriff), the Dolls and Pink herself in the video. Lotsa fun.
Got some things to sort out today... no time to idle about.
I may continue my Oscar movie marathon again. Yesterday night rewatched Up In The Air, Up, The Hurt Locker and The Blind Side (which I never got to finish). May go through a few more Oscar nominated movies (most of which I haven't watched yet especially the foreign language ones). What? Avatar... Lord give me strength to sit through that one again. Enjoyable but... erm... it's an experience once. But I'll pass.
Will blog later... meanwhile... sing along.. I'm trouble!!! I'm trouble y'all!!!
PS - Heard The Biggest Loser Asia and Akademi Fantasia host, Sarimah Ibrahim and Marion Caunter are favourites from Malaysia for the spot to host for E News Asia. Hope the producers look closely at both of them as they are (especially Sarimah) really talented!
Ok I promised to tell you guys more about what happened at The Biggest Loser Asia finale, so here it is.
The 'live' telecast of the final you guys watched? Total bullshit. It was taped in the afternoon. I have no idea what was the rationale in it being advertised as being live.
Now let me tell you what happened.
Invites put the event to begin at 9.30am. Now I can understand usual delays, but taping only began at 11.30am!!! Nutsacks and two angry camels in a tiny car!!!!
Apa ni... walaopon kita ni waktu Malaysia memang tambah masa sikit konsep injury time takkan sampai camni? Kurang ajar betul! Takpe... sabar separuh dari iman... kata ko! Walaopon...
Anyway, that was still fine.
So recording began. And that was when I felt like unleashing the fury of hell (or at least an empty stomach) on the people responsible.
The two-hour slot programme (which was in actual time I suppose just over an hour and a half which began taping at 11.30am ended ONLY at 3pm!!! Two camels in a tiny car be humpin' your momma!
Seriously???!!!!
Three and a half FUCKING hours???
Bodoh ke apa meka ni?
The so-called professional regional folks behind the show, screwed up production BIG TIME!
It was bad, real bad and I have never seen anything as badly put together like this in over 13 years of journalism being to some of the biggest shows around. Even our local TV programs which are really broadcast live are handled better than this. I've been to Indonesian TV stations too and they do things WAY more professional than this!
To Hallmark - if you're going to do another edition of The Biggest Loser Asia, sack the REAL LOSERS in the production twats who fucked up big time and couldn't even deliver a TV show recording and took double the time needed!
I mean really.... from the opening, it was already screwed up! The audio from the steady cam Sarimah was working with couldn't sync or something. That wasted a good 20 minutes. And that was just at the very beginning of the taping.
Then there was the power trip where the VT that was being shown was rudely interrupted (I think the only power trip was the ever-yakking director who was incompetent at best!), the introduction of the eliminated former cast members that had some stupid glitch resulting in more delays and even during the final weigh-in when the software (or some idiot manning it) caused more hold-ups when Carlo's result came out in blue (he's team red - and that fuck-up took more than 15 minutes to settle).
So I had my ass parked in Finas from 9.30am to 3pm (I left the moment the winner was announced, and didn't bother to stay for the damn media conference which began later).
This is not the fucking Oscars, and no journalist sits through more than 6 to 7 hours for just a damn TV show taping. HONESTLY! Surrounded by nincompoops who had no clue what they were doing.
And need I mention how arrogant some of the production members were?
Ada minah salleh sorang ni... kerek nak mampos! During the power trip which took another 20 minutes or so to settle, she was overheard saying to a helpless production crew member, "Why are these people coming out! You should stop them!".
Hey lady, you think we're fucking cattle or something?
Stupid, arrogant people behind the production. Who didn't even have the brain cells to work out that the venue was so wrong for the event.
I mean, you had so many people who were really not at their ideal bodyweight, huffing and puffing away up really steep stairs, trying to get a place to sit (hard, studio bleachers are not very comfortable if you have to sit direct for three and a half hours especially when some power trip Caucasian female is giving you the evils or making comments likening you to cattle who should stay put and be patient with her team's stupidity!).
All in that - that FUCKED UP my experience that was supposed to be inspirational.
And dare I mention watching the contestants?
For the first half hour, I was seriously impressed and inspired by the stories and transformation of some of the contestants. Tony from Thailand, Hafiz from Singapore and Gary from Thailand too, I believe were inspiring for losing so much weight on their own, despite being booted out of the show. Honestly they were barely recognizable.
The rest did well too, even Kevin from Philippines who brought the tears on for his slightly.. well.. much but could be healthier appearance.
And some of that feeling of being inspired remain to watch finalists Martha Lai from Hong Kong and our own home boy Aaron Mokhtar from Kuala Lumpur come out, looking amazing.
Then Carlo, from the Philippines, the crowd favourite came out. I was amazed at how much he lost and respected that he not only lost weight, but he toned up well, showing that he was not only cutting down weight and losing the bodyfat but also working on toning himself up (which is difficult and many of contestants had tell tale signs of speedy weight loss over a short period of time with the saggy skin and all).
Then David Gurnani from Indonesia who was my favourite came out.
And that's when I stopped being inspired.
The King who has been consistent in his efforts and performance throughout the show was nothing more than walking bones clothed in skin! In fact, he looked like he was on the verge of collapse and it was obvious he WASN'T healthy as he took too much effort to even make the slightest movement.
He may have lost an accumulated 83kg from his 157kg to become the first Biggest Loser Asia, shedding more than 53% of his body fat - in two months extreme eight to ten hour workouts daily.
He may have walked (if you can call it that) with US$100,000 (RM350, 000) and a car but he did NOT inspire me. In fact he scared the fucking bejeebers out of me. He looked skeletal and anorexic and just... so wrong!
Is this what The Biggest Loser Asia is trying to put across? People who starve themselves for the sake of money?
I know the original programme may not have been perfect too, but they didn't go skin and bones to win.
I thought the spirit of the programme was to inspire people to be fit and healthy - and this was just, so effing wrong!
Are you inspired by The Biggest Loser Asia?
Not me. I want to reach my ideal body weight and body fat count too like a lot of people, but this is just so... two angry camels in a tiny car!!!!
Honestly.
Watch the finale (if you haven't... it's less painful as unlike me you didn't have to sit through a total of 5 1/2 hours of stupidity on display). You'll understand what I mean.
To the contestants, I hope you guys keep working it out and maintaining a healthy lifestyle for the sake of health and not money or a car.
To the finalists, Aaron and Martha - you guys inspire me.
To Carlo - you are amazing and doing it the right way with amazing results.
To David, you need to stop looking like a body double for Skeletor and get back to being healthy and not the poster boy for anorexia nervosa. I believed in you doing it the right way. Not when you began trying to look like a bad attempt at Kate Moss's waif-heroin chic look. For your sake... get healthy and eat now that you have the USD$100,000.
To Sarimah - great job!
To Hallmark - get a new production crew as the idiots you hired are just INCOMPETENT!
And to the production and PR team - you guys are the biggest losers in Asia I know.
PS - To viewers, next time they tell you something is 'live' chances are some idiots were sitting in a studio for almost three times the actual length of the programme fuming at the stupidity of some incompetents.
Ok... so the start of the day was pretty shitty - no thanks to the stupid ass event that was called The Biggest Loser Asia finale.
Dahla nak gi sana da sekian hal. Please note kebijaksanaan sapa entah yang pilih to do contruction on a very busy stretch on the LDP on a freaking Tuesday morning.
Will go on about that later (about program lahar tuh... not the traffic situation). Malas nak meroyan skang... kang banyak result bagai aku bagitau sebelom tayang kol 9 malam kang. Ala... tayang tuuuu... yang kononnya live bagai tapi sebenarnya rakaman hanjeng belaka. Nanti je la aku carot kenapa.
Abih event puaka tuh, aku gi pengenalan 12 pelajar untuk Akademi Fantasia musim ke lapan.
Nampaknya, benar ek tilikan aku. Heh... no komen. Sapa yang da baca whether in chat ke on my fan page ke column aku, da tau seminggu dua lepas kan?
Anyway kali ni aku rasa hampeh dot com sikit la suasana AF8. Tatau la... bak kata juri tertentu dulu, I deserve my comment (matilah aku!) Kita tunggu je betol ke tak janji produksi kononnya takde sekor pon tone deaf ek! baru start carotan panjang berjela.
Tak kuasa aku nak biodata penoh bagai so here it is.
Tak kuasa aku nak biodata penoh bagai so here it is.
Pelajar perempuan - empat orang dari Sabah (berlakon pengsan terkejut) dan adalah Nadiawati Ainul Basir (Ain) - 23, Dayang Nor Anum Arjuna Aharun (Anum) - 19, serta sepasang adik beradik (is this even realistic???) Erma Suhaimi - 21 (Ema) dan Siti Adira Suhaimi - 19 (Adira).
Selebihnya peserta perempuan, seorang dari Sarawak iaitu Zafarina Jamhari (Farina), 28, dan Nadia Emilia Roselan (Nad), 21. Nad ni dak Klang... budak kampung aku nih... awas la carotan lebih tiga bakul dari peserta lain kalao malukan kampung halaman kita yang traffic jam tiap pagi cam armageddon lahar itu.
Skang sila cuci mata atas wajah-wajah kaum Hawa dalam Akademi Fantasia musim kelapan.
Please note - HAVE SOME RESPECT for the owners of the copyright of these pictures. Credit should be given to Astro and Akademi Fantasia, dan jangan pandai-pandai watermark gambar-gambar ni ngan URL atau logo blog atau website korang yang nan hado. Honestly... that is infringement of the owners' rights. Beretika sikit ketika nak melayari Internet (ramai sangat bangsat pandai on PC tapi tak pandai baca kat luar tuh)
Ain
Anum
Ema
Adira
Farina
Nad
Bebudak laki reverse lak... as I revealed much earlier. Hanya seorang dari East Malaysia iaitu Muhd Shahril Firdaus El (Daus) - 22 dari Sarawak.
Ni sorang agik dak Klang iaitu Muhammed Shahril Mohd Saleh Hussein (Shah) 26. Harap awas ye... jangan malukan orang Klang.
Remainder are Muhammad Alif Kadim (Alif - berapa banyak Alif da nih... ni kedua dalam AF, pastuh keluar pakai nama Alif agik tambah pening la semua bersepah yang bernama Alif) - 18 dari Kuala Lumpur, Ahmad Shahir Zawawi (Shahir) - 21 dari Perak, Emirza Awan Zulazrin Chew (Iwan - panggil je Emi kan better... heh!) - 20 dari Negeri Sembilan dan Muhd Firdaus Maulana Mohamed (Maulana) - 22 dari Johor.
And here are how the boys look like.
Daus
Shah
Alif
Shahir
Iwan
Maulana
So are you guys convinced?
Buat kali pertama dalam aku ikut Akademi Fantasia sejak permulaan lagi di musim pertama... I am not in the least excited.
I like the Sarimah and Jimmy combination. Tapis selain itu, soal programming, cast list bebudak ni... langsung tak meyakinkan aku sebagai peminat that it will be... well.. interesting to watch.
In fact, I have this impending feeling of doom which I had masa AF4... only worse.
Apapon aku tanak komen lebih (walaopon rasa berbakul nak carot da - dan sebab aku tak terlibat tahun ni dan bebudak ni bukan student aku cam musim lepas, aku leh bagi teguran - abih la blog aku ni kena serang karats lagik pasni). To be fair, aku tunggu first show - tu pun kalao aku rasa nak gi sebab tak kuasa ada konsert pastuh results show lak feeling Idol. Aduh!!!!
Some people just don't understand what is sacred to Akademi Fantasia.
AF8 bermula dengan Tirai AF Sabtu ini 13 Mac 2010 at 9 pm di Astro Ria. Diari bermula the the following Monday pada jam 7.30 malam (solat Maghrib tak nih?).
Apapon kita wait and see je.
PS - Aku ada sorang kawan dalam Akademi antara bebudak ni, tapi memang sah takde bias. Tapi untuk elakkan binatang-binatang bakal menyerang aku diam kan sapa dan hanya akan bagitau ujung musim atau bila orang itu sudah tersingkir.
PPS - Kongsi sikit pendapat korang pasal bebudak ni dan programming. Nak tengok apa pendapat korang.
Kalau baca title entry... cam betul je, girls night out.
Actually it was Umie's berinai event sebelum dia menikah kat Mekah on 14 Mac. She invited friends, media and of course also family members for the simple event.
Aku claustrophobic sikit ramai orang yang turned up, but it was a feelgood event. Plus on top of that, rumah dia kat I-Zen tuh memang selera - like a duplex penthouse (yang berdepan my Mont Kiara home). Cantik some basic makeover da bermula kat umah tuh.
Tak sempat snappy banyak pics sebab seriously had some stuff on my mind, plus rengsa la sikit mood aku.
Tak sempat snappy banyak pics sebab seriously had some stuff on my mind, plus rengsa la sikit mood aku.But sib baik kengkawan ramai, so enjoyable. I think most of the time was spent kat the humongous balcony (which could have been two massive room combined) enjoying the view of Mont Kiara and Hartamas, while puffing away.
The bride to be
The BFF - Erra
Aku pemalas lak nak snappy banyak pics lately. Entah kenapa. Takde mood nak update sangat. Still, in keeping with my resolution from, what was it... two or three years ago? Aku update gak tetiap hari walaopon kekadang concept ala lagging gituh kan, lembab je nak kuar, delayed.Ni pon nak end entry yang pendek ni. Nanti-nanti je ok angin better, aku update lebih panjang.
PS - Extremely happy The Hurt Locker swept at the Oscars!!!! Wish Up In The Air had won something as it was one of the best movies in contention, and that Precious could have taken more (but I love Monique's performance and glad she won). Not that I'm against Avatar or anything - but I think it won the categories it deserved, which was mostly technical.
Just disappointed over Best Actor though. Jeremy Renner should have won for The Hurt Locker (one of my few favourite actors of all time) or George Clooney for Up In The Air. But I guess the Academy still remains predictable over choices sometimes. Oh well... at least Sandra Bullock won.
After a slow boring weekend which was HOT, syukur la hari ni not so bad.
First of all, the nice, cloudy - almost gray day was welcome relief and secondly sebab after getting enough rest, belah malam gi Hard Rock Cafe nak layan Dayang and Marcell performing live.
Dah lama, sejak zaman Planet Hollywood takde showcase yang camni, in this kind of environment (I'm not a fan of No Black Tie - but I love Malam Nada Biru which just had its second show).
So seronok lak ada showcase camni. Dayang and Marcell were AWESOME. Sapa ada kat show tuh will testify to that. Kalao ikut show camnih biasa at the end of 45 minutes mesti ada break or intermission - for the performer to recover as well as not to have the audiences bored.
Dayang and Marcell kept passing the baton, first opening together, then each taking turns going solo with the occasional duet thrown in. I like!!! They went on about two hours! Gila!!!
Aku tak bawak camera, so pakai Blackberry je la jawab nya. Korang troll about blog bebudak lain mesti ada pics show. Me, aku shoot dari seat aku je, which was next to the performer's table.
Aku tak bawak camera, so pakai Blackberry je la jawab nya. Korang troll about blog bebudak lain mesti ada pics show. Me, aku shoot dari seat aku je, which was next to the performer's table.Dayang and Rima Melati, Marcell's beautiful wife
Marcell and wifey
Aku ada la amik snippet video sana sini. Kang aku upload. Meanwhile, nak make this entry really short sebab esok nak kuar awal pagi to take my mom for her check-up. Could be quite a serious situation... so we'll see. But for now takde mood nak update sangat.Here's to a crazy week! Esok malam lak ada Umie punya berinai. Pagi patutnya nak join Star World punya event meka host for the Oscars (a breakfast with the Oscars thing they do every year), but since taking my mom out so have to pass on that.
Eh ok la.. kata tanak go on... tak stop agik. Ciao bella!
PS - Why do people try so hard to come across as intellectuals when they're so full of crap and reveal their one track mind?
Ari ni malas sangat sebab panas ya amat, so keja main godek apps for Blackberry je. Ni aku nak kongsi applications you MUST have on the Blackberry 9700/Bold 2/Onyx.
This will hopefully help some people, especially those I know to make their Blackberrys more useful (aku kenal some ada Blackberry berketul dan da pakai lama tapi hampeh tau how to use it)
Ni my personal list of apps I have been trying and which I think is absolutely the best to have on your phone without just wasting space in your memory for having it. Kalao korang nak, online je ngan your BB and click the download links for direct access and download to your phone.
Sapa pakai BB yang masih pakai bebola tuh, pepandai la godek sendiri. My recommended site is Blackberry Seeker. They have the best listings of apps, themes and games there.
Hope you guys have fun downloading these and that your Blackberry becomes a one-stop comm centre after this.
Here's my list of MUST HAVES on the Blackberry (specifically the Onyx). From your phone, just click the links for download for immediate OTA download and install.
Here's my list of MUST HAVES on the Blackberry (specifically the Onyx). From your phone, just click the links for download for immediate OTA download and install.
Blackberry Messenger 5.0 (CLICK HERE FOR INFO AND DOWNLOAD)
Do I even need to elaborate why you need this? Unless you are not subscribing to BBM (and what a waste if you aren't... what's the point of having a BB then?), this application is like du-uh - WAJIB! There are other hybrid messengers out there integrating other applications with the Blackberry Messenger, but I like my BBM to be stand alone. For integrated messengers, search Pairingo, WhatsApp or IMplus.
Don't forget to add Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger or even Skype for Blackberry if you have those accounts if like me you prefer those stand-alone apps.
UberTwitter - (CLICK HERE FOR INFO AND DOWNLOAD)
For those who tweet, this is a must have. There are many apps out there for Twitter on Blackberry, but I find Ubertwitter the best after having testing out a few. Not perfect, but enough to satisfy tweeting on the go. Also enables Tweetphoto, so linking a pic to a tweet has never been easier. From your gallery, terus send ke Ubertwitter with whatever caption. Takes just seconds (unless your line is crappy)
Facebook - (CLICK HERE FOR INFO AND DOWNLOAD)
Ok, so you can get on Facebook online, but this app makes it so much easier if you're only doing the basic functions. Condensed version of Facebook. Again, like BBM, there are a lot of integrated apps out there which combines Facebook with other social media... but I wanted specifically for Facebook.
Also out there are apps for Myspace.
FlashOn - (CLICK HERE FOR INFO AND DOWNLOAD)
While there are apps out there which use the LED light as a torch, Flashon is my personal favourtie (and almost a secret because no one I know has this app - yet... for now.. lepas ni tatau la).
Instead of just the sodih punya LED, it turns on the blinding flash for the Blackberry Onyx into a torchlight. Good for those moments in the dark. Yes, your phone has multiple uses.
BeBuzz - (CLICK HERE FOR INFO AND DOWNLOAD)
This free version of BeBuzz rocks! You know that blinking red LED that lights up everytime you get a call/missed call/message?
Change the colour NOW! To every colour possible. It basically allows you to use that function. Tak caya, tengok buktinya in the video below. Abaikan kejinjangan Onyx aku with the disco function. Heh... trust me... it's a display of the colours available.
Aku pasang disco light for the call-in function. And set white for missed call. But customize it how you wish.
Where's My Phone - (CLICK HERE FOR INFO AND DOWNLOAD)
This is a miracle app. If you misplace your phone, even if it's on silent, you can now find it with this app. Likewise kalao kena kebas (tapi harapan tetap tipis la nak recover).
What it does is link to your emails associated with your Blackberry. All you have to do if you can't find your phone, is send an email to the address associated with your phone and it will go crazy.
The full version siap ada GPS nak detect your phone but the free is enough I think, especially kekadang letak phone entah mana terlupa.
Call Blocker Pro - (CLICK HERE FOR INFO AND DOWNLOAD)
I use to have something like this on my Nokia. This works like a charm. Though I don't know why this is missing a whitelist, but the blacklist itself is good. Basically it can block out private numbers, numbers not in your contacts or all calls if you wish or just any idiots harassing you.
Amik ko.
PS - Pada kengkawan, I know how this app works, so jangan pepandai nak block aku lak. Matilah ko!
So that's among the apps I can share. Do you have a favourite? If you do, share it with me! Nanti aku kongsikan ada app lain dalam phone aku. Banyak sangat...
Tadi gi Pavilion. Masa nak carik tempat makan, spotted this familiar face. Dak keja tempat jual satay tuh. Macam kenal... tapi sapa ek pekerja kat tempat tuh?
Korang cam tak?
Mai usha dekat sikit sapa pekerja yang moka cam kenal yang ala ala tengah curi tulang nih. Now do you recognize him?
Sapa tak kenal sila hantuk pala pada PC atau laptop (takde insurance tuh takyah... tak mampu aku nak bayar tuk whatever injuries ko sustain kang).Fahrin da keja kedai satay ke? Ramai lah yang nak melantak satay kalao betol. Ni pon aku tweet pic ni pon da ada yang message dan BBM kata kalao betol nak storm the shop teruih. Kata kau...!!!
Heh... actually tadik Fahrin wat gathering makan-makan bersama fans dia off fan page Facebook dia kat Serai Satay Bar kat Pavilion. Sporting gila siap nak hidang bagai ek, siap pakai apron semua. Merasalah... advertising sungguh untuk Serai Satay Bar yang sedap sangat... katanya... walaopon...
All in all after abih spent some time kat Pavilion, met some friends, resisted the urge to shop (berjaya!... except for a little keychain... what???? I needed it!!!) and then had dinner and headed home. Mana taknya. Friday night, kengkawan semua konsep 'the number you have dialed is not available' walaopon sibok berjanji bagai nak rak. Dah tunggu sekor-sekor sampai tengah malam, konsep gi mampos la korang aku balik dulu. Kowser...
Esok da plan nak jejalan sikit nak carik barang, so nak make it an early night. That is after I catch up on Project Runway (also Canadian version yang Iman ala busuk stiff keras kayu bagai) as well as Idol before I sleep.
Until tomorrow...
Tadik gi tengok wayang... merasalah korang mesti tak caya gi tengok cita Thailand animation.
Truth is sebenarnya gi tengok the sequel to Khan Kluay yang meletop blockbuster di Siam tuh. Sini namanya Jumbo Gajah Biru (amik ko kreatif gila title dia... enam hari enam malam tak makan minum tidur dok nak pikirkan title kerana cita ni focus pada Jumbo... seekor gajah berwarna biru)Versi tempatan ni, menampilkan suara Akim dan Mila. Tuh yang Jumbo warna biru tu Akim, dan kaler pink yang bini dia si Mila.
Tak caya? Hah... ni pic yang blur sebab lighting haus dalam panggung lepas tayangan Jumbo Gajah Biru.
What did I think of it.Well, the actual animated movie itself, susah nak say anything bad about it.
Even though the animation takde tahap Pixar ke Disney, but seriously, the storytelling, the pacing of it all, the plot (though not that original, but what is in cartoons and animated features) - sungguh bagus.
I mean, when it comes to Thai films or full length features, the scoring, the storyline memang mesti tangkap leleh punya la.
I loved all one and a half hours of it.
Now here's the downside. For me at least.
Benda ni dubbing dalam Bahasa Malaysia.
Sorry lah.. but for me bab ni fail! Tiap kali ada benda dubbing masuk BM je, mesti salah kepit jadik sora ala Doraemon.
I mean, bukan tak patriotic ke apa. Kita da sedia maklum ni filem Siam. So biar je la dalam bahasa original. Subtitles, baby!
Ada member sentap ngan aku kata aku tak pikir orang yang tak suka atau tak reti baca subtitles.
Jawapan aku senang je.... learn to read.
Tak prihatin aku lak pada bebudak yang nak tengok kan? Well, all I have to say is kalao ada yang kata camtuh, then the kid in question should worry about their future more than what a talking elephant is saying. Umo berapa? Tak reti baca? THAT'S what's wrong with our education system! Literacy hado katanya.
It's not the same bila da dubbing. The emotion and intonation of speech lain. Even if you don't understand it, you feel it (merasalah ala Avatar - I feel you!). Bayangkan korang dulu tengok Nang Nak - bayangkan kalao alihsuara. Will the impact be same?
I grew up learning languages that were not my mother tongue. English, Bahasa Malaysia. So what's the problem.
Kalao da bahasa korang lemah, learn, bitches! Aku dulu belajar English pon layan min Your Language ok! Walaopon orang gelak haram aku paham memula. Lama-lama pas berkawan ngan kamus baru paham. Bahasa Malaysia lak aku belajar ngan layan lagu ok! Lagu the late Sudirman and then later masuk Febians and Gersang (matilah)
Jangan harap dok suap je. Ni la masaalah orang kita. Semua demand nak disuap je. The creativity gets zapped out. People get callous and unfeeling.
Tu yang bila tengok wayang kena have that bitch-slap effect. Intelligence is seconded to slapstick, and drama remains cliched.
Korang tengok drama Melayu biasa tau je skema kan? Orang kalao mati biasa sebab leukimia/kanser/sakit jantung. All rich Datuks and Datins wear suits and fancy dresses and an expensive date is one where dok kat kelab yang serve multicoloured drinks. No? Tengok agik...
This is all the beginnings of a bigger problem.
I remember watching the movie Caramel, a Lebanese production. Ok jer aku ngan kengkawan menghayati filem tuh walaopon layan subtitles. Selama ni korang tengok filem Hindustan, bayangkan sora Shah Rukh Khan digantikan pelakon sini? Feel tak? That's how I feel bila layan Spongebob Squarepants versi dubbing. EEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!
Sapa tak paham aku meroyan apa, takpe.
Walaopon aku tak paham Mandarin ke Cantonese (cause aku cakap Hokkien je... lain ok!), aku tengok cita Cina pon layan subtitles gak... ok jek.
So I really hate this dubbed shit.
But if you wanna numb yourself, go watch this movie. The movie itself is SO WORTH watching, just sabar je la bab dubbing (kecuali kalao korang memang tak kisah then leh layan la). Me? I just heaved a sigh of relief when Akim and Mila stopped singing (bukan sebab tak bagus tapi tak feel) and enjoyed when the Thai version of the song came on.
Unlike many, I am looking online for the translation so enjoy it more AFTER the movie.
Ok ok.. cukup meroyan. Pas abih layan wayang, gi ler ngan kengkawan makan kat Uptown. Slalu Hartamas, Bangsar, Rasta... ni tukar angin sikit. Port lama aku sejak zaman abih skolah.
Tapi tak penah perasan signboard ni lak.
Tuh dia kata ko... THE TASTE CAN KILL U. Ko sanggup makan? Aku tanak!!!!!But honestly kalao korang try Western kat gerai ni - memang can kill you. Yucks!
Kalao korang nak makan Western ko carik kedai Yazid (dekat je ngan si lanun ni). THE BEST!
Sodap... and bigger portions. Mintak black pepper sauce dia lebih ok, meka tak kedekut. And memang sedap. Rugi tak rasa.
Ok la... I need to call it a night. Layan...
PS - Yang tak paham tujuan entry ni simple je - go watch a good production like Gajah Jumbo Biru, but learn that reading subtitles is not that bad as you should be listening to emotions within the context of delivery, as well as knowing what words are delivered.
Ok today ni nak quick entry jerk.
For fans of Dayang Nurfaizah, and also Marcell - jangan lupa both of them will have the Sayang showcase this weekend.. or actually on Sunday night, 7hb Mac at 11 pm at the Hard Rock Cafe.
Admission is RM80 which includes one soft drink, and please remember, you MUST be 21 years old and above for this show.
Booking or further enquiries at 03-27155555.
Tuh je tuk ari ni. Heh... stakat ala ala iklan jerk. At least aku bokan letak tok promote nak jual per per... anggap je la community service message.
PS - Dayang and Marcell are so gonna rock it!
Tadik gi Ikea. It was heaven!!!! No no... didn't shop lagik. Da tahan da. Just had to pick up a few things.
Besides, cam takde nafsu da nak shopping wat sementara sebab tengah pikir nak tukar keta.
Walaopon sebenarnya keta aku ok jerk, tapi repairs are getting costly (mana taknya - Wira yang da nak masuk sekolah menengah tak lama agik - 12 tahun dah). So I been thinking about how much it will cost and all and I think it's workable.
So since I can't get my dream car (yet - and probably never will since Hummer's deal with the Chinese company fell through), so I think I found the perfect ganti for it within my range.
Nanti esok lusa aku survey... kalao ikut market price, mampu agik. So pikir pikir agik ni.
Anyway, back to Ikea. Aku smalam pas abih beli barang yang perlu tuh, mengidam sangat hot dog yang yummy sangat kat sana.
Arghhh!!! Rupanya????
Tuh dia.. da takde da. Nangis!!!! Seb baik curry puff meletop dia ada agik. But seriously, the hot dogs here were DA BOMB!!!!!I suppose Ikea finally removed it after all the bad press about the halal issue, walaopon penah kuar paper the supplier punya Halal certification setakat expired but there was no pork found (walaopon berlambak email dan forum dan blog yang kompang otherwise). Tatau la aku missed a news article or two ke, meka yang miss. (CLICK HERE for the one I read)
Anyway, nak continue perusing some ads for cars.
Or any of my readers wanna sell me their ride? Tapi make sure worth it ek! I personally like nice sporty 4WD (think Nissan Frontier) or any car that's convertible (kecuali kalao Proton Saga ko gi potong bumbung sendiri - tu aku tanak!).
Heh... going off now. Ciao!
PS - Catching up on Project Runway Canada. Iman hazab!!! Kayu nak mampos! Heidi rocks anytime.
Wow.. laju gila da masuk the third month of the year. It's crazy how time just zooms past.
Hari ni gi opis wat keja sikit, clear kan stok tertangguh sat. Also settled a couple of errands in my schedule.
Sorting out timetable aku bagai. Aduh... so many things to do still, tapi kemalasan mula menyerang. Stakat ni lom mengalah, but there are a few things I have to put to paper that I haven't gotten about to.
Aku nak pastikan my own company ada dua major events this year, so kena get cracking now. it's March already!!!! Shit!
Didn't do much later in the day. Malam sikit lepak kengkawan borak. Also spoke to someone who represents a body in the music industry.
Sedikit sebanyak, kami bincang pasal wajib siar.
So many artistes stupidly - agree without thinking of the repercussions of it.
Tak paham kekadang artis Malaysia ni tak bukak minda meka tuh. Harapkan disuap segalanya.
Bukan nak menghina, tapi kalao mereka betul-betul anak seni dan pentingnya their craft (dan bukan saja royalti MACP ke PPM ke Prism) they would take proactive steps to better themselves. Bukan dengan bangga dok tahap lama, malas maju.
Hopefully kalao menjadi discussion malam tadi, ada forum akan menjadi melibatkan orang kerajaan, badan-badan muzik, media, artis dan pengurusan syarikat-syarikat rakaman Malaysia.
So many issues to thrash out.
I think the industry has to be educated.
Pandai-pandai kata pendengar kita kena di didik, tapi masyarakat muzik kita sendiri kekadang agak bodoh bila melayan isu isu berbangkit.
Artis? They don't even understand the word. Tau nak kuar majalah, nak pose sana sini jerk.
Specifically on music, Malaysia is the only country in this world yang aku rasa, many people think it's a RIGHT, suatu HAK to be on radio, not a PRIVILEGE (keistimewaan).
Ok la.. aku paham, ada stesen yang music exec dia yang hampeh feeling A&R bagai nak pepandai ceramah pasal muzik lak (walaopon sendiri takde pendedahan atau fahaman mengenai dunia muzik Malaysia nih). Nak determine the artiste's musical direction bagai. Pastu nak kekwat nak bagai tanak mainkan lagu tuh lagu nih, sehinggalah dibawak bercuti oleh pihak berkepentingan. Adakah? Oops!
Atau music exec yang tolak single artis hanya kerana 'the other station is playing it'.
Or the the best - mainkan SAMPAH yang tak capai piawaian langsung hanya kerana syarikat rakaman artis nan hado itu adalah dari anak syarikat. Aiyo.. apakah???
But on the flipside, artis ni pon leh tahan gak kekadang.
Mana taknya.
Any Thong, Dev and Harith, ada RM5,000 or so, rakam lagu, nak demand da diputarkan walaopon?
Only in Malaysia, penah model sekali, bergelar model. Penah wat satu single - bergelar penyanyi. Penah jadik extra lalu kat belakang - dah pelakon. Nan hado!!!
So many things wrong with the industry.... ramai berkepentingan. Takpe la.. tapi aku yakin masih ada yang sayang industri muzik Malaysia ni antara penggiat seni kami.
Jangan tuding jari dengan penuh emo sahaja pada muzik Indonesia sebagai masaalah. Diri sendiri adalah masaalah kerana tak mampu dan tak ingin bersaingan. Kalau muzik Indonesia takde, sapa lagik ko nak salahkan kalao lagu busuk ko takde orang nak?
Kalao ko berkualiti, radio ke pendengar ke tetap akan nak.
Look at Yuna. Zee Avi. Hujan. Meet Uncle Hussain/Azlan & The Typewriter.
Meka berjaya kerana the appeal of their music, tak perlu propahan high rotation pun orang sangkut nak dengar.
Yang artis biasa bising tu yang sendu, nan hado yang memang kualiti keja MOST OF THE TIME very the NAN HADO.
Work harder. Nothing in life comes easy.. jangan nak tau merungut saja.
xFM korang tanak sokong lak walaopon mainkan 100% muzik Malaysia. Nak gak stesen lain sebab berlumba No. 1. Realize that they are number one (atau berangan so) because they PANDER to the audience.
Kalao ko rasa produk ko meletop sangat, gi je xFM. Radio lain akan mai melutut nak mainkan korang punya. Kalao betol lagu korang bagus.
Jangan melalak je orang tanak beli. Tanak layan...
Cuba korang bukak gerai nasi lemak depan umah. Kalao da lauk ko hampeh, nasi ko hangit, timun ko rosak... orang tanak beli... ko nak wat apa? Nak melalak tepi jalan kata orang kena beli gak nasi lemak ko kerana ko anak Malaysia??? That walaopon nasi lemak ko nan hado kena beli ko nya because of patriotism, rather than makan nasi ayam KFC kah?
At the end of the day, here's the real MAIN problem. Our own artistes. Mentality and attitude!
Segala tak cukup tapi feeling kuat dan hebat (ni majoriti nya pendatang baru nya hal)
Last-last? Menyemak status update Facebook aku ngan pengumuman nak jual gelang. Anak seni indeed!
Panjang lak meroyan.
Anyway, hope the forum menjadi and people come with an open mind to LEARN. Jangan berangan tahu segalanya. Life is a neverending process of learning. We only stop when we're dead.
Spent another night at The Actors Studio watching Najwa and Yuna perform.
I seriously cannot get enough of them.
Apart from these two, there are only a few new artistes that I can say stack up - heck.. make that even among so-called established local singers, these two stand tall.
Susah nak dapat bakat-bakat camni. Pada sapa yang persoalkan bakat meka, tu la ko.. kemut sangat tak sanggup bayar nak tengok show meka tu yang ko tatau. Tu la akibatnya harap nak tengok show pree je merata, kat TV ke, kat jelajah ke road tour ke... harus la tak dapat menikmati.
Tapi kalao pandai layan Youtube - tuh pon you won't get to see the total awesomeness of these two.
Am so in love with Najwa's songs - especially Got To Go (meletop gila babs - melodi masih dalam pala aku) and How Long Must I Wait.
And my song from Yuna at the moment is Cinta Sempurna (actually dari ari tuh sejak dengar kat radio - yang stesen bangang tu yang suka mainkan lagu bes hanya pada pukul 3 pagi, lagu lain cam Kau Dan Aku busuk tu nak high rotation tiap empat jam) memang da suka, but listening to her performing live lain sangat. Haunting!!! Meremang bulu roma. Yang takde bulu pon leh meremang. Kalao da Brazilian wax pon remang kuar!
Anyway the show was again fantastic, tapi best nya gak sebab dalam diam, Najwa's family was present at the show.
Her father, our deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin pon ada. Sempat aku borak ngan dia jap. Yerlah... skang da timbalan Perdana Menteri. Aku kenal zaman-zaman masih menteri, time keja aku cover news and politics. So beliefs aside, borak kejap ngan dia. Kira nostalgia ok dulu naik hulu hilir kementerian dia (dari Belia dan Sukan sampai la Perdagangan Dalam Negeri dan hal Ehwal Pengguna)
Anyhoo, it was a pleasant Sunday, and a quiet end to the New Year celebrations with tonight's Chap Goh Meh.
Sempat ler petang gi umah sedara nak berjudi. Oops. Skali setahun gituh. Last call. Tahun ni best sikit sebab tak kalah langsung. Menang pon tak. Kuar modal RM130, balik pon camtuh.
Memula da menang cecah ratusan, but last call kuar balik semua. Janji tak kalah...
Am feeling extremely inspired at the moment... and have a few more ideas slowly coming about. Allowing it to take form.
Need to sleep on it... nanti jerk aku update agik.
PS - Dengar Malam Nada Biru is going to be for the boys lak! Dua penyanyi solo yang WOW! Serious.. simpan duit ok. Worth it sangat-sangat!
Have you ever seen an ATM machine that swears?
Ok... so it's not entirely true and I made that up. Suka ati aku lah! Tanak gelak bukan salah aku.
Anyway smalam gi Malam Nada Biru with Najwa and Yuna.
What can I say... memang besh gila!!!! So many know Najwa from lagu dia featured on ngan Malique and Yuna from Dan Sebenarnya... but seriously, dua orang artis baru ni ARE THE FUTURE, people!
They are the future of the local music industry for their talent, for their originality and for their sheer passion for the music.
Sambil ada artis sendu dan nan hado yang harapkan kuota dan wajib siar tuk jual lagu, atau kalangan yang feeling artis nak harapkan jual lagu walaopon hazab - there are those like Najwa and Yuna who make me believe that masa depan muzik Malaysia masih ada.
I'm not going to review - but Najwa was mind-blowing! I mean it. Not syok sendiri at all like I expected from someone as soulful as her. In fact it was appealing, so much so ada kengkawan yang tak reti feel bluesy jazz and all pon terpegun by the time Najwa was done.
Also heard a lot of her songs in the 45 minute set - and it was all fantastic.
Then there was Yuna. Dan Sebenarnya is seriously overrated. Bukan sebab aku tak suka lagu tuh - but because if you listen to stuff from her album, it doesn't even come close to what this girl is about.
It was all in all a five star performance from both of them.
Najwa comel jerk
Yuna - rileks jer as always
The woman behind the show - my girl, Atilia
Congratulations to Atilia and Mujik Productions and Bsync Productions for the amazing show they put together. Simple presentation - but AMAZING in talent.
Sapa tak sempat gi Malam Nada Biru bersama Najwa dan Yuna, tomorrow night is another show. And possibly one of the last you get to see Najwa really rock it out on a full set like this.
Yuna dengar akan gi America for two months pas kena risik kat sana, and Najwa akan habiskan sikit agik study dia sebelom release her single (tak sabar cause her song is like WOW!) - though she will be opening for Babyface next week.
Tomorrow's show is at 9pm at tickets are priced at RM100 and RM85. Trust me - they are SO worth it!
Just go and get your tickets from The Actors Studio at Lot 10. Just take the lift and go level 8 on the rooftop. For more info, you can call 03-2142 2009 or 2143 2009.
Pas abih, zoomed to Pelita lepak one session for about an hour plus.
Suasana indah di Kuala Lumpur waktu malam - matilah ni yang aku nak snap!
Finished kat Pelita, rush balik Klang jumpa bebudak yang dulu satu sekolah rendah ngan aku lepak ngan meka. Berejam... kang je post entry panjang lebar bila leh.
To all my Chinese friends out there - happy celebrating the 15th and final day of the Chinese New Year festivities. It's Chap Goh Meh!!! Last day to gamble (aku tak judi pon dua minggu ni raya nih)
Have a good Sunday, guys!
Just back home. Hari ni pala cam nak pecah. Tak cukup tidur pas insiden semalam. Still thinking about Koi's passing. Dude was younger than me, so you can imagine how it rattles me.
Plus on top of that, sebab baru jumpa dia beberapa jam sebelom he passed on... cam terasa how seseorang can just disappear in the blink of an eye. Life is that fragile.
Noya mendatang sikit, tapi aku put it at the back of my head. Bukan apa... I'll get really morbid if I dwell on it, cam when kak Min passed on.
So anyway, sempat ler abihkan semua interview pasal kes wajib siar. Erm... apa sebenarnya pihak kementerian nak wat sebenarnya masih misteri walaopon konon nak kuatkuasa Mac 1 kang. Seriously... someone needs to structure whatever plans they have before announcing it, and tagging a very close deadline to it.
Had three dinner invites. Couldn't make any of it because semua dah lah dekat, 7pm, 7.30pm and 8.30pm. So cancelled the 8.30pm punya.
Left with two. Finished everything and on the road by almost 9pm.
Had to forego the POCC dinner (sorry beautiful people) because I knew I couldn't make it to Curve in time with the mad traffic and all.
So opted for Bangsar at the Bangsar Seafood Garden Restaurant for the Astro Chinese New Year makan-makan sebab tau mesti start lambat.
Tulis invite 7pm. Sampai about 9.15pm baru abih first course, which was the yee sang (rugi.. but takpe.. da lambat..) Tuh la namanya Malaysian timing. Heh... sometimes it so works in your favour.
Met some friends. Had fun gak sebab banyak benda dalam pala, leh campak tepi sat. Ni a pic of me camwhoring with Jess just to show her how my Onyx stacks up to her antiquated Blackberry. Heh... silap lak pic ni blur! Argh! Gerak!
The food was ok... but of the dishes, the dessert must be the cute one. Amik ko mini dumplings ni cut and shaped like little bunnies. Make me feel almost evil to be chomping on them. Poor Thumper!
And thanks to the twisted mind of some of my friends (perlu ke aku sebut nama nih?), this is what happens when they get their hands on it. Kids... don't ask your parents why the bunnies are in this position.Just google the word 'fornication' and look up its meaning.
So dinner was fine. And the company was nice. And it didn't hurt they had huge ass lucky draws. Didn't bother sebab my luck for draws usually sucky anyway. But this one memang by table number ada and by individual pon ada. Sebab aku mai lambat takde la individual draw punya. But our table got a juicer each. Erm.. that makes what... three at home? Harus la aku carik kengkawan yang nak juicer gituh. But a friend passed on a mixer she had too, so punggah kedua ni balik tadik.
Spent time with some friends in Pelita.And then tired, so headed back. Feeling restless. And a little weird.
Death... yeap... screws me up each time. Wondering how I'll go when it's my turn.
Just hope I will be remembered like some of my dear friends who have passed on are. The real value of a person can only be felt when they're gone. So I'll never know... but I hope those near and dear to me will always remember me for who I really am.
Ok la.. merapu da. Dah la time tima camni... selamat malam dunia...
