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Today was one of the busiest days....and I mean ever. Dari pagi berkejar nak abihkan a couple of stories I was working on. And we're talking full length features, not those short news snippets. Matilah... Not to mention my workload selain tuh also included the dateline for my column, which all had to be done and sent in by 3pm sebab nak rush lak gi assignment. Merasalah kelam kabut segalanya. Still, managed to settle everything just fine, and made it for the launch of Nikki's Maharani repackaged just in time. Kudos to Artistes United Records for the small and cosy event which understandably much of the credit went to Vernon and also Azmie. To make it short and sweet, for those yang belum beli album Nikki, here's the info on the reissue of the album yang kini ada bonus single Drama, sekali ngan dua music videos which is for Caramu featuring Zahid and also Imaginasil Collector's item tuh. Maharani is now on sale for RM15.90 for a cassette and RM29.90 tuk CD. I recommend CD (masih ada ek yang beli kaset?) because not only it features all the tracks from the album, tapi also ada sebelas remix baru (I love the new mix of Caramu), minus one dan of course the music video and lagu Drama. Executive producer credits go to Ning, and producers are Vernon and Michael Ang. Ni track listing for the CD of the album.
CD 1. IMAGINASI Lagu/ lirik: Audi Mok/ Nur Fatima 2. CARAMU menampilkan Zahid (versi 2006) Lagu/ lirik: Audi Mok/Lirik: Nurfatima 3. PERANG ATAU CINTA Lagu/ lirik: Audi Mok/Layla Ismail dan Ad Samad 4. CINTA BARU Lagu/ lirik: Johan Farid Khairuddin & Omar K 5. JULANGAN PERMATA Lagu/ lirik: Audi Mok /Anedra 6. BAHAGIA SELAMANYA Lagu/ lirik: Audi Mok dan Vincent De Giorgio / Ain 7. JANJI Lagu/ lirik: Audi Mok / Azalea 8. AKU MAHARANI Lagu/ lirik: Audi Mok / Ad Samad 9. HEY! HEY! Lagu/ lirik: Audi Mok / Ad Samad 10. PINTA Lagu/ lirik: Hazami / Imran 11. SUNUDAI OKU (UCAPKAN PADA KU) Lagu/ lirik: Jimmy Palikat / Florencia binti Kosmas 12. CARAMU menampilkan Zahid (versi asal) Lagu/ lirik: Audi Mok / Nurfatima 13. IMAGINASI (versi akustik menampilkan Ning) Lagu/ lirik:: Audi Mok / Nur Fatima 14. CARAMU (Sax and the City Remix) 15. CINTA BARU (Maharani Remix) 16. HEY! HEY! (Hip-Pop Remix) 17. PINTA (Vintage Mix) 18. CARAMU (minus one) 19. IMAGINASI (minus one) 20. PINTA (Minus One) 21. Drama (Ning menampilkan Nikki & Yanie) – Lagu Bonus VCD CARAMU IMAGINASI
Penerbit: Audi Mok Rakaman, adunan dan susunan muzik: Audi Mok di Fuse Studio Keyboards dan programming: Audi Mok Susunan strings untuk "Imaginasi" dan "Julangan Permata": Genervie Kam Gitar akustik dan elektrik: Jamie Wilson Piano untuk "Bahagia Selamanya" dan "Julangan Permata": Genervie Kam Djembe untuk "Aku Maharani" dan snare drum untuk "Caramu": Arthur Kam Suara Latar: Nikki; Sri Temenggong untuk "Caramu"; Ginn untuk "Imaginasi"
"Cinta Baru" Penerbit: Azlan Abu Hassan Rakaman, adunan dan susunan muzik: Azlan Abu Hassan di Grooveworks Studio Keyboards dan programming: Azlan Abu Hassan Gitar: Omar Khan di Sad Angry Babies Studio (Illinois, US) Bass: Eddie Marzuki Suara latar: Azlan Abu Hassan dan Mable Lew
"Pinta" dan "Sunudai Oku" Penerbit: Sharon Paul Susunan muzik: Sharon Paul Keyboards dan programming: Sharon Paul Rakaman: Nick Lee di Sonique Productions Adunan: Peter Chong untuk "Pinta" dan Shamril Salleh untuk "Sunudai Oku" Susunan strings untuk "Pinta": Sharon Paul Gitar: Shamril Salleh Suara Latar: Nikki; Sri Temenggong dan Mable Lew untuk "Pinta"; Toni untuk "Sunudai Oku" Adunan dan susunan semula lagu-lagu (remixes) oleh Audi Mok Mastering oleh Nick Lee di Sonique Productions Konsep rekabentuk album : Alex Sum Design Fotografi : Joe Chan (Hilton Photographers) Solekan dan dandanan rambut: Matt (Pick@Brush)
So tunggu apa lagi? And by the way, sapa nak help promote the release of the album, here's a banner that you guys can put up. Kalau korang nak link directly the URL of the image above pun no hal. Spread it far and wide (lucah jer bunyinya kan?)
Anyhoo...aku ada wat video performance Nikki time event tuh, tapi seperti biasa aku masih lom siap. Bertimbun keja punya pasal nanti aku letak ler ek. Lagikpun aku masih utang video Diya kuar ari tuh lagik kan...so tunggu nanti aku letak ler semua sekali. Isnon lak kena interview yang terkeluar agik...so aku rasa aku letak dua video sekali gus kot ler next week ek. Plus Nikki punya kira tiga sekali la. Nampaknya posting video clip ler akan datang kang. Anyways the poolside loungy event besh sebab ramai kawan hadir. Ada special guest agik dari nun jauh dari pantai timur in Mimirinie seorang blogger yang memang minat Ning mai skali nak meriahkan majlis. Tuk sapa yang tak penah tengok rupa dia...tu dia kat sebelah ni. Merasalah carut plastic bag Mydin (you either understand it or not). Also there was si Juan, Ajami, Kash and Judd. Then of course ada abang Badand Shonny yang wakilkan f-ter-six Records, syarikat pengurusan dan rakaman yang Diddy bernaung skang. Dua orang bloggers in Budiey dan sultanmuzaffar lak tak dapat hadirkan diri kerana tugas. Didn't take much pics sebab sibuk nak wat video, tapi last last battery laptop lak low malas nak punggah semua adapter kuar nak charge kan balik, so ended up with only a few fuzzy pics with my Nokia (kena abihkan proposal cepat tuk dapatkan phone baru yang ditaja nih) So hope you guys maapan ek sebab setakat nih jer pic yang mampu aku amik. These are of the bloggers yang hadirkan diri though gelap je semacam pic ni (ni mesti kes tak diterima cahaya - matilah aku kena maki pasnih!)
Pas abih semua, dah semua da puas menganyam ketupat (gosip wat dosa lebih), we all decided to make a move for KLCC. Sebenarnya au tak plan nak ke mana pun cuma nak gi jalan ngan Mimi sebab bukan slalu dia turun KL. Tapi atas ajak Ning, yang sekali ngan Yanie as well abang Bad dan Shonny as well..joined them for the M.A.C Spring collection launch themed 'Barbie Loves M.A.C' kat concourse Suria KLCC. Jam sepanjang jalan....but in the end sampai je tengok..pergh!!! Meriah ok! Gawd...a lot of friends were there kalangan cosmetic industry....and member artis pun ramai. Nita, Jac, Syafinaz, Nabila, Farahdhiya, Betty Banafe, Sheila Rusly, Sharifah Shahirah... I spent most of the time with Nabila and a little more with Jac, Faradhiya and Syafinaz sebab kami make a beeline for the photo booth syok sendiri amik pics free. Had so much fun, again forgot to take more pics...so these are the few yang aku leh kongsi.
Ning with Jac and Yanie. Then with Syafinaz. Oops..sorry Faradhiya gambo candid...wat muka tuh! Heh!!
Pada yang tanya mana ulasan Diarrhea...sori ler....missed it again. No regrets though because it was a fun night. After we finished (yeay! dapat M.A.C Pro card...20% off M.A.C products pasni!) gi melantak supper with some friends and called it a night. More tomorrow...
Music is beautiful, no matter what language it is in. It transcends the boundaries of race, religion, and even that of a geographical nature. Here's my list of songs from Indonesian pop and rock acts that are on my playlist, some of which are my all time favorites. Some old, some new and some just bloody timeless. Enjoy the sounds and listen beyond the music and the words - and instead tune into the emotions of each tune. No matter what genre they may be.
Say NO! to the hateful and malicious nature of some who choose to close our local music market for fear of competition simply because they are unable to compete, and unwilling to even try.
Support Malaysian music. Don't kill it by being ignorant. Music is ever evolving, and our local sound is slowing being rendered irrelevant. This is my protest against those who choose to be anti-Indonesian music, simply because SOME of our local talents and recording outfits are too lazy to innovate and create. This is the sound of Indonesia today. Are we up for the challenge to evolve and produce better music in healthy competition?
WHAT I'M ON
KLUBBKIDD
So...just what do you want to know about me?
I'm simple, and yet complicated.
It's as simple as that...but then again, perhaps not.
My life is kinda like my job, an oxymoron. Try this one out for size...'ethical journalist'. See, told you so.
Anyway, here's a brief (yeah right!) intro to my life.
I'm a proud Malaysian (and I mean literally!), of Chinese descent. I'm Christian (Roman Catholic!).
I'm kinda whacked. I believe in piercings, dyed hair, black nails, silver studs. leather and spiked accessories and oh... tattoos...body art is just that...art. Apart from anything else that will make me worth staring at.
Right now, I have a total of seven piercings (three on lobes - two left one right, left ear cartilage, nose, lower lip and tongue) with three taken out on brow (one ripped) as well as three tattoos with more to come.
Forget the tough exterior, cause I believe in hugging my parents, crying when I feel like it, require tender moments with my significant other, and I appreciate my friends. As Kim from America's Next Top Model said it best. "What's my secret? I may look tough on the outside, but really, I scream like a girl!"
Fictional?
I 32 as of last July 17, and it's past the mid life crisis come early for me as I struggled to deal with the coming of age thing. I am working as a freelance senior entertainment journalist, a job which I have been at ever since I decided to quit college, two subjects short of graduating. I was taking my Diploma In Sound and Audio Engineering. Until recently that is.
Now I do a lot of freelance overall talent consultancy which includes image and communication. I am also in the process of starting my own company klubbkidd Sdn Bhd, which is producing its first TV show from a format that I have created myself. The show will most likely be on air sometime end 2008.
I have donelive sound production for some concerts and shows and a little bit of studio work in hopes of becoming a sound engineer with what I've studies, when I turned back to my first love, writing.
Was doing general news, specialized awhile in politics, did a little features, crime, business and sports and dabbled in related journalism fields before finally settling into my current position, thankfully, entertainment, the perks of which is doing what I've always loved (writing and indulging in music) and also backstage passes to meet my favorite acts. It's eleven years now, and I'm still golding it there.
Looking back - whatever's gone on in my life - it's not too hard to be positive and look ahead, with more pleasant of the memories to make the journey a little easier.
And these very memories which I cherish so, are the reasons behind why I started blogging.
The friendships and variety of relationships I've been through, allow me to highlight the mistakes I've made and how not to repeat them, not to compromise my principles too much for love, and also a balance in sacrificing my ego, and how I must learn to be stronger in the face of adversity.
So I've never figured myself to be a real hoot.I pace on day by day, occasionally skipping, sometimes with just a little jaunty bounce. More often than not, I go smack! either on my rear end (which needs more meat) or flat on my face.Life treats me well, I suppose, so I shouldn't gripe. I am stll my own hero - that's positivity through self-affirmation for you.
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