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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Finally got a chance nak tonton Diarrhea malam tadi, and sadly lacking any feel of it being in the final week.
Again this time around kan musim ni, aku rasa banyak tamu yang tak perlu langsung ke Akademi. No disrespect meant, but it's a performing arts academy, tapi nampaknya setiap kali ada tamu masuk, they're hardly relevant.
Personally, I want more industry professionals masuk ke dalam Akademi dan menurunkan ilmu, Ni seolah obsessed ngan nak ajar kemahiran hidup dari segi pengalaman achievers gituh. Nothing wrong with that...only that when you have such a short time span, you'd expect them to use it more wisely.
But sorang tamu yang wat aku gelak kali ni was kemunculan Dr Eveready! Ingat siapa tuh Dr Eveready? Sapa lagik kalao bukan Dr Fazley! (sapa ikut perkembangan musim lepas kat sini ingat ler kenapa dia dapat nama timangan tuh - ampun ek Fazley...we still love you).
The mock press conference was actually a good attempt, sebab ada relevancy apa yang Fazley ajar, tapi pihak Akademi kalao nak prepare bebudak tuk apa yang menunggu kat luar, aku rasa jauh lagik dari kebenarannya. Sapa yang penah tengok live press conference tau ler how vicious it can get. And I have a feeling this time around pun akan vicious sikit... so nasib ler. We'll see how prepared they are, usually though...never enough.
Apa agik ek...erm... kejutan hadiah Ebi dan Mila memang tidak perlu, especially with it being the last week, dan lagu tugasan lagu original lom dipersiapkan. More time wasters.
As for the dandanan rambut, apa gunanya tunjuk kalao tamau 'rosak' kejutan ketika final kang. Apapon, aku bayangkan berapa la budget tuk si Aswad tuh nak asik lekat je benda alah kat pala dia tuh to give him an illusion of hair.
Tak practical langsung. Aku nak tengok dia kuar Akademi kang wat show nak ber wig pelbagai tak... sheesh. Cam harapkan nak jual rupa yang nan ado sangat.
And basically, that was all I could unearth from the Diarrhea this time around sebab nothing much of interest. Aku harap banyak lagik coverag pasal final preparation, sebab nak masuk Khamis da, and with only just over two days to the final, perlu ke meka focus agik pada benda benda tak perlu.
Apapon, ari nih, memang tamau komen lagu baru sebab lom dengar even one, so nak bagik summary persembahan bebudak for the past nine weeks.
Based on my personal rating setiap persembahan meka week after week, this is how they size up.


Ebi
Ebi start slow. Dia hanya meletup minggu ketiga and maintained kejap midway. After that, it was just average performances until last week. Kecenderungan kebolehan dia lebih pada lagu lagu Indo pop, and I wonder why they tried pushing him lesser in that direction and more to pop Melayu standard,
Mungkin meka harapkan mass market appeal cam Aswad kot, but I think Ebi has too much style in his delivery to ever be rock kapak or genre yang sewaktu dengannya.
Performance paling memorable stakat ni for me is Al Jannah, Jujur dan Bukan Diriku, manakalao Kasihnya Laila was interesting in terms of stage colour,
Aku harapkan Ebi dapat top three, which nampaknya takde masaalah. Tapi sadly aku tak nampak dia sebagai juara. Who knows though kan?
Milik Siapakah Gadis Ini (Sudirman) 
Bailamos (Enrique Iglesias)
Al Jannah (Mawi) 
Kasihnya Laila (Jinbara)  
Layu Sebelum Berkembang (Broery Marantika) 
Jujur (Radja)
Berdendang Dalam Tangisan (Jamal Abdillah)
Kisah Kau Dan Aku (Alleycats) 
Bukan Diriku (Samsons)  

Candy
Aku kesian ngan Candy sebab ramai judge dia based on personality dan rupa dia. Memang handicap bagik aku dia nih. Kalao dia nih perempuan Melayu dari Semenanjung, ramai senang agik terima dia.
Walaoapapon orang cakap, she is he best vocals in the Akademi, TECHNICALLY. Consistency dia ngan her strong performances each week, da membuktikan versatility dia, and I think she'll definitely survive in the industry.
Deserving of top three, tapi entah la kan kalao pengundi SMS berdasarkan kesian kerana faktor lain ker tak (sepert contoh : anak yatim, sakit atau botak)
In terms of quality though, memang dia head to head with Mila, with advantage sikit je dari segi consistency.
Ka-ching (Shania Twain)
Semua Jadi Satu (3 Diva)
Terlalu Istimewa (Adibah Noor)
Setia Ku Korbankan (Fauziah Latiff) 
Berdua Lebih Baik (Acha Septriasa)
Gadis Dan Bunga (Rahimah Rahim) 
Tari Silat Melayu (Aishah)
Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps (Doris Day)  
Cahaya Cinta (Siti Nurhaliza)  

Mila
Dia ni aku mixed emotions sangat. Kalao ikutkan Diarrhea, kegedikan dia tahap geli. Dan pada mulanya, tu je cara dapat menilai dia sebab performance first two weeks memang nan ado. Memang sesuai pon dia penah terima rating pam jamban.
Start dari lagu Melukut Tepi Gantang however, da mula nampak potential dia sebagai antara pencabar utama yang layan menyandang kejuaraan.Her best performance for me in Benci Tapi Rindu was an indicator Mia ni memang ada harapan besar untuk mengharumkan nama Akademi Fantasia seperti mana Bob dan Farhan berjaya dari segi kredibiliti. Kelebihan Mila ada that she can balance that with the appeal of popularity as well.
My favourite for juara selain Candy, and definitely deserving of a win.
Bersamamu (Siti Sarah)
Gotta Tell You (Samantha Mumba)
Melukut Di Tepi Gantang
Benci Tapi Rindu (Diana Nasution)
Puncak Kasih (Ziana Zain)
Drama (Nikki, Ning & Yanie)
Dondang Dendang (Noraniza Idris)
Aku Takkan Bersuara (Nike Ardilla)  
Pudar (Rossa)

Heliza
This is one person yang aku memang confused. The first two weeks aku memang rooting for her because dia lah antara the two or three yang start off strong.
Masaalahnya, by the third concert, she started sliding, and apa pon potential da ada, dikaburkan masaalah identiti vokal dia selain kedegilan dia nak buat seperti diajar.
Tapi dari konsert kelapan bila dia berjaya ngan lagu Kesal, memang there was no doubt that Heliza memang layak ler nak masuk final.
Tak sekonsisten Mila dan Candy, but impressive nonetheless and loaded with potential. Would love to see her fight with Ebi for the third and fourth placing.
Aku tau ramai tak suka dia sebab kisahnya dia ni fake, but for me, fake dia pon, aku tak persoalkan personaliti dia kerana dia tak harap simpati dari orang.
It's a reality TV show. Bukan ke penah ada orang yang penah menjuarai pertandingan nih ngan berlakon gak (yang dia ni miskin, blur dan tak penah merasa tuh ni...sedangkan...)
Talent yang leh survive kalao dia tak keras pala.
Kau Pergi Jua (Adam Ahmad) 
Aku Bukan Untukmu (Rossa) 
Melodi Ahlan (Waheeda) 
Torn (Natalie Imbruglia) 
Diam Diam Jatuh Cinta (Ramlah Ram) 
Nafas Cahaya (Misha Omar) 
Rindu Merindu ( Fauziah Idris)
Kesal (Ella)  
Ya Atau Tidak (Erra Fazira)  

Aswad
Ni memang kes buang masa. Dari start, aku memang forecast yang ramai ramai ada dalam top 5 ni as my personal favourites. Cuma Aswad je menyebabkan my guesses ni tersasar sikit, sebab aku budget Shawal akan masuk sekali empat orang lagi.
Yerlah...selepas episod Mas dalam musim kedua, tak sangka aku lak akan ada kes undi simpati lagik.
Apapon, tuk aku dia memang tak layak be in the final, so dalam top five, aku memang harapkan dia finish last. Apapon, kalao dia jadik juara, alkisahnya Akademi Fantasia akan menjadi lawak terbesar industri hiburan.
Penyanyi rock kapak yang gagal menjadi artis sebab album tak laku, masuk reality TV nak try jual sora yang ala kadar, rupa yang nan ado. Sakit selalu,terpaksa di pasang extension rambut, dan mendapat undian hanya setelah Astro highlight dia anak yatim pada umur 27 tahun nih. Oh...promo pon dari awal sebut berulang lali bab tuh kan... Aswad...seorang anak yatim....
Perlu ke?
It's undeniable yang he's not as horrible as some others, but in terms of potential, dia memang takde masa depan dalam industri ni selain nyanyi kat Pesta Pulau Pinang. So why bother?
Konon pelbagai persamaan ngan Mawi.. but for me, bagai nak compare langit dan bumi dan dia memang tak layak nak disebut in the same breath as Mawi sekalipun.
Dan selama ini tak penah ada yang ngadu sakit ke kejang ke kejung ke yang tak membuat persembahan. Kira dia ni sebelom final pon leh ngaku da dapat title, RAJA SIMPATI.

(Tak membut persembahan tapi di minggu pertama tapi tak di singkir)

Nak Kahwin Tapi Duit Tak Ada (Sweet September)

Hijau Bumi Tuhan (XPDC)
Hakikat Sebuah Cinta (Iklim)
60s TV (OAG)
Yang Sedang Sedang Saja (Iwan)
Penyu Menangis (Sudirman)
Korban Cinta (Aris Ariwatan)
Mungkin Langitmu Lebih Biru (Mawi) (tidak membuat persembahan berkumpulan ataupun keluar usaha lagu lagu tugasan bonus)

Berdasarkan rating rating lepas, ni graf persembahan mereka for me, Candy dan Mila, serta Ebi pun kelihatan jauh mengatasi yang lain dari segi prestasi. Hellza nampak sangat jurang perbezaan, tapi sebab dia drop kat tengah mungkin dia ada harapan lagi sebab mungkin itu petanda she is improving.
As for Aswad... he's just wasting everyone's time and money.

So apapon pepandai ler undi dari skang, sebab dari kedudukan carta AFUNDi skang (kalao tol la ada sumber yang war warkan, juara memang juara tak perlu kang), much needs to be done.
Ok ler...malas merapu lagik. kang naik blood pressure aku jer. Anyway, on that note, thank you to everyone for your kind wishes...dan memang aku akan cuba take care of my health. Your concern semua touches me...apapon selagi aku mampu, carutan wajib diteruskan (keji kan?) Am seeing a caridolgist soon for further check up...tapi rilek le. Everything ok kot...
Dan pada meka yang tanyakan pasal date aku pasal cita yang lepas tuh a fw entries ago, honestly, we haven't gone out for it. In fact, aku keberatan nak call dia again. Entahlah...not the right time kot, or maybe it was just infatuation yang tak patut aku follow aku. Takper ler. Slow slow ler...masa pon banyak lagik kan...
Hah...esok kalao sempat layan lagu baru, aku try ulas ok. Apapon, nombor AFUNDI semua kat bawah, cepat! Apa tunggu tunggu? Nak Aswad jadi juara???!!!
Tau -pun takut... so cepat AFUNDI!!!







SURIA
May 19, 2007   12:34 AM PDT
 
I saw u last nite. Betul ke aswad dah ada album. I agree with ur views. Though he has good voice but he is not the one for AF. We want fresh talented singer. The one that can be developed. What more dgn gimik muarahan ayah ibu vote dia bleh naik. Mmg rakyat Malaysia murah air mata, ratu simpati tak kire laki ke pompuan sbb tu telenovela laku jerk kalo tayang kat malaysia nih. Hurmmm... hopefully someone dat DESERVES wins this competition. I dun agree last AF nyer winner. But the first AF 3 winners I agreed. I dun know if AF5 bakal kecewakan I once again with the undesirable champs.. HUH!
Rem
May 18, 2007   08:10 AM PDT
 
Ha ha ha! Graf ko tu bah Joe... kelas. Revolusi paparan grafik Malaysia. Siap ada level bintang dan jamban lagi!

Kalau Javard nampak ni, dia boleh menangis. Ulasan AF dia pun tak seakademik ko Joe. Very the kelas.... siap ada graf.
ajami
May 17, 2007   10:03 PM PDT
 
hi joe!.. jaga diri k!

btw, nk tompang promote Tayangan Unggul ada wat pertandingan poster ANAK HALAL.. ref:

http://bloganakhalal.blogspot.com/

sesaper joe's reader yg fandai wat grafik segala-bagai, silalah antar pentertaan!.. who knows?.. this is ur BIG break into the Msian movie bisness!
vroom
May 17, 2007   07:37 PM PDT
 
klu ikut bilangan bintang yg joe bagi... candy & heliza 1st (27), mila 3rd... (26), bahana pam jamban masa lagu inggeris... :)

anyway I tetap doakan Mila will be the champion tuk AF5...AMIN
Whitney no1
May 17, 2007   02:50 PM PDT
 
Joe, OFF topic Akademi Fantasia final jap...., nak cakap pasal American Idol.

Suprise..suprise finally Melinda Doolittle tersingkir juga. Actually I dont suprise sangat... coz mungkin orang America dah bosan dengan suara yang sedemikian. So next week is between Jordin vs Blake!!!
(Both is my fav since Top 12!!) All the best to both of you! Happy sesangat ni....!

Walaupun Melinda dikatakan yang terbaik for this season (yes I agree sama sekali in terms of vocal performance...) but I have to be honest to myself that her voice macam membosankan.. I think rata-rata black female singers memang macam itu suara mereka. Cuba kita dengar balik dari Season 1 dan 6... most of them suara tak jauh beza (adalah beberapa yang memang outstanding habis).

Melinda for me ada sedikit kurang original, suara dia 'trapped' between Gladys Knight dan Aretha Franklin. Berbeza dengan Jordin yang lebih lantang dan jelas serta berani menyanyikan kebanyakan lagu yang sangat popular ( I think dia ni lebih sesuai masuk ke irama POP atau Contemporary or Traditional R & B), Melinda tak sesuai langsung utk POP, lebih kepada 'traditional R & B', Contemporary R & B pulak tak berapa jelas....,
Blake memang bagus utk POP, walaupun suara dia tak sebagus Melinda dan Jordin, tapi harus diingat America menggunakan RADIO FORMATS, so..chances utk Blake menyerlah amat cerah...!!
What about Lakisha? Lakisha yang dah tersingkir pada Top 6 itu sesuai utk GOSPEL atau Traditional R & B jer. Contemporary tak sesuai dan mungkin sukar nak dapat airplay.

On the other hand, even if Melinda ataupun Lakisha Jones didn't sing Aretha or Gladys-style, the show's track record suggests that they would still have a hard time getting Top 40 airplay (in America the technical term for Top 40 is CHR, which stands for Contemporary Hit Radio). See, sebab tu kita sukar sekali melihat juara seperti RUBEN STUDDARD atau FANTASIA BARRINO masuk ke carta POP ataupun Contemporary Modern R & B. Even dalam carta R & B pun diaorang ni tak menyerlah. Fantasia second album... I consider flop.

Jennifer Hudson punya new version of Jennifer Holliday classics " AM I NOT TELLING YOU THAT I"M NOT GOING" pun kurang menyerlah dicarta radio. Itulah pasal these days America pakai RADIO FORMATS. (Tak best ler...) Tak macam kita kat sini semua jenis muzik diputarkan dalam satu station radio. For me Jennifer ada bright future sebagai Actress-singer, like a black Barbra Streisand.

Apapun, seperti Akademi Fantasia..kita lihat siapa antara mereka ini yang akan menyerlah selepas American Idol...!

P/S: Cant wait for Jennifer Hudson debut album under ARISTA RECORDS (oh dear Whitney!!!). Aku dah ada LaToya London album...oklah album tu, Fantasia? Sucks.
But well peminat lagu SUPERWOMAN by KARYN WHITE, dengar citer dia tengah plan come back, album SUPERWOMAN: THE BEST OF KARYN WHITE...sudah keluar (beli on-line). I'll wait for the new album.
klubbkidd
May 17, 2007   01:49 PM PDT
 
1. aku tak masuk wad la...hish.attention span ko sama ngan idola ko.
2. my test results say i am fit, and by the way it's the brains that matter, aku bukan keja tukang tarik tali feri ok.
3. keja aku aku plan ahead da siap ahead of time so memang takyah nak EXEMPTED...ko ingat haper exam exam nih
Nakpo
May 17, 2007   12:07 PM PDT
 
Tu lah Joe... Asyik sebut sebut nama Aswad (jangan terngigau sudah...) sampai ko pun masuk Wad. Orang tak fit dan selalu sakit sakit boleh jadi wartawan ke Joe? Masa ko kat wad tu mesti bos ko examtedkan ko dari tugasan kan.


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KLUBBKIDD
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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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