Ye...
Kehangatan dah mula dirasakan...dan ramai mesti tertanya-tanya apa kah siri baru yang diperkenalkan ni.
So Konsert Prelude akan bagi intro into what this whole siri realiti yang baru ni about... and menceritakan mengenai perangai dua ekor binatang berupa manusia sebagai pengenalan bagi mereka yang tak kenal dan motif siri ini.
Sudah tentunya I have to do that...sebab walaupon lembu perasan betina ni tapi  berloceng dua ekor ni tak glamer pun...perasan je diri sendiri star sangat.
Dunia blogging semestinya dipenuhi ngan bangsa langau...a term used to describe idiots who hide behind the anonymity, sambil syok sendiri declaring themselves to be everything they're not in an attempt to validate their pathetic existence.
Well...dalam dunia kaum ketiga (bahasa sopan)....dua peserta kami ni memang tak asing lagik sebab takde ler orang (da sah bukan manusia...so memang takder ler orang) seperti mereka.
Yang berkenaan, yang tak bersalah, yang senyap....semua akan menjadi mangsa mereka.
Cara modus operandi haiwan liar dua ekor ni adalah untuk mengeji sesama kengkawan, more often than not menghina orang untuk merasakan diri mereka ni adalah penting sangat.
Padahal, one wanks at home sebab no social life, while the other tries oh so hard to have some semblance of a woman tapi ya ampun...itam satu hal...shading pon takleh bantu muka!
While dulu Internet ni membolehkan orang berselindung disebalik identiti...kini teknologi pelbagai telah membenarkan kita merisik ala CSI untuk pinpoint...binatang manakah yang sibuk mencarut orang...
So wujudnya bangsat puaka Imah dan anak buangan yang dikutip tepi Sungai Klang (kilometer ke lapan, belakang semak) yang bernama Nory ni...memang telah lama memberikan seribu satu masaalah yang membelenggu dunia blogging PLU dimana mereka bermaharajalela, systematically cari gaduh ngan one blogger at a time.
The operate ngan ganging up on one person, and kononnya bertopengkan sincerity, attempt nak get people on their side. Meanwhile, nothing is sacred...and everything is open to being bitched about.
Anyway...beberapa hari lepas...ilham untuk production ABBB datang daripada carutan dua babi liar ni terhadap aku tak pasal-pasal. Alasannya? Sebab rasakan they could take me on too. Well...big mistake.
Carutan tu dari dalam sebuah tagboard dalam sebuah blog yang baru-baru ni aku sebut. Tapi yang datang ke perhatian saya melalui kengkawan dari the blogging community yang mengadu pasal mulot-mulot puaka penjilat bontot khinzir ni.
Buktinya diabadikan dalam blog seseorang yang tidak beridentiti bernama Blogwatcher.
Dalam cut and paste entry Blogwatcher - jelas terbukti betapa lahanatnya binatang dua ekor ni dengan mencarut aku...hanya kerana spekulasi yang melampau diatas kebencian ramai terhadap mereka. Bermacam kutukan yang tak diundang dilemparkan.
Dengan itu...timbullah idea....
Let's see who's up for a good bitch fight.
So....instead of hiding behind an unknown identity....ABBB akan menentukan...just how much of these two hanjengs we can find out.
I never throw off a good challenge...and hanya berbekalkan basic info, penyiasatan da bermula.
Dalam konsert-konsert (konsert pertama da next entry akan datang ni...) coming soon ni..expect information on these two to enlighten you on who they are - seandainya you come across two slags like these...you know how to hunt them down...like they inadvertedly will be...
So pada mereka yang tak faham apa yang berlaku...baca jer laa...layan!!!
Kalao tak entry biasa tetap akan diteruskan gak (malam ni nak gi preview Puteri Gunung Ledang - The Musical) and you guys will still get all the latest info as usual.
Tapi yang pastinya....update ABBB will come fast and furiously.
The series will only end in two ways....full disclosure of their total identities OR the two freaks kneeling before me begging for mercy (which they might just end up doing anyway when this series is over)
So...sebagai penutup Konsert Prelude ABBB yang ala intro ni...mari kita lihat....apa hadiah yang bakal mereka menang hasil penaja bersama kami...kita berjumpa lagi dalam konsert pertama (bersedia for really ugly pictures of how they look like!)!!!

Masyarakat Malaysia memang obsessed with the concept of reality TV, so I thought...what the heck...instead of putting more of my personal life, I definitely don't want to bore you guys who read my blog for now...and put on something yang definitely lebih menarik.
Kicking off today, is a brand new series that will rock the world of blogging!
I call it Akademi Bapok-Bapok Berangan!
Why such a crass name? Lepas ke tapisan Censorship Board? Buruk sangat ke peserta yang akan participate? Berangan sangat ke sampai tahap dewa dewi neraka ke tujuh?
You'll just have to read on and see for yourselves. (tapi be warned...gambar-gambar muka meka yang buruk ni memang shocking!)
You see, I have a very short fuse, and when people piss me off, and disregard warnings not to screw with me...I fight a very clean fight, but I go all out. Or at least as clean as it gets ler. Bila da deal ngan yang bermuka-muka....how do you know which face to bitch slap kan?
So...today, i introduce my new series in my blog - where creative writing meets reality, where Akademi Fantasia meets CSI.
Sebelum apa-apa...ni background sikit pasal ABBB.
Pencarian bermula antara para bloggers yang sedikit sebanyak tak glamer sebab pembaca hanya 24 orang, sampai membuang stats counter kerana malu besar bila terdesak nya nak gelar diri sebagai star tidak dibuktikan dengan hanya blog yang rata-rata hanya dibaca oleh orang yang dikutuknya.
These are irresponsible people yang nak glamer kononnya trying to establish themselves as bloggers yang agung, by bestowing themselves ngan memacam title berangan.
Biasalah...kat Internet, tak perlu nak tunjuk muka pun, leh berangan cantik...padahal rahang senget! Kutuk orang nombor satu...rumah takde cermin ke?Bak kata sorang kawan bloggers, bab rahang ni laa sumpahan paling buruk sekali. Ye laa...hidung besar ke...bibir nipis...leh agik repair. Kalau rahang da senget tu, jangan feeling leh alter keburukan ko. It's something that Tuhan berikan yang memang for life ler...memang branded ler ko for life! Very the geng syaitan-syaitan dan iblis-iblis lakhnatullah!!! Kalao muka tak elok takpe...tapi bak kata orang...kalau muka da lah burok....perangai pon burok....memang sah burok teramat impak maksima!
Yela...kalau cam yang sorang agi yang itam legam...leh gak proclaim comparison ngan Tyra Banks tuh...haiyo! Sama warna tak bermaksud sama cantik. Tayar lori pun itam. Air longkang belakang rumah pun itam...ekzos bas pun itam! Kalau itam kusut...jangan nak hina-hina orang...perasan seolah ko ni black beauty! Ni pun kaki menghina orang yang takde cermin kat rumah...
So balik soal pemilihan sapa peserta-peserta yang terpilih untuk menerajui musim pertama ABBB akan diumumkan dalam edisi khas Tirai Akademi Bapok Bapok Berangan ni.
Peserta pertama adalah binatang yang memang kaki menghina orang kat blog nya, proclaiming itself (I won't even do the honour of branding the person as human) as a star. Memang kalau blog hoppers PLU sudah kenal pun anak binatang haram ni dengan nama Imah. Menggelar diri professor dengan rahang senget dan mulot jamban kebanggaannya, tapi setakat kalau lecturer tepi longkang, memang tinggi ler cita-citanya perasan educated but knows next to nothing.
Peserta kedua yang dimasukkan dalam ABBB adalah sekoq ungka muka bontot kuali yang perasan dia hebat, tapi lebih teruk dari bangsa Imah, blog pun tarak, tapi menjadi langau kat blog orang lain, masuk rumah tuk mengutuk je keja.
Keja gomen kontrak ada ati nak guna company resource tuk surfing pleasure masa office hours tak sedar diri tau ler kalao ditamatkan employment even before the end of dia punya contract. Tu laa namanya pondan-pondan tak sedar untung ada gak nak amik keja!
So because these two are so exceptionally khinzir, tapir, cipan, tenuk dan pelbagai lagi array of names yang display kebinatangan terlampau...let's welcome these two anak haram bohsia pencen, bapok tak sedar diri, nak kata jantan pun tak, nak kata betina pun tak layak, tapi perasan memasing supermodels.
Yes, we pick only the extreme examples of pondan-pondan sial yang untuk dijadikan examples of whether they last the duration of this episode yang pasti akan mencungkil bukan bakat (da nama berangan...bakat apa ada...) tapi segala rahsia hidup mereka.
Please take note siri ni kira ala pre-recorded, so sebenarnyta finale dan pelbagai da siap, tapi kena aa ikut waktu tayangan kan...
Dengan bangganya aku lancarkan...logo ABBB!!!

So...mai aku explain konsep siri ni. Setiap episod akan menampilkan fokus pada binatang haram dua ekor ni, dari visual siapakan diri mereka sebenarnya sehingga laa setiap fakta yang dicungkil ala CSI mengenai diri mereka.
Seperti mana, selepas sepuluh minggu, kita da kenal diri mereka, kepuasan dari menghanjengkan binatang dua ekor ni adalah the prize. Not for them but for me, as well as the many bloggers yang had to put up with their crap!
Well...with any luck after this series, the prize for them will be kursus kounseling psikiatri ataupun kursus agama (dalam kebapokan ada hati nak mempersendakan agama sendiri), atau mungkin set rantai gelang besi, serta menjadi covergirl Mastika.
Penghinaan selama sepuluh episod ni akan expose them for who they are apart from their online alter egos yang membanggakan keberanganan kepondanan mereka yang dijulang, where we can get to know everything about them. 
Dari nama sebenar, gambar-gambar peribadi mereka, pekerjaan (including designation and exact location) sehinggalah every single financial detail about them (kata kaya sangat - kita tunggu dan lihat!)
Impossible? Ni cuma Tirai je...rilek!!!
So...sementara kami menunggu Akademi Fantasia IV...layan ler ABBB yang sememangnya akan memartabatkan agik dunia carutan bloggers dan langaus yang feeling cantik ni!
Keep checking back for the earth shattering updates.
Bermula episod konsert pertama je, undian akan dibuka disini untuk menentukan sapa paling berangan hanjeng skali! Ikut populariti tau...memandangkan meka nak sangat popular...aku hanjengkan meka sampai naik nama meka yang sememangnya tak glamer cuma feeling perasan je lebih forever syok sendiri!
Juri undangan selebriti juga akan di jemput bagi setiap siri konsert untuk memberikan komen mengenai tahap kegampangan mereka.
Sebelum saya mengundurkan diri, saya ingin mengucapkan terima kasih kepada tenaga produksi yang menjayakan siri ni dengan research meka yang amat terperinci skali mengalahkan semua CSI spin-offs yang ada.
To the two participants...queens don't get into a catfight. We just royally bitch slap freaks like you. So kalao tak reti sujud kat kaki aku ala ala Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Ghum dan memohon seribu keampunan untuk memastikan anda dikeluarkan dalam siri ini... merasalah MENGUNDANG MALAPETAKA!
I will expose both of you and who you both really are!
Let the battle begin, bitches!!!

Aku memang malas sikit ler kebelakangan ni nak update.
Mampuslah konon kena calonkan sebagai Bloggers Paling Gigih konon for the Golden Blog Awards anjuran Ginger de la Loca for the local blogging fraternity.
So sebab dapat pencalonan camtuh...erm...nampaknya I have to lah kan...
So here's my update this time around.
Dah pasti ler dengan Anugerah Juara Lagu semalam, I guess I have to ler at least let a little in about how it was kan?
Semalam janji memang ngan kengkawan because I had lotsa of extra tickets, so Muzaffar, abang Badrul, Najmie, Nizam, Zam and me, myself and I gi jumpa kat area opis aku kat Bangsar.
We went in two cars, dan sampai je sana, after checking in, kita gi makan kat coffee house at the Pan Pacific. Abang Badrul belanja (rasa bersalah lak). Habis melantak we made our way back to Dewan Merdeka.
We bumped into Javardkent yang penah jumpa sebelum ni manakala sorang agik anggota Bloggers United, Juan, muncul kemudian (biasalah diva kan kena grand entrance!)
Kat luar da crawling with people da, so we decided to book our seats first, walaupun da reserved section, risau gak kang masuk lambat nak catwalk...last-last dok lantai cam Hits 1. But of course, this isn't an RTM production...so we seated ourselved third row from the front dekat-dekat da tengah.
The first thing that caught my eye was the stage. Adus...bak kata kawan-kawan, cam kain ela tergantung sebagai perhiasan backdrop. There were a million and one things that was all wrong, but malas ler nak cakap sini.
Pada sesapa yang kenal aku da, or has been reading my blog for ages, you know I can't review penuh-penuh kat sini sebab aku write for a living. So please check my other blog - which is my column (kena laa jual mahal skali skala)
In order of performance, ni my evaluation of how they fared.

Semalakama (Pak Ngah/Ce'Kem/Zehra Zambri)
Perlu ke? Seriously?
She exceeded ler my expectations sebab mampu to perform well live vocally as well as in terms of stage command. But the song...haiyo!
Pak Ngah suka wat hal kan buat lagu-lagu standard issue camni.
Terasa cam tengok Siti yang tak lengkap lor. It did nothing for me at all, and aku rasa show dia nothing great.
Kalau nak audition sebagai back up singer or dancer tuk memenuhkan stage kali seterusnya Kak Ani nak wat show ok ler...
The song was crap, and the performance ala kadar je. Kalao AJL 10 tahun lepas, leh ler bagik rating tinggi.
Rating :

Elegi Sepi (Azlan Abu Hassan/Julfekar/Azharina)
For some reason, lagu ni memang tak memikat aku dari dulu. I never felt this was a strong composition, and lyrically tak challenging. Tapi aku tau memang ramai suka ler lagu ni (habis aku kena carut kawan-kawan sendiri bila kata tak minat)
The performance?
Aku disappointed sikit Nina. Mungkin dia gementar, but she really couldn't hold it together vocally and aku rasa elok lagi dia perform kat Hits 1.
Never had high hopes for this song anyway...
Rating : 

Pop Ye Ye (Shahrin Azmi Mohd Shaharudin, Damien Seet, Abdullah Ahmad, Zaf, Cham/Zaf/V.E.)
Aku kecewa teramat ngan V.E.
Going into my final, they were my favourites for Pop Rock, dan aku da bajet ler that they would put up a good fight with Hazami's Katakan.
Tapi ikutkan trend, memang Pop Ye Ye is typical category champion material.
Anyways, takler disappointed sangat they didn't win, but I really feel like their performance really turned me off.
Props gedabak, ngan Vespa pelbagai. But execution - SEDIH!
And please ler...sapa ler back-up dancer yang bulat pakai ijo tu?
Very the salah ok! Not even funny! Rosak tambak rosak agi bila Joe Flizzow's mic tak fungsi lak! Huh! Ilang the impact of the song. Masa semifinal lagi better.
Rating : 

Taat (Rosli Md Kasa/Tok Wan/Rohana Jalil)
Aku ingat dalam keghairahan kak Ana nak perform, sampai kuar bila cue Mawi masa nak intro, da menjanjikan a good performance.
It was very theatrical, I'll give her that. Tapi geli aku dibuatnya kerana terasa cam mayat berbalut kain kapan lak menari-nari.
A little too dramatic for a song yang too weak.
Rating : 

Awan Yang Terpilu (Lin Li Zhen/Loloq/Ning Baizura)
No matter how anyone looks at it, Awan Yang Terpilu deserved to win something.
Tapi apa nak buat kan...industri menobatkan it as Song Of The Year, while a few people think it doesn't deserve anything.
Apapun, Ning put up a superb performance that was inspiring tro say the least.
It wasn't just me yang bulu roma meremang, atau rasa nak nitis airmata (control macho babe!)...everyone felt it, and you had to be bloody lying to say otherwise.
No matter what the jury says...Awan Yang Terpilu was a winner.
Ning out sikit in tempo at the start, but with just a strings intro, it was forgiveable.
Dengan semua bak rombongan (kecuali Jac), Ning stood out sebab menjiwai lagu bukan dengan rombongan Cik Kiah...but with the simple tools of emotion with her expression and vocals.
Rating : 

Tak Tahu (Edry/Edry/Adam)
Busuk ler performance Adam. First of all recycle habis. Koreografi, and gimik kesemuanya la.
Props murahan...vocal tak mantap.
I mean, seriously, the only reason anyone could rate this boy highly was if they wanted to get into his pants, atau like all those hormonal girls in Dewan Merdeka yang tak reti nilai good performance menjerit cam period mencurah tak henti.
It was a performance yang very the Hadiah Penyampaian Hadiah.
Nothing personal against him, but I think he needs to really take a good, long hard look at his performances and tengok apa kelemahannya.
People can put on nice clothes, and whimper out a tune, and pass it off as a pro act.
But let's just say, in this case, he didn't stand a chance. Hopefully he'll do better next time, sebab bakat dia ada...tapi...let's admit it, he's not the best singer around. So he really has to improve and be mkore polished. Ni bukan Akademi Fantasia lagi.
Rating : 

Ayuh Juragan (Noraniza Idris/Fedtri Yahya/Noraniza Idris)
Bak nyanyian Ito dan Neves yang sumbang tu, apo nak dikato?
Seriously...it was just standard kak Ani. Lagu tak sekuat Iboq...and performance takde yang luar biasa.
Tambah agi tolak markah bagi penari dia sorang yang menimbulkan kerisauan sebab ala bulldozer ada hati nak lonjat overdose!
Rating : 

Wajah (Othman Mohamad/Habsah Hassan/Jaclyn Victor)
I never agreed with this song daripada mula. Horror bila masuk. Anytime Langit ke 7 ke apa lagik elok.
But yesterday night, it was decent, thanks to Jac's vocals.
Kalau bagi orang lain nyanyi - entahla apa hasilnya.
Ni ke evolusi muzik yang dibanggakan?
Rating : 

Gaia (Pacai/Pacai & Zainal Abidin/Zainal Abidin)
Patutnya rename je lagu ni Gayah sebab very the che gayah. Ala segala unsur show cabaret ada ni.
Tak caya? Gi tengok performance bebudak kat The Ship.
Dengan ular lah...main api lah...
Gelak sat kerana aksi Wachaa! Zainal, and terdiam sat kerana material seluar baju dia transparent, bila kena lampu dari belakang nampak bentuk segalanya.
Terus pening...perlu ke?
Rating : 

Aduh Saliha (M Nasir/Loloq/Mawi)
Ok...ni kena outline bebetul. Kalau tak roboh blog aku jap agik ada y ang protest.
Objectively, Mawi seriously has improved vocally. Stable, and quite confident in his delivery, memang banyak lah improvement dia.
UNFORTUNATELY, setakat dok terpaku setempat kerana teragak-agak is not exactly good showmanship. Dia masih teragak-agak bab pergerakan ni, and it's obvious his control of the stage has to be choreographed. Ada yang bising pasal tak dapat tengok dia gelek kat TV, but serious, kalau Zehra, Adam dan sebagainya menari takde orang puji...apa lagi la setakat step Mawi.
Still...it was a watchable performance sebab Aduh Saliha is a good song.
Best performance? Rationally...you know the answer...
Rating : 

Gemilang (Aubrey Suwito/Asmin Mudin/Jaclyn Victor)
Kalau nak ikutkan, her performance masa the final of Malaysian Idol was something that can never ler be repeated.
Sejak tu...she has never had the power to deliver it just the same. Still amazing...but not quite as good.
Really think she deserved the vocal award...though with Hazami getting it, takler teruk sangat kan. At least lost to an equal...
The song itself? Undeniably haunting....
Rating : 

Kata (Hazami/Hazami, Tris & Arab/Hazami)
He outdid himself. Hazami has done me proud by not just his vocals, tapi korang prasan tak dia ada menari?
Hah...ko nak puji bab menari...puji ler Hazami..sebab dia lagik kayu dari Mawi sebenarnya.
Bukan kutuk...tapi that boy has got three left feet.....so you can imagine ler kan.
Still, great choir act (cayalah Safri conduct meletop!)...and the backup vocals as well (Farah best!)
Kalao korang nak tau, choir dia dan backup vocals dia semua anak didik dia...
Rating : 

Dan resultnya yang takkan aku lawan walaupun ada ahli juri yang aku rasa memang tidak patut (bukan tidak layak) berada di dalam keadaan tu adalah seperti berikut :

Juara Lagu (RM25,000 & trophy): Gemilang 

Juara kategori (RM12,000 & trophy)
Irama Malaysia and Ethnic Creative : Aduh Saliha (M. Nasir,Loloq)
Pop/Rock : Kata (Hazami/Hazami, Tris & Arab)
Balada : Gemilang (Aubrey Suwito,Asmin Mudin)

Best Performance (RM10,000 & trophy) : Mawi
Best Vocal Performance (RM10,000 & trophy) : Hazami

Apapun...tahniah ler pada semua pemenang!!! All of you deserve it...one way or another. So this is my tribute to you guys (nak pic composers and lyricists tapi tak sempat amik semua...lagik pun ada muka yang tak sesuai dipaparkan - carutan peribadi)

Ini ada dua keping pics lagi sepanjang awards yang aku rasa nak kongsi (nak dapat title Bloggers Paling Gigih ler konon)

First pic : Innuendo ketika mempersembahkan Belaian Jiwa. Korang cam tak mereka. Ok...asalnya, Innuendo in the first album comprised of four people, iaitu, Reymee, Taj, Pot dan Sam yang kemudiannya meninggalkan the group.
Yang kelakarnya...malam tu meka perform, haram aku cam budak yang nyanyi skali ngan Sam dan Reymee yang aku dapat identify tu.
You see, Reymee and Taj were my college mates, sesama amik sound and audio engineering dulu (241B!!!), and aku kenal meka kerana meka ni junior aku.
To cut a long story short, orang ketiga ngan meka tu, is neither Pot nor Taj.
So who was he?
Apparently, he was just a stand-in meka brought in about half hour before the show started.
Aduh...apalah...last-last member yang dok rumah (kat Dewan Merdeka tak perasan sangat) yang ngadu mamat tu sumbang abih kalahkan kesumbangan Dina dan FO3!
So much for evolution...
Kalau korang nak baca ulasan yang intelligent, yang merapu, yang kelako...then baca balik ulasan aku.
Tapi kalao korang rasa nak something the opposite of all that (matilah aku kena carut teman-teman seangkatan!), then try clicking sultanmuzaffar, Javard ataupun pendatang baru dunia bloggers yang da season, Aku Belum Gila Lagi Tau (ada berani mau click???!!!) ataupun MysticDreamworks (mistik mimpi keja katanya direct translation...)

Pic two : Ini masa Amy dan Andy Flop Poppy kan...masa tengah duet. Amy still maintain...and in fact, aku rasa anytime Amy can teach these kids a thing or two about performing, looking and sounding good.
The thing I wanted to raise was...Andy pakai camtuh kenapa?
Harus ler peminat Brokeback Mountain kan!
Kalau Amy pakai camtu gak camna?
Leh imagine tak korang meka as the lead characters (pengsan terus in horror!)
So it was a little funny...but thank God Andy is one of the few with a decent sense of humour and equipped with the slight ability to laugh at himself.
A lot of people can;t do that, sadly enough.
Anyways...ride 'em cowboy!!!

And one last pic masa Ayuh Juragan. Ni takyah explaination ler. Just looks totally weird to me that's all...what do you guys think? Looks like a freak show run amok lor...orgy ke gang bang punya pic ni? (gelak nak pecah perut tengok berulang kali)

Ok...aku rasa setakat ni jer ler entry aku pasai Anugerah Juara Lagu.
Malam semalam balik kat Bangsar bagi semua amik keta da dekat 2am da. Everyone wanted to head home, so I went back to the office to finsih my article for news, and then wat tuk entertainment.
The joke? Aku dok office sampai 5am pastu ngantuk sangat tidur keta.
Bangun 9.30am, cuci muka (yer...tak mandi!!! Phew!) terus sambung keja. Until now. Sebenarnya kerja leh cepat abih...biasalah procrastination melampau kan...
Still...more updates tomorrow sebab aku cuma ada press conference Anugerah Industri Muzik 2006 at 3pm tomorrow, which gives me lots of time tomorrow to do some stuff. Banyak chores aku.
Kena gi finance nak settle keta punya payment yang aku tak sempat lagi bayar. Then have to go Maybank and pick up my Mastercard and Visa replacements.
And of course...update my blog over one or two things I want to share...until then...toodle doo kiddies... oh by the way guys....jangan lupa akan datang ni kat Planet Hollywood for the next Sunday Nite Live...sifu himself (tatau lak kalau dia bak Mawi guest artiste kan!)
So take note of the date and book your tables now!!!

Yes...talk about a great start to the Chinese New Year!
Pagi tadi bangun awal, was preparing to go to my eldest uncle (on my mother's side) punya rumah nak family gathering - tengah dok bersiap dengar Carta ERA...listening out for Nikki's Pinta - ingat da terlepas sebab da nak masuk top ten...and guess what? She was no. 8!!!
Melonjat kegembiraan sat! Five weeks into the charts, initially it was climbing, tapi aku ingat after minggu pertama at 19, kedua at 17, ketiga at 14, and finally the fourth week at 19 balik jatuh gila babas...I thought it would be out of the charts!!!
And lo and behold! It flies up to 8!!!

It set the pace ler for a quite decent day. After all, masa aku kat  Sabah at the ned of last week, got SMSes telling me about Nikki's nomination at Anugerah Planet Muzik coming soon in the Best New Female Vocal category. Tunggu lak Anugerah Industri Muzik and see how she fares there.
So often people confuse quantity with quality....so there...I said it.
Apapun - I support all new talents tak kisah ler popular ataupun tidak...as everyone deserves peluang untuk membuktikan diri. From Nikki to Idayu....from Mawi to Jac...
Cuma sampai bab ni aku nak maki hamun sikit....pasal mereka yang kononnya yang gelarkan diri peminat.
Tak...ni bukan posting padal fanatik....tapi cerita pasal ada ler beberapa people yang berangan sikit ler meka ni make a difference in the music industry.
Orang-orang ni, yang tak berani mengaku siapa diri mereka ni, practise the so-called 'freedom' of sharing digital music online @ mp3, and condemn those who attempt to stop them mengatakan kita memacam. Konon we do it too...and a million and one justifications for their criminal actions.
Konon tolong ler artis sangat dengan upload mp3 leh tolong popularkan...ni padahal aku tau sangat niat meka. Artis favourite meka lak tak share kan...takut lak kena hamun ngan fan club dia join ni selepas idola dia sendiri pun pernah kutuk piracy. CD ori pun tak janji ada kat rumah. Semua dia offer, yang dia download dari tempat lain.
So anyway...camna dia teruskan perangai lahanat dia?
By kononnya sharing music orang lain.
I can tell you one thing...nomatter how you look at it. YOU'RE STEALING!
Cakap apa saja...tapi anda tetap seorang pencuri. Konon halal ler and you have a right to do it. What right? Ko agama apa aa yang halalkan mencuri ni?
Cakap lebih-lebih on the Internet...but you don't even dare identify yourself.
So kalau orang camni takde common sense...what do we do?
Senang je...the Recording Industry of Malaysia, atau RIM, badan kira in charge of the music industry da memulakan pemantauan sites and blogs yang kononnya wat pahala ni ngan berkongsi padahal are nothing but thieving b*****s!
Dalam masa terdekat ni, tau ler ko...konon pakai third party for file sharing? The fact you have a link is enough to have action taken on you. So wait for it...I really hope our music fans grow up dan jangan ler layan perangai selfish people like this...who know NOTHING about the industry...and help destroy it by their stupidity!
Downloading digital music files is not just petty theft....it's a full fledged criminal action.
So prepare for the industry to fight back. Ok ler...getting worked up.
Man...I'd love to see wajah orang-orang terlibat ni bila meka kena kang...masa tu...kita tengok ler berapa berani bila da kena....
So start saving duit tuk legal representation ko...cause yes, you will be tracked down.

Yes...it's not the best picture to start the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year with, but I really could care less.
I was supposed to update my blog before I left for Sabah to come to Kota Kinabalu on Thursday, but because I was rushing a lot of deadlines with the long holiday stretch and all...memang tak ada masa ler nak buat.
So at the moment, I'm updating my blog from a place called the Airport Internet at the Kota Kinabalu International Airport where's I'm bloody f***ing stuck here as my 5pm flight has been delayed to 7.50pm.
Why am I superbly pissed to the max? Sebab the staff at the MAS or Motherf***ing A**holes Sons-of-b****es office here at the bloody airport is so clueless, dumb and just plain f***ing rude without a sense of PR at all their their sagging, wilted bodies. And this goes to the b*****d named Khalid based there sebab bodoh nak mampus, bangang tahap baik keja as a crash test dummy. I bet your parents are real proud of you.
Tanya flight delayed kenapa pun macam tanya bila mak ko nak berhenti dari jadi bohsia pencen. Memang lahanat! Yes...I am ultimately, supremely angry...sebab for the first time in my 29 years plus on the face of this bleeding planet, I am going to miss my family reunion dinner. Dahler because flight semua initially full, aku da cakap ngan family aku I will be late. Ni lak...totally out of the question to be with them at on time sebab sampai pun confirm about almost midnight.
So dalam geram aku...dari aku sambung ngamuk kat office anak-anak  bangap MAS kat airport ni...yang too stupid to tie their own shoelaces let alone let me know why the flight has been delayed...or take it out on anyone else, lebih elok aku dok sini update je blog aku.
Lagi pun banyak aku miss out nak update.
I'll continue on Sunday where I left off on the last entry. I had a slight (quite massive actually) emotional breakdown...and spent some time wallowing in depression. I have to thank my guardian angel for listening to my problems in the wee hours of the morning and providing me the emotional support. Friendship indeed the best gift  you can ever get...
On Monday lepas tak semangat nak kerja, walking around like a dazed zombie (you could say like a MAS ground staff) aku screwed up my time management big time sebab banyak sangat appointment and really tak ada mood nak even keep one in my state.
Happy sikit bila gi assignment launch of Akademi Fantasia Tour 2006 jumpa bebudak yang hadir. Tiga orang je missing, namely Fuad (expected), Aidil (MIA) and Amylea (ada show). But it was fun to meet up with most of them yang aku takde masa nak catch up for some time now.
Malas cita panjang-panjang sebab tak larat nak taip...bukan interesting sangat pun (and plus most of it is not for public information) so ni beberapa pics from the event. Hanya sekadar buat semua lepas rindu je pada mereka.
By the way...aku malas amik bebanyak...so sempat Yazer, Amy, Felix dan Mawi je.
And by the way...Felix punya Beyonce pose yang trademark kat blog aku ni...bukan aku yang mintak tau....dia sendiri gayakan camtuh nak wat pe...(pening pikir...I've created a monster!)
Nanti masa tour kalau aku ikut (sebab cam malas lak musim ni bukan cam Akademi Fantasia II punya tour) aku janji amik more pics for all of you as usual.

   

Anyway, sambung cita. Later in the evening gi tengok training team Astro tuk bowling for Fiesta Media Idola.
Dapat lepas aa tension masa tu campak bola bowling sana sini. Tapi main dua game je sampai tiga ari sakit badan!
Pastu lepak lak sampai dekat kul 2 pagi masa tu sebab sibuk main snooker ngan Wan ngan Nasser.
Masa sampai, abang Bad (ganas punya coach!) was there already. Soon one by one arrived, and the celebrity team members apart from the production team from Astro was Ning and her princesses in Nikki and Yanie, Zahid, Khai, Rosma...sapa agik aa? Mawi datang much later...and by the time everyone left and sebab dia sampai lambat tuk training...dia extend ler session dia. Best player among the celebrities?
No one really...everyone either sucked or was pretty average...and I think that  the coach je mengejutkan aku sebab he was quite good! Boleh tahan nampaknya....Zahid I have to admit, sebab first time aku tengok dia bowling not too bad ler...Siap dia ngan Khai with gear lengkap tuh!
It was fun...and I got to forget a few of my problems ler...takyah ler dwell sangat on the negative for the moment and have temporary relief in just first throwing a ball around...and later hitting a couple with a stick (doesn't really sound like a sport when you put it that way kan?)

   

   

Pagi aku bangun mengejut sebab ayah aku ketuk-ketuk pintu urgently. Turns out my mom had an accident on the way to an appointment.
Panik ler aku sebab my mom is turning 60...and even though dia masih strong and all...I didn't like the idea of her getting into an accident. Turns out with the traffic and the hot sun, she accidentally bumped into someone in front of her.
It wasn't too horrible, tapi dia nya Satria had the hood kinda folded at the middle. The other car sikit jer...so last-last settle cash RM100 on the spot bagi mamat tu.
The rest of the went by without any incidents...and my week seemed to be to be getting better even though I was suffering from a severe lack of sleep due to my heavy schedule.
It's Wednesday and a day before my trip and I'm still bogged down by tonnes of stuff to finish before I go off. Still lacking sleep...macamana ni??!!!
Apapun aku masih terpaksa bangun awal sebab gi ke the preview of Buli Balik for the blogging community.
A little sad that of the allocated 200 spaces, the list comprised only of below 80. But I suppose it's still a good sign that that many turned up on a Wednesday morning...a working day...and they paid to get in (lain laa kalau masuk free kan...mesti berlambak yang datang 'memberi' sokongan')
Anyway it was really fun...as I got to meet other bloggers and people who blog-hop that I haven't had the pleasure untuk jumpa as yet...
Pada mereka yang aku tak sempat tegur...I'm so sorry...
Pada those who yang tegur tapi I tak kenal siapa...bebanyak minta maaf sangat sebab meeting people for the first time, aku ni pemalu sikit (hah! mesti ramai gelak aku cakap camni!)
So pada mereka yang pergi...how was the movie? Was it as great as I said? Pada mereka yang missed out...go catch it at the cinemas NOW! For more info on the movie head over to the official website, sultanmuzaffar, juandanza or even Afdlin's own blog. Pada mereka yang ada masa preview tu...leave your comments below on the film and share with us what you thought...

   

it was a decent day. Rushed home by the time I settled some chores and all and it was late evening. Ingat nak tidur...tapi sebab pantang kan kalau ada TV programme yang menarik...aku sangkut terus tengok audition American Idol yang dok marathon kat StarWorld back to back episode.
Tidur tak sempat, rush gi jumpa member kat KL again sebab nak pass barang. Pastu rush to office tuk habis kerja. On off tidur sebab letih but finally got most of my work done and settled with. Bloody flight delayed...sepatutnya leave by noon. Last-last...flight time only at 5pm. Tu pun delayed sampai 5.30pm baru take off. Lembab gila MAS!
Then sampai lak letih gila...the next morning kul 8 pagi dah kuar gi Monsupiad Cultural Village for the launching of Linda's Jika Kau Kekasih.
Hah...ni ada a few pics from the beautiful place we went...with Linda in it. Erm...aku pun sempat ler amik pics kenangan kan!
Belah malam gi tengok show dia featuring Atama (a local Sabahan rapper yang rupa ala Azwan Ali-jangan gelak aa...tul laa!) as well as several local talents including Gracie yang dulu program Auditions dulu.

   

    

Malas nak panjang-panjang punya entry sudah because it has been about two hours sudah online sini. Mahal wo! RM10 sejam! Very the ancient punya pricing. Cam zaman mid Nineties lak Internet mahal sangat (dah biasa R3 sejam max).
So I'll just leave you guys with a Kong Hee Fatt Choy (or Gong Xi Fa Cai) from me...and hope you guys all have a prosperous year ahead of you!
And be blogging soon on more rantings.
By the way - I know I had very limited time in Sabah, but to friends yang aku kenal melalui blog aku ni, terima kasih banyak-banyak sebab sudi menjadi tour guide and all....it was great meeting all of you. The next time I'm back in Kota Kinabalu (not using MAS definitely!!!) aku guarantee akan call korang!
Thanks to rem, gidong, miss josie, Zoe and Jason (especially from picking me up from that God forsaken part of town to join all of you!)
And to Rozan yang aku da bertahun tak jumpa...see you dude bila mai Kl in April! Been nice bumping into you after years of not having met!!! Tu laa orang kata...tak rancang pun leh terjumpa...
Ok laa semua...take care...I'm logging out and going in for a mocha..........

Sebenarnya, ni tengah pening-pening sikit...tapi still gigih nak wat posting. Kenapa pening? I'll get to that part soon.
The weekend has been quite productive for me, banyak aktiviti ler nak keep me occupied...sampai tak cukup rehat.
Tapi dalam kesibukan tu, I still have time and space to feel bored...don't ask me why.
Friday kelam kabut sikit even though it's usually a relaxed day for me. Started off with a little work, and then malam, kuar ngan the entrepreneur tuk gi Hits 1 kat RTM. Dia kali pertama jejak Angkasapuri katanya! So terkejut sikit ler ngan the rundown state of the place. Dari kertu-kertu (don't ask) yang keja kat sana, sampai the rundown state of the backstage to the horrible sets, it was nice to see Muzaffar shocked. Aku lak dah lali ngan the state of RTM...or Angkasapuri to be more accurate that I've lost all hope da.
Mana taknya...budget entah kemana. Dari bina pintu gerbang besar gedabak yang burok tu, baik spend some money on their studios. After all, a TV station is not judged by the archway into their place but by the production content. And sadly...no one told those old folks at RTM that.
Hits 1 takder ler menarik sangat sebab aku da pun tengok full dress rehearsal malam sebelum. The whole night sakit hati sebab terpaksa dok lantai kerana bangang punya production crew leh bagi orang lain dok tempat reserved. PR sana sibuk jadi GRO dok melayan yang tak mengena that they didn't notice how uncomfortable we were. Lum agi staff selangkah masuk kubor yang berangan nak jeling-jeling kita. No wonder ler I (along with sane individuals) prefer Astro anyday.
The show was ok...and the results tak mengejutkan langsung. Proud of Jac...about time she won something.
Takyah laa kan aku nak review panjang-panjang. Takkan nak post sini kan. Tunggu je review aku dalam paper (yang tu berbayar ma...ni personal)
  After finished lepak dressing room sat. Masa kat sana bump into Sharifah Zarina kesian lak tengok dia. Anugerah Juara Lagu dia tak make it...Hits 1 pun tak menang...padahal untuk aku, she is extremely talented and aku rasa Langit Ke-7 tu is such a strong song. Well...what to do...it was against another strong song...and in another case, fans who don't know better. And also blame RTM sebab backing dancers meka menyemak je. Dahler baju burok...choreography pun burok....execution burok...memburokkan segalanya je.
Also too bad was for Adam yang aku rasa show dia entertaining, apart from V.E. and Jac...nice moves though I think dia punya dance break a little contrived.
Balik anto warga emas (lepas kul 10 malam kira lewat ler tuk dia) selepas jamuan yang di join sekali ngan pusat kebajikan bergerak yang sampai ala diva grand entrance seperti biasa. Hung out with some friends and went home to sleep it off.

  

First of all the good news you all MUST read. Wajib tau baca...tak baca...erm...ertinya buta huruf kot (bangap tul statement!)
Ok...pada mereka yang dah banyak dengar pasal Buli Balik, sequel yang ditunggu-tunggu hasil Afdlin Shauki, hold on to your hats! We've managed to fix up something that hasn't been done by the online community before!
Hasil gabungan beberapa bloggers, termasuk saya dan sultanmuzaffar mewakili Bloggers United (yang termasuk badrulaftersix, elkapitandan juandanza), kami dah dapat pertolongan our extended family member, Afdlin, the man himself...to have a special PREVIEW screening of Buli Balik.
Tayangan umum bermula pada hari Khamis, Januari 26 but you all get to see it a day earlier...kira sekali gathering gabungan blog owners dan pembaca-pembaca untuk menikmati what is perhaps Afdlin's best movie to date.
The preview akan diadakan sehari sebelum pada Rabu, 25 Januari pada pukul 10 pagi di TGV 1 Utama (old wing).
For just RM10, be the first to catch it. It's a MUST! Sapa ada kat sana...kita tunggu dan lihat!
For more info, please head over to sultanmuzaffar's blog, or email sultanmuzaffar@gmail.com. Tempat adalah terhad kepada 200 yang pertama, so please book (and kalau leh pay up) early. The special screening, is courtesy of Afdlin himself...so tima kasih bebanyak abang oi!
I know it's a work day...tapi take the day off...cause it sure as hell is going to be worth it! It's not everyday we get to do this...so mai beramai-ramai dan sokong usaha kami untuk menaikkan filem Melayu (very the call to war)
If this works, we will have been able to effectively put to test the theory of just how powerful the Internet is in reaching out sebab kan ramai orang kita yang tak caya we can reach the masses using technology. Silly seeing as to how celah kampung pun da leh online da.
Moving on...sebenarnya aku cadang nak update blog dua ari ni...walaupun I felt right lazy. Still forced myself to do it though...except the Internet connection in the office is non existent for some bloody reason. So aku terpaksa nak tangguh le...malas update dari anywhere else as I prefer uploading content from the office, with the line usually reliable (on extremely rare occasions).
On Monday, gi assignment kat Planet Hollywood for Ratu. Meka ni duo dari Indonesia. I remember them sebab masa dulu gi Jakarta, I bought a couple of CDs on Leo's suggestion (those yang da lama tau ler sapa Leo). Among the albums I bought termasuk Agnes Monica (masa tu lum release sini aku da gilakan Bilang Saja), Project Pop (love this group...Senario with brains and style...and they can actually sing, not to mention the album features Glenn Fredly dan Rio Fabrian).
Then there was Ratu's debut titled Bersama. Since then, vocalist Pinkan Mambo (vogue abih nama) da ngandung anak luar nikah or something...and left the group. So while she's got a deal with Sony BMG Indonesia for six albums (suka suara dia...sengau tapi stylo!), Maia Ahmad Dhani (hah...bini Ahmad Dhani dari Dewa) has recruited another person to fill in, namely Mulan Kwok.
Aku tak gemar sangat the new sound yang lebih rock, compared to their more R&B leanings before this, and even single meka Teman Tapi Biasa tak edgy cam dulu. And their image, trying to be more Pink and Christina Aguilera...kinda sexy kiny rock chic...doesn't really work. Preferred their Japanime Harajuku look before. Still, call Leo (dia on business gi Palembang or whatever and not in Jakarta) sebelum gi assingment and tanya sikit pasal Ratu. Pastu gi sana on time, tapi tunggu sejam meka nak start. Mesti minah-minah ni tak reset jam bila sampai KL... They didn't perform...tapi I din't quite take on to Maia. Si Mulan tu aku expect ler kekok sikit...tapi si Maia tu very the cold shoulder. Cam tak kuasa langsung walaupun ni first time akan wat show kat sini. Lantak ler ko minah...show ko pun kang aku masuk pree...CD pun da dapat autographed without paying a Sen.
Ni hah...kalau korang nak tengok aku post kan beberapa pic masa meka photo shoot ngan aku.

   

  

After the event, gi lak KLCC with Zul yang nak tumpang balik office. Set nak lepak sat have a drink sambil jumpa kawan (sweetmk yang rajin comment kat blog aku ni) tuk passkan CD autographed Mawi yang aku janji kan sebab wat ala ala kuiz masa album nak kuar dulu. Serempak lak ngan kawan-kawan Zul yang make up artist...termasuk a friend of mine. Entah shooting pe tah...Arash Mohd...Ieda Moin ada ler next table. But somehow our table more focused on conversation sebab bual non-stop tukar gosip ngan member aku si Watie yang tiba-tiba muncul dengan another friend of hers that I know, si Vee. Penuh ler gossip column aku camni...haiyo...rupanya...banyak gak aku tatau...tu yang besh kawan ramai dalam industri. Tak membutakan diri pada seseorang artis kalau orang tu pandai wat baik depan orang je... After all, we're not two dimensional kan...we're only human...and ain't it great to be exposing celebrities yang ala perfect for their flaws. Makes our everyday life seem more realistic when we discover perfection is not exactly attainable...an illusion that many mistakenly develop in idolising an artiste.
Sent Zul back to their office, whacked out a story...before hantar Watie balik ke Pantai Hillpark cause she had to pack for Singapore. Dia gi ngan Vee. Anyway, singgah rumah Bob lepas drop by jumpa someone (takleh cita lebih sebab tanak jinx it but sekarang tahap nak kenal diri dan isi hati) dia lak takde. Off pun tak bagitau...huh! Catch up ler on apa cerita baru sebab da lama tak lepak ngan dia. Kedai makan dia (yang skali kongsi ngan Sahri dan Zarina) bukak Sabtu ni...so sibuk ler dia campur ngan album dia nak keluar da. Lepak sampai 1 pagi lebih...tak larat balik terus KO!
Siang tadi gi lak Ning punya event. PC tuk Valentine's Day kat Avanti (at Sunway Lagoon Hotel) The food is crap, but that's I think attributed to my finely honed Asiatic taste buds. Portion kecik...food was weird. Italian cuisine ler katanya.
It sucks...
The soup was this weak broth with two pieces of wantan floating in it. The gross part was they didn't look like wantan but more like two pieces of brains floating in yellowish tea. It tasted that way too. Then there was this one dish of the six course 'experience' that looked like the pic sebelah ni...which was like two pieces of wantan again dipped in yellow creamy gunk...and you guessed it...it tasted that way too. In fact...of six courses kan...aku rasa cam tak worth it ler...maybe I'm just too Asian and I'd settle for ayam goreng kunyit, sup kosong, sambal belacan and nasi putih or something like that la...more filling...no such luck though in this case...it was almost like being on diet! 
Bugger.
Interesting observation...that must be why fusion cuisine is big in Singapore. The fact that they can't stomach this crap but are still so pretencious that they gel it with local fare so that's it's actually edible and burp-a-licious!
Saving grace was this short performance of Ning, doing a medley which included old stuff which is a rarity to hear like In Another Life all the way to the (hopefully Juara Lagu) winner Awan Yang Terpilu accomapnied by Alwyn on the grand piano. Habis, ciao terus balik office. Stinking Internet is still down.
Ni pun aku save kan dalam disk dan rearrange balik tengah malam nak wat posting ni sebab nak bagitau korang awal-awal pasal Buli Balik.
Letih-letih pas ada function tadi gegas mai wat posting dalam ngantuk aku ngadap PC.
Just a little note for peminat Nikki. Kalau kat Sabah susah nak cari CD, please book with your local retailers. Mintak tokei kedai orderkan...only that way you can create a seen demand for Nikki punya album.
Tapi...kalau susah sangat masih tak dapat albumnya, I will be in Sabah on Januari 26 dan kembali ke KL pada Januari 28 untuk ssekali mengikuti launch album Linda disana. So give me a call at 013-6026006 or SMS me your order. I will be in Kota Kinabalu, and we can arrange a pick up point for you to collect your CDs.
Kalau ada kawan-kawan yang ada di area Kota Kinabalu yang nak jumpa, gimme a buzz and let's meet up kalau sempat, ok.
Apapun, one happy news, dalam minggu ketiga, lagu Nikki,  iaitu Pinta, naik carta ERA lagi!!! Dari minggu pertama 19, minggu kedua (minggu lepas) nombor 17, sekarang nombor 14 lak! So jangan lupa, refer belah kanan blog aku on how to request lagi lagu ni to let it go to the top!

There goes one of my new year resolutions...no thanks to the incompetence of Maybank. Bayangkan kul 11 pagi kelmarin...awal-awal da melantak McDonald's (McChicken LARGE value meal - tension mah!)
I decided to be be all nice and sweet and keep to my resolutions to get lots of things sorted out. One was to get my credit cards replaced (if you've been reading my blog musti ingat cita hantu aku kat Hotel Royal Adelphi where I lost my wallet).
So by freaking 10am I'm at Dataran Maybank in Bangsar...and what do I find out? Of my Visa and Mastercard, the bloody Mastercard still has a debt of about RM600 that's been overdue for more than three months.
As it is, aku tak dapat apa apa reminders by mail. Credit collection hasn't called up and threatened to break my leg off and beat me to death with it if I don't settle it. Nothing! Kalau dulu setakat sebulan lebih default je sampai freeze my bank account (very sial...).
Lucky ler staff kat Dataran ni memang friendly. Akak yang attend kat aku relax je. Aku lak kesian dia bila call credit centre nak enquire pasai kad aku. As usual...their bloody lines are all engaged, or no one bothers to pick up (aku penah try call them myself so I know from experience).
Finally settle semua, aku fork over RM600 and that was it.
Freakin' hell...there goes my budget. Cuma nasib baik I've been controlling my spending (and shopping urges) this past week or so, so ada ler duit lebih sikit can spare. Had to dig into my meagre savings, but ok lor...janji kalao aku expire ari ni, aku tak mati dalam utang.
So anyway the night before last...ada ler mini gathering. Actually it started out with just a few people. Laurielle (not to be mistaken for Laurier tuala wanita tu) stop over kat KL I think dua tiga ari, and sempat nak jumpa sebelom berambos mengkayakan ekonomi tempatan Bali. So janji ngan dia nak jumpa...along with Fiebie. Aku jumpa warga emas tuk an event earlier in town, dia kata tanak ikut, but later changed his mind...sekali confirm with peminat nombor satu Ramlah Ram.
Seperti biasa aku sampai awal sikit (harus kena carut sebab statement ni)...but Marshmallow Man dan beberapa kengkawan da sampai. Later everyone showed up and it was right circus! Tapi best gak...Poster girl/boy for Weight Gain nampaknya makin sihat (ehem...terbatuk lak) after not meeting him..er...her for over a year plus.
 It's nice to know sometimes....friendship exists even though you think it couldn't last all the shit we face in our lives.Apapun...aku nak amik pic, harus ler Toccara (America's Next Top Plus Sized Model) tanak pose...tambah agi malam tu masa gath dia tak alami 'transformasi'. Apa lagi tengah mekar hijau bumi Tuhan (nampak ler Laurielle ni leh sedara ngan Ginger Jingga) So ni je hasil fotografi yang berjaya. Actually kalau korang tengok pic tu...bukan aku dekat sangat ngan model aku ni...tapi pertambahan berat bada dia punya pasal...viewfinder tak muat (mati aku kena hempuk ngan lemak extra dia kang!)
Balik letih gila babas....especially after tengok aksi Fiebie pose mengasyikkan control ayu (nampak sangat remote rosak) bila berdepan ngan si Ameer ngan godaan seribu...very tiring to watch (mampos aku kena steamroll ngan Fiebie yang teramat slim). Was tired out as hell...but still made it into office awal the next morning (keletihan banget sih) for an important meeting (malas cita details but those yang tau isu terkini tempat kerja aku paham ler apa - baca The Star ari ni).
Supposed to go KLCC for a luncheon ngan bebudak Akademi Fantasia tuk PC nak announce konsert haper ntah. Tapi tak sempat...so lepak office je.
By 2pm, sped to 1 Utama nak gi GSC sana nak tengok media preview Buli Balik. Tujuan sebenar nak interview Afdlin but one shot redah ler kan. I didn't have high expectations for the sequel sebab personally aku a little let down by Baik Punya Cilok. Secondly because...how good can a sequel get...right? No matter how interesting the predecessor...
Wrong...cause it did rock. I mean I still thought editing was a little wonky...and there was a little over emphasis on a character or two...and too little development on others...but overall...it was pretty good. I think since Sepet...this is the only local movie I would really fork out money to watch. In fact...bila pikir balik...aku memang akan gi tengok kat panggung bila bukak kang! After all...this is a movie that deserves support! Apapun - if Baik Punya Cilok can shoot past RM2.3 million (or something like that...Buli Balik should hit the roof.
Should la being the operative word...because Malaysian moviegoers tend to be a bunch of wankers at times sanggup tengok wayang yang *bleurrghhhh* (muntah sat) when there is good stuff that should be paid attention to.
I won't bore you with details of Buli Balik...despite some really cheesy and cliche scenes, it is a good piece of work that features a blend of romance, comedy and also a touch of drama. That enough should be reason to watch it.
If that's not enough...Adibah Noor is one good reason..she positively prime evil in her role sebagai quiz master (mistress?) of a programme. Tak cukup? Ada cameo Ramlah Ram siot! Kelakar nak mampos!!! Won't say to much...but guarantee gelak sampai orang depan basah kuyup ngan air liur tersembur ko.
Tak cukup? Nasha Aziz ada ma! She is such a great actress I really think she should be one of the most sought after names when it comes to Malaysian leading ladies. She takes on her roles so naturally...takde laa cam the so called leading lady of Malay film yang *ehem* nyanyi live sumbang...nari pun cam senamrobik...oops! But seriously...I think Nasha exudes this classiness that most actresses don't have. After all...ramai pelakon wanita yang leading ni (yang harapkan cantik je) style...gaya lakonan meka very the ciplak dari Drama Minggu Ini gitu. Overdramatic...and not even theatre like in that sense...just...plain...over! Nasha however breathes in her role...and I really salute her.
And this is a must watch...because Hans Isaac actually acts in it! I've never been a fan of his...tapi aku terkejut cause Buli Balik, he shows a side to him that I've never seen. He is pretty impressive...and if he manages to hold on to the promise shown in Buli Balik...then tak mustahil ler Hans akan naik as one of the best male leads in time....deservedly!
And if that's not enough...kan ada Afdlin Shauki...need we say more. That alone is worth the price of the ticket da! (Chief Kodok...mana aku nya under table money) A lot of factors to fork out the meagre price of the ticket...so jangan lupa bila bukak kat panggung...tengok Buli Balik tau. It opens in cinemas beginning 26 January!
For more informtion...usha review power atau words straight from the kodok's mouth! It was a fun evening...and one well spent...not just over a good movie but with also kengkawan yang ada cam Juan yang lama ala cookie Chipsmore menghilang.
Nasha ajak minum with her friends...tapi cam kureng comfortable sikit with the people we were with cause tak kenal sangat, so gi ngan senior citizen dan Mak Limah for a drink kat Secret Recipe je sambil ngumpat pelbagai and discussed the pros and cons, the good and bad of the movie. Tengah sok sek...we made a horrific discovery!
Yerlah...biasalah kalau da mid life crisis...gi beli VCD DVD...beli Ringgit Kasorrga....Titanic...haiyo!!! Kenapa la Muzaffar ni??!!! Well kids...if there's one thing I learned...it's never judge your friends...no matter how senile they're becoming! (mati lah aku kena review hentam kang) Tapi yang penting siap bangga tu posing ngan those titles (yuck!..I'm flying....I'm flying....bleurghh!!!)
Apapun...lepak lama gak...tak perasan how time flies! Abih rokok...
By the way...suka tak lighter holder aku tu yang dalam pic? It was a Christmas present from Rudy! Anjing katanya...well, at least I'll have something to remember him by (not very flattering huh when you put it that way). Apapun...flip the 'doggie' over...and you'll see it's 'anatomically correct'.
Aduh...nampaknya ni another long entry ni. Ok ler time to end it. Sebelum aku abihkan posting kali ni...aku nak share satu pic yang aku rasa memang cam sial jek. Ni aku amik dekat ngan Secret Recipe masa kitorang nak berambus. Ada beberapa kerusi and all there lah...so yang aku sakit ati...aku satu couple ni...dah ler dedua nya muka karat (ugly people should not be showing affection in public, ok!) minah tu pakai tudung, gedik nak mampus peluk cium pelbagai. Mak bapak ajar ke ni? Hah...lain kali nak wat benda-benda camni...tanggalkan tudung dulu! Wat malu je kes camni! Patut ler time camni ler ada pegawai jabatan agama...huh! Ari ni kena kamera Nokia aku je...esok lusa? Sedo ler...get a hotel room ke apa ke ko punya pasal le...lobang kubor ko sendiri. Tapi nak wat depan orang...(kalau muka elok sangat takper leh feeling free show gitu...live again kan....ni cam stok Reject Shop punya muka) hmph...aduh...renung-renungkan lah....
By the way...be safe tonight....it's...

FRIDAY THE 13TH!

I seriously have this fixation to update my blog more frequently. I know I updated twice yesterday, but I thought it be nice if I did a posting early in the morning like this since it's a public holiday.
Besides...something's been on my mind. Yesterday, when I was having lunch with some friends, I bumped into an old pal. I've known him since the days when I did volunteer work for Pink Triangle in the mid Nineties, time baru habis sekolah.
Well, anyway...one thing led to another, cita la pasal Marina Mahathir tak head the Malaysian AIDS Council and all, I was rather disturbed to hear that for this year, Pink Triangle will not be receiving funding this year.
Pada mereka yang tak tahu, Pink Triangle is a non-governmental organisation yang dedicate themselves to raising HIV/AIDS awareness with various community based programmes. It functions (or used to) with financial aid from the public as well as allocation from the government and the Malaysian AIDS Council.
I don't really know how the mechanics work. Tapi all I know is, now only Ikhlas, their community project for the Positive community is receiving funding now...abih camna la Pink Triangle nak stay afloat.
I would have thought HIV/AIDS awareness was a cause that was well supported financially. Sadly enough...apparently, HIV/AIDS causes are not the IN thing for the moment. Cancer is. Well...doesn't that just bugger you! What the ... freak!!!
I sure as hell tatau ler how Pink Triangle is going to survive, but I wish them all the best.
Statistics are shooting through the roof in neioghbouring nations, tapi no proper studies have been done among our youths. What are the true figures of those who are in the high risk groups is a guessing game, which may be answered only way too late.
A few months ago, an acquaintance, who was a familiar face, passed on suddenly. All I heard was dia meninggal sebab of something HIV related.  That person was only in his early twenties.
Entahlah...kadang-kadang, orang kita ni tak pentingkan sesuatu until it strikes this massive blow on them. Look at how cancer awareness has suddenly shot up. Give it a year or two...another disease will take over lah as the fashionable plague to be associated with. We never learn...
Moving on, semalam abih keja...lepak office je. Malas nak balik, so lepak. Sempat tidur...rehatkan diri. Sedar-sedar da very late at night dah. So terus gerak gi Zouk jumpa abang Bad and Co. yang ada event kat sana. Kami semua tak larat nak masuk so dok luar cuci mata (actually criticise what the wannabes were wearing ler).
Then gerak gi Lotus kat area Nikko Hotel Jalan Ampang gi melantak. Sempat borak-borak for only about 20 minutes or so when Bad pointed out si Hazami, Rem and Anuar Zain dok tengah supper sana gak. Dok ngan meka sat chew the cud bersembang sampai tak perasan lama sangat Bad, Jolene and Shawn (did I spell his name right?) decided da nak balik. Aiyo...so sorry ler. Kena laser ngan Papa Smurf...yelah...dok ngan selebriti je...
Pedas! Soriii!!! Tu lah akibatnya kalao lelama tak jumpa nak tukar story more that ever to catch up. After that, spent another 45 minutes or so sok sek.
Tengah sembang tu Anuar pointed out something even I rasa irritating gila. Ada satu meja...about a few metres away. Mamat muka pecah rumah rupa tong minyak sorang ni pegang camera, ada zoom aku rasa. Curi-curi target camera tu and while pretending nak sembang, amik snapshot meka meja kami. Huh! Nama peminat, tegur je lah amik pic. Apa salahnya sopan sikit bukak mulut! Ni wat muka sombong, kerek nak mampos jeling-jeling, tapi tetap nak amik pic. Tak paham aku....Bukan orang nak nyombong. Ni nak feeling paparazzi lak!
I think a lot of people forget...artis ni...celebriti ke personaliti camna pun, they are first and foremost HUMAN! And they do deserve respect like all of us. Ni muka mamat amik pic tu bengis cam @#$& pastu curi-curi amik pic. Apa barang??? Sheesh...ni peminat ke stalker? Lain kali bang oi...kalau minat tegur!!! Jangan da ko wat muka bengis tak tegur nak mintak amik pic kang wat cita lak kata artis tak layan peminat kang...hah!
Argh!!! Letih ngantuk lak pagi-pagi sejuk ni. I don't really know what plans I'll be up to today...tapi have a feeling nak tengok wayang ler. Anyone wanna join? Mai Klang (gelak besar cam Papa Smurf)