Tpday malas sngat nak posting apa apa. Had a ton of work to finish... kalau tertangguh kang, mampos nak clear by the beginning of next week.
Backlogged work ni yang paling terus cause you know when you keep procrastinating sangat...it never gets done. Only forgotten.
Anyways, apart from the hustle and bustle for the hands on for Anugerah Bintang Popular kali ni, today was a little different cause thanks to Juan dan Mohariz, gi lepak kat studio kat NSR dengar Dayang laying down some vocal tracks for her upcoming album.
Aku nak cakap lebih lak takleh...kang ada penulis lirik lak marah. Tapi apapun,  it's staple Dayang, and quite interesting.
Aku memang rate Dayang as one of the albums to look our for in 2007.
All the divas, and little divas are coming out with albums this year, so memang killer sikit ler tahun ni. Banyak saingan, which I suppose in a way is good.
Off what I can recall, I know apart from Dayang's album, aku tunggu album Ning,  Sarah Raisuddin and also of course, Siti Nurhaliza punya traditional album (lama tak dengau dia wat genre ni).
Oh by the way...kelakar la...for me. But it's strange betapa ramai wartawan tak bertauliah who try so hard to be something they're not, making snide remarks about how those in the profession think they're better (technically most are because not only they're trained, experienced amongst other reasons)...these folks don't know which way is up.
Why did I bring that up? Sebab ada ler sembang ngan Dayang pasal isu ramai kutuk dia kat Internet pasai baju dia kat Anugerah Juara Lagu tuh...selak situ sana sini seksi katanya....
Well...strangely enough, these anonymous moralists...are just ridiculously hitting below the belt.
Everyone has the right to an opinion, but I think the Internet has allowed for too many kedai kopi syndrome inflicted wannabes who judge people harshly without facing the consequences for being UNKNOWN and FACELESS.
So there...but many artistes read what's on the Internet even though meka tak ngaku...and it does hurt most of them...criticisms and nasty remarks biasalah...tapi agak agak ler kan kalao nak curi pukul.
The work of a coward is always anonymous. Only that way...they can't be judged.
Aduh...ngantuk...nak tidur dulu...kan merapu lak entry ni panjang memanjang... 

Yes!!! Arini memang besh gila!
Let's see, of course it was payday yesterday...but the besh was that today, all my arrears were banked in and my bank account ran deep into five digits!
Terasa kaya...walaupun pas ni the numbers will definitely shrivel like certain bodyparts in certain conditions sebab nak dump the money into several investments and such.
Hopefully this marks the start of my anticipated great financial year.
Work was ok...tapi dalam keja banyak, ceria je. Ala ala feeling Snow White And The Seven Dwarves leh whistle while you work gituh.
Was running a bit late in meeting Wanie to pick up some stuff, but managed to catch Hatta nak finish up his pieces for Ning, Nikki and Erra Fazira.
Had to run last minute sebab da janji Syed lak nak jumpa dia ngan Erra kat Menara Pan Global. Bumped into Bill Bora, and proceeded up to get the fitting done
Meka tengah shooting movie rupanya. Umie Aida popped in halfway, and si Hans pun ada.
Sebab rushing didn't bother to ask anything and got the fitting midway done masa shooting. Sebab meka shooting this office like environment, terpaksa ler tukar dalam cubicle. Dahler takde lampu sangat. Keji lak rasanya...but awmigawddddd....Erra memang fabulous la badan dia.
And the dress just fit her like a glove. She is definitely without a doubt one of Malaysia's prettiest celebrities ler. Undoubtedly! Memang takde masaalah and Erra and Syed as well love the whole outfit which was quite Valentino. Kudos ler sebab Hatta berjaya gak pikat ati meka ngan his creation.
Abih jer tuh, we were both actually kind of tired walaupun puas ati...so cadang nak balik terus. On the way, dropped balik office, sebab nak pop into the rehearsal Anugerah Bintang Popular yang  diadakan disana.
Yerlah....performers semua ada, senang nak adjust final adjust final schedule for them. Pening gak sebenarnya nak handle benda benda camni, and aku salute ler Akademi, pihak Berita Harian and all for their hard work.
Congrats ler pada the whole team sebab manage to put on a great concerted effort.
Sampai je bumped into Jac leaving, so set her appointment for final fitting too. Sekali abang Amy dan wife dia pun baru sampai.
Masuk je, nampak Rizman, Wan and Angel da sampai. So after customary his and all, with Ziana and her manager Lisa, semua masuk bilik air nak wat fitting.
Amik ko...another masterpiece!
Kalau korang tengok pic tuh, si Rizman yang pose semacam (cam perli kak Ziana jer...tunggu aku adu!).
Ziana lak...terkejut sebenarnya nak pose tak sempat (candid ler best!)
Saja tanak posting pic pic yang posing overdose. Anyways, we were satisfied and decided to call it a day and sit in on the rehearsal sat.
Budak budak V.E. semua ada. Tak sempat sembang panjang...kak Aishah pun ada. Ning, Misha and several other artistes da balik.
Sempat tengok Ziana go one more round after a tempo change, and a little of the V.E. boys have a go at the mic.
Ramli M.S. yang musical director, so you know where you're at with that.
Finally decided nak gerak, I made a move with Mawi, Nasser, abang Aman and gang sebab nak discuss ngan Mawi dan Nasser pasal bila lak kita nak fitting.
Seperti biasa Mawi punya schedule packed sangat. Jumaat lak meka da nak naik Genting Highlands. Silap silap, da naik tuk rehearsal kat Arena of Stars, malam tu kena turun balik lak nak siap kan baju. Kalau camtuh, memang next day Saturday kena one mroe round naik bukit ler.
Kesian lak kat dia. Aku memang plan nak gerak Ahad jer. Tapi silap silap aku Sabtu da ada kat sana...tengok plan camna dulu.
Sempat ler tengah wat lawak pasal lagu Ishtar (memang lagu tuh besh ok dan memang in my favourites playlist skang...tunggu nak ke Singapore nak cari CD kalau try nasib esok nak carik atau booking kat Tower Records tak jadi).
If nothing else, the whole kes about ciplak and all, membuka my eyes to Ishtar's brand of pop.
Wat aku nak dengar agi lagu lagu dia...from the samples I've heard, I'm really impressed....
Anyways, dalam nak balik tuh, naik lif, si Mawi sempat pose tuk one pic for the blog (keji kan ko Nasser!) Er...pose santai ke...pose gayart naik lif...pose haper pun la...aku pun tatau. Tapi rileks...chill jer.
Hit Amin Thai kat seksyen 7 tuk melantak sebab kebulur da. Abih je headed balik to the kids' home kat 16 sebab nak sambung an informal discussion ala post-mortem.
Puas ati gak ler...
Minor alterations je needed.
Nothing major...so that's a relief. Semakin dekat Anugerah Bintang Popular ni, banyak lak aku kena prepare before hand because I'll be doing several job up on the hill.
Takperler. This is my litmus stress to my already skyrocketing blood pressure. It's a good test of how to juggle so many tasks and yet try and remain sane, as well as calm and composed...especially with all the trivial crap going around me from those haters who just keep bugging me.
La la la...sucks to be you folks.
Lum agik masuk bab Anugerah Bintang Popular ujung minggu ni. Ada je freeloaders nak tag along. Tak sedau diri tul.
Aw please lah. Get a proper job first. But what to do...there are leeches everywhere no matter what.
I'll just focus on my job, but thank the security for doing theirs in keeping the riff raff out so that I can get my work done. Too much to do and too little time to bother with insignificant freaks.
Eh...nak check some emails and go beddy bye....happy holidays pada semua yang tak keja esok...lain la seperti di opis orang ni yang da la kena keja tak bayar triple. Merasalah...

Bilalah gaji nak keluar ni. Pening tunggu.
Pas beli laptop ni (cash ok, tak mian hutang-hutang) pokai lak. Tapi seb baik takde la hutang keliling pinggang. I can actually die free from debt unline most people.
Still, seperti biasa time takd duit nih ler berlambak sale, and that makes it almost a test of faith for me bila jejak mall tengok kiri kanan ada sale.
That's why I've been staying away from malls from the past couple of days.
Until tadi.
Dalam sibuk banyak keja nak abihkan, kena lak gi Mid Valley Megamall untuk pelacaran album VE, bertajuk...erm...VE & Friends. How creative.
Anyway tuk peminat VE anyway, album ni is actually not considered the group's second full studio album.
This is more of a collaboration album ngan kerjasama bersama ramai agik artis. ERA da play to death Tak Mengapa yang featuring Datuk A. Rahman Hassan. But there's another tune which I think they're pushing titled Kerana Cintamu which features all-girl vocal group, Quadrose...sedap gak pendatang baru nih,
Kira all in all the album is a pleasure daripada segi vocal quality, tapi I think they seriously need to change the direction of their music a little. Still, no matter what, VE is definitely THE tightest vocal group act in the country.
Other artistes yang featured dalam album ni include RuffEdge, TooPhat, Vince, Shazzy, Ella, KRU, Phlowtron, Reefa, Nur Fatima and Urban Exchange.
Korang kalau jenis beli album (jangan ler download jer lak) gett his, cause it really is worth ler.
Sempat ler sembang panjang ngan Cham, sebab lama da tak jumpa. All of the boys are cool, but Cham has been the most chummiest with me because he really is cool.
Found out that everyone's got their own company. These guys kan..memang aku admire ler sebab meka ni kerja keras. Of many 'artistes' I know...tak semua yang work for their keep.
These boys do...and my hats off to them.
Anyway, balik soal album VE & Friends,  keep an eye out for the music video of Tak Mengapa yang akan keluar tak lama lagi.
Album ZVE & Friends diedarkan oleh EMI Music Malaysia and has been available dari 11 Januari. CD berharga RM24.90 dan kaset RM16.90.
Malas nak tulis banyak ari ni. Banyak lak keja.
Ni pun letih sebab abih keja je ke Perstauan Akademi Industri Muzik Malaysia, nak settle kan bab Anugerah Bintang Popular Berita Harian.
By the way, final judging untuk Anugerah Industri Muzik di jalankan Ahad lepas. Sorry Jen cause I couldn't make it (Ahad pun aku bangun lambat anyways), so maybe next year.
Here's hoping that this year's AIM will rise from the ashes (gitu!)
Okler...nak ciao. Full day tomorrow.

*Kalau nak tau perkembangan terbaru VE, CLICK HERE!

Finally some time off. Hari ni Adly MC, dan Meor lak sibuk, akibatnya, I have to shoulder the responsibility of delegating tasks to everyone and check on everything to coordinate.
Peningnya. Ni pun aku baru dapat merehat, while having supper at Uncle Don.
Sekali ngan Juan yang belanja makan tuk ari ni (yeay!!! - jarang tau nak merasa ni)
Sambil sambil tu, si Mohariz dropped by and joined us for a drink sambil sembang benda benda yang berlaku the past one or two days. Memang banyak nak cita...dari cita kat Melodi pasal Elyana dan Nikki, sampai ke cita lagu Nora ciplak.
Where do I start.
Ok...camni, terima kasih pada segala kutukan dan perlian dan statement statement sewaktu dengannya yang telah pun aku jawab dalam forum tu sendiri. Dari sini, aku malas nak ulang statement aku sebab jawab banyak kali, kalao jenis yang sekali tak paham, nak wat per kan? They'll never understand.
All I can say is, yang berani cakap, ngaku jer lah kan? Aku selama ni orang kata laser dan sebagainya. But I never hid behind this cloak of anonymity dan aku selalu mengaku apa aku katakan.
Nak sebutkan pasal kroni ke apa...lantak lah. Aku rasa camtuh, semua artis kroni aku.Cuma yang mulut tak sesuai ngan status mereka yang tak seberapa. Buat baik...kita pun buat baik.
So kalao anyone nak leave a nasty comment here, pikir berkali kali dulu, cause at the end of the day, again, this is my blog. Thereis a disclaimer on the right, so don't come in here if you don't fancy exposing yourself to my views.
Kan? Senang. Selain nya aku da jawab dalam Cari forum (tima kasih pada warga sana yang memahami). Selebihnya, adu jer kat pihak Melodi yang membuat production tu.
Bab lagu Nora, aku rasa korang da baca cita pasal lagu Secebis Harapan. Sememangnya forum Cari yang first nak sebut pasal bab ni ngan link ke youtube yang nunjukkan link video.
Masalaahnya, lagu tu tak dapat dikesan original version nya because the song kat youtube was performed by a singer yang pernah menyertai Idol versi meka musim pertama, ketika membuat persembahan program tuh dalam musim kedua.
Anyway, baru baru ni ada pembaca datang ke pejabat kami mengadu.
Dia membawa CD artis Israel bernama Ishtar yang ala ala pangkat Siti Nurhaliza di Isreal ni. Citernya, dia tengah wat keja, sambil pasang TV. Time tu Anugerah Juara Lagu on, dan berkumandang lagu Secebis Harapan. So dia pun recognise.
Dia korek koleksi CDnya dan terjumpa album bertajuk The Voice of Alabina. The song titled Horchat Hai Caliptus ditulis pada tahun 1963 dan dimuatkan dalam album Ishtar dalam 2003.
The rest you can pretty make out for yourself what is the status of Secebis Harapan by listening and comparing.
Not infringing on the copyright, aku offer download verse lagu Secebis Harapan versus Horchat Hai Caliptus. The first download is the first verse. File ni dalam bentuk mp3.
First, verse pertama Secebis Harapan seperti didendangkan oleh Nora, followed by Ishtar's Horchat Hai Caliptus.
Second file tu, first chorus of Secebis Harapan, then Horchat Hai Caliptus. Siapa yang tak pernah dengar, bandingkan sendiri. Apa pendapat korang?
It doesn't take someone who is musically trained to come up with a conclusion. If you like either song, aku masih galakkan to BUY THE ORIGINAL and not download.
Tu disclaimer nak announce ler kan, kalao tak orang kata aku galakkan piracy lak ngan illegal downloads.
Respecting intellectual property is still important no matter what.

This is the two different cover art untuk album Ishtar.

So anxious nak tau sebenarnya apa bunyinya Horchat Hai Caliptus dan betul ke sama sangat ngan Secebis Harapan seperti yang didakwa?
Dengar sendiri ngan right click where it says CLICK HERE dibawah and pilih, SAVE TARGET AS untuk memulakan download. Save it to your appropriate destination. Pepandai ler korang ek...sebab kalao bandwidth kang da abih nak download, jangan salahkan aku mintak letak agik. Letih lor....
Apapun, enjoy playing judge with your personal opinion.

To download Secebis Harapan vs Horchat Hai Caliptus - CLICK HERE.
To download Secebis Harapan vs Horchat Hai Caliptus - CLICK HERE

So korang click sekali and dia automatically buka dalam player korang. Kalao takleh, erm...no komen ler. Or find the originating URL dan download sendiri ok.
Ok ler nak tidur. Esok another full day.
Selain keja, kena lak ke Persatuan Akademi Industri Muzik Malaysia punya office nak collect passes for Anugerah Bintang Popular as well as nak send the info nak register security passes lain.
So much to do, so little time...and so little patience to give a damn about things that don't pay me anything. Baik aku keja...night all...

Started the day with a laugh. Malas cakap apa apa. Korang pun da nonton Melodi ari nih kan? SIapa yang tak tengok, lupakakan ler.
Apapun, bab tu aku cerita lebih sikit esok. Tunggu reaksi yang memang aku agak akan dipergunakan beberapa pihak yang kecoh lebih nak amik kesempatan hentam jer keja tanpa tau pokok pangkal cita.
Whatever. Biasalah...that's why they say ignorance is bliss.
Got my tat done today. Yeah!!!
Oh...and if kalau ada yang nak kutuk aku sebab dapat tattoo...suka ati aku. Mausk sini tengok, baca, curi info dan pic, pastu masuk sana sini kutuk aku konon. Strange kan...tapi still nak baca blog aku.
This is a no loser zone. So bye bye to you if you belong to that category. Takyah ler masuk sini.
Got to Finnegan's to meet my sis dan Jida. They were having lunch, since I already had mine, layan laptop jer ler sat.
When we finished, we strolled over to Borneo Ink nearby. My first time merting Eddie, one of the world's best tattooists!
Eddie is Sarawakian, and definitely has an eye for detail. Dia ni pun bukan calang calang. Educated, just like the rest of his siblings, semua turn to tattooing sebab the art of it.
For those yang tak minat, dan nak kecoh jer pasal aku tattoo...takyah ler nak read on. Dan kalau nak curi pics ni dan nak posting memana tuk nak kutuk aku, paling tidak kredit ler blog aku ek so orang leh baca cerita aku sepenuhnya yer.
The tattoo is my second and the first colour one I've gotten.
Ilham daripada my own imagination and hasil my own sketch. Symbolism dia, that I may wear my heart on my sleeve for the world to see...which exposes me to a lot of things.
Yerlah...honesty is often mistaken for brashness...so how do you tell people who are ignorant of the differences? The dragon is symbolise not only the characteristics I emody in the spirit of my zodiac (born in 1976, the year of the fire dragon - symbolising fearlessness, anger and leadership traits among others).
In the end, no matter what...my strength of character prevails...and I will persevere to the end. Leh?
Anyways, the tattoo cost RM400 and three hours to finish. Worth every sen for the statement.
In the end it didn't hurt as much as my Iban one masa gi Sarawak Cultural Village some time ago. The experience definitely made this one easier.

Ni dia tattooist aku si Eddie. First dia amik ilham lukisan aku dan kemaskan. Then dia tekap stensil tuh kat lengan aku. Then jarum pun start. Sakit? Taklah (control macho!)


 The three stages of my tattoo. First yang stencil which is stuck on my arm. Then the tattooed outline. Finally, the coloured and finished tattoo. Ok?

Ni tools of the trade. First laying out the colours. Sebanyak 10 warna digunakan tuk shading dan sebagainya. Ni part of the colours used. Cam kelas lukisan lak. Dalam seronok...tengok ler jarum digunakan. Seb baik penah...kalau tak pengsan aku.
    

Abih dah balik rumah sat. Merasalah mak aku nak tengok cantik ke tak tattoo aku. I'm thankful I have the most beautiful parents who are understanding. And not to mention my lovely sister who footed the bill as part of my Christmas present.
Thanks too to Jida sebab temankan join sekali ek.
Abih je, balik rumah sat, dan pastu kuar balik ke Shah Alam untuk jumpa Pyan, Judd dan Abby tuk ke show Dayang kat Planet.
I lasted the whole first set, pastu malas lak sebab ramai orang. Rimas and claustrophobic. Walaupun ada meja malas nak duduk. Takperla...kang masa Ella punya show nanti aku party out. For now...I don't think so.
Had a drink outside to spend time on my own and update my blog.
Oh by the way, korang tau the row of plaster moulds kan yang ada handprints celebrities kat luar Planet Hollywood? Guess whose yang fit aku paling sesuai. Amik ko....Goldie Hawn.
Padahal rasanya Rosanne Barr! Kecik gila tangan aku ek....merasalah badan lak tak kena.
Once it was over, balik terus and got some sleep.
Kalau korang nak baca review show yang memang best gila (aku paling suka Dayang nyanyi Irreplaceable - sesuai ngan mood aku), CLICK HERE (kalau dia da terasa rajin nak update ler)
Ok ler...da lewat...nak tidur.
Esok aku try update secepat mungkin sebab memang banyak kerja. Aku akan update what I can, tapi aku tak janji what time I'm going to do it sebab I am really bogged down.
And by the way... to that person. I'm sorry I can't come back to you anymore. Aku masih sayang kau...tapi aku tanak...sebab aku da belajar daripada kesilapan aku. Cukup lah kita berkawan yer.
Anyway, bersedia lah untuk kelaharan esok kang sebab aku rasa banyak reaksi berdasarkan SMS member-member yang aku dapat.
Apapun, esok aku kuar statement aku lak ek. Tapi sebenarnya perlu ke nak cakap apa pun?
Going to sleep...night all.