Baru abih event, kat Starbucks tengah send story, sambil hantar tuh update ler pasal semalam punya event preview PuakaTebing Biru.
It was fun, tapi korang nak aku review, tunggu ler dulu ek. Sebab tak gemar sangat sebenarnya. But it wasn't as good as I hoped, though still kira ok gak ler.
The best part was meeting kak Nasha (lama tak jumpa kakak aku nih!) and Nani with kak Fati.
Ah...kalau korang nak tau, memang bab gossip kata Nani nak kena botak by Yasmin Ahmad, memang betul. Tapi lum agik ler.
Kang kalao dia botak kang, aku post kan pics dia tengah dibotakkan ala Mawi. Cadang pakai pisau nombor dua tuh...takder ler licin, tapi kira GI Jane Demi Moore punya style ler.
Esok aku review ek pilem tuh tuk korang nilaikan lak. But pandangan aku ler...tatau ler korang stuju ke tak kang korang tengok. Filem tuh bukak kat panggung tak silap aku 18 Febuari, so banyak ler time agik nak update bab tuh.
For today, aku focus pics dulu ek.Ramai lak kawan kawan yang hadir. Seronok lak.
Hah...sapa yang belajar UiTM Shah Alam, mai aku perkenalkan dua orang dalam pic belah kiri ni. Dak Mass Comm.
Yang pakai tudung tuh Aqidah, stringer untuk The Malay Mail. Yang sebelah dia tuh balak dia si Ifwan, penah practical ngan The Malay Mail, skang ngan Berita Harian...dak freshie...leh ragging.
Hah...tatau ler lampu tutup tu gatal ke tak...jangan Kid...aku dok belakang ko ni (warning dulu tau!)
Anyway masa nak start tayangan Puaka Tebing Biru ni...amik ko. Entah pontianak ke kuntilanak enam ekor ni siap catwalk dan kemudian feeling nari sana sini.  Drama sangat!
Aiyak....tak scary...cuma kelakar. I think they didn't need such an intro la.
Tapi yang besh dengar cita Syazwan tadi. One of the dak yang jadi antu tuh, masa start pilem, dok sebelah dia sebab tau Syazwan horror sikit.
Hah! Amik ko...padahal...sebelum tuh...dia yang beriya kata orang istimewa dia tak datang sebab benci cita antu dan kecut bab nak horror film ni. Hah...huum karma kena balik!!! (gelak evil ni!)
And then, the other incident lak, si Syed (manager Erra Fazira) dok sebelah aku. Cita ni slow sangat sampai tahap tak sampai setengah jam, si Syed leh...TERTIDUR!
And if that wasn't bad enough, siap DENGKUR (ampun Web sebab kutuk ko, tapi aku da kata aku akan ngumpat kat blog kan!)
Aku kejutkan dia....tak sampai 30 saat da tertidur complete ngan dengkur again. Berapa kali aku kena kejutkan dia...last last dia kuar sat (konon nak amik angin) and then ilang terus. Jumpa dia pun pas movie abih kat luar panggung. Keji tau!
Anyway, pas abih movie...sempat ler catch up ngan Nasha and kak Fati ngan Nani agik sambung ngumpat.
Kak Fati and Nani janji call aku kang nak botakkan rambut si Nani. Tak sabar sabar aku lak...ni some of the poses for my camera yang meka sempat. Sempat amik pic Umie...yang pegang co-lead punya role opposite Nasha and Fahrin, tapi tak sempat amik pic Erra yang datang bagik sokongan moral kat Umie sebab aku sibuk ngumpat pasal the movie sangat.
Oh by the way...pada meka yang suka gossip...si Linda Onn pun ada tau bagi sokongan moral kat Fahrin. Kawan ek...no komen.
Tengok pic bawah..Linda nak sembunyi konon. Keji kan...sorry ek Linda ngumpat. I love you babe!!! Saja nak ngumpat. Tak de gossip tak best kan...lagik pun, kan ko kata 'just friends je'..(matilah aku kena hamun ngan Linda pasni - ampun sayang!!!)
Ahh....dah.. ni some of the pics.

Umie beriya on the phone ni. Pot pet ngan sapa lak pun tatau. Kak Fati sempat posing cute tuk aku. My big sister Nasha and Nani wat muka seposen tayang rambut dia yang akan takde tak lama lagik.
               Pose ayu je Nasha. Er...Nani pose istimewa tuk blog aku nih. Tapi...pose haper tuh korek idong! Keji...love you Nani! Linda nak cover line kot tanak aku amik pic dia tuk blog. And finally...the three divas of Puaka Tebing Biru.
          

Now moving on to today,  sampai je kat JW Marriot, tunggu ler kat lobby. Minah Star World yang janji nak jemput ke Presidential Suite tak muncul muncul. Then Syazwan Kosmo! muncul, and then Emma dari HAI!
Last last si Syazwan call sana call sini, mamat Star World sorang ni lak turun jemput. Seb baik lum start. Sempat ler discuss ngan semua yang hadir tuk Puaka Tebing Biru.
Everyone agreed on the same stuff, which was basically it was bad character developement, bad editing...among others.
Cuma yang leh dipuji cinematography and a commendable effort for art direction. Eh..ter review lak...kang ada yang tak dapat cari makan.
Anyways....tunggu punya tunggu (takde ler lama sangat) Siti muncul pas abih interview (dengar ngan Kompas Indonesia dan New paper dan Berita Harian dari Singapore)
Anyways...kalao korang nak tau, ingat ek. Make a date.
Siti kan akan hadir Grammy awards sebab menang dua tiket kat Breakfast with the Stars tahun lepas. So dia bukan je akan hadir event tuh, sekali ngan jalan red carpet...Siti akan menghadiri post party yang di anjurkan Sony BMG kat sana.
Kalau nak tengok tengok Siti muncui, don't forget theThe 49th Annual Grammy Awards airs live on Monday, 12 Feb at 9am ngan repeat prime time special on the same day at 8pm on Star World.
Perjalanan Siti dari airport, to the red carpet, to an exclusive post-party hosted by recording label Sony BMG, akan dirakam dan ditayangkan kat Channel [V]'s Popparazzi on Thursday, 22 and 26 Feb at 6pm.

Beberapa pose Siti yang cantik, ayu, cun melecun. Tima kasih Siti sebab posing tuk blog aku nih. Jangan tatau...Siti baca tau (nak bukti ker? - matilah sebab tu tak berani mencarut ko kata?!!! Takdeler....kita tak gaduh kan Siti? Gelak dalam ati jer ler...)
                       

Alamak...nak upload entry nih pun berejam nak update sebab sibuk download Heroes semua.line cam sial. Tambah agik nak upload gambar lak asik problem.
Ok ler...nak sambung sesi kaunseling sat. Esok lagik satu entry...pasal review Puaka Tebing Biru lak ek. Good night...

Wow...gila babs punya letih ari ni. The work has been piling up. So malas sikit nak update.
Kejap lagik pas abih kerja, nak gegas ke MidValley Megamall untuk malam gala Puaka Tebing Biru. I have high expectations for the movie because am familiar ngan hasil kerja Osman Ali.
Aku kenal Osman dari pertengahan 90an sebab aku melibatkan diri dengan kerja sukarela dengan sebuah NGO. And I'm impressed with the way he thinks and how he perceives certain things.
So besh gila la nak tengok how Puaka Tebing Biru will turn out.
Lepak kat Starbucks ni nak send in a story, sambil update blog (dan download saki baki siri Heroes melalui P2P) sambil tunggu start event.
Teringat lak...alamak! Lupa bak kuar belt nak pulangkan kat Mawi. Mak aih...heh...jangan...aku tanak wat harta. Kang pulangkan lak. Janji aku da opening ceremony ek, botak belt D&G ko (merasalah kena carut dia tanak pakai sebab da repeat performance time tuh)
Sambil tengah rajin wat keja ni, si Khai lalu. Dia dulu acting head of Malay programming, and skang in charge of Astro Prima. Sempat ler bual sementara sebelum kembali habiskan kerja.
Tengah taip ngan gigih ni, ada sorang pompuan singgah kat meja aku. Tried speaking to me in Cantonese and Mandarin, both of which aku memang gagal. Yerlah...dari dulu kena perli Cina murtad...bahasa ibunda sendiri pun tatau konon.
Hakikatnya, Chinese ni banyak dialect, and the dialect aku tau is Hokkien, which is used more up north sperti Penang dan Kedah, dan belah selatan cam Johor.
In central region however, aku kena perli je sebab majoriti pakai dialect lain.
Anyway, rupanya minah tu nak mintak donation. Merasalah ko...sempat dia laser tunjuk kat kotak Marlboro aku, katakan, "daripada ko bunoh diri ngan isap rokok, baik derma."
Hangin aku satu badan. Nak minta derma ke nak kutuk aku. So aku pun bagik ler sedas sekali.
I think she was kind of caught off guard and explained that this senior citizens home needed diapers. Tergerak lak ati aku...so part with some cash. Yerlah...benda camni..kita nak kedekut kenapa. Benda camni I always believe that no matter what...karma karma karma. One good turn deserves another...blah blah blah.
Rezeki kita akan lebih murah kan...so I've had an extremely good turn lately, so aku pun without hesitation. Makes me feel good lak...
Alamak...da lewat...korang enjoy je la pics ni semua. Aku esok upload pics and cita dari malam gala Puaka Tebing Biru.
Oh dan esok ada sesi ngan Siti lak sebab bab dia gi Grammy. So meanwhile, enjoy the pics from Anugerah Bintang Popular agik ek. Pemenang dan beberapa gambar pilihan. Enjoy...until tomorrow's entry...

Tahniah semua pemenang di Anugerah Bintang Popular 2006!
        And of course my tribute to Siti Nurhaliza!     And juga Mawi...
 

Dan akhir sekali fesyen terkini konsep bunga plastik gedabak

Lega....ni kat office da setibanya dari Genting Highlands. Kejra pun da habis cuma sana sini sikit nak abihkan, and of course my overtime for last month yang kena file in claim lak.
Then...it's OFF!!! I'm planning to take two weeks off, tapi tu lah, tengok dulu keadaan. Lagipun, I need time off to recuperate (because unlike some who will find the most menial excuse for a claim to fame, I actually buat kerja). Tapi dalam masa tu, aku ada lagi tiga projek berjalan serentak.
Ni lak nak wat research sikit sebab masa kat Genting pas abih ABP semalam, lepak kat Starbucks, ada lak approach nak bisik sesuatu which I cannot repeat here.
Kang confirm aku announce...tapi ada ler yang sentap bijik kalau benda tu jadi kenyataan.
Merasalah akan dijadikan alasan nak carik pasal lagik sebab dengki dan carut dalam hati (a national hobby for some people...a cheap one too, befitting the characteristics of the folks who practise it). Whatever....bukan cari makan pun ngan orang orang camni...utang pun tak. Don't know if it's the reverse though. Pepandai sendiri ler time tuh kan...matilah become the bigger person dan halalkan jer.
Karma again...has a strange way of ending up smack right in the face.
Anyways, kembali cita Anugerah Bintang Popular. Besh siot.
It was the busiest award show for me so far dalam lebih 10 tahun aku ulang alik setiap anugerah nak wat liputan...sebab kali ni bukan je aku bertugas membuat liputan seperti rakan media yang lain, I also had another job. Yes, job. Not gila glamour past-time to validate my pathetic existence. Oops...did I go too far? Well, if the shoe fits? And if it doesn't, it's probably because someone didn't realise it was not referring to anything physical.
Moving on...
Cadang nak ke Genting awal, tapi sebab duduk sampai 7 pagi nak pastikan bebudak nya baju semua ok, akibatnya, sedar dari tidur pun da about 12pm. Packed, and shot to KL, picked up Ted, and then naik Genting terus. Sampai kul 3pm.
None of the kids had reached so grabbed a bite kat Burger King, before the trumpets blared, announcing the arrival of Juan Danza.
Pastu ingat nak rehat kat bilik sat sebelum bersiap, tapi had to drop in and check on Felix yang sedang disiapkan Nizam. Lawak gak layan Felix nih...lama da tak lepak ngan dia.
Compared notes on some stuff, helped Nizam out a little and got him ready.
More and more calls later, lari ngan Wanie ke bilik Mawi nak siapkan. Alamak...dak tuh tunggu sambil main PS2. Abih da...ni kena tunggu nih. Tambah agik especially abang Wan dan dia tengah lawan WWE katanya.
When we got started, we actually ran into a simple problem. Mawi punya belt semua yang had these huge buckle heads, yang actually kurang sesuai ngan baju formal. The only one yang kena was this D&G white belt for the red carpet suit, tapi tu lak dia pakai besar sikit sebab, al kisahnya, da beli, tak lak pakai pakai, lubang short satu tak tebuk.
Last last si Nasser korbankan belt dia sebab pinggang meka lebih kurang. Sebab aku lak takde white belt, and aku pakai suar putih, aku pun dapat ler belt baru.
Merasalah opening ceremony katanya tuk belt Mawi.
Got ready, si Wanie hopped in the limo ngan Mawi, Nasser and one more guy for security purposes. I took the second vehicle to avoid the fanfare.
Sampai je Theme Park Hotel, kami ke lower level where there was this holding area for artistes. Gegas lak nak settle barang kemas sponsor Habib.
Mawi, Rosyam, Ning, Nikki, Erra Fazira....tu antara meka yang pakai baju from the guys.
It was chaotic, but simply fun despite itbeing a tad stressful.
For the first time gak, thanks to Bill Bora yang memang veteran (mati aku, veteran katanya..) kat event camni, aku diperkenalkan pada the judges yang akan menentukan sapa best dressed personalities for the night. Bill ingatkan tuk nak bak perkenalkan artistes dressed by all the designers I'm working with, ngan designers sekali.
My first time jumpa the current president of MODA, which is the Malaysian Official Designers' Association. Best gak sembang ngan dia...and I'm proud to say she approves of my views when we traded opinions.
It's always a good thing to meet people who are accomplished to change views rather than know-it-alls who hardly have any claim to fame for their so-called pearls of wisdom.
Jumpa a lot of freinds within the industry yang aku only get to meet time time anugerah ni, so dalam kerja, kelam kabut, with two jobs going on at once, it wasn't all that bad because it was made bearable by the fun folks around.
Plus, because there really was maximum security at the event, memang kureng sikitler leeches or groupies around.
Ni some of the pics for the red carpet portion of the evening. Sebenarnya, aku penah jalan red carpet dalam time keja, tapi nothing could have prepared me for this madness.
Jalan ngan Fie, with some of the wardrobe for change during performances, tapi memang kita nak elak sana sini. Problem is, traffic jam siot. Mana taknya. Ko takleh overtake orang lain kat red carpet (though we did overtake Sazzy and Co. midway), so kalau orang depan henti, mampus ada traffic jam buildup all the way to the entrance of the red carpet.
Fie and I were sandwiched between Ning, Nikki, Yanie along with Azmi, Lucas dan Vernon in the front, and Sazzy Falak and her hubby.
Tapi bila da sampai pintu masuk ke Arena of Stars, terus traffic jam gila punya.
Amik ler peluang nak hoo-ha dan amik pics. Misha was behind us, along with Yasmin Hani and many more...so mingled and socialised where we could.
Yerlah nak tunggu giliran turun tangga to the actual arena lagik satu hal, memang nightmare on Elm Street.
Imagine walking down this steep and narrow staircase with hands reaching out at you. Erk...takut siot. Finally made it down jer, run backstage terus tuk bersiap.

Left to right, top to bottom : Rosyam ngan Nizam, walking behind Sazzy dan laki dia. Next, pemandangan kat red carpet, followed by pic Ning yang memang one of the loudest called for celebrities.Nikki dan Hazami di interview TV3 and Lucas sempat pose ngan Yanie. Yamin pose vogue ngan aku, dan si Linda dan Fahrin tetap...ehem. Next pic...sapa kata aku gaduh ngan Misha (keji kan statement) and followed by the 'walk of death' jalan turun tangga ke arena. Last two pics, Erra dan Ning masa kat area red carpet.
                                      

Pening sikit at that point, and apparently, silly me forgot to get  a drink handy, and knowing me, malas nak lari keluar, memang tambah agik teruk keadaan aku. The only relief nak dok puffing away, stick after stick of Marlboro.
Nak amik banyak pic kat dressing room takleh lak...for obvious reasons kan? I mean I could, but they wouldn't be decent for publishing.
Takkan orang salin baju nak amik pic kan?
Kalau dari dressing room, ni je aku sempat amik, sebab I was running between there, stage front as well as the nearest exit to smoke masa stressed. That and toying with my laptop tengah type story on the spot wat review show. Merasalah tempted nak update blog, tapi sebab takleh focus, malas.

Ziana ngan make-up artiste dia shared with Siti Nurhaliza, Nurul Shukor yang meletup, Dayang baru abih touch-up makeup and siapa lagi kalau bukan Datuk Siti Nurhaliza herself. Siti!!! Ko gorgeous ok, malam tu!!! (merasalah carut Nurul mak esah lak) I think Siti is starting to look more matured and sesuai umur dia, and yet still adorably cute and sweet. (puji sampai langit nih....thanks Siti ek for posing for this pic - dapat curi tips make-up...)
     

Tapi around the bacstage banyak ler sikit. All throughout the event, sampai abih, ni the collection pics of some of my favourite people yang aku sempat amik pic. Korang enjoy, puas-puas.
Again kalao ada pics yang korang suka, korang nak letak memana, please kredit my blog ok...letak laa link...jangan kemut!!!

Apek, Apek and more Apek. Selamat kembali Apek! Semoga cepat sihat kembali 100% tip top ok! First with Aznil, then satu agik ngan Fasha and last call ntah merajuk ngan Fara Fauzana (merasalah pandai jer cakap padahal aku pun tatau pose haper dalam pic tuh) Then there's Nikki with Faizal and Nurul.
                 More pics from the backstage area. Zahid posing macho, Mawi tengah di interview, Nana pose seksi, Marsha, Amylea dan Haziq and I (lama tak jumpa!), Fasha dan si Jac.
                          

So that's about all the pictures I can share. Ada ler lagik, tapi aku rasa tak perlu. Ni pun pada sesiapa yang slow connection entah berapa hari nak buka page ni tuk load semua pics.
All in all it was a fun event. Kecoh sikit time kita kat backstage tunggu transport ke Genting Hotel tuk post party, which was thankfully by invite so no gatecrashers. Tight gila...sampai Wanie pun tak dapat masuk sebab Mawi lupa passingkan pass. Got in, got the pass, and brought Wanie in.
Anyway tengok ler kerenah artis berpusu pusu tunggu transport.
I didn't stay long. Lapar tapi tak berselera. Chomped down some shrimp and that was it. Strange though kan...pakai baju beribu raban ngan batuan segala...but you get served Ribena and Cordial. Matilah aku mencarut...
Tapi sebelum aku kena carut, biar aku cakap, the food was excellent...not that it mattered, cause it was the EXCLUSIVITY of the event which was more industry related, hence the absence of groupies or people yang takde kena mengena.
I buggered off about 15 minutes later selepas mereka announce the winners for the best dressed.
Incidentally, kalau sapa nak tau siapa menang, here are the results :

Best Dressed Male Artiste ABP 2006 - Fahrin Ahmad
Best Dressed Female Artiste ABP 2006 - Erra Fazira.

Yeap...bangga one of my group dapat. Sebab Hatta yang wat baju Erra. Merasalah ada bragging rights katanya, sekali ngan Wanie yang blushing ala ala lobster sebab Mawi sebut nama dia. Tima kasih botak....takyah nak ingatkan pun leh ucap ek. Tapi jangan ler sebut sampai perabot rumah. Keji laaa...
Hung out at Starbucks to email my news stories as well as finish my column and other articles.
Got most of my work done, and hung about. Most of the crowd abih post party je mai hangout. Zahid dan bebudak RuffEdge muncul, abang Aznil and gang pun ada. Nak amik pic pun battery phone dedua da flat. So no pics there too.
Balik bilik, freshen up, ngumpat ngan bebudak pasal the night, post mortem sat and then we went for supper cum breakfast sebab kebulur tak sangat kat post party. Gi mamak yang dekat Resort Hotel tuh....oh my. Rupanya banyak renovation, Nampak sangat so much has changed since aku last naik Genting almost a year ago.
Mamak tuh however tetap keji. Kelakar lak tengok Wanie punya nasi lemak banjir...unintentional of course. Sambal je lebih. Tapi the harga haiyo...mahal nak mampos.
Mana taknya kedai sekecik tu ada CCTV sampai 4 ketul! Merasalah nampak sangat meka ni kaya ngan exorbitant prices meka charga.
Eh...lapar lah...anyway I hope you guys suka this update...because I had fun throughout the whole night last night walaupun berserabut sikit pala nak wat tuh nih...
Got to go for now...look for something EXCLUSIVE news tomorrow. Kalao leh anggap exclusive ler. Lum baca lum tahu kan?!
Gone...

PS - Sebab aku tak minat nak ulas show (korang camler takde TV kat rumah, tak dok mengumpat mengulas sendiri lak show tuh kan - so perlu ke?) jangan harap aku wat keja tuh.
But here are some pages of people yang actually were there, and not in front of the TV too.
Click HERE for MrManager
Click HERE for Sensasi Selebriti

PS Pt II - Jangan lupa nonton Mawi@Mauritius malam ni kat Astro Ria jam 10.30pm tengok kita semua shopping kat sana (sapa yang ikut blog aku, mesti rasa da basi)

PS Pt III - Terimah kasih semua artis yang mengambil khidmat para pereka muda. Senarai termasuk Ning, Nikki, Yanie, Erra, Mawi, Ziana, Dayang, Betty Banafe, Rosyam, Felix, Zed Zaidi dan beberapa nama lagi.
Tahniah pada Hatta (Erra menang Best Dressed pakai baju dia ler) as well as Wanie sebab baju dia tuk Mawi terpampang tuk satu Malaysia tengok.
So to Hatta, Wanie, Rizman & Wan, Nizam dan Zura, congratulations guys.
By the way, ni logo semua bebudak (kecuali Zura yang tak hantar-hantar pun logo dia), sekali ngan last sekali, my own, which is simply K yang kuar kat kredits time abih da ABP.

 

Aku letih sikit. Pening, letih tapi puas....esok aku upload bebanyak pics ek. From red carpet, to backstage, to behind the scenes.
Post party tak ada la...sebab masa tuh nak enjoy kan. Wat skang aku keletihanan nak mampos...so korang sabar je la ek.

Today is the last day nak prepare for the big do tomorrow.
Headless chicken ahoy!
Dalam kelam kabut nak siapkan tu nih, dan tuk separuh orang nak korek mana mampu tuk dapat tiket atau jemputan sebab desperate nak gi....I started the day by....going shopping.
Retail theraphy katanya. For some reason drawn to the sales kat 1 Utama. Went with my sis and Jida and picked up quite a few interesting items, including a little suit outfit thingie.
Suka! Aku jarang nak pakai formal. So while orang nak stylo and trendy tuk  buat kejutan...I'll be boring and prim and proper to get my shock value. A challenge for me actually sebab aku tak selesa pakaian yang nampak smart smart nih...aku lebih suka relaxed and casual...but then again I should be thankful, cause at least I have clothes that fit me, and a sense of dressing up unlike a nerdy geek.
Joy to the world....blah blah blah... a few problems cropped up here and there with some of the work, but then again it's out of my hands. Aku damage control pun setakat tu je...sebab hasil kerja orang lain. My work is fine as it is...so up to the individuals nak betul kan apa yang patut. Can't spoonfeed people all the time.
Besides, one of my azam tuk 2007 nih, is to rid myself of my really draggy compulsive caretaking obsession I have of caring more than I should about everyone.
Silly kan..the things you learn when you grow up (ok..fine...when you grow older). I used to think caring for friends and people near and dear was important. Only now I realise it's a sure-fire way of f***** up your life by bothering with some people who belong in the deepest recesses of some unknown region where the light don't shine on their ugly mugs.
Moving on...after retail theraphy, went for first round of servicing for my car. Nak naik bukit ni, nak best of shape. Aku selama ni neglect my car, so got it done today. Kang ada masa nak tukau tuh nih lagik. Wat time ni ada lebih dari cukup duit, nak ler settle all that. After all...it's too seek my fortune as well to be mobile...so gotta take care of my ride. But actually...thinking of pimping it a little. We'll see...
Abih servicing my wheels, bersiap dan lari ke Istana Budaya, sebab nak jumpa Wanie, Za and Juan tuk fitting Mawi. Si Juan nak wat story tuk IRemaja so dia ikut sekali...
Mawi called me up about 7pm and said he was on the way, so aku pun round dulu ler area tuh...mak aih. Why the hell did they put the Eye on Malaysia here?
The transportation infrastructure is hardly healthy in this area to put something that would congest it further. One bloody round driving along the roads keliling kawasan tuh pun da take setengah jam.
Seriously la...I think someone crewed up on the planning bit when it came to location. Now I understand how this person felt masa nak gi hantar artiste dia wat show kat sana masa pelancaran And this is only the tip of the iceberg as the crowd wasn't all that bad.
Sampai je...tengok the rest of the gang da sampai. Barely five minutes pastu, si Mawi call kata dia da sampai. Along with Nasser dan abang Wan.
Freddie was in Istana Budaya already sebab ada sesi 'istimewa' tuk Mawi jumpa sorang peminat dari jauh. Kalau nak tau lebih pasal tuh, bacalah Kosmo! esok. Aku takleh cita lebih lak kat sini...sebab takde kena mengena ngan aku...and unlike some people...I respect the work of others. Any takers on the terasa bit...no? Hardly surprising...thick skin makes you immune to a lot of things. Even the painful truth.
So on with the fitting...everything was fine. Kalao nak tau, Mawi will be wearing an all white tux, just sikti off the traditional cut kat red carpet with some sprinkling of diamonds from Habib, dan masa dia perform, a maroon top with white shirt coupled ngan suar hitam. Tengok ler sendiri...here are some pics dari sesi tadi..
Tak clear sebab gelap sikit dalam Istana Budaya tuh.

Ni Wanie tengah fitting si Mawi. Hah...ok tak? All white katanya. Merasalah virginal! Yang picketiga tu, terang sebab flash camera si Juan. Bawahnya part ofthe outfit for the performance. Erm...baru perasan perut naik sikit ek Mawi. Amik ko...
   

Pas abih fitting, mula mula ingat nak join meka tuk show kat tasik sebab si Haziq, Fahan da ramai agik ada. Abang Wan ajak...tapi pas pikir berkali kali...malas lak.
Esok rancang nak gerak awal pagi. Terus dari sana...gerak gi melantak kat kak Ara, then ingat nak havoc sikit joget lambat sebelum balik for a wink or two.
See how the night progresses.
Want to get some stuff out of my system and party before tomorrow. Yerlah...some people hope to go nak feeling socialise..aku nak gi wat keja.
Alamak...nak singgah rumah bebudak lak...erm...camna ek ni? Erm...kita beronggeng dulu...

Malas nak posting entry sebab ari ni too many things to do, and tak focus on blogging content. Takkan nak tangkap muat lak nak bagik opinionated piece for free.
Not everyone dishes away everything for the sake of being heard. Sometimes we all have priorities. Don't wanna end up like some people I know who haven't made...and will never make anything out of themselves.
So sorry guys...no reading material ari ni.
Surf around...have fun.
Come back tomorrow when it's more loaded and not just occupying space for the sake of making people think I'm intelligent. Boleh?
Aduh....banyak nak cover balik tidur ni...

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...