Ari ni banyak kerja, as Monday always is. Depresssing really sebab hati nak cuti sangat ni ngan Chinese New Year just around the corner. In fact, I think I deserve at least a two week long break pasnih...which I probably will take sebab leave aku banyak agik.
But today ada program sikit. Pas abih keja kena lak gegas ke Astro. Sebab ada rakaman Macam Macam Aznil yang akankeluar musim baru kat Astro Prima (hah...da pindah rumah....used to be Astro Ria tapi skang Astro Prima sebab meka konon nak rebranding channel)
Anyways got there in the rain at the same time as Rudy from Harian Metro. Meanwhile, si Syazwan (bila ko nak ada blog....) dan Marliah from Kosmo! da ada, as well as Farihad dan si Zul Husni from Berita Harian pun da sampai.
Al-kisahnya, Aznil veing the sweet thing that he is, wat rakaman special episode bersama media.
So apa artis kena dera, wartawan pun kena. Had a light dinner kat cafeteria before proceeded to the studio. Cabut undi, tengok tengok si Zul dan Syazwan kena the wheel of racun gituh. Aku dan Farihad kena segmen kedua for acara ikut silat (don't ask..kena tengok kot baru paham...keji sangat aku ni)
And then last but not least si Marliah dan Rudy (sesuaiii!!) kena erm...tiru gaya ballerina. Memang pecah perot la. It was a laugh fest the whole night.
Kak Aina, producer Macam Macam Aznil (love you kak Aina!) dan Norizan (abih ko anak ko ikut aku kang main tindik tindik dan tattoo) pun provided the light hearted entertainment ngan tompang gosip semalaman.
Tapi ni ada soalan trivia sikit. On the left is Marliah from Kosmo!
Teka la rupa dia cam siapa?
Ni masa we were all changing (not me la meka je) tuk program Aznil dalam werdrobe area (kenapa I sense evil giruh).
Yang pentingnya this has been marliah's look of late sejak dia potong rambut dia...kalao dulu panjang....
We noticed this some time back but cuma now je aku kesempatan nak amik pic (tu pun kena marah ngan dia satu round dulu sebab tau je aku nak carut dia kat blog).
Yeap...hasilnya, kalao korang penah tengok kartun Scooby Doo, you'd recognise Marliah as... Velma Dinkley!
Pesen je kena ubah sikit Marliah. Rambut, specs dan kasut da sama. Skang pakai pullover dan skirt ala cheerleader dan stoking yang matching orange je.
Merasalah harajuku....bukan carut ek gurl..;. comel per...
Daripada ada yang kecoh tuh, muka cam Scooby Doo itself, camna?
Aduh...anyway...finished the programme jer, we headed back to the cafeteria for another drink, and this time, with Aznil, join for one more round of gossip.
Kesian tau, sepanjang rakaman Macam Macam Aznil, takde sora lak mamat tuh.
Back to back siot berapa belas episod....mana tak ilang nya suara. Tapi time da abih, sorsa come back lak...sentap!!!
Tapi my salute ler to Aznil...you are definitely one of the most hardest working individuals in TV and no matter what anyone says, you deserve a round of appplause. Thanks for having us on your show.
Anyway....abih je, aku decide nak rush balik...apa agik kalau bukan tuk sambung nak download...then need rest. Ujan ni...mmm..best...zzzZZZ

Siang tadik aku kembali ke Low Yat to get my modem reconfigured.
Again redah lautan manusia dan yang berupa manusia just to get it done, which was all of 20 minutes. Tapi jam dan sesak lalulintas sebab jalan tuh nih tutup mengakibatkan perjalanan aku berejam jadi nya.
After finished, pop in kat Starbuck KL Plaza for a drink and to snd in som ework via email.
Then it was off to a private event. By the time abih da tengah malam, straight away headed home. Mula mula thought of nak singgah kat Planet Hollywood for Ella's Sunday Nite Live, tapi pikir punya pikir....takper la.
Anxious nak get home dan make sure everything's hooked up...and it was. Within m inutes je, I was online! Yeah!!!

Spent the remainder of night following my favourite series, Heroes yang baru season one yang selama semingu ni aku dok kumpul.Right now kat US da masuk episode 15 this week
Astro lak tak silap aku baru tayang epiode 2 ke masuk 3. I've already caught up with the US punya. Tunggu 15 nih... as I'm blogging.
It's one of the best series I've seen in a long time. While a lot of people get caught in Lost, Desperate Housewives, O.C....aku tak penah nak follow siri siri ni because too long winded and all.
But Heroes is awesome and aku tetap leh tengok balik episode after episode because there's a lot of details in it that you gradually notice if you observe closely and watch it repeatedly. Ok...aku nak layan sat....more entries soon...

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Yes, today I am finally getting connected broadband at home. Sebenarnya I had connection at home since Wednesday, tapi sebab takde masa, I didn't go and get my ADSL modem.
Ni ler hasilnya tanak amik streamyx package punya modem yang keji teramat tuh,
So today picked up some new toys. Now only did I get my ADSL modem, I picked up a wireless router. Merasalah tengah berak pun leh online (eeewwww....!!!)
Also picked up a Microsoft webcam (have plans for that, but no it doesn't involve anything of adult nature) as well as some playthings like a USB vaccum for my laptop.
Pening sebab sesak kat Low Yat Plaza.
Had a friend belanja belanja makan (thanks noks for the meal...that was sweet of you to pick up the cheque..next time it's on me - we all earn enough!) Dia dan sorang agik member temankan.
After we were done, Imah melarikan diri nak kejau free gift kat eventnya.
I rushed home before meeting up with Juan later for a drink. Sebenarnya balik nak pasang segalanya, tapi sebab terlampau pandai ingat leh configure modem aku tuh sendiri...amik ko. Zilch!
So popped back out again. Looks like I have to pop back into Low Yat again esok.
Apapun, just wanted to finish my entry pasal semalam.
Hung out until 6am kat lokasi shooting babak terakhir Malaikat Maut. I'll just tell my little story of what went on in pictures that are damn blurry, ok.

Ni lah sekitar lokasi penggambaran babak terakhir Malaikat Maut.
  Sherry, Nana dan Que (tak muat lak Awal dalam pic) join the rest dalam doa sebelum aksi ni. Nampak lak crew tengah sibuk preparation terakhir atas keta.
  Ni la posisi asal keta pas shot pertama keta diterbalikkan ngan bantuan crane dengan keempat pelakon kat dalam. Pas da scene golek sikit, meka bounce the car further down and reshot another take.
    Tiap kali satu scene, kena check equipment to make sure the safety of the cast dan equipment. Tengok mounting camera.
   Sekali da angkat ngan crane...abang Bade supervise sendiri ok. Pas da siap, dia take his seat kat director's chair nak see how it looks on camera lak.
  Hah...ni la crane gedabak meka pakai. Aiyo...dahler touch up make tu awal. Ni gothic ke...iklan tepong komak. Cantik blusher si Que.
  This is midway. Ingat tak curam ek. Ni long shot sikit of the location. Curam ok...dari angle aku amik gambar tak nampak...but it must have been a 30-40 foot drop.
  Lagik satu angle nak tunujuk how steep the place is. Ni nampak sikit. Kul 5 pagik, cast da tak larat da...touch up sekali lagik sebelum di basahkan thanks to the lovely and ever so friendly abang abang bomba.
  Ni shot terakhir kul 6 pagi. Keta da sampai masuk ke longkang ala sungai tu. Halfway immersed in the water, the cast members kena masuk sekali ok. Yerlah...nak lakon da kena accident...mersalah mandi air longkang kul; 6 pagik...masih ingat ni keja glamer? Bouncing upside down in a car yang thrown over the steep side of the embankment and then end up six hours later dalam longkang.

Gambar aku keji sikit quality for obvious reasons. That I used my beat up mobile phone (sabar...ada replacement nak mai) But kalau korang nak tengok pic yang lebih jelas (termasuk sorang cast member yang honorary - tima kasih Que sebab lobi aku), KLIK SINI untuk tengok pics yang lebih jelas dan high res gituh.
Ok...gotta call it a night!
Thanks so much to Anita for inviting me... Tayang Unggul rocks!!!
And Gaya, luv...mintak mintak ni jangan ler give up making the movies you guys make. Kalau nak commercial je pun no fun.
Night all...

Seharian bekerja nak tepati all my deadlines, and then sempat gegas balik ke rumah balik, tukau baju before later in the night headed to McDonalds' yang nak on the way ke Sentul after Hospital Tawakal tuh.
Tunggu abang Mus, my photographer sampai...kuar masuk McDonalds nak resist the temptation. Finally couldn't, but settled  for an apple pie and corn in a cup.
Sampai je nampak ramai ler orang kat set.
Aksi malam ni adalah nak feeling golekkan keta ke dalam longkang yang ala ala cam sungai da.
Amik ko...berapa kali meka take. Slow motion...jangan ingat dalam pilem golek keta tuh all the way down tuh one take.
Tu Hollywood je ok. Sini mangsa keta satu je...so take sekali tuh kena manfaatkan ler sepenuhnya.
Tengah take ni aku sempat amik pic ler. Tapi rasanya sebab meka tak sampai separuh jalan mau golekka keta tuh ke dalam sungai, esok je remainder of the pics.
Sempat interview abang Bade, and had a nice talk with Gaya (yes, you gurl!) about Puaka Tebing Biru which I didn't find too interesting (you think??!!!)
Still sometimes betul gak aku ni overanalyse something, thus rendering the inability to enjoy it kan...
Dalam erti kata lain, aku ni jenis kekadang nak nilai sesuatuh tu too much sampai aku tak nampak the big  picture ler kan. Which is sometimes what you need to enjoy the pic.
Still aku tak tarik balik apa aku cakap pasal banyak kelemahan yang ada dalam Puaka Tebing Biru. Tapi kan...memang aku da kata, and I also stand by what I said, which is Syaitan is quite good, in fact one of the more intelligent movies of the year, despite a few shortcomings.
Anyway....had fun ngan abang Bade.
He is quite an impressive person.
Practical and yet sort of insightful in his own way. I also notice he absorbs what everone has to say like a sponge.... signs of a truely intelligent person.
Eh ok ler...sebelum aku berundur, nak kongsi sikit nasihat tuk adik adik yang berangan nak feel star. Eh lain lak terasa kan...
Ni tuk meka yang mabuk glamer...oops...lain lak yang terasa lagik.
I mean mereka yang rasa glamer ni the best way out of their mundane lives. Damn...I did it again.
Ok...let me reword it...pada adik adik yang rasa jalan senang nak berjaya is by acting ke singing ke wat apa saja janji popular, bukan senang dik oi.
Nampak je glamer.....ketiak masam (oops), badan berlengas... dok kat lokasi bukan senang tau.

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Tengok ler contohnya....ni da tengah masa time aku update, sempat ler aku snap pic Nana yang erm... begitu tekun kerja sambil tunggu production team preparekan keta yang nak meka tunggang terbalikkan.
Tak tahan gelak...dalam tidur tersedar lak si Nana, sempat carut aku...pastu libas rambut sekali and then sambung tidur. And we lost her from there to malaikat tidur...ader ker?
Sambil dok lepak ramai-ramai....sempat ler sembang sok sek sana sin iabout this and that. I seriously have high hopes for Malaikat Maut, sebab pas cakap ngan abang bade, aku yakin konsep cita ni leh jual.
Abang Bade wat style Twilight Zone, ngan tiga citer yang lain, tapi ngan basic underlying aim tu sama.
To kind of display mortality...yang kita ni sebagai manusia, leh dipanggil bebila. Really simple, but interesting premise as far as I can tell.
While we were chatting...distracted sat because there was this cutest kitten tidur kat bawah kerusi abang Bade.
Sempat lak iklan katanya nak tunjuk pic kitty ni yang memang comel, curled up in the cold. Cam Nana lak...merasalah aku kena carut agik ngan Nana pasni. Ampun dearie...you know aku sayang ko.
I really would love to update panjang lagi, tapi battery da low (akibat biarkan laptop on nak download abih Heroes sebab leh tompang unsecured network kat sini)...so esok jer lah aku upload more pics.
Setakat ni yang mampu aku transfer and upload  this pics of cast yang terlibat. Ni last shooting sebelum nak wrap. Ni for the third story. Terlibat include, Nana, Awal, Que dan Sherry.
The last scene meka nak shoot ni, aksi konon nya bulan Ramadhan yang mulia ni feeling party, last last mabuk dan sebagainya, keta yang di bak tergolek masuk longkang (yang aku tetap maintain cam sungai).
Time aku tulis ni meka still setting up cameras (dua bijik melekat kat keta) one on the bonnet, one attached to the back window...and one more static if I'm not mistaken.
Eh...ok ler..enjoy these pics first. Kang aku update esok. Ni pun entah sampai kol brapa ni....

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Pics masing masing tengah make-up. Si Awal nakutkan tul muka dia. Bebudak ni kisahnya ala ala gothic ler. Si Nana tu baru nak feeling manicure...merasalah time nak start shoot baru nak cat kuku katanya. Anyway...pic ni diamik sebelom dia membuta kejap. as in the earlier picture.
 


 

Arini nak review sikit Puaka Tebing Biru.
It was long, it was draggy, they didn't seem to have a clue how to edit it, and the horrific thing yang Umie Aida becomes, resembles Jim Carrey from The Mask, except with a fteish for toes. Eeeeewww!!!
Entahlah...seriously I did put a lot of expectation in Osman Ali's work sebab aku tau hasil kerja dia. But I suppose sebab ni first full length feature film dia so ok ler....aku nak kriitik pepanjang...rasa tak adil lak.
Sebab walaupun aku rasa lemau sikit (banyak actually kecuali cinematography jer ok), tapi ada colleague aku si Aqidah kata dia tiga ari tiga malam mengigil takut nak berak kencing dan sebagainya sebab teringat pilem tu (of course she is alos prone to exaggeration)
So instead of a direct review as promised, aku akan go on my famous lists of why you should watch and why you shouldnt watch the movie.
Remember this is not a comprehensive list. Pepandai ler korang tengok sendiri dan nilaikan.

10 Why you SHOULDN'T watch Puaka Tebing Biru
1. Kalau ko pernah tonton Nang Nak - too many resemblances, except Nang Nak was good. In other words... no originality. Even hantu dia pun ala ala Ju On meets Nang Nak and a touch of The Ring.
2. Plot banyak lobang - cam si Umie punya character. Nama kawan baik tapi scare Nasha punya character half to death...pastu bila jumpa hanya bagitau Nasha minta restu ibu dia....er....wasn't she going to do that before you scared the shit out of her. Korang tengok paham ler.
3. Character development zero. Ko tak rasa persahabatan antara Umi dan Nasha (art imitates life ke?) Character Fahrin lak cam beriyaelak kawin tetiba love sampai mati katanya. Keji....suka ati jer tuko jalan cita
4. Continuity  dan realism takde langsung. Dok apartment mewah ala penthouse gitu, tapi ada loteng beratap zink, Jalan nak balik ke rumah Nasha yang ala ala KL Sentral lak ikut jalan utan ala Kenny Hills (memang Kenny Hills pun kata Gaya). And shall we mention laptop sponsor yang di pakai Nasha hanya nak taip se ayat dua yang takyah caj berapa lama pun leh tahan battery dia?
5. Costume direction cam $%^&*. Rumah usang nak mampos bertahun tinggalkan tapi perkakas semua lengkap ok! Amik ko...make up effects failed big time sebab nampak cam Halloween lak. And I mean Toys R' Us punya Halloween ok.
6. Apa watak si Corinne Adrienne tuh? No character developement tapi nak banyakkan watak nak complicate kan lak. In that vein...there were unnecessary characters that took too much space, and could have been used for more development. By the way, she is the worst in the movie, as her acting is as good as watching a stationary object. About the same quotient of emotion.
7. Trying to be too artsy at the wrong time. Most of the scenes were well shot and would have made for a nice coffee table book...but they didn't contribute to the movie.
8. Someone forgot to edit it! Filem tu bertahan selama 2 jam dan 7 minit. Itupun aku dengar meka da potong 40 minit. Keji ok....ko ingat epik??? Then treat it like one ler...
9. Pretencious. Makes you think kononnya, but in more ways than one, it was a n-brainer. In fact if you actually thought about it, you would have laughed your head off.
10. If you're looking for a horror...this is not it. Hardly in fact. Too much drama...too little horror.


10 reasons why you SHOULD watch Puaka Tebing Biru
1. If you like watching Fahrin topless and bathing in what almost seems like slow motion but isn't. A tad too cheesy and semi-porno for me. (in other words, if you like men)
2. If you like watching women hug and tough each other in what seems seriously lesbian (rasanya tu ler tujuan meka wujudkan watak Corinne yang muncul tetiba) (in other words if you like women)
3. If you like watching Fahrin getting jiggy with Umie Aida (if you like straight relationships)
4. If you have a fetish for toes (yuck! though I know some wouldn't mind biting at Fahrin's toes)
5. If you don't really care about logic.
6. Small dirty kids terrify you, as do dirty unashed and unkempt women who seem to place a lot of emphasis on hair care. (your money's worth la masa tuh)
7. If you like  Jim Carrey masa dia berlakon The Mask. She looks more or less like that....except I think The Mask was more scary.
8. Kalau selama ni ko ingin bercuti ke Pulau Pangkor dan tak kesempatan tapi sanggup bergembira ngan pemandangan yang ditunjukkan.
9. If you love Nasha Aziz and Sharifah Amani (and a little bit of Fahrin) like I do. By the way, tuk aku, Nasha dan Wan Maimunah paling meletop dalam filem ni. Yang lain average to bloody papan.
10. If you have RM10 to spare, and you really want to do something to support the Malaysian film industry.

Ok so the reasons weren't all that great...but then again neither was the movie overall. I would say it's a waste of money to even watch....and yes, kalau ada sapa nak carut "but you don't pay", I do, because kalau aku suka movie tuh, aku akan tengok sekali lagik or more depending on how much I like it where Iwill pay for the ticket to support it.
But don't take my word for it...tengok la kalao nak gamble korang on whether you guys will like it or not.
Apapun...poster lebih menakutkan daripada the actual film...pada meka yang kecut sikit tengok fiem horror...dan cepat pengsan dan melatah....this is the movie for you. Too mild for me.
Just a little bit of extra info pada yang nak tau, here's the credit and cast list untuk Puaka Tebing Biru.

TENAGA PRODUKSI PENERBIT : Tayangan Unggul Sdn Bhd
PENERBIT EKSEKUTIF KANAN : Gayatri Su-Lin Pillai
PENERBIT PENYELARAS : Haznil Izham Ismail
PENGURUS PRODUKSI : Zulkifli Ibrahim
PENGARAH / CERITA ASAL / LAKON LAYAR : Osman Ali 
PENOLONG PENGARAH : Nor Zahirah Abd. Rahman, Pauline Tay Siew Lian
PENGARAH FOTOGRAFI : Khalid Zakaria
PENATA RIAS : Mohd. Zaini Abd. Rahman
PENGARAH SENI : Nazrul Asraff

Nasha Aziz - Ratna
Umie Aida - Ayu
Fahrin Ahmad - Mohsin
Sharifah Amani - Atilia
Wan Maimunah - Mak Esah 
Mislina Mustaffa - Ara
Alisa - Ika
Corinne Adrienne - Anita

Apapun, I'd like to thank Gaya (ampun mencarut), Anita (love you babe...) and the rest of the Tayangan Unggul family for the invitation and the opportunity to blog.
Walaupun mencarut, aku harap ni diterima sebagai kritikan yang honest as honest can be ya.
Apapun, am looking forward to Osman's next movie hoping it'll be better. Apapun sebelum kita end entry ni, aku ada a little trivia untuk korang.
Tengok gambar kat bawah. Yang mana satu Umie Aida dalam Puaka Tebing Biru. That's easy isn't it...the one wearing poster colour and a bad wig....sheesh! I think Jim Carrey seriously lebih menakutkan.

Note : Untuk gambar-gambar babak dari Puaka Tebing Biru dan juga di sebalik tabir pembikinan Puaka Tebing Biru, click HERE!

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