It's Monday. Which meant it was going to be a bloody horrid day. Mondays usually are.
Apapon, not as usual, aku bangun awal, nak gi run some errands. Tension manjang.
Da abih run my errands and all, a little frustrated with the time it took, as well as the impossibility of the whole situation, aku pun hehas ke Astro.
Not risking the stupid beautification exercise yang cause traffic jam tuh (see what happened last week), aku pun ikut jalan belakang, which thankfully, I arrived at Astro in a fraction of the time I took in the past two weeks... tapi still 'awal' seperti biasa.
Sebenarnya malas nak amik pic sangat time time nih, if you've noticed, musim ni memang kureng sangat ler aku nak layan requests for photos from the press conferences on the ritualistic PC every Monday, tapi semalam aku layan gak ler disebabkan chatters kat msjbox yang nak sangat pic Dafi. Tapi aku letak satu jer ler...letih ler nak bebanyak.
I didn't even take more than that anyways, so don't ask for more. Heh...pada sapa yang mintak ni, here it is. Also this is for member kat London yang dok jenguk sini. Heh...

So it's a pretty sucky picture. Wait till my new phone arrives. Until then, stop bitching pasal the quality or lack of, f my pics ek.
Had some stiff to settle kat Astro and left just a little latern than usual. Masa nak gerak lak, spotted some familiar faces. Si Rina dari Sony BMG ada kat Astro.
Mula mula tak perasan dia bak sapa, then realised she'd brought Jac along with her. Erm..Daniel was there... but let's not go there.
So anyways apparently Jac kata ada photography ker wat some promo stuff for Ikon which is coming up. Not too excited about it because some crap names listed there.
So much for the country's best in the music industry taking part.
Back to the office in the searing heat, and once back in the safety of the air conditioned relief of the office, sambung balik keja.
Actually, the outine wouldn't have ben so bad, and I wouldn't have been so agitated kalao aku tak mesej dia.
Wat sakit hati jer. Mmm...but at least an hour or so later, things got sorted out. Why do I feel like I'm just getting way too old for these games? Malas tol la...they really mess up my day when something goes massively wrong. Aahhh!!! Whatever...
Heard Aqidah was going for the Sumolah thingamagij gala night, so decided to pop down to GSC MidValley.
After some fuck-ups there, nearly lost my cool, and tld off some folks for the treatment they were giving us. Bukan je Aqidah kena...member dari Harian Metro pon kena.
Tu lah...kekadang...kalao nak wat gala Hollywood premiere, jangan la wat ala feeling kalao hanya mampu merancang kenduri kahwin kan?
Turned down invites for the show as I was sour by the end of the whole episode. Mana taknya. Kesian si Aqidah tuh...dah ler baru berapa bulan...da kena episode camni. And yang melibatkan orang yang handle event tuh yang eebenarnya kawan.
Kesian dok tunggu tiga jam nak interview tak kesampaian.
So sebagai senir kena la ajar dia speak out. Until she learns to, since I'm there, I have to be responsible for her gak ler.
But times like this makes you appreciate people a lot more.
First up, props to kak Fati and hubby and Aryanna for asking me a few times to join them, despite me insisting that no one would mistake me fir Sharifah Amani (merasalah kak Fati kata it's the haircut that probably makes me look heavier - keji!)
Still, it was cool...and kak Fati...you are a dear and my other mama! Huggies for you!
Now that's one good of how well kids turn out when their parents are strict and yet allow their children to mature on their own. Psstt!!! Aryana...you know you want a tongue stud like mine (matilah kak  Fati bagik aku makan selipar jepun pasni menghasut katanya).
My other shout out goes to Afdlin himself. Sebenarnya, pas the incident, mintak member Harian Metro as well as Aqidah to just go back. Sebab nak jumpa member since Juan ada sekali, so we'd have to hang around anyway (padan muka nak principles sangat sampai kena tunggu the movie nak abih)
Anyhoo...we went to grab a bite a the foodcourt, where they were playing bingit punya cheap-ass techno yang cam fast forwarded Alvin & The Chipmunks punya tribute.
Once we were done, we thought we'd out and have a smoke, and lo and behold, we bumped into Afdlin. Apparently he's seen his own movie (obviously) so many times, he felt the need to step out. Nervous gak ler ni...tunggu reaksi orang.
Apapun, Afdlin asked how's things (yu thought I ditched the movie for a smoke, didn't you...fess up now!)
Told him from start to end what happened...and then some more.
All I can say is, it shed light on some things I was unaware off. Biasalah Afdlin...camni ler. Some people may be plastic as all hell and bodek kuat ker apa...tapi janji, ko sendiri nampak sapa professional dan sapa memang berangan je nak dok industri nih, which is mre than just glam moments.
Props to you for restoring my faith that you haven't lost it. And please oh please... get the little help issues sorted out.
Dan pada pihak yang tak reti keja tuh, membusukkan nama orang lain, you suck. You may think helluva a lot of yourself, but you just suck. And here's tip, beauty, does not refer to kepalsuan tempekan bedak empat inci (matilah naik harga tepung, kalau tampo terus jerebu).
Anyway...good luck Afdlin on Sumolah ok. And yeap...bloggers united! At least for those yang matter anyway and not just THINK they do (you know now kan Afdlin?)
Called it a night. Dramas wear me out. Oh...and obviously didn't bother to watch Diarrhea tonight.

Diarrhea hari ni wat kali prtama aku tengok ada gajah botak. Eh jap...memang gajah pun ada berapa helai rambut je atas pala. Kelas Linda Jasmin kreatif bagik the appropriate animal.
Flashback pasai meka main Zombi Kampung Pisang rupanya bebudak pompuan punya surprise memang tak jadik. You don't say...
Here we go...English class agik... aduh.
Perlu ke all this stress on signature. Takkan ler bebenda camni pon nak rehearse..
Diarrhea berterusan lagik ngan adengan buang masa rehearse lagu keji in Boria AF5. Still tak puas ati sebab aku bebetul nak tengok meka wat lagu tema Phantom Of The Opera. But I guess bebudak tak mampu kot smething yang require real vocals.
Or at least people yang decide lagu ni yang decide kot.
Yawn...nothing much of interest. Aku tak paham tol overdose Mila nak ngan cam ni. Cam tau je perbandingan diri dia ngan Farah, sampai nak bercnta ngan cam sampai camni. Erm...aku kalao tengok Diari susah aku nak appreciate dia. Hanya konsert je aku leh minat.
Tapi dalam gedik Mila, aku nak gelak time dia feeling buat music video ngan kamera. Aduh...pecah perot jap ovrdose drama queen dia.
Bab Ebi cita pasal nak further education ngan Khairul Najmi tuh kenapa halfway tuh edit potong sambung lak ek. Pasal bab kekurangan financial dia pnya status?
Takut ada yang bak AFUNDI kesian kalahkan Aswad ke? Takpe...tabung Bersamamu menunggu ngan statement Ebi belajar pakai lilin masa study dulu.
Cantik gak si Candy nih, tapi dia ni jenis muka yang memang sombong walaopon aku tak nampak pon character dia cantuh yang ramai anggap.
Ulangan bab latihan si Heliza memang tak nampak pon dia leh power camtuh as she was in the konsert. Mana la dapat spirit nih. Somebody teach her where her vpcals should be coming from. Kalau nyanyi ala rock ni sakit tekak, it's obvious, memang teknik nyanyian salah. Kang cedera baru tau.
Raptai ari Jumaat cam biasa je...
Masa konsert lak masa Sabtu...hah..tuk sesaat tuk nampak meka pasang extension rambut Aswad. Kreatif gak campor sapu depan semua yag ada (which is not much)
Argh! Sebut rambut ni ttiba nak close up lak kan!!! Baik wat documentary terus perjalanan pesen rambut Aswad (matila kena carut ngan yang inferiority complex lak pasni ngan male pattern baldness).
Teringat lak cikgu tuition aku tuk Add Maths dulu yang rambut semua sapu kedepan semua camtuh nak cover ruangan legar tuh. Malas peluk ke anging tiup...memang horror movie.
Jahat si Shawal gelak dia. Tapi yang dok sibuk pancing pujian tuh perhal. Heh!
Bab mesej dalam botol tuh...yukky!
Especially bila close up ngan si Aswad. Aduh...anyway got a snapshot of that? CLASSIC! Heh!
Aduh...gelak pecah perut...Chef Rahman Adabi katanya masuk Akademi lagik nak promo produk. Perlu sangat Khairul Najmi yang bak dia. Pandai Akademi mintak dia yang escort.
Lagu tugasan dah kuar!!!

Shawal - Copacabana (Barry Manilow)
Aswad - Langit Biru (Mawi)
Ebi - Bukan Diriku (Samsons)
Mila - (Pudar)
Heliza - Ya Atau Tidak (Erra Fazira)
Candy - Cahaya Cinta (Datuk Siti Nurhaliza)
Shawal & Candy - Menari Denganku (Zahid dan Sarah Raisuddin)
Ebi & Mila - My Heart (Irwansyah & Acha Septriasa)
Aswad & Heliza - Joget Cinta Sakti (Haziq & Rosma)
Lagu bonus -  Let's Dance Together (Melly Goeslaw & Bukan Bintang Biasa (BBB) ), Falsafah Cinta (Ning Baizura & Jamal Abdillah)

Best Shawal punya lagu. Joget ler. Si Aswad...so expected of Astro nak Mawi-kan dia. Ngok tul dia leh kata Langit Biru dia tatau...padahal lagu tuh overdose kat radio sejak ujung tahun lepas. Keji sangat...wat innocent.
Si Ebi memang sesuai!!!! I like I like I like!!! The girls semua kena except for Heliza punya lagu which I think tak sesuai. Well, vocally not a challenge ler, Lagu Erra...how hard can it be.
The duets ok, tapi My Heart cam basi dah lah. Apa la  meka ni.Joget Cinta Sakti was so tak perlu...while Menari Denganku mesti besh tengok Shawal dan Candy together.
Lagu bonus? Boleh jer la....tak paham camna meka pilih lagu nih...

Yesterday night, all three girls kicked ass!!! Memang malam tiga diva as far as I'm concerned and memang sepatutnya ketiga tiga mereka dapat empat lampu biru yang tak ada fungsi feeling nak jadi Tekaria tuh.
While reality is the chances of any of them winning this competition are virtually zero, we can always hope for a miracle yang orang leh ubah dan tak AFUNDI simpati kerana ada kes eksploitasi anak yatim piatu ke... membotak ke....ada anak dua ke...
But don't hld your breaths. Ok ok...on with my review yang di taip kali kedua sebab Mozilla Firefox hampeh hang tanpa sebab mengakibatkan aku terpaksa taip kali kedua (IE rules!)

Semua Pelajar - Boria AF5
Ok, I really don't know what to make of the intro.
It was cheesy yet in a way fun gak. The outfits were nothing short of horrendous, but true to the spirit of the theme.
Dari perform ni, yang vocally cam bebudak sekolah wat persembahan ketika Hari Penyampaian Hadiah Sekolah Rendah Kampung Pelir Hitam (statement ulangan yang popular). Anyway memacam ler contradiction persembahan ni.
Mungkin gak confusion aku pasal persembahan ni because of that animal that appears to have died on Aswad's head, Perhal la letak extension murahan camtuh.
Yes kiddies, that was a piece of extension wig murahan ala mop yang di gam pada pala dia.
Awat kawan ko tu bughok benor Dharma!
Dari the theme song of Phantom of the Opera, how the hell ler meka ni leh pilih this song. Really makes no sense as both choices just dumbs down the kids.
And bila orang terkenangkan musim kedua kerana bebudak perform Memories, dak production semua wonder why lak.
Cam kesial...
Vocally, cam kumpulan Senario pon ada.
 (untuk persembahan bebudak dan  untuk mangkuk hayun yang pilih lagu ni)


Dafi - It's Gonna Be Me (N'Sync)
Pehal la dak ni dipakaian beg plastik sampah itam tuh. They could have gotten better than PVC (or better looking leather yang tak nampak murahan, which is so yesterday, yesteryear even!). Anyway dari saat bukak molt je, it was obvious why he was given this song.
Meka nak wat repeat Amirul ketika Sedang Ingin Bercinta. Kira kalao vocal tak dapat shine, leh la choreography kaburkan mata orang.
Sadly enough, from that aspect, the backing dancers way outshone him. Dahler Corrie ada (besh tengok dia return ke pentas Akademi Fantasia), si Raimee (he is quite a good dancer walaopon dressing ampeh) and Riot (perlu ke?). Have to stress tak paham kenapa Riot dan Kool sibuk sangat...cam ler lagu ni lagu meka. Tak perlu ok!
On that note, ngan dancers outshining him, and vocals yang begitu merdu (if you like the sound of nails on blackboard), ni memang antara show tak perlu of the night. Too bad sebab this was right up his alley, tapi aku awal minggu pun da kata he manages to even make boybands look good...so go figure.
Forget whatever's been said about hard work... results matter. And Ogy was so right pasal him looking lethargic dan tak bermaya.
Deservedly, takde lampu biru. Yes yes...it was going to be him.
 

Mila - Aku Takkan Bersuara (Nike Ardilla)
Walaupun aku tak nampak relevance (hanya kerana title konon) bebudak bisu tu bawah arahan klon Sherry (tengok video tuh balik kalao tak caya), tapi Mila punya performance memang worthy of standing ovation. Not THE best, but definitely ranks as one of her best.
For me her notes were ok, with minimal mistakes, tapi tempo a little out. Still, tu kesilapan kesilapan yang very minor compared to the powerful performance she gave. Not exactly my favourite song, tapi one of the more memorable shows this season.
 

Ebi - Kisah Kau Dan Aku (Alleycats)
Sadly I don't think he performed as well as the critics said he did. Vocally biasa saja, but agree with Loloq that it wasn't easy/
Still, sentap gak tengok Ebi losing out to Aswad because he still has a very sellable package in the real world, but if his performance camni nak masuk final, erm...entahler.
Disappointed.
 

Candy - Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps (Lila Downs)
While I thought she couldn't pull off the whole sexy routine, she did.
I hated the dress yang again cam dari kedai pengantin mana, yang mak andam dia baru siap tanam batu batu lima paket dari SSF lima minit before the show, but everything else looked very period though.
Like Mila, memang performance empat lampu biru sangat ler. She sounded sultry and silky (cam ilan shampoo lak kan). Aku rasa walaopn Ogy kata ada kekurangan sikit seni persembahan dia, again like Mila, minor slips here and there yang forgiveable la sangat.
 

Shawal - Kaulah Segalanya (Hazrul Nizam)
Alamak spoil mood tol bak Razak Mohaideen...after all, we know what great movies he makes kan.
Still it as a nice idea, and Razak acted better than most of the actors he employs and it was a seamless transition ke performance Shawal ang aku rasa memang ala video clip live.
Nice play on lighting!
Vocally? He did the lower ntes quite well, walaopon sora dia ni shaky sikit kekadang.
With all that said, this is one of Shawal's strongest performances so far, and frankly, one of the many better ones to come...I'm sure.
 

Heliza - Kesal (Ella)
Korang perasan tak, semakin kurang penyanyi asal yang mai konsert mingguan skang. I mean...not the popular ones la. Aris Ariwatan doesn't count (so..erm...you understand) and Kool? Who?
Walaupon memula aku gelak abih Norlia Ghani dan Farid Kamil enter frame, aku tetap susah nak enjoy lawak meka sebab dok fokus sangat nak pay attention to Heliza punya moka.
Aku actually da nak putus asa ngan dia with her mundane (being kind here) performances berapa minggu ni. Tambah agik the past week dalam Diarrhea pun azab gak.
But lo and behold!!! The comeback performance of all comeback performances!!!
Walaopon semput dan pancit sikit, dan terpaksa pakai kelambu *urgh!!!* turquoise, memang muslimah rock la (seperti kata Ogy)
Merasalah aku masa tuh tak dok (berdiri kat tepi side wall tuh headbanging cam sakai kena gigit montot ngan kera. Heh!!!! Lantak...janji BEST!
She completed the trio of girls' butt kickin' performance for the night and totally restored my faith in her.
Mintak mintak ler dia keep it up kan.
 

Aswad - Korban Cinta (Aris Ariwatan)
His hair was as nice as his performance, which isn't saying too much really. Yes, yes, memang di confirmkan. Meka terpaksa gam extension raambut palsu kat pala dia, tu yang nampak...erm...well... make your own comments ler ek.
Still it's amazing what an inferiority complex and male pattern baldness can do to your votes.
Vocally he was decent. I say decent sebab everytime dia perform ok, tetap hanya ngan rock kapak yang da lapuk dua puluh tahun lepas.
Kalao Akademi Fantasia wujud tahun 80an dia leh menang kot.
Tapi naya je kalao kali ni ada juara cam dia. Memang sesuai ler orang brand kan juara kampung sebab takkan ke mana.
Kalao dia menang top three, terbukti ler spekulasi yang Astro memang target dia antara champion dari mula lagi sibuk nak push dia dari awal, siap ngan comparisons to Mawi. Surprising? Don't think so...
 

Lagu bonus pelajar perempuan - Joget Lambak (Adam)
Even though I hate the choice of this song, tetapi yang dak pompuan semua pukul abih (pinjam statement Farihad yang popular).
No brainer pop tune yang tak challenging langsung.
 (untuk persembahan bebudak dan  untuk mangkuk jamban yang pilih lagu ni)


Lagu bonus pelajar lelaki - Wajah Rahsia Hati (Fauziah Ahmad Daud)
Dafi and Ebi (especially Dafi) flat gaban part mana meka tak off, si Aswad body language kekongkangan (all through the show la actually) while I cou;dn't really make out Shawal's voice. A waste of time and nothing more.


And the outcome? Yer... tak mengejutkan (at least not for me ler). Ngan push for Aswad gaining momentum ngan konsert minggu lepas, dan isu Diari bab pala dia yang selicin lantai balai ketibaan KLIA tuh, as well as the choice of song which pandered to his limited abilities and the seeming agenda nak push him antara favourite, Aswad melonjak agik.
Ngan minggu depan last week, jangan terkejut kalau ada kezutan dan lebih dari sorang yang tersingkir since au da speku dari awal.
Jadi ke tak tatau le....Astro kan suka kalo orang da predict meka sangup tak buat.
So....vote all out ler next week kalao sayangkan your favourites, because at the moment, Shawal dan Candy, two good performers and with overall package nak berjaya int he business is in danger.

Kedudukan peratusan AFUNDI selepas konsert
Aswad 20%
Mila 16%
Ebi 15%
Heliza 14 %
Candy 12%
Shawal 12%
Dafi 10%

Habih je konsert, kuar ngan the whole gang of kengkawan, more than dozen of us, tuk bersidang skali lagik tuk sesi carutan post concert. Kali ni kami di join oleh Aznil and Co. Thanks again so much Aznil for spending the time and explaining so much.
Walaopon kekadang geram gimik ko tak menjadi, you still rock, and definitely...without a doubt, you ARE part of Akademi Fantasia, no matter ada yang suka ke tak. No one can deny that.
Dan tima kasih Aznil kerana mengiktiraf the term DIARRHEA! Matilah carutan katanya yang diterima with a touch of humour. You rock la!
Ok ok...sambung later or esok ok...

Hari ni malas nak layan Diarrhea.
Instead, nak layan balik Heroes dan skali review. Watched Episode 20 titled Five Years Gone a few days ago and wanted to review it, but didn't know how.
Awmigawd!!! Honestly, how do you review ths episode! Everything in it is a potential spoiler. Tim Kring has kept his word that season one of Heroes will be made up of three episodes, so episode 21, 22 and 23 will be a three in one special finale episode broken up.
And in episode 20, it's a spoiler of sorts over how many Heroes are actually going to die. A total of FOUR!!! Including some characters I absolutely adore. Shit!
And no, Sylar is NOT one of them.
In fact, if you have watched episode 18 (sucks to be you ler kalao masih tunggu Astro tayangkan), you would of course have witnessed that minor showdown of Sylar versus Peter kan? Ni ada agik...
Erm...the episode if titled Five Years Gone sebab Hiro has gne into the future, and basically, you've time travelled to the ending of the season. So banyak sangat spoilers over how things will turn out. Or so we're led to believe.

Aduh! Seriously mind boggling siot episode kali ni. And they think TV is supposed to be relaxing?
It's been that long since a TV show piqued my interest, and has kept it up twenty episode later, if not increased it to the levels of fanaticism. Rugi tol sapa tak tengok.
Forget Lost ke 24 ke...Prison Break ke. Heroes is the only show yu HAVE to watch.
Pada sapa yang kaki Heroes, and you guys, like me, are suckers for punishment dan nak tau spoiler tuk the final three episodes, Entertainment Weekly magazine ada wat special coverage with hints and spoilers siot.
Yang pentingnya, siap ada outline for musim kedua which will be called Generations.
And for that, they've come out with a series of five covers for EW (gila ke haper!...but good luck getting them all here)
But the covers are so awesome aku tamau kecikkan the pics, so enjoy them.

Funky assed covers! Best gila tengok!!! Kalao korang layan Heroes dan nak tau sangat spoilers or wanna get more hints on what's going to happen, head over to the Entertainment Weekly site for their cover story.
Be warned though, memang banyak sangat ler info pasal upcoming episodes as well as a little on the upcoming season. So don't say you weren't warned. Kalao nak tau gak, CLICK HERE to read.
Argh...need some brainless entertainment. Time to watch the end of The Pussycat Dolls Presents : The Search For The Next Doll. Sapa yang gatal bagik spoiler Asia menang sebelom aku sempat download the final episode arituh? Keji!!! Skang da tak surprise agik...
And also my dose of America's Next Top Model cycle 8 yang aku abaikan for last week since Heroes made a return.
Oh back on Heroes, also CLICK HERE for the official site for more info or watch streaming video.

Semalam nak update pepanjang sikit. Yerlah, I've been so knackered out lately that my heart hasn't been into updating my blog. Kesian lak sayang aku yang paling setia melayan segala meroyan aku ni.
Started the day yesterday ngan assignment together ngan si Farihad. Sebenarnya first assignment tuh dia punya. Temankan je. Untuk Berita Harian punya spread this weekend pasal Mawi punya koleksi kasut.
So met up Mawi and Co lepak kat opis Mawi Wrld Sdn Bhd kat Taman Desa. Abang Wan ada, si Nasser as well as Yus (tol kan...lupa lak nama dia) pon ada.
Ada ler office meka ni berubah sikit sebab some work has been done since last I dropped by some time ago.
Still, lom fully operational lagik office meka ni.
Aku slalu kalao masuk, terpegun tengok all the trophies yang dipamerkan. Honestly, apart from an AIM, this boy seems to have won almost everything out there.
Kira an AIM je ler needed to complete the collection.
Koleksi terbaru yang di bawa si Yus, ialah piala dari Hits 1 yang baru tuh.
Tapi among the whole collection, there is one shelf yang aku paling suka tengok, which is of course the first yang Mawi penah menang.
Which is the whole collection of Akademi Fantasia wins dari way back then.
Honestly, one thing about the show yang no matter how hanjeng it gets, is how the ttrophies are the best looking. Hope they don't change that ler musim ni, seeing as to how everything yang ok pun meka nak burukkan.
So start ler snappy some pics here and there.
Yang at the top tuh of course koleksi kasut dia yang including the Gucci and his Louis Vuittons among the standard Nike and Adidas variety. Tu baru part of it, malas nak pose kan semua kasut dia. Banyak sangat.
The top right pic yang miscellaneous trophies which include yang dari Anugerah Bintang Popular and Hits 1.
Yang favourites kat bawah ni.

Lepak dalam an hour or so, kami pun semua bergerak to Carrefour Wangsa Maju. Bukan nak shopping (not planned at least).
Sebenarnya event nih. Si Mawi jadik duta Carrefour.
Kalau dulu in 2002 and 2003 keja Carrefour gaji RM700 hingga RM900 sebulan, skang four years later sign lak deal enam angka with the same hypermarket jadi duta.
Talk about your fairytales come true kan?
Malas nak amik many pics, sebab ramai sangat orang. But managed to take one of the signs they posted about the hypermarket umumkan the event. Amik ko! Mawi Live to all die hard fans.
Erm...siapa la meka amik tuk buat benda tuh. I guess you can't complain cause all the money went into Mawi's endorsement da kan? Matilah mencarut je keja.
Pas abih, which by then we were joined by Rudy, plan nak gerak balik office. Tapi biasala kalao da shopaholics unite, apa lagi?
Wajib at least pusing satu round ler, walaopon there was nothing that we wanted to get.
Don't you just hate the feeling of going back empty handed (true words of a shopaholic)
 In the end, after something like an hour or two time off to browse around the whole of Carrefour, ni ler hasil apa yang kami pick up.
Walaupon nothing of interest katanya, sempat agik grocery shopping.
 Matilah aku...aduh....gatal tol.
Don't get me wrong ek...that's not all mine. We managed to load the trolley up to the brim later, tapi ni inclusive of Farihad dan Rudy punya barang as well.
Thank goodness I didn't feel all that guilty sebab ada geng shpahlic skali... kalao tak harus ler overwhelmed by guilty by the end of it.
Dalam bebanyak area kami survey in Carrefour ni, we noticed that most of the displays were just plain boring. Yerlah. Again, don't think they realised the impact  of displays in the bulk retail line.
Mesti pikir wajib orang gi sana main borong everything je kan? How about casual shoppers like us? You need to entice us to part with our money (memang cari penyakit kan?)
Honestly though, memang most of the displays ni cam keja malas stack sana sini and throw together whatever's closest at their disposal so that there is some semblance of a display there.
Ok, fine. It's a damn hypermarket. They don't need to place so much emphasis on that... but hey...nothing wrong with jazzing up the place a little kan.
The only display that had even the most remte hint of creativity...tu pun quite busuk gak ler, was somewhere in the hardware or pets section.
Tengok jer ler pic kat bawah ni.

Tu dia!!!! Sial tul display ni. Aku jalan lalu tuh tak perasan. I was actually loking at the top row of cages and as my view moved downwards to the ones on the floor, one glance tu kat benda dalam the cage, melompat aku terkejut.
Ingat binatang apa yang beso tuh yang aku tak notice. Rupanya it was a bloody doft toy which they stuffed in the cage.
Heh...seb baik tak melatah dalam terkejut tuh.
Oh well...called it a day and headed back to the office. Ada banyak gak keja ler nak siapkan lagi.
Sampai je bebudak bagitau, Wednesday ni pindah bahagian baru.
You see our office skang in the two buildings, banyak renovation. So mana yang renovated je, akan di occupied immediately.
So our side punya new lot da renovate ampir siap, so we're moving next door to a bigger, better, brighter place.
Or so I thought.
Excited gak nak tengok the new area, so popped down the second floor from the fourth to see the new area we'll be moving to.
Words fail me...

As you can see, for some reason, fluorescent pink, blue and yellows dominate the desk (and lighting panels too...not so noticeable in the pics)
Very the colours of Rangoli. Apparently someone decided that the basic colours of the printing plate (those mentioned and black) would be the theme of the office.
Er...supposed abstract representation of the fact we're working in a paper ler.
How profound.
Anyways, the place is nicer, we got a decent pantry area, and most importantly, a smoking room!
Morale has been kind of low since a year ot two ago when they banned smoking in the corridors. Sebelom ni, office kami yang paling envied because you can literally smoke anywhere.
Ok ler...nevermind. I can always go shopping for some stuff to erm...put my personal touch to the place. Wonder where my collection of disco balls are....
Nanti aku letak pic pas we move.
Finished my stuff, and watched Diarrhea.
Today has got to be one of the most boring Diarrhea ever. Takder ler per per teruk ke apa apa...just none of it was worth mentioning.
Pening gak meka sibuk nak korek sangat pasal cita personal Heliza ni.
Raimee di pasang ler jadik kaki korek among bebudak. Dari Mila cita pasal background dia, ke si Candy...sampai turn Heliza dia got nothing to say.
So minus Heliza, meka bertiga cita pasal dia speku ler pasal ada boyfriend ke apa ke.
They may just need to understand  some people just don't feel it's necessary to open up, or sometimes people just believe that they are entitled to their own personal space.
Hmm..ada tujuan je nak expose dia ni depan camera lebih beriya. Kali ni selah Astro memilih juara dan yang dikehendaki sendiri and basically guides the viewers through the process by manipulating the votes by choosing what to air.
So much for freedom of choice.
Mmm...dak laki semua pon kaki ngumpat ek.
Vocally, up to semalam, Ebi for some reason is struggling, and so is Shawal. Ebi appears to be having more problems though,while  si Shawal kira ok lagik.
Si Dafi? Erm...
Minggu ni kira minggu Aswad. Dahler dapat ler AFUNDi bebanyak akibat dieksploitasikan Astro, lagu bonus sap sap suwey ler lagu Boria Anak Tanjung.
Joget Lambak is such a stupid song for lagu bonus.
Or is it? A lagu bonus I mean...
Asalnya kata Jangan Cepat Marah, Wajah Rahsia Hari and the theme to Phantom of the Opera lagu bonus. I'm getting confused here. Ok ok..I may have missed something here.
Oh who cares. Matilah tetap lagu favourites aku akan butchered if they perform it.
Heliza ada apa tuh? Ketuat? (Is that how you spell it?) Nak gi klinik. How...erm...interesting.
Skali check sora ek Heliza. Because you can't make it this week kalao you sing like that.
Candy did ok tapi masaalahnya dia feel bosan kali ni. Hopefully she'll buck up.
Mila is straining herself, and Aswad is boring.
Alamak...kelas enter frame ratu dapur lak. How surprising that kelas Bahasa Inggeris jadi cooking class. Elok la tuh. Mesti dia lama da angan nak ganti Chef Wan ke Chef Zam.
What the #$% is pizza mee sedap! It really looks gross!
Arghh...bored to death. Got on the phone dan call Alam sebab perasan iklan promo tuk event Kaki Wayang Astro yang meka dk nak tayangkan where Alam and Anuar took lucky winners to Hollywood.
Al kisahnya masa Alam dan Anuar kat sana, dapat jumpa idola zaman meka. Rick Astley.
Oh nevermind...
Nak makan jap...jap lagik Diarrhea nak on.

PS -  Malas nak debat pasal AFMASUK pas tengok Debat Akademi Fantasia malam tadi. Que sera sera. Kalau berani, buatlah kalao nak merasakan kemarahan peminat.

Walaupun ketinggalan zaman sikit. Ni carutan Diarrhea semalam da ari ni. Compact gituh all in one.
Malas nak blog lebih. Biasa lah towards the end of the week, sibuk sikit.
Esok pree ler. Leh cita lebih sikit pasal tadik. Heh...
Untuk Diarrhea hari Selasa.
Why ler they roping in Syafi bab nak kenen kenen si Shawal ngan Noni. Bodoh ker haper. And of course si Khairul Najmi kena la enter frame. Tak sesuai.
Kena paksa lak si Shawal ni nak cakap rindu pelbagai. Cam kesial! Arghhh!!! What's with trying to pair the kids up and all???!!!
A lot of stuff is just pure silly.
Si Aznil konon kata tiba tiba seorang pelajar muncul nak luahkan perasaan.
Padahal, si Askrul umpan tuk nak bukak topic. And guess what? Khairul Najmi dok sibuk nak enter frame agik jadik diva tuk camera.
"Some people in life they corner here corner there, you're like me... sincere."
Bleurrrghhh!! Angkat bakul sendiri lak.
Aduh...
Bab latihan ala koir lak pening aku. Aduh they were just all over. Takpe Syafi sayang...just forget it and move on to their song assignments jer.
Seperti biasa, ada je sesi borak ketika makan. Erm...ada lagik Khaitul Najmi? Dia ni takde keja langsung ke dok skulking around the Akademi jer.
Mila bab duty nak kemaskan bebenda kat dapur, tapi si Ebi dan Heliza yang wat keja. Hah... how interesting. NOT!!!
Erm, Mila dan Heliza ni headbanging. How interesting. NOT!!!
Khairul Najmi appearing in the background... not even worth mentioning. Ada je dia...
Oh great. Kelas dia lak.
Korang perasan tak...rambut dia dan Aswad sepesen.
Erm...the only thing interesting in his class was si Ebi kentut...lagi.
I didn't cringe at that. I just cringed again at the standard of English which was painfully horrendous.
Erm bab Shawal konon kena mintak restu from Aswad for the hand of his daughter in marriage ada makna ke. Padahal si Dafi kata Ebi jadik pilihan..kenapa dia ke Aswad ek time bab anak ni. Speku!
Sempat tergelak si Ebi nari keam kabut, while si Shawal joget ala Elite lak. Aduh pecah perot tengok dua orang ni.
Er...camna budak budak ni tau ek pasal Zombi Kampung Pisang. That's strange. Didn't the movie come out when the Akademi was already in?Ke ada lak tengok dalam Akademi.
Oh promo rupanya...oh well at leasdt ending ada Shawal kalahkan Candy tuk pose Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps.
Untuk Diarrhea hari Rabu.
Hari ni lak meka try nak hint something's going on between Heliza dan Shawal.
Come on ler, nama masuk tuk belajar. Tapi cara buat cam meka ni nak je try and pair people off for every opportunity possible.
Si Shawal showed Candy how it's done. Nampaknya Candy tak reti nak be sexy, while si Shawal overdose lak gedik.
Aswad lak kena ajar feel lak.
Honestly time ni, aku terfikir, apa guna tenaga pengajar kali ni. Si Raimee banyak lagik mengajar dari si Linda Jasmine. Kalao semua cikgu bak assistant, baik mintak assistant meka ajar from the start, takyah meka pose muka lak every week.
I seriously have doubts why Raimee is teaching them the choreography for their body movements tuk meka yang tak perlu dance routines, sebab tu melibatkan feel, and that falls into the work area of kak Fati or even Chedd.
This is the problem of Akademi Fantasia...ramai yang nasihat, all different, dan akibatnya, kelam kabut performance bebudak ni tatau nak layan sapa.
Why is Aznil constantly forcing people, konon vote for the champion sebab da minggu kelapan, da kena ada target for choice of juara.
It's a little weird, but musim ni je yang masuk da minggu kelapan, none look appropriate sebagai juara or even top three. I mean, I think those like Candy, Mila and Ebi and Shawal stand out, but not quite material for juara kalao banding musim musm lain.
Bab luahan Candy tuh was a waste of time. I suppose meka nak humanise her (ada ker such a term), but it was just boring.
Aswad kata pakai topi sebab konon takde gel la, tak sempat ler nak wat rambut and all, tu yang pakai rambut.
Nampak sangat inferiority complex pasal male pattern baldness dia.
Dia siap mintak potong rambut sikit tuh...yang strange tuh, ada ke rambut nak potong. Erm... why am I reminded of Humpty Dumpty.
"Tak hensem ke ni?"
Er...you think???!!!
Great! Ko ajar bebudak grooming, pastuh paint a picture of them being vain lak. Hish...
The arts and crafts thing was weird. Kesian Shawal buat tuk Noni sebab "Shawal rapat ngan dia...dan atas permintaan ramai."
Nampak sangat dia pn aware meka cam paksa dia sangat pasang ngan Noni nih. Sheesh!
Heliza wat tuk camera? Well ok then...
Kelas kak Fati, she told them to take time off and go about the Akademi and try and be more aware of things they never noticed. I don't think she meant Shawal going under the meja makan, or Mila bawah meja buffet. Weird tol how these kids think.
Second round of exercise to wander around the corners, visualise mana member yang kena eliminate usually goes to and does what, and also to look for a spot they'd miss if they left the Akademi.
Er...kenapa focus Heliza ek? Budget dia kuar ek?
Among the places yang bebudak nostalgia.
Aswad - Bilik Hotlink tempat RIzal slalu lepak
Ebi - ruang makan mana semua slalu berkumpul
Shawal - bilik vocal sebab dulu penoh tak cukup ruang time reramai. Also dapur sebab girls area, dan dance studio sebab tu tempat dia takut
Mila - at the piano teringat Afiq bagi dia support masa that horrendous Gotta Tell Me week.
Obviusly no one else said anything significant.
Adnan's class was an eye opener.
Dafi may just be below even the average boyband standard.
Shawal struggle nak hit some notes.
Ebi doesn't know how to enjoy his song, or sebut 'kasih' right, or at least he's worried about it.
Mila is prone to screaming. Still.
One of the few Jasmi Rejab classes revealed a lot too.
How he thinks skin tight jeans is still funky despite him looking like he has matchstick thin legs (so Eighties!!!). How he thinks rolling up hs sleeves makes him extra butch despite the voice.
The point of the lesson? Nak bagik meka betolkan posture. Mila nak ikat rambut to allow her to balance the book while walking.
Aswad lak ada naturally minimal resistance sebab walaopon licin, ada sikit agik leftover enough to hold the book in place.
Lum pe pe da sesi makan. Nampaknya si Ebi ni ada rahsia kenapa kentut power. Sebab makan apa pon bubuh sos cili. Nasi lemak khabarnya pun ek...anything and everything. The secret of endless flatulence kot.

Ni lak nak sambung entry pasal Monday lak.  After I got down for Genting, of course headed down to Astro for another assignment. Benda aku nak meroyan ni pasal the beautification and landscaping works yang tak abih kawasan ni.
Da two weeks in a row, kalao ikut jalan Kelab Lumba Kuda tuh mesti jam.
Why?
Sebab from the highway exit crawling all the way to the roundabout and the turn off to the Palace Of The Glden Horses and also towards Taman Teknologi Malaysia ni dahler sempit, bottle neck punya jalan, da dua minggu berturut turut, rush hour aku tengok kawasan ni tambah sesak sebab mangkuk jalan mana ntah mintak meka tanam pokok tepi jalan siang siang banyak keta ni.
Bodoh tol. Kalau sekali takpe. Minggu lepas da kena sekali. This week was the same shit. Memang tak abih ler kalao satu dua pokok tanak amik seminggu dua nih. Bangap

Actully I don't think they were planting anything, but they just loved to torture peopole b blcking the narrow road... sebab tak nampak pon sorang pun yang bekerja. Like last week, they were all huddled with their equipmnt and stuff, muking about, just causing a traffic jam.
What a horrible waste of time. Pas abih assignment kat Astro, aku pun gerak ke Cheras ada hal sikit nak settle.
Cadang memula nak balik ke opis, abihkan story, then balik rehat sebab mata pon da lebam da ni. Still not enough rest, despite getting just a little more sleep in Genting, it was not enough nak catch up with the amount I needed to make up for the lack of throughout the whole week before.
Tapi petang lak ada ne more assingment, kali ni kat Habib Jewels kat Ampang.
Hah...which leads me to an interesting trivia question.
|Teka milik artis mana kah kaki artis ni? Kalau biasanya dia dikenali ngan kasut tumit tinggi je!

Kalau anda ikutkan clue yang diberikan, dan anda nyatakan...Fazura...anda memang betul. Matilah aku kena carut ngan Fazura kang. Heh..habih trademark kasut tinggi.
Ampun Fazura. Tamau kena tampo ngan selipar jepun ko lak.
Si Fazura ni actually hadir sekali ngan si Fahrin ke Habib dan lepak sama ngan kami. They were the other two celebs yang ada, so apa lagi?
Sesi carutan yang amat ler. Sekali sekala jumpa, anyam ler ketupat. SI Farihad lak yang paling rajin pot pet ngan Fazura ler.
  Fahrin lak dok kena usik pasal nasi ayam (padan moka, da tau Habib ni dekat je cawangan kedai tuh kan).
Heh...everyone was fair game.
Mawi yang ada sekali pening je nak layan kami kecoh, tapi last last join.
It was actually a simple event sebab sebenarnya Habib tengah ada clearance sale ke sale haper, sampai 70%.Kira Mawi wat appearance dan mini show ler sambil si Fahrin dan Fazura ni pon datang mai lambai lambai.
Most of the items tak menangkap minat aku sebab honestly, Habib punya jewellery nih, tua sangat designs dia. Very the sesuai tuk makcik makcik le though there were ne or tw baubles yang caught my eye.
Aku hanya mampu tarik nafas and walk away sebelom trgoda nak berbelanja.
Siot je...time ada duit, ada sale ni...seksa tol.
But managed to stand my ground and walk out of the shop without spending anthing (unbelieveable kan?)
Feels good!
I may just be a reformed shopaholic!
NOT!
Sempat ler talk to Mawi pasal Shahrill ni sebab Mawi pun minat magic nak berguru kan? Si Shahrill lak pon minat Mawi so ok ler dia dapat ajar Mawi. Bukan senang nak jumpa capable magician nak ajar woo!!!
We'll see where that goes dan apa apa kang, keep posted for developments. Had a bite to eat upstairs, we all headed down again. Cramped the elevator between the few of us (teringat kentut Ebi dan bayangkan kalao aku lepas bom apa jadik)

Lepak kejap lagi, walaupun resisting temptation tapi usha gak ler beberapa items on sale ngan si Farihad dan Fazura. Si Fahrin dok tepi je sebab dia tak larat shopaholics nak brwsing ni (sebenarnya nak keja masuk jumpa seseorang kan, heh!) Erm...kenapa ramai sangat kawan nama start F ni.
Decided to leave the shop...but not before si Botak tunjuk hobby dia yang dulu number one (selain mancing - matilah aku kena carut kang!) sebelom digantikan ngan magic, which is photography!

What's with the hat la??? Ngada tol botak ni. Tak lama agik kamera tuh kompol habuk ler bila asik dok main magic je. Masa mini show kat Habib pun dia selit gak aksi dia.
Headed back home, emailed stories and felt comatose sebenarnya tapi tahan sebab tamau tidur awal sangat. Harus ler pagi pagi buta bangun kang kalao sleep to early....besides da letih sangat ni yang susah nak tidur.
So what did I do? Nak tidur ni amik ler ubat yang sesuai.
Yes I watched Diarrhea laporn kedua minggu kelapan!
Alamak....da dapat reward tuh let it be a proper reward ler. Ni main paintball lak.
Sheesh! Alamak...si chef Adabi tuh ada.
And susah susah nak kuar nak reward jumpa lak tenaga pengajar kat sana. I know if I were the kids I know who I would have shot.
By the way korang perasan tak perlu ke bunting dan poster Adabi kat background tuh. Ada je...
Ganas gak si Mila ni. I wouldn't having her on my team kalao camni.
Abang Adnan kuar dulu kan? (kena hentam ngan tiga pelajar) Then Khairul Najmi yang pepandai tembak cameraman (go Dafi go Ebi). Power gak si Heliza...nampaknya the girls rocked!!!! Si Roslan pon kena tembak. Er si Dr Love ni kenapa?
Masuk sesi motivasi lak, rasa ngarut je nak discuss pasal sapa sanggup nak ganti tempat yang tersingkir. Hish...siap projection and all punya presentation. Erm...ni cam motivational seminar tuk corporate strategy je. Come on!
These kids are not deep enough to understand all this. Forget the metaphors and get more literal with these kids on more direct relevancy.
Alamak...da masuk da mamat haidresser ni nak promo Loreal. Nampaknya si Dafi seronok je main ngan rambut Candy ni ek.
Moka Shawal kena ngan mamat hairdresser ni cam tension abih. Heh...who wouldn't be?
Rambut Aswad leh wat apa apa ke? Cuba bukak headband tuh nak top depan yang membotak first of all. So in the end, rambut Ebi jer ler jadik mangsa. Lepas geam nampaknya si Aswad ni sampai si Ebi ni terbakar lak telinga.
Kelakar ler Aznil umum masaalah teknikal AF Xtra kat broadband ni tapi tetap mntak orang langgan. Perah jangantak perah.
Ebi at least kena sikit sikit je, si Heliza melecur lak tangan ek nak wat rambut Mila. Elok tuh....masuk Akademi, last last cedera sebab  wat benda tak perlu.
Si Dr Love lak syok sendiri, dan end up nak style kan si Aswad, yang nampaknya cam furball by the end of it. hah...nampak terus balding pattern pala dia. Nampaknya  inferiority complex si Aswad pasal rambut nih. You should...
Last last tak pakai headband ni...rambut semua sapu ke depan lak.
Awmnigawd!!! Perlu ke nak hairstylist ni with the silly games.
Aswad tanya rambut ok? Aku tanya balik ni...rambut apa?
Takpe la...janji tak nampak headband kepam dia lagik tuh.
Ebi nampak smart tapi that's given da. Please ler potong rambut ddia.
Dafi dan Candy memasing rambut sama je...erm...Mila punya rambut lak cam kejung. Si Shawal pun needs a proper cut and not the nerdy lok yang stakat nak pakai wax dan spray.
Eh eh..si Roslan ada masa evaluation. FINALLY!
Stuju pasal Heliza ni gedil masih tak amik pot. Si Shawal dipuji showmanship, which I agree too.
Aswad di puji hanya sebab better than expected? But then again. apa sangat expectations kat dia nih? Hish...maintain a uniform standard la...not apply differently to different students.
Ebi was mostly comments pasal posture which affected his vice. Bab Dafi kata singing dia improve (gelak sat). Bab attitude dia aku stuju la at least dia leh accept challenges. That much I have to give credit to him.
Si Candy kena tegur pasal voice control. Stuju ngan Syafi sangat because she doesn't know what to do with her powerful voice.
Mila perasan kelemahan dia senfiri which is a good sign, walaopon mistakes dia not too noticeable.
And that was it...ngantuk terus aku....

PS - Malam ni aku update pasal Diarrhea semalam dan malam ni. Also nak komen sikit pasal Astr yang ngok sibuk prkatakan nak AFMASUK, yang kecoh dari semalam. Padahal sebelom ni tak abih2 stiap hari setiap minggu laungkan pergi tak kembali. Biasa la... layan lagu tema Apprentice jer...money money moneyyyyy...MONEY!!!!!!

Ni sambung entry hutang. Balik je dari AIM on Saturday night, malas tunggu bab repeat repeat, so headed to torrents to check out how was the concert malam tuh.. Yerlah...macam macam report dapat asal konsert, but au nak gak check it out for myself.
And safe to say pas tengok, Astro memang hampeh. Full of contradictions.
Amik pengetua konon tegas takleh bagi nangis, tapi bagik trigger cam babeng...
Konon nak cari bakat, amik pengkritik emo marah takleh hargai bakat, tapi wat lawak bodoh tol tuk naikkan undian orang based on sympathy.
Stupid...stupid...stupid...malas carut tak henti...because I won't stop kala camni. Hurmphh...amik ko repeat performance Mas dari musim kedua ler.

Semua pelajar - Lagu Bonus - Joget Pahang (Siti Nurhaliza)/Joget Si Pinang Muda (Noraniza Idris)
For some reason, aku rasa cam this was so uninspired. Sebab ni kali pertama aku nonton dan nilai konsert mingguan melalui kaca TV (laptop actually), so my judgement lain sikit kot sebab judge the music as heard on TV and n at the venue yang memang lain.
But caught some people looked as bored as I was throughout the performance. The only person yang caught my eye throughout the song was si Candy je.
Lain dari tuh, nothing much. Boring, nothing else managed to capture my attention dan just a waste of time.
Bab nak tarik audience tuh, erm...was just cheap attempt ler. Simply trying to jazz up the event so hard that it was just...oh well.
Wonder how many changed the channel at this point?
Erm...was I the only one who felt that Aznil kept screaming throughout? Why can't he use normal speech levels?
Oh by the way, the whole se-up onstage was a tad over, dan nampak cam kedai pengantin kat Pandan Indah lak. Erm...a little tacky and without reason for them to overdo it.
Erm....kenapa lak Salih Yaacob jadik judge? Layak ke? Oh well...
The second bonus song at the end of the show was as boringly over delivered as the first. So there...


Heliza - Rindu Merindu ( Fauziah Idris)
Cantik baju dia (ala Jee nih) tapi kenapa lak dia dressed up cam orang tua. She just looked old, like someone's mother.
Bab berbalas pantun...on TV it didn't work ler lawak Aznil sebab mata dia asik dashing to the cue cards, which didn't make it appear impromptu.
On her intro, Heliza started way too shaky, and her vibrato had the same effect as fingernails on the blackboard.
I have a feeling she just isn't letting go her voice, and she more often than not ends up sounding constipated.
Masuk chorus baru she sounded ok, but still she ends up simply overdoing it. Why can't anyone tell her to quit it and just sing straight and not moderate her voice so much that apa yang kuar ni cam just a trickle of her actual suara.
Week seven and still no originality. Camna ni...aduh...
PS - patutler muzik sedap..pemuzik profesional rupanya, bukan polyphonic ringtone.
Permulaan yang baik? Jee dengar ke tak nih? Alamak!!!! Tu kakak Candy posing tuk camera lagik!!! Damn...pening...lagik pening bab Salih ni komen, sebab dia ni irrelavant tol. Didn't knw they wanted a comedian to punctuate the critics.


Shawal - Joget Kaki Lima (Dahlan Zainuddin)
Balasan pantun dari Shawal yang bertanya mana lebih sesuai antara Erra Fazira dan Fasha Sandha memang was just rude, too rude to be on TV.
Ada ke Aznil jawab camni (bagi sapa yang miss)

Aishwarya Rai dan Abishek Bachan,
pasangan sejoli teruna dara
Susah sangat ke nak buat pilihan
Dah tatau yang mana dara tahan dan juga mana yang tiada dara?

Erm....just silly and too coarse for a prigramme watched by kids. Kalau sebut janda takper ler lagik kan...because the term takde dara ni cam kasa sangat.
Comedy at the expense of being insulting.
On Shawal's performance, aku seksa tengok dia punya low notes dia ni as he had to dip really low to come up with barely audible notes. Kenapa lah bebudak ni sampai tahap ni. Most of them seem to have the same problem.
He didn't do bad enough to justify kedudukan dia yang second last by the end of the concert. Arghh!!! Tu si kakak Candy senyum kerang busuk pose ayu! Pening! Arghh!!! Senyum pose tuk camera ok! No! No! No! Mental block...


Aswad - Penyu Menangis (Sudirman)
Amboi! Cantiknya lip gloss Aswad yang pink! Sesuai ngan bedak tempek empat inci mka dia sampai kelabu.
Ada peminat Aswad kata aku bias kat dia nih bab nak evaluate dia, tapi seriously he has some major problems kalau tak nyanyi rock kapak. Can't see him doing anything else.
He was flat and off key in some parts...not too bad, but still noticeable.
Stage performance dia buruk siot...tak abih abih tangan dia pegang perot, kalao tak geleng pala sana sini, while he generally stayed rooted at one spot thrughout the show. Bab last....it was just...ewwww... Ogy has to seriously got to be kidding bila kata dia leh diterima sebab vocal dia.
And kali kedua dia sebut centrepoint...nak sangat Centrepoint, kat Kota Kinabalu ada tuh...tengah bandar, tempat lepak ramai bebudak.
First time takde pam jamban bagi performance Aswad...


Ebi - Berdendang Dalam Tangisan (Jamal Abdillah)
It was weird to see him dressed up as so, and yet try and execute step silat. I thought the whole performance was nice, but not fantastic. The song just wasn't him.
Tapi geram tol...pengkritik semua cam bias just because he's at the top. Jee kata he can do better, have we forgotten to mention him in comparison with the others?
Hattan kata dia masuk je sumbang....lupa lak bab orang lain sumbang nak sebut ek, siap pujian melambung.
Ogy nak marah pasal silat...nak kata dia counting...aku leh maapkan. But she's whacked sebab nak kata step moden, dia pakai tuh apa? Salahkan tenaga pengajar le.
You have lost your magic kata Ogy. Meka beriya je magic magic...yang konon ada magic yang takde magic ngan penonton. They've forgotten this shw is for the fans, not the critics and their personal opinion doesn't matter, but their professional evaluation does.
Why the bloody hell si Salih nih...lawak hanj sangat tetiba...tak penting tol ada pengkritik camni.


Dafi - Joget Angan Tak Sudah (Jay Jay)
Ok this was just weak. He got lost somewhere between the backing vocals and the music. And he was flatter than an anorexic stick insect and more off key than expected.
Konon ada member bagitau he did good ler apa ler...but aku dengar horror. Stage performance dia? Amateurish at best.
Awmigawd...Jee kata dia improve! Ogy bagik lampu biru!
Yang si Aznil nak mintak tuk lampu biru tuh kenapa? Ngan Jee dan Salih Yaacob. Yang lain tak lak merayu mintak lampu biru...
God...can they stop with the stupid blue lights already. Nak orang jadik panduan konon padahal bunyi bias manjang pengkritik. Pastuh lak nak wat apa? Apa gunanya? Ke nak menidakkan pilihan pengundi?


Candy - Tari Silat Melayu (Aishah)
Dari buka mulut, aku terpaksa nak katakan she was easily the best for the night. Tapi takde ler aku nak tekan lampu biru terus kalau yer pun aku ada peluang nak tekan lampu biru tuh seawal tuh. Nilai puas puas dulu kan? Merasalah emo...
Candy's only weakness is that she has a big voice tapi sometimes it overwhelms her sebab she tries to do something unnecessary because she feels her ability justifies the need for that. Again, she should keep it to the necessary until she really is sure what she can do with it.
At some points dia cam nak terbabas sebab carried away, but she did execute enough control to make sure that didn't happen.
Someone please do NOT invite si Salih Yaakob lagik with his stupid jokes. Did he call her Shandy? So not funny.


Mila - Dondang Dendang (Noraniza Idris)
She was fabulous, tapi kalao banding Candy, aku letak dia sebaris sje ebab aku da awal awal kata this is her forte, so memang no hal ler nak deliver.
Unsurprisingly she was excellent in her delivery, cuma sikit sangat ler cacat cela yang hardly noticeable.
Malas komen lebih...the two girls rocked ler.


Jap...sebelom proceed....heh...Aznil...sebut Diarrhea ek? Bangga ok sebab dipopularkan kat sini ok, terima kasih pada Diarrhea Harian yang kami terpaksa lalui tiap Isnin ke Jumaat.
Mak aih!!  Pemenang pakaian laki nih..erm...cam Ginger lak hidung.Feel baju J.Lo ke transparent nih Heh! Pakaian tercantik bagik pompuan....erm...no komen (sri akak)
Anyhoo...tak paham tol ler at the end of it all...apa tujuan nak wat kejutan last tuh. Nak sangat kot si Aznil menyanyi, sebab almost every week, ada je dia nak nyanyi dari start of the season. Musim kelima ni semakin dia menjadi.
Dari start nak nitis airmata when they brought on all the parents, tapi the moment pas Mila, dan Dafi da ada parents meka kunjung, camera da fokus kat si Aswad, da oleh tangkap apa motif meka wat segment ni.
By the time the rest of the parents came out for Heliza, Ebi, Shawal and Candy, it was obvious apa Astro nak buat.  Stupid, pathetic and lame attempt at getting a few tears and more votes.
Sama cam kes Mas masa musim kedua. Ngarut kata nak kongsi sayang and all, it was just stupid!!!!
How dare they play with such sentiments! This was lowest of the low and totally unnecessary! Bukan je kejam bagi Aswad....tapi juga pada keluarga Aswad, which undeniably  they could have brought his relatives.
So apart from a syok sendiri segment, it became this well crafted ploy nak meraih undi bagi Aswad or in other words lebih untung tuk Astro.
By the end of the concert...ada yang nak dok jeling tak puas hati konon peminat tak undi bakat, padahal orang yang upah ko dodok kerusi tuh, yang nak meraih undi camtuh.
Kalao cakap lebih sangat, tak puas ati sangat, lawan ler balik against gimmicks like this ler. Stakat pose muka takyah.
"Semua pelajar yang tersingkir akan membawa diri di luar sana...itulah janji kami...tidak akan balik...pegi tak kembali..."
Blah blah blah...
Oh and the whole kentut thing they showed ngan clips  Aswad, Ebi, Dafi dan Shawal farting in the Akademi was so...hurmphh.... nampak sangat takde idea that flatulence becomes prime time fare.
Apapon...kentut Ebi nampaknya paling kuat dan paling kaw skali.
Heh...silly la...nampaknya the whole show went down the drain early on, but with this konsert yang Astro sink to new depths of yuckiness, it''s just flushed down the toilet da.
Baik aku sambung nonton my latest downloads of Pussycat Dolls Presents : The Search For The Next Doll.
Tapi kena gak layan Diarrhea hari pertama minggu kelapan. Nak tengok sapa dapat lagu apa kan.
Aznil nak mintak maap lak? Niat tak penting. On TV kena ingat sikit. Not the first time something like this has happened and you'd think they would have learned their lesson by watching what they say. Bukan benda tuh impromptu...da siap rehearsal. Ingat ler sikit.
The 'exclusive' scenes or latihan ala koir and with the musicians was nothing great, tak paham kenapa meka kata eksklusif.
Apapun, kalau tuan pengetua tak wat minus one minggu ni, kenapa masih the whole week tak nampak muka dia sangat kat Akademi. Pelik tul musim ni.
Only thing worth noting was that si EBi ketika practise, he didn't sound as lazy as he did in the eventual performance.
Adengan meka bersiap tuk konsert ak lak aku tergelak sebab tunjuk semua bermake-up, timbul lak persoalan, si Aswad kena make up ni perlu ke kat dahi sedangkan erm...paham ler.
Huh...alasan nak bagik Aswad lebih bersemangat konon, nak play that stupid dumbass attempt nak perah airmata. If nothing else, I think it was more of a distraction than anything elese to play with the student's emotions rather
than motivate them.
Moving on with the finger and hand painting session, erm..kelakar lak the kids coming up with laughable 'abstract' paintings and trying to explain them. Macam macam.
Anyway, ni lagu lagu tugasan tuk konsert minggu kelapan

Lagu bonus senua pelajar - Phantom Of The Opera (Phantom Of The Opera OST)
Lagu bonus pelajar lelaki - Jangan Cepat Marah (Aznil Nawawi)
Lagu bonus pelajar perempuan - Wajah Rahsia Hati (Fauziah Ahmad Daud)
Mila - Aku Takkan Bersuara (Nike Ardilla)
Candy - Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps (Lila Downs)
Dafi - It's Gonna Be Me (N'Sync)
Shawal - Kaulah Segalanya (Hazrul Nizam)
Ebi - Kisah Kau Dan Aku (Alleycats)
Heliza - Kesal (Ella)
Aswad - Korban Cinta (Aris Ariwatan)

Lagu bonus this time will be great sebab lagu tema for Phantom Of The Opera. Just hope they don't destroy it.
Lagu bonus pelajar lelaki no komen ler, while yang perempuan nya yang da leh agak sebab lagu Hattan dan Jee kan da ada so far, so add one more ler...nak lengkapkan former hits pengkritik.
Mila, Candy serta Eliza have very different songs yang memang besh.
Dafi dijadikan boyband skali lagi, while Shawal nampaknya da kena push ke ballads. Ebi pun ok choice of song dia while si Aswad dapat stereotyped tune.
We'll see just have to see lor how they fare.
 Oh by the way, didn't say kan Sunday aku wat per. Well, pas KO n Sturday balik about 5am or so, decided in the morning to head fr an extra assignment. Siang tu ada event Big Walk Malay Mail kat Padang Merbok.
  By noon, da gerak ke Genting Highlands tuh assingment bonus gituh to watch Olivia Newton John in concert.
Awesome!!!
Mula mula malas sebab memang keletihan ler pas tak cukup tidur (make that no sleep at all) after the night before.
More than 24 hours of no sleep is hardly funny, tapi tidur jer ler sejam or so dalam perjalanan ke Genting.
Naik je pala da berdenyut nak pecah. Umur skang, tak cukup tidur horror sikit.
Popped by Starbucks, and got my first meal of the day. Lahap sikit pastuh slept for about an hour or two.
Went down for dinner and then to the Arena of Stars to meet the rest of the guys yang hadir sekali untuk konsert tuh.
All I can say is...AMAZING!!!! Walapon rasa pala nak pecah, telan dua biji Uphamol pun pala throbbing all over, still by the time the concert started, lupa da segalanya.
For those yang late twenties onwards memang akan minat ler Olivia.
I mean, of course there's the whole Grease soundtrack cam Hopelessly Devoted To You (one of my fave songs of all time), Summer NIghts, We Go Together and Youre The One That I Want.
Lom agik her own retro hits like Xanadu. She even did this new arrangement of Physical.
Tapi dalam bebanyak lagu hit dia, aku paling nak nitis airmata masa dia nyanyi I Honestly Love You.
Arghhh!!! I remember zaman sekolah dulu siot layan lagu ni....memang a trip down memory lane.
Malas nak amik pics sebab memang not in the mood, plus pikirkan blog entry banyak sangat nak update, perlu ke nak add on agik.
Heh...so srry guys...no pic... made a few audio recordings though and layan on the way back from Genting the next day.
And that was pretty much it. Not that interesting for some, but awesone for me.

Hutang entry memang da lama kan? Sori ler...bukan apa. Sibuk teramat. Read ler this entry sampai habis kalao tak caya, Seksa ok nak update entry ni sebab banyak sangat, so I'll just kind of gloss over what happened since Saturday.
Of course the whole day didn't go anywhere, conserve energy tidur seharian sebab malam tuh AIM. So leh agak ler my routine for the next couple of days.
Tunggu si Shahrill join, sebab dia tengah exam final, so kesian lak....stress study, baik gi rehatkan minda sikit layan show dari nak dok holed up at home ngan buku je.
Walaupon presentation dia tak abih katanya yang nak deliver pagi buta esoknya.
Heh...suka tau last minute. Best sebab Shahrill tunjuk benda dia pakai tuk magic dia yang terbaru yang memang susah nak dapat kat sini. Sib baik da tau trick ko...kalao tak naya je tertipu aku.
Sampai kat PWTC, we headed in just about time and took our seats. Not too bad...smack right in the centre with one of the best views of the stage. Yang pentingnya, aku da ada tiga invites, satu bagik Ted, dua lagik terbazir camtuh jer.
The first thing aku spotted of interest was this...on the left.
Itu dia rambut Reshmonu sempena Visit Malaysia Year yang diinspirasikan oleh bunga manggar!
Absolutely hilarious! But props to you Resh for the balls to appear different. And great show too.
Speaking of show, kali ni AIM cam takde ummphhh!!! lak for some reason.
I mean, timing ok..well paced, shows weren't as horrible as I thought.
  Still.. entahlah. Tak semegah yang aku harapkan.
The one show wrth loking frward to was Anuar Zain for sure.
Kalao dak pengkritik kat Akademi Fantasia kata an average presentation is a perfect 10, amacam Anuar lak?
Aku rasa kalao camni...si Anuar is 100 over 10 ler sebab it was simply beautiful. Walaupon there was something dodgy going on with the music because the levels were kind of screwed with the orchestra occasionally drowning out his vocals.
Still it was one of the magical moments which was powerful enough to capture the audience.
Apart from Anuar's show, there was few worth mentioning. Mawi dan Ramli Sarip was awesome too.... the closing was cliched, ngan Double Trouble taking the stage. Kira power gak ler tapi bosan ler sebab da standard sangat da meka nak rock reunions ni can shake people up.
  Did I forget the set of divas? Well...first of all, lagu Bermula Di Sini was the wrong choice of song to share between four big vocals. Hasilnya?
Jac, yang memang vocal meletop grabbed the spotlight without even being trying.
Siti and Aishah were reduced to being backing vocals, while I found Noryn just irritating...because she was screeching all over the place trying to outdo Jac but failing miserably.
Kira ok jer ler. Better yet actually was the medley Artis Baru Terbaik. Forget Izwan Pilus, Fazli Zainal dan eve nt he overrated Sean Ghazi.
Aku bangga ngan Bob sebab he was easily the best vocals among the five nominated names. Farhan too did quite well, enough to stand by Bob.
Sapa kata reality TV can't produce talents, though this isa thing of the past judging by musim kelima.
Bab bekas pelajar  ni, of course Mawi pun rocked the stage. Sayang je Zahid tak dapat perform...stakat present. Takpe...last year dah...next year kang album baru kuar kang..we see you again onstage ek.
Show M. Nasir? Opening yang tak kena. It was nice and all, but somehow it seemed kind of weird to see him wear pink and bounce along ngan those dancers yang look like they were part of a third rate drag ensemble.
Ok ler...tapi aku rasa kalao in terms of explosiveness, patutnya meka letak je Mawi dan Ramli Sarip sebab lebih hebat...
Daripada segi lain...erm...it was nice to see them cut short the acceptance speeched supaya tak lari timing slot AIM tahun ni.
Kalau tak kan biasa meleret sampai entah brapa lama.
Still, at times it looked rather unprofessional sebab hampir semua penerima anugerah cam kena cut off in their moment of glory.
The presenters semua bias aje...nothing great, but thank goodness meka kept to script if nothing else. Takde ler lawak bangang yang membuang masa.
The hosts itself?
Syukur ler si Bob Lokman tak bersora banyak sangat and he was kept to a minimum...kalao tak pening nak layan. Afdlin yang biasanya best gila, subdued dan seolah takde skrip.
Adibah Noor jer ok. Tu pun boleh lah...sebab dia ni memang naturally quirky kan. Rasanya kalao tahun depan, Adibah sendiri pun mampu carry on with the show on her own.
Erm...yang asik dok promo Sumo, aku ok jer sebab hopefully it will be one of Afdlin's best films, tapi tak perlu ler sangat.
Banyak agik filem dan album slalu kuar, takkan sebab Afdlin jadik host nak plug for most of the releases....or any releases for that matter. No offense Flin....it just wasn't on, tapi da rezeki ko bro. All these years of holding AIM together, I suppose they do owe it to you.
Bab kemenangan...memang ada kejutan, cam si Ahmadi Hassan menang Best Nasyid Album (bukan apa, tapi album Qasidah, Berzanji dan Doa Berlagu is the best nasyid album this year), Siti kalah Best Vocal Performance In An Album (Female) lepas dominasi menang back to back for eight years (tapi Jac menang pon ok) ... a few shockers here and there.
But happy gak sebab Siti menang Best Pop album. Aku happy sebab aku masa dulu review pun aku da kata, it was one of the best albums for the year, and at least it's proven when she went on to win Album Of The Year sekaligus.
Satu je award aku nak gelak cam buang masa (selain Best Ethnic Pop Album sebab ada dua je pencalonan, which is the Best Indonesian Album.
IKenapa sembilan dari sepuluh kali artis Indo yang dijemput hadir, mesti menang?
Cam plan jer. Ke da dijanji menang kalao meka menghadirkan diri? Who knows?
Boleh jer la Samsons ni. No skin ff my back pun meka menang.
Lepas abih je persembahan terakhir aku dan Shahrill rush downstairs to the post party... sebab malas kang everyone make an exit at once. So gerak ler dulu. Lagikpon kebulur ni. Kang lambat sampai, makan pon tak,nak keja interview sana sini pun menyukarkan je.
Was among the first to reach, and just as Shahrill sat down nak makan, aku spotted Siti masuk. Hah...jarang ok Siti grace post party events. Tak nampak husband tersayang dia, but takper.
Sempat ler talked a bit (see...told you kan Siti?). This is one of the few times, aku honestly leh kata she totally deserved the award. Siti pun cam happy semacam. Mana taknya...the albumis the first product of Siti Nurhaliza Productions... baby dia lr katakan...so mesti bangga hasil pertama tuh membuahkan hasil dan diiktiraf.
Time ni ler aku leh see everyone closer for what they wore, so leh ler usha sapa pakai baju cantik dan sapa yang azab.
Aku rasa yang paling happening...dan sexy skali fr the night...taklain tak bukan... Amy Search ler. Kalah ok th rest of the women. Merasalah la ko Amy dedah sana sini...heh! Kalah Syafinaz pun ok!
Erm...rambut rebonding ke?
No way Jose. tetap berketak ok.
The worst dressed?
Mmm...there were a lot of horrible outfits there. Kat dari Mentor cam jantan in drag lak ngan overdose extension rambut dan sebagainya. Sarat sangat...sakit mata tengok dia.
But the winner hands down for the most horrific get-up has to be Dina.
Too yellow la gurl.... cam Big Bird from Sesame Street pun ada.
Let's repeat this little mantra, "less is more!"
Got news terkini dari konsrt Akademi Fantasia. Masa tuh dok ngan Bob dan Fitri with Ramli M.S. nearby. The word spread fast...
Didn't stay the whole night. Being claustrophobic aku pun ajak Shahrill to have supper elsewhere after I was done with work.
Lost him no less than FOUR times. Rupanya, dia ni asik hilang, sebab asik dok kena tarik ngan orang. Apa lagik kalao kena tarik.
Wat magic show jer ler jawabnya. Heh...sabar jer ler...camtuh ler kalao orang da kenal.
Took a few pictures here and there tapi generally spent the night gabbing away until si Shahrill was done amusing people with a few tricks. Among his audience was bebudak security yang terhibur gila ngan dia. Amik ko.
Dalam ganas suka gak magic ek.
Sapa kata bebudak je.... all the way out, ada lak peminat nak dia wat magic dan sebagainya. Aduh...this is going to take forever.
Oh...back to the pictures, kang aku tunjuk sikit lower a bit ek...finish story dulu.
Meanwhile, feast your eyes on these of antara kuarga Akademi Fantasia yhang hadir (Mawi balik immediately after so tak dapat nak bump into him.

   

Moved on to Bukit Bintang for supper. Was joined by Ted, Vernon (yang dok cerita tak abih betapa heat si Dafi kalao ikut laporan meka yang ada dalam deqan - propah je keja), Rudy, Judd and friend as well as Juan and friend.
Lepas melantak, kena lagik satu round si Shahrill ni nak wat magic tuk kanak-kanak Ribena ni.
Tak cukup satu dua illusions, siap kena explain camna buat (mana leh!)
Tengok si Shahrill ni (curi pic dari Judd). Seronok beriya dapat wat show, walaopn show pree jer ngan bebudak nih yang dra dia trick after trick.
But he was ever obliging and amazed everyone aku rasa for ovr an hour. Banyak lak neverending request nak ajar...but of course the magicians code and all.
One of the best things to see live, is the spoon bend yang dia gosok near the stem of the spon, dan sudu tuh mula membengkk sendiri. That's something that loks awesome live.
Not to mention yang spoon yang or fork yang twisted tuh.
That's massively freaky ok.
Tapi yang pentingnya, pas da buat kena sorok lak garpu yang jadik mangsa tuh, sebab takde magic yang nak betulkan balik bengkang bengkok garpu tuh. Matila tak pasal pasal kang kena caj lebih sebab rosakkan utensil orang.
Kenapa?
Tak caya ek?
Koramg kalau tune in Fuyoo Magic every Tuesday, at 10.30pm (tolong promosi program dia) mesti da penah tengok dia buat.
But seeing it live is totally different. It works more ler in front of your eyes because you know it really is happening/
Nak tengok akibat magic si Shahrill ni?
Ni dia... tak pasal pasal ler garpu ni jadik mangsa... heh... kalau tengok pic Shahrill kat atas tuh, tu the fork befoe it was mangled by Shahrill's 'telekinetic' powers.

Tu dia...bukan bengkok sikit sikit ok...tu trick biasa, Ni siap cam da kena pulas!
Had a fun night, that was sure, and a great close to the weekened... or so I thought. Si Rudy ajak aku sekali ngan dia ke assignment dia esok. I said I'd think about it sebab I didn't really have anything planned pun.
Nanti...next entry aku tulis tuk apa...tired out as all helll. Just enjoy th few more pics I took.

Lum tidur. One helluva night!!! Awesome!!! So happy for s many reasons. Nanti aku update with lots of pics!!! r as many as aku larat nak posting.
Yang pentingnya, Siti menang Album of the Year! Yes!!!! Puas!!! Tengok Siti...kan da kata? Heh...tak rugi review album Transkripsi dulu (and tak rugi Siti masuk sini dan baca)> You deserve it gurl...hugs (and lari takut Datuk K nampak).
The other big happy event ws no elimination from Akademi Fantasia. Seven students remain. Didn't miss anything nampknya. Nanti aku review that as well as AIM ok.
Ni tak tidur kena rush a morning event, and then late noon ke Genting Highlands. Nanti aku bagitau sebab apa. Full day! And a fuller week! So nanti je ek....sabar!!!! It'll be worth it!


Meanwhile, ni lak keputusan AFUNDI selepas konsert ketujuh malam tadi. Got the results, and this is all aku larat nak posting for the moment.


Ok, so you see another name there? Just reproducing the list. Don't ask no questions and you won't get no stupid answers. Toodles!