Sink, like a rock!

Ladies and gentleman. May I present to you... the Titanic.

Your history may suck - but you may have seen the movie enough to know that the largest passenger steamship then... was declared unsinkable by those in the trade.

On 14 April 1912, four days after it set sail, just before midnight... well you know the story.

Apa kena mengena with anything at all?

Well, semalam lepas Debaran, at the press conference and all, Norman kata the kids, were among the best and that compared to other seasons, they were better.

I didn't agree.

I watched all seasons, I am a fan and for me, this is not the best lot.

Talent wise, I think musim keempat (walaopon paling hambar) and musim keenam had more great talents. Musim kedua dan ketujuh didn't do so bad too in terms of talent, while musim ketiga as well know produced a phenomenon.

Sehauk musim pertama, even those yang takleh nyanyi cam Atie pon, we grew to love them because of character.

The main contention is - these kids in AF8, don't have the talent to match up to those in the past, neither do they have the charisma, personality, nor star quality as we've seen before.

But I suppose sesiapa yang tak follow Akademi Fantasia sebagai peminat takkan tau.

With all due respect to Norman, the fans made Akademi Fantasia a success. Peminat Akademi Fantasia memang are like no other.

Tak kisah rancangan realiti apa pon, kekuatan Akademi Fantasia adalah kipas susah mati (direct translation die hard fan yang digunakan KSNM - batch initiator ZA8FC dulu ketika musim kedua).

Berkali-kali peminat bantah tuh nih perubahan yang tak logik, tapi tak ada pihak nak layan.

And kalao ikutkan team produksi, meka katakan bukan tak hormat peminat, tapi tu yang da ditentukan tuk halatuju AF8.

Erm.. bukan ke program ni tuk peminat? I'm sure changes can be made if you bother, really bother about your fans. Betul tak?

Bila aku point out pasal fans, Norman kata soal blog memang negatif je.

Erm... one thing I teach new artistes dalam media training is, never look at the positive, but the negative. Might sound silly, tapi ni rational aku.

Why look at things you're doing right? You can't do much more than if you look at the things you do WRONG so as to be able to correct them. Betul tak? Bukan nak kata negatif dan pikir buruk rendahkan kemampuan sendiri, but sedar apa kekurangan so you can improve on what's lacking. Right? How else can you improve otherwise.

Likewise, production pon jangan nak point out orang tuh suka tuh suka nih, bila JELAS, terang lagi bersuluh gituh yang hype Akademi Fantasia da mula mati.

Very the nazak gituh.

Still, produksi maintain. Akademi Fantasia masih mempunyai peminat yang memuja program itu.

Remember the Titanic? Kata takleh karam pon... hakikatnya?

So belajar la dari kesilapan. Terimalah teguran.

Dah ramai fan Akademi Fantasia dari musim sebelum (semua berkenalan sebab circuit peminat ni leh cam je muka-muka familiar dan bukan muka bermusim yang berapa orang jerk) yang 'bersara'.

Good or bad, there were easily about two dozen blogs yang dulu cover Akademi Fantasia religiously. Sekarang berapa?

Aku rasa aku antara satu-satu yang masih going strong since the start.

Tapi keangkuhan pihak tertentu will see me even stop blogging completely about being a fan.

To Norman - I understand your position and how your hands are tied to some extent by programming, but note this is your name on the line. Tu sebabnya Datuk Siti Nurhaliza never considered the job - sebab dia pon cakap, kalao tak mampu (kekadang kekurangan kemampuan bukan hanya kerana faktor diri sendiri), dia takkan amik tanggungjawab seperti ini as it can have negative implications.

But consider the fans. They know the show better - even better than the production team which are virgins when it comes to executing the show. Virtually a new team, who are unaware of the concept of Akademi Fantasia (apart from it being a reality show), meka tak hormat the essence of what the show is all about.

So do your best Norman, you have five more weeks.

To production - Terimalah tanggungjawab korang handle the number one reality show dengan sebetulnya. Jangan syok sendiri nak wat benda YOU or your family ke neighbours je like.

To station and management - Listen to the fans before you lose the branding of Akademi Fantasia yang selama ni the success behind Astro Ria.

And to fans - do what you know is right. Me? No watching or voting for me until some people regain their senses. Layan Youtube sampai lebam dan kalao da kritikal sangat, stop terus dari layan.

Hakikatnya, kalao nak defensive puji pujian pon, sampai masa meka keluar ke dunia realiti nanti, yang kaki propah kata meka hebat lagik kejam dan zalim dari penulis blog ke tukang forum yang mengkritik kerana telah memberikan harapan palsu pada bebudak yang seribu harapan ni.

After all - pada yang baru nak rasa, memang takkan paham.

Yang da lalui tujuh musim sebelomnya tau je realiti sebenar berapa orang je akan melangkah dalam dunia ni, dan yang selebihnya disappear sooner or later.

Too many qualities missing from what is needed in the real world.

Akademi Fantasia has become all about the programming sampai the post programme delivery da takde follow up.

Anyway... korang layan la Debaran malam tadi.

Takde penyingkiran malam tadi? Erm... for me they should be eliminating more than just one.

It's called a competition, not charity.

But walaopon produksi menidakkan spekulasi, dengan mengatakan none-elimination week ni da planned, hakikatnya -

i) Meka da kompang AFUNDI sejak Anum terkeluar walaopon takde peminat kecoh mintak

ii) Semakin terdesak meminta orang AFUNDI tak henti sampai sanggup tunjuk rankin celah konsert depan bebudak (tak penah sampai camni)

iii) Dalam bebudak da dapat perform skali tuk Tirai, and then ada week none elimination ni, seolah nak perah lagi undi SMS dengan panjangkan durasi as many students as possible

iv)Meka terpaksa bandingkan undian pada tahap minggu yang sama ngan konsert lain. With the additional week, and additional student in because of none elimination, sudah pasti kebarangkalian jumlah AFUNDI tak nampak sehambar kalao banding conventional set-up.

Kinda busuk if you ask me.

Plus... kan aku da kata. Every musim kalao ada dak pompuan kena kenen ngan pelajar lelaki yang jambu sikit (tak kisah la jambu batu ke jambu haper ke) meti dak pompuan up for elimination.

And dengan drama swasta busuk yang bermula dari kes selongkar hostel bebudak cari bukti cerita cinta, Nad dan Ain the obvious victims (walaopon memang dedua hado). And terbukti spekulasi aku bila meka berdua end up in the bottom three skali ngan Farina. Kan?

So what else is there?

Erm... mintak-mintak la meka sedar cepat direction Akademi Fantasia tak perlu ye nak tiru Idol ataupon worse, Sehati Berdansa.

But their show. If they want to f**k it up, hak meka kan?

Lagikpon... meka tak kisah pon kalao peminat nak follow ke tak.

PS - Nak carot blog ke blogger lantak la ko labu. Yang pentingnya, don't forget to check out Nuffnang's Project Alpha II ek. Bermula hari ni online. Bloggers rule!