Erk! Ehm.. uhm...

Ada yang kata... aku ni kejam la zalim la kutuk Akademi Fantasia bagai.

All I can say is... tu la orang kita. Kalao cakap tak setuju sikit je, kutuk la hina la...

Konon constructive has to be puji pujian laced with poetic content. Wei zaman aku belajar pon, rotan masih pakai lagik tau! Tanya mak bapak korang kat sekolah camna. Takde nak manja manja. Bebudak skang memang spoil teruih. Tuh yang jadik cam setan je hasil - belajar tanak gak.

So suka hati aku la nak cakap apa. Heh... deal with it. Hakikatnya, every season yang langau mai hinggap sini pon yang jenis stok peminat semusim. Peminat lama da paham apa itu Akademi Fantasia and knows the competition is wat it is.

Apapon... like I said. The reality of what I say can be seen nanti. Tunggu je three to six months and we see the reality of the situation. Masa tu peminat nak over camna pon, it doesn't sell albums pon (itu pon kalao dapat album)

Sebut peminat nih... berkali kali cakap tak sedar gak. Minat support. Tak minat takpe. Tapi kalao support tuh, adab pon kat dalam dewan tu agak-agak la. Aku dengar orang menyampuk pengkritik bagai tuh.. seriously?

Again... every season of Akademi Fantasia tetiba ramai lak penonton yang arif pasal vocal dan persembahan bagai. Katanya.. walaopon. Demokrasi seni? No such thing.

Sila ertikan beza what you LIKE and what is GOOD. There is a difference yeah.

Anyway... sebut pasal Akademi Fantasia nih. Semalam aku sampai lambat sebab nak confirm kan segala berita mengenai pemergian Achik (God bless).

Aku sampai ngam ngam lima minit agik kol 9. Ni senarionya...

Very the Zombieland ok!

Menangis la masa minggu pertama orang niaga ngan meriah bagai makanan, minuman dan snacks bagai.

Minggu ketiga lak... tinggal mamat jual aiskrim.

Masuk minggu kelima terus hado!

Padahal kalao ikutkan Akademi Fantasia nih.. every week semakin meriah. And people still don't want to admit what a failure this season is? Nak tunggu rating dan jumlah SMS (yang asik dok rayu je keja sampai tahap kena tunjuk kedudukan SMS sepanjang konsert which is pretty lame if you ask me)

Kalao numbers come in ngaku tak rasanya?

Oh well...

For those who are into hurting themselves, here's konsert semalam.

My comments?

Erm... ok.. here we go.

Iwan - Oh Juwita

Seriously... anyone think this boy will amount to much? One hit wonder ke apa ke leh la given a good song. But a career? Dream on. Zero star appeal and just meandering je in his performances. Kira kalao setakat kang nak filler artistes for performance, ok la kot. Tu pon kalao KRU sign. Kalao harapkan AESB nak release single ke album, tatau la menjadi ke tak. He has the vocal ability of about hundreds of thousands of kids out there. So nothing special at all...

Farina - Mana Mungkin

She did SLIGHTLY better. But then again, she's been virtually bordering on horrible these past few weeks, so setakat baby steps every week memang tak cukup. I thought dia mampu bak lagu ni, as aku anggap ni makanan dia, but hado gak. Emotional quotient ada, but too miniscule. She really needs to buck up kalao tak memang buang masa dia dok dalam.

Daus - Benar-Benar

Owh ni yang katakan indie ek? Tak penah wujud term indie as a genre, rupanya maksud pengetua dan jugak Jimmy lagu ni di'indie' kan camni ek? Throw in some twanging guitars and speed it up terus indie katanya. Setakat Akademi Fantasia stage kalao ada yang jerit, ok la tuh. Kalao masuk pentas lebih besar mati katak terus kalao performance camni. Da minggu kelima, where's the fire? Every week sama je level performance and vocal masing-masing. I don't see any improvement yang dikatakan at all. Dia dan Ain sama level. Horrible!

Ain - Halo

Like seriously... macam aku Tweeted. This is third rate Filipino pub act smack in some seedy lounge in Tawau punya interpretation of Halo. Dengan backing vocal menjerit HELLO HELLO HELLO... and dak Ain ni ala ala some random Linda Blair type of Exorcist character spewing out something supposedly in English, this was a bomb out. Freaking scary ok! Watching this on national TV is just surreal. Scream scream scream! That's what she did, and that's what I feel like doing everytime tengok dia perform.

Nad - My Happy Ending

Her diction takde la berterabur cam bebudak tapi seriously la dak Nad ni jadik pelakon je la. have a feeling dia mampu. At any rate, nyanyi memang tak mungkin jadik kerjaya. She sucks big time and five weeks, tahap baru nak audition Akademi Fantasia.

Maulana - Ku Bukan Aku

Like last week, aku kata Maulana ni takde masaalah when it comes to performance. While budak lain sparuh mati nak buktikan kemampuan atas pentas, dia nih rilek je. Dia mampu, no doubt about that.

The big BUT comes when it comes to his less than likeable character. Admit it... kalao minat Maulana pon - kena ngaku orang tanak undi sebab apa? Sebab memang dia come across as angkuh, sombong and overconfident. Sadly enough this doesn't come close to the actual talent and his ego I think overshadows that. Takpe la.. kalao dia kena sepak kuar kang, Akademi Fantasia ada reason nak wat AFUNDI nak perah (dah bersungguh meka perah sebab AFUNDI tak capai kuota for bragging rights) Second best performance of the night though next to Adira. Thumbs up for that at least. Katanya.. walaopon...

Adira - Seri Mersing

Aku suka kalao orang leh deliver setiap patah dan lenggok lagu asli ni bebetul. Bukan mudah... and like every other genre ada keistimewaan sendiri nak execute correctly. And Adira, aku kena cakap, walaopon suck so far, was absolutely fabulous for Seri Merdsing. Memang best!

Kemampuan dia ada, walaopon aku pon tak paham dandanan dia nampak cam some funky tranny trying to go ethnic and the choreography nak dia cam bersilat (keras kejung bagai pergerakan dia) Walaopon ni patutnya versi Datuk Siti, aku rasa betol memang dia wat cara dia sendiri dengan banyak perubahan on her part. Me like! Kalao camni la.. tiap minggu bagi dia lagu asli je leh tak? Cuma takyah sketsa murahan very the Bintang Idola Kecil at the start leh tak? Spoil! I have this sneaking suspicion though that she may not have been that amazing sebab ada mistakes here and there, but she sounded fabulous sebab yang lain hazab sangat! But still, best performance of the night, no doubt.

Shahir - Anggapanmu

I think dia ni most marketable sebab dia ni complete package. Leh jual pada bebudak yang nak rembes, sora pon ada. Tapi version dia ni.. erm... I think lacked the full potential seperti nampak dia wat dalam Diari. Still, it was well... listenable.

Semua pelajar - Kau Dan Aku

Lagu kanak-kanak riang ria Ribena disesuaikan dengan performance ala Tabika Kemas gituh. Why oh why...

Pemerhatian :

-VT semua mengarut punya lawak. Dumbs down the audience to the level of production (if they actually find it funny)

-Trigger lapuk di recycle. Perlu ke bawak anak bagai??? Yawn...

-And dare I mention stupid use of trying to tug at the heartstrings. Hari tuh Alif dapat VT bapak dia... ni Ain pon. Macam nak jadik Bersamamu TV3 je Akademi Fantasia nih. Sesuatuh!

-Wardrobe fail dan semakin fail. Ada orang point out repeat wardrobe dari konsert Akademi Fantasia lain... tu takpe. Tapi paling fail malam smalam was the camel toe that Shahir got. Heh... Korang tengok balik...

-Still no pizzazz and fire from the whole concert. I still feel like I watched konsert Hari Penyampaian Hadiah Sekolah Kebangsaan Kampung Pelir Hitam. Deja vu for the whole season tak abih... sama je week in and week out. Level tak naik langsung.

So there.. happy AFUNDI-ing. I would recommend not, sebab tahap ni tak nampak yang betul-betul bagus and worthy yet. Yang hazab je berlambak. At least Aznil was right in pointing out this is not about voting who deserves to be in but who should win. At this stage, they're still fighting for sapa bukan yang paling hazab.

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Renungkan

Hari ni nak post some pics from event Alibi Music tadik.

Tapi sibuk sangat, bajet nak wat short entry jer... esok sambung sebab nak tidur. Esok dari pagi again ada benda nak wat, pastuh ada event bagai, termasuk PC tuk AIM akan datang.

Tapi masa wat keja, ngadap laptop, terlayan Diari lak. Camna terlayan? Sebab Astro Ria was on and ulangan was on. Alamak.... heh... Takpe... nak gak tau apa lagu bakal di hancurkan.

And here are the songs.

Lagu tugasan pelajar

MAULANA – Ku Bukan Aku (Tilu)
NAD – My Happy Ending (Avril Lavigne)
ADIRA – Seri Mersing (Datuk Sharifah Aini)
SHAHIR – Anggapanmu (Ziana Zain)
AIN – Halo (Beyonce)
IWAN – Oh Juwita (Nubhan)
DAUS – Benar-Benar (Adam)
FARINA – Mana Mungkin (Dayang Nurfaizah)

Lagu bonus
Konsert Akademi Fantasia - Kau & Aku (Akim & Mila)
Konsert Debaran - Pergi (Aizat)

Tuh dia... banyak lagu yang best bakal dirosakkan... dan lagu azab tambah azab. Bersedia la lagu Halo bakal dihanjkan oleh Ain... dari practise dia dalam Diari pon nangis da screaming senselessly away some random notes that vaguely sound like Halo.

Masih tertanya kenapa kat Debaran nak nyanyi lagu sedih, konon bagi mood. Ertinya someone screwed up la masa semua melompat terkinja-kinja wat Generasi Hebat?

Anyway... saja nak share a few thoughts pas tengok ulangan Diari tadik (tertengok masa wat keja and geram lak rasanya nak gak blog pasal what I saw)

When you start something - with a disclaimer right at the beginning, then seriously... something's wrong.

Sebenarnya aku tak heran langsung kalao Shahir nak dapat lagu Anggapanmu pon.

I mean... people have been doing it for the longest time. That whole gender switcheroo thing. Tak uncommon pon kalao laki nyanyi lagu pompuan dan sebaliknya.

HOWEVER, this has to be done well.

Forget the usual individuality and personal touch needed... you also need a new arrangement that is suitable to the singer in question.

Tapi memandangkan minus one ala ala Audio One karaoke zaman dulu... entahlah... key pon ada yang cam struggle... ni apa agik nak harapkan.

Personalized la orang kata.

Tapi jangan sampai feeling lagu Benar-Benar nak kata di indiekan sebab Daus jiwa indie as said by Norman.

Again people... indie maksudnya INDEPENDENT. Maksudnya seseorang artis tuh indie ialah dia merakam, menerbit dan menjual albumnya atau hasilnya secara independent... maksudnya wat sendiri la. It's DIY - maksudnya Do It Yourself. Takde fancy schamncy recording outfit bagai.

Walaopon the independent scene is more synonymous with rock and it's many variants, takde orangnya di dunia nak kata indie sebagai genre muzik yer. Harap maklum.

There is no such thing.

Indie has many genres... so Norman paham tak bila dia katakan Daus jiwa indie?

Camna la tenaga pengajar pon sendiri keliru soal genre bagai.

Kalao kata dak tuh minat indie pop ke indie rock ke... aku leh tima sebab the variants of the independent scene basically means there is no commercial leanings in its sound.

Yuna is indie cause she did it on her own. Kalao nak katakan betul betul... Aizat is indie cause he got his album up on his own. Najwa pon. Hujan may have been indie when they started.. but now together with Bunkface, meka ni indie crossover. Da masuk mainstream da.

So for the last freaking time - indie bukan genre muzik. Harap maklum! I know this won't be the last I hear of it sebab thanks to uninformed people who rule the music industry with an illusion of knowledge, there are those who believe willingly without doing their own homework.

Jangan diperbodohkan yer.

Muzik India ada... muzik indie... lagu indie... kat Malaysia je bersepah muzik 'indie' sebab orang ingat it's the SOUND. Indie bukan genre. Titik.

Berbuih mulot (ke lebam jari) when I keep stressing indie is not a damn genre.

Lebam agik layan drama buatan.

Aduh... da takde drama dalam Akademi (ke sebab on cameras lambat kol 12 dan off nak kena tepat jam 6 sebab takde overtime bajet kena potong kena create drama - ooops motif aku tau?) - meka wat drama lak.

Baha gi main selongkar hostel bebudak and their personal belongings.

Erm... ada contraband ke? Dadah? Hanpon? Rokok? Terdesak sampai korek tiap keping kertas skalipon...

Ek eleh.. surat cinta ek?

Dari Nad ke Iwan. Ain ke Maulana (kalao tak silap aku dengar la). And Daus and Adira kan? Sesuatuh!

There must be some rules lah... takkan sampai camtuh demi nak carik bahan nak wat drama?

Privacy is privacy! Kalao da bebudak 'selamat' dalam Akademi, jangan sampai their personal space pon ko nak go through camtuh. Ish ish ish.... silly...

And what's with the Ain treasure hunt. Banyak sangat masa kan nak wat spot check nak wat treasure hunt.

And now that stupid talking motorcycles da kena kutuk gila babiks sebab fans semua rasa very the terencat, they're going back to the cameras. Hadiah Ain? feather boas (or at least one with another some sort of cheap tinselly boa) with ribbons and sticky shit. Nak hiaskan kamera lak... siap bagi nama Lulu.

Actually kan.. rewind sikit. Like the ulterior motive.. tujuan sebenar nak feeling hias camera sebab Bebot lahar bodoh tuh dah memang hina, and they want to bring back the cameras as a feature (sila nyanyi... recycle... that's what you do.. recycle... macam semua lagu) - sebenarnya bab spotcheck tuh ada sebab.

Nak dengar (ke baca) spekulasi aku tak.

Camni.

Semua peminat Akademi Fantasia tau.. sepanjang sejarah Akademi Fantasia, kalao ada pasangan bercinta, especially kalao sorang tuh dak ensem ke jambu sikit, yang pompuan mesti tersingkir. Pikir betul-betul... dari musim pertama da camtuh. Memang faktor dalam penyingkiran, especially when the female population forms majority of the voting power (this is obvious to fans).

So, spekulasi aku, terdesak sangat sebenarnya meka nak usir Nad dari Akademi. Selective termination gituh. So secara tak langsung, main sentimen camni, by highlighting the 'relationship' - walaopon sebenarnya nampak ala ala ada tiga pasangan (Shahir dan Farina aje du-uh) tapi fokus kat Nad dan Iwan... rasanya apa akan berlaku?

Dah Norman pon direct bodyslam camtuh... kata patut Nad keluar. Tak pernah ada pengetua yang cakap ada student yang patut kuar camni. Sampai nak bagi nama. Da kalao student gagal - kegagalan sapa? Tukang pilih pelajar?

Ish ish ish.. macam-macam.

So no surprise la kan kalao Nad keluar minggu nih. Memang agenda la. And kalao betol Nad terkeluar kang - leh la meka bagi alasan pengundi yang decide. Padahal kalao ada yang favourite (walaopon kita kat luar nih geli bagai) tersepak keluar, leh sentap mentap bagai camla meka ni talented tahap dewa.

And then comes more cheap drama... konon relationship setengah jalan la.

Are you enjoying this? The production believes so. Yeay!!!

On the plus side, Glee is back!!! Yeay! No need for cheap rip-offs on local TV!

And as you can see from the online promo - Glee is going... MADONNA! Yeay!

And also Lady Gaga! Yeay... can't wait for tomorrow to watch it!

They're on the cover of the new TV Guide where they did a photoshoot to promote the episode where they'll pay tribute to Madonna called - The Power of Madonna. Here's the video below of the photoshoot session. Awesome!!!

Check it out!

The new Glee soundtrack kicks off with a seven song EP from the cast of the remakes of Madonna's songs! Yeay!

Ah... Glee! Can't wait for America's Next Top Model and Project Runway to hurry up with their finale. I want to focus on V (two awesome episodes already in continuation after the break) and GLEE!

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Tangisan beberapa ekor buaya

For the first time.. aku willingly tak nak ke venue nak layan Akademi Fantasia.

Aku da berkali cakap aku semakin letih nak layan drama perah duit SMS orang nih... because that's what it's becoming. And a desperate one too.

Betul ke sumber aku katakan yang memang AFUNDI tahun ni hado kutipan?

Merasalah ada yang rasa nak carot aku bawah nama Anonymous sebab tak kisah pasal apa asalkan dapat laharkan aku. Heh... bring it on la... da berapa musim. Lali da dowh!

Apapon... the announcement of bottom five and all... pretty pathetic because it looks like attempt bersungguh nak timbulkan suspen nak wat duit sebab tak kena kuota nak saing ngan musim Akademi Fantasia lain.

Oh well...

Kalao keluarga dan peminat semua bijak, simpanlah duit SMS korang skang. Kalao you really believe in talent bebudak nih, jimat duit tuh nak wat kan single yer from the best producers around.

Kalao tak hasilnya kang dapat single express hado jerk paling kuat... dalam sehari dua lepas elimination. Hah.. si Alif dah keluar. Dia dapat wat single tak rasanya? Heh... KRU nak wat single tuk semua ke?

Amik ko... borong! Semua pau skali. Pada awal musim, tak ngaku lak masa ditanya apa kaitan KRU dengan Astro Entertainment Sdn Bhd dan betul kah part of the deal is preparation single borong bagai tuk KRU.

Well... one down... we'll see how many more.

Sama la ngan sebelom ni katakan we won't we inundated, dihujani gituh ngan lagu-lagu KRU ketika Konsert. Tapi minggu ni jerk stay away from lagu KRU. Heh...

Apapon.. mai kita kelas Bahasa Inggeris hari ni yer, adik adik.

Hah.. apa ni? In English - ni la namanya CROCODILE TEARS. Merasalah translation air mata buaya (ada ke saying ni in Bahasa Malaysia)

Maksudnya, tangisan palsu, lakonan hado untuk nak tunjukkan simpati... katanya... walaopon!

And dengan tersingkirnya Alif (opocot!!!! terkejut!... katakauuuuuuu), kita dapat lihat... eh jap... semua tak nangis pon. Nampak sorang dua cam Nad (tu pon pastu joget terkinja kinja) dan Farina (nangis sebab lega terselamat dari tersepak kuar) yang keluar.

Maulana yang biasanya nangis cam balu filem Tamil mati laki pon konsep ceria ceria kanak kanak Ribena.

So maksudnya?

Sila pilih jawapan spekulasi dibawah :

a) Dr Fazley da counselling awal-awal supaya tak cenggeng

b) Konsep 'Ada Aku Kisah' bila Alif keluar dikalangan bebudak sebab memang rasakan dia awal-awal patut keluar dah

c) Segala tangisan selama ni pelesu saja da masuk empat minggu da letih nak berlakon perah airmata

d) Sila isi ruang kosong ngan jawapan peribadi anda.

Heh.. crocodile tears kah adik-adik?

Lantak pi la...

The question now is. With the desperate attempt nak naikkan AFUNDI minggu nih, apa kah tindakan selanjutnya produksi nak ningkatkan kutipan AFUNDI. Mari spekulasi.

Awal-awal meka da kompang pasal AFUNDI. Padahal dari nak masuk minggu keempat saja. Sesuatuh! Tak penah awal camni... and it's not like this year such a phenomena that it gets called on lak tetiba. In fact, ada beza kah one screamer from another?

What do you guys think will be the next action of the production nak try and get people to vote?

We'll see la lepas ni.

Apapon - aku lega ari ni tak ke Dewan Sri Putra. Dapat rehat seminggu, takyah nak rush sana for a half hour show yang hado.

Pada mereka dalam produksi... pikir-pikirkan la pasal perisian dalam Debaran.

Orang carot, korang sentap. Tapi hakikatnya ini hanyalah salah satu rintinhan peminat yang dah sokong Akademi Fantasia dari mulanya.

Bring Akademi Fantasia back to the fans. They poured money into the show and make it big. Respect them.

For now... the show is just... another show. Baik tengok Mentor dari Debaran bila malam minggu camni. Heh...

Next week nak try kot konsert pon dok rumah je. Cam tak penting lak da nak tengok konsert cam dulu-dulu. We'll see how (seronok kekadang kompol ngan kengkawan demi nak gelak... )

Eh.. anyway... tadik ada meeting pasal projek baru. Yeay... Cikgu Siti Hajar on board. And band Pesawat on board (yang wat lagu Mirage as how it should be performed not versi haus).

Looks like things kicking off. It's going to be hectic... but hey... what's life without a little stress kan?

Ok la... nak tidur awal. Esok kena recce location.

PS - Video akan diupdate later.

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Jiwa kacau

Sebelom apa-apa... mai kita layan nih...

Tuh dia! Masih jelasssssss!!!!!! Setiap garisan halusssssss...

Merasalah! Motif props ni ada kat Dewan Sri Putra? Mau recycle kah untuk konsert mingguan? Aiyo!!!

Ke sebenarnya nak recycle tuk Debaran sebab akan ada mini konsert/persembahan dari Hafiz, selain dari Aril, Akim, Isma Dafi dan Mawi.

Apapon.. mai kita layan video for Konsert Akademi Fantasia minggu keempat. Sambil play tuh korang layan la pemerhatian aku.

Aku sebenarnya tanak kejam sangat la minggu nih. Bukan apa... korang pon mesti letih kan sebab carotan aku teramat menguji kreativiti aku nak carot bagai sebab berulang je benda sama.. the same mistakes week in and week out... but let's try anyway la ek.

Nad - Realiti Dewi

Opening pon backing vocal semua da sumbang very the lahar dah. First song of the concert da nak bagi sakit hati!!!

She didn't do too bad - given every week cam sampah persembahan dia. Minggu ni kira elok la sikit, an improvement from the tortured, forced and very constipated attempts.

Tapi still bunyi cam itik tercekik sana sini yang aku tak paham why. I mean, they have at least three to four days to perform for only about three minutes. Memang la stress bagai, tapi aku yakin kalao focus, takkan sampai melalak ta tentu arah camni. So sebenarnya apa masaalah nih?

Tenaga pengajar da bersungguh... kenapa students kali nih takleh deliver sebenarnya?

Beriya Norman kata takde yang malas... but the truth is, Nad and her friends semua memang hampir semua malas nak mampouih...

To cram for that short performance, takkan tak mampu nak perform better?

Oh well... aku kesian serious gila kat Nad nih. Uji tak uji sama je... apa tujuan sebenarnya nak masuk Akademi Fantasia? Nak jadik penyanyi? Are you sure? Tak nampak pon minat nak nyanyi dan dalami seni persembahan. Contrived and simply parroted je performances dia semua.

Can she make ten weeks? God help us if she does lah...

Shahir - Always Be My Baby

Dak ni... aduh. Minggu ni minggu bunuh dia. As is every time ada lagu tugasan Bahasa Inggeris diberikan dak yang lemau bab English nih.

Seperti dak lain, dia karaokekan lagu nih jerk. No original twists to make the song his.

David Cook made the Mariah song his own, tapi si Shahir ni try so hard nak emulate David's version. In the end, bunyinya cam some cheap-rip off.

Backing vocal lagik azabkan lagu as in every song.

To be positive, he has a voice... but then again, a lot of voices out there, camna nak compete bila da kuar Akademi kang.

His tone reminds me of a nice 80s-esque rock singer. Dia kalao leh belajar bebetol, ada harapan... tapi wat skang tetap NAN HADO.

We'll see lah how he performs, but I think for now, dia relying on his looks and nothing else.

Alif - Hanya Di Radio

Merasalah! Honestly... aku empthathize that he is trying. But let's get real. he's a lost cause.

Tak ke mana walaopon cuba camna pon.

As long as nak feeling simpan sora Giant dia (sebab ramai da wat sora Nobita)

Performance cam Amelina tengah selsema and in man-drag.

There might be those who claim to be 'entertained' by his showing, tapi this kind of entertainment takkan berikan masa depan unless you're in a freak show.

Someone tell him to use his speaking already and stop slurring for goodness sake. He's already sounding irritating enough dah as it is.. don't have to make it worse!

That faux bass thing he does does nothing for him. I suspect kalao betol la dia nak compete, he wouldn't sound as bad kalao dia nyanyi betul-betul ngan guna sora sebenar dia tanpa kepit-kepit meneran sora feeling jejants... walaopon...

Adira - Biarlah

Aku betul-betul ingat dia ok masa verse. Then masuk chorus lagu aku suka gila nih... dia start mengilai! Aiyak!!!

Apa hal! Aku rasa dia kalao dapat pujian pon dari kuntilanak pontianak bagai yang makan hati kemampuan dia menjerit mengilai tak tentu arah!

Overdramatic, with little actual performance substance. Nampak paksa, rehearsed bagai... Erm... entahlah.

Ada harapan kot.. tapi sedihnya da masuk konsert keempat masih takleh up agik ability dia.

Kalao ada tenaga pengajar bagi dia penampo lima kali sehari, and dak ni betul betul focus on what she is taught, I honestly think she can be serious competition.

Tapi buat sekarang, she's getting away with being noticeable for competing with many horrible wannabes jer.

Daus - Mirage

Si Haus masuk salah competition. Kalao dia masuk Raja Lawak aku rasa ada harapan kot.

Some people are naturally funny. Some people just try to hard nak bagik orang gelak. And when people do laugh, it's not people laughing WITH them, but AT them.

He has a pleasant tone. Tapi tak nampak dia usaha langsung gak nak applikasikan tuh pada nyanyian dia. He tries to get away with what he has. Whole performance dia nampak trying too hard. Rupa dia seperti fokus... bila nak menapak.. bila nak angkat tangan...

I mean it's like the whole performance dia da kena choreograph and dia sibuk nak ingat celah mana nak gih dan sebagainya.

There is no heart in this kind of performance. Memang tahap persembahan Hari Penyampaian Hadiah.

And can someone explain to me what the point of taking the jacket off was? And that psychotic staring???

Ain - Kawan

I have no idea why you would want to try and make it appear like you are playing the guitar when a) it distracts you.. menggangu nyanyian ko yang lom betol pon b) trying so hard to look cool but the guitar looks like it weighs more than you and c) stakat for show... as it wasn't a totally acoustic attempt.

Powerful voice, but all over the place sebab like the others, dia nih ada tool yang tak reti pakai and empat minggu cam tak mengajar dia apa-apa.

I remember masa AF2 Linda wat Leaving On A Jet Plane. Aiyo! Langit dan bumi. Bukan je dari segi performance quality, but also emotional quotient. Dalam kes Linda, feel dia very the menusuk kalbu. Dak Ain ni takde feel langsung. Cam penyanyi pub yang da malas nak make an effort with all the intoxicated patrons.

Farina - Teruskanlah

Eeeeee!!! Dak ni kan... aku rasa dia da naik lemak da.

Bertahun da pengalaman, dapat lagu makanan aku ingat dia akan ok. Opening pon da quivering away... tak stable langsung vocal dia in the attempt to come out with that breathy, sexy voice. Why? Kita takkan tau...

She actually looks overconfident. Mungkin sebab lagu ni makanan dia, dia terlebih yakin sampai lupa kemampuan dia in just grasping techniques taught to her, tak kesampaian langsung.

Horrible. Not the worst.. but close.

Iwan - Kekasih Gelapku

Nangis lima baldi... punggah ke longkang dan kosongkan.. pastu sambung nangis agik..

Sila ulang proses lima kali tuk paham efek persembahan Iwan.

Bukan sebab emo dan feel ok... tapi sebab LAHAR sangat persembahan dia.

Memula stakat breathy breathy nih (sama je semua nak skema... dari persembahan sampai the approach of every song).

Menyampah lak aku gila babas ngan dak nih semakin lama semakin teruk.

When he contorted his face in pain and failed to hit the hight notes, memang rasa cam layak Gucci melayang ke atas pentas!

Dia nih memang empty shell. Takde perasaan... nyanyi lagu yang senang nak grab feel pon tak mampu.

Aku syorkan KRU gandingkan dia, Dafi dan Adam for a boyband.

Some people are meant to be solo. Others are meant to be in the background.

Maulana - Biarkan

This boy is the perfect example of how likeability menentukan masa depan.

Malam tadi dia perform the best. Tuh tak dapat nak nafikan.

Tapi sayang... perangai dia tuh... bermula dari statement "We're the best AF ever had" sampai ke something like tak kisah pengkritik cakap apa, yang penting peminat berjuta-juta luar tuh...

Haiyo... hado?

Dia nih same boat ngan Aizat dan Aril.

Except dalam kes Aizat, he's multi talented, and he can lose weight.

For Aril - dia da banyak pengalaman hosting bagai, and 'keangkuhan' dia as perceived by many is more of a cheeky kenakalan.

Ngan Maulana? He has no package and he should work harder. He has an ok voice, and can perform well kalao dia betol betol put his heart to it.

Just he will never do well kalao dia tak work on his likeability.

And penyokong dia dalam Dewan tuh is not helping him sebab bagi orang menyampah je tiap kali pengkritik cakap meka menyampuk bagai. Bagus sangat la tuh... dari orang geli... jadik menyampah terus.

Pikirkanlah...

Pemerhatian

- Lagu-lagu sebenarnya terlalu pendek nak menilai bebudak nih. Selain kesampahan bagai minus one yang nan hado, entah sapa punya keja yang malas nih... yang langsung tak membantu bebudak nih, I really think they should focus on the performances as they did previously. The length is one thing that is necessary. Tapi in a way, ni kira hidden blessing. Ni pendek pendek persembahan pon da berdarah. Kalao panjang? Nangisssss!!!

- Apahal la pergerakan bebudak ni skema jerk semua. Dok lantai la... dok tangga la... angkat tangan ala Karam Singh Walia la... they really have no idea in bringing out yang perlu tuk enhance persembahan mereka langsung.

- Dalam potong lagu bebudak nak cukupkan time slot, production dengan mengongnya gih wat bodoh nya drama and sketch yang level of originality and creativity sama ngan taking a dump while having diarrhea. I mean.. seriously... bab Bebot tuh TERENCAT nak mampos! Who the fuck thought this would be entertaining? To who la? 12 year-olds??? Ingat Akademi Fantasia tayang kat Astro Ria.. ni cam Astro Ceria (tu pon aku rasa ada bebudak pon mesti garu pala tanya kenapa spastic sangat sketch nih) And the Adnan Sempit one? Horrible! Tiap minggu bersepah iklan bagai dalam Akademi Fantasia nih.

-The styling... erm... paham paham sendiri. Letih aku carot da.

- Apa hal muzik Menuju Puncak di pakai lak minus one instrumental versi sodih lak. Bukan patut yang upbeat ke? Save la versi nak nangis leleh airmata hingus bagai tuk Debaran, ngok. Aiyo!

-Lampu hijau... memang takde fungsi! Geli bijik nak promosi je keja ngan benda nih. There is absolutely no function.

- Norman is in denial. The only way to get better is to be harder on the kids. Not manjakan ngan kata bebudak nih tak malas.. did their best effort bagai. I can say only two or three of the kids actually bothered to work at their assignments.

- Dalam usaha nak naikkan AFUNDI, meka tayangkan kedudukan lima terbawah bebudak! Aiyo.. perlu ke. Nampak sangat AFUNDI hado tahun ni. Sampai nak wat camtuh... on top of that bebudak nampak... so much for the Akademi Fantasia tradition of not letting these kids know their position. Baik tunjukkan real time results terus!

Dah.. mai kita de-stress ngan tunjuk Sarimah yang comel.. yang dressing meletop.. ngan selipar jepun dia tuh. Heh!

You just gotta love her.

Hah... tuh dia panjang lebar nya entry. Terbalas tak kemalasan/kesibukan update beberapa hari nih?

Esok one more ok.

Nak tidor. Esok ada full day. Nak abihkan ngan family pastuh ada meeting projek terbaru. Kena jumpa semua pihak terlibat. Tak sabar!!! Memang best la event akan datang nih.

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Happiness at your feet

Kalao ikutkan hari nih memang bad mood babas!

Mana taknya... dalam kesibukan aku... ada yang nak undang kemarahan aku dengan perangai cam lahanat.

Kita sibuk kejar sana sini, pikir kawan nya pasal yang da kenal lama ajak lunch skali, kita pon usaha berkejaran. Ada lak dia yang ajak, dia yang ok.. pastuh dia yang kencing entah ke mana bagi kita tunggu kat umah dia nak jemput agik.

Padahal dia dah kuar! Aiyo... memang mintak penyepak! Pastu nak salahkan kita lak.. kata kita yang beriya ajak la.. kita yang slalu lewat la... kita tuh kita nih... susah orang camni bodoh sombong babiks!

Hasilnya dalam aku ngamuk sakan, dah... buang! Tekan butang DELETE je orang camni! Walaopon aku kenal dari sekolah, nak dekat 20 tahun, kalao perangai tuh macam bebudak tak reti hormat masa orang - gi mampos lagik baik. I don't need unnecessary drama and all this negativity, so memang aku tak sayang dan tak rugi nak buang 'kawan' kalao camni.

Letih nak melayan yang feeling diva... WALAOPON!!!!

But today memang serious sibuk berkejaran meeting bagai. Memang balik ni nak terus KO. Esok lak awal pagik da kena kuar... berapa hari ni memang aku look forward to the weekend je. I am so stretched, that it's not funny.

Tapi kan... satu je benda wat aku senyum ari ni.

These are my most comfortable Gucci mocassins. Signature olive and red webbing with silver horsebit.. aku suka sangat. Kasut malas yang memang selesa gila of the four (oops!) I own (matilah.. gila kasut sampai nak empat!)

Dalam aku sayang gila ngan kasut ni, I was catching on upcoming releases, and there was this movie from 1987 - Wall Street, which will be remade. The 'sequel' Wall Street : Money Never Sleeps (or also known as Wall Street 2) is slated for release September 2010.

It stars Michael Douglas, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, as well as Shia Labeouf. Yang pentingnya... perasan tak pics dari movie nih, si Shia ni pakai kasut apa? Aku suka! Aku suka! Aku suka!

Matilah katanya benda camni pon leh make my day. Yes, shoes are therapeutic.

Eh.... meanwhile. Korang kalao pelik kenapa aku tak link videos Diari, jangan tanya. Aku seriously rasa Diari Akademi Fantasia skang memang buang masa. Kalao korang nak tengok, layan sendiri kat Youtube. Once in a while aku akan komen perkembangan... tapi da masuk empat minggu nih... aku rasa pemerhatian aku semua sama da... da nothing different.

Cuma aku akan terus link video Konsert (for now) pada ujung minggu, serta Debaran hado so korang leh layan review aku sambil tengok video tuh compare kebenaran (gituh!)

By the way... if you are interested ... nih lagu tugasan bebudak tuk minggu nih

Alif - Hanya Di Radio (Headwind)

Daus - Mirage (Pesawat)

Iwan - Kekasih Gelapku

Maulana - Biarlah (Vince)

Shahir - Always be My Baby (David Cook)

Adira - Biarlah (Nidji)

Ain - Kawan (Ruhil Amani)

Farina - Teruskanlah (Agnes Monica)

Nad - Realiti Dewi (Alyah)

Ok la.. aku nak tidur sangat. Tak kuasa dah.... zzzz

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A truly WTF moment

Ok, it's now official.

Akademi Fantasia musim kelapan adalah musim paling HADO in the history of the show. And we're just three concerts in.

Kalao tak caya... layan konsert dulu. Aku sambung hari ni ngan Akademi Fantasia pas break semalam. Memang takde mood bagi analisis Diari... still hurting over the passing of Din Beramboi... God bless his soul.

I don't know how it was for all of you at home but in the Dewan Sri Putra itself... erm.. it was boring as all hell.

It was one big amateur karaoke night. And three concerts in, none of the kids have shown any promise whatsoever of being anything more than just average ho-hum singers yang takleh offer anything that the industry doesn't already have a hundred of.

For that achievement, semua pelajar layak dapat Anugerah Jamban Emas!

Seriously aku nak review pon pening je. Tuk aku semalam kira yang ok ok je pon sorang dua. Tuh pon minus personality of any sort.

Aku nak komen kang repetitious because most of them I would say boring, karaoke-esque dan takde personaliti or connectio atas pentas tuh. Kira ratu-ratu Red Box Ria la nih.

So aku speed commentary saja la.

Alif - Yang sesuatuh nya bukan saja tajuk lagu, tapi dia sendiri. It looked painfully rehearsed dan memang takde individuality or ability at all. Lemau at best, and lahar at worst, choosing whatever you want to say in between. Sora dia memang takleh blah and I still have no idea why anyone would think that faux bass tone intrigues Adlin.

Ain - Boring and just drives me to sleep. Technically, stiff and trying too hard and basically cam Zombi Kampung Pisang je level emosi dia. Kalao Brands nak wat dia jadik duta, terus rugi, sebab ramai tak hingin nak lembab and tak bermaya cam dia atas pentas.

Farina - Told you lagu Cantik ni lagu paling membunuh. It takes technical ability, stamina and a whole lot of attitude to carry this song - none of which Farina has displayed.

True, there was a slight improvement, but judging how bad she's been the past weeks, kena ingat... once you hit rock bottom, there is no other way to go but up... and tuh pon not much.

I think she was rapping badly or just speaking more than singing, especially soal lower register.

Shahir - One of the more listenable ones for the night. But again major karaoke session. No originality atau individuality in his performance. Not having an identity is a guarantee orang takkan ingat ko dalam industri nih.

Iwan - Biar adik-adik ke makcik-makcik nak jerit sokong dia bagai, but honestly, he's just another wannabe yang tried hard. Tahniah la for effort, but if you don't have it, you just don't have it. And Iwan is a standout in this competition only because the others are totally HADO. Doesn't make him good.

Nad - Walaopon tak seteruk minggu-minggu sebelom, I am honestly confused kenapa meka nak asik bagi dia tugasan yang nak lembutkan dia. Dah cara dia camtuh.. biar la. Find something more adept to her style. Dia ngan Alif tuh bio tukar lagu tugasan dan rutin leh tak? Yang sorang lembut nak cuba dikeraskan dan sorang keras kejung nak dilembutkan. Sungguh tak natural ye...

Maulana - Wat lagu Ne-Yo... tapi feeling Usher/Justin Timberlake/Michael Jackson without the smoothness. Again, masaalah bebudak ni takde projection of their identity at all. Semua trying hard to imitate artis tuh nih, tapi they can't stand on their own at all dari segi persembahan. It was horrendous for me dan rasa cam peserta pertandingan nyanyi di Kazakhstan lak ngan the way dia nyanyi. Tak paham.. apa la non stop hampeh je semua.

Adira - If you thought that no one could sing worse than Feminin, Adira proved us all wrong. Who would have thought lagu Kini pon leh menjerit bagai kalahkan mangsa dalam filem horror Grade B.

Daus - There are songs that are beautiful in their simplicity. Separuh Jiwaku Pergi is one of those. It doesn't need great vocals. Just an understanding of the underlying emotion (feeling la tuh) and an ability nak project it. Instead.. it was cliched, boring and just trying too hard. Bebudak ni semua masaalahnya diajar memacam tapi hasilnya they come across as bad acting. And dare I mention the singing? Melodi pon tak mampu...apa lagi nak harapkan interpretasi lain dari si haus nih.

Anum - Tolong la. She's a screamer with no potential. Period.

This show was just scarily boring. Nak carot pon rasa lemah je sebab cam repeat je memacam kritikan dari minggu-minggu lepas. Nama belajar tapi tiap minggu benda sama je tengok. Menjerit, kosong, takde emosi, tiru... arghhh!! Stress! Serious rasa cam nak stop review Akademi Fantasia pasni (top kedai je da takde blogger besau nak wat keja ni da pas yang lain semua pon da bersara).

My main problems I discovered from this concert -

*Betol kata Adlin. Lagu tugasan semua tak kena. These kids are not challenged. Bagi yang senang pon takleh excel... malas... so semua cukup makan... ataupon kebulur. Leh?

*Feeling nak pupuk semangat setiakawan bagai... no sense of competition, which this show essentially still is. Semua kena psycho nangis je keja. In the real world, you have to be competitive. Doesn't mean nasty... but it does mean you want to be the best. Ni semua la la la je...

*Lampu hijau nan hado tuh.. perlu ke? Dulu da perkenalkan lampu-lampu nih.. cuma kali ni feeling promosi Brands yang bagi kembang tekak aku - sama reaksi bila mendengar dan melihat persemabahan bebudak nih. Too much promotion (pose minom in between, and then pakai tali tali sungguh gampang dan murahan itu etc) and that must have been the idea behidn it. Because seriously takde fungsi. Aku deduce, lampu hijau tuh semua diberi tanda hijau muntah bila dengar bebudak ni.. kalao ikutkan, jumlah lampu ijo tuh menunjukkan jumlah kali aku nak muntah ijo ngan performance tersebut. Yang tak dapat lampu, muntah gak... cuma kaler lain (ada yang kaler rainbow pon ada)

*The chemistry between Jimmy and Sarimah on off. Both are trying... but Jimmy's lack of experience is showing too much.

*Minus one... erm... tak sampai tahap polifonik dulu... tapi memang tak kena ngan bebudak ni. For some reason, almost all of them can't seem to develop a sense of one-ness with the music for their song.

*Pengkritik jemputan lak nak play nice... ni yang tak best ni. Aku lagik suka cam Deja last week. Bukan sebab dia laharkan bebudak, tapi dia cakap benda substantial. Jemputla orang yang leh komen from a real world perspective... bukan syok sendiri cakap je. Apa guna pengkritik tetap? Untuk monitor progress bebudak ni.. jemputan patutnya tak compare performance yang lepas and judge based on what is performed and tegur accordingly. Ni hado...

*Tenaga pengajar perlu diberi rotan untuk gunakan kat bebudak nih. Naik lemak da... ajar camna pon tak masuk langsung. Tak hargai peluang keemasan langsung.

*Sekor-sekor da la emo lebih, performance LEMAU... tapi aku perasan most of them berangan. Kekwat feeling that meka ni disalah kritik. Tak ada elemen keinsafan meka gagal langsung, and I think somehow, they really think they're the best... katanya... WALAUPUNNNN!!!!

Dah... malas nak panjang agik review. Wat sakit hati je... seriously... Akademi Fantasia kali ni letih nak komen.

Aku da kata dari awal da pemilihan peserta memang SALAH. This has to be the WORST (bukan cam Maulana feeling tuh kata the best ek...) selection. None of them would survive and Akademi Fantasia All Star kalao ada.

I honestly think this is the worst season sebab, cam aku kata, bersaingan ngan AF4 je... AF5 pon busuk light light.. but not as bad.

AF4 - ramai talent but no personality.

AF5 - more personality than talent.

AF8 - talent? Kalao menjerit tuh bakat.. meka ada la. Kalao sombong berangan tu kira personality trait adalah personaliti...

Sudah! Nak tidur jap. Esok nak naik Genting Highlands. Yeay! Kota Keriangan gituh. Aku riang ria sikit sebab takyah tengok Debaran wat minggu kedua. Wat noya je kang layan sebab kecewa bukan semua termasuk Jimmy yang mengusung beg murahan yang dibawa ke atas pentas.

Aku try blog dari Anugerah Bintang Popular Berita Harian ASAP! Kalao mampu aku live blogging. Tapi yang confirm nya, sapa yang ikut aku kat Twitter, leh ikut perkembangan acara tuh ngan aku - live gituh! So if you have Twitter, add me on @klubbkiddkl - and thank you semua yang balas membalas memeriahkan malam-malam minggu ku didera di konsert Akademi Fantasia sebab layan korang memang best dan mengurangkan sikit impak malapetaka dan musibah penyeksaan ke atas telinga aku entah atas dosa silam apa entah...

Akademi Fantasia tetap di hati... bukan Idola Fantasia (ke Akademi Idola... sebab ciplak Idol da sangat).

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Kembali!

Diatas permintaan ramai... nih dia... pam jamban telah kembali!!!! Applause please... sila tepuk-tepuk kuat, supaya nampak ramai orang sikit sokong... kalao tak kang cam Debaran Akademi Fantasia lak hado orang kosong je tempat duduk. Pecah lobang lak... especially when camera pan nak tunjuk betapa ramainya warga bunian yang menghadiri produksi yang sebegitu meletop yang orang tak biasa tak paham. Ehem...

Alamak... apakah ini pulak???

Nampaknya masuk musim Akademi Fantasia kelapan nih, so much crap setakat pam jamban pon tak dapek bantu. Aduh... kus semangat!!!

Erm.. where do I start.

First korang layan dulu video konsert on Saturday night. Aku serious balik tak kuasa sangat nak link, update bagai. Mana taknya... tengok pon pening je.

So di mana aku nak mula carot ek?

Ok la... camni. Aku bagi can minggu ni pada persembahan bebudak yang paling best pon ala ala boleh la aku tahan dari ngantuk, sampai, dan paling hazab yang rasa nak campak derma kasut Gucci aku je atas pentas.

I think, one thing failed to be highlighted dan ditekankan kepada bebudak ni.

And that thing is - people, please say it with me - LIKEABILITY.

Camna aku nak explain what likeability is ek. It's something, kalao dalam siri Akademi Fantasia nih aku tengok meka panggey aura (walaopon). It's something that makes you endearing, disukai atas pentas - dan bukan sahaja dari kalangan kuarga ko sendiri atau mereka yang merembes pada rupa ko.

Likeability will last them longer than the competition. It will give them a chance to break into the mainstream industry.

HAKIKATNYA - dari 12 orang - berapa orang sahaja yang akan timbul kang? Itu pun sebagai artis yang hot ke hot hot chicken shit gituh.

Pikirkan.

Apa dia? Aku bodoh sombong nak katakan camtuh? I don't know what I'm talking about? Statistics, bitch! Tengok tujuh musim yang lepas. Hado? Berapa ramai je yang timbul... lain semua tenggelam lagik cepat than a high-fibre diet in that toilet above.

I mean seriously.

Don't confuse TV with reality.

Aku bagi contoh (walaopon kata tanak review). Maulana.

Yes, he did decent this week. Memang performance wise, aku ada sikit je nak carot, tu pun technical. Tapi takpe... aku rasa Deja (selaki pengkritik yang paling punya kredibiliti setakat ini dari kata kata yang diucapkan) dah highlight pon semua tu.

What Maulana lacks is - likeability.

Tuh je. He comes across as arrogant, overconfident and honestly, self-absorbed.

Eh... apa dia? Pepandai je aku nak nak nilai dia dan bebudak tanpa kenal? Isn't that the point?

Dalam industri sebenar, sebagai orang baru - people don't give you respect. You earn it. You prove you have to be at that level. Kalao tak, why the heck would I even bother with your existence.

Ramai sangat nak jadik penyanyi skang... beribu kat luar tuh. Are you the best? (Setakat walaopon the best dozen of 10,000 yang ujibakat kata production... takde orang amik pot).

So your likeability is important. Dari the first few seconds of being onstage, opening your mouth... orang da kena connect ngan ko.

Kalao tak ko kuar la single ke album ke... kuar kat radio, orang tak amik pot ko pon.

Tak caya?

Try this test. I call it the 15 seconds test, which I use to determine whether sesebuah single akan meletop. Dalam 15 saat pertama, can you sell your talent to me.

This is to make these talents understand. Orang kalao bak keta ke, jalan supermarket ke haper... dengar lagu... you have 10 to 15 seconds je nak tangkap perhatian meka. Sedap mana lagu pon, kalao beginning da bosan... orang da tune out tak layan and therefore tak bagi peluang kat ko.

Kadang-kadang aku cakap camnih orang kata kejam. Hakikatnya apa yang lebih kejam adalah realiti industri muzik kita skang.

So, back to likeability. If you don't even have that to carry you, kemanakah engkau?

Tengok Aizat. Masa Akademi Fantasia, he didn't have that. He had talent, tapi dipandang sebab dia nampak sombong, angkuh. Tapi once dia out, dia paham konsep tuh, and his talent shone through. People gave his songs a chance and he is one of the biggest products to come out of Akademi Fantasia. I think Aizat pon realize that, because after elimination I did say that to him too.

So bottomline - LIKEABILITY. Someone point that out to the kids. Kalao tak, dok dalam Akademi tuh, memang fantasi je... kuar kang terkejut beruk kenapa impian tak menjadi realiti.

Tidak penting siapa diri kau yang sebenar. Bila nak jadik penyanyi yang penting APA YANG ORANG RASA DIRI KAU YANG SEBENAR!

That's called perception. Persepsi orang terhadap ko lebih penting. Ko baik innocent bagaimana pon, no matter how sweet and lovable you are - it means NOTHING kalao ko tak berjaya project that.

So yes, I don't know any of these kids personally. Like semua penonton I judge by what I see.

In the Akademi, on the stage.

If they do nothing nak bagi persepsi yang positif and lovable - then perlu ke?

Ingat tuh ek... PERSEPSI ORANG LEBIH PENTING if you want to be someone in an industry where ko hidup dengan sokongan orang.

Lagik satu isu.

Tang Alif tuh... korang ingat tak masa Faizal Ramli nyanyi 'Smells Like Teeng Spighit' dulu?

Orang sorak bagai nak rak. Aku antara beberapa orang je montah ijo sebab haram tak paham sepatah dia nyanyi haper. Bukan orang kisah pon... sama la cam Alif ni nyanyi Dance With My Father. Cam dalam bahasa Urdu lak aku dengar. I honestly couldn't understand a single, bloody word!

Tehcnically, I still don't understand why meka tak tegur dia pasal nak nyanyi dalam sora palsu guruh itu. Speaking voice and singing voice, shouldn't beza sampai tahap gaban. Teringat sangat Stanly masa musim keenam. Or worse - korang layan Dior. Sama je. Tak caya? Layan nih.



Sama tak? Jap... amik tisu lap tinga aku jap yang meleleh nanah nih.

So bab bebudak... aku paham meka studying gituh dalam Akademi. But the urgency has to put across that 10 weeks takkan bantu meka banyak mana pon. They have to have the initiative to push further.

Aku paham tenaga pengajar camna strain. Bermacam ketuk dalam pala bebudak nih, hakikatnya ingat da masuk Akademi Fantasia terus terjamin masa depan meka. Or worse, they're not even thinking that - tapi just about nak menang and gila glam. Am I wrong? Seven seasons sama je.. masuk Akademi feeling terus. Pastuh enam bulan pas abih Akademi Fantasia orang da tak pandang atau tak heran ko baru menggelupur nak betulkan apa yang tak kena.

Being tenaga pengajar is a thankless job, and no one can envy their position. Pada tenaga pengajar dalam Akademi tuh - my prayers are with you (heh... gituh.. mommy Fati ketuk pala aku jap agik)

Hakikatnya - this IS their one chance. They screw it up, susah agik dik.

Tengok contoh bebawah nih. Masa konsert kedua arituh yang memeriahkan menghadiri adalah anak-anak didik aku (gituh) dari musim ketujuh.

Masa dalam Akademi memacam aku dera dan carot tuk kebaikan meka. Ada yang paham ada yang tak.

Hakikatnya bila da kuar, baru meka tau dan sedar bagaimana meka rangkak lak nak make it out there.

Masa borak ngan bebudak, semua pon cakap sama. Kalao meka dapat masuk Akademi, meka nak cakap ngan bebudak nih what an opportunity this is (Hafiz dan Aril da masuk... I think masa Diari yang tunjuk seminit dua, ada tunjuk Aril stress the importance of this opportunity)

The point is - it's a TV show, and won't be anything more unless these kids make something of themselves.

One thing I dislike a lot, is produksi 'guide' pengkritik tuk komen yang baik je.

Mana taknya... korang perasan tak kalao konsert yang lahar... dua tiga yang pertama mesti dipuji... walaopon.

And then the gates of hell pen. Da letih layan horror sana sini, baru meka nak sound bebudak.

No point. For me, pengkritik bukan sama cam tenaga pengajar. Pengkritik ditugaskan nak evaluate the kids HONESTLY secara jujur mengikut REAL WORLD standards.

Kalao sumbang dan ke Laut China Selatan, say so.

In the real world, we teach talents who want to be REAL artistes to not listen to the good, but the bad. Kalao orang nak puji ko cantik meletop bagai, don't listen to it (maksud aku dengar, tapi don't live in that moment). Instead, think of the criticism. Kalao orang kata sumbang ke tuh ke nih ke.. listen and understand.

Why do I say that?

Kalao ko asik dok kena puji camna ko nak belajar, hawau??? Ko tatau apa silap ko. Kalao benda tuh ko da wat betol, takyah puji... nanti berangan lak jadiknya. Focus instead on betulkan apa yang lom sempurna. And the only way to do that is to listen to what is being said - the bad.

So production takyah nak control la pengkritik. Nak bagi guidelines bagai.

Cuma memang aku setuju, pengkritik pon biar mengkritik secara berilmiah (uwaaa... amik ko).

I like Deja ponya kritikan, sebab dia point out the faults, apa yang tak kena so highlight kat bebudak ni tuk bawak ke tenaga pengajar untuk bertanya dan membetulkan. Tu la caranya.

Ada lak yang bising aku dengar, kenapa Deja tak cakap in layman terms la... terlalu teknikal la. Wei, sapa yang jadik pelajar, ko ke bebudak tuh. Lepas tuh... da kalao diberi 10 saat jer oleh floor manager? Dia focus pada pemberian nasihat pada bebudak tuh jer la. Besides, kalao ko tak paham - it just shows it's not important cause you're not the one planning to be a singer.

Fitri dan Iwan AF8??? Oops... Hazwanie Othman, the fashion designer meletop katanya.. silap.

Anyway... nak carot sikit soal production. Korang tengok tak camera angle? Aiyo... scary mary!!!

Lom agik salah cue Sarimah masuk time budak lom abih nyanyi. Floor manager tido?

And perlu ke aku cakap (ni sapa dalam dewan tau la), ada la orang tu umum, "kita jumpa nanti di Debaran Sehati Berdansa". Aiyo!!!! Motif program sendiri tatau. Lemau!

HONESTLY!

I knew this was modeled so after Sehati Berdansa. Unfortunately meka lupa program tuh pakai selebriti. Lain konsep, dik nun. Takpe la... tunggu je la musim abih tengok kang.

For me the real success is not ratings. Mana taknya, tiap tahun Astro punya subscriber melonjak je. Setakat rating naik berapa peratus, ada aku kisah? Bak kata pembaca blog ni - da aku bayar tuk Astro, tengok je la kalao takde benda lain nak tengok (sebab lain semua repeat je keja).

Is it in SMS votes? Again... dengan peningkatan penonton (akibat subscribtion) adakah peratusan SMS melonjak sama? Takkan static no growth. Tul tak? Kalao naik pon takkan sikit kalao meka dok kompang kata makin ramai nonton?

Kan.. kan... kan???

Hah.. ni lagi satu benda nak carot. Sapa terasa - BAGUSLAH.

Pada sapa yang kat dalam dewan malam tu ketika konsert mesti perasan kan.

Ada je LAHANAT yang bising ketika pengkritik komen. With stupid comments, the rowdy few ni antara keluarga pelajar Akademi Fantasia nih memang bising. Sampai sakit hati semua. Cuma aku kesian bebudak bekas Akademi Fantasia yang lain cam bebudak musim lepas as well as Mawi dan Ekin semua senyum sabar je... walaopon bingit telinga masing-masing.

Wei... kalao baru nak feeling Akademi Fantasia, sebab sedara mara masuk, ni peringatan. Masuk dalam dewan tuh memang la nak riuh rendah sokong. Tapi leh tak perangai cam manusia sikit dan bukan binatang gila kena rabies bagai?

HONESTLY... cam PUKIMAK (biar aku BOLDKAN skali) macam PUKIMAK!

Agak-agak la... hish!!! Tension aku dok dalam tuh. And I was something like 10 rows or less from them. Bayangkan bebudak yang dok dekat ngan meka... tension agik. Pas show semua mengadu.

Ni sign besar sikit aku derma kat produksi. Sila tampal kat luar dewan, dan ada yang translate kan kat binatang-binatang yang illiterate ek.

Dahla.. letih meroyan. Aku minggu depan (kalao tengok Akademi Fantasia.. sebab rasa da tinggu minggu including Tirai aku tengok, first time aku rasa cam nak stop layan Akademi Fantasia lepas lapan tahun)

Hah... ni layan Debaran. What do I say to say about this? Well... erm... put it this way. Dengan meka keluarkan Menuju Puncak dari konsert was enough. Memang benar, kita rasakan Menuju Puncak tuh takyah dua kali, tapi letak la pas abih konsert. Hish.. meka ni wat benda tak pikir pasal peminat ke?

Soal admin sebuah Facebook group tu kata sapa tak suka sila tutup TV sebab tetap ada peminat, honestly ko berapa musim ikut Akademi Fantasia? Pernah AFUNDI tak?

If not, then perhaps you should shut up. Hak peminat nak bersuara. Kejayaan Akademi Fantasia kerana peminat. Dan peminat bukan bererti takde hak bersuara ke atas perubahan yang tak disenangi. Stupid, arrogant people. I wonder if the Astro bosses are reading this, especially rude, stupid and arrogant remarks from things like this which are affiliated with Astro staff.

Selain dari peminat, honestly, Debaran ni dah la takde content, repetitive, tapi yang paling pentingnya menyeksa kan bebudak.

Bayangkan. Isnin hingga Khamis satu hal meka da dalam kelas bagai. Jumaat pas semayang Jumaat terus ke rehearsal sampai lewat malam balik. Sabtu awal-awal da kat stadium rehearsal lagik and balik pon pas konsert da kol brapa. Ahad yang biasanya time rehat kena kuar lagik nak ke Debaran bagai. And the cycle repeats. Ni bukan nak asuh bintang... ni cam dera hamster kat benda alah roda tuh, gila!

Erm... seb baik smalam aku tak gi buang masa. Gi layan persandingan Umie Aida yang vogue wedding of the year gituh. Memang da janji ngan dia... so kena la gih. Plus on top of that, wanted to meet friends there for the happy occasion tuh. Banyak sangat pics aku snappy.. pening nak dok edit. Nanti aku upkan entry tuk ek.

Until then.. toodles!

PS - Tahniah produksi kerana kembalikan drama-drama swasta tak perlu dengan cutaway shot yang linger just enough nak bagi sedih. Terselamat Alif dan Maulana minggu ni akibat tuh. Nampak sangat elemen simpati masih membantu.

PPS - Tak perlu la flashback pengkritik tenaga pengajar pilih top three bottom three... aduh. Very Idol. Plus on top of that - kenapa beriya nak influence orang? Ke terdesak Afundi musim ni kurang? By the way very Project Runway lak nak spotlight lak kat bebudak tiga yang bottom three.

PPPS - Berapa PS dah aku ni. By the way, kalao da call out bottom three, pe hal lak dok balik ngan bebudak. Ilang suspen. Biar meka dok berdiri bertiga jer throughout. Kata nak suspen...

Dan satu agik... persembahan Andai Aku Pergi Dulu macam persembahan Hari Penyampaian Hadiah Sekolah Rendah Kampung Pelir Hitam! Kalao ni Akademi Fantasia tuk bawah umo 12 tahun tak pe la... and aku ingat Shah was something special sebab bebudak nangis gila masa dia keluar. Ni si Ema kuar pon sama. Bughuknya... si Maulana among the boys paling teruk. Heh! Cheesy siot!

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Menanti Kasih

Korang nak layan cita yang erm... agak mistik tak?

Ni bukan cita baru... tapi tak ramai tahu.

Korang ingat tak lagu Aku Tak Biasa. Penyanyinya Alda.

It was like one of the most popular Indonesian songs I think about 10 years ago.

Anyway, I cam across this other song from a friend. Tima kasih Helmie for it. Aku tak penah dengar lagu ni sebelom ni. It's this haunting melody from Alda yang ramai tak penah dengar. There was never a video for this song too, but I found this fan made video of this song. So korang layan. Just click play sambil baca cita aku agik kat bawah.

So anyway, kisahnya.. ni antara lagu terakhir yang di rakam oleh Alda. Because in December 2006, she died in a hotel room. True story. Korang carik wikipedia - Alda Risma baca sendiri. Apparently she was initially thought to have died from an overdose in a suicide after kesan-kesan suntikan ditemui on her.

Later however, her boyfriend was implicated or something.

Now, if you're listening to the song, you'll notice something strange about the lyrics. Ni lirik lagu Menanti Kasih kat bawah ni.

Malam sunyi kusendiri
Duduk sepi diatas pohon
Kubiarkan rambutku terurai

Tanpa kaki kelelawar
Anjing dan bulan purnama
Kumenanti kekasihku
Yang belum mati

Reff :
Kapan mati kekasihku
Kumenanti kau disiniAyo mati bunuh diri
Agar kita jumpa lagi
Seperti dulu
Mana mungkin kukembali
Hidup lagi seperti dulu
Kecuali engkau mati
Mohon mengerti

How true is this, I don't know. The whole story about Alda and this song. I found a version of this song which sounds the same here.

The title here is Rintihan Kuntilanak and is supposedly performed by The Panas Dalam. I don't know if it features Alda or not, ataupon this is a cover or anything. Tapi ada perbezaan sikit, especially in the lyrics. In the third line of the chorus, 'Ayo' or ayuh, digantikan dengan kapan mati lagi sekali... and the third line berganti with the first... takde 'bunuh diri'.

So I'm guessing The Panas Dalam covered this song. Entah. Anyone have further info?

Apapon I love this song. Seram sikit, tapi sedih.

My song of the moment (minus gelak yang sesuatuh tuh yang tak sesuai nak dengar nak feeling emo malam-malam, and part of the lyrics like tanpa kaki and rambut terurai... imaginasi aku menggila sikit)

Hah... kira ni love song kak ponti la nih... (ala ala Annie Lennox Love Song For A Vampire temanya tapi I like this for it's simplicity of humanizing something almost demonic when it comes to love)

Eh.. sebut kak ponti ke kunti ni... kan biasa ada bau kemboja kan sebelom meyerang nya bau yang hazab bagai.

Saja nak tie in... aktiviti aku malam semalam. Erm.. untuk apa ek. Jangan speku. Ni bukan mandi bunga. Ni bukan tuk berubat... ni bukan tuk mak esah.. kot.. heh! Biasalah.. sapa baca Twitter aku tau la (sini pon aku ada sebut) ada kawan aku ada masaalah sikit, so bak dia gi berubat sikit.

Ok ok... da abih cita ala Mastika tuh, mai kita go on to Akademi Fantasia. Diari malam tadi, on the last day before the horror.. I mean the concert yang kedua.

First layan Diari.

Now the daily observations.

*Baru aku perasan. What's with the canned applause at the start of Diari. Ala... rakaman bunyi orang tepuk tangan. Erm... perlu ke?

*Heh... yang pentingnya Ninie masuk Akademi promosi Adidas Action 3 as well as Project Alpha. Amik ko - sapa agik ek bloggers yang terlibat dalam Project Alpha musim kedua ek (wat muka inesen) Eh Ninie, aku tak carot ko ek... ko risau sangat masuk Akademi kang aku carot dalam blog (kita kan kawan.. heh!) Lagik pon seronok tengok bebudak kena dera ngan pose yoga ko bagai.

*Alamak... moto lak mula cakap. Hina gila siot. Dari kamera da dok diam tetiba nak promo motor bersuara lak. It's kinda retarded, don't you think?

*Erm.. aku baru perasan. Diari hari Jumaat... tapi kenapa semua bebudak laki pakai baju Melayu dan tapi dak pompuan semua? What's with pesen bebudak pompuan??? Pelik gila with fugly dressed and belted.

*Norman - hari ni ko memang meletop carot bebudak. It takes that to get these kids to understand the business isn't as easy. Ajar bebetol sikit bebudak ni yang rasa nak enjoy je keja. Ptooihhhh... ingat senang ke? Jap jap... ala... rupanya wat gimik je... dalam evaluation tenaga pengajar adalak tamu in David Arumugam. Nice, good guest, but too bad bad timing.

Since aku sebut Project Alpha musim kedua, ni ada sikit info. Ninie antara tujuh blogger yang dipilih untuk rancangan realiti online nih. Azwan Ali pon ada... dan ramai lagik la... and of course, the final episode (save the best for last katanya, will be mine, ketika ujibakat di Sarawak (korang ingat tak aku gi sana)

Apapon, pelancaran musim kedua Project Alpha which is hosted by Jojo Struys (kecuali episod aku, aku syok sendiri menggila depan kamera) akan diadakan tak lama lagi. They're having a bloggers launching - so kalao korang nak join aku dan bloggers lain tuk meraikan the launch (and get a free movie pastuh), SILA KLIK SINI. Go there for more info ok... dan harap-harap kita semua berjumpa sana.

And that's all for today. Esok posting agik!

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Jamu selera

Sebelom anything, here's a little something for the ladies. Ni tuk akak-akak dan makcik-makcik jerk ek. Yang kalao ada abang-abang atau adik-adik minat nak usha pon ok... terpulang... heh! Tak halang, aku. Mana tau la nak hadiahkan kat sesapa ke.... (nak pakai sendiri ke)

Kawan sekolah rendah aku lama yang skang di Hong Kong sent down a couple of Coach bags, on the order of orang yang kansel last minute. They're ORIGINAL (NOT authentic fake yer, harap maklum). So member aku sangkut ngan benda ni - yang dipegang orang tua dia skang. Aku besok nak amikkan.

The two bags are the F13065 Coach Hamptons Signature Pink Belted Carryall Handbag priced originally at USD$348 and the F13977 Coach Hampton Signature Zip Satchel Brown Handbag which retails for an original price of USD$359.

These are pics from the Internet on the model - to give you guys an idea of what they look like. Google the model number for more pics.

F13065 Coach Hamptons Signature Carryall handbag

F13977 Coach Hampton Signature Zip Satchel Brown Handbag

Keadaan BARU lagik, dan shipping semua da dibayar. Kalao korang nak, aku gi usha the bags for you. CONFIRMED authentic or money back guarantee from me (aku nak lari mana.. tak main la tipu-tipu nih). Sorry tak main bayar bulan-bulan (matilah aku nak collect cam Ah Long).

Harga nak tolak? The pink yang harga asal USD$348 - leh dapatkan for RM950 and yang coklat yang USD$359 leh tolak for RM1000. Tuh kira lebih sikit je dari harga pre-loved Coach handbags in the market. Kira murah abih tuk yang brand new. Plus NO RISK kalao ngan aku (kat Internet korang order gamble gak kekadang soal replica ke, shipping ke etc)

Sapa minat - sila call aku kat 017-2025900 (please call lepas 5pm esok paling awal ok). Sebolehnya aku layan yang kat Lembah Klang so leh COD. Aku malaih ni nak bank in nak hantar-hantar. But I guess kalao korang kat outstation nak sangat, call aku, leh runding, ok?

Mulai petang esok, rasanya aku da ada dua beg ni dalam tangan aku so kalao nak any close-up detailed pics pon leh aku MMS kan, atau leh arrange to meet up.

Kalao amik dua skali, I guess aku leh kurangkan SIKIT harga tuh. Jangan la tekan sangat.

Chewah.. aku da cam wat blogshop da nak jual beg tangan bagai. Aku sebenarnya nak hadiahkan mak aku salah satu beg nih... tapi sebab baru beli a brown Raoul nya woven leather body with braided leather handle cam bazir lak bebanyak (merasalah mak aku meriah ngan beg tangan lak)

Just notakaki sikit - ada ke kaum Hawa yang nak aku wat benda ni bebetul ala blogshop mana korang leh place order? Sebab aku ada kawan-kawan kat Hong Kong (harga kira ok), dan Dubai (branded goods dia paling murah di dunia sebab takde cukai). Kalao nak tell me what kind of stuff korang would buy and maybe aku usahakan.

And since I have the attention of the ladies, for your sake, untuk kebaikan diri anda sendiri - please CLICK HERE and take the online risk assessment for cervical cancer. Wat kejap je... but trust me, you'll learn a lot about something a lot of women overlook. Jadik, makcik-makcik, akak-akak, adik-adik pompuan.. please take a minute or two dan usha ek. Masuk je site tuh, click ASSESS YOUR RISK. Bukan tuk aku... tapi untuk diri anda sendiri. Juga kalao leh, sebarkan pada kengkawan dari kaum Hawa (yang jantan tuh bagitau la mak ke makcik ke, kakak ke adik pompuan ke, sedara mara, girlpren ke kengkawan perempuan.... you're looking out for them)

Ok ok... da abih bab promosi da... skang masuk bab Diari Akademi Fantasia hari ni.

So... ini pemerhatian aku dari Diari hari ni...

*Hari ni elok sikit layan kelas Que. I like! Cuma bebudak beriya kena pegang karakter cabar Que tuk masuk watak cacat (perlu ke). Tapi Que outshine meka all the way. None of the kids nampak pon character (remember they have non-existent personalities). Heh... cikgu power, pelajar lak ampeh!

*Motif Jimmy nak pakai WALAUPPOOOON.. salah intonasi yer. Heh!

*Aiyo perlu ke nak tunjuk background/interview ngan family bebudak. Tu la sibuk wat Tirai, takde introductory program kena selit masuk Diari lak. Pastu benda Diari sibuk sumbat Debaran.. kelam kabut. Cam meraih undi tertentu lak bebudak tertentu nak tunjuk background.

*As usual - NANGISSSSSSSS!

*Pe hal la microphone pakai time tuh murahan sangat rupa? Aduh! Bajet.. bajet!

*Kenapa asik nak stress kan pelajar tuh pilihan dari 10,000 yang audition berkali-kali? Reminds me how somebody must have screwed up, or maybe we don't have anymore talent out there je the fact these kids are not standing out as cream of the crop of 10,000.

*The lighting from that box-thing the speak to is so NOT flattering.

And that's it for today, folks!

PS - Hari ni ulangtahun bonda aku yang tercayang!!! Yeay yeay!!! Love you, mommy!

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