Jangan ganggu banci!

Amik ko semalam Pelita, Bangsar packed gila! Semakin dekat ujung puasa nih, semakin ramai lak bersahur kat luar.

Kita pun tak beza sangat. Semalam gathering kami yang terbesar so far kat Pelita. Tapi sebenarnya tak sengaja. Aku janji da ngan Faz nak jumpa sana. Expected sana si Juan and Amir as well yang da ajak sekali. Jue too.

Tapi last last, ni ramainya yang punch card kat ofis kami smalam. Amik ko! Enam meja panjang ok! Tu semua yang full time Pelita lepakers gituh.

Cerita nya.. aku sampai je, si Juan dan Amir, da jemput Bob join sekali. Masa tuh geng 6ixth Sense, semua ada. Si Adi, Atan, Jiji, Atan dan Wan da berkumpul sekali. Jue pun sekali. Aku lak ngan Faz sampai serentak. Then we were joined by Ted.

Then lepak punya lepak, we were joined by Ika, Mel, Yana dan Nurul.

Ramai lak ari nih! Sampai enam meja. Tu pun secara tak sengaja. Seriously, Pelita for us is becoming Cheers, sitcom 80an dulu, where everybody knows your name gituh. But kalao you weren't big on TV in the 80s, then Pelita would be our equivalent of Central Perk in Friends. Tiap kali pergi je mesti ada kawan kawan melepak. Jarang kalao gi sorang akan dok sorang.

Kami ni memang hantu Pelita, bulan puasa or not. The proof? Amik ko, tengok resit tuh tulis apa. Bebudak waiter sini biasa da sangat ngan kita. Treatment memang tip top! Cuma memang la skang sayang si Andri dari Medan da transfer branch lain. Tapi bebudak lain keja sana, most of them we all know by name da and treat us so well, until sampai tahap, kalao Pelita Bangsar takde, tatau lak nak lepak mana da.

Malas nak amik pic, tapi seronok ramai ramai, pot pet kecoh tuh, amik la a few. Ada yang feeling tanak kena snappy ngan aku kena masuk blog. Especially my best friend Ted yang akan balik ke Sabah Thursday tuk balik kampung for Raya. Merasalah kononnya camera shy!

Sebut pemalu nih, ni ada yang malu malu taik kucing gituh. Pas my last blog entry yang ada pic meka mesra gituh, ni pic malu malu Ika dan Adi lak dedua wat innocent je. Iyolah tuh. Konon memasing pandang arah lain time cam aku dah fired on. Tak baik taw cover line! Matilah pas ni gosip keluar.

Ni lak si Wan, yang feeling main game jer time semua orang layan borak. Wan... Wan.. tak elok tau main game time orang makan dan mengumpat ni. Heh.. pepandai lak aku.

Anyway, ada story sikit masa kita sampai.

Si Jue, yang personal assistant si Faz, baru sampai Pelita time more or less everyone was arriving. Jue ni kira kategori 'woman under contruction'. Don't you dare call her a nyah. She's a a lady in development ok!

Anyway, si Jue ni, time nak keluar kereta, was on the phone. Pintu kereta dia terbuka. Tiba tiba ada orang tarik beg tangan dia! Memula dia ingat kawan-kawan saja nak wat kejutan, main-main.

Then she turned to look, and there was some stupid rempit running with her bag! Tanpa pikir, si Jue nih, keluar keta dan kejar. Dengan hanya beberapa langkah, Jue caught up with peragut ni, yang da lompat membonceng atas motor member dia yang menunggu.

Jue tetiba, berbekalkan kuasa pil-pil hormon ala cocktail, managed to catch up, then lompat ala Bionic Woman, berjaya tangkap the pillion rider yang snatch bag dia. She managed to drag him off the bike, dan kedua meka - si Jue dan peragut tuh, jatuh terpelanting kat jalan.

Yang tukang bak motor tuh pusing dan maki Jue, "Ko kenapa???!!!" Cam sial kan! Nak rompak satu hal... pastu nak marah orang katanya sebab merompak! Keji! Jue pun maki balik nak curi beg orang takde duit ke. Sementara tuh, mamat yang jatuh tu, yang masih berpeluk beg Jue, managed to get back on his feet and naik balik motorcycle.

Si Jue turned Bionic Woman again. Kali ni dia terkam, tangkap kedua pala bebudak tuh dan hantuk sekali. She then dragged off the pillion rider yang masih holding on to her handbag. Kali ni Jue seret dia berapa kaki sampai dekat keta dia. Time tu, kata Jue dan bersepah barang-barang dia cam handphone dua bijik atas jalan. Merasalah, rasa cam testimony kes Fazura je time dia bergelut! Heh!

Anyway, masa tu memang ada small crowd da gathered area simpang Jalan Telawi 2 tuh, dekat Telawi Street Bistro. Tapi takde orang tolong. Ala ala cam show free katanya. Mesti ada yang konsep tengok sabung ayam, ada yang betting, "I bet on that girl to beat up those two sorry asses!" But thankfully, bebudak area McDonalds tu, armed ngan kayu and all, ran up tuk tolong Jue.

Mungkin sebab nampak ada reinforcements coming, budak yang kena heret ke keta tuh ngan muka kena sagat ngan Jue kat jalan tar, pandang Jue, campak beg Jue dekat dia, and kata, "Nah... amik lah beg ko!" sebelom lari naik motor dan cabut!

Matilah tergelak aku dengar cita Jue! Tu la korang! Dah la rempit bodoh! Nak rompak, nak target pompuan je kan! Ni dapat pompuan yang da maksimum hormon kalahkan kes steroid ahli sukan nak main-main ragut ngan dia! Ni pun lom dia PMS tau korang da kena camtuh!

Anyway, all of us had a good laugh. Jue escaped with a few scratches, a crack on the screen on her handphone and that's it.

Tengok betapa prihatin gituh si Faz. Siap tampalkan plaster kami gi carik tuk nak cover up the cuts and scraped Jue had on her hand and legs akibat bergelut ngan peragut peragut tuh.

Sorang bahaya kalao ada kasut tumit tinggi, PA lak bahaya kalao bab beg tangan! Men... and woman too. You have been warned! Tapi salute Jue gituh. Sesiapa yang penah kena ragut mesti paham trauma kena kan? Well, Jue got a point for all those who have been victims of snatch theft before.

Akhirnya tengok la tangan Jue yang bertampal plaster! Bukan nak tayang cincin ye...

So lesson for today is, jangan pikir pompuan aje, ko nak pandai ragut ragut. Biar insan lembut skali pun jangan ingat skali leh senang senang jadik mangsa. Tu baru Jue. Lom agik sorang agik member aku yang bernama Dayang - another woman in construction from Kelantan gak cam Jue.

Gelak kami keluar cita Dayang, yang nampak je cam pompuan ayu, tapi sebenarnya juara tomoi pernah nak kena rompak ngan jantan mana entah. Last last jantan tu lari bila Dayang nak bukak step, sambil mengejar ngan parang!

Girl power! Well... erm... sort of!

Don't mess with a lady and her handbag!

Anyway, da borak, ngumpat dan gelak, aku dan Adi ke McDonald at the end of the row nak beli burger lak. Merasalah kempunan nak makan burger. Suka sangat tengok sign ni. At least nampak ler McDonalds ni make an effort with a proper sign nak warn against those yang malas puasa.

Last call, nampak lak Burn and gang. yang a table away tengah lepak. Eh, by the way, korang tau, Si Burn ni leh post a pic of me dia amik masa kita berserempak kat Astro time gi Glamer Raya Aznil ari tuh. Gatal bijik tol. Dia letak dalam blog dia kat xfresh nya page. CLICK HERE nak tengok posting dia. Ngada tol!

Yang sebelah Burn tu, muka dia korang cam bebetul ek. Nama dia Mahesh. Dia star baru filem Yasmin Ahmad yang bertajuk Talentime yang baru abih shooting. Click kak Min's name to go to her blog where you'll see more pics of Mahesh there, along with production still. He will be starring alongside Pamela Chong, adik Vince dan Vanessa yang masuk The Amazing Race Asia 2, jadik runner-up. Si Mahesh ni watak dia lak sebagai adik kepada watak Jaclyn Victor who makes her film debut.

Yang awek tuh Ainul. Her movie Histeria directed by James Lee is coming out soon too.

Eh.. panjangnya posting nih!!!!

Ok, I leave you guys this time with a special song, which is a message to all of the rempits and the men out there yang ingat 'insan lembut' nih leh take advantage. Lagu ni tajuknya Jangan Ganggu Banci - dari Project Pop. Banci in Indonesian means mak nyah ler.

Watch the video! Loved this song for the longest time. Project Pop are the best! Check out their songs, bertajuk Ade and Dangdut Is The Music Of My Country among others. Meka ni cam Senario la kat sini - except they're funnier and actually talented, apart from actually being able to sing. First time dengar lagu meka time aku ke Jakarta dulu. The queen in the video is Aming, who's a star in Indonesia, with the Ekstravaganza program over Trans TV. Such a riot!

Ok... enjoy the video! Selamat berpuasa... berapa hari je beraya deh!

And Jue - ko memang superwoman! And women should be proud of you for having you among them to show them, that they need not be victims! And people, ingat... just cause someone is different, doesn't make them inferior to you.

Ciao!

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What a joke

First let's get the concert review out of the way. Entah lah... cam tak teruja langsung konsert keenam ni. Cam membosankan sangat jerk. Salah selection lagu ker, pacing show ker.. not sure. Whatever it is, I found it quite boring.

I don't know what to say about yesterday night's concert. Honestly.

To start off, the whole sanding thing was, well... erm... well... sweet I suppose.

Tapi patutnya they made it more special by making sure keseluruhan pelajar musim pertama hadir. Kalao leh, undang ler semua bekas pelajar muncul skali.

And then kalao leh, patutnya bukan Mila yang nyanyi tapi Zarina. Hehehehehe... mintak dia nyanyi Pulangkan. Leh? I mean, make it light and fun... besides I'm sure Zarina wishes them the best, so no harm kan?

It would be nice to see how nostalgic things could get.

This was just... a trigger, nothing more. Which was a waste. Just like the whole iklan thingie. Gelak sekali dua. tapi bila da lama sangat cam buang masa.

Aduh... malas teruskan comment.

Cita pasal performance la. Oh by the way, aku kembali to diamonds and pam jamban punya rating. Tapi minggu ni special sikit cause ada bagik hadiah pada exceptional performances. Read on.


STANLY
Kata
He looked like he was doing a bad cross of Riverdance meets the Karate Kid and a ballerina gone wrong tul masa dia menari. Something weird in the jerkiness of his moments yang bila buka mulut jer terus ilang step.
Wobbly all over (and I mean the voice ok) and when he wasn't that or sumbang, he would go totally flat. Bunga lenggok dia semua macam kena steamroll jerk. I have no idea why he's still here. Go home already. You wasted six weeks of being in the Akademi. Entah haper yang di belajar. Konon hebat, tapi tak satu pun performance yang even mediocre. Every one of them has been hideuously painful.
And what the hell was that last pose yang mengeliat semacam tuh?????
And again and again... what's wrong with all the pengkritik for not hearing and seeing it. Charity work ker?



ALIF
Ketahuan
I think vocally he did ok, tapi parts of it, apart from his body language cam forced sangat. Slight improvement in the character department, but not enough progresss for me.
I don't get the nervousness and why he can't get over it.
One irritating habit, kenapa asi dok peluk tubuh jerk keja dia.
He also has to find a way to overcome how not to fizzle out during his performance. Slalu starting ok, but midway terus burn out. Dia nih mediocre and not among the worst for sure, tapi he needs to work harder to find a little magic in his persembahan.



NADIA
Rama Rama
The arrangement sounded a little harder, more heavier jadiknya. I suppose it was actually playing up to her strengths of her character.
Firstly I have a problem with her outfit. The dress was fine. And I can forget the top sebab nak cover la kan sleeveless, which was fine.
Tapi the fishnet stockings and boots were just all wrong.
Seb baik ler Nadia became the first real SINGER to perform for the night. Sora dia memang menarik slalu and consistency dia aku kena perkatakan sebagai her main strength. Even though aku rasakan dia takkan ke final kerana undian slalu rendah sangat. aku harapkan sesuatu supaya dia leh get the attention she deserves.
Hope from now, she puts a little more of herself into her performances while balancing it with a more polished approach.



TOI
Tak Bisakah
I am so sick and tired of them highlighting his f**king angklung playing skills. Who cares? Ni Akademi angklung ke?
Nope... didn't think so.
The guitar playing was such a sad attempt to get him attention. Kalao nak Akademi Gitaris ok la gak... ni nyanyi pun takleh.
Masuk je first line terus lupa lirik.
And then it was flat all the way. Aku rasa budak-budak kat area rumah aku lepak kat tepi longkang kat ujung jalan bak kapok pun lagik power anytime, even without being in the Akademi for six weeks.
The gimmick of playing the guitar was to cover his weak stage abilities to move about without appearing macam Zombi Kampung Pisang, and it would have worked, again, kalau dia leh nyanyi.
Hope for double elimination dia dan Stanly. Nyampah! Buang masa je dok Akademi.



NUBHAN
Generasiku
Dia ni paham tempo tak? Menyampah aku! It just didn't work.
His body pun cam out of sync with everything else.
What was supposed to be upbeatly poppish ended up like lagu pop yeh yeh sumbang. What a waste of a killer song with no punch at all.
Dengan semput dia and blurness dia onstage, plus ngan sumbang sora dia yang merata, he actually joins Toi and Stanly for being the deserving penarik beg.



STACY
Don't Speak
Now THIS is a professional in the making.
Walaupun dengan set-up props yang tak perlu yang aku rasakan macam Aishah time Anugerah Juara Lagu (seb baik tak baik bak budak budak onstage jerk), she rocked it.
The first verse was AMAZING! Such control! That was a five star effort!
She continues it in the chorus.
She lost some steam in the second verse, and her energy cam drop sikit, but vocally there was little to gripe about.
During the musical bridge tuh cliche sikit la with the papers being thrown and all. Very predictable. Siapa la punya idea tuh.. ish ish ish.
Cuba dia nak lepas geram dia tuh hempas pecah pasu ke, campak meja ke... tapi sepak cushion pun jadik la.
And lain kali jangan la pakaikan dia kain perca ye.
Yang sapa bising pasal sebutan, it was so minimal... so cam picking at bones jerk.
A powerful performance no less and the only one yang tak sumbang the whole night, and again, as predicted, the best for the night!



RIZ
Seribu Tahun
What's wrong with the wardrobe and make-up department.Kenapa sapu lip gloss overdose tuh kat dak tuh???
Berkilat seribu batu pun nampak.
Vocally, the good points, he's on par with Nadia in terms of overall control, but has the same problems she has, which is a little flat here, a little sharp there.
Breathing, and ad libs also his weaknesses, which eventually leads to a little pitchy delivery here and there.
Kalao dia keep it simple without trying to colour it up too much, he could have sounded better. Tried too hard here and there, but in a night when we had the likes of Toi, Stanly and Nubhan, dia nampak way better.



RINA
Ular
First of all, this song sucks big time for a show.
There is no rea melody there, and the hook is whacked.
Rina lost whatever little melody there was from the start
Dia nyanyi ke bercakap pun aku tak pasti, as she made things worse by not appearing to sing.
Honestly, as much as I hate Stanly and Toi especially, this was the one of the worst performances from the whole night, and also from Rina since the first concert.


8 Pelajar Akademi Fantasia 6
Menuju Puncak
Buat kali pertama (again) dalam sejarah Akademi Fantasia ada DUA orang yang OKU yang takleh join. Overall the performance is getting better, but maybe that's because there's lesser numbers to deal with.
Nubhan is still lazy freak who shuffles ike a bum onstage cam badan dia berat sangat. Nampak sangat pemalas dia. Nak nyanyi pun nampak banyak curi tulang, sama cam Toi.
Stanly lak konon sora besau haram dengar langsung, which in his case I suppose it's a good thing.



So we're down to two girls, and five boys, who are mediocre at best. Three of which in Nubhan, Stanly and Toi berapa lama mau tahan lagik, tatau la. Geram jer...
But like I promised, ni ada hadiah to two exceptional performances. Aku tak kata exceptionally good or bad.
So obvious I mean exceptonally menyakitkan hati. Diperkenalkan sponsor kita.

Bukan low budget airline yer... just no budget airline jerk.


Yer tuh dia! klubbkidd airlines... aku pun tatau wujud syarikat penerbangan nih. Tapi sebab da sponsor aku kredit kan jer lak ek. With the tagline 'flying freaks home for free', hadiah pada two exceptionally horrendous performances goes to....

Toi


dan Stanly...


That's it! First class, one way tickets to go home. Please use it now! Expiry date cam your potential in the music business. Immediate!

Tolonglah Akademi Fantasia wujudkan AFKELUAR. And allow us to send these two home at least to preserve deria pendengaran kita while we still have it! Kalao ada contest pengundi paling banyak hantar undian aku nak sponsor hadiah la. Pemenang AFKELUAR tetinggi akan menerima buku eksklusif ni.

As not advertised on TV


Of course ada yang tertanya.. sing like who? Ala.. like Stanly.... Apa? Tak kenal? Google him and you'll find this.



Geram katanya... anyway, here's a little puzzle from Wheel of Fortune. Sapa teka, takde hadiah, cuma dapat kepuasan mencarut jerk katanya. Sapa leh jawab... angkat tangan. Nak angkat kaki pun leh.. tapi tak senonoh lak... cam subjek jawapan.

I'd like to buy vowels, please. May I have an A, O and I!


Anyway... on to more interesting stuff.

Riz's dad tegur aku pas konsert tanya pasal komen komen aku masa Diari EXT and I explained that Riz does bring on the drama a little too much at times. And sadly enough, it is a reality that semua tuh, will eclipse his performance.

The point here is, and please read this, especially pada mereka yang emo merembes, tak paham bahasa selama ni. this is a TV show.

Paham?

You don't know these kids, and a couple of them, fortunately or unfortunately I do. But what I say here in my blog, is based on what we see, in Diari or Konsert, which is a reflection of reality.
Hakikatnya dalam dunia hiburan sebenar, korang tau ke artis mana yang camna sebenarnya? Do you know them?

You only perceive to the best of your abilities, right or wrong.

And that's what reality TV and Akademi Fantasia is all about. PERCEPTION!

Also understand this, like I told Riz's dad. Anggap cam kita semua nih layan Akademi Fantasia, macam tengok bola.
Dalam tuh, ko sokong Perak aku sokong Selangor. Aku kata pemain korang kaki bangku, kayu, makan suap... ko kata pemain team aku sokong telur berat, dan gerak cam mak nenek. Normal la. Pastu pengkritik lak ibarat referee... slalu kena kutuk kayu (kekadang benar)

But at the end of the day - it's only a game. Sheesh. Don't get so emo la people.

Beberapa orang Riz FC nak perang ngan aku wat memacam statement suka hati mak bapak sebab tak puas ati. Sampai komen Diari EXT aku which fair - where I mention he was consistent but too much drama pun nak take to heart. It's the truth ma. Deal ith it.

Ni nak reka memacam cita lak.

Konon pastu nak perjuangkan memacam like you know so much when in reality, you spent your life on a couch in front of the TV. Nak kata grow up, kertu la plak da.

Kang overdose perangai, dalam nak sokong, kena kutuk lak pelajar tak bersalah sebab fanatik camni lak overdose.
Aduh.. tiap musim ada jerk yang perangai ting tong berangan cam feeling saviour of these kids.
Bebudak ni dikritik ke kutuk ke..... meka yang tanggung. No one else! Menang pun meka gak, bukan ko. Kenapa? Berangan nak dok melangut tepi dak tuh kang?

Ko hengat ko merembes, ko dapat ke puaskan nafsu ko kalao ko backing beriya?

You want to bring it on to the next level by personal b*tching, let's turn up the drama. But back off while you can. That's a warning.

Anyway, thanks to Riz's dad for the chat (also yang cousin dia yang bertudung, tak sempat tanya nama - thanks for the compliments on my blog - katanya... walaupun.. *gelak sat*) and also to sweetmm who's heading Riz FC for taking up the cause to settle things to avoid then getting out of hand after beberapa fan club pelajar lain kurang senang perangai anggota tertentu yang molot poaka leh tahan. Otai cam dia paham la situasi peminat overdose... sabau ek kak.

Yawn....

Moving on... tadik ke persandingan Khai and Rosma.

Korang da tengok all the pics of the couple kan, so takyah la tempek agik kan.

Instead, ni gambar tamu lak.. a part of them at least. Love this picture though ramai lagik missing. Masa time amik pic ni, Sahri dan Salima takde. Also missing were ramai lagik geng. Zarina, Mas, Zahid were supposed to come but like a lot of others ramai ada hal cam show dan sebagainya while some came but jap jer. Love this pic.

Fantasia family rocks!

Enjoy the pic guys... damn tired. Tadik pas habih event ramai ramai including Shuib, Bob, Irma, Mila, Fahmee, Man, Juan as well as moi gi melepak Precint berapa ntah sampai kol berapa.
Ngantuk...


PS - Persembahan konsert keenam kat player sebelah da. Layan....

Part of the Fantasia family
(Pix courtesy of Aida from My Celebrity News Online)

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