Sorry la guys lambat update. Hari ni sibuk nak gather stuff together sebab esok da start keja balik and plus got an important meeting for a company project.
Pening sikit sebab nak juggle preparations.
Eh ni some pics I promised from Anak Wayang punya final semalam. Boring as all hell, if you ask me. Can't say it was bad or good... just dead boring.
Stupidly forgot to change the batteries in my camera after balik dari Melaka, so only snapped pics with my Nokia. Horrible lowlight response if you ask me.
Lama tak jumpa orang kampung aku ni (hidup Klang!) si Ella dan Jojie
Farhan, geng gabby
Stacy pun...
And Faz looked nice as always - cuma my cam didn't capture it well enough
I don't know what went wrong, but things dragged out. Oh well. Anyhoo, can't update panjang-panjang. Tak larat. Esok je.
Semalam gi berbuka Melodi Raya, buat aku batal posa jer. Heh... pandai lak salahkan, padahal sendiri tak tahan.
Ceritanya bermula, last minute baru aku terima pelawaan member nak gi. So I headed for Sunway about kol 6 lebih camtuh. Sampai kejap je.
Tapi akibat orang tertentu yang kurang cerdik memberikan arahan, sampai nama tempat pun tak bagitau, I spent an hour looking for the place.
Mana taknya, bayangkan, memula aku parking kat Sunway Lagoon. Memang lokasi venue tuh kat sana, tapi on the other end, so memang lebih senang kalao masuk melalui Sunway Hotel. So after almost 45 minutes peluh mencari, sampai masuk lorong belakang Sunway Lagoon yang gelap gelita dan horror, aku gi amik kereta dan gerak ke Sunway Hotel lak.
Dari hotel, tak sampai sepuluh minit da cari jalan sendiri ke lokasi. Ceh! Dalam perjalanan stress sangat isap rokok. Lebih kurang time berbuka ler, tapi tatau ler kalao aku batal ke tak. Dah pening pening lalat panas camtuh da tak kira. Seb baik aku ni tak wajib posa. Kalao tak harus dilempang beribu lemon da alasan camtuh, kan?
Sampai je pening bertambah. Mak aih! Ramainya orang!
Ingat memula meka laser kat Melodi mintak artis hanya bak PA seorang sebab takot ramai orang sangat. Konon eksklusif ler. Rupanya... aiyo! Berapa bas mek Ani nih mai nih?
Aku berat nak join the group, tapi seb baik ada geng panggil. Faizal lepak area bilik persediaan nak wat show. So lepak ler borak ngan dia. Dari sana jadik baton race lak. Dari Faizal, borak ngan Jojie dan Ella (orang kampung aku tuh!), Nurul, Jac, Zahid and Nita. Banyak sangat nak catch up.
Event camni ler yang bebetul aku dapat spend time ngan meka.
Faizal cita la pasal isu 90:10 tuh. Aku syukur ada artis muda kita yang ada otak. He pointed out too artis Malaysia patutnya tak takut saingan dan jangan nak harapkan nak sekat orang tuk maju. Usaha, dan juga keyakinan dalam hasil muzik kita sendiri patut ada and you have to keep innovating to survive.
Jojie dan Ella lak, kalao dok ngan aku je cita pasal kampung kita, Klang. Aku kira masih ler dok Klang. Meka je skali skala melawat. So cita la tuh nih, sampai bab aku berubat. Dari sana Zahid masuk ngan Nita. Transfer group member. Syukur adik aku yang oren ni kata nanti dia tanya mama pasal menda ni. Ker sebab nak Nintendo Wii aku je, Zahid? Matilah aku...
But on seeing Zahid dan Nita together aku happy sangat. I think they make a great couple, and aku berharap sangat mereka bertahan sampai ke jinjang pelamin. Dalam aku kenal Zahid berapa tahun, aku berani cakap, this is th happiest I've seen him in a very long time. All the best ok baby bro. Walaopon aku tak bagitau ko, aku bersetuju sangat pilihan hati ko.
Sedondon tuh!
Sapa rambut lagik cantik?
Menjeling.. menjeling..
Photo shoot control abih!
Very berserabut!
Ingat tak fesyen Ina Naim masa ABP dulu? Irma nak top that!
Bebudak 6ixth Sense dan pose pelik meka
Adi 6ixth Sense kata dia single! Sapa berminat? Dia nak awek yang leh jadik stok bini!
Nurul lak ada private conversation ngan aku. Takleh cakap pasal apa. Rahsia! Ada yang sibuk tanyakan pasni. Heh!
Ramai gak ler serempak pastuh. Geng Pelita aku in 6ixth Sense, Irma Hasmie. Let's see Farid Kamil, Noryn Aziz, Fara Fauzana... ramai ler. Tapi pas another hour da lepak, ngan bebudak 6ixth Sense ciao. Nak punch card masuk ofis Pelita lak.
Sebab Stacy call aku petang tadi nak jumpa, aku gerak ke rumah dia. Lepak sat ngan dia. Kos dan Laura dari Stacy FC pun ada. Lepak takleh lama sebab rakan sekerja di Pelita da, so pastuh gerak sana.
Borak, lepak dan sahur.
Tired out. I don't think I'm in the right frama of mind sangat nak enjoy berbuka kat luar. Esok ada dua lagik event berbuka. Tak gi kot... tengok camna.
I think I would prefer to be at home. At least over the weekend. Pastu baru back going about. Be blogging soon.
Sebelum apa- apa, mai aku kongsikan some pics of my orang kampung. Yeah! Klang rocks! Represent'in y'all!!! Here's three of my fave gals from Klang, Ella, and sis Jojie yang asal from Telok Gadong, Klang (jiran lama aku tuh!), as well as Liza Hanim yang dok Taman Sri Andalas (another jiran tuh sebab aku dulu dok Taman Klang Jaya sebelom shifted area Taman Gembira - behind Telok Gadong).
My girls! Ella, Liza and Jojie.
Of course, this was taken masa kat PC Anugerah Bintang Popular Berita Harian 2007 petang tadik tuk announce the list of penyampai dan yang membuat persembahan.
Before I head on to the list, nih some choice pics I managed to snap. Ingat ek, jangan cedok jerk. Kalao nak amik post memana, kredit blog aku DAN jangan lupa link. Bukan susah pon. Malas aku nak watermark pics, so sebelom aku cacatkan these pics, jangan main sambar jer ek.
I love this pic of Datin Seri/Datuk Siti Nurhaliza
Siti having a laugh - presumably the same on I had watching Jennifer in a tux
Kak Engku looking slimmer (dari belakang aku ingat kak Ziana, then ingat Nabila lak) and also my gal Dynas yang akan kahwin soon - I'll be there for you, girl!
Farah Fauzana all happy - same ngan Anuar
Hot mama - Liza in her stunning outfit
Meanwhile - back at the Batcave... Michelle dan Azmi terjah Fasha
So meanwhile, for those of you yang can read and not only want to see nice pictures, nih senarai mereka yang presenting as well as performing untuk ABP-BH 2007.
Performing are : Mawi, Datin Seri Siti Nurhaliza, Amy, Anuar Zain, Atilia, Awie, Bob, Ella, Hattan, Heliza, Liza Hanim, Meet Uncle Hussain and Ramli Sarip. Also who would have thought - a combination of Dynas, Fasha, Fauziah Ghous along with Datuk Jalaluddin Hassan. Merasalah!
Presenting : AC Mizal, Afdlin Shauki, AG (Hot FM), Anne Ngasri, Awie, Datuk Yusni Hamid, Diana Danielle. Erra Fazira, Estranged, Fauziah Latiff, Hans Isaac, Iqram Dinzly, Isma Halil Hamzah, Leya (Hot FM), Nabil (Raja Lawak), Ning Baizura, Noorkhiriah, Nora Danish, Noryn Aziz, Nurul, Rashidi Ishak, Rozita Che Wan, Sharifah Shahira, Syamsul Yusof, Zainal Din Zainal and Zul Yahya.
Hosts for the night are Fauziah Ahmad Daud @ Ogy and Raja Azura @ Kak Engku. Riuh rendah event tuh, followed up by another. Launching program tuk Astro Oasis. Tapi bab tuh aku tanak sentuh sangat ler. Kang panjang lebar. But seronok ler sebab lepak, carut... I mean... discuss Akademi Fantasia 6 nih.
But one person menjadi perhatian - Ikin. Alah... Ikin yang DIKATAKAN (matilah aku tanak sebut yang terang) KONONNYA (merasalah again) dengan Mawi.
Pose off!
Apa hah???!! Carut akak ek?!
Aku malas nak ulas.. so here's the video of what more or less transpired. Malas na wat video fancy fancy cam slalu (fancy ker)... so this is all I can muster up strength for sebab banyak keja nak abihkan and I need sleep for another full day tomorrow.
Ok guys... good night. By the way, to my Boo. Am so proud of you that you chose to be independent and get a part time job apart from studying. Nih yang tambah sayang nih...
Semalam, again layan Diari Akademi Fantasia over my laptop akibat tak sempat tengok the broadcast kerana sibuk. Sempat tengok first nya jerk.
Yang other one kena torrent baru leh layan when I got home. Yerlah.. al kisahnya, pas abih keja (ari ni masuk keja awal pagk lagik ok... sort of), singgah ke rehearsal Anugerah Bintang Popular Berita Harian 2007, which will be held this Sunday in Arena of Stars, Genting Highlands.
Tapi before I get on with that, ni some overdue pics, which I shot earlier today of my Joey, my baby sugar glider. Also of Jizzabel, si Halim punya. Nama aku nya because memang anak sugar glider, ala anak kangaroo memang panggil di panggil Joey pun. Si Halim punya tatau la apa sebenarnya inspirasi.Gisele Bundchen kot...
Aku tak amik banyak pics sangat sebab meka still getting used to the environment and didn't want to stress them out, and today sempat spend some time with Joey nak bagik dia get used to me. Success!!! Dia memang da bonding ngan aku! Heh.. enjoy the pics, pet lovers! By the way, dia da pandai lompat sana sini. Terbang sikit sikit jerk. Masih muda ma. Baru just over two months. Tapi bab panjat smakin expert.
Jizzabel kalao siang tido jangan kaco. Tu marah dia intai kuar jeling.
Joey lak active sikit. Comelnyaaaaaaaaa
Besh sangat layan. Tambah ramai pets aku. Ok la tuh.. selama ni nak bagi makan binatang yang lupa diri, baik bagi binatang yang reti nak berterima kasih. Matilah ko carut lagik!
On bab rehearsal. Anyway, besh sangat. Memang aku rasa bab persembahan, ada beberapa highlights ler kot this Sunday night. Tak sabar aku. Of course, aku gi.
Sorry ler sesapa yang mintak aku tiket. Aku memang takde. Ramai SMS or mesej me, and all I can say is, I am so sorry guys. Memang takde...
On with the latihan.. asik sidetracked jer aku nih.
My pilihan for possible best shows tuk menghiburkan malam tuh, the Anuar Zain medley, consisting of Bob (Jangan Bersedih Lagi), Atilia (Mungkin) and Anuar himself on Ketulusan Hati (langit dan bumi kalao banding Riz terciRIZ tuh). Memang besh.
Ni video Bob kalao korang nak ala sneak preview. Jangan carut apa kekurangan ek... ni baru rehearsal. Sorry aku tak amik Anuar punya set... biarlah rahsia light light korang tunggu the actual day. Memang worth it! Even Atilia...
And the other show yang aku rasa akan meletup, is the underrated diva, Liza Hanim yang akan menyanyi Merawat Luka Terpendam. Korang layan video ni kalao nak feeling sikit.
Ni some pics masa time rehearsal. Aku tak amik banyak pon. Ada benda nak discuss time tuh, so sikit jerk. Enjoy ler apa yang ada ek.
Jen working hard (iyolah - stress je lebih kot... matilah aku!). Shuib, PA Bob. Stress jek? Demam rupanya. Bob lak sibuk borak ngan Mawi.
Argh!!! Stress masuk pic blog ko kena carut!!!! Motif??? *gelak sendiri*
Ramli MS - the maestro!
Gen gila jap... stress pas layan tone deaf kat Akademi kot.
Bob tengok apa nun jauh tuh pun tatau...
Anuar ngan manager dia Rohila
Bab Ramli explaining something to the rockers. Nampak rabut jer tuh, si Ella.Jojie in the pic too, while Hattan partially hidden and Papa Rock, Ramli Sarip layan!
Bob ngan penyanyi asal lagu dia akan bawa, Anuar.
Photo op. Ramli MS, Ramli Sarip, Bob, Hattan, Mawi, Ella and Anuar Zain. Propah tau posing pelbagai!
Ko nak apa agik hahhhh??? Da cukup la pics tuh!!!
Matilah... pic Mawi sumbat muka dalam kamera aku.
Ok ok.. moving on to Diari Akademi Fantasia hari nih punya ulasan.
Aiyo.. Diari ni hari ni start je ada scene 'perluker???' Memang tak perlu!
Stanly dan Riz nyanyi duet ngan kamera. I have a sneaking suspicion aku kenal sapa yang jadi sora kamera tuh.
Berubah orang sebenarnya each time, but I know that voice! Matilah tanak pecah lobang!
Spotcheck by Ramli MS.
Lufya surprisingly ok (this may be her niche), Toi unsurprisingly boring (do we care?), Nubhan still karaoke level dan Faisal semakin geng ngan Ika menyakitkan telinga. Aduh... dia nih camna nih. Dah lah lupa lirik.
Eh ada scene Saida. She looks like she may just be able to carry it off after all. She's starting to have fun with the song, thankfully!
For the first time, I see a real confidence brewing in her. Naim? I won't even bother commenting. Leh la dia jadik penyanyi sebagus Saiful Apek. Take that how you will. Matilah pengakuan lidah pendek.
Ujibakat Raja Lawak 3
Amik ko kelas Siti Hajar, ala senamrobik nak tengok bebudak paham bahasa tak bab breathing. Da masuk Jasmi tuh. Hah... aku malas nak komen bab dia. Tapiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii... hah amek ko.
Perasaan nak mencarut tuh membuak - kinda like nausea associated with seeing his work. Konon bagi baju tak main bagi je. Mintak Ika explain kenapa tak puas ati baju. pastu tak puas ati nak melatah balik at that girl. Takyah la tanya kalao camtuh.
Then komen lak bab berat badan. Konon nak cantik kena jaga berat badan. Marah katanya pasal berat badan. Come on!!!!
Kan da takde posisi nutritionist. Dia ni feeling nak multitasking pelbagai ker. Ke malas cari baju pandai lak cari alasan??? A stylist or an image consultant knows what to do.
Ni leh suggest catuan makanan konon concerned nak meka look good Then get good wardrobe la. Nak mintak camera la, mama Rina laa.. tu jaga bebudak tuk suprvise bebudak makan. Come on!!!! What the....???!!!
Tapi aku akui, Jasmi ni memang stylo! Rambut dia very the retro inspiration. Cam Hitler hawau! Tengok wardrobe dia.. stylo gak. The red band is just missing a swastika! Yes, he sure knows what he's talking about - dia tanak bebudak gemuk. Dia buncit takpe.. dia cantik. Matilah aku...!!
Heil fashion Nazi!
Uwaaa.. semua bebudak dapat Maybelline punya make up kita. Cantik ok beg. Mesti Riz dan Stanly happy gila. Balik hostel kang leh pakai.
Fast forward kelas menari yang masih serba tidak kena.
Kelas Syafie besh sikit. Syafie naik angin layan Faisal sumbang jerk keja. Why does he keep making the same mistakes??? Lirik pun tak hapal, melodi pun tatau.. ishk.
Alahai. last scene nak main kenen kenen lagi. Konon Nadia suka Alif. Then konon Nadia gaduh ngan Lufya yang suka Alif gak. What the...
Second Diari nampaknya Maybelline punya products da mula di pakai. Moka si Faisal tuh tempek sampai cam tepong komak.
Very the Mr Vampire ok! Sabau je umi tahan nak gelak moka Faisal moka ala Chucky.
Bab Nubhan - honestly dia nih hopeless takde feel. Konon Ika dan Stacy kena tolong lak nak act the part for him konon nak hayati. Eeewwww.. can imagine them just tahan dari nak throw up. Si Toi no matter how he tries, just belongs in the same category. Lemau je...
Jahat si Sarimah, tetap nak point out si Riz top molot nak lakon baik. Kejap je tuh. Tunggu drama queen start balik perangai. Motif pagi pagi da jogging keliling hostel. Hebat!
OUCH!!!
Ika nyanyi.. sori... terkejut. Bunyi letopan gegendang telinga bila masuk je vocal Ika.
Amik ko Stanly feel Dina nak tolong her to have more attitude and punch in her performance. Pastu masuk show sendiri... aiyo! Welcome to Soi 2, Patpong! No, no, no. no, no!!! It's like watching a walrus doing the lambada.
Faisal... tatau camna nak komen agik. Asik masaalah sama tak ubah.
Choreography for lagu Naim. Nadia tolong. Mak aih.. si Naim ni da beyond hopeless. Perangai cam ungka bila geram.
"Eeeeeeeeeee.. geramnyaaaa".
Saida looked ok. 180 degrees turnabout.
One hot mama!
Erm... Alif nak wat sit up, Shafiq tolong. Erm.. hasil keja Hitler tuh kot. Meka ramai ramai dok main Jenga ke tuh. Berangan Nubhan. Kata nak pompuan nak yang tinggi, nak rambut straight, konon rambut kerinting nampak ganas. Uwaa.. da clash ngan awek katanya We wonder why...
Konon awek membebel, meleter katanya... nak yang macam Nasha Aziz katanya. Baru la macam perempuan. Heh... abih cuba rupa ko cam jantan sikit. Taking a shower once in a while would help. Rupa da la busuk jerk...
Alif ngan Toi dan Rina lepak kat dapur. Si Alif still trying to get that note. That one problematic note.
Merasalah masuk cita Rina pasal lagu yang wat dia nangis lagu Love Story. Baru bukak molot da nitis air mata Aiyo.. nenek emo. Rilekssss!!!
Motif sesi korek telinga, gentel sana sini korek?
Eeewwwww!
Matilah Stacy kata SIOKKKK ok korek tuh.
SIOKKKK!!!
Aduh... ending tunjuk ramai ramai sesi gelek layan kamera. Pening aku.
Stanly tengok je dari jauh. Nak join Nadia dan Lufya and Rina la tuh Stacy dan Ika pun abih sesi korek telinga mai join.
Siapa yang rakam video tuh? Saida ek, pakai phone?
Abih la bebudak ni kena blackmail kang. Seb baik tunjuk kat Diari dulu. Ok ok.. panjang lak kang entry ni. More tomorrow, guys!
About lunch time, aku dapat panggilan. Ada orang inform that Loloq had already passed away. Terbodoh jap aku. Lum sempat gather my thoughts, dua lagik SMS masuk. Followed by another call. Semua memberitahu benda yang sama. Berita yang aku sungguh tak sangkakan, dan memang... mengejutkan.
Rosli Khamis, atau abang Loloq, born in Singapore to his father from Masjid Tanah, Melaka, and his mother, a Chinese-Muslim convert - a mualaf, was one of the most important people in the Malaysian music industry.
I always heard his name dulu, and bila berpeluang kenal dia, didn't really get the chance to sit down and talk to him.
The last few years, we kept bumping into each other.
And aku ingat time yang paling lama aku penah sembang ngan dia, masa soal aku kena ban over the AIM issue (please don't ask me, selak page belakang banyak banyak catch up). Dia banyak advise aku to stand my ground, and fight for what I believe in.
People like M. Nasir and him dulu scared me, because they were intelligent, thinking people, who were artistes in all essence of the word. They weren't in this line for popularity and fame, but because they were passionate. They lived and breathed music.
Abang Loloq penah nasihat aku, and bagik kata semangat. Dalam kekadang rasa fed up berada dalam industri yang kekadang ngarut ngan all these superficial things, he told me to focus on what I wanted to get across.
"Semuanya bermula ngan ko lah. Ko kena usaha sendiri, takkan nak dok ngadu nasib je kan? Kalao nak wat camtuh, then no different lah ngan orang yang nyusahkan hidup kita. So make that change la.... has to start somewhere kan."
Something like that...
And at that point - I kept fighting. Masa forum AIM, dia, abang Nasir, abang Ali Bakar, abang Farihin... semua fought for the same things I did. Not because we were rebels or tak puas ati ngan several people. Nope. Because we wanted the music industry to grow, not die. And I felt proud that I wasn't doing something stupid - and it was for the good of our future, though I had doubts before abang Loloq assured me, that there always would be a price to pay.
Masa Gemilang menang dulu pun sama. Aku tak puas ati soal lirik - walaopon takde la bombastic bahasa aku, aku rasakan lirik by Asmin Mudin, was just grammatically horrible. And it didn't really make sense. Abang Loloq was one of the only ones who had the guts to say it - when others just ngata belakang-belakang.
That was the sort of man Loloq was.
He said what he felt, he fought for what he believed in. He saw the world in all its beauty, and appreciated semua anugerah Tuhan.
And then - at 1.37pm, in the Damansara Specialist Centre, abang Loloq mengehembuskan nafas terakhir.
At 6.45pm, selepas jenazah dimandikan di Surau Al-Ikhwan, Bandar Baru Sungai Buloh, he was buried di Tanah Perkuburan Islam Bandar Baru Sungai Buloh.
I didn't cry, though a lot of people who knew him very well did.
I guess I didn't know him that well. But I did feel a loss. Loss of a modern day poet. Loss of someone who saw something in me when I fought, apart from a freak trying to cause trouble which many think I am.
Abang Loloq, rest in peace. I pray for you to be blessed for the way you've touched so many lives, through your words, whether in song as to many, or in what you've said directly, like to me.
I'm sorry I didn't get to meet you one last time at least. But I'll always remember the support and advice you gave me.
I'm not as good with words as you were, dan aku tak reti nak gambarkan betapa sedihnya industri muzik Malaysia kehilangan seorang yang begitu berharga dari segi sumbangan karya. At least one thing made me smile today though. To see the majority of people in the industry yang menghadirkan diri to pay their last respects.
Ramai sangat.
Ni beberapa orang yang datang yang sempat aku recall. Sorry kalao tertinggal sesapa. M. Nasir, Amy & Yazid (Search), Hattan, Misha Omar, Jaclyn Victor, Ella, Andy (Flop Poppy), Nurul, Ajai, Tam & Tony(Spider), Farhan, Mila, Haziq, Man Bai, Farihin Abdul Fatah, Zainal Abidin, Hillary Ang, Joe (Wings), Neves (Pretty Ugly), Cat Farish (The Fabulous Cats), Aidit Alfian, Mohariz Yaakup, Ad Samad, Ramli MS, Ali Bakar, Aziz Bakar, Rosyam Nor, Adlin Aman Ramlie, Afdlin Shauki, Eman Manan, Mamat Khalid, Badaruddin Hj Azmi, Marlia Musa dan ramai lagi.
Mawi berada di Syria ketika ini so understandable lah absence dia. Tapi aku sedikit terkilan ramai artis yang mencipta nama dengan jasil karya Loloq tak muncul. Senang sangat kekadang manusia lupa.
Anyway... I can't go on and on. Here are some pictures I took today. Hope you guys say a little prayer for him, please in your own way. Nothing much more to say for now...
