All you need...

I'm not a photography expert, or even an enthusiast for that matter. In an age where everyone hauls DSLRs, I guess I'm slow to pick up on that...

Truth be told I like photography where a photo speaks to you - but have no desire to get serious into it. Buat pakai Blackberry Z10 pun cukup lah ala kadar. Feeling Instagram model la jawabnya...

Here are some shots I took during the Muzik Muzik semifinal last night... hope you guys like them. I love Stacy's best...

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Banana leaf and song

Since I've been updating so much about food, and some really yummy choices at that - malam tadi melantak banana leaf.

Sesuai dengan konsep pratonton filem Appalam! Sebenarnya singgah je, tak sempat tengok pon sebab kena gegas ke Muzik Muzik sepatuh akhir kedua. Saja drop by to give moral support katanya.

Antaranya pada tuan director, Aflin. Comei tak anak dia.

Also, was there to catch up jap ngan Jac. Suka la dia pakai saree. She looks good in anything, but I think pakaian tradisional orang kita the best, tak kira la bangsa apa pon.

Pastu, gegas ke Sri Pentas 2, Plaza Alam Sentral. Celah layan persembahan backstage, melepak ngan kengkawan yang membawa lagu-lagu yang tercalon. So what happens backstage?

Well... ada yang pose sakan tuk photos camnih...

...ada yang sibuk bersiap...

...ada kengkawan menggila main ngan props yang tertinggal belakang pentas...

...ada pas bersiap, sempat camwhore ngan kengkawan...

...ada yang mesej tunang... (pandai je aku speku)

...dan ada yang bagi candid shot gila...

It was a fun seminfinal show, and the suspense is going to be thick next week. Tak sabar.

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Chill out

Reluctant to go anywhere hari ni. Badan berat sangat kekurangan tidur beberapa hari ni.

But sebab da janji, made my way to Hard Rock Cafe Kuala Lumpur for Jac's charity showcase in aid of the Breast Cancer Welfare Association. Partly pun due to the fact I knew she wanted a show more of a throwback to her club circuit days.

Jac - in all he rockin' glory.

And true enough... she pulled it off great. Memang selection lagu meletup and headbanging. It wasn't too packed - sad. Mungkin sebab on Sunday night, and partly because kalao ada nak kuar pon da kuar for Halloween semalam keletihan.

Still, kudos to Jac and congrats on such a great show. Si Black pon ada.. abang Awie pon ada skali lepak.

Sorry this is going to be such a short entry. Serious nak tidur nih... balik umah je nak hibernasi...

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Check it

Anyone miss Jaclyn Victor?

If you do, remember to catch the special showcase in support of the Breast Cancer Welfare Association of Malaysia at the Hard Rock Cafe Kuala Lumpur.

The sow will be on 31 October on Sunday at 11pm. Entry is RM55, which is inclusive of first drink.

You can go down Hard Rock Cafe and book your seats and such now. Caught up with Jac and borak borak.

I love Jac and I'm looking forward to the showcase. It's gonna rock! Yeap.. she's going for a harder edge to the show, so yes, rock on!

Ni pic aku snap masa nak amik keta kat Concorde Hotel nya parking lot. Ada sign ni nak remind not to leave valuables in the car. I guess my bag counts as a valuable for sure.

Tuh dia. Classic Gucci gituh! Heh!

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My life would suck without you!

Am so damn happy today! Hari ni layan Kelly Clarkson for the All I Ever Wanted tour in Kuala Lumpur.

Excited walaopon a little sad cause no interviews or press conferences. Boo! Got to stadium early, and tengah lepak when jumpa geng Hotlink, my clients.

Talked a bit and then sorang tuh tanya.. da jumpa ke. Aku jawab pon la.. dah.... tahun 2002 ke 2003 dulu kat Singapore. Heh! Matilah! Pastu aku ngadu la mana dapat jumpa... sebab takde PC ke apa. Dia bagitau ada meet and greet with selected fans. Termasuk pemenang dari negara lain.

Dalam lima puluh lebih orang kot.

Aku kata, ajak la. Sebelom anything, dia pass aku invite nih.

Tuh dia!!!

Happy gila aku. I feel like zaman aku dulu masa form two tak silap aku... masa first time gi konsert (masa tuh tengok Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine kat Stadium Negara).

Seronok gila dapat salam ngan Gloria, dan borak ngan Jon Secada yang masa tuh hado orang kenal kerana time tuh dia hanya backing vocal je.

Aku sejak masuk line nih, tak excited langsung kalao jumpa artis. Sebab da nama keja.

The last time aku rasa teruja pon berdepan ngan Mariah Carey yang kerek tuh (masa tuh diajak boss TMnet yangs sponsor konsert si karipap tuh kat sini). Tuh pun stakat tengok je sebab sentap ngan perangai dia yang memang diva gila! But dia superstar ok la... layak. Kalao yang stakat suam kuku cas diva camnih... memang mintak kena campak selipar jepun da kat muka.

Anyway... sentap sikit sebab official photographer meka amik pic ngan Kelly, so no autographs (takpe... aku ada da... dia sign exclusive bagi aku tuk first album lagik...) or pictures with own camera. Cam kesial. Tapi takpe.

Aku ngan tiga orang agik dapat time ngan dia.

Aku masuk belakang sekali sebab biar ada masa cakap sikit lebih.

She was still the same, and I heard the same line I heard first time I met her in Singapore.

"Hi... I'm Kelly... (peluk)... sorry... I'm a huggy person, I like hugging people".

Jumpa dia, dia peluk aku and all. Pastu aku cakap la... benda sama dia ucapkan. Heh.. dia tanya bila jumpa. Aku kata masa kat Singapore bila kat mana, kita lepak masa tuh camna and all.

Dia terus jerit. "Oh my God... yeah and it took me this long to finally get here!" sambil gelak. Sebab masa tuh aku da minat dia, aku da tanya bila nak mai Malaysia.

"Well, it took a long time, but hey... I'm here now!"

I love Kelly! Dia cakap molot tak henti... and dia genuine. Tak plastik tak fake!

Pastu aku keluar balik isap rokok sambil senyum jerk sorang-sorang. Serempak ngan kengkawan and then lepak together before we finally went in.

Ni songlist for semalam.

Jac did a wonderful job opening for the show. She did a medley of 24 songs (she said that.. I don't know if it was that many, but it was a lot!)

Jac being Jac, she was just amazing. Leh tak kita ramai agik penyanyi dalam Malaysia ni cam dia. Freaking awesome.

The weird part is, the second opening act before Kelly - was Suki. Ewwww!!!

I never liked Suki and always thought she was a waste of time.

Kali ni naik pentas with this dress that looked like dia kena sponsor ngan rumah pengantin kat Jalan Loke Yew ke apa with those organza (I'm thinking it is) ruffles yang ala ala kertas tisu terpakai.

She was overdressed to just perform one song, forgettable... and in short a complete waste of time.

And then.. Kelly came on making it all worth it - despite the dodgy seating layout, bad sound system, heat and the stupid island of 'VIPs' yang dok paling depan tanpa emosi!

It was just amazing. Yes, if you have to ask, Kelly has put on weight. And it wasn't just seeing her from a distance, but yes, since I hugged her I can feel the difference.

Ok... that sounds wrong. You know what I mean.

But despite all that, I can say she was FANTASTIC! Her stamina was crazy! She went on and on without showing any sign of even being remotely strained, though dia ada kata the heat was really bad and she was sweating it all off.

And by the end when she was telling us My Life Would Suck Without You, the crowd went crazy and went on their feet and freaked out and sang it back to her.

Yeah.. my photos are crappy. But was busy Tweeting so sapa yang follow aku @klubbkiddkl got the full account of the concert.

It was THE BEST concert I've been to in Kuala Lumpur for a LONG time after the Black Eyes Peas in Genting which was crazy awesome (not the MTV one in Sunway), and it was all because of Kelly (the organizers still SUCK which I'm sure a lot of people would agree).

Oh by the way... for those who were wondering how we did on Foursqure, nope, we didn't get the Superswarm. Simply because there were three locations! Same stadium but three spots kalao tak silap aku so everyone checked in random locations! Aduh!

Takpe... next time.

But I have to congratulate some fans for doing a flash mob inspired birthday song for Kelly. It came between songs and was drowned out the moment the next song began, but at least Kelly heard the belated birthday wishes. Yeay!

By the way - my friends and I did a FLASH mob there. Sakit hati ngan Rela bangang nya pasal asik suloh spotlight ke arah kita sebab ada bebudak pakai kamera dia nak warning takleh amik gambar.

Tapi bila da kerap sangat kita da asik kena suluh (padahal bukan kita pon), mata da sakit, hati da sakit, kita ramai-ramai guna phone, amik gambar Rela tuh ngan flash on! Dia bengang gila... tapi lantak la. Heh! Puas ati balas dendam. Tau pon sakit mata kan?

All in all it was mad fun sebab ramai kawan kat konsert tuh and got to catch up with friends.

After that, gi layan Rudy yang da mula proses pindah umah sebelom ngan Jo kita gi supper. Good end to the night.

Me happy to bits now. Hoping things will hold out this way until end of this week. Lots of work.. so little time. Worried by excited. Here we go!

PS - More pics of the concert soon!

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Foursquare Day

For those of you who are on Foursquare, Happy Foursquare Day! Or what's left of it, as we exit it, and others in different part of the world begin it.

What is Foursquare day? Well.... those on iPhone, Blackberry, Android and such, probably know. And if you are on Twitter, you couldn't have missed it.

Foursquare is an application where you 'check in' at your favourite places, get points for fun, and more importantly, get badges for various achievements.

And if you check in the most at a location, you become Mayor!

I nearly missed Foursquare Day - but thanks to Altimet who boasted of his new Swarm badge via Blackberry Messenger, and told me of a Foursquare Day gathering/party at Starbucks in Uptown Damansara. As I happened to be in Kota Damansara, leaving for Shah Alam, I swung by.

Sempat la aku check in and get my Swarm badge. Sorry to everyone for not joining in, but it did look like everyone was having fun.

Yang penting, I got my Swarm badge! Swarm badge is basically for achieving a check-in together with 50 or more people. I heard the KL gathering went over a hundred. Not enough for a Super Swarm badge which is 250 people or more, but still impressive as it's not easy to get.

I don't know if this is true, but among the hundreds of Foursquare Day parties - declared a 'social networking public holiday' - Kuala Lumpur had quite a very decent one (I heard we even beat Hong Kong's celebration).

And this - is my Swarm badge!

And this, is the Forusquare Day badge! Get it? Foursquare? as in 4 squared equals 16, so 4/16 or April 16 = Foursquare Day!

Yang pentingnya, this brings my number of badges to a total of 23!!!

For those of you on Foursquare - check out my achievements. Makan hati tak? Come on, admit it! You're jealous! So if you have Foursquare, add me on 'Joe Lee' by searching or using my email klubbkidd@gmail.com and let's keep track of each other.

For those of you NOT on Foursquare, where have you been? Apapon, check it out by CLICKING HERE and joining (you must be on a Smartphone listed). All you have to do is sign up for an account, download the application and get going!

Ahh... pas dapat my badge, I headed to Shah Alam. Untuk majlis menyambut ulangtahun Datuk Siti Nurhaliza yang ke 15 dalam industri muzik, sekali pelancaran album 'Apresiasi' Saida dan Sairah.

Blackberry aku da nazak, tak charge battery (simpan tuk check in Foursquare je) so pics tak banyak. Sempat snappy pics Jac yang perform. Vogue gila dia malam tadi.

Tak sempat snappy pic Saida and Sairah, but hope you guys like this one (low lighting and flash lak takleh pakai sebab low batt) but manja tak?

Amik ko. Tahniah to Datuk Siti Nurhaliza, and may you have more years in the music industry.

No matter what anyone says, bukan senang nak tahan satu setengah dekad and still be going strong.

PS - Short entry sebab something on my mind. The end is near...

PPS - Lahanat sangat Diari kelmarin tunjuk si Maulana dapat 'panggilan' dari awek dia, pastu dipaksa bagitau 'pilihan' antara awek dia dan Ain, and Ain dipaksa masuk ketika call tuk jawab as well. What the fuck? I mean seriously? Is this what Akademi Fantasia is resorting to for ratings? Siap asik dok nak kompang Iwan dan Nad... this is why I watch it on Youtube kalao ada masa. Takyah naikkan rating ke AFUNDI. Kowser. And need I mention in these two days bak masuk Fahrin for Farina and bak masuk Tony Eusoffe and Zulhuzaimy for Ain??? Meka ni belajar apa? Merembes?.. the gimmick was just... cheap. Just like how they making these kids. And budak-budak indie sekarang adalah 'budak-budak comel tepi jalan? A WTF moment...

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Yeah yeah!

Tadik siang rush gi press conference untuk Anugerah Industri Muzik 17 yang akan diadakan 2 Mei nih.

Tuk info korang, yang akan wat persembahan tahun ni ialah - Dato’ Siti Nurhaliza, Dato Sheila Majid, Krisdayanti, Faizal Tahir, Zee Avi, Ayu, Shila, Yuna, Riz, Aizat, Alif Satar, Altimet, Dafi, DJ Fuzz, Iqwal, Jaclyn Victor, Mila, Point Blanc, Andrew Tan, Karen Kong, Preeta Prasad, Vince dan Juwita Suwito.

Penyampai termasuk Amanda Imani, Hafiz, Diana Danielle, Colabr8, Basil (FlyFM), Jo-Anna Henley, Liyana Jasmay, Mawi, Prema Yin, Ruffedge, Soo Wincci, Tini (Hot FM) dan Shruthi.

Ni some pics aku sempat snappy. Memang tak banyak!

Aku beberapa hari ni serious tak cukup tidur. Keja tak berkurangan gak sebab abih satu, masuk satu. Aduh... rezeki, rezeki gak... tapi pening sapa nak jawab.

Tapi malam tadi memang best sebab pas abih meeting bagai wrap last call at 9.30pm, aku gi lepak ngan kengkawan kat Rasta.

Kali pertama aku rasa geng Rasta ni leh nak dekat kalahkan geng Pelita ngan jumlah yang berkumpul.

Yang pentingnya...

Tuh dia.. sapa nak jawab. Aku maintain merah pink gituh pala (sila abaikan tanda tanda gugur rambut yer... sebab tu rambut berminyak, yang menipis nampak ala nak botak lak - plus pendek ok!) sementara si Rudy dah berbalung ayam!

Merasalah...

Anyways, it was enlightening to learn some things tonight.

All I can say is, let God judge. Sapa la aku nak hukumi tindak tanduk sesetengah manusia yang tak sedar untung. Syukur je atas rezeki apa aku ada, dan pada yang rasa dengki melihat walaopon tak usaha nak capai apa meka nak - aku doakan meka sendiri nampak kesilapan mereka dari terus menyalahkan orang lain.

Takpe...

Apapon.. esok another day. Merasalah.

Apapon... like I said, no review of Diari yer. Geli bijik cita cinta nan hado. Focus cinta katanya... tak perlu. Jadik Akademi Maksiat ek. Heh... tak campo! What it does is show how poyo and berangan some can be. And how retarded too sampai nak tunjuk ngan motor agik. Kowser!

Oh by the way - to all my lovely friends and readers of this blog, wonder if you guys saw this in The Star yesterday?

Recognize anyone? Kalao korang nak tau lebih, just head on over Project Alpha season two. Will blog more about it later, ok. Gotta sleep now...

PS - Korang layan Glee tak malam tadi? Aku da download lom layan... tapi meanwhile... here's the much hyped Vogue video by Sue Sylvester/Jane Lynch

Before anything else... layan the original first.

And then... the Sue! Yeay! Tak sabar aku... next week - The Power of Madonna!

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AIM again

Heh.. awal pagi ni tengah fresh and semangat nih. Nak abihkan keja. Baru sempat nak update pasal AIM entry semalam. So you guys saw the list of top five nominees.

Actually this year, the list is pretty good, considering all the material submitted.

Tapi aku kuciwa sikit jer, yang album Yuna tak dapat masuk top five for the album categories. I think her album is one of the best of the whole year, seriously. Tapi apakan daya, gitu.

Anyway the event semalam pon, bagus la, sebab ramai kengkawan ada. Actually, I thought PC semalam umumkan mechanics for AIM kali nih je, tup tup umumkan top five bagai.

Yerlah sebab tahun ni dekat sangat dengan Anugerah Bintang Popular Berita Harian - things kena compacted sikit. It really is pressing for the Akademi to organize the events. Kudos to Jen and team for the work this year.

Tapi aktiviti semalam paling hectic skali? Sibuk bertukaran Blackberry PIN masing-masing. Heh... Zain yang start ngan aku. Pastu Altimet mai join, Jac pon kena tarik, and Faizal Tahir kena carot sebab pakai iPhone. Amik ko.. lone ranger katanya.

Ni some pics aku sempat snappy.

I think the best congratulations is Stacy up for Best Pop Album. Tahniah pada Stacy and all the best to kesemua nominees.

Owh pada sapa yang terlepas Diari semalam, ni dia.

Observation pasal Diari semalam.

1) Jimmy cuba nak sebut Akademi cara betul (heh.. baguih nok, ni mesti keja Najib nih.. matilah aku!)

2) Isu Shah tak pakai baju sponsor jadik hal. Sapa mintak sponsor bangang tak bagi size betol? Motif Maybelline bodoh sangat bagi size feeling fit? Very the penganiayaan yang plus size. Terus kena amik kesempatan jadik drama. Dak tuh yang jadi mangsa. Kalau tuh makes him Drama King bak kata Baha then Baha lak drama queen sangat... (tapi wajib la jalankan peranan sebab tu tugas dia pon)

3) Ketara masa technical vocal classes (lebih seronok tengok class) ramai fail lagik dari sikit apa kita nampak - and Adira ni screamer, oh my goodness. Nangis tol dengar.

4) Kak Fati's rule for them to speak English during lunch again exposed the weaknesses of our education system. But all in all - tak se horror lack of command of English cam yang sebelum-sebelum ni... possibly because East Malaysian generally don't have that much of a problem as compared to those from Semenanjung.

5) Walaopon stengah jam pendek sangat, tapi rasanya content pon tak cukup nak sumbat, host links buang masa takde membantu langsung content.

Oh well.. layan je ek.

PS - Pada kengkawan yang berjuang dalam Akademi tuh, sabar ek. Heh... pahammmmm!!!!

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Skrin ke Scream???

So back to Anugerah Skrin semalam. Didn't like the awards going the wrong way (for me) in the films category, but I thought the TV categories were alright.

Tapi sebenarnya skema la results. Korang tiap tahun tengok, apa pon anugerah kat Malaysia ni, ko tengok first few results, dah leh judge da mentality juri yang mengadili.

It's never by the quality individual - if ever. Most of the time these simple rules exist - otai ni ada dalam movie ni ke tak (kalao ada - sapu!), or ada tak filem ni terapkan this nationalistic approach to culture etc (kalao ada - sapu!)

I don't care what people say - but films are works of art, and should never be fully judged based on such criteria. Technicality in execution and reach in delivery of the embodied message should. A good story is one that cuts across all the barriers and is universally significant without exclusivity in pride. In other words - just cause a film was made by so and so about so and so, patut kah menang? Whatever...

These films disappear in the ANALS of history (yeap, I meant it that way) never to be remembered even the following year.

But away from the results, aku nak puji sikit. Jarang kan aku nak puji. Aku suka set, dan production values of Anugerah Skrin this time around. Walaopon...

Initially when they had the Arabian Nights theme, I puked. Geli siot. Harus tacky gila.

But TV3 did well in the sets and all, and I commend them for that.

Tapi artis-artis kita.. ya ampon! Baju cam lahar sangat semua.

It was like the bargain bin of Gulatis and Nagoya exploded on everyone present and the cheapest fabrics were draped around them. That and a run for any costume shop carrying anything remotely 'Arabic'.

All I have to say is, a lot of our artists contributed to the BASTARDIZATION of the Arab fashion. Salah sangat ok most of them.

The highlight if you must, was Rozita Che Wan. This is the embodiment of everything so salah. Blue contact lenses, three inches of make up, endless fabric of the yuckiest yellow with kelepet sana sini tetiba terbelah kain depan ala ala mini skirt? Puke!

There were actually a lot of fugly costumes (they didn't know the difference between fashion nd something costumy) but malas aku nak list. Better nak list sapa yang pakai elok. That would take a shorter time.

Sapa yang ada kat PWTC malam tu would know what I mean.

Anugerah Skrin - because of the buruk buruk nya baju jadik Anugerah Scream!!!!

Anyhoo.. ni some pics aku janji... not much sebab aku sampai sana pon, just after balik dari Kuala Kangsar, so snap pakai handphone je.

Owh by the way - for all of you who noticed, the show was SO draggy! Afdlin kept it alive, but Fara Fauzana - ish... entah la dia merapu apa. And the scriptwriter (dari bahasa da tau sapa) should be fired! Bahasa feeling bombastic and puitis - matilah ko ingat ko tulis lagu ke? Tatau beza skrip anugerah ngan lirik ke? Konon artistically beautiful gituh.. sebenarnya?

Ok ok... berhenti meroyan... layan pics.

Leh tak props tuh letak umah aku je.. I like!


Nice set, gorgeous lighting...


Que and Linda - me likey walaopon Que tak ikut tema


Nothing Arabic about her outfit - but Liyana pakai apa pon cute


Jac - strangely enough I thought her outfit was one of those yang menarik pada mata aku


The attack of the kek lapis dresses - Part 1 (sorry ladies, love you but not your horrendous outfits!


The attack of the kek lapis dresses - Part 2 (banyak flavour ek?)


The attack of the kek lapis dresses - Part 3


Nabil and Irma - sweet and simple


The hottest couple (me like kak Vee's dress, print and flow cam J. Lo nya controversial Versace)


Lepak at the end of the night.. letih dowh!


Ok that's it... nak tido. Nanti kang je aku update agik...

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