Randomness

Memacam akademi ada.. merasalah ni akademi yang baru ke? Spotted masa kat hotel siang tadi kat Holiday Villa Subang Jaya.

Kelas kan? Lembu, kambing dan ayam kampung pun kena dilatih tau. Bukan semua binatang perangai gitu semulajadi. Aku kenal ramai binatang pun yang perangai gitu semulajadi je. No training required. Matilah...

Anyway, sebenarnya tadi gi for the first press conference for Anugerah Bintang Popular Berita Harian 2010.

Tuh dia barisan artis yang hadir. Tak umum pe sangat pun. Pasal voting, senarai panjang, dan launch online pasai voting je.

Ini snappy some pics nak share.

Si Shahir ni nampak letih gila. Don't you guys think he needs a shave? Da scruffy sangat camni.

Ni pic tuk peminat Datuk Siti Nurhaliza. Yang pentingnya dia touch up tu pakai brand sendiri, SimplySiti ok. Bukan cam sparuh artis tuh, endorse bagai tapi pakai brand yang vogue yang mahal-mahal je. Salute Siti.

Jap... usha kasut dia sat. Motif kasut Siti pun nak snappy. Ye la.. dari orang nak blog letak pics yang pose biasa-biasa, biar ku letak pic yang ikut suka aku jek.

Hah.. ni si Lan. From Azlan & The Typewriter ler. Tengok mata tuh lebam. Akibat arituh masa Shout! dia stagedive terlanggar makcik mana ntah, lobam jadiknya. Smakin teruk mata tuh. Kesian lak... all in the name of rock and roll katanya.

This week is so packed and I have so much to juggle...

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Backstage

Hari ni the day they decided on sapa layak Anugerah Juara Lagu 25 lepas the final semifinal. Aku separuh akhir ni, layan persembahan semua dari belakang pentas, nak amik feel camna debaran semua.

And also sebab dapat gosip dan lepak ketika show, borak-borak ngan semua kengkawan.

And here's your peek at what happens backstage.

Propkesayangan ramai ni. Kaki ala ala Upin dan Ipin ni da kena basuh la berkali bebudak pakai. Heh! Si Black dan Hafiz dan macam kembar Siam melekat kat badan da.

Sempat snappy si Tomok dan Black bersama... sebelum Tomok dihalau untuk tugasan dia... iaitu...

Tuh dia. Tugas Tomok? Nak jadi aerial bagi satu-satunya TV yang hado kat belakang pentas ni, yang bergantung live feed. Reception lak hado, so azab la semua kena harap reception ok. Ni si Tomok kena dera sebab dia berdiri sebelah TV tetiba baru ada gambar dan sound. Merasalah dia dipaksa jadik aerial demi kepuasan semua menonton backstage.

Comel tak kak Dibah pose dok rileks je. Si Ana dan Yuna pon ada, sempat snappy pic ni just before meka panggil semua onstage.

Belakang pentas lak ramai berkumpul. Ni snap pic API - Angkatan Pemuda Indie, three members at least ngan Din (Estranged), Loque (now known as monoLoque dan AJ (Popshuvit) sekali ngan Sam dari Bunkface.

And some others in Lan, Stacy, Adira, Ana dan Shahir.

And then - the announcement. Well, not yet. Ni masa semua tunggu ketika nak umum. Sempat agik tuh main-main atas pentas. I like this year sebab all the performers (most of them anyway) can get along and mesra, performing for the fun of it - and rileks je. Takde feel competition sangat sebab semua tak tekankan soal bersaing.

And finally - ni semua yang layak.

And ni full list semua yang layak. Especially pada anak-anak muda yang singer-songwriters yang represent the future of the music scene. You guys rock!

Sofea Jane - Black / Shah Kamikaze & Iswandy / Farril

Pelita - A.P.I / Loque / Loque

Cinta Sempurna - Yuna / Yuna / Yuna

Tolong Ingatkan Aku - Ana Rafali / Ana Rafali / Ana Rafali

Ku Ada Kamu - Adira / Edry Abdul Halim / Edry Abdul Halim

Hanyut - Faizal Tahir / Audi Mok / Faizal Tahir

Jahat - Stacy / Edry Abdul Halim / Edry Abdul Halim

Kebahagian Dalam Perpisahan - Shahir / Edry Abdul Halim / Edry Abdul Halim

Mencari Konklusi - Hujan / Noh Hujan / Noh Hujan

Selamat Malam - Faizal Tahir / Audi Mok / Faizal Tahir

Drama King - Meet Uncle Hussain & Black / Taja / Tun Teja

Extravaganza - Bunkface / Sam Bunkface/ Bunkface

Noktah Cinta - Hafiz / Ajai/ Shah Qalam

Berlari - Tomok / Audi Mok & Shahzee Ishak / Tomok

And yes, aku malas nak komen apa-apa lebih about what happened. Biarkan. Orang lain dapat nilai. Diam tak bererti mengalah, sama seperti mengkritik bukan bererti dengki atau menuduh. Cuma kadang-kadang ada pihak yang menjadi penyampai tak bertauliah - but que sera sera.

Still - it was a happy night, save for Aizat takde which cam lacking lak with the whole gang. It's going to be a great AJL - here's hoping for the best jury to make the right choices when the show is on next year (cam lama sangat padahal sebulan lebih je)

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Shh!

Semalam gi usha latihan for Anugerah Juara Lagu 24. The set looks interestingly impressive, walaopon kena pakai imagination sebab banyak lom siap.

The lighting and layout are impressive - tapi mana taknya, dengar meka abihkan RM2 juta for the production. Hope everything goes well.

Actualluy kalao leh aku tanak tengok latihan - sebab kang spoil penghayatan gituh pada the night of the event.

But since ni cam dry run je takpe la. Banyak performance masih in the stage of tweaking sana sini, so tengok je la.

Yang penting, opening Datuk Siti Nurhaliza... I LIKE!!! Meletop hawau! Not the usual Siti performance.

I won't say much, but aku paling suka dia duet ngan Lan - tanpa typewriter nya. Who would have guessed that the diva can rock it out. I guess you learn something new everyday.

Ni dia yang bakal kuar album rock - pepandai je aku.

A lot of the performances were interesting, awesome. And so far, my predictions (usha beberapa entry lalu) - tak ubah. Sama je... cuma, for Best Performance - aku rasa saingan akan diberikan kepada Stacy (yang dance break bagus gila) - from Aizat (untuk Pergi obviously but surprisingly Kau Aku pun best gak show), Faizal Tahir (Bencinta). Interesting to note is Hujan - yang akan wat flashmob!

Jangan terkejut... bangga aku. Inspirasi dari our KLCC flashmob. Mana taknya.. tukang wat pon orang sama. Heh! Korang tengok je la hasilnya.

Tapi rata-rata, dua elemen yang paling menonjol sebagai gimik persembahan AJL kali ni.

Kalao dulu kak Ani je bawak dua kampung ke atas pentas! Kali ni - ramai dirasuk membawa tiga kampung lak - tapi yang dirasuk nya semua pala batu - atau rockers.

Hujan, Bunkface, Aizat, Faizal Tahir.. penuh stage AND offstage. Oops. Tanak bagitau lebih.. kang spoil surprise korang.

Anyway dua elemen aku maksudkan - koir dan kanak-kanak. Lots of that tomorrow.

Tapi kan.. kalao ikut semalam, aku paling suka persembahan sapa tau. I was moved by Aizat doing Pergi. You have to see the montage playing.

But I was most moved by Faizal's performance of Bencinta.

Especially since he looked to be in so much pain. Dengan bertongkat, dengar Faizal is one painkillers sebab serious dia memang tak larat sangat nak wat. Still, semangat dia berjuang tuh, added to the pain of the song.. I don't know... it was touching in a way.

Noh nak wat reunion MIX dan Faizal nak reunion Mirwana (matilah aku carot)

Misha time out jap masa rehearsal pas abih slot dia

Supposed to go for ujibakat hari pertama Akademi Fantasia 8 kat Stadium Nasional Bukit Jalil. But with only two hours sleep in 36 hours or so... serious aku KO terus.

Slept maybe at about 3am... and woke up only 12 hours later! Matilah! But feel refreshed. Not going to watch the rehearsals sebab nak surprise element sikit. Lagikpon kengkawan mana aku leh bantu advise da pun bagi nasihat.. pepandai la memasing da besar panjang.

Apapon - here's to all the performers tomorrow - prove me right! (or in the case of those yang aku hazabkan - prove me wrong!)

Esok je gi ujibakat Akademi Fantasia - so sapa nak audition esok, see you there. Kita cam whore bersama ek!

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Yang pernah...

Phew... damn tired Just back from supper at Syad and Aishah's place. Sebenarnya ada belated birthday do for Marsha sana tapi aku tak sempat join, just caught Zarina and Bob and Syuib lepak sana je.

Memang couldn't make it earlier sebab tadik lepak Sri Pentas 2 for the full dress rehearsal of the Pop Rock semifinals tuk Muzik-Muzik besok.

Dapat ler legakan fikiran. Music always soothes me... especially good stuff. And since ada some acts performing some very nice tunes, loga la sikit den.

Aku malas nak cita lelebih so just enjoy some of the pics I snapped. Of course most of them before, during (backstage and about) as well as after the rehearsal. I focused mostly on people who are my friends, so sorry kalao korang ada favourites aku tak sempat snap, either because I'm not close to them, or don't really care for them too much.

Lagi satu kalao korang perasan, I try and snap people on rotation basis. Kalao moka sama je pon bosan kan? Bazir bandwidth korang je kang nak download moka-moka sama. Heh... on to the pics!

The strong people you don't see. The PRs and production crew led by mother chicken kak Kelly)


Zimi dari Sofaz


Ni bosan sampai layan handphone ni apa hal... heh


Stacy and her ladies!



Rich the happy husband. Perasan tak cincin kat jari. Yes folks... that's a wedding band. Simple but very meaningful.


Ramainya layan handphone backstage... even Fiq


Tam doing what rockers do.. erm... showing off their guitar?


Mail is a little bit disco and Nafi a little rock and roll


Nafi and Tony going all rockstar


Tam having a serious chat with Stacy. Pasal? Erm.. adalah...



Faizal and Cheryl


Mock announcement. Stacy kena panggil dulu terus wat pose erm... you can see for yourself


Then ramai lagik join


And this time she looked more relaxed


Briefing pas rehearsal


Mila and Stacy camwhore sat sambil dengar


Bebudak Sofaz look so... erm.. interested


Cherry, sis Stacy


Estranged concentrate tuh


And Lan ngan bebudak Meet Uncle Hussain?


Of course, I also have videos, tapi I will post them in my next entry sebab tengah edit and upload.

Meanwhile ni some additional info and gossip yang related or totally unrelated to Muzik-Muzik and anything remotely connected.

-Velvet is in Sabah dan dia tak ikut Rich ke KL untuk semifinal Muzik-Muzik. Selesai saja malam ni, Rich akan balik ke Sabah and the couple plan to spend their time together. Baru kahwin camtuh la...

- Estranged is the only band yang bukan saja vocal live, tapi muzik pun live. Ni sebab meka takde minus one tu lagu meka, and they will rock the house.

- Because of the live set-up, meka tukar slot ngan Flava yang menggantikan The Lima (refer pada previous entry for rundown) and will open the show tonight. Ni tuk senangkan mengalihkan dan mempersiapkan amps, and the whole set-up of what they need to perform live.

- Shah dikatakan withdraw lagu Ku Merindu because Ella ada engagement lain and dia tanak penyanyi ganti sebab kisahnya, lagu tu memang dia bajet tuk Ella je. Hence kemasukan lagu Sofaz (refer pada previous entry for full list of lagu lagu yang akan dipersembahkan)

- TV3 is said to be not too happy with Mawi. And mungkin peminat pun akan upset to hear Mawi will NOT be performing for the Anugerah Juara Lagu dalam lagu dia berganding dengan Heliza dalam Doa Dalam Lagu. Ni kisahnya sebab dia akan berada di Korea ketika Anugerah Juara Lagu. Tuh la... masukkan lagu, pastu tanak block date lak. Hish... orang nak kahwin...

- Pengganti Mawi kisahnya akan ditentukan kemudian, but kalao ikutkan, dengar cerita TV3 nak Bob tuk gantikan Mawi. Ajai, selaku penulis lagu dikatakan juga inginkan Bob sebagai pengganti untuk nyanyi in place of Mawi.

Ok... the videos and a little surprise in my next entry. Wait for it...

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Isn't it

I don't know. Things have been strange. Maybe I've just been thinking too much of things that I needn't go so deep into. Tapi entah kenapa...

Sabar je la kan. Tanak aku jadik drama queen and run away from my problems. I need to stand firm, and deal with them. No matter how painful it gets.

You can tell it's not been a good day.

Actually it didn't start that bad. It was ok, even up until aku gi Sri Pentas 2 for the dry run for the Pop Rock category.

Aku sampai lambat sikit. By the time I got there, they were two thirds done. Some like Estranged and so on tak hadir due to commitments. And those who performed earlier da balik.

Bebudak Meet Uncle Hussain, Spider, Elyana, Mila, Fabulous Cats, Flava were about. Stuck about a while to snap just a few. Esok lebih. Aku hari nileh terlupa aku nya memory card for my cam stuck in my laptop still, and internal memory hampeh, so rely pada handphone je ler nak amik pic. Esok bak digicam aku, snappy banyak sikit.

These were some shots aku larat amik.

Lan, I think, nama dia.. from Meet Uncle Hussain. Dok atas ngan pose bertapa


Mock announcement during the dry run


Mila pose cute


Sumo, Samsairol and Shahdan from Flava. Semua nama bermula ngan S


Aremeer Sofaz and Yanie, one of the cutest PRs around


Some additional info. Ni performance rundown.

Lagu-lagu dalam kategori POP ROCK (dalam giliran persembahan)

1. Separuh Masa (Edry Abdul Halim/Edry Abdul Halim/The Lima)
(akan dinyanyikan oleh Flava)
2. Aku Stacy (Intan Norul Azlin/Intan Norul Azlin & Layla Ismail/Stacy)
3. Kalis Rindu (Aidit Alfian/Ad Samad/Elyana)
4. Mila Bila Cinta (Audi Mok/Ad Samad/Mila)
5. Cinta Si Rama Rama (Edrie Hashim/Edrie Hashim/Hattan)
6. Bukan Di Sini (Sofaz)
7. Aku Lebih Tahu (Ajai/Loloq/Mila)
8. Bukti (Tony Iskandar/Loloq/Fiq)
9. Rimas (Cat Farish/Roxy Tail/The Fabulous Cats)
10. Yang Pernah (Estranged/Estranged/Estranged)
11. Lagu Untukmu (Taja, Tass & Lan/Taja & Tass/Meet Uncle Hussain)
12. Mabuk (Tam/Loloq/Spider)

NOTE : Lagu Sofaz Bukan Di Sini akan menggantikan Ku Merindu (Datuk Syed Elias Syed Ahmad/Datuk Syed Elias Syed Ahmad/Shah & Ella) tapi aku tak pasti atas sebab apa. Aku risik dan bagitau kang. Flava will replace The Lima for performance.

From Sri Pentas 2, gerak ke Curve. Caught a movie with Bob to pass time. Decided to settle for a more bimbo flick in Wild Child. Supposed to catch something more interesting, but it was the only one in a decent time slot... so...

Not too bad. Typical story of rich Malibu kid with LVs in tow whose mom has passed on and dad has new beau, behaving badly and sent to boarding school in England and eventually has horrendous time adjusting.

I thought it would be straight out bimbo flick, but the drama was bordering on being overplayed out. Still, watchable.

Midway through the movie, felt agitated and SMSed someone - slightly ticked off cause not only said individual busy sampai lupa aku and I felt ignored, reply lak only after this second message after ages later from the first.

Entahlah aku dituduh emo and all. Maybe I am. But who likes feeling neglected. I don't know. I am trying to avoid drama after a prime example in front of me the past few days. Tapi entahlah.... ignore je la. Just I think I shouldn't prolong this stupidity of mine.

Was quiet after the movie. Bumped into some people who I didn't care for much on the way out. Avoided conversation. Met up with bebudak 6ixth Sense, minus Wan as usual and jut kept quiet throughout the night.

Pelita seemed a blur tonight. No mood... me just in deep funk. SMS ngan Faz. She's one of the few I can talk to whenever I'm feeling down and cheers me up.

But after an hour or so, the boys got me laughing..

Pose apa nih, Adi?


Staring into space...


Really tired out. Physically and emotionally. Calling it a night...

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