On Motorola ROKR E8, Marsha, Velvet, Estranged, Marie Digby, Nadia FC, Alif FC and Diari (banyak tuh)

Sepanjang hari, blogdrive wat hal. Tak cukup tuh, imageshack lak wat hal, so nak letak pics pun takleh, so I apologise guys kalao posting nih lambat sangat nak up kan.

Tambah lagik hectic gila, so it didn't help with things.

First destination of the day, well of the evening actually, was to 1 Utama for Marie Digby! Mak aih!

Can you believe it took me over an hour just to get a parking spot. Gila la! Mencik tol parking sana. Anytime of day pegi sana mesti cam lahar nya. Ni lak nak cepat, it was even more painful to play this kejar kejar game tunggu orang nak kuar keta, then rush over to fight for one lousy spot.

Can you believe the waiting pun da cost berapa Ringgit lak. Untung mall camni.

But it got worse when I headed down for the show, and over a thousand people spread out all about. Malas berhimpit. Matilah claustrophobia aku kang menjadik lagik. So dok area behind the stage jauh sikit from the crowd, layan audio jerk.

Ramai lak kawan kawan serempak kat sana yang saja nak check her out.

The show was good, but it didn't get that much attention from me, because I was too amazed at the number of people who were busy playing pro photographers. Looks like almost everyone has some sort of camera nowadays.

Tapi yang caught my attention was how most of these people weren't enjoying the show, but how they seemed more intent being there to snap a pic or take a video. Maybe events like this da jadik bloggers heaven kot... meka leh carik content, because aku balik jerk, aku perasan a whole lot of activity on the Web ngan individual testimonials of being at the show.

Yes the evils of technology. And artiste is now an 'event' and no longer appreciated for her songs.
Speaking of which, not many who turned up seemed to know about her.

Some guy professing to be the biggest fan asik jerit pronounce nama dia salah.

Most others didn't have a clue to her songs. Until she did her cover of Umbrella then most of them went wild. Erm... so obvious... oh nevermind.

I wasn't the only one to notice as some other friends yang sempat singgah borak pun laser benda sama. Meka datang nak watch a show by someone they loved on the CD, and instead, had to put up ngan orang yang tak penah dengar anything apart from her cover of Umbrella. Bumped into Aizat and family.. they weren't too amused either.

Here are some shots I took from distance.

Oh look.. she's singing Umbrella... and this guy brought out... an umbrella.. how creative (matilah UMBERRAble)


The crowd. I think only five people from the over thousand plus did not have a video/digi/mobile cam of some sort.


After the show, moved away from all the groupies. No way I'm going to be associated with the stampede. Joined Sarah and colleague from EMI at Gap where Marie was going to have the autograph session.

Dok sembang ngan orang Gap and also the Disney rep accompanying Marie jerk.
When Marie arrived (after being literally mauled by overenthusiastic groupies), dia perasan aku dok ngumpat kat one corner dia hi kat aku and cuba ler nak sembang.

Aku hi balik jerk and just signalled to talk later jerk.

Matilah aku rasa cam mesti kena sumpahan by at least five jealous fans da masa tuh like, sapa mamat nih kenal dia taking up her precious time by being there. Matilah aku...

Oh no! Here they come!


People outside the Gap store.. from inside the store


I sought refuge in the Gap store for most parts as the fans outside started literally rioting demanding to be let in. Aiyo! Sabar lah dik! So as the regular fans (kerek tak statement?) beratur kat luar, aku dok tengok dari the comfort of inside the store yang cuma Gap employees, EMI staff and security apart from Marie and her couple of people yang bertugas jaga dia leh masuk.. owh.. dan juga kawan kawan penganjur cam aku yang dok melangut sana. Heh.. merasalah carut diri sendiri.

Malas tol scenario camni. I mean, can't they line up and wait their turn?

I happened on several blogs yang beriya cita camni camtuh, but from their pictures, aku cam meka, and beriya posting meka... rupanya propah. Heh.. kelentong la. Konon meka camtuh camni. Wow... blogging has become fiction ke sekarang?

Malas nak snap any pics, then member EMI kata amik jer pic letak blog. Ack! I'm going to be one of those people.

Sebab da jumpa lepak ngan Marie in a more relaxed environment, rasa cam tak perlu pon. But snapped two pics jer for sesapa yang minat dia (alasan jerk tuh.. padahal bateri cam pun da nak mati da time tuh)

What's that word again...? TOLONGGGG!!!! MAK TAKUT ADA RUSUHAN!!! STRESS LA CAMNI!


Takpe... maintain dan senyum jerk.


I couldn't take the crowd anymore. With less than an hour to go to the end of the autograph session and with hundreds more in the line to meet Marie, I got out before it got ugly, Especially since, I knew Marie had to ciao by 11 to catch her flight.

Made my way to Laundry Bar at The Curve for the launch of the Motorola ROKR E8. Yer.. and I get to tayang the phone. Orang baru nak launch aku da pakai dulu. Semakin hari smakin sayang lak phone nih.

Lepak ngan my sis ngan colleagues dia, as well as bumped about from table to table tayang phone as I got jealous looks, before I bumped into Rich and the Estranged gang. Meka pon had a phone each da! But aku punya set lengkap. Meka nya takde the ear piece thingie. Heh.. jealous meka!

Meka perform malam tuh along with some other acts. Tapi celah all that, spotted two people yang menjerit cam orang gila bila nampak aku. Sapa ek? Here are the piccies.

Cam kenal tak? Pic kabur diamik dalam gelap tanpa flash... confident!


How bout this?


Cam whoring in the dark


Ngan flash...


Tuh dia! Lepak ngan Marsha and Velvet jerk while trying to beat off Marsha who kept trying to nick my Motorola ROKR E8 at every opportunity. Matilah jealous!

Sempat lepak jap tengok Estranged perform jap.

Also bumped into Aizat and family members again. Second time today.

The crowd


The band


After about an hour or so, terpaksa gerak sebab ada kengkawan menunggu kat NZ di Setiawangsa. Janji sebenarnya nak join Juan and Co nak planning bab Alif FC punya booth tuk carnival masa final kang. Sekaligus, jumpa geng dari Nadia FC yang nak story mory drama swasta yang berlaku smalam as well as nak bagik suntikan semangat. Iyolah tuh! Tapi besh gak.. sebab meka sempat eratkan silaturrahim. Uwaaaaaa... katanya.

But I like the cooperation between the FCs and so far these two, as well as Nadia FC and Stacy FC kerjasama and understanding, aku suka sangat. Abih jer... balik KO. Sambung tengok rakaman Diari. Ni sempat wat ulasan sikit as usual recap the day's events.

Sebahagian keluarga Nadia FC dan Alif FC


Diari Akademi Fantasia 6 - minggu 9 hari ketiga

When you benarkan yang tak ada jiwa seni, masuk ke dalam dunia ini untuk cuba mempraktikkan apa yang memerlukan emosi. jiwa dan keikhlasan, what do you get?
You get Ramli MS having to tell Nubhan how to feel his song, or Stanly how to sing without overdoing his notes.

But on to the drama, Riz dan Nadia, tried to clarify with Ramli MS what happened.

He gave the most simple response, which would make sense to anyone as the obvious solution. Gi mintak maap. Kan senang jerk.

Merasalah kena ada konsep nyanyi Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word ker? Elok.. semua jadik Blue, Stanly jadik Elton John for the newer version.

Erm... what's with the Nubhan and Stacy pairing. Damn... wish they would stop doing that.
Siti Hajar has to give that reassurance to the kids, especially Toi.

How many times do they need to hear the same things before they finally understand what's trying to be hammered through?

Da sembilan minggu.. aduh.. letih tenaga pengajar nak berulang, letih lagik nak dengar every day of nine weeks.

Toi ngan Syafie. What do you expect? Miracles? Toi tetap tahap tuh gak.

Stacy on Beat It. Wish someone would work on her intonation because that needs some work.

Oh look... sempat Nubhan, Toi dan Riz borak pasal Michael Jackson. Erm...

What would cam whoring be without Toi. Tetap nak menyelit masuk!


Back again to the drama. Finally Riz kata sedih pasal the whole issue.

I think it's a case of him always realising too late what he does. Berkejaran Riz dan Nadia nak nak mintak maap beriya. Oh well.. we all know they would have to in the end kan.

In Linda's class, preparation for choreography for Beat It.We didn't get to see much of it.

Sesi makan, Nadia mintak maap ngan Mariam. Then Riz mintak maap lak. Then it's on to Shafiq for apologies.

Lastly to Kutip.A refresher course for them on the basic rules of the Akademi. Nine weeks later.
Shafiq and Mariam lak sembang ngan Kutip. All the b****ing and hopefully, some overzealous fans tak main halalkan jerk kalao ada yang meka minat, wat salah.

For comic relief, 'Kotak Man' yang masuk dalam Akademi. Kotak Man yang pakai baju ala Ramli MS tuh yang dulu letak the lovely defaced pics of the kids a week or so ago.

Muncul dua kali bebudak first try kejar, second time meka da tak larat da.

They had the kids weigh in. Semua naik berat badan. But the thing I observed was how callously meka repeatedly say kalao tak lose weight tak cantik. Come on! The stress for the shallowness is so wrong ok.

It just sends the wrong message to kids out there that they can be ugly for being 100 grammes more. Hello bulimia and anorexia.

The kids did a run through for umi. Malas nak cakap what's lacking or not sebab it's going into the final week, and aku rasa kalao sebelom ni orang masih tak nampak the weaknesses of certain kids, takyah la ulang.

Terselit ada lawak dari Sarimah. I think she's hilarious cita pasal penampilan and all, dia leh tunjuk belakang baju dia ada sepit sepit. Matilah! Aduh.. pecah perot gelak.

Moitf kak Mah? Pas sidai lupa bukak klip ke?


Session with kak Nita. She reminds me of watak Maria dalam The Sound Of Music. She makes me smile for that.

Dalam sesi kak Nita, had to put up with endless efforts of Toi yang nan ado melalak. Damn. But at least we had a lovely shot of his t shirt yang promo Carrefour. LEBIH MURAH ek? You think?

Motice the shirt? Some things couldn't be truer...


PS Letih siot cam Superman ari no terbang sana sini. Fun but tiring with endless events to go to...

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Marie, mengumpat and then some more...

As I said, semalam dapat lepak ngan Marie Digby. Heh... semua dapat tengok show dia kat 1 Utama dalam celah ramai orang yang bakal muncul, tapi aku dapat spend some one on one quality time with her kat Spices at Concorde Hotel semalam. Besh!

She really is more pretty in person than any photograph I've seen of her.

For some reason, she reminds me of Jewel, but perhaps a more relaxed, quieter version.

Wel not so quiet, because in the first ten minutes, didn't get to my interview sebab we were just borak borak about so many things that popped out. It just came about so naturally. She is such a doll!

And talented too! In the age of Britneys and Lindsays and Mileys, Marie (it's pronounced MAR-EE-EH.. and roll the R and not Marie), she is such a breath of fresh air with her brand of guitar pop.

I hope people listen to her, especially the song Unfold, on her album. It's her favourite track, and now my favourite too.

So anyway we chatted for about half an hour, before she ended up her sessions and activities for the day with dinner. I had to rush off for mine as I wanted to make a move too.

Anyway, here are some pictures, and the best thing, with Marie being half Japanese, she's able to speak fluently in Japanese, and yes, she's going to have a Japanese single, and below, you can catch a very short snippet of it. Thanks Marie! And see you on Wednesday luv... so for fans of Marie, remember, people...it's 8pm at 1 Utama new wing, near GAP. The showcase is free admission and not to be missed!

Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi! *damn.. wrong cam mode*


Malu malu pulak...


Cam whoring with Marie. Why does lack of sleep make my eyes pop out??!!! Argh!

Later in the night gi layan tengok Iron Man. Wow! Cool film. A bit popcorn, but hey.. what do you expect. This is one of the most credible remakes of a comic book superhero I've ever seen. Good translation to the big screen. Beats the Spiderman crap any day.

I would go and see it again (especially since I missed the first twenty minutes sebab lambat sampai Sunway Pyramid). But the best part? The company!

Ramai wooo gi tengok wayang together. Pastuh adjourn for supper beramai ramai kat Asia Cafe kat SS15 in Subang. The food may have been bad, but at least the movie and the company were good.

The whole gang.. Comel, Lara, Intan. Maz (tatau nama sorang agik) as well as Shahrul (tul ke ni nama dak lecturer UiTM), Esmie, Nafi and sorang agik tatau nama.

And to round off the activities of the day.. here's *sigh* the recap of Diari for today. I do this very grudgingly....

Diari Akademi Fantasia 6 - Minggu 9 hari pertama

Honstly aku letih nak review Diari, so here's a compact delivery of things. Tak larat nak cita pasal persiapan konsert yang hampeh minggu lepas, so here's some choice scenes. Besides so much goofing off, malas lak nak recap. Especially with the Apa Kata Hati promo. Cam la tak cukup promosi tme konsert. Aduh... seb baik semua cast kengkawan, kalao tak ikot hati nak carut jerk.

Not worth my time... Aduh.. plus the mother'sd day wishes. A little too late... except for Stacy's story yang sedih sebab she brought on the guilt sebab tak abih sekolah because she worked throughout the period. But dia kata dia nak tebus by succeeding. That's worth a sniff or two...

Kembali da tuhhhhh...Sesi ngumpat pasal Mariam and especially Shafiq sebab kena tegur pasal mic, Teka sapa yang kena tegur and gi ngumpat ngan semua. Wonder why they didn't show the whole day punya sesi yang juicy.


"So what if I oversupport my notes?" Mak Bedah pun muncul balik! Pernah ke ilang...

Just a short recap on the kids' performances by bung Ramli.

Toi - This week ok, but ok tuh kena paham dari segi, kenapa minggu nih ok, minggu lepas tak ok.
Riz - Bad performance. Kena belajar dari bentuk agu macam ni.
Nubhan - Bukan flat, tapi salah note. Angsa.
Nadia - Back to normal. Leta accent tak bersesuaian
Stacy - Stop improving. Stagnant di tahap tu.
Stanly - Meneran yeah yeah tak kena.

The part that made me laugh today was pengetua carut Stanly nyanyi Endless Love dengan Riz. Siap tanya, ke nak Nubhan. Matilah some things if you get the joke you just can't stop laughing.
Here are the crap songs up for this week.

Nubhan
Tapi Bukan Aku (Kerispatih)
Bosan tol dia dapat lagu makanan ruji dia gituh. Sedih la camni! Asik dimanjakan. Nak bagik can raih undi dari kaum Hawa tuk merembes lagik la.

Riz
Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley)
His only challenge for him is stamina which has proven to be a problem. Sebab lagu rancak jerk dia mesti semput.

Stanly
Kerana (Alleycats)
Oh God.. another classic about to be butchered.

Toi
Kau Yang Bernama Seri (Handy Black)
Ditto with Toi! Abih la... sengau lak masa check key. Bersedia la nak berdarah telinga.

Nadia
Lelaki Budaya Darat (Ratu)
Cheeky... sesuai. But woud have loved to see Stacy get this instead because it's more of her character. Challenge dia nak tengok natural ke tak jerk.

Stacy
Beat It (Micheal Jackson)
Since dia tak pernah dengar lagu nih, even though it's a pop staple, it will be a challenge. But if she can get it, it will be quite amazing.

Medley lagu bonus
Nubhan & Stacy
Ada Cinta (Acha Septriasa &Irwansyah)
Sesuai la Nubhan dapat part Irwansyah. Sama lemau bab vocal. Looking forward to Stacy jerk bab lagu nih.

Riz & Nadia
Endless Love (Luther Vendross & Diana Ross)
Of the many duets, this will be the only one to look forward to sebab dedua mampu. Just correct Nadia's English.

Stanly & Toi
Lagu Jiwa Lagu Cinta (Mawi & M Nasir)
HELP!

OK la... nak tidur... letih sesangat dah ni...

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Under my umbrella...

First off. Do you guys know who this is? Clue : she was an unknown struggling singer, until she made a Youtube video, of her strumming on a guitar and covering a popular song which has so far hit way over six million hits!
The answer? Marie Digby. Pronounced Ma-ree-AY Dig-Bee, not Marie ok... and the video was hher rendition of Rihanna's Umbrella.

The original video


Anyway, Marie is supposed to be here for a show. It's an open, free admission show at the One Utama New Wing, on Wednesday, 14 May at 8pm. The venue, will be near GAP, who brought her down to Singapore (day after tomorrow) and is also responsible for her trip down to Malaysia.

Anyway, guess what. I've been offered a one on one interview with Marie on Monday. Which is pretty hot because the press conference will only be on Wednesday just before the show.

Cool!! So I'll post a video of something with Marie and lots of pics by Tuesday latest, so you guys get first hand stuff before she even makes her appearance.

Ok.. a quickie jap. Here's the Diari review for semalam punya episod. Will update today's later tonight.

Diari Akademi Fantasia 6 - Minggu 8 hari kedua

I'm trying to be optimistic and enjoy the Diari. I suppose I can find something to love about it with Nadia and Stacy goofing off, curi Nubhan's cap to hide it.

But there a bit or two worth watching ike Ramli who tried knocking some creativity into the thick skulls of the kids, explaining to them how to be open to ideas, and camna tak terkongkong, which applies to cara nyanyian mereka.

Each of them lacked something or other, but it was good that Ramli tried to isolate setiap masaalah mereka so that they can let it come across through their singing.

Toi and Nubhan clueless gila. Instead leh wat stok lawak If I said it once, I'll say it again. Hopeless.

Love the scenes of the two girls practising together and discussing. At least meka putting an effort, and not just main main jerk. Selain bakat, usaha meka and their initiative will ensure them a future.

Riz on Laskar Cinta. Wow.. he's actually struggling. But trying hard to come across right.. unlike Toi. Kesian Syafie.. aku tengok berminggu benda nih da lama sangat ajar, but to no avail.
Hah!!!! Lagu Pupus, beriya Nubhan kata lagu Radja! Matilah ko! Confident kata nak ajar Riz nyanyi. He seems to really hate this song, tapi seriously Laskar Cinta killer kalao leh wat betui, biut dia ni kena learn appreciate.Instead, dia konsep sentap light light sebab kalao dia dapat Naluri Lelaki dia rasa senang lagik. Instead... lagu tuh bagik kat Stanly.. which is the biggest joke... just like him.

More scenes of Nubhan and Stacy, trying to pic up on the supposed cinta cinta theme.
Toi beriya nak tengok tape persembahan mereka kat Istana Budaya, bagus kena keji Syafie sebab bukan nak tengok to improve themselves. Instead nak tengok syok sendiri. Nubhan pun beriya... ngada...

Nadia dan Stacy saja gatai nak jadik Totally Spies katanya. Merasalah Riz jadik Jerry! Gelak sat.... sesuai gak.. sebab Jerry ada problem hair gak. Matilah pecah lobang Stanly jadik official make up artist mereka. Heh!

Toi still going on nak tengok moka dia sendiri. Semua persembahan tunjuk, tapi Nubhan dan Toi nya jerk tanak tunjuk.

Linda has some freestyle thing going on,for the kids. Gelak sat... kenapa? Korang kalao tengok tau la sapa bergegaran overdose. Dia ingat ni So You Think You Can Dance ke, Sehati Berdansa ke overdose camtuh. Nyanyian twtap busuk tahap skunk tak mandi.

Second Diari started with drawings of bebudak on the white board. Because yesterday meka wat drawings of tenaga pengajar kan...

Striking likeness of Toi, I would have to say


I wonder who this is?


Playing the fool tol the boys. Thank God of the four boys, Riz nampak tone down and tak main main sangat da. I think he realises the earlier few weeks about all the drama, and he's more focused now. The most focused of the boys at least.

Uwaaaaa!! Setiap insan, lelaki dicipta untuk perempuan katanya... keinginan seorang lelaki...pandai Stanly evaluate lagu Naluri Lelaki kan. Just wonder if like his singing setakat theory jerk.

Riz cakap ngan umi pasal how dia memang tak suka Laskar Cinta. Wish he'd stop moaning sebab lagu tuh is one of the highlights of the week.

Nubhan yang bak lagu Aizat, but despite the song being good, Siti Hajar evaluate the song breaking it down to technique. Ony problem I have is, can Nubhan even do even a half decent version of Aizat? Think Nubhan is a lot worse.

Usual problem for Nubhan, the biggest is his lacking when it comes to tempo.

Motif kentut?

Sigh... moving on.

Stacy and Nadia kejar Nubhan tuk belasah balas dendam. I think the two girls are the penyelamat for Akademi Fantasia kali nih la. Bukan je dari segi consistency persembahan mereka, but also their fun characters.

OH SHIT!

Toi and his #$%^ angklung again! The senario adengan Raja Lawak Toi and Nubhan. Buang airtime jerk.

Yawn... wonder if they get to bring Marie into the Akademi.

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