Let me start this entry by sharing a little something.
Since they say a picture paints a thousand words... here's one to go a long way.
After the shitty service and totally tak berbaloi monthly amount I have to pay for the shitty service, I decided to finally terminate the Maxis broadband I've had for about two years plus or so.
It took one hour, one fucking hour to be called.
You know why it took an hour at Maxis service centre at Pavilion? Even though their six or seven staff were more than the four customers in front of me?
Because they insisted on having different numbers for different services. And the motherfuckers there, let me wait an hour cam haram jadah pukimak! Because they never bothered to call my number!
And they were just dilly-dallying dengan malas nya. Serious! Zero efficiency outlet nih. Maxis should be ashamed of the level of quality (sub standard is still a level).
After about an hour, I snapped and remarked to one of the staff saying that I'd been waiting for an hour.
He told one of the counter staff, who called for the number for the broadband service after another five minutes.
It took a whole two minutes to realize the number he called, which was before mine, had no owner. Presumably because that customer was so disgusted he decided to walk out. Only then did the counter staff call me.
Credit where it's due, that counter staff, settled my account termination within minutes. Too bad by then, it made me even more mad simply because I waited an hour for something that took less than five minutes because of the staff's stupidity? Really?
You know what they say about paying peanuts and getting monkeys? I'm assuming Maxis isn't even paying Ngan Yin Cap Ibu Jari rates by the way their staff work rivally even the lesser of the simians!
Tengok ni... ramai sangat kan customer. Sampai kena tunggu sejam...
Singgah Gucci jap nak lepak lepas tension. Fell in love with a belt and a pair of shoes... nak je beli terus. Tapi took a deep breath and walked out. I promised myself kena tunggu dua tiga bulan agik pas aku beli my laptop bag.
So walk away... sebab kengkawan semua sibuk, I got to do something I haven't done in a long while. Solo movie night!
Went to Gardens. Sebelom tu singgah Chinoz my sis and colleagues melepak makan. Minum sat ngan meka. Sambil-sambil tu nak online.
Matilah ko! This has to be THE longest password I've ever come across. Crazy!
Pas abih lepak ngan meka naik gi layan Sorceror's Apprentice.
Erm... I thought the movie was a good popcorn flick. Worth the money, but somehow it's too Disney. Well, it IS a Disney production so expect them to serve ham and cheese.
Memang ending dia expected and it's a movie that doesn't need too many brain cells to enjoy.
So worth it... just don't expect too much than a normal Disney feelgood flick.
Walaopon kelam kabut rushing here and there to settle stuff, it was great as everything went as I hoped for.
Started the day with good news. Bayaran projek lepas da dapat! Tengok angka tersenyum sendiri. Syukur! Good start for J Squared. Dengan projek berderet lagik coming up, memang aku gembira, berkat doa ibubapa aku, leh gak aku be part of something yang bertahun aku idamkan kejayaan camni - yang only now I finally see the fruits of my efforts.
Of course bab payment pon bagus wat all my kids - sebab bayaran meka pon nak kuar la alamatnya. Semangat!
If that wasn't enough - dapat discuss projek lagik satu in the works. Syukur!!!!!!
Was smiling to the max. Even masa dari Bangsar nak ke office kat PJ jam sangkut sejam sebab ingat nak cepat cilok masuk jalan melalui Universiti Malaya - tapi instead caught in a campus flash flood - senyum je. Tak rasa pon masa berlalu.
More stuff in the office yang good.
Pastu lak gi rehearsal. After a good night's rest, everyone was in a happy mood, and we had a DAMN AWESOME rehearsal night with the selected top 50, who will preview our dance mob in Zouk tomorrow night for the by invite only Beyonce preparty.
No drama, no friction... instead semua gelak ketawa because so many things happened yang gave us more reason to smile.
Sorry cause the last couple of posts ago, I gave crap pictures. Ni some pics courtesy of Joshua of our rehearsals tonight.
All pics courtesy of Joshua. Part of the top 50 in action practising for the Zouk preparty tomorrow
If you want to be part of the fun (since so many of you left comments after our KLCC flashmob saying you wanted to be part of our next) - come to Kompleks Sukan Bukit Kiara 3959 Jalan 1/70d, Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Kiara 60000 or just call my co-choreographer and head dance coordinator Boojae at 012-2500608. You can also call me at 017-2025900 (yes, in case you don't know I am the co-founder, co-partner and creative director of J Squared which also organised the KLCC flashmob and is in charge of the Beyonce Dance Mob)
How else do you get more info or get news and updates?
And finally, learn the steps through our video tutorial by CLICKING HERE!
Oops... and I nearly forgot! J Squared has a home online now. Just go there by CLICKING HERE!
It's going to be crazy...but fun! See you guys who are going to Zouk tomorrow. Remember t say hi to me - trust me, you'll see me as I will be addressing the partygoers as well! Time to sleep now...
I'll leave you with the tutorial video. Remember, if you are going for the Beyonce concert, start practising NOW!
I know some people tried with a handful. We had over a hundred. And there's going to be more soon.
I know a lot of you have been waiting for the official video. Well here it is. If you have a Youtube account, rate it please and support us for more in the future.
Pas berejam editing semalam, this is something we're definitely proud of!
The whole thing starts with a stage show of six dancers at the KLCC Center Court, before it's 'invaded' by over 100 dancers.
The video took over 8 hours to upload because I made sure it was the best quality. The file was over 1 GB. Damn... hope you guys like it. Now on to Monday....
PS - If you guys have a blog, share this video ok! Spread the word on Facebook, Myspace or Friendster or whatever applications you have and let's show everyone KL's first real dance flash mob rocked KLCC.
Since I'm back early tonight.... ni nak clear sikit a little entry cause things have been so hectic I've been doing really short postings.
So here's kind of like a trackback recollection of the last three days - to what exactly took place. On Thursday pas final rehearsal, went for the BMW Shorties. The third year, the short film fest memang best gila - and this year Ma Chai, by Shanjhey Kumar Perumal, and Conversation with a Mad Man, by Brandon Loh Ming Kwang won the top prizes in a draw.
Korang kalao nak tengok some upcoming talents, CLICK HERE for the BMW Shorties site and check out the finalists, and of course the winners' work. Baguih gila. And I'm not just saying that. I remember the first year - I was blown away by most of the work of these newcomers. Masa tu kak Min jadik judge along with the likes of James Lee.
And quality has been increasing with every year of competition.
Anyway, malam tu abih je, balik terus KO.
Friday, got to KLCC early, standby da. A lot of last minute preparations for the flash mob.
Biasala... when something can go wrong, usually it does.
Dari CD lagu entah ke mana, sampai last minute problems with Suria for not allowing our videographers officially to go on with their recording, macam-macam.
But everything got worked out with teamwork, and I thank the team for that. The whole team from Maxis and also Mindshare. And of course, especially to my team J² - , Floor Fever my head crew - as well as the other dance crews involved and also ALL the dancers who did their best, my videographers, team View Image and my team of photographers.
We all panicked at some point or another... I'll give you that, but things went VERY smoothly - except when the middle part of the center court was taken up by curious onlookers who were too busy recording the event sampai meka block the positioning of the dancers. Biasalah event camni kena on the spot ubah... so tak pe.
Yes, the event was at the center court, right smack in the middle of KLCC - done as part of the performances for the Maxis iPhone 3GS roadshow. Didn't I give you guys enough clues to guess that? By the way, I know I promised to give Twitter updates, but something was wrong that evening and I couldn't log on to Twitter from my phone. Benci tol!
Thank you to Maxis for believing in J² and the crazy idea, and berita baiknya, thanks to this first successful attempt, there will be MORE!
So if you want to join, bersedia ok! Will let you guys know more about the recruitment when dekat da.
All in all, it was good for the company Juan and I share, which is J², because being just over a month old, it's amazing to have someone as big as Maxis as a client - and to have such positive feedback from a first project of this scale. And of course, to also, from this point - to be part of their 'family'.
Also it was good for the dance community - so all in all, here's hoping more people will get the idea of what dance flash mobs are so next time nak menggila lagik, kurang halangan.
Check my previous entry a video by one of the 'eyewitnesses' and I will update the official video late tomorrow after we finish editing it. Meanwhile looking out for more cause I saw A LOT of people recording the event. Cuma kat Youtube so far ada satu.
Here's one more I found on the Net. Some dude recorded it with fish eye lens on the ground floor. It's not on Youtube, but Vimeo, so loads pretty darn slow. But worth a watch!
Can't tell you the location of the next flash mob - but it will be in a very high traffic area in the Golden Triangle! More people are going to be part of it, so it's going to be BIGGER. My ultimate goal when it comes to dance flash mobs is to have 1000 over dancers smack center of KL dancing to stop traffic. So working towards it.
Anyway, abih je flash mob, gi Cineleisure for the preview of Jin Notti.
Erm... malas komen lebih. All I can say is - if you have RM10 to watch a movie - watch anything BUT Jin Notti. But if you still want to watch it to see what I mean, be my guest - so I can say, I told you so!
Ni some pics at the event.
Part of the cast
Fara
Mawi - not too bad la acting dia. Boleh tahan
Cantik jacket si botak
Extreme close up! Heh... saja menggila ngan botak sebab lama tak jumpa
Fara's extreme close up!
Pas abih, continued on to Pelita for supper with Juan, Fendy and Syahir. Lepak borak tak sedar, tengok jam da 5 lebih pagik. Aduh....
Yang pentingnya, korang kan tau, aku penah ada siri gambar-gambar yang dipanggil Siri Perosak Selera. You know the pics where masa makan, tetiba ada orang tayang lobang tabung dia ke arah aku. This is the latest in the series. Ladies, especially more erm... 'voluptuous' ones, please wear jeans that are more appropriate to prevent this from happening.
Eewwwwww!!!!!
Memang perosak selera. Adoi!
Anyway headed home, tidur pun da about 6.30am, and woke up by 12 and shot straight to Sunway Lagoon Resort hotel for the press conference of the MTV World Stage.
All the performers for the MTV World Stage. Can you spot who? Left to right, more or less - is Hoobastank, Boys Like Girls, Pixie Lott, Kasabian and Raygun dan depan sekali is our own Estranged
Kelam kabut la.. benci organisation meka. Pastu interviews, aku ada All American Rejects -w ith two of them - Mike and Tyson. Sambil nak tunggu dua jam, malas ke mana, so nak lepak isap rokok je ngan geng media lain.
Nak isap rokok lak - hotel ni 'smoke free zone'. Matilah! Smoking corner dia kat carpark.
Aiyo.. hinanya!
Abih je plan lepak dalam. Bumped into Pixie Lott. Supposed to interview her tomorrow, but since I'm doing the Rejects today, esok aku takyah nak rush interview dia lak. Sempat la camwhore ngan Pixie.
By the way, she's got pretty feet - despite her telling me she's got ugly feet - because she goes about barefoot with a very nice pedicure. Er... so benda ni bukan 'trend' artis tempatan ok. So many artistes da memang wat camni lama da.
Camwhoring with Pixie
Pixie's pretty feet
Mike and Tyson from the All American Rejects
Lepaked some more, lost my temper at the stupidity of crap management by people handling the whole thing, and finally got my interview with Mike and Tyson. Love these dudes! They be real rockers!
The best quotes I got from them?
"Fuck the Jonas brothers!"
The second best quote I got from them?
"Fuck Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus!"
I love them! Heh... tak sabar nak finish up my article to be published! They are the type of interviews that are so much fun to do. To the point I almost forgot how pissed off I was to even be there because of the whole crap organisation of the event.
Pastu gerak gi Sunway Pyramid ngan Michelle and Zuan of Melodi. Lepak Gloria Jeans makan minum jap, then moved in.
The view from Sunway Pyramid at 6.30pm
We were out of the concert by half an hour. Memang macam sial cara meka organise the whole thing. MTV is the worst organiser of events. Every year at the MTV Awards - this happens (and I've attended every MTV Asia, except the recent Genting Highlands one) they screw up - and this seems to be business as usual for them. I guess at least I can say they're consistent.
There were so many things wrong I don't even know where to begin. Let's put it this way. Masuk masuk je, overheard some kids telling organisers how they were crushed against the metal barriers and how the security did nothing to help.
Dari tengahari da meradang, I decided it wasn't worth staying for, so decided to leave. Even gave my post party invites at Euphoria away. Not interested. Besides, I've been out since noon - am sticky and sweaty after a concert. I wonder what possessed the organisers to think that a post party would be the best thing to follow up with?
Apapon, event tu memang syok sendiri and I have no clue why Tourism Malaysia worked closely to co-sponsor the show.
Konsert Search pon ramai kata better... walaopon...
So that's my three hectic days. And since I've related all that... now I think I'm entitled to some sleep. Goodnight all.. be posting the official flash mob video tomorrow. Until then...ta.
The first of some random people who caught the flash mob has uploaded a video of it. Aiyo... I haven't even done it. Korang layan part of it dulu... this is what we had yesterday evening.
On the way to a whole bunch of assignments. Will be back to update later tonight. Enjoy the video... and thanks to the person who uploaded it. Not the best angle and he missed out a lot of stuff... but still kinda cool.
