Best gila tadi! Went to Konsert Pilihan Pembaca Media Hiburan di mana Amir wat performance. Kita sampai memang jam gila. Tak penah aku nampak Shah Alam jam sampai camni.
Selepas kita soundcheck siap semua... aku jalan-jalan sikit the mini karnival yang ada. Aku nampak keta ni.
Makan hati wei! Chevrolet Impala! That's some serious muscle! Aku suka gila keta camni. Classic tapi memang lebih hebat than any new sleek sportster any day.
Aku singgah booth owner keta ni, which was Switchblade Kuala Lumpur (korang Google dapat la). Aku penah makan kedai meka, memang best. Dia jual semua barang-barang happening contohnya basikal dia semua gempak!
Yang pentingya pas aku tweet the pics of the Impala, aku dijemput bini owner tu bagi tuan punya meta bak japan sebab meka follow Twitter aku. Gempak wei! Serious... rasa cam kat luar negara pon ada.
And then the awards itself was fun sebab ramai kawan-kawan around. Korang layan je lah some of the pics aku sempat snap.
Sumpah rupa Siti semakin cantik! Terpegun aku. Walaupun banyak kali jumpa, dia nampak semakin flawless kian hari.
Had a fun time - but nothing more than bila score Manchester United vs Liverpool keluar. Aku memang sokong any team BUT Manchester United, so bila Liverpool menang 2-1 aku troll Akim kaw-kaw sebab did memang fan Manchester United. Merasalah sampai camni rupa...
Sori aku kejam Akim! Heh! Tapi memang wajib kot...
Whoever said retail therapy doesn't help - lied! Obviously either they don't want you in on the secret of the relief it provides... or they just never felt the joy of it.
Matilah... ari ni masih selsema berair mata dan hidung bagai. So immediately got the day started with picking up a laptop bag aku perasan da seminggu gituh. It's from the Spring Summer 2010 collection (sama kot ngan my wallet). I like it cause it's so simple.
Very subtle monogram with straps in olive and red webbing simple gila.
Cuma kawan-kawan kalao nak pegang AWAS ye sebab memang leather dia pig-skin lining. Matilah tak affect aku.
Yang penting - match at least two pair of my Guccis yang sedia ada dalam koleksi (satu lagik just plain black without signature webbing, dan satu agik brown monogram canvas and leather)
Work tetap walaopon tak sihat.... tapi yang bestnya keja cam tak keja, masa lewat petang nak gi ofis Siti Nurhaliza Productions for meeting tuk company sendiri, J Squared pas settle keja kat opis keja harian.
Walaopon sejam lebih sangkut sebab jam, ujan bagai, tapi finally sampai.
Meeting ngan 'Paul' dan kak Rozi. Nih dia.. si gadis manis ayu posing bagai kat pintu. Matilah... motif? Heh!
Saida pon ada skali. Lama tak jumpa. Motif posing gak? Amik ko!
Yang pentingnya... apakah ni?? Si Paul berlumuran apakah?
Mai rewind sikit. Rupanya... pas abih meeting kita, meka kejutkan Paul ngan cake. Birthday dia katanya. Hasil 'idea' Siti gak yang bakar mintak kenakan, kesian la si mangsa aka birthday boy kena ngan cake.
Hah! Ni bukti sapa yang lajus je bagi makan kek!
Rupanya si Rozi gak ek yang laju sepantas kilat!
Ni pic sebelom insiden dikenakan.
Anyway, it was a good meeting, and God willing, mana lah tahu kalao J Squared bekerjasama ngan SNP in the near future. Time will tell...
Pastu gegas ke Ampang lak. Another meeting. Serious bila business meeting camni semangat aku kembali. Aku dapat kreatif, keluarkan segala idea bagai, tak pikir badan secara fizikal lemah ke letih ke tak sihat.
Upbeat je.
The second meeting best gila sebab sambil layan match Paraguay dan Japan (boo Paraguay!... mencik!), a lot of ideas were thrown about, and syukur, rezeki akan datang lagik (terus merancang shopping Gucci agik ni).
Apapon sampai umah lambat sangat sebab ada insiden bodoh sikit. Heh.. malaih nak cita. Just buang masa, and stresskan (nothing serious pon). But thanks pada kengkawan yang there (you know who you are).
Walaopon amik obat, tapi rasa cam tak perlu. Amen for shopping therapy. Skang tunggu je payment dari client masuk ujung minggu ni, awal minggu depan.
Kena start keja keras balik nak kumpul duit agik.
Oh well.. bukan leh bawak mati pon kan? Yang penting, HALAL dan tak aibkan atau naya orang lain in the process. Ok ok.. melalut lak. Medication kicking in. Night all...
First of all, aku tanak review album ni. Sebab ramai memang akan review. Cukup aku katakan, kalao korang caya aku la... GET THIS ALBUM! Memang, for me, this is Siti's BEST work since what I considered her most exciting album in Transkripsi.
Smalam gi launch seronok. Memang meriah. Seronok tengok Siti ajak fans dia hadir dia sekali, termasuk bloggers dan sebagainya.
The backdrop
The album cover
The star
The loving couple
The friends
The sisters
The picture taken with a cheap ass camera... sorry la Saida
Yang pentingnya... layan lagu dari Tahajjud Cinta dari semalam. Memang besh... on permanent repeat from now.
Tuh dia.. layan ketika feeling hazab katanya. Siot je. Thanks Siti... katanya.. walaopon! Heh! Besh besh... sambung layan sat agik ni.
Also something potentially good came out of this. Walaopon the TV show tengah in limbo, another one of my 'dream projects' might be taking off soon. Ngan berbekalkan idea gila aku semua, the next one, I have a vision of it involving Siti.
Kita tunggu dan lihat je hasilnya. Thanks to Datuk Seri Khalid Jiwa - glad you like my idea. Heh... now on to the paperwork!
Be updating later, guys.. nak buka posa ngan kengkawan Media Prima hari ni.
PS - Aku ada amik video Siti masa performing kat launching. Tunggu ek aku upload.
Hari ni memang tak rasa apa-apa stress ke keletihan ke.. walaupon minor flu menyebabkan aku nak bangun tuh rasa cam badan 100kg jer beratnya. Eh... jap. Badan aku pun lebih dari tuh. Oops! Ok la... terasa lebih berat dari biasa... leh? Heh... merasalah mencarut diri sendiri.
But sampai Akademi, mood happy jerk sampai waktu balik bila bebudak gerak ke rehearsal. Couldn't explain it, but there was a certain happy mood enveloping the place.
Semalam, da ada tamu, which of course korang da tau si Aizat mai singgah....maybe it's Maybelline! Eh... silap lak tagline. Budget awal-awal nak kasi gegar. Larik sebelom kena carot Aizat.
Anyway dengar Aizat skang rajin ek wat project lagu tuk orang. Of course we know he's doing Liyana Jasmay... punya lagu! Memang mintak nahas aku nih kaco meka nih. Aduh... sakit perot nak pecah gelak tak abih pikirkan dua orang nih asik kena buli ngan aku.
Apart from Liyana, Aizat kata he's working on a song for Mawi, as well as a collaboration with Faizal Tahir.. did I mention Liyana Jasmay?
Maybe it's Maybelline... of course lah it is *larikkkkk*
Anyway, moving on to today, ada tamu lagik. Datuk Siti Nurhaliza pagik-pagik da jenguk Akademi. Saida was there along. Nostalgia katanya, teringat tempat dia trauma setahun lepas.
But korang nak tau, masuk bab Saida nih, dia ni skang lebih confident ok. Bangga gak tengok dia nih sebab knowing I was right about her. Time dalam Akademi Fantasia musim lepas, ramai kritik dia sebab tak mampu perform up to par the rest of the competition walaopon ternyata dia berbakat. For me it was always about confidence, which was a huge obstacle for her.
And what can I say... sometimes not all of us face challenges the same way. She needed time, and a year later nampak Saida lebih yakin pada kemampuan diri sendiri.
Anyway abih sesi ngan bebudak jerk, we were joined by Sarimah, and everyone went camwhore crazy! Semua nak amik pic. Bukan hanya kerana Siti ada, but suddenly everyone seemed to have a camera on them for taking pics to update in their Facebook and blogs. Merasalah.... hari ni sesi tamat awal sikit semua joyous katanya.
Ni some of the pics sempat aku snap.
Saida senyum lebih ayu da skang au naturel. Sarimah playing innocent... baru pas mengumpat tuh!!!
Some of my CW colleagues
Hambik ko! Saida skang mampu pose ranggi katanya. Merasalah gelak sendiri perkataan ranggi.
The Tarudin clan and Co.
One for the album, Sarimah along with Siti and Saida.
Sarimah and Siti.
Aku lak ngan Saida
Ngan the one and only Datuk Siti Nurhaliza
Amik ko! Da seminggu malas posting pepanjang tetiba banyak lak pics nak posting.
Anyway by the time korang reading this, I will be somewhere passing Melaka dah on the way to Johor Bahru. Tujuannya?
Ada ujibakat Anak Wayang yang pertama. Of course Faz akan wat hosting sana skali, so sapa gi ujibakat Anak Wayang, jumpa di sana. Tapi aku kat sana sampai lewat tengahari esok jerk sebab nak gerak balik KL then tuk rush ke Konsert Akademi Fantasia minggu keempat. Tak besh lak rasanya nak kelam kabut camni cause I love being in Johor, and need to catch up with some friends there... tapi nak wat camna. Tuk enam minggu lagik, aku pun kena 'berkurung'. Tapi takpe... ngan rela katanya.... walaupun.... heh.
Anak Wayang is a new reality TV program which will be aired melalui Astro Ria dan juga Astro Prima simultaneously.
The aim? Untuk mencari bakat-bakat baru dalam bidang lakonan.
Tujuannya untuk perserta bertanding untuk memegang lima watak, iaitu jururawat, mekanik, pengelola majlis, gangster dan setiausaha dalam sebuah drama bersiri 50 episod yang akan ditayangkan di Astro Prima, bertahuk Kecuali Cintamu.
Pemilihan peserta adalah mengikut juri, sehingga ke dua peserta terakhir. yang kemudiannnya akan ditentukan pemenangnya pada peringkat tuh melalui SMS.
Antara hadiah yang akan diberikan adalah juara secara automatic akan ditawarkan berlakon dalam drama bersiri 130 episod di Astro Prima.
Jadi sesiapa yang yakin, rasa, berangan, feeling ada bakat lakonan, cuba nasib je kat semua lokasi ujibakat. Esok bermulanya kat JB, but in case you can't make it there tomorrow, there's the next day as well as two other locations.
4 & 5 April
Grand Paragon Hotel, Johor Bahru
Johor
11 &12 April
Bayview Hotel, Penang
Pulau Pinang
18 & 19 April
Shah Alam City Centre, Shah Alam
Selangor
Ok, I have to leave now. Korang layan Diari Akademi Fantasia hari nih ek, skali ngan Diari EXT bawah tuh.
PS - Doakan selamat perjalanan aku, dan kembali ek. Dan sesapa yang kat JB mai awal tuk ujibakat cause aku dok Hotel Paragon leh lepak.
Believe it or not, baru je nak crawl into bed since last night.
After ended the event, which thankfully went better than we expected after all the horrors that went down, decided to call it an early night. Sort of. Went to grab a bite at the post event, and then mamak kat Cheras ngan Syarol.
Wanted to head back to catch some Zs tapi da ngantuk sangat, sempat sampai kat Shah Alam je, pull over kat a petrol station tidur jap. Matilah kejap katanya, bangun pun da almost 7am! Mak aih... sempat aku tidur dalam hampir empat jam.
Terserlah keletihan akibat tidur a total of tiga jam je in 48 hours.
So how did the show go? Well... I would be biased in any of my comments. But I have to say my favourite performances were the opening act in Datuk Siti Nurhaliza - walaupun Kurik Kundi lagu lama, but it's still a good song plus rindu show dia yang all out camni, and the closing in Ning Baizura with the James Bond theme songs medley.
The Mamma Mia! tribute was decent too, with Zahid, Nita, Dafi and Suki doing better in the show than in the rehearsals.
The other bits were just somewhere between so-so and horrendous.
Dalam kesibukan sempat snap a few pics. Siap ngan camera lagik, tak malas pakai phone je.
Kavita sibuk with her Blackberry
Van Fan @ Fan Yi Chen, the star of Cape No. 7 - Taiwan biggest blockbuster of all time after Titanic
Tanaka Chie - remember her for the bit role in Initial D
Sisters Siti and Saida. So sweet both of them
Erra looking like a hot momma as usual
Abang Zulhuzaimy pas show persembahan lagu dari pementasan teater Impak Maksima The Musical
The couple, Zahid and Nita
Melly - wow she looks like Mas meets Missy Elliot
Tamara - Rama from Cicakman 2
Fahrin sempat camwhoring
Vee and Shidi
So that was KLIFF 2008, guys. A bit of drama here and there with a star bringing her entourage (orang luar), presenters yang show up just as the show started and much more events I will not state here.
Still, it was a fun learning experience for me tuk kerja sebalik tabir dalam disiplin yang aku tak penah cuba, so I cherish the experience.
