The Malay Mail Relaunch Party

Awmigawddddd!!!! It was such a blast!

Thank you to all my friends who showed up for the Malay Mail Relaunch Party!

Firstly an announcement. One of the many that will come concerning the Malay Mail in the next few months.

Step one. Beginning tomorrow.. kira today la - hari Khamis bersamaan 26 November, The Malay Mail is back in its original form (syukur!) with the tagline of The Paper That Cares and will be FREE!!!

Yes, we are the second paper to go free, but content wise akan bertambah meletop!

Circulation pon meledak gituh ke 100,000.

Dan ini baru step one. Tunggu pengumuman lain.. aku tanak jump the gun, tapi sebagai orang dalam, a media revolution is beginning, and the investors and backers are going all out to prove something we've always known... that The Malay Mail has what it takes.

For those yang berminat nak tau, my column, Hear, Say... will no longer be on Thursdays, but on Tuesdays.

Now that I'm done with the announcements, I want to thank so many people (feeling Grammy acceptance).

First to Marion Caunter and Zainal Alam Kadir - my emcees for the night, thank you so much for going crazy and making sure everyone had fun.

Secondly to Atilia and Ning Baizura. Two of the best entertainers around who got the party started, and kept it going with their fantastic voices.

Thirdly, and as importantly, a big THANK YOU to all my friends who showed up. I love you guys. So many of you, sorry kalao miss any names.

To the Celepets (nama gelaran kumpulan vogue) in Dynas, Sazzy Falak, Yasmin Hani... Vanessa Chong, Anita Sarawak and hubby abang Mahathir (siap kansel ke Singapore for job tuk be there for me... awwwwwww), Mawi dan Ekin, Audi Mok and Nikki, Datin Seri Tiara Jacquelina, Datuk Seri Farid Ridzuan, hot couple Vanidah Imran dan Rashidi Ishak, Nur Aliah aka the other Vee and her hubby to be (hensem dan baik orangnya), Rina Omar, Saerah, Fatimah Abu Bakar and hubby (anak anak, si Nani and gang tak dapat mai sebab kena conjunctivitis!), Dayang Nurfaizah (sedap lagu baru dia, Sayang, yang dia bagi dengar... I like!), Jaclyn Victor (walaopon lambat sebab rushing ada hal)... aduh ramai aku tau aku tak sempat senaraikan semua, but thank you sangat sangat to all these people who came because I so wanted them there and personally invited them.

Juga pada kengkawan dari TV3 dan gak Astro. Love you guys. Kita sambung carut mencarut pasni ek sebab Anugerah Juara Lagu dan Akademi Fantasia 8 da nak start (matilah aku... heh!)

I missed some like Fahrin (tak sempat balik flight ke), Aizat (mana ni???), Aishah Sinclair (tak sempat so tak complete kumpulan Celepets), Daphne Iking (ni sorang agik Celepets tapi MIA), Umie Aida (ada rehearsal pementasan Natrah), Sarimah Ibrahim (tak sempat balik kot pas shooting ujung ujung Biggest Loser Asia), Linda Onn (gi preview Full Moon sebab da janji) Nora Danish (shooting) and Datuk Siti Nurhaliza (walaopon kak Rozie kata try singgah tak nampak pon... sedih aku). Ada other yang tak dapat mai gak... tapi nak wat pe...

All of you who were there, thank you again for supporting the paper, and also personally, me, as a friend.

Dah dah... panjang lak. Dah lah nak tidur sebab letih plus kena bangun awal pagik ni tuk preview filem Santau.

Layan pics dulu ek.

My two rajin punya kaki Twitter - Marion and Atilia


Otai 'muda' - muda lagik ke? Matilah aku.. Erra dan Alam


Kak Vee (Alia) ngan kak Nita and abang Mahathir


Why am I posing like a dork???


Vee (Vanidah Imran) and Vee (Aliah) ngumpat ngan kak Fati (beriya ek!)


Dayang!!!!


Nur Aliah aka Vee - senyuman orang bakal naik pelamin! Aku tanak amik pic cayang dia sebab respect privacy... kang wedding CONFIRM exclusive gituh!


Atilia - gedik la uols! But I LOVE her!


Datuk Seri Farid - one of the coolest CEOs I know, kak Izan from AESB, Ekin dan Mawi (wei botak... mai gak ko ek.. tima kacih!)


Performance unik malam tadik - band gabungan CEOs beberapa company! Semua muka familiar (lead vocals editor aku Ahiruddin Atan aka Rocky Bru - blogger very the tersohor bab politik)


The message wall (tu new logo kat atas)


Erra and Engku Emran (kita bakal sebumbung kannnnn.. oops... shh!)


Mommy Fati and Tiara - gossip pasal bebudak anak-anak ayam AF7 kita ke? Heh!


Sehati berdansa... (sabar je la Sazzy orang cakap pe... especially yang pepandai mencelah tanpa tau story.. heh!)


So anyway tu je la pics aku sempat snap sebab sibuk amat! Nanti aku try upload some other pics of who else was there for you guys.

Ok la.. nak tidur... ni nak bangun 8 pagik ni. Matilah aku... tired but VERY happy! Big things coming my way soon!

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Konsert Akhir Akademi Fantasia 7 (Part 9)

This is the last batch from Saturday. Ni dari my personal collection time press conference as well as lepak time makan makan after the show was over. Enjoy the pics...


PS - The last couple of pics tuh ngan Askrul tuh time lepas final masa lepak changing room meka.




















Konsert Akhir Akademi Fantasia 7 Special links
Konsert Akhir Akademi Fantasia 7 (Part 1) - CLICK HERE
Konsert Akhir Akademi Fantasia 7 (Part 2) - CLICK HERE
Konsert Akhir Akademi Fantasia 7 (Part 3) - CLICK HERE
Konsert Akhir Akademi Fantasia 7 (Part 4) - CLICK HERE
Konsert Akhir Akademi Fantasia 7 (Part 5) - CLICK HERE
Konsert Akhir Akademi Fantasia 7 (Part 6) - CLICK HERE
Konsert Akhir Akademi Fantasia 7 (Part 7) - CLICK HERE
Konsert Akhir Akademi Fantasia 7 (Part 8) - CLICK HERE
Konsert Akhir Akademi Fantasia 7 (Part 9) - CLICK HERE
Konsert Akhir Akademi Fantasia 7 (Part 10) - CLICK HERE

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Dah agak...

Why are some people so predictable?

Because memang meka ni jenis stok skema dan kekurangan kasih sayang sampai tahap apa meka wat tuh driven out of desperation gituh.

Matilah paham-paham sendiri ek sapa yang terasa.

Aku da agak last entry aku mesti ada yang panas hati. But yes, it's not the first time in Akademi Fantasia history yang ada pelajar rasa lagu mereka tidak sesuai dengan diri mereka. It's happened before... surprise... surprise. Bukan sorang... mungkin tak penah air... mungkin tak penah orang baru tengok Akademi Fantasia tak sedar.

But that's not the issue.

And no the issue is not changing songs. Tak menuntut pe pon. But I suppose some people limited comprehension bab nih, so takpe la. Dari explain why I thought he had a right say something about LAGU BARU bukan lagu tugasan biasa dia, ada je nak fire.

Bottomline is ada orang yang saja nak cari pasal dengan show ni kan? Biasalah Akademi Fantasia, popular... kenalah carut. Datuk Siti Nurhaliza popular pun ada yang carut. Orang yang mencarut tu yang melangut dok tepi, bitter dan very kekurangan kasih sayang nak cari attention dengan carutan tidak berasas.

Matilah ko. Heh!

Banyak gila komen dalam last entry. I like! I knew some people would go ballistic with my take on what happened, and true enough, ramai yang meroyan. Peliknya ramai yang anonymous yang camtuh...

Takpe la. Musim Akademi Fantasia. You guys have fun venting ok. Jangan kuar and take someone out ngan anger korang yang terpendam tuh. Kalau da gaji atau duit saku tak cukup nak AFUNDI, lepas sajalah geram korang tuh sini free. Just understand these words, "IP" dan "police report".

Amik ko.

Setakat nih aku tak heran. If you guys wonder why I ignore most of the comments, sebab I hate repeating myself. Tuk aku yang tak paham bahasa, ko terangkan ke explain secara rasional camna pon tak guna. And I don't think they even want an answer but attention.

Bottomline, aku nak tengok yang feeling dakwa peminat nih, ada lagik ke tak when these kids come out. Ni jenis kalao follower game bola nih nak sorak kutuk, padahal pasal team pon tatau apa. Saja nak join mencelah nak carik perhatian. Matilah metaphor tengok bola lak. Maksud aku, time ni ada je ramai 'pengkritik kedai kopi' dilahirkan. Meka lupa lak 'kritikan' mereka dengan AFUNDI, bukan ngan air liur.

Anyway, yang 'peminat' nak meroyan nih adalah sama stok ngan peminat yang disebut dalam Diari hari ni yang bebudak jumpa ketika trip HOHO pada hari Ahad. They nit pick, dan bith about everything without love for the show.

The real fans talk about anything and everything, but they support all the kids in spirit of fairplay walaopon mencarut.... kerana ada batasan dalam apa meka lakukan.

I am glad the kids had that episode of seeing some people yang feeling berangan jadik peminat tapi dalam sekelip mata leh kutuk hanya kerana meka tak dapat apa meka nak. Orang camni la yang takleh pakai.

Tak caya? Tunggu dalam masa enam bulan skang. Kita tengok sora fanatik semua yang da hilang kewarasan ada lagik ke tak.

Ok ok... lighten up cita sikit... hari ni kat Akademi bebudak semua nampaknya da more focused. Ketepikan kesedihan nak over da, ketepikan stress nak final, ketepikan frustration pasal orang-orang kurang siuman.

Am glad... isu lagu Aril dengar abang Acis da come up with a power arrangement. Hopefully it'll make fans happy.

Apapon... aku happy bukan je kerana bebudak semua happy hari nih masa lepak ngan meka, aku happy gak sebab dapat borak ngan someone pasal cita something unrelated to Akademi Fantasia. Besh gila dapat info! Nantila aku habaq. It's something quite a lot of people have been talking about.. but not mentioning it here for now. Ramai yang skodeng. Shhh!!!!

Also dalam lepak ngan Principal Datin Seri Tiara Jacquelina tadi, puji skirt dia pakai cantik. Givenchy ok! Merasalah! Cantik! Tapi.. erm... cam familiar kan? Terasa cam jaket Isma pakai Sabtu lepas! Heh! Sekali macam beg aku gak. Thank you Pincipal sporting jadik model aku gak nih ek. Heh!




Ok lah. Nak berhenti meroyan. Korang layan je lah Diari hari ni kalao lum layan.


PS - Jangan lupa! AFUNDI Akim, AFUNDI Aril, AFUNDI Hafiz, AFUNDI Isma dan AFUNDI Yazid.

PPS - Kalao minat bukan stakat minat ngan air liur ngan seribu alasan, AFUNDI10 terus lah ek.

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The first day

Hari ni memang besh. Dah la ujan tak stress sejuk pastuh mendung semacam je seharian. So walaupun kerja semua stress, tapi rilek sikit kot sebab semua excited bagai.

Ok, so you guys wanna know what happened today kan?

Ok... sebenarnya Diari yang korang tengok tu, is a two part affair. Some parts were from the recording yesterday. Opening ngan sambutan Maulidur Rasul di mana Mawi dan Rabbani masuk ke dalam Akademi.



Pas Mawi dan Rabbani standby nak welcome the kids ngan bebudak kat atas kat Akademi. So meanwhile tunggu ler the fourteen kids sampai. And finally they did.
Ni some pics of their arrival.

Ni abang Lan photographer amik pic. Dia la yang bertanggungjawab snappy all the pics about for Astro


Ni si Rini posing


Langkah masuk Akademi


More kids


Yang wanita


The men


Tuan RA briefing


Tuan RA siapa lagi kalao bukan Askrul


It was a bit hectic but fun to see the kids' excitement. A lot more stuff happened semalam and you saw most of it kat Diari. But honestly aku paling suka bab nikah mana si Obri nikahkan Aril dan Yazid.. oops Siti Yazidah. Si Qhaud pun mengada join. Pecah perot ok masa meka main main tunggu sesi bermula pas baru masuk. Bebudak ni bebetul happy go lucky... and kinda crazy.

Hari ni pengumuman pengetua. So we now know it's Datin Seri Tiara Jacquelina. Apa komen korang. Add your comments below... your feedback is much appreciated.

"We're not here to create a ripple, but a tidal wave," katanya. Dengar elok elok tuh. Merasalah...

Also pengumuman lagu tugasan. I'm making it brief so that all this is published as soon as possible for you guys. Take note, all update akan up by 10pm every day. So you can expect pics as well as info mana yang sempat aku nak load.

Lagu tugasan pelajar wanita
Adila - Di Bawah Pohon Asmara (Jaclyn Victor)
Isma - Sepi (Yuni Shara)
Rini - Elegi Sepi (Azharina)
Claudia - Sempurna (Andra and the Backbone)
Zizi - Molek (Elyana)
Aishah - Dan Sebenarnya (Yuna)
Rubisa - Matahariku (Agnes Monica)

Lagu tugasan pelajar lelaki
Qhaud - Phoenix Bangkit Dari Abu (M. Nasir)
Yazid - Penghujung Rindu (Jamal Abdillah)
Sidi - Terima Kasih Cinta - Afgan
Hafiz - Lagu Kita (Aizat)
Obri - Jeritan Batinku (P. Ramlee)
Aril - Rahasia Perempuan (Ari Lasso)
Akim - Hati Ku Kau Luka (Alleycats)

There are actually more pics aku nak upload tapi tak sempat so expect them in my next entry ok. Meanwhile, korang leh layan lagu tugasan bebudak kat sebelah ni. It's on autoplay. I will be uploading the audio of their performances sebaik je konsert abih (sebaik je sempat la) as well as upload lagu tugasan as well.

Esok aku akan kemaskini semua links tuk peminat Akademi Fantasia so you have the best action on the web. Later aku akan letak apa aku leh carik dari Youtube as well. So keep checking. Later ek... aku masih kat majlis pengumuman pengetua nih.

Banyak pics aku update kang je people. Ta for now.


PS - Layan Diari minggu pertama hari pertama.

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