O.M.G.

O.M.G. is coming back!

Siapa yang layan drama Ohsem Music Group atau O.M.G. kat TV3 last year... siap!!!!

Musim kedua confirm dengan shooting sepanjang bulan Mac.

Main cast sama : Black, Amir, Anas Ridzuan dan One Sofazr. Siang tadi dah meeting di TV3. Yang kembali juga - Akim Ahmad, Amyza Aznan dan Arash Mohamad. Ada pendatang baru kali ni iaitu Sathiya dan Aisyah Aliff dari Akademi Fantasia 2013.

That means whole of March shooting - siap jadi makanan nyamuk dalam hutan lagi. Heh!

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O.M.G.

It's been a seriously tiring month.

In between regular work, of course I have Amir to take care of. For the month of May, it was packed with his shooting schedule for the musical comedy drama O.M.G. for TV3.

Shooting was so much fun, but tiring. Tapi dapatlah merasa keadaan macam-macam.

Shooting tengah hutan jadi santapan nyamuk, dalam panas kat hutan (sambil mereka shooting berendam dalam sungai yang sejuk nak mampus), tengah bandar sambil beribu orang jeling as they walk past...

Quite an experience. Rindu pula berlakon... but dah pernah merasa berapa kali sudah serik. Still... banyak kenangan dalam shooting dua minggu lebih.

Thanks Black, One dan Anas yang sekali main cast, and of course Akim, Ila dan Elfa. The crew led by Boboy was fun to be with always. Matilah gelak cam orang gila je memanjang...

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Konsert Akademi Fantasia TERBAIK!

Korang tengok tak Muzik Muzik semalam?

Ada tak sama ngan aku rasa cam ni la konsert Akademi Fantasia yang terbaik sebenarnya? Matilah!

Mana taknya... cam bebudak Akademi Fantasia je yang conquer.

Tapi yang penting, celah celah tuh, ada bakat in house lak yang layak. Cam minggu lepas gak. Nak salahkan sapa? Juri semua profesional. Kisahnya...

Entahlah... aku malam ni sebenarnya favourite song to make it is Khatimah Cinta dari 6ixth Sense. I fell in love with the song since the first time I heard it, sebab keunikan lagu tuh to be a fresh take on Malay rock.

Tapi nak wat camna. Tak dok top five. Harapkan score meka cukup tinggi nak layak je la.

Apapon, congratulations to semua komposer dan lyricist of those who were in the top 5 as they now stand a better chance of making it.

This is what happens when only five people determine what songs so into the final. Entah ke mana sistem penjurian Muzik Muzik kali ni. Dulu at least ada gak rotate.

Anyway... to the performers in Estranged, Nubhan, Stacy dan Akim, congratulations on the great show - and you guys deserve in.

Apart from those kids, I think Aizat did well pon walaopon tanpa guitar, he seems a bit lost. But he still did good nonetheless. Takpe... my fave song is Kau Aku, so at least that seems to have a stronger chance of making it.

Ok.. pic time.

Gaga-ish Stacy


Kenapa mata Rich tuh.. hah ni lupa lirik punya pasal la terbeliak! Matilah aku!


Mana bengangnya?


Didn't take so many pics. Jangan speku kenapa lak aku tak amik pic Nubhan. Memang tak sempat sebab kelam kabut sikit pas abih. Oit.. Akademi Fantasia da abih la.. rilek. Kang aku snappy la (in anticipation ada yang marah tak amik pic). Lagipon Nubhan sejak buang badi ni tambah improve banyak. Camtu la...




Ni some pics masa lepak kat Syed. Kebetulan Stacy dan keluarga Stacy FC pun ada. Akim FC pun ada, tapi Akim takde. I think dalam setengah jam kemudian baru Akim menyusul.

Anyway, nak lari topik sikit. Remember pasal Youtube aku suspended?

Ni response dari team Youtube. Thanks to Youtube for their speedy reply.



Dalang sebalik usaha nak sabotaj Youtube aku lom diketahui. But aku da file counter notice, and thankfully, Youtube is being very helpful. I have also filed for copyright claims on our KLCC flash mob video and I have filed complaints against the three accounts who duplicated our video.

So that's it. It's a short entry tonight. Will try and blog tomorrow.. FROM BALI!

Yeap, I have decided to go for Soundrenaline 2009 there. Speku pasal event, this year, the eighth, will also be the last. So seb baik la dapat peluang, thanks to Universal Music Malaysia. Bergabung... MALATUUPPP!!! Matilah...

Lots of big bands performing. Nidji, D Masiv, J Rocks and so on. Sayang je Samsons takde. Nangis jap. Ok la... nak sambung packing. My next entry will be - from Bali!!!! Yeah! Going to be there until Monday - so takyah nak noya ngan binatang-binatang sini. Yipee!

Over and out!

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Muzik-Muzik Separuh Akhir

Wanted to upload this earlier, but tak larat sebenarnya. So here it is. Semalam gi separuh akhir pertama Muzik-Muzik di Sri Pentas 2, Plaza Alam Sentral di Shah Alam.

Tahun ni sebab takde kategori, it's supposed to be harder competition, tapi sebenarnya tuk aku, pecahan separuh akhir lak kali ni, at least for the first semifinal ni, tak begitu sengit. Leh tangkap da sapa akan mampu layak.

Ni lagu-lagu yang bertanding malam semalam.

Mirage /Pesawat/Jipie/Jipie
Kau Aku/AizatAizat/Aizat
Dia, Aku Dan Kamu/ Nadia & Red Peanut/Eddie Hamid/Ahmad Fedtri/Yahya
Oh Anok Anok/Reshmonu/Reshmonu/Farasha Osman
Tak Mungkin Kerna Sayang/Alyah/Ajai/Habsah Hassan
Aku Scandal/Hujan/Noh/Noh
Enjut/Noraniza Idris/Cat Farish, Roxy Tail & Illegal/ Ahmad fedtri Yahya, Cat Farish & Roxy Tail
Gila/Mila.Audi Mok/Nur Fatima
Dan Sebenarnya/Yuna/Yuna/Yuna
Raja Gelek/One Nation Emcees.Damien Mikhail.Daminal Mikhail, One Nation Emcees
Bertamu Di Kalbu/Jaclyn Victor/Anjang/Anjang

Disebabkan judging kali ni berdasarkan 30% markah dari persembahan secara langsung dan baki 70% daripada pemarkahan yang dilakukan sebelum, atas penilaian lagu from every aspect termasuk composition and lyrics, I already had my choices.

And after tiap persembahan, it was proven that my predictions menjadi la gak.

I wanted Mirage by Pesawat in, and I thought they deserved to be in. Entah haper yang juri pikirkan as this was one of the fresher sounds in the semifinal this time. On top of that, Pesawat has an appeal to them ramai tak berpeluang nak hear lagik. But knowing some other songs would get be focused on, based on whatever merits memang peluang meka kureng la sikit.

So walaopon semalam diumumkan, Raja Gelek, Kau Aku, Dan Sebenarnya, Tak Mungkin Kerna Sayang and Aku Skandal... ni cuma lagu lagu yang lima teratas berdasarkan pemarkahan as of yesterday. Seperti mana lima teratas ni tak janji masuk Anugerah Juara Lagu, gitu gak peluang bagi lagu lagu lain masih terbuka.

I already had a feeling that Mirage wouldn't make it. In the top five that is...

In fact aku da agak da kelima lagu teratas berdasarkan beberapa faktor.

Contoh, Aku Skandal dan Dan Sebenarnya. Undoubtedly the favorites of the night and rightly so memang layak, so takyah la nak cakap lagu-lagu ni membawa halatuju bawa dalam pop rock muzik tempatan. Tu kita semua pon da tau. Kau Aku pon was a confirmed choice for me to be in the top, sebab memang Aizat's maturity is songwriting is because he has not stuck to several conventions of market demands, unlike the jaded ones in the business who think sounding fresh - is something eccentric, pulling too much from other influences that simply don't gel, not works.

With three from these batch of youngsters, Pesawat had an uphill battle. Biasala. Judging bukan je wat dari kriteria-kriteria yang dikatakan. At the back of the minds of the producers, they have to think production wise gak. Kena la variety... konon la...

Tak Mungkin Kerna Sayang sebenarnya for me, aku letak dalam kategori sama dengan Bertemu Di Kalbu. Lagu yang bosan dan sebenarnya skema, kalao release 10 tahun lepas pon sama jerk. Nothing new... and boring as hell.

Tapi dua lagu ni, diberikan nafas kerana persemabahan penyanyi yang membawa kedua lagu ni, which is Alyah and Jaclyn Victor. Good for Alyah dapat lagu solo tuk peluang nak masuk bertanding Anugerah Juara Lagu. I think she deserves it walaopon aku rasa lagu tuh very the nan hado. As for Jac, semalam persemabahan dia menampakkan kematangan, a maturity which I've never seen before. There was an emotional connection to the song, without her resorting to merely just blowing everyone away with her powerful vocals. Hopefully... she gets it too.

And Raja Gelek? I think seriously this one memang buang masa. Stuck in the 90s, and predictable attempt to mash-up the sounds to make it sound localised and all. Maybe some like it, but I don't. Still, dah agak memang akan dapat top 5 pon.. so no surprise.

I kind of like the fact that One Nation Emcees appear more polished now than before, but still there's an amateurish air to their performance. Props to them though for trying... effort should always be applauded.

Unlike Mila malam semalam. Hancus... and nothing redeeming about her performance whatsoever. Still, both these names just didn't look like they deserved to be there as they would appear more at home kat Hari Penyampaian Hadiah skoleh menengah mana ntah.

Can't wait for next week, because I think there's going to be some serious competition then, plus on top of that, nak gak tengok carta, how lagu-lagu minggu ni stack up again next week's scoring.

I hope ada la surprise element sikit in the judging (for the better) cause being predictable takes the fun out of competition.

Apapon, ni some pics sempat snap smalam. The first batch ni masa baru sampai. Sapa yang serempak aku snap jer.

Sampai saat akhir, Cheryl the perfectionist touch up skrip


Nadia getting ready


Alyah pon tengah touch up


This next batch masa lepas pengumuman sapa top five for the night...





Masa semua orang tengah celebrate (nak raikan apa...masuk top five atau tidak tak menjanjikan agik masuk Anugerah Juara Lagu ma), aku gi borak ngan Jac kejap. So impressed with her performance. Not because of her usual power, but there was something a little extra malam tu.



Then it was back to the top five photo op session.





Because this is a song competition, of course lain la criteria, tapi kalao ikutkan performance wise, my ideal performers to have made it through (if kalao bukan top 5 je la) would have been Aku Skandal (Hujan), Dan Sebenarnya (Yuna), Kau Aku (Aizat) and Mirage (Pesawat). And either Alyah or Jac for those diva power vocals.

Tapi result lom tentu agik. Lagikpon, every year Anugerah Juara Lagu tiap tahun pun mesti ada yang very the mistake layak tuk bertanding. Heh! Korang ingat tak ada Aiman yang costume bagai? Aiyo... sesuatuh!

Anyway, spent some time talking to Yuna and Aizat, as well as hey hey ngan bebudak Pesawat.

First time borak ngan Yuna.. I like her


Aizat... ehem.. mana dia (matilah aku)


Pesawat rocks!


Can't wait for next week. Meanwhile, I'll leave you guys with Jac's performance. Walaopon lagu aku terbayang cam lagu recycle Ziana Zain yang patut kuar sometime awal 90an, but Jac did amazing. Kalao ada award best performance of the night, it would undoubtedly go to her.

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Ewah Ewah!

Kelab Pop? Menang! Mandi? Erm... memang bak kata Vince takde pengalah... sebab memang takde yang menang pon sebab game tu gila (tapi seronok).

So got invited to Ewah Ewah (thanks to kak Kelly yang ajak bloggers, and Red sebab call aku skali)

Walaopon sibuk, arituh gi gak. Nak post pics tapi sebab Red lambat upload, kena la tunggu. Heh.. ni finally the pics aku kebas dari site dia. Sorry kalao tak clear. Salahkan dia sebab kemut upload kicik-kicik. Hah!

So Red teamed up with me (good choice!). How did we do? Menang la apa lagi! Apapon kang korang layan la Ewah Ewah musim baru. Tak silap aku kak Kelly kata episod kita orang ni akan ditayangkan awal bulan depan.

The winners! In red (sebab rambut aku slalu merah dan tukang panatik merah


Kak Engku jadik mangsa aku

Menang!

With the other teams


Sebab aku ni jenis pemalu (kata kau!) tak sempat berkenalan sangat ngan bloggers lain. But congratulations guys... walaopon. Matilah aku! Heh!

Anyway, it was fun. But letih dowh. May be the last game show I ever enter sebab rasa umor ningkat sangat, bab bab physical ni. Lagikpon bila dok sebelah ngan yang cinonet ni semua aku rasa cam gergasi je. Keji!

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Syukur

Harini aku ada berita baik, tapi tanak bagitau pe pe kat sini. Cukup aku bersyukur kerana peluang nampaknya da terbuka tuk aku mengambil selangkah lagi dalam mengembangkan bakat aku ke disiplin lain dalam bidang hiburan sekarang.

But it was a good day today and aku kept busy with some stuff. Again takleh bagitau apa.

What I CAN share with you is something unrelated. Besok memang busy gila. I got to rush to TV3 to pick up something. Then make a dash to Kompleks Suka Bukit Jalil nak tengok ujibakat Akademi Fantasia, hari pertama. Then pas urusan peribadi sikit and a spot of shopping with Faz, nak ke Stadium Putra seberang jerk tuk layan rehearsal Anugerah Juara Lagu 23.

Following which I got to dash off to Damansara Perdana tuk pelancaran butik Belicious milik Umie Aida dan Betty. Da janji ngan Faz and Liyana to meet up so should be quite a night.

Definitely a lot of pics to post, so look out.

Apapon, back to cita Anugerah Juara Lagu on Sunday. Aku dengar pagi esok at 11am, bertempat di Sri Pentas, Bandar Utama, the final voting will be going on. Aku dikhabarkan senarai mereka yang menjadi juri. Setuju sangat hampir semua nama termasuk penyanyi, pencipta lagu dan sebagainya. Cuma dua nama je aku rasa very the tak perlu. But oh well. Let's just hope for the best.

Ada ke keputusan bocor. Eeee... tak mungkin. Kalao aku tahu pun (cam sebelom ni penah jadik) aku diamkan jerk.

But on bab Anugerah Juara Lagu 23 nih, aku baru sedar aku lum wat predictions. So here they are.



So ni lagu-lagu yang akan bertanding Ahad nanti di Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil, secara langsung menerusi TV3 pada jam 9.00malam hingga 11.30malam.

CALON JUARA LAGU (Lagu/Kategori/Artis/Penulis Lagu/Penulis Lirik)
1. Bukan Di Sini (Pop Rock/Sofaz/Sofaz/Sofaz)
2. Lagu Kita (Balada/Aizat/Aizat/Aizat)
3. Dusta Berkalang (Etnik Kreatif/Aiman/Hafiz Hamidun/Ahmad Fedtri Yahya)
4. Cuba (Balada/Faizal Tahir/Audi Mok/Faizal Tahir)
5. Yang Pernah (Pop Rock/Estranged/Estranged/Estranged)
6. Bila Nak Saksi (Balada/Spider/Tam Spider/Loloq)
7. Doa Dalam Lagu (Etnik Kreatif/Zahid dan Heliza/Ajai/Loloq)
8. Sampai Syurga (Balada/Faizal Tahir/Audi Mok/Faizal Tahir)
9. Hanya Di Mercu (Balada/Ayu/Aubrey Suwito/Habsah Hassan)
10. Aku Stacy (Pop Rock/Stacy/Intan Norul Azlin Intan/Norul Azlin dan Laila Ismail)
11. Dingin (Balada/Ziana Zain/Azlan Abu Hassan/Azalea)
12. Kalis Rindu (Pop Rock/Elyana/Aidit Alfian/AD Samad)
13. Persoalan Cinta (Etnik Kreatif/Farawahida/Julfekar dan Ku Seman Izza Rosley)
14. Lagu Untukmu (Pop Rock/Meet Uncle Hussain/Taja dan Tass/Taja, Tass dan Lan)

So what are my predictions sapa akan menang? Ok let me just say this first. A good song - is a subjective matter indeed. So mungkin apa sorang suka, sorang agik tak suka kan?

For me, the kriteria of judging should not be based on the definition of best as in the technical approach of things, because there is no way to ascertain that. Those are following factors that should apply.

For me - what makes a song good - will be the uniqueness and fresh appeal of a tune. Does the song sound tired and a repeat of something that may have been done before, and it's relevancy to the business today. Subjective again perhaps - but a more reliable measure to judge by.

On that note, my predictions.

ETNIK KREATIF
Honestly... korang nak aku buang masa predict ke? Ok.. senang. Doa Dalam Lagu. Not because it's that good. But it's the best of the worst. Ngan competition dari lagu-lagu camni, baik buang je kategori ni sebab memang this category drags down the standards of the whole competition.

Bagi meka yang kat stadium ke kat rumah, time persembahan lagu-lagu ni memang tak mustahil penonton gunakan tika ni tuk gi jamban ke haper jer.
PREDICTED WINNER : Doa Dalam Lagu (Etnik Kreatif/Zahid dan Heliza/Ajai/Loloq)



POP ROCK
This is where the competition gets a lot tougher. Baru nampak sikit saingan.

For me secara jujur lagu paling lemah sini lagu Aku Stacy. This is followed by Bukan Di Sini.

Tuk kategori Pop Rock, it's a three cornered fight antara Yang Pernah, Kalis Rindu dan Lagu Untukmu. And I think Kalis Rindu yang pertama tercicir if it boils down to this.

So we have two bands who rock the house being the possible winner here. Both from the new school of Malay rock. It could go either way in terms of the overall compositions and their updated take of the genre today.
PREDICTED WINNER : Yang Pernah - tapi menang photo finish ni. Sengit gila.



BALADA
Ni lagi satu kategori yang memang gila babiks nya tough fight. Tolak tepi lagu Dingin dan Hanya Di Mercu for sounding like something that was released 10 years ago - and nothing spectacular at that (trivia time - lagu haper la yang leh layak ngan lirik dengam perkataan CECITA... meletups!)

Also tolak tepi Bila Nak Saksi. No offence, but tuk aku, again kalao lagu Mabuk, mungkin Spider stand chance. But not on this song.

So again three cornered fight. Of which I think Cuba will fall by the wayside first, walaupon aku rasa tu personal favourite aku.

So the fight will be between Lagu Kita and Sampai Syurga.
PREDICTED WINNER : Sampai Syurga pas juang habis habisan ngan saingan in a simple but beautifully written Lagu Kita.



JUARA LAGU
Honestly aku tak berani pilih walaupon tuk prediction. So my guess, depending on whether the judges are all above 35 or not, will be Yang Pernah or Sampai Syurga. Yes, their age and background have everything to do with it too.

When things get too hard - look at who the judges are and you may guess their choices right.

My guess is Sampai Syurga may just win this. But again - I'm saying if both songs indeed win their category as I predicted Yang Pernah stands the best chance to make it a second win for Estranged again. Just knowing the judges, I doubt it.

For Best Vocal Performance aku dapat rasakan Aizat, Estranged and Faizl Tahir stand the best chance, though I really don't know sebab tak tengok rehearsals lagik tuk judge. Just guessing based on their past record.
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For Best Performance, Stacy, Estranged, Faizal Tahir stand chance walaopon aku guessing again. Will let you guys know if I change my mind pas tengok rehearsal esok.

Anyway... kita tengok je kang ek.

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