The origin...

Dari bebanyak buka puasa semalam, aku pilih ke buka puasa Astro, which includes AMP, iaitu Astro Radio, Maestro etc. Thanks to the skilled driving of avoiding the massively jammed areas, and 'safely' whizzing through the slight crawl, and also the help of highways, the SMART tunnel and my Smart Tag, made it to the event just on time.

Sampai je kat Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, where it was held, elok elok masuk je dewan, azan pun berkumandang, so it was just nice timing.

Ramainya orang... pening gak.Didn't really eat, but then again as usual, time berbuka aku memang takde mood nak makan sangat.

Claustrophobic gaks, but later when everyone da melantak and the crowd thinned out, it was fine. Dapat mingle gak ngan kengkawan dan borak. Here are some pics I shot. Hope you guys liked it.

My fave pics... sisters... in every way! Ella and Jojie...


... and Nikki and Yanie


Comel sangat!!! Mila...bulu mata pelese menyengat!


Ramli MS ala pak lebai...and Linda Jasmine


Anita Sarawak and hubby, and Farid Kamil.


Farish pretending nak pose casual as well as Awal Ashaari


Mentor aku... Alam (balas dendam sebab kenakan aku kat Trek Selebriti), as well as Sarimah and Ning.


Noni dan Ebi.


Heliza

Sesapa minat the pics, please ingat kalao nak amik, silakan, tapi jangan lupa kredit kan aku, with a link ok. At least kira appreciate ler usaha aku nak upload semua. Tapi besh gak la buka posa camni. Ramli MS yang paling besh aku nak layan borak, sekali ngan si Jojie dan Ella. Si Ella sibuk lahap Brands Essence of Chicken, sebab demam. Yang pentingnya, da minom tuh, minom lak kopi, pastuh sirap. Aiyo... talk about mix up. Cocktail sangat. Heh...masa tuh meka tengah panggil dia onstage. Tapi once dia on, besh sangat. SIap anak yatim semua pon terhibur. She definitely went the extra mile.

Ella, Ning, Nikki dan Yanie as well as bebudak Akademi Fantasia dan sorang dua lagik buat show... layan! By the time we were done, it was about 9.30pm. The best tuh dapat jumpa kengkawan cam kak Tweety and friend. Selama ni kat blog jerk layan.. heh.. kak... hope you didn't find me too freaky. Kecian Boo Boo cam bosan, tapi in the end, layan gak, kan sayang?
Malas nak post pepanjang, hope you guys find the pictures nice enough to make it worth your time. Nak tidur, esok nak keja awal.

Lagikpon, ada planning SECRET PROJECT (key words here) nak kena wat ala pre planning nih. Gonna be busy soon for the thing to happen in about two weeks or so.
It's going to take up some time, but it's going to be fun.

Meanwhile, hope the player is working fine, and I'll be tweaking it a little more when I have time dalam sehari dua nih. Until then...be writing for you guys tomorrow.

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Anugerah Era - Part 1

So actually woke up today dah kat Genting Highlands. As planned, semalam pas cucuk langit jap, aku terus gerak naik. By the time I got there, it was about 4 in the morning.

Nak gerak terus ke First World Hotel, hotel konsep bilik Chow Kit yang bery the budget hotel. Dah tuh yang ada bilik tuk dua malam yang disediakan.

On the way naik, si kak Shida call kata nak jumpa. Da berapa kali dia call, tapi masa naik tuh, dia sound serious jer. Dari kebosanan sebab takde geng kat atas tuh, dia bunyi cam horror. Mana taknya. Kerana lepak ngan Vern dan Azmi punya pasal, dan meka horror kan dia cita memacam cita seram, dia da tamau tido. Cam kesial...

So last aku dan Boo Boo sampai ke menyimpang ke Theme Park Hotel jumpa dia.

Lepak jap then checked in dan tido... sedar sedar da tengahari.

Member ramai lom naik agik time tuh.so jalan jalan ngan Boo Boo around First World. Jumpa kak Shida and later joined by Azmi. Budget nak masuk Van Helsing Live! tuh tapi sebab RM25, thought better of it. Si Shida pon smalam takot pree... heh!

By the time got back to the room it was almost 4pm, so start ler mandi tukar baju semua. An hour later or so, kol 5 lebih da sampai balik Theme Park Hotel tuk nak check in tengok persiapan Nikki.

Sampai sana chaotic lak di minta orang ni tuk tolong carikkan subang sebab someone forgot earrings to Nikki punya emsemble.So traipsed back to First World Hotel, ke Times Square sana nak carik ler.

While everyone opted for huge chunky earrings, Jovian thought less is more, so finally got a pair that met his specifications and walked back again to Theme Park Hotel.

Lenguh siot kaki!!!! Rasa kebas da smacam jalan hulu hilir je keja. Still, since missed dinner, nasib la kan. Ala ala Mastercard ad.

Button earrings - RM7.50
Drinks and chicken pie from Coffeebean - Rm30+
Guilt of person asking me to do the chore, and eventually paying for the meal - PRICELESS!!!

Moved down to the holding area, and got snap happy sambil gossip gossip ngan kengkawan semua.
Kak Fati pose ayu. Yanie and Nikki pose feeling sambil tunggu nak masuk karpet ijo.


Promosi tourism Sarawak sangat Bob dan Dayang Nurfaizah.


Haziq rambut baru... Sahri cam boring je...


Ning and Chris. First public event together.


Dak botak masa kat holding area. Nice outfit Mawi.

Lepak punya lepak... it was time to move in. Kena la lalu green carpet (that was just weird). So ikot ler belakang si Nikki sambil-sambil pastikan dia tak trip over baju dia.
Haiyo... pening. Ramainya orang. There goes my claustrophobia acting up again.I hate crowds. I get so agitated.
Anyway, masuk je, pusing pusing carik seat aku. Memula dok kat arena tuh (thanks Iza and Hani) somewhere third or fourth row from the back, tapi kira near the middle so ok ler. Good view.
Sebelom start event, aku digerakkan to a better seat. Fourth row from the front. Sebab ada dalam setengah jam sebelom event nak start, lari kuar sat gi isap rokok. Besh nya sejuk sejuk ni. Ujan lak time tuh. Sempat ler berkompol kat luar ngan kaki perokok semua yang disisih masyarakat (us smokers are so underprivileged and a discriminated lot!). When I got back in baru perasan the stage.
Entah kenapa, walaopon the whole set-up was quite clean, I just felt takde kena mengena ngan tema set design dia. Erm... whateverlah.
Looked around, found more friends sitting nearby, so since had time to kill, popped about for more picture taking and gossiping. Alamak... banyak nyer info memacam dapat ni time anyam ketupat nak mengisi masa lapang... erm masa terluang.
Fired up my laptop dan wat keja. Event masih lom start after I did some stuff, so got up again and again started merentas desa. Whipped out my phone and started again to take pictures. Selain tuh kena balas membalas SMS kengkawan yang suddenly semua choose that time nak message. Hish... layan.
Anyway, these are some of the pics aku amik masa time tengah sesi meramas mesra... eh beramah mesra sambil nak layan kebosanan sebelom event nak start. Some of the pics aku amik tak clear sangat, so sapa nak bising, pastikan ko follow-up ngan offer nak sponsor mobile phone yang leh amik pic cantik agik ok. Heh...
Shopaholic tak mampu beli camera phone baru dan tak larat sebab aku ni heavy duty sikit ngan phone aku. Pas enam bulan memacam kejadian da jadik sampai kamera yang cukup makan pon da meragam da, And yes, people, you don't have to wait for my next birthday or Christmas for that. I accept gifts anytime!
Now on to the pics.

Nak amik pic Mawi, si Sarimah da signal kayt aku nak enter frame. Ni la hasilnya. Janji cantik ler kan kak Mah?


Andy Flop Poppy (sapa sebelah tuh ek) ala Freddie Krueger dan Jojie, Ella dan Misha.


Ajai posing skali. Mila comel sangat malam smalam.


Farhan dan Velvet - one for the album


Ebi sempat gossip ngan aku sat.


Abang Wan dan Mawi. On standby nak cabut ke event seterusnya.

Tu lah pics jiran tetangga gituh... meka yang dok paling berdekatan ngan aku.

Oh by the way, kalao ada yang tertanya mana Mawi time tu,

Yerlah awal awal ada, tapi time anugerah takde. Mawi dan abang Wan pon da aal awal bgagitau. Actually dia ada booking show, kat PWTC tak silap yang a empat bulan confirm. So bila Anugerah Era set date dua bulan lepas ke haper, meka da takleh tuko tarikh ke cancel show.

So Mawi popped by, tu pun sampai dalam kol 5 lebih tak silap aku. After the first show, commercial break sebelom pengumuman anugerah pertama which he won of course, dia da gerak nak rush turun balik KL tuk show.

Erm... anyway didn't enjoy the show much. Ok ok jer. Nothing spectacular. Not the worst but not the best Anugerah Era. Malas nak ulas.

For me, the vocally enjoyable malam semalam was Anuar Zain, Dayang Nurfaizah and Nikki. The only real outstanding performance for me was Akhbar dan Tukang Kata on Manusia Lupa. Si Tukang Kata tuh nangis sebab emo hayati lirik ok... aku moved by his performance,... seriously!

So what did I do? Well, a lot of things. Time Kristal perform aku kuar Arena sat gi vending machine beli Coke sebab needed my sugar rush. Heh...

Owh... and kaco Ebi sebab dia dok depan aku kita sok sek pasal gosip dia ngan Mila? Jawapannya? Cam lar korang takleh figure out.

Eh... eh... siapa tu? Alamak Mila rupanya. Jeling aku ke Ebi? Heh!

Suka tak pic ni? Masa tengah show sempat berusik lagik. Erm... Mila dok one row in front to the right... to the right. Sempat snap pic ni dia jeling bila aku dok ngumpat dia ngan Ebi. Semoga bahagia... erm... I mean semoga settle gosip bukan bukan ni yer... matilah aku pasni kena carut.

By the time show da abih, the scenario was just chaotic. So lepak sat before I noticed this outfit. Hah.. kalao selalu orang nak diamond lebih lebih, ni dia. Diamond paling besau malam Anugerah Era. Orang soka sangat kan batu batu gedabak nih, so there's the biggest which you must have noticed semalam.

The honour goes to none other than... Dayang Nurfaizah.

The diamond aku referring to kat waist band dia, yang ala ala belt tuh. Mak aih... tu berapa carat tuh Dayang. Heh.. merasa la ko Sinma dan Chamelon pon tak jual camtuh yer baikpon Bonita.

Tapi cantik sungguh. Aku siap leh gunakan belt tuh sebagai cermin!

I think Dayang was one of the better dressed ones last night. Baju Ning ala puteri Jawa pon meletop gak. Ella was fine too, though baju tu tak kena ngan dia. Kalau pakaikan kat yang tinggi cam Nasha lebih sesuai due to the length of the kain. But still, she looked awesome... aku tak sempat tengok close up baju Siti Nurhaliza so takleh judge. Erm sapa lagik ek.

Entahlar mungkin sebab tema tak unik dan tak begitu memberangsangkan aku rasa the scope of creativity pon limited because contemporary traditional wear is so overdone that there really is no place to go anymore with it. Hope that tahun depan meka ada lar tema tema lagik unik sikit so people can actually come up with more than just a kebaya top couple with pants or skirt sebab banyak sangat look yang sama, through no fault of the designers or artists.

Reverse sikit balik... ni batu yang besau entah dilombong kat mana (cam real diamond lak cara aku cakap) yang kat baju Dayang.

Sapa nak, sila tanya Dayang mana nak tempah ek. Not available in Wah Chan, Poh Kong or Habib Jewels gituh.



Snap happy while waiting for the line to move and when it finally did, boy, was it slow. Semua artists dan kengkawan bundled in to one bus to Genting Hotel for the post party, or better known as makan makan dan joget lambak.

Speaking of joget lambak, masa tunggu bad tuh, realised that I was in East Malaysia suddenly!!!

Merasalah ada fungsi Unity Band yang handed out tuh (lom pakai aku nya lagik).

Sebab baru perasan, apart from Nikki and Yanie, Bob sekali ngan PA dia Shuib as well as Adam and his Sabahan posse pun join up. Aiyo... suddenly I'm in in the Bumi Kenyalang Bawah Bayu (new tagline for Visit East Malaysia Year). Sempat sembang ngan Adam.

Bangga gak ngan dia sebab dia banyak improve. Vocally he has never been much, tapi semalam ngan menari, dia da more impressive ngan vocals dia. Da masuk third year, Adam is one of those from musim kedua punya Akademi Fantasia family yang mendadak improvement. Although he's not as strong as a few of the others in that department, you have to give credit to the boy for working hard to better himself.

Sebab kebulur, melahap ler dulu when we reached the post party. After satisfying my need to be fed, mingled sat. Nak amik pics ampir semua aku da snap (yang worth snapping lar) so tak amik pic sangat.

Ella jer aku amik sebab dia tukau baju an tak sembang ngan dia agik. Orang kampung aku, beb!!! Of course ler kena layan.
Hidup Telok Gadong, Klang!!! Matilah aku!!! Aduh! Rumah parents Ella belakang rumah lama aku jer dulu sebelom pindah. Leh?

Anyway caught up with her jap before melayang around the floor.

Siti tak show up (balik awal kot sebab Datuk K dok rumah sorang) so tak dapat amik pics dia.

Pas abih, and there was nothing else to do, layan dancefloor. Bebudak semua breakdancing for entah berapa lama put on free show.

Then it was free for all as everyone went crazy and partied the night away (for two hours at least)

It got weirder on the dancefloor by the second, so by the time Farhan led the dancefloor into line dancing, you know it was coming to an end.

Everyone had started moving back to their rooms, or moved on for their own little party or supper. Gerak with my bunch balik ke First World, joined by Farhan and her uncle.

Tired out gila, but sempat rehat dalam sejam sebelom kuar pas mandi and all for supper. Cuaca sejuk tu make it more bearable, but by the time I was done with my teh tarik, aku da takleh jalan da. Terhoyong hayang nak make my way back to the room. And when I finally made it back to the room, I was dead to the world in less than five minutes. Berat sangat pala...

Budget nak wat keja sikit sebelom tidur nak make Monday more easier tapi couldn't. Takper ler.. besok jer.

Right now... need sleep... sleep and more sleep. But all in all, I have to say, the actual event aside, Anugerah Era this year has been quite an eventful one and definitely one to remember.

Another Anugerah Era related Entry besok, so until then....


PS - Yer... my last entry take note, aku tulis BERNIKAH tu salah ek! I meant BERTUNANG! Biasalah... kan masa tu kelam kabut wat entry, so tetiba aku leh type back to the future gituh. So yeap... that was my mistake. Heh... Erra and Emran are officially ENGAGED and not MARRIED... yet.

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Happy happy happy... or dreams...

It's a little bit ridiculous kekadang...thinking back about how some dreams start, and end up a reality.

A few years ago, I had this vision of what I wanted to do in the music industry, a far fetched vision of wanting to contribute to the local music industry, a continuity to apa aku belajar ketika kat kolej masa amik Sound and Audio Engineering.

I knew I wanted to be involved in all creative aspects of the entertainment field, and I knew I had the ideas.

So I got the basics I needed, and switched to writing! Stuck for years doing more mundane stuff cam news and politics, aku berpeluang untuk merealisasikan impian aku ngan tawaran join my current company.

Since then, my dreams have been growing bigger, and my expectations too. Biasalah, semakin besar impian, semakin besar cabaran.

Sehingga hari ni, I think, I've ventured to feel a little bit of everything in this business, enough to make me a decent well rounded person in terms of the know how of the business.

Biarlah... ada yang nak kata berangan ke perasan bagus. After all, bukan semua orang ada pengalaman kita. Dan biasalah, kalau mereka tahu pun, bukan mereka nak hormat... sebab bagi mereka, ia cuma cerita yang menjadi bahan angan angan mereka.

But today... aku memang puas ati. Sebab another one of my dreams looks to be realised. I have two major things in my minds for 2007.

One to do with Indonesia, and one to do with TV production. Aku takleh dedahkan lagi apa aku tengah buat. Tapi selepas beberapa masaalah yang melanda my earlier aspirations, I've learnt to be mre careful in doing charity, sebab kekadang, they f**k up your dreams.

And so, these twp targets, I've kept close to my heart, with only one or two people aware of what they are. And both are getting closer to realisation. More on that later.

Ari ni memang sibuk bersiap tuk segala yang perlu untuk persembahan Ning, Nikki dan Yanie tuk persembahan Drama kat final Gang Starz.

On Friday, ths was how it looked on the left. A little bit incomplete, and still yearning for the final touches by appointed designer Rizman Ruzaini.

Tapi biasalah ketika fitting, apa yang perlu diperbaiki masih sempat nak repair sebelom terlewat. All in all, proud about how the dresses which were quite unique designs translated from paper to eventual real creations worn by the trio.
Minor modifications, and it was all systems go!

Actually bagi sapa yang minat nak tau, the trio was dressed in my conceptualised theme of post modern Edwardian.
Again, sebab ramai orang gilakan era Victorian, aku ilhamkan the Edwardian period which is sometime after, circa 1900s to the 1920s and thereabouts.

Cuma, again, sebab melibatkan ketiga orang, I discussed with Rizman and Wan how to bring out the different personalities od ach person, with Ning being purely diva, Nikki being more girly and seductive and Yanie just playing androgynous and cutesy like her real self.

After some minor discussion on alterations to be made, spent the rest of the night with the kids to get the wrk done the night before.

Woke up exhausted and panicky. Rushed about to check in kat Quality Inn and dumped my stuff, and rushed to get the remainder of the stuff needed.

Dalam kol 7 petang aku sampai balik kat Shah Alam, and bersiap. Jumpa jumpa the rest of the group kat Stadium Malawati... erm... as usual, police ala security yang bertugas seribu satu kerenah. Oh well... I'm already late. Just take deep breaths... no point getting stressed.

Got the work done, had a fabulous show, sent in my news story, all while juggling playing nanny here and there. Grabbed a bite masa post party and spent the remainder of the time with The Lima, the eventual champions for the night and Mendua sebab the two Indonesian groups were not only the friendliest (especially Mendua yang paling besh pala meka), but also because their dressing room was next to ours.

Tired as all hell...

Who says this entertainment related jobs are glamorous. Met Agnes Monica awhile... but think I've totally gone off her.

So what I've heard from friends in Jakarta are true about her. Heh... aduh...

Tired out as hell, tapi sempat kompol ngan the group back at the hotel room to discuss (gossip actually) about the show, the night... and the one thing that transpired that was erm... well... I think the POSSIBLY the beginning of many things.

Yeap... met Erwin Gutawa, who apart from being one of the BIGGEST names in the industry regionally and also a ttsally humble, down to earth dude.

Selain bercerita pasal anak dia Gita yang aku minat gila sebab album sedap abih, also managed to get some things done. Heh... no details for now.

Should be interesting to note developments... can't say much at all until something solid transpires.

Send your prayers and your good wishes this way my friends... cause I'm going to need it. Who knows where our dreams lead to kan...

The results - Ning, Nikki and Yanie.

Erm... Sarah marah ek aku amik pic kat post party (aku tau ko takkan marah aku, beb!) menuding jari camtuh... and Erwin 'The Man' Gutawa!

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Backstage

Ok...yesterday was simply fun. Not the event itself which was okay okay jer. Nothing great. The only things worth remembering were the performances of Gita Guttawa and Jac.

Yang lain biasa je. Audio cam cipap dalam venue, sound engineer cam mogok je... ke da memang kaki fengtau because levels during the band performances was horrendous. Wat sakit telinga je.

Ok...nak retrace my steps sikit.

Sampai je we went into the venue and saw this horrendously plain looking set up. Macam stage setting Pesta Pantun peringkat kebangsaan je ok...so plain! I think RTM could have done better.

Tapi ok ler...sesuai ngan si host merangkap penulis skrip Adi yang gila glam was everywhere siap baca sajak pelbagai. Eewww!!!

Still I suppose it was slightly better than last year, tapi memang kalao da biasa awards events kat negara kita sendiri, downer sikit to see that it was all actually pretty sad looking. More like a normal TV show production than a fancy awards show yang menampilkan nama nama terbesar muzik Melayu serantau. Erm... budget takde kot.

Bumped into Vern, separated from the rest of the media for a smoke, and then hung out at the dressing rooms to socialise... the 'nasty' part of work (NOT!)

Sebelom apa apa, wajib ler...jenguk si Yanie tengok persiapan dia.

Erm...very space age don't you think? Heh... tengah dia siapkan rambut, salam ngan Aznil who was already running through the script.

Bumped into quite a few people here and there, so went snaphappy.

Sebenarnya banyak pics nak amik, tapi biasala...keja ma. So dalam socialise pon kena la korek info sana sini kan. So I was a little distracted to snap more pics than usual sebab banyak meng-GRO-kan diri nak hi here and there.

The first person aku dok layan is kak Marlia Musa. dan abang M. Nasir. Nak korek cita Aduh Saliha kena tanya laki, nak pot pet gosip sambil sambilan, layan ler kak Marlia lak.

Lagikpon most of the time jumpa kak Marlia pon time anugerah camni backstage. So catch up ler. Lagikpon... last year masa APM gak dia jadik teman mengumpat aku. She is a helluva fun lady, ok! Trust me...

Let's see, there was a ton of other people in the rooms so takleh ingat semua. Rich dan bebudak Estranged ada. Oh..and both the Singaporean Idols in Taufik Batisah (one cool dude!) and Hardy Mirza (don't fancy him as much as Taufik sebab dia nampak cam berangan sikit).

Acha and Irwansyah ada skali...erm...who else ek. Oh of course Kris Dayanti ler pon. And the hosts and a couple of other people...masaalahnya jam packed ngan groupies yang tak perlu (as in every other event) that tak nampak sangat)

Merasalah aku tempek pics je la untuk senangkan keja...

Erm...sorry there weren't that many to begin with sebab aku malas sebenarnya nak bebanyak pics. Nak lading blog pun berzaman kan...

Anyways...enjoy the candid shots I did take...

Estranged chilling out before the show.sambil kak Marlia pot pet tak abih dan abang Nasir as usual senyap. Taufik rilek je and friendly with everyone, even masa in the make up chair.

Kris Dayanti as usual leh layan je. Mood dia always on... walaupon dia diva! Kesian lak dia, kasut tumit tinggi dia patah heels ok just before the show, tapi dia still sempat nak practise Saling Terpesona ngan Yanie.

Erm..and that pretty much ends my collection of backstage pics. Leh? Told you aku malas nak amik pic sangat. Kang jadik cam groupie tak betui, ke jakun yang baru nak layan event camni, atau over eager person lak nak snappy tak abih abih.

Whlle it's not god for visuals, aku actually prefer nak mingle sebab time ni ler nak eratkan hubungan ngan mereka yang jarang kami nak spend time with, especially artis luar, dan menyenangkan keja bila meka mai Malaysia.

Which is one thing the Indonesian artistes are good at.

Cam Kris Dayanti... tiap kali jumpa mesti tegur dulu. It happens again and again. Patutnya dia yang diva, kita yang tegur. But the reason why she remains a diva sebab dia bring herself to be humble, thus elevating her status n the eyes of people.

Acha memula tak ingat aku masa aku tegur, but the thing about Indo acts is they recover so fast.
Aku cuma ingatkan dia masa KL kami jumpa, and she frantially recalled last meka turun tuk promosi. Hah...and she managed to recall we met in Planet Hollywood masa launching soundtrack album Heart.

See that?

That's great PR work by artistes. Not bimbo kan diri prmped up and posed je.
Oh well.. tu sebab nya the Indonesians at times are so better than us in terms of artistes.

Eh...Datuk Siti Nurhaliza dan Datuk Khalid pun ada. Heh... salam.... lovng nampaknya meka berdua ni. Walaupon Datuk Khalid takyah temankan Siti sampai backstage, dia tetap stay by her side. Touching sangat tengok.

Aku malas review the show sebab aku rasa Astro akan ulang 276 kali dalam masa terdekat. Lagikpon, aku rasa aku review based on dalam venue which was actually ok, sebab aku dengar sound muffled sikit kat TV.

So dunno... apapon... here are the results for Anugerah Planet Muzik kala korang missed it.

Most Popular Song (Singapore) : Dambaan (Didicazli), Usah Lepaskan (Taufik Batisah), Merpati (Hady Mirza)
Most Popular Artiste (Singapore) Taufik Batisah, Hady Mirza, Sleeq
Best Song (Singapore) : Usah Lepaskan (Composer : Taufik Batisah, Lyricist : Taufik Batisah & Imran Ajmain, Artiste : Taufik Batisah)
Best Artiste (Singapore) : Imran Ajmain
Best Album : Konspirasi Dunia (Bhumiband)
Best New Male Artiste : Imran Ajmain
Best New Female Artiste : Noryn Aziz
Best New Duo/Group : Letto
Most Popular Song : Kian (Mawi)
Most Popular Duo/Group : Sofaz
Most Popular Male Artiste : Mawi
Most Popular Female Artiste : Siti Nurhaliza
Best Duo/Group : Dewa 19
Best Male Artiste : M. Nasir
Planet Music Humanitarian Award : Zainal Abidin
APM Special Award : Kris Dayanti
Best Song : Biarlah Rahsia (Composer : Melly Goeslaw, Lyricist : Siti Nurhaliza, Artiste : Siti Nurhaliza)
Best Female Artiste : Siti Nurhaliza
Best Album : Naluri Lelaki (Samsons)

After the show, kami semua proceed ke post party. Ingat mesti horror cam tahun lepas kena layan kari basi cincah roti putih dan sirap suam je...tapi tahun ni rasanya pas pelbagai complaints they had, they stepped it up.

Ok ler sebab ada memacam makanan...tapi yang tahun ni cam tahun lepas, ramai gatecrashers, dan sedara mara dan rombongan cik Kiah yang menghiasi persada seni yang tak perlu. As usual, most of the Indonesians tamau join kenduri camni,and who can blame them?

Cuma nampak Acha dan Irwan kejap je. Sebab aku rasa meka pon tak larat.

Siti pun takde, sebab rasanya dia pon tak larat nak hadapi the whole frantic scene. As was Mawi.

But lepak ngan Mawi for about 20 minutes pas dia menang dia punya second award backstage, memang tau dia da nak ciao.

Dia mai pon surprise katanya sebab memang tak rancang budget nak holiday.

Sunday Jom Heboh kat Danga Bay dan dengar remainder tuh from Monday onwards until the end of the week dia ke Jakarta.

Masa post party dapat sembang lama gak ngan Gita Guttawa. Dak ni cuma 13 tahun. August ni baru she's turning 14. Amazingly talented, and trained in classical vocals, she's played the piano since the age of five or something.

Sapa minat Gita tuh, her album available from Sony BMG dari hari Selasa.

So jangan lupa gi cari.

She was the only person that I really wanted to take pics with, and no thanks to my voluntary cameraman yang entah siapa, blue jadiknya, so ni je la pic sempat aku rakamkan ngan Gita, Nak nangis rasana...kes naya nih!

Takpe...tunggu dia mai KL. She is uber sweet and a real gem.

Was so parched sebab didn't bring any water along with me, and didn't have enough change (not in Singaporean currency for the vending machines, so masuk je post party (aka kenduri for the extreme close proximity which is worrying for a claustraphobe like me) aku parked myself near the tempat air, at one time balancing three styrafoam cups dangerously as I was told by the attendant they had to be careful not to drip anything and stain the carpets (I think that was an excuse je for the slow service)

In the end, spilled some of my beverage TWICE, only noticed and caught on camera by this stalker merangkap presiden NingClix Singapore yang tunggu je aku wat kesilapan to catch on camera, Sophie (heh...keji tau!!!), leaving a stain on the carpet. Erm...damn. Oh nevermind...gives the cleaners something to bitch about when they're on their rounds about inconsiderate guests.

One group I wanted to talk to, but somehow they were a quiet lot that didn't seem the party hearty sort were Singaporeans Bhumiband.

Aku minat their sound and managed to take their pic tapi tak sempat bual panjang ngan meka. Sayang tol. Anyway, heard they have a new album coming out, so worth checking out too.

We left the event really tired, especially since the post party venue was gettng hot and stuffy,

Many were bitching about how Singapore Idol yang kedua si Hady Mirza seemed to have hit head in his butt sebab sombong semacam, so majority of us ignored him totally. Tunggu le mai KL tengok kalao ko leh make it tak in Malaysia.

Dahler bakat biasa je.

I mean Taufik Batisah just kicks ass compared to him. More talented, more sweeter and more overall, complete with the makings of a real pop star. Hady just came across as a real pain in the ass berangan kes who thinks he's all that when he's not.

Ko dok je Singapore.

No wonder Taufik masih following kuat gila kalao banding ngan Hady.

Pas balik hotel, kami bersiap, dan keluar ke Little India. As usual with every trip ke SIngapore, malam malam ni nak ke mana lagik.

Ada yang cadangkan Zouk yang dekat je our hotel... ada yang cadangkan Ministry of Sound.
Tak larat le...in the end as usual, jalan jalan window shopping kat Mustaffa Centre yang 24 jam tuh. Didn't buy anything walaopon kengkawan stock up on perfumes (kept telling them it's not as cheap tak caya)

Didn't hang out too late. Was back in the hotel by 4am.

Didn't sleep, abihkan keja...and watched TV. Okla...continue esok je ok...

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