Miracles do happen!

Yes!!! It's true!!!!

Miracles DO happen! Pihak produksi Akademi Fantasia akhirnya mendengar semua rungutan peminat dan membuat perubahan yang sepatutnya. Dan hasilnya, Akademi Fantasia is back!

With a vengeance!!!!

Ok...so it was not the best concert ever, but sedikit sebanyak, terubat rindu kat Akademi Fantasia yang da lama ilang ni.

The little things I'm glad for (sebab nak positif sikit) them paying just a little bit of attention in listening to us, the fans, is so many things kita semua setuju. There are a few more things that I hope they'll listen a little bit more closer to the fans and change, but this is a good start.

Our wish list yang tertunai!
i)Intro busuk dan draggy patut di sesuaikan
ii)Kejutan dan trigger patut elok sikit
iii)Lagu Menuju Puncak, lebih baik versi lama dari yang hazab remix fengtau tuh
iv)Sepak je reramai kuar for underperforming, jangan feeling tamau eliminate

Akhirnya....iini lah yang dintunggu tunggu. Sedikit usaha dari Astro untuk memperbaiki diri dan bukan menyalahkan orang lain sebab kelemahan diri. Hasilnya? Kami dapat balik pas menonton konsert, yang baru layak dikatakan konsert!

Better intro this time around, walaupon intro aku rasa nak sakit ati sebab ingat Aznil nak take over the spotlight lagik.

But the intro was quite decent this time around, and perhaps, make it the best so far. Simple and sweet, tak over sangat ler cam minggu minggu lepas.

Even pakaian pon nampak ok walaopon simple. and perhaps the one that looked best was Fatin, who actually didn't look anorexic.

Tapi tetap ada yang nampak busuk, ngan baju Melayu sponsored yang sendat! Si Jasmi Rejab ni limited sangat ke resources dia?

Apa pun nak kurangkan carutan kali ni, sebab aku rasa akhirnya semua carutan melalui semua aspek penerbitan dari paper, ke Internet diambil kira AKHIRNYA. Susah ke? Tak kan?
So why not keep improving like this... just a suggestion.

Kejutan nak tunjuk gambar gambar Ebi tuh aku rasa bagus, sebab nampak Astro tak anggap sebagai carutan pada diri sendiri bila benda tu dilaporkan and are willing to rise to the challenge. Cuma kenapa pics ni semua tak tunjuk abih? Matila Akademi Fantasia jadik 18 SX kan?

Still, aku tetap tak setuju benda tu konon menjatuhkan Ebi, malah it works in his favour in lots of way (termasuk mendapat undian rembesan)
So we start with Fatin instead of Ebi yang kena makeover.

In the spirit of much improvement this week (minta minggu depan jangan lak crash and burn again), aku lak letak by point form evaluation for the performances this week.

Fatin - Joget Gila Bayang (Anita Sarawak)
The good - Performance kira takde la send me to sleep even though it was nothing spectacular.
The bad - Sengau nak mampos siot!!!! The vocal equvalent of sandpaper against my gegendang telinga ok!
The ugly - "Fatin ayu...Fatin manis". Yes....Jee. Who else? And Khairil Johari Johar yang ala ala lecturing.dalam mengkritik.
Comment - Dia nih susah ler...takde versatility. Last week ilang sengau, minggu ni comeback lak sound effects dia ni. No loss over her elimination as I predicted she from the start she wasn't worth saving anyway.

Shawal - Izin Ku Pergi (Kaer)
The good - Shawal sounded good ok! I think he has a better tone than Kaer (jangan marah ok, my point of view). And I think that's been echoed by the critics.
The bad - Fatin yang memburukkan persembahan ngan lakonan Hari Penyampaian Hadiah Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Kampung Pelir Hitam.
The ugly - Jee leh puji lakonan Fatin.
Comment - Aku sedih dia masih tak dapat pick up level of performance dia. Da dua minggu dia ni down, tapi aku tetap rasa dia ada potential. Just wish tenaga pengajar drill him more on his vocal control to stabilise his voice.

Candy - Setia Ku Korbankan (Fauziah Latiff)
The good - Better than the original!
The bad - The original wasn't that good to begin with...
The ugly - Asyik menjerit dan mengilai cam pontianak tengah period!
Comment - She reminded me of Farah sebelum konsert ke tujuh musim kedua....kalao dia leh overcome, memang ada potential Skang mai kita lihat dia mampu improve cam Farah tak, yang memang self aware of her weaknesses.

Farha - As Long As You Love Me (Backstreet Boys)
The good - Kemunculan Nik Seman, Awang Jasin, Mudin, Awie dan Berahim or the Backstreet Boys. Merasalah that was massively funny ok nak letak video bebudak tu, tapi sora dubbing. Siot je! One of the best ideas so far!
The bad - Jee actually believing that performnce ni 'baik'.
The ugly - Ada yang nampak cam mama bosan drag tak jadi ketika backing ngan Dafi dan Shawal masa start. Matila pakai selendang glitter.
Comment - He screwed up three out of four concerts, but I think dia ni leh agik go far. Cuma dia ni limited to a particular genre.

Aswad - Hakikat Sebuah Cinta (Iklim)
The good - Er... the lighting?
The bad - Body language yang bad imitation of extra Zombi Kampung Pisang!
The ugly - That haird band dan stupid berets dia pakai. Agaknya cuci tak? (tebayang bau tengit!)
Comment - Aku nyesal tak bak bantal ke dewan...zzzzz

Mila - Benci Tapi Rindu (Diana Nasution)
The good - Improvement yang vast gebedas maximum!!!! Minggu lepas mengejutkan, and minggu ni naik agik! The MOST improved!
The bad - Dia start ngan dok tempat ke 13... bagik aku heart attack risau dia kuar.
The ugly - Ada lagik binatang binatang yang masih dok atas walaopon yang betul betul berbakat dan improve tak dok dalam tempat yang patut.
Comment - If she keeps to the trend of improving like she did in the last two weeks, she DESERVES to be in the final. Now I believe orang sebalik tabir yang bagitau gambaran dia gedik dalam Akademi salah editors sebab aku penah posting pasal al-kisahnya dia dan Heliza students perempuan paling hardworking kalao ikut apa yang dikatakan tenaga pengajar.

Heliza - Torn (Natalie Imbruglia)
The good - She did more than a decent rendition, with her English applaudable, and her rockish essence of the pop tune intact.
The bad - She didn't do as good as she could, but agree ngan Khairil Johari Johar that this was a difficult song walaopon nampak simple.
The ugly - The outfit yang Ogy suka sangat, padahal baju terlebih terkurang kain with mud-splashed jeans yang kedekut diamante.BUSUK!!!
Comment - Aku risau dia dan Shawal yang tak dok realise it's time to buck up! Mila is catching up to her real fast.

Rizal - Di Ambang Sore (Ahmad Jais)
The good - Nothing
The bad - Everything! (tak paham konsep lenggok langsung, zero vocal control)
The ugly - That he can maintain as the worst for four weeks and still be in the competition!
Comment - Try, my ass lah Jee, dah dak ni azab dan tone deaf! Perlu ke nak puji dia try lak! And Ogy, it was not a predictable performance, he was just unpredictably BAD! Dan body language bukan masaalah dia je, tapi sora dia yang NAN ADO!

Dekna - Salam Untuk Kekasih (Nadia)
The good - She appeared to have improved so much! Second only to Mila in terms of improvement.
The bad - Rambut dia sayang tak permanent camtuh dari style rambut iron murahan dia.
The ugly - Jee. Ada ke patut kata gaya dak tu cam bouncer. So dia tak menggeliat cam betina sundal.... da baju pon shoulder pads cam main American football what do you expect. Salahkan baju jerrr....
Comment - Dekna's best performance so far. Not the best out of her I suspect. More to come. Hope she keeps improving.

Dafi - Zikir Kasih (Amir Ukays)
The good - Er...the music?
The bad - Malas nak cakap vocals yang flat banyak. Tapi kenapa siap dia bersilat dan kuak lentang ketika dance break gituh. Merasalah mendodoi!
The ugly - "It's still too early" katanya. Statement BUSUK. Merasalah vocals under par walaopon da almost at the halfway point dia leh kata it's still early. Menjawab lebih, hasil nan ado.
Comment - He still has a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnggg way to go to prove he's deserving of his spot.

Noni - Pastikan (Siti Nurhaliza)
The good - Nice dress!
The bad - That she was worse than Rizal (something unimaginable!)
The ugly - "Jelas!" Statement Jee tuh...jelas apa? Singing dia? Or jelas it was horrible??!!!
Comment - Cantik tapi that's as good as it gets. Aku rasa dia ni tak serious menyanyi walaopon dia ada sora sikit. Not really a loss.

Ebi - Kasihnya Laila (Jinbara)
The good - Sebab abihkan dekat dua jam tuk dia makeover!
The bad - Hasilnya, setaat pakai baju style Jasmi Rejab (bleeuurghh!!!) dan rambut di gel je.
The ugly - A fantastic performance, tapi that botak in charge for the wardrobe tak bagi image yang setanding.
Comment - Kalau ada yang nak puji showmanship....what do you say to this? He was awesome ok...now this is real showmanship. This is thinking out of the box. He may not have the best vocals, but he has a good package of that, personality, presence as well as looks. Worthy of a standing ovation (er...tapi tu bukan aku yang korang nampak...leh?)

Menuju Puncak, syukurnya, kembali seperti asal. The problem now is with the choreography. Skang Linda la kena up kan her work there sebab steps unimaginate, dan bebudak lak berterabur time steps.

Dekna looked dazed too. Apapun, it's nice to have the old Menuju Puncak balik.

Apapun, aku nak congrat ler team production. Bab video Salih Yaacob yang Gali Lubang tuh, Nek Nak spoof (walaopon busuk sikit sebab tetap nak promosi slot MisteRIA) dan that little dubbed Backstreet Boys was funny as all hell.

The Ebi makeover idea was good, but boo to Jasmin Rejab sebab BUSUK!

Effort dari pihak production pun aku bagik four stars kali ni!

Mai kita semua bangun dan bagi standing ovation bagik meka. Now let's hope they keep this up and not get complacent dan terlalu puas ngan keadaan. Banyak lagi kena improve....

Bab elimination aku memang puas sebab tiga dibuang skali...sebab aku penah meroyan dalam entry sebelom ni katakan patutnya ramai agik patut kena buang sekaligus, and that they should make it two or more...sebab bebudak ni tak perform as well. And terbukti...ngan production da improve, semakin nampak bebudak ni masih main main....and tak sampai standard yang musim musim lepas.

Cuma aku ngaku dalam tiga orang tuh, aku upset sikit Farha terkeluar sebab aku rasa he deserve to have more time in the Akademi. Matilah Rizal Zombi Kampung Pisang tuh patut kena sepak kuar patutnya.

Apapun, aku rasa ngan keluarnya Farha dan Noni, at least skang undian dari Borneo leh focus kat Candy dan Ebi, so here's hoping they rock the votes, bila da combined ngan undian dari semenanjung. Right now, I only want to see them, Shawal and Heliza (walaopn dua orang tu kena buck up sooner or later), while Dekna dan Mila are gaining new respect from me.

The rest? Bosan lah....

Eh ok ler...nak tidur dulu ek. Next entry ASAP with pictures and more story pasal malam konsert.

Memandangkan we all love Akademi Fantasia, here's a little trivia pasal gossip yang circulating gituh. Gossip kan perencah pada Akademi Fantasia, so have fun guys!

Trivia gossip Akademi Fantasia
i) Siapakah yang sudah berkahwin dan ada dua anak tapi tak dimaklumkan (gimik Astro ke?)
ii) Siapa yang da bertunang? (pada polis ke anak polis ek?)
iii) Pada siapa yang Noni sebut "auwwwww" ketika elimination dan kenapa?
Sila letak jawapan dalam ruangan Comments

Bahan bacaan lain :
Mr Manager
Juan Danza
Budiey
Ajami

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Ko ingat ko chantek???!!!

Another day, another week....another earbleed concert. Eh...nak positif sikit. Mana tau ari ni semua sedap sora, music arrangement meletop dan semua persembahan akan begitu menghiburkan dalam konsert keempat Akademi Fantasia.

Wei tak baik korang gelakkan tau! Aku serious...matila korang mencarut aku sebab ingat aku sarcastic kan?

Well, who knows kan (walaopon tahan gelak sambil taip ni)

It's almost 4pm, aku nak gerak dari rumah da nih sebab ada perjanjian kat luar, nanti aku cita lebih about that.

Tapi nak cita pasal semalam sikit. Semalam, lagu Drama (yes, antara lima lagu yang dicalonkan untuk Lagu Terbaik AIM), menerima pencalonan kat Muzik Muzik. Dapat ker bertahan sampai ke Anugerah Juara Lagu ujung tahun ni. Kalau ikut trend, nominees for Song Of The Year kat AIM ni memang ada harapan, tapi we'll see ler. After all, sebab sampai ke peringkat juri profesional, kena lalu juri awam dulu kan.

So kalao minat undi ler lagu Drama ek Matilah la jadi menjadi juri! (lucah lak bunyinya....adakah anda puas....jari menjadi juri...merasalah fingering!)

Sebab semalam pree, singgah ler tengok Muzik Muzik kat auditorium Dewan Bandaraya Shah Alam, rumah sementara tuk the show.

Di join skali Zam dan Mimi (oster girl beg Mydin) dari nun jauh yang beradsa di ibukota iuntuk kursus.

It was fun, though I spent most of the night on the phone dapat gossip....heh... takleh bagitau. Kang kena masanya tau la apa nya.

Singgah jumpa Ning, Nikki dan Yanie bersiap to wish them luck. Bumped into kak Kelly, star sebalik production Muzik Muzik (amik ko...jangan kata orang tu je sebut akak bertudung paling glamer selain Ogy Ahmad Daud)

Didn't take any pics sebab malas terpikir nak transfer dan upload, tapi this one thing caught my sign masa kat dressing room area. I don't know, but somehow translation dalam bahasa Malaysia sounds like it's a mternity ward.

Tiba tiba kat area belakang pentas, rasa cam ada lak orang nak lahirkan anak gituh.

Shouldn't it have been bilik persalinan instead...?

Tapi aku bukan pakar bahasa, so wouldn't know lah kan.

Apapun, jangan lupa undi Drama ok for Muzik Muzik and keep in in. To vote senang je, aku tak ingat ler ada nombor SMS tuh yang meka berikan, tapi you can also vote online by CLICKING HERE!

After the show, gerak ke Kampung Baru tuk melantak sebab kebuluran yang teramat. Moved from Shah Alam ngan Mimi, Zam dan kawan meka, Zack ke apa namanya, sorry....tak ingat lak.

Sampai je, berjumpa ngan Imah, and later joined by Leez, nama kedua yang kira kelompok minoriti bloggers yang kalau berjumpa, mesti ada persiapan mampan dulu (sebab pas lepak, ada lak berjumpa ngan reservasi kan?)Pecah perot layan meka... I have to say even though I don't meet them all that often, but it was a fun night. Tapi yang pentingnya, aku rasa malam smalam je, cukup dosa ngumpat sampai sorang sorang terbakar jadi abu. Raging fires of hell, ok!

Pasni kalao ada kontroversi antara bloggers bak cita, aku tak campur! (lagi orang nak tau apa bahan cerita malam tu kan?) Yerlah...da memasing ada blog yang tak perlu mengaku popularm tapi menjadi bacaan wajib.

By the way kalao nak kesan rupa bloggers bloggers alternatif ni (matila cam rockers lak bunyinya) susah sikit. Yang muka sparuh tuh Leez, yang belah kiri tu tak clear tuh Imah. Yang gelak akibat carutan Zam yang tak muat dalam pic ni, ialah Mimi. Member sorang agik tuh pun tak muat dalam pic. Matilah pic ni di snapkan secara candid tanpa izin, tapi diberian post warning je.

Aku rasa ramai tahu blog meka ngan nama meka je, tapi be warned, most f them (kecuali Zam yang tarak blog) but be warned kalao nak cari blog meka, they're all fairly adult and alternative reading (motif bagik disclaimer)

Merasalah aku lupa nak tanya leh ke tak link blog meka, so tak berani nak main link je.
We spent over two hours plus berdebat...errr...mengumpat ler. Sampai berpeluh memasing (kecuali Leez yang maintain flawless - walaopon lepas tiga hari katanya). Leh kurus ok camni...after all mengumpat pun is a form of exercise (though I haven't seen the benefits sebab ada yang aku kenal mengata, mengumpat, mengutuk, mengeji dan menghina tapi tetap gobok bergerak).

Eh...dah kol brapa ni...oops! Nak ciao dulu. Tunggu entry ulasan, komentar dan carutan konsert Akademi Fantasia keempat.

Done...

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Confirmation!

So sesiapa yang tau leh teka da skang. Sebenarnya, nak ke Sydney tuh, atas invitation dari pihak Maestro yang da berapa minggu gak ler bagitau pasal plan Mawi ke Sydney tuh.

Actually initially dengar Gold Coast....then dengar Sydney, so I wasn't sure where exactly they were going to have the tour pun. Tapi semalam pun da sidang akhbar. Yeay!! Aku nak ikut.Dah orang jemput...

Tapi yang pening nya satu. Sebab kira celah tarikh kita pergi and balik tuh ialah tarikh the final of Akademi Fantasia.

Hmmm...mai aku pikirkan.

Nak tengok lima dak merungut yang prform pun silap silap sunstandard dan sakitkan ati and panas ati dan ngumpat the whole night, atau nak ke Sydney for six days, then balik, tengok ulangan persembahan ala ala, panas hati dan mencarut.

Sungguh sukar ye tuk aku wat keputusan (matilah!!!!).

Oh well, dah ler minggu ketujuh pun ke AIM (yelah dari Akademi Fantasia yang repeat ta abih abih - baik ke AIM je, lagikpun lagi meriah kat AIM for anyone yang bebetul follow the music industry). So I suppose ok kot...but I'll have to make up my mind in the weeks to come.

Tapi honestly la...if there's a reason I don't want to miss Akademi Fantasia, it's only because sayang...aku dari musim pertama sehingga skang tak penah miss any final, nak kata konsert pun, aku rasa musim pertama je ler aku slow hadirkan diri, which is final je.

Tapi since then tak penah miss... but I suppose tahun ni hambar sangat no big deal pon kot.

Again... we'll see lor.

But it'll be fun ler kalao camni.

The tour package, Discover Sydney With Mawi is organised by Arlanda Travel Sdn Bhd along with Maestro and Mawi World Sdn Bhd. Acara tu dari 16 to 21 May.

Kalau sesapa nak tanya pasal tour ni, leh contact 016-3344022 (Azhar - Mawi World), 017-8793750 (Ita - Mawi FC) or 03-20958539 (Faizal - Arlanda).

Heh...promo percuma ma...tolong awan kawan. Kalau ada geng pegi besh gak.
Cepat yang kerap masuk sini...jom cuti skali (heh!!!). Mana si frainmee yang dok mnat Mawi tuh....practical ke tak...naik ko ikut skali!

Selain places of interest, aku dengar among other programmes scheduled in Sydney include the shooting of a TV special on the trip itself ala Mawi@Mauritius, , mungkin ada pembikinan music video single terbaru Mawi dan perhaps showcase atau pelancaran album baru dia, 1 Dalam 1000, tuk Malaysians there gak kot.

Not too shabby. After all, dahlings...it's Sydney....

Ok semalam, keja aku (sebab tak keja tapi on MC) melepak je sebab keadaan da sihat. Gi window shopping kat KLCC, tapi hampeh. Tak jumpa anything aku nak spend on pon.
Boring je jumping one store to another. Biasa ler time ada duit mesti camni, Kalau tengah kering tuh, memacam ler yang jumpa nak beli.

Pastu, hop across the road to Avenue K lak, yang member penah cakap, tempat ramai orang bunian shopping (kosong ler.....)

Memang lengang siot tempat tuh. Kesian lak tengk. Pekerja kedai sana semua cam moka nyesal je mau hidup.

But tujuan sebenar ke mall bunian nisebab nak ke butik Ermenegildo Zegna kat sana, sebab dengar ada relocation sale. I've never fancied Zegna's items dari dulu, but singgah ler mana tau ada bargain yang menarik. Aku kan pantang... zilch! Nothing at all worth buying. Tapi sempat ok ke boutique Gucci nak usha. Aduh...ada je benda yang aku rancang dalam pala aku bila aku mampu kang na bak my mom sini shopping.

Had dinner later ngan friends, and called it a night... at about 4 am by the time sampai rumah.
Oh by the way, ingat tak pics dulu aku letak yang perosa selera tuh.

Hah...anyway, kalao dulu mamat ni pakai jeans terlondeh, dedahkan g string dia (tak terbayangkan camna teloq masin tu terbelah - ewwwww), arituh aku tengah supper ngan member tempat sama, spooted the sequel lak.

Dak ni lain sikit...dia ni kira sopan ler dari the last picture yang dedah lurah dendam.
Yang ni pakai briefs putih biasa, dan seluar dia terlondeh. Tapi yang aku tak tahan tuh, dia ni nampak urus kering, tapi briefs cam pakai saiz L lak ngan kembang terkeluar cam pakai boxer lak (tapi you can tell it's actually briefs).

Gelak siot. My Lord....kalao korang ada tengk Borat, hah cam scene si Borat nak cuba feeling hip hop pakai briefs yang baggy dan getah haus, feeling hip hop terlondeh. Cam kesial!

Erm...diperkenalkan Perosak Selera II! Adik...lain kali nak hip hop londeh tonjok suar dalam pakai ler boxer ek. Kalaiu tak pon suar dalam dalam jangan beli empat saiz terlalu besau.

So this is for this short entry. Esok aku nak ke Muzik Muzik sebab da lama ta usha apa perkembangan kat sana. Lagipun dengar meka ada slight revamp, kang aku update pasal tuh ek.

Kalau sempat malam ni, tak sempat siang besk jer ler. Toodles!

PS - Sapa yang jeles tuh, lantak ler. Rezeki da...orang jemput...jangan lak nak anonymus komen sini sebab makan ati. (sambil jelir lidah ni wat moka)

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My online iPod

Saja nak bagik sesiapa yang nak menyakitkan telinga...erm... I mean menikmati nyanyian dari konsert ketiga. Korang layan dulu sebelom aku update entry untuk hari ni...kalau line korang slow, kena sabar ler tunggu lagu lagu load ek...

Kalau da abih bandwidth, sorry ler ek sebab benda ni pree, bukan kuar duit...so pepandai ler layan awal awal.

Lagipun, rasanya korang layan sekali dua je kan...ang aku nekad cari jalan tok mea this better....

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Sydney here I come!

Arghhhh! Da type entry ilang lak pulak. Kena ulang balik...ni yang malas ni.

Actually ari ni nothing much to update. Perap je kat rumah, sampai petang baru kuar jalan jalan window shopping.

Feel so much better now. Fever gone, flu pun almost gone, tinggal skang tetiba lak batuk. Amik ko beli Breacol sebotol teguk separuh, terus ok....tapi as expected drowsy sikit ler (kalau Xanax pon aku da takleh react ngantuk...ni cuma ubat batuk)

Singgah and spent most of the evening kat Starbucks rajinkan diri email kan column aku, and habiskan one more due tomorrow (rajin lak lelebih time sakit ni)....actually nak avoid window shopping balik sebab aku discovered another place yang discount hebat.

Found two cun punya sunglasses designs, one Dior and one Gucci yang tengah on sale gak! 40%!!!

Fell in love with both, and the cheapest one was RM640....best price kata tokei kedai tuh. Ok ler tuh for 2007 Spring Summer collection punya. But forced myself to put it down and walked away, saying I'd think about it and lari to Starbucks to drown my sorrows (of not allowing myself to splurge).

Sayangnya!!! Will think about it a little more these few days tengok camna.

Lepak sampai dalam kol lapan, aku pun gerak ke Bangsar Shopping Centre. Sebenarnya ada janji nak have dinner ngan keluarga salah satu peserta Akademi Fantasia. Sapa takyah ler bagitau...meka nak kenal dan mintak nasihat dan pendapat je sikit. Kang cakap sapa lain lak issue diperbesarkan. Anyway, aku tetap objective in my views of everyone, so there!

Apapun, it was a nice chat, and dapat ler kongsi pengalaman how to set up a fan club and organise things about it, plus tukar tukar pendapat sana sini.

Tapi tu bukan the point of this entry...the point of this entry lain sikit.

Yes, bulan depan, tatau for now, exactly when... nak ke Sydney! Merasalah dapat spend some time in the Gold Coast! Yahoo!!!!!

So far aku every state in Malaysia da jalan, Singapore takyah cakap sampai bosan....Thailand, Brunei, England...last but not least Mauritius.

And now, Australia, here I come... I hope! So far, verbally confirm, tapi haribulan tatau agik. Jadik ke pegi? Hope so...so far things look good.

I think I deserve a holiday, and since aku akan duit nak shopping sakan (even after the currency exchange) nampaknya heaven ler kalao jadik.

Ok ler...second round of ubat batuk taing effect...nak tidur. Esok entry lebih panjang.......

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Zombi Kampung Pisang

Semalam da ke klink. Da amik obat. Dalam sakit aku, tension tol. Setan!!!! Tak dapat MC.

Mesti klinik dekat rumah aku (sebab panel) kedekut nak bagik sebab dia nak wat bisnes haram jual MC dia. Ada reputation tuh....tapi yang aku paling sakit ati, ubat dia semua cam tak nolong.

Tadik petang, gi panel clinic located in my office itself. Banyak agik obatan aku dapat. Lantak sekali je, da marked improvement. My fever and flu is almost gone, and bengkak mata pun dah surut. Ok sikit la...there goes my reason to wear my Guccis for 24-7.

So ari ni tak nonton Diarrhea. Sebabnya aku ke preview for filem Zombi Kampung Pisang.

Ok...korang mesti pening pala....pikiaq apa la title busuk camtuh.

Well...you haven't seen the movie...it gets worse.

When I say worse, I mean in the sense of corniness and tackiness (ada ke term corniness?) But other than that...lawak gila sial!

Anyhoo, mula mula aku quite negative about the film. As a rule, I dislike Mamat Khalid punya hasil keja yang aku rasa most of the time syok sendiri. Secondly, Malaysian zombies??? And thirdly, we know how cheap horror effects here are....so berat sikit nak layan.

But da atas invitation, plus aku pon dari perap kat rumah je, baik aku membawa diri ke Mid Valley Megamall.

Ramai gak orang hadir preview, yang diadakan belah malam dari kebiasaan waktu siang. Konon sesuai filem horror aa....

But I like the idea of night screenings sebab lebih elok. Rasa relaxed and not rushed.

Had dinner first at Amarin kat level dua, where semua orang berkumpul. Ramai ek bloggers yang hadir. Ada Juan, Budiey, Ajami, Kash....ooo...siap ada kemunculan kali pertama Maddox24, Nampaknya semakin ramai bloggers yang berani tonjolkan diri...bagus!

So after we grabbed a bite, and aku telan semua medication aku, we made our way to Golden Screen Cinemas for....jeng jeng jeng...Zombi Kampung Pisang (loya aku nak sebut title dia - maybe it's just the medication)

Amacam...korang tengok poster ni nak gelak ke nak scream in horror! Aku nak scream in horror sangat sebab wat aku nangis kenapa ler aku mai datang tonton. Tak pe...give it the benefit of doubt ler kan.

But much later, aku discoverd, that while is is as expected on helluva silly movie, but it's so bad, it's actually good. At least they admitted it was more of a spoof of the horror genre.

Kira pecah perut gak ler. Walaupon editing made the story pace a little draggy, tapi kira ada je nak gelak setiap saat.

With local comedies, paham paham jer ler...sometimes lawak kena...kekadang lawak bangang nak mampos. But this one, most of the lawak menjadi gak ler.

Aku bagik korang keyword scene korang kena watch out for.

Tugu Negara, Siti Nurhaliza/ Datuk K, rock, video games, Seroja....

What do they have to do with Zombi Kampung Pisang? A lot! Korang tengok...aku takleh give away too much. Tapi jalan cita dia simple je.

Sorang sorang kat Kampung Pisang start mati seara mengejut. Dalam mati tuh, mayat sorang sorang sorang ilang.... ony to reappear to the survivors as zombies.

Simple premise... tu je.

Tapi aku rasa admirable on thing is that since they adoped more of a parody approach, the tackiness of it all dissolved into a workable formula. Merasalah mati kena tembak, kesan tembakan tuh, blood splat yang berbentuk ala ala splat logo Nickelodeon. Keji kan.... if you don't get what I'm going on about. Go watch it.

I know this is almost impossible, and I probably will regret saying it.... but I would pay to go and see it.

And bak kawan kawan ramai ramai so leh jerit dan pecah perot bersama. It's not Scary Movie, but it does come across along the lines of the same genre.

Think Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes, but not so much stylistic than commercial.

Apapun, aku rasa lakonan paling besh kali ni from Que Haidar (his character maintain macho manjang....tapi sebenarnya nampak apa apa je run away screaming like a girl)., Loloq (sampai bila bila di translate ke until when when - keji!) dan Awie (menjadi gak ler sebagai hero).

Ezlynn irritated me to the max, while the others were just ok, tapi salute for the first time to Mamat Khalid ler. Kalau dulu pilem dia sandard Man Laksa busuk tuh, this is so much of an improvement.

This definitely takes slapstick to a whole new level. Sapa feeling takut nak tengok Zombi Kampung Pisang, jangan ler. Tak horror langsung. Kalau takut gelak, yes, elak dari tonton filem ni.

Aku rasa Mamat Khalid punya reference masa wat Zombi Kampung Pisang ni mesti a combination of those classic cult B-grade horror movies like Night Of The Living Dead and Evil Dead, with a cocktail of parodies like Airplane and Scary Movie etc.

Is it really any good? Let's put it this way.

It's not an award winner, but it's funny like all hell! Yer, walaupon ada zombies, sesuai untuk tontonan umum. In fact this is another movie for the whole family dari bebudak sampai atok nenek (takkan terkejut piunya)

Zombi Kampung Pisang memulakan tayangan di pawagam pada 19 April. This Tayangan Unggul Sdn Bhd production dibintangi Awie, AC Mizal, Que Haidar, as well as Nadia Mustafar, Ezlynn, Soffi Jikan, Zami Ismail, Jalil Hamid, Loloq dan Rusminah Sidek.

I give it two bags of tepung jagung, four kain pelikats and one human hair wig rating. In other words, a must see.

Aduh...funny.... sapa nak wat gathering tengok ramai ramai (tapi kena la pastikan ari biasa dan tayangan malam ek)

Esok takde apa apa. Yeay...aku on another two days MC sampai Jumaat, so dapat rilek je kat rumah. Walaupon gerak ati nak shopping, shopping and more shopping!!!!

Tunggu entry seterusnya to see if I actually shop my brains out...and jangan lupa ulasan Diarrhea seperti biasa.

Untuk lebih gambar filem Zombi Kampung Pisang serta gambar behind the scenes, click HERE!!!

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Of pills and eyedrops

Now I know that this is a little late, but better late than never kan. Akibat slight fever, selsema dan bengkak mata (thus the Gucci, sampai tengok konsert Akademi Fantasia kat dewan pun ber Gucci...bukan kerana berangan stylo walaupon hakikatnya stylo pun...), this review lambat ler sikit. Sekali kira ngan laporan Diarrhea tadik.

We start off with review aku tuk konsert Akademi Fantasia yang ketiga yang dah ler bosan dan busuk cam minggu pertama (and we were holding on to the hope that the second week showed promise of better things to come).

Not only was the concert frustratingly bad, there was no justification for not eliminating anyone. Nama 'surprise' konon...burok bebenor perform pun tak eliminate. Baik empat lima orang sekali kena halau balik.

Konon antara sebab meka wat trigger camni, meka nak bagik peluang pada bebudak perbaiki diri.

Hello??? It's the third f***** week!!!!

And selama ni, dalam musim musim lepas, kalau ada non elimination, it was never half way. Abih...camna lak Diya dan Afiq? Didn't they deserve a chance to improve themselves too?

Weird!

Back to the concert...Oh my God!!!!,....and I mean it. Today I heard the voice of God!!!!

Oh ok...it's just Aznil with a lot of reverb and echo. How CHEESY and totally TACKY!

Dah....aku malas nak cakap apa apa, but I think again the screwed up on the intro.

AGAIN!

It could have been executed so much more better but nope...again...it was kind of weird like watching some sort of student experimental theatre. Malas nak panjang mengulas...kang orang niat nak carut jer...sendiri nilaikan hwo busuk it was. I would have given a rating of four toilet plungers for it. One can only imagine the horror of Datuk A. Samad Said at how these kids made his art sound like a bad Cerekarama script.

So let's get strated on the kids.

Heliza - Melodi Ahlan (Waheeda)
I was really disappinted with her, because I think she didn't do half as good as she should, as Ogy said. It was a mediocre performance that appeared to be more a warm up practise session that was boring. Disappointing at best though I really want to throw in more nasty cmments for the way she stumbled through it. Credit to her ler though for for fumbling up her lyrics like some of the others though as admittedly it was quite difficult.

If Heliza underperforming wasn't enough to spoil my mood, aku tambah geram komen Jee which was not too bad but it was so contrived She doesn't fit into the role and it was just a tad silly for her to comment panjang panjang and then lapse into her real mode of ending with, " but you look nice today."

Arghhh!!!

Farha - Insan (Yantzen)
Now this was a bad attempt at overdramatisation of the show. As ada member komen..., nyanyi insan ke insane... cause he looked like a raving lunatic yang a little nuts ngan dia punya action tangan and overdose acting.

Boring...and just utter sillyness....

Noni - Ode To My Family (Cranberries)
Ok this was just weird cause it continued the trend of overacting onstage.

Memang aku pun rasa nak go... "your mother, your father!!!"... swearing profusely at just about anyone responsible for bringing her into this world.

Boring, over the top, zero effort and presented in a package of the cheesiest stage performance ever!

She was slurring, had bad pronounciation, mumbling her lyrics...blah blah blah...list them all out and take our pick of what sucked about her.

Does anyone care?

Hell no!!!

Aswad - Hijau Bumi Tuhan (XPDC)
He could have impressed but for some blody reason sebab ni makanan dia. Rck kapak style,

Tapi he was flat in places, off and occasionally sengau nak mampos.

Let's not forget the jerky wind up monkey movements. Boring...sampai tahap Jee pun takleh puji ari ni dia comel ke haper...(which is a little hard fr her to hold back, ok!)

The only thing worth watching was sampai Ogy naik hantu pasal show Asswipe. I like!!! Go Ogy!!!

Fatin - Erti Hidup (Dayang Nurfaizah)
Unimaginative and boring, I think her song was very paced but she didn't do anything for it.

Biasa biasa je, tapi in a concert where everyone totally sucked, she seemed ok. For me though, aku rasa sesi karaoke biasa je.

It was definitely average and noting to shout about.

Tapi at least hilang elemen dangdut dia. Kira ada harapan lagik Fatin ni nak improve.

Mila - Melukut Di Tepi Gantang
She almost made it up for the two horrible weeks, and proved she had a decent voice. Derailed sana sini but one of the btter shows fo the night. Don't understand the damn wheelchair though

I actually pity her because I know she can do better but somehow I dn't think she can catch up in time to improve herself. As it is, nak lawan ngan anak anak Datuk ni not an easy task with Heliza being the only girl so far yang can keep up the race.

She's got the potential I think, but I also think she needs more time to improve, which sadly seems like it's ending by next week.

Dafi - Aku Tanpa Cintamu (Mirwana)
CHECKINGGGGGGGGGGGG!!! Lari nyeh!!!!
I thought the backing stage performances were getting worse and worse but nothing prepared me for this lousy sketch.

Matilah feeling pengajaran but kelakar lak. bodoh tol.

As for Dafi....honestly tul...no stinking dynamics, and lagu tuh cam lullaby padahal tie Mirwana dan Jay Jay power ok.

Kali ni ada peluang nak all out leh tapi still wat boyband approach dia. Merasalah jadik boyband karaoke expert.

To be fair though, he wasn't the worst for the night...though he did suck something bad.

Dekna - Kembara Di Tanah Gersang (Al Jawaher)
For the first 45 seconds aku ingat dia da ok sikit...tapi after that, I went back to sleep, to cry in my sleep actually while my ears bled. Aduh...sayangnya dia ni....kenapa lak dak ni.

Apart from the bad stage dramas, there was something uniform in budak budak ni minggu ni.

Takde feel langsung!

Merasalah aksi Samihah Aisah Omar suddenly nak kicking lak.

Rizal - Permaidani (Aris Ariwatan)
Ok...he is seriously tone deaf! Enough said....someone please check his hearing cause I think there's something seriously wrong with his ability to head cause honestly no one could have normal hearing without realising that was nasty!

He was the worst ..AGAIN! For the third week in a row.

And tetap ngan aksi Karam Singh Walia walaopon awal2 konsert da reminder.

Pada peminat Rizal, please stop voting for him and get your ears checked if you say he can sing.

Shawal - Ku Berlari (Firdaus)
Disappinted sebab he tried but it didn't work...nak blame sapa? The music? Good choice! I don't know what happened but looks like these kids ni memang suck nak mampos with each week.

He died onstage! He better buck up next week.

And please, let's not bring clowns to upstage others ok... I can't take all the gegaring of the lemak which irritates the crap out of me.

Candy - Terlalu Istimewa (Adibah Noor)
She pulled some high notes but I think the she was just lucky with the song.

Weird that Jee kata dia ada feel sebab aku rasa penghayatan dia hancur even though sora dia ok je with some highs.

Nak kata yang terbaik, seriously she wasn't that good...just ala ala je.Only Ogy was able to point it out and noticed the same thing I did which was this thing she did with her pose ala ala orgasm.

And the music...

Ebi - Al Jannah (Mawi)
I think this was the real performance of the day sebab elok sesangat ler sora dia banding yang lain.

For the last two weeks, he's been so so, but this was an amazing improvement for him to come this far. Bab, though stress points tuh aku no komen ler sebab I think Jee makes sense when she pointed it out. Wow! A first...time to celebrate!

The part when he would fail because of penghayatan aku rasa dia punya problem tuh, sama je ngan bebudak lain...still aku puji dia because of the effort yang aku memang puji. Bukan senang nak wat lagu Mawi and not be compared which I think dia mampu, with his version.

Aku rate this whole concert three toilet plungers! Konsert pertama dapat empat while last concert was a two star effort. So note the effort.

Apapun, before I forget, the critics (even Jee) geta standing ovation for their comments this week yang lebih real kali ni dan on the mark. It's about time we see reality TV be real again!

So to Ogy, Hattan dan Jee, keep up the good work. I like!!!

Anyway, today surfing the Net, ada yang tanya pasal pics Ebi yang appear. Ala...dia tuh bekas model. So biasa je la. At least not self taken dedah sampai bogel sendiri sendiri. Tapi wat camner....kalau it affects his votes, too bad ler sebab he only did ok this week, and has much to prove still.Ada ke masa ke tak tatau ler...

Pics ni di addkan atas permintaan. Kredit foto : CARI Forum
(Sila ambil perhatian - gambar ini telahpun diedarkan di CARI - I'm just republishing it here atas permintaan ramai yang ingin melihat)

Anyways aku tak paham kenapa Diarrhea ari ni meka tunjuk Friday's recordings sebab tak perlu ok nak live in the past gituh.

And the clips weren't all that interesting anyway.

Kesimpulan aku dapat wat dari flashbacks tuh:
- si Asswipe semakin cam ungka,
- Tok Wan tuh membuang masa penonton.
- they couldn't bring someone who wasn't obese to teach the kids first aid
- the kids are just weird and trying too hard in talking with the camera too much in trying to play Farah.
- meka kena endorse Power Root sebab antara sponsor
- dan team production pemalas nak recycle clips sebab siang punya recording tak sempat edit.

Leh?

Matilah carut balik...

Oh and judging by Astro's announcement yang undian minggu lepas takkan dibuang, it's obvious that meka takut jadik issue tipu duit peminat Akademi Fantasia kalau meka reset the votes percentage this week. Bagus...bagus...at least they learned about prevention rather than depend on damage control.

Now if only meka sedar betapa kurang ajarnya nak clash dates with AIM, the new version of Menuju Puncak still sucks....and assignment lagu pun bring nak mampos....dare I mention arrangement minus ones pun masih busuk?

Watching on with the Diarrhea, I think they're going too far with the recycled clips....who wants to bet Tok Wan tuh related to someone in production of Akademi Fantasia...OOPS!

Oh Lord...recycle lagik. Rizalnak play along by the looks of it acting over cam nak gain attention.

The backstage clips were boring at best, and the song selection handing out pun bosan.

La la la....

Fast forward please

More showings of the drop fo English in the country with the horrible realisation that none of them understood the words, attitude, altitude and aptitude.

What happened lah. Dalam pelbagai komen diberi tenaga pengajar, pandai olak si Khairul Najmi nak kata aunty dia disappointed with Dafi ek....you are the aunty la....tolonglah. Ajar English pun tak betul, pastu nak ajar bebudak lak pasal performance. Shut up and sit in your corner je la as you sift through your Satndard Six textbooks trying to find something to teach the kids this week.

Dahler broke his own rule konon pakai English je, kelam kabut dan tunggang langgang lak English campor BM sebab nak laser tunjuk intelligent konon. Boring!!!!
So for anyone interested, here's the senarai lagu for minggu keempat punya konsert.

Senarai lagu tugasan konsert keempat.
Fatin - Joget Gila Bayang (Anita Sarawak)
Noni - Pastikan (Siti Nurhaliza)
Ebi - Kasihnya Laila (Jinbara)
Shawal - Izinkan Ku Pergi (Kaer)
Heliza - Torn (Natalie Imbruglia)
Farha - As Long As You Love Me (Backstreet Boys)
Candy - Setia Ku Korbankan (Fauziah Latiff)
Dekna - Salam Untuk Kekasih (Nadia)
Dafi - Zikir Kasih (Amir Ukays)
Rizal - Di Ambang Sore (Ahmad Jais)
Aswad - Hakikat Sebuah Cinta (Iklim)
Mila - Benci Tapi Rindu (Diana Nasution)

Daripada senarai lagu tugasan, aku rasa Shawal bakal highlight of the show, because Izinkan Aku Pergi is a good song yang leh showcase vocals. I think Heliza pun will perform well fr Torn because it's right up her alley. Hopefully meka comebac dari performance meka yang hambar last concert.

Apart from that, surprisingly enough after last week's performance, I think Mila wil be quite ok t with Benci Tapi Rindu.

Yang bakal hancur? Au risau pasal Farha, Command of English dan sora yang tak kena ngan AS Long As You Love Me, bakal menjadi train wreck (mintak jangan ler), while Rizal dah almost confirm akan mampos ngan lagu dia. Nyampah aku masa Diarrhea dia cakap, "Saya memang tak sukaaaaaa lagu ni!!! Saya memang tak tak sukaaaa irama Malaysia....etc" Kata tak gemar ler....tu pun tak leh ke...aduh..pastu cover lak ngan kata, "tapi saya akan cuba",...cuba apa? Cuba hancurkan lagu tu?

And dare we mention Asswipe? Tetap ngan lagu rock kapak....dah ler aku bosan tengok moka Bangla dia....aku bosan ngan show busuk dia dan topi/headban busok dia. Baik pakai wig jer....kalao beriya nak cover dia tuh semakin membotak. Matila....kalao juara sebelom ni botak, ni dah lr dia nak feeling iras Mawi, nak botak gak? Merasalah Mawi botakkan diri...buan botak natural keguguran ok! Merasalah kalau dia menang apa apa sila mintak Yun Nam haircare sponsor hadiah ok!

Yang aku rasa susah nak ramal Fatin (takut tolang dia snap in half kalao nak over energectic je si anorexia ni), Ebi (susah wooo mau follow up performance dia yang bagus tuk Al Jannah), Candy (tapi sure better than the original version sebab penyanyi asal tak mampu nyanyi agik) and Dafi (sora boyband wat ala ala asli ek...kita tunggu dan lihat).

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Baru balik konsert tribute Sudirman. Tired out as hell tak balik pas kuar siang tadik tuk knsert Akademi Fantasia ketiga. Esok je aku update ok....with the best pics around...

My thrat feels a little raw, tanda nak demam kot. So esok je aku posting entry review plus a little news. Adalah....

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