Hurmph....repeat performance

Ni sambung entry hutang. Balik je dari AIM on Saturday night, malas tunggu bab repeat repeat, so headed to torrents to check out how was the concert malam tuh.. Yerlah...macam macam report dapat asal konsert, but au nak gak check it out for myself.

And safe to say pas tengok, Astro memang hampeh. Full of contradictions.

Amik pengetua konon tegas takleh bagi nangis, tapi bagik trigger cam babeng...

Konon nak cari bakat, amik pengkritik emo marah takleh hargai bakat, tapi wat lawak bodoh tol tuk naikkan undian orang based on sympathy.

Stupid...stupid...stupid...malas carut tak henti...because I won't stop kala camni.

Hurmphh...amik ko repeat performance Mas dari musim kedua ler.

Semua pelajar - Lagu Bonus - Joget Pahang (Siti Nurhaliza)/Joget Si Pinang Muda (Noraniza Idris)
For some reason, aku rasa cam this was so uninspired. Sebab ni kali pertama aku nonton dan nilai konsert mingguan melalui kaca TV (laptop actually), so my judgement lain sikit kot sebab judge the music as heard on TV and n at the venue yang memang lain.

But caught some people looked as bored as I was throughout the performance. The only person yang caught my eye throughout the song was si Candy je.
Lain dari tuh, nothing much. Boring, nothing else managed to capture my attention dan just a waste of time.

Bab nak tarik audience tuh, erm...was just cheap attempt ler. Simply trying to jazz up the event so hard that it was just...oh well.

Wonder how many changed the channel at this point?

Erm...was I the only one who felt that Aznil kept screaming throughout? Why can't he use normal speech levels?

Oh by the way, the whole se-up onstage was a tad over, dan nampak cam kedai pengantin kat Pandan Indah lak. Erm...a little tacky and without reason for them to overdo it.

Erm....kenapa lak Salih Yaacob jadik judge? Layak ke? Oh well...
The second bonus song at the end of the show was as boringly over delivered as the first. So there...


Heliza - Rindu Merindu ( Fauziah Idris)
Cantik baju dia (ala Jee nih) tapi kenapa lak dia dressed up cam orang tua. She just looked old, like someone's mother.

Bab berbalas pantun...on TV it didn't work ler lawak Aznil sebab mata dia asik dashing to the cue cards, which didn't make it appear impromptu.

On her intro, Heliza started way too shaky, and her vibrato had the same effect as fingernails on the blackboard.

I have a feeling she just isn't letting go her voice, and she more often than not ends up sounding constipated.

Masuk chorus baru she sounded ok, but still she ends up simply overdoing it. Why can't anyone tell her to quit it and just sing straight and not moderate her voice so much that apa yang kuar ni cam just a trickle of her actual suara.

Week seven and still no originality. Camna ni...aduh...

PS - patutler muzik sedap..pemuzik profesional rupanya, bukan polyphonic ringtone.
Permulaan yang baik? Jee dengar ke tak nih? Alamak!!!! Tu kakak Candy posing tuk camera lagik!!! Damn...pening...lagik pening bab Salih ni komen, sebab dia ni irrelavant tol. Didn't knw they wanted a comedian to punctuate the critics.


Shawal - Joget Kaki Lima (Dahlan Zainuddin)
Balasan pantun dari Shawal yang bertanya mana lebih sesuai antara Erra Fazira dan Fasha Sandha memang was just rude, too rude to be on TV.

Ada ke Aznil jawab camni (bagi sapa yang miss)

Aishwarya Rai dan Abishek Bachan,
pasangan sejoli teruna dara
Susah sangat ke nak buat pilihan
Dah tatau yang mana dara tahan dan juga mana yang tiada dara?

Erm....just silly and too coarse for a programme watched by kids. Kalau sebut janda takper ler lagik kan...because the term takde dara ni cam kasar sangat.

Comedy at the expense of being insulting.

On Shawal's performance, aku seksa tengok dia punya low notes dia ni as he had to dip really low to come up with barely audible notes. Kenapa lah bebudak ni sampai tahap ni. Most of them seem to have the same problem.

He didn't do bad enough to justify kedudukan dia yang second last by the end of the concert.

Arghh!!! Tu si kakak Candy senyum kerang busuk pose ayu! Pening! Arghh!!! Senyum pose tuk camera ok! No! No! No! Mental block...

Aswad - Penyu Menangis (Sudirman)
Amboi! Cantiknya lip gloss Aswad yang pink! Sesuai ngan bedak tempek empat inci mka dia sampai kelabu.

Ada peminat Aswad kata aku bias kat dia nih bab nak evaluate dia, tapi seriously he has some major problems kalau tak nyanyi rock kapak. Can't see him doing anything else.

He was flat and off key in some parts...not too bad, but still noticeable.

Stage performance dia buruk siot...tak abih abih tangan dia pegang perot, kalao tak geleng pala sana sini, while he generally stayed rooted at one spot thrughout the show. Bab last....it was just...ewwww... Ogy has to seriously got to be kidding bila kata dia leh diterima sebab vocal dia.

And kali kedua dia sebut centrepoint...nak sangat Centrepoint, kat Kota Kinabalu ada tuh...tengah bandar, tempat lepak ramai bebudak.

First time takde pam jamban bagi performance Aswad...
Ebi - Berdendang Dalam Tangisan (Jamal Abdillah)
It was weird to see him dressed up as so, and yet try and execute step silat. I thought the whole performance was nice, but not fantastic. The song just wasn't him.

Tapi geram tol...pengkritik semua cam bias just because he's at the top. Jee kata he can do better, have we forgotten to mention him in comparison with the others?

Hattan kata dia masuk je sumbang....lupa lak bab orang lain sumbang nak sebut ek, siap pujian melambung.
Ogy nak marah pasal silat...nak kata dia counting...aku leh maapkan. But she's whacked sebab nak kata step moden, dia pakai tuh apa? Salahkan tenaga pengajar le.

You have lost your magic kata Ogy. Meka beriya je magic magic...yang konon ada magic yang takde magic ngan penonton. They've forgotten this shw is for the fans, not the critics and their personal opinion doesn't matter, but their professional evaluation does.

Why the bloody hell si Salih nih...lawak hanj sangat tetiba...tak penting tol ada pengkritik camni.

Dafi - Joget Angan Tak Sudah (Jay Jay)
Ok this was just weak. He got lost somewhere between the backing vocals and the music. And he was flatter than an anorexic stick insect and more off key than expected.

Konon ada member bagitau he did good ler apa ler...but aku dengar horror. Stage performance dia? Amateurish at best.

Awmigawd...Jee kata dia improve! Ogy bagik lampu biru!

Yang si Aznil nak mintak tuk lampu biru tuh kenapa? Ngan Jee dan Salih Yaacob. Yang lain tak lak merayu mintak lampu biru...

God...can they stop with the stupid blue lights already. Nak orang jadik panduan konon padahal bunyi bias manjang pengkritik. Pastuh lak nak wat apa? Apa gunanya? Ke nak menidakkan pilihan pengundi?


Candy - Tari Silat Melayu (Aishah)
Dari buka mulut, aku terpaksa nak katakan she was easily the best for the night. Tapi takde ler aku nak tekan lampu biru terus kalau yer pun aku ada peluang nak tekan lampu biru tuh seawal tuh. Nilai puas puas dulu kan? Merasalah emo...

Candy's only weakness is that she has a big voice tapi sometimes it overwhelms her sebab she tries to do something unnecessary because she feels her ability justifies the need for that.

Again, she should keep it to the necessary until she really is sure what she can do with it.

At some points dia cam nak terbabas sebab carried away, but she did execute enough control to make sure that didn't happen.

Someone please do NOT invite si Salih Yaakob lagik with his stupid jokes. Did he call her Shandy? So not funny.

Mila - Dondang Dendang (Noraniza Idris)
She was fabulous, tapi kalao banding Candy, aku letak dia sebaris sje ebab aku da awal awal kata this is her forte, so memang no hal ler nak deliver.

Unsurprisingly she was excellent in her delivery, cuma sikit sangat ler cacat cela yang hardly noticeable.

Malas komen lebih...the two girls rocked ler.


Jap...sebelom proceed....heh...Aznil...sebut Diarrhea ek? Bangga ok sebab dipopularkan kat sini ok, terima kasih pada Diarrhea Harian yang kami terpaksa lalui tiap Isnin ke Jumaat.

Mak aih!! Pemenang pakaian laki nih..erm...cam Ginger lak hidung.Feel baju J.Lo ke transparent nih Heh! Pakaian tercantik bagik pompuan....erm...no komen (sri akak)

Anyhoo...tak paham tol ler at the end of it all...apa tujuan nak wat kejutan last tuh. Nak sangat kot si Aznil menyanyi, sebab almost every week, ada je dia nak nyanyi dari start of the season. Musim kelima ni semakin dia menjadi.

Dari start nak nitis airmata when they brought on all the parents, tapi the moment pas Mila, dan Dafi da ada parents meka kunjung, camera da fokus kat si Aswad, da oleh tangkap apa motif meka wat segment ni.

By the time the rest of the parents came out for Heliza, Ebi, Shawal and Candy, it was obvious apa Astro nak buat. Stupid, pathetic and lame attempt at getting a few tears and more votes.

Sama cam kes Mas masa musim kedua. Ngarut kata nak kongsi sayang and all, it was just stupid!!!!

How dare they play with such sentiments! This was lowest of the low and totally unnecessary!

Bukan je kejam bagi Aswad....tapi juga pada keluarga Aswad, which undeniably they could have brought his relatives.

So apart from a syok sendiri segment, it became this well crafted ploy nak meraih undi bagi Aswad or in other words lebih untung tuk Astro.

By the end of the concert...ada yang nak dok jeling tak puas hati konon peminat tak undi bakat, padahal orang yang upah ko dodok kerusi tuh, yang nak meraih undi camtuh.

Kalao cakap lebih sangat, tak puas ati sangat, lawan ler balik against gimmicks like this ler.

Stakat pose muka takyah.

"Semua pelajar yang tersingkir akan membawa diri di luar sana...itulah janji kami...tidak akan balik...pegi tak kembali..."

Blah blah blah...

Oh and the whole kentut thing they showed ngan clips Aswad, Ebi, Dafi dan Shawal farting in the Akademi was so...hurmphh.... nampak sangat takde idea that flatulence becomes prime time fare.

Apapon...kentut Ebi nampaknya paling kuat dan paling kaw skali.

Heh...silly la...nampaknya the whole show went down the drain early on, but with this konsert yang Astro sink to new depths of yuckiness, it''s just flushed down the toilet da.

Baik aku sambung nonton my latest downloads of Pussycat Dolls Presents : The Search For The Next Doll.

Tapi kena gak layan Diarrhea hari pertama minggu kelapan. Nak tengok sapa dapat lagu apa kan.

Aznil nak mintak maap lak? Niat tak penting. On TV kena ingat sikit. Not the first time something like this has happened and you'd think they would have learned their lesson by watching what they say. Bukan benda tuh impromptu...da siap rehearsal. Ingat ler sikit.

The 'exclusive' scenes or latihan ala koir and with the musicians was nothing great, tak paham kenapa meka kata eksklusif.

Apapun, kalau tuan pengetua tak wat minus one minggu ni, kenapa masih the whole week tak nampak muka dia sangat kat Akademi. Pelik tul musim ni.

Only thing worth noting was that si EBi ketika practise, he didn't sound as lazy as he did in the eventual performance.

Adengan meka bersiap tuk konsert ak lak aku tergelak sebab tunjuk semua bermake-up, timbul lak persoalan, si Aswad kena make up ni perlu ke kat dahi sedangkan erm...paham ler.

Huh...alasan nak bagik Aswad lebih bersemangat konon, nak play that stupid dumbass attempt nak perah airmata. If nothing else, I think it was more of a distraction than anything elese to play with the student's emotions rather than motivate them.

Moving on with the finger and hand painting session, erm..kelakar lak the kids coming up with laughable 'abstract' paintings and trying to explain them. Macam macam.

Anyway, ni lagu lagu tugasan tuk konsert minggu kelapan

Lagu bonus senua pelajar - Phantom Of The Opera (Phantom Of The Opera OST)
Lagu bonus pelajar lelaki - Jangan Cepat Marah (Aznil Nawawi)
Lagu bonus pelajar perempuan - Wajah Rahsia Hati (Fauziah Ahmad Daud)
Mila - Aku Takkan Bersuara (Nike Ardilla)
Candy - Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps (Lila Downs)
Dafi - It's Gonna Be Me (N'Sync)
Shawal - Kaulah Segalanya (Hazrul Nizam)
Ebi - Kisah Kau Dan Aku (Alleycats)
Heliza - Kesal (Ella)
Aswad - Korban Cinta (Aris Ariwatan)

Lagu bonus this time will be great sebab lagu tema for Phantom Of The Opera. Just hope they don't destroy it.

Lagu bonus pelajar lelaki no komen ler, while yang perempuan nya yang da leh agak sebab lagu Hattan dan Jee kan da ada so far, so add one more ler...nak lengkapkan former hits pengkritik.
Mila, Candy serta Eliza have very different songs yang memang besh.
Dafi dijadikan boyband skali lagi, while Shawal nampaknya da kena push ke ballads. Ebi pun ok choice of song dia while si Aswad dapat stereotyped tune.

We'll see just have to see lor how they fare.

Oh by the way, didn't say kan Sunday aku wat per. Well, pas KO n Sturday balik about 5am or so, decided in the morning to head fr an extra assignment. Siang tu ada event Big Walk Malay Mail kat Padang Merbok.

By noon, da gerak ke Genting Highlands tuh assingment bonus gituh to watch Olivia Newton John in concert.

Awesome!!!

Mula mula malas sebab memang keletihan ler pas tak cukup tidur (make that no sleep at all) after the night before.

More than 24 hours of no sleep is hardly funny, tapi tidur jer ler sejam or so dalam perjalanan ke Genting.

Naik je pala da berdenyut nak pecah. Umur skang, tak cukup tidur horror sikit.

Popped by Starbucks, and got my first meal of the day. Lahap sikit pastuh slept for about an hour or two.

Went down for dinner and then to the Arena of Stars to meet the rest of the guys yang hadir sekali untuk konsert tuh.

All I can say is...AMAZING!!!! Walapon rasa pala nak pecah, telan dua biji Uphamol pun pala throbbing all over, still by the time the concert started, lupa da segalanya.

For those yang late twenties onwards memang akan minat ler Olivia.

I mean, of course there's the whole Grease soundtrack cam Hopelessly Devoted To You (one of my fave songs of all time), Summer NIghts, We Go Together and Youre The One That I Want.

Lom agik her own retro hits like Xanadu. She even did this new arrangement of Physical.
Tapi dalam bebanyak lagu hit dia, aku paling nak nitis airmata masa dia nyanyi I Honestly Love You.

Arghhh!!! I remember zaman sekolah dulu siot layan lagu ni....memang a trip down memory lane.

Malas nak amik pics sebab memang not in the mood, plus pikirkan blog entry banyak sangat nak update, perlu ke nak add on agik.

Heh...so srry guys...no pic... made a few audio recordings though and layan on the way back from Genting the next day.

And that was pretty much it. Not that interesting for some, but awesone for me.

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Overdue.My triple joy.

Hutang entry memang da lama kan? Sori ler...bukan apa. Sibuk teramat. Read ler this entry sampai habis kalao tak caya, Seksa ok nak update entry ni sebab banyak sangat, so I'll just kind of gloss over what happened since Saturday.

Of course the whole day didn't go anywhere, conserve energy tidur seharian sebab malam tuh AIM. So leh agak ler my routine for the next couple of days.

Tunggu si Shahrill join, sebab dia tengah exam final, so kesian lak....stress study, baik gi rehatkan minda sikit layan show dari nak dok holed up at home ngan buku je.

Walaupon presentation dia tak abih katanya yang nak deliver pagi buta esoknya.
Heh...suka tau last minute. Best sebab Shahrill tunjuk benda dia pakai tuk magic dia yang terbaru yang memang susah nak dapat kat sini. Sib baik da tau trick ko...kalao tak naya je tertipu aku.

Sampai kat PWTC, we headed in just about time and took our seats. Not too bad...smack right in the centre with one of the best views of the stage. Yang pentingnya, aku da ada tiga invites, satu bagik Ted, dua lagik terbazir camtuh jer.

The first thing aku spotted of interest was this...on the left.
Itu dia rambut Reshmonu sempena Visit Malaysia Year yang diinspirasikan oleh bunga manggar!

Absolutely hilarious! But props to you Resh for the balls to appear different. And great show too.

Speaking of show, kali ni AIM cam takde ummphhh!!! lak for some reason.

I mean, timing ok..well paced, shows weren't as horrible as I thought.

Still.. entahlah. Tak semegah yang aku harapkan.

The one show wrth loking frward to was Anuar Zain for sure.

Kalao dak pengkritik kat Akademi Fantasia kata an average presentation is a perfect 10, amacam Anuar lak?

Aku rasa kalao camni...si Anuar is 100 over 10 ler sebab it was simply beautiful. Walaupon there was something dodgy going on with the music because the levels were kind of screwed with the orchestra occasionally drowning out his vocals.

Still it was one of the magical moments which was powerful enough to capture the audience.

Apart from Anuar's show, there was few worth mentioning. Mawi dan Ramli Sarip was awesome too.... the closing was cliched, ngan Double Trouble taking the stage. Kira power gak ler tapi bosan ler sebab da standard sangat da meka nak rock reunions ni can shake people up.

Did I forget the set of divas? Well...first of all, lagu Bermula Di Sini was the wrong choice of song to share between four big vocals. Hasilnya?

Jac, yang memang vocal meletop grabbed the spotlight without even being trying.

Siti and Aishah were reduced to being backing vocals, while I found Noryn just irritating...because she was screeching all over the place trying to outdo Jac but failing miserably.

Kira ok jer ler. Better yet actually was the medley Artis Baru Terbaik. Forget Izwan Pilus, Fazli Zainal dan eve nt he overrated Sean Ghazi.

Aku bangga ngan Bob sebab he was easily the best vocals among the five nominated names. Farhan too did quite well, enough to stand by Bob.

Sapa kata reality TV can't produce talents, though this isa thing of the past judging by musim kelima.

Bab bekas pelajar ni, of course Mawi pun rocked the stage. Sayang je Zahid tak dapat perform...stakat present. Takpe...last year dah...next year kang album baru kuar kang..we see you again onstage ek.

Show M. Nasir? Opening yang tak kena. It was nice and all, but somehow it seemed kind of weird to see him wear pink and bounce along ngan those dancers yang look like they were part of a third rate drag ensemble.

Ok ler...tapi aku rasa kalao in terms of explosiveness, patutnya meka letak je Mawi dan Ramli Sarip sebab lebih hebat...
Daripada segi lain...erm...it was nice to see them cut short the acceptance speeched supaya tak lari timing slot AIM tahun ni.
Kalau tak kan biasa meleret sampai entah brapa lama.

Still, at times it looked rather unprofessional sebab hampir semua penerima anugerah cam kena cut off in their moment of glory.
The presenters semua bias aje...nothing great, but thank goodness meka kept to script if nothing else. Takde ler lawak bangang yang membuang masa.

The hosts itself?
Syukur ler si Bob Lokman tak bersora banyak sangat and he was kept to a minimum...kalao tak pening nak layan. Afdlin yang biasanya best gila, subdued dan seolah takde skrip.

Adibah Noor jer ok. Tu pun boleh lah...sebab dia ni memang naturally quirky kan. Rasanya kalao tahun depan, Adibah sendiri pun mampu carry on with the show on her own.

Erm...yang asik dok promo Sumo, aku ok jer sebab hopefully it will be one of Afdlin's best films, tapi tak perlu ler sangat.
Banyak agik filem dan album slalu kuar, takkan sebab Afdlin jadik host nak plug for most of the releases....or any releases for that matter. No offense Flin....it just wasn't on, tapi da rezeki ko bro. All these years of holding AIM together, I suppose they do owe it to you.

Bab kemenangan...memang ada kejutan, cam si Ahmadi Hassan menang Best Nasyid Album (bukan apa, tapi album Qasidah, Berzanji dan Doa Berlagu is the best nasyid album this year), Siti kalah Best Vocal Performance In An Album (Female) lepas dominasi menang back to back for eight years (tapi Jac menang pon ok) ... a few shockers here and there.

But happy gak sebab Siti menang Best Pop album. Aku happy sebab aku masa dulu review pun aku da kata, it was one of the best albums for the year, and at least it's proven when she went on to win Album Of The Year sekaligus.

Satu je award aku nak gelak cam buang masa (selain Best Ethnic Pop Album sebab ada dua je pencalonan, which is the Best Indonesian Album.

Kenapa sembilan dari sepuluh kali artis Indo yang dijemput hadir, mesti menang?

Cam plan jer. Ke da dijanji menang kalao meka menghadirkan diri? Who knows?

Boleh jer la Samsons ni. No skin ff my back pun meka menang.

Lepas abih je persembahan terakhir aku dan Shahrill rush downstairs to the post party... sebab malas kang everyone make an exit at once. So gerak ler dulu. Lagikpon kebulur ni. Kang lambat sampai, makan pon tak,nak keja interview sana sini pun menyukarkan je.

Was among the first to reach, and just as Shahrill sat down nak makan, aku spotted Siti masuk. Hah...jarang ok Siti grace post party events. Tak nampak husband tersayang dia, but takper.

Sempat ler talked a bit (see...told you kan Siti?). This is one of the few times, aku honestly leh kata she totally deserved the award. Siti pun cam happy semacam. Mana taknya...the albumis the first product of Siti Nurhaliza Productions... baby dia lr katakan...so mesti bangga hasil pertama tuh membuahkan hasil dan diiktiraf.

Time ni ler aku leh see everyone closer for what they wore, so leh ler usha sapa pakai baju cantik dan sapa yang azab.

Aku rasa yang paling happening...dan sexy skali fr the night...taklain tak bukan... Amy Search ler. Kalah ok th rest of the women. Merasalah la ko Amy dedah sana sini...heh! Kalah Syafinaz pun ok!

Erm...rambut rebonding ke?

No way Jose. tetap berketak ok.

The worst dressed?

Mmm...there were a lot of horrible outfits there. Kat dari Mentor cam jantan in drag lak ngan overdose extension rambut dan sebagainya. Sarat sangat...sakit mata tengok dia.

But the winner hands down for the most horrific get-up has to be Dina.
Too yellow la gurl.... cam Big Bird from Sesame Street pun ada.

Let's repeat this little mantra, "less is more!"

Got news terkini dari konsrt Akademi Fantasia. Masa tuh dok ngan Bob dan Fitri with Ramli M.S. nearby. The word spread fast...

Didn't stay the whole night. Being claustrophobic aku pun ajak Shahrill to have supper elsewhere after I was done with work.

Lost him no less than FOUR times. Rupanya, dia ni asik hilang, sebab asik dok kena tarik ngan orang. Apa lagik kalao kena tarik.

Wat magic show jer ler jawabnya. Heh...sabar jer ler...camtuh ler kalao orang da kenal.
Took a few pictures here and there tapi generally spent the night gabbing away until si Shahrill was done amusing people with a few tricks. Among his audience was bebudak security yang terhibur gila ngan dia. Amik ko.

Dalam ganas suka gak magic ek.

Sapa kata bebudak je.... all the way out, ada lak peminat nak dia wat magic dan sebagainya.

Aduh...this is going to take forever.

Oh...back to the pictures, kang aku tunjuk sikit lower a bit ek...finish story dulu.
Meanwhile, feast your eyes on these of antara kuarga Akademi Fantasia yhang hadir (Mawi balik immediately after so tak dapat nak bump into him.

Moved on to Bukit Bintang for supper. Was joined by Ted, Vernon (yang dok cerita tak abih betapa heat si Dafi kalao ikut laporan meka yang ada dalam deqan - propah je keja), Rudy, Judd and friend as well as Juan and friend.

Lepas melantak, kena lagik satu round si Shahrill ni nak wat magic tuk kanak-kanak Ribena ni.

Tak cukup satu dua illusions, siap kena explain camna buat (mana leh!)

Tengok si Shahrill ni (curi pic dari Judd). Seronok beriya dapat wat show, walaopn show pree jer ngan bebudak nih yang dra dia trick after trick.

But he was ever obliging and amazed everyone aku rasa for ovr an hour. Banyak lak neverending request nak ajar...but of course the magicians code and all.

One of the best things to see live, is the spoon bend yang dia gosok near the stem of the spon, dan sudu tuh mula membengkk sendiri. That's something that loks awesome live.

Not to mention yang spoon yang or fork yang twisted tuh.

That's massively freaky ok.

Tapi yang pentingnya, pas da buat kena sorok lak garpu yang jadik mangsa tuh, sebab takde magic yang nak betulkan balik bengkang bengkok garpu tuh. Matila tak pasal pasal kang kena caj lebih sebab rosakkan utensil orang.

Kenapa?

Tak caya ek?

Korang kalau tune in Fuyoo Magic every Tuesday, at 10.30pm (tolong promosi program dia) mesti da penah tengok dia buat.

But seeing it live is totally different. It works more ler in front of your eyes because you know it really is happening.

Nak tengok akibat magic si Shahrill ni?

Ni dia... tak pasal pasal ler garpu ni jadik mangsa... heh... kalau tengok pic Shahrill kat atas tuh, tu the fork befoe it was mangled by Shahrill's 'telekinetic' powers.

Tu dia...bukan bengkok sikit sikit ok...tu trick biasa, Ni siap cam da kena pulas!
Had a fun night, that was sure, and a great close to the weekened... or so I thought. Si Rudy ajak aku sekali ngan dia ke assignment dia esok. I said I'd think about it sebab I didn't really have anything planned pun.

Nanti...next entry aku tulis tuk apa...tired out as all helll. Just enjoy th few more pics I took.

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Magic!!!!

Lum tidur. One helluva night!!! Awesome!!! So happy for s many reasons. Nanti aku update with lots of pics!!! r as many as aku larat nak posting.

Yang pentingnya, Siti menang Album of the Year! Yes!!!! Puas!!! Tengok Siti...kan da kata?

Heh...tak rugi review album Transkripsi dulu (and tak rugi Siti masuk sini dan baca)> You deserve it gurl...hugs (and lari takut Datuk K nampak).

The other big happy event ws no elimination from Akademi Fantasia. Seven students remain. Didn't miss anything nampknya. Nanti aku review that as well as AIM ok.

Ni tak tidur kena rush a morning event, and then late noon ke Genting Highlands. Nanti aku bagitau sebab apa. Full day! And a fuller week! So nanti je ek....sabar!!!! It'll be worth it!

FULL LIST OF WINNERS AT AIM 14
Sean Ghazi
BEST NEW ARTISTE
BEST MUSICAL ARRANGEMENT IN A SONG (Hujan Di Tengahari)

Reshmonu (Superfine)
BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN AN ALBUM (MALE)

Jaclyn Victor (Inilah...Jac)
BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN AN ALBUM (FEMALE)

Raihan (Tawakkal)
BEST GROUP VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN AN ALBUM

Pete Teo (Television)
BEST LOCAL ENGLISH ALBUM
BEST ALBUM COVER
BEST MUSIC VIDEO (Lost In America)

Kristal (Analogi)
BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM

Syura (Syahda Berdendang)
BEST ETHNIC POP ALBUM

Ahmadi Hassan (Bahagia Berkasih)
BEST NASYID ALBUM

M. Nasir (Sang Pencinta)
BEST POP ROCK ALBUM
SONG OF THE YEAR (Juwita Citra Terindah)

Search (Gothik Malam Edan)
BEST HARD ROCK ALBUM

Siti Nurhaliza (Transkripsi)
BEST POP ALBUM
ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Dragon Red
BEST NEW LOCAL ENGLISH ARTISTE

Samsons (Naluri Lelaki)
BEST INDONESIAN ALBUM

Meanwhile, ni lak keputusan AFUNDI selepas konsert ketujuh malam tadi. Got the results, and this is all aku larat nak posting for the moment.

Peratusan untuk kedudukan AFUNDII Sebelum Konsert
Ebi 17%
Dafi 17%
Aizat 14%
Shawal 13%
Heliza 10%
Aswad 10%
Candy 10%
Mila 9%

Selepas Konsert
Ebi 17%
Aswad 14%
Mila 13%
Candy 13%
Dafi 12%
Heliza 11%
Shawal 11%
Aizat 10%

Ok, so you see another name there? Just reproducing the list. Don't ask no questions and you won't get no stupid answers. Toodles!

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Anugerah Industri Muzik 14

Baru nak keluar rumah ni.Dah pun cukup kan tidur for the long,long night ahead. Esok lak ada event...tatau ler battery aku ni da charge cukup ke tak.

Anyway, of course I'll be going for the Anugerah Industri Muzik at PWTC malam ni, Pada sapa yang mungkin jauh ke...ovrseas ke...terpaksa keja tapi ada online access,watch the Anugerah Industri Muzik live On the web, via streaming. Just CLICK HERE.

No promises kalao aku leh update on the spot, tapi kalao leh I'll do it simultaneously with the live broadcast daripada dalam Dewan Merdeka.

Gotta leave now....
Bagi meka yang yang lupa who's contesting tonight, here's the full list.

BEST NEW ARTISTE/ARTIS BARU TERBAIK
Bob
Farhan
Fazli Zainal
Izwan Pilus
Sean Ghazi

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN AN ALBUM (MALE)/PERSEMBAHAN VOKAL TERBAIK DI DALAM ALBUM (LELAKI)
Bob (Hantaran Hati)
M. Nasir (Sang Pencinta)
Reshmonu (Superfine)
Saleem (Epigoni)
Sean Ghazi (Sean Ghazi - Semalam)

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN AN ALBUM (FEMALE)/PERSEMBAHAN VOCAL TERBAIK DI DALAM ALBUM (WANITA)
Aishah (Kurnia)
Farhan (Best of Farhan)
Jaclyn Victor (Inilah... Jac)
Noryn Aziz (Alam Maya)
Siti Nurhaliza (Transkripsi)

BEST GROUP VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN AN ALBUM/PERSEMBAHAN VOKAL TERBAIK DUO ATAU BERKUMPULAN
Firdaus (Dunia Yang Lebih Indah)
Hijjaz (Pelita Hidup IV - Perjalanan)
Khafi (Satu Jengkal)
KRU (10 Di Skala Richter)
Raihan (Tawakkal)

BEST ALBUM COVER/KULIT ALBUM TERBAIK
Ad Verse (Transkripsi - Siti Nurhaliza)
Carl Dunford & Ling (Superfine - Reshmonu)
Marcus Ericsson (Television - Pete Teo)
Nizam Rahmat (Gothik Malam Edan - Search)
Nizam Rahmat (Ikon - Amy)

BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM/RAKAMAN ALBUM TERBAIK
Alip, Mamak, Omi, Kamal & Zairie (Analogi - Kristal)
Fadzli, Fauzy, Zairie, Roslan Aziz, Marzuki & Peter Chong (Sang Pencinta - M. Nasir)
Hadie Lizard, Zairi Ariffin & Alfie Zainal (Gothik Malam Edan - Search)
Mamak, Kamal & Zairie (Rock Yeh Yeh 60an - Kristal)
Phil Punch, Peter Chong & C.L. Toh (Sean Ghazi - Semalam - Sean Ghazi)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO/MUZIK VIDEO TERBAIK
Andy Mak (Caramu - Nikki)
Jordan Suleiman (Lost In America - Pete Teo)
Osman Ali (Bisakah - Siti Nurhaliza)
Tate Mario Ghazi (Ku Impikan Bintang - Sean Ghazi)
Tate Mario Ghazi (Semalam - Sean Ghazi)

BEST ETHNIC POP ALBUM/ALBIM ETNIK POP TERBAIK
Satu Taakulan (Natasha - S. Atan & Pak Ngah)
Syahda Berdendang (Syura - Pak Ngah, Eddie Hamid & Idzhar Azwa)

BEST NASYID ALBUM/ALBUM NASYID TERBAIK
Bahagia Berkasih (Ahmadi Hassan - Omar Nawab, Ali Hussien Mawla)
Doa, Berzanji & Qasidah Berlagu (Mawi - Othman Mahmood & Arab)
Dunia Yang Lebih Indah (Firdaus - Faizal Tahir, Akmal Mirwana, Isman Isam, Haris Isa Firdaus & Zulkfli Majid)
Pelita Hidup IV - Perjalanan (Hijjaz - Munif Ahmad, Faizal Osman & Isman Isam)
Tawakkal (Raihan - Bakafro & Farihin Abdul Fatah)

BEST POP ROCK ALBUM/ALBUM POP ROCK TERBAIK
Analogi (Kristal - Kristal & Bong)
Epigoni (Saleem - Umarul Mahdzar)
Gorr...Renng Jer (Chobib - Chobib)
Janjiku (Sofaz - Sofaz)
Sang Pencinta (M. Nasir - M. Nasir)

BEST HARD ROCK ALBUM/ALBUM HARD ROCK TERBAIK
2 Juta (Amuk - DB Production, Neves & Jenny Chin)
Gothik Malam Edan (Search - Edrie Hashim & M. Nasir)
Kuasa (F.T.G - F.T.G)
Live & Unplugged at Planet Hollywood 06 (Lefthanded - Boon Tan & Rosmin Hashim)
Rock Yeh Yeh 60an (Kristal - Kristal & Bong)

BEST POP ALBUM/ALBUM POP TERBAIK
Alam Maya (Noryn Aziz - Michael Veerapen & Daniel Veerapen)
Harapan (Fazli Zainal - Hazami, Azlan Abu Hassan, Audi Mok, Terry Lee, Adnan Abu Hassan, Aman & Ahmad Firdaus)
Inilah... Jac (Jaclyn Victor - Azlan Abu Hassan, Aubrey Suwito, Audi Mok, Kieran Kuek & Aidit Alfian)
Kurnia (Aishah - Adnan Abu Hassan)
Transkripsi (Siti Nurhaliza - Aubrey Suwito, Jenny Chin, Mac Chew, Yasin, Cat Farish, Firdaus Mahmud, Damian V.E)

BEST LOCAL ENGLISH ALBUM/ALBUM INGGERIS TEMPATAN TERBAIK
For Real (Juwita Suwito - Aubrey Suwito, Greg Henderson, Kieran Kuek & Faizal Tahir)
Mango Overheat (Rabbit - Iwan Chan @ Rabbit)
Sasi The Don (Sasi The Don - Sasi The Don)
Superfine (Reshmonu - Reshmonu, Paul Morrison & Audi Mok)
Television (Pete Teo - Nick Lee & Pete Teo)

BEST INDONESIAN ALBUM/ALBUM INDONESIA TERBAIK
Jiwa Ku (Ruth Sahanaya - Jeffry Warowuntu & Jan Djuhana)
Naluri Lelai (Samsons - Samsons)
Republik Cinta (Dewa 19 - Ahmad Dhani)
Selalu Ada (Ari Lasso - Ari Lasso)
SO7 (Sheila On 7 - Jan Djuhana)

BEST MUSICAL ARRANGEMENT IN A SONG/SUSUNAN LAGU TERBAIK
Aubrey Suwito (Teman Sejati - Juwita Suwito)
Audi Mok (Inilah Masanya - Jaclyn Victor)
Bruce Hurn (Hujan Di Tengahari - Sean Ghazi)
Vivian Chua (Getaran Jiwa - Sean Ghazi)
Vivian Chua (Semalam - Sean Ghazi)

SONG OF THE YEAR/LAGU TERBAIK
Audi Mok, AD Samad (Drama - Nikki, Ning & Yanie)
M. Nasir, M. Nasir (Juwita... (Citra Terindah - M. Nasir)
M. Nasir, M. Nasir (Sang Pencinta - M. Nasir)
M. Nasir, M. Nasir (Tujuh Nafas Lagi - M. Nasir)
Ross Ariffin, Habsah Hassan (Ceritera Cinta - Jaclyn Victor)

To begin watching the live telecast of AIM - CLICK HERE

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Sayang seperti?

Managed to finally get some stuff for the Bangsar home.

Sebelom assignment went and picked up some things on my list, and after assignment, da email story pun another round of shopping to pick up some more.

Hah yang penting nya, second round tuh jejak Ikea for some stuff I had in mind.

Lama tak gi sana dah ni ...but since had so little time nak rush jumpa Nikki kat MidValley and help her pick out an outfit for AIM besok, apa lagik?

Sprint sana sini to look for and pick up the stuff I wanted. Cam Supermarket Sweep lak (ok...so I'm from that generation). Yang pentingnya puas dan lega with all the stuff I managed to pick up. Later dropped by home and unpacked it all, and hey...it's a good start!

Still a long way to go nak lagik cantikkan the place lagik, but you got to start somewhere right?

Erm...Ikea people, please take note....the letter f in furnishing tu da burn out da lighting dia.
How ironic since you guys have a rockin' lighting department (not so rockin' when I was there earlier sebsb tup sparuh tengah renovate ke haper).

Chanced upon this little fella on the right at the top tuh...cam familiar je penah tengok scene camni in Diarrhea....not sure. Must have been my imagination.

Anyhoo...other stuff that took up my day, popped by office Persatuan Akademi Industri Muzik Malaysia sebab nak pick up another two of my VIP passes for tomorrow.

Rupanya the previous delivery meka hantar kat aku short dua agik, so dropped by to pick them up tapi semua sibuk rehearsal so meka berkompol kat PWTC.

Pada sapa nak tau apa running order of the show, artis mana kuar bila as presenter ker performer ke...sila squint like hell and try and make out the list kat office Akademi nih.

Heh...siap updated tuh. Ada info lebih sikit.

Tapi aku top mata (ceh..padahal nak siap check) sebab nak surprise... so also for the first time in a long time, aku tak gi rehearsal full dress malam ni sebab nak enjoy the show esok...or at least try to.

Aduh...bloody city was jammed gila today sebab ujan and all, thus as usual resulting in an unexplained and very the Misteri Nusantara crippling of the Kuala Lumpur traffic system.

Mengeluh aku nak head to the event petang tadi for my assignment. Biasa je punya 'do.

Launching album artis baru bernama Richado (budak budak kat Sabah mesti kenal dia sapa kan because he's one of their local stars there)

Erm...biasa je sora. Ok le...but...honestly...production horror siot. El cheapo sound quality album dia. Back to the topic. The event sebenarnya aku dan teman teman media hadir bukan so much because of Richado ke apa...but sebab tukang host kan event.

Tak tau ler kenapa sampai nak dua emcee, but geng Press focus sorang je yang memang familiar terlampau familiar. Yerp....kalao korang scrolled down to see who, korang mesti recognise si Zana yang tarik diri. This is her first appearance in public sejak erm...kes...you know.

Rupanya dia ni kawan Richado sejak meka kat Akademi TV3 sebelom ni (the other Akademi where stress didn't get to her). Kesian gak dia...sebab actually paham paranoia dia ngan all this happening and berat nak talk to anyone.

But memang geram gak sebab orang bagik chance nak bersihkan nama because she really does have a future as she is a good talker...and it would be a shame to see her talent go to waste, with or without Akademi Fantasia...tapi dia cam nak elak seribu. Tak kisah lah..no comment pun jadik ler.

Tapi sampai satu tahap snap gak aku. Yerla...orang tulis apa yang ko cakap. Kang kalao ko merapu esok kuar ...jangan salahkan lak kata niat kita da pasang camtuh lak. We report. Hish...panas ati. Sebab masa dia elak time panas isu ni pun da kena ngan aku sedas .... anyway... Zana...honestly...wish you all the best. Hope you grow more mature.

Kang kena serang ngan team Melodi naya je (tengok pic atas tuk dua awek comel lote dari atas dari team Melodi kat event tuh - merasalah korang lak kena terjah ngan aku!!!...love you babe!)
Balik pada Zana... you have the talent girl...tapi kan...you got to do what comes with the job.

Which is a common mistake with so many new acts yang nak tempah nama.

Most people rasa they want to talk only when THEY want publicity. Reality is...YOU don't get to choose when you want to talk... not always.

Don't shun publicity and learn to make the worst of misfortunes into something positive.

Thanks to my sifu Alam (Diana Ross live on!!! Disco forever!!!), who handed that down to me.

Anyway pada sesapa yang minat Zana...she's already gotten an offer for deejaying (walaopon dia tamao komen tul ke kat Suria FM)...and aku rasa it won't be the last we hear odf this talented lass.

Ni some latest pics of her.from just now.

On Diarrhea today...heh...dancing rehearsals.Kelas Raimee (bukan Reymee rupanya ejaan nama dia). Plain boring!

Erm...individual choreography rehearsals, I'd hate to say it (and trust me, I really hate to say it), but if Dafi takde sora flatline sangat, show dia might be the best in terms of performance value for no other reason than his song will be the most fun.

Raimee however gets my respect today for telling off the kids yang tak respect kelas dia, gi wat benda lain. Salute!

He has a point, and thankfully dia siap tanya apa problem dan cakap, kalao tak suka apa apa speak out so it can be changed. Hah!!! Bagus! First time I have respect for mamat nih. You go

Raimee...walaopon choreography ko boring, as a person, you're kinda cool!

Tapi... apa la tujuan bebudak ni diminta baring dan visualise camna performance meka and

all....

Hurm... oh that's why. How interesting...sesi try pakai sari dan try and pose along with it.

Erm...this is starting to really look like like a pre-school rehearsal.

Aduh..si Shawal siot je wat lawak.

You'd think Aswad yang paling sesuai pakai sari...tapi he looked more like a failed Shaolin monk.

But he won sebab most probably based on the authenticity of his look from other aspects (hah...mencarot je keja kan?)

Shawal dan Heliza kena denda pakai sari tied to each other lari keliling Akademi... cam sial!!! Point being??? Heh...they really too much time to kill kan?

Whoopeee.....they're offering hadiah TV plasma 42 inci tuk best dressed yang hadir ke konsert.

And dua hadiah tuh...all out nampaknya nak fight ngan clash with AIM kan? Heh...it's really turning out to be tapak funfair ler da nih.

Respect kat Ebi in the next few scenes which showed him jogging about while singing. I think Aznil tak paham kot kenapa dia lari menyanyi. Konon as an athlete ler beriya nak exercise.
Hello...tuh nak build stamina ler. It's actually one of the best ways, and Mila pon wat masa practise Drama arituh by running setempat.

I don't care what anyone says, but Aswad sounds and even looks constipated siot masa rehearsal. Heh...oh well..it takes all kinds. Da ada orang nak undi dia rezeki dia ler. Tapi seronok gak ler tengok tujuh orang ni berlatih bersungguh. Each and every one of the seven ada ler nampak usaha.

Hurm... ada lak si Roslan ni masuk Akademi. Masuk tuk tengok si Mila masak. How dedicated.
Most of the kids performed decently, tapi strangely Roslan senyap je. Tengok kak Fati, Adnan dan Syafi je banyak komen. He chirped a word or two here and there je. Salah editing? Ke memang dia tak banyak bersuara (cam tak caya lak)

The potentially best shows will probably come from Mila, Shawal, Candy dan Ebi...without a doubt. Heliza is still suspect. Dafi stands a chance if his vocal doesn't go on cruise control.Names not mentioned? Yawn!!!

Ya ampun!!! Apa ni??? Abang MM? Who the... lor... nak cita pasal road safety? And the Toyota? Promo time!!!!!!!

Iklan jangan tak iklan! Hah? Nak cari pemenang yang ada lesen ek? Heh...learning from the mistakes of the past are we? But perlu ke segment ni. Hish...this isn't subtle advertising. This is just senseless.

Buang masa je bagik bebudak pamphlet dan cita pasai keta. Nak jual keta...snooze jer sat.
Sesi motivasi memang bagik aku gelak. So revealing. You guys just have to see it for yourself. Let's have a round of applause please for the productin team!

Oklah next entry nak posted memang panjang lebar sebab here and there on AIM as well as review konsert Akademi Fantasia (buat kali pertama sejak empat tahun lalu ni) sebagai penonton kat rumah (repeat seperti biasa anytime can catch...)


PS - Happy ari ni gak sebab walaopon 'dia' tengah final tak sempat jumpa...SMS tetap!

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