Video day

Arghhh! Think I'm suffering from retinal burn for staring into my laptop for so long.

Tried to get work done, and deviated a little to spend a whole load of time watching the 2008 American Music Awards. Not that the results really mattered.

Who cares about Chris Brown or Miley Cyrus? Buckets of puke ahoy! Anyone who thinks those two names are better than Alicia Keys or any of the other nominated acts, are really whacked. I mean Coldplay loses out to Brown for Artist of the Year? You've got to be joking right? Anyone's better than him...

Consolation was his girlfriend, Rihanna, won categories for the women, after fighting tooth and nail.For the second year, winners were determined by online voting. They used to be decided by a poll of 20,000 music buyers, now it's online voting to get more people to watch and apparently it's worked with a total of 11.8 million viewers for the 2008 AMAs, up from 10.9 million the year before.

While the awards ceremony itself was so-so, it was the performances that made the show worth watching. Again forget the likes of Miley or New Kids On The Block who recycled their same crap from a decade ago.

Most soulful performance would have to go to Alicia Keys, who was joined along by Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle for Superwoman. Undoubtedly, Superwoman, and the live rendition of it, justified why she won both for both the Pop/Rock and Soul/RB album categories.



The performance that seemed to work up the crowd though was Christina Aguilera's for a non stop mix that opened with Keeps Gettin' Before it moved on to a medley of her past hits. So she wasn't in top vocal form, but considering she pulled out the stops in her performance with Genie In A Bottle, Dirrrty, Ain't No Other Man and Fighter, it was a pretty damn good performance.



Visually (not vocally - as expected, but who cares) was the PussyCat Dolls performance of I Hate This Part and When I Grow Up.

Vocally superb but boring as hell for bringing the performance style of the Nineties into the end of the first decade of the millenium was Mariah Carey who won an honorary award that night.



Best performance of the night I suppose however would go to Beyonce for All The Single Ladies.



By the way, did you catch the Saturday Nite Live - Justin Timberlake parody of Beyonce's video? Yes, we're talking JT in tights and heels! Can't find the full version, but this one on Youtube is spliced with the original music video in the mix.



Anyhoo, back to Rihanna. I loved her outfit during her performance. It was so.. ernm.. spiky!!! She'd taken off the neck piece in the pic, but watch the video performance of Rehab.

On the subject of Rihanna, she's now the face of Gucci! Rihanna is nowpromoting its new Tattoo Heart Collection, which will see 25 per cent of every purchase go towards UNICEF.
Watch the ad below.

Now got to get back to work....

By the way, my song of the moment is Beyonce's If I Were A Boy, which I guess the 'if' doesn't apply to me, last time I checked. Matilah kau... but lyrics dia memang best gila. Enjoy.. and be posting tomorrow...

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Perfect 10 day! PCD, AF and Samsons!

Some days start like crap. Some days end like that. Some days are just full of crap. Tapi hari ni was my perfect day! I had so much work, but none of it felt like work because I enjoyed every single minute of it.

The day started with my assignment, to cover a band's press conference. Nothing much to shout about? That's what you think! The group? Pussycat Dolls!

And no, I wasn't lumped into a group of a hundred reporters from around Asia.

I had two separate sessions of 20 minutes each with the Dolls. PLUS on top of that, I had chat time with Nicole, my favourite Doll (isn't she everyone's?)

On to the pics!

All pictures belong to klubbkidd. No use of these images are allowed unless by expressed permission.




I love Nicole so much! She is so down to earth, and yes, she is as intelligent as she is beautiful! After the interviews, we got to talk, and among the many things were reality TV since the Dolls have their own in Pussycat Doll Presents : The Search For The Next Doll as well as the second season, Pussycat Dolls Presents : Girlicious, both of which I followed every week (by download that is)
Anyway, told her of a certain young girl here who just won the nation's biggest reality show, Stacy, at a tender 18. Nicole was sweet enough to have me record this message for Stacy.


And of course, I couldn't let the photo op go, so Doll fans, eat your heart out!!! That's me with Nicole and Jessica!Nicole and Jessica hamming it up for my cam


And then.. with me! A plus sized Doll? Matilah ko!


I didn't want to come across as a groupie or weirdo fan, but I think I failed. But it was so sweet cause Nicole was amazingly appreciative of how much I was into the Dolls and even gave me a nice big hug and kiss! Makan hati!! *pengsan jap*

Woohoo! Screw the MTV Asia Awards! I don't need to watch their show! I'll get the concert DVD, thank you... lagikpun sini meka akan cover up. I got something a lot of people won't... meeting them AND spending time with them. Tu yang penting!

After that was done with, had dinner with my Fantasia kiddie brothers and sisters kat Maestro as they were preparing for another round of recording for the Raya album.

Stacy had another recording session so tak dapat show her the video.






And what an end to the day's activities, when I went to Mont Kiara for this show!

The show


Complimentary drink? Yes, I'd like a SPRIKE please


Estranged rocked the opening


Then the rocking really began with Irfan's arsenal of pedals and gadgets


And it's Samsons in the house!




Bams, tired but texting


My big sis who was at the show and I - Nasha, love you!


The awesome and mighty Samsons!



Hanging with Bams


I took some videos, so not many pics... quite a lot actually but I think sound quality is crap because I was right next to the speaker right up front. Yes, I'm still deaf in the left ear, thank you.

Sebelum Samsons onstage, aku lepak join jumpa meka, thanks to Tang. Tapi yang besh nya, meka semua kenal aku lagik! Heh... ingat lama tak jumpa da, for sure lupa punya. Instead, Bams yang jerit panggil aku dulu!

Then Irfan, and then slowly sorang sorang perasan aku. Aiyo best nya! My fave Indo rock band (since Sheila On 7 has gone the way of the dodo) semua masih ingat aku.

Got to hang out AND chat with Bams before, and after the show. Even during the time before the encore. Spent a lot of time chatting and laughing with him.

Pada sapa yang minat Bams, yes, forget Nia Ramadhani, forget Mirashi Tyas Endah... and even that silly gossip of Bams with Agnes Monica. I have the details, but yang pentingnya, Bams is now single AND available. Heh... sapa nak, ayat sendiri ek. Damn... there goes the Indo gossip sites taking bits of here.

Bams and the boys have one more show here tomorrow night, and then they leave for Japan for a show, and then return to Malaysia for Pesta Malam Indonesia. Pergh!!! Amik ko! It's hard not to feel amazed talking to the likes of him and Irfan yang main lead.

I mean these guys may sell a LOT of albums but they hold the WORLD RECORD when it comes to ring back tones with sales exceeding 11 MILLION!!!... and counting.

That's over 4 million for Kenangan Terindah, over 2 million for Bukan Diriku included.

If that record doesn't impress you, their music should. Their drum tracks for their recording alone for Penantian Hidup took up some 50 tracks, exceeding even Metallica's record of 20!
But you know the icing on the cake? Sapa ada kat Bar Savanh for the show would have heard, Bams dedicate lagu Perbedaan "buat teman aku ini yang favourite song"... to ME! Pengsan lagik.

Terus all the sh*t in my head forgotten.

Heavenly day!!!

Definitely going for their show again tomorrow. Ni tengah layan single baru mereka, Tak Bisa Memiliki which is one of the three new songs in the repackaged Penantian Hidup Platinum Edition which they launched earlier this year for exceeding sales of 200,000 copies in Indonesia alone.

Korang layan ek... nak feel sikit... be back tomorrow when I recover from this.. PERFECT day!

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PCD ahoy!

Yeay!
Guess who's meeting the Pussycat Dolls? Enough said. Wait for that entry! I'm hoping I'll have pictures for it, so we'll see.



Whatever it is, I may or may not be attending the MTV Asia Awards. Not keen on it, but we'll see. But for sure I will be attending the Samsons show here. Yeay! That's on Thursday people!
Nothing much today... just busying myself checking up on news sites and blogs to find out more about the whole Angela Lansbury of whether someone got screwed or not. Sure you guys heard on the news.




About the allegations that Saiful dude got it up the rear, I don't know how true it is, though I know he has something up his butt. I mean honestly..

Whatever is is, I'm sure he got screwed alright. Just don't believe it's Anwar's doing. Paham paham sendiri ler...

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