Cornetto and dancing queens

Yawn... today was butt lazy day... AGAIN!

Late noon pulangkan that silly gorilla outfit. Then pastuh went for a much needed swim to relax. Damn! Lama tak berenang. Leh ke berenang? Main air cam budak 5 tahun kot adalah.

Pas abih later at night, singgah ke vocal studio Cikgu Syafie. Mila, Dafi and of course Stacy training sana for the Cornetto concert. Alif lepak tunggu gak sebab dia ada vocal practise just before that.

Nak layan sikit? bebudak nya rehearsal? An itsy sneak preview gituh of what's to come? Ni sikit jer ek...


Anyway ni some pics of the rehearsal. Thanks cikgu Syafie ek kerana open your doors to us. Matilah malu malu gituh. Heh!

Sekitar studio dengan kenangan Allahyarham M. Sharif, Syafie's late dad.




Syafie at the piano


Dafi (trying) to be serious


Syafie working it!


Love the figure collection



Happy je Stacy


Syafie brushing the two girls up


Sempat promosi. Sapa nak kelas vocal call ek
Pas abih tuh, Alif, Juan, Nafi, Stacy and I went for supper kat Kopitiam kat Jalan Yap Kwan Seng. Merasalah terserempak ngan Fahrin sana. Pic bawah tu aku diam diam terjah dia amik gambar. Terkejut dia. Pastu gelak.

Sempat tanya dia pasal gossip. Yerlah isu dia dan Linda kan tengah panas. Erm.. malas nak cakap sini. Nanti orang kata nak lakukan blog ngan gosip murahan lak kannnnn... besides he spoke in strict confidence and I respect both him and Linda to stay out of their affairs.

Cak!


Instant makeover! Stacy : before and after


Actually the pics atas tu sebab kami lepak tu sempat layan koleksi Tirai, Diari, dan sebagainya sebab Stacy lum sempat tengok banyak.

So gelak la bila tengok balik time Stanly gaduh ngan dia, time dia jatuh kat dance floor nak sepak belon time birthday Nadia... banyak.

And one kita gelak masa time Tirai masa dia kena kejutan. Yang Cherry set up Stacy tu. Time tu Stacy pakai spek, rambut suak belakang cam pic belah kiri tu, and then pakai shorts. Heh! Nerd gila!

Atas tu saja nak recreate that look, kira before and after la. Hanya ngan cover dahi dan bukak spek jer ok serta pose vogue. Very the Superman!

No... takde cita cinta pun yang penting.

Again, that is all so overblown by some people who do desperately want to see the two kids at it, that it's not even funny. Meka kawan pun nak kenen. Aduh... kesian gak Stacy kekadang. Kang ada lak yang amik kesempatan kata lom apa nak bercinta.

Cam pic wrap party yang tengah disebar. Apa motifnya? Kan private event. Ke sebenarnya ada je yang nak jatuhkan dia nak naikkan nama orang lain? Lantak la.. bangkai lama lama terbau jua walaupun sarungkan apa pun nak menutup kebenaran.

Eh ok la.. merapu lak. Ciao bella!

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Mmmm..... seriously?

Aku malas nak ulas panjang panjang. Sebab ulas pepanjang carut to kingdom come pun tak guna kan? Not like anyone listens to me. If I could make a difference, perhaps this is worth going on about. Instead, even pengkritik pun da cam tak betol at times... yang angsa tak ditegur malah dipuji.

Letih wo! They're supposed to critic. Doesn't mean it has to be all bad, but obviouly someone forgot to tell them they're supposed to evaluate the kids. I think Afdlin saw what many people see, So what's wrong with the picture,

Tak guna angguk setuju time pengkritik jemputan mengkritik, when you should have said it during your turn, and not puji like it was an acceptable performance.

Weirdness.

Anyhoo, this is the second last concert, so takyah nak go on further nak ulas lelebih as usual. Just short comments of what I think of each performance and their rating. Rating kali nih nak pakai lain lak system.

The bad ratings bukan lagik pam jamban as usual or any of the usual stuff I use. Instead, it will be represented by how many angsa or geese they get. The good ratings represented by a butcher's knife, nak tengok tahap mana dan setakat mana meka berjaya sembelih keangsaan meka tuh.
Let's start.


STACY
Beat It
Mmm... I am trying to sa hard to say something nice but in truth, it was an ok performace saja. Aku tetap kagum Stacy mampu control pernafasan dia relatively well with the lousy dance routine and dancers yang very distracting.

But there was no kick to the show and I think the song, and the arrangement was a et down.
Good effort nonetheless, but lousy choice of tune for a show that is deciding the final outcome.



TOI
Kau Yang Bernama Seri
I hate to admit it, but dia managed to improve banyak.. finally! Tapi walaupun I give him credit for that, I disagree with pujian melambung diberikan seolah dia memberian persembahan yang sebegitu hebat jerk padahal kali pertama membuat persembahan yang sekadar boleh laaaa.....

Nothing to shout about at all... especially since after you hit rock bottom, there is no where to go but up. He had to improve sooner or later.. he sure as hell couldnt get worse.

Now this is really standard peserta pertandingan karaoke kat Plaza MPK di Klang. And the choreography... yang dia gerak hulu hilir feeling improvisational theatre tuh perhal. So RTM in the early 80s.



STANLY
Kerana
Ridiculous. Painful. And honestly, should have been out weeks ago. What took him so long to leave? Bung Ramli jangan marah! Komen aku tak penting pon! Matilah aku!!



NADIA
Lelaki Buaya Darat
Something was just wrong with the arrangement. The song dari a full on pop party anthem became a sullen piece of karaoke minus one yang tahap muzik cam musim lepas punya polyphonic standards.

And Nadia? Entahlah.. minggu ni aku inclined to admit she's on a decline slowly.

For some reason she's not delivering up to par.

Takdelah tahap sampai angsa... tapi memang namoak dia semakin ketinggalan ngan Stacy. She could have made this song her major comeback, and gunakan tuk menempah tempat lebh secure for the final... but she didn't.



RIZ
Rock Around The Clock
Again, out of his safe zone, Riz gagal nak carry a song/ I'm not a big fan of Riz (and you guys know thats an understatement) tapi aku nak tengok dia mara dari Toi or Nubhan kerana dia lebih consistent. At this rate however... its pretty sad to see him two weeks straight of substandard performance.



BEFORE PROCEEDING FURTHER, AWAS PERSEMBAHAN SETERUSNYA ADALAH LINTASAN ANGSA
NUBHAN
Tapi Bukan AKu
There are some seriously deaf people in this country kalao ada yang kata version dia sedap. Sure he's got tone... but what else can he do apart fron growl off tune. Seriously fed up. He is now officially the most overrated in the Akademi.

Sumbang terlampau banyak sangat sangat walaupun ramai merembes kata bagus... walaupun...



TOI & STANLY
Lagu Jiwa Lagu CInta
Can anyone deny this is the PERFECT pair? Siapa berani kata pasangan nih tak sesuai aku bantai! They were the musical equivalent of Cumi dan Ciki (sapa bawah umur 25 konperm tatau)

Cam karaoke kat tapak Uptown Cheras jerk aku tengok.




NADIA & RIZ
Endless Love
It wasn't as spectacular as I hoped for, but better than I expected. Sepanjang malam haus semacam takde yang betul betul besh, this was worth watching and listening. Both Nadia dan Riz worked well together vocally. Good effort.



NUBHAN & STACY
Thank goodness Nubhan tak MENYUMBANGKAN that much to the song, because Stacy opened it so beautifully. Ada chemistry antara meka, though I doubt the cinta part. At times, ramai kat dewan lebih fokus pada merpati yang kena ikat kaki dipaksa dok kat bangku tuh, but the magic of this performance was undoubted.

The best for the night!



And that's it... memang sebenarnya aku malas nak tulis lebIh pasal konsert nih, sebab walaupun audience smangat nak go into the finals da, the sho was rather lemau for the ninth concert. It wasn't as good as I harapkan it would be to build apa semangat for next week.

And the results? Ok ok je... nothing to celebrate. Stanly should have been out much earlier. Nanti jer la aku cita lebih pasal concert n the next entry. Will also post speculation and gossip on the finals mana yang mampu.

But before I forget, congratulations to the production for the tribute segment, I also have to say congratulations pada Faizal, Aizat, Velvet dan Sahri for the moving performance in their tribute to arwah Loloq... it was so touching, I was CRYING (ada gak guna tisu Premiere yang disponsor nih) And I mean literally crying sebab it was beautiful and meaningful.

Ok.. cukup meroyan. Ni some pics from last night....

Shafiq - RA paling ramai peminat... dan anti (kecian dia)


Nizam Zakaria (penulis dan pengarah Gaia) control macho sambil Tam aka Hamdan ngumpat.Cantik kan tan minah depan tu? Pose maut!


After show punya sesi ngumpat


Tu candid shot.. ni semua pose baik


Sarimah tetap nak solo shot


And another...


Siti Hajar jadik saksi sesi ngumpat Syafie dan Sarimah


Sesi ngumpat mami Fati dan umi Fauziah takde saksi.. tapi the proof is in the picture!


Haziq and his new hairdo


Kefli, Alam, Fitri and Farish.. geng Gempaq

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Akademi Fantasia... again.

Ok... so the tenaga pengajar da announce. And guess what? Senarai yang aku umum ala berkurun dulu... sama ngan akunya. Ok...tolak tepi Jasmi Rejab (penting ke). And Anita Sarawak sebab time aku dapat info lom confirm tapi kalao korang ingat... aku ada next entry ngan pic kak Nita. Mmmm... cam da hint kan. Matilah aku!

Yang di ramal...


Yang ada jua...


Yang jadik.... sama tak... sama tak... sama kannnnn


Ni ada some pics I shot. Kak Nita balik awal so tak amik pic dia... tapi besh nya dia call ngan abang Mahathir nak wish me all the best. Touching siot.

Eh off the track lak. Ni lepak izzi ngan Juan dan kak Fat sambung keja dan gossip sambilan gituh sambil updating. So hope you guys like the pics...

Abang Ramli... dan kak Fati ngan si bung Ramli enter frame..


Vocal teachers... Hajar and Syafie...


Kita tak gaduhhh kannnnn....


Gen... before and after Akademi Fantasia. Kak Fati paksa dia sopan sikit tuk program nih taw!


Sign check ke?


Mesti masyuk banyak nh...


Tak puas ati SMS boss... cek kicik sikit kot.


Friends and familiar (and often evil) faces




Ok la nak sambung wat keja sambil melantak... kang hantar lambat lak ngamuk...By the way... glamer tak nama aku. Merasalah aku versatile kan leh jadik pastry chef. Matilah ko!

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