Yang pernah...

Phew... damn tired Just back from supper at Syad and Aishah's place. Sebenarnya ada belated birthday do for Marsha sana tapi aku tak sempat join, just caught Zarina and Bob and Syuib lepak sana je.

Memang couldn't make it earlier sebab tadik lepak Sri Pentas 2 for the full dress rehearsal of the Pop Rock semifinals tuk Muzik-Muzik besok.

Dapat ler legakan fikiran. Music always soothes me... especially good stuff. And since ada some acts performing some very nice tunes, loga la sikit den.

Aku malas nak cita lelebih so just enjoy some of the pics I snapped. Of course most of them before, during (backstage and about) as well as after the rehearsal. I focused mostly on people who are my friends, so sorry kalao korang ada favourites aku tak sempat snap, either because I'm not close to them, or don't really care for them too much.

Lagi satu kalao korang perasan, I try and snap people on rotation basis. Kalao moka sama je pon bosan kan? Bazir bandwidth korang je kang nak download moka-moka sama. Heh... on to the pics!

The strong people you don't see. The PRs and production crew led by mother chicken kak Kelly)


Zimi dari Sofaz


Ni bosan sampai layan handphone ni apa hal... heh


Stacy and her ladies!



Rich the happy husband. Perasan tak cincin kat jari. Yes folks... that's a wedding band. Simple but very meaningful.


Ramainya layan handphone backstage... even Fiq


Tam doing what rockers do.. erm... showing off their guitar?


Mail is a little bit disco and Nafi a little rock and roll


Nafi and Tony going all rockstar


Tam having a serious chat with Stacy. Pasal? Erm.. adalah...



Faizal and Cheryl


Mock announcement. Stacy kena panggil dulu terus wat pose erm... you can see for yourself


Then ramai lagik join


And this time she looked more relaxed


Briefing pas rehearsal


Mila and Stacy camwhore sat sambil dengar


Bebudak Sofaz look so... erm.. interested


Cherry, sis Stacy


Estranged concentrate tuh


And Lan ngan bebudak Meet Uncle Hussain?


Of course, I also have videos, tapi I will post them in my next entry sebab tengah edit and upload.

Meanwhile ni some additional info and gossip yang related or totally unrelated to Muzik-Muzik and anything remotely connected.

-Velvet is in Sabah dan dia tak ikut Rich ke KL untuk semifinal Muzik-Muzik. Selesai saja malam ni, Rich akan balik ke Sabah and the couple plan to spend their time together. Baru kahwin camtuh la...

- Estranged is the only band yang bukan saja vocal live, tapi muzik pun live. Ni sebab meka takde minus one tu lagu meka, and they will rock the house.

- Because of the live set-up, meka tukar slot ngan Flava yang menggantikan The Lima (refer pada previous entry for rundown) and will open the show tonight. Ni tuk senangkan mengalihkan dan mempersiapkan amps, and the whole set-up of what they need to perform live.

- Shah dikatakan withdraw lagu Ku Merindu because Ella ada engagement lain and dia tanak penyanyi ganti sebab kisahnya, lagu tu memang dia bajet tuk Ella je. Hence kemasukan lagu Sofaz (refer pada previous entry for full list of lagu lagu yang akan dipersembahkan)

- TV3 is said to be not too happy with Mawi. And mungkin peminat pun akan upset to hear Mawi will NOT be performing for the Anugerah Juara Lagu dalam lagu dia berganding dengan Heliza dalam Doa Dalam Lagu. Ni kisahnya sebab dia akan berada di Korea ketika Anugerah Juara Lagu. Tuh la... masukkan lagu, pastu tanak block date lak. Hish... orang nak kahwin...

- Pengganti Mawi kisahnya akan ditentukan kemudian, but kalao ikutkan, dengar cerita TV3 nak Bob tuk gantikan Mawi. Ajai, selaku penulis lagu dikatakan juga inginkan Bob sebagai pengganti untuk nyanyi in place of Mawi.

Ok... the videos and a little surprise in my next entry. Wait for it...

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ALERT!

Hari ni ada shooting Gaia musim kedua. And before you guys ask, watak aku nih light light jer muncul a couple of episodes jerk.

Andway rushed there pas hantar ayah check mata follow up treatment sebab laser nk betulkan cataracts kedua mata dan then runner ngan mak ke bank as well a pelbagai errands.

Lepas dok lapan jam, tak sempat shoot aku, Tak kisah la.. tapi ada benda yang merunsingkan aku nih. Need to sort it out. Anyway, ni some pics on the set.

Ayunya tidur si Tam ni


Nora tido tunggu scene dia while Zizan mencantikkan diri tuk watak Gaia


Siapa ni? Farish la merehatkan diri


Fadzli Zainal antara guest star Gaia musim kedua


One of the scene ngan cast


My mind was on the finals coming up.

Risau sebenarnya. Banyak nak wat dalam diam sebelom final esok. Wish I could do more to help Nadia FC and Stacy FC because they both need more hands to help them out. Anyway,teruskan AFUNDI STACY (especially Stacy), AFUNDI NADIA (nih pun, tolong la top three) and AFUNDI RIZ (katanya.. walaupun.... matilah aku sokong pun kena carut)

My point of meroyan ari ni is about the pengkritik ketika konsert. Honestly, to some degree, I have no idea whether they are still relevant. Mana taknya, kekadang nampak bias yang melampau sebab pujian diberikan walaupun nyanyian bebudak atau persembahan bebudak macam.. erm.. you know.

And yet sometimes, persembahan yang bagus pun dicarut pelagai beriya, and small matters pun magnified.

The role of the critic is basically not to be blonde and to guide the students as well as penonton in evaluating the weaknesses and strengths, but more ofen than not it becomes a bashing session, atau sesi puji pujian.

I don't know how things will go on for tomorrow, but I have little hopes if any at all of things being different.

At the end of the day, Akademi Fantasia is a platform that offers huge possibiities to those involved in terms of promotion. And the pengkritik yang terlibat pun no different.. However if they act blonde (sometimes I think they may not even be acting), then they may find that people are not so dumb and will see right through them. Oh well...

Anyway backtracking sikit.. ari ni last episode of Diari Akademi Fantasia. Aku nak wish congrats pada team production Diari because for the first time in Akademi Fantasia history, they managed to come up with something yang if not the same quality as musim kedua nya product, even better.

Congrats especially to Sarimah sebab lightened out days with her quips and lawak yang memang menggelikan hati dan tak overdose.

And girl, you looked very pretty for the last episode. And no, you're not a blonde. Matlah gelak..
.Why does Sarimah look like a Barbie doll?

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Gaia... Gaia... Gaia!

Siang semalam gi studio tuk Ria Sentral nak promosi Gaia on air. Aku, Tam and Farish skali. Nothing much happened sebab time sikit sangat, and cam tension pon ada sebab cam.. entahla. Patutnya promosi, but it didn't feel like we managed to promote the show, especially the excellent songs on the show. Takde masa sangat.

Didn't take any pictures (nanti aku curik dari Farish kang sebab dia sempat snappy), except for these few with my Motorola ROKR E8.

Awal tengah pot pet... pic quality leh tahan la..


The other part of the set, for Aizat's segment


Tam dan manager Awal, Lina


For the third time in two days, bumped into Aizat again sebab dia perform on the show. Have to say his voice is getting better. Sedap dia nyanyi single dia Hanya Kau Yang Mampu. Ker si Nubhan da hancurkan lagu tuh sangat Aizat's original version on his guitar sounded like such wonderment. Entah lah..

Abih jerk... gi Hilton Sentral tuk launching beberapa program baru upcoming kat Astro Ria.
Kalao korang tengok ada iklan yang tunjuk orang nyanyi lupa lirik tuh, it's for Jangan Lupa Lirik, a game show, adapted from Don't Forget The Lyrics. Aznil will be hosting it. Speaking of which, nak say thanks to Aznil for this lovely entry dalam blog dia.



Such nice words. Tuk someone yang amazingly creative like Aznil to spend time nak wat entry nak compliment aku, terharu sangat rasanya.I only gave the idea, and linked your blog, but it's your words that made your blog an attractive destination. Cam promosi melancong lak katanya.

Anyway, again, siapa lom ke blog Aznil, singgah la. Aznil personally blogs about himself, his life and his career, so worth a read. Walaupun sibuk, I hear he's been bitten by the blogging bug, so memang dia akan update as often as possible. By the way, siapa nak tengok how Jangan Lupa Lirik! will be, here's an example. Basically it's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire meets karaoke!

Korang karaoke, then sampai satu time lirik ilang, and you have to fill in the gaps! Aku dengar meka da shoot enam episode, and sorang da menang RM10,000 pun da! Juan and I were given a chance to try the game at the launch and aku menang RM100. Heh.. worth it gila. Anyway, here's the UK version of the show.


Another new gameshow coming on Ria pun da iklan da. It's a local version of Hole In The Wall. Otherwise known as the Japanese human tetris. Here's how it works.


I've seen this on Youtube before and memang kelakar! The local version will also feature celebrities, so it should definitely be worth a watch.
Meka lom agik start so far, but can't wait!
Ni a couple of pics from the event.




Interesting line up. Lepak borak ngan kengkawan sambil quite late. Got some business underway too. Impian aku untuk lebih terlibat di sebalik tabir pada dasarnya, nampak semakin cerah dengan banyak idea mampu menarik perhatian.

Diari Akademi Fantasia 6 - Minggu 9 hari kelima

Malas nak review sangat ari nih.. so here's a bit jer overall.

Stanly nampaknya tak confident ngan his piano playing enough to accompany his own song. So that's his major vote winner for the week.

Riz is having tempo troubles with Rock Around The Clock.

Nadia is still having problems trying to work out with her duet ngan Riz for Endless Love. Tak paham la camni.. hish.

Forget the attempts of Toi and Stanly for their bonus song of Lagu Jiwa Lagu Cinta.

Aiyo.. more time wasters in the Akademi. Freaking contact lens promo katanya!

So instead of practising their songs, they waste more time on... wearing contact lens. Aduh.. tak paham tol.

Why does that CIBA VISION lady in pink scare me... maniacal sangat wajahnya. Baju cam baju Ramli MS jerk... heh!


Nubhan menjadi penternak angsa as usual. Painful as all hell!
Tak paham bab Nadia pun... she's finding simple stuff unnecessarily difficult.

Kak Mah balas carutan sponsor yang sibuk carut dia pakai baju lengan panjang. Amik ko!


Note I am ignoring all the kenen kenen punya action dalam Akademi. Waste of time.
Dalam Stanly masih nak mencuba nak work the piano into his performance, si Toi sibuk lak ngan angklung dia.

Masih mencuba...


Sibuk nak juga..


Thank goodness Ramli kata padamkan impian mu main angklung because sibuk nak bawak pakai lori and all tapi takde impact.
Kotakman has been caught!

Pose maut the Kotakman standy in aka Zizan


Zizan ek! Padahal.. sebenarnya selama ni bukan Zizan. Tak caya? Tengok balik klip lama lama tuh mana Kotakman muncul.

Zizan is comic relief, but can't they bring people yang leh tolong persembahan bebudak instead of wasting time already taken up by sponsors?

Evaluation time by bung Ramli and tenaga pengajar.

Toi - memula masuk kena ready, selain tetap angsa dan sharp jerk as well as performance time solo buat derk.
Nubhan - not enough, needs more, not at the level which he can be, kira masih satu kampung ngan Toi.
Stacy - in the same boat, bung Ramli kata dia, Toi dan Nubhan naik teksi skali. Sebutan tak jelas.
Riz - seorang pergi Sabah, seorang pergi Penang, seorang pergi Penang kata bung Ramli indicating nothing is linked, also lack of energy.
Nadia - sama gak masa muzik solo tak wat apa apa.
Stanly - masuk je gone, naik key tapi tak kena.
Nubhan & Stacy - Stacy ditegur to be more firm
Nadia & Riz - Nadia dikatakan cam tak ready, and tak carry weight of the song on her part.
Stanly & Toi - seorang angsa, seorang kepit kata bung... amik ko!!!!!

So are they ready for tomorrow? Not by a long shot...

By the way, tima kasih semua yang SMS dan call serta mesej tak kisah lah kat YM ke at forum Cari (serta kengkawan yang komen kat thread) for all your support.

Paling mengejutkan, Anita Sarawak herself messaged puji my first effort. I know it's not much of an effort, tapi baru kali pertama lakon, so kira lega gak orang leh tima.

By the way, pada meka yang ikut gaya, telemovie semalam, is basically tuk end the first season, as well as intro musim kedua yang akan datang, Tuh yang bersambung tuh. Nizam kata aku ada muncul dua tiga episod tuk musim kedua, so that means more shooting. Adoi!

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