Monday, February 06, 2006

Entry kurang gigih

Aku memang malas sikit ler kebelakangan ni nak update.

Mampuslah konon kena calonkan sebagai Bloggers Paling Gigih konon for the Golden Blog Awards anjuran Ginger de la Loca for the local blogging fraternity.

So sebab dapat pencalonan camtuh...erm...nampaknya I have to lah kan...

So here's my update this time around.

Dah pasti ler dengan Anugerah Juara Lagu semalam, I guess I have to ler at least let a little in about how it was kan?

Semalam janji memang ngan kengkawan because I had lotsa of extra tickets, so Muzaffar, abang Badrul, Najmie, Nizam, Zam and me, myself and I gi jumpa kat area opis aku kat Bangsar.
We went in two cars, dan sampai je sana, after checking in, kita gi makan kat coffee house at the Pan Pacific. Abang Badrul belanja (rasa bersalah lak). Habis melantak we made our way back to Dewan Merdeka.

We bumped into Javardkent yang penah jumpa sebelum ni manakala sorang agik anggota Bloggers United, Juan, muncul kemudian (biasalah diva kan kena grand entrance!)

Kat luar da crawling with people da, so we decided to book our seats first, walaupun da reserved section, risau gak kang masuk lambat nak catwalk...last-last dok lantai cam Hits 1. But of course, this isn't an RTM production...so we seated ourselved third row from the front dekat-dekat da tengah.

The first thing that caught my eye was the stage. Adus...bak kata kawan-kawan, cam kain ela tergantung sebagai perhiasan backdrop. There were a million and one things that was all wrong, but malas ler nak cakap sini.

Pada sesapa yang kenal aku da, or has been reading my blog for ages, you know I can't review penuh-penuh kat sini sebab aku write for a living. So please check my other blog - which is my column (kena laa jual mahal skali skala)

In order of performance, ni my evaluation of how they fared.

Semalakama (Pak Ngah/Ce'Kem/Zehra Zambri)
Perlu ke? Seriously?
She exceeded ler my expectations sebab mampu to perform well live vocally as well as in terms of stage command. But the song...haiyo!
Pak Ngah suka wat hal kan buat lagu-lagu standard issue camni.
Terasa cam tengok Siti yang tak lengkap lor. It did nothing for me at all, and aku rasa show dia nothing great.
Kalau nak audition sebagai back up singer or dancer tuk memenuhkan stage kali seterusnya Kak Ani nak wat show ok ler...
The song was crap, and the performance ala kadar je. Kalao AJL 10 tahun lepas, leh ler bagik rating tinggi.
Rating :

Elegi Sepi (Azlan Abu Hassan/Julfekar/Azharina)
For some reason, lagu ni memang tak memikat aku dari dulu. I never felt this was a strong composition, and lyrically tak challenging. Tapi aku tau memang ramai suka ler lagu ni (habis aku kena carut kawan-kawan sendiri bila kata tak minat)
The performance?
Aku disappointed sikit Nina. Mungkin dia gementar, but she really couldn't hold it together vocally and aku rasa elok lagi dia perform kat Hits 1.
Never had high hopes for this song anyway...
Rating :

Pop Ye Ye (Shahrin Azmi Mohd Shaharudin, Damien Seet, Abdullah Ahmad, Zaf, Cham/Zaf/V.E.)
Aku kecewa teramat ngan V.E.
Going into my final, they were my favourites for Pop Rock, dan aku da bajet ler that they would put up a good fight with Hazami's Katakan.
Tapi ikutkan trend, memang Pop Ye Ye is typical category champion material.
Anyways, takler disappointed sangat they didn't win, but I really feel like their performance really turned me off.
Props gedabak, ngan Vespa pelbagai. But execution - SEDIH!
And please ler...sapa ler back-up dancer yang bulat pakai ijo tu?
Very the salah ok! Not even funny! Rosak tambak rosak agi bila Joe Flizzow's mic tak fungsi lak! Huh! Ilang the impact of the song. Masa semifinal lagi better.
Rating :

Taat (Rosli Md Kasa/Tok Wan/Rohana Jalil)
Aku ingat dalam keghairahan kak Ana nak perform, sampai kuar bila cue Mawi masa nak intro, da menjanjikan a good performance.
It was very theatrical, I'll give her that. Tapi geli aku dibuatnya kerana terasa cam mayat berbalut kain kapan lak menari-nari.
A little too dramatic for a song yang too weak.
Rating :

Awan Yang Terpilu (Lin Li Zhen/Loloq/Ning Baizura)
No matter how anyone looks at it, Awan Yang Terpilu deserved to win something.
Tapi apa nak buat kan...industri menobatkan it as Song Of The Year, while a few people think it doesn't deserve anything.
Apapun, Ning put up a superb performance that was inspiring tro say the least.
It wasn't just me yang bulu roma meremang, atau rasa nak nitis airmata (control macho babe!)...everyone felt it, and you had to be bloody lying to say otherwise.
No matter what the jury says...Awan Yang Terpilu was a winner.
Ning out sikit in tempo at the start, but with just a strings intro, it was forgiveable.
Dengan semua bak rombongan (kecuali Jac), Ning stood out sebab menjiwai lagu bukan dengan rombongan Cik Kiah...but with the simple tools of emotion with her expression and vocals.
Rating :

Tak Tahu (Edry/Edry/Adam)
Busuk ler performance Adam. First of all recycle habis. Koreografi, and gimik kesemuanya la.
Props murahan...vocal tak mantap.
I mean, seriously, the only reason anyone could rate this boy highly was if they wanted to get into his pants, atau like all those hormonal girls in Dewan Merdeka yang tak reti nilai good performance menjerit cam period mencurah tak henti.
It was a performance yang very the Hadiah Penyampaian Hadiah.
Nothing personal against him, but I think he needs to really take a good, long hard look at his performances and tengok apa kelemahannya.
People can put on nice clothes, and whimper out a tune, and pass it off as a pro act.
But let's just say, in this case, he didn't stand a chance. Hopefully he'll do better next time, sebab bakat dia ada...tapi...let's admit it, he's not the best singer around. So he really has to improve and be mkore polished. Ni bukan Akademi Fantasia lagi.
Rating :

Ayuh Juragan (Noraniza Idris/Fedtri Yahya/Noraniza Idris)
Bak nyanyian Ito dan Neves yang sumbang tu, apo nak dikato?
Seriously...it was just standard kak Ani. Lagu tak sekuat Iboq...and performance takde yang luar biasa.
Tambah agi tolak markah bagi penari dia sorang yang menimbulkan kerisauan sebab ala bulldozer ada hati nak lonjat overdose!
Rating :

Wajah (Othman Mohamad/Habsah Hassan/Jaclyn Victor)
I never agreed with this song daripada mula. Horror bila masuk. Anytime Langit ke 7 ke apa lagik elok.
But yesterday night, it was decent, thanks to Jac's vocals.
Kalau bagi orang lain nyanyi - entahla apa hasilnya.
Ni ke evolusi muzik yang dibanggakan?
Rating :

Gaia (Pacai/Pacai & Zainal Abidin/Zainal Abidin)
Patutnya rename je lagu ni Gayah sebab very the che gayah. Ala segala unsur show cabaret ada ni.
Tak caya? Gi tengok performance bebudak kat The Ship.
Dengan ular lah...main api lah...
Gelak sat kerana aksi Wachaa! Zainal, and terdiam sat kerana material seluar baju dia transparent, bila kena lampu dari belakang nampak bentuk segalanya.
Terus pening...perlu ke?
Rating :

Aduh Saliha (M Nasir/Loloq/Mawi)
Ok...ni kena outline bebetul. Kalau tak roboh blog aku jap agik ada y ang protest.
Objectively, Mawi seriously has improved vocally. Stable, and quite confident in his delivery, memang banyak lah improvement dia.
UNFORTUNATELY, setakat dok terpaku setempat kerana teragak-agak is not exactly good showmanship. Dia masih teragak-agak bab pergerakan ni, and it's obvious his control of the stage has to be choreographed. Ada yang bising pasal tak dapat tengok dia gelek kat TV, but serious, kalau Zehra, Adam dan sebagainya menari takde orang puji...apa lagi la setakat step Mawi.
Still...it was a watchable performance sebab Aduh Saliha is a good song.
Best performance? Rationally...you know the answer...
Rating :

Gemilang (Aubrey Suwito/Asmin Mudin/Jaclyn Victor)
Kalau nak ikutkan, her performance masa the final of Malaysian Idol was something that can never ler be repeated.
Sejak tu...she has never had the power to deliver it just the same. Still amazing...but not quite as good.
Really think she deserved the vocal award...though with Hazami getting it, takler teruk sangat kan. At least lost to an equal...
The song itself? Undeniably haunting....
Rating :

Kata (Hazami/Hazami, Tris & Arab/Hazami)
He outdid himself. Hazami has done me proud by not just his vocals, tapi korang prasan tak dia ada menari?
Hah...ko nak puji bab menari...puji ler Hazami..sebab dia lagik kayu dari Mawi sebenarnya.
Bukan kutuk...tapi that boy has got three left feet.....so you can imagine ler kan.
Still, great choir act (cayalah Safri conduct meletop!)...and the backup vocals as well (Farah best!)
Kalao korang nak tau, choir dia dan backup vocals dia semua anak didik dia...
Rating :

Dan resultnya yang takkan aku lawan walaupun ada ahli juri yang aku rasa memang tidak patut (bukan tidak layak) berada di dalam keadaan tu adalah seperti berikut :

Juara Lagu (RM25,000 & trophy): Gemilang

Juara kategori (RM12,000 & trophy)
Irama Malaysia and Ethnic Creative : Aduh Saliha (M. Nasir,Loloq)
Pop/Rock : Kata (Hazami/Hazami, Tris & Arab)
Balada : Gemilang (Aubrey Suwito,Asmin Mudin)

Best Performance (RM10,000 & trophy) : Mawi
Best Vocal Performance (RM10,000 & trophy) : Hazami

Apapun...tahniah ler pada semua pemenang!!! All of you deserve it...one way or another. So this is my tribute to you guys (nak pic composers and lyricists tapi tak sempat amik semua...lagik pun ada muka yang tak sesuai dipaparkan - carutan peribadi)

Ini ada dua keping pics lagi sepanjang awards yang aku rasa nak kongsi (nak dapat title Bloggers Paling Gigih ler konon)

First pic : Innuendo ketika mempersembahkan Belaian Jiwa. Korang cam tak mereka. Ok...asalnya, Innuendo in the first album comprised of four people, iaitu, Reymee, Taj, Pot dan Sam yang kemudiannya meninggalkan the group.

Yang kelakarnya...malam tu meka perform, haram aku cam budak yang nyanyi skali ngan Sam dan Reymee yang aku dapat identify tu.

You see, Reymee and Taj were my college mates, sesama amik sound and audio engineering dulu (241B!!!), and aku kenal meka kerana meka ni junior aku.

To cut a long story short, orang ketiga ngan meka tu, is neither Pot nor Taj.

So who was he?

Apparently, he was just a stand-in meka brought in about half hour before the show started.
Aduh...apalah...last-last member yang dok rumah (kat Dewan Merdeka tak perasan sangat) yang ngadu mamat tu sumbang abih kalahkan kesumbangan Dina dan FO3!

So much for evolution...

Kalau korang nak baca ulasan yang intelligent, yang merapu, yang kelako...then baca balik ulasan aku.

Tapi kalao korang rasa nak something the opposite of all that (matilah aku kena carut teman-teman seangkatan!), then try clicking sultanmuzaffar, Javard ataupun pendatang baru dunia bloggers yang da season, Aku Belum Gila Lagi Tau (ada berani mau click???!!!) ataupun MysticDreamworks (mistik mimpi keja katanya direct translation...)

Pic two : Ini masa Amy dan Andy Flop Poppy kan...masa tengah duet. Amy still maintain...and in fact, aku rasa anytime Amy can teach these kids a thing or two about performing, looking and sounding good.

The thing I wanted to raise was...Andy pakai camtuh kenapa?
Harus ler peminat Brokeback Mountain kan!

Kalau Amy pakai camtu gak camna?

Leh imagine tak korang meka as the lead characters (pengsan terus in horror!)

So it was a little funny...but thank God Andy is one of the few with a decent sense of humour and equipped with the slight ability to laugh at himself.

A lot of people can;t do that, sadly enough.

Anyways...ride 'em cowboy!!!

And one last pic masa Ayuh Juragan. Ni takyah explaination ler. Just looks totally weird to me that's all...what do you guys think? Looks like a freak show run amok lor...orgy ke gang bang punya pic ni? (gelak nak pecah perut tengok berulang kali)

Ok...aku rasa setakat ni jer ler entry aku pasai Anugerah Juara Lagu.

Malam semalam balik kat Bangsar bagi semua amik keta da dekat 2am da. Everyone wanted to head home, so I went back to the office to finsih my article for news, and then wat tuk entertainment.

The joke? Aku dok office sampai 5am pastu ngantuk sangat tidur keta.

Bangun 9.30am, cuci muka (yer...tak mandi!!! Phew!) terus sambung keja. Until now.

Sebenarnya kerja leh cepat abih...biasalah procrastination melampau kan...

Still...more updates tomorrow sebab aku cuma ada press conference Anugerah Industri Muzik 2006 at 3pm tomorrow, which gives me lots of time tomorrow to do some stuff. Banyak chores aku.

Kena gi finance nak settle keta punya payment yang aku tak sempat lagi bayar. Then have to go Maybank and pick up my Mastercard and Visa replacements.

And of course...update my blog over one or two things I want to share...until then...toodle doo kiddies... oh by the way guys....jangan lupa akan datang ni kat Planet Hollywood for the next Sunday Nite Live...sifu himself (tatau lak kalau dia bak Mawi guest artiste kan!)

So take note of the date and book your tables now!!!

Monday, January 30, 2006

Hooray!!!

Yes...talk about a great start to the Chinese New Year!

Pagi tadi bangun awal, was preparing to go to my eldest uncle (on my mother's side) punya rumah nak family gathering - tengah dok bersiap dengar Carta ERA...listening out for Nikki's Pinta - ingat da terlepas sebab da nak masuk top ten...and guess what? She was no. 8!!!

Melonjat kegembiraan sat! Five weeks into the charts, initially it was climbing, tapi aku ingat after minggu pertama at 19, kedua at 17, ketiga at 14, and finally the fourth week at 19 balik jatuh gila babas...I thought it would be out of the charts!!!

And lo and behold! It flies up to 8!!!

It set the pace ler for a quite decent day. After all, masa aku kat Sabah at the ned of last week, got SMSes telling me about Nikki's nomination at Anugerah Planet Muzik coming soon in the Best New Female Vocal category. Tunggu lak Anugerah Industri Muzik and see how she fares there.

So often people confuse quantity with quality....so there...I said it.

Apapun - I support all new talents tak kisah ler popular ataupun tidak...as everyone deserves peluang untuk membuktikan diri. From Nikki to Idayu....from Mawi to Jac...
Cuma sampai bab ni aku nak maki hamun sikit....pasal mereka yang kononnya yang gelarkan diri peminat.

Tak...ni bukan posting padal fanatik....tapi cerita pasal ada ler beberapa people yang berangan sikit ler meka ni make a difference in the music industry.

Orang-orang ni, yang tak berani mengaku siapa diri mereka ni, practise the so-called 'freedom' of sharing digital music online @ mp3, and condemn those who attempt to stop them mengatakan kita memacam. Konon we do it too...and a million and one justifications for their criminal actions.

Konon tolong ler artis sangat dengan upload mp3 leh tolong popularkan...ni padahal aku tau sangat niat meka. Artis favourite meka lak tak share kan...takut lak kena hamun ngan fan club dia join ni selepas idola dia sendiri pun pernah kutuk piracy. CD ori pun tak janji ada kat rumah. Semua dia offer, yang dia download dari tempat lain.

So anyway...camna dia teruskan perangai lahanat dia?

By kononnya sharing music orang lain.

I can tell you one thing...nomatter how you look at it. YOU'RE STEALING!

Cakap apa saja...tapi anda tetap seorang pencuri. Konon halal ler and you have a right to do it. What right? Ko agama apa aa yang halalkan mencuri ni?

Cakap lebih-lebih on the Internet...but you don't even dare identify yourself.

So kalau orang camni takde common sense...what do we do?

Senang je...the Recording Industry of Malaysia, atau RIM, badan kira in charge of the music industry da memulakan pemantauan sites and blogs yang kononnya wat pahala ni ngan berkongsi padahal are nothing but thieving b*****s!

Dalam masa terdekat ni, tau ler ko...konon pakai third party for file sharing? The fact you have a link is enough to have action taken on you. So wait for it...I really hope our music fans grow up dan jangan ler layan perangai selfish people like this...who know NOTHING about the industry...and help destroy it by their stupidity!

Downloading digital music files is not just petty theft....it's a full fledged criminal action.

So prepare for the industry to fight back. Ok ler...getting worked up.

Man...I'd love to see wajah orang-orang terlibat ni bila meka kena kang...masa tu...kita tengok ler berapa berani bila da kena....

So start saving duit tuk legal representation ko...cause yes, you will be tracked down.

Saturday, January 28, 2006

Woof woof!

Yes...it's not the best picture to start the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year with, but I really could care less.

I was supposed to update my blog before I left for Sabah to come to Kota Kinabalu on Thursday, but because I was rushing a lot of deadlines with the long holiday stretch and all...memang tak ada masa ler nak buat.

So at the moment, I'm updating my blog from a place called the Airport Internet at the Kota Kinabalu International Airport where's I'm bloody f***ing stuck here as my 5pm flight has been delayed to 7.50pm.

Why am I superbly pissed to the max? Sebab the staff at the MAS or Motherf***ing A**holes Sons-of-b****es office here at the bloody airport is so clueless, dumb and just plain f***ing rude without a sense of PR at all their their sagging, wilted bodies. And this goes to the b*****d named Khalid based there sebab bodoh nak mampus, bangang tahap baik keja as a crash test dummy.

I bet your parents are real proud of you.Tanya flight delayed kenapa pun macam tanya bila mak ko nak berhenti dari jadi bohsia pencen.

Memang lahanat!

Yes...I am ultimately, supremely angry...sebab for the first time in my 29 years plus on the face of this bleeding planet, I am going to miss my family reunion dinner. Dahler because flight semua initially full, aku da cakap ngan family aku I will be late. Ni lak...totally out of the question to be with them at on time sebab sampai pun confirm about almost midnight.

So dalam geram aku...dari aku sambung ngamuk kat office anak-anak bangap MAS kat airport ni...yang too stupid to tie their own shoelaces let alone let me know why the flight has been delayed...or take it out on anyone else, lebih elok aku dok sini update je blog aku.
Lagi pun banyak aku miss out nak update.

I'll continue on Sunday where I left off on the last entry. I had a slight (quite massive actually) emotional breakdown...and spent some time wallowing in depression. I have to thank my guardian angel for listening to my problems in the wee hours of the morning and providing me the emotional support. Friendship indeed the best gift you can ever get...

On Monday lepas tak semangat nak kerja, walking around like a dazed zombie (you could say like a MAS ground staff) aku screwed up my time management big time sebab banyak sangat appointment and really tak ada mood nak even keep one in my state.

Happy sikit bila gi assignment launch of Akademi Fantasia Tour 2006 jumpa bebudak yang hadir. Tiga orang je missing, namely Fuad (expected), Aidil (MIA) and Amylea (ada show).

But it was fun to meet up with most of them yang aku takde masa nak catch up for some time now.

Malas cita panjang-panjang sebab tak larat nak taip...bukan interesting sangat pun (and plus most of it is not for public information) so ni beberapa pics from the event. Hanya sekadar buat semua lepas rindu je pada mereka.

By the way...aku malas amik bebanyak...so sempat Yazer, Amy, Felix dan Mawi je.

And by the way...Felix punya Beyonce pose yang trademark kat blog aku ni...bukan aku yang mintak tau....dia sendiri gayakan camtuh nak wat pe...(pening pikir...I've created a monster!)
Nanti masa tour kalau aku ikut (sebab cam malas lak musim ni bukan cam Akademi Fantasia II punya tour) aku janji amik more pics for all of you as usual.

Anyway, sambung cita. Later in the evening gi tengok training team Astro tuk bowling for Fiesta Media Idola.

Dapat lepas aa tension masa tu campak bola bowling sana sini. Tapi main dua game je sampai tiga ari sakit badan!

Pastu lepak lak sampai dekat kul 2 pagi masa tu sebab sibuk main snooker ngan Wan ngan Nasser.

Masa sampai, abang Bad (ganas punya coach!) was there already. Soon one by one arrived, and the celebrity team members apart from the production team from Astro was Ning and her princesses in Nikki and Yanie, Zahid, Khai, Rosma...sapa agik aa? Mawi datang much later...and by the time everyone left and sebab dia sampai lambat tuk training...dia extend ler session dia. Best player among the celebrities?

No one really...everyone either sucked or was pretty average...and I think that the coach je mengejutkan aku sebab he was quite good! Boleh tahan nampaknya....Zahid I have to admit, sebab first time aku tengok dia bowling not too bad ler...Siap dia ngan Khai with gear lengkap tuh!

It was fun...and I got to forget a few of my problems ler...takyah ler dwell sangat on the negative for the moment and have temporary relief in just first throwing a ball around...and later hitting a couple with a stick (doesn't really sound like a sport when you put it that way kan?)

Pagi aku bangun mengejut sebab ayah aku ketuk-ketuk pintu urgently. Turns out my mom had an accident on the way to an appointment.

Panik ler aku sebab my mom is turning 60...and even though dia masih strong and all...I didn't like the idea of her getting into an accident. Turns out with the traffic and the hot sun, she accidentally bumped into someone in front of her.

It wasn't too horrible, tapi dia nya Satria had the hood kinda folded at the middle. The other car sikit jer...so last-last settle cash RM100 on the spot bagi mamat tu.

The rest of the went by without any incidents...and my week seemed to be to be getting better even though I was suffering from a severe lack of sleep due to my heavy schedule.

It's Wednesday and a day before my trip and I'm still bogged down by tonnes of stuff to finish before I go off. Still lacking sleep...macamana ni??!!!

Apapun aku masih terpaksa bangun awal sebab gi ke the preview of Buli Balik for the blogging community.

A little sad that of the allocated 200 spaces, the list comprised only of below 80. But I suppose it's still a good sign that that many turned up on a Wednesday morning...a working day...and they paid to get in (lain laa kalau masuk free kan...mesti berlambak yang datang 'memberi' sokongan')

Anyway it was really fun...as I got to meet other bloggers and people who blog-hop that I haven't had the pleasure untuk jumpa as yet...

Pada mereka yang aku tak sempat tegur...I'm so sorry...

Pada those who yang tegur tapi I tak kenal siapa...bebanyak minta maaf sangat sebab meeting people for the first time, aku ni pemalu sikit (hah! mesti ramai gelak aku cakap camni!)

So pada mereka yang pergi...how was the movie? Was it as great as I said? Pada mereka yang missed out...go catch it at the cinemas NOW! For more info on the movie head over to the official website, sultanmuzaffar, juandanza or even Afdlin's own blog. Pada mereka yang ada masa preview tu...leave your comments below on the film and share with us what you thought...

it was a decent day. Rushed home by the time I settled some chores and all and it was late evening. Ingat nak tidur...tapi sebab pantang kan kalau ada TV programme yang menarik...aku sangkut terus tengok audition American Idol yang dok marathon kat StarWorld back to back episode.

Tidur tak sempat, rush gi jumpa member kat KL again sebab nak pass barang. Pastu rush to office tuk habis kerja. On off tidur sebab letih but finally got most of my work done and settled with. Bloody flight delayed...sepatutnya leave by noon. Last-last...flight time only at 5pm. Tu pun delayed sampai 5.30pm baru take off. Lembab gila MAS!

Then sampai lak letih gila...the next morning kul 8 pagi dah kuar gi Monsupiad Cultural Village for the launching of Linda's Jika Kau Kekasih.

Hah...ni ada a few pics from the beautiful place we went...with Linda in it. Erm...aku pun sempat ler amik pics kenangan kan!

Belah malam gi tengok show dia featuring Atama (a local Sabahan rapper yang rupa ala Azwan Ali-jangan gelak aa...tul laa!) as well as several local talents including Gracie yang dulu program Auditions dulu.

Malas nak panjang-panjang punya entry sudah because it has been about two hours sudah online sini. Mahal wo! RM10 sejam! Very the ancient punya pricing. Cam zaman mid Nineties lak Internet mahal sangat (dah biasa R3 sejam max).

So I'll just leave you guys with a Kong Hee Fatt Choy (or Gong Xi Fa Cai) from me...and hope you guys all have a prosperous year ahead of you!

And be blogging soon on more rantings.

By the way - I know I had very limited time in Sabah, but to friends yang aku kenal melalui blog aku ni, terima kasih banyak-banyak sebab sudi menjadi tour guide and all....it was great meeting all of you. The next time I'm back in Kota Kinabalu (not using MAS definitely!!!) aku guarantee akan call korang!

Thanks to rem, gidong, miss josie, Zoe and Jason (especially from picking me up from that God forsaken part of town to join all of you!)

And to Rozan yang aku da bertahun tak jumpa...see you dude bila mai Kl in April! Been nice bumping into you after years of not having met!!! Tu laa orang kata...tak rancang pun leh terjumpa...

Ok laa semua...take care...I'm logging out and going in for a mocha..........