Pesta Malam Indonesia 2 - Part 1 (The Samsons special)

Don't say I didn't warn you. Entry ni malas nak posting pepanjang. Aku banyakkan pics jer lah ek. Smalam memang happening gila!

Aku sampai Bukit Kiara ngan a group of five, masa tu baru kick off the main show. Dah miss Hujan dan Meet Uncle Hussain. Tak sanggup nak jemur bawah panas... except for Samsons.

Heh.... the moment we reached, Dewi Dewi baru open for the Indonesian half of the show.

Nothing great... here some pics. Dari gambar gambar pun tau aku tak semangat sangat nak layan show meka nih kan. Matilah aku... layan je la...







Masa show Dewi Dewi nih sparuh jalan, it started drizzling. Setitis dua jer la baru aku da horror sebab Samsons pastu. Merasalah aku akan basah kuyup joget sakan. Da terbayang esok mesti demam.

Ber SMS ngan Bam. Pesan it better be a rockin' show cause I'm going to be drenched banging out front. Bam gelak je... zalim! Tapi dia promise an amazing show, and lagu lagu Samsons nak perform pun besh besh, so aku reassured sikit.

The crowd memula tak ramai, I would think maybe 2,000 lebih orang je. Tapi by the time Dewi Dewi habis je, it had grown almost double! And smain ramai by the minute.



Bosan nunggu celah break tuh, gi backstage ngan Tang jumpa bebudak dulu. Erik and Aldri were onstage just hanging about waiting to get on.




Said hi to them, before headed to the VIP lounge nak jumpa Bam and Irfan. Lepak with Bam jap just to catch up before sat down and chatted with Irfan for about 20 minutes before their stage call. Kalao ada rezeki, aku akan dapat kerjasama dengan mereka untuk an upcoming project. Tak sempat lak nak snappy pics sebab engrossed in conversation sangat.

Just managed to snap one masa Bam kena approach by some VIP fans for autographs.



And it was on to the show. From backstage aku sprint (mampu ke) to the front. Let the show begin!

It drizzled quite something masa midway but aku tetap tak berganjak. Biar basah tapi tetap leh rock! All in all they performed fantastic as usual, cuma sayang awal sangat meka on sebab Bam rushing back to Jakarta immediately after the show (kesian lak meka tak cukup tido sebab sebelom mai sini kat Nagoya, Japan lak.. alamatnya tak cukup tido).

Also it wasn't like the Bar Savanh show where they performed almost everything they've recorded. Still, dapat lagu lagu baru mereka, Tak Bisa Memiliki, my current favourite and Hening my upcoming fave. Enjoy the pics.























































By the time they were done, I was drenched with sweat and partly because of the rain. But hey... I smelled good still. Thank you Mr Versace for that.

Rush backstage jumpa Bam sat sebelom dia berangkat pulang. He was going off immediately after a shirt change, so one last cam whoring session. Pastu lepak jer ngan Erik yang kelakar. Hope they don't take another year to come back here for a show. Tapi this is the third time I've seen them perform in the last month, so I guess I can count myself lucky.Samsons rule!


PS - Pada ahli Samsonia Malaysia and Indonesia, you're welcome to republish these pics but remember to credit me ok. Thanks. Stay tuned for Part 2 of my pesta Malam Indonesia entry with a Sheila On 7 special.

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Pesta Malam Indonesia

The stage is set... be prepared for an onslaught of pictures coming up. Note this may take some time sebab banyak sangat gambar aku akan upload. Sapa yang line azab, rasain keazaban nak bukak blog aku. Matlah...

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I hate closet fags

Pagi tadi ke mahkamah. Actually I was on the way to a warehouse sale to stock up on perfumes.. I mean.. beli stuff for birthdays past for my sis and colleague dia Jida yang baik tuh.

Then dapat SMS tanya "Are you coming" from Faz. Aku pun balas kemana. Sebaik je aku send the message, I was like.. f**k!!! Hari ni Jumaat! Court case dia!

Alamak! Damn!

Aku pun turn around nak ke court. Seb baik masa tuh kat NKVE da area exit Damansara so it was pretty near dah.

Dok dalam courtroom tuh sakit jiwa. Kenapa? Sebab ada sorang sotong kurita goreng tepung nih dengki gila wat hal ngan aku.

First aku kena tegur masa start proceedings tuh sebab I had my sunglasses on my head. Oopsie! My bad! I got the evil eye dari bapok rambut fringe senget tuh, and dia send a note to the same policeman yang tegur aku tuh. Alamak... aku dok with my legs crossed pun dia perasan. Aiyo.. you know how uncomfortable is it tak nak dok dua jam ngan prosecutor yang erm... well let's just say I have never had any lesser ambition to be in the legal field or in the police thanks to him.

So aku peluk tubuh. Skali lagik kena tegur. Aiyak. Matila ko! Tak kisah la sebab kena hormat magistrate. Tapi yang aku panas tuh, ramai dalam tuh dok peluk tubuh, silang kaki and so on tak kena tegur pun. Kimaknya tomyam seafood tuh yang target aku jerk.

Terus turn off mood aku. Spent the remainder of the period in court so bloody still sebab malas octopussybadhair tuh wat hal lagik.

Finally when it was over, aku tengah angin satu badan menyumpah dak tuh aku tak kuasa nak amik pics apa apapon.

By the way, Faz punya case submission on 29 August, skali ngan verdict on that day. Finally after four years, the case will end. Thank goodness. Hope things ok for Faz jer la.

Left for lunch ngan Faz, Jojoe (adik Faz yang now nicknamed Mojo by me) and Juan for lunch kat Damansara.

We then parted ways. I rushed for the warehouse sale, and YEAY! I kept to my budget. Well... kind of...



Besh nya aku dapat restock my Versace Dreamer. Tu memang fave aku dari dulu. Aku da berapa botol da, tapi tinggal one more je yang half full. So whacked two bottles for myself, satu bagi my sis as the first part of her birthday present, while the 50ml Mango perfume and the cream was for Jida. 100ml tu aku bagi mak aku sebab dia suka Mango Adorably tu gak, apart from the Chanel Allure and Boucheron Jaipur yang susah nak dapat sini.

Headed home to Bangsar for some shut eye. Letih gila tak cukup tido je keja.

Tak sempat nak jumpa bebudak Samsons ke nak tengok sound check ke yang into the night.
Jaga pun da kul berapa. Sempat jumpa Tang sat nak borak pasal preparation bebudak tuk show esok.

If you're going for Pesta Malam Indonesia, please take note. Hujan dan Meet Uncle Hussain kick off at 2pm. This will be follow by Dewi Dewi at 3pm. The running order for the event will be followed by Samsons, Sheila On 7, Ungu, Peterpan and wrapped up with Slank sebab meka paling senior. So kalao Samsons fans, please get there by 4pm latest or you might miss their show. And rugi kalao tak catch them in action.

The RM50 tickets are still available.

Tang passed to me the additional passes. Yeay.. esok lepak ngan Bam and Co. Also discussed a project in the works. Me likey! He also passed me the latest releaseof Sebuah Nama Sebuah Cerita which is Peterpan's greatest hits double CD album. Tatau la available kat sini ke tak lagi.



Not a big fan of Peterpan, but I also got to hear Dewa 19's new song apart from a couple of to be released tracks. Interesting...

Eh ok la.. nak sambung tido. Esok nak keluar awal.


PS - What the hell... you get ass-poked and you swear that you were... erm... why are some people so adamant to share with the world they've been butt-f**ked. Bukan tanpa kerelaan... katanya... walaupun... CLICK HERE and HERE to read the biggest joke of the year. I'd like to swear too that some are just utter morons!

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Miscellaneous events of a mediocre day

I made my way to Tune hotel tadik for the press conference untuk Pesta Malam Indonesia 2. Sebenarnya aku pelik sebab kalao ikutkan, aku tanak pergi. Sebab Bam da SMS aku kata jumpa on the 15th kerana dia ajak lepak sebab last time they were here, they were kinda rushing about for the two gigs. Tapi ada lak yang bagitau semua artis involved ada.

Pelik gak sebab pikir punya pikir, hari ni baru 14hb. Dia salah bagitau ke?

So headed there, and true enough, Samsons the only band yang takde sebab meka bakal sampai esok. The boys were in Japan still we were told.

Heh... aku angguk je bila diberitahu. I knew that!

Anyway sejurus selesai je, si Bam SMS kata meka baru sampai. I'm assuming he meant baru sampai kembali ke Jakarta from Japan. Dia kata jumpa esok when they get here. Yeay! Eh.. oops! Tak berani aku nak happy sangat... kang ada orang kata aku ni not Malaysian enough sebab bukan seronok pasal artis sendiri tapi pasal artis luar.

Erm... blog aku takyah paksa pun dah content lebih 90% sokong artis tempatan ok.

Anyway, aku malas nak amik pic, so here are the members of Peterpan, Ungu, Slank, Sheila On 7 and Dewi Dewi masa PC. Sori ler tak amik banyak pic. Esok aku amik banyak kalao aku ke sound check ok. Heh... tengok Samsons sound check baru aku gi.. sebab tunggu personal invitation je.

Spot the members of each band


Got the tickets for everyone else masa the event. Siap t shirt yang aku akan hadiahkan pada kengkawan gak. The only thing of value personally to me was the damn parking stickers. Mencik kalao kena parking sebatu time nak gi show camni. Heh.. passes yang dapat tuh semua tuk orang lain.

Aku nya nunggu je for backstage All Access VIP leh? Matilah berangan. Da orang ajak... aku pun iyakan je. Sapa yang tak sexcited kan kalao da one of your fave artists personally ajak lepak.
Talented and down to earth... lotsa lessons to be learnt here dari artis artis sini yang ada yang perasan hebat dan berangan lebih....

All geared for Saturday


Just something snapped on the road. Sapalah yang rajin sumbat bunga matahari celah celah tuh...


Headed to PJ pastu with Juan to lepak with Faizal. Kami lepak ler kat Jaya One lantak Wendy's. Erm... guys and gals.. please ye kalao makan, especially bab burger nih, don't stuff your faces, keep your tissues handy and always be ready to wipe unsuspecting possible zones which may have traces of foodstuff. Contoh mamat bawah ni... tengok hidung dia.

Dude! You got mayo on your nose!


Memula tak sure, tapi lama lama perasan ada mayo hidung dia. And the best thing dia tak perasan langsung. Aduh... rasa evil je gelak gila babiks. Tapi nak tegur dia rasa lagik malu lak kang. So left it be. Sampai kita nak gerak tuh, haram dia lap idung dia walaupon lap molot berapa kali.

After we were done hung at my place in Bangsar sebelom jumpa a couple of friends kat Pelita, including Nur Aliah Lee. Met Aliah bebetul once je, walaupun banyak kali terserempak. Time tu aku tengah final day sebelum wrap my scenes ketika shooting telemovie Gaia.
Seronok gak dapat sembang ngan dia... yer lah... kerap jumpa tak acquainted. Ni dapat pot pet berejam rasa best lak kenal.



Chilled a bit as we were joined by Mohariz. With him being an active local songwriter, we chatted about the 90:10 issue. Heh... berapi gak. Mana taknya. Aku rasa cam sebenarnya ramai ada pendapat berapi pasal isu tuh, tapi yang dilaporkan pendapat mereka yang segelintir yang vocal jerk without considering the majority yang really the ones who will feel the adverse effect of it all.

Speaking of the 90:10, thanks sultanmuzaffar for the mention of my previous posting. At least ada yang speak out on this. I think too many remain silent sebab tak kuasa, atau takut... but something has to be done before more damage is done than good by well-meaning, but extremely disillusioned folks.

Ok la... nak tido da. Esok nak rush sambut tamu ke Malaysia. Unlike some people, I appreciate talent no matter where they're from, and I prefer to be hospitable to people coming to our country without calling them names. Matilah aku kena carut pasnih.... tapi ada aku kisah?

EGP!!!


PS - For more info or where to get your tickets for the rockin' Pesta Malam Indonesia
2 on Saturday, CLICK HERE!

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