I moved to Rockferry and stopped by Warwick Avenue

Ok the post title is rubbish... but I can't help it, I like these songs to bits.

Finally after wishing and hoping, planing and dreaming... the day finally came. I saw Duffy live in Singapore. The whole week long listening to her album over and over again.... tak sama dengar live.

So on Saturday 22nd March, we headed out to Singapore Indoor Stadium. Me clad in Bobohizan inspired ensemble with tribal necklace to boot some more and Kay in ala Rain on Your Parade style. Since the concert was not overbooked, the organizer basically upgraded us to a more expensive ticket - lower tier seat. Sweet! We were seated front and center and looking directly at Duffy. The speaker was directed to us, rasa macam nak tercabut jantung ok! The set was simple and sweet. She sang for about 1.5 hour. All the songs in her album. Light and easy :)

People sightings: We saw Serena C... and was intrigued with makcik Mary yang duduk depan kitaorg, grooving tak ingat dunia. Laki dia keras take bergerak macam askar kat Buckingham palace. And of course, the two Duffy hard core pretty boys seated next to us. Scream.. scream some more.. aiyooo.

Warwick Avenue live? No words to describe!

Until June

How cool is this album - Until June.

Tidak eloklah kalau tak beli. The guy at the store said they sounded like Travis. Personally.. takde pun. But they do have decent songs. In fact the song 'What I've Done' was used in Private Practise.

Originally the band was called June. But then they changed it to Until June. Story behind it, they set a target that by June 2005 if they have not sign up with a record label, they would call it quits. Hmm.. if they kept with Juune, they might be a tad more successful if you ask me. Heheheh(read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Until_June)

Check out their website: http://www.untiljune.com/

This was indeed the single one thing that I'm proud of from all the overloaded 20Kg purchases that I made in Singapore.

A true sign of a Posuer! C'est la Vie

Transformer turns 11

Budak-budak yang dah kelaparan, tapi didera berposing dengan kek

..and now the wacky shot

The moment that we are waiting for - unwrapping Optimus Prime and Megatron.

Happy Birthday Hamzah!

Semoga Megatron dan Optimus Prime live to see your 12th Birthday pulak

Hehehehe

p/s: ni pre-celebration last week. His real birthday is actually today 15th March

8 Adults, 3 Kids, 4 Blind Cats, 2 Stolen Ponies and a Wounded Sea Lion

..begitulah ramainya orang to be accounted for to plan for the holidays. Holidays yang kononnya nak dipurchase at Matta Fair. Zoom Malaysia katanya. Well, let it be know that I'm all for holidays in my own country. Swim in our beaches. Take photos under our own coconut trees. Be mesmerize by our own sawah padi.

Unfortunately my enthusiasm last Friday was shot down effortlessly by a bunch of IDIOTS who disgusised themselves as sales people at the MATTA fair.

To What honor (or horror) do I owe for this display of stupidity?

Presenting Imbecile # 1
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We were intrigued at the offer that his company posted. So we inquired further. This dude was so hyped that he invited us to sit down.

"Nanti saya explain semua sekali untuk akak"

So the nightmare begin.

He started ranting off bladebal de bla.. We should have bolted and run when he keeps on having to refer to other people for all questions that we post to him. Entah kot aku tanya harga belacan sebungkus pun si tongong ni pergi tanya orang jugak.

Then he asked,

"Berapa orang ye?"

"11 org. 8 Adults, 3 children".

"Children tu besar mana? Baby brp bulan?"

"Baby? they are 10, 11 and 12 years old. 13 and 14 years old kira adult ke?"

So he went back calculating and calculating. With the help of not 1 but 2 female sidekick. Ok, the sidekick is actually his superior, coz the dude simply do not know his shit.

"Ha.. tadi brp org?"

"8 Adults. 3 Children"

Calculate somemore. Write 8A and 3C in capital in his note book. Consulted someone else again...

"Tadi 11 Adults ye?"

Steam started coming out my ears.

"8 Adults. 3 Children"

Consult here and there. Now xls doesn't work. Help. Help. Panic mode. Here comes another sidekick.

"Ah..tadi 8 Adults?"

"Lagi sekali you tanya... I bangun dari sini. Tadi kan you dah tulis. Berapa kali nak tanya?"

OMG.Nevermind the room, what about the flight? How much does it cost per person?

"Ha.. on this date it's RM89"

"RM89? Return to langkawi?" Ok I'm sold.

"Haah"

" Betul ke bukan pergi RM89, balik RM89?" my sis asked, sceptically

"Tak. Betul ni RM89 - return"

Right. So first the figure was around 2K. Then consulted another person the figure became 3K. Then finally we said ok whatever la, book us now coz from the system we can see that there's only 13 seats left at the so call price of RM89.

"Eh apasal sistem ni tak boley book lebih dari 9?"

"Book la.. 8.. pastu 3"

"Book la..5 pastu 6"

Suddenly, we saw a new figure pops out. For the flight alone, it will be around 2.5K. Rupanya it's RM89 one way.

Aku punya marah. Hanya tuhan sahaja yang tahu. Tak tau la sama ada nak ketuk kepala dia dengan payung aku, or sepak muka or lompat naik atas meja tu and sepak desktop dia.. or bertukar menjadi raksaksa dan fire kepala otak dia biar terbakar. Dekat satu jam membuang masa kat situ. APAKEJADAHHARAMBEJADAH.

Me and my sis terus bangun. Tak tengok pun muka dia.

Lepas tu kitaorg lalu kat booth tu dah takde dah muka dia. Agaknya kena demoted tukang buat air aje lepas tu.

Exit Imebcile #1, Enter Imbecile # 2:
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By now, our mood was definitely not good.Tempreture is rising. But we cheer up a bit when we saw this hotel's booth selling what seems to be vouchers. We were kind of keen to stay there.

It's here where we met Imbecile #2. Imbecile seems to be busy on her mobile. Totally ignoring us. While standing in front of imbecile giving her the killer stare, datang pulak kawan dia.

"Oh kena tunggu dia ni jugak kak. Kita memang ada jual voucher ni"

"Boley confirm booking ke?"

"Kalau ada tarikh, memang boleh"

Looking around the small booth.. there's no pc, so how are they going to check their system and confirm my booking?

"Macam mana nak check? Nak check guna beg merah tu? Or nak tulis dalam buku exercise ni?" me pointing to a small red luggage lying on the floor and a RM0.50 single-line exercise book on the desk.

Tidak sempat nak menangkis serangan sarcasm aku, Imbecile # 2 dah habis cakap kat phone and look up and look at us as if we are beggar on the street

"Here you go" tunjuk a pile of brochures.

"What's this?" we asked

"Err Subang..." a pile of brochures of their hotel in Subang.

WHAT THE FUCK - said my face. I used to work in Subang. Hari2 aku boley pergi berak dekat hotel kau if aku nak. Tak payah beli voucher.

"We don't want Subang. We want Langkawi"

"Oh Langkawi.. have to wait for..."

Kakak aku pun terus angkat tangan - TALK TO THE HAND COZ THE FACE JUST DON"T GIVE A TINY RATS ASS ABOUT IT!

Kitaorang pun terus blah. ARGHHHHHHH

Next we met Imbecile #3 in Hall 2
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Imbecile # 3 was selling packages to go Ostolia. We were interested to purchase this ground only tour pacakages. They gave us a brochure with these assortments of tour, we were reading and saw that it stated there:

"Tour packages can only be purchased outside of Australia"

So we asked Imbecile # 3 if we can purchase it from their booth.

"Wait hor"

After a few minutes,

"This one right.. the Australia Exployer (read: Explorer) can buy there one"

"But it says here, it's not available in Australia. Can only be purchased outside of Australia"

"No.. when you get there.. you can buy there la"

What's your objective here? You want to sell something or just merely standing here, wasting oxygen? But my sister got one step smarter...

"Do you understand this sentence or not?" Showing here the line that says tour can only be purchase outside of Australia.

"Hor?"

"You understand this or not?"

"Ahh.. no"

"No? Good. Thank you. Good bye"

Shall we slit our wrist now?

Sighhh.. the horror haven't ended yet.

Well, since we paid RM3 each to enter the forsaken place, we did buy some packages anyway. So we wanted to enter the buyers contest, which probably win us a lunch with Imbecile #1 anyway.... so here's where we met

Imbecile #4
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In order for you to get the contest form, they will need to verify who paid for the packages. Who's name it was on the credit card slip... If the name of the payee if different from the booking name, it's not acceptable. What the flying FOOK are you talking ABOOT?

Tak kisah la letak nama siapa pun. Macam la menang.

"Ni pun aaa.. mesti itu orang jugak pergi holiday. Kalau tak pergi tak boley woo" said Imbecile #4
"Habis tu, when reach hotel there..someone will wait there la to take my father's blood sample to make sure that it is him going to the holiday and not some imposter?"

"Ya lorr"

Seriously.

Sudahnya, baik la check aje kat Internet semua benda ni. Ingatkan pergi sana lagi menyenangkan.. rupanya makin pening. Benci aku. Bila la nak kaya, and ada plane and hotel sendiri supaya tak payah aku deal dgn orang2 macam ni lagi.

You nearly made it..

.. said Simon. Is that suppose to help? I suppose it might as well be .. you didn't get in because you suck. Get a life.

I'm talking about American Idol. The top 13 has been announced and the real competition will begin this week. It took 3 weeks to narrow 36 people to 13. It all boils down to the song choice. If you don't know what's good for you, you might as well go home.

Out of the 36, I'm bummed that these two didn't get in. Jess Langseth - she keeps on getting this, "well you nearly made it.." but she didn't. Sad. She has very sexy voice. And I thot her rendition of "Bette Davis Eyes" was great.

Next is Alex Wagner-Trugman. What can I say, you can't exactly sell star quality with a name like that. But he has this underdog vibes that I felt he can shine on the later stages. Sadly.... that was the end of the road for him.

So 2009 is the year of the underdogs for me. I'm saying NO to - Danny Gokey (boring), Adam Lambert (he's too good, and he knows it), Scott Macintyre (sympathy vote), Jorge (turn off the waterworks please) and Michael whatsis name who works on the oil rig (too goody goodshoes).

I'm all for the quirky, fun, less power vocal but still talented people:

Ok... maybe I do have room for powerful vocals. I'm so happy that Jasmine Murray got the wild card. And who can deny Lil Round? Her name alone has star power written all over. And finally, Alexis Grace - whoever can belt out Aretha Franklin. What else is there to say?

With that, I conclude my report on American Idol so far, thus proving how much I do not have a life. I even spend too much time editing the pictures in this post.

Those who own a colt .45, please shoot me now.

Jason Mraz - Live in Malaysia - 4th March - Stadium Negara

He came. He sang. He blew us away!

Sharp at 8.30pm, the lights went off and Jason Mraz hit the stage. THANK YOU for no opening act and rubbish attempts to get the crowd riled up with... " Can I hear the left side now... SCREAM!!!".

He started the set with Remedy. Sweet! Then, he sang You and I both. YIPPPEEEEE. And some easy listening songs. By the time he sang I'm Yours, he had the crowd eating out of his hands.

IT WAS AWWWWESOMEEE! What a way to kick off my 2009 concert outings :)

Hats of to Jason and his band (who was wearing Malaysian football jersey), for a no-nonsense concert. Well almost. Everything was brilliant, till this A-Mei-wannabe-baru turun dari bukit-tukang cuci rambut from Sg Wang-sorry excuse of a singer, came out and totally RUINED the duet with Jason on Lucky. The song was originally by Colbie Caillat and Jason Mraz. Of course we didn't expect Colbie to be on stage, but goodness... there has to be someone better. She came late. Dunno if that was on purpose. The crowd who was singing along with Jason... went.. What Thheee FF*** is this? Totally in shocked. The mood went down a bit there. Seriously tiada maaf bagimu. In the old ages, she should be stoned to death. One couldn't help wonder... does she even know who Jason Mraz is? Or what the heck she was singing? Gawdddd.

Anyhooo... even great concerts would have flaw.

1. Stadium mcm sauna. Does the organizers know the meaning of air conditioning. That's it, after this any concert in Stadium Negara, think of dressing to the beach.

2. Ada minah gila sitting next to us, keep on having a bout of histeria. Org senyap, tetiba dia nak menjerit. Pitch macam anjing kena sawan.Banyak kali pulak tu. WTF?Jakun ke.

3. Parking macam sial. Dah la parking kena RM10. Jauh dlm semak pulak tu. It takes longer to get out than the concert itself.

4. Merchandizing could've been better. The "official" t-shirt has the quality worst that kain buruk kat dapur aku. Selling at RM80. Seriously? So I got stickers and buttons instead. Now, my laptop is no longer a Dell - sweeet



5. And on personal note, I should've memorize more songs. Hheheheh and.. in my excitement to smuggle my camera, lupa pulak mobile. So I can't record You and I both :(


So after this, I'm going to WARWICK AVENUE and hope I don't turn YELLOW. Singapura, here I come!

2009, the movies so far...

It's already March. Kehidupan masih sama, masih malas macam biasa. Finally I'm a wee bit inspired to blog. There's nothing good on TV anyway. So I have been watching quite a number of movies already. Here's my two cents

1. VALKYRIE, staring Tom Cruise.

One word to describe it: COMPELLING!
What's it about: About a plot to kill Hitler lead by Colonel Stauffenberg (played by Tom Cruise) using Operation Valkyrie. This opeartion was approved by Hitler, basically to mobilize his reserve army to take control of the civil affair should anything happen to Germany. Read more here
Favourite quote: By Stauffenberg to Olbritch " Look them in the eye. They "ll remember you".
Must Watch? Yes! But not if you are bordering depressed. Walking out you will feel depressed. Rasa macam tak nak makan lepas tu. Having said that, Tom Cruise looked yummy as ever and he really outdid himself in this role. Kudos!

2. MARLEY AND ME, staring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston

One word to describe it: BORING (to the point of suicide!)
What's it about: About normal life story: love, fights, dreams, work, babies... from the day they got married till they got 3 kids. And right in the middle of it all is this unruly dog that they should have put down in the first 5 minutes of the movie, called Marley.
Favorite quote: None, really.
Must Watch? Only if someone put a gun to your head.

3. BURN AFTER READING, staring George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, and many others...

One word to describe it: IDIOTIC.
What's it about: Basically the Coen brothers are making fun of the CIA. The movie started of when 2 fitness trainer try to blackmail an ex CIA agent over what they thought was some classified CIA data. The movie just got more twisted over the minutes.
Favorites quotes: 1) "Did you get the Cheeses? You did not get the cheeses? Now I have to drive out and get the cheeses!" - Tilda Swinton
2) "Tell Dr Cox, I have the new keys" (then he went and broke down the door with an ax! while wearing his boxers and bathrobe!!) - John Malkovich
Mush Watch? Hell yeah. You'll have buckets of laughter over it.

4. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, staring Dev Patel and Frieda Pinto.

One word to describe it: OUTSTANDING!
What's it about: This boy who's from the slum, with no proper education, managed to win in Who Wants to Be a millionaire, raising questions how he did it. While in police custody he recalls all his life events that teaches him all the answers to the questions in the game. Brilliant scripts!
Favorite quote:"Computer jee, lock kar diya jaye" - Anil Kapoor
Must Watch? Definitely. Only then you will believe why the movie deserves all the Oscars that it won. Though the hype was over Dev Patel and Freida Pinto, I still think that the real talent lies with the young actors. Especially the young Jamal - Ayush Mahesh Khedekar (the one on the right). Pure talent. Hats off to everyone in this movie!