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Friday, November 14, 2008

Updates of my Life....

I have a tendency to update my blog once in a blue moon...maraming stuff to tell n share pero hindi ko alam where to start..there are a lot of things in my life which I would love to share with my invsible readers..That is actually what keeps this blog running...I know my blog has nothing special but just a way for me to express everything about anything without ever thinking that someone would be offended or hurt by it...so here goes...

The Last Day in Setapak High....
14/11/2008

As the title gave it away..today..14 November 2008 is my last day in Setapak High School..Last week I found out that my application of transfer to my hometown in Melaka was successful. I had mix feelings just b4 I checked the result online...why mix n not happy...well I dunno..siguoro...I felt that as the time gets closer to the result...a lot of things started to happen..at least in my social life...I found my self closer to ana n hana n reezy..and not forgetting my new found friend rona....it's all because of KIS...What is KIS???I'll get into that later..

3/3/2009

As you can see the last attempt to post a new entry was 4 months ago...I'm really bad at blogging aren't I...hehehe..anyways again..so many things happen in my last these last few months...a new school...a new house..new friends...new students...new environment...and the biggest news of all...I was pregnant but later miscarriage...that was 2 weeks ago...Alhamdulillah I'm getting better I guess..but emotionally...ermm after trying for more than 4 years...ermm I guess it was heartbreaking at first...but Alhamdulillah I have accepted the fact that it was not meant to be...or better word for it...it was not my rezeki!...Insyaallah..my time will come...Of course coping with all of this in a new environment was tough at first but alhamdullillah there are new friends who were willing to lend an ear and give comfort when I needed it the most..thanks a lot!!!I've been on and off medical leave for the last 2 weeks and Insyaallah yesterday would be my last..at least for this condition...they said looking after one self after a miscarriage is even crucial after giving birth...I guess they talk from experience but I guess I can only do what I can do diba....time will tell!

Saturday, May 17, 2008

A Tribute to My Two Dads...

My day started normal...yesterday went out ngan Ana to meet up with Kish at his office..biasalah..talk abt echo n also a business opportunity...Ana finally pinjamkan dvd "My Father". A Korean movie starring Daniel Henney...I first saw his acting in the movie "Seducing Mr.Perfect".He was pretty good..can't wait to watch the movie..

I was in the kitchen when I heard the news that the legendary Indonesian actor Sophan Sophian passed away in an accident earlier today..I quickly rang up my mom to tell her the news but she already knew...I didn't really know what my feelings were.. but I did feel something...a sense of lost...u may wonder why but I felt as if I've lost a father I never knew.... again..U see...I lost my father when I was only a year old...I never knew him...n have only seen pictures of him...on top of that, my mom always told me...especially whenever there were a Sophan Sophian movie on tv..she would always say that.."tengok tu..abah berlakon".I then would cuddle up in front of the tv to watch the whole movie....It was unforgetable moments in my life...

Right after lunch,since nothing interesting was on tv so I decided to watch "My Father"...and after 2 hours..indulging in the moment...I cried....It was a powerful story n I'm glad I had the opportunity to experience the whole movie...

n to Abah n "Abah".......Alfatihah......


Abah & Me


Allahyarham Sophan Sophian

Saturday, April 19, 2008

NASRI.....an amazing singer, songwriter.....


Dun really know a lot abt him coz the only to know him is through his music...I got to know him because he wrote NKOTB comeback single..click,click,click which he himself sang before...his voice is amazing n his songs are juz amazing....so check him out here:

http://www.myspace.com/nasriworld

n here's a preview of my favourite song...NOT THE SAME.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

The NEW KIDS are back!!!!!!!

NKOTB Posts - New Kids On The Block
NKOTB
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
New Kids On The Block

For once, all the rumors are actually true.

“The Right Stuff” really is — at long last — returning to your block. Thankfully, this time, it’s all happening in the right way too.

New Kids On The Block — five now fully-grown men who forever defined what the modern boy band would look and sound like — are back together for the very first time in nearly a decade and a half, and currently hard at work on their first new album since 1994. That still untitled album should be released sometime this summer, preceded by the New Kid’s first new single since the Nineties, and followed in the fall by an already hotly anticipated international concert tour.

On a March afternoon, Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood are gathered together, hanging tough all over again in a small Los Angeles studio looking a little older, but still youthful, fit and anxious to not simply celebrate their musical legacy, but also add something new and personally meaningful to it. In the late Eighties and early Nineties, while still teenagers themselves, New Kids on the Block became a phenomenon, selling over 70 million albums – including the back-to-back international number one efforts, 1988’s Hangin’ Tough and 1990’s Step By Step — and a series of crossover smash R&B, pop hits like “You Got It (The Right Stuff),” “Cover Girl,” “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time),” “Hangin’ Tough,” “I’ll Be Loving You,” “Step By Step” and “Tonight” — as well as countless number of concert tickets, t-shirts and even lunchboxes to primarily female kids around the world. Then under the guidance of producer Maurice Starr who had previously brought the world New Edition, the New Kids made a tremendous impact on the culture very quickly.

“I think history has looked upon us fondly,” say McIntyre. “I wouldn’t say we were important, but people do now see our place in pop history. We’ve read that we `begat the boy bands” like Backstreet Boys and N’Sync. And in a way, those groups have all made us more contemporary. They made us younger in a way by putting us in their generation. But hey, what about New Edition? There would be no New Kids without them. And of course, the Jackson Five begat New Edition. So I guess we were really just the first white boy band.”

These days, four of the five Kids have kids themselves, as well as assorted careers and lives of their own, and so their decision to reunite had been an adult if joyful one that they’ve taken very seriously. That’s why this time around – even with the assistance of a great new team including Interscope Records and the Azoff Management team, it’s the original Kids themselves who have taken charge of their own destiny with new music that they found and funded themselves.

“We’re not kids, we’re just the guys now,” Donnie Wahlberg says with a smile as he takes a break from the recording sessions that started this past winter and have taken on a momentum of its own this spring. Long the hold out from any sort of New Kids On The Block reunion, Wahlberg – who has enjoyed considerable success as a constantly working actor in the intervening years – has long made it clear that he had absolutely no interest in simply cashing in on the Kid’s good name. “We’ve had so many offers from so many people over the years, but I’ve always protected the asset,” he says. “We never sold the New Kids house to anyone. And until we got together in a recording studio in Orlando two months ago, I haven’t even been in the same room with these five guys for fifteen years.”

And this time, it’s the boys – make that, the men – in the group who are in charge.

“We took the initiative instead of going out and asking for help from a label or anyone,” McIntyre explains. “We just started recording because we wanted to and because we were ready. We started doing this from the ground up –just us.”

The brand new New Kids album was really sparked when Wahlberg was in New York for a costume fitting for the upcoming film Righteous Kill that finds him living out another life-long dream by acting in a film alongside two of his greatest heroes, Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino as well as 50 Cent. Finding himself around the block, Wahlberg visited the office of his longtime music lawyer who handed him a demo tape of a young singer-songwriter name Nazeree. Since the days of New Kids — and his time producing hits in the early Nineties for his brother Mark as Markey Mark and The Funky Bunch – Wahlberg has been handed a mountain of demos in his time and he took the offering with absolutely no expectations.

Putting the CD on while driving a few days later, Wahlberg heard two songs that spoke to him powerfully. “I got in the car in Boston on my birthday and I popped it in,” he recalls. “ The first song was called `Click, Click, Click’ and from the minute it started, it just grabbed me. I kept waiting for this kid to falter, but he never did. Not only that – I immediately recognized that Joey McIntryre is going to love this record, Jordan Knight is going to love this record and I love this record. The music speaks to all of our sensibilities, but they’re all totally different. It was hip-hop and honest enough for me. It was soulful enough for Jordan and pop and unselfish enough for Joe. It just had it all. I spent the next few hours driving up to girls at red lights and playing them the song. They said, `Is that your song? I said `Not yet.’”

After years of blocking any reunion, Wahlberg was suddenly energized and drove to Jordan Knight’s house that night and played him the songs, “I told him. `Jordan, this could be the moment right here.’ Jordan heard `Click, Click, Click’ and he loved it. Then I emailed them to Joe and the same reaction — and more importantly his wife cried. So I pulled out my checkbook and we started going.”

What had started was more like a mission than a comeback.

“See what I discovered is that the self-respect I have as an actor was hard to have in music,” Wahlberg explains. “Parts of what we went through were kind of prefabricated – though the whole New Kids machine only started once we got the ball rolling. It was grass roots before that. Maurice Starr was the guy behind our success, but we were in it from day one. So over the years, I’ve often thought I’d like to experience the group with that feeling of self-respect — instead of just the fame and hysteria, so it’s not about just getting something back, but about really doing something.”

In the months that followed, Wahlberg and the other Kids would collaborate closely with Nazaree, who turned out to be a New Kids fan since childhood, as well as other gifted producers and writers including Bryan-Michael Cox, Emanuel Kiriakou, RedOne and Fernando on an new album that blends the melodic soul of vintage New Kids with a decidedly contemporary, hip hop feel.

“Donnie was right,” McIntyre explains. “The new music we’re making reignited this whole thing so it’s not just cashing in on pure nostalgia for the old days.”

Of the group’s demise back in the mid-Nineties, McIntyre explains, “We were just fried. What happened to us in the span of a couple years was mind-blowing, and no one really knew what it was. We were learning as it went. A lot of groups today know the mold and plan accordingly. We didn’t start out with the idea that in two years we’d be playing stadiums. So by the end of our touring obligations in like 1992, we just want to go home. We had moved on and then music had totally moved on. Grunge happened. Rock and roll came back. We never slammed the door shut – we just sort of walked away. And at that point, we weren’t exactly going to hold a press conference because no one really cared.”

“It’s the thing about being in a boy band,” Wahlberg says. “In some ways we were much more in control than people could ever imagine back then. But in some ways, you can’t control anything.”

In the studio today, all five seem to be getting along and contributing something to the whole.

“I think the thing with us is that we always hung onto the fact that we were buddies first,” Joey McIntyre explains. “This wasn’t a cattle call or a reality show. The point is this wasn’t a business first. It’s wasn’t even a business second. This was a business last. And in the end, we stayed friends and didn’t judge each other two much, which could get frustrating. But the pay off for that is that almost 20 years later, we can get together, hang out and have fun. It’s different now, it’s a little more planned out and professional, but we’re still a bunch of guys who love doing this and want every show to be our best.”

Now that the five Kids are standing together and planning to hit the road with a new show, simply reviving the old hits isn’t enough. “No, I want this to be redemption — but not for us,” Wahlberg explains. “I want it to be redemption for the fans. I want them to feel entertained, to feel treated to something special. And I want them to be so satisfied by what they get that they’ll realize they weren’t crazy all those years ago — that they put their heart into the right place back then and that it was worth the wait to come back again.”

Make no mistake; the New Kids intend to play all the familiar hits – along with some brand new ones too. “Our old songs aren’t necessarily standards — they were pretty sweet — but it’s going to be fun in a live show. People come to hear that music, so we’re going to sing it with basically the same sound. We’re not doing a reggae version of our three biggest hits because when I see that, it pisses me off. Even I’m like `Spare me.’ We have something like ten top ten hits, which is amazing. So if we do those and five new songs, we’ll have a hell of a show. We will give the people what they want to hear.

So what will a New Kids On The Block concert look like in 2008?

“ We’re still young, we’re still hot,” McIntryre answers with a laugh. “Our fans are between 25 and 35 now because they were really young then. They’re still very attractive — and very legal. So it’s going to be a girls night out. I know my wife’s going to be there every step of the way, but it’s still going to be fun.”

Yes, the wait has been a long one, but it won’t be much longer now.

“The snowball is getting pretty big,” McIntrye adds as he and his four old friends get back to work. “And it’s heading down the mountain now.”

Saturday, April 05, 2008

Echo+Carmen Malaysian Filipino Drama Project!

Echo topbills ABS-CBN, Malaysia co-prod
By Marinel Cruz
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 08:07pm (Mla time) 04/02/2008

MANILA, Philippines—ABS-CBN has inked a co-production deal with Malaysian outfit Double Vision (DV) to produce a TV series starring Malaysian model-actress Carmen Soo and Filipino actor Jericho Rosales.

The series—working title “Malaysia”—will be directed by Gilbert Perez and will air daily for 10 weeks in the Philippines, and weekly for 26 weeks in Malaysia. Shooting starts on April 30.

Perez said the shoot in Malaysia will take two months. He added that the writing, directing and creative teams will be employed by ABS-CBN, “but Double Vision will be around to help us.”

ABS-CBN president Charo Santos-Concio said Rosales was the first choice for the project. “Jericho is one of the most popular TV stars in Malaysia because the soaps he has done have also been aired there,” Concio remarked during the contract signing with the Malaysian firm last week.

Rosales was 17 when he won a talent search in the noontime show “Eat … Bulaga!” in 1996. He became a member of ABS-CBN’s Star Circle Batch 4 and has since starred in several TV series, including “Pangako Sa’Yo,” which became a big hit in Malaysia and Cambodia.

Soo, 29, rose to fame also at age 17 after winning a talent search organized by the Malaysian magazine “Verve.”

Later she joined Starz People, a top modeling agency in Hong Kong. Soo appeared in the film “The Third Generation” and won the Most Promising Actress Award at the 2006 Malaysian Film Festival.

“I hope to get to know Jericho better. I promise to get him some spicy food when we get to Malaysia,” Soo told entertainment writers at the contract signing.

JERICHO ROSALES AND CARMEN SOO IN INTERNATIONAL SOAP








Jericho Rosales and Carmen Soo are to star in an international soap opera Co-produced by ABS-CBN and Double Vision, a Malaysian production group. The soap is dubbed as a love story that will captivate viewers in the tradition of Lobo, Maging Sino Ka Man, Pangako Sa'yo and Ysabella. Carmen Soo, a Malaysian superstar, started her film career in her small role in the Jackie Chan movie "Gorgeous" and an appearance in Asia's sensational singer Aaron Kwok’s music video.

Carmen Soo has shown her versatility since then, portraying diverse roles on stage like the musical " Rose Rose I Love You " and on screen where her movie "The Third Generation" earned her a Most Promising Actress Award in the 2006 Malaysian Film Festival.

Jericho Rosales is of course, one of Philippine’s finest actors. Jericho Rosales earned nominations from all the major award giving bodies for his role in the Manny Pacquiao biopic, " Pacquiao " , where Jericho Rosales played boxing champ Manny Pacquiao himself.

Carmen Soo and Jericho Rosales will tape for about two months in Malaysia and the Philippines beginning April 30. The yet untitled TV series is set to air on the Kapamilya network within 2008.


Malaysian actress to star
in local television series

By Ricky T. Gallardo Entertainment Editor

POPULAR Malaysian actress-model Carmen Soo is in town to finalize preparations for an upcoming television project that will also feature local actor Jericho Rosales. The project, a joint venture between Star Cinema and the Malaysian production group Double Vision, will be shot on location for two months in Malaysia and the Philippines starting next month.

Soo doesn’t look a bit like 29, and she didn’t have to think twice before divulging her real age to a select group of entertainment editors during a special luncheon tendered for her by ABS-CBN.

It’s her second visit to Manila. “It was all work the first time I came over. For a few days, I was shooting for a fashion spread. I would love to visit your country’s beautiful attractions and I think that I might be able to do that when work starts for this exciting TV project, “ she said.

The winner of a magazine cover girl search in Malaysia, Soo started taking the fashion pages of her country’s glossies by storm at 17, before becoming one of the most sought-after commercial models on television.

The brown-eyed Soo, who is of Chinese-Malay-English descent, speaks very good English. “I hope to learn a few Philippine words and phrases,” she said.

Soo was born and raised in Petaling Jaya, which is very near the capital Kuala Lumpur. She admits that she would’ve wanted to focus on ramp modeling had she been blessed with some more height. “I’m 5 feet 3 inches, and by any standards, that’s too short for a runway model.”

Soo’s baptism of fire in acting came by way of a cameo role in the Jackie Chan movie “Gorgeous, “ shot in Hong Kong before the millennium. “I modeled in Hong Kong for almost four years and it was my second home. That was how I found myself acting for the Jackie Chan movie,” she said.

Soo revealed she was bestowed the “most promising actress” award at the 2006 Malaysian Film Festival for the film “The Third Generation.”

For the soon-to-start project, Soo says that instead of setting high expectations, she’d rather go with the flow and enjoy every workday. “Sometimes we pressure ourselves too much that we forget how it is to have fun and look at the bigger picture of things,” she said.

She said she already met her Filipino leading man and had pretty good first impressions about Rosales. “With some people, you feel that there are walls that you need to get through before you actually open up, but with Jericho, he made me feel comfortable instantly.”

Asked about her first impressions of the Philippines, she broke into a wide smile and said: “You have a lot of very handsome men here. And the people seem very warm and nice.”

The producers of the venture have not zeroed in on a title yet, and airing won’t happen until the last quarter of the year. The series will be shown simultaneously in the Philippines and Malaysia.



Updates...

Salam fellow invisible readers....

Too much has happen these past months...I always have the urge to drop a few lines here but I always put it off...dunno why...Nevertheless..I do tend to compress everything in one shot...easier for me to do so...at least I can share my view points on stuffs that I feel important to talk about.Here goes:

1.March 8th 2008 was a historical day.Malaysia was reborn again...I'm so lucky to have it happen in my life time.

2.I'm enjoying Sindarela very much..Ezad has done a great job...He told me that TV station pon very happy with the rating...so glad to hear that...Congrats Ezad!

3.Echo finally doing a Malaysian-Philippines drama project...He's back here in Malaysia...will tell more about that later.

4.Last but not least...I guess the biggest news of all....NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK (NKOTB) REUNITED!!!!!!will tell more abt that too....

So...that's it!..Will put in more later.

Friday, January 18, 2008

Powerful Words to ponder upon......

‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond imagination. It is our light more than our darkness which scares us. We ask ourselves – who are we to be brilliant, beautiful, talented, and fabulous. But honestly, who are you to not be so?

You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. We were born to express the glory of god that lives in us. It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others.’

- Marianne Williamson in Return to Love: Reflections on a Course in Miracles

This inspirational words was also used in the movie "Coach Carter" & "Akeelah & the Bee"...

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Few Interesting things......

Salam........

The beginning of 2008 still seem hazy at times...eventhough it kickstarted in a gud way..somehow I still feel that times is passing me by in a heartbeat....Oh yeah..getting back to the title of this entry..a few interesting things happen these few days that I thought I might jz share with all the silent readers out there....heheheh if there's any lah..

1) My brother the photographer...had a photo shoot with the cast of ezad's new series SinDarEla...in MMU last friday...which he didn't mention to me at all...I was sooo suprised..shocked..dissapointed that I couldn't tag along...He got the chance to do this tru isma lah of corz...they are buddies...reasons being that maybe becoz he didn't know how much interest plus the part I played in helping ezad with this project .The day after I found out..I sms ezad n told him abt my dissapointment..he jz ask me to send regards to my brother n thanked him for helping him n complimented my brother n said how damn talented my brother is....n oh yeah he also said..."rugi awak tak dtg"....ish..ish.ish...mcm mana nak dtg kalau tak tau....heheheh...btw...I was so puzzle to as why the pics he took was dark...I called my brother n he said becoz they requested it to be that way..ermm well here it is...u be d judge...



2) I'm so hooked to Imran Ajmain now..I feel this guy is soo talented..hope to get his album soon....I esp like the song Abang, Hanya Menari n seribu tahun...well takyah ckplah kan...mmg best gilerrrr........hope to meet him one of these days...

3) Not sure if people know how encentric I am when it comes to world affairs, tv..etc..my classmates in form one maybe could remember how I like to hang out at the library n always borrowed a copy of books on american politics..it's history etc...well..nowadays u could say my relationship with the country is kinda like a love-hate relationship...weird huh...ehehehe...anyways..I've been keeping an eye to the US primaries...it's great that Barack Obama won the Iowa caucasus but too bad he came in 2nd in New Hampshire..nevertheless..I guess I wouldn't mind if hillary clinton did win and becomes the democratic candidate in Nov..u see..however it goes...the democrates will still make history by either electing the first woman candidate or an african-american candidate...and if u're wondering why I'm emphasizing on the democrates rather than republicans..well I jz hate them..plain n simple...I hate all that have to do with them....so..whatever it is...Good Luck for democrates!!!

4) Finally had a talk with pn.salbiah abt my duties...It's a relieve that I finally voices out my concerns...I know it's still early to speculate anything but I do feel I need some break...all this stress is killing me....

So...all in all...as I said...everything is kinda blurrish...hopefully to see a rainbow soon n Insyaallah with patience..I hope I shall overcome all this..........

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

It's a Good Start of 2008!!!

Alhamdulillah...with Allah's willing...I finally pass one of my biggest obstacle that has been bugging me all this while in 2007...hopefully, there would be more victory to come my way.....and for those who always have something that might seem to be a big challenge..dun give up because ur destiny has been written..it's just a matter how fast or slow u will get it...so..keep ur chin up n always aim high......Insyaallah everything will go well....

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!!!

SALAM........

I jz wanna take this opportunity to wish everyone Happy New YEar!!!...May 2008 opens a new chapter in everyone's life including mine...:))