It is actually on the map and the pilot knows how to find it.
Having done so, there is an airport on which the same pilot could land the plane.
People eat roasted deep pink swine snouts for dinner.
You can get original Levi's jeans (that actually fits) for less than RM100.
No..you cant buy movie tickets one day in advance.
Cab fare for the exact same distance varies on how attractive you are to the cab driver. The increase in price is adverse to the level of attraction.
The Nokia 3310 is still a very hip phone.
Caution : When speaking to cabbies in Malay or English, please do not expect them to reply in kind.
Most people will speak to you in Hockchew.. a Chinese dialect that make them sound like they are gonna rip your head off in anger even your KL Chinese colleagues will not understand.
They have a golf course that can make Tiger Woods proud!
Those who work with me or know me well would probably know that I am so not looking forward to tomorrow. I will be going off to Sarawak for an event that I was tasked by the management to organise. Having had this pointless and difficult project dumped on my lap at the very last minute because my colleagues are too dumb to organise their mother's funeral if their lives depended on it, I was naturally apprehensive and had a lot of reservations on how it is going to pan out. Nevertheless, having buat keja cincai asal boleh sebab aku malas nak buat event bodoh nih done my best, I can only cross my fingers and pray that it will turn out halfway decent. Regardless, taking on this project has given me an insight into the tell-tale signs that your event could end up as the biggest disaster since Janet Jackson's nip slip at the Superbowl. Below are some of my useful observations!
You only have four names on your guest list.
When called, one of the persons on your guest list answered as herself but when told of the purpose of the call, faked a foreign accent, claimed to be a Spanish tourist and told you that you had the wrong number.
There are no clowns in the town for hire. In fact none of the residents have ever seen one alive!
The grand highlight of the event is a lucky draw for your company's free t-shirt.
You are expected to bring your own table cloth and arrange your own chairs coz the hall rental guy could not be disturbed during his weekly poker night games.
Members of the organising committee are encouraged to bring as many family members as they can..travel allowance is provided to pick up and bring families from different town/cities/ state/ country.
The cake guy doesn't know the difference between a sponge cake and a sponge bath.
Your guest of honour doesn't know he was supposed to give a speech... in fact he wasn't even aware that he was invited.
Your entertainer of the evening is some random overweight dude named Larry who will be serenading your guests by belching out the tune of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance.
Your event is in a god forsaken town nobody has even heard of called Sibu!
Sempena tema dan topic posting pada hari ini, saya rasa amatlah afdal sekiranya saya menulis post berikut dalam bahasa ibunda tercinta saya, Bahasa Melayu.
Sekiranya sebelum ini anda tidak berpeluang melanggani Majalah URTV dan Mangga ataupun tidak pernah berkesempatan untuk menonton filem filem hebat, karya agung Yusof Haslam, A Razak Moideen, Julie Dahlan mahupun David Teo sudah pastinya anda, seperti saya, tidak berapa arif dengan dunia selebriti/ artis tanahair. Walau bagaimanapun, semenjak beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini, saya sangat bertuah kerana berpeluang menyelami dunia selebriti ini disebabkan kekerapan kumpulan produksi menjalankan penggambaran di tempat saya bekerja. Oleh yang demikian, saya amatlah berbesar hati untuk berkongsi tip tip berikut yang semestinya sangat berguna untuk anda.
Sekiranya terdapat sekumpulan crew dan pekerja sewaktu penggambaran dan kesemuanya berpakaian selekeh nak mampos biasa sahaja, anda boleh mengenalpasti artis Melayu di kalangan mereka dengan melihat ketebalan mekap di muka masing masing. Semakin tebal mekap yang dipakai, semakin besarlah nama selebriti tersebut dalam industri ini dan semakin besarlah peranan/ watak yang dibawa di dalam drama/ filem tersebut.
Meskipun pada kebiasaanya artis lelaki tidak memakai mekap, (lainlah kalau artis tersebut M Daud Kilau ataupun Jaafar Onn) untuk mengecam mereka tidak kurang juga senangnya...jika anda perempuan muda yang cun macam saya. Sewaktu berurusan dengan mana mana ahli produksi, anda mungkin boleh perasan apabila terdapat salah satu lelaki yang paling ramah dengan senyuman control hensem menawan dan gaya pertuturan perasan bagus bersopan santun dan sangat helpful. Pada kebiasannya lelaki ini adalah selebriti terkenal yang ingin menggatal dengan anda sebab dia rasa dia bagus menjaga imej beliau sebagai artis berperwatakan terpuji.
Jangan tertipu... berbeza dari Hollywood, artis Melayu tidak semestinya berkereta mewah, mereka mungkin juga membawa kereta Satria Neo 1.6 kaler oren biasa seperti anda.
Kebanyak=kan artis Melayu sangat mementingkan penampilan, meskipun hanya untuk keluar sebentar ke pasar. Semakin besar kaca mata hitam dan semakin panjang anting anting yang dikenakan, semakin glamer lah artis Melayu tersebut. Selalunya aksesori aksesori ini turut akan dipadankan dengan tas tangan LV yang beli kat Petaling Street berjenama eksklusif dari butik butik terkenal.
Anda mungkin juga pernah berdiri di tepi selebriti di kedai kedai makan, dalam LRT, dalam bas (errk artis naik bas ker?!) kaunter pembayaran di pos ofis dan sebagainya. Artis Melayu selalunya akan bercakap di handphone masing masing (selalunya handphone canggih dengan aksesori beriya) dengan suara yang sangat kuat mengenai jadual waktu yang terlalu sibuk, shooting dan shopping di luar negara, membeli barangan berjenama dan keglameran diri masing masing.
Artis Melayu adalah satu satunya orang yang akan disuruh oleh peminat untuk mengautografkan bunga telor/ pinggan/ mangkuk / baju kebaya / songkok di majlis perkahwinan anda mahupun kawan anda!
Di universiti atau mana mana institusi pengajian tinggi, artis Melayu adalah antara golongan pelajar pelajar yang paling kerap ponteng kelas
Artis Melayu akan hadir di mana mana majlis keramaian dan sekiranya tercabar atau tidak mendapat apa yang diminta akan bertanya "Do you know who I am?" Paling best jika anda mejawab "Tidak" dengan nada suara yang paling selamba.
Sekiranya anda menghadiri hari keluarga syarikat anda di tepi pantai yang indah dengan matahari yang terpancar terang, mungkin akan terdapat seseorang yang akan memakai seluar panjang, baju lengan panjang, topi yang besar dan kaca mata hitam yang mampu mengalahkan Paris Hilton/ Kesatria Baja Hitam. Jangan takut atau terkejut. Ia bukanlah hantu, tetapi hanyalah artis Melayu yang mengada tak nak kena panas takut hitam mungkin alah pada cahaya matahari.
Artis Melayu selalunya tidak menjual jagung (atau apa apa jua barangan) di pasar malam. Kalau ada sebarang penjual seperti ini yang mengaku bahawa dia merupakan seorang artis, maka besar kemungkinan dia mental layak masuk Tanjung Rambutan jer teringin untuk menjadi seorang selebriti.
If you have been living in any part of Malaysia for the past couple of weeks, I am sure you would've noticed the crazy heat wave that has hit the entire nation. Unless of course you live in a fridge or work in a certain unnamed medical centre in Kota Damansara where the fat HR lady keeps the air cond remote under her pits (mighty big pits too I must say) and turn the air cond to -15 degrees at all times!
I know a lot of people have been tweeting (or is it twittering?) and updating social networking page statuses on showering 15 times a day and possibly moving permanently into the bathroom with their heads perpetually in the toilet bowl under the taps as a final resort. As someone who is more fond of the heat than being an all-wrapped up jakun Malaysian during a light autumn day in Europe the friggin cold weather, I somehow still share your pain during these sweaty times and would like to give you some fun tips on things you can do to BEAT THE HEAT (hey that rhymes?!). Enjoy!
1) Take 2 or 3 pairs of your favouritest underwear, dip them in ice for 8 hours and then wear them.. only them and nothing else.(Old cotonny holey granny panties are the best as they absorb more water and subsequently the cold temperature. Plus, they are also extremely comfy to boot!)
2) Eat and drink Ice Flavoured EVERYTHING!! Ice tea, Ice cream, ice flavoured goreng pisang, ice flavoured nasi lemak sambal sotong, ice flavoured roti canai.. well.. you get the picture!
3) Lock all doors, bolt all windows and cover every possible hole, nook and cranny in your house and start filling the entire place up with water from the bathroom! Once done you will have your very own home-made water park! Yay! You can turn some furniture around and pretend they are water slides etc, float some cushions in the tub for added effect and even make your son/kid brother flap around on the floor and pretend that he's the rabid man-eating shark from 'Jaws'.
4) Watch Pulp Fiction in the dark. Turning off the lights will considerably reduce the temperature in your room and hey.. its a "cool" movie! :)
5) Run as fast as you can and smash your head into the wall.. ok.. this may not do anything to alleviate the annoyance and discomfort of the heat, BUT the excruciating pain and possible concussion suffered from this particular endeavour will take your mind off the heat for a while.. or in the best possible scenario, you may even develop amnesia!*Heat? What heat? Who am I? What is this place?* :P
6) Avoid sex! At all times.. this particularly physically strenuous bedroom activity will only make you all icky, sweaty and uncomfortable and serves no benefit/ purpose whatsoever!
7) Put on your prettiest, sexiest kain batik CIk Kiah/ sarong bikini/ swimming trunk, lather yourself up with minyak angin cap kapak sun block, take out your mat, sunglasses, hat and towel and head for ...your neighbour's backyard, lay everything down, lie down and pretend that you are chilling and soaking up the sun and breeze in Krabi* (or insert favourite island here). For some weird and inexplicable reason, the heat seems so much more errmm... cooler when you are on a beach holiday.
8) Hang a noose around the ceiling fan, tie the other end to your body and turn it on full blast. Not only is this cooling, but it is also alot funner and certainly more adventurous than bungee jumping.
9) If you live on one of the higher floors of a high rise building, try parachuting off your balcony. Chances are, you will feel cool from the sudden gush of air that will hit you as you go crashing into the sun roof of the Laundromat downstairs floating down.
10) Forget Malaysia and just move to Siberia! Heat wave schmeat wave! Hah! :)
A sincere, unassuming homage to the greatest pop icon who ever lived... Like most kids who grew up in the early to mid 90's, my life story and memories can be relived through a string of MJ's hits...Bad for example reminds me of the time in Kindergarten, when my teenage sister the big bully prevented me from watching Tom and Jerry so that she could practice the killer moves from the video (back when we only had one TV and one VCR player). Heal the World brings back memories of being extremely excited when my dad bought the Free Willy videotape at the Times Bookstore in Penang Plaza (back then there were only originals mind you) and watching it with my cousins. Black and White reinforced my prepubescent secret crush on Macaulay Culkin, while Scream speaks to the teenage angst that was slowly developing inside of me. To put it simply, I would never call myself a HUGE or obsessed MJ fan. But I was never in the group that didn't like him either. Nevertheless, having grown up to all things Michael, his death did affect me in a way, as, put aside the tabloid frenzy of recent years, we have lost THE King of Pop and with him the music that have shaped and touched our lives in many great ways. Without a question, This Is It was something I had to watch, regardless of my apolitical stance (or can I say amichael?:P) on his personal life and the issues surrounding his death.
A lot of people are a bit confused about this movie. Let me set you straight. If you are looking to get all the sordid details pertaining to his death from this movie..you will be disappointed. If you are looking to get a full biography of the guy .. you will be disappointed. If you want to know more about his experiments with drugs and plastic surgery...you will be disappointed. If you are looking for a great MOVIE proper with good lighting, sound, special effects and cinematography..well you will also be disappointed. Coz This Is It is none of those things. The pseudo-movie is just a collection of raw footages shot during MJ's rehearsals for the This Is It come back tour which should have happened in July at the 50 sold out shows in the London O2 arena. Yet for all that it is lacking, in your normal expectations of a movie, This Is It had the pull factor to mesmerise both fans and non-fans alike and this is solely attributed to its simplicity in depicting the legendary artiste at his best. This is not a conventional movie. Therefore this will not be a conventional review either (but then again.. Rina and conventional don't really know each other :P) I will not go into the brief synopsis of what you might aspect of the basic storyline/plot coz basically there are none. It just started with shots of interviews of MJ's dancers some of whom have travelled more than half way across the world to audition and be a part of the King of Pop's supposed monumental comeback. OK as far as objective reviews are concerned.. this part comes across as rather cheesy and melodramatic. Then it immediately started with the number Wanna Be Starting Something showing the dance and singing rehearsals which were extremely impressive (in my point of view at least) despite being a pure rehearsal shot and MJ not even putting his 100% effort. I guess it helps also that we have not seen the man in action in a very long time. What followed was a series of rehearsals, choreography and would be special effects of the concert. The dance number for They Don't Really Care About Us for example was one of the best featured here. I especially liked how the team was practicing and putting the moves together whilst the director and technical team explained to the camera how the final effect was going to be (with all dancers duplicated to form rows and rows of thousands of dancers) and Michael joined them a little bit later and started spearheading the training session and he was just amazing. Not only was he effortlessly good and the choreography to die for but even with minimal effort at a mini run through, he still exudes this great presence that made the whole thing work! There were a lot other numbers that also featured such great choreography and performance. But They Don't Really Care About Us was my favourite. The guitar solos for Black and White by Orianthi Panagris on the other hand was simply mesmerising and here for the first time you could see that the great pop legend had a match in presence and awesomeness.
Even the slow numbers like I'll Be There, Human Nature and You Are Not Alone will make you stare transfixed at the screen, mumbling the words to the all familiar songs softly to yourself. Another one of my favourite was his performance of Billy Jean in the classic sequined pants with the single stripe on both sides that we've all come to know and love. Michael did a solo dance number here with his dancers cheering him on in awe. This was quite amusing and cute as he got all shy and embarrassed at the end and asked his team to not encourage him too much as he had to conserve his energy for the real event.
There were many more of these moments as you see a lighter, gentler, softer and kinder side to this pop icon that has hardly been portrayed by the media. Making him almost like any ordinary man. Instead of the barrage of "wacko jacko" that we have been constantly fed by the press, what we see is a humble, down to earth yet firm and efficient professional. Michael was always kind to his musicians and dancers, speaking to them nicely, treating them with respect but at the same time exuding enough firmness and authority to get things the way he wanted; a true mark of devoted perfectionist who knew exactly what he wanted. Many times you will hear him tell his cast and crew how he wanted the songs to sound EXACTLY like how he wrote it. And he was right, that was why people would go and watch the concert. You will never see him throw a diva tantrum or scream like a tortured artiste even though at one part of the movie one of the musicians was clearly getting on his nerves with the dude's callous attitude. You also get to see the child-like quality about Michael that has been reported extensively but never really seen by the public. During the rehearsal of an old Jackson 5 number, he was not able to sing and kept complaining about the volume of the music on his headset and how it was almost drilling into his brain. He just looked so fragile and timid when he was telling this to the concert director Danny Ortega that you just wanted to run over and give him a hug! Seriously! :)
The movie is not without flaws though. One of my all-time favourite MJ's hit was Smooth Criminal. Call it bad editing or maybe the result of an unfinished product but I thought the black and white intro video for Smooth Criminal just came across as rather lame and tacky. Despite the fact that they were able to edit MJ into a very old famous movie, it became very distracting and annoying once the dancing and singing begin and was interspersed with machine gun sounds from the footage. And oh you also don't get to see the legendary fall-forward-in-unison move that is the trademark of the Smooth Criminal choreography. Sigghhh..
Whilst cynics may call this a cash grab fest released to further exploit this legendary artiste, I am sure that they too would agree that looking at this great man with his eyes alight with excitement at the prospect of putting on a great show after such a long hiatus, is indeed refreshing. Even the bad camera angle, sharp editing and poor sound quality in certain instances just added to the charm of this sincere and unassuming movie. Fan or not, go watch this with an open mind and for two and a half hours at least, you can forget all the scandals and tragedy surrounding MJ and just focus on excellent music and pure clean entertainment! This at least makes This Is It worth your RM10. And if all else fail, you would at least get to sing along to all the greatest hits and be transported back to your beautiful childhood/ younger days' memories.
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