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I made a plan with Leo (my childhood buddy) earlier today to see the latest Disney flick, Wall-E.
Alrite, i have to admit that I am a Disney movie freak.
I've seen Wall-E already and I'm not over it yet.

We went to AEON Bukit Tinggi in Klang to avoid the bad ticket queue at Sunway Pyramid.
Too bad for us cuz it is the school holiday, same situation happened in Klang; BAD QUEUE!
Thank god, we managed to get the tickets :P

We wandered around the mall and I saw the latest album by Hujan.
Wow!
Hujan dah keluar album!

And on the other section, I found the deluxe edition of Daft Punk Alive 2007 imported CD!

With the speed of the light, I withdrawed some cash and bought those 2 CDs.

I've took my time to have a listening pleasure to those albums and now, let me give you a review of'em. :D

1. Hujan - abcdefgHUJANopqrstuvwxyz


I've been waiting for the album to release. I think the album is just average because it's the re-production of their old tracks from the previous EPs. They only put one new track in their new baby called "Dugaannya". Ehem, it's my current favorite song. There is this one track titled "Rantai Rasa" (was known as "Rantai Rasa Cinta") which I did not like it because I prefer the older version. Same goes with "Pijak Hatiku" (or known as "Kau Pijak Hatiku Lagi"). Well, I don't know... I'm not a music expert but as a listener who has listened to the older version of Hujan tracks, I must say that I prefer the older version of the songs. The album also features the song from the Impak Maksima soundtrack titled "Jiwa Kelajuan".

As what I usually do, this will be the album that I'm gonna sing along while driving to college.

Rating: I give 3 / 5 --- for the great effort to come out with a new album with all famous track that they played in every gig, and downloaded ones over the Internet. The new production of the songs? Errr... I prefer the older version of some tracks.

2. Daft Punk - Alive 2007 Deluxe 2CD Edition


When I was in school (2001), I hate this french duo! Whenever the TV played "One More Time", I will change the channel immediately. Especially once the bell introduction... DONNGGGGGG!!!! *change channel*
But my perception to them has changed last year after I saw the live video on YouTube and I think these guys are pretty amazing... In the same year, Kanye sampled the song "Harder Better Faster Stronger" in his track "Stronger". Amazing!
What makes this album unique?
They mashed up 31 songs in 13 tracks. I think this album proves these guys are very creative.
FYI, this album is a live album.

Rating: I give 4.5 / 5 --- For the creativity. The 50 pages booklet is worth paying RM70 plus the live video of "Harder Better Faster Stronger". Minus 0.5 for not coming out with the live DVD of the concert.

Adli Syahril says: I've been searching high and low for Tiesto's live DVD... If anyone would want to sell it to me, please drop your comment! I need Tiesto - Elements of Life Copenhagen DVD!

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After the successful of its first installment, Fat Boys team brought us the second edition of Pesta Malam Indonesia, which showcases the best of the Indonesian music scene to our own backyard with the hope that it didn’t scare their Malaysian fans away.

The concert was opened by two finest local acts; Hujan and Meet Uncle Hussain. Unfortunately, not many people witness their performance as most of the goers came in late to catch the Indonesian acts. Hujan’s main man, Noh, abruptly left the stage and Ag took over his singing. Nobody knew what did happen.

Dewi-Dewi came up on stage and did a set of cover songs from Dewa and Rihanna. By watching their performance, I wondered myself “Why are they here?” I think they didn’t perform well and didn’t reach the standard to perform for a big outdoor event.

The rain started to pour down heavily; half the crowd rushed for shelter except for die hard groupies when Samsons took over the stage. There were thousands of them being over-excited, making human triangle, shouting hoo-haa along with their favorite band. Thus, they made the locals anxious to get nearer to the stage.

A fight broke off twice when Sheila on 7 (So7) performed “Sahabat Sejati” and the main man, Duta, had to halt their song to pacified the situation. It’s typical when it comes to Indonesian concert in Malaysia. Well, So7 did a great job in controlling their audience for every song.

Ungu faced some technical difficulties followed by the power outage on every booth after the half-hour break. The show had to halt again and the crowd started to throw things on stage. The emcee, Aleya, controlled the crowd professionally eventhough she got hit for a few times. The police began to chase the attackers and made the situation went a bit chaotic. The locals were terrified and they had to move very far away from the scene.

It didn’t stop the show. Peterpan came on stage for their 40 minutes set. Ariel has broke the local performing guideline by took off his shirt for their last song. Lastly, Slank came on stage and brought a different kind of energy to the crowd but only their groupie, Slankers, stayed on but the locals who were not a big fan, and walked straight to their cars.

The concert went on with such big Indonesian acts albeit many difficulties were faced from the audience up to the stage technical. While the Indonesians were having the time of their lives at the front row, the locals were much comfortable watching it from the screen at the back. Well they know how to party harder than us.

Adli Syahril says: ... and we drove straight to Zouk for DJ Shah. hehehehe

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Last week, I attended the Hot FM Big Jam at Dataran PJ.
Hahahha! Just for the sake of Meet Uncle Hussain and Hujan.
Their set was short but worth it.

Ungu was fine.
I hate the couple crowd! Pelok je memanjang while singing their songs.

Oh yeah! sorry for the bad camera image!

Rock on!

From Alam Megah, PJ, Putra Heights & Rawang :P

Mengada beli tanduk setan!

Wednesday.
Backstreet Boys was here.
They had overwhelmed 10,000 fans in Sunway Lagoon.
I was there with my friends.
What can I say about it?
TWO THUMBS UP!

They made me bringing back the old memories when I was still in school with center parting hair style like Nick Carter! :D
Everybody (backstreet's back), I Want it That Way, More Than That, Larger Than Life, As Long As You Love Me, All I Have to Give, I'll Never Break Your Heart, Quit Playing Games (with my heart), Shape of My Heart, Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely, The Call, The One, and latest ones such as Inconsolable and Helpless When She Smiles.

It was friggin' awesome!
Within 90 minutes, they managed to perform more than 20 songs. Their old songs, new ones and solo songs.

Here are some of the photos:

At the entrance of Sunway Lagoon.

The madness!

It was raining! Khaleeq sedang hidu kentut aku

Brian & Howie

The boy-band!

Scream!

We HEART Backstreet Boys

The stage

The next day, me and my fellow classmates had to attend the launching of the new season for Muzik-Muzik in One Utama. Everyone enjoyed the show but me and few people had to run here and there to interview the celebrities for our pre-graduation dinner promo video.

Artist performed that day was Ning Baizura, Misha Omar, Estranged & Bob AF2.
Even our lecturer came along to observe our activities on at the event. It was an "industrial visit" for our final semester. FREE MARKS!

Huh!

Erwan & Ilya Qast

Ning Baizura performing her new song

We got ourselves free tickets for One In A Million at the launch of Muzik-Muzik.
Almost the whole college attend the event, I supposed!

Congratulations to Ayu for winning the Million buck!
Great performance at the finale!

Hey ya! :D

Aizat, Amal & Madi :D

Cik Mayu shocked us! *peace*

Today (Saturday),
Me and Aisyah went to Double U Network in Sunway Mas to do the choreograph steps for school kids to dance. It's for a nursery rhyme show in TV1.

Pity those kids for being in the broadcasting industry at the very young age :(
They look small and got tired easily.

The kids...

Hmm... Event + party updates:
1. Colbie Caillat (14th March @ The Curve) - FREE! But it's by invitation. :(
2. Sunburst KL International Music Festival (15th March @ Kiara) - RM200, discount 15% for Digi users
3. Speedzone Tour (22nd March @ Menara KL) - RM33, cheap isn't it?
4. ING Presents Kuala Lumpur Grand Prix City Festival (22nd March @ Bukit Bintang) - ALL 4 One is performing! It's FREE!
5. F1 Party featuring DJ Steve Aoki (22nd March @ Zouk KL)
6. Roger Sanchez (14th March @ Zouk KL)
7. Timo Maas (7th March @ Poppy)
8. Tom Middleton (29th March @ Zouk KL)
9. Celine Dion (8th April @ Stadium Merdeka)
10. Tiesto (9th & 10th May @ Admiral Marina, Port Dickson)

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The Fly FM 2nd Anniversary Party!


It was one hell of a great party.
Hip-hop, pop, rock and trance.
All in one night.


I went there with my friends.
Fad, Azhar, Adam, Faridah, Amalyna, Abdullah (we described him as Dollah hitam so that we are not confuse him with Lah), and Adam's friend which I can't recall his name.

We got out of the house at 8pm, picked up some friends and we got there by 9pm.
Azhar drove his MPV and Abdullah drove his MyVi. Hey, it's the first time I hang out with Abdullah.

Alrite, Ahli Fiqir was performing when we got there. Well, I didn't bother at all because I was busy searching for people who kept sms-ing me asking "Where are you?" and my credit gone down to ZERO :(

Pity Juliana.
She had to go back early because her mother was worried of her especially after she received an SMS regarding the riot. So she went back with her sister and friends by 9.30pm.

I went back into the big oceans of crowd. Yeah!!!
Meet Uncle Ganja... oops, Meet Uncle Hussain on stage doing the "La La La Kerjalah" and "Lagu Untukmu".

And then,
When Noh said "Check, Check", we shouted "ROCK! ROCK!"
WOHOOOOO!!!! IT'S HUJAN!!!
Hujan played Aku Skandal (Meninggalkanku Sendiri), MOSPAEDA (Lonely Soldier Boys), Pagi Yang Gelap and ended with Empayarmu. We were singing through their songs, jumping like monkeys and throwing fist in the air. Everybody went crazy! Even the fireworks were crazy too! hahahaha...

11pm.
Hujan went off from the stage.
Transient Vortex came up and warm us up with their drum & bass, and breakbeat tunes. They even played the remix version of the 80's Shout by Tears For Fears. I became crazy with that tune. hahah! "SHOUT! SHOUT! Let it all out! These are the things I can do without! Come on! I'm talking to you, COME ON!"

Later on,
Jungle Jerry hit us all with his trance and progressive tunes. He played some familiar tunes such as RHCP's Otherside, Killers' Somebody Told Me and Fedde Le Grand's Put Your Hands Up For Detroit before Bass Agents pumping the stereos with more harder sounds of Tech-Trance and Hard-Trance.

This time,
only Didjital and Ganjaguru spin the deck for Bass Agents and Xt-Acid become their photographer! Hahahaha.
The first track was Baxx (their theme song). BAXX! BAXX! BAXX! BASS AGENTS.... (dang, dang, dang, dang). And then, they played Superstar DJ by Dark Oscillators and also Ganjaguru's Annihilating Rhythm. The crowd wanted more and they did an encore (encore la sangat...) with Cruz And The White tune entitled "Make It Faster". It's the hard-trance version of Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

The set was short but it was really good!
I love the whole party thingy.
Good crowd.
It was great seeing many people dance to the beat.
I mean, people are actually dancing instead of shuffling.
Well, there are still shuffling kids at the side but many just "dance" in front of the stage.

Hmm, who did I met that night?
Khaleeq Sarfaraz and Faris (his friend who studied in UiTM Sabah). I assume they just came for Bass Agents. Faris statement to me "Kalau ada party, ko mesti ada kan?" hahahaha. No comment. It's the year of Visit Malaysia 2007. Of course, I won't miss any outdoor party! Call me crazy but it's true. :P

Aisyah and An. They came together from Baiduri Apartment section 7. We partied together with their college-mates and we sent both of them back home.

Anis, Julie, Joanne, their indian friend, Syafiq and his friend. I can't remember their name... Shit! I'm bad with names :P
They went to see a movie and partied with us later. But Julie and her party-mates had to go back early due to the reason given earlier in this post.

Erwan and the girlfriend.
Yeah, the world class photographer and the girlfriend played a fool of me! hahahha funny!

OMG, the whole Alam Megah shuffling clan but I only managed to say hi to Shuznain cuz he was walking towards us at that time. Others were crazy shuffling with the "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE" gang, the Hardstyle Republic. He hugged me and whispered to me, "KO JAHAT EK, ADLI!" I was laughing like crazy. Dude, Who's jahat now?

Oh ya, not to forget... Linda from Sri Aman. She did remembered me! :)
Good luck in your studies. hehehe (as if, she would read my crapshits.)

Zamy, Amalyna's brother. He has just pierce his lips. Was it for the event or what, young man?

Gosh, we really love the night!
Thanks to FlyFM for the great party!
Happy Birthday, Fly FM!

Photos!!!

p/s: Kesian ada sorang budak Alam Megah tuh... Masuk suratkhabar pasal kena tangkap ngan RELA after the party.

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Hello everyone.
Yesterday was the Pop Shuvit's Freakshow Tour at Ruums Club in Kuala Lumpur.
Live acts by Stylustiks, Phlowtron, Ahli Fiqir, They Will Kill Us All, Bittersweet and Hujan (to name a few) did their performance before Pop Shuvit came up on stage.

Me, Faridah and Amy (The Party Enthusiast) went there with Fiqah, Khaleeq and Amal. We were lining up at the front to enter Ruums. It was quite a long wait. We reached the place around 5.40pm and we started to line up at 6.00pm. We were allowed to enter after 7 something but hey, it was a good wait to be the first 50 to get the goodie bag! :P

The early performance was by Stylustiks, Phlowtron, and Dandee by Silk Sounds (Thailand). Unfortunately, the crowd that came for the show mostly are not into hip-hop. Sorry to the organizer for saying this but we are expecting this show to be like a mini Rock The World (since the rumors has said that there won't be any Rock The World for this year... Is rock dead?)
As for me, I love Stylustiks a lot... Their scratching and mixes is really something different. From the first time I'd seen them on stage at Recharge Revel4tion, Laundry Bar night, Recharge Revelation5 Global Gathering and Freakshow Tour, I really think that they are the best hip-hop DJ in town.

Later, the rockstars did their time rocking the crowd! They Will Kill Us All, Bittersweet and Hujan. They Will Kill Us All was so good... Yeah, that is what the crowd wants! I missed the first half of They Will Kill Us All because I went for a drink downstairs (hey, it's cheaper... I wouldn't miss the first 10 minutes if the organizer would give us free flows! hahaha). After I came back, wow! The crowd has gone crazy! The mosh pit was awesome. Hahaha... As usual, Adli would go their and go crazy too! I love the Bright Lights :) Anyway, congratulations to you guys for winning the AMP Big Break.

After their performance, everybody was chanting "BITTERSWEET! BITTERSWEET! BITTERSWEET!" like zombies. At that time, Pijie was standing next to me... Hahahah! Kelakar giler time tu... I was like "what the fuck?" hahaha! So me and Khaleeq gave him a big pat on his back and shouted like crazy! Great performance, guys! It was one of my very enjoyable moment. We were skanking crazily for A Perfect Match and Capital E.

Bittersweet did great but nothing can make the crowd go any crazier without having HUJAN on stage!!! Rudy and JJ announced HUJAN and made everybody shout their lungs out! They were fucking awesome! Excuse my french but they were fucking good! Even fucking is not as fucking good as them. Everybody sang along. Jumping up and down. Moshing as hard as they can. And shockingly, a guy fainted during Hujan's performance. Not funny, people. I think he was on drugs. His teeth was biting his lips and his eyes went white. Anyway, Hujan performed Gundah, MOSPAEDA (or Lonely Soldier Boys), Aku Skandal (or Meninggalkan Ku Sendiri), Pagi Yang Gelap, Empayarmu and Ludah Amerika.

Alrite. Rudy & JJ announced after Hujan's performance that below 18 years old has to leave the club and then, GUESS WHAT?
ALMOST EVERYONE LEFT THE PLACE! The club left with a hundreds something from thousands of people. But whatta heck, we just want to have fun. Joe Flizzow came up doing his Kartelo hello thingy with CrazyCarleed of Phlowtron, Ahli Fiqir did great too. I love Mawar Berduri's outfit.

One Buck Short performed a few songs too like That Day and Kelibat Korupsi. And then, POP SHUVIT pon naik la stage :D

Pop Shuvit did great :)
I love their latest songs. Like I have mention before, "not the same old shits!"
Hahhaha... Sorry guys but I really love your new stuffs. :)
I really enjoy it a lot.
They performed Freakshow, Suara Kaki Lima, Wannabe (from their Japan album version), "pump up the stereo" (i'm not sure with the title) and Jump. It was awesome.
Oh well, eventhough Jump is an old stuff but seeing John of Nervewreck was great. And Jump is also their trademark-song. So, it is a must. Hehehhee... Their sets of songs were almostt he same as the one in Recharge. Jakeman & Skelator (Pardon me if my spelling is wrong) played the percussion for them.

From my own point of view,
I think that the show should start earlier because not many people can stay until after midnight.
We were informed that the Freakshow tour will start at 4.00pm. But we could only enter the premise at 7pm. Lots of people were there since 3pm. Hujan finished their performance around 10.30pm. Lepas tuh underage takleh stay after Hujan's performance. They should start earlier so that people can go back early too. Another thing, the crowd filled with clubbers who wants to party after 11.30pm. Hmmm... Organizer, do something! Don't repeat the same mistake for the next tour. BE PUNCTUAL! Even Rock The World allowed the people to enter the stadium one hour before the show start.

Anyway, here are some photos of the event.

P/s: I would like to say sorry to Afiqah for what had happen to you on that night. Hope that you'll feel better soon, k. Maybe it's the god's challenge. Insya-Allah, you'll be a stronger person.

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