colbert and rain dance off.

it's down right corny! lol.
watch it! I'll betcha you'll wet your pants watching it xD

everyone can be slim!

So, slimming/ thinspiration is in trend (when was it not, anyways?)

Girls as young as 10 years old are concerned about their weight, and I remember at 10, I was oblivious to the issue. I wasn't even competitive ( I mean, all these issues come from, whether am I better off than you etc) .

Everything used to be fine, until you start comparing. *lightning bolt*


Life would be easier:



1) If there weren't much choices, between low fat milk and "fat" milk? or sugar free, cholestrol free etc.

2) If slimming centers stop offering money back guarantee, so that people will realize that this isn't the way to go, and should just hit the park, once and for all.



3) Soda company should stop the whole "diet" concept, because there's no point ordering a large beef hamburger with extra cheese and a "diet soda" to go with it. And yeah, the taste sucks anyway. Bluergh!

4) Yes, no endorsements, please. Stop giving us false hopes, and stop rubbing salt to our wounds that we can never look like those on your ads, yea, it'll work alright, with an impossible fee.

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I rest my case.

Behind the "glamour"

you've seen the "glamour" side of it.

here's the the latter. xD






the waiting. omg. so malaysian lah, these "stars" are never on time...*


see. see. now only coming. when is it going to be my turn? *




ladies at work. :)



like they say, candids are the best!

turban guy: I polished my leather shoes, make sure you capture the shine, wokay?

beanie guy: aiyoyo..... *



as the after party goes on, we sometimes forget to look sideways...





i noticed them by the kitchen entrance- and that 3rd chef with specs (in the middle) is not bad looking! xD



awww. they're really shy, and really nice... nice fellows! :)


*all the captions above are only for entertainment purpose, to be taken lightly! :)



So, I should have taken more of those "un-glamour" pics- to prove that glamour ends at the end of the night, and behind the facade, we're all normal peeps with a normal job, with normal lives.

Those glamorous people literally live in front of the camera, it's their "job" to look great and awesome. At the end of the day, they're just people with jobs.

But this post serves to remind us, that sometimes we should look sideways, and you might see something interesting along the way.



p/s: Oh yea. I would also like to thank a few people for this wonderful experience. *ahem*

Manager: Yelena (who persuaded me to go for this event)
Wardrobe: Pam (wonderful stylist! Thank you! YOU'RE A LIFE SAVER!)
"Glamour" Entourage: Sara and Nasriq (without you guys, we would be lost! haha)

Kononnya lah, glamour kan? Ish.

AIM 15 (pics + quick recap)

So, here we go.


on the red carpet: Fazley


on the red carpet: Elaine Daly


*coughs* Also on the red carpet: Yelena and I.



AIM 15. Kemuncak Segala-galanya.



Host Adibah Noor and Afdlin Shauki did great.

A few of the most memorable jokes/lines:

Afdlin: Mengapakah Adibah adalah calon ratu cakerawala yang terbaik?
Adibah: Saya memang calon yang terbaik. Sebab, kalau rakyat Malaysia melihat Adibah, mereka akan cakap, "Eh, saya lagi cantik daripada dia!". Begini, rakyat-rakyat Malaysia boleh meningkatkan keyakinan diri, jika dibandingkan dengan model yang cantik?

Adibah: Terima kasih kepada kontraktor yang telah membina pentas yang begitu mantap ini.
Afdlin: Yang dapat menampung Adibah, memanglah kontraktor yang begitu mantap!

Afdlin: Mempersembahkan 3 vokalis wanita- kalau digabungkan, jadilah Adibah.
Kalau dipecahkan, jadilah Dayang, Datuk Siti Nurhaliza, dan Atilia.




Opening perf: Faizal Tahir.

WHO? From 8tv's One in a Million and 3 months ban for baring his chest fame.
Trademark? Superman t-shirt.
Awards? 6 nominations; 3 wins. (he's the crowd's favourite, hmm..)



WHO? Datuk Siti Nurhaliza receiving the Best Female Vocalist Award. again.


There were some good performances...

Good: Boomerangx, singing/rapping KL Leng Zhai. (mandarin, english, malay, tamil, punjab)



and some bad ones....

BAD: They named themselves "Nice", but it was not nice, dawg. Not feeling it! :/



The "Fantastic" Four:- the night was still young, it's time to party!





BoomerangX- Gotta have a pic with them. :)



Pop Shuvit (who also won the Anugerah Kembara that night)


Dayang Nurfaizah. (very bubbly, friendly)

She performed Warisan, which was one of the best.

It's a shame she didn't win any awards (although with a strong fanbase supporting her at the show, she wasn't sulky, sporting indeed!)


Spotted also at the after-party: Dina from the Malaysian Idol fame.

Side note: She's uber friendly!




From the 2003 Keabadian Cinta craze, ANUAR ZAIN!!
Now meeting him in person! :)

Just like in the picture, he's extremely soft spoken, and polite.

I felt bad when I saw him eating halfway, and people wanting to take picture with him.

Come on people, give him some SPACE!




What's on the "other" side of the room? Hmmm... Rofl!



Awesome DJ!


There's a party going on:

the booze, the dance floor and cute decor.



Sara, my unofficial model. :p

I adore the lighting! :)


Cupcakes anyone?



Sara and I: Yelena trying her hand at photography.

It came out pretty and I would say it's not too bad!


I wasn't going to post this up. hmmph. Fine, he's smokin' *coughs*hot*coughs* .

I'm taking back what I've said earlier, because Yelena said: Give him the benefit of the doubt! Fine. Hmmph.

Anyways, I love the moody blue lighting! Yes, original lighting.



One of my favourite shots of the night! :)

Glamour queens: Daphne Iking, Sara & Elaine Daly.

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Okay, that was a (very) quick recap of the AIM, and after-party event.

Next update: Behind the "glamour". ;p

E=MC2= derogatory?

I dislike (okay, hate) derogatory music (with passion)
but sometimes I can accept songs that are meant to be taken lightly
such as this one... or like Don't Cha by PCD.

besides i like the irony of Touch My Body's lyric that goes like this:

Then I'd best not catch this flick on YouTube.
(yea, I love YouTube and I'm biased. your point is?)



Mariah's say on Touch My Body:- Click!

It's a fun song. fun video.
it's almost like Paris Hilton's Nothing in this world. click.

The Real Hero Amongst All. (Review + Spoiler alert!)

"See ma, no broken bones. Milk is good!"


Move over Shia. At 43 years old, Robert Downey Jr. still rock it, this time playing Tony Stark, the CEO of Stark Industries which produces advance weapon systems for the U.S. military, and of course, playboy and arrogant to boot.

"Peace is having a bigger stick than the other guy" his dad's philosophy that he hold on to, of course, until he was abducted by one of his biggest customers, a bunch of terrorists who are also multi-lingual(which I find to be really confusing, they switched from english to hungarian to arabian? in a few scenes...)

But still cool, because he has a translator with him, which he left Stark (Downey Jr.) a simple statement, and it happened to be a very life-changing statement, "A man that has everything and yet nothing".

Of course, we weren't short-changed, the IronMan "superhero" suit left me wanting for more. The gold and "hot rod" red suit, oh so masculine! One of the main highlights or enjoyable scene was when Stark was alone, working in his "workshop".

And thank goodness for once, they did the right thing by leaving us with some room for imagination, a few "almost" scenes with the "damsel in distress", which is good breather.

I would rather not to have Potts (Paltrow), but some female presence balanced all the masculinity in the film, and she makes an okay eye candy, and managed to deliver some of the witty lines (esp at the end) :p

Terrence Howard makes a good sidekick- he is humourous, yet not over the top, unlike Chris Rock or Chris Tucker, that can be (really) annoying. Jeff Bridges makes a convincing role as the villian, the baldie with beard. :p

Suffice to say, IronMan has successfully transcend the typical, formulaic superheroes' movies with its, may I say, brilliant, and rather witty lines. Oh yes, good acting (read: Robert Downey Jr!) I guess Favreau (director) managed to encompass a realistic feel to the whole, while injecting a perfect balance, which was his original purpose: that is to make this a family fantasy movie.

Oh, and I love how this movie manages to poke fun at Ivy Leagues, Playboy's Hugh Hefner (starring Stan Lee as Hugh!), and the U.S. Military. ;p also an insider joke about how superhero have to have a girl a.k.a damsel in distress. Nothing like a good dose of sarcasm. xD

okay, I'm sorry if my extended review gave everything away, and esp if you haven't watch it. But I promise, it's going to be worth it! :)
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and a gentle reminder to movie goers;-

Please, do not try to be a storyteller. We have our eyes, and ears, and we can understand, so zip it, will ya? You ask me why? I encountered this storyteller who was well, narrating out a scene, for the wife, naturally, everyone around him.

You know how they go, "Ooo... This is the part where she walks in, and then, yup, the guy is behind her and she's going to turn... " Oh, come on, shut up! *rolls eyes*

So, yes, zip it and enjoy the movie. peacefully. word.