the one when badrul gets promoted...

introduction...

i am truly blessed with great friends, wonderful family and job that i love so much... yup, dalam apa jua kehidupan yang kita lalui pun, mesti ada ups and downs kan... takda yang perfect, but we have to take the opportunity that is given to us, and use it to the fullest... waahhhhh, macam kelas psychology plak... hahahaha...


beautiful flowers for beautiful people...

walaupun this year tak habis lagi, but i have a wonderful time sampai hari nih... and hopefully untuk hari-hari yang mendatang jugak... this year memang exceptional... i kenal dengan ramai kawan-kawan baru... sama ada dah bertentang mata atau pun tidak, we jadi clique yang click! for example, wink (well, one of the example lah...) langsung tak pernah jumpa... tapi pernah tengok gambar, dan cuma pernah cakap telefon... but, i know i can count on him when i need help... kalau nak sebutkan satu persatu nama kat sini, memang susah, sebab i met tons of great people!!! you know who you are... but i do have to thank sultanmuzaffar for the opportunity to meet all these beautiful people... juga everyone from paris II... kasih sayang yang tak berbelah bagi...

the story...

early this year i dapat new boss... andrew sidwell a.k.a. bag, mat saleh from australia... i'm quite excited about it, sebab this guy menang banyak awards around the world... creative awards for radio commercials... eh, bercakap pasal radio commercials nih, leen... i hear you.. hahahaaha... i know i get annoyed with 'that radio commercial' as well... nasib baik that one is our competitor punya station hahahaa... ok, back to the story mory... walau pun excited, at the same time, takut gak... maklumlah, my england nih bukannyer 'powderful' sangat... nanti dia cakap lain, i faham lain, mahu haru-biru jadi nyer...


flowers on my dining table...

but i'm so lucky... dia nih boleh terima pandangan, boleh terima kritikan dan paling best, dia respect our cultures... i work very hard to be where i am now, and he knows it... banyak benda baru yang belajar dari dia... to top it all (macam icing on the cake lah) bulan july lalu, for the first time dalam masa empat tahun nih, i menang awards for my radio commercials, not one, but three awards!!!! waahhh, bangganya!!! jangan kata lubang hidung, semua lubang pun kembang... hahahahhaaa... lepas tuh, early september pulak one of my commercials was in the finalist for mc2 awards, which judges dia from all over the world!!! i'm so happy... dan malam 1 october nih pulak ada kancil awards... semoga ada rezeki untuk menang sesuatu... tapi kalau takda rezeki, takpalah... insyaAllah, tahun depan cuba lagi...

another great news was, i received my promotion early this month! well, my boss told me about the promotion earlier, tapi on the day he sent out email to everyone in the company, i was on medical leave... bila masuk bertimbun-timbun sms to congratulate me, i pun check lah my email box... honestly, i cried! i cried so hard bila baca apa yang my boss tulis about me... so, i want to share his email with all my friends here and i pray to god that you guys will have my kind of boss as well...


for all of you, my beautiful friends...

Hello there

(singing joyfully) It's the season to be restructuring trulla la la....

It gives me great pleasure to announce the promotion of Badrul Hashim effective immediately.

Do not be confused, when you are in a Creative your job is to behave differently. To challenge the obvious, to seek better
information in order to create the new and unique. We don't wear suits because they're uncomfortable, we keep funny
hours because our idea's like our brains don't switch off at 5.30pm or turn on at 9am.

We don't see ourselves as typists regurgitating client self engrossed babble. We see ourselves as purveyors
of the process of recombination and variation known as creativity.
We get fired up when we get bullied to follow a direction we know isn't as good as it possibly could be for our client.

Like you we are proud and passionate about our work.

We may not articulate our frustrations in the normal way, but if you really, really listen to the essence of what we're saying
you'll hear this message every time.

"We want this to work for our clients and we know our knowledge, talent, and belief will give it the edge to cut
through, be remembered, retained and acted upon. Please listen and take heed of our advice."

No one embodies this spirit of the Creative more than Badrul.

Please congratulate the "bad man" on his ascendancy to a role he absolutely deserves.

Sfx: Applause.

Andrew Sidwell

do share your working experience(s) with me...

the one when badrul met af2 kids...

one of the perks kerja kat radio nih, i dapat jumpa ramai artis... tak kiralah artis tempatan ker, or international artistes... dulu pun masa i kerja kat one of publication house, well, yang ada majalah media hiburan to be exact, memang dah jumpa dah local artistes... kadang-kadang tuh, berpinau jugaklah mata nih kan, dapat jumpa siti nurhaliza depan-depan mata... siti lawa macam anak patung tau...

so, bila dah kat radio nih, lagi lah best kan... bukan setakat artis malaysia, tapi dapat jumpa jugak scorpion, westlife (sorry ah, i memang minat giler dengan boy-band!), ronan keating, blue, brian mcnight, mariah carey... jugak artistes hongkong macam aaron kwok, andy lau (bukan david low ye... yang tuh hari-hari jumpa) or bollywood macam sharoukh khan, ameer khan, salman khan or indonesian macam gigi, sheila on 7, ruth sahanaya, anggun dan lain-lain...

but nothing, i repeat, nothing, touches my life macam budak-budak akademi fantasia nih... they have change my life (and some of you too)in some way or the other... memang kuat penangan mereka nih... dalam orang tuh dok marah kat astro pasal hal nih lah, pasal hal tuh lah, i tetap berpegang pada satu jer, without astro, none of us will have the chance to see these talented kids... tak percaya? let me give you one example... farah tuh... menang pertandingan sana, menang pertandingan sini, and the last one before af was pertandingan beras jati yang buat dengan one of the top entertainment magazine and one private station... muka keluar paper, keluar tv, but ada tak orang ingat farah? maybe kawan-kawan dan ahli keluarga kot... but now, look at farah, love by almost everyone including myself!

to me, these kids are so special... very special in so many ways! i've met new friends (some even jadi my close and best friends...), i learnt new things (menjadikan impian satu realiti... hahahaha), melihat mereka jatuh dan bangun, menjadi sahabat berkongsi susah senang, memahami erti sebenar bahawa kita harus mengenal hati budi seseorang sebelum kita mampu untuk menilai seseorang... banyak! banyak benda yang dipelajari dari sebuah rancangan berbentuk hiburan ini...

anyway, semua nih adalah my pesonal opinion terhadap each and everyone of them... you can share your own opinion about them with me here if you want to... of course, kat ruangan komenlah...

zarina...


my favourite af2, zarina...

'satu dunia' tahu zarina is my favourite af2 student... hahahaha... masih ku ingat dengan penuh terang benderang di dalam kepala ini betapa selalu 'bergaduh' kat blog sultanmuzaffar kerana ada orang kutuk-kutuk zarina... hahhhaa... kenangan lalu tuh, memang tak boleh dijual beli... zarina seorang yang lemah lembut, cakap dia penuh sopan santun dan rasa hormat pada orang tua... itulah kelebihan zarina yang i nampak! walaupun hati bias mengatakan suara zarina sedap giler, tapi i know she need vocal training to go far in this line... zarina mudah terguris! tapi dia diajar untuk kelihatan 'kukuh' dan 'kuat' di luar...

farah...


farah... she is damn cute!

farah manja... to me, farah tak pandai berpura-pura... periang tapi pada masa yang sama, sangat sensitif... pandai menghargai orang lain dan tak banyak songeh! jarang sekali kita lihat farah bermuram durja atau bermasam muka kerana farah memang sayangkan peminat-peminatnya... dia tau asal-usulnya, dia tau permulaannya... suara farah memang kuat (macam my voice jugak, yang jenis tertelan microphone... hahahahaha

nurul...


nurul, comelnyer...

nurul memang pemalu... i think nurul has the-best-skin person i've ever met... kulit dia halus bak telur! she's intelligent tapi sedikit pendiam... unless kalau dia kenal you, mulutnya pot pet pot pet tak henti-henti... kecik jer tapi kuat makan... nurul perlu ada dua pilihan samada ada sokongan kuat di belakang dia (pr yang power lah) atau dia sendiri kena keraskan hati dan semangat dalam industri yang penuh dengan 'kekotoran' nih... dan nurul seorang anak yang baik...

bob...


bob, his voice like an angel...

bob... bob... bob... kalau kat luar negara, bob sekarang nih cuma perlu goyang kaki jer sebab album laku juta-juta... tapi tidak di malaysia yang masih mementingkan paras rupa... ramai yang tak kenal bob akan kata bob nih over... but they are wrong! bob cuma melakukan apa yang perlu dia lakukan... which is to double his effort to prove that he deserve to be in this industry... he has to show that his level of confident is up there, walaupun pada masa yang sama, dia rasa rendah diri berbanding rakan-rakan yang lain... i have high respect for bob! di malaysia nih, untuk dia berjaya, dia terpaksa 'menongkah arus'... well, i know i will be one of the fans yang akan beli album dia!

anding...


anding...

intelligent boy! mempunyai cita-cita yang tinggi untuk berjaya! and he's the type yang bila buat sesuatu, akan buat sebaik mungkin! pandai menari, tapi dia lagi pandai simpan rahsia... hahahaha... anding memang berhak berada dalam bidang seni... kalau bukan sebagai penyanyi, mungkin sebagai pengarah filem yang berkaliber satu hari nanti...

zahid...


zahid, juara af2...

sempoi boy! very talented and very cheeky! tapi to me, it's just facade... he's more sensitive than apa yang ditunjukkan pada orang ramai... penangannya kepada af fans sangat besar dan kalau dia tak berhati-hati, it will makan diri... zahid jenis yang bekerja keras untuk berjaya... he's willing to go the distant to be on top... dia akan minta pandangan, belajar dari kesilapan, dan bermula dari asas... pada zahid, bidang seni adalah satu tugas, bukan hobi... attitude yang patut ada pada semua bintang af...

mas...


mas yang unik...

mas selain daripada mempunyai suara yang unik, juga merupakan orang yang unik pernah i jumpa... she's different, she has attitude... good attitude and she is raw... she can become a good singer but she has to overcome a lot of obstacles... one of it is language barrier... dia kena faham dulu dan belajar cakap dalam bahasa melayu yang betul... setiap kali berbual dengan dia, i have to repeat a few times, and after awhile, change tone sikit... i know she can sing well, and i know she wants to do well... we have to give her time... i love her hearty laugh and i know she can go far if she wants to...

kaer...


kaer... so down-to-earth kid!

you can read him like a book, which i think sedikit disadvantage for him... he's too kind and too willing to share his heart with anyone... very intelligent, and too mature for his age (can be advantage or disadvantage)... witty and down to earth! ada sedikit 'ketidak sabaran' but i blamed it on his age... juga ada sedikit lurus dan terlalu honest with his feelings... he wants to make the world a better place for everyone, dia nak jadi macam superman, macam tuh lah lebih kurang... hahahaha... kalau i nak adik lelaki, i want somebody like him (waahhh, boleh main pilih-pilih pulak)... i pray that he'll be strong in this 'dawg eat dawg' industry...

edlin...

alamak, i belum ada gambar edlin... i will update it as soon as i have it... i like edlin... she's so sweet and charming! too bad ramai yang tak dapat tengok edlin lebih lama dan kenal lebih rapat dengan edlin masa di af, because if not, you guys will love her too... dia suka bertanya dan belajar, tapi sedikit kurang yakin dengan kemampuan yang ada pada dirinya... she has wonderful voice... crispy clear! walaupun dilahirkan dalam keluarga berada, edlin is down-to-earth, tak menyombong dan dia memang suka berkawan...

adam...


adam and his bandangan...

i think adalah empat kali kot i suruh adam shave janggut sejemput dia tuh... hahaha.. until masa rehearsal anugerah era, barulah i tahu the reason dia nak simpan... because dia cakap ramai kawan kata muka dia macam perempuan, so dia nak nampakkan 'kejantanan' dia... hhhmmm... what can i say... i do believe that he will look much better without it... adam nih memang jenis pemalu, kalau orang tak cakap dengan dia memang dia takkan boraknya... but he's sweet! yup, dia memang budak cermin... well, i also believe, if you have it, you flaunt it... hahahaaa...

fitri...


fitri, creative in fashion design...

fitri dengan i tak berapa rapat compare to i dengan yang lainnya... but fitri is talented... maybe not in singing, but he can make it big as an actor! fitri pun jenis yang down to earth and sayangkan fans nya... but he has to work extra harder to be remembered... he's good looking, which is an added value in the entertainment industry... i tak tahu sama ada fitri serious to be in entertainment, tapi sayang kalau bakat yang ada tuh tidak digilap sepenuhnya...

linda...


pesona bintang, linda, naib juara af2...

this is one happy-go-lucky girl! linda memang suka ketawa, dia suka berkawan, dia suka berteman... i kesian kat dia because ramai yang masih lagi salahkan dia pasal afmasuk tuh... kesannya, dia jadi takut bila berdepan dengan orang ramai... it will be awhile before she can recover for her experience... mesti ramai yang tak sangka, linda nih sebenarnya suka berjenaka... antara budak-budak perempuan af2, linda lah yang paling 'nakal'... dia juga pandai ambil hati... mungkin sebab tuh lah ramai orang jatuh hati dengan linda nih...

the one with badrul and anugerah era 2004...

what?? tukar topic lagi? hhahaha... takpalah kan... i want to write about anugerah era 2004 when it still fresh in my mind... i want to say what i feel... nak ceritakan dari sudut pandangan mata sendiri, dari perasaan sendiri dan dari pengalaman sendiri...

what it meant...

i terlibat dengan anugerah era since ianya mula diperkenalkan back in 2001... since ae01, ae02 dan ae03, i was the voice of ae robot... i had so much fun doing it... menjadi orang di belakang tabir but at the same time, involved in such a big production... memang letih untuk menganjurkan satu anugerah yang besar... ramai yang tak nampak apa yang berlaku di belakang tabir, dari mula perancangannya hinggalah ke peringkat ianya dipertontonkan pada orang ramai... kalau orang yang biasa dengan organize buat birthday party ker, wedding ker, potluck ker... mesti tau betapa banyaknya benda yang nak kena buat walaupun dalam skala yang kecil, inikan pula untuk menganjurkan anugerah seperti anugerah era... yang lebih penting, anugerah nih nak dibuat secara percuma kepada pendengar era... and most people nakkan yang memuaskan hati masing-masing sahaja... tapi itu perkara biasa yang boleh ditolak tepi...


kaer nyanyi kat showcase before ae bermula...

tujuan utama anugerah era ialah untuk memberikan anugerah kepada penggiat seni tanahair yang dipilih oleh pendengar era sendiri, di samping sebagai penyambut ulangtahun era yang diraikan setiap tahun... untuk anugerah era, pendengar era boleh mengundi pilihan masing-masing... untuk lebih mudah lagi, pada awalnya era memberikan peluang mereka mendapat kertas undi dari skuad era dan dari laman web era... nak lebih mudah lagi, era membolehkan mereka mengundi melalui sistem sms dan juga terbaru, melalui borang di akhbar-akhbar... malangnya, yang cakap berdegar-degar selalunya yang langsung tak mengundi... bila keputusan di luar jangkaan mereka, mulalah tak puas hati itu dan ini, tapi bila ditanya mengundi atau tidak, memanglah tidak jawabnya... oklah, lagi sekali benda nih memang dah selalu biasa terjadi, jadi boleh ditolak ke tepi lagi sekali...


anding di showcase ae04...

oh, sebelum terlupa, ada jugak few friends yang email and sms, bertanyakan samada i berkecil hati dengan sesetengah komen yang pedih dan perit diutarakan oleh beberapa orang kawan lainnya... well, honesty, i do... but then again, they are entitle to their own opinion... and i always believe in giving anyone credit for being honest with their opinion... and anugerah era bukannya sorang yang buat, i'm just a small part of the whole picture... again, whatever people want to say, i am damn proud of anugerah era... to me, anyone of that five nominees have their own right to win and it's up to their voters to vote... you don't vote, you talk to the hand!

the story mory...

anugerah era 2004 was a blast for me! why? let me story story you, ok! just two days before anugerah era, seelan called me and suruh i jadi host for dvrplayer.com... well, not actually suruh, but mintak tolong... since this year ae robot direhatkan (sob sob sob), i sepatutnya jadi usher jer, so takdalah benda yang urgent nak buat, so i kata oklah...


khas untuk peminat bob meessrrrraaaaa... (wai em is one of them...)

anugerah era's eve...

on friday, we all have to go to the stadium sebab nak label kan seats... lepas habis bertugas, i stay back to watch full dress rehearsal, di samping buat sikit-sikit persiapan for the next day itself... so, i lepaklah kat makeup room sambil tengok artis-artis keluar masuk untuk dimakeupkan... masa tuh kaer pun ada sama, so kita orang boraklah dengan zai nih (orang kelantan)... since i nih half kelantanese, so lajulah borak macam bertih goreng... tiba-tiba si kaer pun menyampuk jugak cakap kelantan... wahhh, terkejut dawg jugaklah... so dia pun taruklah kata bapak dia pun orang kelantan... so bila borak-borak dalam loghat kelantan nih banyak lah gossip-gossip keluar... hahahahaaa...


adam tengah perform bersama dayang...

at the same time, zai assigned one of her staff to do makeup for me (jangan marah... kena pakai makeup jugak... hahahaha) so kaer tanyalah kenapa pakai jugak... so i told him i jadi host for dvrplayer.com... dia pun tanya boleh tak dia nak buat jugak... i told him boleh tapi dia takleh mintak payment ker apa-apa ker sebab i pun tolong jer since all era announcers semua involved on stage... he said takpa, he wants to do it... so, that was how it started... both of us on dvrplayer.com...

the night itself...

mula-mula tuh memang tak gementar langsung... ya lah kan, it was only the webcast... walaupun live, alah, berapa kerat sangat tengok pun... tapi sebaliknya berlaku... masa mula-mula ziana zain dibawa masuk ke interview room, rupa-rupanya berbelas-belas orang photographers from newspapers and magazines, termasuk beberapa orang press pun ikut sama... since, they all nak ambil gambar pemenang, they have to wait for us to finish the interview first... mmmaakkk ddaatuukk!!! dub dab dub dab jantung! tapi memang nasib baik, memang tuhan dah tentukan... thank you to kaer, he was so cool and relax... maybe dia dah biasa berdepan dengan ramai photographers, so he took charged!


me and my co-host, kaer... cool kid!!!

it took me awhile to match his 'giler-gilerness', we ended up entertaining the people in the room as well (and it's not easy to please this people)... ya lah kan... kita berdua nih bukannya ada pengalaman interview orang, but the best part was, we managed to come up with some crazy questions... hahahahaa... i have the 'grandest' time!


me and kaer tengah interview ziana zain... pemenang lagu pop pilihan...


with too phat, artis inggeris tempatan...


mirwana menang dua anugerah, vokal duo berkumpulan dan lagu nasyid pilihan...


liza hanim menang muzik video pilihan...


rosyam noor & kavita kaur terima anugerah for anugerah kaki wayang era...


spider menang band pilihan dan lagu rock pilihan...


nassier wahab mengejutkan ramai orang bila menang vokal lelaki pilihan...


noraniza idris dapat anugerah untuk lagu global... tahniah! she deserved it!


dengan khai yang dapat anugerah carta era... makin petah dia bercakap...


vince, artis harapan pilihan...


yeahhh!!! akhirnya misha menang vokal wanita pilihan... happynya...

dah lah tu, the actual planning was to intervew only the winners, but we managed to change it... we just grabbed whoever was 'unfortunate' enough, and do our own 'korek korek rahsia' segment...


interview juliza adlizan...

someone reminded me about calling juliza, 'kak juliza'... oh ya... 'kak lina' yang call i tanya kenapa panggil kak juliza? dah memang dia tua dari i pun! hahahaha... i was still in primary school masa dia menang bintang rtm tuh, and kaer tak lahir pun lagi... hahahhaa.. oleh kerana kita orang tak dapat tengok show on stage, kita 'paksa' kak juliza nyanyi lagu kuda hitam lagi sekali, and both of us jadi backup dancers... hahahahaa... kelakar habis! nasib baik tak ramai yang tengok dvrplayer... hahahhahaa...


meesssrrraaaaa bersama bob... great moment!

masa interview bob nih lah dia sebut balik pasal rancangan yang dia buat dengan kaer masa kat af dulu... rancangan korek-korek rahsia... we had a great time interviewing bob... lepas tuh suruh dia nyanyi lagu 'cinta seorang teman' (betul ker tajuk nih? hahahaha) beessstttnya suara dia! sayang kalau orang kat malaysia nih masih lagi nak pandang paras rupa...


dengan ning baizura... lawanyerrrrrr!!!

masa interview ning macam professional habis, maklumlah pr manager dia siap tanya kita orang what type of question yang kita nak tanya ning... wahh!! seperti biasa, kaer tak habis-habis nak tanya pasal siapa yang sponsor baju... hahahhaaa... lepas tuh kat belakang pulak misha tengah tunggu untuk giliran dia diinterview... sungguh professional!! kaer pulak dengan semua orang dia rancang nak duet...hahahaha...

the one when badrul visits china... (part 1 ~ Beijing)

mula-mula tu ingat nak buat ikut turutan... but takpalah, carca-marba sikit... so i start dengan china dulu... but, even china pun i have to separate into 3 parts, since i plan to put as much pictures as i can (or allowed to)... china nih actually nya company trip... best kan our company, semua dapat pergi trip to china... every year we went out of the country... mula-mula dulu bangkok, then phuket, last year was beijing and this year bali... anyway, i want to write about china because it was kinda of special... part 1 will be about beijing, part 2 for xi'an and 3 is for shanghai...

the plan...

when we found out that we were going to beijing, china, for the company trip, shonny and i mula lah plan kat mana lagi boleh pergi... mula-mula tu kita rancang nak extend to go to hongkong but my friend hoe was against it... dia kata takda apa kat hongkong except for shopping... tu pun a bit expensive.. so, rancang punya rancang, we decided to go to xi'an instead to visit terrecota worriors (the eighth wonder of the world), then from xi'an we fly to shanghai for a few days, then balik to kl from shanghai... another friend, willie, decided to follow us... so, we went to our travel agency and tukar apa yang patut, book apa yang perlu and we were good to go...

beijing...

it was supposed to be end of winter / early spring in beijing, but the weather was cold... very cold! i love it! banyak benda yang i rancang nak buat kat beijing... of course mestilah nak pergi the great wall of china, nak pergi tianamen square, and nak makan peking duck... dan semestinya nak shopping! ramai yang cakap 'barangan tiruan' kat china murah-murah! so-called branded items lah... tu lah sebabnya pergi china nih i bawak sampai dua bag besar... hahahaha...


depan hotel.. it's snowing! from left; hoe, edmund, me, ham, shonn and willie...

everything is big in china! the road, the building... everything! masa pergi the great wall memang sejuk... some of them (including shonny, but not me!) panjat great wall sampai nun di atas... i duduk kat bawah, smoking, and makan twisties and drink coke! hahahahaha... i'm so happy that at last, the great wall of china dapat i sentuh dan tengok dengan mata sendiri... it was an amazing experience! the only man-made thing that boleh nampak from the moon... on the other hand, i can't help it but to feel sad... imagine, berapa ramai hamba abdi yang mati, berapa ramai yang menderita, just to satisfy one emperor! hhhmmm... anyway, another wonder of the world masuk dalam poket...


the great wall of china...


great wall of china... shonn went all the way up there...

makan di beijing kira oklah... slightly on the tasteless side... but i think the best meal ever was the peking duck... itulah kali pertama i makan peking duck original from peking (before nama tukar jadi beijing)...


the chef tengah preparing the peking duck for us... yummmmyyy...

we shared one duck empat orang... i, shonny, joyce and ramona... licin! even the plum saurce pun habis jugak... hahhahhaa... it was amazing! tapi jangan ingat macam itik gantung yang kat kl tuh... hahahaha...


tianamen square, beijing...

on the day kita pergi tianamen square, snow turun... wahhhhh!!! happy nya! in a short time, snow was everywhere... tapi that day, we were not allowed to enter tianamen square sebab party communist china tengah ada persidangan besar-besaran (well, since semua besar kan!) best sungguh dapat berjalan dalam suasana yang sejuk! walaupun menggigil jugaklah kepala lutut, but i enjoy it better than walking under the hot sun! kalau panas tuh, i rather walk on the beach jer... so, since tianamen square tutup, we moved on to forbidden city...


me, hoe and shonn... before melawat forbidden city, beijing...

forbidden city memang besar giler... but again, it doesn't represent its name anymore.. sebab kat dalam forbidden city pun westerners dah tawan! just imagine, jalan punya jalan punya jalan dalam that huge place, you will see starbucks! yup, american coffee, starbucks! sedih kan!

tapi on the whole, that place is well preserved! baguslah orang kat china nih... atleast dia orang pandai jugak jaga sejarah negara sendiri... too bad our country does not have that kind of history... kalau ada pun, semuanya diangkut pergi museum, so macam mana orang nak melawat tempat-tempat bersejarah di negara kita kan? ask yourself, berapa ramai yang tahu tempat asal usul batu bersurat ditemui? hhhmmm...


the first black emperor in china... forbidden city, beijing

memang kelakar habis! gatal nak cuba jugak pakai costume emperor! akhirnya kita jadi tumpuan ramai... ya lah kan, mana ada black emperor kat china, tup tup muncul di forbidden city... hahahaha... ramai jugaklah local tourist yang ambil gambar i... hahahah... rasa macam famous kejap!


emperor of china dengan gundik-gundik dan pengawal... joyce, me, ida, ramona and shonn...

the one when badrul visits china... (part 2 ~ xi'an)

it was so irony that the most important place yang nak pergi nih, gambar-gambar semua mostly dah hilang dari simpanan (corrupted files) okay... okay... it's my fault sebab tak buat back-up, but i've learnt my lesson the hard way... sedih memang lah sedih... nasib baik ada jugak yang dah print, so maybe later i boleh scan and upload kan jugak... but for now, these few pictures will make do...


outside the building of terrecotta warriors, xi'an...

on the day most of everyone else flying back to kl, the four of us were flying off to xi'an... sampai jer airport kat xi'an, we decided to book a tour... lagi senangkan... and thanks to hoe who speaks mandarin perfectly, all of us were in good hand! our hotel dekat dengan penempatan orang-orang islam china di xi'an... it was quite weird to see chinese pakai kopiah dan pakai tudung... tapi rasa sungguh refreshing... atleast tak bimbang tentang makanan... but than again, the way they cooked it tak sama dengan chinese food kat tempat kita. their food mostly very bland and tasteless... dan kalau dia orang masak meat, usually they don't waste anything (so dia orang masak dengan darah-darah sekali) and satu perangai buruk dia orang, they all spit merata-rata even kat tempat makan... arrgghhhh!! anyway, the experience yang paling penting kan...


dinner in xi'an sambil pakai leather jacket baru...

i guess sama jer kat mana-mana di china nih, everything is big! the road, the shopping mall, even the mosque... we have to walk and walk and walk... i'm so excited when we entered the dome where the terrecotta warriors were digged out... miles and miles (a little exaggeration here, please) of lime-stone figures stood before us... wow! memang mengagumkan! and semua muka patung tuh tak sama antara satu sama lain. live-size figures of chinese armies... not just orang but animals too... the place was so huge that habis jer tour, we all were so tired... tired of walking...


hoe with terrecotta warriors...

all i can say was, terrecotta warriors were definitely the eighth worder of the world... macam mana agaknya ya tukang-tukang buat patung nih terpaksa ukir wajah setiap dari askar-askar tuh, and to measure them to get the exact size, and everything...hhhmmm... tak cukup dengan tuh, ada pulak patung-patung kuda, kambing, ayam, lembu, khinzir dan lain-lain... sungguh-sungguh menakjubkan!


terrecotta warriors, xi'an...

the one with badrul starting the blog...

is this for real? that is the question that lingers in my mind... betul ker nak buat blog nih? hahahahah... and why now?


mount kinabalu, malaysia

as far as i'm concern, blog nih takda kena mengena langsung dengan cabaran sesiapa... in fact, saja nak 'acu cuba try test'... i do have my own site (personal) yang dibuat suka-suka untuk letak all my travelling photos (hence, 'after six' title). tak banyak yang ditulis kat site tuh, so i guess what i really want to do here is to try, i repeat, try, to write something... everything, including benda-benda yang mungkin tak berfaedah langsung... hahahaha... i guess ianya more for my own satisfaction...


mount pilatus, switzerland

well, what do i know about myself? hhmmm... nothing much, i guess... dah masuk 35 tahun nih still tercari-cari diri sendiri... hahahaha... but i have to say this, that i am quite happy with who i am now... quite, but not totally... i've been in the entertainment industry for about 15 years now... since belajar buat freelance untuk advertising agencies, since buat voice-over talent plus singing jingles... that is why i consider it 'entertainment' industry...

lepas graduate jer (with bachelor digree in mass communications majoring advertising / minor broadcasting) terus start kerja dengan advertising agency... after retrenchment back in 1998, i moved to publishing house... kerja bagai nak rak tapi duit seciput... apa pun, i did enjoyed myself... masa tuh handle pulak malay entertainment magazine... berpinar jugaklah mata dapat tengok siti nurhaliza dari dekat, plus other local artistes...


aiman & alisya, jantung hati...

lepas tuh dapat offer dengan satellite tv (hey, first time headhunter cari tau... hahahaa..) so i moved to a place which was not really me... maklumlah, pakai tie, shirt and pants day in day out (and mesti corporate color e.g. dark blue, dark gray, black : translate as boring colors) i love my job though... bangun pagi pukul 5, sampai office 6am... balik rumah about 12 midnight or later... cuma i hate my boss so much...

door of opportunity terbuka for me when the number one radio station in malaysia offer me a job... tanpa menoleh ke belakang lagi, i jump... with all my energy that i have...


farah & anies, pride & joy...

now, dah lima tahun with radio... wow! cepatnya masa berlalu... i guess i am quite happy with who, what, where i am now... a long the way, i met bermacam-macam orang... gaya hidup, perwatakan, status dan lain-lain... i got to travel too... my passion in life - travelling! actually, maybe that's the reason i create this blog... to talk more about my passion, and to jumble up with other interest in my life... but than again, this is just the first stage... maklumlah, i nih bab-bab IT nih lemah sikit... it takes me awhile to think it over... rajin ke aku nak update nih, or will i be able to do this without other people's help? ya lah kan... dah lah nak buat something untuk diri sendiri, takkan nak menyusahkan orang lain pulak... but one thing for sure, i love writing too... so, bab-bab menulis nih rasanya takda masalah kot, apatah lagi menulis something yang mengarut-ngarut... hahahaha...


sunset at lake constance, germany

will i write something else than travelling?... i should think so... apa jua yang menarik perhatian (ya.. ya.. including 'story of my life'.. *sigh*)and, entertainment industry...

for a start, i think this should be ok...