the one about badrul and bowling...

astro bowling - team champion...

there are two games that i love the most… one is basketball, and the other is bowling… but i taknak cakap pasal basketball sebab dah rasa macam beribu-ribu tahun tak main basketball… i want to talk about bowling… yep… i love this game so much… dan kalau ada kesempatan memang i akan pergi main bowling dengan kawan-kawan… to me, bowling memang boleh release kan tension…


espn starsports media bowling championship malaysia - 1st runner-up...

i taklah main bowling professionally… sekadar suka-suka jer… and i don’t think i’m that good either… my technique pun quite unique… muhahahaha… sebab kalau you see the way i bowl, you will see that my bowling ball rolls the other way around… susah jugak nak explain macam mana, but you have to see it with your own eyes to know what i mean… tapi alhamdulillah lah, setakat nih, kalau join apa-apa tournament, jarang balik dengan tangan kosong… kalau tak jadik juara pun, sekurang-kurangnya nombor dua… tapi ini semua team effort lah… bukannya sebab i sorang…


tanjong astro maxis game - bowling champion...

anyway, the reason i want to talk about bowling sebab i was chosen to be the captain of the bowling team for astro / era in the fiesta media idola this coming april… alah, the one yang kalau you baca newspapers tuh dia orang nak buat di kuantan, pahang under tengku muda pahang… fiesta nih pun ada football, netball, futsal and of course, bowling… each team and each game mesti ada artiste yang turut serta… so for bowling, artiste yang main untuk team lelaki is khai and team perempuan is edlin… which is good because both of them can play… and lebih senang for me since both of them are under maestro, which part of astro jugak… wahhhh, panjangnya explanation… hahahahaha…


ad bowling bonanza... champion...

tapi jadik captain nih pressure jugak… ya lah kan, sebab bila kena wakil astro nih, they want to win… ya lah kan, company mana yang nak kalah ya tak… hahahhaa… especially kalau kena lawan fellow competitors like tv3, ntv7, other media like berita harian, nst, utusan and others… all i know is that my team will do our best and menang atau kalah tuh bergantung pada usaha dan rezeki lah kan… sekarang nih we practice every week kat mines…


astro bowling league - individual champion...

but to tell you the truth, sepanjang i main bowling nih, i think the trophy yang paling berharga to me is the one in the picture above… being the individual champion in the astro bowling league tournament… we have to play every week for ten weeks and i was up against 40 or more other bowlers in astro each week… that league lama giler but it was worth it… really worth it…

the one about badrul and a small window of the past (part ii)...

adextra (i)...

yup... i do have hair... maybe not as much as before, but i still do... hahahahhaaa... see, before orang lain letak kat komen 'eh, badrul ada rambut!!', baik i letak dulu kan... muuahahahaa.. anyway, this is the place where i mula-mula sekali kerja full time... kalau nak cerita pasal kerja-kerja sambilan dan sebagainya tuh memang banyak lah... pernah jual keropok lekor, pernah kerja kat supermarket hock kee seng kat kuala terengganu, jadi juru jual dari meja ke meja, writing scripts, tv commercials, jingles dan memacam kerja lagih... but here i'm talking about kerja lepas betul-betul habis belajar... so, memang banyak kenangan...


adextra (ii)...

adextra sdn bhd... tu lah nama company tuh... an advertising agency... not too big, not too small... client pun not bad lah masa tuh, silverstone, suzuki, sunway resort hotel etc... the best thing about that company was my friends... satu kepala dan happening habis... bitchy yes, but tak pernah involved any politics... tuh yang seronok sangat tuh... memang all of us kerja bagai nak rak, and memang gaji seciput, tapi we all fight for the same thing... bonus, company trip dan sebagainya... memang selalu fight jugaklah dengan management and most of the time, kita dapat apa yang kita nak because they knew we did our job very, very well...


adextra (iii)...

masa tuh adextra was under the lion group... then, lepas two years i kerja kat situ, sungei way group took over... padahal diaorang dah ada their own advertising agency masa tuh... walaupun cadangan awalnya the management nak merge kan kita, tapi entah macam mana benda tuh tak jadik... anyway, under the new management, kitaorang masa tuh lebih terarah lah because they are such a big company and policy semua memang ada... so benefit nya lagi baiklah... siap dapat pink form for sg. way construction lagih, which best giler masa tuh... anyway, langit tak selalu cerah kan... bila tiba recession 98 tuh, the management decided to keep only one agency... so, kena retrench lah kita orang... sob... sob... sob... semua bawak diri masing-masing... in fact, i was out of job almost a year... buat freelance jer...


adextra (iv)...

anyway, another small window to my past... i miss a lot of them though... i know yati sekarang kat geneva working with u.n., norman in new york, adie in consultium, but the rest tuh kira lost contact lah... really miss them... i guess tempat kerja yang pertama pun like our first love... it may not be the best, but it's the one that we can't forget... we will never forget...

the one about badrul and some people in the entertainment industry (part 1)...

anastacia...

working with such a huge broadcast company memang banyak kelebihan... and one of them is the chance to meet with lotsa of entertainers.. local and international... masa kerja dengan karangkraf dulu pun dah excited giler dapat jumpa local artistes, apatah lagih sekarang nih dapat pulak jumpa dengan yang lainnya... kalau 10 tahun dulu i cakap kat my friend i bergambar dengan scorpions, mesti diaorang semua gelak-gelak golek atas lantai sambil tendang-tendang kaki... but now, kalau i cakap i ambil gambar dengan anastacia, semua mulut ternganga... muuahahahahaha...


ian wright...

i memang suka giler dengan ian wright... i think he's among the best tv presenter ever... kelakar and i usually jarang miss lonely planet (now change to globe trekker) walaupun dia punya tad innit tuh kekadang susah sikit nak faham, but cara penyampaian yang bersahaja and his funny attitude buat orang accept him the way he is, tak kira negara mana pun dia pergi... his own show 'ian wright live' pun kelakar sebab dia siap letak orang-orang dia kat audience suruh buat kacau... muuahahahaa...


medison avenue...

i sebenarnya tak berapa minat sangat dengan medison avenue... muuahahahaa... but since the lead singer datang kat radio, so, i pun bergambarlah... anyway, international artiste lah kata kan... muauahahhahaaa...


katon bagaskara...

katon bagasgara is one of my favourite indonesian artiste along with vina panduwinata and ebiet g.ade (i think spelling dia macam nih kot)... yep, i memang suka lagu-lagu puisi nih and i still have the cassettes sampai sekarang... tapi tak tau lah boleh guna lagi ke tak... hahahhaa...


scorpions...

siapa yang tak kenal dengan kumpulan scorpions kan... walaupun i nih kurang sikit minat lagu-lagu rock, but banyak jugak lagu-lagu scorpions yang i suka... maybe they are not as big as other groups yang ada kat pasaran sekarangs but i think they are a legend... for years to come, people will still remember scorpions... kalau tak sebagai group pun, sebagai binatang berbisa... muuahahahaaa...


anuar zain...

gambar nih di ambil masa anugerah era 2003 when anuar menang best vocal untuk artis lelaki pilihan... with anuar, we go back a long way... dah lama dah kawan dengan dia and dia nih salah satu artist yang i betul-betul rapat lah... beautiful voice with the heart of gold... tak hipokrit macam segelintir artis lainnya...

anyway, gambar-gambar nih adalah sebahagian daripada photo collection yang i ada... lainnya belum sempat nak scan lagih... ya lah, dulu tak mampu nak beli digital camera... muuahahahahaa...

16 january 2005

info on juara lagu 19

the result:

vokal terbaik: misha omar
persembahan terbaik: noraniza idris
irama malaysia / pop etnik: dayang nurfaizah
balada: misha omar
pop rock: spider

juara lagu 19: spider - rela ku pujuk

one word to describe sarimah - bising!!!! haiiyooo... i lagi prefer cheryl samad tuh jadi pengacara... in fact, dia lagih kelakar daripada sarimah or najib ali... no offend sarimah, u are pretty and all and very talkative, but not for this kind of event...

congratulations to misha, noraniza, dayang and spider...

the one about badrul and a 'new baby'...

xe'qi (i)...

meet a new member of my family… go on… say hi… say hello to xe’qi… yup, her name is xe’qi and she’s gonna be xe’an’s sister… muuahahahaa… family planning maaa… no lah, really, i think it’s about time xe’an ada companion kat rumah… selalu kena tinggal the whole afternoon sebab i pergi kerja, so now at least, ada kawan yang temankan dia kat rumah…

sebenarnya dah lama jugak i nak carikan kawan untuk xe’an… in fact, i pernah tanya one of my friend if she wants to give me one of her kitten… tapi kalau boleh i nak yang almost the same breed as xe’an lah… tak lah jauh sangat beza kan… but i think bila dah lama, she also fell in love with that kitten so tak jadilah nak bagi kat i…


xe'qi (ii)...

last week masa pergi birthday celebration for corey kat usj, i dengan tina lalu at one of the pet shop there… i saw this one grey kitten… masa tuh lah keinginan nak dapatkan teman xe’an lagi kuat, so last monday i ajak shonny temankan i pergi carik…

i tak pergi the same pet shop yang i lalu dengan tina hari tuh because i want it to be the last shop i pergi and i terus boleh ambik… konon-konon nak buat window shopping lah dulu… hahahahahaa… so, i pergi the first pet shop and i saw this cute persian kitten… tapi mata 'diaorang' berair macam sakit jer… bila tanya harga pulak, sampai 950 ringgit… mak datuk mahalnyer…


xe'qi (iii)...

so i went to the second pet shop and i saw this beautiful orange tabby… i terus jatuh cinta straight away… tapi not that cheap either… 600 ringgit… mintak kurang, dia cuma bagi 550 ringgit… i told the her, if she give me 500 ringgit, i terus ambik… dia cakap dia nak discuss dengan kawan dia dulu, so i pun pergilah to the last pet shop dengan harapan nak dapatkan the grey kitten…

sampai-sampai, that grey kitten takda… bila i tanya the pet shop owner, dia cakap dia dah jual for 950 ringgit… wwwuuaarrggghhh… sedih but at the same time lega… muuaahahaha… but they also have other kittens yang lawa-lawa… harga between 550 ringgit onwards… tapi my heart now goes to the orange tabby…


xe'qi (iv)...

so i went back to the second pet shop… still bargaining of course… lama jugak tau! i think almost one hour… but i knew in my heart, no matter how much she ask pun, i will pay for it… at last, we settled for 520 ringgit… yeeaaahhhh!!! xe'qi is sooooo adorable… so adorable… now i have one grey tabby and one orange tabby… but surprisingly, bila sampai rumah, xe’qi looks more like golden color than orange… so beautiful!


xe'qi (v)...

both of them are mix-breed… tabby and persian.. but xe’qi punya bulu lagi panjang daripada xe’an… takpalah kan… female… right now xe’an is like this big brother yang still nak bully adik dia… muuahahahaa… but i know that they will get along just fine… xe’an and xe’qi… welcome to my world…

the one about badrul and karaoke...

me and my models getting ready...

i tulis this entry because kengkawan i ajak pergi karaoke… so, ni kira main taktik kotor lah nak takut-takutkan diaorang… muahahahaha… bila dia orang tengok gambar-gambar nih, baru diaorang tau dengan siapa dia bercakap sebenarnya… hahahahaa… meesua, cikanos dengan leen lah yang beria-ria nak pergi melalak nih, and i dapat tahu jugak, ada sorang tuh siap minum air suam siang dan malam supaya hari karaoke nanti dia dapat nyanyik lagu ‘careless whisper’… muahahahahaa…

all these pictures were from astro karaoke contest a few years ago… i masuk pun secara tak sengaja because one of my friend letak nama i… masa preliminary round tuh i nyanyi lagu air supply ‘i’m all out of love’… memang tak prepare langsung… main bantai jer… kalau tak silap i, the first stage nih dia orang buat sampai tiga hari sebab ramai sangat masuk and we all nyanyik pun tak full, sampai chorus jer… yang i ingat, one of the judges was azmeer, composer tuh… tapi kata orang, dah nak jadik rezeki kan, so berjaya masuk ke semi final…


on the stage... macam professional kan...

since dapat tahu masuk semi-final, so adalah buat preparation sikit-sikit… hahahhaaa… practice kat rumah jer… this round, i nyanyik lagu ‘flying without wings’ from westlife… yang nih kena nyanyik sampai habislah… there were 20 semi-finalists, so lama giler kena tunggu… i still remember ramai giler yang bagi petua tuh dan petua nih and even before i go on stage pun masih lagih minum air limau campur madu… chewaahhh.. lepas tuh bila result diumumkan untuk top ten ke final, i was one of them… kawan-kawan bersorak macam i dah menang dah… hahahahahaa… and even though kita orang nih kira bawah satu bumbung, tapi radio nih macam company lain jer, so lebih membanggakan lagi sebab semua empat orang from radio yang masuk semi-final, semuanya berjaya ke final… caya lah!


singing my heart out...

then it was time for the final… dah lah buat kat studio satu astro tuh, ada pulak cameraman and all macam the real deal… lagi real bila the studio set tuh adalah from one of astro show tapi i dah lupa show apa… hahahahaaa… masa nih lah orang sibuk-sibuk buat persiapan rapi sampai i pun naik takut… bincang punya bincang punya bincang, i dapatlah this idea nak pakai models… tapi of course lah semua model nih in-house jer… so i get kudsia, hawa, tina, carel, ina and khairul to help me out… mula-mula tuh i nak suruh anuar zain jadik the guy but he has another show that night so takleh lah… ialah kan, for the final i nyanyik lagu anuar zain, ‘jangan bersedih lagi’ so i thought it would be a good idea to use him as a gimmick… too bad…


found my true love at last...

the story line konon-kononnyer i bercinta dengan these girls lah but sorang demi sorang kena curik dengan khairul… muuahahahahaa… last sekali tinggal tina jer yang duduk kat sofa yang kira jadik cinta agong i lah… i had so much fun and sebab ramai-ramai kat atas stage tuh, surprisingly i tak rasa gugup langsung… sampai sekarang nih i still have the video with me, and when i need to remember the good old days, i mesti watch the video…


result time...

anyway, from the picture kat atas nih, you rasa i menang tak? hahahahahaa… i’m not gonna tell you… it’s for me to know and for you to… well… hhmmm… never mind… but buat kawan-kawan yang nak pergi karaoke dengan i, beware… bila i nyanyik nanti, tolong tutup mulut yang ternganga tuh ya, nanti masuk lalat… muauahahahahahaaa…

the one about badrul and a small window of the past (part 1)...

the past (i)...

i had a wonderful weekend… the whole of last week i tolong my friends, hawa, jezamin and others kutip, packing and labelling stuff for tsunami victims… i had tons of meetings that i have to attend to, workloads bertimbun sampai tak nampak meja and at the end of the day, i still ada masa untuk dihabiskan with my family… i balik rumah my parents almost every night just to have a chat with my mom and to check on my dad… and the best news of all, my grandma akhirnya setuju nak tinggal sekali, so our family dah jadik extra extended family… four generations under one roof… you see, my grandma dah more than 90 years… so, kat kampung memang dah takda orang yang jaga kecuali budak-budak yang dia ajar mengaji al-quran yang teman kan dia… so now, bila dia dah tinggal bersama, atleast ada orang yang nak tengok-tengokkan dia sepanjang masa and boleh bermesra dengan anak, cucu dan cicit… and the kids pun boleh belajar mengaji al-quran all the time…

and one of the night tuh my mom gave me these two pictures from my past… wow! and the reason i can put the pictures here sebab i dah beli scanner… yeaaaahhhhh! well, we talk about it in another entry… anyway, looking at these pictures just bring back so many memories… i don’t think i could ever write everything down… even masa nak type this entry pun i have a mix feelings… happy, sad and everything in one… teringat kesusahan hidup keluarga masa kecik-kecik dulu but at the same time gembira sebab we are always together…


the past (ii)...

i dibesarkan di kawasan perumahan kos rendah… in fact, i still remember alamat rumah… 125, rumah murah, seberang jerteh… rumah tuh cuma ada dua bilik and with such a big family, sebagai anak lelaki, i tidur kat ruang tamu… tilam nipis yang mesti digulung setiap pagi sebab ruang tuh jugak dijadikan ruang makan… masa yang paling ‘sukar’ ialah masa my dad sambung belajar kat university malaya and my mom pergi kerja (she was a stuff-nurse) naik bike… kalau panas, hitam lah kulit dia, kalau hujan, basah kuyup lah dia… … … … well, I don’t want to go into that… because how much i think our kehidupan masa tuh susah, i’m sure ramai lagih yang lebih susah… but my mom are the best… she always keep us together… and i think, now, with my grandma moving in, we are complete…