Happy birthday to me
Sep 22, 2008 People
Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to meeeeeeeeeee,
Happy birthday to me!
1.30am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: birthday, Niki Cheong
Media Watch: nicster in KLue
Sep 18, 2008 People
Well, not exactly.
I just got a copy of KLUE magazine (September edition) a couple of days ago, the lead story of which is its The 20 Under 40 List: 20 of the Valley’s mover’s and shakers. It’s also the magazine’s 8th anniversary issue.
One of my friends, Zain HD (yes, yes, RandomActs, KL Freeze in Unison, RWP blah blah), was selected and the good people at KLue asked me to write an intro piece on him. This year, they decided to get friends, family, colleague etc of the people featured to write. You can read my bit on the cult leader Zain here. There’s also a blog post on him here.
I was quite honoured that Zain wanted me to write it - after all, I’ve only known him since April - and also because I feel like I was in good company (I never knew this until I got a copy of the magazine).
A number of my friends and acquaintances were either featured, or asked to write the intros, including (okay, okay, name dropping a bit) Pop TV’s Hardesh Singh and Malaysian Dreamgirl’s Jared Solomon, both of whom I met to interview them for their respective works; my Uni mate and fellow student activist/politician Kenny Sia who’s jetsetting off to London!; Gua.com.my’s Mohd Zulkifli Abdul Jalil, a former colleague (he was the first Editor of NewMan Malaysia, I was the third) and Jaya One’s Charles Wong, who I met playing Risk at our mutual friends’ house.
My friends Joyce Wong, Lim Su Ann and Fahmi Fadzil were among those who wrote the intro bits as well.
Oh, and just last month (I think - or the issue which reported on Urbanscapes), my name was mentioned in the magazine also in the What are they saying on the Net (or something like that) section in their post-coverage of Urbanscapes. They had gone online to look for reviews from the general public, and they printed my review which was published in The Star.
Published twice in KLue? By george, I think I’ve made it!
p/s I know this is a bit of syiok sendiri post, but again, if you don’t plug yourself, who will? :) Besides, I’m actually really plugging for KLue - I thought they got a good bunch of people together in their list of 20 including Nurul Izzah Anwar, Kokokaina, Pop Malaya and my favouritest of all - Tan Hong Ming and Umi Qazrina!
10.12am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: fahmi fadzil, Joyce Wong, Kenny Sia, KLUE, Lim Su Ann, Malaysian Dreamgirls, Nurul Izzah Anwar, PopTV, randomacts, The 20 Under 40, zain hd
Tian Chua: Separated at birth
Sep 12, 2008 People
I was reading Marina’s blog this afternoon which she blogged about members of PKR flying over to Taipei today (yes, there’s something about Taiwan!), apparently to meet up with some of the BN MPs who are currently there for an “agricultural study” trip in Taiwan.
She said:
Well, nice to know PKR can be equally as silly as their BN counterparts. Sounds like a slapstick movie, one group of people chasing the other all over Taiwan.
Which is really funny I thought. Then I read the comments on her blog and one of them read:
Datin, I like those two sentences. Hehehe…I can imagine this scene in cartoon form.
So, I started wondering, if Tian Chua was a cartoon character, how would he look? And then I thought of it. And, in a tribute to pop culture and the fascination lots of magazines (and even Perez Hilton) has about finding people who look similar (and as they call it, seperated at birth), I present - in jest, of course:
Separated at birth
Tian Chua and Lao Fu Zi
Cute kan? Just thought we could do with a laugh (okay fine, it’s lame but at least deserving of a smile) in the current political climate (Malaysiakini just revealed that Sin Chew Daily journalist who reported the news on Ahmad Ismail and his notorious remarks during the campaigning for the Permatang Pauh By-Elections has been arrested but it is unclear if it’s under the ISA).
Oh, and I curi-ed pinjam the pictures above from Wikipedia and this site respectively. Hope it’s cool.
10.18pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Jesse McCartney cover’s T-Pain’s Buy You A Drank
Sep 1, 2008 People
In some sadistic, teeny-bopper way, I love this cover version! The Pepsi Smash! was also the ones responsible for Mandy Moore’s brilliant rendition of Rihanna’s Umbrella.
Er, except for the bridge where he semi-raps/talks the lyrics. Oer.
4.18pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: Buy You A Drank, Jesse McCartney, T-Pain
Apple CEO Steve Job is not dead!
Aug 29, 2008 People
Okay, okay, my headline might be a wee bit sensational but heck, it caught your attention didn’t it?
How much do you want to bet that it caught the attention of many, many other people? Well, it just did when Bloomberg (the news agency, not the person) accidentally released an obituary for the man behind Apple, reports cNet.
Among some of the things the obituory said about Mr Jobs is that he:
“…helped make personal computers as easy to use as telephones, changed the way animated films are made, persuaded consumers to tune into digital music, and refashioned the mobile phone.”
Well, I think the world of Steve Jobs (after all, anyone who can give me the pleasures of the iPhone - I love mine!!!! - is kind of like god … well, not exactly, but he’s pretty great to me, I think). What made the obituory so much more believable too was the fact that Mr. Jobs had previously battled pancreatic cancer and as such, assumptions are more easily made. (Also, he recently appeared in public look rather thin, the report states, and some people assumed that he was ill again).
It’s not uncommon to write obituaries in advance (I know this not only from the article, but from working in the media) but to release it, even accidentally, oer!
1.21am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: apple, bloomberg, obituory, Steve Jobs
