Jamal ... 27 tahun berlalu

Semalam saya berpeluang bersama isteri tersayang dan saudara menghadiri rakaman Dari Studio 1 : Jamal Abdillah di ASTRO.

Fuuyooo … selapas beberapa lama dan kali menonton akhirnya saya rasa betul-betul puas hati. Lain dari akhirnya dapat mendengar Perpisahan Tanpa Relaku live .. satu lagu yang jadi kenangan sejak di Melbourne…. Jamal have done so well. Tidur lena lepas tu … ngigau sekali kot.

Hampir semua lagu dinyanyikan dari jiwa dia. Boleh rasa dan sampai mesej, ‘feel’ dan apa jua yang dia nak sampaikan. Tone suaranya is verry near perfect dan on thespot for hampir semua lagu.

Mostly lagu dari album Aku Penghiburmu yang memaparkan cover version lagu dari 70’s dan sekarang. Yup, Seroja dan Gadis Melayu semestinya ada. Mawi FC jangan la marah but Jamal nyanyi …. Fuyoo … there is no other like Jamal.

Personally memang ada masalah yg dia hadapi … maybe that’s why the songs banyak sedih dan really “gut-wrenching” feel bila dia nyanyi. Jemputan pun okay … memang untuk yg otai macam aku , buat rasa macam 20’an balik.

Ohya … Kapt was interviewed at the end … kalau ada can keluar TV … kalau tak … tak ada rezeki. Dengar cerita lepas Raya baru siarkan.

Jamal still rulez!    

Cerita dan Filem

Malam Sabtu hari tu baru "tertengok" Cerekarama TV3. Sebabnya selepas tengok the best of the best macam Cinta Penggali Kubur punya sequel, saya tertarik dengan cerita yang ada. Maaaalangnya ... cerita hari Sabtu lepas was hampaeh. Dah ceritanya mengaruuut ... dialognya nya alamak. Why oh why!!!

Bagi diri saya filem adalah media untuk bercerita. Kita boleh ada pelakon yang terbilang , gemilang dsb tetapi kalau cerita nya hampeh ... hampeh juga filem tu. Kebanyakan masalah kini ialah bercerita dan meletakkan cerita as sesuatu yang utama berbanding shot yang canggih dsb. Second is the screenplay / lakon layar. Perbezaan yang filem macam Sepet dah lakukan ialah tak jadikan pelakon pementas but audience ni jadi macam lalat/cicak/naymuk kat dinding sambil tengok apa yang berlaku. The approach yang saya suka ialah pabila kita masuk cerita tu tapi cerita dah start .... and kita akan melalui perjalanan sepanjang cerita dengan mengenali karektor tertentu .... as the story flow. Dekat nak akhir kita kan berkata ... aaaa that makes sense... or I get that.

Macam Lost .... cerita dia kita tak tahu siap depa tu tapi kita discover bit by bot siapa mereka itu dan menjadikan sesorang itu lebih "human" warts and all ... No one is perfect, tapi kalau kita sanggup melihat kemanusiaan seseorang itu lebih hari dari semalam, just makes us a better person today than yesterday.

Technical is nice sebab filem ni pun "eye-candy" jugak (I am still a Trekkie and a Jedi) ... but to a commoner macam saya ... I want the story. Maybe sebab tu I consume 10 books a month.... I need stories sebab itu cara I grow up when my parents/grand parents tell me stories.

Kapt ... rambling on as usual

UPSR 101, Reading 201….

 

Alhamdulillah. My eldest child completed his UPSR exams. I am not sure how to describe the experience coz it will be premature anyways as the results is not out yet.

 

But one thing for sure … you can see relief and the following day he enjoyed practically the whole day at the public library, …. Reading what he likes.

 

I asked him how many of his friends at the library … one guy …. As most of his friends don't really like to read all that much. Habis kuat pun baca komik dan buku yang pendek-pendek saja. Kind of make me feel sad because through out my life, the most joy I have other than my family is actually reading. Curling up with a good book (macam tenggiling) is my kind of personal time. Macam dengar lagu Afdlin "WARAS" … so appropriate Bro!

 

 I have always been a sucker for a good story. Used to start off with kids investigation. Hardy Boys was okay but kind of geeky. Anyone remembers Alfred Hitchcock's Three Investigators, those kids were cool with their own "office" and "NAME CARD" that says Private Investigator! I know! At age 10 that was the most amazing thing to have …. Your own name card. Sekarang bersepah … celah bangku office pun ada terselit name card.

 

Moved on to thrillers around 11… I still remember Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. Well of course I do…. coz I read it for the 15 ^th time I think last month. After that every single FF books was consumed. I think that happened with good (for me)author I find out about. In the 80's and early 90's … I was consuming incredibly right wing authors like Clancy, Dale Brown. Then I wised up … as I was strating to throw up with new offering by those authors. Found some old books by people like Garrison Keillor that charmed the sock off me. I still read some right wing stuff like W.E.B Griffin's series on the (Marine) Corps. But a lot less.

 

I thought Jeff Archer did quite well for a while but seems to have tapered off. Not as good as he was before. Dan Brown's Angel and Demons was actually the one I prefer compared to Da Vinci's Code. Both improbable as crazy but kind of redefines page turner. Grisham's storyline is okay … most books with exception of Runaway Jury, Rainmaker seems to have fairly flat endings ….. ending that have you saying …. Huh?

 

J. K. Rowling? Read all 6 so far, the favourite is the early ones … the last couple is much more sombre and dark. The early ones were like boarding school books ( i.e. Blyton's Mallory Towers) meeting sorcery stuff. Interesting read and enjoyable. Great endings for the first three so that I end up the endings (last 30 pages or so) reading them again and again. Then the "Rowling death cycle" kicked in from HP4 onwards…. And there goes my escapism.   

 

When I discovered eBooks I was so happy coz then I could bring 3-4 books in the PDA and read anywhere I want. I mean everywhere … NO Limits! Even at night as the PDA light means I don't have to switch on amy other lights. That is …. Until I dropped the PDA and broke it …. Need to buy another one….

 

But seeing my son pick up Timothy Zahn's Star Wars Heir to the Empire kind of remind me of … ME. Discovering my world and various people's imaginay world through these pages. I have 50 plus channels on ASTRO but between those pages is where I get "Waras" … (Afdlin … gua pinjam term you)

 

Anyway … enuf for now … rambling on as usual.

 

 

 

Will Post Soon

Haven’t posted for a while …. Will do so as soon as I catch up on work. Cuti lama nak support my eldest child ambil UPSR. Dia yang ambil UPSR, father and mother dia yang nak pengsan …

Lama cuti....

Hi all,

 

Dah lama tak tulis apa2 ... not for lack of material more lack of time. Been implementing systems for some customers (big ones!) and kecoh ... mengalahkan TV3 Karnival Sure Kecoh (sic.)

 

Basically it's just change management. Most are used to doing it one way. Once you take them out of their comfort zone, TV3 Sure Kecoh! Stability is great but sure kills souls like crazy. Sometimes I think being in this industry is challenging coz it's so resistant to change and being a change agent is in this type of industry boleh biol dibuatnya. Heck ... dah biol dah pun!

 

Selamat Menyambut Kemerdekaan .... Nice parade .. less mitilaristic anding dengan tahun lepas2. More kids ... which is always fun .. and the slip of tongue (with great recovery!) by the 9 year old Lufti, really puts in the reality in there. Everyone watching will remember and adore him for it. "Merdek....Daulat Tuanku!" Lufti rocks!

 

I was reading this bit about the Malayan Union.... it seems that part of the Malayan Union includes part of about centralising and reducing the powers of the States.... Maybe that part of Malayan Union is not that bad come to think of it. Wouldn't it be better not to have this ridiculous land / water management by the states which is creating nine types of hell. I am not certain wether it will be better at Federal but some is ... Corruption can be curtailed a bit by centralisation rather than decentralisation. 

 

I guess maybe the Malayan Union wasnt all that bad ... some may need to be used. This is not controversial ... but could be interesting to pursue.