Minta gia RM5000 duit kau tu asi! (kakaka)
"Esther Esthera"....bunyi macam bagus saja tajuk video movie (VM) nikan? Ala-ala Maria Mariana gitu. Nantilah mungkin Khamis ni baru saya ada masa pergi cari di kedai. Kalau projek yang dinaungi oleh "datuk-datuk" seperti projek ini membayangkan sesuatu yang grand scale! So semestinya saya mengharapkan sesuatu yang bermutu dan berkualiti.
Bercakap tentang penerbitan VM di Sabah ni, I think it's time penerbit-penerbit VM ataupun filem di Sabah melakukan sesuatu agar karya mereka sekurang-kurangnya mampu ditayangkan di TV. Sekarang nikan sudah banyak saluran TV (Ria, Prima, Kirana, TV3, RTM1, RTM2,). Takkanlah belum ada yang boleh tersangkut dalam mana-mana saluran. Adalah juga nanti kita menonton drama-drama dari negeri ini dimainkan di TV...terutama di hari-hari perayaan....seperti Hari Raya, Tadau Kaamatan, Merdeka, Krismas...etc. Setakat yang saya nampak macam belum ada VM kita yang setaraf dengan drama-drama yang dimainkan di TV. Sudah tiba masanya mereka memberi perhatian khusus ke arah objektif ini. Forget about tayangan panggung....nanti jadi pula macam satu filem tu...berangan masuk panggung...last-last ended up ditayang di balai raya. Mungkin Esther Esthera boleh bertindak selaku pembuka jalan sebab dengar cerita bahasa yang digunakan dalam VM ini bukan bahasa pasar (tapi bagi saya bahasa bukan penghalang utama...kalau ndak faham boleh letak sarikata...sarikata Inggeriskah atau sarikata BM baku kah....macam juga drama-drama dari Indon)
Laser Beam kidsGenerasi kedua Laser Beam...beberapa orang anggota kumpulan ini adalah anak-anak kepada bekas anggota kumpulan Laser Beam. I've never seen them playing yet but I can imagine how good these kids are. For those who are not familiar with Laser Beam, they are actually quite popular in Sabah in the 80's. Kumpulan ini bolehlah dianggap sebagai peneraju penggunaan muzik elektronik/synthesizer di Sabah. Khidmat mereka kerap digunakan oleh RTM untuk menghasilkan muzik minus one bagi kegunaan rakaman artis-artis RTM Sabah. They are currently running a jamming studio in Asia City, called LB Music Studio dan sangat aktif mengadakan pertandingan Battle of the Band.
And the Sabahan who won short film contest in Canada. I hope someday he returns home and do something about the film making here.
Ini bukan berita hiburan...tapi sekadar iklan
Ini pula kisah Edlin AF2 dan Zarina AF2 yang bergabung menubuhkan kumpulan Cherry. Gian sangat dorang ni menghasilkan album. Entah apa silapnya bukan album pula yang keluat tapi kontroversi. Walaupun si Zarina sudah ada album solo sendiri (yang kurang mendapat sambutan) tapi beliau tetap maintain mau jadi artis rakaman.
Love Is Bunga....you guys must have already seen the smooching picture involving these two celebrities (so ndak payahlah saya siarkan di sini). Yang saya tergelak, motif media Indonesia menyiarkan gambar tersebut (gambar dirakam oleh wartawan Indon) hanyalah semata-mata untuk membuktikan yang si Bunga sudah ada pacar istimewa sekaligus mendedahkan siapa pacarnya. They don't bother at all about the 'action' (ala-ala Hollywood lah ni). Sekali sampai di media Malaysia....habis keluar segala...isu budaya, moral, agama, dosa, pahala..bla..bla...*LOL* Sehinggalah si jejaka terpaksa buat sidang akhbar minta maaf! Si Bunga di Indon relaks ja...tiadapun buat sidang akhbar. Mau cakap Malaysia ni kuno tidak kena juga...cos other Malaysian couples also do similar thing...infact i've seen worst than just smooching right at my apartment staircase!
She shared her story behind the Miss Jesselton photo with some women VIPs including Siti Jouyah the wife of Deputy Chief Minister:
"How old were you then?" asked the DCM's wife.
"Oh, I was 18," replied Ariah who is Sabah's first woman DCM. She turned 69 this year.
Ariah said she was preparing herself for tertiary education in Dunedin, New Zealand under a Colombo Plan scholarship when she spotted an advertisement in the old Sabah Times calling for participants for the Miss Jesselton Beauty Contest. It was organised by the Bangsawan Troupe from Singapore, then on a roadshow in North Borneo (now Sabah). Then Singaporean actress Maria Menado was the organiser.
"The cash prize was attractive, $500. It was a lot of money in those days. I decided to take part because I needed some money to buy some warm clothes and other necessities. In addition, the winner would get a wardrobe of clothing," she recalled. Ariah was chaperoned by her mother.
When she won, she received a sash and a trophy but no money was given. Neither was there a wardrobe presented as promised.
"I didn't get the money. I felt cheated, but I was na"ve and too shy to ask about it. Moreover, I was leaving for New Zealand in four days' time," she said.
"Why wasn't the prize-money given?" asked Siti Jouyah.
"Much later, I was told that the company organising the contest had gone bankrupt. So they couldn't pay me the RM500."
Ariah and Maria met up again in the late sixties, this time at a royal function in Pahang. By then, Maria had married the then Sultan of Pahang.
Ariah's husband, the late Tengku Ahmad Tengku Burhanuddin, was on transfer to the Peninsula as Brigadier-General.
"We were invited by the Sultan to attend his birthday party at the palace.
By then, Maria had forgotten me. When she realised who I was, she said, you have changed a lot, I almost couldn't recognise you."
"Did you bring up the subject?" asked Siti Jouyah.
"Yes, I did," said Ariah. "I just wanted to let her know what happened to me. I told her, you really let me down.
She offered to pay me but I said, now I don't need that.
She felt bad and apologised."
Woman deejay
Ariah's photo is the one on the most top at extreme left. She's known as Irene Pritchard back then
But this incident really flash back the memory while I was driving my elder sister to her work place one morning. Maklumlah time tu kelam kabut habis, so she didn’t have time bersolek di rumah…instead dia bersolek dalam kereta saja. Manalah saya tau which part of her face she’s focussing, the only thing I knew is slamming the brake pedal (traffic jam tahap jalan terhenjut-henjut). Sekali tukan terpaksa applied emergency brake…at the same time someone was madly cursing…I look to my left…habis tercoret lipstick from the right corner of her lips right up to her left eyes…*LOL*
..and in PJ the 8-year-old Nurin is still nowhere to be seen after gone missing since 26 days ago
Yang ini ukuran gempa bumi paling tinggi pernah direkod tahun ini. Sampai runtuh flyover di Karamunsing (just kidding). KL pun bergegar kan. Some experts say it did trigger tsunami, luckily the giant waves move southwest to the direction of the vast ocean (instead of moving to the land)
Sekali imbas gambar di bawah macam jalan bertingkat runtuh akibat gempa bumi. Ssbenarnya itulah jalan bertingkat di Karamunsing KK yang baru dibuka. Apa kena mengena dengan rekod? Mungkin yang paling lambat pernah disiapkan (baru separuh siap saja tu....the other half for the opposite direction...masih dalam pembinaan)
And here's the video clip of his record breaking run. Saya kira stride dia...all in all ada 46 langkah saja
