Monday, February 26, 2007

The Grammy and the Academy

This business of me took a day off work to watch wards show really paid off this year… the Grammy didn’t disappoint me and Oscar is just as wonderful.

The 49th Grammy Awards

Although the Grammy Favorites become clearer each year, I didn’t mind John Mayer win again. Maybe Grammy always amused by the idea of peace on earth, and while Mayer waiting on the world to change, it is obvious that positive energy needed to make all that comes true. Who else can inject that positiveness in all of his/her music other than John Mayer, and the good looks and voice helps a whole lot more.

All other performances are just as entertaining, love John Legend (always do), love Christina Aguilera, who rose above the stage just after brilliant performance from three generations of R&B performers. “It’s a men’s world indeed” and Christina just belted out the right note to fight that! Awesome!

On the favorite genre, ROCK, didn’t really sure I like RHCP wins… but I guess 2006 is their year… so, they deserved it.

O yeah... among all the wins, my favorite was indeed Mary J Blige moments. After all the drama in her life, she deserved it. And her always-outstanding performance never failed to amuse, so, here it goes my newfound love for the woman and her music! No more Drama! (won’t promise that though)

4 hours later, I am exhaustedly satisfied… (hmm…)

The 79th Academy Awards

Firstly, Ellen Degeneres was awesome, the jokes are funny, to Peter O Toole,” you know what they say, three times a charm” hilarious!

On the nominees and winnings, too bad Leo didn’t get to win yet again eh? Still, Forest Whittaker and Helen Mirren did well in both their movies, so, they deserved it. Eddie Murphy’s lost is quite a shock though. It seems to prove drama always won when it comes to best performance in a leading and supporting role. But, Jennifer Hudon won right? It’s her other American dream came true at least? Whatever…

The performances were awesome. Melissa Etheridge won huh? I guess it is time to remind people of the world on the importance of global warming. Suddenly the thought of the land is shrinking is really scary huh?

The Departed won!!!! Yea!!! Hurray!!! So, Leo, it wasn’t all bitterness eh? Congratulations Mr Martin Scorcese, I will really like to act in one of your movies someday… someday…


4 hours later, I am contented and glad I shared the whole day with my mom! Her predictions mostly wrong and I am practically right all the time, so I won! An award for me, the undeniably biggest Hollywood fan in Malaysia... hehehehe.

Monday, February 12, 2007

The things that matter

I guess I am not cut up to whatever I have been preaching lately…

I am not kind to be loved,
I am not entitled for new shoes
I am certainly not a good sister role model


What made me in a very good niche then?

When I am in the company of good music, good movie, and good circle of talented artist… did I ever say I like Mary J Blige? She is definitely a true representative of women's national anthem…

Stay with me baby…

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

The sisterhood and SHOES!

My sisters and I have that very close bonds, I myself couldn’t even believe it sometime. Watching how they have grown and changed so much made me a little bit worried… that they will not need me altogether. I spend some past weekend catching up with our not-yet-seen DVD, among them, In her Shoes, the sisters’ bond in the story remind me a little bit about us, with a slight different in the brain, i.e. when I am smart, both of them are way smarter... And like Rose Feller would say,

“I really don’t make sense without my sister”.

I really am…

Sad. Suddenly such a bloody rush fills my head when the picture of them leaving me to begin their life with their own family playing on my mind. Well, on top of the moral of the story from the feature, something in that movie made me green with envy, which is… O my God! Did you see the closet full of shoes? I want them! I really want them, and judging by the look on your face boys while you reading this, yes, women do need more than 1 shoe, more than 100 in fact. All those Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo, even plain old ever popular here, VINCCI! Give them shoes to me! Give me! Give me! In the movie again, Rose does make every sense when she said, and I quote;

“Clothes never look any good, and food just makes me fatter, but shoes always fit.”

Shoes do fit every time. Which reminds me, it is about that time for me to buy a new one. And my sisters will definitely agree with me on this… we are in desperate needs of new racks for all those shoes, and now that all of us are working, trust me, you will be amazed at how much shoes we wear… or needed or should have. Hehehe.

So, Atiq and Siti, Hopefully we stay close like this till the end of time, with them shoes and all...

And I quote another beautiful words spoken by Maggie Feller,

I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my heart.
I am never without it.
I want no world, for, beautiful... you are my world, my true.
Here is the deepest secret no one knows.
Here is the root of the root... and the bud of the bud...
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life...
which grows higher than the soul can hope... or mind can hide.
It is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart.
I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart.

Sunday, February 04, 2007

The month of LOVE perhaps?

As any given February, the month never seems to bring my attention to other things than amor, cliché as it sounds, and the fact I am not supposed to celebrate the-most-talked-about day in this month, Love does fills my air, even though it doesn’t come from a particular very much visible significant other. The question is, am I doing it just to believe again, or for the heck of enjoying the moments as any other hopeless romantics out there? Well, for whatever reasons I can come out with, I needed that belief system stuck in my heart for me to at least have a decent intimate conversation with someone. I am definitely trying… reaching out to someone, and giving back to the very best that I can.

A little message from the humble heart of mine to all those love devotees/skeptics out there:

1. Flowers are still a nice gestures
2. Love always bring a smile
3. A little attention goes a thousand miles…


Therefore, y’all, work it out, for whatever state of affairs you are in.