Siti Nurhaliza!!

Heh...what a topic, the hottest news regarding an artiste this year, well, rumours has been going around for ages and finally, the veil has been lifted, she is definitely going to marry the guy, Dato K.
A lot of negative comments have been going around about her marriage to this old bugger and i don't blame them much. Some have said she is a gold digger, some say she is a husband stealer, some say she uses black magic to maintain the way she looks and to get the guy and God knows what else! the stuff that is going around about this marriage is just crazy ok. People are comparing this to posh spice and beckham, jolie and brat pitt...wedding of the year kinda thingy.
well, i do hope our paparazi won't be an crazy as the french paparazi who chased Lady Di. We certainly dun want to see headlines saying that siti got killed whilst being chased by the local paparazi...that wouldn't be good now would it.
Anyways, my personal opinion, i dun think she has much choice, its not to say that she is pregnant or she lost her virginity to the guy or anything of the sort, its just because of who she is. She is in her late twenties, hugely successful, a well known public figure and artiste, has the support of the malaysian government in anything she does, we all know she has made millions from singing and doing advertising and promoting, is basically the darling of every mak cik, pak cik, factory worker, students from the local universities and up and coming wannabe artiste and basically every tom dick and harry and mary jane and cindy who follows fervently the local entertainment scene. She is an icon so to speak.
So which guy from her age group, late twenties early thirties, has the balls to actually approach her and ask her for marriage? i think no malay guy has the guts to go up to her and ask her for marriage, they are too intimidated by her, too scared of her popularity and her influence, her star status. Anak jantan mana yang berani! C'mon, lets face it, not many malay guys her age group actually comes close to her social or financial status. I can name a few, like KJ and Fazli who could match her, but KJ is too involved in politics and maya karin i think whilst fazli, God knows what he is doing.
Anyways, if someone did ask her hand for marriage, would she accept it in the first place, would her family accept it? I'm sure she and her family will want to determine whether the guy can accept her for who she is, giving her support from behind, not steal her thunder and at the very least, able to accept that she is a popular figure and that she will not be able to actually do her wifely duties as expected. the guy on the other hand will have to learn to accept that she will always be busy with her work, will never be around the house whenever he wants her, that he will never have her just for himself and he will never again lead the lifestyle that he has grown accustomed to. its a huge burden that the guy will have to accept.
I'm sure that siti would prefer to marry someone who is younger, better looking and more acceptable to the public, i'm sure she does not want to court any controversy, afterall, she has been clean all this while, which is something by itself!
So i guess, in my opinion, thats why this happened? oh well, cest la vie

Hello.

I'm not sure what to write but i wanna write something. I'm not bored at work cause i do have work, but my mind is racing right now, on what? i'm not very sure.

At the moment, i'm seriously contemplating on quitting paintball next year. The reason being i need to start saving up. Ever since i started on paintball, i haven't been saving as how i did before i started playing paintball. anyways, i think i have achieved whatever i need to achieve in paintball in malaysia. i've been playing competitive paintball since early 2004, i have been playing in division one for the last 2 years or so, i have played with and owned some of the best markers on the market, i have played internationally and most of all, i have made some really good friends. I'm not saying i've done it all in paintball, heck no, i have a long way to go, but i think, whatever that can be achived within my limits have been achieved and i dun think i can go any further. i will never totally quit paintball, maybe the occasional game or so or maybe when my team needs me for whatever reason, i might help out, but i'm seriously thinking of totally quitting playing paintball on a regular basis. Its too exhaustive and its doing too much harm to my bank balance. Its in no way a cheap sport.

and i'm definitely not going to sit on my fat arse and get fat, i'm already fat as it is, but i might try something less expensive. golf maybe? the start up can be kinda expensive. I know the classes are rather pricy like maybe RM800 and the clubs...well, it can range between 1K to 5K...but after that, its just the green fees...well just hafta wait and see....

I need to start saving moolah!!! I got plans and i'm giving myself 1 year to meet my target savings....aarrgghh!! looks like its gonna be nasi lemak and roti canai the whole of next year!! hehe..

aRTSY fARTSY

hello.

Just wanted to share some experiences of different theater places which i have visited since i first had any interest in the Arts scene.

The very first theater which i had visited was Actors Studio Bangsar when it was located underneath dataran Merdeka. I had only been there a couple of times but it left a lasting impression on me. The theater was definitely smaller and less glamorous than its current re-incarnation at BSC. I remembered it being a shoe box shaped and quite small and rather claustrophobic. Air circulation was not all that great and we would end up sweating if the place was full. I dun remember clearly whether it had any functional sound or lighthing system. But to me, that was how a theater should be after a steady diet of reading books and being exposed to similar designs on the idiot box. For me, it was an experimental theater, full of dark images, dodgy sound and lighthing systems, seedy looking theater go-ers and shows which were much maligned by the ordinary folk.
Remember city hall and the vagina monologues, holy jeez, c'mon people, it was an art theater, an experimental one at that and it allowed people who had creative juices an outlet to showcase their talents. We can't allow red tape and bureaucracy to stifle our local artists creative juices! So kudos to all of those people who banded together to overcome such obstacles.
I remembered Faridah at the shop opposite of the theater. it was littered with all kinds of interesting knick knacks from books to videos to posters and everything else imaginable which you could associate with the art world. Faridah always had a smile whenever we went to her shop or theater and as always until now, she has a ready smile to people like me who love the arts but can't tell jack shit from a legal text(i'm trained as a lawyer, but i'm pretty crappy at what i do) or a manuscript. Truly a kindred spirit of the art world.
It was from Actors studio bangsar which i had experienced my first theater and from there, my interest for the arts, whether conventional or otherwise, started and my heartful thanks to those people at the original ASB in dataran for helping me realised that i had a passion for the arts, albeit as just an onlooker and not a participant.
I'll tell more of the places i have been in my later blogs.

Last weekend!

Hello.

Last weekend meaning my last weekend which i can really relax. This coming week, i start my paintball training again after a 3 week lay-off. Have to prepare for 2 tournaments. First in Bukit Jalil on the 29th and 30th of July and the second in Bangkok on the 26th and 27th of August.

Anyways, I had a great weekend. Started by having drinks with a friend in San Fransisco Steak House in KLCC. Had a great time chatting with her. Then went home to catch the World Cup. Heh..i supported Germany in the match against Argentine solely because i had money on the game, I won but later found out that the bet was only for the 90 minutes and not taking into consideration of the extra time and penalties. Damn! Slept during the Itlay match.

Saturday woke up at 2pm i think. Had a long sleep, man, it was great, wish i could do this every freaking day...anyways, went to tmn tun to send my laundry and to actors studio bangsar for tickets to an independant film series in KLPac. Later that nite, met some friends in Hartamas to watch the england v. portugal match, i had money on this too, so i was rooting for Portugal, i won again!!!! anyways, got caught in the jam after the match. Luckily got back in time to watch the Brazil match, man, what a let down, i supported Brazil to go all the way to the finals, same as everyone else i guess. I mean who would have thot that they would lose to France, i guess now we can safely say the France is Brazil's bogey team!

Got up at noon on Sunday to pick up a friend for the Indendant film series. It was a series of 4 short films by Liew Seng Tat, an ex student of MMU. The acting was below average, he later explained that the actors and actresses were family and friends who had helped him out and obviously the acting would be below average. His short film were so-so, expected from a student production, nothing much to highlight with the exception of the 4th film. Damn! that was one shocking film, thought provoking, vomit inducing and an all round assault on your beliefs, thots and ideas. It was sexually provoking and lead me to belief that all is not right with the directors grey matter. But kudos to him, he had a strong belief in himself and the guts to churn out such a film. I did not have such a high regard of his earlier shown work, but that fourth one changed my perception of him, not saying that his artistic skill was equal to that of a yasmin ahmad or a faridah merican, but he certainly had the balls and the pubic hair (hehehe) to even come up with such a story. Damn, and it was thick pubic hair!! hehe...my friend and i, we didn't know whether to laugh, to cry or what. but the shock factor was really up there. the part when the lead actor kissed, i mean kissed on the lips, a full bloody wet kiss on the lips of a 70+ year old women was unimaginable. Maybe if you saw one of those kinky fetish x rated films, you might get to watch something like this, but this was a malaysian short film, done in malaysia , acted by malaysian! heh...Kudos to Liew Seng Tat! I admire your guts and your balls to actually have the gall to show this film.

After that, we went to this hotel opposite the PM's former official residences, it was this huge former colonial british residence which now had been transformed into one of the best hotels in malaysia, if not the best then definitely one of the priciest. anyways, we chose to have the english afternoon tea which came served in fine china with a red and white floral design and we sat by the verandah on this huge rattan chairs with cushions. We had ordered the english afternoon tea. its a set which consisted of sandwiches, cakes, scones and creme brulee'. Since we chose the english tea set, obviously we had to drink it down with something english, and no, we did not have ale or lager or anything of the sort, but we had Earl Grey...veryEnglish!!! heh...
The place was as how i imagined, very british with wooden floors and fans and rattan furniture everywhere with crisp white linen and whitewash walls...the waiters who served us served us with aplomb and were very discreet to an extent that i kept drinking my tea thinking when am i ever going to finish it!!! heh..i forgot that the waiter kept refilling it!! now thats what i call service.

Anyways, i had a great time and i had my friend to thank for it. If you are reading this, thanks for acompanying me for the show and tea.

Well....thats it, till later.