Hello again folks! It’s been around 3 weeks since I wrote my first post on this blog. In the period between the first post and this post, 16 posts have been published. Not a bad start, considering that I was targeting around 10 posts for the first month. Somehow, ideas kept pouring in the past 3 weeks.

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It’s all about love.

Thanks to Mr. Pete Teo, a group of 52 Malaysians (which includes singers, celebrities, businessmen, and everybody in between) got together to sing a song and also shoot a music video, in the spirit of unity and anti-racism. The name of the song is titled Here In My Home and is composed by Pete Teo, who is also the project producer. The video was co-directed by Yasmin Ahmad (do check out her advertisements for Petronas). Try spotting Tony Fernandes or Jason Lo in our Malaysian tiger striped FAM jersey!

What you need
A solid comb (a thin plastic comb will break)
A crochet hook (more explanation below)
At least 5 hours
Music, television or some friends

First, a more detailed explanation on the required items before we delve right in on how to actually make a dreadlock. Or you can just watch the video.

Malaysian Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (MPYO) is formed by a group of youths in Malaysia. It is conducted by Kevin Field and musicians are from the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO).

They will be performing in Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS, KLCC, on 28 May 2008 at 8.30p.m. Tickets costs only RM30 each, which in my opinion, is really worth it! Check out their poster for more details, or visit Malaysian Philharmonic online and the MYPO website.

You know it when it hits you – the craving for Indian food that is! It hit me bad last week, but I usually tend to avoid indian food on weekdays because I always end up overeating and going into food coma. Good news was that last Monday was Wesak (public hoilday yay~) so Kenchill, Ah_mei (who unfortunately still had to work) and I went to Paandi’s for banana leaf rice. For the uninformed, Paandi’s is one of the most famous (or rather infamous) banana leaf places in PJ. It’s located right by SMK Sultan Abdul Samad and Hospital University – I believe the name of the road it’s on is Jalan Bukit.

Instead of arriving at 3pm as stated on the flyers, I left my house at about 3.30pm and arrived at approximately 3.45pm.

Parking was easily found at the nearby parking lot, RM4.00 per entry. So, I made my way up the steps and I could see people gathering below the escalator and I thought to myself, ‘Heck, the event still haven’t started’. ‘Standard lah Malaysian gigs’, was what the guy who was selling the tickets told me. He even told me that it will start ‘in a while’. We ended up waiting until 4.40pm before the doors were opened and people were allowed in. As I neared the entrance, I could hear a band which sounds like Deja Voodoo Spells already playing.

When we attended the Undergroundo.tv launch event at Ruums, we were given a copy of melodica’s demo CD.

They were the first band performing (when I heard them outside, I thought they were Deja Voodoo Spells) for that event and the guitarist’s solos were fluidly fast and melodically (lol, pun intended) good. I think they performed all 3 songs which were on the free demo CD.

A real classic and retro band from Indonesia. Both sonically and visually.

I was surfing through the channels on Astro a few nights ago and I landed on Channel V, which was showing Amp at that very moment. The thing that caught my eye was this music video which has the old school 70′s retro look, and it was sung in Bahasa, Bahasa Indonesia to be exact. The tunes were very bright, catchy and had a happy vibe to it.

Further watching revealed that the band was called White Shoes and The Couples Company (WSATCC for short) and they were all from an art institute in Jakarta.

I was making my way to Jalan P. Ramlee at around 9:30pm to pick up my mum.

I used Jalan Syed Putra to head into Kuala Lumpur and in order to get to Jalan Sultan Ismail I had to pass through Jalan Maharajalela. As you all might know, there’s this Chinese temple right at the end of Jalan Petaling (Petaling Street, in other words). No, not the end with the shops or the Jalan Petaling pintu gerbang, it’s on the other side, near the Maharajalela monorail station. Actually there are 2 Chinese temples at Jalan Petaling, Sze Ya Temple and Chan See Shu Yuen Temple. There’s also the Sri Mahamariamman Temple.