While surfing around today, one of my friends shared this on facebook. This is the most viewed and shared short on the Film Festival : Green Unplugged.

View this movie at cultureunplugged.com

This film was shot by Ferdinand Dimadura. In short it talks about how the lack of food and poverty has been effected by globalization. There are 10,000 people dying everyday due to hunger and malnutrition. This short film shows a forgotten portion of the society. The people who live on the refuse of men to survive. What is inspiring is the hope and spirituality that never left this people.

I really do not have much to say on it, because all i feel is sympathy and can only feel thankful for what I have in life. It amazes me how in our own life we worry so much about the trivial things when there are harder situations out there in the world.

“I hope now the genius and humanity of Michael Jackson gets its due,” said Sharpton.

Last Friday morning i received horrifying and shocking news from a friend. The world now mourns the lost of the King of Pop. The legend, the man, the performer,  the entertainer, the king – Michael Jackson has now left us all. Never again will we be able to see the works of pure genius by this one person.

I remember the days when I was younger and I would dance and sing to memorable songs such as Bad, Smooth Criminal, Man in the Mirror, Beat It and Thriller. My mom would tell me stories of how when we were in Rome, I would walk down the stairs of the hotel we were staying at – I was three by the way –  and I was dancing and singing to his songs. Lol. Good memories.

I even remember the tme when I had my sport day events and we had our silly gymrama. The teachers used the song Beat it and I can still envision the movements… which were terribly lame, now as i think back about it. I remember my little brother dancing and singing for performances to Michael’s stuff like ‘ABC’. And the glove – my gosh – the glove. The iconic glove, I even made one for my brother and then I would give him some moves to use.

I just have such sadness when I think about the fact that we’ll never see him perform ever again. Never will we get to hear new words come out of his mouth. I feel dumb that I didn’t watch his performance when he came down to Malaysia. My parents had asked if I wanted to watch and all i retorted back was.. “Nah, i’m not in that phase anymore..”. Silly isn’t it.. It’s even sadder that he was going to have his world tour and now it’s not going to happen.

You can watch the MTV video tribute.

With all the media hype that revolved around his personal life. I honestly think all of it are just terrible lies, of people not being able to stand his success. How true are the statements that he did do the ‘bad things’ that were stated in the news. True or untrue, people cannot deny that Michael Jackson has changed the very course of the music and dance industry. We say that we always need to set a benchmark… Michael Jackson was more than that, he was the reference point. His influence has moved a number of recording artists and performers now to be the people they are today. Just take for example Chris Brown, Wade Robson, Ne Yo, Justin Timberlake…. just to name a few.

We should not remember him for all the troubled times he had. Instead I feel that we should celebrate the life he had. The parts that brought joy and change to our life. Humanitarian works on one side, let us see and remember him for the wonderful performer that he was. No other performer has been able to command the crowd he has been able to.

Michael Jackson, you will be sorely missed. My condolences and heart felt sympathies go out to his family members and also to the millions of fans all over the world. We may have lost him, but his music will live on to generations to come.

Rest in Peace Michael. May you finally have the peace and the neverland you always wanted here on earth.

Share with me, what was your first ever Michael Jackson song that touched your heart? And the one that you will always remember in your childhood days.

Last year KLPac was practically my second home cause I had shows back to back. But in the midst of all that I missed out on one particular event which i’m feeling rather sore about.

The event I’m talking about is the Klue Urbanscape.

A place where everything is a stage; Live music ranging from grunge to jazz playing in the background; Screenings of films you would not see in our local cinemas yet; Funky, whacky, outrageous and maybe even cheap fashionable apparel.

In a shorter way to put it the Urbanscapes is an all-day “user-generated” creative showcase of the city’s best in music, art, theatre, film, fashion and with a bunch of marketplace vendors thrown into boot.

Here is what you will be catching at the event. Just click and it will link you straight up to the main website. And yes if it looks like it’s from the urbanscapes website it is cause i think they gave a very cool breakdown of each category that is going down that day.

 
Coming from an arts industry myself. I would be looking most forward to are the street performances and the indicines. Especially since I know some of people who will be performing and showing off their works. Such as T4YP, The Oral Stage, Comeback Kings and Electric Minds Project. All the more I  am SUPPORTING the arts scene! If not how else will it grow here.

Maybe the other reason i missed it last year was because i didn’t manage to win free tickets to the event. Yes it’s not a happening all day event that you can just waltz into..unless you have a ticket!

I’ll be honest in saying that as a struggling artist myself I’m always trying to get free tickets and guess what I’m going to share the wealth on how to win those tickets for Klue Urbanscapes 2009.

How to get your FREE TICKETS!

First of all if you are a Xpax/U.O.X. customer then guess what you are entitled to getting 2 free tickets!! But you have to be one of the first 200 customers first. If you are a new customer just a buy a Rm30 reload and get a free Xpax/U.O.X. starter pack. For you existing U.O.X people just reload RM30. Then get your free tickets from the booth next to the ticketing counter at the event. And I’m sorry but you can only reload once and to get the tickets. You can like reload and reload to get free tickies.. no fair!

But if say you missed out on being the first 200 customers… Too bad la!

I’m kidding… there is still some hope.

How to get TICKET DISCOUNTS!

Tickers are priced at RM35 but as an Xpaxerion (yes i made that term up!), you are entitled to getting them at RM25 – Hey RM10 discount better than no discount i say. If you’re not an Xpax user i suggest getting yourself a pack and then redeem this discount. How?

Step 1: Go to the Xpax booth close to the ticketing booth whereby they will be verified to see if they are a Xpax / U.O.X customer. If not they are not a customer they will be required to sign up for Xpax / U.O.X

Step 2: They will be issued a discount voucher. Each customer will only be able to buy 2 tickets maximum

Step 3: Bring the discount voucher to the normal ticketing booth , submit the voucher and purchase the tickets

Simple enough right!! Now moving on.. Yeah my info doesn’t just end there.

Are you into photography?

If you are then this contest is for you. There’s a contest called the (X) SNAPS! Contest and yeap it’s open to all you Xpax members out there. This will run from the 27th of June to the 11th of July 2009. So yes you can still take part in it even after Urbanscapes is over.

At the Event
Step 1: Snap pictures using camera or mobile phone during Urbanscapes. The pictures must be in the following categories:

• Colour
• Fashion
• Music
• Design

Step 2:Upload the pictures via the following methods:
Method 1: At the booth at the 24hr KL booth area:
Participants can upload their pictures at the booth at the 24hr KL area by passing over their media card at the booth.

Method 2: MeTV
Users who snap the pictures using their phone can MMS it to 26388
The subject of the MMS must include the following information separated by a comma:

• the name of the photo,
• which category the picture is supposed to be in,
• the person’s name – example: The whacky art of Symbian,Photography,Jasmine Lee

After the Event
Participants can still upload the pictures that they have taken via the following methods:
Method 1: Email it to xsnaps@xpax.com.my

With these details:

• Title of Picture
• Category of Picture
• Name
• Mobile Number

Method 2: MeTV

Same thing as above

Now after all that mmsing pictures what do you win? Hehehe lemme just say you’ll love the prize for anyone who wants or is in need for a new phone. Now say it with me…

Sayyyy oooooOOOOOOOOoooooohhhhhh

Hehe, There are 4 winners for the contest. One from each category which is Colour, Fashion, Music and Design. And each of these winners will receive and N97 plus plus plus a half year free airtime (RM150 X 6 months)

So now you tell me what are you waiting for? You have a great event that is up for grabs. Same time there’s the possibility of winning the new Nokia N97. I’d say it’s all good!

Details again for the event:

Date: 27th June
Time: 12 noon – 12pm
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPAC)
Ticket Prices : Possibility of Freeness , Pre sale = RM25, At the Door Sales = RM35
Brand Anchor: Xpax
Benefits: LOADS OF FUN!!

Check out more details here at Klue Urbanscapes

The 3rd of May was quite a mark for me. It was the night of the 7th Annual Boh Cameronian Awards held at the Mandarin Oriental, Kuala Lumpur… Why am I making it sound like a newspaper article!? And i know i’m very behind on this post.

It was a Sunday and while I was rushing my way back to KL from Penang for an event I definitely did not want to miss. You know how actors in Hollywood get to go to big awards like the Tony Awards, The Oscars, The Golden Globes, The Emmys, The Baftas and [...] Continue Reading…

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This has been going around for ages. The first time I heard about Project 365, it was via one of my friends Sze Ning who is a self photographing addict. Hehe In short she likes taking experimental shots. I was browsing through her flickr profile and saw that she tried out the Project 365. Needless to say she dropped out of it shortly.

Now what is Project 365?

In simple terms, it is basically you taking one photo per day for a whole year with whatever camera you got. And you can’t stop!

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All i wanted to do was just to send an email. That’s all. Not really asking much. Then all of a sudden I get this lil pop up. asking me to do maths.. Maths!

And they only gave me 60 seconds to do all those math questions. Yeah yeah, 60 seconds is a lot. I’m just a lazy. lol. So in order to ensure that I’m not going to fall asleep while sending an email, they decide to create a little thinking game. Come on!! I just wanna send my mail lol.

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Hmm yet another food post.. this doesn’t sound too good for me. :S

I’m a huge sucker when it comes to trying new things and seeing something that sounds or looks interesting.I’ve been spending a bit more time recently at One Utama because of a huge malfunction which i will blog about on another post. While settling my malfunction (and no it was not a wardrobe one!!) – I stumbled onto the new little tea-time snack place called Mr Baoz. Apparently the place just opened up a few days ago. On the 9th of April to be exact.

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I admit to being a curious cat. I saw an interesting thing while browsing my Facebook home page. My friend had taken one of those annoying quizzes which some people feel should just not be published on to your main homepage for the entire social network to see. Well I found this one fun. And I will admit to being a sucker for this… I found it interesting! So sue me! So am i really all that is stated above. Let’s check. Btw it Aronil is my name flipped, so it doesn’t [...] Continue Reading…