Mawi FOREVER

Asmawi bin Ani, better known as Mawi, is a Malaysian singer and a Third Season winner of Malaysia's popular reality show, Akademi Fantasia. Mawi has created a new phenomenon in the Malaysian music industry by becoming one of the best-selling and influential singers of the last few years. His debut album sold more than 200,000 copies in Malaysia and he has won numerous industry awards since winning the competition.

ABP (Anugerah Bintang Popular 2006)
Popular Artist
HITS 1 (RTM/MALAYSIA)
The Best Song 2006 - Lagu Jiwa Lagu Cinta
Muzik-Muzik (TV3/Malaysia)
The best performance - Aduh Saliha
The best song - Ethnic Creative Category - Aduh Saliha
ABP(Anugerah Bintang Popular 2005)
Most Popular Artist
Best New Artist
Anugerah Era (2006)
Best Artist
Best Song (Kian)
Best Ethnic Song (Aduh Saliha)
Artist SMS Digi
Best Video Clip (Lagu Jiwa Lagu Cinta - directed by Mamat Khalid)
MTV ASIA AWARDS 2005
Most Popular Artist
ANUGERAH PLANET MUZIK (MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE/INDONESIA)
Aduh Saliha


Yang Tercinta (2005)
Best of Mawi World (2005)
Doa, Berzanji & Qasidah Berlagu (2006)
Yang Tercinta MTV Karaoke (2006)
Selingkar Kisah (The Story Life of Mawi at AF) (2006)
Satu Dalam Seribu (2007)

Karen Kong~Profile

Karen Kong (or Karen K to her fans) is a Malaysian singer of Chinese ethnicity. Karen's debut single was launched in January 2007. She immediately garnered attention due to her entire album being written in Malay, which is quite unusual for a Chinese artist. Her debut EP also includes her singles Cinta Hello Kitty and Ku Tak Upaya, both penned by fellow Malaysian songwriter Asmin Mudin (writer of Malaysian Idol Jaclyn Victor's Gemilang). Both were featured on several radio station top charts including ERA, Xfresh and others. Participating musicians in this production also included Shazzy (rapper), Johan Farid Khairuddin aka JFK (Xfresh FM Radio DJ), Lee Nai Kong (Project Superstar MD), Sham (Kamikaze), Jamie Wilson, Lee Chee Cheng, Roger Wang, 3-Flow, Omar K, Fajrul Norman and Fred Chong. She was a student of S.M.K Labuan during her secondary education years. She has stated that she is a fan of Celine Dion, who is one of her major influences in her musical career.
Karen Kong was a participant in Malaysian Idol in 2004, but she was eliminated in the first round.

Mulakan (2007)
"Prelude(Mulakan)"
"Mulakan"
"Oh Kekasih!"
"Cinta Hello Kitty"
"Juli Dorimi"
"Ku Tak Upaya"
"Na Na Na Nada Cinta"
"Bintang"
"Dalam Bahasa Sayu"
"Sama-sama Menjulang"
"Na Na Na Nada Cinta - piano version"
"Cinta Hello Kitty - Karaoke ver."
"Ku Tak Upaya - Karaoke ver."

Taufik Batisah

You need not conduct a thorough police investigation to know more about Taufik. We have an indepth profile of him right here. Read on to learn what makes Taufik, well... Taufik.

Full Name: Muhammad Taufik Bin Batisah
Nickname: Taufik,
FiqueDOB: 10 December 1981
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Height: 1.8m
Weight: 74kg

Family Members: 2 brothers & mother
3 Most Treasured Possessions: Guitar, Trucker cap, Shades
School Attended: Boon Lay Primary, Jurong Sec, Singapore Poly
Previous Jobs: Pizza Hut delivery boy, Mascot boy, Clown, Packer
Worst Habit: Eating chocolate
Fave Sport: Skateboarding
Fave Food: Fast foodFave Drink: Mineral water
Fave Singer/Band: Usher, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder
Fave Colours: Green, brown, baby blue, red, white
Fave Movie: Kill Bill, Gladiator, Fight Club, Troy, Wizard of Oz
Fave TV Show: Boston Public, Friends, MTV Jams, Wade Robson Project
I'd Like Most To Meet... Usher, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder
Top 3 Songs I Love:1) Lately - Stevie Wonder2) All songs by Usher3) She’s Out Of My Life - Michael Jackson

Perception of Life: "Any dream can be realized, if you put in your mind, body & soul into achieving it."
Perception of Love: "Love is a feeling of being complete, when the person you love is around."

Karen Kong

Cinta Hello Kitty

SINGAPORE IDOL~Taufik Batisah

All is Because You

MALAYSIAN POPULAR ARTIST-Mawi

Mungkin Langitmu Lebih Biru




Angan Dan Sedar

SumoLah

The Sushi Restaurant Association of Kuala Lumpur is organizing their annual underground Sumo tournament. Boleh Sushi, a small sushi joint and last year’s runners-up, are short one fighter after losing their cook, Hassan. They have to find a replacement soon. They accidentally find Ramlee.








What would happen if a hotheaded and unambitious Malay man (Ramlee) was forced to enter the rigourous and challenging world of sumo? Would he give up on the trials and tribulations he finds himself committed to? Or will his relationship with the father-figure he never had create a purpose for him to rise above the challenges and endeavour to do his best?

Story synopsis









(Afdlin Shauki) is a down and out Malay boy who can’t seem to hold down a job, much to his mother’s (Kartina Aziz) disappointment। Out of a job and out of money, he stumbles across a challenge by sushi restaurant owner Honda (Patrick Teoh) to “eat all you can for free food – within a time limit”।

Hungry and desperate, Ramlee attempts the challenge, and fails। In compensation, Honda lets Ramlee take a job at the restaurant to pay off his due। Ramlee becomes a member of the Boleh Sushi shop staff, along with Haris (Awie) and Andy (Radhi Khalid)। Ramlee is immediately attracted to Honda’s beautiful daughter, Siti (Inthira Charoenpura), who is half-Japanese and half-Malay। He begins to learn the meaning of having good work, good friends and family.

One day he learns that part of his obligation is to take part in the Malaysian Sushi Association Amateur Sumo Wrestling Championships held by the local Japanese owners of sushi restaurants.

Whilst taking part in the initial friendly bout, Akira (Gurmit Singh), Siti’s ex-boyfriend, humiliates him in public. It is only after that that Ramlee finds out that he had been tricked into working for Boleh Sushi because Honda was desperate for a third member for their team.

Ramlee has to make a choice – whether to stay on and fight for Boleh Sushi in the upcoming Championships, or to give up on his new-found family. He decides to step up to the challenge and begins training with the boys for the big fight. He learns the meaning of the word “nokotta” – never give up, the fight is not yet won. He learns that no matter what the result, the honour is in fighting the good fight. Ultimately, Ramlee’s challenge is to let go of the excuses he has made for himself, and to fight till the end, no matter what.

Spider-Man 3

If ever a movie had a case of the blues and the blahs, it’s “Spider-Man 3,” the third and what feels like the end of Sam Raimi’s big-screen comic-book adaptations. (Ready or not, the studio is talking about a fourth.) Aesthetically and conceptually wrung out, fizzled rather than fizzy, this latest installment in the spider-bites-boy adventure story shoots high, swings low and every so often hits the sweet spot, but mostly just plods and plods along, as if its heart were pumping tired radioactive blood. Success may not have spoiled Mr. Raimi as it has Peter Parker, but it seems as if it has zapped his gracious good humor, which was so critical to the first two films. The story this time unfolds as a series of increasingly dreary and teary melodramatic encounters regularly interrupted by special-effects-laden fights. As it happens, the over-all shape does recall a Busby Berkeley musical — snappy story, lavish number, snappy story, lavish number — but without the snap or fun. — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Shrek the Third

For all I know, there may be an endless supply of “Shrek” sequels in the pipeline. That DreamWorks ogre’s skin is the color of money after all. But there is nonetheless a feeling of finality about “Shrek the Third,” a sense that the tale has at last reached a state of completion.


In the first movie Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) met and wooed his lady love, Fiona (Cameron Diaz); in the second he got to know the in-laws. The current installment finds him faced with impending fatherhood and something of a career crisis. Will he take over his father-in-law’s business or remain true to his vocation of bellowing and smashing things? Unless the Shrek team wants to follow its hero into the dangerous swamps of mid-life, thus shifting his literary pedigree away from William Steig and in the direction of John Updike or Philip Roth, it may want to leave him in a condition of more-or-less happily ever after.

Which is only to say that “Shrek the Third,” directed by Chris Miller and Raman Hui from a script with a half-dozen credited begetters, already feels less like a children’s movie than either of its predecessors. (This may be why I liked it better than the others. But then again, so did my kids.) — A. O. Scott, The New York Times

Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End

REVIEW SUMMARY
In the third and perhaps final episode in the swishy, swashbuckling "Pirates of the Caribbean" saga, the cannibals, coconuts and landlocked locations have been replaced by the high-seas high jinks that made the first film so enjoyable. And the palpable relief as the myriad plotlines rush toward some semblance of resolution has made everyone quite giddy; even our passion-deferred lovers, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann (Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley), appear marginally less bored with each other. Or at least less bored than we are with them.

Forever above the fray and beside the point, Johnny Depp’s devilish buccaneer is the lightfooted device that holds the franchise together. Because of the abundance of unpleasant human characters, all of whom lie, cheat and betray one another at the drop of a flounder, the burden of creating an emotional connection with the audience must be borne, ironically, by characters whose humanity has long since evaporated.

From the pathos of Davy to the tragic yearning in the barnacle-encrusted face of Bootstrap Bill Turner (Stellan Skarsgard), the film reminds us that great acting can transcend even the most elaborate makeup., The New York Times

‘Pirates’ Haul So Far Estimated at $401 Million

LOS ANGELES, May 28 — The Memorial Day weekend affirmed the muscle of the international movie market as “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” the third installment of Disney’s blockbuster series, set new industry benchmarks with an aggressive release in more than 10,000 theaters in 104 countries.

Walt Disney executives said that they had broken out in high fives on Monday morning in their Burbank offices as they learned that “Pirates 3” would surpass $400 million in ticket sales around the world in its first six days of release.

The film’s big success comes on the heels of the blockbuster triumph of Sony’s “Spider-Man 3,” which was also released on a global scale earlier this month.

“It’s truly what I’d call the modern-day Disney franchise,” Mark Zoradi, president of Walt Disney Studios marketing and distribution, said of “Pirates.” “We had such an international cast, we had a story that wasn’t landlocked to North America, so this was the absolute perfect movie to open on global basis. That was the strategy.”

More than ever Hollywood has learned to tweak its blockbuster formula to favor the rising influence of the international market, which is now responsible for more than half of annual box office revenues, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.

In addition to Johnny Depp and the returning British actors Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, “Pirates 3” also features the Asian star Chow Yun-Fat. Disney took care to open the film on Wednesday in France, when children are out of school, and on Thursday in Germany, when films traditionally open in that country.

As a result, “Pirates 3” — with a 2-hour-47-minute running time and a reported $300 million budget — took in $245 million outside of North America, far surpassing the $156 million that the film took in domestically since opening on Thursday.

The studio said the total — $401 million — was the biggest opening in Hollywood history, but most openings are tallied as weekends rather than six-day periods, and the domestic box office figure did not break the record set by “Spider-Man 3” earlier this month, with an opening weekend record of $151 million over three days.

“Pirates 3” took in $142 million over the four-day weekend, and another $14 million in Thursday previews.

For the industry the box office revenues domestically over all set a new Memorial Day weekend record, with “Shrek the Third” taking in another $69 million for DreamWorks over four days, while “Spider-Man 3” brought in another $18 million. That film is expected eventually to take in close to $900 million, which would make it the most successful in Sony’s history.

The downside of releasing a global blockbuster is the high risk in making such films. “Spider-Man 3” also reportedly cost around $300 million to produce. A film executive close to “Pirates 3” said that the long running time significantly added to the budget, making the cost of the effects for the production about $1 million a minute.

But both films have also demonstrated the rewards that can come with such risks. And with the official start of summer, Hollywood could well have a record-breaking season. This year over all, ticket sales are up 6.3 percent over last year, for a total of $3.6 billion, according to Media by Numbers, which tallies box office revenues.

“This May has been incredible,” Paul Dergarabedian, the company’s president, said. “Two years ago it would have been unfathomable to be in such a strong position. Usually there’s more of a mix of blockbusters in May. This marketplace is so clearly dominated by sequels that this strategy may be one they try to repeat again.”

For Disney, anyway, that’s certainly the case. Mr. Zoradi said the studio was taking a similar global approach with its coming sequel to “The Chronicles of Narnia” next year, and for the next installment of “National Treasure,” now in production.

“The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” has British stars and is set in a mythical land, while the plot of “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” takes the hunt to London and France.