Create your own Radio Station with Jango

Just discovered this, this morning. As I get excited very easily over small things, I got excited.

I was looking for some old songs (ya, you know why), and I stumbled into Jango.com .

Here on http://www.jango.com/ you can type in the song that you want to hear and presto, you've created a radio station that will play your song and similar songs. Isn't that awesome. You get to see the song being played, the name and picture of the artiste and the remaining time left.


















In addition you can search for songs you like and add them on to this radio station of yours. I am sure there are other things it can do. I am still groping at them.

And if you are reading this on facebook click here for the original post.

Rade came in Third

Just received a bit of good news.

Jeremy Cheong's band Rade came in third in the finals last nite.

If you are reading this on facebook, please click here for my original post.

I did not attend the competition in Fahrenheit Sri Hartamas last night. And I have no other details right now. Should I get some clips of the performance later, I shall share them?

Sign language with your Doctor on Erectile Dysfunction?

I went to bed with a freaking running nose and a really bad cough last night. Went to bed but had a difficult time sleeping.

I went to work this morning as my company does not give medical leaves to bosses. That reminds me. In my next reincarnation, I just want to work for Canon until retirement.

But my company allows bosses to go seek out a doctor for treatment. That reminds me. Why do people keep telling me that they see a doctor when it is really the doctor who is seeing them! Well, unless the person is a doctor and the other doctor is sick!

Went to the clinic in Kuchai Entrepreneurs' Park but went away in view of the crowd. That reminds me. Why name a place so difficult to pronounce or spell!. Jeremy Lee once said that of a Canon paper I introduced called Concerto. Canon Concerto.

Went to the clinic near my house then. This doctor has some hole-in-one golf certificate and another picture with a gweilo to distract you while he unbutton your shirt front to roam in his stethoscope, purportedly to see if you are still alive or if you have phlegm in your lungs. Telling him you have, won't help. He has to go check you up himself.

Really, my point is with this poster I saw outside his room while I was waiting to be molested.

This one ask you a very important question. It says "How's your love life?"

I am sure it did not ask if you cuddle up with your partner when you sleep. That reminds me. Nowadays, it is called spooning if both of you face the same direction. I have been calling it the motorbike position.

If you want to improve your love life, there's a quick solution. Seize the moment. Use your thumb to talk to your Doctor about erectile difficulties.

And you have 2 symbols of the thumbs. One up and one down.

For 2 seconds, I was pretty impressed. Wow, now one does not have to talk, to save on embarrassments. Just show the Doctor the thumb down and he will understand.

Then.... then. How after? So now the Doctor knows that you have the male morning sickness. He nod his head and look at you. You nod your head and look at him.

10 seconds passed. Then the doctor nod his head and you follow suit.

Another 10 seconds passed. There has to be a dialog, otherwise, the scene above will continue until both of you grow old and die. Well, on the million to one chance that both of you can sign, then there would be progress. Otherwise ..... ..

So now, who is the smartass creative brain behind the poster?

If you want to improve your love life, yah, doesn't everybody?

there's a quick solution, really?

Seize the moment. okay, I will

Use your thumb to talk to your Doctor about erectile difficulties. And that's your solution? you dumb ass!

Chastity Bono/Chaz Bono

If you are old enough, you may remember a famous duo Sonny and Cher.

Their hit song then was the slow head nodding "I Got You , Babe". And this following video was in 1965! I was twelve then! My current kids could very well be my dad's friends before a reincarnation.

Notice how Cher looked so innocent and pretty in 1965.




They broke up like most marriages of celebrities. Cher went solo and one of her memorable hit song is Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.



Sadly,

On January 5, 1998, Bono died from injuries sustained when he struck a tree while skiing on the Nevada side of Heavenly Ski Resort near South Lake Tahoe, California. He was 62

Together they had a daughter, Chastity Bono. The picture at the beginning of this post showed her as a child.

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Lately, it seems that she has decided to undergo a sex change.
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If you are reading this post on facebook, you may want to click on the following for the original posting. Facebook Notes does not support Youtube videos.

http://canonmalaysians.blogspot.com/2009/10/chastitiy-bonochaz-bono.html

Profile Pictures and Cold Weather

I had breakfast with Jeradyne earlier today. Usual lah.

We talk about other people. Usual lah.

We talk about Facebook, sometimes usual lah.

We talk about the profile pictures of people in Facebook. First time.

Half the people in this country has to be wearing thick clothings and a lot of the pictures are taken when it was snowing.

We speculated it this way. Going by Abraham Maslow hierarchy of needs, your friends would be in the social and self esteem level. Physical and security needs would have been satisfied.

What better way to earn some respect from friends than to tell them that you have holidayed abroad. Well, you may argued that standing in front of the Eiffel Tower or the London Bridge and have your photo taken would suffice.

Hey, remember that we are talking about profile pictures! A bit closer up and recognisable. Hence the clothes and the snow. In this country those things are not normal and viola, we can quite easily conclude, people with photos like that have holidayed abroad or at least had been abroad on a business stint.

The gweilo are no different of course. Instead of using clothes, they use tans and skimpy clothing in a outdoor environment. Preferably a beach.

"But Stanley, you are no different! Look at your profile picture!" a voice spoke in my head.

Of course, I ignored that voice. What! you think I listen to voices in my head? Do I look like I need a shrink?


Jeradyne told me about Paramore and the song Decode sang by this girl Hayley Williams.

She is really good.

Rade's Miracle Mile

I may have told you that Jeremy Cheong plays in a band called Rade.

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Well, he does and their new single 'Miracle Mile' seems to get a little help from a radio station.

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I understand that this song will be aired over CAPITAL FM88.9 at the approximate times.

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8.40am, 11am, 2.10pm and 5.30pm.

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Should I come across a video clip on this later, then I shall post it.

Dongguan-A Canon Incentive Trip

Canon Business Imaging Solution Division currently has a Incentive Program running for all national resellers. This one is a 3 months affair, this Q4; for tickets to Dongguan, China.

There will be a ticket for every 30 units of Canon SOHO Multi-Function machines.

It is very likely that should you be a reseller and if you are going, then you will have me for company.

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My company Stone-Mashe Sdn Bhd is one of the handful of distributors that you can participate with.

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Call or write me for more details.

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Incidentally I woke fairly early this morning. Like 5am. It is true when they say that old people can't sleep late, although they tend to nod off during day meetings. An example would be Badawi, remember?

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I switched on the computer, what else?

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With time on my hands, I've created a facebook business group. Should you be a facebook user, I welcome you to join this group as members. I shall endeavour to think of updating this account with useful information. The facebook group name is Stone-Mashe Sdn Bhd. Search for it?

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The terms and conditions of the Dongguan trip is uploaded there already.

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More things to come.

ME & My Breasts

This is not a joke.

Talk by Dr Evelyn Ho
Consultant Clinical Radiologist
President, College of Radiology, Academy of Malaysia

Date: 24 Oct 2009, Saturday
Time: 2.30pm -3.30pm
Venue: Event Hall, 3rd Floor, Bangsar Village II,
Bangsar Baru
Kuala Lumpur

The contents of the talk will focus on how to understand the breasts, how to familiarize oneself with one’s breasts and touch on topics related to screening for breast cancer. This interactive talk is for you to ask as many questions as you want, and clarify doubts or find out more about breast health. The talk is for everyone, as it is EVERYONE’S BUSINESS to be Breast Aware

I do not know Dr Evelyn Ho personally. I came to know of this via a notification by her on a school alumni loop of which both of us are participants. She being fairly acitve whilst I not.

You may want to attend the talk by her.

Dr Evelyn Ho recently did a training workshop for volunteer breast cancer survivors in Malaysia, Reach to Recovery Training from 31 July to 2 August 2009.

Click to know more.

http://www.radiologymalaysia.org/breasthealth/BCAC/2009Reports/0802_BreastHealthAwarenessAtReachToRecoveryTrainingWorkshop.htm

Happy Deepavali and Pooja Chopra

So once again on this day I wish all those who celebrate a very "Happy Deepavali" and should you choose to drink, do not drive nor be too drunk.

A little bit of old news (oxymoron again?) for you. Ms Pooja Chopra won the Ms India title earlier this year. If you do not know how she looks like, let me show you.



















A very interesting and moving story about her, if you have not known already. This will make you angry and upset if you are like me. Against bigotry.

London: Pooja Chopra's survival is being celebrated throughout India. However, when the Miss India World 2009 was 20 days old, her mother was asked by her husband to make a choice - kill her child or forfeit the marriage.

Despite knowing that she would be thrown out the house, mum Neera decided to keep her daughter, and thus defied the wishes of a bullying husband who wanted the baby destroyed.

Now, twenty-three years later, Pooja, a vivacious young woman, has become a quintessential example of the axiom: every cloud has a silver lining.

Click to continue reading.

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_miss-india-pooja-chopra-s-dad-told-mum-to-kill-her-or-forfeit-marriage_1252465

Pauline Wong's Birthday Bash

Pauline had a birthday party last Saturday in Bangsar South at a place called S'Mores. I was invited. I was honored.

The place is good. But let me tell you. I see so many places now with names connected to Damansara that Damansara is no longer a place. It has effectively now become a name. Conning people to make a place look like it is upmarket is so uncool. And now Bangsar may have joined the rank of Damansara. You may very soon have Bangsar North, Bangsar Utama, Kota Bangsar and perhaps even Bangsar Damansara.

The picture above is an old one of course. I looked fairly alright is why.

Arriving at the place, one of the first things I did besides hugging Pauline and wishing her Happy Birthday was to ask her to remember to send me photos of the do. She said 'no' straightaway disapproving me of putting the pictures up on this blog. My Samsung camera phone is of no use in low lighting's.

The two photos below is evident of that fact.

Gee, I realized too late that I forgot to ask her how old she was.

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It was an interesting evening.

There were altogether about 30-40 people. Quite a mix. Some good looking and some used to be good looking. Food was Western and Fusion.

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Pauline has got up some slide show of her in days of yore. Actually I have quite a bit of those photos too in www.photobucket.com/stanleycheong/canonmalaysians . She has a number of people there probably from the same dance class. They showed off en group some suave tandem line dancing. They all looked like they enjoyed tremendously the opportunity. Serena got into the act as well

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Okay, now let me talk about the people I know.

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I went with Malani Cumurasamy. Her face did not age a bit but she is a little bigger now. For your information, she is now married and have a boy 6 and a girl 3. I think their names are Rihan and Nisha. Rihan is the talented one, it seems. He can already read and write when he was 3 years old. Very pleasant and good looking kids. Very talkative and friendly as well.

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Serena Ong is now married too. No kids yet. As you know, she is the country manager for Pacific Cigar Sdn Bhd, I think. A Hongkong company. The husband is called Rosli. So she is a muslim now. Do not offer her char siew. You may remember she joined Canon as a sweet young thing 19 years old.

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Noraini Ibrahim used to be with Malaysia Airlines before she joined Canon. After leaving Canon, she went back to stewardessing. She is married too with a young daughter. She still has those luscious lips.

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A web definition of the word luscious goes like this.

juicy: having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman"; "a toothsome blonde in a tight dress" wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - Definition in context.

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Again you can find pictures of her in the photobucket account mentioned earlier.

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An old friend that I have not seen for more than 10 years came along. His name is Tan Hong Peow. He had in tow a young wife who has just given birth to a child 10 days ago. What a lovely looking couple.

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Pauline Wong of course with her partner is now a big time developer with the busy 3rd Mile Square project to be proud of.

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I went off somewhat early because I had to pick up a close relative.

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I am pretty certain after when I left, the party went up a few notches and went wild. Booze were free flowing, mind you.

Woody Allen - My Next Life

On a fairly regular basis, I receive gems from my friends. And this is one of them from somebody I know named Low Min Chee.


















Woody Allen should need no introduction. But here goes anyway.
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Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright.

Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most respected living American directors. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Ancient Greece, Jewish identity, European cinema and New York City, where he was born and has lived his entire life.

My Next Life by Woody Allen is hilarious and insightful.























After separating from Mia Farrow in 1992, Woody Allen went into a relationship with his step-daughter and later married Soon-Yi Previn.
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Allen and Farrow's only biological son, Ronan Seamus Farrow, said of Allen: "He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression. I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent.... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

Whitney Houston - I Look To You (Live at Good Morning America ( 01/09/2009 )

In 1985, when Whitney Housten came out with her first self-titled album, I went to buy it with listening to just a couple of songs then. Just that the reviews were so complimenting. I remembered looking at the album cover and thought "Hey, this album cover isn't so impressive".

It was a music cassette.

Very quickly I got to like her so much and continue to listen to her songs for quite some years. Mind you, I am actually more a song person than a singer person.

She then joined my group of female supersingers including Barbara Streisand and Mariah Carey. (the older Mariah Carey that is, before she started to show her body and sang Touch My Body).
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Some information on Whitney?

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is an American recording artist, actress, and former fashion model.

Houston released her debut album Whitney Houston in 1985, which became the best-selling debut album by a female artist. Her second studio album Whitney (1987) became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Following her marriage to fellow singer Bobby Brown, Houston appeared in her first starring role in the feature film The Bodyguard in 1992. The film's original soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and became the world's best-selling soundtrack. Its lead single, "I Will Always Love You", became one of the best-selling singles in music history.

Houston is one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 140 million albums and 50 million singles, worldwide. She is ranked as the fourth best-selling female artist in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 54 million certified albums. Known as "The Voice" for her "powerful, penetrating pop-gospel" vocals, she has been listed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

Following is the live version on the first hit single of the new album I Look to You.


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It wasn't very impressive, in my opinion. Probably the recorded version could be different.
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Her voice is a pale comparision to the one that I used to know. She looked tired and she was overly pathetic.
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Now watch this one and be impressed.



I consider this to be my all time best female duets.

Don't you love the Whitney Housten and Mariah Carey of yore.

The Chinese way of eating is unhygienic - True?

I was unusually busy the last few days. Not sure if it was good or bad. Shall think about this predicament later.

I was having a light breakfast with Jeradyne this morning in my favorite coffee shop near my house. I saw Kevin - not so long ago Canon Printer person with his two rather young daughters. Thought of saying hello later as he was some distance away. I blinked my eyes twice and alas, he was gone. The coffee shop I was in serves to-kill-for RM5 club sandwiches.

Talking about food. I have on several occasions heard that our Chinese way of eating is rather unhygienic, you know sharing commonly centralized dishes where we dip our chopsticks and forks and spoons.

I looked up the Net.

I saw this Eating in Taiwan: Etiquette and I quote.

As with Chinese cuisine elsewhere, food in Taiwan is generally eaten with chopsticks and served on large plates placed at the center of the table. Unlike in the West, however, a serving spoon might not accompany the dishes, and instead guests will use their own chopsticks to transfer food to their plates. Some people unaccustomed to this way of eating may consider this unhygienic, though it is usually quite safe. However, those who prefer to use a separate utensil for serving have the option of requesting communal chopsticks (公筷 gongkuai), and can gently encourage friends to use them if they do not automatically do so.

I can't find any more stuffs related to my post title.

My view is that it is not true generally. How so?

Our manner of eating is certainly different from the Westerners significantly. regardless of whether we are using chopsticks or forks and spoons.

When we are using chopsticks, we tend to exhibit a sucking action to separate the food from the pair of chopsticks holding it. This behaviour entails very little contact between our lips and the chopsticks being used. The very obvious example would be our manner of eating soup mee/meehoon. The Westerners tend to put quite a bit of the chopsticks into their mouths to pull in the food via a sweeping lips action.

When using forks and spoons, in addition to the sucking motion, we too utilise our top front row of teeth to very gently rake in the food, being careful not to touch the fork or spoon used. Here a Western person would close his mouth over the whole business end of the spoon/fork and 'wipe' in the food totally.

When drinking soups, we inevitably touch the spoon with our lips. But you will notice that we tend to touch as little as we can, and with a slight tipping motion, draw in the liquid. The drinking action of a Westerner would be the same as in the above paragraph. Incidentally, they can't drink hot soups.

If the above descriptions make you think about sex, well, I can vouch for you being healthy.

Incidentally, the Westerner's way of eating local/Chinese food means that they tend to draw in an unusually larger amount of the spices/curry/gravy and hence tend to make it too hot for them.

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2 pictures of our Ms World Malaysia 2009 Thanuja Ananthan?
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Free and get 85 million users

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AVG is now 18 years old and is launching their ninth version of its AVG antivirus software to be available in mid-October. And it free!

Giving things away free sure will get you many friends and in this case a lot of users. Well, 85,000,000 of them.

And I love quoting numbers. It makes me seem smarter.

The new one runs 50 percent faster than its previous version. And it offers a new way to protect against identity theft, a problem that has been mushrooming in recent years.

Now the software takes about 11 mouse clicks to install, compared to 22 before. It’s the little innovations like this that have helped the company snag 40 percent of the worldwide free antivirus software market.

You may also have heard that Microsoft also wants to give free anti-virus stuffs too. They called theirs Microsoft Security Essentials. I understand it is not bad.

In the case of the new AVG:

The new suite of software has basic antivirus protection. But it also includes layers of protections such as a firewall, anti-spyware, and Link Scanner. The latter examines the search results in your Internet searches and tells you whether those links are safe to click. LinkScanner frequently updates its scans of a link; that’s important now because many sites are hijacked and what was a safe site yesterday could be a dangerous site today.

After AVG looks for known threats, it enlists help from the cloud, where it taps “behavioral” technology that figures out if a new file or link is behaving in a suspicious way. With such technology, AVG can block a new virus even if that virus isn’t in the known library of viruses.

Looks kind of impressive.

I have not watched Bruno yet

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It is not usual for me to talk about a show that I have not watched. For one, it is banned in this country and so therefore in my mind, means interesting. Two, it is not available yet from my regular pusher.

I've talked a bit about Borat earlier. That movie was actually released 3 years ago. Also banned, of course. Just so you know, it has Pamela Anderson in that one.

Four days ago, this article appeared in the San Franscisco Chronicle.

Bruno banned in Malaysia. Read here for the full story. You should also read the comments as well. Some of them are quite funny. One said the word Malaysia has the word lay in it. And one spelled Malaysia as Magaysia.

Brüno (pronounced as Bruno) is a 2009 mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles. Sacha Baron Cohen, who also produced and co-wrote the movie, stars as the flamboyant gay Austrian fashion journalist Brüno. This film is the third based on characters from Da Ali G Show, following Ali G Indahouse and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Gay Austrian fashion reporter Brüno is fired from TV reporting after disrupting a Milan Fashion week catwalk, and his lover Diesel (Clifford Bañagale) leaves him for another man. Accompanied by his assistant's assistant Lutz (Gustaf Hammarsten), he travels to the United States to become "the biggest Austrian superstar since Hitler".

You should also see this "Sacha Baron Cohen Interviews a Terrorist" on the David Letteman show.

I am so going to watch this movie when it is available.

Acquired C-Box

I have problems with the old chat box by flooble. And as per my usual manner of managing problems, I've gotten rid of it.

It is not so easy with people though. There are a few (well actually just one) in my industry that I fleetingly thought of getting rid of. sigh!

Well, this one keeps on bitching and bitching and bitching and bitching and bitching ... and I thought all the while he was my friend.

.... who is this Stone-Mashe .. .. how can you allow him to disturb the market .. .. he is sure going to throw price one .. .. i've just told the other distributor not to draw stocks from the principal as I'm going to sell below cost .. .. what? i have taken on this other brand to do? that is my right wat? you cannot control me, but i want to control you .. .. how much stocks do you have on this model, i want to buy up everygthing .. .. so the salesman does not want to handle my account just because i scolded his mother, ok lah, i don't need him .. .. blah, blah, blah. ..

I am observing a minute of silence here for the loss of human decency for some and hope that business does not have to be war-like.

Hey, I was experiencing a momentary lapse of sanity. Kindly note that there is no person like I mentioned earlier. Just a figment of my imagination.

Cheers, folks! And please use the new chatbox on your right to let me know what are you thinking now and everytime you come to this site.

Jogadanz in Kuala Lumpur

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My family and I made a trip to Bali earlier this year and stayed in Hard Rock Hotel there. I consider the Hard Rock Hotel the best hotel in the world.

While we were there, we enjoyed a few evenings watching the band in attendance at the hotel CentreStage. You may want to refresh by visiting this link. Jogadanz is an Indonesian band

http://canonmalaysians.blogspot.com/2009/07/bali-186-216-band.html

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Maybe Jogadanz wants to return the favor. They are now here in Kuala Lumpur and will be performing in the Hard Rock Cafe Kuala Lumpur this month and next.

They are not a terribly great band. But they are a high energy band. A lead singer and two sexy ladies taking turns to sing as well.

Should you want to go watch them, you will be entertained.