A Follow Up on my last Post

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The music mogul's all-star cover of REM's hit 'Everybody Hurts' - which is being released to raise funds for earthquake-stricken Haiti - will now take centre stage at the music awards 30th anniversary ceremony on February 16, after bosses reorganised the evening's line-up to clear a space for the song.

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At the moment, it is unclear whether the musicians will all be present to perform together at the BRITs, or if a video will be aired instead.

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http://entertainment.malaysia.msn.com/Celebrity/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3826436

Simon Cowell and Everybody Hurts

I understand Simon Cowell is currently very busy organising a super charity single in aid of Haiti earthquake victims. This single is Everybody Hurts originally done by REM.

So far, the confirmed big names include Rod Stewart, Leona Lewis, JLS and Michael Buble.

The other fellows he is talking with are Will Young, Robbie Williams, Coldplay, Take That, George Michael and Sir Paul McCartney.

This event will be a bit of a rush as the single should be out by the end of this month.

All proceeds go to the Disasters Emergency Committee and The Sun's Helping Haiti campaign.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who asked Simon to organise the single, will waive the VAT.
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And REM do not want royalties from the track
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Here below is the original version by REM. I can't help but believe that Simon Cowell is more impressed with the song than I am. But what do I know!



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And this of course, is Leona Lewis.
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Nothing could have been so blatant.

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It was quite a pleasant surprise to read Marina Mahathir's article in The Star this morning.

Tun Mahathir mentioned a little while back that the allah issue should not be settled in court. I disagree and well, his daughter too.

Marina is also not too happy with our governmental leaders' actions or inactions.

I recommend that you read what she has to say. Click on the link below to read the full article.

Nothing could have been so blatant in catering to an unruly crowd than the permission to hold demos against a court decision

What sort of justice system do we have if anyone can disrespect court decisions by holding demos against them? There are legal avenues to pursue: why do we not educate people to do just that?

Thus far, no government leader has straightforwardly said that not only is the burning of any house of worship against the law, but it is also un-Islamic.

Sadly, it is clear that there are too few of our leaders engaged in building peace among our people, but they are in fact more interested in keeping us divided.


http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file=/2010/1/20/columnists/musings/5496543&sec=musings

The Silliest Song

I went over to wake somebody up this morning.

I wanted to sing the silliest song that comes to mind and "Boom Bang a Bang" popped up!

This song was done by Lulu in 1969. Tell me if you do not think it has to be really silly.



Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang are songs that you do not want to know too.

And they say the songs nowadays are not like those golden yesteryears!



















Lulu is 61 years old now. Actually in 1967 in the movie To Sir with Love starring Sidney Poitier, she acted and sang the title song. I was real impressed then. I was a teenager and the song was so emotional for me. I fell in love with her then. Those days, I fall in love with all women who sing and especially if they play the guitar as well.

Then came Boom Bang a Bang in 1969. What was she thinking! Would you believe this song won the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest?! What was everybody thinking!

Later she got wiser and this one with Ronan Keating was much much better.

You Should See This Boy

I first saw this recently from a facebook post that JayRock Chia did.

As some of you are not facebookers and are not a facebook friend of JRC, let me share this with you on my blog.




You do know this song is "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz; right?

What Say You, Mr Ulamas

It is heartening to note that we have quite some people of all races giving out stalks of flowers in Bukit Bintang. And much as I do not like the megalomaniacal and manipulative Tun Mahathir, I am real happy to note that Marina Mahathir was there too.

And in today's papers, we have:

About 1,000 worshippers at the Catholic Church of Assumption in Kuala Lumpur, one of the four targeted, were briefed by parish priest Phillips Muthu on the incident and told to be patient.

"I told them we don't want to blame any people, any quarter, any religion. We are peaceful and we are here to offer our prayer for the nation," he told reporters at the church, where the fire damaged part of the grounds.

I am of the opinion that we have heard enough from the Prime Minister, the Ministers and the Opposition leaders as well.

It will help greatly, I am certain; if non political religious leaders speak out to support religious tolerances and mutual respect for each others' faiths.

"What say you, Mr Ulamas"

Well, also more from the other priests as well? Organize press conferences?

Christians and Muslims may not listen to their parents, bosses, boyfriends, girlfriends, siblings, the Prime Minister etc. But they sure do listen to their religious leaders.

Katy Perry did not waste any time?

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Perry and Brand, who have been dating since September 2009, got engaged on the New Year’s Eve during a vacation in India. And now Perry has sparked reports that the two are set to start a family after posting a message on social networking site Twitter.com, reports celebrifi.com.

Katy Perry 26, and Russell Brand 35, are two of my favourite people. I hope the rumors were true.

SwitJeremy Dinner Event - Live On Stage

Shall we just let the pictures tell the story?

2012 - The Movie

And so I've finally watched this movie that everybody has watched!

Except for the 400,000 who will be saved to propagate our race, this is a really spectacular way to die. Should you die in this manner and then join beings from other worlds in some heaven/hell environment, you sure can brag about your end days. Can you imagine dying togther with some 6 billion other people.

An exciting movie, no doubt. These narrow escapes, several times from explosions/falling buildings/flood waters etc has been used by directors over and over again. I was pretty impressed when I first watched the effects with Pierre Brosnan in Dante's Peak.

The special effects in this movie were massive! In fact, they were so massive that they seemed unreal. I don't mean to say the effects were not good. Just that it seemed unreal in that it ...... well, seemed unreal to me.

Whole cities being washed into the seas, the whole island of Hawaii gone up in flames, continents shifted around. Just too much for my brain, I guess.

I have no particular like/dislike for John Cusack. I do not mind watching him but it is not something I particularly look forward to. I first noticed him in the 1997 film Grosse Pointe Blank. I kinda like him then and also when he was in Con Air with Nicolas Cage in the same year.

There are 2 actresses who look like a younger Demi Moore. One is Jennifer Connelly and the other is Amanda Peet who starred opposite John Cusack in this movie. Here is her looking good.














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. This other girl was also in the movie. She is called Beatrice Rosen. I have never heard of her before. Just eye candy, guys.








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SwitJeremy Dinner Event - HaoRen and Laimun

Some photos of HaoRen and Laimun who were gracious enough to make their appearances and sang for us a couple of songs each.