NME Awards 2009

How did Noel Gallagher end up with a nomination for “Best Dressed Male” at the NME Awards 2009? Did they get Our Kid mixed up with Noel? :P

With the release of their much acclaimed 7th studio album [Dig Out Your Soul], Oasis have garnered 7 nominations in this year’s NME Awards, including nominations for Best British Band and Worst Band (wth?), Best Album Best Video and Best Live Band. Noel was nominated for Hero Of The Year and Best Dressed Male. Noel had the cheek to state "Seven nominations, you say? Is that all? I always knew my time would come in the Best Dressed Man In The World category." Humility is obviously not his strongest quality.

The only nomination that Coldplay picked up was for Worst Album - wahey! At least the folks at NME have taste in music :P

Cast your votes now at NME Awards site. Winners will be unveiled on 25 February 2009.

Oasis - best or worst band?

Top selling albums in Taiwan in 2008

Sina reported Taiwan’s top selling albums of 2008 last week and Mayday are firmly placed at numero uno spot with President Chou trailing behind them. What’s interesting to note is that the 2 best selling albums of 2008 were both released in late 2008 [in October to be exact] i.e both albums have only been selling for 2+ months, yet they outsold their counterparts who had their albums released in early 2008.

Mayday managed to outsell everyone else in Taiwan cos they were crazy enough to give away free concerts to fans who had bought their albums with the promise of a 100 free concerts across Asia. The move turned out to be a huge success, with Mayday outselling Jay by almost 50% of their total sales colume.

Show Luo, Leehom and Fahrenheit managed a 9th, 16th and 12th spot respectively. Considering that the albums were only released in the last week of December, it’s quite an achievement for the artistes.

Babies don't sleep this well

CNY this year was anything but exciting. It’s been donkey years since I last celebrated CNY in KL. During the last few days off, I spent most of my time at home, juggled between playing sudoku on the DS, watching telly, food binging and recovering sleep debt.

Over the past weeks I’ve accumulated massive sleep debt. I managed to repay much of my mounting sleep debt by clocking in between 11-14 hours of sleep over the past few days. Babies don’t sleep this well LOL

The great return

There are a couple of things that I look forward to in the new year and amongst others, Blur making a comeback in 2009.

Britain's favourite indie band of the mid 90's is reforming and will be making performing live together this July at Hyde Park. Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon has put aside their differences (Coxon was sacked from Blur) behind them to reform. Even arch rivals Oasis' Noel Gallagher has recently buried his feud Blur after 13 years and confessed he is a fan of their music. Apparently, Noel reckons that "Beetlebum" is a great tune. Awww..

In an exclusive NME interview, Alex James joked about how regrouping is "gonna be a bit like putting the 'A-Team' back together for a job. We've gotta bust Rowntree out of law school!" Eh? Has Dave gone to law school??!

I like Blur =) Their songs sound so distinctly British and I love how Damon's cockney accent echoes through their songs and the feel of London shines through his voice.

Happy Niu Year

Wishing everyone a very Happy Chinese New Year!

May the year of the Ox be filled with prosperity, luck, happiness, love, good health and fortune.

Wasted Saturday

I asked a friend out yesterday cos I wanted to watch "Inkheart" at the cinema after reading about it in last week's paper. The article failed to mention how lame the movie is! It was a waste of my time (I should've stayed at home and napped) and money (that RM12 would've been better spent on something else)

I haven't read the book (nor do I plan to). Great storyline but it was poorly executed on screen. Andy Serkis played Gollum/Smeagol brilliantly in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy but he was awful playing Capricorn in this flick.

Jogoya coupons

Jogoya must be feeling the heat from its newest competitor, Tenji Japanese Buffet. Tenji opened just recently and is located at Solaris Mont'Kiara. Just a couple of weeks ago Tenji ran an opening promotion and offered a one hour buffet lunch at only RM29.90++! Looks like Jogoya is resorting to giving discounts and coupons.

Today I received Jogoya coupons in my mailbox - with free meals for 1 pax for each session - lunch, hi-tea, dinner and supper. Sounds like a pretty good deal - I'm looking forward to pigging out on tiramisu LOL

Dragon Rider

CNY is just around the corner and Jay Chou wants your angpow money LOL. President Chou has just released a double DVD MV set comprising MVs for his current and previous albums, 魔杰座 [Capricorn] and 我很忙 [On The Run].

Dragon Rider

Our resident President Chou fan bought a copy from Victoria Music Centre for a cool RM105. The DVD set is fully imported from Taiwan and comes with a necklace (which is probably why it costs so much)

hmm that's an odd looking necklace

Mighty Mayday

Pre-booking for Mayday's upcoming concert in Singapore on 29 August 2009 (that's 7 months away!) began on boxing day last year and as at tonight, all tickets for Category 1 (priced at $178) has been sold out. Only Category 2 ($148), Category 3 ($118) and Category 4 ($88) tickets are now left.

According to news report, some 70% of the tickets have been sold! O M G *faints*

Rock Records and the fanclubs who were all taking their own pre-orders for the concert had overbooked due to the overwhelming response and a majority of fans who had booked through them had their pre-booking cancelled as the fanclubs and Rock could not get enough tickets from Sistic!

Who would have thought Mayday would sell out so many tickets 7 months ahead of the concert??

One week to CNY

Chinese New Year is exactly a week away. I'm not particularly excited about CNY as I'm not celebrating it this year (cos my gran passed away last year). We're also not allowed to do any spring cleaning so no major house cleaning this year! :D

I haven't really done much shopping for CNY clothes though I did manage to buy something for work. I still have a couple of Stay Real tees that I haven't worn, so I'll be saving them for CNY

Since I'm not taking any leave for CNY this year, whatever am I gonna do for 4 days? It's probably high time for me to watch the "Cruel Love" series. Abby lent me the DVD boxset and it's been sitting gathering dust for the last 2 months.

starring Mr Face Shop - Kwon Sang Woo