A blurry image of the ticket.Salam,
Ok I know that Anugerah Juara Lagu Ke-24 is old news by now. However I just want to share with you the fact that I watched it live at the stadium (the 2nd time in fact, the first one was 2 years back when Estranged won Juara Lagu with Itu Kamu) together my big family, that is included Tok Ayah's family. Thank you Tok Ayah for always providing us with free tickets and free home-cooked food later in his van after the show.
This year's event of course seen more competition among the younger, newer artistes including those from the Indie stream in fact last 2 years in a row were won by 2 Indie bands namely Estranged and Meet Uncle Hussein with Lagu Untukmu (I really wished I was at the stadium that year because I cried watching them won on TV, REALLY REALLY EXTREMELY OVERWHELMED when they won.) This year though, Aizat won with Pete Teo's composition of Pergi from the OST of Allahyarham Yasmin Ahmad's best film in my opinion, Talentime.
Though all songs and performances were incredibly fantastic and over the top, apart from Tomok and Hafiz's so-so nothing new performances, I felt quite bad that since this time there is no longer division of categories based on the music genre, means that Ethnic music or Traditional Malay music hardly could be in the finals. Really hope that next year, traditional music goers will work harder and create something really outstanding so they could be the modern, Western-originated music insha Allah.
Yes for me, though almost everybody competing really create a robust pandemonium in the stadium, my MOST FAVOURITE performance for the night was the cover version of Lagu Untukmu sang by Datuk Siti Nurhaliza cum her duet with its original singer on the same song, Azlan now the frontman of Azlan and the Typewriter. Magnificent. Incredible. Even my words are merely understating the real uplifting vibe they sent to us throughout the performance. Numero Uno! Oh yes not to leave out the Retro Decade segment for the closing performances and my most favourite was definitely the ever energetic Search representing the 80's decade, Pawana is still very haunting as before. =)
Quite sensitive issue here but may be true was the Freemason issue, which was too apparent but I think you should search religious blogs to know about this. One shocking but enlightening revelation about the relation of Freemasonry and AJL 24 could be read here: http://jejakitinggalanrasul.blogspot.com/2010/01/freemasonry.html#more . Freaking shocking, TV3 denied of course, but too many co-incidences are a bit too lame for me. Of course if you are an avid fan of The Arrivals video series on Youtube, the similarities and 'co-incidences' were uncanny. The ghost seen above the roof railing during Faizal Tahir's performance was also a pretty hot news, I believe the ghost was real based on its very high location.
Anyway despite all the controversy congratulations TV3 and the whole responsible crew for conducting the best AJL yet. =)
Idayu and green with her brother Daniel and their aunts.
Idayu, Nana and very chubby me. Seriously I felt a pang of horror looking at how fat I was (hopefully) in this pic! Yes we were queueing for almost ONE HOUR to enter the stadium.
Cute pic of Idayu & Nana waiting for the event to start.
Mama Intan (Idayu's mum) and her youngest child, the ever mischievous Hakim.
Check out the crowd in the stadium.
I think the lighting and stage setting for this year's AJL was the best.
Hujan performing AkuStatik while the Hujan Rangers dancing as though they were at a gig. =)
A dark photo of Idayu and her aunt, nevermind as long as the AJL 24 logo is apparent! =D
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