Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Blast Off & Linda Jasmine's Dance Studio
BLAST OFF @ O*range Club
Friday, 14 Jan 2005
Last Pre-liminary Round
BLAST OFF!!!
The audience
It was my first time attending a BLAST OFF session in full. The bands were pretty good this round, thank GOD!! I've seen highlights and oh my gawd!!! The vocal groups are so bad!! Showmanship-wise bagus but the vocals are so waaaay out! Hancur!!
Shohoku, Siarra & Fiezzta were good. Infinatez was average n AK was -- well, they were eliminated! Poor AK, they rapped pretty well, but one of them sang really badly. Adus!! Teruk betul! The three members of AK are siblings so I guess it'd be pretty hard to sack that crappy singer :)
Shohoku sang Shakira's "Objection". Nice intro to the song with a solo trumpet stint. The trumpetist is pretty good - the judges had a lot of praises for him. Comel pulak tu! Sayang tak sempat ambik his picture. Too busy staring, haha. I like the vocalist's dress sense. Mcm Jepun, like the band's name. She looked like Ezlynn indeed dari jauh. Her vocals still need improvement though.
Shohoku's main singer. Mcm Ezlynn sikit kan?
Fiezzta sang Black Eyed Peas "Let's Get It Started". They had a gamelan intro which was pretty cool. Farihan (Zahid's sister) wore a batik wrap which she then took off after the gamelan intro ended. The judges liked their performance, especially the drummer. He received compliments by the judges. Farihan has a good voice, but the other guy who sang with her had poor English diction though. He needs to work on that.
Fiezzta!
Siarra sang Ferhad's "Higher Deeper". They did sing backup for Ferhad so that explains their song choice - and their good vocals. One of them had girls screaming. Pretty cute guy but Shohoku's trumpet guy lagi cute :) No pic of Siarra, but of course, there should be pics at the website http://www.blastoff.com.my
The qtr finals start on Hari Raya Haji! Kali ni, can sms. 50% sms, 50% judges.
Linda Jasmine's Dance Studio @ Ampang
The dance floor.
Lepak area
Went to check out the studio on Saturday. Been meaning to but never got to doing it till I met up with Sahri after Blast Off who attended a dance class taught by Linda. Tu yg teringat nak visit tu.
It's just next door to Ampang Point, at the row of shophouses, above BCB, on the 3rd Floor. Wah, theme colour is lilac! :) Stapler, walls, gula2, note pad -- semuanya lilac!! :)
Linda was with her son Qalif that time. Hyperactive as usual. Later, Cikgu Fatimah came over to teach her acting/drama classes.
They offer quite a lot of different classes from yoga to salsa, hip hop, dance fusion, vocal classes (by Cikgu Adnan) etc. Erra Fazira even rented the dance studio for her dancer's rehearsal for AJL. Linda said that Anding wants to take hip hop lessons - and a few other AF2 stars wanna sign up for lessons too.
Btw. for those who don't know, the dance studio is a collaboration between Linda, Vince, Vanessa (Vince's sister cum manager) and Vince's good friend Roy.
Friday, 14 Jan 2005
Last Pre-liminary Round
BLAST OFF!!!
The audience
It was my first time attending a BLAST OFF session in full. The bands were pretty good this round, thank GOD!! I've seen highlights and oh my gawd!!! The vocal groups are so bad!! Showmanship-wise bagus but the vocals are so waaaay out! Hancur!!
Shohoku, Siarra & Fiezzta were good. Infinatez was average n AK was -- well, they were eliminated! Poor AK, they rapped pretty well, but one of them sang really badly. Adus!! Teruk betul! The three members of AK are siblings so I guess it'd be pretty hard to sack that crappy singer :)
Shohoku sang Shakira's "Objection". Nice intro to the song with a solo trumpet stint. The trumpetist is pretty good - the judges had a lot of praises for him. Comel pulak tu! Sayang tak sempat ambik his picture. Too busy staring, haha. I like the vocalist's dress sense. Mcm Jepun, like the band's name. She looked like Ezlynn indeed dari jauh. Her vocals still need improvement though.
Shohoku's main singer. Mcm Ezlynn sikit kan?
Fiezzta sang Black Eyed Peas "Let's Get It Started". They had a gamelan intro which was pretty cool. Farihan (Zahid's sister) wore a batik wrap which she then took off after the gamelan intro ended. The judges liked their performance, especially the drummer. He received compliments by the judges. Farihan has a good voice, but the other guy who sang with her had poor English diction though. He needs to work on that.
Fiezzta!
Siarra sang Ferhad's "Higher Deeper". They did sing backup for Ferhad so that explains their song choice - and their good vocals. One of them had girls screaming. Pretty cute guy but Shohoku's trumpet guy lagi cute :) No pic of Siarra, but of course, there should be pics at the website http://www.blastoff.com.my
The qtr finals start on Hari Raya Haji! Kali ni, can sms. 50% sms, 50% judges.
Linda Jasmine's Dance Studio @ Ampang
The dance floor.
Lepak area
Went to check out the studio on Saturday. Been meaning to but never got to doing it till I met up with Sahri after Blast Off who attended a dance class taught by Linda. Tu yg teringat nak visit tu.
It's just next door to Ampang Point, at the row of shophouses, above BCB, on the 3rd Floor. Wah, theme colour is lilac! :) Stapler, walls, gula2, note pad -- semuanya lilac!! :)
Linda was with her son Qalif that time. Hyperactive as usual. Later, Cikgu Fatimah came over to teach her acting/drama classes.
They offer quite a lot of different classes from yoga to salsa, hip hop, dance fusion, vocal classes (by Cikgu Adnan) etc. Erra Fazira even rented the dance studio for her dancer's rehearsal for AJL. Linda said that Anding wants to take hip hop lessons - and a few other AF2 stars wanna sign up for lessons too.
Btw. for those who don't know, the dance studio is a collaboration between Linda, Vince, Vanessa (Vince's sister cum manager) and Vince's good friend Roy.
