Happy New Year! And I hope I'm not being too ironic to start it off with a "Selamat Tinggal" (that's "goodbye" to you non-Bahasa speaking people).

This mashup features Nikki (of Malaysian Idol fame) with her latest single "Selamat Tinggal", Shazzy with "Kenapa" and Christina Aguilera with "Genie In A Bottle". For once, I really wanted to do a mash that can tell a story from a lyrical standpoint rather than just slapping songs that fit together musically. So it took me awhile indeed to complete this one as compared to the previous mashes that I've done. Heck! Some parts even went through a re-recording! (Thanks much, Shazzy!)

I owe lots to Pam Yuen, Audi Mok and Shazzy for the guidance and most of all, the permission to do this! I should also thank the production team for Christina Aguilera's Genie In A Bottle but I might end up making this entry sound like the acknowledgement section you usually see on those CD inserts.

A preview of what's coming (or should I say leaving?)

"Sekian lama telah ku simpan rasa ini di hati, baru kini ku berani 'tuk menyatakan oh gadis, dikau punca segala kepedihan di hatiku, tak ingin lagi ku lihat wajah mu di hadapanku!"

After getting a Wii back in March, we finally managed to get our hands on a Wii Fit. As if it's not ridiculous enough that we're frantically waving our hands in the air when playing games that uses the Wiimote, we get to do it with our whole bodies now. The games on Wii Fit are adequate to make one break into a sweat and some religious nutheads scream "Infidel!" when doing the yoga part that comes with it, even though there are no chants involved (I'm not sure if the Wii Fit actually went through JAKIM's vetting process).

I'm still holding out for that wiife though. If anything, watching her do the hula (ala the Wii Fit Girl) would be enough to increase my heart rate and break me into a sweat.

Do you know you can turn a very innocent sounding sentence to a rather sexually suggestive one just by saying "... if you know what I mean!" at the end of almost any sentence? For example:

Normal:
Friend: Do you have problems waking up in the morning?
Me: Yeah, I always have a hard time waking up in the morning.

Suggestive:
Friend: Do you have problems waking up in the morning?
Me: Yeah, I always have a hard time waking up in the morning... if you know what I mean!

Go ahead. Make yourself like The Todd at the Christmas and New Year's parties you'll be attending. Just don't call me if you end up getting pepper sprayed, kicked in the nuts or sued for sexual harassment from the above.

Have a good Christmas celebration to those celebrating and happy holidays to all!

Shazzy gave me a bunch of his rap acapellas from his debut "Aku Melayu" album for me to mess about with. I managed to put him together with The X-ecutioners, Mike Shinoda (of Linkin Park) and Eminem on this track. He doesn't want to admit it but I hope this will revive his rap career, albeit with a different producer. ;)

Shazzy is also an accomplished saxophonist. Check out his wicked remake of Careless Whisper.

Download: Shazzy Vs. X-ecutioners (feat. Eminem) - It's Going To Lose A-A-Apa Satu Dua

It's only been 158 days since Tok passed away. Last weekend on Sunday, December 14 at 11:30am, Uncle Odin passed away after suffering a massive stroke two days earlier. He was 60. Nobody saw it coming. Uncle Odin was the one who took care of Tok for the last 30 years after grandfather passed away. My parents and I were in Miri, Sarawak attending to my cousin's wedding at the time of his death, so needless to say, I had my own "Four Weddings and A Funeral" moment there (three of my other friends also had their weddings on that same weekend). I really hate how the timing of things came about. It blew massive chunks.

Moga Allah mencucuri rahmat ke atas rohnya. Al-Fatihah.

As if things aren't complicated enough, there are choices to be made. The gut says yes but the heart says no. So do you go with your gut or follow your heart? Or should you consider what the colon is whispering? Oh wait. That's the bowel churning some funky stuff.

Either way, it's gonna be a mess. Follow the heart and the gut's gonna get wrenched. Go with the gut and the heart's gonna ache (enter The Angina Monologues).

Autopsy is not an option.

Here's a totally useless but interesting piece of information that's bound to bring more restraining orders:

1. The human cell contains 75 Megabytes (MB) of genetic information in DNA form.
2. Thus, a sperm carries around 37.5 MB.
3. In a milliliter, it is possible to have 100 million sperms.
4. On the average, one ejaculation releases 2.25 ml in 5 seconds.
5. Therefore, using basic math we can compute the bandwidth of the human male reproductive organ as:
   
   (37.5MB x 100M x 2.25)/5 = (37,500,000 bytes/sperm x 100,000,000 sperm/ml x 2.25 ml) / 5 seconds = 1,687,500,000,000,000 bytes/sec = 1.6875 Petabytes/sec.
   
   (37.5MB x 100M x 2.25)/5 = (38,400,000 bytes/sperm x 100,000,000 sperm/ml x 2.25 ml) / 5 seconds = 1,728,000,000,000,000 bytes/sec = 1.728 Petabytes/sec.
   
   Correction: 1MB = 1,024,000 Bytes, not 1,000,000 Bytes.

Cue geeky pick-up line: "Oh, I got bandwidth alright. Do you have the storage capacity, girl?" ;)

Via: digg.

I performed this messed up mashup mixset live at my company's recent annual dinner. It features C&C Music Factory, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Teriyaki Boyz, T-Pain, Flo Rida, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Sean Kingston, Eminem, P. Diddy, etc. all within a span of 10 minutes at 123 BPMs, a testament to the stamina level of IT geeks on the dancefloor indeed. Either that or the music just got too confusing from the way they're used to listening.

Download: ATOMix08 (~11MB)

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