selamat hari raya!!!

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hey. hazim here...again. Wishing you a Happy Eid Mubarak and Selamat Hari Raya! Have a good one, yeah? Hazim. Out.

old times! it's britney vs. christina again!

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hey.hazim here...again. Christina Aguilera has just released "Keeps Getting Better", new song from her upcoming greatest hits album. And Britney Spears' new single from her upcoming sixth studio album Circus called "Womanizer" has just leaked as well. And you know what? They both sound very alike!

So umm, which one do I think is better?

SONG: "Keeps Getting Better"
ARTIST: Christina Aguilera
RATING: OO1/2


Let's see...Christina Aguilera's gunning for a robot vocoded sound now that she's over her retro phase a bit. It's okay, and when she sings "and you'll be lovin' it", she sounds seductive enough to make you forget that she's already got a baby. But then she sings "Next day, I'm a super girl", and you just can't take her seriously. At least i can't. Xtina's always done better on runs and bombast, even minimal ballads but to crouch to Britney's territory is a new low. It's good, but it just doesn't fit her.

SONG: "Womanizer"
ARTIST: Britney Spears
RATING: OOO1/2

Let's see...Britney Spears is having a go at another comeback after her disastrous year under the media spotlight, what with shaved heads and attacking cars with umbrellas and all. This track sounds like "Radar" off Blackout. But she sounds more engaged. This track wouldn't fit in with Blackout's much darker moody undertone, but it's suitable enough for a decent comeback, that is unless Beyonce releases a mind blowing single, which she always does, so....huh. At least she sounds aware of herself this time even though the gazillion times she repeats the title track in the chorus is the equivalent of having a mosquito in your ear.


So.,. I guess I like Britney's more. Cus it's more fun. I can't say I'm a fan of "Keeps Getting Better" with its silly ylrics and all. Let Britney be the android. Xtina, you be the soul. Together, you are ying and yang. Britney wins this time though. Hazim. Out.

ooh. i like oxford collapse-the birthday wars!

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hey. hazim here...again. Yep.Yeps. I don't know what I think of their new album Bits, but I love Oxford Collapse's "The Birthday Wars" and "The Children's Crusade". I'm going to check out the album now...Hazim. Out.

so uh,...post?

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hey. hazim here...again. I'm planning to get a new computer soon. I'm really excited for that. Anyways, I was reading the newspaper recently and I found out that the next Harry Potter movie is delayed until next year. On account that I've seen the trailer for it and on account that I'm not spurred to write positive things about it, I don't very much care. Harry Potter, surprisingly, I'm doing fine without it.

Anyhow and ways, I'm reserving my next post for this weekend, when I'll be at home. Home is good. Home has free internet connection and my mother's beef curry. Hazim. Out.

losing my religion...my phone

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hey. hazim here...again. Sorting through what has happened since the last time I posted, there's only one thing I remember. My phone got stolen. True, it was just an X-Plore PDA phone 2004 model, but it looked smart enough to come across as something that could be pawned for a considerable amount. It was flashy, but the functions kinda sucked. Despite that, I still really liked it. And the fact that it was stolen from my own apartment was what made it worse. Errrmm, sorry...I mean, MAKES, it worse. I'm still grieving about it. I expect it to be at least a year before I fully recover from the shock. Then I have to deal with the anger phase, and then the regret phase. I left it charging in the living room while I was in the bedroom and some desperate bastard sneaked in and unplugged it from the charger and whisked off with it. Kinda stupid he didn't take the charger since an X Plore PDA phone's battery life is about as extensive as Danny DeVito is tall. Usually, I have to recharge every single day. Most of the time, it's a common thing for me to lose things and misplace them everywhere. My roommates are used to it by now, but this time, I am a billion percent sure that someone stole it from me while I was in the bathroom reading.
But yeah, the phone's gone. Stolen. So, excuse me, while I go to the temple, mosque, and church to pray unspeakable things for the bastard who stole it. I'm not used to something other than my privates vibrating in my pants once every five minutes. Withdrawal. It's gonna suck. No phone is no life. Hazim. Out.

dido's got a new album coming out! can you say "finally"?

Dido's efforts to hail a cab in the rain turned fruitless
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hey. hazim here...again. Does anybody remember back in 2001, when Eminem and Dr. dre sampled Dido's "Thank You" for their own smash hit "Stan"? And then "Thank You" did better than "Stan" climbing to number 3 on the US and the UK charts?And then her debut album No Angel sold a whopping 13 million albums. And then her second album sold 8 million? And she had another big hit "White Flag"? And how she's been gone so long that her niche in the music world might have been taken over by the likes of Rachael Yamagata, KT Tunstall, and Jem?



Well, none of that soon. Cus they're all going to have to make way for the original (after Portishead, Kate Bush, and Sarah Mclachlan of course). She's coming out with a new album in November, with first single "Don't Believe In Love" being released to radios in September, the 16th to be exact. Let's hope the record label keeps to their word. The album's been delayed so many times. The long gestation time is probably due to the death of her father earlier this year.



She's been working with producer Brian Eno, who's famous for his work with Kanye West and Fiona Appl.e Although I liked her second album Life For Rent, it was a little too similiar to No Angel, just a little more polished. I'm hoping that she changes up her sound a bit though.



Anyways here are three videos, in my opinion, of Dido's three best music videos.Enjoy. Hazim. Out.



"Thank You"


"Don't Leave Home>




"Stan

3 days away to the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics: the whole pollution thing

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hey. hazim here...again. There has been a bevy of goodness this year from Lil Wayne's new album to The Dark Knight. Entertainment, the world, has spoiled us this year and with some exceptions (Eddie Murphy's latest flop of a movie and Madonna's Hard Candy), it's been really good so far. Now, with the Beijing Olympics coming up, I have a good reason (watching fit athletes duke it out) and an excuse (supposed patriotism) to just sit in front of the telly and just be a vegetable. Malaysia's sending a good number this year and yeah, I'll be rooting for them especially since the Chinese have always ruled the roost.
One big issue is pollution, as in the athletes don't want to go there cus they're all worried about pollution. The pollution index is at 87 so duh, they should be worried (although I do think some of the athletes are a bit prissy and need a wet towel slapped across their faces). The WHO's recommended index? 50. That's uh.......37 more than it should be! My math stinks...like Avril Lavigne on a good day. Most won't be affected though, not directly anyways. I mean, if they suddenly have unhealthy lungs, they're gonna shove their cigarettes away and point their index finger to the face of China. But marathon runners have been complaining badly about it and...I guess I feel bad for them. I'm a runner and avid jogger, and I hate hate HATE it when someone burns trash outside and the smoke reaches my nose and it throws me off focus. It sucks. But nevertheless, I think everyone should just stop whining and just enjoy the Olympics for what it is-a chance to see swimming suit clad babes up close. Or if you're gay, there's always Michael Phelps, I guess. Whatever floats your boat. Hazim. Out.

SOURCE: Bloomberg

Oh, and P.S. Here's a link to a video of a horrible Chinese singer. Just because. Just because. 'Insert smiley'
CLICK HERE

my friend's sad little birthday party

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hey. hazim here...again. It's nighttime right now, and I just got back from something really weird. My friend. She has lots of friends. But it was her birthday today, and not a lot of people seemed to notice. Her boyfriend had asked me to cook a beef dip thingy which is about the only thing I can cook without setting the kitchen on fire. It was wrapped up nice and snug in Indian Chapatti bread. I thought I was cooking for 20 people, but when I brought the food from my college apartment, I found only 6, plus 2 cats. It was sad. Other friends had completely forgotten or were out shopping in the city. Fufufufu. I don't want friends to be like that towards ME. Forget my birthday and all. Anyways, although little, as in the number of shower-uppers, it was still nice to joke and eat and eat and eat and eat and...yeah. I'm full. But now that I think of it. These kinds of things can always be used as a way to find out who your real friends are. Right? Hazim. Out.

backtrack: annie-chewing gum (2004)

Annie-Chewing Gum

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hey. hazim here...again. I posted something about Mirah yesterday. Well. her voice sort of kinda reminds me of Annie. I really really dug her album Anniemal and the following album Dj Kicks. It was a bevy of electronica smash and Euro trance bits that kind of takes over like a maelstrom of blended genres in your eardrums, banging the tunes into your head 'til you can't even sleep without the song reverberating in your head. Yep, that was Anniemal, her debut album made after her hubby sadly passed away. Annie, the pop sprite from Norway, took over the dance charts and even got this song-the crowning glory of her debut- to appear on an episode of Grey's Anatomy. It's "Chewing Gum", and in it, she tells off herself, chewing and spitting out boys like bubblegum. The song, itself, is bubblegum pop so pure and obvious, a blind person could identify what genre it was. Too bad the Grammys always ignore artists like her. Who trusts them anymore? Especially after rewarding U2 with their undeserved Grammys for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. And their repulsive love of all things John Mayer.

Anyways, and how. The video is simple, but sexy. Her dancing is HOT! You'd definitely be watching her in a club (besides the fact that she's already an acoomplished DJ). She's got a new album called Don't Stop due out later this year. Supposedly, Girls Aloud was supposed to help her out on a track called My Love Is Better, but that track will be appearing without their vocals on it. Wait...wait...wait..the next post will give more details about her upcoming album, yeah? Hazim. Out.