Last night, one of our greatest storytellers, Yasmin Ahmad passed away. I was lucky enough to have to met her at some of her talks and screenings. She was a very bright, down-to-earth, funny and artistic women.
After 50 commercials, 6 films and 11 international awards, Yasmin has done her job well uniting people of various backgrounds telling stories and touching hearts. Now God needs her more than we do. Al-Fatihah to her precious soul.
MJ in London recently announcing 'This Is It' comeback tour scheduled in July. Photo by Newscom
Truly, THE BEST entertainer, artist, musician the world has ever known. A great loss not just for the entertainment industry, but also the rest of humanity whom souls he touched with his music, videos, life performances, originality and personality all these years. He’s in God’s good hands now.
Tribute Montage
Best Dance Moves
HIStory Tour in Malaysia
Condolences to his families, friends and fans.
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If you love The Office US series, you’re gonna love this one too!
Parks Promo #1 – The Front Lines
Parks and Recreation is a new mockumentary-style comedy series about the work and lives of the people in the Parks and Recreation Department in a fictional town called Pawnee in Indiana.
The series just finished their first season last month and stars SNL favorite comedian Amy Poehler as the deputy head named Leslie Knope, super funny man Aziz Ansari as Tom Haverford, Rashida Jones as nurse Ann Perkins and Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson the online Scrabble-playing department’s head.
Parks Promo #2 – Inspiration
The show shares the same format and style as The Office, but it’s about a government office whereas The Office is about a private paper company. Instead of dealing day-to-day securing paper sales, Parks deals with the work(or the lack of it) of turning an abandoned construction pit into a public park.
I couldn’t get enough of the show and Poehler’s character in Parks greatly resembles that of a female version of Steve Carell‘s character in The Office. And Aziz Ansari’s fast-mouth-annoying-sarcastic jokes made the show even more hilarious! Rating: 4.5/5
Parks Promo #3 – Child’s Dream
Watch featured videos, deleted scenes and other funny stuff at Parks and Recreation website.
Young Muslim Project and The British Council have put together an awesome program for the local Muslim youths to seek understanding and value of Islam in today’s modern times. Knowledge & Arts Tour ’09 will run from 5th till 15th July and will be divided into two sessions- ‘Arts’ on 5th – 8th, and ‘Knowledge’ sessions on 8th – 15th.
There will be seminars and workshops conducted by local and special international speakers who have good rapport among youths like Islam convert and activist Suhaib Webb from the States, UK convert and lecturer Abdul Raheem Green and graffiti artist, Mohammed Ali AKA Aerosol Arabic who’ll show us his award-winning ‘Urban Spiritual Art’. All three will inspire those who attend to embrace the empowering message of Islam in their daily lives. Non-Muslims are also welcomed.
Check out some of Suhaib Webb’s speeches here and Abdul Raheem Green’s lectures here. Watch Mohammed Ali’s feature on CNN below;
Why should I be bothered with something awesome that’s happening elsewhere but not good ol Malaysia? Well because you don’t have worry if you couldn’t go or wait for the crappy crowd videos on YouTube or Torrent download sometime later- you could watch it live online on their website! Woohoo! Granted, if Streamyx doesn’t die on us for the whole day like last Monday lah
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