tentang A.P.I. - Pelita

this is a song called 'Pelita' (Pelita is a malay word that means 'lamp') by A.P.I. an indie group i guess. have no idea who they are. a pretty nice song. i like it

the song is a soundtrack for the movie Hooperz. don't look like a pretty unique film. maybe just another Gol&Gincu type of movie. girl power! yeah that kind of stuff.

but hey i like the song. press play, have a listen.

tentang Vintage Ads Malaysia

what makes an advertisement effective is that people will still remember it after even 10 years. and i hope we remember it because of the good things not the bad.

so i spent some time (and my limited download limit) to look for the ads that i remember and hoping that someone somehow did upload the vid on youtube or anywhere of equivalent. the first few titles were easy to find.. proves that the advertisement is indeed memorable and successful. the last few were unfortunately not available but i'll list it anyway.

so here's the ads that i remember most
counting down to my most favourite vintage malaysian advertisement (that i can find online):-

5 - Fernleaf

4 - KFC - 'Thats Where I Want to Be'

3 - Maggi

2 - Axion

1 - Trojan

it was a little hard to chose between the Axion ad and the Trojan ad but i decided that i love the Trojan ad better and i remember the words better than Axion's.

the ads that i tried to look for online but did not manage to find it are :
i) Follow Me talcum ad
the one where this guy was in his room (VO 'ku merindui mu') and his girlfriend came over to his house,rang the doorbell *dingdong* and his mum answered the door and says something like 'something.. something dah datang' can't remember the names. do u remember that one?

ii) KFC - Lets Go to The Zoo
yes that song. Lets go to the zoo, there's lots of things to do........ i think that's what is says.

iii) Malaysia Airlines ad
i don't remember when and any VO of it. neither the song. the only thing i remember vaguely is this massive futuristic looking plane (or a mothership? floating island?) the shape of MAS logo. it that a real advertisement or just a fraction of my imagination? i don't know




anyway, a quick thanks to those people who uploaded these wonderful ads. especially the person or people behind the channel 'abangcantik' (*facepalm). i am very grateful of all the vintage ads you uploaded

^^

tentang Life Seem to Stop Without BloggerUnited.com

oh the site have been having a problem this week. and the service have been down for a few days now without knowing when it will be restored. now i realized how much i rely on the service, not necessarily because it is effective, but because i really love the atmosphere and the functionality of the site

"will be back soon" is all she said.
but soon seem to not be soon enough.

bloggerunited.com is possibly the place that makes me feel like a proper blogger. now not having BU, i feel like a writer without knowing do the things i write really reaches people. probably like flying in a cloudy sky and not see earth and land, and feel kinda lost.. but keep flying and to trust the intuition. except that i don't and can't fly.. so that metaphor could just be a silly attempt to sound cool

but anyway, i do hope BU will be back soon. and real soon too. i miss them bloggers i frequent that i don't have their feeds and did not bother to remember their URL because they seem to always be on BU.

if i make a chart about how i do my daily blog visits, it would roughly look like this one.

60% of it are blogs from BU
30% of it is from nuffnang's innit
30% of it are blogs that i linked to, and then i'll just 'walk' from the links i find

so imagine how much this BU issue have effected my daily routine. sigh. but thats life. i hope BU will be back real soon tho ^^