buku P Ramlee The Bright Star & anton ego

Jalan2 kat library yang dekat ngan rumah  nye, (boleh? anggap gi library ni macam jalan2 window shopping gitu tangkap aircon?) haha.
Nampak buku ni, P Ramlee The Bright Star, aku gatal nak pinjam... aku belek2, ok James Harding ni pakar sastera, teater dan muzik Peranchis. Dia dah kaji classical composers sampai yang modern punye.
Satu aku malas nak pinjam buku library ni, seminggu lebih gitu dah dapat sms "ples return book", boring sey, dah kena saman rabak2, aku pernah simpan berapa buku berbulan kot? $10++ lebih kena saman. Aku pelupa la benda2 gini...
Aku selalu guna system Perpustakaan kat Singapura ni, kalau aku gi kedai buku, then aku Nampak buku best2, aku tak mau beli la,  so aku masuk Library Online, aku tunggu buku tu masuk system Library, aku reserve je la...
Tapi yang latest Get Fuzzy treasury tu aku belum beli la, ni aku kumpul setiap treasury edition, tak pinjam, aku nak gi Kinokuniya beli ni tapi asyik lupa je....
Sapa tak tahu, meh aku cakap " AKU HANTU comic strip GET FUZZY". trust me, you will have the best time reading GET FUZZY, its so looney and crazily idiotic that it becomes intelligent and full of warmth.
Pinjam buku ni pun bukan nak baca betul2 baca pun, kira pinjam buku cam poseur gitu je la,
saje2 je nak belek2, mana part mata aku landing, aku baca2 je sikit..
Eh? cam best la....so aku belek2 tu makin lama makin pelan flip2 muka surat tu. Ada je perenggan yang Tarik perhatian aku.

- Sinopsis cerita2 yang kita tahu, diperjelaskan didalam Bahasa Inggeris, memang unik sekali...
- Mungkin pandangan mata mat salleh ni semua lain dari pandangan mata orang melayu, mungkin orang melayu nak cakap tu nak cakap ni takut lak kena sound ngan mana2 kelompok...so orang puteh takde ni semua barrier, so I guess this book is more open?
- Omputeh ni raised up issues pasal masalah sosial, dan adults going to school, adults upgrading themselves for a better and brighter future.
Sepatutnya Melayu kena nilai ni semua....tapi ni aku rasa sebagian Melayu suka tiru Nujum Pak Belalang, malas2 gitu, then dapat kahwin anak president Amerika gitu.. tapi tak semua nasib baik cam Pak Belalang kan?

ok ni sebahagian isi kandung buku ni...klik kasi besar la cam biasa.

 

ni cakap pasal piring hitam rare gitu...

weird kan explaining pasal teka teki Nujum Pak Belalang tu dalam bahasa inggeris..
terutama part huruf "ta".

yang Madu Tiga tu scene Jamil gi mintak hutang dari Pak Ali... kalau Pak Ali tak bayar sewa Pak Ali kena kelu...( terus awek cun anak Pak Ali masuk terus Jamil peng story, what a laugh!!! )
"Makan Gaji Buta!!"
"Aku Jugakkkk.....!!""
"baik?? baik ada makna tu...."
"sakit?? kejapppp lagi baik".
ni semua dari scene tu kan? legend tau tu scene..

tapi aku suka lagi satu filem yang Pak Maon bedek isteri dia nak gi dengar syarahan kat masjid padahal dia nak gi Malam Pesta Muda Mudi
Siap mintak tasbih dari bini dia...  pasal sebelum syarahan start boleh dia wirid2.
Punya la convincing, padahal...padahal....

bahagian cerita pasal last two films P Ramlee made in Singapore....

Ada pantun pasal Ibrahim Pendek tu kat atas tu kalau korang perasan...

ok gambo...ni P Ramlee tengah pindah rumah dari Singapura pindah gi Kuala Lumpur tahun 1964 gitu...

lagi satu...

ok dah tu je.... ok la buku ni, kalau sapa yang kat Singapore ok la pinjam library tak yah kena gi beli la apa la, book je pakai internet, nanti dorang hantar gi library dekat ngan rumah korang, senang je , tak yah korang gi library tercarik2 hegeh2, cek je online buku apa korang nak, bayar 50sen kot kalau nak mintak dorang transfer buku tu gi library kat rumah korang, aku selalu pakai gini...

tapi aku pernah ada satu buku baru keluar, buku apa ntah, buku2 mahal gitu la hardcover pasal apa ntah , torture ke hapa ntah,, hah kau!! aku masuk online nak rezeb, ada 10 orang kot nak buku2 tu jugak, so Q je la, lepas dua tiga bulan baru dapat, pasal buku tu dua tiga bijik je library ambik.
kalau nak terus, keluar la duit beli kat kedai... tapi tak yah la...tunggu je pun sebulan dua giliran.

harap Malaysia nanti pun ada system gini...tapi satu Malaysia gitu susah kot cammana nak transfer dari satu library gi satu library jauh2.., so ikut negeri punye zone pun alrite.
Library important, takkan semua nak tu nak ni, main beli je...
Cam aku, setiap kali nak travel backpack, aku gi library pinjam buku2 travel tu semua, ambik pergi fotostat semua peta2, info2...lepas tu kasi balik buku2 tu, giler ah aku nak beli buku2 travel banyak2..

Sekians.

p.s
Mak Dara - Huh! Menangis konon, Jantan tak tahu malu, menikah satu sen tidak keluar u'wang, malah harta anak aku kau kikis sampai habis, kemudian kau siksa anak aku hingga mati.
Pergi kau main muzik di sana, buat apa kau menangis di sini!

sob. sob.. sob...

Bro Kubur - Saudara, mengapa saudara menangis di kubur ibu saya?

Kassim Selamat - Apa? Kubur ibu saudara??

( Jeng jeng jeng!!...zoom muka Mak Dara terus panik.)

MD - Ampunkan mak Kassim!! Mak dah tua Kassim!!

KS - You disgusting Animal!! 

MD - Astagfirullahhallazim Kassim!!!!!

Typical sesetengah Melayu punye perangai ni aksi Mak Dara.  Dari dulu sampai sekarang.
Tapi sepatutnya, orang melayu should let go of all these type of behaviour, biarlah diabadikan sahaja dalam filem2 Jalan Ampas.
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p.p.s
The voice of Anton Ego had just passed away. Foode Critique Extraordinaerie
Dekni ada sikit macam Darth Vader, takde kasi chance punye kat apa2 dia tak berkenan, tapi dalam hati ada taman.
Aku suka tengok cerita ni, pasal banyak makan2..haha. Ngan dia punye suasana Peranchis gitu..

perubahan dalam masjid, dan pembaziran dan penjimatan air (cehhhh.. hari jemaat gitu hahhaha)

apabila geng setan masuk masjid.. boleh ayat intro cam gini...?
ok sebenarnye aku nak cakap benda lain, tapi kasi bunga2 sikit....

aku suka ngan perubahan kat Masjid An-Nur Larkin Sentral ni, dorang dah tukar tempat ambik air sembahyang lelaki ngan tempat ambik air sembahyang perempuan, ngan ini, pompuan punye praying area pun dah lain sikit, conclusionnye -, orang pompuan nak gi semayang, dorang ada pintu sendiri, dan dorang actually tak exposed langsung kat Jemaah lelaki sebaik sahaja dorang masuk dalam ruang masjid. Tak macam dulu.
Bagus la, pasal masjid ni pun kecik, ni lebih kat travellers, tempat persinggahan musafir, orang balik kampong or nak gi tempat lain semua tunggu bas, orang pergi pasar, orang gi kedai2 kat terminal Larkin tu, pemandu2 pekerja2 bas ekpress, dan pekedai2 kat gerai2 dan pasar basah situ.
- The funny thing I just realised is, once you are across the causeway of Selat Tebrau, the first mosque you will come across which is like just a few minutes walk from Immigration is also called An-Nur.
Jadi lain kali kalau korang kat kastam, korang cakap "eh nak semayang jemaat la, so jom gi An-Nur", nanti orang mesti Tanya, Woodlands ke Larkin? Pasal dua2 dah easy access pe... 
Ni scenario je la....untuk orang2 naik public transport senang je la kalau dipadankan ngan scenario ni.
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ok layan gambo..takde gambo, tak thrill la..

yang langsir biru (langsir siot melayu aku hahaha), ok curtain biru tu bahagian pompuan skarang, so then pintu kat right tu ialah tempat wuduk lelaki sekarang...(anyway masjid ni kecik sampai takde toilet ok? korang gi la pakai toilet kat luar sana tu, kena turun escalator gi tingkat dua la ).

Now to something serious...


Korang Nampak ni???

So Apasal Some of these people....
Ambik wuduk , cam fully maximise, bukak sepenuhnye paip tu??

Takkan aku nak tegur?? Dah dorang image semua orang baik2, neat, tidy, smart, kira memang orang2 baik la...
Sorry eh, serious berbual aku repeat lagi sekali ok, aku pernah pergi dengar satu ustaz ni kasi kuliah gitu before Friday prayers kat Masjid Jamek KL, where he openly cakap la, Jemaah pakai serban la apa la semua tapi dia pergi tempat wuduk dia Nampak ada bukak air paip besar2 masa wuduk which can comes to makna " Pembaziran". Which tak tally ngan cara imej dorang la.

OK OK , sebelum korang cakap aku ni macam bagus je kan? Yo Yo Oh gitu, kira cakap jenis tak sadar diri gitu...
Terang2 ayat pertama aku dah cakap " GENG SETAN". so memang aku tak bagus pun, tapi aku ada mata dan hati pe, aku boleh nilai sendiri.

Jadi kalau aku ni, jenis geng setan boleh perasan, takkan ni orang2 jenis baik2 ni tak perasan?

So think about it, Water is precious. Kita kena hormat air.
Aku tak bedek, aku cakap betul... Jangan sangka kita ni banyak sungei, banyak sumber air bersih, kita boleh suka hati je..
dah tu orang minum air newater, korang ejek hina. Padahal its suci. Korang hina air suci. What the f#&% kan?

Korang tak yah tengok afrika ke, tak yah tengok mana2 jauh2 je la....
Korang tengok banjir ni sekarang ni kan?
Air merata, tapi orang haus pasal tu semua air lumpur dan tak tahu apa dah dalam air tu, tak tahu la korang nak minum air jenis gitu...

dan kalau korang dah baca Samuel Taylor Coleridge nye English Literature poetry tu "Rime Of The Ancient Mariner", atau dengar lagu Iron Maiden title yang sama...

dimana ada ayat syair sastera orang puteh paling legend

"

Day after day, day after day,

We stuck, nor breath nor motion;

As idle as a painted ship

Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, every where,

Nor any drop to drink.

                                                          "

Then korang tahu ni ayat betul giler...

Water is precious, respect it. Terutama kalau kita lagi satu dua minit nak sembah Tuhan so kita berwuduk, abis tu kita membazir air bersih yang sangat beharga bukak paip besar2, dalam masjid lak tu...

kalau poster2 geng baik cakap ngan baik gitu 'jimat air' tampal kat bilik wuduk orang tak respek,
aku rasa tampal lirik Iron Maiden tu la, oooo tak boleh...tu semua setan...sambil geng baik geleng2 kepala, jeling2 kat tshirt. Padahal good things can be found everywhere.


Aku rasa masjid2 yang belum tukar kepala paip dorang kepada jenis yang "save water" tu, korang tahu apa aku cakap kan?
Ni device untuk save water, dia keluar cam finer spray gitu la...kalau tukar semua bagus..
Actually korang semua kat rumah, kalau lain kali nak tukar kepala paip, go for these. Rasanya compulsory kot sekarang ni?

Siap2 nanti semua tukar pesen masjid dulu2 gitu, pakai air kolah yang besar tu...Hah, baru boleh save water.

dan korang tengok tv Malaysia kalau masuk waktu, kan nanti ada satu yang mak dia panggil " Hoi!! dah magrib la korang!!, stop main bola, semayang!! ", or something like that...
korang tengok ada satu budak ni, bukak air paip cam besar je eh?
Direktor patut suruh budak tu kecikkan paip tu....pasal semua orang tengok kan Azan tu, so dorang boleh belajar..." ooo budak ni bukak paip air kecik je, aku pun nak tiru la ",

something like that la...


Dah banyak petanda tau air bersih makin takde, tapi majority melayu masih tak perasan, atau choose to ignore, atau fikir orang lain will solve the problem for them without they making an effort too.

banjir, rojak keling, musuh ketat, happiness

4 quick things...

1) Pasal bas ekspress kan tinggi? jadi boleh nampak walaupun North-South Highway tak banjir, perjalanan dan pergerakkan kenderaan macam biasa, tapi, boleh nampak impak banjir tu.
- sepanjang lebuhraya bahagian Johor, bahagian Melaka ada tempat memang pada pandangan aku dah tahap teruk la.
- ladang kelapa sawit area Johor  dah ada part dah separuh pokok kelapa sawit tu dah tenggelam..
- pasal ada bahagian kawasan Melaka tu dah kira juram bawah la berbanding ngan lebuh raya tinggi, jadi nampak clear la jugak. But of course Kuantan and its surrounding area suffers more worst on a larger scale. Kesusahan, kerugian, kehilangan,kepanickan,  kestresssan, kebimbangan, kerisauan, kehausan, kelaparan, kebingongan, macam2 la kalau kita fikir keadaan dorang cammana sekarang, kalau kita taruk diri kita kat kasut dorang ( if we are in their shoes la gitu maksud aku). Semoga Allah permudahkan dugaan cobaan dorang. Amin.

2) Ni rojak keling.

Ok, mungkin zaman ni ada anggap guna perkataan tu seperti merendahkan martabat. OK Fine, tapi rasanya, at least la, at least in Singapore, berpuluh2 tahun lama nya, makanan ni dipanggil Rojak Keling and I guess there was never any "malicious" intention dari 'countless to infinity' people yang panggil makanan ni Rojak Keling. So ok, whatever you want to called it Rojak India, Rojak Mamak, Pasembur? ok fine with me..
Anyway, I think Keling was never intended to be perkataan mengaibkan semasa digunakan seratus? seratus lima puluh tahun dahulu?

3) Aku nak tengok rencana ni..
Roy Keane & Patrick Viera - Best of Enemies. Giler best nye judul rencana. Siot la dorang dua ekor ni. Terbaik. Arsene Wenger panggil dorang apa? two competitive ANIMALS. haha...

4) Ada masa lapang jadi apa lagi,  so aku masuk youtube nak tengok cammana sekarang TOTO main Live setahun dua ni. Terbaik la, walau tak kira Steve Lukather pakai ke tak pakai Second Guitarist, walau dia panggil sapa main bass, walau dia tukar2 penyanyi, sekarang Joseph William masuk balik, Bobby Kimball dah takde.
Dan drummer dorang, masih pada aku la, antara drummer terbaik dalam dunia hari, Simon Philips.

Terus terang, cam aku dah pernah berbual, aku dah pernah tengok Dream Theater, Mr Big, Toto main full show. Ni kira Big Three la jugak kan? tapi pada aku Toto pukul abis walaupun aku enjoy tengok tiga2.

Ni satu fan video yang memang kualiti terbaik giler aku tak tahu cammana dan apa gadget equipment dia boleh rakam quality Hollywood movie ni, padahal dia kat audience, dan tentu banyak movement dan sound interference. Bila dia masuk zoom, giler hebat.
Lepas minit ke lima gitu, dorang swich masuk jam dan improvise rasanya macam Michael Jackson's Bad je, dan Simon Philips masuk keluar Drum Solo.., dahsyattt...
Steve Lukather ni apa pun, ialah gitaris lagu MJ Beat It, walau producer panggil Eddie Van Halen tukang solo. So rasanya memang ni MJ Bad kot? Hentam je la.

Maybe one of the best band in the world la , nak cakap best tak boleh la, tu Iron Maiden dah sign kontrek seumur hidup haha.





aku suka lagu ni, lagu jiwang2 cinta2 love love gitu, tapi tetap terbaik, ok la TOTO ni banyak lagu meleleh haha. korang tengok starting tu penyanyi latar tu buat love2 sign gitu kot? Gelak sey. Aku tengok ni, siap singalong weii!!!..life simple pleasures.. HAHAA. bassist dia senyummmm saje, nampak gigi memancar2.
kameraman ni fan TOTO tahu sequence kot, lepas minit kelima terus melekat kat drummer Simon Philips. Hensem sey dekni tapi ada misai kot sekarang, dia maintain je eh.


SSEKIANSS UOLSS.

how did I buy my Hellfest 2014 tickets and the grumpiness that comes with it.

Macam biasa angan-angan Mat Jenin dulu..

I bought the festival 3 days pass, (at the bottom of this post I had type "how I bought my Hellfest ticket online" which can be distorting, and I was like kind of want to give up myself after trying the first few times to buy a ticket.
Its a E-Ticket and you need to print it out and its the barcode that allows you in. your name is found on this ticket too.

Anyway, Still long way to go, 7 months from now, anything and I mean ANYTHING can happened.
But if I am really able to make it to Clisson on 20th June 2014 I would be very thrilled.
- The gossips and rumours the past month were true.
- Iron Maiden is the main PULL for me and I will go thru hardship and sacrifices to see them play while I still got the chance now,
- At least 20 other bands in the list is a grand supreme awesome bonus for me, though there will be clashes I had on my previous blog post, enlarged and bold the fonts of bands I want to see.
- The majority of the other bands gives me a chance to discover great or good things about them, if I bother and not be lazy or worse still sleeping somewhere or sightseeing the nearby areas and only bothering to turn up late evening.
- and a few in number, some of them famous bands, I dont bother and I guess I will never will.
- Unfortunately those bands that play too early in the afternoon, sorry to myself, I will still be somewhere out there, being a traveller and taking photos of street scenes and discovering things about Nantes and Clisson as realistically I wont be back there again.

One of the poster has Maiden's logo above Black Sabbath. Its of course a no-brainer for me personally,

before i forget. TRY IMAGINE AEROSMITH PLAYING their love song sentimental hits "I DONT WANT TO MISS A THING" SONG AT HELLFEST.
Now, that is what will be awesome and mind-boggling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

continue about the each day headlining only poster, but still weird to see that. Black Sabbath is so much more superior in terms of commercial mass-appeal and attracting the mass-media , one of the reason is due to the Osbournes family CIRCUS.
I was lucky that the two times different eras and lineup of  Black Sabbath came to Singapore I had got a chance to see them play.
Thanks to my friend (dont know where he is now after many years), who won a contest on the radio or something, I got a chance at very very close view, to see the Forbidden/Headless Cross era. Though I remember I was a bit down that the drummer on stage was not Cozy Powell, (in fact it was Bobby Rodenelli - who just like in Sabbath, had replaced Cozy's position in Rainbow)
and one of my memories of those carefree young dayswas Toni Iommi standing a few metres from me, and they were playing Children Of The Grave and I was like having a lock-jaw moment staring at the magnificient sight of Iommi with THAT song riffs. I remember I blog maybe last year, recalling the time frightened about my ears suffering from severe tinnitus after that show. The other time I saw Sabbath is the one with the superior singer when Black Sabbath returns using the Heaven And Hell moniker.
So it would be nice to see finally Ozzy Osbourne fronting Black Sabbath with Geezer Butler and Toni Iommi. For me just like Metallica, Sabbath is now a three man band. I dont bother about their current fourth person. Iommi and Butler should have vote for Vinnie Appice if Bill Wards is not playing.

The other rock bands and metal bands, some of them I had seen before, and how many times have I seen Deep Purple but still so entertaining even at their current ages, would be nice to see.
I read a bit done a bit of research, and confirming Hellfest Mainstage 1 and 2 is side by side. Good news then.
So it means, when a band from mainstage 1 is playing, there wont be a band from stage 2 playing, only set-up. Thats nice, so I guess I will move around a bit to get a better view, except on day one Maiden where I will be trying to get a good spot an hour or two in advance, so I guess I will only hear Slayer, not see them with the current drummer. Seen 4/4 Slayer, and seen 3/4 Slayer, I was present in the crowd in 2011 if I am not mistaken on the very very first time Gary Holt and not Hannemahn was on stage, so the current lineup is something new to me.
(I remember Soundwave Brisbane 2011 where Dimmu Borgir was playing and a Mexican metal band or something was setting up and soundchecking and there was serious leakage obvious on the slower Dimmu Borgir moments. And some Dimmu Borgir fans throw bottles and stuffs on the other stage.)

I also read and surf the internet and found that The Temple and The Altar are sort of stages 3 and 4, and are in the same what will seems a huge tent?
I guess so. I think they are side by side so again no clashes between these two, but most horrendous they will still clash with stage 1 and 2. Seems the Temple and the Altar are more dedicated to the so-called black metal and death metal bands? or something like that? though some major ones will still be at the main stages, but whatever it is, as long as its a good band playing songs and music that I enjoy hearing, I dont care what kind of music genre they want to called themselves.

I have been checking out some bands attracting huge crowds on the Warzone stage footages on youtube, my reaction was "ok, I will be staying clear from everything" hahaha. But at least one or two bands that I want to see are playing on this stage, so I will politely stand somewhere safe to check them out live haha.

I repaste these from a post by a kind soul on the Maiden forum. These maps do help to identify with whatever footages I seen from youtube.

if you see MAIDEN had one slot below it not yet taken, OOO please let it be Alice In Chains as rumours go playing just before Maiden, so I would enjoy the time I will be standing there from early on.

OK ENOUGH OF BULLSHIT, YES I HAVE NEVER BEEN THERE, BUT SHARING WHAT I DISCOVERED DOING SOME RESEARCH. MAYBE YOU WILL FIND IT INFORMATIVE AND BENEFICIAL TOO.

ok transport, most will be camping at the camp sites. I dont think I want to camp.
Another choice that may be the one I will opt for is to travel from Nantes daily. This will be tough. Donington Park Download Festival was not much hassle to travel back to one of the nearest city Derby.
I think Nantes will be a bit tougher. There will be shuttles to and from Nantes, but seems from my reading on the internet, it will be tough and competitive especially when huge crowds are attending to head the same direction.
Remember this is France. So majority of the informations and discussions are in French. As Alien As It Possibly Can For Me. Fortunately, a lot of English speaking fans do attend Hellfest from all over Europe so you can go some disccusion forums on the internet where they discuss about travelling to Hellfest in English language.

Now something I had confirmed done - BUYING myself A HELLFEST TICKET online from a .fr webpage which is in French.. 
This is from me who's severely pathetic understanding of French is bonjour, and had come across viva la France,  and VaVaVroom Theiry Henry and of course bootlegs of Maiden playing France when Bruce Dickinson speak to the audience in French , "nouveor album", ok I know that stands for new album. I always love to hear Arsene Wenger speaks though, with his French accent, ooo and the lady from Mind Your Language, the French lady haha. 

So I go to the official website, I choose buying of tickets which is still clearly understood. I choose the UNION JACK FLAG at the top right hand corner for the page to turn to English, though I still panicked when some words in the text still retained in French haha.

Then I choose 3 days pass, I think you still cant choose one day pass yet.
Then they will ask you for a handphone number, a mobile number.
Dont worry dont panic. I had thought I must have a smartphone with a internet data connection ready, but its just for "username" purpose.
I put a Singapore mobile number beginining with "9xxxxxxx" and it accepts fine.
Dont need to put a country prefix in front, because anyway, they will ask for your country next.
Unless you put a random number and it match a number from the country you choose from.
So if you try with numbers beginning from 012/014/016 or want to put a +60 or +65 in front and its not succesful, just play the numbers in front around a bit.

Then it will be easy, although I see a paypal icon, but the option did not turn up during payment, then they will ask for your email account to confirm the purchase.
Once your payment gets through, you will come to page where you can print out your ticket, with a few choices of PDF, JPEG or I believe Mobile number download.
So all you need to do is press print.
If you do not have a printer, just save the PDF or JPEG of the file into your thumbdrive or computer and print it next time you can get a printer.
Anyway, since your mobile number is registered as sort of username, so you can always log in again to Hellfest website next time to check your details or get your tickets printed from there again if you have not printed it out earlier, or had bother to save the tickets details that need to be printed out on your computer earlier.
The ticket must be printed out and present it there. I think this is whats is called E-TICKET.

Seeing Maiden playing their self indoor stadiums/arena shows in Australia or headlining Soundwave Festival, the tickets purchased are HARD-COPY. So you have the worries of the tickets lost during delivery to you, or you have to go the box-office to collect it when you are there, or get someone to buy it for you and post to you.
Seeing Maiden in Germany is the best. The ticket is HARD COPY. But its immediately posted to you with courier ASAP, within a few days. So thats the best, you got the Maiden tickets for GERMANY six months in advance in your hands, so it gives you confidence to make efforts to begin planing your backpack travel on a tiny string budget.

Buying the tickets for Seeing Maiden headlining Donington Park Download Festival with some other awesome bands and Bon Jovi playing the huge full Villa Park Stadium for near 3 hours, is stressful. I purchased online the tickets from the official websites about 6-7 months before and the HARD COPY ticket was only posted and arrive to me just a few days before I take my flight.
This is stressful because, yes, there is a guideline and instruction that if you are from a foreign land, and you did not recieve the ticket, you can go to the box-office when you arrive there, but I dont like it, its going to be a lot of panicking, and stress. I rather have a physical HARD COPY of ticket with me, 6-7 months in advance before I plan anything as its costly to do these travels just to see Maiden and other bands play in different countries, different places, with lots of different style of people, yet all sharing the same passion.

This Hellfest ticket is the best, I have got the ticket, I had printed it out. So I have much more confidence, though there are always problems that can happen, for example your barcode is rejected? I hope not.
Anyway, FAILING TO PLAN IS PLANNING TO FAIL. 
- Its fate if I will be there or not there, but I will try my best. 
If I do go, experience it, and come back safely, I will be happy, 
if I cannot go, then just too bad, I'll keep the ticket as a memory of what could have been, and maybe try again next time.




Love this artwork...


and the Rock Hard magazine would be nice, though its in French language I guess.

Ok, got to go to work...today I work Saturday evening till next morning...sigh..hahaha. A bit of Overtime in there. ok, to pay back my Hellfest ticket bit by bit haha.
Back to reality, away from the internet...a part of my real life responsibility.

Maiden and all these bands in Hellfest, are just my passion, a part of me which remains young,  always be a primary school boy listening to Iron Maiden for the first time.
And I was a kampung boy (village boy) and there was nothing then, and I really believe it when I was told lies that Iron Maiden is just two boys and two girls singing group, just like ABBA.

hahaha.


Anyway, I am a bit panicking on travelling across France from Paris CDG airport to Hellfest which nearest city is Nantes.
I googled a bit and I got confused badly haha....French language...luckily its in alphabets still haha.

ok its time to visit the library, borrow and reborrow and re-borrow the "how to speak french, french english translator book".

Putu Piring dan Hellfest 2014

ini putu piring -  This is Putu Piring, a traditional Malay ethnic cake famous in Singapore and Malaysia. Its made from coconut and palm sugar. That green leaves is I believed called Pandanus in English term.

Putu Piring ni boleh dikira variasi makanan tempatan berlainan bangsa, cuma orang melayu lebih kepada guna Gula Melaka.
Tak tahu apasal, tapi kalau korang kat Singapore, kalau korang tanya 5 orang mana nak carik Putu Piring sedap? Jawab nya semua sama, pegi Haig Road.
Tapi kalau maksud yang Haig Road kopitiam lama tu dah tutup, so jadilah sekarang dua gerai si empunya Putu Piring yang famous terkenal tu.
Satu cawangan kat Mr Teh Tarik Coffeeshop - ni yang kalau korang pergi Geylang Serai dia diagonal seberang jalan dari Pasar Basah Geylang Serai, dan jugak seberang jalan dari Joo Chiat Complex.

Atau korang boleh gi lagi satu gerai dia kat Pusat Penjaja Haig Road, jalan sikit 100 meter gitu dari gerai dia yang lagi satu kat atas tu aku sebut...

ok dah tu je pasal makan2...sekian terimakasih...haha.

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Ini pulak line-up HELLFEST 2014,
festival tiga hari kat satu pekan nama Clisson,
pekan ni ialah 20km dari dan paling berdekatan Bandar Nantes,
bandari ni ialah dua jam perjalanan naik keretapi laju dari kota Paris, Peranchis.
 

Rasa2 la, ni adalah line up antara paling hebat la pada aku dalam sejarah festival2 rock/metal gitu...Nak nangis pun ada sey tengok line-up cam gini...

Aku rasa aku pergi tempat gini, aku boleh jadi apa aku nak, aku suka dengar muzik rock/metal...
Aku tak paham nak ada genre genre sampai terlampau detail, nak kena ada rumpun rumpun...
mungkin aku cuma nak berselipar jepun aje?
kalau muzik tu best, muzik tu bising, muzik tu rancak, muzik tu laju, muzik tu sedap, muzik tu slow, muzik tu pasal apa segala tok nenek topic, cinta ke, giler2 ke apa ke, aku suka la...

aku suka muzik, tapi aku tak suka muzik tu dipuak-puak kan...
Lagi baik aku cakap aku tak suka dengar rock, aku tak suka dengar metal, aku suka Air Supply ngan Chicago aje haha.

Vendredi 20 juin HARI PERTAMA


Mainstage 1 : Iron Maiden, Rob Zombie, Queensryche, Therapy!, Satan, Crossfaith, Nightmare

Mainstage2 : Slayer, Trivium, Sepultura, Death Angel, MOD, Toxic Holocaust, Fueled by fire, Angelus Apatrida

The Altar : Death, Kataklysm, Pungent Stench, Nocturnus AD, Loudblast, Blockheads

The Temple : Watain, Enslaved, Turisas, Impaled Nazarene, Destroyer 666

The Valley : Electric Wizard, Godflesh, Kylesa, Kadavar, Royal Thunder, Downfall of Gaiia, Caspian, Conan, Mars Red Sky

The Warzone : Walls Of Jericho, Pro Pain, Downset, Slapshot, Defeater, First Blood, Brutality Will Prevail, Stick Your Guns

Samedi 21 juin HARI KEDUA

Mainstage 1 : Aerosmith, Deep Purple, Status Quo, Skid Row, Buckcherry, Walking Papers, Lez Zeppelin, Killers

Mainstage 2 : Avenged Sevenfold, Soulfly, Hatebreed, Dagoba, We Came as Romans, While She Sleeps, Of Mice and Men, Darkness Dynamite

The Altar : Carcass, Nile, Gorguts, Hail Of Bullets, Incantation, Supuration, Weekend Nacho's, Benighted

The Temple: Gorgoroth, Eluveitie, Tsjuder, Shining, MGLA, Gehenna, Trollfest, Temple of Baal

The Valley : Monster Magnet, Clutch, Acid King, Witch Mountain, Subrosa, Saviours, Herder, Hark

The Warzone: Millencollin, 7 seconds, Bl'ast !, Misconduct, Burning heads, Ays 

Dimanche 22 juin HARI KETIGA

Mainstage 1 : Black Sabbath, Soundgarden, Megadeth, Alter Bridge, Seether, Crowbar, Lofofora, Blue Pills

Mainstage 2 : Emperor, Iced Earth, Behemoth, Annihilator, Angra, Powerwolf, In Solitude, Scorpion Child, Year Of The Goat

The Altar : Opeth, Paradise Lost, Soilwork, The Black Dalhia Murder, Unleashed, Repulsion, Ulcerate, Obliteration

The Temple : Vreid Sognametal, 1349, Solstafir, Equilibrium, Urfaust, Dordeduh, The Ruins Of Beverast

The Valley: Unida, Spirit Caravan, Dozer, House Of Broken Promises, Lowrider, Zodiac, Satan's Satyrs, Watertank

The Warzone : Turbonegro, Floggin Molly, Misfits, Mad Sin, Last Resort, The Bones, Tagada Jones, Crushing Caspars.

Angan2 mat jenin dulu... sekali pintas tengok list aku dah highlights big letters and fonts band apa aku nak tengok main.
ngan aku dah taruk syarat diri aku sendiri..

AKU TAK KUASA SIANG2 DAH NAK GI TENGOK, aku nak suka pergi jalan2 tengok Bandar Nantes atau pekan Clisson dulu sebelum tengok band2 ni main..
Jadi sorry sapa main awal sangat...aku skip...
SAXON, EUROPE semua aku pernah skip kat Soundwave dan Download Festival, tapi tu la sapa suruh main awal sangat haha... Aku rasa seumur hidup sekali gi tempat ni, so lagi baik aku nak gi jalan2 ambik peluang tengok tempat orang...

Hari Pertama... korang tengok line up hari pertama...DAHSYAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hellfest setahu aku Main Stage 1 and 2 sebelah2, so senang la, cuma Iron Maiden tu aku dah get ready siang2 satu dua jam sebelum dorang main kot? hahaha...
So Slayer aku dengar sound je la... dan Death To All & Watain tu baik jangan clash ngan Maiden....

Rasanya tak la, cuma nak kena ambik spot baik untuk Maiden aje...

Tapi aku nak tengok Walls Of Jericho....kecoh beb penyanyi pompuan dia, kasi instruction kat audience dahsyat2 hahaha.
 
Hari kedua...
Santai untuk main stage, hurray hurray "love in the elevator" ler apa lagi, apa pun ada Deep Purple...!!! tapi stage Altar ngan Temple power la kan...

Hari ketiga   ok confirm clash giler giler punye.. pasal Paradise Lost ngan 1349 ngan Solstafir main kat stage tiga dan empat, aku rasa banyak lari2 la...kecoh ni....


So......................  aku ngah pening sikit ni....haha... kepala tengah carikkk jalan....apa2 pun tiket dulu.

Takpelah, tengok cammana satu dua hari ni.....Hellfest ni rasanya satu hari attendance dia max 40,000? atau mungkin 45,000 aje...? kira kecik la berbanding ngan Donington Park...
Ni cam Soundwave la gitu..

Tapi advantage dorang, main stage 1 and 2 sebelah2...cuma nak gi tu Altar ngan Temple kena gerak sikit kot...


Nota untuk korang jugak yang tengah fikir, hari raya puasa tahun depan 28 Julai, jadi puasa start paling awal pun...27 June...

(edited) - Penilaian dan analisa peluang aku nak tengok aksi Maiden di Kuala Lumpur dan Singapura 2014 mengambil kira kemunculan bulan Ramadhan untuk tahun hadapan.

Mula2 berita rasmi ni keluar kelmarin kot?, rasanya benda pertama peminat satu dunia buat ialah mengira matematiks, ilmu hisab berapa negara dah dapat persembahan "Maiden England 2012-2013" berdasarkan  ayat " 32 countries since June 2012."
Bila tinggal 6 negara yang nak cukupkan korum ikut angka rasmi berita tersebut.....

Aku dah fikir dalam kepala hotak aku.. ooo please let it be -...  "Australia, Jepun, Satu negara Timur Tengah atau India, dan.....it makes economic sense bila terbang antara Australia dan Jepun tu untuk singgah berenti.... Malaysia , Singapore, Indonesia."


Tapi ada satu ayat kat berita rasmi tu " will return to Europe".. membuat aku rasa kecundang....dan Eropah sendiri cukup penuh ngan banyak negara yang Maiden tak buat persembahan sejak tahun 2012 yang boleh isi korum 6 negara tu...

Tapi...kita tak tahu lagi sepenuhnya... Walau... musim bulan puasa tu....akhir bulan 6 start.
Tu pasal...kalau nak gi backpacking menengok Iron Maiden pun, satu benda kena ambik kira ialah Bulan Ramadhan..

Ceh...aku berbual macam la aku ni bebaik gitu hahahahaa.... Tapi cam melampau la kan...?
Kawan aku satu dah racun " eh? ni boleh dikira kita nak merasa suasana puasa di negara omputeh kan??!!"  dah dia sibuk cerita dia dengar cammana dugaan puasa di Sweden jadi kat kawan dia kerja or sekolah kat sana or something. Tu lain la, aku kalau backpack kat Sweden pun, aku dah hip hip horray kat Ullevi Stadium atau Friends Arena Stockholm Cehhh Ulevi siot!!...berangan tak agak2..haha.
Serious kalau bab Maiden, aku nye angan2 semua tahap mat jenin..

Aku jawab la kat kawan aku ni - Banyak la ko punye suasana puasa!! kat Knebworth terlompat2 happening suasana puasa apa!! bingit sey kasi aku sakit hati. haha.

IRON MAIDEN will return to Europe in Summer 2014 starting in late May with a short run of major festivals and a few select arena shows to round off their Maiden England World Tour which ends with a headline performance at the UK Sonisphere Festival in July as part of the 40th Anniversary celebrations at Knebworth Park. By the end of the tour the band will have played 102 shows in 32 countries to well over two million fans since starting in the USA in June 2012.

well...

Semua... Eddie yang jadi model kulit album zaman 80an dibekukan bentuk air batu dan ada dalam poster ini..
Karakter Eddie yang naik kuda tu ialah campuran tiga Eddie - Powerslave 1985/Seventh Son of A Seventh Son 1988/ dan Somewhere In Time 1986.
Empat kalau nak campur dia kena "lobotomy" untuk kulit album Piece Of Mind 1983. Tu yang ada pin kat kepala dia tu untuk sambung balik bahagian tengkorak dia...

Konfem ada rombakan setlist yang akan dibuat....  banyak possibility yang boleh jadi, walaupun Maiden ni cam malassss sikit nak tukar2 setlist lagu2 yang surprises nye.

Kuda dia paling best... Kuda Bionik... Terminator Horse gitu...