English translation of Oh Khang Jee's Hobi Saya

This Malay essay has gone viral. I'm translating this piece into English with annotation so as not to reserve this to Malay speakers. Truth be told, I would like to share its information content with you.

By far the most perverted piece from a primary school student.

Oh Khang Jee
Question: My Hobby

I am thankful to God for putting two eyes on my face. There starts my hobby. My hobby is to use my eyes to stare at people.

One day, I was staring at a girl. But, the girl was overpowering me and stared at me. From that day onwards, whenever I see her, 010 (he meant, his penis) erects by 120 degrees. I was so embarassed, so I pressed on (my penis) more and more. I enjoyed it!

So, my hobby is to press and press (on my erected penis). But, my grandmother disliked my hobby. My grandmother always beat my hand when I pressed.. This caused pain in my (ahem!). Feels like it was going to be broken!

so, I changed back to my old hobby. That's all!


Seek counselling after this!!!

Epic right? :P

Suffering 煎熬 - 李佳薇 Jess Lee

Quoting Joshuaongys, this is the most disgusting music video with quite a number of explicit sexual scenes, featuring a girl living in her messed up life but back on track in the end.



When this song was aired on radio, listeners complained about high pitch of Jess' voice. She was too good! It's said that Jess Lee used 15 high notes in Suffering. For comparison, I've heard IU's three high in Good Day.



I've not only watched the video, but read the comments as well. These are good:

Quite an provocative MV. Definitely not your typical MV-friendly material. This video is RAW. Lots of raw images, raw emotions and raw connections. All I can say is whether this video is appreciated or not by music gurus, Jess has made an impact in her new music career. Good for her.

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MV的意境別只看表面, 在噁心的蟲中穿插激情，是為了襯托出當時熱戀的激情是多麼得噁心­­，他"分手"後，受到了多少的煎熬，如此痛苦難熬，連自己是不­是­活著都不知道，吃著腐爛的食物，也許是表達空虛的愛，久了只­會腐­爛吧，過著行屍走肉的日子，也覺得麻木了，什麼都不想管，­後來突­然清醒，脫胎換骨，讓觀眾體會到活著真好，沒必要對這種­無聊的東­西讓自己受到傷害，也不是用自殺的爛方法來解決，那沉­重的"煎熬­"貪婪的映像深深刻在我的心裡。看到這麼多人沒深入­了解這MV的­意境，顯然這種MV根本不適合在台灣放映，一看就­只注意男女激情­和蟲子，不斷批評，臺灣素質又低了嗎? 文學造詣跑哪去了，只看表面，真夠膚淺。【噁心什麼人看什麼東西­永遠都只有噁心兩個字，因為他的大腦只有充滿噁心的東西，而不知­道該怎麼轉向思考】。

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那些所谓恶心的画面大概是想体现女主角的心已经死了。活在这种恶­劣的环境肯定是很煎熬的，女主角却若无其事，表示她的内心已经煎­熬到一种境界，外在的一切都算不得什么了。热恋时的激情让她将自­己无条件交给对方，失恋后过着地狱般的生活脑中还不断重播那些画­面，那该有多煎熬。 ！高音的部分就如悲伤至极的怒吼。这是个人的解读啦~很棒的歌，­很棒的mv! 

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很多人覺得這支影片拍的令人作噁，因為太逼近於現實，所以人們無­法接受，眾人都喜歡看美好的，浪漫的，濫情的.....這支影片­太寫實，打破了沒有轟轟烈烈愛過痛過傷過的人對於失戀的看法，沒­有真的痛過，所以無法想像才會覺得噁心。這影片的表現手法對於那­些曾經撕心裂肺的人，日日夜夜以淚洗面，哭完就睡，醒了在哭，借­酒澆愁麻痺自己，食之無味婉如僵屍的人來說，是很強烈的映象，彷­彿一幕幕都在投影自己的過去。尤其對一個女人來說，更是深刻，不­能停止想念，想念對方的一切，想念激情時的模樣，想念那個人的笑­，與自己現在的可悲作強烈對比。數不盡次數的嚎啕大哭，數不盡次­數的告訴自己已經不在乎，數不盡次數的想離開這個世界，數不盡次­數的想念與徘徊在愛恨交錯之間，而就在某一次，某一次大哭過後，­突然的醒來，承認自己的存在，並面對現實，再次重生，重整再出發­，再次體會生命的美好。

The disgusting scenes are meant to show the wrecked state of the girl living in her self imposed suffering. To take it further, the director meant an allusion of the peak of romance - the girl gave everything she had to her man, to the point of being disgusting. After her man has left her, she was living in hell. Expired food signifies expiry and emptiness of her love. The scene of a pest insect got stepped on meant the worthless and purposeless life she was leading.

Many of the scenes in the MV are raw and unedited. Many were not able to take it for the disgusting and explicit scenes. All has been carried to extremes in this MV to carry the message across, but that makes me appreciate this piece more!

We have been served with sugar coated materials, why not take a look at the reality of life? I must praise the director for portraying this facet of life!

To view the 10 minute full length MV, click here.

I'm so happy - miss A to debut in Chinese market

I am so happy to hear this. miss A is going to release a Taiwan special edition of their A class album!

After garnering success in their country, debuting in Japan seem like the way to go. Japan debut is overplayed by too many Korean groups, I'm growing sick of it.



Chinese ethnicity of two members, Jia and Fei has garnered attention. I'm sure Chinese fans are proud to hear miss A penetrating the Chinese market! Much praise to Suzy and Min for making the effort to learn Chinese.



I am so delighted for their Chinese debut since I grow up listening to Taiwanese songs. Taiwanes pop has defined my taste for music throughout the years. I have been looking forward for Korean stars to debut in Taiwan since Wonder Girls and Super Junior M.



Group member Suzy and Min are making accurate Chinese pronunciations, I don't really mind hearing their Korean accent in it. Some Chinese remakes of their songs sounded so much better, as if they're written for Chinese lyrics and reminded me of Taiwanese pop!

Here are some tracks in their A class Taiwan special edition:

My all time favourite, Good Bye Baby:


Bad Girl Good Girl


Breathe


Love Again


p.s. f(x) under SM Entertainment have Chinese members as well. Should I ask for a Chinese version of "Hot Summer"? :P

Additional links:
Allkpop: miss A makes their Chinese debut!
Soompi: miss A to Target the Chinese Market in November

The Limelight @ Miss Libertine

16th of August 2011

A short note: By the time I wrote this, Ellie is no longer in a relationship with Leon. But let's see things as they happened, shall we?

Thanks to Ellie Chee, I watched her performed live with Leon Marcus Zachary at Miss Libertine.


The duo called themselves "Leonells".


Ellie has strong vocal talent. Other than praise, I'm just full of praise!


I was quite blown off by Leon as well.

My favourite song was Lucky. Lucky I'm in love with my best friend/ Lucky to have been where I have been/ Lucky to be coming home again/ Then I remembered Leon serenaded Ellie with a Marry Me. Romantic!

We have a friend visiting from afar...


She's Chammaine Tan!


Follow her on Twitter.

Wanna know more about Leon's music? Like him on Facebook and watch his covers on Youtube channel.

A revelation from Negarakuku

In the early part of his rap he talked about durian being fragrant or foul smelling, depending on the "nose trills" you have. He was speaking in metaphor - an issue, depending on your point of view, may delight you or offend you. He was preparing your hearts to receive what's in his rap as you play it further.

Years later, I watched the controversial rap music video again. After these years, conditions in Malaysia have not improved. A monster will always be at its ugliest before its fall - you get what I mean?

In the late part of his rap, he talked about Visit Malaysia 2007 and promotion of cultures belonging to Chinese (and other races). Immediately, he continued asking [Chinese] not to blame the government for all discrimination on them, in the literal sense.

So this is a revelation that come to me:

You are proud to promote the exotic cultures of various racial groups, showcasing to foreigners about how diverse your country is; but you pay little attention to the plight of those racial groups! You are more interested in doing outside jobs to look good but you have neglected about the more important inside jobs.

A loyal word can be against our ear, but it is for one's own good. Who understands that?

Namewee FxxK Utusan Malaysia!

The maker of the video has taken it down but there are more reuploads.

"Namewee Fxxk Utusan" 影片只有不到24小時的壽命, 就被移除了. 希望大家不要追問我原因, 相信大家心裡明白就好了... 在"Nasi Lemak2.0" 這部電影裡面, 我所要提倡的全民團結, 國家認同的概念, 顯然被很多人忽略了...讓我感到很遺憾. 懇請大家到戲院去看了電影在對我下評斷. 也希望大家不要被馬來西亞某些無良的媒體影響... 馬來西亞在我心中依然是全世界最好最美麗的國家!!! 加油啦! 明天不知道又會發生什麼事情了.... 爸爸媽媽對不起...
Source: Namewee 黄明志

Call us a banana democracy. The one who authored the media report in Utusan Malaysia is not a journalist at all, for she has violated the ethics of journalism. She is really a propagandist who works with a newspaper for the ruling party that owns it.

Utusan Malaysia (formerly Utusan Melayu) used to be a respected Malay daily in the age of pre-independence Malaya. Today, Utusan is a newspaper, shunned by well-educated Malaysians but still consumes paper to print, not monthly or weekly, but daily. What is the point of publishing a daily not respected and wastes unnecessary resources (material, manpower, time) to produce? At least have a consideration on the environment.

There is even more to say about this paper.

Criticism

Utusan Malaysia's credibility as a newspaper has come under fire from many circles for its blatant practice of double standards in its reporting, especially with regard to politically-related news.[1][2] Statements by Chief Ministers in Opposition-held states have been taken out of context, manipulated, or otherwise downright fabricated.[3]

Of late, Utusan has also stoked racist sentiments with provocative headlines championing the New Economic Policy and Ketuanan Melayu.[4][5][6]

In view of Utusan's extreme racist rhetoric, the former Opposition-led Perak state government staged a boycott against the newspaper, with other Opposition states following suit. A motion was also set by the Selangor state government to boycott Utusan while all Selangor state agencies and departments were told to refrain from buying the newspaper and to stop advertising in the newspaper, in a move to protest a short story titled "Politik Baru YB J" by columnist Datuk Chamil Wariya that appeared in the paper and depicted an assassination of a fictional character that portrayed Teresa Kok.[7] In addition, Teresa Kok has demanded RM100 million in compensation from Utusan Malaysia Chamil and the publication for defamation, demanding an immediate public retraction by Utusan and an apology to be published in newspapers of her choice, plus an undertaking that Chamil and Utusan will not repeat the allegations and comments contained in the article.[8] DAP has also filed a report against Utusan Malaysia, claiming Chamil was attempting to stir up public sentiments to carry out political assassination against Kok. [9]

Utusan has also been criticised for publishing very little international news; the Foreign News section typically consists of only two to three pages out of 50 pages in total.

In January 2011, the newspaper suspended a journalist, Hata Wahari, president of the National Union of Journalists, after alleging that Hata had brought the newspaper into disrepute and "insulted" its management.[10]
Source: Wikipedia article on Utusan Malaysia

Namewee was right about all who works in Utusan - all employees, from top to bottom, should go back to school. For all of them are liable to the sin of spreading lies and mislead the public.

Raja Petra Kamarudin of Malaysia Today has a good piece about Utusan as well.

"Korean Justin Bieber" Park Seong Min debuts!

Just fresh from the oven! I watched his debut MV and instant caught on the fire of the song.

Labeled as Korea’s Justin Bieber, rookie singer Park Seong Min has released the MV along with his debut single album, “Beautiful Girl”.

With a pure boy image and originally hailing from Canada, he is known for his charms and ability to win over the hearts of many teenage girls.

“Beautiful Girl” is a bright and cheerful track with a trendy melody and medium tempo, composed by Shin Young Jae. The music video is directed by Han Chul Soo and features actor Ham Jae Hee (as a rapper), as well as actress Oh Ga Eun as his love interest.

Beautiful Girl music video:


"Echo" is another song in his debut album:


Do you think he deserves to be called the Korean counterpart of Justin Bieber? Or even better?

I think he should cover Justin Bieber's "Baby" to be called one!