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It's New Year's Eve! How are you celebrating tonight?

By posting up these lists! hahaha. I really have no life. 

Anyway. I can go on and on about 2008. But I'll just post up these four lists, then maybe say something at the end. How about that?

2008's albums:

Clearly shows how I am not part of the hipster gang whatsoever. Here are my favourites, in random order:

1. Rogue Squadron- I can has mixtapz? -_-
2. The Last Shadow Puppets- The Age of the Understatement
3. Portishead- Third
4. The Roots- Raising Down
5. Erykah Badu- New Amerykah Part One
6. Hujan- Hujan
7. Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
8. She & Him- Volume One
9. TV on the Radio- Dear Science
10. Oasis- Dig Out Your Soul
11. Estrella- Estrella
12. Sore- Ports of Lima
13. Naif- A Night at Schouwburg
14. Ludacris- Theater of the Mind
15. Gnarls Barkley- The Odd Couple
16. Coldplay- Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
17. Weezer- Red Album
18. Bloc Party- Intimacy
19. Flight of the Conchords- Flight of the Conchords

Should I, or shouldn't include...

• Solange- Sol-Angel and The Hadley St. Dreams
• Jazmine Sullivan- Fearless
• Bunkface- Lesson of the Season
• Everybody Loves Irene- On Second Thoughts, I Might Wanna Change Something
• Jenny Lewis- Acid Tongue

Released in 2008, but I haven't heard it properly yet (shame on me)

• Free Love- Feed us with your love
• Laila's Lounge- Laila's Lounge
• Efek Rumah Kaca- Kamar Gelap
• Guns N' Roses- Chinese Democracy
• Couple- Teenage Disc Fantastic
• Q-tip- The Renaissance
• Joe Flizzow- The President

Major Gigs/Concerts/Festival Attended (Top 9 is in order, the rest is not)

1. Sunburst Music Festival- Bukit Kiara Equestrian Club(Nevermind Incubus, say hello to George Clinton and The Roots)
2. Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Festival- Singapore (Awesome two day gathering of kick ass DJs)
3. Explosions in the Sky- Ruums (my heart exploded and I don't think I fully recovered)
4. Oasis- Echo Arena, Liverpool (kick ass seats, free of charge and full two hours something of Gallagher brothers)
5. Indie Day Out- MCPA Hall KL (crazy attendance, with people fainting and breaking noses etc)
6. Travis- Carling Liverpool (on the eve of Aidilfitri, no less)
7. The Last Shadow Puppets- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (pasty yet good looking British boys making beautiful music in a beautiful hall)
8. Jakarta Rock Parade- Senayan, Jakarta (Badly organized lead to poor attendance, but had stellar line-up)
9. Mono- Zouk KL (don't mess with Japanese post-rock musicians)
10. Vox- Esplanade Singapore (Surabaya heart-warming harmonies.. ah bless)
11. Mocca- Zouk KL
12. Goodnight Electric- Ipoh
13. The Bays- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
14. Ida Maria & The Courteeners- LGOS, Liverpool
15. Goldfrapp- LGOS, Liverpool
16. Pendulum- LGOS, Liverpool
17. Noah & The Whale- Bumper, Liverpool
18. The Roots- Manchester
19. MTV Asia Awards- Genting Highland
20. Family Affair II- Singapore
21. Pesta Malam Indonesia 2- Bukit Kiara Equestrian Club
22. KRU's Anniversary Bash- Ruums, KL
23. Rockestra- MCPA Hall, KL
24. KLUE's Urbanscape- KLPAC

What's good 2009?

• Rogue Squadron's 'I can has mixtapz' mixtape
• Jin Hackman's 'Jinius at Work'
• Rogue Squadron's monthly night 'The Bomb Shelter' at Cloth and Clef, KL
• The Rebel Scum's 'Time has Scum'
• Clue to Kalo's 'Lily Perdida'
• Flica's new album
• Yeah Yeah Yeah's new album
• Zeke and the Popo's new album
• Convocation XD
• Blur's reunion
• More concerts (Franz Ferdinand and Oasis and more hopefully)
• Better camera kit 
• More travelling!

What is the most memorable moment of "The X-Files" you can recall?
Submitted by The BlueTie.

moments? i can recall episodes. i think. remember toombs? is that how you spell it? and small potatoes. superfunny. oh. and anasazi.

What three qualities do you look for in a partner?
Submitted by Tenor Bob

Cliche as it may sound, but i like my man to be witty, smart and patient.

Which one book do you wish everyone in your life would read?

Either/or.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Neil Gaiman

If you knew you were about to lose your voice permanently, what is the last thing you would want to say?
Submitted by exer.

Sorry
and I love you

not necessarily in the same sentence and to one person only. oh. and i'd record my voice singing. hah!

Which popular slang expression drives you nuts?

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
TRIIICK
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

What is your favorite movie that was released in the 1980s?

Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983 & 2004 Versions, 2-Disc Widescreen Edition)

Mannequin

The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection

Back to the Future

The Goonies

and plenty more!!! i'm an 80s baby. you crazy? these are only international movies. don't get me started on the local cheesy stuff. ali setan, azura, and gila-gila remaja. fuh.

Azura

Gila-Gila Remaja (Episod-001:Intro)

ali setan 1 intro

If you were independently wealthy, where in the world would you live?
Submitted by Eileen.

Here, right. here. In Kajang, or anywhere around Kuala Lumpur. I like it here. It's nice. But I'll have a nice comfy place in San Fran, and maybe New York. Oh, and a nice place in Bandung, Indonesia too. For concerts, CD shopping and stuff like that. But home. will have to be here. good food, good weather, good friends :)

What one common food item do you refuse to eat? 

CUCUMBER.... eeeeeeeeeeeeeee YUCK

no, i don't even put it on my face

When you were little, how old did you think you'd be when you got married? Were your predictions accurate?

25. because it sounds just nice.
it makes me laugh everytime i think about it,
because prince charming is one and half years (and counting) too late.
hahaahahha