Click the picture above to go Jomstar.com flash pictorial and there is a full coverage on the adventures that Misha Omar and I had in Batu Pahat on the mainsite. We were accompanied by a full entourage of Chinese superstars namely Karen Kong, and the show was hosted by Cheryl Samad. The post before this dated 28 February 2008 shows the videos we took while we were there.

Part 1

Part 2

When I said to the camera that Misha and I were avoiding the champagne fountain, she said “My mother will kill me” if she participated. A few seconds later, the organizer turned to us and said “It’s grape juice”. Ok, we both felt dumb.

This is the songlist for the show today at The Chamber, Arts House.

1. Imran Ajmain – Kata Orang + Justin Timberlake – SexyBack
2.  Imran Ajmain – Taurus
3. Sleeq – Pilihlah Aku + Taufik Batisah – Sesuatu Janji
4. Alicia Keys – Fallin’
5. Imran Ajmain – Malu
6. Imran Ajmain – Sudah tu Sudah + Chaka Khan – Ain’t Nobody
7. Amy Search – Fantasia Bulan Madu
8. Siti Nurhaliza – Percayalah
9. Acha Septriasa – Sampai Ku Menutup Mata
10. Sarah McLachlan – Angel
11. Anuar Zain – Ketulusan Hati
12. Imran Ajmain – Abang
13. Chaka Khan – Thru The Fire
14. Imran Ajmain – Compromise + One Republic – Apologize
15. Classic – Tanya Sama Pokok + Oslan Hussein – Menimbang Rasa
16. Ning Baizura – Curiga
17. Imran Ajmain – Seribu Tahun

Thank you to all who came!

After watching P.S. I Love You at Cathay (of which I find watching movies in Singapore ridiculously expensive), I insisted we walked to Mustafa Centre so that I could go on a toiletry spree. Being in Little India after so long made me feel kind of warm and fuzzy. Going through the hair products section, and spending hours at the electronics department was something I used to do alot since my old office was just across the street from the megastore. Even though I wasn’t entirely hungry, Hafiz and I walked to the old Race Course Lane, behind the Angullia mosque, and we had dinner at Shakuntala’s.

I used to share the office space with a sister organization, Music For Good. What started out as a meeting point, and fax facility, later turned into an internet cafe, recording studio and sometimes slumber party. I recorded my album there. The entire daytime I’d spend online, shuffling through my schedule book and admin file. I was the only fulltimer then, and when everybody else came with their Spinelli drinks and cookies, we’d laugh out loud to stupid jokes while pressing buttons or cutting pamphlets by hand. At night, we used to stay around so late just to watch movies and wait for my single to air on radio. We’d wait hours and hours for the taxis to come and we’d arrive home so late only to do it all over again the next day.

Basha shook my hand. I remember him offering to use his umbrella when it rained and I couldn’t get to the train station. I only recognize one or two of the waiters there at the restaurant, the rest were new faces. It could have easily been a good two years since I moved out of the office. Even the mango lassi brought back memories. And after watching a melodramatic movie, I couldn’t help reminisce the good times I had there. Most of the people in those memories are no longer in my system, for your information. Even the closest of the lot are gone.

For your information, my company now only runs limited promotions and production. I’m never around any longer anyway. I scrapped the entire lot of our artiste roster. I stopped doing Speakeasy and this year, there’s no way I’m doing Platform 8. But it all started there. The good things, the bad things, the ugly things. All in that office and the areas around it. I would diligently check for mail without opening the mailbox, for my first few cheques, letters of approval, basically good news. It was all there.

Maybe that’s what memory is for, yeah? To remind you that you made mistakes and not to repeat them, that you should be well prepared next time. I hope it does the same for the folks who feel that they’ve lost me because smelling the dried chilli in the air brought images of some folks back into the restaurant and it tells me that I’ve lost them. You win some, you lose some, dia kata.

The mee goreng mutton is still damn good.

DSX is a 90 minute concert, Imran’s officially 2nd showcase.

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In the second video, look out for a girl on the streets screaming my name, then the motorbike fell to its side!! ps: I have started a column in Berita Harian (Singapore). Catch it fortnightly! Did you read last Sunday’s? What you think?