Point Form Filler: Kanye, Oasis, Federer, Pixar and er... Liow Tiong Lai.

I'm too busy (and lazy to blog) So let's do this in point form

1) So Kanye West stormed the stage, stole Taylor Swift's limelight, and made the poor girl cry. Apara, making a little girl cry. It's just the VMAs, yo. Not even the Grammys or something more relevant. LOL. Sure, Beyoncé's video IS better (well, she looks hotter in it, at least), but don't lar make little girl cry. Besides, if he'd waited a while longer, he'd have no cause to storm the stage and make an ass out of himself in the first place. After all, Beyoncé won VIDEO OF THE YEAR (and she even gave Swift a second chance to give her speech. Now THAT'S one classy babe.)

2) Pixar and Disney news! Timothy "I was James Bond" Dalton will be in Toy Story 3, along with Whoopi "Whoopie!" Goldberg, Bonnie Hunt. The rest of the cast is still around. The Cars 2 story was also announced. Looks like the gang will be traveling to Japan, Germany, Italy and London for races. Lots of racing parodies to come, I hope. There's also gonna be a new Winnie And the Pooh movie as well.... Er. Ok. Moving on...

3) Also from Empire Online, Pirates of the Caribbean 4 will apparently be called Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Empire reckons it might be Monkey Island-esque. I say, Forget Jack Sparrow... Bring on Guybrush Threepwood!

4) Heard the new Muse album yet? Matt Bellamy seems to be channeling Freddie Mercury on this one. One of the songs on The Resistance reminded me A LOT of Bohemian Rhapsody...

5) So Noel Gallagher quit Oasis. Ho hum. He's done this before lar. And besides, Oasis' albums have pretty much sucked after (What's The Story) Morning Glory anyway...

6) Two more 15Malaysia videos are up. Duit Kecil is a bit blah. But check out Healthy Paranoia, featuring Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai!

7) And on to sports now. Is THIS the best tennis shot EVER or what?

15Malaysia: Wash Eyes and Eat Wind Bersama Taxi KJ!

Sorry about the lack of updates. I'm on leave currently, and who's got time to blog when you're on leave eh?

Anyway, 15Malaysia's latest film - Meter is up:



Featuring the infamous Khairy Jamaluddin, Amber Chia, Jason Lo and a few others, it's about this taxi driver who rants about everything from football to language and what not.

Last I checked, the 15Malaysia site was still down, so if you're curious to see how Khariry Jamaluddin fares as a taxi driver ranting about Malaysian football, go to the video on YouTube HERE.


There've also been two other films - Slovak Sling (featuring Harith Iskandar, Patrick Teoh and a pretty funny DVD seller), and James Lee's Gerhana (which you might wanna have a cup of coffee before watching...).

Go check them out (or not) when the site is back up!

15Malaysia: One Future. No Voices.

Tan Chui Mui's One Future is up now on 15Malaysia.com:



I have to say, when I first saw this during the launch on the big screen, I was slightly put off by the jerky frame by frame style. But watching it again here, on a small PC screen, it seems smoother.

Can't fault the story though. Where the rest of the shorts have gone for comedy, drama, and even pretentiousness, this one is a short but nevertheless rather cool pseudo-science-fiction dystopian alternate reality Malaysia, where everyone lives in peace and harmony but are not allowed to speak.

Hey, maybe it isn't THAT alternate a reality after all...

Anyway, check it out. It's got Ida Nerina and politician Tian Chua in it too. And it's also got one heck of a subtle message (which really isn't so subtle, but you get the point).

And while you're at it, go check out the previous two shorts - The Son and Lumpur as well. I won't promise you'll LIKE them, but go support anyway lah...

Click below to go to the 15MAlaysia films page...

15Malaysia: Adibah Noor, Machine Guns and a Giant Chicken.

Liew Tat Seng's HALAL is up now on 15Malaysia.com.



If you were bored to death by Nik Aziz's monologue, or couldn't grasp the somberness of House on your tiny YouTube screen, this should be a welcome slapstick change.

It has Adibah Noor, machine guns, a giant chicken, and a scantily-clad Sarah Lian. Plus it has Adibah violently shooting one of those annoying, intrusive photographers with an SLR (probably a blogger).

What's not to like?

Download it now from 15Malaysia.com, and remember, if you have are running a Torrent software, download it via torrent and help seed the video also!

Click the banner bel... ah you know the drill.

15Malaysia: A Dream House With No Cuddy

Linus Chung's HOUSE is up on 15Malaysia now.



No, there is no Hugh Laurie or scantily-clad Dr. Cuddy, Cameron or 13.

What it DOES have is a poignant little message about how not everyone dreams about having big houses with Roman columns and rows of Ferraris.

For many, just having a home is dream enough.

Click on the banner below to download House!



PS: And remember, if you usually have a Torrent software on anyway, use it to download the 15Malaysia videos and help seed them!

15Malaysia: The Most Unlikely Person To Appear on This Blog

Now here's a face you won't see on this blog everyday:



Amir Muhammad's The Tree is up on 15Malaysia. More interview/commentary by Nik Aziz more than anything, it's one of the more serious films of the 15, but still worth a watch.

BTW, the site's bandwidth is stretched to the limit with all the downloads, so do use the Torrent to download. In the site's own words:

Due to overwhelming demand for our downloads, our server bandwidth has been stretched to the limit. So please help keep this site afloat by using our BitTorrent facility to download the films whenever you can. It would also help greatly if you would help us seed the files.

So yeah. If you already have torrents running, do download the films and the help to seed them, and help the site keep alfloat!

Click the banner below for the download links for The Tree:

15Malaysia: Yasmin Ahmad's Final Chocolatey Bow

Yasmin Ahmad's final film, Chocolate, is up on 15Malaysia.com! Go watch or download it it by clicking on the banner below! And remember to watch the Making Of as well. It's very sad... :-(




(and then join in the rather interesting string of opinions in the comments column below the video!)

15Malaysia. Truly Malaysian.

15Malaysia.
Not a Review.
Are you Malaysian?
No, don't ask Malay Chinese or Indian.
Are you MALAYSIAN
Then go to 15Malaysia.com and check out these short films.
There's one released every 2-3 days.
Tomorrow, Chocolate, Yasmin Ahmad's final film is up next.
They showed a 'making of' film yesterday.
It was really sad seeing her smiling so happily on set.



Some of the films were damn funny.
Halal by Liew Seng Tat has machine-guns and a chicken!
Slovak Sling has Patrick Teoh stripping!
The first one, Ho Yuhang's Potong Saga is also funny.
It's got that Negarakuku guy and his er.. kuku.



Some have unexpected stars.
Meter has Khairy Jamaluddin as a taxi driver wtf!
Health Paranoia has a very sporting Health Minister!
Even Nik Aziz is part of it.
He's in Amir Muhamma's The Tree.
Now that's a face you don't expect to see on a movie poster...



Some were funny, some were serious,
Some were a bit boring, some were pretty fast.
Most of them were thought-provoking,
While several were rather disturbing.
Some were a bit abstract (and maybe a tad indulgent)
But all of them were uniquely Malaysian.
Go watch them.
The release schedule is HERE.