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To all Malaysians, a Happy Merdeka.

It has been 53 years since Malaysia gained independence on 31 August 1957, one year after celebrating the 52nd Merdeka day.

Amidst all the ticking-ticking happening, let’s remember we are all Malaysians.

I’m particularly fond of this piece of music – Malaysian by Janice & the Supertank



Read about how this song was born from Janice Yap’s blog : Princess B Sharp – Proud To Be Malaysian.

Music heals the soul…….

And for the past one year or so, I noticed Malaysians are really making names in the international music arena.
Particularly pretty ladies, one like my Sexy.

Sexy’s her name.
Mizz Nina is her name too.
Shazrina Azman on the other hand, is the real name.
She’s from Kuala la la Lumpur!

Her stories and interviews are well written by media, some of them are these:
Kosmo! Online – Mizz Nina cipta nama sendiri
KLue Interview: Mizz Nina on her solo debut “What You Waiting For”

She came from the Teh Tarik Crew (TTC). I listen to their songs back then!
Some of Teh Tarik Crew’s pieces:
Teh Tarik Crew – Dooit
Teh Tarik Crew – Doodat

Then there’s this Zee Avi, from Sarawak. Her debut album hit #130 US Billboard Hot 200 Chart and #2 US Billboard Top Heatseekers Chart, and sold 6,000 copies in the United States in its first 2 weeks of release.

Zee Avi – Bitter Heart

Oh, so sweet…..

Something different from the rest, is ZE!, a Malaysian electro-pop artist, a loud and brash disco rebel. In short, she’s a BITCH FROM KUALA LUMPUR.
No, I didn’t say it, she stated it in her profile page.

ZE! – Boys I Like

So while some people are shouting singing rubbish on TV and newspapers, let’s allow them to fall on deaf ears while we listen to the lovely music.

Mizz Sexy Nina says : Keep on supporting your local bands and music!

Yes, I’ve done my part, the original album above is mine.
What You Waiting For, then?

Happy Merdeka!

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I’m pretty sure everybody knows about Susan Boyle, who turned from a nobody to a huge somebody, after appearing in the TV programme Britain’s Got Talent on 11 April 2009 and shot to fame.

Her performance led to great international media and of course the Internet and YouTube response.

In fact, any budding singers or ambitioned singers should look into spreading their gigs on the Internet, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, blog etc on top of existing performances in concerts, cafes etc.

It doesn’t matter where you’re from even if you only perform at home, the internet is a cheap and valuable way to fame.

Search for “Janice and Sonia”, by the time you typed ‘Jani’, the suggestion would have appeared.

Janice and Sonia are Australian twins and according to their Facebook fan page, it was stated they are still unsigned. I have no doubt they will be easily picked up as signed singers if they wanted to.

And then there’s this cute girl with her self recorded singing video spreading in Facebook, which turns out to be one Yu Kiu, Ava (Bianca) from Hong Kong.

She is a new singer in 2009 who launched a Sabah shot album back in Hong Kong.

And then back to local front, we have Malaysian singer-songwriter Zee Avi who had her debut album produced by a US record company, and hit the charts at #130 US Billboard Hot 200 Chart and #2 US Billboard Top Heatseekers Chart, and sold 6,000 copies in the United States in its first 2 weeks of release(as of June 9, 2009) according to Wikipedia.

How did she pulled that off?
Avi posted a video of her first song on YouTube in September 2007.

Now you think that’s easy? Don’t get too excited first.
It does look to me that most of the success stories are women in the first place, looks nice and sings well.

Many can try, but I’m not sure if they’ll succeed.

We’ll see their video views on YouTube.

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This video download tip requires no installation of any programs, except using your internet browser only.

Some videos that are uploaded onto Facebook, are not linked directly to YouTube, and the video file is encoded, stored in Facebook’s site.

It gets a bit tricky to download and play such videos offline.

If you search with Google or any other search engines, most likely than not you will be asked to install programs. More often that not also, such programs are malwares and might install trojan horse or virus to your computer.

So, say you wanted to download a video, something like this:

Identify the URL
The URL should be in the form of http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php followed by the video id.
As an example for the above, the URL is : http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1254357076086&ref=mf

Get the video link
View the HTML source of the page.

Right click and select ‘View Page Source’ and look for the id with “video_src”.
The following link is the hidden video link.

Convert the video link
The hidden video link is actually encoded and you need to unencode or technically, unescape the HTML code.
Go to http://www.linkedresources.com/tools/unescaper_v0.2b1.html and put the video link to the encoded textarea, then click unescape.

Voila, the actual video link will be displayed below.

Download and save the file
Now that you got the link, just paste it to your browser URL bar and download it.

Ready to play
The download file, could be in mp4 format, and if your video player such as Windows Media Player is unable to play it, and you do not have the codec, try renaming the file extension from mp4 to flv.
Proceed to play the file offline with FLV Player.

Hope it works for you, just like it worked for me!

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