Happy New Year!

Band Superfriends wishes all Happy New Year and may 2012 be better than 2011! Also to our friends who celebrates Chinese New Year, tis not too early to wish you well in welcoming the year of the Dragon.

Can Band Superfriends cover this song please?

I love this song! C'mon Superfriends, do a rockin' cover of this song and Najuib and Syawal can take turns to be Bert and Ernie.

p/s: Barenaked Ladies did a cover of this piece...

Vans sunglasses, anyone?

The Korgian is so into Vans stuff that she's now bringing in the brand's slew of sunglasses to help you guys own one too.

Give her lil shop at Galaxy Ampang a visit if you want to see the collection she's got.

Band Superfriends get to Raya!

This year our friends Band Superfriends will be able to enjoy Raya like the rest of us (read: dapat cuti beb!) They'll be heading back to Kajang, Ipoh, Johor, Pahang and get to eat lemang and ketupat without having to rush back to KL for a nightly performance.

Sangria crowd will miss em for sure! But for only a few days, so just come back at the end of the Raya week ok.

"Though we don't get lots of days, it is enough to give us a chance to fast with our families and raya too. So can we have some duit raya please?" says a bandmember whose name I shall not quote.

So sincerely from the band, its alumni and I, Selamat Hari Raya & Maaf Zahir Batin. Let's rock it!

Conpem!

Hey guys, the word is out. Superfriends is playing in Sangria this month August 2011, and off day is Sunday, as usual.

Check them out if you got time.

Will it be Sangria this month?

I've not heard a confirmed word from the boys and gal of Superfriends just yet, but most likely our favourite band will be playing at Sangria this month.

Will confirm with you guys soon. Selamat berpuasa to all!

Quiet week at the Beach Club

The Bersih 2.0 rally is really ruining businesses located the main KL area, and The Beach Club, one of this city's most popular hangouts is suffering.

"It's been really quiet in the Club since the last few days," says one of the members of Band Superfriends I met today. "Even the regulars pool are cut by half. We've never seen so many space to walk across on the floor."

We were at Midvalley and the lunch tables are filled with friends and music-minded folks. We're just simply Malaysians trying to eke a living, the bunch of us. No righters, no lefters.

"Since Ambiga has had her chance to sit down with the King, how come the rally is still on? Wasn't the rally meant to deliver a memorandum to His Highness? Couldn't she do away with the rally and just hand it over? Must it be after a big fuss? Must they wait for people to get hurt? We're already hurting. My boss says Saturday is an off-day, so that means I'm losing my weekend commissions, damn my pocket is hurting!" enthused a friend.

"What are their demands anyway? Beyond using the ink and the undi pos issue I don't see any other point. As for a clean spick-and-span election, if you can't trust EC then how come at the last GE results were so mixed? Don't we already have neutral party observers since way before?" another friend mumbled in between mouthfuls of Japanese bento.

"The other thing I don't understand, Ambiga said, I read in The Malay Mail la. Ambiga felt she didn't need to apply for a permit now that the King says OK, but said they are making her apply. Next she said Bersih won't take responsibility if rally gets out of hand, then expects the police to be the one who should take responsibility to ensure rally is done without ruckus. Isn't she the one doing the organising? Shouldn't organiser be responsible?" I asked.

"Ambiga do not want to take responsibility, but can easily hand over the task to the police if her 5,000 marshalls could not control the crowd. But will she be one of the 5,000 on the street among the common janes and joes? Am I the only one who sees the Bersih organisers as selfish? I bet if someone gets hurt they will easily wash their hands. I'd hate to think that such educated folks will do something as sneaky as eluding responsibility for their own actions," ranted one of the more serious guys - the Abang among the group at the lunch table.

"I'd hate to think of things that can go wrong that day. We have to work. And Beach Club is too near Stadium Merdeka. Tomorrow night the band may have to walk to work cause all the roads will be closed. Some of us will be carrying heavy equipment!" said the Korgian.

"And some of us got a bad leg and a yellow Kenari!" whined the other musician.

"Is it too much to hope for the Club to grant us a night off, you think? I rather not get my pay for that day than risk my own safety!" the voice of the band concluded.

I really hope nothing bad will happen. Guys, let's hope nothing bad happens.