I dont think we'll be spared of any news about him for this next few weeks. Theres gonna be lots of stories tied-up to him, some mostly indirectly. I pity this average joe who is suddenly bombarded by mllions of adoring fans, groups of media people who wants to get the best of exclusives for their medium and then also not forgetting those people who wants to make every cent out of his name and fame a.k.a. show promoter, lanun cetak rompak, movie houses, etc., Its normal I guess. Its part of the package that comes with instant fame, like it or not, he is gonna get more.
Below are some more links to the news that is all about Mawi. That news about that massive vcd raid shows how this barely 12 weeks old "artist" is being exploited. Over here, from weeks back, we've had the Prelude concert till the Final Concert on DVD & VCD and the songs on CD. Now they've came up with individual collections. So if you are a fan of Marsha, you can get all her AF Concert performances all in one DVD or VCD and the songs again on CD. I'm not sure if they did it for every AF3 students though, the final four I'm sure. And its pretty cheap too, for DVD its only RM12, VCD RM8 and the CD RM5. I know this is all no good for the AF3 graduates but over here, I'm ashamed to say theres just no control.
On a different note, the hottest issue regionally is ofcourse the jerebu. I think over here in Brunei, we're not as badly affected but its still not a good thing to be out in the open right now. I'm sure the kids at school are praying hard it'll get worse so that they education department would close down the schools like they did before when it first hits Brunei. Back then we even had a sembahyang hajat & sebaghyang minta hujan berjemaah simultaneously in every mosqued nationwide. I hope it wont get that worse again.
And while we're on the subject of hot news, the one thats on everybodys lips here is the hysteria thats been happening at an all girls high school here in Bandar Seri Begawan. Mass hysteria that hits atleast 20 girls in one instant. This happened almost quite frequently that even one if the makcik who works at the kitchen was affected too and school was closed down. Those possessed by the spirits just simply fell to the ground, rolling, kicking and shouting hysterically (read: The Exorcist movie style). One girl who is a pure Malay even started to talk in chinese! One of the now cured students said theres an army of 40 thousand spirits now converging in the school! They are standing/sitting in between the students all over the school. Some said these spirits are from the recently cleared forest which is being used now to build a government office. So these spirits are basically pissed that their "home" is taken and so they decided to make the school their new home.
But lots would say thats not the real story. If sources from Have Your Say (HYS), a popular no-holds-barred Bruneian "forum", it is the cause of 4 students who invited those spirits to do harm on a girl that they dont like. You guys ever heard of that practise of using coins and blood to call bad spirits? Well I dont know about it but apparently while they were in the process of doing this "ritual" they were ambushed by a teacher. So apparently, they have "opened the gates" for this bad spirits to keep coming. Whats worse is that these students werent expelled! In HYS a whisltblower even gave the initials of those girls and the writer even said they were daughters of prominent government officials, hence them being transfered only to a different school rather than expelled.
Well I really dont know how true is all this. Its all hear-say so I'm not sure how credible it is but I thought I'll just share it with all. I'm not making any accusations or trying to bring down an individual or group, I'm merely telling a story. I do believe in spirits as we are not the only mahluk Allah.
Anyways, panjang pulak my story. I'm gonna leave you guys with more news about AF3 which mostly about Mawi. Cyass!
