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My interest in Tarot cards are purely for its history and design. I do not even believe in horoscopes, mind you. But the last line of the video makes a lot of sense to me. This is part of my research for the new album.

It rang a buzz down my arm when I saw the KFC ad in Malay over in Suria and the narrator pronounced ‘Tortilla’ correctly, which is “Tor-tee-ya”. So you should say it properly when you order it. By the way, Marseilles is pronounced “Mar-sey”.

During the rehearsal of the DBKL R&B Concert with Dayang Nurfaizah, Liza Aziz, Irene and RuffEdge. This was my first time being backed by strings, so it felt a bit special to me, because I’ve always imagined the song to have actual live strings. This was one small dream come true.

Calvin Klein Euphoria

I have two bottles of Calvin Klein Euphoria 50ml each, brand new, on sale at SG$55 including postage to your home address. Deal via I-Banking or ATM transfers only. If you’re interested, please write to beatssociety@gmail.com with the brand and name as its subject. First come first serve basis.

I don’t know for sure if the child was named after me, or maybe the parents a fan of the name. I don’t think my name, the combination of both ‘Imran’ and ‘Ajmain’, is something you hear everyday like, perhaps, Hafiz or Ridzwan, which by the way alot of 1980 to 1988 Malay babies were named. Not that I’m saying there’s anything wrong with those names.

Imran’s Part

I met Fadhil and Suhana Abdat, a young married couple whose got their own place at quite an uncommon area for many, at Old Airport Road in Kallang. While Suhana is a fulltime writer for a local magazine, and Fadhil has always helped out with his many family businesses, they’ve seeked consultation for my creative input for their new and upcoming online furniture business. Online, yes. I called Fadhil, Datco 2nd Gen, because I’m quite familiar with his uncles who used to run their furniture business at the old World Trade Centre; a makcik’s favourite. Now they are going to bring it back, in a different way.

I have to come up with a name for their line targeted at Malay home-makers and Salim suggested something we’ve thought about before for our t-shirt line. I’d endorse the furniture via online and photography catalogue and also helping to kickstart the initial marketing. They will be taking part in the exhibition later on this year at Expo and that might help gather their audience. What I’m more interested in, is the more unconventional collection for younger consumers, that is the classic Italian-inspired furniture that most of us 80s babies would be familiar with (because all our moms shopped at Rocco) but this time round, they’ll be playing with non-wood colours for the frames and a little bit more exciting fabric for the upholstery. I’m quite interested in those.

So new home-owners, if you’d like to get new furniture for yourself and would not like to visit the mass-produced China products over at the mega-stores, we could offer reasonable alternatives. As for this project, I’m hoping to embark on a more long-term commitment to add on to my portfolio for marketing. All the best to all young business folks with dreams!

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Zee’s Part

For the past 9 months, I could have been pregnant and given birth anytime now. Hahah! Okay, sorry. Let’s start again.

For the past 9 months that I have been working from home, I got a couple of calls for some projects. This particular one, I wasn’t so sure about when I was left hanging for almost a full month without a yes or a no. So when I finally got the call, I was elated. In fact, I was far from elated. My confidence came back.

My services were being recommended by Salim. I have been working on SpaJelita’s new look for two weeks now. Yesterday I met up with Nadiah Abdat of SpaJelita, to collect more information to be included in the new site.

SpaJelita targets the above-average working women with their high-end products and services. But I really think their prices are reasonable. I won’t spill out much cos you hafta wait for the site to be up and all information will be there for you. (Ya la must self-promote the web site also.)

When I started with the first draft, it took me the longest time, yet it did not achieve the look of an exclusive spa. It was frustrating and I went on ’experimenting’ further - thus, the 2nd draft appeared. I’m very happy with the new look now.

It was such a *phew* moment when Nadiah expressed her approval of the new look last night. Another happy customer! The site should all be up and about by next week. For now, it’s just a sneak preview if you go to their site: spajelita.com

Zee, my trusted webmistress and 1 half of design duo, PlayPause, had a quick conversation about what we were going to be doing today. I am meeting another husband and wife team starting a furniture business and needs a positive kickstart while Zee is already more than halfway through her current design project with a family spa business. Coincidentally, the people we’re going to meet today from both companies have the same last names. Zee and I are going to our first ever cross-blog inspired by a website that Wan found that is: http://farflungfour.com about 4 friends from different parts of the world who update each other about interesting things. So later today, we are going to blog pictures, a short writeup about our separate projects, and what they are up to, and what we’re doing for them. Do this with your friends too!

• Updated ‘Discographyku‘ with all my music listings since ‘01
• Updated ‘Diariku‘ with my latest Berita Minggu article
• Updated Facebook with ‘Web Presence’ application that I dig!
• Met up with PlayPause about our server problems
• Ate at Badoque today!
• Meeting up with new furniture company for marketing ideas
• Doing the new station ID jingle for a television station
• Doing the music for an Exercise Video (that’s just ironic); meeting tomorrow!
• Recording first two songs from 2nd album
• I appeared in Media Hiburan consecutively for the past 3 issues
• My song ‘Malu’ featuring Cheryl Samad entered the SuriaFM Charts at No.14. Please keep requesting for the song, people!
• Going to Kemaman, Terengganu this weekend!
• Going for Reservist in August!