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Dalam sebutan baku: sasa fies

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picture taken from here. 

I went to the I Am Tour’s official website yesterday and saw that Malaysia’s not on the list, or was it? 

Malaysia, a country a call my own, has set rather strict ‘surface’ rules when it comes to visiting performers like Beyonce.  Artistes who went their way to meet fans in this part of SEA have had to abide to the country’s conservative.  Those who expose a lil’ bit of themselves end up being scrutinized and fined.  But hey, these artistes are rich… to them getting fined would probably be like paying for a parking ticket.

I can’t imagine Beyonce singing Diva or All the Single Ladies or Crazy in Love clad in a blanket.  Btw, have you seen how Malaysian artistes dress?  It’s nothing different than how Beyonce dresses up.  Cleavage is shown; figure-accentuating costumes; etc.  Some high ranking official mentioned that Malaysia does not need any of Beyonce’s sexy moves.  Damn right she’s sexy… and nobody in Malaysia can beat her sexiness.  That’s a valid reason for her to come, to show Malaysia who’s the real Diva in the music industry. 

On a different note, there’s another dust storm raging outside.  Don’t we just love the weather these days?  Yesterday started out hot with the sun out, then it rained cows and pigs last night, this morning I woke up to orangey skies.  What next?  A tornado?  I do hope so.  I’d like this wretched pig sty I’m living in get bombed by a flying oil tanker.  It’s not too much of a request is it? 

I probably woke up on the wrong side of the bed (for me to be writing posts like this on such a lovely dusty day), but it I think it’s because I woke up alone again (nahh… I’m just a little edgy because last night I went to bed and half past ten and still I couldn’t sleep. bleh)

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