Now you can check your SPR (Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya) registration status through http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/. Bear in mind that the database only contain information until end of year 2006. If you registered in 2007, the database might not contain your information yet.
Give it a try at http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/ to check for your vote location.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
TheStar's Intech Interview Muar Boy
This feature article publish on TheStar Intech (Tuesday) on 24 April 2007. It a hit, it a good news for muar boy. Below is the article.
Original link: http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2007/4/24/itfeature/20070424123322&sec=itfeature
Muar boy's sleeper hit
A Taiwan-based student from Muar, who rapped about his hometown, took the cyberworld by storm when he posted a music video of the song on video-sharing site YouTube recently.
Wee Meng Chee, a 24-year old mass communications student at the Ming Chuan University in Taiwan, who composed the song Muar Chinese, saw more than 600,000 hits for the video since it was posted on the website early last month.
He produced the satirical but frank music video, which took digs at people who were ashamed of speaking their own dialect, KL-ites, as well as Chinese and foreign workers, when he went back to Muar for his holiday in February.
"It is just my feelings towards my hometown and it came straight from my heart," he said in a phone interview from Taipei recently.
The video, which was initially circulated among his friends on MSN for fun, was posted on YouTube after he received complaints from his friends that they could not easily download the file because of its large size.
"So I uploaded it on YouTube before I went to sleep so that it could be easily accessed by my friends," he said.
What he did not expect was that during the seven or eight hours he was sleeping, the video was viewed almost 5,000 times.
"My MSN account was also full of messages from my friends who told me that they liked the video very much," he said.
After three days, the hits on the video reached 80,000.
His parents and siblings, who knew nothing about the video before it shot to fame, were told of their son's and brother's instant popularity by their friends.
"I had done several other videos before so I found no reason to tell them about this particular one.
Moreover, I do not use vulgar words at home like I do in the video," he said.
With much hesitation, he said, he then called up his family to ask if he had shamed them with the video.
Bouquets and brickbats
There has been criticism from Internet surfers that Wee sounds offensive in some parts of his rap songs, saying that there was no need for him to emulate certain US rappers.
Many also posted comments criticising his views in his song.
But instead of being scolded by his family, Wong's mother told him that it is a nice video and that it has brought to light some realities that were previously unnoticed by even those who had lived in Muar for decades.
However, he has received negative criticism from viewers who said they despised the video; they accused him of using questionable methods to further his own objectives.
"I did not mean to offend anyone and I did not upload it to make myself famous," said Wee.
"That is not my intention; I just wanted to share the video with my friends but I did not expect others to like it so much." Wee, whose ambition is to become a movie director, said song writing is his hobby and that he had started composing songs when he was 15 years old.
"I have a collection of 300 songs that are all composed by me. I have sent them to record companies in Taiwan but they did not even want to look at them," he said.
"Muar Chinese is a song I wrote after several trips to China.
Just like Malaysians, people there speak the language very differently, depending on where they live," he said.
This realisation inspired him to write the song that tells others that they should not be ashamed or look down on themselves just because they speak the language with a different accent.
"There is no standard that one must follow when they speak Mandarin.
In every place, it has its own story, history and culture; that shapes the accents that people speak," he said.
For muar boy MTV, visit links below:
Muar's Mandarin MTV
MTV: My Friend
Original link: http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2007/4/24/itfeature/20070424123322&sec=itfeature
Muar boy's sleeper hit
A Taiwan-based student from Muar, who rapped about his hometown, took the cyberworld by storm when he posted a music video of the song on video-sharing site YouTube recently.
Wee Meng Chee, a 24-year old mass communications student at the Ming Chuan University in Taiwan, who composed the song Muar Chinese, saw more than 600,000 hits for the video since it was posted on the website early last month.
He produced the satirical but frank music video, which took digs at people who were ashamed of speaking their own dialect, KL-ites, as well as Chinese and foreign workers, when he went back to Muar for his holiday in February.
"It is just my feelings towards my hometown and it came straight from my heart," he said in a phone interview from Taipei recently.
The video, which was initially circulated among his friends on MSN for fun, was posted on YouTube after he received complaints from his friends that they could not easily download the file because of its large size.
"So I uploaded it on YouTube before I went to sleep so that it could be easily accessed by my friends," he said.
What he did not expect was that during the seven or eight hours he was sleeping, the video was viewed almost 5,000 times.
"My MSN account was also full of messages from my friends who told me that they liked the video very much," he said.
After three days, the hits on the video reached 80,000.
His parents and siblings, who knew nothing about the video before it shot to fame, were told of their son's and brother's instant popularity by their friends.
"I had done several other videos before so I found no reason to tell them about this particular one.
Moreover, I do not use vulgar words at home like I do in the video," he said.
With much hesitation, he said, he then called up his family to ask if he had shamed them with the video.
Bouquets and brickbats
There has been criticism from Internet surfers that Wee sounds offensive in some parts of his rap songs, saying that there was no need for him to emulate certain US rappers.
Many also posted comments criticising his views in his song.
But instead of being scolded by his family, Wong's mother told him that it is a nice video and that it has brought to light some realities that were previously unnoticed by even those who had lived in Muar for decades.
However, he has received negative criticism from viewers who said they despised the video; they accused him of using questionable methods to further his own objectives.
"I did not mean to offend anyone and I did not upload it to make myself famous," said Wee.
"That is not my intention; I just wanted to share the video with my friends but I did not expect others to like it so much." Wee, whose ambition is to become a movie director, said song writing is his hobby and that he had started composing songs when he was 15 years old.
"I have a collection of 300 songs that are all composed by me. I have sent them to record companies in Taiwan but they did not even want to look at them," he said.
"Muar Chinese is a song I wrote after several trips to China.
Just like Malaysians, people there speak the language very differently, depending on where they live," he said.
This realisation inspired him to write the song that tells others that they should not be ashamed or look down on themselves just because they speak the language with a different accent.
"There is no standard that one must follow when they speak Mandarin.
In every place, it has its own story, history and culture; that shapes the accents that people speak," he said.
For muar boy MTV, visit links below:
Muar's Mandarin MTV
MTV: My Friend
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