Yowazzup: A Directory of Happening Things

Watch the second single, “Hurry Up” from Che’Nelle’s album, “Things Happen For A Reason”.

Did you know Che’Nelle is a Malaysian? Her real name is Cheryline Lim and she’s born in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia to a Chinese Malaysian father and Indian-Dutch mother.

She’s popular with the song “I Fell In Love With The DJ”.

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• Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor is blasted off into space. He’s the first Malaysian in space!
• Space rules for Malaysia’s Muslim? The number of Malaysian ever been to Space — one. Now, that’s hilarious.
• Firefox is going mobile. But, ain’t it a little too late?
• Madonna leaves Warner for $120 million deal with Live Nation Inc.

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Malaysian-born actor Goum Ian Iskandar is only 9-year-old but he beat the odds of Simon Yam (Election 2: Harmony Is Virtue), Jay Chou (Curse Of The Golden Flower), Nick Cheung (Election 2: Harmony Is Virtue) and and Liu Ye (Curse Of The Golden Flower) and won the best supporting actor award at the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards for the movie “After This Our Exile”, also starring Aaron Kwok and Charlie Yeung. Fellow Malaysian artist, Lee Sin Je was nomiated for Best Actress for the movie “Re-Cycle” but lost out to Gong Li (Curse Of The Golden Flower).

Goum Ian Iskandar in After This Our Exile

After This Our Exile also won Best Film beating the likes of Curse of the Golden Flower, Fearless, Election 2: Harmony Is Virtue and Exiled (yes, another movie with almost the same name). The Chinese title of After This Our Exile means “Father and Son”, where Goum Ian Iskandar plays Lok-Yun, son to Shing (Aaron Kwok) while Charlie Young plays Lin, Shing’s wife who later on left him. Directed by Patrick Tam, who won Best Director award.

Will Goum Ian Iskandar gain fame after this and fades from the movie scene like how Macaulay Culkin and Haley Joel Osment had it when they were young? Or will he prove them otherwise?

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Koo Kien Keat & Tan Boon Heong becomes the first Malaysian pair to win All-England in 15 years! The last time Malaysian have won the All-England Men’s Doubles was back in 1982 by Razif-Jalani Sidek. The gutty Malaysian pair beats world number one pair, Cai Yun & Fu Haifeng in straight sets, 21-15, 21-18. The Chinese pair did not provide much resistance to the Malaysian pair and were easily tamed in straight sets. Throngs of Malaysian supporters were surrounding the stadium providing morale support and some even chanted “Malaysia Boleh!”.

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Many of us have dreams to become an astronaut, or least to fly into the space trillions of miles from planet Earth. But, most of us would never get our dreams achieved because the selection process to become an astronaut can be very exhaustive – considering the requirements to become an astronaut is very stringent.

Recently, medical officer Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor and army dental surgeon Kapt Dr Faiz Khaleed are Malaysia’s final two astronaut candidates, selected from the more than 10,000 applicants. Out of these two, only one will be chosen to become the first Malaysian astronaut.

If you feel envy of them, feel not anymore because you can become the first Malaysian (or “insert your nationality here”) to go into the space before one of these two candidates! Remember Madonna’s desire to become a space tourist? Well, you can be one too – by paying USD$20 million. You might not be in the record books for being the first (Malaysian) astronaut in space but you will be in the books for being the first (Malaysian) in space!

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