The Blue Karipap's Characters

The characters

- Dexy: A mute, he is an orphan from a small seaside town. He came to the city with the hope of becoming a DJ but instead lands a job washing dishes at the Blue Karipap cafe. His pent-up frustrations from not being able to speak take the form of an imaginary friend, and he finds himself caught between his naive, gullible self and a psychotic alter-ego.

- Ah-Tat: He lives with his grandmother in her sundry shop and dreams of becoming a professional basketball player.

The only problem is that he sucks at basketball. Like his fitness-freak grandmother, Ah Tat is hyperactive and always finds things to do.

- Massive (or Sugu): He lives and breathes aerosol and dreams of becoming a street artist. He has big ideas and a bigger afro to go with it.

When he gets an idea, it usually means trouble. He believes nothing can stop him because he is a "graffiti king and beatbox champion".

- Mr Bo: He can slice a potato in mid-air and came close to becoming a million-dollar chef. To his money-mad wife's dismay, he gave up cooking to be a food scientist. Now he spends his days experimenting with weird concoctions that are a little short of appetising.


- Mrs Bo: She used to be the best party-dress fashion model in all of Batu Road until her career was sabotaged and taken over by a close friend. Miserable and bitter, she put on a lot of weight, married Mr Bo and gave up on her dreams. Coming from a poor family, she is an expert in counting money and never misses her afternoon television dramas.

BLue KaRiPaP

Feast on this achievement called Blue Karipap, Malaysia's first major cartoon in cyberspace.

A favourite Malaysian snack (albeit in a strange colour) has lent its name to the country's first major cartoon in cyberspace.

The Blue Karipap online animated series, a creation of MFX Pictures, offers a zany bunch of characters — all very Malaysian — who hang out at a cafe owned by an eccentric scientist and his overweight, ex-beauty queen wife.

The cafe's name, incidentally, gives the series its name.

Sidney Tan, the cartoon's creator, writer and director, said the Blue Karipap was inspired by young Malaysians living in Kuala Lumpur.

It hammered home the point of not giving up on one's dreams, and picking oneself up when life is down.

The series' catchphrase "Life's Not Blue, It's Up to You!" neatly sums it up.

"This is my first major animated cartoon. The characters were inspired by friends, relatives and bits and pieces of me. Everyone is unique, yet they all have dreams of making it big in the city," he added.

The 30-year-old Tan, who dreams of creating fully Malaysian animated movies content-wise, is responsible for those cartoons in magazines Off The Edge and Men's Review.

He is also behind comic series Malaysian Superheroes, featured in entertainment magazine Klue.

A graphic design graduate from Limkokwing University, he has been a cartoonist for six years.

"I grew up reading the wonderfully Malaysian cartoons of Lat and Reggie Lee. They capture the essence of Malaysians, especially urban residents, with their hilarious caricatures," he said.

The Blue Karipap characters speak in English, occasionally uttering words in Bahasa Malaysia.

He has uploaded the cartoon on the Internet "as it reaches a worldwide audience".

At the moment, the cartoon features five main characters. There are six episodes, each lasting a minute.

Twenty more episodes are in the pipeline, with new characters gradually joining the cast.

"The Blue Karipap will evolve, and public feedback helps," he said.

The cartoon's music and lyrics are provided by WASP Music, headed by its creative and musical director, Paul Morrison.

Morrison, from Staffordshire in Britain, has worked as a sound engineer with acclaimed British bands such as UB40 and Black Sabbath.

He has worked in Kuala Lumpur for 12 years as a composer for television advertisements.

One of his most memorable credits is the 1990s Malaysia Airlines advertisement All Our Lives, a heart-warming National Day story of three friends who grew up during the colonial era and reunited as successful businessmen at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

"The characters may be Malaysian but the story's message is universal," he said.

"Furthermore, the curry puff bears a striking resemblance to the Cornish pastry, a favourite British snack!"

Morrison and his team of composers and songwriters in WASP Music have just come up with the single Live At the BKP, the Blue Karipap theme song.

The cartoon's line producer, Jasmine Ng, said Internet surfers have been very supportive.

"Many of them see facets of their own life experiences in the characters," she said.

Executive producer Moon Chan said MFX would be creating more Malaysian-themed cartoons in future but for now, the company was concentrating on making Blue Karipap a success.

The Blue Karipap can be viewed at www.bluekaripap.com. The cartoon made its debut last month.

TaKe D SweeTs

Once a boy went to a shop with his mother.. 

The shop keeper looked at the small cute child and showed him a bottle with sweets and said 'Dear Child.. u can take the sweets... but the child didnt take.

The shop keeper was surprised.. such a small child he is and why is he not taking the sweets from the bottle. Again he said take the sweets.. now his mother also heard that and said.. ''beta take the sweets..'' yet he didnt take...

The shopkeeper saw that the child was not taking the sweets.. So he himself took the sweets and gave to the child.. The child was happy to get two hands full of sweets..

When they returned home, his Mother asked him.. Why didnt you take the sweets when shop keeper told you to take..

The child said.. ''Mom, my hands are very small and if i take the sweets from my hands then i can only take few.. but now you see when uncle gave with his big hands, how many more sweets i got!!''

Moral:

When we take, we may get little but when God gives, he gives us more then our expectations. ... more than what we can hold....

.::Nice Joke::.

Three friends had a good friend named Joe and he was, naturally, an eternal optimist. At every bad situation he would always say ''It could have been worse.'' His friends hated that quality about him, so they came up with a story so horrible that not even Joe could come up with a bright side.

So the next day, only two of his friends showed up for a golf date.
Joe asked, ''Where's Gary?''
And one of his friends said, ''Didn't you hear? Yesterday, Gary found his wife in bed with another man, shot them both, and then turned the gun on himself.''

Joe says,''Well it could have been worse.''
Both his friends said, ''How in hell could it be worse? Your best friend just killed himself!''
Joe says, ''If it had happened two days ago, I'd be dead now!''

.:: AiR MaTa :.

"... dan bahwasanya Dia lah yang menjadikan orang tertawa dan menangis" (An Najm: 43)

Ada 10 jenis tangisan menurut Ibnul Qayyim:

  1. menangis kerana kasih sayang dan kelembutan hati
  2. menangis kerana rasa takut
  3. menangis kerana cinta
  4. menangis kerana gembira
  5. menangis merasa hina dan lemah
  6. menangis kerana menghadapi penderitaan
  7. menangis kerana terlalu sedih
  8. menangis untuk mendapat belas kasihan orang
  9. menangis orang munafik - pura-pura menangis
  10. menangis kerana mengikut-ikut orang menangis

  Allah yang menciptakan tawa dan tangis, serta menciptakan sebab tercetusnya. Banyak air mata telah mengalir di dunia ini. Sumbernya dari mata mengalir ke pipi terus jatuh ke bumi. Mata itu kecil namun ia tidak pernah kering ia berlaku setiap hari tanpa putus-putus.

  Seperti sungai yang mengalir ke laut tidak pernah berhenti, kalaulah air mata itu ditampung banjirlah dunia ini.

  Tangis tercela dan terpuji

  Ada tangisan yang sangat dicela umpamanya meratapi mayat dengan meraung dan memukul-mukul dada atau merobek-robek pakaian.

  Ada pula tangisan yang sangat dipuji dan dituntut iaitu tangisan kerana menginsafi dosa-dosa yang silam atau tangis kerana takut akan azab dan siksa Allah.

  Tangisan dapat memadamkan api neraka

  Rasulullah SAW bersabda: "Tidaklah mata seseorang menitiskan air mata kecuali Allah akan mengharamkan tubuhnya dari api neraka. Dan apabila air matanya mengalir ke pipi maka wajahnya tidak akan terkotori oleh debu kehinaan, apabila seseorang dari suatu kaum menangis, maka kaum itu akan dirahmati."

  Tidaklah ada sesuatupun yang tak mempunyai kadar dan balasan kecuali air mata. Sesungguhnya air mata dapat memadamkan lautan api neraka."

  Air mata taubat Nabi Adam as

  Beliau menangis selama 300 tahun tanpa mendongak ke langit kerana takutnya terhadap dosa yang telah ia lakukan. Dia bersujud di atas gunung dan air matanya mengalir ke jurang. Dari air matanya itulah Allah telah menumbuhkan pohon kayu manis dan pohon bunga cengkih. Beberapa ekor burung telah meminum akan air mata Adam lalu berkata, "manis sungguh air ini"

  Nabi Adam mendengarnya menyangka burung itu mempermainkannya, lalu ia memperhebat tangisannya.

  Allah mendengar dan menerima taubat nabi Adam dan mewahyukan, "Hai Adam sesungguhnya Aku belum pernah menciptakan air lebih lazat daripada air mata taubatmu!

  Air mata yang tidak dituntut

  Tidak perlu menangis kalau tak tercapai cita-cita, Allah yang telah menentukannya.

  Tidak perlu menangis menonton filem India, itu kan cuma sandiwara.

  Tidak perlu menangis kerana cinta tak berbalas mungkin dia bukanlah jodoh yang telah Allah tetapkan.

  Tidak perlu menangis jika gagal dalam ujian mungkin kita kurang membuat persiapan.

  Tidak perlu menangis kalau wang kita hilang di jalanan sebab mungkin kita kurang bersedekah.

  Tidak perlu menangis kalau tidak dinaikkan pangkat, kerana rezeki itu adalah pemberian Allah.

  Alangkah baiknya...

  Menyimpan air mata-air mata tangis sebagai bekal menginsafi segala maksiat yang melanda diri, segala dosa yang mengkelamkan hati sehingga sukar untuk menerima hidayah Allah swt.

  Serulah air mata itu dari balik kelopak mata agar menitis membasahi dan mencuci hati, kiranya ia putih kembali dan semoga ia dapat melebur dosa dan mendapat ampunanNya.

  Rasulullah SAW telah bersabda: "Ada dua biji mata yang tidak tersentuh api neraka, mata yang menangis di waktu malam hari kerana takut kepada Allah SWT dan dua biji mata yang berjaga fi sabilillah di waktu malam"

  "Di antara 7 golongan manusia yang akan mendapat naungan Allah di hari kiamat, seseorang yang berdzikir sendirian lalu mengenang tentang kebesaran Allah SWT dan bercucuranlah air matanya."

  Jika tubuh seorang hamba gementar kerana takut kepada Allah, maka berguguranlah dosa-dosanya bak gugurnya dedaunan dari pepohonan kering

SaLaM AiDiLFiTRi 4 all My BuDDieS~!

TO ALL MY FELLOW FRIENDS~!..

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Here's wishing a Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri and Maaf Zahir Batin to those who celebrate the Raya, if you don't... why not? :-) 


For those who have celebrated the Raya and is now on way back to reality...welcome home... to those who are still celebrating after this posting.... have a nice one people!!!

My N6680 3G HP in RAYA Mood.. :)

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Mobile Theme: Jom Raya!  (Aidilfitri 04)
It's so lovely to have this theme to be displayed on my phone.. It is so cute~! My friends and relatives said that the cartoon character looks like me... Not to say that I'm 'perasan'... But somehow.. I do admit that the cartoon looks like me when I gave a BIG grin... Hilang mata I... jadi sepet. AhakS~!!



True Tunes: Selamat Hari Raya (La Bamba Mix) by Saiful Apek
U guys should click on the title above to preview list of Funny Scripts from Saiful Apek. The TrueTunes can really makes someone ROTF.Heheheheh....


Caller Ringtones: Cahaya Aidil Fitri (Chorus) by Black Dog Bone
Click the above title to preview the song. "Siapakah yang sudi menghulurkan simpati... Kepada  nasibku ini.. Agar dapat kurasa nikmati Hari Raya seperti insan yang lain......" Plaintive lyrics that could make my callers feel melancholy....
 

.: FaT Soo:.

Image .: I am fat I am not down with that .:|:. Why can't i just be like a cat .:|:. I am not the one who eats all those candy treats .:|:. Or lots at feasts ::|::  I wish i was skinny .:|:. I wish i could be made like minny .:|:. I try to work out .:|:. About it i do not pout .:|:. I just keep goin but no progress is showin .:|:. I wish my stomach would just get on wit its lowerin .:|:. I am mad .:|:. I am sad .:|:. Til the day i am skinny .:|:. i act invisible .:|:. And i will be miserable .:|:. When is that day .:|:. When i am old and grey .:|:. Will that me in may .:|:. I wish i would come soon .:|:. At the next full moon .:|:. I wish i could just scoop all the fat .:|:. out with a spoon I should just be called a big bafoon :.

.: LoVe is iN d AiR :.

Image51Love is when thoughts of but one man fill your heart, when he means more than life to you, when you know you would do anything for him and shall die if he is taken from you. Desire is when you ache to see him and touch him, when he causes your body to burn and tremble. Desire does not demand love before it can ensnare you, but desire with love creates a powerful bond...

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