OTAI

Met up with Nas, Hatta, Mardiana and Amran over dinner and coffee last night. We were talking about songs etc and Amran showed us his mobile wallpaper. This term OTAI was on it. He told us it meant 'old timer' or something like that; in this case referring to the old timer Malay rock bands. He proclaimed to be still a hard-core Mat.

Ok I confess. I was a once-upon-a-time Minah!!! (Minus the kental clothes and hair-do-I think!?!) Especially through my primary and secondary school days when bands like Search, Wings, XPDC, BPR (Bumiputera Rockers), Dinamik and of course May were huge. And the songs were those that you jam (read air guitar) to, with lyrics ‘yang menusuk jiwa’ ha ha ha. Then in the 90s I was into bands like Spring and Slam. (Hmmm always wondered why they had English names and as the years went by, the sillier they became like Spoon and Scoin) After the 90s, for me, I felt that the Malay rock music industry kind of went downhill. They don't make rock music like they used to.

Amran is really into May. He gave me a May ballad compilation CD as a birthday gift once. I love their ballads. I always thought that their songs reminded me of Steelheart, the US rock band. Anyways, check out one of my all-time favourites from May. Bila dia tarik, power giler!!