Did you guys feeel it too? An earthquake hit our beloved shores, due to the bad tsunami in the Pacific, when a 8.0 Richter scale tsunami hit Sumatra's Samoan Island. Everyone here at the MYC! Offices at Jaya One gathered outside during the tremors, much to everyone's panic...

Brace yourself people! The queen of R&B is coming to Malaysia!!! Beyoncé people! After the incident 2 years ago, her rep confirms that she will be performing in Malaysia this coming October! (I can hear all the Beyoncé fanatic screams!) She decided to include Malaysia for her “I am…” World Tour concert despite some disagreement with the Malaysia’s Muslim party. The exact time and date for this anticipating event is 8pm, 25^th October 2009 (Sunday) at Stadium Bukit Jalil. The ticket price starts at RM93 to RM583. So people, what are you waiting for? Head on down to axcess.com.my to book your tickets now cuz it’s selling like hot cake!

What does 31^st August mean to you? A normal day for shopping? A day to laze around? Or you just don’t give a damn? If you answer all 3 above, then you should be shipped off to Alaska and eat nothing but ice! Because you are not MALAYSIAN at all!!! Malaysia is not only a nation with many races; it is a country that we live in with AMAZING glorious food, nice weather, and friendly people! In conjunction with the 52^nd Independence of Malaysia, 1 Malaysia is the current theme of Merdeka and to bring it to higher heights, a competition to search for the 1 Malaysia theme song was organized by the Malaysian government.

You love her, or hate her. She is one of the riches women in the world! She’s won many Emmy award for her talk show, The Ellen Degeneres Show. Yes, I’m talking about the funny women herself, Ellen Degeneres! She can act, she can crack joke, she can even sing a little (If you watched her with Britney Spears caroling… LOL).

 But now she can add something else to her resume – a reality singing competition judge! Shocker! This funny lady, has been chosen to be the next American Idol judge, replacing the lovely Paula Abdul! How can this be, you may say. But it’s true! She even announced it in her WarnerBros announcement page! So, how can she be categorize? The mean judge like Simon Cowell? Or The Layback judge like Randy? All we can do is just sit back and wait for the premier of American Idol, Season 9!

The most anticipated tennis event is here! The Malaysia Open will be held on September 26 to October 4 at the Putra Stadium, Kuala Lumpur. The 3 players that are going through the quarter finals are Robin Soderling, Fernando Verdasco and Fernando Gonzalez after he managed to beat Jo Wilfried Tsonga. However, not everyone is a happy-camper here. Gael Monfils who is an amazing tennis player fail to beat World no. 2 player, Rafael Nadal. Sounds like an exciting game isn’t it? Book your tickets to this event now before it’s too late!!!

A new star has born! Priscilla Renea, Atlanta Georgia born, has a voice that is easy to listen in the car, during a boring meeting or anywhere for that matter. Her voice, quite similar with Rihanna’s, is soft and tender to listen to. Her songs are quite catchy as well. Like most singers, she discovered her talents at a very young age. As she grew older, she started writing her own songs and poems. She uploaded videos of her singing her own written song on YouTube and there is where stardom suddenly hit her. Check her out in the YouTube video above and hear her yourself.

OMG peeps! if you're a Whitney Houston fan, we're giving you more reasons to love her! With her new album "I Look To You" out there waiting for us to put our music-lovin' hands on it, the good folks at Sony Music decided to be kind to us fans an give us a treat! Just bring ANY ONE of your Whitney albums and get 50% off for her latest album at the Sony Music office at Great Easten Mall, Ampang. Just be there on the 2nd & 3rd of September! The list of albums entitled for the discount includes Whitney Houston (1985), Whitney (1987), I’m Your Baby Tonight (1990), My Love Is Your Love (1998) & Just Whitney (2002). Last chance baby! Go get it and make Whitney proud!

Happy merdeka peeps from the crazy folks here at MYC!. We may be hardworking, but we sure goyang-ed our kaki to the max last weekend. Our resident writer slash permanent head-case spotted on the shores of PD the "Falun Dafa" band, marching along in full uniform on the hot sands of Port Dickson, and when they played "Negaraku", fellow beachers all stood up in their t-shirts, shorts and swim suits and sang along. Woohoo!