ORANG paling berbangga apabila Siti Norsaida Tarudin, 32, diumumkan layak menyertai rancangan realiti TV popular Akademi Fantasia musim keenam (AF6) adalah penyanyi wanita paling popular, Datin Seri Siti Nurhaliza.

Seperti diketahui umum Norsaida dan Siti adik-beradik, dan mereka agak rapat sejak kecil.

Ditemui di majlis mengumumkan pengacara dan artis yang mengadakan persembahan di Anugerah Bintang Popular Berita Harian 2007 (ABPBH07)di Palace of Golden Horses kelmarin, Siti berkata dia tidak sabar mahu melihat keletah kakaknya sekiranya berpeluang memasuki kediaman AF6.

“Saya tidak sabar hendak tengok reaksinya apabila bercampur dengan pelajar lain yang jauh lebih muda. Lagi satu saya mahu tengok bagaimana dia mengikuti kelas setiap hari.

“Macam mana agaknya dia hendak belajar dengan guru yang tegas sebabnya Saida ini cepat kalut dalam keadaan tertekan,” katanya membuka rahsia sikap kakaknya itu.

Kata Siti lagi, dari peringkat awal dia tahu kakak dan adiknya Saerah menyertai uji bakat yang diadakan penerbit rancangan AF6, Astro Ria.

Tambah Siti, sejak kecil dia dan Saida sering bersaing apabila ada pertandingan nyanyian di Kuala Lipis atau sekitar Pahang tempat kelahiran mereka.

“Sehingga berlaku insiden apabila menyanyi suaranya pecah. Kerana malu lama juga Saida tidak meneruskan minatnya itu. Begitupun, sesekali andai saya menerima tawaran mengadakan persembahan Saida akan menggantikan tempat saya. Kiranya kakak menjadi bidan terjun.

“Kerana lama tidak menyanyi saya sendiri terkejut apabila Saida terpilih. Begitupun, sebagai ibu kepada empat anak dia terpaksa membuat pengorbanan besar dengan meninggalkan mereka demi mengejar cita-cita.

“Mujur anak faham. Saya sendiri tolong tengok-tengokkan mereka seperti kelmarin keempat-empat anak Saida tinggal dengan saya. Sekarang ini musim cuti sekolah jadi senang sikit untuk saya membantu menguruskan mereka.

“Sepanjang saya bersama mereka, hendak tergelak pun ada, sayu di hati pun ada juga. Anak Saida yang tua, Siti Nurul Nisa Mohd Ghazali, 11, dan yang kedua, Anas berusia 9 tahun boleh berdikari.

“Cuma apa yang menyentuh hati saya apabila dua beradik lagi Khalid, 5, dan Siti Nurul Mashitah walau masih kecil mereka sudah faham dengan usaha dilakukan ibu mereka. Jika ditanya ibu di mana, mereka akan kata, ibu pergi menyanyi,” katanya lagi.

Siti tidak menafikan sebagai ahli keluarga yang rapat jika Saida layak masuk ke kediaman AF6, dia akan ‘turun padang’ menyaksikan konsert mingguan yang bakal berlangsung di Dewan Majlis Bandaran Petaling Jaya (MBPJ).

sumber: harian metro

• Today there are almost a billion TV sets in the world.
• China has the most TV sets (200 million).
• US citizens watch the most TV. By age 65, an American would have watched the equivalent of 9 years uninterrupted screening, viewing more than 20,000 TV commercials per year.
• The first daily broadcast was started by the BBC in November 1936.
• The largest movie theatre in the world, Radio City Music Hall in New York, opened in 1932 – it seats almost 6,000 people.
• In 1919, 18-year-old Walt Disney teamed up with Ub Iwerks, to produce a series of cartoons entitled “Alice in Cartoonland.”
• The Walt Disney company was founded in 1923, and in 1927 Walt came up with the idea for an animated mouse called Mortimer Mouse. His wife Lillian convinced him to change it to Mickey Mouse.
• In 1937 Disney won a special Oscar for the first full-length animation: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”
• Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, created Tom and Jerry in 1939.
• The first Best Picture Oscar for an animation was awarded in 1991 for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
• Mel Blanc, who played the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
• Jack Mercer was the voice of Popeye the Sailor for 45 years.
• The video recording machine was invented by the Ampex corporation of California in 1956. The first video recorder, the Ampex VR1000, stood 1,1 m (3 ft 3 in) high and weighed as much as a small car: 665 kg (1,466 lb).
• The home video recorder was introduced in 1972 by Philips of the Netherlands.
• Japanese company JVC introduced the VHS system in 1976.
• About 80% of VCRs are made by Japanese companies.
• The first pop video was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, released in 1975.
• About one quarter of movie videos sold are animations.
• In the 1926 film version of Don Juan actor Lionel Barrymore set the record for the most kisses ever in a single film. Barrymore embraced Mary Astor and Estelle Taylor 127 times.
• The longest kiss in a movie is in Andy Warhol’s Kiss. Rufus Collins and Naomi Levine kissed for the entire 50 minutes of the movie.
• The first movie to use sound was “The Jazz Singer,” released in 1927: the first words, spoken by Al Jolson, were: “Wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothing yet.”
• The 1967 Russian movie War and Peace had 120,000 extras. The South Korean movie Monster Wang-magwi from the same year featured 157,000 extras. The 1945 German movie Kolberg had 187,000 and the movie with the most extras, the 1982 British movie Gandhi, featured 300,000 extras.