maxis hotlink has come onboard to support the mafu initiative. this means you can now set your caller ringtone to ‘here in my home’ for free. they are also facilitating the free download of our video and mp3 on their >site<. so hurry and get your non-net friends involved in the campaign too!
Monthly Archive for May, 2008
kakiseni, the excellent arts webzine published an email interview with pete teo today, where he clarified many misperceptions about mafu and talked about ‘here in my home’. for those of you interested to know more stories and ideas behind the project, this is an excellent interview to read. it is also a great companion piece for the faq published on this site. Read it >here<.
pete teo was interviewed over the weekend by an indie webzine called >‘infidel media’<. issues discussed included race relations in malaysia, new media vs old media and the art of getting the country to sing together. we don’t know why pete’s 3 hour monologue on the symbolic power of the guava did not make the final cut. click >here< to read.
we are currently 7th in the weekly most viralled video in the world as surveyed by metro.co.uk [a popular free daily newspaper in the uk]. we are also the 15th most viralled music video today in the world. i have no idea how they measure such things but click >here< for the evidence. then give yourselves a pat on the back. keep it spreading!!
the ‘making of here in my home’ will screen on astro’s hitz tv tonight (channel 705) at 8pm. for those who can’t be there, the program will be repeated on 25th may (coming sunday 8pm) and 29th may (coming thursday 5.30pm).
we love this beautiful acapella version of ‘here in my home’ sung by blogger nekocafe (discovered and submitted by muid latif). great job! nekocafe, if you are seeing this, do one with visuals, can? to everyone else, please go and make your own versions - then post it up on youtube and here. let’s have some fun. 
this site has transmitted 21,000 downloads in 6 days. thank you for your support. we have just uploaded a couple of ringtones for you to download. they are in the ‘others’ section of the download page. keep supporting racial unity in our country by spreading the word!
thanks so much for all of your amazing messages. please keep them coming. over the next few days, you’ll be seeing some pretty awesome looking full motion video ads promoting us on thousands of malaysian blogs. this is courtesy of >Advertlets<, asia’s largest blog advertising network, who has now voluntarily joined our project.
sorry for opening the download page half a day later than anticipated. it was cause by a combination of fatigue and technical hitches. still, after an entire day of firefighting, it is open now. thanks to all of you who dropped messages and words of encouragement. we have done our bit - its all up to you now. go forth and multiply!