Right after the awesome Nuffnang pajama party, myself and the Suan rushed to attend Sunburst KL 2008 at the Hartamas equestrian club. I was supposed to get a chance for a photo session with Incubus thanks to the invitation from Tuborg, but due to the delay of the bidding game at the Nuffnang party (which I won a camera!), I missed the chance by 15 minutes, dang it!

There’s a few more photos on my flickr set.

Incubus rocking the field

Actually, Suan and I attended the cocktail party for Sunburst the night prior as well. There were plenty of booze and finger foods at that event hosted at Ritz Carlton hotel. Quite a few famous people were at the scene, as with many of the Sunburst artists too. However, I did not get the go-ahead with bringing the big camera, so no pictures from there.

2 of the local artists who played at the cocktail party: Reza Salleh and Yuna were very impressive though!

giant screens and huge number of crowd

On Saturday night itself, despite arriving pretty late, we somehow managed to find a parking spot rather close to the main entrance. I do think that the place is set up quite nicely, with many giant projection and LCD screens benefiting those who didn’t manage to squeeze to the front rows. Beer and food counters were set up at many locations, as with the ever important toilets.

the Tuborg square with cold beer and live screens inside

John Legend was performing as we got there, and then of course, the main act, Incubus. They were really good and the atmosphere were totally changed when they came on. The crowd at the main stage swelled up to a huge number. I’d be dancing even more if I wasn’t so tired from whole night of partying, but it was good nonetheless.

Siao Ling from Tuborg who invited me to the party

Before leaving the show, we met up with Siao Ling and Chui Hoon who invited us to the party and had a cold Tuborg (Thanks for inviting!). Chui Hoon was also the one who was responsible for the 3 crates of beer during the last x’mas eve party. (It was nice meeting you!)

KY, Suan, and Chui Hoon (Siao Ling’s boss)

We left the party at around 2:30 and went to the 24-hour KFC (near University Malaya) for a quick meal before heading back for some well deserved sleep. It was a busy but very fun Saturday night.

Tags:  concert,  incubus,  john legend,  KL,  party,  sunburst,  tuborg

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I went to the Nuffnang Pajama Party last weekend and walked away with a Panasonic Lumix digital camera, what a sweet deal! I have to thank those who lost to me in thumb wrestling and scissor paper stone games, and also to a few who donated me (FA, Darren, johnny ong, skyler, and more) their stash as well!

Before I go any further, there are also more photos on my flickr set and the facebook album.

yeay I won the Panasonic Lumix FS3 camera!

Suan and I reached Borneo Baruk just shy of 7pm, and already there was quite a number of people. I made my round on the floor and met quite a few fellow bloggers. At this kind of event, there are always so many familiar faces whose names (or blog nicks) I struggle to recall, but it was nice meeting all of you!

bloggers can also party

The party was stuffed with fun and games, and a lot of random socializing in between. There was the thumb wrestling/paper scissor hand games that you bet with “nuffnang cash”, and that was how I won one of the three Panasonic Lumix cameras. Others won plugs from xiaxue and kenny, and there was a guy who forgo a camera for a kiss from Dawn Yang. I guess everyone has their own priority.

you gotta love David Lian’s outfit, he won a Wii!

Of all the party goers, I gotta salute David Lian for wearing his utterly ridiculous “pajama” made our of Chipster packets. He won a Nintendo Wii doing that, so it was all worth it. His wife must be very proud.

the Malaysian Dreamgirls were at the party too

The Malaysian Dreamgirls, including our very own Ringo made an unannounced appearance half way through the party. They too joined in and played some games on the stage where more prizes were given out.

FA loves to camwhore

There were a lot of camwhoring people last Saturday night, and FA took her opportunity to snap a few shots with the very fake policewoman and the French maid. Sailormoon and the nurse were prowling the floor.

salute to Su Ann and all the nuffies who made this happen

In all it was a great party, and I got to salute all the Nuffies for making this happen. It was great finally having the chance to meet some of the fellow bloggers too.

and I thought you’d love this picture

Lets make it even bigger next year!

Tags:  borneo baruk,  fun,  nuffnang,  pajama,  party

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Late last month I attended an event by Text100, as usual, David was the one who invited me. The venue was at Cafe Libre, Taman Desa; as suggested by Suan to David. Since she was the one who had that brilliant idea to suggest David to host the event there, I thought it was appropriate that she drove me there. Fighting with the traffic was never really one of my favorite things to do.

I’m enjoying the sandwich!

Upon arriving, we found that the whole Cafe Libre is closed for our private function - the Happy Event. No other customers, and free food for all of us who are attending, glorious! I couldn’t really ask for more, could I? But there were really more, read on and you’ll know what I mean.

pasta and the unique orange juice + beer

After hastily exchanging cards with the Happy hGenerators and David’s colleagues, I quickly went to the buffet line without waiting for anyone to start first. The pasta and potato were very good, but my favorite for the night would be the sandwich that has thick slices of tomato in it. The tomato gave the sandwich a very juicy texture and took away dryness from the bread. It was very good.

Cafe Libre also serves one pretty unique drink - beer with orange juice. Thick slurry orange juice at the bottom of ice cold beer, tastes pretty interesting and a must try if you find yourself there.

hula hoop competition, look at Kim!

After getting our stomach filled, the real event began. Apparently the Happy Team just wanted to tell us about Happy Moments. It is pretty simple, make a video or blog post about your happy moment, submit it to the website before March 31st and the top 3 winners of each category wins RM 5,000, RM 3,000, and RM 1,000 in cash! Pretty good deal if you ask me.

everyone was truly happy, with prizes too

After telling us this, it was time for games! There were a lot of prizes given out from the hula hoops competition and the movie quiz. I got myself 2 RM 10 Jusco vouchers, so proud! I also won the first hula hoop competition, beating the likes of Jason and Su Ann! I also played Wii for the first time with Kim, beating her in the tennis game so many times it wasn’t even funny, but it was awesome.

cafe libre is located at Taman Desa

I don’t remember when was the last time I had such a fun time at an event before this one. I think the Happy Team did a great job, kudos!

Address:
18, Jalan 5/109f
Plaza Danau 2, Taman Danau Desa

Tags:  cafe libre,  event,  food,  fun,  happy,  happy moment

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Yes, you read it right, I partied at Seremban! Who would have taught there’s a decent party place outside KL and Penang, but even to a not so keen party goer like me (age laaa), Trilogy Bistroat Era Square was actually a pretty good place and I had a great experience overall.

KY, DJ Jerryca, Suanie, and co-host Lum

We actually headed to the club right after dinner, and as Saturday nights go, the crowd doesn’t get there before 10pm. We practically had the whole place to ourselves. As our friend Lum knows the director of the club Mr. Loo very well, we actually got to leech some alcohol from the house. Suan was of course, very happy about that..

plenty of drinks, and the hamsup Nicholas

The music was a bit of hip hop and contemporary stuff at the beginning. After about 10+ when the crowd was starting to build up, DJ Jerryca came in and put in some awesome tunes. It was a bit of dance and techno style (I think, since I’m a total idiot when it comes to categorization of music), but I really did like it. Too bad I was somehow still in my shorts and sandals, hence was not able to showcase my talented dance moves to the Seremban people. What a let down, right?

chilling at the club

Now the director Mr. Loo is just too nice a guy. For the 5 of us (Nicholas, Suanie, Ringo, Lum, and I), he actually prepared a couple pitchers of beer, a bottle of imported Vodka, and something like 8 glasses of cocktails, including Bloody Mary, Long Island Ice Tea, Margarita, and some stuff I can’t name. The mixtures tasted pretty good, I particularly love the Bloody Mary that comes with fresh celery, very refreshing while packing a punch.

Lum & Suanie, Ringo and director Mr. Loo, DJ Jerryca

If you think about it, getting to Seremban only takes about 45 minutes from Klang Valley. The free parking pretty much offsets the toll price, and getting to and from there could be faster than getting stuck in the KL Saturday night traffic. Maybe the next time I want to party, I can make an excuse to get down there and sneaked in a dinner at Kensington at the same time!

More photos at my Era Walk flickr set.

Address:
Trilogy
No 18 , Jalan Era Square 3 ,
70000 Seremban,
Negeri Sembilan
Tel: 06-672 6619

Tags:  beer,  cocktails,  drinks,  era square,  era walk,  party,  seremban,  trilogy bistro

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2007 came and went, what did you do to mark the occasion? BBQ? Dinner with family? Party? Thanks to Kim, I got myself a couple tickets to the MidZone Countdown 2008 to dance silly a bit and enjoy some fireworks watching the clock ticks from 23:59:59 31/12/2007 to 00:00:00 1/1/2008.

admiring the fireworks

We got there at around 9 something with surprisingly smooth traffic along the federal highway. I guess these days the party crowds are distributed at several locations such as the area around Curve, Mid Valley, and KL, making the travel to the city a lot more desirable during this time of the year. Among our group we had the hot chick, our friend Dabido all the way from Australia, Suanie, ST, Kim, TBG, Skyler, Esther, Jen, Rachel, Simon, Ed, Jack, kukujiao, and a couple other people whose name escapes me right now.

hot chick, ST, Dabido, Rachel, and Skyler

We got our party packs and gathered around the media reserved area (which was a blessing when it started to drizzle). The crowd builds up as it drew closer to midnight. DJs were spinning some pretty good tracks and you can see bodies started to move. Rachel was especially gungho dancing the whole night like a wild dog let loose.

fireworks and the fan fair

Then came a bunch of chicks wearing skimpy cloths dancing on the stage to spice things up further. But the show of the day has got to go to the laser lady with her funky disco ball outfit that reflects laser light making her look like an electrified Jason, it was awesome. I think the crowd probably snapped at least 50 GB worth of jpeg on her alone.

the party and the laser lady

By the stroke of midnight, Serena C kicked off the fireworks that lasted at least a good 15 minutes, it was pretty cool as the explosions were actually so close to us it hits the buildings on several occasions. I got a stiff neck to start off 2008 from the fireworks.

We left at about 1+, like suan said, cannot party as much anymore since she’s old already. We then tried to have supper at A&W but it turned out to be a futile attempt to find a parking spot nearby. Had our stomach filled at SS2 mamak instead before heading home.

Tags:  2008,  celebration,  mid valley,  midzone 2008,  new-year,  nye,  party

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