The Moon Bar Kuala Lumpur

Last Friday, my friend invited me to join him for dinner with couple of mutual friends at The Moon Bar Kuala Lumpur. It's a restaurant and bar. After 9pm, the restaurant turned into bar with the Jazz performance. We were there for dinner and i ordered the Pork Burger... Yes~ they served Pork dishes.

Pork Burger Top View

Pork Burger Side View

The pork burger is yummy~ We have some cocktail during the performance... Enjoyed the performance... Too bad one of my friend left before the performance. We stayed until around 1am and decided to go back home to sleep as i have to wake up early morning for my Personal Training Session.

The Phantom of Opera @ Singapore

Finally, the day has come... Another 5 hours i will be watching the Phantom of Opera.

An afternoon with Yang I Deun @ The Curve

Last Saturday after gym workout at The Curve, had lunch with my friend. Friend brought me to watch this piano performance at the Curve "An afternoon with Yang I Deun" a Korean pianist on a rounded stage in the middle of the open area near McDonalds, BodyShop etc.

Yang I Deun on Piano

Surprisingly he has his own fans club. A lot of people were there for his performance. Before he started his performance, his fans already waiting for him to perform... *thumbs up*

Yang I Deun playing piano

Look at the boy... he was so curious and wanted to go closer... Not sure whether he wanted to touch the piano?



Do you play piano?
Will you be encouraging your children to learn piano?

On watching LIVE performance @ Alexis Ampang

My newly known friend has arranged a night out at the Alexis Ampang for a LIVE performance by Bihzhu from Penang.

We had our dinner at Alexis Ampang... Dinner was so so and to me the Alexis burger was not that great. The Fatboy, Chillis and TGIF burger is way way better than Alexis burger. I should have order their Asian food ;-)

Alexis Burger

According to my friends, the Alexis Restaurant famous for its Tiramitsu

Tiramitsu

We actually order two different cakes for our dessert to share...

Two Different Cakes for dessert

 At around 10 something, the LIVE performance started and the performer started singing all kind of songs including Reggae, American blues, Jazz and one kiddie songs Xiao Bai Chuan... The performance was very good. 

LIVE performance by Bihzhu

The performance lasted around 2 hours included the break. I managed to buy her first album and gotten her autography... There are 6 songs in total, the song i like most is the Xiao Bai Chuan.

Bihzhu's first Album

Thanks to my friend invited me to this nice LIVE performance and night out...
Here you go the Xiao Bai Chuan that i like...

Ballet Under The Stars (Giselle) - Singapore 2013

Yesterday, I received a whatsapp from my friend in Singapore when i was doing my preparation for conferencing at night.

In the afternoon,

Friend A: It's ballet under the stars on July 27th - featuring "Giselle" - you wanna come?

After few minutes, Friend B whatsapp me...
Friend B: Are you coming to SG in July? Friend A wanna watch Giselle - Ballet under the stars
Me: Okay. Then I will go to Singapore every month :p
Friend B: No Problem.

So i reply back to Friend A that i'm okay for the ballet under the stars
Me : Okay
Friend A: Yay!!! I go book tickets.

At night,  40 mins before the conference.
As I was looking at the air ticket to Singapore on that weekend in July. I asked Friend A...

Me: Hey the ballet is on Saturday?
Friend A: Yes!
Me: Once you confirm i will book the air ticket eh~
Friend A: Friend B super on lah - he bought tickets liao!

Then, I received Friend B whatsapp image

Ballet Under The Stars - Giselle

Me: eeee... Got dress code?
Friend B: It's open.

So, I have to book my air ticket to Singapore... Going down south on July 2013 again.

Rainforest World Music Festival 2012 (RWMF)

I have been talking about going to the Rainforest World Music Festival since decade ago...  Very sad to say i haven't visited the RWMF yet. Last year, i told my Sarawakian friend that i wanna to plan to visit the RWMF this year. Emm.... Nothing happen as i kind of forgot the event until recently i saw this poster.

Picture adapted from RWMF.net

Surprisingly no radio station talking about this event and not much people promoting about it. So, now it's too late for me to get the flight ticket, hotel accommodation and the entrance ticket to the RWMF 2012. I bet there still have the package but it should be costing a bomb... Maybe i should plan in ahead for RWMF 2013 then... Anyone can offer me a stay in Kuching?

BTW, anyone going for RWMF 2012?

Himpuan Jutaan Belia Putrajaya 2012

Himpuan Jutaan Belia - Putrajaya May 2012 event is going on now. I saw this huge billboard erected on the junction of Jalan Ipoh. What caught my attention is the word CHINESE YOUTH Cultural Village in the right lower corner.

First thing come to my mind is ...
1. I thought all the while, our lovely government keeps mentioning ONE MALAYSIA but why there is a Chinese Youth Cultural Village mentioning in the billboard, are they changing?
2. Is the Chinese Youth Culture Village the highlights of this event? Hmmm... i really doubt so. So, what is the main purpose of putting this in the billboard... Can anyone please help us to understand?

What do you think?...

Countdown Twenty Ten...

As i mentioned earlier, this year i was having the opportunities to get myself down to the base of the KLCC to view the so called splendid fireworks... errrr.... yup a countdown gathering

Flashback Dec 31st 2008, i was taking fireworks pictures from my balcony and i consolidated into this clip...

Flashback Dec 31st 2009, We have a small blogger gathering to leap over to twenty ten... during our dinner, we were talking about what were we doing on Dec 31st 2008... hehehe... i told them i was taking picture on my balcony... but one of the blogger said there were no countdown on 2008 to 2009 in KL... later i asked them to check my picture on the net... :p

Anyway, it was a nice dinner on the whole despite of the hiccup before the dinner between us and the restaurant manger (will tell u more about this in the future post). After dinner we went around KLCC park to secure a nice spot for view the "splendid" fireworks display... Due to the amazing crowded crowd in the KLCC park, we decided to walk away from the center of the crowd and settle @ the road near Isetan. This was the first time i sitting like that...

Picture taken by Jerry, copy from Medie007

When we sat there, we saw the wave of people kept walking towards the KLCC park direction... I got two snapshots using my Canon Powershots.. you must be wondering where is my Nikon D70... hehehe... i was too lazy to bring my camera and tripod. Tough to take care my baby... :p



Ten, Nine, Eight... Three, Two, One... Happy New Year... We hardly could heard the countdown and suddenly what we heard was people scream followed by the fireworks...


Damn! My battery gone off after 50 sec of recording... I didn't have any backup... i have no choice but to switch the recording from the camera to TZ's memory... Unfortunately, i could not show what has been captured in TZ memory over this post... if not it will be interesting... Anyway, it was a great countdown 2010 with my fellow bloggers.

Dec 31st 2010, ***blank*** (will fill in the blank later), wanna to find out what would be filled in this blank? Stay tune for a year eh~

Happy Twenty Ten
very big thanks for the blogger that organize this event

The Famous Sarawak Cultural Village

Summary: Day 2: A very tired and fruitful day

After our simple breakfast, we took the a shuttle in front of our hotel and headed to the Sarawak Cultural Village, the journey took us about 1 hour. We were nearer and nearer to the Mount Santubong when we approached the Cultural Village.

Paid our entrance fees of RM60 per person and we were issued a passport to the culture village... I still think that the entrance fees is still in the high side. Took out our camera and started our snapshot journey... My first shot of the village 

There were 7 houses in total within this cultural village... so guess what house was our first house to visit?

House #1 : Chinese Farm House

For all the chinese... this might be familiar as some of you might said that it's looks like your grand parents house ... :) Errrr... my grand parents house was not looking like this ... :(

Chinese Farm House

House #2 : Malay House

This was a quite traditional Malay house ... it's a bit different from the house that i visited in West Malaysia... 

Front of the Malay House

Kuih Bahalu

We spent a bit of time in the kitchen to see the process of making Kuih Bahalu... I didn't know how it taste but it smell nice. Here is the clip.. traditional way of making Kuih Bahalu.

House #3: Melanau House

We didn't spend too much time @ Melanau House as we were in a rush since it was approaching 11:30am which we need to walked over to the cultural hall for its famous cultural shows in the village... So we just roaming around the house for a while and took a couple of shots ... 

View from the top front of Melanau house

House #4 : Orang Ulu House

Orang Ulu house was a very artsy house as there were so much of art and music.. there were painting on the pillar of the house which reflected that among all the houses, this tribe seemsto be more artistic :)

Passage to the house of Orang Ulu

Playing Sape - Orang Ulu traditional string instrument

I was sitting there enjoying the music from the Sape... click here to listen ... :) Jonzz tried to play the Sape and he said it's different from the modern guitar. I'm totally have no idea how to play the string instrument... blek!

House #5 Penan House

Penan House was the most simple house among all the houses in the village... the Penan house has no door... does this means that they welcome anyone? Errrrr... i don't think so... hahaha :)T The Penan house was built with just a few plank and it was built on top of trees or rivers... simple, nice and cooling... Reason being the Penan house was built this way as the Penan tribe was the hunter trip... they stayed deep in the jungle.

House #6: Iban House

This is the most familiar house as we had studied the house structure during our primary school... I still remember most of the fact...  We were welcome with a friendly guide that brought us wondering around and explained to us what is the day to day life of the Iban tribe... 

Jonzz was so interested on how the Kain Pua being made... there were one old lady who knew the skill of making Kain Pua since she was young... according to the Iban tribe ... this is a skill for a lady to get marry in the past ... :p

While she was doing this Kain Pua ... i managed to capture a video clip ... 

House #7: Bidayuh House

This is a quite unique house... and especially the path and the entrance to the house was so unique and nice ... The Bidayuh tribe usually stayed near the river so they built a bamboo path way to go into their house. 

Path way to the Bidayuh House 

Bidayuh House Entrance

We finished the whole village @ about 4pm... and we just chill out in the restaurant before hopping up the shuttle and back to Kuching... A tired but very fruitful day with lots of good learning experience... :) The seven houses with a spectacular cultural dance has took us the whole day... Anyway, i will have a separate entry on the cultural dance since i have couple of clip to share with all of you.... Stay tune eh!

Photographing @ Genting Highland

Last Wednesday, I was having a photographing session in Genting Highland with Chester. Why we choose Genting? Reason being it has been 8 years, i haven't stepped into Genting... it's time for me to see Genting after 8 years.

Chester and I parked our car @ 1 U, we hopped on to the Genting highland shuttle from 1 U to the Skyway station. It costs us RM8.50 one way including the skyway transfer... It's value for money. Imagine a Rapid KL already cost RM2.00. This bus journey was only RM3.50 and it brought us until Skyway Station @ Genting Highland.

Once we reached the skyway station, we hopped on to the skyway cable car... there's where we began our photo shooting ... I got roughly about 200+ shots for that day itself... 

Skyway cable car

Genting Hotel

Some random shots indoors too in the First World Plaza...

A young man and the advertisement

Statue of Liberty goes wild

Bowling anyone ?

SnowWorld in Genting ... cool

Man made Canal within the building

Later we moved out to the outdoor shots ... mostly targeted on flower and some outdoor scenery picture.

First World Hotel

Splashing @ Outdoor Theme Park

Buddhist Temple 

That's it folks ... more picture are available @ TZ photo with the Genting Highland tagged

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens @ KLPAC

First of all, I would like to thank Bahija for inviting me to watch the A Christmas Carol @ KLPAC on Wednesday nite. It was a nice play by a group of local drama artist... I came to know that "A Christmas Carol" is one of the Charles Dicken's story.... errrr.... Charles reminded me of Oliver Twist, Great Expectation, The tales of the two cities etc... And a boring thick books like our Oxford and Webster Dictionary... hehehe :p

Some mindset has been shifted of Charles Dickens's novel... I didn't know that Charles Dickens's novel could be so lively when come to play... I  would like to give the team a big kudoz... BTW, i thought i will sleep through the play which i expected before i went to the play. But i was so excited to follow the story till the end... :p

KLPAC @ Sentul West

Too bad i couldn't take any shots within the hall... otherwise i would snap a few nice shots to show all of you... the lighting, the clothing and the simplicity of the decoration of the stage has made this play ... simple but fulfill the spirit of Xmas ...  I tried to google and came across this only clip which the team used it for press preview.

Overall, the play was good and i envy the small boy's braveness and his attractive voice .... he sung solo and it was so touching too :p It's was a 2 hrs worth of enjoying the play and of cause all the Xmas songs too... what a unforgettable Xmas play i had... errrrr... made me even missed Canada :p 

In case you need further information... here's the link

http://www.klpac.com/Welcome.asp?c=whatsontheatreview&theatreID=269&theatrecatID=5#

A X'mas carol

I received a mail from Bahija yesterday evening. She's asking me whether i'm free for A Christmas Carol musical play @ KL PAC... since i was not booked on Wednesday night... which i straightaway replied her mail and say "YES!"

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Presenter : KLPac
Director : Christopher Ling
Writer : Charles Dicken (adapted by John Mortimer)
Featuring : Darius Taraporvala (as Scrooge), Adrina Badri, Alex Chua, Azmir Abdullah, Az’farr Baginda, Bella Rahim, Christopher Low, Grace Ng, Gowri Paary, Johann Lim, Mikey Tai, Marvin Wong, Nicole Ann Thomas, Niki Cheong, Rosdayana Rosti, Sani Zainal Abidin, Shahril Abdul Rani, Shamsunder Binwani, Siti Farrah Abdullah & Tony Leo Selvaraj

SYNOPSIS:

More than a century later, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol remains one of the most popular and best-loved tales. Performed on stage all around the world during Christmastime, it has become an all-time holiday favourite!

KLPac is delighted to carry on this tradition by presenting its very own production of A Christmas Carol based on John Mortimer's adaptation which premiered to critical acclaim at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

Darius Taraporvala will be taking on the role of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old and bitter (but extremely wealthy) man who absolutely hated the humbug of Christmas. It follows the miserly Scrooge as he is taken on a journey through the past, present and future by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.

As Scrooge enters the lives of Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and the Fezziwigs, he comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity and goodwill, and remembers the true spirit of Christmas.

Besides the traditional Christmas carols, there will also be original music by Nick Choo.

KLPac invites everyone to experience the magic, warmth and spirit of the festive season with this classic - the perfect holiday treat for families & loved ones.

detail: http://www.klpac.com/Welcome.asp?c=whatsontheatreview&theatreID=269&theatrecatID=5#

I'm looking forward for tomorrow night for this play... Will update all of you on how's the play eh! :p

FlyFM Campur Chart @ Laundry Bar

I'm going to watch the live performance of FlyFM Campur Chart @ Laundry Bar this coming Thursday (Dec 18th 2008 - 1opm).

Date: December 18th 2008 

Time: 10pm-12am

Venue: Laundry Bar, The Curve

Anyone interested to join? 

Chill Out @ The Attic - Bangsar

Last Wednesday, I went out with two of my friends Kimmie and Pat. We went to this community bar located near the housing area of Bangsar. This bar is @ third floor of a shophouse. The owner of the bar has renovated this place and turned it like an attic, i bet this is why they named this place, The Attic.

I got to know of this place from Facebook. The owner also created  a group (theAttic) and a page (Up @ Attic) that i have signed up. Finally, i decided to pay a visit to this bar and just wanna to test out the environment.

I picked up Wednesday as the day to visit the Attic reason being is that there was a live performance from Nick Davis. 

Nick Davis, 20, is a song writer, composer, singer and an actor.

I was able to listen to his music live, it was so nice and enjoyable.

Nick Solo

Nick & Friends

Nicole, Llew and Nick

We ordered drinks and just sit by the bar and enjoyed the environment. Attic is not a huge bar and the things that i like Attic is that all its patrons/customers would not smoke inside the bar as the owner has restricted the smoking group to the balcony. So the whole environment within the aircon is smoke free... we could breath smoke free air inside the bar... Nice!

Llew's Moto (Attic designated drink)

Kimmie's Long island tea & Pat's Cappucino

Three of us (TZ, Kimmie and Pat)

Pat & Kimmie

Kimmie & TZ

We didn't notice by the time Nick finished his performance it was already 12:30am... So, we decided to leave the Attic and we invite more friends to the Attic on our next trip :->

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