Nyahahaha.. looks like Akon was the most preferred choice in the end, when I asked in this entry. Thanks for the immediate response loves! Okay as promised, here’s the lowdown on the R&B HipHop artist Akon’s showstopping gig :

Love the lyrics to his song ‘Beautiful’

I had a trip in Singapore cut short and flew back to Malaysia on Saturday, just in time for Akon’s gig. Now, I wouldn’t miss that for the world. After all, he is to date, one of the dopest artists I reckon – producing and singing so many of my fave club anthems. Yup, huge fan speaking here!

Headed right down to Sunway Lagoon with Erin, who was my guest for this event. Funny how we darted back and forth from the carpark to the entrance twice whilst chomping down our to-go dinners in between!

Myself & Erin

To kick-start the event in style, singer Nikki blew the crowd away with her powerful vocals whilst Caprice, our local HipHop homeboy melted the ladies hearts’. I could remember Nikki from being one of the finalists of Malaysian Idol (I forgot which season LOL)

Emcees of the night was Hunny Madu & Nadia from Fly.Fm and to be frank, Hunny did most of the talking while Nadia responded a tad too little. Hmm but ANYWAY the duo hyped up the crowd to ensure Akon could hear them beckoning him to come upstage – FAST!

Extremely TALL man spotted!
(he was prolly on some big burly man’s shoulders)

The moment he came upstage, all of us at the VIP Island put down our Chivas on the rocks and dashed to the front to take in a better view of Akon, the man himself.

He began with his older songs from the 1st few songs I recognized him for. ‘Ghetto’ especially. I recall singing along to it when I was only 14 – 15 years old. Sadly, he didn’t sing ‘Mr. Lonely’! I absolutely love that song and apparently my folks fancies it too.

One of his fans even gave him a jersey bearing
“KONVICTED”
on it! Talk about passion, boyyyyy!

Throughout the entire performance, he was practically stripping. Woots! Now now, don’t get your thoughts infiltrated by my words. Heh. He was just removing his tops piece by piece to gradually reveal a drool-worthy of a muscular body.

Check it out :

Clothing #1

Clothing #2

Birthday suit number #3
oops don’t take off your pants too!
We know you’re sporting a rather fine CK boxers 🙂

Was also there partying with Andy, another fellow photohunter with 10 years more experience than I have strapped to my belt. We were shooting almost all night but hmmm.. but check out our flushed faces. Blame the free flow of Chivas on the rocks! Woots

Where photos come alive!

And thanks to this awesome event by Martensia events, Chivas Regal and Sunway, I also met some new friends, who were equal die-hard fans of Akon as I was! Had a good time partying with you peeps too

The strangest part was when Erin nudged me when I was sitting very still on the rocks, asking me to observe Akon’s lips and try to match it with the songs that were amplified from the speakers.

in deep concentration
Thanks for the candid Andy! 🙂

Only then I realized that he could probably be lip-syncing at certain points of time. Hmmm.. I’ll leave that to your imagination then, but let’s just hope he doesn’t pull a Sean Kingston on us yeh?

Akon still rocks our socks crocs anytime!
oh and he has VERY CLEAN SHAVEN ARMPITS YO.

He was amazing with a capital A during this song! Trying not to be controversial, he shoved the microphone at the crowd after singing “I wanna…” to finish words to his sentence

And let’s just say,
the crowd didn’t finish it with the radio-edit version
MUAHAHAHAHA

He whipped the crowd into raptures when he pumped up ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Smack That’! The songs ‘Just Dance’ and ‘What You Got’ by his proteges Lady Gaga and Colby O’Donis just proved his versatility even more when he sang that too!

It was amazing with a capital A when he began to crowd surf all the way to the very end just to get to the fans who were so faraway from the stage. Security tried to stop him, but he reprimanded them in fronta everyone!

SECURITY! STOP TRYING TO PULL ME DOWN!
I WANNA GET TO MUH PEOPLE!

And he did manage to, with the strong support and relentless fanbase to back him up (literally!) It was a real heart-rending sight to see him struggle, trying to avoid falling straight to the ground. When he reached his destination, he raised his arms in utmost glory above roaring cheers…. for 5 seconds.

YES YOU GUESSED IT.
HE KAPLUNKED RIGHT TO THE GROUND!

Poor Akon – hope you didn’t bump your head or something! You were brilliant tonight, now if only there was an encore performance! We were all yelling our heads off for it

WISHING ALL MY DEAREST READERS
A VERY GRUESOME HALLOWEEN 2009!

Yesterday night was awesome! As Halloween will always remain my favorite festival of the year, I still wanted to make it a point to celebrate it with ghoulish hype! But this year round, I won’t be able to join any Halloween parties as I will be at the All American Rejects concert in Bukit Jalil.

But yeah, I know I’m a little too mild this year as compared to all the previous years of dress-ups. All because I joined in the fun here immediately after 2 events. Obviously can’t be a zombie already at these functions right 🙁 ? The Malaysia Airlines bloggers’ dinner session and a premier Spanish brand, Desigual’s outlet launch in Pavillion. Will blog about it soon! 🙂

Wil and I

Okay, back to today’s entry! Courtesy of NTV7 Breakfast Show cutie, Will Quah, we had some dinner in a swanky restaurant & bar with the others and later proceeded with a zombie crawl along the entire stretch of Changkat Bukit Bintang in our blood and tattered clothes!

We drank blood, attacked cars, thumped at restaurant glass doors and joined in the crowd for some drink in each and every bar we could get our pale fingers on! It was great that most of the other party people joined in the Halloween spirit and even wanted to take pictures with us

But my babe Erin, didn’t fancy the idea of getting her face or clothes smeared with bloody goo when we literally pinned her down to force her to! 🙁 (there’s always next year) 😛

Aight, I gotta run! Will be having a round table session with the All American Rejects in the afternoon followed by their gig at night. So come back for me tomorrow 🙂

True Blood
I will cry with anguish tears if you don’t!
T__________T

I arrived rather nervously, at a highway I’ve never taken to Bangsar before. Slowly but surely my car halted to a stop at a traffic light and I immediately spotted BSC, Bangsar Shopping Complex on my far left.

Courtesy of Xavier Mah, the PR & Communications Manager of the premier and leading hairstyling center and academy, A Cut Above, I was extended an invitation to their grand opening.

Prepare for some wicked and bewildering looks of the century! 🙂

Whoa!

The grand opening of today’s event marks the start of the largest A Cut Above outlet – ever! With an abundance of hairstyling space and private rooms, tools & equipments, staff and well-trained craftsmanship from A Cut Above, this new flagship store is something to look forward to!

The front entrance

Right before the press conference, I checked out the entire interior of this new outlet. And I love it! Such a modern feel yet never leaving the key elements of a hair salon should resemble. Here’s only one part of it though, the hairwash section :

From what I noticed, they use leading brands such as Kerastase
and Loreal while servicing their clients

Whilst I was still exploring, I managed to catch the preperations and last minute touch-ups in progress. Whoaa for big hairdos!

Must be for the hair show later, I reckon

Dayang Nurfaizah getting her hair all stylo-mylo
before making her appearance

I hung out for a while walking around and chatting with some familiar faces (in the media line, you’re bound to keep meeting the same people over and over again!) when I bumped into Winnie Loo. Without her, A Cut Above wouldn’t have been proudly standing here till today.

She’s the queen bee yo
Founder and MD of A Cut Above!

Much respect goes to her. She started this empire from scratch when she was young and has since spread its wings to many outlets in the Klang Valley and KL City.

The press conference soon began and we were ushered to another room to have a seat. This was where she and Xavier shared the lowdown on the opening of this spanking new outlet. When I threw the question, I asked if she was still very much involved in the haircutting/hairstyling part where she 1st begun, despite climbing so high in this industry and already being on the manegerial level.

She mentioned that she was “still very hands on and even
personally cuts the hair of some of her clients upon request.”

I liked the part where she stated that despite having thousands and thousands of staff, she “will never put down her scizzors, why give the fun to someone else?” Well said, babe!

Moments later before the event officially begun, I spotted even more familiar faces and as usual, we camwhored over some drinks, a dinner buffet and yes.. Haagen Daaz ice-cream!

To grace this event, over 40 celebrities were seen mingling about as well. A notable pair being the one directly above. Anita Sarawak, the diva and her Caucasian husband, now acknowledged as Mahathir. I like how they match perfectly well at every event, from the hair colour (were both blonde previously!) to the apparel they have on their backs.

The official ribbon-cutting ceremony!

Both, the emcees Baki and Aishah Sinclair
did a swell job in hyping up the crowd!

The 1st to go on stage was a duo of Dennis Lau, the amazing musician and Shafinaz Selamat, the Malaysian songbird. Together they cooked up a ravishing duet performance of both vocals and instrumental elements!

As soulful as ever

What really cracked me up during the following performance was that the singer was in her own world singing while Winnie Loo was also in her own element spraying the former’s hair!

In their very niche of life!
Such an entertaining performance

Before we knew it, dramatic music was heard blasting from the speakers and everyone huddled by the red carpet to watch the fiery showdown of eccentric hairdos of the century.

Such creative hairdos really enthralled all of us. Coupled with tight fitting latex suits and heavy make up, this one’s perfect for a galactic battle!

Singing ‘One Night Only’ was Nikki, a former Malaysian Idol finalist. I could hardly recognize her as the last time I watched it was when I was still in high school. My my, look how much she progressed in terms of vocals and stage presense! Woots

Last but never the least, came buddy Shawn the human beatbox to crank up the after party. Who’s not to love him? He’s our small little fellow who can bellow a herd of wilderbeasts away!

Beatboxing one of his trademark performances,
Benny Benassi’s Satisfaction

The party ended with more photo taking, mingling and fooling around. I had a great time at the event and well, it was a blast! From the food, the warm company, the performances and everything… kudos to A Cut Above!

You’ll see me back here very soon, Imma dye back my red streaks of hair. It’s time for a touch up! Oh but.. um.. not.. like this afro though!

never in a thousand years!

Now that the craze is on, I can’t wait for my Berry to arrive! Anyhoos, I was down at Republic, Sunway Pyramid to attend the Xberry party – the official launch of the Blackberry Curve 8520 by XPax, Celcom.

There were tweets about the Xberry party
being displayed on the LCD screen in real-time!

For that night only, that pretty Blackberry Curve 8520 was sold for RM 888 only! Together with Xpax’s package of course. But hey, don’t fret if you missed this chance because there’s another good bargain for RM 998 + a RM50 reload from now till 15th November 2009.

When I arrived, I headed down to our VVIP area for the free-flow of drinks. The party soon began with buddy Shawn Lee, as the human beatboxer to kick start the party!

If you’ve been following my blog,
you’ll know I mentioned him before!

Rin and I loves him THISSSSSSS MUCHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Okay, you can’t see the gravity of the lurrrveee in the previous sentence but we were screaming our heads off during his performance

Putcha hands up for Shawn Lee!

After his booming performance, I got him to take a piccie with us. One for the road! You’ll go far in this musical career of yours – ya got us all to back you up buddy.

we *heart* him!

Next up came Joe Flizzow, our pioneer of local HipHop aka the Kanye West of Malaysia. He gave his usual energetic and upbeat performance with lotsa rap, breakbeats and breakdancers.

Kartello Hellllllloooooooooo!

During his performance, the other pals and I began camwhoring – attempting to get Joe in the background LOL

He drove the crowd wild with those familiar hiphop beats yo!

During his performance, I grabbed some dinner with a few others. The meal portion was so huge at Republic until Hong couldn’t even finish his pasta. That’s where I came in – but still unfinished after the 2 of us ate!

But KY finished his in a jiffy!

After dinner

Joe was still performing and I noticed something pretty darn interesting. I caught him scratching/digging/toying/adjusting/whatever down south during his performance!

Hmm.. that doesn’t look very nice
ITCHY AH?

Next on the line-up was Arabyrd shaking her booty with her rap numbers and Lap Sap spinning the decks. But I was already inside Republic having some rad drinks with the rest already. Could hear then from inside though!

piccie credits to Joshua

Dancing, drinking and partying
what more could I say?
Jeremy’s back is all wet from the breakdancing!

Woots!

With the ex-roomie
and a rare specimen behind us.
🙂

Back inside, I was fascinated by the lighting inside Republic, as those dancing and flashing laser lights resembled splatters of Nickelodeon paint on the guests.

Interesting!
Let’s play some more!

Oh and… apparently I failed to get Joe in the background earlier on, yeah? But *cough* look who’s partying now? (Of all cameras, you just HAD to look at another person’s camera huh Joe?)

On a final note, I can’t wait for my berry to arrive! Ah sweeeeeeeeeeeeet 🙂
1st thing I’ll do is to pimp it with black-red and bling it