Nightlife/Parties – Page 21

Arthur’s Day @ Sunway | Black Eyed Peas

September 27, 2009 by thejessicat

The full coverage is here! What dya think could be the cause of the massive gridlock at almost all the highways heading towards Bandar Sunway? Apart from it being the Monash Ball at MOS Euphoria, there was an even greater celebration not too far away.

Yup, ma party people.
Put your hands right up where I can see ’em &
give a loud toast to Arthur Guinness.

For those who ain’t stout drinkers or have completely no idea what Arthur’s Day is about, it is a series of music events which have been organised to celebrate the 250 remarkable years of the Guiness Brewing Company. It will be held in Dublin, New York and yes.. us right here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia!

Honoured yet? 🙂

When I arrived, lotsa people were already crowding both the main and the VIP entrance. Let’s prove to Arthur that we know how to party as well. Hmmm.. as Malaysians would say, semangat lah!

The mo I got inside, I was in awe. Like, whoaaaaaa man. How long did the crew take to set this up! Amayzeeeeeng or whaddd?

Brilliant stage work

I walked around all over around the Arthur’s Lounge as well as the main zones of the Sunway Surf Beach area to shoot some piccies of the venue & merchandise on sale. But omfgwtfbbq the merchandise were friggin’ pricy!

Pretty though!

On stage at that mo was Reshmonu, our local singer-songwriter who did his R&B thang. Sorry to say though, I found that performance kinda boring. Next up was Joe Flizzow, Malaysia’s International Hip Hop Ambassador, otherwise known as ‘The President’. (LOL a lil narcissictic right)

Oops sorry one photo of their performance only cos
I was too busy camwhoring with tha party peeps wtf

Right after Flizzow’s show came the Taiwanese rap artist MC Hotdog (LOL glamour-names nowadays) along with his sidekick. They were rapping in chinese and I saw his fans rapping along really loudly with him.

Eh no joke. This fella has been on tour in USA!
Quite internationally acclaimed too

I didn’t caption the photo as such because I wanted him out of KL
One of his famous hits was ‘Korean Invasion’

Finally, it was the showdown that all of us were waiting for – The Black Eyed Peas! A lil introduction here for those of you who doesn’t know them (OMG who doesn’t know those peas should be sent to remedial school)

Will.I.Am | Fergie | Taboo | Apl de Ep

They are that awesome hiphop/dance pop music act from L.A and is one of the few artistes to have ever held the number 1 and 2 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously. Their chart toppers pwned the US charts for 25 consecuti
ve weeks, creating history!

WICKEDDD RIGHT?

But waiting for the them to come on stage was forever, I tell ya. Nevermind, we took our own sweet time at the Silver Zone (freeflow of Guiness woots!) to camwhore all we wanted before the show anyways.

Looking very sober aren’t we?
Hehs.

Once the peas get their asses on stage, the party of the year will finally begin! Aight begin… BEGIN ALREADY!

Aptly, they kickstarted their show with ‘Let’s Get It Started’ and I won’t tell you what song they’re gonna end this good good night with because but I’ve got a feeling you already know! Pun intended.

They went back in time too and belted out some of their older hits which never failed to remind us of how awesome they’ve been year after year, album after album!

Off the top of my head, I remember them singing these older records :

Let’s Get It Started
Shut Up
Where Is The Love?
Don’t Phunk With My Heart
Pump It!

And their newer singles from their latest album The E.N.D (Energy Never Dies)

Boom Boom Pow
Meet Me Halfway
Imma Be
I Gotta Feeling

Their 90 minute performance took everyone by storm but the part which I despised the most was sloshing around in muddy ankle-deep puddles just to take photos of the Peas & their stellar performance.

Funnily enough, I was distracted from the ickiness of having my toes soaked in murky water when Will.I.Am seemed to be giving us a vocabulary lesson on the name of their single ‘Imma Be’. He went something like this –

“Imma Be, guys, doesn’t make no sense.
The correct way is actually ‘I am going to be’.
It’s said in short form as imma be,
but the meaning is still the same, yeah?“

Uh, okayyy.

We heard ya loud & clear, sir!

Will.I.Am then proceeded to spin his magic and remixed a few other record breaking hits. Popular club songs such as the ones from Flo-Rida, MJ and Rihanna had everyone at the mosh pit go crayzeee.

I was surprised when he played & remixed some old skool rock and acoustic songs too. Whoa! That really got me there. Oh, and… he also played the same set the night before at Blanc Le Club.

Okay ’nuff about Will.I.Am already. I was already tweeting so much about him last night during their performance itself wtf. Make way for everyone’s fave of the night!

Stacy Ferguson aka Fergie

Her voice was insanely powerful omg. The way she sang her vocals on ‘Shut Up’ and ‘Boom Boom Pow’. I literally raised my eyebrows when she held her chords for so bloody long and at such high pitched notes. She’s that good.

I’ve got not much to say about APL though, but I found his little mini-paces and odd dances kinda amusing. It fascinated me for a mo when I spotted him.

Oh and we’ve got Taboo here in the house too!

I can’t exactly put my finger on it, but I found him to be very womanly yet masculine at the same time. SoonSeng, who was standing with me was also of the opinion that he was very feminine in certain gestures (or perhaps his long hair? IDK)

But check out his tattoos & muscular body. Faaar from girlish.Yup.
He reminds me of some martial arts cartoon character from somewhere though.

BREAK TIME!

Impressive futuristic dance routine transformer interlude dancers
who eventually transformed into stereo speakers

PROBABLY FOR THEM TO CHANGE OR DRINK GUINNESS and

FOR US TO CAMWHORE & DRINK MORE GUINNESS WHAT ELSE

Ohya.
You should see KY’s photos towards the end when he got hyper
from one too many Guinness & jumping around
LOLOLOL

Ohyay they’re back!

Singing their last few songs

There’ll be an annoying male voice singin atrociously throughout the video
but it’s worth a watch!
See how B.E.P adapted ‘Malaysia’ & ‘Kuala Lumpur’ into their song lyrics

And as you’ve already watched from the video above, they ended the good good night with that song! I had an awesome time partying away to the Peas – bet everyone in the house felt the same way! Randomly, I reckon this party was definitely on an immense budget though, check out those confetti!

This marks the end of 25th September’s
Arthur’s Day at Sunway Lagoon Surf Beach

Oh pardon me, I just remembered something interesting.
Will.I.Am kept saying Malaysia is a “beauuutifull country with beauuttifull cultu
re and the foooood” and he pronounced Genting as ‘Gyen-Chee’.

Shot from the Silver Zone

Anyway, as I was saying, this event was certainly one to remember. After all, it lived up to its name of being the party of the year! Check out how it ended – with a big bang! Literally!

Asia’s Best Attraction wor.

Fireworks display was kinda long yay!
Think it lasted for more than 5 minutes

And my favorite was the heart-shaped fireworks display

Looks like Arthur sends his love from up above!

Phooohh finally. End of full coverage post, from the beginning till the very end of Arthur’s Day (except Danny One lol). Been sleeping at 5am since last night to quickly publish this post. Okay, it’s 4.43am now, eyes want to close edi. Good night

Have a good good night folks!
Were you there too? 🙂

Twestival KL | Mist Club

September 20, 2009 by thejessicat

Social media networks are growing rapidly and is now even wider than Big Mama’s waist. Yep, oddly how I found out on Facebook that my cousin was getting married instead of the usual word of mouth from the family.

Also, it’s funny how my friends and I can find out that we happen to be at the very same event together just by reading each other’s Twitter, and eventually meet up after that.

Look guys, EVERYONE is on Twitter! Be one of us Tweeples or risk not being in the loop or hype about every darnest thing happening around you.

What other way than to celebrate the growth of social media networks?

TwestivalKL was held in Mist Club, Bangsar and I was happy to get my hands on some tickets to join the hullaballoo. Many Tweeples from the Twitterverse attended this warm get-together event over some yummy food & drinks by fabulous sponsors such as Boost Juice KL, New Zealand Natural, PokenAsia, 1901 Hotdogs and many more.

The 1st person that greeted me was @dustyhawk , who grabbed his 100th 1901 hotdog at the entrance while I dug into New Zealand Naturals ice cream immediately! Who could resist a free flow of smooth Walnut, Chocolate and Cookies n’ Crème? I know I couldn’t.

Oh and just so you know, Imma refer to everything according to their Twitter screen names from this sentence onwards. Hey, it’s a Twitter Festival after all right?

Emceed by @willquah and @elainedaly, 7pm was the time #TwestivalKL officially began. As me,@benjicajess, came directly from driving outstation, I arrived kinda late.

Pals at my table:

@smashpop, @manda_lew, @gregorule, @benjicajess, @flyguy & @bboyrice

As I made my way to the couches of Mist, I spotted some familiar faces! After all the hi-byes, I joined my aforementioned friends at a nearby table to indulge in my ice cream, Tiger beer and a cheesy 1901 hotdog.

Speaking of the 1901 hotdog, imma show you how *gulp* deliciously thick and juicy it looks at the very end of this entry.

Soon after, there was a lucky draw session happening at the stage. Number after number, many Tweeples were lucky enough to win their items.

There was an auction going on too. I soon found out that #TwestivalKL was also a charity effort to raise funds, for Destiny Starting Point. The pastor made an appearance too to give a short & simple speech. He sure had a good time himself too with the rest of the Tweeples!

Altogether RM11k raised!

When I got to the front to join the hoo-hah of goodie giveaways, I was hoping to win myself some freebies too, if not the Lenovo laptop. Sigh, but LadyLuck wasn’t on my side. I went home empty handed but with a friggin good time and much camwhore piccies with the buddies.

Taken at one of the tables waaaaay in front, here’s another group photo.

@dustyhawk, @kellster, @benjicajess, @serpentinegal, @ramesstudio
And who’s that cutie behind me? LOL

This really cute pink Poken caught my eye and I began to camwhore with it. But unfortunately, the pink Poken which was supposed to be the focal subject, failed to show its prominence whereas 2 other people in the background did!

@smashpop and @mikecampton decided to include themselves in the frame as well. ROAR! It’s okay pals, let’s blame the one who shot the photo aye? *stares at @gregorule*

At the dance floor, I bumped into @rachelying, my former collegemate!

And when @elainedaly wasn’t on stage, we camwhored too!

Hmm.. is there something wrong with the following photo? Only those who know us personally will spot the mistake. Heh.

@benjicajess with her icecream & @joshlim. Do note that he is not, and will never be taller than me! Muahahahahha. I think they should start inventing platform shoes for men. *cough*

Admist the mingling, there was someone with the exact same pair of gladiator heels as mine! It wasn’t so much as an awkward mo where both girls will walk in the opposite direction when that happens… because we happen to know each other!

Imagine the

“ohhhmyyygodddd you have it too??

Quick! Take peektures!”

squeals spewing out from our mouths and a quick discussion on whose was a better deal at which footwear boutique. The boys around us scratched their heads at us girls when the entire scenario happened.

Can’t blame them, can we? : )

Performances ensued and we were entertained by the likes of breakdances, shufflers and the entire motley crew of poppers & lockers.

After that, the dance floor was open to the crowd. Time to boogey the night away!
Kudos to #TwestivalKl and their proud sponsors. I had a swingin’ good time

Oh before I forget… the SUCCULENT HOTDOG BY 1901 as promised,
Now now, refrain the mind from straying!

Digi D’Ultimate Birthday Bash

September 10, 2009 by thejessicat

I’m not going to begin by telling grandmomma stories about what birthdays are, but ya know it’s essentially spells a celebration! A celebration of gaining a year of extra wrinkles (for the oldies) and a year less towards freedom (for the kids)

Vodka. What more can I say?

But to me and perhaps lotsa people out there, it’s another reason to party your sweet and sour arse off simply because you can. Oh, and may I add that (fortunately) you won’t get shipped off to military school for caking other people due to your intoxication and lack of consciousness.

On your birthday, there’s an unwritten rule that you won’t
be screwed for downing that lil extra ONE MORE shot

Birthdays are best celebrated with the people you love. It can be a simple celebration over Secret Recipe with your immediate family

A birthday dinner with your extended family

Having nom-noms or clubbin’ with your buddies

A ladies night out with your homegurls

Organizing a massive joint-birthday party with your roomie

Challenging your boyfriend to down a bottle of Black Label

AND THE LIST GOES ON….

But even if ya ain’t there in person, who says you can’t ‘celebrate’ with the birthday gurl online? Being miles away ain’t no excuse anymore – it’s the 21st century! Everything is possible!

Facebook FTW

Despite having the liberty to celebrate with whoever you choose and do whatever you want for your birthday celebration, don’t forget the cake!

It’s a do or die thing – beg, borrow or steal the cake. Because without the birthday cake, you ain’t gonna be able to have any food fight

Prepare for war
It’s gonna be nasty.

And neither do your friends get to smash your face into the cake when you practise a near-foolproof attempt to blow the candles out.

Couldn’t escape their quick shove of my face right into the cake.
Gahhh

Birthdays are about exchanging of gifts too. Here are some of the lovelies I managed to pile together for a nice lil photoshoot. Thanks pals! You know who yall are!

Among all my birthday gifts this year, even including those not in the photo above, there is especially
one gift that stood out from the pile of goodies.

It’s a handmade crouchet doll that looks like me
especially with the red streaks
Reminds me of a Voodoo doll!

Heck, birthdays can even bring tears of nostalgia running down people’s cheeks. Especially your mom. Or your dad. Or your grandpappy..,. or even your pet turtle.

MOM SENT ME THAT OMG
Sweet!

So ya see? Imagine if you’ve never celebrated your birthday before. This is all what you’re missing out on! But no worries, the masterminds at DiGi is throwing a huge-ass birthday party for all the birthday fellas & chicks born in the months between October – December!

D’Ultimate Birthday Bash by DiGi is for simply everyone and anyone to attend. It doesn’t matter if you’re 18 or 80. LOL.

It celebrates everyone’s birthday cocurrently with lots of prizes and a holiday getaway trip to *cough* somewhere, I’m not telling! But you’ll love it.

Joinin ya in the house would be the adorable Joey G, Hunny Madu from Fly.FM, Award winner Liang the funnyman, KL Drum Corps and many more will take the stage. From food, to music and the entire party scene, it’s all in good hands.

So here’s your chance to kick back, relax and let DiGi plan your birthday party for you and your friends to celebrate in style. No sweat!

Find out more at www.digi.com.my/ubb.

So what say you? My buddies and I are in for shure!

Another reason to party.. why would anyone pass?

See you there on the 3rd October in Barcelona, Sunway
ARE YOU IN?

Clive 1st Anniversary Coverage @ Zouk

August 27, 2009 by thejessicat

Woots! Happy 1st birthday to Clive!
For those not in the know, Clive is a Lifestyle Men’s magazine packed full of yummy goodness; perfect for every man’s reading pleasure. Sponsored by Guinness, they chose Zouk’s mainroom as their den to party the night away.

Thanks to Randi the Account Manager of Clive, I was invited to attend their bash. Gracias babe!

Yay I like this angle

Lots of people were already thronging the entrance by 9pm, and I saved time off Josh from waiting for hours on end by passing him another VIP ticket at the entrance. Muahaha. Oh and randomly, I love the flare of the spotlight behind us.

Met up Griza & Tian Chad somewhere inside

Inside, it was waaay better than packed sardines – it was packed with urban party people! I made a beeline to the stage to get a better view.

This is 1 outta 5 of the finalists for Clive’s Ventures Out Race. Think Amazing Race ala Clive! Congratulations, I bet the entire journey was an adventure!

But unfortunately the winner of this challenge, Eric, was unable to attend this party. So he recorded a “grammy” video for all of us to watch via the Samsung LCD screens. Pretty ingenious ey

Grats dude!

A treasure hunt game was then in motion whereby the guests are supposed to hunt around for colorful cards to win themselves freebies and money-can’t-buy tickets to catch Arthur’s Day with the Black Eyed Peas. How can generous can one get? Now, that’s what I call rad.

It’s time to make way for more snazzy action! Emceed by both Mix.FM radio announcers wacky Pietro and the lovely Jay Menon, they made the condom-banana game and the sticky-tape game come to life.

Let’s take a look at how to wear a condom, shall we?

A group of dudes were chosen from the crowd to partner with a bevy of beauties, which happen to be Clive Mag’s covergirls and other TV personalities.

Pietro being extremely suggestive in his jokes as usual made it sound extremely naughty and brought us to suspense as to what game was in store for them.

When the girls heard it they were freaking out! But they competed well against each other. C’mon babes, show ’em men what we’re made of

The ladies were all supposed to pick a partner and wear condoms onto the bunch of bananas hung around the mens’ necks. The pair who could do it in the fastest time was declared the winner.

And you won!
Whooo fast fingers eyy babe?
LOL

Next, was the sticky-tape game. Pietro stuck duct-tapes onto the male volunteers and all their partners has got to do was to remove it off them. Pretty simple aye? But wait – there’s a catch! The ladies were only supposed to use their mouths.

Once the catch was announced, it was apparent that men and women will always be different in a certain manner. Check out the expressions I shot below –

Male – oohhyeahhh babeh, bring it on!
Female – WTF? Ewww.. gross!

Anyhoos, regardless of whatever they had in mind, they had to do it anyway LOL but they enjoyed it all the same with all the coy smiles and laughter on their faces.

The party ensued with lucky draws with the Grand Prize being a 3 days 2 nites stay at the Berjaya Tioman Resort. There were much hollas of joy in the house as more and more people bagged their freebies!

The lady above was over the moon when she walked away with a new Sony Ericsson cellphone. Sigh – some people get all the luck don’t they? ROAR.

After all the winnings and crazy cheers, the stage entertainment was coming to an end. Now, it’s up to you to take the party to full swing. DJs pumped up the volume and now, it’s only you, the dance floor and the whole party to enjoy all night long

Once again, Happy Anniversary to Clive and their team! Good Job! Oh and.. psst- I had extra stickers on me. Because I’m happy like that. Thanks Clive!

and *COUGH*
this is how you wear a condom
PUT ON 6 AT THE SAME TIME

no way, I’m kidding aren’t i?

Digi Music Unlimited Launch Party | Laundry Bar

August 20, 2009 by thejessicat

It was in 7pm in the evening and there was a huge commotion at Laundry Bar, The Curve. What could that be? The one and only giveaway was its distinctive bright yellow splashed all over. DiGi Music Unlimited takes center stage today!

I was invited to this launch along with a few other bloggers. We had a pretty good time there – despite the fact that many of us were a lil crestfallen. Apparently the special appearance by the All American Rejects turned out to become nothing but a rumour!

Gimme that!

Sorry – I totally lost the plot
NO ONE TOLD ME WE WERE SUPPOSED TO MAKE A FACE!

They fed us well
and pumped up good music.

That’s his REAL height
/smirks

There was a light dinner buffet with yummalicious dessert! Perfect for all the sweet tooths out there. Check out some of my faves of the night

Loved the capsicum, sausage & tomato combo

Yummsters go to the mini chocolate brownie & cheese tarts

Despite having a wide variety of other food which was enough to go around. Nigel seemed to be on a very strict diet. His entire plate was empty except for a single stick

I wonder who he’s trying to impress?

My, what thick Dolly Parton lips ya’ got there pal
Sexxay can I? haha

Caprice was in the house to kickstart the event with an opening performance! His usual crew of masked men in formal – semi formal attire would break those beats with their show-stopping dance moves.

I wanna go
DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN
A remix of Akon – Right Now (Na-Na-Na)

This is where I shut my ears as an entire hoard of tweens would
prolly go gaga over him whenever he has a performance anywhere

Still, I must give him a thumbs up for
having a really good on-stage personality as well as having his
own interactive methods of crowd control. Kudos!

Then Albern Murty came upstage to give us an introduction! Pretty nice name if I have to say so myself. Anyhoos, he’s the Head of Products & Segment Marketing. Three cheers for ya!

Together with the Head of Segment Marketing, Mr. Koay, the both of them started giving a pretty good sharing session on what this new entire digimusic.com.my was all about and what privileges & benefits it has in store for its users.

THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

For just RM5 a month, DiGi users can enjoy unlimited downloads from digimusic.com.my with an extensive music library from 2 of the world’s
largest music labels, Universal Music and Sony Music.

That’s not just it! The DiGI Music Unlimited customers needn’t have to pay any data charges – browsing and downloads – when they visit the webbie to personalize and share playlists/tracks with friends via SMS, email & other social networks.

Talk about spreading the love for music!

Music is love!

The DJ at the console kept us going with latest tracks fresh off the billboard charts. Well, what would DiGi Music Unlimited be should there be no music aye?

Those fab songs matches his bubbly personality!

Soon after that, we had a group tour on those DiGi Music Unlimited kiosks. It was a laptop and we were asked to compete against one another to see which group manages to follow all the instructions to download and share music in the fastest time.

Say HELLOOOO to Group 1

On our marks, get set…. GO! GO! GO!

Ohmy. What a candid.
Gahh. Pardon the stupid expression.

In the 1st round, we were the winners! Glad as we may be, all there’s left to do is to see if the 2nd round of contestant groups did not beat our time. Unfortunately, they did! RAWR. As a reward, they bagged a pair of spankin’ new headphones each. Congrats pals!

Being 2nd place didn’t win us anything
but we’re all still winners at heart!