I was thrilled to know that the 3rd annual celebration of Arthur's Day is gonna be just around the corner!

Was invited to the fabulous launch of Arthur's Day held at The Beer Factory in Sunway Giza a while ago

Arthur's Day is back again this year, bigger and bolder than ever!

Now that's what I'm talking about 

Once again, KL has been chosen as the only city in the Asian region to host the biggest Arthur's Day celebration! I was really pleased to know that 🙂 The 3rd time in a row?

Proud of us!

My fellow social media peeps and I

Photobombed by Lionel LOL

It was awesome that night as Guinness just kept coming!

Free flow makes all guests very happy people, no doubt about that 😉

Delicious, frothy, smooth pints of ice-cold Guinness on a Thursday night. What could be better?

Having attended the previous 2 Arthur's Day parties,

I am psyched to say that this year's line-up is going to be stellar!

Last year's Arthur's Day party featured Flo-Rida, Sean Kingston and Colby O'Donis while the Arthur's Day held the year before last featured Black Eyed Peas! I blogged about it – here

So, what about this year?

Taio Cruz, Mizz Nina and James Baum will be blowing our minds this Arthur's Day 2011! 

The entire front of The Beer Factory was decorated with Guinness balloons! 

Shot by the photo wall 🙂

But what really impressed us was this "entrance" to the party.

It was a life-sized harp – the logo of Guinness itself – all brightly lit too! Gigantic much?

Nice. I kept walking in and out of it – just for fun 

Plus, we all took pictures with it of course

How could you miss the iconic golden harp? 🙂

Thanks for the piccie Bok! 😀

With some of my fave foodie boys Tocky and Bok! 🙂

The central zone of Sunway Giza was all abuzz!

6 bands and singers alike took to the stage to compete against themselves to win the votes of the public.

Two winners will get a chance to be the opening act for the stellar line-up for Arthur's Day!

Who wouldn't want to share the stage with the dynamite himself, Taio Cruz? 

This is CSBTEA live in action!

They're really something new, with a genre they call 'post swag aquatic mammal rap'

And yes, that's a dolphin.

Watching the performances with an old friend! 🙂

To Arthur! We clinked our glasses & continued mingling about!

With Dwane – my former collegemate!

He's one of the members of CSBTEA now 🙂

With Kelly, Frank and a Guinness bigshot 🙂

The night is still young; another pint of Guinness for me please? 

Frank! I'll be sure to drop by Sid's Pub when I'm back ye? 🙂

Tocky and I doing silly stuff with Lionel's fish-eye camera mode

We were chilling by our table enjoying ourselves with our glasses and glasses of Guinness.

One can never have too many – check out Mike on the left who's over and out already! 😛 Teehee.

All's well, end's well

Unfortunately, I won't be in the country this coming Arthur's Day as I will still be in the land Down Under

But Imma still let you in on how you can go. Here's some ways you can win passes anyway! 

Head on to www.facebook.com/guinnessmalaysia & follow the simple instructions

OR

Tune into Hitz.fm, Mix.fm, MY.fm or THR Raaga & participate in their on-air contest!

OR

Purchase Taio Cruz' album from Speedy Video or Rock Corner

Quickly! Thousands of money-can't-buy tickets to be won, so don't miss out 😀

I know I wouldn't, if I were to be in Malaysia on the 23rd of September!

Now, now. Promise you'll enjoy yourselves on my behalf okay? 🙂

Cheers, to Arthur Guinness!

Oh and tell Taio that he's to die for 🙂 Now, go forth and take on Arthur's Day with full steam ahead!! 

Woot woot!

Last night was amazing 🙂

So the whole lot of us went up to Traralgon by taxi and joined in the festivity of St. Pat's Day!

There was a sweet promo too, buy a glass of Guinness draught and get this awesome pawesome hat

I'm loving it! 😀 😀

I'm proud to say that the St. Pat's day celebrations in Malaysia are also just as well-celebrated in full scale just like it is here – and probably other parts of the world too :) There was so much merriment in the club!

Just the way it should be

Traditional Irish songs were played by a live band on stage as well

They belted out renditions of various acoustics, non-traditional songs and even modern pop culture ones too

Okay since I'm rushing my E-Journalism assignment research and writings now, this is gonna be a quick one 🙂

So… ta-daaaa! Party pictures with my mates from last night. Enjoy!

After downing some drinks and partying it up a bit, we headed up to Saloon where the real mad-arse party is.

Burn the dance floor with our heat!!

Partied till wee hours of the morning… till the doors of the club shut!

The girls' feet were aching due to our vicious high heels, but ohwell… I took them off and parked them by the stage to make sure I could really party the night away. Shuffle babehhh shuffle!

But poor Bardha!

Her feet hurt beyond madness while wearing her superhigh brand new stiletto pumps

Shot while waiting for the cabbie to take us home

Once we headed home, some of them knocked out back on their beds, the others cooked Mee Goreng for supper, and some of us stayed awake doing our assignments, studies and reports. LOL what a ironic way to end the night! 😀

Crashed at South 9 for the umpteenth again for the night. I swear I live there already haha. Goodnight all!

HAPPY ST. PADDIES DAY!

xoxo

Dinnertime! 😀

Today will be about the belated Merry Guinness christmas dinner I had in Finnegan's!

 

All dolled up for an evening of chillaxing infused with good food + kick-ass drinks, I buzzed buddy Kelly along with me for some nomnoms

Oh oh oh oumaigawd. Guinness aplenty!
 

A waiter of Philippine descent greeted us with the menu and we skimmed through the list of meals and drinks in a flash.

Heck, we were already so hungry! Traffic jams made it worse. It was 8pm by the time we flipped those pages.
 

While waiting, Mitchell (the Manager of Finnegan's) came outside to join us!

Talk about extra company

And more company! The dude on my left is true blue Irish while Mitchell on my right

is a proud product of the US of A. No prizes on guessing the nationality of us ladies!
 

We ordered quite a lot of food, as we were planning to share all our meals!

So naturally, it took quite a while to arrive. But issokay! We had our Guinness draught flowing non-stop as well, that pretty much distracted me from the dread of waiting to have my tummy satiated 🙂

Slurps! 😀 Taking a swig of my ice-cold frothy beer!

Down 'em all? Easily.

I dare you to dare us.

Anyhoozers, small talk and catching up distracted us from our growling stomachs.

And before we knew it, the food arrived before we could say MORE GUINNESS PLEASE? 😀
 

Check out our Classic Cottage Pie and cute Pizza bites!
 

Unlike the traditional English pastry pie, they way this was

cooked/presented somehow reminded me of lasagna! 😀

But nevetheless, boasting the same fantastic taste any beef cottage pie should rightfully have

Now allow me to indulge in my pizza bites 😀

I liked how it came in miniature pieces, so much easier to chomp it down and share among us.

No more messy and cheesy threads all over the place

Hmm.. Pizza Hut should incorporate this idea!

Ideal for sharing in large groups too. Just grab a chunk and go!

Have a bite of our pizza, would you? 😀

Despite being much smaller in size, that's as far as the reduction went.

For every bite of the pizza was bursting to the max with sausages, smoked bacon and pineapples!

Some snacks to accompany the heavy meal?

We obliged. That's our Calamari and Onion rings served in a basket!
 

Being a natural sucker for soup, I ordered a bowl of Leek and Potato Soup
 

Just a little trivia : I never really like pork.

Sure, I've gobbled down a slice of bacon or two or even a shred of pork knuckle before. But in general, I tend to avoid pork as much as I can. Why? Nothing of religious nature though, just a mere preference.
 

But tonight, these Barbequed Pork Ribs were too hard to resist.
 

So you've seen it in all its glory the moment it was placed onto the table.

But what happened in under 10 minutes? Hmm…
 

I swear it mischievously vanished before our eyes and landed into our stomachs.
 

No no no! The piccie below is NOT photographic evidence of how everything disappeared
 

I'm sorry you have to endure savage gluttony forced upon your viewing consumption.

On normal days I am a tad more refined when I eat, just so you know 😛

Wrapped up our delicious Irish dinner with a clink of our glasses

Cheers, babe!

Nothing like a burp of satisfaction from food paired with a smooth pint of Guinness.

Trust me, it comes hand in hand! 😀
 

I say no meal is complete without it

Yes Mitchell, we get your point

Merry Guinness folks! Needless to say, I had an enjoyable Monday evening! 😀 😀

Now back to reality, time to work that body!

Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas everybody!

To those who are also celebrating, I hope you had a fantastic Christmas dinner with your family last night 🙂

I sure did!

Anyway, apart from the tradition of celebrating with TheFockers every year, imma share with you my first Christmas party of 2010!

All thanks to Guinness! 😀 😀

So yeah.. a few weeks back, I was invited for Guinness' first series of Merry Guinness christmas dinners. This was held at Malone's Irish Restaurant & Bar in Sooka Sentral, adjacent to KL Sentral, Malaysia.

I arrived on location and saw the elaborately decorated dining tables and Christmas set-up all ready for the evening

Pretty, ain't it? 🙂

Candy canes and candy red Christmas stockings!

Snowmen, Gingerbreadmen, Beermen… oops I meant mini beer bottles!

and ermm.. ballmen? 😛

But what made a better evening was the company of the warm friends and familiar faces 🙂 🙂

There was so much merriment in the haus and so much Guinness to go around… it's free-flow babeh!

Jingle bells! 😀

Walking further in, I spotted the traditional Christmas tree.

No Christmas party is complete without the evergreen coniferous tree! It's a pity we only have the artificial ones here in Malaysia 🙁

Unlike in the movies where daddy puts on his galoshes and goes to the woods

to chop down this tree and brings it back home for Christmas! 😀

After lots of mingling around over glasses and glasses of frothy ice-cold Guinness draught, the Christmas dinner was about to be officiated!

Welcoming all of us to the event 🙂

Are you ready to see what was served, guys? 😀

It was in such a dramatic manner! The black curtains fell right after he gave his short speech and revealed this sumptuous feast!

Now, that's what I call a table of gastronomic heaven!

Splendid! 😀

Especially over a pint of Guinness *clinks glass

So yup, those are the food 🙂
 In fact, that's only half of what was actually served that night!

And this is me looking all gluttony

there were macarons, stollen cakes, foie gras, beef stroganoff and so much more I don't even remember!

Try asking my stomach, she'll prolly recall better 😛

There was also an action station for turkey slicing and cranberry sauce!

Oooh the yums. Talking about it makes me miss the turkey already.

Please sir, may I have some more? 😛 Oliver Twist lolol.

While we were devouring our hearty meals, there was a live band that played for us all! 🙂

They were singing lots of Christmas songs – ranging from the traditional ones to the more modern ones

i personally loved Guinness' version of the !2 Days of Christmas

'cos it had something to do with fried chicken wings haha

And that's not all!

We were enticed to a magic show, which involved fire-eating, finger chopping, tangled knots and more

The Magician was showing Andrew how it was supposed to be done

Soon they had a Q&A session where 5 limited edition Guinness miniature bottles were given out as prizes.

It even dated all the way back to 1974! 😀 😀

Tied so neatly with a black ribbon, I wished they were mine!

So I decided to join the Q&A. Hmm…the questions I could remember were –

How many pints of Guinness are served everyday?

What is the actual color of Guinness?

What is the name of Guinness' christmas event?

Well, my question was simple. So I managed to answer it correctly!

I absolutely love the antique bottles for my stash. It fits perfectly in my collection of alco 🙂

Yuenny won herself a set of these babies too!

Adorable much?

I think she answered the color of Guinness question. The correct answer is Ruby Red! 🙂 (Yes it's not black, contrary to popular belief)

Here's a shot of my swag, courtesy of Guinness!

There's also another Guinness glass inside the paper bag,

'Who dreams of a white Christmas?' Tshirt, a Santa Hat and more!

I'll be wearing the Santa Hat for my family Christmas dinner tomorrow

Do you see that place mat which reads 'Have a Merry Guinness' above?

If you open it, it's actually a board game!! I'm SO going to bring it back home to play with thefockers tonight.

Bloggers playing the Guinness board game!

It's very much like snakes & ladders, only more exciting, Guinness draughts instead of snakes

and players require a good liver 😛 😛

We're getting shot on film!

Guinness even made a bloggers video edition of Merry Guinness wishes and the party!

My Guinness moments 😀 😀

With frosty the snowman too!!!!

Of good food, catching up with good friends, good fun and festive air 🙂

I had fun celebrating my Christmas the Guinness way. Heads up! Merry Guinness promos are held in various outlets around the Klang Valley and other parts of Malaysia as well.

This coming Monday, I will be dining at Finnegan's Pub in Changkat BB for an Irish Christmas Dinner by Guinness. Can't wait! Will be bringing along one lucky person with meeeee 🙂

Do grab a pint of Guinness and enjoy the rest of your party!

Merry Christmas again and enjoy the rest of your holiday fellas

with love ,

Jess

UPDATES!!!

Timbaland will no longer be performing in Malaysia for Arthur's Day. Why? Let's leave it as a question unsolved 🙂 Anyways, make way for Flo-Rida, Sean Kingston and Colby O'Donis instead!!! 😀

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Okay! I just got home after the Arthur's Day press conference held at @LIVE, Sunway Pyramid held a moment ago

Courtesy of Guinness, I was invited to the launch to discover the line up for the event, as they were gonna reveal it there and then!

Eggcited yet? 😀 😀

It was a pretty wet day and I reckon everyone was late due to the insane traffic snarl.

But ANYWAY!

As more guests started rollin' in, we mingled over ice cold glasses and glasses of frothy Guinness draft. I met lots of my friends there too! 😀 The more the merrier 🙂 🙂 Was great seeing lotsa familiar happyfaces there! Cheers loves! 😀 😀

Among the few friends whom I camwhored with 🙂

Nom nom nom frothy beer! I defo cannot wait for this year's Arthur's Day! The party of the year is back again yo 🙂 🙂 Enjoyed myself loads at last year's where the Black Eyed Peas rocked Malaysia! Bet this year's gonna be a blast again

FML got photobombed by Eu Veng while camwhoring!

Sippin' on some Guinness with Karen & Yuen Yee 😀

Oh and remember the #freebeer by Tiger I blogged about recently? 🙂 Was great bumping into Sean again! Guinness, Tiger whatever, it's all goood

Also, was a pleasant surprise to bump into my ex-colleague, the cute Ken Wei after so long too!

He's the editor of STUFF and one of the nicest people to me during my JUICE mag days! 😀

Okay okay! 😀 Enough about me and pals, it's time to reveal whatchu really really wanna know! 😀

Serena C and Adam Carruthers hosted the event

Who will be performing? Which artiste? *drumroll*

Introducing the line-up for Arthur's Day 2010!

Mizz Nina! 😀 Our local Hip Hop princess

I've blogged about her before with Colby Odonis

DJ Fuzz! He's one of our leading local DJs

And I absolutely love listening to him every weekend on Hitz party on radio 🙂

Makes me wanna hit the clubs almost immediately

Thaitainium! A very interesting play of words 😉

They're a popular Thai-American Hip Hop trio and last performed at MTV Asia Awards!

Pop Shuvit! Our fab local Hip Hop-Rap-Rock band!

They've been around for as long as ever yo 😀

But but but!

THAT'S NOT ALL 😀 😀 😀

Who dya think will be jet-setting all the way from the United States just for us?

Marketing Director Mark Jenner spills it all! 😀 😀

Yup, didn't you see it coming? 😀 😀

The star of the show will be none other than Timbaland the American Grammy Award-winning record producer, singer-songwriter, actor, musician and rapper!

If you've not heard of him, you're *probably* deaf OR

don't listen to radio nor Billboard top charts 😀

He's THAT BIG a name

Timbaland's the GOD of music to me (along with Pitbull), even my mom can recognize him on the airwaves (I guess I've managed to psycho her!) He's this very prominent producer and has produced the work of big names, shooting them to even bigger fame!

Peeps like Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado, Madonna, Katy Perry, Keri Hilson, Leona Lewis, Mariah Carey, Wyclef Jean, Shakira, Missy Elliott, Nelly Furtado, Jay-Z and the list goes on. I technically worship him, for the lack of a better word LOL! 😀 A true talent. And he'll be pumpin' up the beats just for us on Arthur's Day 😀

Thumbs up!

How to go? How to buy tickets? What tickets?

Ticket Pricing:
White Zone: RM 98
Black Zone: RM 198
Gold Zone: RM 350 (Mosh Pit)

Where to buy tickets?

Ticketing hotlines Galaxy : 603-2282 2020 • www.galaxy.com.my
Axcess : 603-7711 5000 • www.axcess.com.my

Okay last pic for the night before I retire to my Media Text thesis and Journalism assignment! It's due soon 🙁

Why another photo of Guinness even after you saw so much glasses of Guinness already?

Because one is never enough 😉

Cheers and see you at Arthur's Day!