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After Pop Shuvit & Machi had played, it was time for Flo Rida. You could see the crowd were eager with anticipation of the big act of the night coming out.

DJ Latin Prince hit the decks for a while before the main act came on stage and warmed the crowd up a little.

Flo Rida (Famous for Low) himself rocked onto the stage shortly before midnight with a huge reaction from the crowd, you can see people were truly excited to see him up there. Girls especially were going WILD!

The crowd was pumped up!

This was his partner in crime on the stage working the party people.

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So it's Hennessy time again! Another event from the Hennessy Artistry series and a much bigger and grander affair this time.

You may remember my post about Hennessy Artistry at Zouk last time - following that there was another event at Aloha and then this one which everyone has been waiting for!

This time it was in Bukit Kiara indoor arena so it was much much larger, it was very well organised with good security and the place was decked out really well. There were different areas according to the cocktails (Miami for media/bloggers, KL for VIP/celebs and so on).

They had the cool little DJ booths like last time.

There was plenty of picture taking outside with Polaroid cameras and of course the celebs as they came in.

Pop Shuvit were the opening act so they were one of the earlier ones to arrive.

It must have been the place to be because everyone was there like Levy Su Lin (Miss Malaysia Universe).

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Well I don't know if I'd call myself a photographer yet...but I've just passed my second year in photography..

I got my Nikon D70s on June 7th 2006, 2 years ago last month. I had some cameras before that, an old Olympus mju 35mm film point and shoot and I got my first digital camera in 2001 (which cost me a fortune) - the 3.2 megapixel Canon Powershot A70.

It did me well and most of my earlier pictures on this blog were from that camera.

I'd say I started photography properly when I got the D70s, before that I'd just started exploring what I could do with with the A70 and was starting to find it's limitations in terms of speed, noise at high ISO, accurate white balance and fine tuning controls. I decided against getting a bridge or prosumer camera and to go straight for a dSLR.

My choices at that time were the Canon 350D, the Olympus E-500 and the Nikon D70s.

I hardly got chance to use the camera, and had only just bought my first lens other than the kit lens (A Tamron SP90mm Di Macro Lens)...and my camera was stolen only 3 months after I'd bought it.

That was heartbreaking to say the least...by that time I'd completely gotten the photography bug though so I couldn't give up...I had a choice to make between getting the Nikon D80, which had just been released or the higher model the Nikon D200. I went for the D200 for various reasons (solid build, more accurate metering, CF card rather than SD and so on) and I have to say I've never regretted the decision.

Anyway here are a few of my personal favs I've taken in the 2 years since I've gone from complete noob to slightly less noob.

With the Nikon D70s

With the Nikon D200

I've had a stranger buy one of my pictures though, I've been published in quite a few magazines and national papers, I'll have a spread in FHM August, I've shot a major musical event and I've recently seen one of my pictures on a billboard! I've got a lot of unpublished stuff, so perhaps I'll make an effort to get it on my blog. Also of course we started Shutter Asia to expand my learning and network of photographers for outings and trips - so far it's been great!

It's a start!

I've still gotten a long way to go though, only 2 years into photography...probably another 23 years to go before I get any good Most things take at least 25 years to master reasonably well.

So last month Sean Kingston was in town to perform a few songs in KL, his first stop was Zouk KL - it was in conjuction with Hotlink and Hitz.fm.

You might know him from his overplayed song "Beautiful Girls" - I do prefer this version though "Sean Krapston - Suicidal Song".

Zouk is blessed with being in a rather iconic location with the KLCC towers looming behind it, this always makes for good pics outside.

There were lots of people outside taking pics and having fun with the Hotlink boys and girls.

Inside was pretty packed with everyone waiting for the arrival of the star for the night.

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It seems like this year is going to be the year of clashes...Things just keep happening on the same day, or the same weekend.

Starting with this week and a company dinner or Hannah Tan's gig at Somo on Thursday night.

Shortly followed by a Sailing Trip (7-9th), Tiesto (9 & 10th) and World Lupus Day (10th)...all on the same weekend.

Then Kite Runner movie and Sean Kingston at Zouk on the same night.

Before that MDG visit to the house clashed with something else..

The trip to Sabah clashed with the Nuffnang Pajama Party.

*sigh*

It could be looked on as a good thing I guess, at least I have plenty of things to do...just why do they all have to happen on the same days/weekends - then the rest of the time nothing! Oh well, I guess it's a good sign blogs are getting more important - we are getting invited to more and more serious events, locations and trips.

Power of blogs eh?

How do you decide which to do when you have a clash in your schedule? Does work come first? Or does the one that would benefit you most come first? Or the one that you would enjoy most?

Would you go on a sailing trip or go for 2 days rave with Tiesto? Or would you forego both to help out a charity endeavour you are involved with?

Decisions decisions...so far I'm swayed to Tiesto and rush back to KL for the charity thing then back to PD for the second night of Tiesto!

As you probably read, I'm a big fan of Yo! Sushi at the Pavilion - I headed back there with Kimberly for a Melium event we were invited to.

They were having a lifestyle event to promote the Yo! Sushi brand and introduce people to the concept.

Before anything else - we ate.....we ate plenty! Loads of Salmon yah! They had all of their special dishes out.

One of my favourites, the spicy chicken katsu ISO (Inside Out Roll).

And of course plenty of Sashimi - this is the dill and wasabi style, at the back is sesame seared.

The all time favourite Miso Black Cod (melts in your mouth!).

It was pretty much packed to capacity with people filling the tables and all the way around the bar.

Sushi Panning!

A while later they had a contest where they gave out some prizes, basically you had to lift a dish off the conveyor according to it's name announced by the emcee.

If you lifted the right plate - you won a prize!

Challenger

Following that you had to find a certain dish in the menu - again first one wins.

Over here - it's me!!

Lot's of happy people eating and drinking!

Enjoying the Sushi.

Shaz and Sandra.

Eddie Kong - the Manager hard at work.

People take their own pics too - but still look at me

Preparing the take-out boxes.

A fun event with some great people to chat with and yummy food - all good if you ask me!

Kim's write up here:

Delicious sushi and me.

And also Sandra here:

Yo! Sushi with Melium Group

I was looking forwards to KLFW this year, as I managed to get a photography pass last year…but I couldn’t go as I had to fly of to hell Riyadh, Saudi Arabia..

It was supposed to be at the end of October, it was then postponed until November 11-14th, now it’s canceled for this possible showing it’s face again in March 2008.

Anyway there is still MIFA! I managed to go on the first day and get some pics, will post them later.

Speaking of which, Digi is having a Fashion related competition as a part of it’s Fu-Yoh Street Blast festival (Sports, Music, Fashion & Dance).

There are some decent prizes up for grabs like the latest Nokia Prism phones and bundles of cash $$!

Along side this there is another two sections to the competition related to dancing and sports. For the b-boy fans the best 8 will get to show off this Saturday at the finals, selected from various teams who sent their videos in. The sports section involves basketball and futsal.

Again, all these will be happening this Saturday, November 24th at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa (12pm onwards).

I might check it out as I really love watching break-dancing, it’s always something I wanted to do. Get down to the finals and check out who will be the Queen of Fashion or who has the best B-boy moves in town.

The X-trick competition will be fun to watch too with the X-games style tricks on skates, boards and bikes. If you want you can get even get flung in the air with the inverse bungee (G-Force)!

There will be various artists performing such as Gerhana Ska Cinta, Joe Flizzow, Sierra, Letto from Indonesia.

It reminds me I still haven’t processed or posted the pictures from Floor Combat back in February..that was ages ago.

Anyway get over to http://www.digi.com.my/fu-yoh/ to find out more.

I've written about this before some time back, it's happening less frequently I have to admit..but it still happens.

Remember “Yue May Not Mail Me Anymore”, well another occurence happened today. Even worse they had my real e-mail address as I have dealt with the agency before.

The agency incidentally who likes to poach jobs from other people by undercutting, then getting inexperienced staff to do the work - professionalism? Appropriate? I'll leave that up to you.

Anyway I've been to some events by this company, and they were decent..unfortunately their standards seem to have declined and whoever they have approaching bloggers now is a complete fucking tool.

Picture this:

Subject: Urgent. Please Get Back to me

Content:

Hey,

I'm from RetardedAgency and we will be having an event soon. Could you please help us feature this event on your Blog. Hope it isn't too much hassle. Would really appreciate it. Please contact Dumb Fuck (03) 2xx3 2xx7 for further information. Or you can just reply my email. Thanks a blast. Hope you response asap.

_______________________________________

Etc etc standard press release about the event.

The funny thing? I tried to reply to her to tell her what a dimwit she was....as it was so urgent, and it BOUNCED - can you beat that!

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

Stupid.Dickface@my.retarderdagency.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 13): 550 5.1.1 is not a valid mailbox

Anyway back to the original mail, do you notice the lack of name, lack of introduction, lack of personalisation?

Does it smell like spam to you? Sure does to me.

Can you miss the retarded English?

Thanks a blast. Hope you response asap.

Darling that should be thanks a bunch and hope you respond ASAP.

And the tone of the e-mail, do I look like a push web site for your shitty press releases? There's this thing called an ADVERTORIAL ok, if you want your shitty event on my site you can PAY like everyone else.

Or if it's interesting, I'll write about it anyway for free.

If not you can fuck off to http://www.prweb.com and publish your shit there.

So last Friday night I headed down to the Sunrise Jazz & Rhythm Festival 2006 at Plaza Mont Kiara featuring "Rachel Guerzo Quartet" and "Lewis Pragasam & AsiaBeat" on the opening night.

The host was some pale dude called Michael Quah I think, they had a fashion show early in the evening which I missed and some small competitions between the musical segments.

It was quite packed, with not that many places left to sit, my friends and I got a place at Starbucks to enjoy the music.

First up was the Rachel Guerzo Quartet, a lethal father and daugther combo with Rachel Guerzo of course, her father Salvador Guerzo, Vincent Ong, Don Nizam and Louis Saliano.

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