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Sorry Streamyx has been down intermittently since last Thursday afternoon...it just came back up this evening and appears to be fairly stable...*fingers crossed*.

Anyway as it was my birthday last Friday I got a few presents which is always BEST!

Thanks to Tim and Wen Qi for the mug!

I also got some lovely bubble from my Mom!

Some very nice perfume from CK.

And a beautiful bouquet of flowers from Hannah Tan (lucky me eh!).

And a Diamond ticket to the Petronas Grand Prix F1 Malaysia 2008! Which I of course went to, the rain held off and there were record crowds of over 126,000 people! Insane, no wonder the traffic was so bad...the parking was sold out and it was generally nuts.

It was quite an experience indeed!

More on the Party, the F1 and Sabah later...let's hope StimX stays up! Anyone got some broadband viagra?

Well you can tell how good this event was, it took me 6 months to bring myself to look at the pictures and sort them out, upload them and blog about it.

Transit Sound of Smoke was quite possibly the worst rave to ever take place, it wasn't publicised - no one had heard of it and there was a massive one a few days earlier on the 29th at Sunway which everyone knew about (Velocity KL).

The official low down on the event was Transit: Sound Of Smoke @ Sepang International Circuit, KL - Cars, dance music, the great outdoors.

Yeah right? Dubbed as Malaysia’s first-ever high speed drifting event, Transit is the amalgamation of the Saturday Night Drift events held at the Speedway Plus Circuit Elite Highway.

Expect to see over 50 expert and 150 novice drivers burn some serious rubber on Sepang’s tracks.

The drift event begins at 3pm and was to carry on for 50 hours of non-stop music and drift as some kind of stupid record in the name of 50 years of independence, isn't that tune getting a little well worn?

We were planning to party to DJs Jungle Jerry, Groovedoctor, the lovely Desire, DJ Love and WllythKd as they took us on a musical drift with sounds ranging from deep sexy tribal house, progressive, melodic and hard trance and everything in between. (Source)

We were buzzin for a rave.

Check out the pumping crowd as we approached.

Looks fairly reasonable right?

Well it just got worse as we got closer..

There was only about 12 people there, so the whole partying on down thing didn't really happen.

Well seriously I'd say maybe 250-300 people...certainly not the billed 10,000.

We spent most of our time taking pictures....of each other taking pictures of each other, yeah something like that - there wasn't exactly a lot of photographic subjects.

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Intel kindly invited me to the BMW Sauber Paddock Lounge today for a cocktail party in the heart of KL, it's between the KL Mosque and Darby Park in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.

Basically the place is a mini F1 mockup with demonstrations of the various technologies involved in F1 racing.

It includes a mini-pitstop where you and your friends can race against the clock to change the tyres and refuel a real F1 car.

It also has some simulations and a mock-up of the F1 driver training area with some reaction testing equipment and weights.

I was there for a cocktail party with Intel, apparently Intel Core Duo is used in the computers controlling the F1 cars and helps to process the vast amounts of data that the cars churn out allowing the team to manage the car more effectively.

The party was fairly well populated with the usual suspects on show (X3, 6 series, 7 series and 5 series) plus journalists from most of the popular publications.

It was a really hot day, especially by the side of the mini track where they were having RC car racing.

And Joey G the Malaysian VJ was the emcee.

They shot a video of a professional dancer and edited the video live on a Core Duo powered machine to demonstrate the strength of the processor, 2 people were using the same computer at the same time with dual head monitor output on huge plasma TVs.

It was pretty impressive that the machine handled all the encoding and video editing without stuttering.

Timo Glock the BMW Sauber F1 test driver was there as the guest.

The best part was the guy on a massive kick-ass bike doing crazy stunts at high speeds, he was the man!

He started out with a front wheelie.

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Yes it's time for the Grand Prix party again, this year under the guise of Speedzone 2007 to be held in KL Tower on 7th of April 2007.

DJ line up:

• VJ Joey G
• DJ Dimas Carbajo (D-Formation)
• DJ Marco V
• DJ Yoji Biomehanika
• 4YOUREYE

Grand Prix fever is back to grip Malaysia, and what best to match the hottest race in the world, but the most sizzling party on the planet. The highly popular Speedzone Tour 2007 has arrived, in time to greet the heat and excitement of the Malaysian Grand Prix. This year, in an effort to bring this party even closer to its fans, this event will be held in the funky settings of KL Tower. Come party with Speedzone, be a part of the very first Grand Prix party of 2007 and the biggest EVER to be held at KL Tower.

Along with this is also a chance to win some free tickets (and to meet me..).

This is how we will roll it:

1. A clue will be posted here daily starting from 5th to 9th March, the answers are derived from the previous day Star newspaper.

2. You are to compile the answers and form a secret phrase.

3. On the 10th March (Saturday), you are to bring along this secret phrase (printed/pasted on a A4 size or larger surface) to locate me (Kung-Foo Tiger) at Starbucks 1 Utama (New Wing), between 2pm to 4pm.

4. If YOU have the correct password will be presented with a "WINNER CERTIFICATE" that allows them to collect 2 tickets on event day for free entry. We will also be recording their names and IC details for the event's organiser's reference.

WINNERS CERTIFICATE are not transferable nor redeemable for cash!

*Tickets are issued on event day, based on the WINNER CERTIFICATE and a valid photo ID to prove 18 years of age.

If you don't get the clues you can also have a chance to win a free ticket as Speedzone themselves are giving away 1000, following that you can just cough up and buy one, it's only RM20.

The website will be up on March 9th and once you register the first 1000 will get free tickets. If you miss it however, you can purchase your tickets for just RM20 at ticket Acxess counters nationwide, for locations and to buy online please surf http://www.ticketaxcess.com.my. Or, be fashionably late and buy your tickets at the door for RM30.

For more information on the Speed Zone Tour 2007, please log on to http://www.speedzonetour.com (After March 9th).

Well the year is coming to an end yet again, it's New Years Eve and it's time to PARTY! I'll be at Sepang International Circuit tonight participating in a new Malaysian Book of Records record, 50 years of drifting for 50 years of independence, there's also a rave..so that's why I'll be there, and a free chance to trash my car on the track of course.

You can find more details here: Transit: Sound of Smoke

Anyway, 2006 has been an interesting and rewarding year..a lot of things have come and gone and all in all I feel it's a been a much more positive year than the previous two.

January - Archives

Unsurprisingly the whole year was plagued with incidents of lousy service and quality of connection from Streamyx, this started right in January..

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A1 Grand Prix is the first opportunity in any area of motorsport for nations to compete on a level playing field. It is a series where technology and innovation are deliberately equalised and performance is determined by human bravery, skill and excellence. Team and driver combine to create their advantage and the winning nation raises its flag in celebration.

I went to the the 14th race of the A1 GP series yesterday, the weather was pretty much atrocious and I couldn't get close enough as I didn't have track access so I was limited to wide shots.

The crowd was pretty good and the heavy rain and flooded track certainly added to the drama, there was quite a few spins.

It was quite a long wait for the rain to stop.

The wait was boring...so I took pictures of random stuff.

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A trio of videos as requested, after the jump.

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Well Malaysia Boleh for once..

They got DJ Tiesto (Tijs Verwest) to come here, just knocked off number 1 in the world...labelled the 'Pit Party' (it was in a car park NEAR the F1 circuit).

DJ Tiesto is arguably the world’s top DJ over the past four years, and although he did lose his No.1 ranking in DJ Mag’s Top 100 ranking to Germany’s Paul van Dyk just recently, he did hold it for three consecutive years and still holds the top ranking in other lists such as The DJ List.

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Yeah nothing like some frozen Smirnoff Black to start off the night..

Ah, traffic Jam on NKVE at 9pm? I wonder why...perhaps the 20,000 odd people going to see Tiesto. Drove up alone as it's nearer my place than the rest, met Suan, KY, Paul, Fox, Voices, Janice and FA there.

There was an F1 car and some F1 girls, it was afterall a 'Pit Party'.

I got there about 8.45, it was pretty packed, the car park still had plenty of spaces though so that was good. There was some crappy local DJ playing with 'Milk' on his/her shirt, made a few slip-ups. Apparently the DJ before was very good, got there a bit late though.

There was some dodgy Lion dance before Tiesto came on (Which was supposed to be at 10pm SHARP, but due to Malaysian Time...he came on at 10.35).

During the night there was also some Bollywood kind of dance, wow really multicultural Malaysia eh?

This is my first video entry, woo!

I didn't hear a couple of my favourite songs (Silence featuring Sarah McLachlan and his rendition of Barber's Adagio for Strings). Perhaps they played them after I left, I did hear quite a lot of Just Be (including the title track sung live) and Parade of the Athletes.

The place was packed and Tiesto was of course in that circular light flashing thingy, kind of his trademark (you'll know it if you've seen him live before or watched the concert DVD).

The Suan was loving it! Can't beat a happy Suan tbh.

The Paul Tan chose the wrong colour for his shirt..

Kawaii FA.

The AV was amazing with cool video in time with the music, fireworks now and then and a really impressive laser show. Apparently the VJ was one of Tiesto's guys, the guy working the decks had the most enourmous stomach, looked like 11 months pregnant.

During those famous songs and crescendos the whole crowd went wild, it shows there are a lot of real Tiesto fans in Malaysia that are familiar with his songs, not just random ravers.

The Live singer was pretty good, but she definately wasn't the one that recorded Just Be originally, she kind of butchered it.

The atmosphere was fantastic with the crowd jumping, the laser show, the smoke, the banging trance, reminds me of raving in my younger years.

I met some random fans like "Hi are you ShaolinTiger, wow I read your blog every day!", which was nice! Here they are:

Hi fans!

It got busier and busier and towards the end there was just an Ocean of people in every direction, there was about 20,000+ in the end, we were somewhere in the middle of the middle. Ran into a few friends here and there too, some others have retired so weren't about.

Tiesto, he's the man!

I have more videos, if anyone wants to see them I'll upload to Youtube

FA - the only one who can dance ALL FREAKING NIGHT.

I left at about 2+ to avoid the traffic, thankfully was smooth sailing back home, it could have been a bit cooler like in Genting. But it was an awesome night! Maybe Paul Van Dyk next?!

More videos by request here.