The MidZone Countdown Party 2008 - New Years Eve at Mid Valley City
So on new years eve there was a big party at Mid Valley City called MidZone Countdown 2008.
Fireworks, dancers, drummers, good djs and a bunch of friends - sounds like fun eh? Well it was!
We got there quite early, to collect our media tags and to avoid the jam - strangely federal highway was empty and parking was a breeze. I have a feeling the whole world went into KL city to get jammed up against each other in the various street parties.
Our good friend Dabido was there from across the ocean - he arrived around the same time as us. Dabido and the Laydees.
And yeah someone has a bigger belly than me!
It was pretty quiet when we first arrived - as we were pretty early but people started rolling in soon after.
Things started hotting up with the sexy dancers than came on (They were rather obscene!).
And the crowd started building up - with the atmosphere too. DJ Rowan was playing when we first got there and he was excellent! Rocking us with real quality dance hits from the 80's and 90's. It really got everyone moving.
11 commentsMidZone Countdown 2008 - The Boulevard Street @ Mid Valley City
So it's almost xmas - just a few days left to go...and of course rapidly after that is New Year! And the biggest party night of the year - New Years Eve..but what to do, where to go? Where's the party at?
This year the big one is MidZone Countdown 2008, held at Mid Valley City so there's plenty of space..no cramped clubs!
Can you believe 2007 is over already and it's time to usher a new year in? It's been insane!
Anyway for MidZone the headline acts are DJ Stoneface & Terminal (Germany), DJ Matthew White (Hungary) and VJ Sort (Kagawa, Japan) with some local guys like DJ Gabriel, Jungle Jerry and DJ Nesh.
The highlight of the event is the intricate fireworks display, specially choreographed to the pulsating music of the performing DJs. It will be produced by Global 2000 Sdn. Bhd., the official organiser of Malaysia International Fireworks Competition 2007 at Putrajaya, making the show at the MidZone Countdown 2008 a showcase of fireworks artistry at its best!
Hope I can take my camera in!
So I'll see you there?
Date: 31st December 2007
Time: From 7pm-3am.
Ticket Sales: www.ticketpro.com.my or call 03-7880 7999
Ticket Price (Pre-Sale): RM75
Ticket Price (Door Sale): RM100
(All tickets are inclusive of 3 F&B Vouchers).
You can also win tickets and backstage passes here:
1. http://www.kimberlycun.com/2007/12/14/midzone-countdown-2008-for-the-win/
2. http://www.xanga.com/aNgeLic_keLz/631821714/item.html
3. http://jenifur84.diaryland.com/071215_66.html
4. http://thaiboxingirl.blogspot.com/2007/12/free-tickets-and-one-backstage-pass-to.html
5. http://www.xes.cx/MT/archives/2007/12/midzone_countdown_2008_the_bou.html
4 commentsSpeedzone 2007 for MotoGP at Zouk with Seb Fontaine and Matt Darey
Last weekend I went to Speedzone at Zouk, in honour of the MotoGP at Sepang the next day.
I was attracted by the top notch line-up (Matt Darey trance god and Seb Fontaine).
I was on the media board - femes can?!
The backdrop of course was KLCC visible clearly behind Zouk.
Then when we went in there was some cool bike simulator, you couldn't actually control it - it was more for experience but it was fun. The screen was massive and the sound loud.
It chucked you around pretty hard too - kinda cool.
Thaipusam at Batu Caves - 1.5 Million People!
Thaipusam is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the Tamil community on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai (Jan/Feb). Pusam refers to a star that is at its highest point during the festival. The festival commemorates both the birthday of Lord Murugan (also Subramaniam), the youngest son of Shiva and Parvati, and the occasion when Parvati gave Murugan a vel (lance) so he could vanquish the evil demon Soorapadman.
The biggest Thaipusam festivals in the world are in Malaysia and Singapore, most notably in Malaysia at Batu Caves, a place everyone that lives here should be familiar with.
This year there was 1.5 million people expected at Batu Caves, that's an experience everyone should feel I think. Plus the sights, sounds and smells of being up close with the people bearing Kavadi (burdens) and piercing themselves. At its simplest and most common as I noticed, the Kavadi may entail carrying a pot of milk, but mortification of the flesh by piercing the skin, tongue or cheeks with vel skewers is also common. The most spectacular practice is the vel kavadi, essentially a portable altar up to two meters tall, decorated with peacock feathers and attached to the devotee through 108 vels pierced into the skin on the chest and back.
Some info is from here: Thaipusam at Wikipedia
I also spotted The Snark there and a few other photogs I recognise.
I went very early to avoid the chaos that ensues around 7/8am, I arrived at the caves around 4am and found a pretty decent parking place nearby.
Then I headed inside..
I was shocked to find at 4am there were already droves of people, it was chaos!
The piercing and Kavadi had already started when I arrived and floods of people were making their pilgrimage up the 272 stairs of Batu Caves.
DJ Tiesto - Live at Sepang Malaysia!
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.
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?!
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