Anugerah Industry Music ‘08

with Alex (SingleTrackMind)

Thanks to Alex (SingleTrackMind) to invite me along for the walk on the blue carpet and to watch the AIM’08 award show in PWTC. It’s been 10 years since I last stepped into AIM and it felt great to be back! Well, the last time, I was at the backstage most of the time getting myself ready for the opening act (I was part of the opening act along with Afdlin Shauki) instead of walking down the blue carpet… wait.. it was Red that time.

with Shebby Singh

Anyway, yeah. So at 7pm, I got myself over to PWTC and I left my coat at home. GRR. Met some old friends from ASTRO as well as some others from the Entertainment industry before we were whisked off to the VIP Lounge for some refreshments prior to the start of the show.

with Dayang on the Blue Carpet

With just minutes away from the start, I finally found my seat which was 5 rows away from the stage. Hoorah for me as I whisked out my camera and start to check out the distance I could cover, was bloody happy that I got such a nice seat. During one of the award presentation though, was told by the floor manager to hide my camera and clap as the camera would pan through my face as the winner was just sitting behind me.

Where I sat…

Didn’t really sit through the entire award show though as the last 30minutes was spend at the green room with some of the local artistes camwhoring and having some drinks before resuming my seat to watch the closing act. I think I’ve covered the entire show through my photo album.

The 3 Divas Performing

After the show, we were then asked to proceed down to the 2nd floor for the post event party. Nicely set up Post event party, with enough food to go 2 rounds but seating wise, a tad sad, spend some time catching up with Liang (he won 2 awards!), Dayang as well as Karen Kong before heading to the other half of the hall for the dancing bit. Last word from this event is… CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS!

with Karen Kong

Called it a day for myself about 2am before I head over to Salsa Havana to continue some ‘real’ dancing though. You can check out the following albums for the photos.

• AIM ‘08 1 of 2
• AIM ‘08 2 of 2

with Liang

with Pete Teo

with Suki

MODA Fashion Gateway

Thanks to some friends, I received an invitation to the MODA Fashion Gateway to have a feel of what goes on there. No, I’m not there as a Photographer as I was informed that there’s only a limited number of space for photographers and some people already have all their friends in the list.

Anyway, like I said, there as a guest so I didn’t really try to take any photos. Yes, I tried with just some Camwhoring with my friends happening only, that’s like for an hour, until the fashion show starts then my hands automatically went for the camera and started snapping away along with of the other guests there. Some spotting just a point-n-shoot camera and some with dSLRs.

The Fashion show was well organized with some of the new models and designers showing off their stuff. Please don’t ask me who won the best new Models and New Designers award as straight after some of my friends finished their stuff on the catwalk, we were all just camwhoring away at the back stage.

You can check out the photos that I took at the links below, from the show itself to the Post Event Party @ Velvet that we went to. Yes, it was a happening night that does not revolve around Salsa dancing for me.

The show itself was well organized with Gillian Hung being very hands on in the whole thing. Hosted by Edwin Sumun, they had some top designers attending the show as participants as well as judges, the judges that was there to judge the new designers include the likes of Edmund Ser, Sonn San, Dato’ Tom Abang Saufi, Dato’ Bernard Chandran and Douglas Chew. We even walked away with a nice bag designed by Gillian herself!

Anyway, this show was so big that alot of the local top models showed themselves at the catwalk as well as attending the event as guests. But then, I’m not here to bore you with what went on at the show, so hope you guys enjoyed the photos I’ve posted so far and if not enough, click at the following links for more photos!

• MODA Fashion Showcase 1 of 3
• MODA Fashion Showcase 2 of 3
• MODA Fashion Showcase 3 of 3
• Post Show Party @ Backstage & Velvet

Photos from Malaysian DreamGirl Finale @ 1Utama

Finally finished transfering my photos from the Malaysian DreamGirl finale and here are some of my favorites.

ShaolinTiger and KimberlyCun got theirs up before mine. So fast they work.

Fiqa

Ringo

Nadia

Hanis

Nadia again

Cindy

Fiqa again

Natasha

Valerie

Ringo in her Kawaii look after the show ended. I love this shot.

So what do you think of my favorite shots? For more, you can check out the following galleries:

• Malaysian DreamGirl Finale @ 1U Part 1 of 5
• Malaysian DreamGirl Finale @ 1U Part 2 of 5
• Malaysian DreamGirl Finale @ 1U Part 3 of 5
• Malaysian DreamGirl Finale @ 1U Part 4 of 5
• Malaysian DreamGirl Finale @ 1U Part 5 of 5

Shocking Result from MDG Finale!

Back from the MalaysianDreamGirl.tv Finale at 1Utama earlier with some shocking results of the winners. Well, it’s only shocking if you are a big supporter of Hanis. LOL…

Seems like the result isn’t that surprising to some of the people there.

Here’s how it looked.

In 3rd Place, Hanis Zalikha binti Zainal Rashid!

In 2nd Place, Adeline Lee Ying Ying!

In the 1st Place, Tey Cindy!

More photos coming soon…. So do check back for more posting later on.

World Latin Salsa Congress 2008

It’s been a week since the World Latin Salsa Congress was over in Penang. To me, it was a huge success as tons of people came to me and say how much they enjoyed the workshops and parties we organized for them.

As for myself, this is one of the most tiring event that I’ve involved in thus far. With a grand total of 6 hours of sleep from Friday to Monday, I was actually running high only on Salsa, from attending the workshops and parties that was held throughout as well as running about making sure all the instructors’ needs are met and all the participants’ complains are dealt with. I didn’t know the word tired until Tuesday itself when I finally relaxed and slept.

One of the most cherished moments from this event is the fact that I’ve made so many new found friends through the congress, from within Malaysia as well as from all over the world, Japan, Australia, Canada as well as Venezuela.

Aside from that, the workshops that was organized throughout the weekend was amazing, things we learn in it, we don’t normally learn in classes or a the clubs. No doubt I didn’t attend much as I’ve been running around but those that I went for, man… they were exciting! How often do you get to throw a woman about and the woman enjoys it?

And then there’s the performances at the dinner parties. Everyone put on their best shows to thrill the crowd, for the first timers, the first reaction was.. GOSH! Can we actually do those things? To the experienced, it was GOSH! They have upped the ante!

And then there’s the highlight of the whole event. The Beach party, the one that everyone talks about even until today. How often do we have a beach party with LIVE Band and dancing in the sand? Name me one other Latin Dance festival in Malaysia that does it? There isn’t other than the Congress! That’s the big highlight of the whole congress!

Then there’s this other thing call late nights. The parties ends at 2am every night but does the people stop partying? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO….. We would gather the musical instruments, find a nice comfortable spot and continue partying away, when the whole hotel turns off the lights to sleep, we are still singing and dancing away near the beach. It was fantastic! To think that impromptu Jamming sessions would be this fun is just amazing.

To end this post, my camera never worked this hard before with over 3,000 photos being taken, of course, we aren’t going to put every single one on the web for all to see right? There’s always the selected ones that is more decent and so forth. You can find them all at the following links.

World Latin Salsa Congress 2008 Collection

* Partying with Gerardo Rosales @ Salsa Havana
* Congress Day 1 Workshop
* Congress Day 1 Welcome Party 1 of 3
* Congress Day 1 Welcome Party 2 of 3
* Congress Day 1 Welcome Party 3 of 3
* Congress Day 2 Workshop 1 of 2
* Congress Day 2 Workshop 2 of 2
* Congress Day 2 Beach Party 1 of 3
* Congress Day 2 Beach Party 2 of 3
* Congress Day 2 Beach Party 3 of 3
* Congress Day 3 Workshop 1 of 2
* Congress Day 3 Workshop 2 of 2
* Congress Day 3 Gala Dinner 1 of 3
* Congress Day 3 Gala Dinner 2 of 3
* Congress Day 3 Gala Dinner 3 of 3
* Partying with Pretty Boys & Girls @ Salsa Havana