Concert of the Hong Kong Four Heavenly Kings

Andy Lau, one of the most active of the Four Hong Kong Heavenly Kings, arrived in Malaysia to promote its Vision Tour concert on the 10 December 2005 at Stadium Merdeka. As advertised in radio channels, this would be a biggest event ("Lung Zhung Yan Bao!") as he will never ever perform any concerts anymore. We booked the seat at RM350 for the 24th row of front seats right facing straight the stage. Only a great long time fan can get this kind of seats. Well, our principle of watching concerts is - near or never. Our position of taking pictures was perfect!

It was raining heavily in the afternoon, glad it stopped at 7 plus evening before the concert started. Otherwise, no pics for anyone. We arrived at 5 plus and parked the car 10 seconds from the entrance. kewl ya! =o) I managed to take as many pics as I could, but unfortunate event happened. Scroll on.



Look at the PEeeepLE!

Reached our wired plastic seats at 8 pm and discovered they are all wet! Surprisingly, the management gave free tissues to help ourselves with that problem.


I was thinking what was that all about? The stage was so simple!



It suddenly blackout


Damn.its actually the door! and it opened


WooOo.. open up


The spotlights....Pain in the eyes


Ting! (I just put a lil sound effect. Actually there was no sound)


There's the King of Heaven, with his favourite pose


Dancing and singing


Suddenly...............


After the smoke faded, they were squating, unable to spot Andy Lau's position


There they are again


Yeah. Bring it on Wah Chai (Lil Wah)


Tempo slowing and slowing

Poooom.. Smokey again and fuhhhh... the ultimate Andy Lau branding pose seen in the middle of mist:


Yeah!


The projection has lyrics on it. So I knew it was a Karaoke concert


Andy then told us he has got a moustache already, we can call him Leng Chai Wah (Handsome Wah), he wouldn't mind. And therefore some of the guys were screaming Leng Chai Wah! Leng Chai Wah!

In the middle of his songs....

Narnia lion came out! Nah.. its white. I wonder there's white lion in this world? I know there's white tiger

The lion then wandered around the stage, being so tame to Andy Lau. At times I noticed the lion suddenly shook its head, and shook its butt while walking..


Roar! *Shake head* *Shake head* Roar!


Cobra. Nice!


Roman theme


Andy holding on his beautiful chick. Others playing white clothes

In the middle of everything, I noticed something blinking on my camera screen. LOW BATT struck me! I tried to conserve as much power as I could for the remaining hours, so I took one pic on every change of background/theme or something special.


Background was extraordinary. Rome at dusk and dancer doing acrobatic moves on a big banana

And the camera just gave up like that. It died. I tried to pump the on button again and again. It didn't respond. I missed out the Chinese traditional opera theme and the fake horse Andy was riding on. The background was full of red lanterns and the entire stage was red as well. Unfortunately, the camera was pronounced RIP.

After some time passed, I switched on the camera, and the lights turned green but without graphics on the screen. I just shoot at the scene and voila, my very last pic of the day, without zoom and night settings:


Typical Hong Kong entertainment show

Andy was smart. He knew we would shout him out for encore, just like we did to his counterpart Leo Ku concert in Genting last couple of months ago. He expressed his happiness and glad for us supporting him for so long, and remembering him, and so he gave us fireworks as a gift to us as his fans. We all looked up and he was the first to run backstage, followed by his dancers moments later. The timing was very nice that the door closed after the fireworks finished. We shouted for encore, and we looked at the big red door sealed so tight, we lost mood to call for encore. The spirit died instantly.

So the last Andy Lau concert ended with everyone felt contented. So am I.

Recap of Salem's Revelation 2005 Rave 20 Aug 2005

Check out what's kewl in this month's issue of Faces.


Faces

Our faces are published on the centre of coz! From left: Me, Him, Lydia and Hen (Tay).


Faces - Salem Revelation 2005 at Port Dickson 20 Aug 2005

KL RatRace 2005 6 Sept 2005

The Kuala Lumpur Rat Race 2005, the charity run co organised by Bursa Malaysia Berhad (Malaysia Stock Exhange) has raised RM821,000, the largest amount collected since the inaugural race in year 2000.

The annual race for charity constitutes the CEO's race which covers a distance of 1km and the participants race comprising executives and management from amongst Malaysia's corporations which covers a distance of 4.5km around Kuala Lumpur's Financial District. Both races were flagged off after 5.00pm at the Exchange Square (Bursa Malaysia Square), Bukit Kewangan. 490 participants - CEOs, Executives and Management from the 98 teams, from the 56 participating organizations including 9 CEOs participated in the race this year.

The Singapore Stock Exchange had sent two teams as well for the second time. For the team event, RHB Berhad who had sent in 12 teams came in first, with CIMB Berhad in second and Southern Bank Berhad in third place.


The ratrace

In fact, I found out the race isn't really a race of getting the triumph of 1st, 2nd or 3rd place. It is because some are obliged to race, but most of them were really came to promote their spirit of the respective companies. As for me, I totally had no idea why the hell I was there for. However later of the day, I found my own joy in the event anyway.

What so special I figured out about this race was that the participants were wearing business attire to run and even some had made their own creative versions of costumes, not to mention 3 guys holding a made-of-boardpaper train which had a muffler attached at the back of it, running for 4 KMs (GE team). Some had cheese around their body, some had brought along matress, pillow and bolsters (IKEA team), some also grabbing big light bulb and an aeroplane engine while running. Fascinating!



Ambank representative, in business attire *_*


Another white collar worker running on the streets, alongside catching up with the cars


One of the Ikea freaks grabbing on mattress sheet while running


GE's train at the race!


Ikea cheerleaders with "Ikea Boleh!" (Ikea Can!)


Ikea runners - father and son vikings


PECD (listed construction company) runners - Arabian theme


Glomac cheerleaders


Ratrace supporters

Some narrative and pictures adapted from Bursa Malaysia website

Leo Ku In Concert 3rd Sept 2005

One of the newly crowned Big Four Kings of Heaven is a very punctual man. Our ticket said it's 20:00, he did come to start at 20:00. Held at the Genting Arena of Stars, the environment was not Humid and Hot Sweaty as in Kuala Lumpur. The crowd was in good manner and controlled, and everything was steady without chaos and confusion. Yeah!

The atmosphere:


All of the Leo Ku fans

There weren't many people screaming, just a few of boys shouting for "Leng Jai" (Pretty boy) and "Ku Gui Gei" while others were extremely polite.

We did Mexican Wave too. Leo's dressup was gorgeous and colourful throughout the night. There were grafittis falling, aliens, astronauts, Jade Solid Gold and umbrella man themes, like the old skool concerts with some dancers perform with the superstar at the centre.



Leo Ku in performance


Alex Fung Li Shen came as guest star, performed 2 songs, then ciao-ed


Leo Ku in performance


Hair is black but gold at the front. Once he wore a blue wig too!


Urgh, very emotional

He then thank us all being his fans, it was seemed to be over....


And it was over

The bright lights switched on, some people already made a move to reach the exit doors, but we are not going back! Some of us did not feel satisfied throughout the night, so we screamed for his name and encore, commanding him to come out again ...


The lights are on, and we are not going back


People stood up on their seats

He couldn't stand the pressure, he praised Malaysians spirits are greater than what he expected..


He finally came out again to sing the Dog and Cat

Everyone was then contented, happpily heading to the exits..


The Arena we used to watch Westlife years ago

The songs that Leo sang the entire night can be purchased to listen at the convenience in the house at Night Markets with the CD entitled Leo Ku in Concert. It's almost indifferent.

Happy Mooncake Festival

Chinese celebrates Mooncake Festival on the 15th day of 8th month (of the Chinese Calendar) annually, a month after the "ghost festival". This year, Mooncake Festival falls on Sunday the 18th September 2005 and mooncake business has boomed once again as early as this month, even in the midst of the Chinese "ghost festival".

Therefore, to celebrate the coming of the Mooncake Festival, I have been given the obligation to distribute a "new kind" of mooncake, called the Jelly Mooncake.



The Jelly Mooncake - Actually there were 4 pieces, I tried one of it, it was awesome! That's why one is missing.

It's a new creation of a friend, therefore I would be honoured to have the opportunity to let anyone to try it. You should know that:

Order quantity: Min. two pieces to fit into a 2-piece-box - best for gifts; or
4 pieces to fit into 4-piece-box
Price: RM8.00 per piece
Product: Jelly (a.k.a agar-agar) on top, with 2 flavours of filling on the inside
Filling: Choice of Yam or Red bean
Serving: Cold (To be kept in the fridge)
Expiry: Approx. one week
Satisfaction: Guaranteed!

Now the normal mooncake is selling as high as RM9-RM10 per piece, and I would suggest that the price of this new mooncake is relatively cheap. Try it!

Order through me @ +6012-2065285 (hp) by sending a msg or call or +603-79828080 (h) or drop me a simple mail at aakiang@hotmail.com. Anyway anyhow no probs.

Rave Party 20 Aug 2005

At a Rave party... there are:



Ahhen & Voonim


Lo Ping


Wai Kiung


Free group picture service provided by the management. Kewl!

and some other people which I have not had the opportunity to take picture with..

It was a huge huge rave, held on the beach at Port Dickson, Malaysia. The parking space was very very limited. Most of the people parked at the roadside, some parked at other people's golf course, some parked at petrol stations, some also double-parked, with a message stucked on his window telling the other car that he's sorry coz he was unable to find parking space, henceforth he was forced to double-park. O_o The amount of cars were enormous! The crowd was even more enormous! Police and army were there to control the traffic and situation.

Chicks were everywhere. Being more than before.


Hmmm.. ok


As everyone thought it was a beach party, they came with bikinis O_O


It's true..


Some of the people were Melbourne Shuffling, there were group performance dancing too, where some of the people showing off their skills ranging from Melbourne Shuffles, Glow, "Thailand dance" and even the original in-front-of-Imbi-Plaza-KL-break dance. Fuhh, everyone was delighted from the free shows.


Lightning fast shuffling move. My hp camera incapable of capturing the moves

Then..


Fireworks came


More fireworks came

And the party I presume the biggest of them all based on crowdedness and difficulty in finding a parking space and the perimeter the event occupied, is


Salem Revelation Party - The Ultimate Beach Party @ Admiral Marina, Port Dickson, Malaysia

ps. Not an entirely beach party afterall. We were dancing on tarmac!