Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The first major Nuffnang party in Malaysia for 2009!
After months and months of my fellow Nuffies and Mehlin and gang working their butts off, we’re finally pulling together the first major Nuffnang event of the year.The magic date and time is the 4th of April 2009 at 6pm till 10pm. And the magic place is…. Maison at Jalan Yap Ah Shak. Just nearby the Nuffnang KL Office.
This time we’re once again collaborating with Maxis Broadband but instead of the animal-themed party we did last year,
this year it’s going to be the first of the Nuffnang Music Bash ’09!
So instead of animal costumes, this time we’re all supposed to go looking all glamour dressed looking like we’re music celebrities like Justin Timberlake, or Bob Marley or … whatever genre you’re into. The good thing about partnering with Maxis Broadband for our events though is that they’re always kind enough to supply us with laptops hooked to the internet with Maxis Broadband to allow anyone to Live Blog at the event.
As usual we’ll be giving away best-dressed prizes and a Nokia XpressMusic 5800 for the Most Creative entry written to gain an entry to the event. We’re also giving away a Canon Digital Ixus 870 IS for the best live blog.
Unlike a lot of the events we had in the past, the Nuffnang Music Bash ’09 is going to have a very celebrity kind of feel to it. Something that has quite a bit of glamour into it.
Among some other things to look forward to at the event:
1) There’s going to be a bloggers’ band performance that means we actually got some Nuffnangers to actually perform as a band on stage!
2) We’ve even forced some of the Nuffies to do a dance on stage. They’re doing Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire.
HAHAHA it’s going to be so funny. I forced them all to show me a rehearsal today.
Come to see the actual dance.
Shy Carol tried to hide herself from the video behind Andrea towards the end of the video but that just made matters worse for herself. Yes the rest of us Nuffies will be cheering from the crowd.
3) I’m going to be performing Justin Timberlake’s “Like I Love You” on stage. HAHAHA no I’m just kidding. Not happening at all.
I can’t decide what to wear for the event. I thought for a while about being lazy and going dressed as a Korean Pop Star as I did in the VPost party.
But oh well I decided not to be lazy so I’ve narrowed it down to possibly go as one of my favourite groups.
I’m going to go as one of them from Coldplay.
I love Coldplay!
Started loving them since I started studying at University College London where they came from too. Heck just about every UCL student I know loves Coldplay!
I’m not sure how I should really dress to look like Coldplay though. Maybe I’ll go as the dude on the right: Put on a t-shirt, sweater, jeans and sneakers then walk around all night with my hands in my pocket with an angry face like that
HAHAHA that sounds pretty funny actually.
OKAY OKAY ON !
I’m going to go like that! And I’ll keep an angry face all night to keep in character.
And if I can find enough money I’ll hire a few promoter girls to stand outside the club before I go in. Then once I step down from my car I’ll get them all to scream
“I LOVE YOU COLDPLAY!!!”
And I’ll get them all to throw their panties at me.
Talk about feeling like a ROCKSTAR!!!
For those of you who’re going! See you guys there!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Guinness Anchor Berhad is the company that houses a lot of good booze brands under it. Heineken, Tiger, Guinness and Anchor to name a few. That big compound is also the brewery where they make all their beer and somewhere in that compound is "The Tavern".
A pub for everyone who works at GAB to get free flow beer every day!
Not too long ago, Heineken invited a number of Nuffnang bloggers to the Tavern for the first time to have dinner and drinks with their staff. When I say "drinks", I mean nothing less than the freshest beer in the country. The beer at the Tavern comes fresh out of the brewery that makes it housed in the same compound!
We learned a whole lot about beer. Let me give you an example.
Now you guys would think that a bartender's job is easy right? I mean just get a beer mug and pour beer from the tap. Well... not really... if you want to do it right.
When you pour beer from the tap you have to pour from a 45 degree angle in the beginning and then slowly straighten your mug as it fills up. This is to make sure that the foam at the end just reaches the top by the time you're done.
If the mug is not full or overflows after the foam settles then you've basically failed your bartending test.
We all took turns to try and some of us like Huai Bin here even found it hard enough to get beer into the mug. He eventually ended up filling half the mug with just foam so much that it looks more like a cappuccino than beer to me.
LOOK AT THAT!
How he developed that skill... I have no clue.
Ironically the girls there that night did a far better job pouring beer than the guys.
Cynthia did a great job. It wasn't a "perfect pour" but it was far better than the effort of all of us guys combined.
If I poured beer for all of you whenever you ordered it, it would only be half full. We spent the rest of the night drinking free flow Heineken and ended up chatting with the Heineken team who invited us: Jasmine and Iryne.
They showed us some cool things that Heineken was doing online like this new online multiplayer game they had on their website.
Last year Heineken had a big public screening of the UEFA Champions League in South Africa. This year’s screening though is going to be in Thailand so the online game is a massive virtual raft race from South Africa to Thailand.
You can join fleets and compete with people from all around the world and the winner will win a free trip to Thailand to watch the UEFA Champions League finals at an event there. Heineken parties are just the best, I’ve been to so many even back in KL and they never disappoint.
You get to customize your raft too. Mine had a nice deck chair for me to chill on while I “float” away to Thailand.
Anyway we ended the night all a little high from the booze but happy.
Heineken parties just never disappoint. The next one in KL is going to be on the 25th of April at the Hap Seng Star Mercedes-Benz Auto Haus on Jalan Sultan Ismail. They’re bringing in an international alternative rock/hip hop group called The Bumblebeez but here’s the best part: They’re going to be setting up huge projectors to project mock Roman architecture, making the entire place look like Rome from the inside. SERIOUSLY!
If you wanna know more about some Heineken events coming up, click here.
As I lay in bed that night I kept trying to figure out what it was I found so difficult about pouring beer from a tap into my mug. Seriously!
One day... one day I shall master the art of pouring beer...