Weekly Highlights – Halloween Special!

Fashion Flirt with Baci & Solemate, The Attic, Thursday, Oct 30th, 8.00 pm

Baci & Solemate

They’ll be showcasing drool worthy apparel and killer awe inspiring shoes of all sorts from Baci & Solemate, both who’s already made a significant name for themselves from their boutiques in Telawi Bangsar.

Breakin’ It Down Thursday, Oct 30th, 8.30pm

Break

Young KL Singers sings Jazz !
5 shows, from 30th Oct to 2nd November.
Tickets is priced at RM45 (adults) and RM35 (12 years and below)

Jakarta’s Hottest Female DJs @ Red Square Kuala Lumpur Friday, Oct 31st, 9.00 am

Jakarta

Red Square offering you the SEXIEST FEMALE DJs From Jakarta To Make your Halloween’s Party More Happening!

No Cover Charge!

Halloween at TGI Friday’s, Oct 31st, 7.30pm

Halloween at TGI Friday

It’s happening at ALL TGI Friday’s stores. So you big and small kids…come dressed up in your worst to win fantastic prizes.

A Rocky Horro Picture Show Halloween, The Attic, Friday, Oct 31st, 8.00pm

The ROcky Horror Picture Show

We’re donning on laces and feather boa’s and freaking out like its 1975. Bringing back the creepy haunting of the rocky horror picture show!

RENDEZVOUS WITH JIM BRICKMAN @ KL TOWER TERRACE Friday, Oct 31st & 1st Nov, 10.00pm

Jim Brickman

Accompanied by the talented John Trones from Minneapolis and Atilia the Malaysian nightingale of Malaysian Contemporary music on 31st Oct – their performances starts with a special opening act by Jeff Timmons of 98 degrees.

The Black Cherry Halloween Ball feat DJ Heather (Chicago, US), Marketplace Friday, Oct 31st, 9.00pm

Black Cherry Halloween Ball

Having scoured the planet looking for the right DJ to take the helm on the wheels of steel, DJ Heather arrived at the top of the hit list. With the final limb of this frankenstein in place, all that’s left if for YOU to come rock it with your electrifying energy to shock this party monster to life!

Dark Nite, Club 9 & the SIX Lounge, Friday, Oct 31st, 9.00pm

Dark Nite

Creatures of the nite, be bold & daring this Halloween @ Club 9, where total darkness will envelop the venue, creating a sexy playground for the wicked & sinful!

Hallo ‘Freaking’ ween – Move Special, Euphoria, Friday, Oct 31st, 9.00pm

Hallo

Be afraid, Very afraid as Victor ‘The Blood sucker G @ Ian “Murdering Bandit” Ross take you to the dark side with a villainous journey of the 4:4 beat,House ,Electro, Minimal, Prog, Techno & London’s Latest groove- Bass Line

PlayHouse special ” Haunted Mansion ” , Heritage Mansion, Friday, Oct 31st, 9.00pm

Haunted Mansion

PlayHouse Special, the ‘HAUNTED MANSION’. Join 3 divas – DJ Tiara and DJ Devina this 31st October,2008 (FRIDAY) and DJ ALfi this 1st November (SATURDAY) only @ Heritage Mansion.

Drop Dead Gorgeous: Halloween party with DJ NENES (NL), Maison the Club, Friday, Oct 31st, 9.00pm

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Come experience the night that will send chills to your spine and take you to the underworld of beauty. Let the night unfolds the deadliest and most gorgeous souls in the House.

LOLLIPOP presents CRYPT, MIST Club, Friday, Oct 31st, 10.00pm

CRYPT

It’s not a trick…but its definitely gonna be a treat! A night tailored to send chills up your spine and take you to the realm of the undead within the Lollipop world through drop-dead beats of gatekeeper DJ D.
The best-DRESSED undead soul reaps a cool RM 1,000 reward and a bottle of Champagne to pop on the night… yeah, that’s RM 1,000 cold hard cash y’all

HALLOWEEN Party at Upstairs and Cynna, The Loft KL, Friday, Oct 31st, 10.00pm

HALLOWEEN Party

Friday Nite is Halloween and this means that both Cynna and Upstairs will turn into the haunted house you have been dreaming of!!

Benefit Cosmetics Family & Friends Sale, Kristal Suite 1, 1st Floor West Wing, Hilton Hotel, Friday, Oct 31st – Nov 1st, 9.30am – 6.00pm

Benefit Sale

Benefit Cosmetics Family & Friends Sale These deals will drive a Girl WILD! (Its your only chance to stock up on your Benefit faves (selected products at awesome prices!) before they drive off into the sunset.)

CLUB 21Designer Clearance Sale, Bangsar Village II, Friday, Oct 31st – Nov 2nd, 11.00am – 8.00pm

Club 21 Designer Clearance Sale

Club21 Designer Clearance Sale Discount up to 90% (31 Oct : Additional 10% Off nett purchase for CIMB & Direct Access cardmember)

Bijou Bazaar @ Eco Film Fest, ASWARA, Saturday, Nov 1st, 10.00am – 10.00pm

Bijou Bazaar

Eco Film Fest 2008 – Artist Escape

“Let’s have tea and cakes.”, says Nurita, Jln Telawi, Saturday, Nov 1st, 3.00pm – 6.oopm

Tea and Cake

“Come and enjoy our tea party whilst browsing our new pieces from designer range to mid/affordable range pieces. There will be dresses,accesories,tops and a huge space for you to just mingle with everyone!”

HEINEKEN GREEN ROOM : VAN SHE (aus), DEXPISTOLS (jpn) & LAPSAP (kl), Zouk, Saturdays, Nov 1st, 9.00 pm

HEINEKEN Green Room

VAN SHE , DEXPISTOLS & LAPSAP = MAYHEM!!!!!so get ready set and go download the tunes to get familiar and watch them youtube videos to hype yourself up!

KL Tower – SPCA World Animal Day ! KL Tower Terrace, Sunday, Nov 2nd, 12.00pm – 6.00pm

SPCA World Animal Day!

Join us at our biggest WAD event yet! Thanks to the good folks at KL Tower, we will be launching our Animals Matter To Me campaign at this event – while celebrating World Animal Day, KL Tower’s 11th Anniversary and SPCA’s 50th Anniversary!

LUSH presents QUACK! QUACK! Pool Party, Market Place, Sunday, Nov 2nd, 2.00pm – 11.00pm

Quack! Quack! Pool Party

We’re back!!!! The pool’s been drained and another 18 000 litres of water has been filled. If the monsoon weather has not allowed your swim shorts/ bikinis to dry then time to buy new ones cause you don’t want to miss it….

‘H’ Factor Nationwide Creative Youth Workshop, Seri Pacific Hotel, Sunday, Nov 2nd, 10.00am – 7.00pm

The hottest event of the year! RM30 for the whole day including buffet lunch and refreshments at the hotel throughout the day. Materials included. Come support and have fun with us at the same time. Speakers include Harith Iskander, Hans Isaac, Serena C, Pietro, Reymee of Innuendo, etc. See you on Sunday!

* Click on photos for more infos

* Send your events to chichick@ymail.com

STUMBLE UPON | Video clip

Stumbled upon this moving video clip on Youtube. The creator, Syeraph paired footages from Planet Earth, a BBC documentary with Comptine D’un Autre Ete L’apres Midi, a wonderful music piece by Yann Tiersen, from the soundtrack of Amélie. The series was broadcasted on both BBC and Discovery Channel.

The clip highlights our beautifully jungles, on the other hand, the music reminds us how fragile they are. Overall it really moves hearts, despite the stillness of the subject, trees.

Here is a link to a clip on the documentary: Planet Earth – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loL2eM8F_Dc&feature=related.

NAGOMI SHABU-SHABU

Swish-swish

 

Nagomi Shabu-Shabu Chopsticks Envelope

With daily downpour just before we call it a day at work, there is no better place to have your dinner than Nagomi Shabu-Shabu while waiting for the traffic to clear.

Beef Shabu-Shabu Set

Nagomi offers traditional, authentic Japanese hotpot in a fine-dining ambience. The prices may be on the high side for an everyday, ordinary meal, the portion for its Shabu-Shabu Sets is big. The sets come with:-

1) a plate of sliced razor thin meat – beef, chicken (yes, razor thin chicken slices) or duck – or chunky sashimi – salmon or tuna;
2) a plate of vegetables;
3) a pot of broth – Nagomi, chicken or spicy;
4) a bowl of rice; and
3) 3 types of sauces – goma, chili & ponzu

The hot steam from the hotpot creats the perfect warm & cozy feeling amidst the cold & wet weather outside the restaurant. With the traffic jam, there is no hurry to finish the dinner – one can swish-swish slowly.

A Good Selection of Sashimi

Sushi Rolls

Nagomi also offers a wide selection of sushi, sashimi, hand-rolls, snacks, alcoholic drinks and desserts. We particularly like the salmon sashimi for its freshness, apparently fresh deliveries arrive on Tuesday & Friday.

You can find Nagomi Shabu-Shabu in

1. Jaya 33, Section 13, PJ;
2. Hartamas Shopping Centre, Sri Hartamas; and
3. Menara Hap Seng, KL (near Shangri-la Hotel)

It also has a pretty cool website – www.nagomishabushabu.com.

MAX PAYNE

A few days ago, my friends wanted to watch a movie. I said yes without knowing which movie my friends  had in mind. I later found out that it was a movie called “Max… something” and it’s about a video game becoming real. “Oh.. like Jumanji?” “Erm.. ya, I think so” Right.

So watching the movie with an expectation of a teenager being sucked into his PC, I got a little confused after 15 minutes of watching the show. I slowly realised that my friend was definitely wrong about the plot, so scraping my mind clean of any expectations, I returned my attention to the movie. After another half an hour, I found myself dozing off. I am not impressed with the movie. I sort of figured out the rest of the movie before the first hour.

The graphics, however, was fantastic. Unfortunately, that is the only nice thing that I can say for the movie. I found out AFTER the movie, that Max Payne is actually a video game. Sort of like Resident Evil. Duh

Well, the movie is not that bad. But if you’re not a Max Payne game fan, I’d suggest you borrow the DVD from a friend, rather than paying for the movie tickets.

Handle Press and Partnerships

Immediate Hire: 3 months full time contract!

Press & Partnerships Officer

It’s for YOUTH’09 in January. We’re repeating the success of YOUTH’08, this time twice the size, and twice the impact… a 3 day festival with over 100 activities and a targeted attendance of 50,000 youths.

Yeah, it’s not going to be the easiest task on the planet – but we are assembling an all-star team to make it happen.

We have media partners and event partners in place. Right now we need someone to bring the pieces together in a magical way – construct the publicity plan and make sure it happens – and coordinate with event partners to make sure the events follow through. You will be spearheading these tasks with the help of the team.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Liaise with media partners across TV, Radio, Print, and web, handle our pre and post publicity and press coverage
• Liaise with programme partners to make the events and activities during YOUTH’09 even bigger and better

As the right candidate

• You have excellent spoken and written skills in English.
• You possess outgoing, social, positive, youthful energy.
• You possess your own transportation
• You must be available full-time from 15th October till 31st January
• You are willing to learn, do whatever it takes to MASTER this role
• Must be not older than 30 years old (this is a youth-for-youths event after all)

Experience managing events, gathering, and press relations is a plus.

By the end of the 3 month contract…

• You would’ve been a key person in pulling off the largest youth event in Malaysia. (Imagine that on your portfolio)
• You would’ve worked with some of the most competent, capable and dynamic young people in Malaysia
• We may also see an opportunity for you to grow with our team into bigger challenges and career advancement

Some of the people on your team:

Joel Neoh

Joel was a college student when his summer break startup made RM1 Million in revenue its first year of operations.

He went on to build the award-winning NGO Youth Malaysia, running nationwide projects such as YOUTH’08, The 1st National Youth Entrepreneur Convention, and “Gegar U!Colors of Our Nation” – impacting more than half a million youths. Within a year, the organization bagged AYA Dream Malaysia Youth Friendly Company of the Year.

As a fan Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice” series, he joined Malaysia’s first corporate reality TV show – The Firm, as the youngest contestant at age 23, and won.

Joel has also represented his country and won gold medals in rock climbing championships, has modeled for global fashion brands such as Guess, Esprit, Adidas, Nike, Quiksilver and Levi’s, and did not learn business from books (he has a degree in Mechanical Engineering (Hons) from Monash University).

Khailee Ng

Khailee co-founded the local indie music promoter Project Bazooka and socio-political webzine TheCICAK.com as a college student. His projects have won him various awards, including the KLue Blue Chilli Award and the Asian HSBC Young Entrepreneur Award 2006.

He completed his degree in business at the top 2% of his class and Valedictorian from the University of Technology Sydney, along with student achievements in theater, debating, art, photography and writing. He also did advanced studies in Entrepreneurship at San Francisco State and UC Berkeley.

After graduation, his spent 2 years with MindValley, a team of entrepreneurs and programmers from 16 countries. Together, they built profitable internet businesses in the US and UK personal development market, and Web2.0 applications such as BlinkList and SocialRank. During this time, he helped build MindValley to win the international award The World’s Most Democratic Workplace 2008.

Interested?

Work alongside other interesting youths to create the largest youth lifestyle festival Malaysia has ever seen.

Act immediately, send your CV directly to khailee@youthmalaysia.com by 18th of October. We will be deciding on the hire by then.

If you think this is a good opportunity for a friend, do spread the word!

MAMMA MIA!

“Mamma Mia.. Here I go again…”

Honest truth : Meryl Streep going ” You are the dancing queeeeeen, young and free, only seventeeeeen” doesn’t quite work for me. And 007 – the man with the license to kill – singing with sad droopy eyes filled with emotions? C’mon… I want the guns and the shades! And the singing, oh the singing… There were screeches everywhere!

However : ABBA can never go wrong. I found myself singing along and at some points, on top of my lungs too.  Good thing I didn’t watch this movie at the cinema or I might just encounter a terribly embarrassing episode. It made me dig up my ABBA CD I have not touched for some time. The dancing was a tad too ‘over’ for my taste but it did make me laugh. And the part where Donna was helping Sophie get ready for her wedding moved me to tears.

Well, overall I would still rate the movie as a must-watch. Pierce Brosnan was as dashing as ever, Colin Firth was the charming Englishman that he is and it is quite entertaining seeing Meryl Streep singing and dancing to Mamma Mia. And the ending (sigh) was just lovely…

SHANGHAI | Part 2

Guan Gong Figure

This second part of the Shanghai photo-log covers food, some items acquired and video clips showing density of the city.

FOOD

Being one of the most important commerce and financial city, Shanghai is filled with people from all over China. They brought with them a wide variety of food from various part of China.

Sticky Rice with Sesame filling | Pig's Trotters | Pork

Shanghainese Enjoying Food | Xiao Long Bao | Tang Bao

Bao | Xiao Long Bao

Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot | Sichuan Fish

ACQUISITIONS

Shanghai has a much wider range of international brands than in KL, however stuff are relatively expensive. Nonetheless, still managed to find some items to buy.

NIke Warehouse | Mao's Red Book

Dragon Figure | Painting

VIDEOS

With a population of more than 18 million, the density of people is overwhelming. Here are some video footages taken at various spots in Shanghai.