Viva....Urbanscapes!!!!

Wooot!!! The hottest place in town could not get anymore hotter when urbanscapes is on. Its an all day arts carnival everything you love in one place. Everything includes theater, music, dance, rock bands, handmade bags, cheep Cd's, bargain book and the list goes on. You just cant afford to miss this event.

Yes, there was alot of drama getting here, since my partners in crime was honeymooning in Pangkor...*oops* haha, so getting tickets got put on hold till few days before show day. However, I knew that it would be a bummer if we were unable to get tickets so I begged my mum to drive up to KLPac to get tickets...*not to mention to buy tickets for Lets go mamak...you know who you are*.

Heehee, preparation for Urbanscapes started few days before. I made a schedule for myself for the event so that I know where to be at what time. The night before, all my supplies were tucked away in my Kipling bag. I slept at 2am to get everything done...i woke up in the morning at 7.30. So off to the commuter it is...we took the 11.16 train, which came like 3 minutes early, but then we still wasn't able to catch the 1st ride to KLPac which was at 11.45. We reached Sentul station slightly before 12pm, then again we still need to wait for the next shuttle which was in 25 minutes. SO, we waited in the sun, till the shuttle came.

Waitin' in the hot sun....

20 minutes later....

25 minutes later....still waiting...

Finally....Air Connnn....

Other guests studying the shuttle schedule...

The first thing when I got there, I quickly headed for some shade and the air con place...It was HOT, and I needed to get Mamak tickets. In the main building I saw a long lost friend in high school. I heard in the newspaper that she has her own line of stuff, wasn't sure what was it but the ones on sale was huge stuffed toys that were key chains. You will not loose the keys since they were huge. By the way, don't mess with her...she's the principals daughter...hahaha.

Nabila on the left and her friend...cool soft toy designers...soon to be English teachers...

Some interesting artwork...the the holes, there are live fishes...
Art in Action, Slik screen painting...customize your t-shirts....XP all in KLPac main building...

After quickly getting mamak tickets, I rushed to the street performers area. This is where the 1st performance on my list were playing. They were like the stomp that you could watch in U-tube, but in a smaller scale. Yep, they have much to grow on like all musicians.

KL stompers version of Brooms

Since we bypass the ticket counter on the way in, we didn't get the wrist band that allowed us to access to all areas, we had to go back to the front and get it so along the way we went shopping at the bazaar there. A lot of indie stuff, Syikin's favorite market place I assume. I kinda like it too, you can get a jacket for like RM5...How cool is that?? there are pins, bags, paintings, belts, t-shirts, OMG!!! if had time and money, this is like the coolest place to go shopping.

We rushed back to the street performance area, to see what the people from Theater for Young people (T4YP) has install for us today. Their performance was an interactive theater, whereby the title of their performance was "secrets". So, what we do is there was this dude, Mr. Dominatrix passing around paper and a jar to place all the audiences secrets and the performers will act out the secret. Totally hilarious. Two teams of performers, in 10 seconds they had to pick a secret, and act it out. Secrets are like "I didn't shower for the whole day of yesterday" then they would act it out. Well there was more secrets, that well might not be appropriate for this blog...but I'll totally share in other mediums...heehee....

Mr. Dominatrix

MC reading out the secrets....a lot of em...seriously...

The cast for T4YP

Secret: "I hated the annoying person nagging for 2 hours while I was driving"

Secret: "I sniff underwear before I go to bed"

After the show, I head for a quick pray break. The other girls went to watch freedom fest at indicine. The movie was about Lena Joy, apparently the girls sat for quite some time and felt it too heavy for them so they had left the screening before I get the chance to join them inside the screening. Then, we did what we did best, camwhoring...weee

Haha, photoshots done and our journey continues with live fusion music and 2 group collaboration at cinescapes, pentas 2 KLPac. Tugu drummers with rhythm in bronze. The one that Prof Tan did a composition. I was searching for their CD but I think they didn't brought one on that day...*sigh*. The music was great, but all of us felt it was too short. They should play more pieces...heehee, next time then....

Tugu drummers....

Rhythm in Bronze....

See the one Kenong there, The guy was banging it for the whole of an entire piece that I seriously thought the kenong was going to break....

After the show, we were caught by the ideas people, heehee, they were such interesting people.... Ask Wanie and Jojo for details...

I dunno how to explain this....haha

I dunno what they were caught into but it was funny...well then we headed for the Box downstairs where we listened to The Sofa Sessions. Before that there was this great guitarist, by the name Zalilah lee I think. Then we listened to the Sofa Sessions...a duo..and totally funny music. Their first track was "Lagu Sunat" which depicts the time when a boy get circumstance...OMG, the song was really funny.

Zalilah Lee

The Sofa Sessions....Tok Mudim dah datang...hehe

After that, on our schedule was Pop Shuvit at the X lawn, so I took another pray break and they went straight into the rock concert...it totally hurt my ears and I felt my heart jump out of my rib cage...but the music was awesome

Still at the lawn...was Yuna...Love her music, Sounds a bit like Fiona Apple...

After that it was almost six and I had to rush to KLCC. Another concert awaits me, and I had to retune my mind to a classical concert after the hard rock concert...anyhow, before I went back I managed to listened to the Zouk's dj playing...well because this is the closes you can get into zouk locally for me and not to get caught with JAIS you know...*badly needs live electronic music* then off to KLCC...

Zouk dj booth....

I sooo enjoyed the day, I wished I could stay till the morning but things come and I'm soo looking forward to the next one. It was a very long day and I dread to wake up the next morning of the fatigue of yesterday...Mamak is coming your way as well as the HSBC classics...so I hope to attend them soon...and tomorrow is my registration...I should be sleeping now, okok off to bed...

Its the time to....Mamak!!!

Proudly almost swiping clean the awards in the music section in the Boh Cameronian arts awards Inner Voices production is presenting Let's go Mamak....Again at KLPac on the 3-5 july 2009. The music concert portrays elements of music from various ethnical music in Malaysia which truly shows the colors of the society interacting and living together in harmony. On June 21th 3.00pm, I went to the making of Lets go Mamak...Again at The Soka Gakkai Malaysia. What started for only ethnic instruments playing chrismas tunes, turned into a big musical performance. For the full details on the history, check out the website.

Weee...after making a simple call to SGM, I've secured a ticket to the performance. This will give me a head start on the real performance in July. When I went to the Boh arts awards, was really keen to go the performance and when they announced to have the performance again i was excited...and yes, the making was really up to my expectation. The music was weaved with modern instruments playing modern chords with the sounds of the tabla, guzheng, and the gereteh (caklempong). Other instruments include rebana, the Indian flute and Chinese drum. The mamak idea came from our mamak culture as a melting pot to exchange ideas, hang out, and watch football...hahaha.

The violin rawks!!! man he can play...*yes I need to pick up my violin again and....PRACTICE*

The music introduces the sound of the instruments, like in the first piece, the opening starts like one instrument after another somewhat digesting different sounds and texture. The music grows to a bigger texture and sound and having the overall music sounds complex but yet beautiful. During the lecture part of the performance, Julian, the saxophone player explains, some part of the music also depict influences of people that have influences from outside such as a piece called Mamak with Tiffany tells the tale of a simple girl going overseas and talking about her experience culturally in both places. Its quite fascinating to hear the music and how the story corresponds to the music. Your imaginations does fly...heehee.

My favorite piece was Drum Talk, because the common ground was the drums, and how they communicate with each other. It looks like we as Malaysian are so different and yet so the same. You just gotta experience it to understand.

The Soka Gakkai Malaysia giving a token of appreciation to the players of Lets go Mamak Again

So more information go to inner voices website, http://www.innervoices.asia/Innervoices/Home.html

its worth the watch... come to experience it for yourselves...XP

She's a lady

Whoooa!!! its been some time that I blogged. After Bandung, china and the mini house durian drama. Aduh, its been a real roller coaster ride for me and tomorrow I shall have some time for myself just to recuperate. Bandung was enormously fun. You can imagine a trip juz for shopping??? heaven right?? well that's what we had. To celebrate my mum's birthday, dad decided that we should go to the Paris of the east Bandung. With the limited cash I had to ask dad for some extra aid from dad. I guess you can imagine how the trip was for me hahaha.

The first day we went to Rumah Mode after checking in the hotel and some outlets outside of Rumah Mode. Good tip, don't go to Bandung during weekends. Jalannya macet or in other words you'll have to join the crowd of jakarta people shopping too.

wanna know why my bag has an x marks the spot??? the airport was so tiny that they had to check for narcotics in front of us so the narcotics doggy sniffed the cough syrup in mu bag and they ask me to open up my suit case for inspection...hehehe. Huge black doggy.

Some statue outside Rumah Mode that looks kinda cool

Tired Shoppers

I swear that is not meeeee, but you can imagine the happy buyers, well until the bill comes to the doorstep that's another story....

We were then faced with a problem...no taxis were coming and as the traffic jam began to get worse we made a deal with the mini bus (or van) driver to send us back to the hotel...and it was a reli cool to be driving in the angkutan kota these are some snapshots from the vehicle...hehehe

after a quick prayer break, we went for lunch and continued shopping till late night... continue for the next three days....weeeee, to good to imagine. Our hotel was on jalan riau aka jalan martadinata. Along that road was factory outlets like Heritage, cascade, the secret, terminal tas, branded club and many, many more. Well you can imagine the shops are like F.O.S and reject Shop like places. No bargaining involved and the prices are realy cheep. No cameras allowed inside so no pictures of the inside part. but here's outside branded club with the burberry design outside it....hehehe. Totally, comfy, they have nice changing rooms too, some like pavilion style.

The next day we woke up early and went to Pasar Baru. Its something like our pekan rabu in Alor Setar. Bazaar like shops where it'll test your bargain skills. Here is the best place to buy textile, telekung, blouses, wedding stuff, batik, and many bazaar stuff.

here is some pictures of my mum and my aunty shopping. Me and dad were more of the outlet people....XD

At the telekung shop next to a children's wear shop







The cool thing about pasar baru is if you're tired there these guys pulling food and drinks. So, you can actually sit down bargaining all you like then pick a drink and wait till the stuff come to you...heehee quite convenient huh???

The view of Pasar Baru from outside

after lunch we continued some of the outlets at jalan riau and then went to a cool place for dinner. It was ibu's birthday so we had a special dinner.

Food??? Gooooooood. Plus avocado juice....mmmmm.

Next day, we went to champlas walk. Nothing much but there is this good bag brand called Elizabeth. The building also looks interesting.

The bag quality is quite good, thing is people dont see it because its not available outside Indonesia. But the bags are really nice and price is a lil above average. After that we went to Jalan Dago where there is another road full of outlets too. Excited, excited....more shopping...by this time I had to rely on dad because I finished my cash already. *ooopppssss* hehehe

Then the next morning on the day we were leaving, we managed to go back to the branded club and stamp outlet to do some last minute shopping....yeahhh, spend-spend...this time I really had to cling to dad. *giggles* Gosh, am I that bad???

Well this is the hotel we stayed in. The location is good, beds are kinda too soft. Overall ok.

Well then it's time to bid farewell to Bandung. So we went to the airport via the hotel van...*coz we had many stuff* then were on our way back to LCCT. So wanna know what I end up in 4 days of shopping?? 2 T-shirts, burburry and A&F, 8 blouses mostly esprit, 2 Pierre Cardin jeans, one guess jeans, one D&G jeans, one A&F cargo pants, 2 sling bags and my baju raya material....weeeee, this is the true confessions of a shopaholic....hehehe. Dad has like 15 shirts and T-shirts, ranging from Tommy Hilfiger, burburry, and many brand names. My aunty??? heehee...I even lost count. I'm a lady that lurveees shopping....*happy dance*