It was an event held in conjunction with Merdeka Day, where we got about 200 people to come together and decorate all seven Monorail trains running on that day. You can read more about what happened and see some pictures in my previous post.

I just wanted to share with you the official video of the event that was just released a few days ago. See if you can spot me at the beginning of the video!

Oh, and because R.AGE is a media partner, we had produced our own video too. Check it out.

Good night all! Have a fabulous week ahead!

12.42am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)

If you want to know who she is, look for the most mental-looking person in the picture above. These are my colleagues and I posing in front of the newly-renovated reception area at Menara Star. It used to be R.AGE at StarDeck, where we worked from. Obviously, Sharm is the only one not upset at the whole thing (or rather, has a really strange way of showing it).

This would explain the mentalness of the birthday poem she wrote for me – and posted on my FB wall. It is some sort of a tradition ( (okay, well, she’s only done it ever once before) but I am very touched and I love it. Really.

Thanks Sharm! *smiles*

Wanted to share it with you guys:

There is a boy,
Tall and skinny,
His hair quite short,
And his laugh a bit funny.

He looks thirteen,
Though he’s actually thirty,
He’s young at heart,
That’s what keeps him him pretty.

He loves to run,
And tweet and blog,
Can eat a …bucketful of pork,
But never a dog (I hope).

Has a nice hat collection,
And a whole bunch of tees,
So colourful and unique,
Even Rio wanted a piece.

He loves to sing,
Though cannot carry a tune in a bucket,
Belts out Spice Girls despite stares,
In his head he’s like “F*** It!”

He’s generous and kind,
Though not at all times,
Can be jahat and sarcastic,
Well no one said he’s fantastic.

But at the end of the day,
He’s just a Bangsar Boy,
Who spends crazy money,
On lotsa weird ass toys.

Like stuff called Poken,
And a watch difficult to read,
He’s unique in every way,
Never follows, always leads.

Thanks Sharm, I really, really love it.

On a separate note, about a month ago (a few weeks after my 30th birthday), I received a Tweet from one Shiva Ruppeni. It read:

I clicked on the link and lo and behold, I found that Shiva had created a Wikipedia page for me. Damn shy. But it was very thoughtful of her, considering that we’ve only ever exchanged some Tweets. Thanks Shiva.

Oh, and thanks to JayDee for this blogpost too. I shy to write too much about it because I think my blog post today is quite syiok sendiri already.

I love receiving presents when it’s least expected. Don’t you?

12.08pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)

I think he put in some elements of the er hu (or something other classical Chinese instrument) and the piano gets a bit jazzy at some points. I’m not a big fan of Lee Hom (mainly ‘cos I don’t understand Chinese) but I really love this.

So wanted to share it with you this weekend. Thanks to James for sharing this.

2.36pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)

If you’re still keen on winning photo prints and the photo funbook, thanks to Ruumz, go ahead and take the weekend to enter the contest.

The deadline was midnight last night but because there wasn’t enough entries due to popular demand, I’m extending the contest till midnight of Sunday, November 8.

Not sure what I’m on about? Well, read this post for the details.

Basically, you just need to blog about what kinds of photos you would want to print, and why. It’s really pretty simple. Terms and conditions and more details here.

Good luck!

8.27am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)

Recognise the only guy standing in the picture? Oh yeah, it’s me.

A couple of weeks ago, I got a phone call from Carol and Nikki at Nuffnang asking if I’d be interested in being spoiled-rotten at a photoshoot for Juice magazine? The “day as a model” was planned thanks to Hotlink, and we were dressed by Topman (well, the girls were in TopShop lah).

If you have read this month’s edition of the magazine, you would have noticed Hotlink’s advertorial which published pictures from the shoot, including some behind the scenes shots.

Back to the phone call; I wasn’t so sure at first. After all, I’m more used to being on the other side having been editor of a men’s lifestyle magazine previously and now, working in a newspaper. It is usually me who stands there “directing” the shoot. But I thought, should be fun and it was Deepavali, so I had the day free.

I went to the studio, located in the heart of town not knowing anyone. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t know what to expect considering the amount of fashion shoots I’ve planned. I knew it was going to be a lot of waiting, waiting and more waiting. The only person I expected to know was Editor In Chief Muna but I figured she would be busy. So I brought my script from The Swimming Instructor.

Lo and behold, two familiar faces walk in. It was my friend Jeremy, from Red.FM and his *cough* other half *cough* Cindy. The latter was also one of the three bloggers treated to this shoot (besides Jane Lau). As we were waiting, we took some goofy pictures. This is me and Jeremy trying to cover each other’s “muka baru bangun on a public holiday”.

I was a bit worried at first because I didn’t see any of the guys clothing lying around anywhere. I cracked a few jokes about them making me wear ladies clothes. Still, I was careful not to laugh too much lest it come true. You never know stylist these days, they have weird sense of fashion. Look at the dress they made Khairy Jamaluddin wear on the cover of a local magazine. hehe

Although a sense of relief washed over me when I was passed the clothes I was to wear, I wasn’t completely ecstatic. Other than the pants, I would never choose any of those clothes off the rack! See for yourself – it’s not quite me.

Of course, it could easily be me; that I just don’t know how to carry some clothes off. Or maybe, I just don’t know how to style it. I look pretty plain, I thought and it looked pretty strange in general. But then, they sent me off to be glamourfied and things started looking up.

I took pictures of me going through the process of hair and make up. The two top left pictures was of the hair guy (I didn’t get his name!) waxing my hair, before putting on some makeup on me (the top right picture, and bottom left). He did my hair down and the stylist didn’t like it that way – he wanted something edgier. So the other guy worked his magic (last three pics) and did my hair up.

I thought it was pretty cool (considering I was due for a haircut!).

The shoot, for me, was pretty okay. I’m not particularly camera shy so I wasn’t overly self conscious. We did some solo shots before waiting for the rest to finish theirs. Then it was time for the group shot. By this time, we had waited for about four hours or more so we were all pretty knackered. After all, none of us are real models so we’re not used to this. When we were finally done, everyone cheered! haha

Thanks to these three (and to Joey Yap and her crew, the makeup/hair artists that I didn’t get to know … sorry) for a fun day (and for making me look, umm, reasonably nice. They were all camera shy, so I’m just posting tiny pictures of them. From left is Muna, Blink Studios’ Eric Chow and stylist Calvin Cheong.

Oh, and what was the outcome? Well, I really like that group picture we took that I pasted at the top of this post. But yes, of course, there are the solo pictures which I actually rather liked. Not my usual look but it didn’t look half bad. Which one do you like best? My favourite is the one on the left, but I think it’s only because I’ve got a cheeky look.

Thanks again to Hotlink, Topman (thanks for the vouchers), Juice and Nuffnang for the opportunity. More please? Heh

10.58pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)