Time Out KL On The Up Jan 2009

It was the first Time Out KL Music Night of the year. A monthly event by Time Out KL which is held in the heart of KL, a venue with the name No Black Tie every 3rd Wednesday of the month.

i was with the usual peeps chilling there that night.

Aaron and David taking pictures with Nigel video recording, it was quite an interesting night i would say.

2StoreyHeart was the first that kept us entertained. Except for the screams he had during his performance, i thought that he is all fine. His songs were a bit emo though, perhaps because of his own life where he was heartbroken back in last year.

Talking about broken, Broken Scar the next performers rocked us that night. Like totally. With Kevin, Alda, Zach, and Alex + an extra performer, the violinist, they made quite a good band and played some really awesome music that night.

and i was even awake at 4.40am that night listening to their songs. Lolx

After an awesome rock session by Broken Scar, we had a totally different performance by the next one, Izzy Mohamed. A more slow tune, some pretty soft and nice songs were displayed. Izzy got a nice voice, just not that distinctive enough that's all. Apart from that, everything was nice and i enjoyed it. Some contrast between the performance by the previous band and this performance.

Secret Love Affair was the next and last performers. Though their music on the instrument was nice, they sucked at their vocals and lyrics. Nuff Said.

At the end of the night, i was still pretty amazed by Broken Scar's performance. Of course, the others were okay as well, just that there's much more place to improve for them.

am looking forward to the next Time Out Music Night! =D
*pictures by David

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KL : Support Local Stand Up Comedy?

Last Thursday, there was this stand up comedy act at this little place with the name Little Havana right in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Its the first Time Out Comedy Thursday Night of 2009 so well, of course must support a bit right?

and apparently, there were quite a number of people who thought the same way as i do. Despite the normal working stress life in Kuala Lumpur, many of the people made their time to Little Havana to attend this very session of comedy night.

before start


10 minutes after it starts

it was a packed night with 115 people attending that night.

but

Today, i won't be talking much about the acts of those who performed. I'll talk a bit more of other stuffs.

Having myself attending for just a handful of session of such act really made me think that Kuala Lumpur is an awesome place with lots of talents, though most of them needs real much practice =P. but do you know that such acts have been really welcomed by the public around the City of Kuala Lumpur and it was even pretty big in Petaling Jaya a few years back, with other stand up comedy performers.

HOWEVER, somehow sometime, those acts stop all of a sudden where cafes and bars owners stopped hiring such people to performed in their own premises. For God know what reason, there was not much support towards the local stand up comedy scene after that.

and just recently, well start from mid of year 2008, Time Out KL made an initiative to start such an event to promote and support the local scene which in my opinion is somewhat something good, at least its some side income for the performers and that's what that's encouraging them in what are they doing : STAND UP COMEDY.

I'm pretty sure most of you Malaysians will know who is Harith Iskandar or Douglas Lim right? Those who saw them performed before will mostly have a positive comment about them, but its just them..... You don't see or hear much about other name alongside these 2 personalities already as they are the very few well known personalities as a Stand Up Comedian.

What happen one day if Harith retires and decided not to entertain the public already?

So here comes the next generation of Young Comedians but before they can make it, they are really having a hard time in the local industry.

At the end of day, i'm writing all this here just to send a very simple message out, Do support local talents, of course out of your own will that is. =)

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come come laugh laugh together gather

Whether you accept it or not, its already 2009 and we have to look forward and move on. With all the negative news covering the headlines especially those about financial downfall and etc, most people don't really welcome the year of 2009.

Having headaches and facing lots of problems altogether getting stuck at a dead end having no idea on how or what to do?

Get out of the hectic life in KL and head to Little Havana this very Thursday (tomorrow la!!) just to get some fresh air and relax yourself. It won't take much of your time and you could actually have a few laughs enjoying the start of 2009 and who knows, you might solve the problems you faced with that few laugh. =P

Its proven that people who is positive minded and happy is able to solve their problems easier than those who are always negative minded. heee

after all its just RM10 [Click Here for more Info]

So why not come come laugh laugh together gather? xD

See You There!!~

9pm, 08/01/2009 (Thursday)
Little Havana, 2 & 4, Lorong Sahabat, Off Changkat Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur
For table reservations and further inquiries
contact Ms. Anju / Ms. Goh @ 03-2166 6650

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Last Time Out KL Comedy Night of 2008

If you do not know it yet, there's a Magazine in town which is quite new, well not exactly as this magazine have like eons of histories in other cities but anyway the Kuala Lumpur version of this magazine is still a few months old.

Yet, the team working on the magazine have been doing quite a good job i would say after reading a few issues of the magazine which i particularly like the way how they tell about the stuffs in Kuala Lumpur.

and for your information, they have been conducting 2 events each month for a few months already. The comedy night and the music night which features local comedians as well as local bands/musicians.

Talking about the response, you need to be there to feel it yourself. Though i just attended a handful of TimeOut KL events, i can already feel the support of the public towards these local talents and i'm pretty proud of it.

So yea, last week i attended this Comedy Night on Thursday and Zac, one of the local stand-up comedians was the first one to entertain the crowd and i think that because he's a last minute replacement for another comedian, he didn't really prepared so the flow of his jokes were like not so smooth. I still enjoy the jokes. =D

This is the man!! CHI HO!! To me, he's like one of those people who will make me laugh instantly when i see them!! He's really good in what he's doing.

The facial expression..


The hand gestures and movements and etc...

He did it like he's been doing stand-up comedies for a long time and i really enjoyed watchin and listening to his act. He's all natural and....

He even showed the crowd why Michael Jackson don't know how to dance. HAHA. I totally enjoyed while him being in front and i'm pretty sure that most people there felt the same way too!!

The next one, Davina was a total letdown. A certain level of screaming and being exaggerated that is just nice will be just fine, but when you scream too much and like being over-exaggerated...

It will make people go WTF.... i even heard some people saying that if she were to perform in the states, people would boo at her and ask her to go away and shooo..... YES she was that bad! =(

But anyway, it was her birthday last Tuesday and the peeps that were from the same comedy group decided to throw a small little mini party for her which where the crowd sang a belated birthday song to her.

and i don't understand why, she have to make this expression...

well, if that makes her happy =)

Anyway, after the disappointment, Kavin which was the up next performer did entertain the crowd which get many people laughing there. Maybe he's an Indian himself and Indians are just good at telling jokes? aha...

Jimmy. He was the last comedian to entertain us that night. Someone who've been entertaining people in different cities in different countries and he's good at doing it as well. A rather different approach where he sings song in the middle. =D

A rather nasty song towards the Singaporeans. Ha..

and so yea, i did enjoy myself once again on a Time Out KL comedy night. Despite the not-so-good performance by Davina, Chi Ho really did a very very good job and i really like his jokes. Lolx.

Yeap, so, that's the very last Time Out KL Comedy Night of year 2008 and i hope that in 2009 i'll see more and more interesting talents coming in and again, i need to say this...

A good job to the people at TimeOut KL!

*pictures credits to DavidCheong

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Having a bad time??

Are you having a bad week so far? Its just the second day of the week and oh yea its also the 2nd day of the month as well.

Stepping into the last month of the year only mean one thing. Parties, Festivals, Events, Holidays and to those working slaves, BONUS!!!

Those are the reasons to give yourself a smile on your face.

Seriously, if you still have problem smiling, you could consider this below.

Its the very first week of the month and in 2 more days its TimeOutKL Comedy Thursday Night again.

I attended the one last month and i find it pretty interesting actually. Going out in the night to the heart of KL and sitting down relaxing and get entertained by some local comedians is something what KL people should do.

Come on, its already end year, do come and join for a few laughs in Little Havana at Changkat Bukit Bintang around 8.30pm 4 December 2008.

Entry is just RM20 and if you [CLICK HERE] you could get RM10 waived.

Actually, don't consider bah, JUST COME!!

Even the sky is smiling Yesterday OKAY!! =)

We all deserve to be happy.
*smile*

*seriously this is the month i'll get damn broke thankyou to the freaking PTPTN loan thingy and its like the end of my semester already and the assignments and tests dates are getting nearer so i myself is having quite a time as well and i'll make sure i smile whenever i can =)

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Local Bands Aren't Bad At All

I've always wanted to go to places at night where there's a band performing and its not like a concert kinda function, just a small little place with a few friends feeling all cozy and comfortable.

and frankly speaking, i totally have no idea that where in Kuala Lumpur have such places to hang out in the night. Even if i know my old group of friends won't have the same interest as me and go to such small scale events.

Going alone sounds pretty sad as i would most probably be at one little corner and rather than enjoying myself, i'll be emo-ing. Lolx

and so, when i got to know that last week, there's this Time Out KL event : On The Up which features local bands. Immediately, i thought to myself that i must attend it. Furthermore, some of my friends will be going as well.

and it was a fun and awesome session. Really really awesome session.



This is the first band that performed that night.

An Honest Mistake.

They were pretty okay actually and in fact i think most guys eyes were on the female guitarist lmao. YES that includes me and i won't deny it. I find girls who can play musical instrument a bit more interesting. =)
* my girl can play piano and sing well gahhahahaha =D

Well, the band itself, will it be an honest mistake itself or will it be a mistake that people don't notice them in the local scene, all that, that's gonna be judged by time.

The next band that performed is quite some band over at NOKIA IAC. First introduced to them during the Nokia IAC event @ Zouk a few months back and then saw them again during Nuffnang Halloween party.

Alaling and the Kaya Koks.

This is a band i like since Nokia IAC times and i just love Alaling's voice. Hope that more people will notice this band in the future. =D

The next band is a newly formed band

The Bassment Syndicate

I have no idea that whether they have a singer or not but that night they appeared as an instrumental band. 2 Bassist and a Drummer. Awesome? No but just nice. =D i do think that one of the bassist have problem playing along the other 2 people but overall they are fine.

Well being a noob musician myself, i don't really have the qualification to judge people. =X

As usual, in most events, big or small, they will save the best for the end and this specific band actually have really good musicians in it and the singer they were pretty good.

Rendra Zawawi and Band

The musicians were good and i think that Rendra's voice is really good but not much people out there would appreciate that type of voice though.

and that's the very last band of the night but there was a surprise for the people that night.
Though i don't know about this person, she actually is quite someone over the internet.

Apparently, this girl was born with a voice from the old times and she can really make you go OMG with her voice. A singer/songwriter who have 7k subscribers and 175k channel views on Youtube. O.O

KokoKaina is her nickname and she's Zee Avi.
[ Click here - Kokokaina Youtube's Page ]

leftmost girl - KokoKaina/Zee Avi

So yea, do go online and check out the bands and individuals mentioned above. Support local music.

They aren't as bad as we think and in my opinion, some of their voice are even better than some famous artists out there in the overseas, just that in Malaysia.......... I shall not continue what i think. =X

Seriously, that's quite a good job to TimeOut KL featuring local bands so that more people can get to see how the scene is in Malaysia esp. in Kuala Lumpur.

I enjoyed myself. Am Looking forward to the one in December!!!

After all, Local Bands Aren't Bad At All. xD

*do head to Nigel's blog to view some of the performances that he recorded!
*pictures credits to David and Fuzz.

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Yesterday Night, Tomorrow Night

Yesterday night was awesome, was out @ Souled Out in Desa Sri Hartamas for a food sampling review session and i didn't expect to see some specific person there. Haha. Even bumped into some other bloggers as well and it was a fun night!!

Great food, great service and most importantly great company.

Will blog about the food in a short while(you won't want to know what's my definition for a short while xD)

so yea, that's yesterday night.

tonight erm, tonight is a bit though, i don't understand why when i'm damn free nobody will call and ask me out but when i have someone calling me out, then there'll be others calling me out on a different occasion.... ON THE SAME FREAKING PERIOD OF TIME.

=X

Alright, skip that haha.

This is the what that's going to happen tomorrow night.
2 weeks ago, TimeOut KL had a comedy night and tommorow TimeOut KL will be having a music night.

Both nights are there as a platform for local talents to display what they have in hand.

As for tomorrow, the details are already stated in the image above and the local talents that will be there tomorrow are :

Singer-songwriter Rendra Zawawi
Music preview: http://www.myspace.com/rendrazawawi
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rendra-Zawawi/13728364447

Emo acoustic group An Honest Mistake
Music preview: http://www.myspace.com/anhonestmistakeisemo

Bubblegum pop band Alaling + The Kaya Koks
Music preview: http://www.myspace.com/alaling
Blog: http://downloadingalaling.blogspot.com
TOKL article: Band's interview by TOKL editor

and newly formed trio, The Bassment Syndicate

Frankly speaking, i know many people out there DO THINK that RM20 is like DUH to watch local talents performing and its like a waste of money. Let me tell you, go bang your head on the wall or else stand in the middle of MRR2 or LDP or any equivalent highways thankyou.

If you're still alive, congrats then, you can get a RM10 Off and you just need to pay RM10 at the end of the day to watch these local talents stated above.
[CLICK HERE TO GET RM10 Waived]

xD

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