Ahfook's Story

New year count down, seems like an activity for youngsters and not for an uncle like me, that fed up with traffic jams and over crowded. However, I’ve attended a count down party yesterday, Music Reunion Gig 5. It was held at Cheras Kaki Corner which I thought I could avoid from traffic jam and crowded people. However I was wrong, because coincidently, the church nearby having count down party, too. Summing up the Church visitors with other diners at that famous western food street, the traffic there was exploding, I was only able to park my car at a hill quite far away.

However I still managed to make it before Silent Prayer performing. Silent Prayer, once a nu metal band is now left 2 core members Ah Hou and Silent Keat, presenting ther new Hip Hop songs to us. As usual, Ah Hou as vocal but Silent Keat is now a PC DJ. Silent Keat also the DJ playing music during the bands exchanging the stage.

Next was the local Chinese politic band Nao. They have brought us new songs, including a song dedicated to the blood sucker Minister Mr. Samy Vellu. Ah Tat was wearing yellow BERSIH helmet, gave speeches regarding his (or our) disappointments to the current government while expressing his thoughts via their songs.

After that was the Penang metal band Oracle. They came all the way to KL with their die hard metal supporters. They also brought the only moshing and head banging at the night and pushed the temperature of Kaki Corner to new level, even Mark played body surfing.

If Oracle brought up the head banging session, then The Other Side Orchestra managed to brought up the dancing session with their rich music generated by 6 pieces of instruments including keyboard and synthesizer. The audience danced together with the music and the lighting effect special customized by The Other Side Orchestra.

The last band performed was 3 piece band Dian Bang. Playing with 2 notebooks and simple music instruments, they brought up their bedroom-made music. At this time, the battery power of my speedlite was exhausted. So I have replace the Sigma 18-200mm HSM OS to Canon 50mm f1.8II to continue capture the event. Even though without speedlite, the big aperture of the lens enabling me to capture the event with another fresh feel that I never tried.

After all bands performing, it’s DJs’ turn. DJ Rainf of Dropout continue the event with his down-tempo+dark-side drum and bass.

In last few minutes of 2007, the female DJ, DJ Chelsea take over the console from DJ Rainf. Her Techno-house music was played across the year, giving a complete ending of this event.

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More photos also available at PhotoPintu, the official photograph forum.

Music Reunion Gig is back, for the fifth time. This time the gig is a little bit different with previous gigs, this time the main music theme is not only rock music, but also electronica too.

As usual, this gig is organized by NAO, supported by Soundscape Records. Here are little information for the gig:
Date: 31st December 2007 (Monday)
Time: 9:00pm
Venue: Cheras Kaki Corner
Entrance: RM20.00
Pre sale goodie: pre sale tickets come with Music Reunion Gig 4 VCD

Bands:
The Other Side Orchestra (KL electronica rock)
Oracle (Penang metal core)
沉默的祷告者 Silent Prayer (in Hip Hop)
孬 NAO (organizer, punk rock)

DJs:
Rainf (DJ of Dropout, drum and bass)
DJ Chelsea (the lady DJ, hard trance)
电棒 Dian Bang (bedroom laptop electronica)

More info please contact Ah Tatt, with the mobile phone in the poster, or naoband at gmail dot com. 

Let’s go to have fun!

It’s been long time since last Beyond fans gathering at Oct 2005 when Beyond had their last concert over there, and I seldom attend to gatherings since I was a father. Finally we had a little gathering yesterday since our big sister Amelia able to come far from Johor Baru and Angie back from Singapore to join us. There were 10 of us joined the gathering, which the number was lesser than I thaught, due to sudden heavy rain and other reasons. However we still had our good crazy time.

We had light dinner and met up at Leisure Mall’s Wong Kok restaurant before we heading to Neway karaoke that just located at opposite. This is the first time I went to karaoke with 99% of songs we selected were Beyond’s songs in 4 hours.

Since most of the songs are rock songs, we had lot’s of shouting, lot’s of head banging, lot’s of paparazzi photo snapping, little of moshing and some silly stunts too. It was like a little Beyond concert as we cheered and clapped along

The ‘little Beyond concert’ was ended at 12am, when Meriam Yeung reminded us time was up and leave without leaving any valueable stuffs behind The gathering was continued with drinking session at mamak stall until 2am.

It was a real fun gathering that I’ve really missed for so long. Too bad Rachel’s grandmother was admitted to hospital and Rachel needed to take care of her, else the gahering would be more better

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Went to Street Roar 2006 last Saturday, one of the biggest Chinese Indie music gigs in Malaysia. Cool musicians from Asia, nice stuffs in flea market, Woodstock-like field with mud, happending crowds too. Went with my gang, and of coz my dear Rachel too. Something stupid happened… I’ve left my car key in my car that was locked, had to ask Ten drove me back to Seri Petaling to take my backup keys, thanks Ten, and sorry to Rachel and Marcus for the missing parts, and sorry to Kit, Fai and Hou coz caused them missed their dinner >_< (I promised i will not careless again~)

Tired day after snaping photos, pogo and moshing…

Here are some photos…

Just went to Singapore to watch Beyond live in concert last weekend. Some said this will be the last concert since the concert in Malaysia is not confirmed yet. Beside watching Beyond, this can be considered as a short trip to Singapore.

I’ve arrived at the Pudu Raya with Ten, met Siew Ting and her friend Danny at morning. However Rachel was late, so Ten went to Singapore with Siew Ting and Danny first, and I left to wait Rachel. After having the breakfast with Rachel, we started our journey to Singapore. Bad  thing happened: the bus left us at Singapore check point, so we have to take bus to Kranchi MRT station and then continue our journey our hotel in China Town.

After short break in Keng Saik hotel, we went to Kallang KFC for Beyond fans gathering. It was a great gathering with fans from Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.

Next is the main show, the concert. We walked from KFC to Singapore Indoor Stadium while some of fans singing Beyond songs. I was so afraid that my camera will be blocked by guard, but the guard was kind enough to let me bring in the camera with the advice ‘don use with flash’. Appreciated

The concert was awesome, it just like a big party, everybody stood since the concert started until end. All of us were so high, jumped, screamed, shouted and danced all the while. However seems like there were something happened among the band members, very less communication among them, and less interaction with fans too. The concert ended without encore just like what they did to other concerts in other places too.

After the concert we just back to hotel and rest. After all we’ve been travelling and walking all day.

The next day was the exploration around Singapore. We’ve planned to have our breakfast at China Town with local Chinese food. But the whole China Town was so quiet and not many shops opened for business. So we changed to Orchard road for our breakfast, and ended up we had our breakfast at a bench along Orchard with the food bought from 7-Eleven.

After filling up our stomach, it’s shopping time. The first and only shop we visited was HMV, the big music store (4 floors) at Orchard Road. Bought some CDs from there.

Merlion was our next stop, we went there for photography session, and helped others to take photos too

The sky was getting darker, we walked to Raffles MRT station before it rains. However it didn’t, so we had our short rest at a little green field behind of the Raffles MRT station before heading to Lavendar station to get our bus at Golden Mile.

It’s another adventure to look for Golden Mile from Lavendar station. We had asked few people, passed by some shops under apartments, and finally came to the food court opposite Golden Mile where we had our last meal in Singapore.

The bus was quite old, but it’s still consider comfortable. The bus first reached Pasar Rakyat, where nobody gets down from bus (another failure project by our stupid government, built a bus terminal in a jungle with no other public transport), then only arrived Pudu Raya.  We had our dinner at Petaling Street KL where it’s our last event in this trip.

Overall it’s a tiring but happy trip, although there some unhappy incidents happened but luckly we still can overcame them.

Photos by ahfook: http://thiamfook.multiply.com/photos/album/1
Photos by Rachel: http://www.likuliku.com/2005/Oct/SG/index.html
Video: http://thiamfook.multiply.com/video