urban jazz crossover 2011

the most awaiting concert was finally here! we'd been wondering around when it'd be held. as soon as yenty heard the news that its' coming, she was so busy informing me and getting the ticket. she had waited this concert for so long. thanks to yenty, she got the tics both of us :)

as expected the concert started late. so we had time hanging around and bought the concert t-shirts! gotta wear it soon.

the atmosphere and the props outside the concert room was almost similar to last year. but this year, they gave us this black bracelet with brown 'urban jazz crossover' words on it. it's kinda cool.

the opening band of the nite. the guitarist is so cool!

finally i got the chance to see this diva sing live. and she is diva.

she is 100% talented and sweet. the next big star.

who said if you are not the winner of indonesian idol, you can't survive in music industry? he can, because he is damn good!he is so wild and sexy!he made the jazz rocky for the nite!

i like the visual effect happening behind him.the master of reggae "ras muhamad" made the crowd danced to his rhythm. the famous ari lasso.his voice vibrated the room.the master mind of the concert this year.artists in action!

the concert was closed pretty wild.

compared to last year, personally i think it's a lil' bit jazzier, a very lil' bit. but the atmosphere was definitely merrier last year. i didn't see the artists performed as solid as last year. but the concert's surely refreshing after a hectic week.

world trip! (day 2 & day 3)

day 2 and day 3 were mostly spent by shopping and eating time. as my bro's wed party approached, i was assigned to buy bling bling silver party shoes for me and my sis. and they were damned difficult to find. finally we got two pairs! when we almost gave up. thanks chan and pak for your patience accompanying me shopping. i got a unique wallet too from bonita. and that's all for shopping session :p

and here we go for eating session.

day 2: we met choon foong for sing-k! sing-k in m'sia is totally different, as in the atmosphere, food, and definitely song selections. i had no idea that kok is into sing-k too. we got our brunch here and sang our heart out.day 3: we landed at jojo's little kitchen, which specialized in pan mee. and they rock!

mine; the spicy onechan's; the soup onepak's; look at the egg yolk! yum...

then we met sook chin and yee yin (do i spell their names correctly?) for lunch/afternoon tea, catching up with each other's life. it's somehow deliberating to have someone to talk, to rethink our passion (and reality too), and to support each other. it's surely girls' day out @ delicious.

chan's quite disappointed with the mushroom soup. the mushroom was kinda rough, or in another word, it's too mushroomy... :ppak's strawberry short cake. it's very fresh! mine; classic chocolate vanillayee yin's chocolate brownies, so yummy and so choco sook chin's spaghettisoda rose

another highlight of this trip was i finally got the chance to see chan's collection. it's kinda freaky actually (sorry chan!) to see so many mice in one room if you don't get used it. but i think she's definitely passionate of mouse since she collects not only dolls but also books and movies about mouse. and i can say it's costly. salute!

it's just a few from a big collection of herchan's nephew and niece. her niece called me "pheng you". do i look that young? :p

after a very full homey and yummy dinner cooked by chan's family, we still went to have our supper at sweet hut.

mine; a healthy onechan's; the mango loverpak's; almond & chocolong life supper! will surely miss our supper moments...

world trip 2! (day1)

after crossing out so many exciting destinations, we fell to this option. it fit our time and budget perfectly. our second world trip destination is malaysia! ahha!

it's great that we could meet up again. and it's the real point of making 'world trip', to make a little time just for ourselves, catching up with each other and just have fun. that is not easy to do in today's world.

but, i made a big stupid mistake by not charging my cellphone on my arrival day, which made chan and pak had difficult time finding me. luckily it's only lcct :p chan's parents picked me up and drove us home safely. thanks and sorry aunty and uncle!

our first hit the next morning was bagan lalang. it's a family beach, i guess. we didn't really prepare ourselves coming to the beach. my tips for future reference for anyone who wanna go there are bring your family as many as you can (coz the more, the merrier!), bring food and mat, and don't forget to bring hats or sun block (very important!).

what day is today? it's malaysian's independence day! :)

sort of a 'must' pic on beach a declaration that we've been here :ptugs of war (fun game to play on beach) :)chan was forced to take every shell that pak saw :p

in indonesia, we have this mitos that if we gush our breath toward the shell, it eventually will come out. but when we tried, it didn't work. chan thought that i fooled her. perhaps only indonesia shells do that.

we saw this family (dad, mom and son) was busy looking for shells. but this mom definitely took my attentiontoward afternoon, we saw many stands selling windmills and kites. i didn't have chance to shoot the kites ;(

sepang gold coastwe waited for minutes to get visitor pass to enter the resort. it's worth waiting.

my dream pic, yatta! (should practice more though)

toward the lunch time, we headed to a very famous restaurant around the area. and the problem with a very famous restaurant is there are lots of tables and hungry mouths to be served. so it takes lots of time. after waiting for few minutes, we went to another place to eat. we could see several people whom we also met at previous restaurant. the result was the same, we waited so long...

finally the food came! bon appetite :)seafood and a glass of beer, what else could i ask for more?

recharged after taking lunch, we went to the famous love/ couple bridge. what can you see there? of course, couples, lots of them. making me jealous? hmm... a bit. actually i wanted to see some dead fish on the bridge, but couldn't find one :p i think the biggest question is "what's there at the end of the bridge? a pot of love? a magic love wand? love powder? cupid? lover claim station?"

NOPE! the answer was a fisherman! (enjoying his time fishing and ignoring every lovey dovey things going on around him. so proud of him!we reached the love/ coupld bridge! look at our hair! like these :)

throwing all of the lovey dovey behind, we went to this mushroom house. you can see many mushrooms and mushroom products you've never ever imagined. love their drink products.

i love this mushroom. they look like a dorayaki, don't they?