Media Watch: nicster in KLue
Sep 18, 2008 People
Well, not exactly.
I just got a copy of KLUE magazine (September edition) a couple of days ago, the lead story of which is its The 20 Under 40 List: 20 of the Valley’s mover’s and shakers. It’s also the magazine’s 8th anniversary issue.
One of my friends, Zain HD (yes, yes, RandomActs, KL Freeze in Unison, RWP blah blah), was selected and the good people at KLue asked me to write an intro piece on him. This year, they decided to get friends, family, colleague etc of the people featured to write. You can read my bit on the cult leader Zain here. There’s also a blog post on him here.
I was quite honoured that Zain wanted me to write it - after all, I’ve only known him since April - and also because I feel like I was in good company (I never knew this until I got a copy of the magazine).
A number of my friends and acquaintances were either featured, or asked to write the intros, including (okay, okay, name dropping a bit) Pop TV’s Hardesh Singh and Malaysian Dreamgirl’s Jared Solomon, both of whom I met to interview them for their respective works; my Uni mate and fellow student activist/politician Kenny Sia who’s jetsetting off to London!; Gua.com.my’s Mohd Zulkifli Abdul Jalil, a former colleague (he was the first Editor of NewMan Malaysia, I was the third) and Jaya One’s Charles Wong, who I met playing Risk at our mutual friends’ house.
My friends Joyce Wong, Lim Su Ann and Fahmi Fadzil were among those who wrote the intro bits as well.
Oh, and just last month (I think - or the issue which reported on Urbanscapes), my name was mentioned in the magazine also in the What are they saying on the Net (or something like that) section in their post-coverage of Urbanscapes. They had gone online to look for reviews from the general public, and they printed my review which was published in The Star.
Published twice in KLue? By george, I think I’ve made it!
p/s I know this is a bit of syiok sendiri post, but again, if you don’t plug yourself, who will? :) Besides, I’m actually really plugging for KLue - I thought they got a good bunch of people together in their list of 20 including Nurul Izzah Anwar, Kokokaina, Pop Malaya and my favouritest of all - Tan Hong Ming and Umi Qazrina!
10.12am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: fahmi fadzil, Joyce Wong, Kenny Sia, KLUE, Lim Su Ann, Malaysian Dreamgirls, Nurul Izzah Anwar, PopTV, randomacts, The 20 Under 40, zain hd
Rocking out at Urbanscapes!
Jun 29, 2008 Events
What a day! Lots happened today (including finishing my taxes, which btw, is not finished yet) but the highlights had to be Urbanscape, then a nice foot reflexology with Elaine and Hansen and then yummy dinner at HSBC (the restaurant, not the bank).
Live art? Haha
We didn’t stay too long at the event held in KLpac, just a few hours, but it was fun enough. I managed to catch Estanged’s act (yes, I’m still a groupie), spent some time at The Marketplace, catch up with friends and of course, Rob!
I really liked a lot of the installations on display.
Yup, Project Rob - RA’s latest project - happened at Urbanscapes today and the victim was Adrian Yap - the publisher of KLUE and the other magazines they, umm, publish. It was quite cool, some of us were wearing RA’s new line of T-Shirts (should be on sale soon) and we got people at various points to ask people if they had seen Adrian. Then people started shouting along - Adrian! Adrian Yap! Adrian!
It was quite funny! :)
There were so many things happening at Urbanscapes though, so I got lost midway through but I enjoyed myself (although it was hot beyond belief)! And parking was crazy too! Madness!
But anyway, yeah, it was nice seeing so many people there, and I shot quite a few photos too.
Joyce at her Tongue In Chic booth.
(Left) Hao kong and hao poh, Elaine and Hansen. (Right) My cousin Julian.
Ohh, Adam so sexy. Must be from when he was secretly in love with me.
With Jin and another friend I don’t remember the name. Soz!
12.43am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: Adam C, Adam Carruthers, Elaine Daly, Hani, Hansen Lee, I Heart KL, Jin, Joyce Wong, Kinkybluefairy, klpac, KLUE, Project Rob!, randomacts, Urbanscapes, zain hd
