I’m on a roll here!

Two blog post within 3 days is incredible, especially for me. First of all, a big thank you to Sony Music Malaysia for the passes to Kris Allen‘s Showcase and especially, the meet and greet ones. You guys behind @sonymusicmy on twitter totally rock and oh if you have twitter, do add them up ok for freebies.

Trust me, they give loads of swag almost everyday!

Anyways yeah I won a pair of passes to the showcase and the meet and greet session via @sonymusicmy which was pretty awesome actually seeing as it is of course, the first time an American Idol winner graced our shores and performed. Hitz.fm was the official radio station for the showcase, hence the emceeing by JJ and Ean from the morning crew and being the cheeky people they are, they called a couple of people from the audience to sing some of Kris Allen’s songs.

The amount of photographers there were insane cause there were no rules prohibiting people from bringing their gears, hence myself as well haha! Camera’s flashing everywhere, but one thing that irritated me was, if you’re not using your flash, frigging take it off people! What’s the point of keeping it on, blocking people from bring able to see or even photograph and not freaking use it geez!

Ok, rant over!

Kris put on a great show, if not marvelous!

Although its just a showcase, and not many songs were sung nor was I even a fan of him (don’t kill me please haha!) but once you’re there, you can tell that he’s a great performer. Definitely worthy of the American Idol Season 8 Winner title. A great rocker, with an awesome band all back from even before his idol days which is one of the things I admire about him. Most people tend to get caught in the glory of being a celebrity but Kris is just the opposite.

One thing for sure, I’m a concert guy!

I love going for concerts! I love shooting em. The awesome ray of bright lights, the energetic performance of the people and musicians just lights up every part of me and when I come home to work on the photos, it leaves me with a sense of accomplishment every single time. I guess I really love what I do, especially when it involves colorful lights (I’m like a bug, only attracted to bright lights haha!)

Photos only from here on, since I’m sure most of you are only interested in that lol

Reminder to self, don’t just bring a 85mm to a concert, bring more lol!

Ok fine, belated… A bit the fail right haha!

Christmas has always been a special time for me. I love christmas, I mean who doesn’t. Unless you’re like a super grinch then maybe lah but still main point is, I love christmas! Whether I’m spending it alone, with friends/family, the carols or just the plain fact that we’re celebrating the birth of Christ, everything about it is all love to me. This year was a bit special with many things lined up for my christmas season with so many things to do, there was very little time to even take a breather.

First started off with a mini celebration a week before christmas at Kel Li’s place but a separate post on that will come later. Then come Christmas eve, it was off to my church’s Christmas eve celebration over at Flamingo Hotel. I admit that I haven’t been going to church in a very long time due to it being very far and I’m always too tired to wake up on Sundays  (major reason here haha!) but going back has made me realise how much I miss it alot and therefore, a new year resolution to go back to church has been made, awesome much =D

On Christmas day itself, it was full of rest and just a light and fun dinner with Jen and her friends over at Paddington House of Pancakes but on the 26th, it was pretty major as it was my first maternity shoot. It was exciting but pretty scary at the same time. Truthfully, I was actually nervous during the entire session since I had never done a maternity shoot before, Heck I don’t think I knew what I was doing 80% of the time but in the end, it turned out alright I guess…. well hopefully lah =p

Check out RPStudios Photography for more photo updates soon yeah, will be posting it there!

At night, it was CG’s Christmas Night and seriously, I miss the heck out of everybody there. Being there again made me realise how much I missed out, sigh I really have to make time for all of this. Timetable drafting session is already on the way and in 2010, it will commence. Reminder to self, include my calender inside as well even though it is already filling up like nobody’s business for next year haha. Anyways CG Christmas Night was so full of fun especially the sharing session, carols and donuts  and as usual, its Haji Tapah mamak after CG session everytime I come back up.

The next morning, I hung out at The Gardens New Zealand Natural outlet for some gaming session of Monopoly Deal. Seriously, this game is so fun, you’ll get addicted to it and play non-stop. Yeah, this champion is a winning record holder of 5 wins in a row so far and I’m definitely gonna make a six, seven and eight tonight at Aaron’s birthday/new year’s party wooza!

Come night time, the usuals and I went over to SIBKL, Andrew’s church for a musical that they were producing and yes it was very good. Loved every moment of it although I wished that it could have been longer though haha. The lights were so colorful, I was so attracted to it that I kept staring non-stop. Do not in any way flash colorful lights at me for I will turn aggresive and try to steal it if possible!

So, how was your Christmas? Hope that it was as fun as mine and although its a very late wish, Merry Christmas to all of you. Since it’s new year’s eve as well, a blessed happy new year to all of you as well. May your 2010 be even more awesome than 2009!

but continuation from my KK post will have to wait a bit haha!

Truth is, I have so many pending photos I might die sigh. I think its about time that I design a better workflow for myself, one that would cater to my workload, social life and others (e.g. tv series and such haha) so that its better managed and I have time for everything. Right now, all I could manage is to sleep pretty late at night and I have to get up early in the morning, and its not healthy I tell you when the minimal amount of sleep I need is 12 hours!!!!

Yes I’m a pig, so sue me haha!

Anyways lets not talk about that and head on over to something a lil more interesting like, the Hennessy Artistry Finale at Club Quattro, KL. Woooooot I’m sure some people are still jizzing from the awesome party and fyi, just a mention first, I was standing so close to Lenka, I could touch her!

Ok, that sounded totally wrong lol but you know what I mean haha!

Hsiao Hung Jen came up first and yeah I did like the music but I find his singing a bit annoying with trying to mix in some slight Christina Aguilera vocals in it and some rapping. I’m not sure whether it was just me but his performance did seemed longer than the others and it felt like there were never ending songs coming from this guy. I heard that he was an up and coming artist but nah.

Gimme Gary Cao, Eason Chan, David Tao or Justin Lo and I’m happy with that already haha

Next up was Paul Freeman.

Truthfully, I never heard of him and while it does do much justice to my expectations, he certainly did blow everybody’s mind! A rocker in nature, he rocked the entire club to his beats and sang awesomely and seriously, how does no one know him? Well in a way, I guess there are many others just like him but how about him inviting Hsiao Hung Jen up to do a number with him.

I think that was the only time I liked Hsiao Hung Jen’s performance haha!

Lenka as expected, was awesome and everybody loved her! She wow-ed the crowd by just standing up on stage and boy she is really cute! Am not talking about her looks but the way she dances and shakes to her songs while she sing haha. It feels like watching a 10 year old child dancing and singing and maybe that’s the reason why everybody loved her all over the world. And of course I’m one of the lucky few whom get to watch her up close hehe wooottt!

Boys Like Girls took some time to set up the stage.

One thing I noticed about all the acts were that each of them had their own instruments except for the drums but BLG, well, they brought the entire set with them, including a mike stand which carries a whole lot of guitar picks and guess what, I got 2 of them haha! Each specially made with Boys Like Girls insignia on it, so *cough* who wants to buy from me? Hahahaha!

Oh well, one thing I love about them is their showmanship. Boy, these guys sure know how to rock it out and you should have seen how crazy the crowd was the entire time of their performance. Heck the crowd was so wild, I almost fell over a couple of times and even the videocamera guy was scolding people for pushing haha but you can’t help it I guess because it is of course a concert and people are there to enjoy and go wild.

Overall, it was one of the best H-Artistry that this year has to offer and definitely one the better performances that I’ve been to this year. Wonder what H-Artistry has installed for us next year hehe as I’m definitely looking forward to another awesome show!

PS: More photos, check out my album here!