Category: Uniquely Kuching

No other place like Kuching.

Breeze Model Search Press Conference

April 16, 2009April 23, 2009 sweet surrender 5 Comments

Was invited to join the press conference of Breeze Model Search at Atelier.

Do you have what it takes to be the model for Breeze?

You can go for the audition, here’s the details:
17th-19th April (10am-10pm) – Test Shots @ tHe Spring
24th-25th April (10am-4pm) – Official Audition @ Limkokwing
30th April (9.30pm onwards) – Launch Party @ Victoria Arms

If you would like to go to the Launch Party, you can get free tickets at Limkokwing on 25/04/09 at 2pm by bringing a copy of Breeze Magazine (only one ticket per person).

If you miss it, you can get a copy of Breeze magazine and bring it to Victoria Arms on the day of the launch and pay less for the ticket else the entrance is RM30/pax at the entrance.

Main Organisers: Breeze, Merkworld
Co-Organiser: Lim Kok Wing Institute
Main Sponsor: Intimate, Royal Gold
Apparel Partners: Absolutely Dress Gallery, Limited Edition
Hair Partner: mcphee Hair Studio
Hotel Partner: Four Points by Sheraton
Sponsors: tHe Spring, itFusion, Unisense Hair Restoration Centre, Thalgo, True Card
Media Partners: The Borneo Post, The Sunday Post, Utusan Borneo, è¯—åŽæ—¥æŠ¥

Public Events, Uniquely Kuching

Four Points by Sheraton

March 20, 2009March 20, 2009 sweet surrender 5 Comments

Finally got the chance to drop by to pay this hotel a visit. All I can say is that this hotel is very spacious and loooong. Not sure about the rooms though. There are still some areas not ready yet.

The location is near the airport, just next to RH Plaza. Easy to spot, you won’t miss it.

Let’s see the interior:

Left: The outside.

Right: One of the section at the lobby, you can enjoy a couple of drinks here. Only alcoholic drinks available here.

Left: Shooting from almost the one end of the lobby.

Right: A section outside the ballrooms.

The second floor which houses the ballrooms. Sorry about the dark photo ;p I forgot to change the setting when I took the photo.

Wrapped is the coffee house and The Eatery is the buffet restaurant located on lobby floor. Wonder when will I have the chance to go there try out the buffet? Offer will end this April. Check the offers out from Wrapped and The Eatery.

What I’m not happy is that I saw some people smoking like they own the place, some of the guests attending the banquet there. Aren’t hotel should be a no smoking zone? I didn’t see any no smoking sign though.

Oh by the way, they are having promotion for their rooms now.

Uniquely Kuching

Map of Kuching & My Not Interesting Life

February 28, 2009February 28, 2009 sweet surrender 10 Comments

This is the new map for Kuching city. Even though it stated that it’s Kuching North but it actually covers all the landmarks that is enough to provide the tourists that come to Kuching with directions as most landmarks are based in the north.
If you are coming to Kuching, you can get this map from all the tourist information centres or Tourism Malaysia. It’s FREE!

I’m helping a friend here, if you are interested to be one of the sponsors of this map or contribute your idea or anything to it, you can let me know and I’ll get you connected to the person in charge. The new issue will be out this coming National Day.

Sorry for not having much interesting posts nowadays, I’m really really sort of homebound now hahaha… I’m not in the mood to go out and really NOT in the mood! In fact all I want to do now is just escape to somewhere no one can find me, don’t want to see, hear or say anything. Don’t ask me why. Just some down time. No reason, I’m just not in the mood for anything now except get all mushy with my darling *LOL* Ahem…

Heart Matters, Uniquely Kuching

Zunyi Acrobatics Troupe in Kuching

February 13, 2009February 14, 2009 sweet surrender 10 Comments

All the photos here were taken with Canon 1000D and Sigma 18-200mm lens. No internal flash or speedlight. The lens got no IS and I got no tripod, my hand shaked a lot! I could only survive with continuous shoots and taken more than 700 photos(if I can recall correctly) and then deleted about 200+ of them on the spot to clear the memory card, then came home filtered again and all I can say is that only 20% or less are OK, the rest all not OK(this benchmark is my own, not according to the pro ;p).

Managed to finish up one battery pack ;p Don’t even ask me what kind of settings I used, I only know I’m using the AV mode and simply adjusted here and there without knowing what I’m adjusting and zooming in and out.

This is my first time handling a DSLR throughout the event with no help. Virgin DSLR experience hahaha…

Zunyi Acrobatics Troupe in Kuching for two days performing at Kuching South City Hall (MBKS) Stadium. Got the tickets free, the tickets were given free to public anyway.

Went to watch it with my family 2 nights ago. Got very “good” spot! We’re late, all the good spots had been taken so we sat area at the backstage. Who to blame? Shouldn’t blame us.

The emcees were very “professional”, they didn’t even bother about the audience at my area. They only interact with the front, left and right. I think less than 3 times they even look over at our direction! Even the performances too. Sigh… So… What you see mostly are people’s butts. *LOL*

Let’s just see photos…

After beating the drums, they started to dance.

So many photos taken and this performance got the most of the good photos because of the lighting(I guess…) and also because they didn’t move much. Not only that, less butts facing us.

Many butts here! Hahaha… They were doing stunts with hats.

This even worst! Almost 98% of the time we looked at their butts.

This one less butts but hard to take photos. Too many jumping up and down. I thought they were mouse but actually they were ants!

This performance is nice but the lightings were bad! Almost all of the photos were screwed. Even I resized till so small the quality is still bad.

Quite a stunt. Managed to take quite a number of OK photos.

Totally screwed! Too dark for anything, movement too fast too.

This is very fast too but at least bright enough.

I didn’t take two of the performances namely the magic performance and juggling. All show butts! Even if not showing butts, just turn to our direction for less than 3 seconds or turining movement too fast for the juggling.

That’s all. Enjoy the photos.

You can see some slightly bigger version of the photos in catscity.net

Public Events, Uniquely Kuching

Suddenly the “War” Started

January 30, 2009January 30, 2009 sweet surrender 9 Comments

Just as I thought I got nothing to update, suddenly the fireworks started and it’s much more exciting than the eve.

More varieties and everyone was trying to outdo each other. So funny. What are they keeping it for? For time like this? To compete among each other? I thought the best time to do so is during the eve not on the fifth day. Hmm… Wonder, wonder…

I managed to capture some and they are so much better and nicer than the previous photos. Enjoy the photos:

As usual, those interesting ones are always at the street light *LOL* Coz that’s the direction where the rich people is staying at my area hahaha…