Category: Uniquely Kuching

YO! So happy! Got invited to the Opening Ceremony of Sushi King in Sarawak at Boulevard hehehe… Woke up so early today because of this. Need to go there early, scare can’t find parking. I went to pick up Alysha and then we went to Jimmy’s house and waited for Rose, 4 of us went in one car 😛 Met Greg there.

YAY! We’re here. Registered ourselves and we got a goodie bag each! Guess what!??!?! FREE Sushi King card! I had spent my RM15 applied for it the other time, so regret… Hahaha… I’m selling it off and it’s SOLD for RM10! 😛 There’s a pen in there, RM10 voucher, and ang pao packets(no money of course).

Hehehe… Went early and got the front row 😛 While waiting for the VIPs, we were feast with Sarawak traditional music.

Left: Waiting for the VIPs.
Right: Silas the MC.

Orang Ulu traditional dance. However, they were not all in Orang Ulu’s costumes. According to Silas, those with feathers were Kelabit (they called themselves Anak Adi Rurum Kelabit) and those with interesting head dress were the Lun Bawangs.

Left: Sushi King(Sushi Kin Sdn. Bhd.) is under Texchem Resources Sdn. Bhd. This is the the Founder/Chairman/CEO of Texchem, Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Fumiko Konishi.
Middle: This is YB Haji Datuk Talip Zulpilip, chairman of SEDC(Sarawak Economic Development Corporation)
Right: Opening officiated! As far as I know, we were very good boys and girls, we tried not to interfere with those reporters. Only went up close after they were done.

Presenting a souvenir.

Left-Right: Puan Sri Datin Seri Atsuko Konishi, Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Fumiko Konishi, YB Haji Datuk Talip Zulpilip and Yasuhiro Nishida(Managing Director of Sushi Kin Sdn. Bhd.)
This is the press conference session. We got to know that there will be a Sushi King outlet opening in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah this 31st March. They are planning to open in Miri, Bintulu and Sibu. There will be 5-6 more outlets opening in Sarawak within this year to achieve the 50 outlets target. Currently there are 44 outlets in Malaysia. The thing about Sushi King that stood out from the rest is the pricing for West and East Malaysia are the same! I know the kentai sushi is the same(kudos to that!), the set meals aren’t… Hmm… Not so sure, as I got the price from the website that time.

Let’s cut the ribbon! We tried our best to stay out of the way of the reporters. I stood on the chair with Rose hehehe… What to do? We are so small hahaha…

Toured the place. We didn’t dare to follow but all the reporters followed. So we waited outside, then Greg went and we followed his back. When we were there, the Asst. Business Development Manager said,”Bloggers right? Yes, yes… Bloggers can go in, Go… Go… Go…”. *LOL* We quickly scrambled to the kitchen to take some shoots of the VIPs and the kitchen.

Left: You don’t get to see this everyday 😛 Hehehehe… The kitchen is clean and spotless.
Right: The buffet… Food post coming up in part 2 hehehe… OMG! Lots of sushi!!! Yum~ Yum~

Continue from IVOQ My Privilege Book Launch & Hair Show.

The boutiques that took part in the fashion shows are(not in particular order) De Home Boutique by ISANSMYTH, Cozzi Boutique, Cocoon, Great Wall Photo, Natale, Jp Boutique, Orangety, and Absolute Dress Gallery. The photos below are not in particular order, they are all jumbled up already, I missed out many shoots and many shoots are blur, those are pretty nice dresses but too bad… 🙁 All these shoots I had to adjust the curve and sharpen them if not too dark and kinda blur…

KL models are so different from Kuching. They are tall, good at posing, nice body, nice skin and nice hair. I’m sure many of those that attended that day agree with me. The feel was so different.

I like the 1st outift. Hehehe…

The yellow one nice but the colour not suitable for me 😛 Other colour with the same design should be nice also.

Love the second outfit but I’m too short to wear it, it will weigh me down hahaha…

I want the second outfit! 😛 The 4th one is also nice but yellow again…

Nothing that I like here.

Very bright colours but none I like.

Like the second and fifth outfits.

the fourth outfit very cute! 😛

First one looks sweet.

First one I like.

The last one not bad.

Battery low… Died few times. Didn’t manage to take many of the gowns 🙁

I like this pink evening gown but not suitable for me as I’m too short and I will be a walking cupcake if I’m wearing it. It will weigh me down also, you won’t be able to see me later, all you see is the gown *LOL*. If it’s like the purple gown then it’s OK. I don’t like “big” gown, I don’t want to be a walking cupcake! 😛 Sorry… I see many brides like to wear such “big” gowns and I just can’t help it but to think of them as walking cupcakes -.- Especially if they are short and petite like me hahaha…

After the event, the models signed their names on the backdrop.

That’s all. Enjoy the girls from KL and the clothes 😛

Catscity.net was invited to cover the IVOQ My Privilege Book Launching cum fashion show yesterday at Tun Jugah at 1pm. Anna was there also for the hair show! Hehehe… We were feasted by clothes from 7 boutiques and 1 local designer, ISANSMYTH, with 16 professional female models from Kuala Lumpur parading in the longest catwalk runway ever happening in Kuching!

The launch was officiated by Alan Sim(center). Jodie(left) and Angelina(right) are the people behind the idea of this book. They released the balloons to mark the launch. You can learn more about IVOQ My Privilege Book here

Here! Let me show you the book and the card.

Our batteries all dried up as it’s non-stop catwalk! I had to resort to my phone to take photos of the hair show featuring Anna. The first hair show wasted my battery. We were told the models were supposed to pose at the platform first before start walking but those hair show models from Ray’s Salon didn’t do that -.- We were practically chasing after them to take photos. Cameras were everywhere and some people were damn selfish and too much. Blocked every single views of ours, there’s also pushing around too by one fat lady! Sucks! There’s a bunch of videographers and photographers that only cared about themselves. Also a middle-aged lady kept walking in front of the platform whenever she had the chance, please lar people is running an event here, can’t you use the other way, why must you budge into the closed area just to pass things to your daughter or to carry your shopping bags! Such simple common sense and courtesy you also don’t know.

If I had blocked your views or accidentally bumped into you, I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to, I tried to stay clear from people’s view but I was pushed and people even went in front of me as if I’m invisible while I’m shooting. I had to find spots quickly else I’ll miss out all the photo opportunities. Sigh… When time like this, how you wish you have a DSLR with you, even most of the models only posed for DSLRs. *Sigh* The public won’t care a damn thing about you also even you’re invited and have privilege to go up close. We should be given a pass, that way it could help control the crowd better as some areas were blocked only for us, but some members of the public took advantage of it. I should consider getting a DSLR(not my first time saying this :P) but not so soon… Come! Anyone want to sponsor me? Or money just fall from the sky. Hahaha…

It doesn’t matter whether you are invited or not when it’s time to start snapping, no one will care whether they are invited or not. At least those invited got place to sit and were given with the books for free! YAY! 😛 There’s all food and drinks offered but we were not given any, it’s all right anyway because we won’t have time to enjoy them as we need to “work”.

Hair show by Ray’s Salon.

Hair Show by Crowning Glory. These were taken with my phone.

ANNA!! Hahaha… I thought I could get better photos of her but camera battery died… I used my phone to take her photo. Hence the lousy colours.

Fashion show coming up…

Finally it’s opened! However, not really completed -.- Almost the whole of Kuching was there last Saturday. It was so jam! The jam was so long! We parked at 3rd Exchange and walked there. People were still in the car and we already reached. *LOL* Walking is faster than driving a car in this case 😛

I went there again yesterday with my family. The jam wasn’t that bad at about 5pm+

Left: Everyone’s going into the parking bay. Long queue!!!
Right: Signboard is up but it’s not quite right… Where is the Chinese name? Hahaha…

The inside…

Left: Guardian and Kenny Rogers. It was packed at Kenny Rogers, so many people, you have to queue to go in -.- What to do? The only eatery open. There will be Sushi King, KFC, Pizza Hut, RasaMas and few more I guess…
Right: Bread house! Yum~Yum~

Left: More view.
Right: The washroom! 😛 The first place we went hahaha… Once we reached there, we were looking for washroom.

Left: Momoe, I saw some nice comfy sandals there but don’t know the price.
Right: Sinma, selling accessories.

Promotional booths and view of the escalators.

WAKAKA!! Funny… Poor them… Imagine how if they want to pee? 😛 So tired… They have to stand there like a statue.

Left: If you buy more than RM20, you can get your caricature drawn for free.
Right: *LOL* We went hunting for all these mascots. This is KokoCrunch. There’s Chipsmore(we were stopped from taking photo from it because you must make certain purchase to have the chance to take photo with it, if not mistaken), there’s also Yoco and Milo. We camwhored a lot that day in the toilet, in the toy, children and man department and more *LOL* Waiting for photos from Jimmy’s and Allen’s camera(this guy was so kiasu, he brought two DSLRs with him! *LOL*).

JAM!!! Taken from 3rd Exchange. Boulevard is on the left, hidden behind all those trees hehehe…

It’s not fully open yet, so many constructions going on. I guess we will have to wait till next year.