This year, I witnessed Earth Hour 2010 with ahlost, Dys, JF (please update your blog), Frankie and Kally. Year 2010 is the second year for Green Heights Mall to host Earth Hour in Kuching. There were stalls being set up along the carpark outside the mall, selling goodies related to Earth awareness, food and etc..

lelong lelong

food for the hungreh

We wanted to have dinner before heading to Green Heights Mall but as usual, time is always ahead of us. End up dinnering or just snacking on some “mamak stall” at the Earth Hour event.

sausage burger =/

Beef Burger

Anyway, our main reason to be at Green Heights Mall was for Earth Hour lights out and to support our friend, Frankie, who was performing with his bandmates during the event.

frankie

The goodeh buddies:

ahlost

JF aka San Yang

Dys

Yours truly

Kie’s band was the first to perform. Thanks to LanMao (EOS500D) owner who lent me LanMao and using my own SD card to take the following pichas:

#1

Recycle reduce replenish, VOTE EARTH

#2

with the blue lighting

#3

with the purple lighting

#4 Zzzz… blur picha.. I’m not good with the settings wei..

I dunch like your pink pants :L wtf

#5

in Black & White mode

#6

view from backstage with JF in action

#7

from the floor with the standing candles

#8 Get your candles ready for the light out

kie with his candle

#9 Camwhoring at WWF stall

WWF <3

#10

I sahpot WWF

#11

Dys sahpot WWF

#12 Shopping continues during the lights out

shopping in the dark with candles

#13 The crowd supporting Earth Hour

at least 300 ppl here

#14 Met familiar face at the event

Yo! Fahriee!

#15 The show must go on..

oop.. suppose to focus on the closer candles but it focused on the guy =/

#16 with so many people crowding in sucha small space, there’s only one word to describe the event, HOT!

Get REVIVE to cool down

#17

Should make a better arrangement on the candles

#18 Random shot – blur coz kid cannot stand still

some cute girl with her parents

#19 Hello, Kally!

Sorry for the blur picha

My first time meeting Kally in person. Nice to meet you!

#20 Kids and candles

They sien play with candles, went to watch show

#21

the mini ARGH

#22 SuperFlash

Guess who?

#23 ARG minus H

Dys, ahlost & I

#24

with ahlost

Beh tahan (cannot stand) the crazy heat, we left Green Heights Mall for supper/late dinner at………………..*show you in next post*

Emcees of the night: Karen and Season

After introducing themselves, they continue on with the objective of the event and highlighting the programs for the night.

The Opening Dance was a hiphop dance performed by Soulz. The video of it is divided into three parts:

There’s the third part which I tried upload, failed three times on Vimeo. Forget about Youtube, it doesn’t accept MP4. Will be trying again on Vimeo.

After the dance, was the opening song, Heal The World, sung by  Edwin, Chien Chien, Peterus and Andy.

Thanks to Edwin for getting us the exclusive passes to unlimited access in the hall. We were able to capture the best angles and views of the night while we still can. lol..

Special seats. Upclose and personal XDDDDD

More to come in the next few posts, meanwhile, enjoy the opening videos first as I’m still uploading the rest of the videos – one vid every night thanks to Slowmyx. Till then, stay tune..

Photographers in action

The performing artist of the evening was Season who doubled as the MC of the evening as well.

Season Ting

He sang a few songs from his album. Boy, he’s pretty good. Another Kuching Superstar in the making.

Next up was,

 

Alex Wong of SingleTrackMind (STM)

Our very own well known local band that made big in the States is Alex Wong. His song was used as the theme song in the movie.

AMS

Guest band all the way from Hong Kong, AMS. Their fashion and style is different from us and they’re pretty cool. One of the best band I enjoyed that evening. Again, where can I get their CD?

Swing Habit

Swing Habit had the biggest respond from the audience as though they came to watch them perform only. Hahaha.. Die hard rocker fans!

Lang

Another guest band from KL, Lang. They too had responds from the audience, more like the other band members.

A group picha for the album (there are several group pichas but I like this best).

Stole Season’s mic when he was sitting watching the performances. Kehkehkeh..

Well, I haven’t get the videos uploaded YET! Still in the dilemma to find the right software. Been downloading, installing, deleting softwares. Can’t find a decent proper converter that could convert my .MOV videos without funny watermarks in the center of the video or converts 100% instead 20% of the full video. Sigh.. Anyone using Canon IXUS digicam? What software do you use to edit/resize your videos?

Trust me, I’ve tried Windows Movie Maker, DVD-Movie Maker, Xilisoft, OJO, APEX, FXBear, etc etc..you name it, I’ve tried it. I can’t upload to any video hoster as the size of the videos taken are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too big! E.g. 300-600MB each!

Anyway, I’ll just story about the party with the pichas I’ve taken the other night and some stolen pichas from blogs. kekekkekeke…

From the previous post on Rocking the Sarawak Rock Party 2009, a so called “news” which is obviously a failed one. LOOOL!

The Sarawak Rock Party 2009 was held at Kenyalang Theatre, on April 26th, 2009 at 6.30pm. Previous Rock Party was in 2007 at Fe.ver pub. It was crowded back then, as the place is to small to accommodate the huge crowd. This time round, the hall is big and spacey. So, it was pretty comfortable – space wise.

Emcees - Season & Adeline

Season Ting and Adeline Yeo were the emcees for the night. The only two persons we could hear loud and clear throughout the whole night.

MonkeyKat's Comel Basist

MonkeyKat was the first band to perform. They have lots of fans! The lead singer is pretty and very young compared to the bandmates. Their first song was an English song. Unfortunately, due to the audio settings, I couldn’t really hear what she was singing. The vocals were too soft and only can really hear her in the video.

Disable

Disable consists of these young chaps. They were not as loud as the rest and they were more shy on stage. Time and exposure will change that.

Rock Paradise

Rock Paradise came all the way from Miri to perform for this event. They were pretty good. They performed the most songs for the night.

Khai - Edwin

Khai, a newly formed band. Made their first appearance at the Rock Party. The lead singer, whom we are all familiar with, non other than Edwinaaaah Edwin. We couldn’t really hear what he was singing, but they were rocking hard! Just look at him. Such a rocker.

Channel 1

Channel 1 is no stranger band to us as their lead singer, Pazuzu – Alvin, a well known fella in the blogosphere. A man of multitalents, a photographer, blogger and singer (I’m sure there are more talents hidden in him). Fuahhh.. All in one.

Frankie and William (Season’s bro – talented brothers) performed as the guitarist and drummer in the band that night.

Spider Web

Spider Web is one of the best performers that night. They really brings the rocking feeling in the whole theatre. Very nice touche They were experienced and the lead singer sang in Hakka! How cool is that?! I may not understand Hakka but the songs sounded great! This Uncle rocks!

Slap!

Slap! consists of 4 members; Rambo, Leslie, Edwin and Jack. Today, there are only 3 member. Rambo, their lead singer got fished to Taiwan. Signed a contract there. All the best, Rambo!! Miss your performance though. Nontheless, Slap! is still doing well. They are still hipped and rocking!

Visualies - Ah Wai

Visualies also a no stranger band. They’ve been around for many years. That night, they performed a few self written songs. In this picha, Wai, their guitarist, demonstrated his guitar stunt. Swinging his guitar around his neck. Cool man. Now I know why his neck so “slim”. LOL

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There are some more bands performing that night, but I’ll stop here for now. Will post them in another post. *Wipes sweat* 8 bands down, 5+1 to go. Teehee..

Snapped this from Mick Long's D700. D700 WEII!!

A total of 14 bands and 1 artist performed during the event. The 14 bands are AMS (from Hong Kong), Channel 1, Disable, Dream Machine, Dyerbreed, Khai, Lang (from KL), MonkeyKat, Rock Paradise (from Miri), SingleTrackMind, Slap!, SpiderWeb, Swing Habit, Visualies and Zhao. Not forgetting Season, the performing artist and emcee for the night. It’s so unfortunate for Orion Burn not being able to perform because their lead singer was not well. Maybe next time

There were approximately 20 bloggers (statistics taken according to the bloggers Annna knows) were at the event. *Nice to meet you all again *

It was a sexciting fantanciting (fantanstic + exciting) event! I enjoyed the event very much. Extreame shouting, extreme screaming, extreme loudness, extreme jumping, extreme pushing, extreme camwhoring, extreme phototaking, extreme laughint, extreme headbanging, extreme extreme extreme everything. In short, it was an extreme deafing experience!

Last but not least, support our local industry. (sound like radio)

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Yerrrrrrr.. feel like a reporter, reporting the event for a  newspaper., but failed towards the end. -LOOOL- It has been……………..6 years? Since I last written a news report. The last time I wrote one was when I was still in school. huehuehue..

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For Project 365: Day 30 April 26th, 2009

It is on this day I found out that Season and William are brothers! No wonder so damn alike laaaaaaaaaaaaa.. -__________-|||

Not forgetting the two kelefeis behind us – gLaDieZz and ahlost