Taman Negara Trip for Popular Culture...

It's been a week since I came back from Taman Negara trip for my Pop Culture assignment and I only decided to write about it now because it was quite a busy week for me with all sorts of assignments and mid-term exams. We had to interview some foreign backpackers and see what their cultures are like and I am very grateful to make it back home alive. Lets not waste anymore time and see what I've got.

[First day, we stopped at Jerantut for lunch and the food there are very yummy]

[Then, when we reached Taman Negara, we had to walk all around to look for our dorm or hostel]
[Finally, after a long walk, we finally made it to this dorm which costs us only RM 10 per person and per night]
[In it was 3 double decker beds and both our groups shared this room]

[After resting, we decided to eat at those restaurants located at the riverside and I took this picture while waiting for others to decide on where to eat. It's one of my favourite picture. Hehe.]

[After a long discussion and some camwhoring, we decided to take our dinner in this restaurant called Family Restaurant. After dinner, we went home, took our shower and rest.]

[The next day, we took the boat to the next side of the river to go further into Taman Negara because most of backpackers will be there]

[My group: Einstein, Yee Ling and me]

[Two groups together: Einstein, Kian Keat, Yee Ling, me, Diane, and Syeet Yeng]

[Jungle trekking and stopped to camwhore for a while. Haha.]

[Met some foreign backpackers and took some pictures with them]

[Our first interview]

[During the interview]

[Walking deeper into the jungle and it was really very tiring. Luckily we sprayed a very thick layer of mosquitoes repellent or else we would coming back here with swollen red dots all over our body. Hehe]

[Our 2nd interview with a pair of couple]

[3rd interview]

[Took a picture with them]

[4th interview]

[5th interview]

[After the interview, we immediately became friends and he is only 22 years old from France and his name is Mathias. He joined us for the canopy walk and later for lunch.]

[Both groups with Mathias]

[After waiting for 2 hours plus, it was our turn to go to the canopy walkway]

[Then, we finally made it back and took a boat back to the other side where we had started. Mathias joined us for lunch and also dinner that night. Everyone was extremely exhausted due to the long walk and all the waiting and interviewing, and we went back to take our shower and rest early that night.]

[The very last day, we took off and head to the same restaurant in Jerantut for lunch again and we were all very happy. The road was very bumpy]

I reached home and started to rush for a Written Discourse assignment which I had to hand up the next day and I of course managed to hand it up on time. Hehe.

This trip was not fun at all and there wasn't any entertainment and the whole street would turn dark by 8pm. The only fun thing I experienced there was chatting and playing poker with my friends. In my report, I will ceratinly include one sentence into my conclusion, that is "I will never ever in my life go to that place again".

Well, that's all for this post. Have to start doing some assignments as soon as possible and stop procrastinating as this is the 8th week. 6 more weeks and this semester ends. I really hope to end this semester as soon as possible. Got to go now. Tata. (^.^)

Last Saturday, 13th of June 2009, Fish Leong had come back to Malaysia and held her concert in Bukit Jalil Indoor Stadium since her last concert in Malaysia 4 years ago. This time, I could just sit there and watch the whole show and not running around pressing the shutter button of my Nikon D60 as Danny borrowed it to replace my job as the photographer while Yap being the reporter. Only two media pass were given to them, but I had 2 free tickets that worth RM 188 Thanks to Danny (given free from Galaxy Entertainment) and I dragged Denson to go along with me. Not much pictures because Danny did not really know how to use my camera, so here are some of the pictures I sorted out. Enjoy...

[Me holding the ticket and ticket cover]
[Denson doing the same thing]

[It was a full house that night]

[Just look at the crowd... Wow...]

[Fish Leong came out in her first costume]

[I love the idea of her coming out from a present box as the theme was Valentines and a lot of love filled the whole stadium]

[She looked cheerful during the whole show and always with a smile on her face]

[I like this part too where she sang all her sad, sentimental love songs. The stage was very big too and it's very rare that they can do this kind of stage in Malaysia as most of the concert I saw before were just using plain rectangular stage. It's such a surprise...]

[Michael Wong was the guest artiste that night and they sang a very lovely duet. Then Fish went back to the back stage for a costume change while Michael sang the song that almost everyone knows, "Tong Hua" and a cantonese song from his latest album]

[Confetties popped out and filled the stage]

[All the audience were running towards Fish as she went down for a hand-shake session]

[After a few more songs, it was time for encore. Later, she asked some of her artiste friends who were there that night to go up and one of them was Ah Niu. Both of them joked a lot and made the place filled with laughter. They then sang a duet.]

[After her duet with Ah Niu, both of them asked the other artiste to go up on stage as well. Z-Chen was there as he is Fish Leong's cousin, then there were Ah Fei from a former local boyband called Baby, and lastly Phoebe. They sang two songs together before everything ends]

[Danny and Yap after the concert, outside of the stadium]

It was a very sweet night as most of Fish's song were about love and her vocal certainly has improved a lot. I felt her emotions in every song she sang and some songs could even make you cry. Its just fair for declaring her as the queen of love songs as she totally deserves it. Let's hope she will bring more love songs that could melt our heart just like her songs do now. That's all I got to say. Thanks for reading and I really hope you all enjoy reading what I wrote. Muaks. (^.^)

Z-Chen Mini Concert in The Gardens Hotel...

Last Friday, the 12th of June 2009, Z-Chen finally made a comeback after releasing his new album a few months ago and this is his first live performance after taking his rest for quite some time. Lets not waste any time and look at the pictures I took during the mini concert.

[Z-Chen came out and sang the first song]
[While singing one of his dance track]

[Receiving flowers from some fans]

[Continue singing]

[Michael Wong came out and gave Z-Chen a surprise, chatted a while with Z-Chen, send his regards and left]

[Another dance track]

[Z-Chen doing some sexy routines with his female dancers]

[Getting more daring]

[Back to his sentimental love songs]

[I personally love this picture with the light shining to my place when I capture this shot]

[Another costume change]

[More flowers]

[This is a segment where he sang 2 songs and dedicated to the late Ah Shang while the screen displayed some slides and clips of Ah Shang]

[Z-Chen was crying because he was very close with Ah Shang and they were colleagues once. This segment was so touching that it made most of the people there cried]

[Z-Chen looking sadly into the screen]

[He then invited Ah Shang's sister onto the stage and both of them hugged tightly and they were crying really sadly. I was about to cry but I had to control and not to make my eyes blurry with tears, or else I couldn't take some nice shots]

[After another costume change, Z-Chen continue singing his latest dance track and danced along. It was kinda surprising that he can still dance nicely after being away for some time]

[Last pose for the track]

[Encore time and he did really enjoyed himself that night]

[Can really see from his expression that he is having fun]

[He introduced all his musicians and dancers and moving to the beats]

[After introducing, he sang a few more songs and waved goodbye]

Overall, it was a superb night and Z-Chen has still got the X-Factor to make the crowd goes wild. I did enjoy myself too although I had to run here and there to get nice shots. He is indeed the R&B Prince of the chinese music industry.

Well, that's all for this post and next post will be about Fish Leong's Concert in Bukit Jalil. Adios. (^.^)