KL on Foursquare

Lama tak update blog. Sudah semakin bersawang di sini. Bukan lagi kemalasan nak menyerang ke apa... tapi sesungguhnya I prefer to tweet.

So kalau korang on Twitter, cepat lag follow saja. My ID in case korang mash tatau, is @klubbkiddkl.

Hari ni nak share berita sikit.

Beberapa hari lalu, saya dapat confirmation dari Foursquare yang badge Kuala Lumpur sudah nak siap.

Saya dihubungi untuk menetapkan design yang telah pun disediakan oleh pihak Foursquare sendiri, hasil info aku berikan berdasarkan aesthetic design guide yang mereka berikan pada aku.

Dan hasilnya? This is how it's going to look like!!!

Simple kan? Tapi sememangnya aku pilih bunga raya untuk badge Foursquare pertama milik Malaysia.

Hope you guys like it, and yes ini sudan dipersetujui selepas beberapa email, this is the final design untuk badge kami!

So watch out for the badge, dan auk akan beritahu macamana unlock nanti.

Hopefully this is only a start, and maybe there'll be other badges for Penang, Johor Bahru, Ipoh, Kuching, Kota Kinabalu and lots more soon.

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My pride! Malaysia Boleh!

Aku tau aku da lama malas update blog. Ampun sangat! Sejak migrasi ke Twitter ni, aku sumpah lebih aktif sampai kalao wat blog posting, sehari leh 50 entries kat blog ni punya panjang.

Still, hari ni hari istimewa, sebab hari ni - kita buktikan MALAYSIA BOLEH!

What do I mean?

Sebab aku kaki Foursquare, more than two weeks ago aku perasan meka ada wat 'contest'. Ruangan Foursquare Cities yang menawarkan badge, buka ruang untuk lebih bandar seluruh dunia tersenarai.

In our region setakat ini, cuma Singapore tersenarai. Dan memang Foursquare sudah umumkan, Bangkok dan Jakarta turut akan tersenarai setelah terpilih menyertai senarai bandar-bandar seluruh dunia yang menarik.

Dengan itu, aku memulakan senarai INI - dengan nama Colors of Kuala Lumpur.

Dengan kuasa Twitter, ramai yang tolong menyebarkan senarai ini untuk join the list dan beri sokongan kempen kami untuk dapatkan Foursquare untuk senaraikan Kuala Lumpur.

Dan beberapa jam lalu aku dapat tweet ni!

Gila tak menggigil aku! Aku da bajet tak dapat da. Tambah lagi sebab sokongan berbelah bahagi sebab ada pihak yang masukkan dua lagi senarai Kuala Lumpur lepas aku. Adoi.

Lepas aku buat, ramai lak yang pasang hajat sama. Tapi sebab da sayang masa tu dekat 100 lebih orang dah follow, lebih dari yang lain, aku teruskan usaha kempen saja.

Syukur, senarai aku compile untuk highlight tempat-tempat menarik di Kuala Lumpur berjaya tarik perhatian pihak Foursquare dan my entry won!!!!

Tuh dia! Nama Kuala Lumpur tersenarai! Nak baca penuh KLIK SINI!

Dengan kemenangan ini, dengan sahnya Kuala Lumpur akan disenaraikan dalam Foursquare Cities DAN akan mendapat badge sendiri untuk di unlock khas di Kuala Lumpur! Bangga sial!

Lepas ini, hopefully kita akan dapat listkan banyak lagi bandar menarik di seluruh Malaysia termasuk Penang, Melaka, Johor Bahru, Ipoh, Kota Kinabalu dan Kuching to begin with.

Usaha ini sememangnya tak akan bermakna kalau bukan kerana sokongan Twitterjaya dan Foursquarers Malaysia - so dengan itu, WE DID IT! Malaysia BOLEH!

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Watch, and share

Remember I told you we did a flashmob a couple of weeks ago? Here's the video, I hope you guys enjoy it.

With this one, we wanted to to change up the dance flashmob/smart mob, so we did it in a staggered formation. Usually the numbers grow as the mob progresses.

For this one, we started with a group, then the baton was passed to another, and so on. And only for the finale all the groups came together.

We also opted for a harder edge to the choreography, and also the choice of music since we wanted to tie in with the Beats image of being funkier and harder since we were on the platform of promoting the HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio.

I hope you guys like it. While we're a smart mob, which means one for corporate means, we stay true to the essence of a flashmob in other ways - such as the sudden congregation and dispersing of the crowd, the hidden cameras and other equipment (which some don't even consider).

Yes, we do try to stay true. After all, being INSPIRED means to study what it's all about to get about it. Not just 'monkey see, monkey do'.

Ok ok... dahlah. Panjang pulak nak blog walaupun pemalas katanya. Enjoy the video, and please, do tweet it, blog about it, share it on forums and websites and link it on your Facebook or Google+ and help us continue to make awesome flash mobs.

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For the Beliebers

You heard it here first. Justin Bieber is coming to Malaysia.

The singing foetus grosses me out. He's like a yucky version of Alvin and the Chipmunks musically, with more hair on the head, and hairless everywhere else and forgets he's all vanilla.

But for Beliebers, rejoice for it has apparently been confirmed he will coming to Kuala Lumpur in March 2011. Remember. You heard it here first. Will let you guys know more about the Bieber when I get details.

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For the Glamberts

So I promised you guys pics. Here it is. Took an eternity to get everything up...

But.. before anything, this is me and some friends with Adam backstage. It was funny and sort of embarrassing. Since this was my second time in a day meeting up with him, after our interview over the phone - the moment we walked into the room, Adam said, "Hi, it's you again!" and smiled.

Before I could say anything, one of my friends, screamed, ran up, hugged and kissed Adam on the cheek. I had never seen her go crazy like that before, so it was kind of shocking. Funny... but shocking. Especially when Adam went blubbering, "... no kiss... no kiss".

We talked a little and snapped a pic for memories and that was that.

By the way, if you guys are looking for the set list for the night, here it is.

In order of performance, it was Voodoo, For Your Entertainment, Down The Rabbit Hole, Ring Of Fire, Fever, Sleepwalker, Whataya Want From Me, Soaked, Broken Open, Aftermath, Surefire, Strut, Music Again and If I Had You with the encore of Mad World and 20th Century Boy.

Won't review the concert except to say the experience was one of the best I've had next to Black Eyed Peas (their Genting show not the dumb ass MTV World Stage performance) and Beyonce's tour stopover in Bangkok that I caught.

Adam was at the top of his game, and he was the consummate performer - in every aspect.

Ok.. enough yapping. Enjoy the pic, courtesy of Sony Music Malaysia.

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Harassment

I nearly, very nearly had my day spoiled yesterday.

Initially, I thought nothing could go wrong. It was to be a fun day. I had the press conference with Adam Lambert, then his concert... good day, huh?

That's what I thought...

Was at the Stadium Putra by 5.15pm, way early because friends in the right places helped us get the meet and greet passes. I thought the stadium was to be empty. Oops.. silap sungguh ye, cause ramai sangat orang dah by that time.

And voila! Finally about 6pm, it was time to meet Adam.

I'll post up the picture of Adam and my friends (and also with me) soon.

Meanwhile, I noticed this as we were in the loading area. Korang ingat tak time Anugerah Juara Lagu arituh kecoh tersebar the pics from my blog pasal akak ponti kat atas bumbung kan?

Hah... sapa tak caya aku, yang Stadium Putra ni keras.. tengok ni. This was at the backstage area.

Tuh dia! Nak halau benda-benda halus katanya.

By the time I cleared the backstage area, the crowd was really getting crazy.

Spent some time amusing myself by tweeting endless mesages with the digiglambert hashtag just to watch it pop up on screens all around the venue. Coolness!

Also entertained myself with stuff like this....

Went into the stadium, got my seats in the press box. Masa tu it was like half full (or half empty, if you're a pessimist).

Then got word that the PAS demonstrators were outside. So sebab show lom start, my friends and I went out to see if there really was a commotion.

Yeap... ada... and they were handing out all these hate pamphlets. Wild, pornographic, extreme, gay, homosexual...

What the....

Are you serious? Get a life la. The concert has gotten the permission to proceed under strict conditions, why politicize the situation by using religion? I think this is where the leadership of PAS has to bitch slap these little people yang bising je lebih and end up bringing a negative view of extremism about Islam to the world.

Masa press conference, international wire services kept asking about this. And the first to jump on the demonstration - were the foreign press.

So good going, PAS. Again, you made the world think we're all in the dark ages.

The truth is, the yelping ones outside did more harm that good.

Aku bagi contoh.

This boy in his 20s, was repeating himself like orang nak beli suratkhabar lama.

"Adam Lambert is a gay! Don't let him kiss Malaysian men! Don't let him bring gay to Malaysia".

WHAT THE FUCK!

I mean, seriously????

Number one - the whole fucking world knows he's gay. So thank you for showing us you finally moved up somehow and learnt to use Google. Secondly, again, it's the perversion of thought that he would want to kiss Malaysian men. I mean... maybe Asians aren't his thing even. That's like saying a heterosexual men wants to sleep with every woman out there. Ko hengat being gay means every man is appealing? Those who were demonstrating - they were as appealing as wet, bunched up armpit hair with a rich splash of talcum to clot it all.

And bring gays to Malaysia? What is he? An import fag service?

Seriously... the PAS demonstrators are nothing but a joke - and coming up to the elections next year, these type of airheads are just stupid, judgemental, stereotyping haters.

To everyone out there, Islam IS a beautiful religion and I don't see how these people can claim to spread Islam with such venom they spew.

One classic case of what happened was a couple of tudung-ed girls were being stopped. They had spent berapa ratus Ringgit on good seats, and were being stopped and lectured.

And in the end, after the girls kept getting stopped, they just ran for their lives into the stadium.

Tu satu hal.. non-Muslims were harassed - by their presence, by their hate literature and by their general disrespect that we are living in a democratic society governed by laws.

Gi je la konsert Maher Zain. Ni pon aku tengok orang PAS dok luar tu dari Maghrib ke Isyak... I'm wondering if they neglected, in all their piety, their religious duties. Lom agik soal anak bini kat umah...

In the end.. this was what we saw...

They should have campaigned for an anti-littering stance instead. Their literature was all over - the floor.

And instead... the party kept growing to some 15,000 people inside.

It was wild - and it was fun. but no, there was no kissing. There was no horrible moral decay - not anymore than your average Jom Heboh. So there.

PS - More pics and all in the next entry.

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In the flesh

Finally... the man is here in the flesh!

We had the Adam Lambert press conference today. A little bit boring simply cause everyone was told not to question on sensitive issues (homosexuality/PAS). Boring compared to the no-holds barred interview I had with him over the phone. Also because some journalists who were acting like fans screaming into the microphone (unprofessional really, especially with limited time for the PC - and since selected fans were also in and decided to read a poem or some shit wasting more time)

But here are some pics for fans of Adam. Sorry, again as usual Im not a pro photographer. Everything was taken with my Blackberry.

That last pic looks better, right? Anyway, I got to talk with Adam for a very short while between the photocall and told him I was the one who interviewed him on the phone a few days ago and he was nice as he remembered.

And before you could say "PAS!" I whipped out the cover of my For Your Entertainment - Tour Edition cover, and Adam signed it for me. With my name of course.

My nieces are going to be so pissed at me. Heh! I'll update about the concert tonight in tomorrow's entry!

PS - Before I post the full audio interview with Adam, here's my article in The Malay Mail on it - CLICK HERE TO READ

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