By bapester, on May 10th, 2011% 
I have a confession to make. All I knew about Gruff Rhys before the gig was that he was the frontman of Super Furry Animals, a band whom I also knew of only by name save for a few songs here and there. However that night’s concert has converted me into a believer of his music. Performing as a one man show, he had a literal smorgasbord of little gadgets and technological wizardry in front of him as his musical backup. Above all the ooh’s and ahh’s watching him toy over his metronome (Trevor?), retro keyboards etcetera, it really was a pleasure just to hear him sing and perform. With his down to earth stage presence, he engaged with the audience not just with his jokes but also his voice and his upside down guitar.
Please forgive me for taking photos from a similar vantage point- it was a sit-down concert.
May 33rpm and the nice people at bfm bring more quality live acts to KL. Amen.
click below for more pics.
» Continue reading Gruff Rhys in Malaysia @ mapkl, Kuala Lumpur
By bapester, on February 16th, 2011% OK, this is a long overdue post- my apologies for that. Totally forgot about these pics hanging about in my hard disk until today.
The event happened about 3 weeks ago in the stunningly beautiful KLPAC in Sentul.
» Continue reading Photos from KLPAC Open Day (part 1)
By bapester, on January 18th, 2011% 
Singapore is pushing the envelope yet again in the fashion arena, by hosting the inaugural Singapore Men’s Fashion Week, which will also be the first of its kind in the region.
» Continue reading Singapore’s first Men’s Fashion Week
By bapester, on July 2nd, 2010% 
It’s Thursday and the buzz from Sunday’s run has finally worn off. Along with it also leaves all forms of fatigue, aches and joint pains.
Early this year I have decided to challenge myself and resolved to participate in my first run this year, so that I am able to join a marathon a couple of years from now. While the thought of joining the 10k run may seem like peanuts to the initiated, the idea of ME running was quite a novel one. People who have known me personally would probably associate me with activities like eating, sleeping, shopping, drinking, even just sitting around acting all sedentary, but running? Friends, family and even my own self would not expect couch-potato me to run 10 kilometres, and to change this perception was a challenge just as the run itself.
» Continue reading KL Marathon 2010: My first 10k experience.
By bapester, on May 31st, 2010% 
I may have mentioned this before, but I savour moments like this when I am so thankful that I am in KL and not in Terengganu anymore. The Alliance Francaise in Kuala Lumpur is currently holding the 2010 French Art and Film Festival (FAFF) and I attended one of the movies that they brought over.
With a total of 8 films choose from, I was initially clueless on which movie to watch ( besides the much publicized Coco Avant Chanel). Being the nerd that I am, I naturally checked out the festival event page on Facebook and I found my answer through a film fanatic who mentioned in the page that Summer Hours (L’heure d’été) is the clear winner of them all.
It seems as though I was not the only one who felt that way, judging from a rather good turn out that Sunday afternoon. After all, it has a string of accolades to go by, and not to mention good ratings everywhere across the internet.
So what is this movie all about? !warning spoilers abound!
» Continue reading Summer Hours at the French Art and Film Festival
By bapester, on January 17th, 2010%
By bapester, on November 25th, 2009% With the exception of the electronic acts that have been performing in Zouk/Barsonic (Shinichi Osawa, Shitdisco, Gareth Pugh), there seemed to be quite a dearth of noteworthy alternative acts coming to KL this year. Two names I can think of were Battles and Jens Lekman.
 Battles in KL In the meantime, neighbour Singapore has been enjoying playing host to NIN and the Ed Banger Crue, among others. Singapore continues to attract quality acts next year (thanks to events like Mosaic Music Festival and Big Night Out), like The Killers, Cat Power, The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s , Green Day and Muse. Just name-dropping is enough to make me cry.
Still, fret not because in the coming weeks, it isn’t just the monsoon that is coming down hard on KL but also some top draw electronica acts. So electronic music fans, keep these dates free:
» Continue reading Something good this way comes.
By bapester, on November 10th, 2009% 
One boring Saturday afternoon, I decided to pop by the Central Market Annexe for design community pipit’s 3rd anniversary arts and craft market. The surprise of the day was to bump into the free dance performance happening next door, The Bull and the Cowherd. What an honour to have the opportunity to see classical Indian dance legend Ramli Ibrahim with Guna live in action, for free! It was a pleasure to experience the rhythmic moves and emotive facial expressions of classical Indian dance in person.
» Continue reading Annexe: Of Ramli Ibrahim and pipit indie craft market
By bapester, on October 27th, 2009% 
Leaving my gym after a short swim (I am trying my utmost hardest to fit in at least 30 minutes of light exercise on my non-workout days), I saw the Terry Fox Run organizers setting up a stall at my gym lobby selling this year’s run’s T-shirts. I am hoping to make it to this year’s run, but I can’t confirm my attendance in case my weekend gets a bit crazy, or in case I can’t find some friends to go with. So I decided to get the T-shirt beforehand in case I can’t make it. Proceeds from it go towards cancer research.
» Continue reading Terry Fox Run KL 2009
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