2012 With Siti Nurhaliza, Family and Friends

Before I begin, I would like to wish all my friends and relatives a happy new year, 2012! Hopefully this year brings the best time out of your life and may all of you prosper the way you want it to be.

I hope everyone had a blast during the countdown to new year last night because I know I did despite being worn out by my day to day camp activities. Sleep was never enough. So how did I celebrate my countdown you may ask?

Last evening I went over to Amar's and Amir's (Nizam's little twin brother) 5th  birthday bash at Aloha Loyang. I was there with Fiz and I was so glad to finally meet Nizam and Fiz once again after so long! Sadly Amin wasn't there to be with us (especially me because I had to go). I would like to thank Nizam for inviting me over and I really hope you guys understand why I couldn't stay long! Siti Nurhaliza was waiting for me on stage. Heh, joking! I had to quickly change because I'd probably die of heat stroke in red dress shirt.

Last night Syaz's family and mine went over to The Float@Marina Bay to attend Celebrate 2012. Since all these while my countdown had been with my friends, I thought it would be great to celebrate this year with our family. This is indeed a good start of the year, and it somehow fulfills one of my new year resolutions - to establish a healthier relationship with my friends and family. Read my WordPress post!

The event kicked off with pre-show (before it went live on television) with performances by celebrities like These Kids Wear Crowns, Sezairi Sazali, Sylvia Ratonel, Sheikh Haikel and of course, top Malaysian singer Siti Nurhaliza. It was pretty happening, most of the songs during the pre-show were upbeat but several few really touched our hearts with slow songs from Sylvia, Sezairi and Siti. It was surprising to hear Siti Nurhaliza sing a Mandarin song that night. Accent and pronunciation aside, I'd say it's a good attempt to woo the country where majority were the Chinese.

But what really got the crowd hyped up a little bit was when the performers started singing Hollywood song like E.T, Single Ladies and Moves Like Jagger.

The show was very energetic and it got better with host like Gurmit Singh and Michelle Chia. It's as though you can never go sad when Gurmit is on stage. He is just hilarious and crazy, and I mean it in a good way!

Must I say the crowd was boring. Never mind the old people with walking stick - hey, I'm not discriminating but do you really have to stone there when the performer is not your idol? Come on, you're here to party, have a good time and enjoy all the beat but you guys are pretty much dead. Even if it's pre-show, gimme some gusto and zest! Even my mum headbanged better than you guys. You guys are not cool at all, not cool. Whatever was happening at the mosh pit, was mosh sh- - you know what, I shall stop there.

Apart from adoring our favourite personalities on stage, the highlight was definitely the eight minute pyrotechnic display on the bay. It was so beautiful and magnificent. Hands down that was my first time to see fireworks at The Float@Marina Bay. I've never celebrated National Day or other occasion there before so it's thrilling to see fireworks sprucing up the night sky.

And then comes the worse beginning of the year - to be stuck in the car park for about an hour because there were too many cars going out at once. We survived!

I was really beat when I got home. New year celebration did not end just there. It got more exciting.

The next morning, Syaz and I woke up early for celebrity hunt. Our prey was Siti Nurhaliza. It was great to see her in person and SitiZoners (it's a noun for her fans) were there to celebrate her birthday in advance. The SitiZoners got to meet her and there the SitiZoners got to enjoy the birthday cake with her! Before she left, I took a farewell picture with her before she departed to the airport.

She is such a sweet doll. I don't know about other Malay celebrities that is as hardworking as her but she really made a great start in her singing career and now, she even got an honorary title on her. Never mind what people said about the way she dress, the way she sings, the way she does things, or even the husband she picks (I don't know why personal life is involved when you're talking about people's career) she's still the Malaysian heartthrob. I can't wait to see her on Bio Channel. Coming soon!

Her latest and first English album All Your Love is awesome!

Okay moving on to a personal note, I would like to thank everyone who made my year 2011 a memorable one! Let's make the world go round and make this year a better one!

Dominique Sirop - Women's Fashion Week 2011, Singapore

This weekend is a special one because apart from the exhausting sports day and the school cheer which felt like Halloween, I got to enjoy the sight of beautiful ladies in Dominique Sirop's designs in Women's Fashion Week (WFW) 2011, Singapore. It is Singapore's first large scale event solely dedicated to the artistry of haute couture and obviously this will be the first time an haute couture week is brought out of Paris. Before this, Singapore was not an air-conditioned city, that explains why we don't see people wearing this by the shopping belt. I will be surprised if I see one wearing them in this unmerciful weather.

I think by this line only half of you knows the hell I'm talking about. Haute couture is a dress made from high-quality, expensive fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable seamstresses. If you really need to understand, just remember, jeans and tank top doesn't make a haute couture. So what's happening here is that they are bringing this in to increase Singaporean's fashion quotient because all these while we are the people of tank tops and slippers and that doesn't make do on special occasions. Otherwise how can we be top ten in the most fashionable country list, right?

Anyway, it was really great to be there because I don't only get to see dolled up models cat walking down the runway but several of my favorite art pieces were there. Mont Blanc, the official timepiece and Rolls-Royce the official automobile exhibited several of their new designs. It was a exhilarating to see shiny Rolls-Royce, sit on it to feel and smell the pure leather and let your shoes sink in the velvety car mat. You just feel like giving up everything and own just it to live in it.

I thought it was very creative to see DHL's masterpiece in creating a haute couture on the mannequins using their own labelled materials. I'd never thought of that if you were to give me a pile of DHL junks. I'd just dump it aside. Looking at them reminds me one of Carlsberg's video advertisements. Creative and attractive.

Women's Fashion Week seems to be all about style and poise. As you enter, you will be greeted and ushered in, and you will never get thirsty for there's free flow of wine, champagne and for the health conscious, orange juice for you. There were even people around to inform you when the show was about to start - no way you could be late for the show. It's all about elegance. But boys will be boys if you compare this to Men's Fashion Week, you know how hysterically fun and noisy Men's Fashion Week was.

One thing I like about the runway is the propping to make it look like spring. It gives this cozy ambiance where you don't feel too stuffy from the lighting because everything was dim before the show and it did not give the corporate video introduction like what happened in Men's Fashion Week. Instead, there was a host to introduce us to the show

I am grateful to be a part of this and I thank everybody for the wonderful opportunity to attend Women's Fashion Week 2011. You know who you are. Have a great week ahead as I'm going to prepare to pump some iron in days to come.