6th September 2014: RAWR, at 1 Mont Kiara!
So this place reopened, for whatever strange reason, with a renovation that I don’t understand.
First up: Narmi!
First emcee: Zher Peen of Fly FM.
Next up: Talitha Tan.
Her regular suspects.
Long time no see Prema Yin!
Accompanied by this speed painter.
The Prema I’m used to seeing with no guitar.
Another long-time-ago face.
Random stage games!
Next emcee: Hafiz of Fly FM.
Christian Palencia!
Yes, like he stepped out of a steamer.
More stage games!
Farouque blackmail material.
Ross Stephenson on stage with a comedy skit. One of these two people is actually funny on stage.
Ross teaches Talitha how to boogie!
Magic.
Stand-up comedy was the plan. Anton Gillich in the middle, Kavin Jay on the right, and amnesia for me on the left.
Can’t remember what he said…
Ray Cheong knocks on wood.
Travel musical history with Fazz!
The Minolta 70-210mm F4.0 on the full-frame modified LA-EA1 for the Sony Alpha 7S can be real handy.
Polka-dotted keyboardist…
…is all the rockstar.
Kevin, singing in the rain.
I always enjoy later evening stage lighting.
Boom! Here’s the full-frame modded Sony 16mm F2.8 pancake for some wide goodness.
Emcee Ivan of Fly FM.
The fantastic Rozz.
Her crew.
The lights went full on.
Then, fireworks!
The bean bags in front made for good viewing.
She did a Rihanna medley…
…as well as a Whitney Houston/Aretha Franklin one.
The crowd dances!
What a delightful sip I had from this!
The before-after-party.
At least one of them is a hilarious YouTube star.
Since they weren’t all on stage anymore I could use the Mitakon/Speedmaster 50mm F0.95 Dark Knight Pro lens.
Narmi and Ahtilat, right to left.
Only when processing did I discover that the infrared-modded Sony Alpha NEX-5 wouldn’t focus well with mixed lighting.
More misfocus.
Chrispy and me.
Wai Leong cuts in from the right.
Dance again!
That picture of Talitha behind and above her, is probably the biggest I’ve ever had printed out.
It’s so big, I can’t even get perspective to make them match!
The original, unpublished version, from 27th May 2014. Always interesting to see how people process black-and-white differently – the stripes are visible here.