FuturArc Award Presentation in KL – Day 1

At 10.30am we departed UTM in Tiong’s PGU and we stopped at the Restoran Jejantas in Malacca for toilet and meal break.

During the journey

Han Chee and Jenny

Having our meal in A&W's

Became Hang Jimmy

Bought some nuts

And somebody became pregnant

We arrived at Eastin hotel around 2.30pm. It is located in Damansara area and there are many office blocks around. We were given two deluxe rooms on the Executive floor, which is on the highest floor. All sponsored by the organizer, BCI Asia. It is my first time staying in such luxury 4-stay hotel stay and what’s even great was that there are some privileges for guests who stay on the executive floor.

Reaching the hotel

We thought this is the hotel, in fact it's an office block

We stayed on the 18th floor

The moment we came out the lift at the 18th floor (the highest), there was a Presidential Suite on our left side. At first I thought that we have to access the door first in order to enter the corridor leading to our rooms so I quickly insert my room card in the slot but it wasn’t accessible. I tried again and the door still couldn’t open.

Suddenly Han Chee saw another corridor on the other side which connects to our room and I knew that I was opening the wrong door. The door that I was trying to access is the ACTUAL Presidential Suite. Shit, so paiseh la! I wonder what will happen if suddenly some VVIP (eg. Backstreet’s Boys) open the door and saw all of us trying to ‘sneak’ into their room -_-“

Anyway, Tiong and I stayed in room 1806 where we shared a King-sized bed and the girls’ room was just opposite ours. They have three single beds. The room is very spacious I tell you. The toilet is bigger than the usual one where the shower, bath tub and WC are separated. It has an iron and an iron board, FREE internet connection, and I think the TV has surround system. Plus all the switches and air temperature are operated digitally. So chun lal! Or maybe I was just being ‘jakun’.

Tiong and my room

The girls' room opposite

Me

Camwhoring in the bathroom

Camwhoring everywhere

Jenny putting on the robe

Tiong

The view from my room. The convention centre that we will be going is just straight across

Enjoying the WIFI

After settling our stuff and got ourselves rested, we left the rooms at 5pm and went around exploring the place. First we went to the Executive Lounge which was just 1 floor below and it is only accessible by guests who stay on the Executive Floor.

Never have I been to any lounge at any place. The place was just sooo nice and comfortable! They have a TV area, books and magazines corner, free computer usage with free internet access and it also a small dining area, only for guests on Executive Floor! For the first time I feel so grand and pampered in my life staying in a hotel.

In the lounge

The pool area

The lobby

For dinner, Tiong brought us to a place at Bukit Bintang area. It was a Thai restaurant located beside the Lot 10 and the Coronade Hotel. We reached there at about 6 but the staff was still mopping the floor so he asked us to come later. And so we went to Lot 10 to shop for a while and Tiong bought a discounted cardigan at the Top Shop.

We headed back to the restaurant, called Green Lotus. The price was not that expensive for a single person set. I ordered a Bangkok Set and it costs about RM19++. The Tom Yam is highly recommended. It was super duper damn really good!!! And the dishes were not bad either. The place is located at the back alley of Lot 10 and it is at the ground floor of the old residential flat. Not very difficult to locate.

Tom Yam soup

Bangkok set

After dinner, it’s shopping time! We went to Starhill Gallery and Pavilion since the girls never been there before. And we also pay a visit to their washroom in Starhill. It is a must-not-missed visit spot for every tourist in KL. Hehe.

The female toilet

I met Lee Keng at the Pavilion as she just finished her work. Basically we just looked and walked around the place. Tiong wanted to buy underwears but there weren’t any suitable for him. Before leaving Pavilion, we went to the lower floor and bought a dozen of doughnuts at J.Co! The queue was not very long at that time. Yeah, I miss their doughnuts…

All of us were very tired and kinda sleepy already. And so we went back to the hotel. To our surprise, the house keeping staff left some fruits for us in the room. Wah lau yeh! That is really nice of them =)

Bananas and apple

J.Co!!

I like...

Before that we were discussing about going for clubbing in Rush but since all of us were tired already, the plan didn’t work out. Both Tiong and I went straight to bed without having our bath while the three girls took their turn indulged themselves in the bath tub. They sure know how to enjoy themselves.

Next, an exciting yet a tiring day…

The Photo Shoot

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ON Tuesday Tiong brought us to his cousin’s house in Pulai for a photo shooting session after our morning lecture.

Well, Tiong’s cousin is a part time professional photographer and there are a lot of those photography gadgets in his house. He’s using a Nikon DSLR camera. Very pro indeed, with all the lens and flash gadget!

At first, we wanted to take a studio-liked photo with the white colour background and but the space inside the house is kinda limited so the photographer suggested that we do it outside instead.

First we took some group photos, with different different positions and styles. The big area of the wall really suits for the shoot except that it is not white in colour. But nevermind, we can change that in photoshop ;)

The power of Adobe Photoshop

Next we moved on to the car porch area, where the sun was shining brightly and has enough natural light. The photographer used the polarizer on his lens to reduce the glare of the sun and it did make a difference on the photos. I like the effect of the sky the photos taken. I bet most of the normal digicams won't able to achieve that kind of effect.

The set

So I became the 'test model' for the photographer to adjust his camera setting before the real shoot.

Ok. Enough of me already

Then the rest of us took turns for the shoot in pairs and groups. When I was not in front of the camera I became the photographer’s assistant - the light reflector guy. Basically I just had to hold the piece of white reflector to direct the sunlight to the their faces in order make them brighter.
Hehe. Guess what? I got compliments from the photographer. Looks like I have the potential to become a photographer assistant already.

Tiong and Han Chee

See the hand at the corner?

Me lah

Bluek!

Not an easy job k! Must have skills one

The girls' turn

Next was the individual shot. Before this, I thought that taking photograph is like eating peanuts but I was wrong. Not only the photographer must know how to play with the buttons on his camera, he or she will also have to know how to create the 'mood' so that the model is feeling comfortable and natural during the shoot.

During most of the shoot, the photographer told us to visualize something. For example, he asked us to think of our bright future ahead and try to imagine what will it be like if we become an architect next time. Fuh, straight away we laughed out. Haha.

Meanwhile, Tiong saw a vase with dead plant, some woodens planks and dried leaves on the floor and thought that it has 感觉 (feel). And so Han Chee became the model right on that spot.

Holy feet!

Another nice shot, with the wall photoshopped of course =)

Some of the behind-the-scenes photos:

On the last month, the five of us actually participated in an architecture design competition as a group, organised by futurarc and.............suprisingly we won one of the prizes!! Therefore the organiser needed us to submit a group and our individual photos to them.
And that's the reason why we came to shoot all these photos.
My group will be going to KL for the award presentation on this coming Monday. Not only that, the hotel stay and transportation fees will be all sponsored by the organiser!!! How cool is that =)