The LA Nights Continue....

After a full day of running all over LA meeting lawyers, TV exec's...and lunch on Rodeo Drive, we had planned to head to 2 other clubs and continue in our mission to check out the glitzy LA nightlife. First we headed off to the Mondrian Hotel with its ever popular Sky Bar. Scot and Brian joined us for cocktails there before we had a town car limo pick us up to the next venue , The Knitting Factory, that was arranged by STB. Live music and a little bit seedy for our taste...they had some guy running around on stage playing guitar in a cow suit! Well...we had promised to go back to check out Le Deux the night b4 so we did and met their owner, Lonnie and a few other people. Nice club Le Deux, very chi-chi too...where the Paris Hilton's and with Aston Kutcher as partner....you can really people watch in this fancy old house converted to a club. We also had promised to go back to have a meeting with Costas an his team there so off we went....had a very interesting and productive meeting followed by a great night out on the LA town! Awesome!!!

Los Angles...The City of Angles

Actually taking this opportunity while lying in bed after my little operation to try to catch up with my blog. After the madness of Las Vegas, off we went to Los Angles! A 3 hour delay at the LV airport made us having to change in the LA airport and then straight to Katsuya for dinner with our partners from Mark Burnett, Scot Cru and Brian Keckich. Katsuya is one of the most chi-chi Jap restaurants in LA being part of the SBE group and having its interior designed by Phillippe Starck. Uber cool...uber expensive...and super difficult to get into. The food was totally fantastic and the company was even better! We also met Josh there who was gonna be our tour guide to nightlife in LA. After dinner, we had a short 2 hours to hit 4 of the hottest nightspots in LA, first we did S-Bar....again owned by SBE and designed by Starck where we met one of their partners, Costas...then we were off to Le Deux where we met their partner there named David. We also hit what eventually turned out to be our fav....Area...and then ended the night in some wild west bar with a mechanical bull that we all took a run at riding! Oh...and of course....as befitted us now TV type VIP's...we rode around in a lovely white strech limo and drunk Dom all night long! Oh...and the natives were very friendly too....Nice right!! Wrapping up our night out on the town, Angela and myself headed back to our hotel, the uber chic The Standard on Sunset which was featured on the Hollywood blockbuster Oceans 13! And we got another 2 nights of this??? Oh we....tomorrow is a full working day of meetings before we hit the clubs all over again!

KA's and LOVE Back Of House....LV 2007

Our last day in Vegas started with one of the most anticipated parts of our trip.....Paul Cockle had managed to swing a private visit to the back of house in KA...so off we went with Michael, Gretna, Mok, Angela and company. It proved to be totally fascinating! The scale of things and the detail, the incredible technology and the attention to safety is unbelievable! Well worth the early morning! Then we went off to check out the back stage of LOVE....the one show we did not manage to catch. No less interesting....a totally different kind of stage...and a totally different kind of show. Well....we didn't have much time cause Angela and me had to depart to LA that evening.....a excellent meal....a couple of quick meetings and then off we were to the airport for another big night out on the town in Los Angles, the City of Angles!!!!

Day 3...and the non-stop frenzy in Las Vegas continues!

Here we go...its Day 3 and we all are severely hung over...and guess what? Boss CALLS! He wants everyone to hustle to the Wynn's Hotel and check out the Tower Suites! Well...off we went thanks to Angela's wake up call...and boy do I feel ill. But the Tower Suites are well worth it. They are quite fantastic! The beds...the piano, the pool.....now this is something you could never imagine! We then went off to the convention.....and then, later that night...it was time to do our nightly series of shows. We had some trouble with getting transport to the MGM Grand to catch KA....so we had to do the VIP thing and get a strech Limo! KA was just out of this world. Everything you could possiblly imagine and more! I really sat from start to finish with my mouth hanging out wide. We then had dinner at one of the restaurants in the hotel before running off to catch O at the Bellagio. Again...a fantastic show but KA and La Reve still tops the charts for me. Off to the Luxor to check out their mega club LAX with their owner.....and then off to check out Tao at the Venetian before calling it the end of another big night out on the town in Las Vegas!

Day and Night in Las Vegas!

Day two was filled with meetings and more meetings.....Las Vegas is quite small but traffic is heavy and especially if you got to do it all on public transportation...its quite interesting. First rounds was in the morning with the guys from Hard Rock Hotel which included a little tour, then I had to move hotel's to the Westin with the rest of the gang and hooked up with Angela for our meetings after we checked in. Dinner was at the very excellent Mandalay Bay with Chris Balitzan. We then also checked out their very cool club in the centre of the casino called Eye Candy which had a very interesting multi media interactive table top. We then hooked up with Mok and the rest at the Bellagio to catch Mystere which I didnt quite find that impressive but onwards to our main objective. Time to party! Off we went to Palms and checked out Ghost Bar, the Playboy Club....and of course Moon! Now this place had one of the most spectacular view's of Las Vegas you can imagine! Well....enough to say that it was a real late night out on the town in a city that seems to never switch off!

Viva Las Vegas!!!

Finally, after numerous complaints about the slow updates of my blog, its about time for me to update my blog. Well...with my new job, the first business trip I have taken was to Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Well...Angela and myself took the really long flight from Singapore to Narita and then onwards to Las Angeles finally landing in Las Vegas at 3.00 pm. That was nearly 15 hours of flight! Exhausting to say the least! Well...there are loads of photos and experiences to share so the best I can do is break them up. Landed in Vegas which has changed since the last time I was there 7 years ago....and stayed for the first night in the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. It had just reopened and was suppose to be quite new but it was actually the Alladin Hotel before so there were still touches of its previous Arabian theme. Went straight to check out the Ferrari showroom and one of the top shows in Las Vegas, La Reve (done by Mark Fisher by the way...the same guy doing our show in Resorts World)! Totally awesome!!! The show is in a purpose built theatre that you sit "in-the-round" with a water theme. The costumes, music, action...the incredible stunt of the 60ft high dive into the centre of the pool....I sat with my mouth agape from the begining to the end! What a totally incredible experience to start my nites out on the town in the city that never sleeps!

Well folks...it had to happen....a New Year dawns!!!

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My good friend Simon Foo had organized the second ever "Super Imports Night" featuring some of the coolest cars and some super modifications. They also hired a bevy of hot auto models from the states to pose with the cars. They had a whole host of very cool cars and some with quite radical modifications....a very cool Ferrari F430, the Mitsubishi Evo 10 which isn't even in Singapore yet, a Ford Mustang GT, Lotus, the Porsche GT3 RS, the Blitz Direzza EA 34 D1 as well as quite a few other pimp'ed up rides! The girls were not bad and though it wasn't techincally a big nite out on the town for me....I wasn't really complaining.