Thursday, August 23, 2007

A dream on wheels...the Maserati GrandeTurismo Launch

Whoops...forgot a very important entry...and thats the launch of a dream on wheels....the Maserati GrandTurismo launch at One15 Marina. Yes folks...this is really one of the most sexy cars on the road coming to you in about 10 months time. Heading out to the event, we caught up with most of the usual suspects there....Sulian and Julian, Giorgio, Rosemary and Caroline and Felicia....naturally Jaacky and Royston were there as well as every other VIP car lover in town. It was a HUGE night out on the town.....Ferraris and Maserati's everywhere! All I can say is you got to see what pics to understand the primal feeling this car evokes. Growl....oh yeah....I just cannot wait for this car to hit the road.

Butter Factory....

Another quick entry while doing my promotions for SINGfest....a quick trip to the Butter Factory with Bobby, Ritz and Celeste. Butter Factory is the coolest hip hop club this side of the Singapore River and its always a good night out there listening to the groovy tunes! The decor is really too cool! Who would have thought do make the dance floor look like a swimming pool and the tables out of BBQ pits! All together a big night out on the town at all times!!!

The King Moves On...All Hail Sharon King

Was a quick night out on the town to say farewell to an old friend and Director of Operations for St James, Sharon King. In full attendance were Gordon and Danny from MDH, Andrew and Daryl of course....and Dennis Foo himself! I have known Sharon from the days at China Jump when she used to climb on the bar tops to make lethal Waterfalls! Sharon is a true gem, a iron lady at operations, tough as nails but great fun to be with! We will miss you very much my dear Wazzie!

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Timbre II's First Day!!!

16 July 2007 marks the start of a new birth for us down in Old Parliment House. Gone is Q Bar and now we have a new lease of life in our little establishment, Timbre II. To celebrate this new birth, Arthur had invited all the shareholders over to his yacht HySeas II at One15 Marina...so off we went, Frank, Howard, Scott, Thomas and myself to this floating palace. We had cocktails up on the flybridge and then at 10.00 pm, we moved down to Timbre II to visit the bar en-mass as its shareholders. Of course our great partners, the UBlues group, Edward, Karen and Danny were around to host us.....and in very short order even Steve popped in! Timbre II is very different from Q Bar....Timbre II is essentialy a chilled out bar with a great live duo and fantastic atmosphere. Well...lets all hope that this is the start of more than a few more fun nites out on the town there!!! CHEERS!

PK's Big Retro Birthday Bash

One of my old friends and investment partner Prakash threw his birthday at his fav. watering hole, BarNone. As expected it turned out to be a interesting night out on the town with the usual suspects around and everyone very naturally getting completely wasted. Felicia, Karen Hoong, Amos.....well...thing were really cooking with PK trying to try out for the next season of Singapore Idol! Oh well...all togther a interesting nite out on the town especially considering PK didn't even get anywhere close to drunk!

Ferrari Club Local Drive then Silverstone F1 at BarNone

Its the first week of July and it was time for the Ferrari Club to have their monthly local drive. This time around, I had helped by organizing a gathering to watch the Silverstone Race at BarNone. We all met at Dempsey Road...a total of 10 cars including Tim, Jaacky, Dr Ben and of course Royston who had asked me along as his guest on the drive. Royston was leading the drive up around Selatar so off we went.....and just as we hit the CTE, Jaacky's QuatroPortte had some engine trouble and had to retire. So there were 9 of us left. You can imagine the stares we got...9 high end Ferrari's and Maserati's tearing it up through town then up to Seletar! The sounds were quite awesome! We ended up back at Marriott just before 7.30 pm down at BarNone who had kindly offered to be our venue and food sponsor. Arthur turned up together with Stewart and a few other friends. It was a great race with the Flying Finn taking the chequered flag! Mumm's was our kind sponsor for the bubbles and we got our immediate past president of the club to pop the bottle in true F1 tradition! Thanks to all of you who were there and especially to Marco, Eng, BarNone, Mumm's, Ferrari, Hong Seh...Royston.....hich!!! Now if you wanna have a nite out on the town...riding up to a club with your posse of Prancing Horses is the ONLY way to go!

Sunday, July 29, 2007

The Aussies Are Coming

Stewart had a few friends in town so we decided to make another big night out on the town with the rest of the boys in Velvet. Got my corner table finally and rolled in with Royston, Ismay, Stewart, Matthew and the boys. As the Verve started flowing even Shawn who just got back into town dropped in with Jeremy who was leaving back to Sri Lanka the next morning! Woah...what a big night it turned out to be! Michelle popped in....and so did Vig and in a short time...we were all having a huge party! Woah....talk about a headache on Sunday!

KL comes to Singapore!

It seemed like only days before we were in KL with KuAl rockin' the clubs and before you know it, he calls to say he and his brother are heading into Singapore! Of course it was time for us to return the favor and show them the scene here. The last time Al was around we were in St James....this time it was MoS!This time round even Alana and a few friends came along for the nite out on the town here....so since it also happened to be Rose's birthday we all got together with Felicia and had a good time out from MoS main room and ending up in Smoove.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

SINGfest 2007!!!

Yes...the unbelieveable has happened.....Singapore will finally have their very own Music Festival and I am totally thrilled to be part of it....Can you imagine..On the 8 Aug 2007, Pet Shop Boys, Cindi Lauper, Sugar Ray, Shaggy, Sasha Bach Band! And on the 9 Aug 2007.....Gym Class Hero's, Hinder, MXPX, The Noisettes, The Academy Is, Cobra Starship,....One Buck Short from Malaysia and our very own Great Spy Experiment! And all this at Fort Canning! Man....its gonna be a big few nights out and ALOT of work for me!

Last Nite in KL!

Well...after a really long day at Sepang, I was sincerely debating the logic of doing another big night out on the town in KL but since I was here...I decided to go for it while Roy and Ismay took it easy and ordered loads of room service it seems! Off I headed to Heritage Row and checked out a few new places such as Maison...Atrium and a few more where I bumped into everyone from DJ Love, Groovedoctor, Azam and then onwards to Velvet again where I spent time with my old boss Peter Chong and Tan. Of course things naturally got totally out of hand and I ended up at some strange after hours party at KL Tower with Sebastian Hagel and a whole bunch of others...... and getting totally pissed! Lucky thing it was just a roll down the hill back into my hotel! Alas, another big night out on the town in KL and again I cannot wait to come back!