For a change.

Why are parties always at night anyway. Same ol shit.

However did have an impromptu one at Tom, Dick & Harry’s, TTDI a few days prior.

Kicked off with Guinness, then a bottle each of Ardbeg scotch, Havana Club rum, Talisker scotch, Cruzon rum, Jagerbombs (yuck) and shots of Jose Cuervo.

Not a favourite

Cheeeers...

Happy

Special thanks to Byron, Anil and Khabs. And Naveen the crazy wildcard.

Anyway, it was a beautiful Sunday morning, and i arrive at El Meson a lil after 10. Wasnt easy wakin up. Friday at TDH was obviously heavy, and Saturday i’d done the whole six-in-da-morning shit at Sniffa Dawg’s birthday bbq.

Have beers to start, followed by a few plates of Breakfast For A King, El Meson’s breakfast special.

We occupy half d joint, just nice.

Breakfast of champs

By noon, i’m several pints down n pretty zapped. Most guests are here by now.

By afternoon, it’s hazy. I recall popping a bottle of bubbly (courtesy of Mark & El Meson), drink from it, then pass it around.

Yup, recall this

Next, i whip out a bottle of Captain Morgan Black Label. Superb stuff. I have it on the rocks. Beers are not in style by now.

Who yor daddy

Hmm, watdat in the background

Then, the highlight, the ‘Caribbean surprise’ that i promised guests. It’s a rare bottle of Lemonhart Demerra 151 rum, which i featured once. Finally found a time to cut it.

At 75.5%, it’s not sumtin to fuck with. There’s a warning label about how flammable it is.

Major artillery

I have it neat, from d bottle.

This shit got me by surprise. Considering it’s strength, this dark rum from Guyana is pretty smooth, taste-wise at least. Love it.

I pass the bottle around, and everyone has a sip or two. Somehow, both rums are cleaned.

Dark rums. Yummy.

Party in effect

The plan was to end at lunchtime.

Bad plan. The thing about a plan is dat sometimes it gets in d way.

JB Paul

Experience some degree of brown-out, especially from 2pm to 4pm. I think. I might even experienced D.I.A., but dats just speculation.

My plan was for a small one, 15 pax. We probably had a lil more over the course of the day.

Quite bent, i split the breakfast party at 5pm. Time just flies.

An awesome morning, afternoon and evening. Thanks to El Meson too.

A real unique gig to remember! Or not remember, either way.

Brain damage: 9/10

I live in Bandar Utama, an urban estate in PJ.

A 20-second walk from here

Been wanting to do it for awhile. Managed to pull it off when i scored a 100m-long electrical cable from a friend, so we cd have tunes, lights and a fan.

Obvioulsy this was one of the tunes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgynbFoA9to

There’s this forest that has built itself up over the years.

Settin-up, section 1

I had some strange reactions to d idea, but d crowd eventually loved it. I partied in da bush from 6pm to 3am.

Section 2

Complete with bar stools

Firin' up

Layaning a Snakebite made from Baad Apples Cider

Party on

Loads of Snakebite went down. Loads. Cider sponsored by Baad Apples™.

So good, might have to do it again. Tried to cap it at 12 pax due to the limited space, but there were 15 at one point and quite cozy.

The bush is pretty large, a few acres. It’s privately-owned, so it could be developed some day.

Thus I wanted to do this. Before the bastards with chainsaws come.

Brain damage: 8/10

Starter

I was expecting a grand total of 6 or 7 people, since common folk have to work. Got two liters of liquor ready – Cuban rum & Smirnoff.

Get there around noon, after a dim sum breakfast, for a lunchtime session. Before i can get a drink, the first guest Farah appears. With a  cake. She did not know about the no-cake ruling. But since the cake is a fucking awesome chocolate mud cake, she’s forgiven & welcomed.

The first bottle is a Havana Club. Very smooth rum. It goes down easy and slowly, as a few more guests appear during their lunch break. (Some never leave.)

Throughout the afternoon, it rains, and we drink, & listen to sum cool tunes. Niice.

Pissing down

BYO entertainment

The third wave in session at 7+

And in the evening, more show up after work.

There were four waves of people – noon, afternoon, evening, night. More bottles are donated by my sis (Jim Beam) and friends like my buddy Khabir (Gordon’s, Captain Morgan) and Farah (Bacardi). By midnight, my target, things get pretty crazy.

Just when i think we had enough to drink (6 bottles of liquor & a few bottles of wines), Geoff the owner of Sid’s hands me this lil monkey…

Chicano thirst-quencher

Salud! Brothers workin it out (pix by Joyce Wong)

What a ride!

Pt 2 of 3 took place Friday nite at Rootz. Pre-partied heavily with some Havana Club at home, and good ol’ Night Train ondaway. Arrive there just at d right level.

Some cool house tunes there. Have 2 more bottles of Havana and was forced to down some champagne – dont recall much after dat!

Rum again, + bubbly, followed by amnesia

Camera malfunction - lens cover failed to fully open. Dis is my view when drunk + half-eyes, so i do have a good reason for not recognizing people sumtimes

Pt 3 of birthday celeb to come soon!

Brain damage rating: 9/10

It was Elaine aka Fireangel‘s birthday. Before there were even guests who brought drinks, the bar was already dam crowded -

Take your pick

There’s vodka, whisky, white wine, red wine, cognac, rum, tequila, Cointreau, Kahlua, Bailey’s, peach shnapps, lychee liquer, and a whole cooler of beer. O yea, and d tuak dat came with me.

Took several minutes to decide. I looked pretty lost for awhile, then went for this:

kpaelkhzgl or watever

plus coconut water (Kelapa Rock). Then immediately took a tour and checked out Mike’s stocks.

A very flammable display

Tier 1

Tier 2

Kitchen (D Hennessys are for sale btw. $130 each i think)

More back-up. Is this what defines a closet alcoholic?

Never met so much booze for one person! There was shit i’ve never even seen before.

Watdefuck is dis??

Anyway, i wuz impressed. Almost forgot about d birthday gerl.

I think she was in some sort of pain

Recovered and provided her standard pose with gifts

A dart board-style drinking game. Could be fun - if u have to down it when u lose

Anyway, when i was there I felt like a spoiled kid in a candy store! Mixed up so many different shit in my stomach, but survived a fun nite. Thanks again Mike! Btw i was probably kidding about d plan to rob your place.

Don’t remember what happened between 12am and 1am. One of ‘em D.I.A. moments (Drink-Induced Amnesia). Anyway, the post is based on what i do remember. If u were there, u can help fill in da blanks.

Guests could mix their own cocktails. Hence the drunkeness

6pm Meet the lounge manager and discuss program & flow. Start set-up

Drinking starts. Thank God for the Early Birds Club

Some of the esteemed members of da Early Birds Club gettin high

First bottle opened is a Smirnoff Black. Bar staff look at us funny. We had hardly started the set-up and we already asked for a bottle and start drinking

Make two welcome drinks at the cocktails station:

- 1) Kelapa Rock – 7 coconuts worth of mixers are ready

- 2) The Yeltsin Boogie ’09 – empty two litres of Smirnoff Black into a punch bowl, then add relevant mixers (minimal). Bar staff continue watching the fun, trying to suss out what kind of event this will be

Designated drink-testers get to work, & nod heads in approval. Adjust taste of d punch to make it go down faster.

Cocktail station is ready. Some very thirsty people around

Music’s rockin

Intoxication sets in pretty quick. Haha. The punch never fails

Go grab your welcome drinks!

7pm Event ‘officially’ starts

Fadly takes up position at media/guest registration. I fix him a stiff drink

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7.30 Most early birds are quite high. Cocktails going fast

Mix 'em up!

8pm Kelapa Rock is number one drink for d nite. Sold out! Some fans wanna rename it Kepala Rock. Watever

Mike steals d recipe. Will have to kill him

Fadly abandons guest registration table to join d party and get high

La Clandestine absinthe station at the bar opens. Adian finds his spot for da nite

Some new-arrivals tell me that I look high. No shit

The right way to do absinthe is to allow cold water to slowly piss on it

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9pm Launch protocol time. Everyone quite blasted

MC says some stuff

I get up front and give a ‘speech’. Was quite blazed, so rock n roll speech. Wasted some booze on my crotch during speech – never hold drink n mic in same hand n try to sip

Pink champagnes are passed to all guests. I get a bottle of it. Blast the cork into space – blog launched!

Raised glasses, “Salud!”, drink

Launch sequence complete. Heavier-drinking starts

Pizzas n stuff served

'Speech' it seems

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Between 10pm-1am

Photographer down. Damn. He passes out for awhile, and gets his pictures taken instead

Various absinthe sessions break-out at the bar. Michelle from TWE busy getting everyone high on The Hulk – absinthe shooter placed in half a pint Guinness – down at one go. My buddy Adian hangs at the absinthe station all nite. As I promised during the speech, he did receive the event’s ‘door gift’ the next morning – a hangover

At the cocktail station, 11th bottle of vodka is opened. Lotsa mingle-mingle goin on

I’m in a hazy state of being, moving (more like floating) about all around d lounge. Bother the chicks whenever I can. Make them more cocktails

Open a 3^rd bottle of absinthe -  alcos head to d bar like fly to shit

Drinking festival

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1am Launch finally ends. Seven hours of drinking. Everyone senget, including bar staff. Haha

Carry a body outta there. Dump her on the couch at our pad. Dont remember drivin home

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2am+ After-party at our pad. Don’t remember much of this

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3.30am After-party ends

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4am Dreamland. A 10-hour party for me

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One thing that was not done that night after the ‘speech’ was the Question & Answer session. Nevermind, u can ask your silly questions here.

A big thank you & salud to Shirley & Riche Monde for the case of Smirnoff Black one-liter bottles and some Johnnie Walkers, and TWE for some absinthe. Modesto’s Tao Lounge at TTDI Plaza was the right choice for d event. Extremely accommodating, great service, superb food! I only had to instruct the staff ONCE about how i wanted da nite to flow. If u ever wanna do an event, Camy’s yor niga (camyk17@gmail.com). Modesto’s – still the BEST goddam pizzas in KL!

Grand total of bottles i opened – 16 liquors, 4 champagnes

Thanks to all who helped, and Joyce for some pictures. And to The Star for the coverage.

Since everybody said they had a blast, will plan a similar-style party for the blog’s first anniversary. Or if dat’s too far away, 6-month anniversary, or my birthday in November. Haha!

A crowd of about 40 swallowed 20 bottles. Ruthless mafuckers! Well done and thank u for joining in d festivities!!

Drink on!

A couple of dodgy chicks tried to swipe an absinthe but were caught and spanked

Dont know wats so funny. Dont know wats in d shooter either

Da evil absinthe witch Michelle & her new sidekick Adian brewin sum shit

Henry hangin wit sum wimin

Eddy n Khang sharing The Hulk - supposed to down it, not pass around. Pussies

Dont ask

Feeding Joyce more cocktail, tho she's obviously already in La La land

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Brain damage rating: 9/10

I hear that the BN government, Islamic religious department & police have created ridiculous demands for all organizers. But d organizer still got screwed – the religious department harassed NON-Muslims, asking them to cover-up and shit.

I will be calling the religious department today to verify.

I doubt this organizer or any other will ever do such an event again, coz d conditions Rais Yatim & the government are laying down dont make sense. These conditions are probably meant to ensure that there will be no point organizing or attending outdoor events anymore.

Am surprised the media dont know about this yet.

Stay tuned on what action u can take to stop this crap. This issue is obviously less about the event but more about our future rights as Malaysians.

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UPDATE 2

Maybe those Islamic Affairs morons have not heard of the law or the Constitution. They’re out of line.

THE CONSTITUTION OF MALAYSIA, upon which the goddam existence of this country is based on, in Article 12 (3) states: : “No person shall be required to receive instruction in or take part in any ceremony or act of worship of a religion other than his own.”

So the government fools can only watch as i stuff my face with pork n whisky, n dont try to tell me what i can or cant wear. U talk to me, I’ll only repeat these two words: FUCK OFF.

I aint under yor stupid jurisdiction.

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UPDATE 3

Have been trying to call Datuk Alias, Director, Jabatan Agama Islam Melaka, but he’s not been around. He sure owes the people an explanation.

Anyway, have formed a Facebook group, Malaysian Civil Rights Movement, as a means to inform others and gather support. Join:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=523078528&ref=profile#/group.php?gid=89025606273&ref=mf

And also trying to get The Star to write a feature about this issue. NST called me up today for further info.

Anybody who has been victimized before can get in touch with me.

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UPDATE 4

A letter appeared in the NST today about the Freedom Festival issue. It was edited and shortened quite a lot, but at least the word is out there.

Got a meeting with a journalist from The Star tomw. Hopefully sumtin comes out of dat.

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UPDATE 5

Malaysiakini ran a letter i sent about the crap that went down at the Freedom festival, in full.

And it’s my fave spot in da world.

The frontyard of d pad

Had a bbq n drinks weekend at the house by d river, Maycliff. Awesome spot. Highlights were Blavod & the amazing Beer Lao, which unfortunately is not available in Malaysia.

Sis brought d twins, Mo & Trish.

And we brought da dawg.

Homey rides shotgun

He doesn’t accept d backseat.

Aw, is d river cold? Trish n Mo

I think i’ll let d pictures do da talkin.

Some of d weekend's weapons

Homey goin for it

Souvenirs we brought back from Laos. Yea d beer too. It's awesome

Mo attempts a snatch. Sorry kid, wait a coupla years

There were some other dawgs there

There's sumtin bout dis kid n alcohol. Hmm. Maybe he can takeover this blog soon

See?

Blavod, d black vodka

Khabir n my bro Anil chillin

What u'll get when u mix Blavod & orange - Greenshit

For some reason the embers seem purple

While we were in d river with d kids, some dudes across d river shouted at us. “KELUAR!!! KELUAR!!! CEPAT!!!! KELUAARRR!!” I didn’t stand around to ask “Hah? Kenapa ni?? Rilek laa…”

I knew what it was. A flash flood. We grabbed d kids n got out.

It’s amazing how sumtin so fun has d possibility of turning tragic in a blink.

It rained earlier. And it stopped. Everything was fine. Then the water level rose several feet, turned brown and d flow was crazily swift, with all sort of debris in it. And it roared real loud. All within 30 seconds. The kids were playin in d water at that time. The campers’ warning saved their butts, cos they would have been swept in a blink.

This river has taken many lives, in a variety of ways.

Been there many times, but it’s d first time i’ve seen this.

Mess

Tea anyone? This is d same spot as d following picture. Bastards must be logging upriver

This is what it looked like a minute earlier

The river is just a short walk down d stairs from d garden of d house. Great spot.

Especially with a great bbq, friends and booze. Eddy, Henry & Khang showed up at 2am, cos they had a gig in KL. Semangat!

A super weekend in KKB.

Brain damage rating: 7/10

Max said “That’s why people like us are needed – to bring it down to a lower-class. To have some balance.” Haha! Speak for yourself hobo!

789

Dunno

Tini, Francesca and a waver

Was on Greygoose. Got reasonably screwed, then marched to Zouk. Joey Negro was playin, but was too high to pay attention. Checked out Aristo, then Barsonic. Was it some gay night? Goddam. Guys comin out of da fuckin walls of Barsonic.

Swordfight

Was handed beer in a jug to drink from straws. Sorait. Not into dat.

Scooted before long.

Brain damage rating: 6.5/10

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Sure he's cute, but he's a killaa

If you’re gonna put on weight you dawg, better the booze do it rather than food man. At least booze gets u high.

I recall him downing cocktails, beer and get this – my old man’s 15-year-old Grants Scotch Whisky – on da rocks. Now he turns his head away from the stuff. Wastage or wat?

Maybe he’s become religious. Or maybe he’s found something better, like fermenting his own piss in the lawn somewhere.

Is there sumtin brewin in there?

Mmmmm. Fer – men – ted – piss….

Gimme some of dat boy!

Either way, the socially anti-social dawg still gets a major house party every year. That’s eight bashes so far; KFC, gifts n all. And I felt pissed once when more people turned up for his goddam birthday party than mine. Apa ni?! Ridiculous. Need to reduce his popularity.

In case u think he’s such a “cutieeee!” n all dat crap, the lil’ fucker has murdered several innocent birds and squirrels, while stone-cold sober. (I think u just lost 20% of your fan base Homes.).

He hopes to kill a cat soon. (Just gained back another 40% fans.)

Got my eye on u cats

Anyway, Homey’s latest birthday party (titled Homey Play Dat, Again) went well. This time he didn’t hump any chicks. But neither did I. Crowd count was about 20.

Warmin up

Normally more chicks than guys of course, coz Homey’s like dat. *Player!* Not this time tho. Too bad.

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Homey the lazy dawg's usual pose at our house partyz

"Screw dis party! I'd rather be out there doggy-stylin"

Alcohol highlight for the night was Smirnoff Watermelon. Not a huge fan of flavoured vodkas cos u can’t be as creative when cocktailing, but this tembikai shit is an awesome drink! Just add 7-Up. And loads of ice to kill some of the sweetness. The other great flavoured Smirnoff is Green Apple. That was popular at our last house party a few weeks back (Housemate Henry’s birthday bash.). Also requires lotsa ice.

My mama always says fruits r good for u

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[Speaking of ice, dont it suck when parties run out of ice?? Jeez, just buy 10 dam bags next time. Ice is CHEAP. As I always say, “You can never have too much ice!' And of course a large ice box is a standard requirement for drinkers.]

There was also tuak which we bought from Sarawak over the last couple of years, Vintage 2007 and 2008. Great stuff. Chicks luved it. [BTW will post soon about a friend of mine who brews da shit at her home. And supplies me. Nice.]

Tropical fruits really mix well with liquor. Would love to brew a rambutan wine. Next project.

BTW except for his housemates, Homes only adds chicks on Facebook, so piss off guys.

Homes pretending to have a hangover d next day

Brain damage rating: 7/10