Chinese New Year in Melbourne was somewhat spectacular with the many stalls and ambience that were setup at various locations around Victoria at different occasions during the festive season. It wasn’t quite “Chinese” in a lot of sense because some stalls sold food like “Nasi Lemak” or “Satay”.

Southbank

Box Hill

Without realising, it was the end of Chinese New Year already. Our celebrations in Melbourne were as evident as the photos you see on this blog.

I kind of forgot what parties in Malaysia are like. It was yet another eye opener when I went to the Hennessy VSOP Privilege Collection NYX. The party was really awesome, it’s a whole big do with a big setup at the shopping centre with a display of their newly launched bottle, with sexy ladies dressed in space outfit ushering guests to the venue in the next building. Guests were prompted to sign in first to receive their white glove marked “Hennessy” before heading to the party venue at Vertigo. Very carefully executed, from a brand standpoint.

DJ Blink bringing the party to life.

Dancers in LED outfits against the lights in the background.

Hennessy MJ gloves.

From left: Evonne Chow, Kim Ong, Brigette Liberty Yu, Dian Sharlin, Julie Woon.

It’s nice to head back to Malaysia for awesome parties like these once in a while. Too much of it too could lose oneself.

The Malaysian superstars arrived in Melbourne on morning of 30th August and I was invited to join them at the Old Town Mamak in QV. It was flattering to be termed as a celebrity blogger and had my face placed on their poster in a Meet and Greet session. It was good to see familiar faces I had seen before, people I had personally met before; Joey G and Dennis Lau amongst the superstars.

The crew.

Mamak posers.

L-R: Katherine Ng, myself and Eva T with Dennis Lau.

That night – Fusion at Crown and Co at Crown. It was time to party to the sounds of Merdeka!

The queue was unbelievable.

You know it was definitely a Malaysian crowd when you hear them go “Bersih” or “Boleh”  when Joey G prompts the crowd to respond saying “Malaysia???”.

L-R: Katherine, Esther, Kim, Liz, Su Lin.

DJ Eva T.

The crowd was a little serious at the start on a Tuesday night but got loose really quickly when they heard familiar DJ’s voices to the pumping music we were all too familiar with – DJs that did what they do best in their specific genre of music.

For MrNasty and Guru Guru, I was really expecting some Melbourne shufflers on the dancefloor, but those shufflers have put their shoes aside, they are long gone.

Tanah tumpahnya darahku (di Melbourne).

Selamat Merdeka, Malaysians. We have come a long way now, we have a strong tradition and culture. We have idiosyncrasies we can claim as ours – like “running on Malaysian time” or saying “lah”.

TANG & iTANG presents

MERDEKA 2011 @ Fusion + Co.
Malaysian Independence Day Celebration

9 International Malaysian celebrities/DJs/Artists, 2 World class clubs, 1 ticket, 1 celebration!

Date: 30 August 2011 (Tuesday)
Time: 9.30pm
Venue: Fusion at Level 3, Crown, Melbourne CBD
Featuring: Moon Arena (Fusion – RNB / Mash / Dance – Joey G, Eva T, Funkzu, MC Terry T, Fluke) / Star Arena (Co – House / Electro / Dance – Mr Nasty & Guru Guru, Dennis Lau, Victor Trixter / Patricia K)
Prices: $25 pre-sold tickets

Malaysia’s national day celebration calls for a clubbing session hosted by OMG Fridays, Forever Fridays and Lavish Saturdays. See you there!

RSVP here.