youtube fanfest 2013 Singapore - ytff day one and day two

YouTube FanFest 2013 in Singapore was dope! (can't use that cause i'm not sure how it feels like to be on that.lol) Da Bomb!
*warning, this is a very longgg post with lotsa video, pics, screens and commentary on YTFF and Youtubers, if it aint your thing. It's best to run away now! haha*

This was my live tweet from the event. 

Thinking back I was pretty lucky for all these and am very thankful. :)

Thankful to the people who provided me with the sponsored tickets, thank you to the PR company who provided us with the tickets so that the people who passed me the tickets can have the tickets in the first place. And of course thankful to the organisers and the YouTubers which came down. 

These were the lineup for the two days. Initially I only had tickets to the first day to see David Choi (why i say david only cause of the whole list he is the one i know and love best of course! hehe) and on the second day, i was really lucky! Someone bailed out so I could join the second night too! yay! 

You can tell I just shot this pics before I wrote this posts huh. :P

On the first day I went down with G. Actually we both saw David's tweet that he was coming down then Ryan's tweet. Of course being the people we are that like them alot we were hyped up to go! Especially since we missed seeing David in his last concert in SG due to us being way too busy and stuff. :(

So we went to check out the ticket prices...and we realised that homg! there are so many people in the lineup that we don't really know of (and yesh, didn't really wanna see. then. ok, then. we were ignorant of what was to come. haha)

So we decided that we wouldn't go and would go only when David / Ryan came down on their own cause we would have a full show of only the essence of them mah. Makes sense too right? 

(it did when we were saying..but after coming back from YTFF i realised. what was I thinking yo? Give the other people a chance!) 

I was pretty much obsessed with catching up on their tweets and instagram to know what they were doing. 

BUTTT. 

by meaning obsessed i'm not exactly the fan girly type. 

I'm the appreciation type, you do good work is passionate and humble about it i will support you. No qualms about that. :)

So those were some of the youtubers which arrived in our small sunny island. <3 p="">

aww love.

even at 5% battery i couldn't get enough of wes. 

heh. 

note this were from different days...

it was pretty much a good show of how strong social media was. 

Ok. shifting gears back to the show...let me share what were some of my favourite. Mostly all of them from the first and second day were really really good. Which surprised me!!

this was the best photo i have of david choi of the night. T-T 

my phone was not cooperating. 

but david did good. 

AND AND! I saw david up close and personal when i walked out to pass some tickets to my talent. he was less than 20 steps away from me. 

i think my soul melted. 

For the first day, there was really honestly not one act at all that i disliked. And i was honestly surprised by how good each and every act of the day was...so let me share. I'll be sharing the YouTube clips from the night of the stars i like in case you don't know where to find them and also other videos which i would like to share from them...Let's go! 

*if i don't feature them it's not because i don't like them or because they are not good. I'm just sharing those which hit the spot with me. If you know what i mean;) i'll also link up their name so go check them out on your own!*

MyChonny:

I read the comments that said the crowd was dead. Hell no. i was there and know for sure it was definitely not dead. lol. my guess is that for the home viewers what they see and hear is not a direct accurate pick up from the live scene as in sometimes mics and camera placing and stuff makes a difference. 

This guy is one that i would definitely like to check out! My alpha made me miss a good 10 mins of his performance while going out to pass him tix...but because so i managed to see david. *melt.* how many times do i wanna melt? :p So i should really thank him actually. 

Name Wee:

Fellow malaysian, from my dad's hometown actually! and cousin's same school. I  never had a good impression of this dude to say the truth, but when he came up and started singing his first song i was still like meh. But after he started playing this song i shared i was like oooh. not bad. and me and g were actually enjoying it. 

I couldn't find his YTFF clip, did they take it off for some reason? but anyway, this was the one i particularly enjoyed. and raised my impression of him. not bad not bad. 

Cooking With Dog

when we saw the description i thought i was going to just daze off, but it was actually a very fun interview! Click on the link to find out more on the clip. The wittiness of the voice behind the poodle and the host was a hit for me!

No, don't think i'll really start watching this, but as a personality, the Japanese lady is really humble and nice. Humble with real potential is always a winner for me and at her age doing youtube videos. 

I respect!

This next guy blew my socks off!

Hikakin:

He just came up and literally beatbox his way into the crowd's heart!

i particularly like the Q&A session, hope the girl managed to get his number! heh heh! Single no more hikakin! lol

and of course my favourite of favourites of the night without a doubt 

David Choi:

If you haven't subscribed and listen to his songs? 

Are you sure you are my friend...*gives you the eyes* hahaha. 

no seriously. he is that good. 

have a listen. 

nuff said.

Natalie Tran:

Another one which i was quick to dismiess once i saw the brochure wrote, google hangout. i mean like pfft, how interesting can it get? 

Well apparently i was wrong for the night yet again. 

She is another of the personalities that i will be catching to see if i'll be subscribing soon! Her interview and intro at YTFF was really funny though!!:D

Chester See:

the ending act was done by the charismatic chester with his suit tie and whole get up. 

any fan girl would have swoon. 

That being said. no i'm not, but he did well :))

and when he went up he reminded us alot of our colleague chris, so we whatsapped another colleague who was there (she was the one who saved us the tix, much love!).And...her response was. 

Only if you blur the face. 

LOL.

Talk about ouch!

lol lol.

Only pic i took to show it was day one's ticket. 

And so that was day one!

The day one participants hit me as a bunch of people who really love what they did on YouTube, they started out not for the fame nor for the money and they are still in it because they are passionate about it. And also many came across as very humble. A passionate humble person who is good in his/her art, that i truly respect. We need more people like that. These days many people want to gain fame over night, i mean it is not wrong cause who doesn't love short cuts. 

But remember, if you aren't passionate about something, it won't last and you might never be truly happy. 

So jia you all the stars that i saw over the two nights! I hope you all stay true to yourself and keep that light burning. :)

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I thought i would be heading home early to catch the live screening of day two. 

but i was really lucky. 

(ok, ignoring the fact that the crowd was really really bad on day two. all the pushing, jostling, shouting and all before we went in and show commence. I totally abhor that. i'm not really a crowd push and go person. i can't handle that.) Lucky Jayne and Xian looked out for me though. :) I think that start dampen my mood a little. Just a little. I was still overall excited to see Ryan with hopes of seeing Wes and maybe David cause David told us the day before that Wes was there! hehe. 

We had a little surprise!

Lead Guitarist of Aerosmith turned up for a little extra bonus for us and advertisement for their Saturday's gig!

Wasn't really a fan but they are legendary!

that was soooo good pls!!

My phone was a little more cooperative on day two!

ok now off to the night.

So here are some which hit home with me from night two which i wanna share. Let's go again! :

Eat your Kimchi:

I've heard alot about this duo and catch snippets of them. But after that night they officially got into my list of i must go catch their videos and subscribe to them! They were funny there and the videos they showed were also funny. 

ok. i really didn't enjoy DomePakorn's performance. seemed abit yaya and he didn't even show his own video, he was showing his record label's video which was in my opinion not what i really like. eh? o.o hello? but that could be only just me. 

Boyce Avenue:

I honestly haven't really heard much about them, but everyone was raving about them and they have a whooping 900 million views. Have i been living under a rock?! well i thought so until i was playing my david choi playlist on my app yesterday and realised that wait a minute there!

I have been listening to boyce avenue and liking them even before i knew it! that is the power of good potential. even if you don't sell your name, people would still think you are good because you are. :)

Ryan Higa:

If you don't know who Ryan is...my turn now. Have you been living under a rock?! lol lol. 

He has 1.5 billion views for his videos! No seriously, after I watched his collab with Wongfu pro I was hooked on all the rest of his videos and watch them all. He is really good! What he uses is wit, which means he really has to put effort into what he does. Many think eh this youtube people has no substandard, so wrong you are. If you look closely at alot of their content you can see many of them do put alot of thought into it. Scripting directing and all. 

Look how far Ryan and of course my beloved WongFu has come. I can attest to that because i was a fan before Wongfu productions was officially Wongfu productions with the three of them. :)

and i'm especially grateful Ryan shared the stage with Andrew and Wes. <3 nbsp="">

Thanks Ryan!

Was so happy when Ryan surprised us with Andrew. 

I knew of Andrew Garcia from his American idol days and loved his singing then so was really happy when i learnt he got together with YTF and did videos. :)

i found this version, they didn't have the American idol one. 

Your welcome. :)

And then Ryan brought up Wes...wes...wessssss! :)

bad photo but i have a really short video!

:)))))))

yea. 

that really made my night. i forgotten about all the unhappy jostling and pushing before the show started. i melted yet again. 

Last mention for the night is for Little Boots a UK Youtuber who is now a singer!

I actually felt quite bad for her cause her performance was after Ryan's and was the last act of the day. It was really late then, the show over runed by 1 and a half hour, not that i'm complaining! hehe. 

She is pretty decent and i felt it was, pretty sad and maybe rude in my opinion that everyone just left, almost half the people there!I mean if i were her my confidence would have taken a blow, but don't worry gal. You are good. :) Huixian likes you! heh. 

wanted to end the night with a photo of the second night's ticket and people but realised...the photos are not with me!! gah. 

so i shall end with the first nights instead. till i get the pics from them! heh. :)

I realised it's fun when the people you go with have the same interest in the event as you! 

Super thankful to everyone who made the two nights super awesome!

^-^

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And then here are a slew of instagram and tweets from the youtubers which just made me awww...and have lotsa fun sharing with @poisonpoppyz. We were like going wes..aww..david..aww..ryan...aww...and lotsa fun stuff. :D no we are not crazy over obsessed fan girls. we appreciate good talent. heh. :P

this was the latest one. and seems like they really enjoyed themselves here and the company and new friends they made. 

I can actually totally relate to their feelings, it is probably akin to the time i just came back from the states. :)

it just makes them seem more real more human. :)

aww moment. 

ok this was the start of the frenzy. the slew of tweets from wes. (x.x no i am not an obsessed fangirl :X)

 made me really happy. 

 say aww. 

 this was his insta to tell the world he had landed in SG. 

*wavesssssss!!! hello!!!*

haha. i loved the caption here. 

And his friend tweeted this:

i know right. 

haha. #truestory moment. 

Ok that's my recap of the two night of YTFF 20th and 21st May 2013 at Ritz Carlton. 

Maybe when i come back to read my post next year i'll feel the same things again. 

These stars have totally fueled me to remind myself that do things because you like it, it might not get you famous or rich. Hell, you might not even get any recognition for it, but do it anyway because you like it. 

Stay humble stay passionate. Stay true to yourself. 

i'll write even if no one reads, i'll shoot (pictures) even if no one sees them.

Thank you for reminding me these. 

:)

You guys rock!

and to me you guys are superstars in your very own right. 

\m/

Zoo Zoo Trip to Batam:)

 This is a pretty backdated post. I wanted to do a post about this some time back but i was quite lazy to because it'll be a photo intensive post and blogger could only upload like 5 photos at a time then...so it would mean i would have to go back and forth 10,15 times...not that i haven't done it before, but since blogger has just launched its new interface i thought i should try it out with this post! Wow wee! Easy uploads of photos...all at one shot...:D

So here are the pics for my weekend trip to Batam, I think its a good place if your just seeking a weekend retreat with a good massage:)) Here we gooo!:)

ohai! i ish on the way to batam by cruise!

 

this was the first photo we took before leaving to get onto the ferry. 

it was truly a morning of madness. 

jojo our pretty babe here woke up late and nearly missed the ferry. 

i woke up very early because i kinda thought i lived the furthest, so i didn't want to morning call everyone to wake up at the same time as i did. ( i was afraid they might bite off my head if they didn't need to leave the house so early. haha) so instead i msged everyone and hope they would reply soon. 

I was pretty surprised the mrt was quite packed on a 6am for a saturday. wow. 

so only meimei replied me....i thought maybe they didn't need to set off so early therefore they weren't awake yet or they hadn't seen the msg.

monsters anyone?

so i went to meet meimei @ macs first for brekky!:) she told me ching was on her way reaching. and the brenda and joanne were the two which hadn't replied any of our msges or call. When ching arrived she told was brenda was on her way out when she last called her so no problem there. 

so where was joanne?!!

after much calling and as we were about to finish our breakfast she called me saying she had just gotten up not too long ago....

OMG. 

and sooo. after all the hoo haa and rushing to get tickets and she rushing down in a cab and running to the terminal and our frantic calls and giving of directions...

we finally met up with each other....

heng ah. :)

after a frantic morning we finally made it onto the ferry and were on our way!:D

yay. 

when the all girls team are on a one hour plus journey what do we do?

whip out your cameras and snapsnapsnap that is! hehe.

this was dada's spider to hold her camera we got for her birthday...

we used it more for posing purpose than for its original purposes of being a tripod...lols:P

when everyone is posing prettily i pose like this. hahaha

hexagon?

ahh...this is the star:)

this are the girls i share this trip with:D

cousin It. is that you?

 

finally! we have arrived!:)

we initially thought we were supposed to have a free and easy trip...and after much confusion, discussion and checking with the guide we never knew we were supposed to have a were part of a half day tour. 

 

first stop!

to visit guan yin niang niang. 

 

then we were sent off to some factory outlet before walking opposite the road for a massage. 

mine, mei's and ching's were good. they had enough strength...jo and dada said theirs were far from satisfactory. 

not to sound pervert-ic or anything, the silhouette of a girls back is really very beautiful... (because we all shared the same room.)  

 

 say hello to my sitting partner dada:)

we discussed all the drama we had recently watched...so much fun!:D

after massage. lunch!:)

no we didn't eat bird's nest, just stood and pose next to it...lol #fail

we were going to have seafood lunch. 

the girls were really excited except for me and dada because we were not seafood fans...lol..

so we were the only two goondos eating the vegies...lol..

but i did enjoy the fish and prawn...lucky the prawn was deep fried, no need to deshell can eat. they were all amazed by my 'power' to eat shell, meat and all down. lols.

 

there's the guide behind me. 

you know how alot of people wouldn't be caught dead or at least not in photo without makeup...?

there. i'm almost always these bare looking. 

maybe 20 years from now i'll laugh at myself.hahaha...:p 

natural is good?:Ppp

 

after lunch we went to watch some mini performance just outside. 

there was the fire and glass eating man and he could tear coconuts with his bare hands. impressive, but i don't know, i didn't really like it....

after lunch we went to visit another temple. 

Kong Zi Miao where they prayed for good results in school. 

Over at the side there were a few food stores we went over for a eat and drink.

yah! more food! hehe.:P

if it looks as if we were very happy eating and drinking the coconut, its a LIE. 

lol. 

the coconut was not sweet.:((((

can employ me as ambassador already. 

not nice also can look as if it taste out of this world. lols

and then and then!!!

 i found my beloved green kueh!

omg. i really love to eat this but that was the first time i've seen it outside kuching. 

i always must have these kueh along with the other must have food when i'm in kuching. 

sometimes some people who don't know how to make it, it taste just mehh. 

this one tasted omgggg so freaking awesomee!!

if you ever go, MUST BUY and TRY!!!

highly recommended by me:))))

then off we went to some keropok shop...i bought some back home...i bought some to give away too...

but by the time i brought them back, they were in no shape to be given to friends...all crushed by bad handling...:(:S sorry guys and gals no keropok to give you all. 

and so we had ice cream at this shop...yesh, eat again i know right! ahahah....double choc ice cream.

mmmmm....:DDD

 

after that we had to sent some of the group people off to the terminal and so stopped off at a shopping mall...with actually nothing. its a empty shopping mall...ok lah, there are stores, but not the kind where you really shop at i guess...

we saw this...quite funny!:p

BFC

 

the rest of the trip was just bus journey around....i got excited when i saw sunset from the bus...so we were all busy trying to capture the sunset....hahaha...it was funny how the whole bus shifted from side to side on my cue to where the sunset was...:P

by the time we reached the restaurant it was already dinner time...

yes. eat again...lol. 

despite what you see, we did do abit of walking so it wasn't that bad.

jojo had this and we had nasi goreng...it was SO SALTY. 

haha.

it was complimentary though.

when everyone's trying to look pretty...i am not even trying. 

lol. 

we chit chatted till the wee hours of the morning.

we actually had two rooms to stay in but we squeezed into one...more fun and cosy:)

this was the engagement present we surprised jojo with after she came out from the shower...

without glasses shes almost as blind as a bat..so a few times when she stood closer to us we just stayed calm because i knew she couldn't see what we were doing..:P

:)

she loved the engagement/proposal present. 

the rest of the photos are for her to fill up.....:)

 

we had Heineken while dada and meimei KO-ed. Mei drank a few sips before she was too sleepy...we talked even more and shot a few snaps...the rest had me looking too bad...so i'm not showing! muahaha. i was NOT drunk, i was just looking unglam as usual. fat face shots. haha.

woked up early next morning. 

such unbecoming if this were shown to prospective mother in laws. 

do not know how to make bed.

LOLs

eh. hotel mah. at homes our beds are all made nicely. :DD

 

view of sky. nice! the rest of the view was just meh.

 

more eating. at breakfast.

 

o  i forgot!

doraemon was on while i was waiting for the gals:D

After breakfast out for a walk and more photo opps!

the sun was wayyy too glaring.

we can be potential ambassadors! 

 

this hammock is harmless looking but its evil i tell youuu!

evilll. 

i injured my leg a little trying to get up on it...before you say i'm always clumsy..it wasn't just me!

see? poor dada got a bad bruise from the hammock.

pretty cool eh?!

its made from tires. 

good form of recycling. 

:)

haha. look at this two. 

always this cute:)

 

in the lift...what? we're girls what. 

and its a reflective mirror.:p

time to go back and pack to go back home!

before that...some fun pics around!

the two girls took the extra time to paint their nails...

and finally before we went to the terminal we went to have lunch at A&W, it was jojo's first time!

:)

so cute. 

then off to the terminal and back home. 

it was actually much more dramatic than i say it here, we nearly $%^&^%$!@&*! miss the ferry because of a very ngiao officer. Don't wanna dwell too much on the drama and bad memories of that part, the good thing was we managed to catch our ferry on time because of some very kind souls. thank you nice people:))

my advice to people who are going is that, 

remember to go earlier..really, don't wait till the last minute...at least maybe an hour in advance. 

i think we went about 35 minutes in advance and because of a far flowing system we nearly had a heart attack. and all the vulgar words were flying in the air as we were frantically being 'pushed' from here to there being aimless ducks finding our way around. 

but because of kind souls everything went well and we had a nice full stop to our trip.

:))

a lil weekend get away does wonders to your moods and spirit. if you can't go far. go places like this with your buddies, it as the buggers always say, its not really the place but who you are with that matters most. 

:)

I can't agree more. 

that's why i love going to places abroad with people i like. 

if i've gone with you abroad, yesh, i love you people very much and am so comfortable with you. 

:)))

can't wait to go a trip soon....

so many friends are going with boyfriends here and there. 

#foreveralone i don't have. 

nvm. i have friends. haha...

jy!bkk next yr? maybe?:)
buggers..somewhere anywhere?

and maybe to visit jojo's hometown next time too...

:)