Blog of a Magician in Malaysia

Performance for Prince William

I went for a job interview today and guess what ?, I got the oppourtunity to perform for HRH Prince William .... The show will be officially approved on the 6th of August but it looks good from where I'm seeing it . Yang Dipertuan-Agung , Tengku Mirzan will also be of attendance ...



I have to brush up on my protocal skills ,and also definitely on my ENGLISH! ...Imagine the other royalties that will be there . Owh  man , have to learn how to address each and everyone of them .

1 month away , many shows ahead , so preparation has to be good . Wish me LUCK!

5pm-Mercedes Benz just asked me to do a show for them on the 23rd next month...I have more than 8 shows coming up...I'm going to die....

8TV's Wet & Wild SHOW

I was to perform at 8TV's Wet & Wild Show . I went there with my friend Sebastian and allthough it did rain during the show , it went pleasantly well . Got to meet many old faces and long time friends at the party too . Performed like a magician on the run , here , there and there again . When I got to the show , I was actually dressed all BLACK ... I couldn't take the HEAT and a good friend of mine from 8TV, Renee gave me and Sebastian 8TV beach shirts , YAY!...THANK YOU RENEE! ( if not for you ,I'll be dead of dehyadration now )

Apart from that , another unusal happening took place . When I did shows for TV3, Media Prima or so on in the past, I would usually get tags stating CREW , ADMINS or STAFF .... Today they gave me `ARTISTE '...what a big upgrade huh?=)

Here are some of the pics .

With Raz of 8TVwho acts,host and is a professional mc


Performing to bubbly Belinda C and Aishah Sinclair


Yes  , they all do the pose with the spoon ....


With Dennis from `YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE? ' of 8TV . This guy is a really nice guy who gets blur eveytime he sees magic . I'll be meeting him soon again and he's goin to teach me how to DANCE!haha..Do I THINK I CAN DANCE ?...NO!!


Performing for Jules of FLY FM . Jules has asked me to appear on FLY FM for a show . We'll see how it goes and I've got alot to prepare if I were to do radio magic ...For those of you who don 't know , I was actually on `Flirty at 10.30' a while back and Jules was the one who gave me the call..she still remembers and asked..

Jules : Yo David, So how are you with Angel ?
David : Were friends.=)
Jules: Wat!! friends onli ah!?
David: I thought I told you I got gf redi?..
Jules: I thought it was her la!
David: ....

With Suki of `One in a Million' and Dennis . Suki was actually showing me and Dennis Magic ! She is a student of Vincent Tan and she's slick on the cards . I showed her stuff I usually did to magcians after knowing she knows basic sleight of hand ( I rarely do sleight of hand ) . Suki is a really friendly girl and very talented ...she's very funny too .

SUKI : David , I'm telling you har, YOu really really look like my pastor!
David : WHAT?? Your pastor good or not ?
SUKI: Sure lah GOOD! You also GOOD lar!
David:..oooh.

Performing for Hafiz of `What Women Wants' . This guy deserves to win the contest hands down . Man , he is just so friendly...and crazy too . We chatted for quite a while and he told me he's going off to UK soon to continue his studies . Would be meeting up with him soon again also!


Hafiz and ME ...he's biting a broken fork ....and yes, that fork fell on the floor...many times...


With Nita of Malaysian Idol 2 whom I've performed and met . She still remembers me and asked me to perform for her again...unfortunately I had a stage show to do ..she waited...and I forgot...damn it...


With Lana just after my show , Lana is from `Gol and Gincu '. I recorded the stage show with her and will post it soon . Her reactions were simply priceless .

With Stephanie Chai ...somehow , she was just scared of `magic '....sorry for scaring you Steph... I showed her one and she freaked out...and I stopped after that...

With Christian , Cleo's Most Eligible Bachelor of the Year . Will be having dinner with him soon and going to jam with cards . He showed me all the card tricks he knew in a few minutes.haha. Cool guy and definitely a budding magician .

With my bud DJ SHAM of MIX FM,who gave me the free passes to the earlier F1 Black Circuit Gala Party Show .

Thanks again Renee for the SHIRTS ! YOU saved me!

Malaysian Blogger's Day Recording

A big thanks goes out to my long time friend Thomas Yap for recording this for me . This was recorded at the Malaysian Blogger's Day gathering recently . I hope you guys enjoy and do repeat the clip on Josh Lim's reaction , it's just too good to see just once ( or twice for the matter of fact ).

The first recording is about me doing a russian roulette routine . I broke a Tiger Beer bottle and left the broken end ( with the sharp edges sticking out ) on a block . I then covered the block with a brown paper bag and mixed them up with 3 other identical blocks covered with paper bags . You HAVE to see Josh Lim's reaction , I kid you not . The video has been edited due to it's length , so you can't see me breaking the beer bottle in the beggining . You can see it at the end though .


The next performance piece was a mind reading routine . I had Brian Ng ( whose new series BUMMERS is coming on national television ) pick a random word from a choice of books . I then proceed to read his thoughts and get the word he is concentrating on . Brian was such a nice guy to deal with and  watch him scratch his head in the end ...CUTE .

A big thanks to TOM again for the clip , Andrew Westwood , Josh , Erik Ong , Rames and many others who participated in the show . Thanks and really hope to see you guys soon .

Screw ups

I recently did a show in Alice Smith International School and encountered with a HUGE screw up in my routining . The show was a charity show and I guess it was on my part that I did not take it seriously and put in adequate rehearsal time to perfect it . Luckily I managed to gain back my composure after the screw up, but I never did gain back my confidence on stage .

On that night , I performed a mere `magic trick ' to the audience...nothing more nothing less , I never achieved the level of amazement I targetted for . Not only do I feel sorry for myself , but I feel ashamed that I degraded the audience perception on magic . Everytime , I meet someone new , I always try to change their perception on magic ...and I usually do suceed. On that night , I failed miserably .

However, over the years of me performing , I'd like to share one of the worst screw ups I've ever made ( no that wasn't the worst) ...it happened when I was just starting off .

It was for a chinese society show , and I naively took it . For those of you who know me , you will feel something has went awfully wrong here .

Yes , my mandarin sucks to the ultimate level ...and by ultimate , I mean ULTIMATE . I can buy food , tell the time , count money and so on , but when it comes to performing magic ......

On stage , in front of about 200 over people , I was suppose to ask the volunteer I just called up to pass me the `banana ' that was sitting on the table . ( and yes, it is a REAL banana ) . In my best memorized `mandarin ' script ...

ME: Pang wo , na wo de jiao .
               (Help          me     ,   take     my       bird)

In mandarin , banana was `xiang jiao ' ... and just `jiao ' on the other hand meant `bird' ...In direct translation , ON STAGE , at that very moment , in front of 200 over people... I asked that guy to ...

ME:Please, can you take my bird ....?

It can 't get any worse than that ....And the best part was, I din 't know why the crowd was rolling over and laughing their balls out ...I think I remembered someone vomitted from laughing ...

Some of the better ways to attract girls

The following are random thoughts on girls , from a magician's weird mind ...

Ever went up to a girl and said

` Do you believe in love at first sight ? ... or should I just walk past again ? '

like the cute advertisement on radio ? .. I bet you 10 bucks that you have never done something like that, EVER before ( well, I'm referring to  most of you out there)

It is quite a norm in our culture for guys to be a little more timid compared to our western counterparts . Breaking the ice with a girl you like , could be one of the hardest things you've ever done ( or yet to do ) .

Yes , I know , I know , I din 't play fair, you guys might have acclaimed . I know `magic ' ... and magic gets girls ,so you all say .

Pleezeee .. I 've seen some magicians who never got a single date in their life , and after going  `ding , dong ' and finishing their routine with their female audience , they are lost in outer space . They have no idea how the conversation was supposed to continue after the `magic ' was gone .

ME? ...I sucked with girls so bad ( and `so bad ' was a huge understatement ) when I first started out .. As you can see , I wasn't blessed with the looks of Zac Efron of gifted with the machoness of Brad Pitt . I had no confidence and after many letdowns in high school with the ever same ...

`MY MOTHER DON'T LET ME GO OUT...I'm so sorry , I would love too though '...
and seeing that girl at the movies with the school hunk on the next day ...

I subjected myself to the fact that I was naturally bad with girls .... All however changed when I got into magic . MAGIC helped greatly with my self confidence and added to the bunch of friends I made ( the super player types ) ... I got better interacting with the opposite sex .

The friends I'm talking about are the ones who go into a club for an hour ( or less ) and come out with a babe ( or two ) ...I'm not exaggerating here , I kid you not . The guys I used to mix with ( and some of which I still do ) , can just walk pass a girl in the mall , and get her phone number in the minutes ... and for those of you who were wondering , yes , it was a HOT girl . You might be saying to yourself , ` Those guys must be loaded and drive BEAMERS , HELL if I had 1 , I'm sure all the chicks will come to me too ' ... Some are filthy rich , and some are just average in the financial department ( some don 't even have cars to begin with). Allthough diversified in wealth ,ALL of them are masters in their craft .

The boldest I ever got was walking towards a group of girls  with a self made name tag, saying that I was the entertainer of the club they were at . I did some magic and then got that girls phone number .... and no , I don 't do that anymore these days ...

My point is that girls are attracted to confidence ( a huge load of it ) and plus that off with a little creativity on your part , you might just end up in a relationship that you would like to be in .

You got to muster up the confidence by yourself , YOU HAVE TO!. Walking up to a group of girls for the very first time and focusing your attention on ONE girl , and then asking for her contact number, is going to take balls of steel . HOWEVER if you don 't do it , heck , you'll never know if she would go out with you ? ...and you missed one hell of a chance that will hardly ever come again .

Confidence aside , here are some really good ways to meet a girl and get her number ...

The Survey

Go up to a girl and take a paper and pen and say ` Hie ,I'm doing a short survey , can you help me out for a minute ?.
Give her the paper and write this on it :

What is the worst pick up line you've ever heard ?(please circle your choice )

a)Are your legs tired ? because you've been running in my mind.
b)Have I seen you before?you look so familiar?
c)Are you an angel? I just saw you falling from the sky
d)Hie, I'm doing a survey , can you just help me out for a minute?

Unless she's just been molested or she's a lesbian , she would give you at least a `smile ' and you can continue from there .

The party routine

At a party , you suddenly saw this girl you like . You come up and say ` Hie, I just learned a new magic trick , can I entertain you guys for a moment being , it'll just take a minute ' ( or any patter that you want)

Get a bill out a RM50 bill and a pencil . Number 1 to 5 on the bill like this :

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)

Tell her that , in a while you are going to do a guessing game , and if you did guess wrong , she'll get to keep the RM50 .

Ask her to write her phone number down on one of the number .You must emphasize that it's IMPORTANT that she writes her REAL phone number down . Ask her then to write down 4 other phone numbers that are not hers on the other left over numbers( 1 to 5 ) . If she hessitates at first , explain to her that she is going to write 4 other phone numbers on the left over numbers and nobody will know which one is actually hers .

Get the bill back and say that you will try to `DIFFENRENTIATE ' her real phone number from the fake ones. In a while announce her real hp number and keep the note . Tell her that you would give her a call sometime soon and have dinner with her using that RM50 .

HOW?
Sharpen your pencil until it's really sharp . HER real phone number will be written in `thin ' alphabets while , the fake ones will be darker .

If you really can 't differentiate it ( it takes practice ) , just say ` I'll tell you the results in a day or two ' ... and call all the numbers on that freaking note .

The BOLD APPROACH

Walk up to a girl and say
`I saw you from a distance and I would really love to get to know you , unfortunately I have something to attend too and I've got to leave . I just want to ask , do you have an e-mail ? '

and pass her a pen and your name card ( or a piece of blank paper) .

Said with a sincere tone and utmost confidence , this will work most of the time . Besides , you're asking her for her e-mail which gives you a much higher percentage that she will let it out compared to her phone number . ` Aww , this guy was so sweet , it's just my e-mail , I can choose not to respond later '...will be the thought lingering in her mind .


HAVE FUN!! and HAPPY COURTING!!

F*cked UP but not going DOWN

Balance I feel is something that I have failed to achieve in the past years . A little background on me for those who just know me by name ...otherwise , you really would not understand my predicament .

After highschool , I went straight into the army...or so they called it at that time . The country's pride and joy to instill patriotism ,National Service  ( NS ) . I have no qualms on National Service , I din 't  LOVE it , neither did I hated it's guts . I made alot of friends there , some of which  I'm still very close till now ...  National Service however  caused a big stir in my life ...or maybe my whole future for the matter of fact .

Friends visiting me at NS camp for my 18th Birthday...yes,my 18th Birthday was at a camp and my 21st birthday was at a padang....not that I'm complaining ...but after seeing SWEET 16 on MTV...bah..I have Fantastic friends who visited me all the way.=)

Even at NS, Eric poses with his cards....the took they drive all the way up to visit me...I have really good friends...

With Deputy Prime Minister Najib at graduation from NS...graduation huh?

While everybody my age , was picking up college application forms or applying to public universities ( well , not EVERYBODY per say ) , I was trapped in an army camp in Terengganu . Furthering my studies were the last thing on my mind , ..who thinks about studies when all you do daily is march under the hot sun? ..I tell you what you'll be thinking about ` What the F*uck happened to my hair?? ' and ` I want to eat something else than fried mihun '...would be lingering thoughts.

Where's my hair again ? where's my hair again? ..with best friend Anson who's in India now,doing his best to be a doctor .

During National Service , my parents applied me to join for  a scholarship program by Petronas . It was a great reason to be out of camp so I went there and ` talked cock ' to the interviewers ...randomly took an IQ test and breezed through a group presentation without much preperation...I never gave the scholarship much thought after that day , I couldn 't wait to get into college .

National Service ended , then and then only did I concentrate on what I wanted to do for my future . My first choice would be advertising . I love the idea of working in the advertising industry where creativity has almost no boundaries . Unfortunately , I was turned down by my parents stating that there were really no propects in the advertising field and life would be hard in later years ...

I then moved my interests elsewhere to business studies and gave nutrition an option ( since I was in love with topics on health . Business was again turned down by my parents stating that...

`Take a professional course , you can study engineering and come out as a business man , but you can 't study business and come out as an engineer '

When I told them about my interest in nutrition , they told me they researched the field and found out that Malaysia still needed time to accomodate a sense of `nutrition awareness ' into it's system ( trying to say nutritionist job tak laku lah )...but they couldn 't afford it anyway , it was a 2+ 3 twinning program and the most they could afford was to send me to a year overseas . Marketing was also another interesting option that left my mouth and was never spoken of again ...

I finally settled for their choice of studying Civil Engineering in Inti Subang Jaya . I made some really good friend there and they were really fun people to be with too . Piramid was just around the corner for movies and home was a mere 15 minutes drive (or less) . I din 't really enjoy what I was studying , but the enviroment played a pivotal role in me continuing to work hard ....besides , I get to go to Australia to complete my degree , a dream come true for me ( I always wanted to study in Australia) ....Well, dreams don't always come true do they ?

Life always f*ucks you up at the wrong places . My experience was when I got that damned Petronas scholarship ...Yes , some other people would jump for joy and praise the good Lord for giving them the oppourtunity ....I on the other hand , really din 't want it to begin with .

When the approval for my scholarship arrived in the mail , I told my parents that I did not want it , I insisted that I REALLy din't want it . Somehow or another , my parents dragged me up to Perak to see the GOD forsaken University that I was `suppose ' to spend the next 4 to 5 years in . One weekend , they put me in the car and took the drive up ...When I got to UTP , which stands for (University Technology of Petronas ) , I knew immediately that I would never spend the next few years of my life there . The place was in my opinion ( at that time ) horrible ...and even horrible was an understatement . I simply hated it .

Life double f*cked me again when my parents forced me to go there . I never did forgive my mom and dad for placing me in that shithole ...till this very moment , I still do hold a HUGE grudge against them, for so called `ruining ' my life . People will say , they did what they thought was best for me  . I say , they should have just at least listened to SOMETHING I tried to convey . I was never good in maths , I worked my ass out in highschool to score in Additional Maths ( and I almost dropped dead when I got an A for it in the goverment exams , a requirement to study engineering in UTP) and always was just `average ' in the class . I was never a fan of a peacefull and tranquil `kampung' like enviroment and definitely not a supporter of shitting in the same cubicle some stranger just shat in early in the morning ....

I got shot with cold water early in the morning during my orientation....I got so pissed I almost quited at that moment.. 

To say that I hated my life for the past 3 years is an understatement . I got so frustrated at times my chest got pain ( contrating angina , pain to the chest caused by severe emotional stress ) and man , it really hurt . I missed seeing my friends , some of my best friends flying off to overseas because in was stucked in desoluted Tronoh ,Perak , and I missed toooo many events because I could not come home . I was depressed , very depressed .

My relationship with my parents got very bad during those years . VERY BAD . I couldn 't hide the fact that I hated my own parents . These days , I try to hide my anger , but it does burst out sometimes . I'm just scared that all that anger inside of me will cause serious damage to my health in the near future . I sleep at 4 to 5 am due toimsonia and just can't stop thinking of what I went through for the past years ....it's simply unbearable for me .

Even some of my closest friends have no idea what the impact of me studying in God Forsaken UTP left on me . People who know me say I don 't get angry easily and have the idea that I maintain a fairly good average score in UNiversity .( I have yet to fail any subjects ) ...In F*ucked up UTP , I channel my anger to somewhere else . I channel my dissapointment of having missing some of the best oppourtunities in my life in a different frequency. I go to IPOH alone sometimes and just splurge on food .. reaching to the hundreds . I take a movie alone in IPOH without the knowledge of people , I hit the gym really hard , I bang my fist on the wall , I sleep for the whole day skipping classes , or just cry in my sleep ( Yes, suprisingly, I have never cried more in my life than in the past 3 years )...nobody knows though .

What on F8cking earth am I doing getting myself sprayed with cold water at 5am in the f*cking early morning??

Everyday , I force myself to study ENGINEERING ...knowing that I'll never be able to bring myself to be an engineer in the future . I hate maths , I hate the F*cked up so called university , and I hate putting a mask everyday, being the all so jolly guy in class . I just want to finish this degree and get it done with . ONCE and for all .

What has this experience thought me ? Never EVER do something because someone else thinks it's better for you, and always follow your dreams . ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF . ... There is always the big IF . IF I have just had persuaded my parents more to study advertising , IF I had just showed my temper to them in the beggining....who knows , I might be doing something that I enjoy right now ...

What has this experience left me ?. Unbearable STRESS . Heartaches , serious HEARTaches , and a fucked up life . You have no idea what's it like to be practicing magic , studying engineering , driving back for 3 hours , do a show , then drive back 3 hours  and take a tests that will determine your GPA . It's so stressful, sometimes I wish the whole so called university would just burn down ( not with me in it ) .

Thank GOD that I'm not stupid enough to be suicidal because I know there is still so much for me in life . I'm also lucky enough to make some trustworthy and great friends in f*ucked up UTP . Without them , I have no idea how would I last till today . I still hate UTP to it's core and my relationship with my parents is still how it is when they decided to force me there . I try to make peace with them at times, but I guess it takes time to disperse the anger that is in my heart .

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF...never let someone else decide what you want do BECOME in YOUR LIFE . Be your own driver and not be a passenger .

Hope you guys who are just enrolling into college will learn something out of this .

Best,
David Lai

How to FLY?The magician's WAY.

At one time in my life , I have been an enthusiast on levitations , finding the best levitation there was to fit in my show . I never got a stage illusion per-say but spent thousands on close up levitations . Even my close friends got fed up after repeating the same question over and over ...

David:`Do you wanna see me .........FLY? '

In the end , I gave up in my quest . Levitations were either angle sensitive or just plain restrictive to do . Impromptu ones were OK but nevertheless not impressive enough . I do have ONE that is plain good , but I reserve that for `special ' occasions ...occasions where I NEED/HAVE TO impress .

In any case , I was utterly mesmerized when David Copperfield presented his illusion on `flying' in his TV Special . It was...simply to put it, BEAUTIFUL . I was lucky enough to see it live when an Argentinian magician was invited to perform it in Genting . I knew how the illusion was done , but seeing it live , right in front of my eyes was just breathtaking .

Do see the FLYING illusion here:





Genting recently acquired the service of a French magician named YV . I forgot his full name but his initials were Y.V...Yves something ....


YV's show is called FLY and infuses dances , acrobatic skills , roller blading and gymnastics into this `theatrical ' magic performance . It's basically a story of how a tribe learns how to FLY in order to survive .

Quoting from the brochure:

`One thousand years into the future , two tribes , the Waterlings and the Skyfires fight to survive
The bigger Skyfires have the advantage of flight, and  attack the defenceless and weak Waterlings .
The Waterlings goes to YV for help but YV knows that the only way to save the Waterlings is to teach them how to FLY '
The dancing , the acrobatic stunts and the music was really good . What I was really dissatisfied was  the show's HIGHLIGHT , that was suppose to be when the magician(in this case YV ) FLIES . YV's flying illusion was nothing compared ... and I say NOTHING compared to Copperfield's or the Argentinian's magician 's FLYING illusion .  YV flew horizontally from left to right but never front and back . He just moved up and down , left and right but NEVER front and back . THAT is not how someone would FLY!

Other illusions that were performed during the show were the Hangman , The assistant's revenge , Guillotine in half , production box and a few original ones by YV himself . All were performed well and might I add sucessfully .

To sum the whole show up , it really is a good theatrical magic show ....but in bold words ...the FLYING SUCKED ...BIG TIME .

-With the FLY performers ...I told YV ,

`Yves...the flying...was ok..lar '...

Malaysian Blogger's Day SHOW

I was contacted by Josh Lim who runs ADVERTLETS to do a show for him on an event sponsored by Advertlets . Advertlets were sponsoring the Malaysian Blogger's Day .

Josh had asked me to extend the invitation to some celebrity bloggers I knew . Well , Christien New and his wife Lavin Seow responded to the invite and graciously graced the event . The event ws also attended by local models from Hypertune like Bridgette whom I met before with Tengku Djan , Andrew Westwood , and many others . To sum it up it was a sucessful event by the organizers . Much credit should be give to Elaine for playing a main role in making this event a sucess . Elaine just got back from Australia and in that time span could organize an event of this magnitude .

I went to the event with my friends Joshua , Choon Hoong , Kong and Manuel from Germany ( the Edward Norton lookalike)..We came in two saparate cars...and one of the cars came a tad too early..

-Choon Hoong and I before the event started , we arrived at 7pm..one of the earliest!..wait, we were the earliest!! Our names were the first in the guest book .

-The rest of the group, (blogger),Manuel,Kong and Josh during the event .

-Me, Andrew Westwood, and Erik Ong fooling around after I entertained them . Erik is a Talent Manager managing Melissa Campbell , while you can see Andrew's face when you pass by a HOTLINK poster anywhere in the mall .

-Erik, Andrew and Me with the infamous `spoon ' pose...Andrew was recording it , hope to have it posted
soon.

-Doing magic to Leng Yein and Nicole from Hypertune , I really din 't expect them to scream so loud when the final prediction was revealed ... people at the event thought I was some sort of humsuplo if they din 't know that I was actually the entertainer there ...

-Leng Yein and Me...this girl is freaking crazy, at the tender age of 22 , she drives the latest Nissan Skyline and is going to open a new mamak of her own in  Plaza Prima Setapak KL . This is just so crazy . I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt that she earned it, and I'm freaking impressed . I'm a year younger and it's going to be quite a while till I will be able to open my own mamak yet still get a NEW Skyline ( I can get a 2nd hand , display it on my front porch and let it rot, because I'll never be able to maintain it's costs)


-With Bridgette from Hypertune ...she complained that she appeared too many times in Hypertune the last time I chatted with her ....and yes, she does appear in almost every issue .

-With Natalie and Bridgette... and my cards .

-Performing to Lavin Seow

-With Christien and Lavin

-Performing magic to Jordan and Christien from the NEW community .picture taken from whitetulips00.blogspot.com

There were two types of entertainment provided by the organizers, one being a competition of Nintendo Wii , and the next was my show . I started off my show with a roulette routine . I had a broken bottle put under one of four paper bags , had them mixed and slammed my hand onto 3 of them(the empty bags) , directed by the audience member using their sense of intuition . I also had Josh Lim to volunteer and I can tell you that while I was holding his hand , he was shaking so hard ( Josh , I told you won't get hurt right? ).......I also did a mind reading routine to Brian NG and his reaction was classic ...simply classic..

-Performing a mind reading act with Brian Ng , getting Brian to pick any word he wanted from  choices of books .

This is the part where he said ` SHIT! You're freaking me OUT' and looked at me like his brain was just fried after I got alphabets he was trying to send me...

-Brian going back to the crowd as the audience applaudes ...You can see Cedric Ang here from the pic . I've heard alot about Cedric and his site was just hacked .  Poor him , his site has now turned into a gay porn site .... Anyway , Cedric was such a friendly person to talk too and  he asked me twice ` Can you do magic and vanish my pimples ? '....oh man, I wish I could...hope to see you at other gatherings!

-Calling Andrew Westwood to use his intuition to help save my hand.picture taken from alvinwong.net

-Josh having Erik Ong decide the outcome of his right hand....picture taken from alvinwong.net

 
-With the NEW Community setted up by Christien NEW

-With the cast of ENTOURAGE , Malaysian version..., Andrew,ME, Sebastian, Brian and Erik.

-Doing some street magic to Andrew , Cadence and Erik...Erik din 't dare to turn over my prediction...he was like` Ayo, you turn over, you turn over, cannot take it anymore already ' to Cadence ....Cadence, NICE meeting you too!

-One for the photo album , a group picture of almost all who attended ( some went back already)

After the event , my friends and I continued partying at MYSTIQUE in Cineleisure Damansara .

The highlight was when Manu spotted two hot lesbians(well, from our perspective) groping each other on the dance platform ...

-`Yes, those were the two' says KONG ..

What a tired day . Kudos to the organizers for making the Malaysian Bloggers Day a great sucess!..I'm tired , I smell of ciggies and most of all , I can 't wait for the next gathering .

You can check other coverage on the event at these blogs ( or you can just leave a comment) .

www.whitetulips00.blogspot.com

www.christienlavin.com

www.alvinwong.net

www.reverendtimothy.com

www.opstupe.blogspot.com

www.vickyvacko.blogspot.com

www.budderflyx.blogspot.com

Super Funny Magic

Guys , I promise you you're gonna laugh so hard , you're balls are going to explode (or if you're a famale , you're just gonna laugh really hard). This takes `stooging ' to a whole new level . I first saw this quite some time ago , but now , due to the popularity of the clip , a new edition has been made . I posted this two clips of a DAVID BLAINE impersonator for your viewing ...ENJOY!! and laugh all you want!

Magician's Favourite Reporter

Let us go back in time to nearly 4 years ago . Where were you and what were you doing ? How much have you changed and what have you accomplished in life during that four years ?

Why did I ask that question ?...You see , four years ago , a reporter from THE STAR contacted me . His name was Izuan Shah , he had a very low pitched voice and sounded as humble as a person could be . Izuan practically started my carrier in performing `live ' shows ... what Izuan did actually was that he  gave my passion for `magic ' the jump start it needed .


-It all started from here

Izuan interviewed me with my friend Yoon Fei ( who has since retired ) in THE MAGIC ACADEMY ( located in SS2) which regretfully has since closed down ...Yes , I know , The person who did the interview with me has stopped magic , and the place the interview was held is no more to be seen ...distant memories .

My 1st interview was by far the hardest one I had done in my life ... Many who read the article did not realize that the actual interview was held over two days . One was at the office and one more at the streets of Kuala Lumpur . I was to perform RAW Street Magic to strangers on the street while a cameraman was snapping pictures . After that , Izuan was to interview the people who had just witnessed me perform while I somehow `vanished ' ...

It is never easy walking up to a Malaysian on the street and say
` Can I show you something ? '

They'll practically shout ` flasher !!!" ....and this is seriously not a joke


-Yoon Fei and I in The Magic Academy

The interview went really well and what happened next was history . I think ( please quote me if I'm wrong ) that I am the ONLY magician who has ever gotten a 3 page spread cover story ( with the exception of mentalist Shaun Tan ) in Malaysia at that time .

That particular article lead to many shows and contacts . It practically started off my magic business . Over the past years , I have been featured in many articles as well as many local media coverage ( such as TV3 and 8TV) ...but NOTHING beats the feeling of seeing your face on a center spread for the very first time ...

To be truthfully honest . My magic today would never been the same if it was not Izuan who was interviewing me on that very day. I've worked with MANY reporters and Izuan is the best by far . He's friendly , humble and very diligent in his work .

Izuan also introduced me to MANY events over the past following years , He got me to perform at NOUVO when I was underage , He interviewed me for a 2nd time coming about a year and a half back , HE got me into the ROYAL LONDON CIRCUS and got me to sit right in front of the stage with my friends ,and he even brought me back to his apartment to meet his housemates and helped me out in filming my first magic video .

-Another article by Izuan

Unfortunately , I've heard Izuan has since stopped working at THE STAR . The last I heard from Izuan was when he called me a few months back to perform at his band's gig in Damansara . Izuan plays in a rock band called  AUBURN . I had to decline because my engineering exams were clashing with his date ..Felt so guilty ...

This posts goes out to my favorite newspaper reporter , Izuan Shah , thank you so much for everything and may luck govern you all the way in what you are venturing into right now .

You ROCK!

-Izuan rocking in AUBURN

Magic at Celebrity Fitness

I went to Celebrity Fitness at Subang Parade today for a workout . Patrick , my supposed gym partner for the next two weeks backed out due to some workload he had to finish .

Because of that , I brought my old friends Yew teng and Wui Keong to the gym with me instead ...these two guys have never touched a weight rack in their life and scared me to death with their new found method of using the `leg press ' machine .... and they almost died while performing`SQUATs '..


-At the smith machine, attempting to perform SQUATS.

Anyway, we `TRIED ' to work out our legs, but failed(due to the dangerous stance taken by them) so I went  on to teach them some easier exercises . We moved on to working out the back and triceps .

While almost finishing our workout , WK spotted a REALLY hot girl who had a green fairy tattoo above her ass . She was smoking hot ( from him la) , even the `rapid result coaches ' who were walking around were trying to find an opportunity to `give' her some pointers ....

and NO, I wasn 't about to go up to her while she was working out and say ..

`Excuse Me, you're so beautiful , can I take a picture with you ? '

That would be pathetic..I caught a glimpse of her and taught that she looked good , but not to the hotness level of what WK and Yew Teng were describing her by ...

-Somehow , I'm not exaggerating when I say she looked like Megan Fox...

To make the long story short , after catching an image of that babe , the next happened like magic , every exercise Yew Teng and WK did revolved around that hot chick ...If the grandmaster of hypnosis had a name ( sorry ROMY  ) , it would be that chick . When that girl , walked into the dance studio , she attracted multitude of guys ( guys usually don 't join the dance classes) ....I'm like , what the F*** is happening ?

That's one of the reasons I don 't like going to `fitness clubs ' such as Celebrity Fitness . Most of the people don 't go there to WORKOUT ...but just to `play play'.... I prefer my hardcore gym backhome  ....anytime .


-Nothing beats a good workout..

Another workout gone bad by eye candy ..
-David

Featured on Kenny Sia

Hie guys , I've been featured on my friend's blog KENNYSIA.COM  . I made a similar post earlier this week on helping him out at his talk at SEGI COLLEGE KOTA DAMANSARA .

You can still read my posts here on how Kenny missed his flight by being such a nice guy to his fans  here

Kenny's posts about me can be read at his site or you can just click the link here

If you guys haven't met KENNY and got to know him before , let me just tell you that he is a very down to earth person who is seriously funny ( sometimes for very salah reasons like in icyqueengoddess magic clip) .

I'd like to share something funny that happened during his talk at SEGI,KOTA DAMANSARA , which I'm sure he din 't realise .

During the Question and answer segment , they were many types of questions , that I personally feel had nothing to do with his talk . Some of them were like what he posted in his blog :

`Kenny , can I take a picture with you?? '
...was the 1st question that came out

`Kenny , can I have your autograph? '
...was the last question that popped out

and to think he stayed back to answer those questions, and in that process making poor old KENNY  fork out the hotel bill for another night's stay in KL ( not mentioning another Air Asia plane  ticket ) because he missed his flight .

Well anyway ,at one point , a girl from the front row stood up and asked:

Girl : Kenny , are they any blogs on poetry ?
Kenny : I'm sure they are , let me think..umm, I know of some but I don 't think it's suitable for KIDS ..you can just try searching it on google or so ..

I was sitting on the front row and I saw the girl's face , she was like  `HMM ?? '....hahaha(Kenny missed it though ) , Kenny forgot that he was talking to a 16 year old `girl ' . Kids don 't like themselves being called a kid . I heard the person at the back of me giggling .....One of the better Questions asked.

At one point someone asked

`Kenny , can you make money from blogging ?? '

Kenny  replied and said that blogging was indeed a good way to make a side income ...

Straight after that , someone asked 

`How many `hits ' do you get ?'

Kenny : When I started it was about a 100 or less , but now it's 80,00 a day ...

After saying that, one boy from the back shouted,...

BOY:WHAT RM80,000 a day!!That's IMPOSSIBLE!!!

...=/..and yes,it created a HUGE commotion of oohs and aaahs....

-Kenny being the nice person he is , signing autographs for his fans.

Even magicians get PISSED!

I went to gym today and brought along two friends of mine , Wui Keong and Yew Teng . We've known each other for the past  9 years now , 5 years as classmates ...and the next 4 as close ex-classmates . I hope you guys don 't mind the language later, but this is how we speak to each other (when were friggin angry!!)...

The three of us went to Celebrity Fitness in Subang Parade . If you guys don 't know , you've got to park `carefully ' at the area near Subang Parade . I got my yellow baby car tolled once when I parked in front of the HSBC building opposite Subang Parade. I was terrified that my yellow banana got stolen at that time ! ...In respect to that , I would say that I was lucky that it ONLY got tolled .... Wui Keong encountered the same scenario, but his case was more pathetic ...He found the tow truck loading his car on the tow truck's anchor just at the parking lot ....eventhough his car was still there , he paid RM158 just to release the anchor from his car ..poor guy ..

After gym , we all went to eat at SS15 , for those of you people who study at Taylor's or INTI , YOU KNOW you've got to be carefull where you park your car or else it'll be towed .... We spent 10 minutes plus, searching for a parking so that we would be parking in ` legal' lot ...We followed the rules deligently today , something we three(well only me actually) are not used of doing .

After eating , we headed back to Shah Alam and we passed by Sri KL ...We got stuck in a jam ( yes a jam in front of Sri KL ) for the next 30 minutes plus . We all were so pissed ...Parents were picking their children up and were TRIPPLE parking on the road!! These people calmly sat in their cars while obstructing traffic like it was nobody's business!

WK: Tiu !! These Subang people ah , don 't know how to drive car wan ah ?
YT: Mather *****...Drive BMW but no brains wan! turn also dun know how to turn...TIU!!Give me your beamer la!
David : WTF man??....wat the hell ????WTF????

The cursing kept on going till we saw this ...

-A nice silver Merz was waiting in the middle of the road causing a HUGE jam ...(If you were to go straight, Taylor's would be on your left)

That was already shooting blood skyhigh through out heads ...but on further inspection ...

-That TIU HAI actually parked his car on the middle of the road ....MATHER F*****!!!...

The cursing after this cannot be posted in this blog due to the level of vulgalarity used ...

I then used ALL THE MAGIC I had and  `crushed ' the bloody silver MERZ with my secret `Alpha Matter Gravity Tum Pali Pum ' magic trick..


Yes, I also made the lights converge together as ONE and transported the whole damn Mercedes to a garage far far in the US of A ... I also sent the pictures to a website who scorns on idiotic drivers who has no sense of parking whatsoever...

Tadaaa, my best magic `trick ' yet ...

A MAGICAL Experience

Hie guys , I'd like to share a story today and share about one of my pet effects where you can start doing right away ....well ,start doing `right away ' and you 'll be making it look like a `TRICK' , practice and add some original presentation and you 'll me creating a simple yet likeable miricle which you can adapt and do almost anywhere.

I started doing this since highschool and the following is the story behind this beautiful effect ..

`One day while doing a charity show for a organization , I was brought forward to a table enquiring for some magic to be performed ...The person who asked me to entertain them were parents to a young boy , a 11 year old handsome young boy ..who was blind ...

Not wanting him to be neglected from the show , I sat beside him and said , ` Would you like to do some magic ? '. He politely replied that it was okay , and that I could go on to entertain the other guest , he would be entertained by just listening to the reactions on his table ...I asked for this boy's name and he replied `Patrick sir ! '..

What a polite young man I thought , but I said , ` I really need someone to help me out , and I'd love you to be that someone , can you assist me ? ', he nodded and I addressed the rest of the table .

I took out a deck of cards and showed it to all who were seated . I asked the gentleman sitting opposite the boy to take any card out from the deck , better still a number card that he has a special liking for ...

He took out the  8 of Diamonds , a typical card most Chinese people will pick , `8' for money , Diamonds ...also for money

I told the gentleman to concentrate on the card and the ONLY thing on his mind was to be the image of the 8 of Diamonds .I then asked Patrick to concentrate on the card the gentleman was holding . I wanted him to see what colour was the card with his inner eye .

After a moment of pause , Patrick replied `RED '

The people on the table was a little suprised but with a 50/50 probability ,(either red or black ), not TOO amazed Patrick got it right .

I then asked Patrick what suite did he see , a Heart or a Diamond ?

Patrick immediately replied ` A Diamond !'

Now more and more people were starting to crowd around the table and seeing what the commotion was about ...Patrick's parents themselves were starting to make funny faces decribing their amazement on Patrick's new ability ...

I then said ` Patrick this is the hardest part , what number do you see on the card ? concentrate and really see a clear image before saying it out , do you see it ? '

After a slight pause ,Patrick nodded and I replied ` Can you announce what image are you seeing ? '

` The 8 of Diamonds ! '

If you were only there to see the shock on Paticks's parents eyes . Everyone at the event were heard talking about how the blind boy was able to ` see through ' the card with his inner eye during the evening ....

I was very happy on the night , not because I did a good show , but because I made someone else the star of the night , someone who truly deserves it . If magic is played and presented well enough , it can make anyone feel good '

I wasn't the one who invented the `method' but I followed and worked on the method from another magician who listed his method publicly with a similar story. I have used this many times and in fact have floored many MAGICIANS with it .

(To those at Nando's during the Asian Magic festival , you'll know what I mean ) .

The simplicity makes people want to avoid this , but the result leaves people in amazement . Magicians who read this would be smiling to themselves and thinking of how to adapt this in their shows ......I'll be posting the REAL work behind this gem in the following posts , would love to hear your thoughts on this .

Magic and Beautiful BABES

Everytime when I meet prospective clients ( these are concerning the male ones ) , they always ask me the same question after my show-

`Hey teach me lar some magic, wanna trick some girls !'

This whole sentence is VERY wrong from a magician's point of view .

Firstly , magic is not used to merely `trick ' people . It's used to entertain while amazing the audience . Entertainment  is achieved when the audience feels like they've been brought into a whole new world . That is what magic's purpose is , to bring the viewer to a whole new world ...where things they KNOW ,that can't happen in the world they live in , is happening right in front of their eyes.

Entertainment -`anything that purposefully transports your mind to another world ' .

If you are given that oppourtunity to convey that amazing experience to someone , don 't screw it up , it leaves a HUGE impact in their life . YOU have the chance to change their whole perception on MAGIC .

NOW , getting back to the point .

As a magician/mentalist I'll wholeheartedly admit that magic is a fantastic way of meeting the opposite sex . This is true for either male or female ...Yes, I've seen female magicians who turn on the heat by saying-

`Pick any card, any card ....now guess where that card vanished too ?' ....hmmm

Magic gives a sense of mystery , a feeling of impossibility , and that is always ( at least from my point of view ) sexy in a way . Most imporatantly , magic gives you that little bit of `awkwardness' that makes you different from the rest and that will lead to confidence ...the thing that is pivotal when you meet someone new .

That being said , MAGIC does not make a relationship lasts . If you're out for a `fling ', by all means , learn some REALLY good magic , practice it , and prepare to meet extraordinary beautiful girls . Plus this off with some good sense of dressing and a seducing tone , I'm sure you'll get lucky tonight ...Trust me , to make a relationship last...it takes much more than JUST MAGIC ...

Many have asked me-
`David I'm sure you get alot of girls then !? '

I usually reply

`WTF?'

I know of many people/magicians ( I don 't call someone who knows a trick or two a magician) who uses magic to enhance their chances with the opposite sex ....some sucessful, and some REALLY sucessful ....the bad ones however are just too sad to talk about..

`Think of a card '
`Ahum....? '
`It's the ACE OF SPADES! '.
`NO...?'
`Well ..umm...you think very differently ....'

Yeah, some get to escape with sarcastic humour ...but I hate bad magic .

I'm not saying magic will gurantee anything . Even a billion bucks in your bank account won't do no good if the girl you like is a lesbian . What I'm saying is , `if you're having a hard time telling your feelings out , if you find it really tough to walk out to someone and asks for their contact , and if you feel you need the extra confidence, so many guys out there need, to just walk up and say `HIE! ' to the person you've been staring at for far too long ....

I'd say ...Give MAGIC a try . I'm sure it'll help you . PM me if you need help . I'm not saying it'll work , but I'm sure it'll help .

Do I use magic to get girls ??
Somehow , what I learned and read from so many books and sources about how to `attract women is fading away .  I now do magic to girls just to practice and make friends , and boy have I made many...boys and girls alike .( Yes, I heard some of you screaming  `BULLSHIT ! ' , but I brought tupai to a magic gathering ok!)

I've found my own little piece of mystery , and I'm proud to say MAGIC did play a role is getting her ....a BIG one.

-David

MAGIC to brighten up your day?

When I'm depressed or feeling down, I'll see this particular clip and it never fails to make me laugh...well ,a little less these days but it's still so hilarious .

Before you see this , let me explain that cups and balls is an all time classic of sleight of hand`MAGIC '. Magicians used to judge each other based on how well their cups and balls routined played against each other .

I first saw a magician named Micheal Ammar performed his routine on Las Vegas's World's Greatest Magic series and boy was I floored !

The following is nothing compared to the routine I saw ( not even a tiny bit ) but it's so funny , I laughed till my stomach got hurt ...really bad .

ENJOY!

Magician at Sri Pentas ( 8TV)

My friend Patrick called me a few days ago about having free passes to Celebrity Fitness . Being the gym buff that I am , I decided to take the passes and made Patrick my gym partner for the next two weeks ....

After gym , I received a call from another friend of mine , Adam Mackenzie of  8TV special projects team . He wanted me to rush to Sri Pentas for a live interview .


-Ahh...many memories at this place...

I quickly had my lunch with Patrick at SS15 , went home , slept for 15 minutes and got my gear ready for the ` impromtu show '.... When you are rushing , many cibai things will happen .

I ran out of small paper cups for a russian roulette routine I used . ( Somebody puts a nail under 1 of 4 paper cups , and I slam my hand on 3 of them with a blindfold ) , and I ran out of forks to bend ...I din 't stock up after last night's outing with ENIALE ...

Damn Cibai !, if there's one good quality I'm proud of myself , it's that I'm very punctual for events . I usually arrive to the venue an hour earlier just to get a feel of the atmosphere ...Today , it was already 3.45pm ( My live show was scheduled at 4.30pm) and I'm out of things I need for my performance . To top it off , I have no idea where my black top went too so I quickly put on a white one!!Arghh!

I quickly went to the sundry shop and to my dissapointment , they had no such `small ' paper cups ...Argh...screw it , I took some of my house's forks and dashed to Damansara Utama on NKVE ...My mom already said to me many times when I first started to bend metal ,

`You bend , make sure you bend back '....

That , unfortunately , is something I still have not mastered ...

Anyways , I reached Sri Pentas on the dot at 4.30 pm and quickly rushed to the South Wing where 8TV's Special Projects office is located ...When I reached there , the special team project's manager greeted me and immidiately asked me to start ....ayo , what a rush ..,The WHOLE office was invited to see me perform .

..and well I did . I entertained , because that was what I was called for.

-Me and my friend Adam Mackenzie

To make the long story short , I got the job . It'll be on the 21st of JULY and Adam told me Jacklyn Victor , One Buck Short , Estranged and other artistes will be there gracing the event. Oh well it's great to catch up with familiar faces ,guess I won 't go as a stranger this time . =)

-Never ever going to RUSH for a show again!!..White TOP with Black Jeans!!?Like a car salesman!!TIU!

Malaysia Bloggers Gathering

My friend Josh Lim who owns ADVERTLETS is sponsoring a blogger event called the Malaysian Blogger's Day . Knowing Josh , this here wouldn't be a `normal ' blogger event ... see the digital flyer and you 'll know why .



Since which age lar , blogger event got Hypertune Models and cars ...

I might be performing on the night itself . Josh has asked me to do something but I'll go to the drawing board and plan 1st .

For the list of who's going and more deatails on what's going to happen on the night , please visit Elaine's blog .

I'll be going with Joshua , Choong Hoong , and Kong for the moment being . Anybody else want to tag along ? ... Did I already mention that there will be Hypertune Models at the event? .....

Mr.Magician with Eniale+friendster humsaplo

I was suppose to go `yum cha' over the weekend with Eniale from www.thisismysay.blogspot.com and wanted to bring JOSH over, but Josh was still in Singapore . Since we both had nothing up our sleeves for the night , we decided to go out and `yum cha' for the fun of it .

Now, I knew Eniale for a while now, but I have no idea why is she called `Eniale '...she broke the secret that her real name was ELAINE and ENIALE was ELAINE spelled backwards . Duuh ...

ELAINE is a super friendly girl that is sometimes blur for reasons I can 't explain ( because I don 't know how to ) . If you get the chance to know her , don't waste it! , she makes a darn good friend .

Anyway , while we chatted on alot of stuff , I also showed her some stuff that I do, and she told me about some horror friendster stalker stories that she has encountered . Yeah , I've seen many guys do that kind of shit to girls , going `Hie Hie , I want to be your friend ' kinda crap ...If want also be more creative la K?



-Elaine and I chatting at DOME

I tell you man , the paling membencikan is the guys who use their testimonial page,where every single of their testimonial is from  girls who say:
`I'm 21,from Johor,thxs for the add '
`Hie, I'm Joey from SJ,nice meting you!'
`Hi,I'm Tina !Seems like you've been askin the same thing over and over again huh?'
`Hie,thxs for the add, I'm Jamie!'

MAKUKU , it's like all the girls are strangers to this guy ...and this joker is showing off the number of girls he's randomly adding to his account . I sometimes wonder why the girls even bother to reply his `copy and paste ' routine Questions testimonial .

...Oh well, at least their not as bad as the stalkers ....

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