Blog of a Magician in Malaysia

Zouk / Velvet's 4th Anniversary

I told you all a happy post is bound to come up soon . Yesterday was a turn over after consequent dull days. Have recieved quite a number of shows booked way up till JULY . Made many new friends and going back to work on Monday ( which is not suppose to be good isn't it ? ) .

Anyway , I was invited by Christien to come along to Zouk's / Velvet's 4th Anniversary party . It was already a tiring day for the both us but we still managed to pull ourselves there . Liang was there , Alan Yun , James Wong , Craig Foong , Joyce and Jeannie ( who is a Zouk/Velvet virgin) was there too . Thomas Yap tagged along with 2 of his friends, I saw Timothy Tiah with Joel Neoh , Joyce kinkybluefairy ...and many many more .

Here are the pictures ! Some stolen from Jeannie and the rest from my trusty Pentax .

An enjoyable night filled with a police incident I am not going to mention about . Lets just say it involves 2 RM10 bills , if you get what I mean ...

I'm going to get a Garmin Nuvi 200W this wednesday ! Will never again get lost ! ...Thanks Tom for the directions last night ! I know I'm a bum .

My `magical' life..so called magical

Allright , back to my lonely life .

For the last two days , since my TUPAI went off to her new life , I have been doing a lot of reading , have been finally hitting the gym again , been practicing magic and have been reasearching for my new project . Going to start back work again next Monday and life once again is going to be hectic .

My next show will be on the 5th of April in Singapore for a conference that consist of 300 over doctors . Preparing like crazy for that show .

After that , on April 30th, I will be flying off to Kuching for a show for Alliance Bank .

That practically sums up my month of April for now . I have a show on the 22nd of April too , but I'm somehow not allowed to talk about it ..Yes, I know , it's funny to me too .

I am also finally signing a contract with an event company . More of that to come , but tentatively I'll be up with Liang , Dapne Iking and most probably Razif . But who's signing with me is still tentative . I'm very exited on this , hope it'll bring forward a new chapter in my life .

Hope work will come in by the bundle soon . Get to push my focus on something that I like ...Will have more cheerful post very soon .

-David

BLOG change

Hie guys ,

My blog is going to be changed to a wordpress blog soon .

Friendster's blog is getting a little bit too messy for my liking .

-David

Leaving

It is never an easy sight seeing your girlfriend leaving . Heck , I've never even used the term `girlfriend ' ever when I referred to Yen Chi in my blog . This proves how melancholic I am right now .

Life here would definitely be different without her . More time with friends I never took initiative to look up and abundant of lonely dinners . How exiting .

It worries me sick of how she would adapt on her new job . Flying around the world , seeing new places , meeting new people . Sometimes I question myself on why am I studying the things that I'm studying right now . I just had dinner with a few people from University and even they had doubts on the level of stupidity that went into the decision of committing 5 years of a person's life in studying something they dislike .

To be honest , Chi was one of the reasons I kept my sanity while doing engineering . Every time I lost my temper or a screw fell down from my head, I had someone to call and bash the whole world for their wrong doings ...and somehow , she's support me , no matter how crazy my qualms were .

My relationship with my parents took a huge U-turn after they made the decision to sent me off to a desoluted place I'd like to call hell . To say I dislike that place would be a huge understatement . That place changed my perception of the world in a huge way . Till today I can never forgive my parents for not knowing better . Allthough bold , I still believe that I would have been much more sucessful If I'd held my stand and did what I wanted to do .

Chi was always there when I had one of my tantrums . My girlfriend has a very strong character . She taught me so much over the time we were together , which is almost 2 years now . She tells me the direction on the roads when I get lost because I don't know KL that well ( She's my GPS receiver ) , she tells me children stories before I sleep like `the 3 little pigs ' and `sleeping beauty ' , she bakes me cookies , she bites me , she gives me 1 min hugs , she gets me Burberry T-shirts , and most of all , when most things fail , she's there for me .

I'm happy for her that she's going to be doing something that she likes and have the oppourtunity to see the world at the same time . I really am . She 's going to me making more than twice of what some senior engineers rake in a month .. and that is a lot .

I'm going to miss her .

A classic picture+updates+Happy Bday POP!

This is a classic of Rames after I showed him a transposition routine at Advertlets 1st anniversary party . Taken without permission from www.smashpop.net



Anyway , the past few days after haven't been really good for me ...as an individual that is . Haven't been working out , sulky mood , angry like no body's business , and most of all not moving in the direction that I want .

Damn it . Have to alter my compass once again . Always point towards my goals . My birthday is coming up and being 21 years old is going to be a reminiscence of the past . Have to do something about it soon ! Don't know why so blardee angry these days !

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Fuuh , lega .

Anyways , have two big shows up . One in Singapore , One in Kuching for Alliance Bank and one more pending in Jakarta .

Got to get my act back together .

Oh ya ,Happy Birthday Smashpop!

Performance at Ah Long Pte Ltd's premier

I got a call from Josh Lim a while back. He asked me to do a short show for Advertlet's 1st year anniversary in conjunction with Ah Long's premier .

I brought along Chi Chi with me as well as her sister Yen Kuan . All in all , this would be the 2nd time I'm seeing the movie and it still makes me laugh like hell . Ah Long is highly recommended by me for a good laugh .

Here are the pics of the performance and people I met . More will be up after I get my pics from Smashpop and Rames .


Yen Kuan , Chichi and Me

With my friend Smashpop , Rames & their friends


Daniel Tan , Me and K.K Wong . supporting actors of Ah Long


With Shaz of Xfresh.fm


Laughing away with a transposition routine


Melissa Campbell , JP and Daniel watching the performance


Channel V's JP doing some magic of his own


Our finished products ....


Our good old table with great company


Smashpop , and Me clapping after Josh's speech


After the movie , Melissa Campbell , Me, Daniel and Josh

All in a all it was a fantastic movie . Yen Kuan won RM100 , I got to spend time with Chichi , made many new friends and got in touch with many old ones .

My upcoming show would be for all doctors in Singapore . That's a tough one ...

Will update this post with more pics soon . Till then , go catch Ah Long Pte Ltd ! It's worth it !

Singapore Airlines stole my TUPAI

Singapore Airlines stole my TUPAI .....





The first picture I ever posted of her on my humble BLOG




Feel like kidnapping her for myself



Tum tee tee tum , going to have more evenings for myself after the 26th . Gym , books to read  and full force on my shows after Tupai flies away . Lots of projects coming up and a new website to build on .

Congratulations CHI . Nyam .

My life in the Philippines

So what have I been doing in the Philippines ? Apart from working , I have been hitting the bars and clubs like crazy and gambling in the most prominent casinos in town .


Eating aloooot of Krispy Kreme ...going to get diabetes soon


Half eaten donuts


Going to the casino like crazy and winning money every `other' time .

ME, BING YOW , FRED and JP

Our last supper before going to the Casino and playing Baccarat . The guy in the RED shirt is my high school senior Bing Yow who I coincidently met in Makati . Crazy to see how fast time flies . He's now working in a Telco company travel ling the world . We went gambling with my boss JP and his bodyguard FRED .

And I ate more good food , black squid ink PASTA that made my whole mouth BLACK!

Me and JP...I drank far far too much that morning

Going to the club like there was no tomorrow . I clubbed with my boss JP and a Turkish girl named JULIA who somehow managed to attract many other chicks .


Me and Julia , I drank too much that night...


Eating more great food, Korean PORK kimchi


Having dinner with my foster parents and AMBASSADOR TONY from the Philippines government




And best of all is that I made so many friends and wonderful people who are very open minded here  . Man , I had the time of my life !

Will update soon asap ! Many good things and shows coming up!

Magic lecture in the Philippines!

Yes, I know , I came here for work but I can never miss the chance of attending an international MAGIC lecture and workshop with magic `GODs' in the industry .

To be blatantly honest , I know nuts about coins . From sleights to misdirection to the basic coin palm , it's all haywire  inside of me . I'm even embarrassed to do a retention vanish in front of learned people because I know a `small' lecture session will start right after they see me do it .

I was graciously hosted by a Philippine superstar . I have no idea how i got so lucky being hosted by such great people all over the world .   Rannie Raymundo who is an actor, singer and a sleight of hand artist there in the Philippines acted as a fantastic host during my magic lecture visit .


Me with Rannie

He treated me with good food and introduced me to many people . Apart from the fact that I got to dine with David Roth and Micheal Rubinstein ..coin magic living legends !


George, Rannie , Tom, David Roth , Mike Rubinstein and ME !

Lets just the pictures do the talking for now ya ?



At the magic workshop with the magicians

After the workshop  I jammed with many of the Philippines magicians and some of them were movie stars in the local scene too  . We jammed till 4am in the morning !! Blardee hell , I never had so much fun jamming for far too long !


Jeffery Tam , Philippines close magic champion 2008 . He's also a movie star and has his own TV show here .


With the rest of the magicians having a GREAT TIME!


Performing with RON in a coffee house . RON is regarded as one of the best sleight of hand artist in the local circuit .

OK! Thats all from me now . So sorry for the lack of updates . My schedule had been packed like a can of sardines lately . Next posts will be telling on what am I REALLY doing in the Philippines !

Updates

I got an important e-mail today ...I also have very very important decisions to make that will alter my future in the coming weeks . Fuuh , sweating as I type this ...

To be honest , I never really got to enjoy my youth as I thought I would . Never had the chance to enjoy my life as I imagine I had due to some stupid decision makings by some people . Aaah, at 21 and turning 22 soon , the decisions I'm about to make will change my whole life to adulthood . What on earth happened to my youth ?? No college life and university life was a nightmare I'd like to forget ...Well if there even was a `University life ' . More like living in a deserted piece of shit . Thinking about it , I really wasted by whole youth in Godforsaken UTP . Really don't know how stupid can some people get . My blood boils everytime I think about this .

Oh well , although I'm in an angry mood tonight , here's a picture of me with another gun , a 9mm at the back of a BMW X3 . It was taken by the driver who owns so many guns ! He even wears a bullet proof vest ! Wish I can shoot something later at the provinces to release stress . I tell you, the psychological trauma experienced at UTP will last a lifetime . I have never been such an angry person before I went to UTP , but sometimes these days I blow up at people like nobody's business . I even fought with a policemen in Tronoh and had to be held back . When I look back now , I could have even gone to jail ..

And thanks to Christine who sent me pictures of my performance at the Jobs DB carrier fair in KLCC . Here they are . Christine and her team were a gem to work with during the whole event .

Fuuh, what an angry post . Going to chill down and gulp some cold milk now .

My working life in Philippines

If you have tried contacting me , check out my earlier post to see how you can reach me here in the Philippines .

Anyway , work here is more sort of play and learning through experience . I have the best mentor here that I look up too , the President of the company itself who looks after me really well .

Apart from that , I'm having good food everyday , a nice place to stay and great company to work with . My foster brother is providing me all this for free and I have no idea how am I going to repay him ...seriously . Next week, I'll be taking a jet to a beach nearby to overlook a HOTEL project by the company . How cool is that ?

Anyway these here are pictures of what I did today ....I was at the company site in a hotel construction , I went boxing with JP , my foster bro and President of the company , and finally we drank and drank...and drank while chit chatting about life at a bar in Makati .

Oh ya , 1 thing about Philippines is almost everybody carries a gun....I kid you not , you can see a gun anywhere . This is the M4 Carbine of my driver . I took this photo while on the streets ...

Boxing training...makuku , jabs, blows , sit ups , stretches...owh, going to be boxing alot in the Philippines . Will be hitting the gym tom with JP's younger brother Carlo .

With JP drinking and trying different types of beer .

Mabuhay! I'm in Philippines!

Mabuhay everyone ! I'm in Philippines now and I'm enjoying every second of my life here , which is not nessecary a great thing ....tooo much fun = not good .

Anyway , you guys can contact me at :

+639293841277

or just email me at my normal address of davidlai308@hotmail.com

I am now staying in a condo by myself here and have great people taking care of me . I have a driver at hand , a great foster family comprising of my foster brother ,the President of Multi Development Construction ( MDCC) , his younger brother Carlo , Tita Marybelle and Tito Pabling Calma .

Pictures are up next so feast your eyes !

The living hall

The toilet and painting ...a HUGE painting

The resting lounge

Claire,Dominique,Tita,Tito,Carlo and ME

What a beautiful place ! And they have a Porshe Cayeena , Cherokee , BMW X3 , Ford Hilux , Crysler !!! OMG , It's crazy down in their parking basement !

Anyway, everything here is going fine , and I'm really enjoying myself at the moment . My foster family who owns the company that I'm working at is taking really good care of me . 1 last picture before I log off .

The CHURCH which I went just now

Will update on my activities tom ! Till then !

-David