Friday, November 8, 2013

MIGF AWARDS AND CELEBRATION PARTY AT WISMA KWC ENDED ON MAGICAL NOTE AS DATO STEVE DAY FLOATED IN MIDAIR LIKE A PHANTASMAGORIAN AND MADE ROYAL PATRON TG NAQUIYUDDIN DISAPPEAR FROM INSIDE A CAGE!!!

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THE LAST EVENT AND GRAND FINALE OF THE 13TH MIGF MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL GOURMET FESTIVAL ENDED ON A SUITABLY SPECTACULAR NOTE AS PER USUAL SINCE DATO STEVE DAY AND DATIN SU DAY FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO DO ANYTHING NORMAL, RUN OF MILL AND BORINGLY DREARY! 

First the venue.
Cavernous like Mulu Cave!


It was not a 5-star hotel ballroom as expected nor was it a convention hall like Putra World Trade Centre or KL Convention Centre. Well, Wisma KWC is a convention centre but 98% of the guests did not know it even existed! And I thought I knew everything there is to know since I am of divine stock!

Wisma KWC stands for Kenanga Wholesale Centre and NOT Kee Wah Chee as everyone assumed! Anyway the correct spelling of my name is Kee Hua Chee, not Kee Wah Chee!

Wisma KWC is a fashion wholesale and retail centre though you cannot find Louis Vuitton, Gucci or Hermes Birking handbags here since the baju are for normal folks as it  is located in Jalan Gelugor near Loke Yew which is not KL's priciest and most prestigious precinct.

MIGF's party was on the 15th and highest floor. I thought it was openair like most roof tops but this was covered with a small, al fresco viewing deck with dramatic views of KL Tower and Petronas Twin Towers.

The instant I entered the humungous hall, I fainted straightaway and had to be given fresh oxygen shoved into my mouth which has had many things shoved inside previously. I came back from the dead, saw the cavernous cavern and passed out again from shock of the happy kind. 

OK so maybe I did not end up horizontally on the floor (a position I am accustomed to on various occasions) but I was deadly impressed by the size, structure and stunning shape!

The ceiling was so high I wanted to do a bungy jump instantly but the guards stopped me and said they did not have a permit. Ditto when I wanted to para-glide from the second floor balcony! Yes the hall even has an upper deck and balconies! 

The hall was too huge to be cooled by aircons so the job was done by fans. Not your usual, flimsy, pathetic house ceiling fans but industrial ones. Each was the size of a small flat in Tokyo! The diameter was so large you can skate on it. The fans did their job well and kept the 500 or 600 guests cool and comfortable and I did not sweat buckets as feared since I am used to European climes and not your Asian humid ones.

My friend Ng Kun Tek immediately vowed to book this space for his brother William Ng Kun Wei's wedding early next year! 

How Dato Steve Day and Datin Su Day managed to discover this spectacular gem is beyond me and few things are beyond me! 

How fortunate they should meet Aaron Soo, the Group Chief  Executive Officer of KHA Seng Group which owns Wisma KWC as well as the celebrated Central Market which is one of my favourite shopping malls for fun and funky stuff as well as VIVA lifestyle mall for decor, home and entertainment. Aaron Soo suggested Wisma KWC (well, he would, wouldn't he?) and he was spot on! 

VIPs were taken to the viewing deck, a balcony offering stunning views of KL Tower, KLCC and Pudu Jail which has been levelled. 

Then the sexy Kronenbourg 1664 girls led the Royal Patron YAM Tunku Laksamana Tunku Naquiyuddin Tuanku Jaafar, YAM Tunku Nurul Nor Hayati, YAM Tunku Dara Tunku Tan Sri Naquiah Tuanku Jaafar and Guest of Honour YB Dato Azizan Noordin the Deputy Director General (Planning) of Tourism Malaysia who represented the Minister of Tourism and Culture YB Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Tan Sri Abdul Aziz who was unable to attend.

I scanned my beady eyeballs for Dato Steve Day who was nowhere to be seen. When asked, the official response was "Maybe he overslept, went overseas, got caught in jam or forgot as he has been so busy the last one and half months".

I was shocked he broke protocol by not welcoming the Deputy Director General of Tourism Malaysia and Royal Patron Tunku Naquiyuddin Tuanku Jaafar!

Then of course all was explained as Dato Steve Day appeared literally in midair on stage to welcome his guests! Think Phantom of the Opera, Darth Vader and a Dementor from Harry Potter's movies and you get the drift.

Floating eeriely in midair, Dato Steve Day welcomed and thanked everyone, opening his arms and gesticulating grandly as he was suspended in midair with no mattresses on the floor below. Luckily the near invisible steel wires did their job as he floated serenely onto the stage  floor to join the Cool Chefs.

The highlight was when Dato Steve Day, founder and organiser of MIGF invited the Royal Patron YAM Tunku Laksamana Tunku Naquiyuddin Tuanku Jaafar onto the stage to climb inside a cage also suspended in midair. The sporting royal was blindfolded and was escorted up a flight of steps to step inside the cage suspended some 25 feet from the floor. 

The royal prince was asked to wave a MIGF flag when he was inside to prove he was there. This he duly did.

Then Dato Steve Day waved his magic, multi-coloured wand and the door and walls of the cage burst open. Instead of Tunku Naquiyuddin falling headlong onto the stage to certain harm, there was nothing! 

The hall reverberated with gasps of shock and mounting horror! The victim was no illiterate, foreign construction worker or maid but the eldest son of the 10th King of Malaysia and one of the 4 Princes of Negeri Sembilan in line to the throne! 
 DATO STEVE DAY INVITES ROYAL PATRON TO COME ON STAGE, ENTER CAGE AND BE BLINDFOLDED!
 THE CAGE IS READIED
 DATO STEVE DAY CHECKS TO SEE THERE IS NO ESCAPE ROUTE
 I WAS THERE AND ALL WAS AS IT SEEMED
 TUNKU NAQUIYUDDIN IS ESCORTED INSIDE
 TUNKU NAQUIYUDDIN IS SAFELY LOCKED IN
 DATO STEVE DAY ASKS HIS VICTIM TO WAVE A FLAG TO PROVE HE IS INSIDE
 A MAGIC WAND IS NEEDED!
 THE STEPS ARE REMOVED
 A MAGICAL WAVE..
 ABRADACABRA!
 THE WALLS AND DOOR FALL APART!!!!
 NO ONE IS INSIDE! HORRORS! BUT YOU CAN SEE TUNKU NAQUIYUDDIN ENTERING THE HALL FROM THE MAIN ENTRANCE! HOW COULD THIS BE? HE WAS INSIDE ALL THE TIME!
 WIFE YAM TUNKU HAYATI WAVES HER HANDS IN RELIEF
I AM FINE! SAID THE HUSBAND TO WORRIED WIFE!


I grabbed my Nokia to summon the police, Red Crescent, army, Royal Air Force and marines to mount a search for Tunku Naquiyuddin as I bet his wife Tunku Nurul Hayati must be in hysterics.

Then as if by magic, Tunku Naquiyuddin appeared---not on stage but at the main entrance, walking inside and beaming broadly without a hair out of place!

Considering I was right by the stage photographing everyone and I saw him standing inside the cage and never saw him leaving the locked box, it was truly worthy of Houdini, David Copperfield and Professor Dumbledore! 

Too bad Dato Steve Day did not make our National Debt disappear too but even if he did, like Tunku Naquiyuddin, it would bounce back! 


KEE HUA CHEE AND DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF TOURISM MALAYSIA DATO AZIZAN NOORDIN
KEE HUA CHEE FLAUNTS HIS UNIQUE AND UTTERLY CHIC NATIVE BEADED BAG HE BOUGHT IN MIRI, SARAWAK WHICH IS MORE BEAUTIFUL AND PRECIOUS THAN ANY GUCCI OR PRADA OR HERMES BIRKIN! DATO AZIZAN NOORDIN AGREED!
NG KUN TEK AND KEE HUA CHEE
NG AND KEE
LAI VOON HON AND HIS PARENTS
THE MOON'S A BALLOON
THE CAVERNOUS 15TH FLOOR HALL OF WISMA KWC---SPECTACULAR!
GOLDEN LIGHTS
TUNKU ISKANDAR TUNKU ABDULLAH AND DATIN SERI MANEESA
HIS EXCELLENCY EDUARDO MALAYA THE PHILIPPINES AMBASSADOR, PUAN SRI SYLVIA AND TAN SRI OTHMAN ABDULLAH
BLING MAN KEE HUA CHEE JOINS IN
HIS EXCELLENCY MR SHUKUR SABITOV THE UZBEKISTAN AMBASSADOR AND HIS EXCELLENCY GERARDO PRATO THE URUGUAYAN AMBASSADOR
DATO AZIZAN NOORDIN, YAM TUNKU LAKSAMANA NEGERI SEMBILAN, YAM TUNKU NURUL HAYATI, DATIN SU DAY AND TUNKU MOHAMED ALAUDDIN TUNKU NAQUIYUDDIN

THE KRONENBOURG 1664 GIRLS IN CHEFS' TORQUES


THE FOLKS FROM BLU MED RESTAURANT!
KEE HUA CHEE JOINS IN
KEE HUA CHEE AND THE FOLKS FROM BLU MED
FORMER MINISTER OF TOURISM TAN SRI KADIR SHEIKH FADZIR AND DATO AZIZAN NOORDIN THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL OF TOURISM MALAYSIA
TWO POWERUL TOURISM GUYS
TAN SRI KADIR SHEIKH FADZIR, DATO AZIZAN NOORDIN AND KEE HUA CHEE
NG KUN TEK AND THE KRONENBOURG 1664 GIRLS
KEE HUA CHEE HAMS IT UP WITH THE KRONENBOURG 1664 GIRLS
STILL SEXY
LOOI CHUNG KEAT AND THE GIRLS
LOOI CHUNG KEAT AND KEE HUA CHEE AND THE KRONENBOURG 1664 GIRLS
YAM TUNKU NURUL NOOR HAYATI, DATO FARAH KHAN, YAM TUNKU DARA TUNKU NAQUIAH TUANKU JAAFAR AND DATIN SERI RAIHAN
TUNKU DARA'S OUTFIT WAS VOTED MOST BEAUTIFUL SINCE IT WAS COLOURFUL, BREEZY AND BEST SUITED FOR THE OCCASION
YAM TUNKU NURUL NOOR HAYATI AND KEE HUA CHEE. TUNKU NURUL COULD NOT ATTEND THE EARLIER MIGF DINNERS AS SHE HURT HER THUMB AND COULD NOT USE HER CUTLERY SO SHE PREFERRED NOT TO COME. NOW HER THUMB HAS HEALED NICELY!
YAM NURUL NOOR HAYATI'S WHITE DRESS WAS VOTED MOST ELEGANT
KEE HUA CHEE'S BLING SHIRT, PANTS AND LEWRE SHOES WERE VOTED MOST STUNNING
KEE HUA CHEE BEING INTERVIEWED
WAS IT CNN OR BBC OR AL-JAZEERA INTERVIEWING KEE HUA CHEE?
KEE HUA CHEE IS A NATURAL
NOTICE KL TOWER AND PETRONAS TWIN TOWERS!
KEE HUA CHEE DECLARES WISMA KWC'S PENTHOUSE/ROOFTOP WAS KL'S BEST KEPT SECRET UNTIL NOW
KEE HUA CHEE POINTS TO HIS RM 3 MILLION SHIRT STUDDED WITH MEGA ROCKS
NOTHING BEATS BLING
WHAT A STUNNING BACKDROP
THE LOCATION IS ONE OF A KIND
KEE HUA CHEE AND THE FOLKS FROM KELANTAN DELIGHTS RESTAURANT!
NG KUN TEK AND KL
KEE HUA CHEE LIGHTS UP KL
NG KUN TEK AND HIS HAREM
KRONENBOURG 1664 GIRLS LEAD THE WAY
ROYAL PATRON TUNKU NAQUIYUDDIN TUANKU JAAFAR AND CONSORT TUNKU NURUL NOOR HAYATI


DATIN SU DAY INVITING THE VIPS TO SIT





DATIN SU DAY HAS A POINTY CHIN SO SHE MUST HAVE ELFISH BLOOD AND MAGIC POWERS. NO WONDER HUBBY DATO STEVE DAY IS SO RICH AND SUCCESSFUL DUE TO HUS LUCKY WIFE
THE CEILING LIGHTS WERE STUNNING
CATCH THE AWESOMENESS!
THE HOT GIRLS ON STAGE


KEE HUA CHEE
DATO STEVE DAY'S ARRIVAL WAS NOTHING SHORT OF MAGICAL AS HE FLOATED IN MIDAIR LIKE A PHANTOM, DAVID COPPERFIELD AND DEMENTOR ROLLED IN ONE!
I NEVER KNEW DATO STEVE COULD LEVITATE!
WELCOME MY FRIENDS
ABRADACABRA
LOOK MA, NO HANDS
DATO STEVE DAY FLOATING IN MIDAIR
COOL CHEFS COME OUT TO PLAY
CHEERS, COOL CHEFS
HOT CHEFS
DATO STEVE DAY ON TERRA FIRMA
ALL SET TO PARTY

THESE ARE THE COOL CHEFS

DATO AZIZAN NOORDIN COMING ON STAGE
JOAN MAHONEY HAS NICE CLEAVAGE

KINGTON, CALEEN AND MARX CHUA AND YES, IT IS SPELLED AS KINGTON AND NOT KINGSTON AND HE PLANS TO BE A ROCK STAR
THE CHUA SIBLINGS---KINGTON, CALEEN AND MARX
KEE HUA CHEE JOINS IN SINCE HE IS SAME AGE GROUP
COOL GUESTS
MARX CHUA AND KEE HUA CHEE
JUGGLING WITH LIQUOR BOTTLES!
AMAZING
4 BOTTLES!
OK, THE BOTTLES ARE DUMMIES AND MADE OF RUBBER!
MING HO IS HAPPILY MARRIED YET SHE CLINGS PASSIONATELY AND SEXILY TO AARON SOO WHOSE COMPANY OWNS WISMA KWC AND HE IS PROBABLY TURNED ON THOUGH I WOULD NOT BE SINCE I AM IMPERVIOUS TO FEMININE WILES AND SEDUCTION AS I VERY RELIGIOUS AND HOLY
COOL CHEFS ON STAGE















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