What better way to start a new blog than with a major event like the World Press Freedom Day 2007!

On 5 May 2007, all The Kings rose (miraculously) on this Saturday morning, packed their bags and costumes and made their way for a 10am soundcheck at Pasar Seni, where The Kings were to open the event. Funny enough, at 10 past 10, the stage was sparkling empty. Not a speaker or mic stand in sight so some breakfast as well as a slow day ahead was on the cards.

Already, the prospects of performing in front of next to no one were in our breakfast banter. A venue where cars outnumber people shouldn't be a problem for us as we all remember that dingy club called Pampas. Despite that, we know our friends will be there for support (thanx Adel, Mike, Regina, Adam, Madana (our volunteer cameraman!), etc!), just like in Pampas.

After soundcheck, we paced in and out of complexes, retreating from the sun and feeding our skin with air-conditioning.

We loitered at the Annexe (the complex behind Pasar Seni) and killed time wasting precious SD Card bytes.

Chi Ho was hoping to quench the heat with some iced-coffee at the Bau Bau Café but nothing doing.

Its also where the children’s painting gallery was and there, we met some friends and took pictures to ease our memory.

Believe it or not, we never really started making our way to the main stage area for our 12 noon opener until it was 11.45am(!) and still, no one knew that the event was about to start!... so we took more pictures,

with friends,

with ourselves,

and with our wacky sides.

Soon, Sonia Randhawa, one of the organisers, summoned everyone involved on stage and chucked the mic at our faces demanding for words of wisdom when we really should be changing into our costumes. The backstage was funky though, the first dressing room - ala – gym shower we've ever been in! There were more toilet seats than there were mirrors!

And Dance 101 came and went as usual. No moshing crowds and teenage girls screaming out names this time, only chuckles and ‘tepuk kebajikans’ from the handful that were there and echoes we made stomping on a stage made of stone (Yes, stone! Explains a lot about the builders!) Well, that’s all from this time.

More materials migrating from our Friendster blog later…

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