Earth Hour 2009 Waterfront Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

video by Seok of Scubazoo Images


"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye"

The Only Asian to Win at WPPI 2008

Well done Louis! Mighty proud of you. :)

KK Freeze on Earth Day

I missed it!! Didn't even know about it till I saw Amie's post...Arrggghhhh!!! So sedih :(


KK FREEZE 2008 from dinoza on Vimeo.
Video by Impedius

Anyways..here's a link to the cool photos Ams took for KK - City Mall Freeze ;

My Life My Own TV - KK Freeze


Ams & Audrey , jahat you all didn't tell me about it.. :( rotan ko nanti..

Earth Hour Kota Kinabalu @ Loft

Earth Hour at The Loft was a success. Lights off from 8-9pm. Everyone with their candles, singing and having a good time. One hour went by in a flick of a switch.

Click on the following link to view photos of the event and watch the video;

Earth Hour Kota Kinabalu @ Loft by Scubazoo.

Free Hugs

F2 World Cup 2007-final

Never made it to The F2 Powerboat Race World Cup final on Sunday,2nd December. The heart was willing but the body just won't budge. Had a visit from Hangover from Hell and had carpet for a tongue + breath smelled like gorilla's armpits.

Oh..to be young again..sigh

Anyway...
the favourite racer, Colin Jelf from GBR won the world cup as predicted. Click here to read more.
can you tell how excited i am about the race?

F2 Powerboat World Cup & SMC Party 1st Dec

The Breakfast Club with Ollie

Shan, Sal & I (aka. The Breakfast Club) had an early start today. Met up at The Loft at 8.30am..the earliest I've been there in a sober state.. They've been a few times when we left the pub at daylight, drinking from the night before.. Shan had her 1st beer of the day while we were having breakfast. Sal & I joined her not long after, sampling new cocktails, one after another. By 10.30 the crowd started getting bigger and busier. We were pretty much hammered by the time the trial race of the F2 World Cup Powerboat Race started.

I was in charge of selling the ice-cream but needless to say, I did not do a good job, only sold a few. I was too busy sipping cocktails and having a jolly good time. Friends started joining us and in between cocktails, socialising and taking pictures of the event, I completely lost track of time. The SMC Party hosted by Sri,Mel & Cara (hence 'SMC') started at 4pm but Suchen,Bear & I only managed to get our butts out of Loft just before 6pm. Shan & Sal came later, completely plastered. Shan sneaked out after her 45 minutes 'special appearance' so I don't have shots of her during the party.

The party dress theme was Dirty Doctors, Naughty Nurses & Mental Patients. It wasn't easy getting my nurse outfit and props in order in my drunken state (i think i had my top inside out until someone pointed it out..bikin malu!) Everyone was dressed up, it was such a hoot! I was having such a marvelous time until Ben threw me in the pool. All of a sudden I was a 'wet nurse'. lol. Everyone got thrown in the pool in the end..well, almost everyone.

All in all, had a fabulous time at the powerboat race and at the mad party. Thank you Sri, Mel & Cara!! I can still hear Emiliano going "It's the best party ever!!!"
It sure was.

It all started with a nice cuppa at CoffeeBean

Shan with her 1st beer of the day at 8.30am

Passion fruit Daiquiri

Nice! I like!

Ollie joined in the fun with The Breakfast Club

with our new recruits

The papparazi flew in after news leaked that we were at the Waterfront..damn

Sal & I ran for cover and made some new friends

One for the family album

Just wait here boys, we'll be back

our favourite boat, Italy mari

super cool buggies from @mosphere

mona's fun day at the Waterfront just keeps getting better

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then off we go
to the...
SMC Doctors, Nurses & Patients Party !

Nurse Maya

Nurse Mel & Doctor Craig with nurses from Taiwan

sexy nurse grabbing hold of mental patient on the loose

Nurses gone wild

Our hosts, Sri, Mel & Cara

John the intern with his cool blue scrubs

Nurse Maya with her mental patient

i got it from my mama

Nurse Shirley needed to get a check-up because she was feeling too HOT

Need a nurse anybody? Just dial 1-800-IWANTAHOTNURSENOW

Doctor Avril & Nurse Maya have got their hands full! They had to pay extra attention to Brain Damaged Sue.lol

Nurse Sasha made sure all the patients took their medicine before sending them to bed and saved the day!!

It's a tough job
but someone's got to do it.

Scubazoo's 'Reef' Launch at Le Meridien

The paparazzi snapping away

a gift for the guest of honour

(l-r) Roger Munns, Simon Enderby, Dtk Karim Bujang(Deputy Tourism Minister), Tengku Adlin (Sabah Tourism Chairman) & Jason Isley

'Reef ', Scubazoo's newest and most ambitious publication to date, is a 360 page coffee table book and 30 min DVD published by Dorling Kindersley (DK) and was officially launched on Tuesday 11th September 2007 in Waterstones, Piccadilly, London. It was a huge success and garnered rave reviews from all who attended including editors and journalists from magazines such as Vogue, National Geographic Kids, Cosmopolitan and Diver.


A clip from 'Reef' a 30 minute DVD included in the book

Today, the launch was held at Le Meridien , officiated by the Tourism Ministry. The launch started off with a 15 minute long presentation by the three Scubazoo members- Jason Isley, Roger Munns and Simon Enderby, followed by a speech by Deputy Tourism Minister, Datuk Karim Bujang, a Press conference and finally book signing session.

Although not as glamorous as the London launch, it was well organised and the presentation was very impressive. Echoing the sentiment of the guest of honour, the quality of the the publication and the presentation is the best I've seen and I believe everyone who attended will agree with me .

Knowing the Scubazoo family personally, I can tell you that they are very passionate in what they do and are also the most hardworking people I know . They always strive to produce only the best possible work and are superstars in their own right. As Roger mentioned during the presentation, it takes a lot of Patience, Perseverence and Passion to produce images that portrays the real behaviour of the underwater life. My hat goes off to all of them. Much respect.

'Reef' is Scubazoo's second coffee table book, the first one was 'Sipadan Mabul Kapalai-Sabah's Underwater Treasure'

Both books are available at all major bookstores. You can also purchase the books online from the Scubazoo website. Click here

Link : The World and I: Reef - Scubazoo's new book

I leave you with a short promo vid by Scubazoo. Enjoy.

KK Jazz Festival

Went to Sabah's 1st Jazz Festival yesterday despite a hangover from a 'quiet night' the night before with Mrs Barker, Mel,Florencia & Derrick.

The festival was jointly organised by the Rotary Club of KK and SParKS ( Society of Performing Arts KK Sabah). Tickets were RM30 (students), RM 50 & RM100. Missed the workshop and the opening performances by the local bands. The main bands featured that night was Jazzelton Quintet, Double Take, Son2Nos, Farid Ali & Denise Mininfield. Excellent performance.

Impressive turnout, must have been more than a thousand people there. Great music, warm sea-breeze, 2 weird DIGI yellow men, lots of smiley faces, some shimmy-shake and of course, booze...Helps a bit, even in my current state of cheerlessness.


With the girls & the weird Digi Yellow Man


Double Take - Mia Palencia & Roger Wang. Mia has one of the most beautiful singing voice I've ever heard. I enjoyed their performance the most.


The crowd enjoying the music..dancing away..


the finale

Made it home just before 6am after a chain of "unexpected" events, involving copious amounts of a certain numbing substance with Sal,Grumpy & Moody.

Stared at the beautiful sunrise before finally collapsing in bed. I take comfort in knowing that I won't be the only one suffering a massive hangover when I wake up.

Wish I was still at the festival..

Wish i was still at the festival..*sigh* Wanted to post an entry as soon as I landed home but was too knackered. Then the next day, I got fever + cold + cough. Was bedridden for almost 3 days. Had such a whale of a time at the festival. It was amazing. Thousands of people all enjoying and moving to the same music in the middle of the rainforest. An unforgettable experience..and yes, so surreal, wasn't it Muffin? It was damn hot!!! And so was the weather *winks* He he!! Met some really nice people while I was there. Some are already now becoming quite dear to me :-) Great place, fantastic music, beautiful people, booze...it could NOT have been better..

Check out our photos here ( thanks Jane! ;)

The official Photo Galleries of the Rainforest World Festival Music 2006 can be found here

Kuching here we come!!!!

I am so excited!! I just can't hide it!! Can't wait for tmoro to arrive!! Me and the girls are going to Kuching for the Rainforest World Music Festival at the Sarawak Cultural Village. It's a festival that brings together renowned world musicians from all continents and indigenous musicians from the interiors of the mythical island of Borneo. Check out the programme.

We will be staying in either one of these houses in the Cultural Village.

Melanau Tall House





Orang Ulu House



It's goin to be so much fun. And it's also our first trip together. They'll be lots of boozin and partyin, that's for sure...

I'm so excited!! Can you tell?