I went to Guinness’ Arthur’s Day on Friday night. Just like last year, it was held in Sunway Lagoon Surf Beach but the line-up of artists this year was different. Instead of Black Eyed Peas that they had last year, this year they brought Flo Rida and Sean Kingston over! There were some local acts too and I wanted to watch Mizz Nina perform with Colby but man I was stuck in the biggest Friday evening jam all the way from KL to Sunway. By the time I reached the outside of the park, I heard Mizz Nina performing already. It had also started to rain and everyone around us was like getting to as much cover as they could.
Anyway I quickly got in and the first person I saw was Eileen here who was wearing this lighted up Guinness sign on her shirt that will light up whenever someone speaks close to it.
I thought it was so cool I took a picture of it and she noted that it was the first time someone had taken pictures of her chest.
After taking photos of Eileen’s chest, Sean Kingston came on. We braved the rain and I ended up getting pretty wet until I saw some people with rain coats. I went to ask them where they got it from and I found out that the organizers were already giving them out. What good planning!
Once I had my raincoat on, I began enjoying the rain. Loved dancing in the rain and drinking Guinness. I almost forgot about how I looked like a giant blue condom. Allow me to illustrate how I look.
This is me and KY.
Now picture me in the rain, holding a cup of Guinness bopping around to the music and you’ll notice some resemblance to a “condomed” vibrator. I was having a good time though. I was dancing around some random strangers and I just raised my cup of Guinness to them and said “TO ARTHUR!” and they reciprocated. Everyone was having fun.
Soon enough, Kitteh messaged me
She asked me to meet her at Arthur’s Lounge so I headed over there only to find her in a nice sheltered air conditioned area with the rest.
I sat down with everyone for a while to have some drinks and a lot of good laughs.
Here’s me with Desmond, KY, Haze and unknown girl who covered her face to prevent being photographed and put on my blog.
After all the drinks, I felt that I was ready to go… to the FUN ZONE! That means to the big crowd at the front of the stage where we could just stand there and dance to the music. Met up with Pinky and Michelle there and we all just started dancing around.
Let me just say this. Flo Rida is a friggin good entertainer. I mean it’s not just all the great songs he has in his pocket but he did all sorts of things to interact with the crowd. At first he started signing towels and throwing them into the crowd. Then he took it a step higher and removed his gold watch from his risk and gave it to someone in the crowd. Everyone in the crowd screamed to get picked for it! I don’t know which lucky dude managed to go home with it.
Then towards the end when he was singing a new song from his soon to be released album, he had one of his bodyguards carry him into the crowd while everyone touched him and all.
I got close enough to him to take this picture. Flo Rida is the man! That’s all I can say.
One of my favourite parts of the night though was when they released these big soft Guinness balls into the crowd.
Everyone around the balls had their hands in the air pushing the ball around. At first it was far in front and it got closer and closer to me and the rest in the back. I so badly wanted to touch the ball too so I went back and forth chasing the ball but I kept missing it. I was either too short to reach it or not fast enough to get to it.
After like 5 minutes of chasing it I gave up. I went back to Michelle and Pinky who were happily dancing anyway
and I sighed.
“I didn’t get to touch the ball”.
Michelle then pointed behind me. I turned around only to see the ball heading straight for me. I pushed it up again and back into the crowd in front of me. I got to push it a few more times then until it slowly drifted away. Ahh.. so fun.
The night ended with fireworks… a really long one too!
After the performances ended, we spent some time at the VIP After Party but were so tired we went back shortly after.
Thank you for the great fun night Guinness!
TO ARTHUR!
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space