Written by lainie at 02:12 PM on May 30, 2008.

I got this in my email recently. YAY. LONG OVERDUE!:

Hey Guys! This is Nicole, formerly from Rhapsody.

 

No, it's not a Rhapsody update! But I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm part of a new band called "Layan Sound System".

 

And nope, we don't do jazz! But Reggae with a lot of funk and soul... Anyway, our first gigs are coming up in June!

 

1. Thursday, June 12 2008

MOONSHINE @ Laundry

laundrybar.blogspot.com / bar.laundry@gmail.com

 

2. Tuesday, June 17 2008

Timeout KL Musician Series @ No Black Tie

No Black Tie 17 Jalan Mesui Kuala Lumpur +603 2142 3737 noblacktie@gmail.com.

 

If you'd like receive updates on Layan Sound System, please email

 

layansoundsystem@gmail.com  with the subject heading "I WANNA BE ON THE MAILING LIST"

 

Hope to see some familiar faces at Laundry and No Black Tie in June!

Nicole!

 

p.s. Just in case you're wondering, Ywenna now plays with "Tokyo Blue", and you can find her most Fridays at "The Attic" .

[ Lainie's update: Ywenna also plays keyboards for Zalila and Zalina, new venue yet to be confirmed but this is from their previous gig (you can only see Zalila : Zalina, Ywenna and Zalila covering P. Ramlee and Saloma ]

My phone rang early in the morning yesterday - I groggily checked the phone for time and caller, and smiled - very few names can make me happy in the morning, but this one did. Must be the amount of times she's done it when we were roommates, and she wanted me to see the sunrise.

Lainie: It's a good thing I love you, cause it's 7am.
Daph: I want to make this a tradition!
Lainie: ??
Daph: Good morning! I love you! Have a good day babes!

And yes, I did have a good start to the day . I sent her a text later, when I was more awake, and called her the morning menace nutter (but I also said I love her).

Visited Rachel. She has dengue, so she's stuck in hospital a fair few days, and watching the person on the bed next to her leave the next morning, replaced by another sickly person who leaves the next.

Last night she got a noisy family, and the woman was a damned heavy snorer too. No peace for the dengue case . Josie and I imitated ogres snorting to make her feel better.

I don't know about you guys, but I am suffering from a serious overload of events. Before this, just going for arts events was enough. Now that I've taken to nightlife as well, it seems like there's something I'm attending or missing every single night.

1) I was supposed to go for Miss Malaysia tonight, but they've run out of spaces for media (either that, or they checked out Kakiseni and decided they reaaaaaaaaaally didn't want it reviewed by the website - I wouldn't blame them ). This was for work, so I'm not much fussed.

2) There's the launch of SIN tonight (opened by Liquid's old management, so could be gay - the joke is they'll try to make it "straight-friendly"). This club could rival Market Place (and La Queen, just across the road), but I suspect the gay crowd will be diluted by everyone in the general area anyway.

My housemate wants to go, and I must say I'm interested too.

3) Kevin told me of the Rising Personalities Martell party as well. But since he's not going I don't feel inclined to.

Otherwise, it IS a Friday night and there's always Loft.

BUT.

What am I saying. Rach has dengue . I'd probably feel like crap if I go out anyway. I think I'll be alone in the hospital room tonight. Shall bring magazines.

Just watched a friend recently so filled with glee she jumped from one end of the room to the other, sideways.

Went for Out of Line exhibition in Annexe yesterday. Drew myself a pet on the wall - they're inviting you to doodle your real / imaginary pet on Annexe. I find it ironic, considering Rahmat's been banned for scribbling on the walls during his poetry performance when Zephaniah was down in Malaysia. I should really have drawn him as my pet, and put a price tag under it.

I have thoughts on some contradictions in the show, but takpe la.

Yoong Chia's stuff filled up an entire room in Annexe (Pang called him the obligatory celebrity artist in the show to lend it some credibility). It's weird cause Rach and I were just talking about his series of portraits that he drew with his eyes closed.

That day, when I visited, they were setting up and Yoong Chia was drawing with his eyes closed on the wall.

Of course I had to take a picture (I asked the Annexe people, not him, because I didn't want to break his concentration but I also wanted to bersibuk take a photo). So I stood from far away and ZOOOOOOMED.

But the camera sucks, so I had to go near him anyway.

I'm planning a party in the fuuuuuuuuuuture. We'll see if I can get what I want.