ECOBA Centurion Elimination Challenge @ PJ Trade Centre, Damansara Perdana [18th October 2010]

ECOBA is one of the many latest bar that emerge from the blooming bar industry in the Klang Valley. Located at the newly opened business park, PJ Trade Centre in Damansara Perdana, it is considered by many to be one of the most happening bar in Klang Valley.

Ecoba: Eat, Chill, Oogle

For those that is still in the dark about ECOBA, it is actually a place for you to chill with their in-house food and drinks. When I mentioned drinks here, it means boozes; from beers to liquors. Obviously, they do serve non-alcoholic drinks for those who are not so daring with alcohol.

Happening Monday atmosphere in ECOBA

Last year October I paid my first visit to ECOBA with my buddies, Michael, Iris, Hock Beng and Mei Kheng for a chill out session. More than an usual chilling session, our main purpose being here were to watch a live signature competition of ECOBA, Centurion Elimination Challenge.

ECOBA Centurion Elimination Stage

While waiting for the competition to start, Iris ordered a plate of pizza as our finger food.

Ecoba Pizza
Tasted pretty good.

So what is ECOBA Centurion Challenge? It is actually a competition where each session consists of 10 contestants who will be challenging themselves to down 100 shots each within 100 minutes. Each contestant is given a minute to finish up a shot of beer. After a shot of the beer is downed, the contestant will be given a fresh new minute to down the next shot. The process will continue until you down the 100th shots of beer and you will walk away with a whopping cash prize of RM 1,800. Sounds easy isn't it? However, you will be eliminated once your started to throw out. Oh ya, no toilet break is allowed too!

On my visit, ECOBA added a new twist to it's traditional Centurion Challenge. Named as the ECOBA Centurion Elimination Challange, each contestant will now takes turn to call for their desired shots (1 -10) for each minute. Same rules applied, but you will get extra RM 100 cash for each eliminated contestants up to an extra of RM 900 if you are the last man standing that able to finish up the 100th shots.

The challenge is about to start

There were only 9 contestants on my previous visit to Ecoba. God knows why the last contestant were missing. The 9 contestants for the 18th October 2010 consisted of 6 males (Mr Koh, Mr Goh, Adrian, Craig, Oliver and a teenager) and 3 Females (May, Kim and Jamie).

Contestants are all pumped up!

Pictures were not enough to express the madness and craziness of this fun-filled competition. Will the sole westerner for the night, Craig will defeat the rest of the Asians? Try taking a guess on who is the winner for the night before clicking the play button for the footage video of the ECOBA Centurion Challenge on the night of 18th October 2010 below:

Overall, it was a great experience chilling out in ECOBA. From the delicious pizza to looking at how much beer can do to a person during the challenge, it does give me reasons for a revisit to ECOBA real soon.

ECOBA Centurion Challenge is back by popular demand and is running on every Monday at 9.30pm. However, the challenge will be reschedule to every Saturday, pending time announcement. If you have the burning urge to join the challenge do remember to contact them first to avoid dissapointment. Do check out their facebook fans page at http://www.facebook.com/?ref=hp#!/ecoba.eat.chill.oOgle for the latest news and on-going promotion.

Pizza: 7.5/10

Atmosphere: 8/10
Price: 5.5/10
Verdict: Watching the Centurion Challenge was one-hella experience! Pizza was great too!

ECOBA Restaurant & Bar
PJ Trade Centre, Menara Bata Ground Floor
8, Jalan PJU 8/8a
47820, Selangor
Malaysia
Tel: 603 - 7710 1118 / 6012 - 930 3224
Business hours: Monday to Thursday: 11 am to 1 am; Friday: 11 am - 2 am;
Saturday: 4 pm - 2 am; Sunday: 4 pm-12 am
Website: http://www.ecoba.com.my/#/home

Movida Grand Opening Party @ Sunway Giza, Kota Damansara [23rd April 2010]

There was this new club cum pub that just opened not too long ago at the happening hub of Sunway Giza. Named as the Movida, the grand lauch of the club was held in last April.

I received an invitation from my friend to join the grand launch of the club. I was a little reluctant since I toned down on alcohol a lot but in the end decided to join at the last minute to see what the launch had to offer. Since I already visited this place with my cousins weeks ago before the grand launch, it is good to check out how much they've improved.

Movida Club at Sunway Giza

I reached the place at 8.45 pm and it was so darn crowded! I had a hard time trying enter the premise what's more to grab some of the food offered.

Crowds busy getting the food

Dance or band performance are typical show during a launch, but it was my really first time seeing a lion dance performance at a club.

Lion dance performance

After the lion dance performance ended, I was greeted by those models of the launch to drop some words for Movida.

Themed models of Movida Club

Dropping a signature!

My signature of congratulatory!

Grand launch is always accompanied by free flow of alcoholic drinks. Thirsty I was, I headed to the station which was serving free beers. As usual, beer always had a good reception amongst the crowd, so I know I need to be a little patience to queue up for my beer.

I was being hopeful at first, but after some 15 minutes of queuing, I still did not get my share of beer. The queue was moving extremely slow. A check at the station showed that the bar tender sometimes passed those free beers to other people who did not queue. What pissed me off even more was that he passed them in jugs rather than mug! Ultimate frustration on such a crappy system!

Crappy serving time of beer!

After more than 20 minutes of queuing up, I still yet to get a mug of beer. I gave up and proceeded to the inner premise of Movida! Since the span area were not huge, it required some task to get to the back of the bar which serves free cocktails. I'd managed to sneak my way through and I was thankful that I did get my cocktail after just minutes of wait.

A full house Movida

Later on, I was invited to the VIP area which was on the upper floor of the club. It was way a lot better, as it was less packed and I get my free beer in jugs rather than mug. Now this is what I call free flow!

Dance area on the ground floor

View from the upper floor as crowd getting the free drinks

With the themed models!

On that night, it was just too packed for even some movement what's more for dancing. The free flow ended at 10.30pm and whilst I did bumped into some old friends of mine, I did not stayed up there long. Overall, I wouldn't say the grand launch was that grand. Only if they'd monitored the free flow station a little better to reduce the frustration among the crowd..

Movida Kitchen. Bar. Club Lounge
Unit C.03 & C.03A, Block C
Sunway Giza Mall
N0 2, Jalan PJU 5/14
PJU 5, Kota Damansara
47810, Petaling Jaya
Selangor
Malaysia
Tel: 03 - 6141 8022

Aesthetics Magazine Launch @ The Opera [28th Jan 2010]

There was event happening at the Opera again barely after a month of it's soft launch. This time round, it was the launching of the Aes.thet.ics magazine. Free flow of drinks and foods were served from 8.30pm to 10.30pm.

Aesthetics?

The magazine cover was really aesthetic, living up to the name of the magazine itself. Happenings in the town, lifestyle, fashion to beauty products were the main content of the magazine. It is no surprise that the targeted readers of the magazine was meant for the teenagers to young adults. Best of all, it is FREE!

The aes-thet-ics Magazine

Just like the previous soft launch, we needed to text our information and showed the reply code to the bouncer to gain entry to the event.

Time to SMS

Wern Ching jie, Michael and I reached there as early as 8pm. And with the usual practice of typical Malaysian, the arena was still quite empty.

Crowd has yet to turn up

There were many waiter walking around, serving bottomless drinks to the crowds. We grabbed a few extra drinks for our friends which has yet to turn up.

Whiskey, Vodka and Rum were served for the night

There were food being served too by the waiter, but I would rather callled them snacks.

Biscuits with condiments

About half an hour later, Hock Beng arrived and shortly they were a circus acrobatic show performed by a Chinese gymnast.

Now, this is called flexibility

Cheers man!

Some radio Dee-Jays invited to grace the event

By 9pm, the crowds were getting larger and you could sense the atmosphere was heating up and amplified with noises.

It's getting crowded

Some invited Radio DJs to grace the event

The only guys for the night

The Khottal Band

Ever wondered what was the purpose of the bed earlier on?

Model of the Magazine

Something funny struck them?

Promoting the magazine with Ching Jie

The only female in our group for the night
Don't you think you were lucky jie? Haha.

We lingered till 10.30pm before we went for supper at the nearby Ming Tien stall. We didn't really drink much even though they were plenty of drinks catered to us.

The Fantabulous Four

One thing for sure, the free copy of the magazine was worth reading if you are a person that would like to keep track of the happenings in the town. Be sure to grab your free copy the next time you are in any club or lounge.

Jason Boey's Biggie Day @ H2O, Uptown, PJ

I have known Jason for almost 3 years and counting. My great ex-manager he is, this is the very first time I celebrated his birthday outside the compound of an office. Reason? Because he is a workaholic and always lingered in the office.

Anyway, we went to this pub which I hanged out with him once before, watching our beloved team Man Utd lost to Liverpool somewhere last year.

There were 2 floors. But I have yet to went to the ground floor. It has always been the second floor.

Signboard of photos welcoming at the staircase
Maybe we should stick our photo there very soon.

The 2nd floor of H2O

I was among the first one to reach, waiting for the arrival of the birthday boy. About 5 minutes of wait, he finally reached with Sheau Yin.

Our Whisky for the night
This single malt whisky was good, no cockroach smell can be tasted. I suppose that is the magical formula of single malt whisky.

The amongst us who reached first

Happy Birthday to you Jason!

Drinks ranging from Coke, Whisky to Beer

Another 20 minutes lapsed, before most of the guests arrived. I was told that they had their dinner first, and that is why they were a little bit late. I had some catch up with them while trying to get Jason into drinking. However, Jason would rather stick to his usual action, well you know what I mean.

Candids for the night

Was she listening?

When Jason getting a bit too noisy

And here you go Jason

Let's cheers for the birthday boy

Looking for some models?=P

When alcohol hits you

You know we missed ya Jason

Finally she looked into the camera=P

The us for the night

We dispersed off respectively at about 12am. Though it was a very short session, it was indeed a very enjoyable session. It has always been enjoyable with them. We do hope you enjoy yourself as much as we do Jason and thank you for your invitation.

Happy Birthday once again and may the new chapter brings you even better things in your life=)