Possibly the BEST Merdeka celebration ever!

Over the weekend, our motherland celebrated her 50th birthday. This time, Fabes & I celebrated in STYLE... (yes, all the CaPs were needed)... it was THAT good.

Since it was our country's 50th Birthday, the Fly FM Big Bang Breakfast Show decided to celebrate it in a more special way... with the LISTENERS and to top that off, with huge doses of LUXURY and gallons of hotel food :P

So here's how we picked the listeners - all they had to do was to tell us their lamest, saddest most uneventful way of celebrating Merdeka and that's it. From a huge number of calls, we picked 3. Each would get to bring their partner for the unforgettable Merdeka celebration.

We checked into the Hilton Kuala Lumpur on Thursday afternoon (eve of Merdeka), had a sumptuous buffet lunch compete with oysters from the land of Japan and Australia plus unlimited servings of caviar... OOOoooh... and it's not ONLY caviar... it's caviar that's in multiple colours, orange, black and greenish. How erm... colourful. :)

Then it was time to check-out the rooms... each of us had our individual rooms... Fabes and I checked into the second largest room in the entire hotel (a duplex!) and it was SIMPLY indescribable. The toilets were so high-tech it kinda needed a manual to operate (I'm not kidding!); checkout my next couple of video blogs, I'll feature the toilet in one of them :P

7pm, it was dinner on one of the floors of Hilton Kuala Lumpur (forgot the floor number), right next to the pool, overlooking the city skyline. FOOD! Yeah baby, more food! This time, it was barbecue where a 2 person meal could feed 5.

9pm, we were supposed to drop by Merdeka Square to watch the countdown but everyone voted to stay in the hotel, hang out in the HUGE room - and do the countdown from there; oh yes now I remember the name - it's called 'Living Quarters'... a duplex on the 31st floor, overlooking the city skyline including Merdeka Square where the celebration and countdown was held.

When it struck 12, you wouldn't believe the number of firework displays we saw, from Genting Highlands all the way to Bandar Sunway (I think it was Bandar Sunway) to a place somewhere in the city (hidden behind some buildings) and of course, the grand of the grand - Merdeka Square.

Fabes was at Merdeka Square doing a broadcast for 8tv quickie while I was with the rest of the gang in the comfort of de' Living Quarters :). He came back at 2:00am, we started chatting till about 3am, went to bed and woke up at 5 plus for a LIVE broadcast right from within the 'Living Quarters'... check out some of the pics!


The room


The toilet


Broadcasting LIVE from the 31st Floor 'Living Quarters' of Hilton Kuala Lumpur!


The broadcast


Simon (read it as 'seee'-'mooooon') our homie who made the 'magic' happen


Just a section of the spread...


Just the pastries corner of the in-room buffet spread :)


The gang...

The broadcast itself was amazing. For the first time, we were in our pajamas - hanging loose (ok, I'll try not to be too graphic here) with our extra soft feather filled comforters, pick breakfast from our in-room buffet spread and broadcast from A HUGE SOFT sofa. Ahhh... joy... all that while watching a 46 inch plasma screen and seeing the helicopters, jet fighters fly by our 31st floor windows.

Like I said earlier, it's possibly the BEST Merdeka celebration ever! Can't wait for the next! Will you be joining us on our next outing? :P