#W Hotel Kuala Lumpur

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Hennessy Unveils Exquisite Year of the Dragon 2024 Collection at W Kuala Lumpur Showcase

As the Year of the Dragon approaches, the esteemed cognac house Hennessy unveils an exceptional collaboration with the vibrant W Kuala Lumpur. This immersive venture, aptly named “A Dragon’s Odyssey,” promises a captivating journey through tradition, artistry, and cultural richness, inviting guests to celebrate the Lunar New Year in dazzling style. At the heart of this odyssey lies the exquisite…

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Yesterday Iftar with the usuals.. thanks all n thanks to U 👀… great ambiance with a lovely playlist by mr dj…. #doubleexposure #doublehappiness #belikeme #gurlish #sisterhood (at W Hotel Kuala Lumpur) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqSeSNJPvAA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[pohlunaali]

Malaysia Trip (4 Nights 5 Days Trip)

A summarized blog post about my first time at Kuala Lumpur.

It was the last few chances to go for an overseas trip in my final year of school so why the heck not despite not knowing anyone in the trip.

DAY 1 (26TH SEPTEMBER 2023):

Heading off to Malaysia via Bus~

Didn't expect to see so many trees in the next few hours. Would have thought I spend the few hours in the bus drawing or doing something productive but no I just knocked out half of the ride, I guess this is what happens when you hit the adult age

Once we arrived to our hotel rooms -> A view from my room! ( Happy to say I had a real sweet roommate during this trip☺)

Dinner time aka Group of introverts battling their way through salespeople challenge

also lizard 🦎 I was hoping to see more lizards but this was the only one I saw through this trip

"hallo"

DAY 2: (27TH SEPTEMBER 2023)

Little do my legs know we are gonna have a leg day in the next two days.

On our way to Lemonsky Studio & Inspidea Studio vrrr ( Saw my fellow schoolmates interning at Inspidea as well! glad they recognized me haha covid has cause us to not know our class well)

Studio 1: Lemonsky Studio

Such a humongous studio with so many colleagues wowza and they had a cool lounge area with arcade games and gachas! It was cute how they named each room or door based on the big projects they worked with. My fellow colleagues lets meet at the final fantasy room

Also the number of projects they worked with, W o w

Brought home two of their postcards of the projects they worked with, Ratchet & Clank and Diavolo! ( I don't play these two games ! :D <- not a gamer ) I just thought the monster in the Diavolo postcard looks cute

Quick stop to the mall after that: (The speedrun of a quick bite so we can check out the anime store goal - My team's objective)

Spoiler: The anime store was boring but the arcade store next door wasn't! but it sure took some of our money like this darn clown claw machine which was bloody BROKEN and my coins are gone with it Damn cute clowns.... But is okay I got the highlight of this whole trip, my wittle lizard guy in a gacha machine. I luv him <3

Studio 2: Inspidea Studio

Their office was smaller than Lemonsky Studio but it was very cozy and welcoming. Their "head animator boss" was real cool -> image below

Oh to work there and have feline colleagues~

Was real neat to see my schoolmates currently interning there and hearing how their time was in an overseas internship. A studio that is still doing 2D Work and illustration was nice to see in this trip as it has mostly been 3D targeted sighhh

Next Stop: Batu Cave ( RIP My legs)

Off with 200 Steps up to the cave with monkeys eyeing you for food.

I came back down with having beef with these monkeys for trying to steal my drink. One of them stole one of our mountain dew and down it like a true gamer.

The view at the top was very worth it in the end also BIG chickens

and cat

With sore legs, we return to Pavillion Mall for dinner and shortly after I got lost 💞 (Is okay I was found)

Back to the hotel room, sore

DAY 3 (28TH SEPTEMBER 2023):

The actual reason why this overseas trip was a thing, a convention at KLCC with various animation/games studio and talks coming in to talk.

Drew DJ Subatomic Supernova and my guy at Inspidea Studio Booth's

SNUFKIN FROM FINNISH ANIMATION MOOMIN?!

also twin tower

Talked to Tenten Studio and listened into a talk about working in concept art for games. Got an interesting advice that they would be interested to see process of how you design the character/prop/environment from research in your portfolio. Though I don't know if I have the interest to grind my skills up to the level of a Games Concept Artist

Alright cutting this off as Part 1 of the blog | PART 2

[askdrzinasia]

An outlook to some Malaysian history

The surroundings seen from the skybridge between the two Petronas Towers, 42 floors up/170 meter above ground, contains some architectural landmarks as well.

In front is the Menara Public Bank (Tower Public Bank, the Malaysian name of the Petronas tower is Menara Petronas). Public Bank group of Malaysia is the largest bank in shareholder value in the country. It spreads its operations into several branches all over ASEAN, targeting retail and SME customers. The MPB is 170 meter tall, as high as the skybridge, but placed on a lower level slope.

W Hotel Kuala Lumpur to the left is like what you expect of a W hotel anywhere in the world.

Business and professional services all around

Wisma Golden Eagle Realty is the four blocks between W and MPB. They are office blocks rented to different businesses and organisations.

Australian High Commission is the lower building to the right of Menara Tower. Malaysia is still part of the British Commonwealth, as is Australia. Embassy-level diplomatic posts are called High Commissions within commonwealth nations, Embassy when situated in sovereign and fully independent nations. They provide consular assistance for Australians in Malaysia.

AmBank Jalan Yap Kwan Seng is the tall Tower to the right. Ambank provides a wide range of bank and financial services within its different branches, including banking styled by islamic rules. Its largest owner is the Austrialan ANZ Banking group. The Tower is the 29th tallest in KL.

The 19 floor tall Bangunan Getah Asli (Menara) to the lower right is one of the oldest office buildings in the area, built in the 1980s. The green roof smaller building is mostly carparking, with some smaller service outlets outside.

A view to the park

The view on the other side is mainly to the KLCC garden and leisure area. And northern Kuala Lumpur.

[cheahcheryl]

Sunday morning conference with #URFamily. #SeeMySkinLiftMyWay #GoldenRecordAwards2022 #MerzAesthetics (at W Hotel Kuala Lumpur) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp_izCJPKtFi7jhPVoqy9bEVxfCffFshl_iqyk0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hobiwisataindonesia]

JELAJAH BUMI ANBIYA (MEI 2023) - Hobi Wisata Trip w. A 083856882284

Mengunjungi mata air Nabi Musa a.s lalu makan siang di Musa Resort. Lalu mengunjungi makam Nabi Harun a.s, Nabi Saleh a.s dan Patung Sapi Samiri.

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JELAJAH BUMI ANBIYA EGYPT JORDAN AQSHO 05 MEI 2023

JELAJAH BUMI ANBIYA EGYPT JORDAN AQSHO 05 MEI 2023 · 1. Tiket Ekonomi PP · 2. Seluruh Visa & Border Tax · 3. Hotel dan Makan FB · 4. Bus AC · 5.Tour Leader ·

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Jelajah Bumi Anbiya

Dapatkan Paket Wisata Jelajah Bumi Anbiya dengan harga terbaik dari Cv.Anugerah Nusantara Gemilang (Hobi wisata Trip 05 Mei 2023 (90 Seat Tersedia). Objek Wisata

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Jelajah Bumi Para Rasul - Hobi Wisata Tour And Travel

Mengunjungi Makam dan Situs Para Nabi & Rosul. 3. Mendatangi Kota & Tempat Peristiwa.Jelajah Bumi Para Rasul .Mei,Okt, Nov, Des 2023.

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Hobi Wisata Tour

Paket Tour Eropa Barat Bulan April 2023 | Wisata Halal. Wisata Halal -Jelajah Bumi Anbiya Aqsa - Yordania. 00. Wisata Halal Jelajah Bumi

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Paket Tour Jepang Bulan Agustus 2023 | Wisata Halal - Hobi Wisata Tour

18 Feb 2023 — Paket Tour Jepang Bulan Agustus 2023 | Wisata Halal. Wisata Halal -------- Jelajah Bumi Anbiya Aqsa - Yordania.

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MENUJU AL-AQSO ( Jelajah Jejak Rasul 4 Negara Negara Palestine/Aqso

-menuju-al-aqso-2023-fullseat ... Banyak Sahabat hobi wisata yang ingin pergi JELAJAHI BUMI ANBIYA bersama Hobi Wisata Trip

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Jelajah Bumi Anbiya |

Seawal 9pm kesemua bakal tetamu ALLAH seramai 61 pax berkumpul di KLIA bagi penerbangan SV841, KUL/JED. 🗓️ Tarikh : 22 Feb - 05 Mac 2023

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Umroh & Haji - Hobi Wisata Tour And Travel

PAKET AWAL RAMADHAN 16 HARI BY LION STARTING SURABAYA · 6. JELAJAH BUMI ANBIYA EGYPT- JORDAN - AQSHO. Musim Umroh 1444H / 2022 - 2023M

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Cerita Masjid dan Makam Nabi Musa, Cerita Anak Muda Palestina. Jelajah Bumi Para Rasul dan Nabi (26) ... Makam Nabi Musa terletak pada 11 Km selatan Yerikho dan 20 Km timur Yerusalem.

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Jelajah Ziarah Jejak Rasul 2023 Murah - Hobi Wisata Trip

berikut ini Harga Paket serta Itinerary Napak Tilas Bumi Rosul Hobi Wisata Travel. Harga Jelajah Jejak Rasul 2023. Tanggal, Durasi, Hotel, Harga.

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Perjalanan Tauhid

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19 – 27 JANUARI 2023. UMROH REGULER 9 HARI ... 15 – 23 FEBRUARI 2023. UMROH REGULER 9 HARI ... JELAJAH BUMI ANBIYA : EGYPT JORDAN AQSHO. 5 MEI 2023

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paket umroh dan wisata halal 2023

Wisata Tokyo · 2 Negara Singapore - Kuala Lumpur · 3 Negara Asia · Wisata Turki · Jelajah Bumi Anbiya. Lainnya ... PAKET UMROH DAN WISATA Halal 2023.

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Umroh PLUS Aqsho Termurah 2023 Di Jawa Timur Terbaik Disurabaya.

AQSHO ISRAEL,Jelajah Bumi Anbiya Jejak Rasulullah SAW,Dubai,Taiwan,Wsbk 2023, Kashmir India DLL TOUR DOMESTIK : BATAM, DANAU TOBA, BALI, ...

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Tour Jelajah bumi Para NABI | Hobi Wisata Tour & Travel

27 Jul 2018 — HARI KE 01 : JAKARTA – MUSCAT – CAIRO. Peserta Tour berkumpul di Bandara Soekarno – Hatta 4 jam sebelum keberangkatan, proses check in.

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Hobi Wisata Umroh I Travel Umroh Surabaya Mojokerto Gresik Sidoarjo Pasuruan Malang

Umrah Awal Tahun 2023. Lion Airbus; Mekkah - Olayan/Mira/Setaraf; Madinah - Artal/Salahiyah/Setaraf.JELAJAH BUMI ANBIYA. EGYPT-AQSHA-JORDAN; 10D 7N.

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CV Anugerah Nusantara Gemilang| Biro Jasa Perjalanan Wisata

PERIODE :2 Maret 2023. SEAT TINGGAL SEDIKIT. Fasilitas. Hotel Bintang 5. Pesawat Saudi Arabian Airlines / Garuda Indonesia Airlines.

[mytipsyturvy]

Hennessy recently launched their Chinese New Year activation with a pre-event at YEN @ W Hotel KL. The cognac house roped in iconic contemporary Shanghai-born Chinese painter Yan Pei Ming to create a creative expression of his zodiac painting, presenting it as Hennessy’s Chinese New Year limited edition bottle collection. Hennessy will be holding pop-ups at Gurney Paragon Mall, Penang from 11 to 15 January, and Pavilion Kuala Lumpur from 18 January to 5 February. There will also be a 2-day “Lunar Wonderland” event on 3 and 4 February, at Menara Ken, TTDI, KL. #hennessy #cognac #tipsyturvycognac #tipsyturvybrandy #cny2023 #mytipsyturvy #hennessymy (at Restaurant Yen at W Hotel) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnQsu90pqgl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[Behind the scene] NYE 2023 with @monkeysafari.ofc Live Visuals by EFOZY Photo by @furgheti (at WET Deck at W Hotel Kuala Lumpur) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm8EJRDyUug/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hardsadness]

W Hotel, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Photo by Izuddin Helmi Adnan

[bartpogoda]

Malaysia. Nie wiem dlaczego w ogóle tam pojechałem. 3 tygodnie siedziałem na Koh Phangan i miałem trochę dość klimatów backpackerskich. Znajduję na blogu parę zapisków z wiosny 2004. Wynika z nich, że przejechałem lądem z Tajlandii przez Malezję i samolotem poleciałem z Kuala Lumpur do Phnom Penh. Na początku wyspa Penang, główne miasto Georgetown i był to jeden wielki tygiel kulturowy. Pobiegałem trochę z całym dobytkiem po ulicach, aby w końcu odnaleźć Coral Hostel w Little India. Zapachy, kolorowe sari, niesamowita kuchnia, hinduski pop i przeboje z Bollywood. Tutaj wszystko w jednej małej dzielnicy. Po paru dniach w Georgetown wskakuję w tani, nowoczesny autobus i piękną autostradą zbudowaną w środku dżungli śmigam do Kuala Lumpur. Rozdygotany, zmęczony, zadowolony, lecz pełen niejasnych myśli i świadom braku kompetentnej wiedzy, przemieszczam się z miasta na wieś, z dżungli w inna. W betonową. Brudny hotel, pare słów w obcym języku, w którym jedno słowo ma wiele znaczeń - gdy intonowane w inny sposób, autobus, ciężarówka, taxi, zdarte sandały za 5 dolców z odklejoną podeszwą. Robię sam sobie challenge - od 00:00 do 24:00 chodzę cały czas po mieście, słuchając soundtracku do "Cidade de Deus". Chodzę znów kilometry po wielkim mieście, czasem zaglądając do 7eleven albo indyskiej knajpy gdzie za równowartość 3 złotych mam obiad. Strzępki myśli zapisuje w notesie. Smartfonów jeszcze wtedy nie ma i to chyba dobrze. W 2004 roku łapałem mikroskopijne zlecenia, jeszcze nie zacząłem robić w reklamie, miałem szczęście robić rzeczy dla "Zwierciadła" "Cafe" "Aktivista" "Dos Dedos" "Hiro" i chyba to wystarczyło. Pewnie, że świat nie gnał tak do przodu, gadu gadu z gronem były szczytem zanurzenia się online. Z tym moim podróżowaniem z plecakiem to szczyt miałem w latach 2005-2008. Wtedy w Malezji, bez spotykania się z innymi podróżnymi, miałem czas na myślenie, czytanie, pisanie i zastanawianie się co dalej. Mam wrażenie, że podczas tej podróży wymyśliłem dużo rzeczy, które zostały zrealizowane w kolejnych 5-6 latach. #malaysia #kualalumpur #penang #melaka https://www.instagram.com/p/CAxNQZFnCO9/?igshid=1iaketlxamdku

[blogmissgetabout-blog]

Afternoon Tea @ Woobar, W Hotel Kuala Lumpur

[theculturedmarxist]

     By    Barry Grey    

       17 September 2019  

Last week, it was revealed that the Trump administration has taken extraordinary steps to continue the 18-year cover-up of Saudi government involvement in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

On Thursday, September 12, one day after the 18th anniversary of the attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people, a federal court filing revealed that Attorney General William Barr has asserted the "state secrets" privilege to block the release of an FBI report detailing extensive relations between some of the 19 hijackers and Saudi government officials. Victims of the attacks and their families are pushing for access to the 2007 report as part of a lawsuit against the Saudi government launched in 2003 charging the despotic monarchy with coordinating the mass killings.

Barr declared there was a “reasonable danger” that releasing the report would “risk significant harm to national security.”

The court filing also revealed that the FBI has agreed to turn over to the families’ lawyers the name of a Saudi individual that is redacted in a four-page summary of the FBI report released in 2012. The summary lays out evidence concerning three Saudis who provided money and otherwise assisted two of the hijackers in California in finding housing, obtaining driver’s licenses and other matters.

Government investigations have established that the two people who are named in the FBI summary, Fahad al-Thumairy, a former Saudi consulate official, and Omar al-Bayoumi, suspected by the FBI of being a Saudi intelligence officer, were working in coordination with the Saudi regime. The third person, whose name is redacted, is described in the FBI summary as having assigned the other two to assist the hijackers.

Lawyers for the families last year subpoenaed the FBI for an unredacted copy of the summary based on the contention that the third person was a senior Saudi official. But as part of the court filing, citing the “exceptional nature of the case,” the FBI issued a protective seal to prevent the name of the third Saudi from becoming public. The agency also refused to provide any of the other information requested by the families.

An FBI official said the agency was shielding the name to protect classified information related to “ongoing investigations” and to protect its “sources and methods.”

In fact, the extraordinary measures taken to conceal the role of the Saudi regime in the 9/11 attacks are driven by the need of US imperialism to maintain its reactionary alliance with the Saudi sheiks and continue the false cover story on 9/11 that has served as an ideological pillar for aggression in the Middle East and the buildup of a police-state infrastructure within the US, carried out in the name of fighting a “war on terror.”

The Saudi monarchy has been a key ally of the United States in the Middle East for 70 years, and since 9/11 it has become, alongside Israel, Washington’s most important partner in the region. It has played a central role in the bloody wars for regime change in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen, which have killed more than a million people and destroyed entire societies. It is also the world’s biggest purchaser of US arms.

Its intelligence agencies have long worked in the closest collaboration with the CIA and the FBI. The exposure of Saudi complicity in 9/11 immediately implicates sections of the US intelligence establishment in facilitating, it not actively aiding, the terror attacks, and sheds light on the multiple unanswered questions about how 19 men, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals, could carry out such a complex operation.

The 9/11 attacks were eagerly seized upon by the George W. Bush administration, with the support of the Democratic Party and media allies such as the New York Times, to implement longstanding plans to wage aggressive war in the Middle East.

The cover-up of Saudi involvement has been carried out over three administrations, Democratic and Republican alike. It began within hours of the attacks themselves. Eight days after the attacks, at least 13 relatives of Osama bin Laden, accompanied by bodyguards and associates, were allowed to secretly leave the US on a chartered flight. One of the passengers, a nephew of the supposed number one on Washington’s “most wanted” list, had been linked by the FBI to a suspected terrorist organization.

The US association with bin Laden went back decades. Under the CIA’s Operation Cyclone, conducted between 1979 and 1989, the US and Saudi Arabia provided $40 billion worth of financial aid and weapons to the mujahedeen “freedom fighters” waging war against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, an operation in which then-US ally bin Laden played a key role. The proxy war in Afghanistan was pivotal in the later creation of Al Qaeda.

In July of 2016, the US government released to the public a 28-page section, suppressed for 14 years, of a joint congressional inquiry into 9/11. The 28-page chapter dealt with the role of the Saudi government and contained abundant and damning evidence of extensive Saudi support for the 9/11 hijackers in the period leading up to the attacks.

Among its revelations were:

▪ Two of the Saudi hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, lived for a time in Los Angeles and San Diego in 2000, where they obtained pilot training. They were given money and lodgings by Omar al-Bayoumi, who worked closely with an emir at the Saudi Defense Ministry. Both were under CIA surveillance while attending an Al Qaeda planning meeting in 2000 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and placed on a “watch list” for FBI monitoring if they came to the United States. Nonetheless they were allowed to enter the US on January 15, 2000.

▪ Al-Bayoumi “received support from a Saudi company affiliated with the Saudi Ministry of Defense,” drawing a paycheck for a no-show job. The company also had ties to Osama bin Laden. His allowances jumped almost tenfold after the arrival of al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar. Al-Bayoumi had found an apartment for the two, which they shared with an informant for the San Diego FBI, advancing them a deposit on the first month’s rent.

▪ Al-Bayoumi’s wife received a $1,200 a month stipend from the wife of Prince Bandar, then the Saudi ambassador to the US and later head of Saudi intelligence. The wife of his associate, Osama Bassnan, identified by the FBI as a supporter of bin Laden, received $2,000 a month from Bandar’s wife.

▪ Three of the hijackers stayed at the same Virginia hotel as Saleh al-Hussayen, a Saudi Interior Ministry official, the night before the attacks.

Despite such evidence, and much more, the bipartisan 9/11 Commission appointed by George W. Bush concluded that there was no conclusive evidence that “senior” Saudi officials played a role in the 9/11 attacks. When the 28-page section of the congressional report was released in 2016, Obama’s CIA director, John Brennan, denounced all suggestions of Saudi involvement as baseless.

However, former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, a member of the 9/11 Commission, said, “There was an awful lot of participation by Saudi individuals in supporting the hijackers, and some of those people worked in the Saudi government.”

Former Democratic Senator Robert Graham, cochair of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into the 9/11 attacks, said that there was “a pervasive pattern of covering up the role of Saudi Arabia in 9/11 by all of the agencies of the federal government, which have access to information that might illuminate Saudi Arabia’s role in 9/11.”

In the lawsuit filed by the families of the victims, he filed an affidavit that stated, “I am convinced that there was a direct line between at least some of the terrorists who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and the government of Saudi Arabia.”

It is significant, but not surprising, that the corporate media has given only the most perfunctory and muted coverage to the moves by the Trump administration to once again suppress the role of the Saudi regime in 9/11, and the Democrats have been completely silent.

One should compare this response to damning evidence of Saudi culpability and US cover-up in relation to an event that took nearly 3,000 lives to the hysteria of the anti-Russia witch hunt led by the Democratic Party, the New York Times and the bulk of the media, based on completely unsubstantiated charges.

[thistourist]

2. These towers - It's late on a a Friday night after a really long week, and this is always the comforting view, at 3 am with old or new friends. And when I think that I can move to a different country and be happy, I realize that no matter where I go to, I'll never be able to see this. Not at 3 am, not at a different city or country, no matter where I go to. And that's when I know how special this place is. Happy Merdeka, Malaysia. I don't wanna keep celebrating our Independence from the Brits after 62 years, but I am genuinely thankful that you are what you are to me. I am here for you. - #TwinTowers #Malaysia #PetronasTwinTowers #Merdeka #Merdeka #ourplanetdaily #stayandwander #skyscrappers (at W Hotel Kuala Lumpur) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1yvYFsJ33o/?igshid=vu6sahn7p79l

[shoot1999]

Me, myself and my ball - - - - - #whotel #marriottbonvoy #wkualalumpur #throwback #sunnydays #july #2019 . . . . . . . . . . . (at W Hotel Kuala Lumpur) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzu8jQcBHE9/?igshid=140djrdotfyup

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Join our judges as an observer

Just as in 2018, we are inviting ONE follower of KLPA, to sit-in on the judging process for KLPA2019 which will take place on the weekend of the 11/12 May 2019 at The KL Journal Hotel, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur.

The lucky person will be selected by a draw on Saturday 4 May 2019.

Interested..?

Read on..!

CRITERIA

1. You must be available for both days, Saturday and Sunday, 11 and 12, May 2019 from 10:30 to 18:00.

2. You must make your own way to the venue, be on time and you will not be paid any travel expenses etc.

3. You will be provided with coffee, drinks, snacks and also join the team and judges for lunch.

4. You cannot participate in the judging process, but only be an observer.

5. You can blog, Instagram or tweet about your experience, please tag #klpa @klphotoawards

6. You cannot divulge the selections, finalists and winners until the official announcements are made in mid-June, 2019.

7. You must be a LOVER of photography, especially Portraiture.

SELECTION

1. Join our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/klphotoawards if you have not already done so.

2. Put your name down in this same post under the comments section, from today.

3. Message us with your mobile number and email, you must be contactable by phone and email, or email info@klphotoawards.com

4. The posting of names will close at midnight Malaysian time, on 30 April  2019.

5. A Facebook Live broadcast will be made from the Facebook page by the KLPA media team, at 3.00pm, Saturday 4 May 2019 where they will draw a lucky winner from the list of names gathered then. Tune in to see if you will be the Fly on the Wall!

WHY?

We have often been asked about the judging process for KLPA and since many people are interested to know the decision-making process, perhaps this could be educational to them in evaluating their own photography. Logistically, we are unable to record the entire process, unfortunately.

At KLPA, we are selective of our judges and over the 10 years, we try to cast a fairly wide net, although, they are by and large in the arts industries, and mainly photographers, curators, educators, artists and editors.

[Read last year’s report by Raja Indra Putra - observer here ]

Many contests hold online judging, where jurors from across the world make their selections on their own, online, but for KLPA, we truly value the face-to-face live discussions and interactions, where ideas and thoughts are often exchanged, sometimes heated (but always for the sake of the art form, and calmed by gallons of coffee).

When judging photography contests, objectivity matters a lot, and the visual knowledge and depth of a juror is therefore important, in being able to defend one’s selection. However, it is also important to lend credence and value to a wide range of subjective emotive responses and broad audiences, so as not to be ‘industry blinkered’. Ultimately, a good portrait will always be valued and acknowledged.  

This is a fantastic opportunity and an invaluable experience for one lucky person from the general public to participate as an observer in the selection process, and to listen in on the discussions and exchanges that the public isn’t so often privy to, since most if not all judgings events are closed sessions.

KLPA would like to thank all our past jurors for 10 years from 2009 :

Beverly Yong - arts consultant

Pang Khee Teik - arts program director

Majidah Hashim - travel writer, photographer, entrepreneur

Lim Chee Wah - writer, editor

Gwen Lee - SIPF festival director, gallerist

Soraya Yusof Talismail - photographer

Stephanie Fong - gallerist

Khairul Azrul Ismail - photographer, educator, researcher

Eva McGovern - curator, gallerist, arts consultant

Gilles Massot - lecturer, photographer

Nirmala Karrupiah - photographer

Yumi Goto - curator, photo editor and researcher

Kevin W Y Lee - photographer, curator

Poh Si Teng - video journalist, filmmaker

Halim Berbar - photojournalist

Bernice Chauly - writer, photographer, actor, filmmaker

Eiffel Chong - photographer, educator

Zarina Holmes - photographer, graphic designer, journalist

Salina Christmas - digital anthropologist

Syahrin Abdul Aziz - photojournalist

Zhuang Wubin - photographer, researcher, educator

Rachel Jena - arts editor, writer

Adeline Ooi - curator, arts writer

Snow Ng - gallerist, curator

She Fah Szetu - journalist, writer

Tay Kay Chin - photographer, educator

Ashraf Saharuddin - photographer, editor

Kong Wai Yeng - writer, editor

Takeki Sugiyama - festival director, educator

Suzanne Lee - photojournalist, filmmaker

Che Ahmad Azhar - photographer, lecturer

Azharr Rudin - filmmaker

Vignes Balasingam - festival director, photographer

Elin O’Hara Slavick - educator, photographer

Cheryl Hoffmann - photographer

Dr. Oh Soon Hwa - lecturer, photographer

Amber Terranova - photo editor, curator

J Redza - photographer, multi-disciplinary artist

Nadirah Zakariya - photographer

Nick Ng - photographer

Andreas Muller-Pohle  - editor or European Photography, photographer

Lee Kuen - photography writer and researcher

Azrul Kevin Abdullah - photographer and educator

Laura Valenti - photographer, educator, OutReach director at Photo Lucida

Julia Durkin - Auckland Festival of Photography Public Participation director

Ihiro Hayami - T3 Photography Festival director

Fadhil Kamarudin - photographer and lecturer

Gwen Lee - Singapore International Photography Festival director

Silke Schmikl - National Gallery of Singapore curator