State Of The Arts (SOTA) KL

Dear visitor of room8five:

I have a statement to make and that is "SOTA ROCKS!"

It's a day filled with insights, curiosity and above all - talents. Finally Malaysian is being exposed to what many has been despise for so many years, and only now truly realize the true colors of creativity and arts.

The event started off with some of the well known Malaysian celebrities sharing their experience and knowledge about the entertainment industry in the country and what it really takes to make in Malaysia - not just for the money but most importantly for the expression of our true passion for creativity and arts.

Paul Moss (Media Prima's GM, OIAM's judge), Daphne Iking (actor, host), Audio Mok (producer, song writer), Niki Cheong (blogger, journalist) and the only guy who gets the standing ovation from the crowd, the one and only Harith Iskandar (comedian, director). They are all an amazing speaker and one of the thing that they have in common in their message for SOTA, is to follow your dream and let not others stop you from achieving it. 

No one understand more about your own talents than you yourself. If you have it then use it for a greater purpose. Along the way, yes someone will be a road block for you, but never let those road block stop you from becoming who you really are and what you really wanted to become.

Nothing happened by chances, you need to create your own 'luck' and you need to be smart enough to be 'lucky'. -Niki Cheong-

It was truly an awesome event that filled with laughter, especially with Daphne Iking and Harith Iskandar taking the stage. These people are being true to themselves, they are what they are on stage without putting on a mask. The truth is always the best comedy you can come up with and they did just that.

Later at the evening session they were having the 'State of Talents' competition where youngster will battle it out on stage to perform and to present the talents that they have to win the grand prize money of RM1500 cash.

It turns out to be more than just a battle, it was indeed a blast of creativity and talents on stage. The crowd was mesmerize and in awe when the contestant went on stage one by one. It was a remarkable showcase of talents from singing to dancing, poetry reading, musical instrument, skills and magic.

Malaysian got talents! -Vincent-

The competition was won by a 12 year old boy who perform an outstanding skills with his Chinese Yo-yo. The crowd goes wild when he executed his final move, where he spin and let the yo-yo to hang in mid-air without any strings attached and then snatch it back with his string just in time before the yo-yo could hit the ground. Its like seeing a flying saucer suddenly being snatch away in mid-air. Awesomeness.

All in all SOTA is indeed a great success, though there are still rooms for improvement but the main agenda for the event is greatly achieved this time. Everyone, especially Malaysian should realize that creativity, arts and talents is not meant to be a disgrace or despise for anyone. Its a true expression of who we really are, and it plays a great role in our life especially for the young people.

A person with talent should be allowed to spread their wings and fly accordingly to where their creativity brings them. Do not alter them or you will have a disfigured and non-functional person. Nurture their talents and they will in turn become some one great in life.

PS: I'm sorry for being unable to include pictures from SOTA. I will try to find the pictures from everywhere and post it for everyone to see what actually happened in SOTA KL.

Until next time, see you around my friend =)

Yours only:

Daniel Chiam from room8five

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Some of the photos for SOTA photography competition.

I'm a Superstar... Sorta

Dear mom and dad:

Finally, I'm officially in Youtube! Haha, it was one of my dream to be able to act in a video and post it in Youtube (it was one of those hidden desire that I have). Thank you Eldy and Sheyvin for the given opportunity to act in your video.

They were doing a video to join the State Of The Arts video competition and they asked me and Pierre to help out. I'm like 'WHY NOT?!'. Haha. I am super happy though I felt that I can do better but I can foresee that there will be more videos to come :D

Its always great to have creative and talented friends around. I used to have a lot of creative things that I wanted to do, but somehow I always feel unmotivated to carry out those thoughts into actions. 

After making this video, I felt that perhaps now is the right time to fulfill some of those things that I always wanted to do since last time. 

I'm going to make sure Eldy will be busy when he's holiday arrived. Haha. Well fellow blogger friends, please do watch the video, rate and comment. I am open to any positive criticism, ideas and suggestion to help improve my acting in the future, haha. American Idol style!

I also attached a few pictures from the second day of our shooting :D Enjoy all.

Until next time, see you around my friend =)

Yours only:

Daniel Chiam from room8five

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Directors and the emo dude.

Emoness

7 Step to SUCCESS

In order to be success, one of thing that you must have within you is - FAITH. Faith is believing in something which can't be seen. You want a brand new car, a bigger house, a better job or a soul mate, then you need to be able to see them imaginatively and believe that it will be yours.

Now faith is a fact but it is also an act. Faith without action is dead, therefore just having the things that you want in your thoughts alone is not enough, you must work in order to earn it.

Here is 7 step of how to build up faith in you.

#01. Desire It

In order first to have faith in you, you must have a desire for something. You must have something that you want in life that you wanted to accomplish, you wanted to achieve, that you wanted to own. Materially, physically, pleasure, luxury, spiritually and so on. 

You must first have a target.

#02. Decide It

You need to know exactly what you really want. Focus is power, don't be double minded. Decide on the most important thing that you currently desire and work toward that ONE THING only, till you achieve it then only you move on to the next thing.

Take things one at a time, if you rush you lose.

#03. Ask It

Like a little child that wanted to buy a toy but refuse by the parents, the child will keep on asking, and eventually it will start to cry and STILL keep on asking the parents to buy the toy. Most of the time, parents will give into the child and buy the toy that the child had been keep asking about.

Do not give up. If you failed, get up and get going again. Keep on pursuing for the thing that you desire until you get it. Keep on asking for it! 

#04. Receive It

You need to be able to believe that you already get the thing that you desire before you even really gets it. That is faith. If you failed to see yourself achieving what you are pursuing for, then your journey won't be able to last long, because in you mind you have already failed to believe that you can do it, that you can actually get it.

You must own/achieve it in your mind first then only you can really own/achieved it in reality.

#05. See It

Now you don't need to invite negative thoughts into you mind because it always come without invitation. You will go where the train of thoughts bring you. Thats why you need to change you view and use you power of imagination to see the positive side and work only with that positive thought. Do not let doubt gets to you.

Imagination is your creative muscle and it will forms reality

#06. Say It

If you have something that you want, you need to be able to announce it, to say it out loud. Its an action that indicates that you really desire for that thing. If you can't tell people what exactly is it that you want then faith can not work with you in order to achieve something which is not there.

If you want something then you need to be able to say it!

#07. Act It

Most of the time, taking action is the most hardest part for everyone of us. When you already able to do all the above, then you already win half of the journey. In order to win the other half of the journey, you need to take action and run toward the direction that you already have in mind. One small step, is actually a huge step in building faith. 

Act upon your faith and you will be successful. You will be able to achieve your goal. Most importantly you are able to build faith within you which will help you not just in one thing but also in many areas of your life.

I hope this 7 step could help inspire all of you to have a better life. Either its your study, job, family, religion, friends or financial, I believe faith could be applied in every aspect of your life and it could help to produce better result.

Thank you Dr. Phil Pringle for sharing the 7 step with us, and I hope all of you can be bless as much as I did when he shared it with us. This one is specially for you Kev =)

Until next time, see you around my friend =)

Yours only:

Daniel 'Lonewolf' Chiam from room8five