dDoinkster Speaks

Congratulations Atilia on your album launch. It was a blast! Wines aplently along with all the beautiful ladies. What more can I ask for? haha. :D

You better get your hands on her album before it's sold out.

Unexpectly I was given the chance to watch the Konsert 3 Diva when Aubrey Suwito had to give up his tickets and passed it on to Eric.

Erwin Gutawa and Eddie Marzuki is absolutely and without a doubt one of the best producers / composers / arrangers in this region! Their music made me speechless. What a show.

Oh yeah, the 3 Divas was fantastic too... Good show! :)

And so it has begun, Groove Junction at Desa Sri Hartamas. Yesterday was the soft launch and with the official launching in April... things look to be all in order. :)

Fabulous food, great music, and beautiful decor. All just a hop away from PJ. What more can you ask for?

If you're interested, the place is just behind True Fitness, opposite Hong Leong Bank, and above Karma. You won't miss it.

Went down to Singapore to catch the one and only Tower of Power in action. And it was just phenomenal!

So the Java Jazz Festival has come and gone. It was crazy! Just the amount of people there is enough to make you go nuts! At certain times, I had to just step out of the convention centre cause of all the people that were trying to move from one hall to the other to catch the next act.

One other thing that bugged me was they would smoke right in the hall itself. Well, they smoked everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE.

Nuts, I tell you! But all in all a good trip I guess. Saw Marcus Miller, Richard Bona, Joshua Redman, Sadao Watanabe, Jeff Lorber, Dave Weckl, Ron Carter, David Benoit, Jamie Cullum, John Scofield, Airto Moreira, Larry Franco, Bubi Chen, and many others. Never in my life has my two feet hurt so much. All the walking, standing, and missing meals because of all the good music that was placed in front of me.

I think I might have just O.D.ed on jazz music. But guess what, I'm going down to Singapore this Saturday to catch Tower of Power at the Mosaic Music Festival. Maybe just one more before I do O.D. on jazz. ;)

As I was saying that I forgot about food, I didn't really take a lot of photos of food while I was in Jakarta as the only food I saw was in the hotel during breakfast and at the convention centre, which in that point I was too tired to take any photos. But on Monday while waiting for my flight in the evening... Julian and I went to a nearby shopping mall to do some last minute shopping.

Found this interesting little cafe with really funny menus and stuffs. This guy really loves his music! :D

Maybe it's getting a little bit too lame but it's funny, don't you think? :)

Baked sweet potatoes with mayonnaise. Interesting combo.

A standard, no-fancy-smancy fried rice with egg.

My one and only celebrity shot throughout the festival... the great Sadao Watanabe. He was just so nice and none of that air that most of the other musicians had.

Also, I met a young man that's running a jazz website in Jakarta with his own funding as well... just like alldatJazz.com called Horizon-Line.