All the way from Malacca ya'll

In issue #2, TIS reviews this awesome Asam Pedas in the fod-review column.

Guys, you should really make your way down to Malacca for this awesome-ness asam pedas dish. It's not only authentic tasting, but the whole package. Syok!!

The Asam Pedas Claypot Restaurant is located at Kota Laksama, its about 15 minutes walk (for those who walks really fast) or about 25 minutes worth of breeze walking from Jonker Street. Located at the heart of Malacca town, the restaurant serves the Asam Pedas dish in a claypot, cooked to a perfection of texture, taste and quantity. Mind you, it is spicy, so do prepare water, sugar, or just get those extra rice! But the spicy-ness is tolerable and it adds just that enough zest to spice up the taste! Served with a set for one, it comes with a claypot of the Asam Pedas with a choice of your fish, salted egg (optional), vege, and their superb sambal belacan. Awesome-ness!!

Apart from their signature dish, there are other dishes as well. Let's not forget the fabulous otak-otak they have there too! Not only it's nyonya style, but it's tender, juicy and tasty. Writing about it makes my tummy growl still!!

TIS Soft Launch

In issue #2, TIS showcase it's launch with style in the lifestyle column.

TIS launched its first issue with style in Urbanattic, Capsquare on the 15th August 2009. The launch sees the content of the print coming to live that night, having an indie film screening, to a fashion catwalk show and top it up with a great line up of bands.

The night started about 8.30pm, with an astounding welcome rap song by the MC of the night, te'Extrano. With the catchy song and lyrics, it got the crowd hyped for the night. The event kicked off with the preview of an indie film, "Session to womb" by Sharifah Soraya Syed Ahmad, a student of Akademi Seni Kebangsaan (ASWARA). A twisted-artsy-film it was, with the run time of 11 minutes and 7 seconds to be precise, the film left a few people wanting for more.

Right after, the sound of Guns and Roses filled the air and kicked off the catwalk show, featuring Ed Hardy's fashion line. Having out TIS members walking out first, Becs and Faiz did their 'thang', trying to look pro and carry the clothes with attitude intact. Followed by another four models, who are all friends by the way, to kick off an awesome fashion show. With 18 different kinds of street wear, the fashion segment was divided into parts, showcasing from swimwear, to rock and roll, and to fashion statements. The fashion show presents most of Ed Hardy's latest styles, from kick-ass boots, to accessories and to funky cool designs on t-shirts and jackets.

And to top off the night, TIS presents a line-up of awesome bands from around Kuala Lumpur. The live performance features Markiza (from Soft Touch), Azmyl Yunor & The Sigarettes, Kyoto Protocol, Goodbye 20th Century, Deserters, Oh Chentaku, and RAV. Having them all from different genre, the bands are slot from a cool start, where Markiza performed a tribute to Woodstock in conjunction with their 40th year anniversary, and end off with a blast of music fom the band RAV. Given 30 minutes slot a band, each and every band gave their all in rocking up their sets, and set everyone in the mood to head bang.

To us TIS, it was one hell of a launch party!! Having about 200 peoploe turning up that night, we would like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone who turned up that night!! We take our hats off to you guys!! Thanks for the tremendous support.

Herewith, we would also like to thank the sponsors for coming in, Skinfood, Absolut, Ed Hardy, and Urbanattic. Also, we would like to thank Hasbee for oraganising the event for us; we would like to thank Azfar Hadi Lim, Joe Fauzi, Lee Mee Yook for the awesome pictures; give our appreciation to our models for the night, Ibrahim Khan, Irene nKamaruddin, our TIS-sy Matthew Ho and Ann Azlina; we would also like to thank Jacky 'O' for her great job in handling our guests; awesome job to Eric Choi and his sister for helping us out with the goodie bags; thanks to Mrs Pearly for the awesome refreshments for our VIP guests; and to end our thank yous, we would like to thank everyone and we mean EVERYONE there that night with us!! U guys rawk!! \m/

The video footage is on its way still.. We'll update real soon once it's up and moving.. TIS-out ya'll..

Fashion + Attitude = Azren

In issue #2, TIS gives you Es Azren in the fashion-interview column.

Es Azren, a 41 year old Singaporean may have come a long way in the fashion industry, but he's rocking at heart till this very day. Being the in-house fashion stylist for the street and rock n roll brand Ed Hardy, also the Head of Department of Fashion Design Technology in PJ CAD (College of Arts and Design), Azren focus more on how he can enhance edgy-ness out of something beautiful.

Graduated from Kingston University in London about 15 years ago, Azren spent his early years as a young designer travelling round the world for a better prospect in fashion. He's travelled along the Europe area to Asia Pacific before settling down between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, he has never gotten bored of fashion just yet, "Back in the 90s, most of the fashion sense are pretty one coloured design based and its different from the present designs. Now, it's much more daring and more edgy, and it's easier for me to project more creativity into styling and designing".

"Fashion is in my blood, it's in my DNA. It's so intense for me this whole thing about fashion. I'm very into it, and I see myself creating my vision, from nothing to something, beautifying it. I love looking at beautiful people, I love seeing peoploe satisfied of what I'd create for them. I appreciate those moments".

During TIS launch, Azren was there to facilitate the making, the process, well, mostly everything during the Ed Hardy catwalk show. And we can say, he means business when he talks fashion. The amount of creativity, focus and dedication he has in putting everything into place in a short period of time, AMAZING! Awesome job!

Facebook : Ed Hardy Malaysia
Email : ez_azren@hotmail.com

Passion through his camera lense - Azfar Hadi Lim

In issue #2, TIS introduces you a young talented up and coming photographer in this new column photography-interview.

In this latest column of TIS, we bring you a passionate photographer Azfar Hadi Lim, a 20 year old diploma student majoring in Interior Design in Segi College, talks about his heart, soul and passion in photography. Azfar started his photography craze about for years ago. He started out taking pictures while hanging out at his favourite spot that overlooks the sunset from a hilltop near his house. Having different feelings daily at the very same spot, he intends to try and capture the differences of feelings and try freeze the moment through his lens. After that few tries, he developed the interest in photography pushing him further into the trade, learning up on the gadgets, techniques and stuff.

His main influence or style we could put it is in music photography, where he loves taking band photos, live performances those sort. Having most of his close friends in bands, he follows them to their gigs and shows and started finding his style in expressing himself through his photos. He may be new in the scene, but during the interview we manage to capture the amount of passion inside of him, talking about his camera which he calls Lisa, which means so much to him, "At times I rather not eat, and just save up that little bit of money to get magazines or that little extra to help me with my journey in improving myself. Azfar sees art through his heart and eyes, "It's not about maths, where 1+1=2, but it's more about how I feel, how I can capture something dead and giving it life through photography. Cause art is so subjective, people may see things differently, but to me, whatever it is, I'll keep trying, and trying till I get there somehow".

You could check out more of Azfar on his facebook by the name of Azfar Hadi Lim (www.facebook.com/azfarhadilim).

The multi-talented Khairul Azri

In issue #2, TIS brings you a man with extraordinary vision in the film-what's hot column.

Raised and bred in Kuala Lumpur, Mohd Khairul Azri, a well known music video director, a film maker, TVC director set his eyes into the industry at a young age. Started out with his interest in photography during his schooling days, he jumped into movie making when he's dad introduced him to laser discs, where he found his fascination in trying to produce a similar shot or ideology he has to film. Right after high school, this young lad enrolled himself to FINAS and straight to NY Academy to pursue his dreams in film making.

Khairul personally started his mark in directing in the year 2007. Started off making music videos for free, for the sake of experience, as he slowly intend to make a breakthrough in TVC, which he needs a connection to do so. All the hard work paid off, he has his own team now, running a company of his own.

Focusing more into music video clips, he loves to play with his one take movie shot, those live actions shots. But he edits his clips himself, because of low budget, but he recalls that it's tough to discard any shots because he appreciates all of them. At the last AIM Awards, 3 of his video clips were nominated, leaving him winning the Best MTV Award for Butterfinger's Seribu Tahun, "I was shocked and overjoyed!! Tthe rest of the nominated videos were done with big budgets, with popular directors, and it's overwhelming for an indie film director to bag it. It's simply amazing".

For those who wants to know more about Khairul, or would want to check him out, or to correspond with him, you could do so at these sites.

Website : www.phuturephlow.com
Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/user/phuturephlowfilms

15 Malaysia (follow up)

In issue #2, TIS brings you the follow up of 15malaysia in the film-interview column.

TIS team manage to grab the time to interview Pete Teo on his latest film project, 15 Malaysia, which presents 15 socio-politically themed short films. Launched on the 17th August, 15malaysia is brought to you by Pete Teo and the team that brought you MAFU (Malaysian Artistes for Unity) last year.

In this interview during the KLue +5 event, we manage to do a short interview with Pete.

TIS: So far how has the response been for 15malaysia?

Pete Teo (PT) : It has been overwhelming. Having it to launch just 3 days ago, the viewership has almost a million hits!

TIS : Wow!! That's some huge numbers. So with this much of overwhelming feedbacks, we believe you must have been thru some problems along the way?

PT : Well, it's pretty easy actually. The arrangement and stuff is pretty consistent except for coordinating 15 films and aligning them to the consistency of quality. Apart from that, the challenge is the bandwidth, it feels like the whole country is knocking at your door, with so many views at a go, that's the main challenge for now.

TIS : Well, with all the going with film, how has music been for you?

PT : Its mainly film for me this year. But by the end of the year, I'll be back to the music scene, doing some film scores in Hong Kong pretty soon, but I'm still waiting for my studio to work on my new record.

TIS : Well, all the best to you Pete!

PT : Thanks! Vice versa, vice versa.

For those who have not checked the movies out, you could do so on the site below:
http://15malaysia.com

BMW Shorties Gala Premier

In issue #2, TIS brings BMW Shorties in the film-competitions column.

BMW Shorties, the result of a marriage between classy sophistication and raw talent. The short film award is the colossal car brand's way of giving back to the community via film grants and a platform for indie and student film makers to showcase their works.

What made this year's wards even more awesome, apart from having the highest number of entries since it birth in 06, was the announcement of TWO grand prize winners! Grand prize winners (In no particular order, we believe in equal rights!) "Ma Chai" by Shanjhey Kumar Permal and "Conversation with a Mad Man" by Brandon Loh.

Both winners will receive RM37,400 in production assistance and mentorship from the judgess.. Not forgetting the Pople's Choice Award, given to Prakash Murugiah for his entry "Flashes" and a Special Mention recognition was given to "Resonance" by John Cho. TIS would like to salute the judges for their passion and commitment in making this a success, a big TIS-Thanks to June Wong, Surinder Jessy, Tan Chui Mui, Zahir Omar and Ida Nerina. A big shout-out to BMW for supporting the indie scene and giving us a platform to celebrate our creative difference and freedome of expression. Much love! Hmm... Perhaps next year we can have a BMW Shor-TIS?

Finalists 09 - Out of 80 entries, 9 were selected:
1. "Flashes" directed by Prakash Murugiah
2. "Ma Chai" directed by Shanjhey Perumal
3. "Lubang" directed by Mohamed Fazry and Asmar Hassan
4. "1:19" directed by Chua Soon Min
5. "7" produced by Mandy Yap Li Kuan
6. "Conversation with a mad mad" directed by Brandon Loh
7. "Le Mannequin" directed by Wong Wei Jien
8. "Resonance" directed by John Cho
9. "Codename Hashshashin" directed by Chow Jann Rong

TIS BITS - following her tragic mishap, Ida Nerina judged the entries from her hospital bed! Now that's commitment ya'll!! For more stories and pics, check out www.bmwshorties.com.my