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JUNE 2013 PP13691/07/2013(032715) New Age Dads Managing Editor / Publisher Datuk Gary Thanasan [email protected] General Manager Lydia Teoh [email protected] Senior Writer Marlina Azmi [email protected] Writer Nicolette Ng [email protected] Aviation News / Airlink Andrew Ponnampalam [email protected] Designer Faidah Asmawi [email protected] Designer Nurdiyana Zainal Abidin [email protected] Makan2 june.indd 21 5/23/13 12:11 PM Shopping.indd 37 5/22/13 7:17 PM Luxe ART & LIVING PREVIEW LUXE HEALTH & BEAUTY HEALTH Lounge area, be Urban Wellness Chuah Thean Teng, Dato’ (B. China, 1912 - 2008) Mothers and Child, 1970’s Batik 92 x 60 cm RM 90,000 - 130,000 Dato’ (B. China, 1912 - 2008) Mothers and Child, 1970’s Chuah Thean Teng, 44 Luxe Travel: New Zealand 48 Luxe Spa: be Urban Tew Nai Tong (B. Selangor, 1936-2013) 51 Luxe Shopping: Luxury Personal Shopper Harvest, 1990 52 Luxe Lifestyle: The Smokehouse, Oil on canvas 135 x 135 cm RM 22,000 - RM 32,000 The Majestic Hotel Kuala Lumpur Art Auction.indd 65 5/22/13 7:23 PM Health & Beauty.indd 95 5/23/13 6:34 PM LUXE.indd 43 5/22/13 7:19 PM CONTENTS - June 2013 Airport COO Speaks 57 Airline & Aviation Offices 58 Airport Talk: PROMOTING THE NORTH 60 Aviation News: ETIHAD AIRWAYS goes to Belgrade 62 New Amenity Kits at US AIRWAYS 62 AIR FRANCE lands at KLIA 63 GARUDA goes to Penang 64 JET AIRWAYS celebrates 20 Years 64 PLAZA PREMIUM opens in Kuching 65 More Aircraft for ETHIOPIAN 66 EVA AIR happy in Malaysia 66 DTWM meets in Kuala Lumpur 67 TURKISH AIRLINES arrives in Malaysia 68 OMAN AIR receives Unique Award 69 New Uniforms at QANTAS 69 PHILIPPINE AIRLINES returns to Malaysia 71 Flight Chat: GLOBAL ALLIANCES 72 Aviation Interview: Chandran Ramamuthy 73 Chief Executive Officer, Malindo pg 47-66 Airlink white.indd 55 5/22/13 6:46 PM J U N E 2 0 1 3 Contents FAVOURITES 4 Calendar 6 Editor’s Pick & Goings-On FEATURES 12 Dedicated Daddies 18 Adventure Sports 24 12 MAKAN-MAKAN 40 22 Makan-Makan with Rina Omar Cover story 24 Ploy 26 Frontera sol of Mexico 28 Blu Med Dedicated 30 Pickle & Fig Daddies 32 Food Hunt: Eat, Drink & Be Merry Nazrudin Rahman, Adrian Loh and Ben Ibrahim 34 Street Food Hunt: Warung Aji-Don Alley share their stories on what it’s like being fathers 36 Sweet Indulgence: Sweet Cocktails with a hectic lifestyle. SHOPPING 5120CEL_MC_254778_Island Ad_M9.ai 1 23/05/1338 Hotpicks Women 90 42 Hotpicks Men 100 LUXE 44 Luxe Travel: New Zealand 48 Luxe Spa: be Urban 51 Luxe Shopping: Luxury Personal Shopper 52 Luxe Lifestyle: The Smokehouse, The Majestic Hotel Kuala Lumpur 55 AIRLINK ART & LIVING 76 Malaysian Art Auction 2013, Edition IV 84 Expat Living 86 Hotel Review: The Royale Bintang Damansara 88 Hotel Review: Casa Del Rio 48 COVER 90 Celcom Launches 4G LTE Network 91 Andrea Bocelli Live in KL 92 WWF JUNE 2013 Cover: Ben Ibrahim, Adrian Loh HEALTH & BEAUTY and Naz Rahman 96 The Royale Spa Venue: The Smokehouse, The Majestic 98 Pushmore Crossfit Hotel Kuala Lumpur Background Art: LIFESTYLE GUIDE Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Vase (2006) 108 Reelview Hair & Make-up, photography by: Annie Pung, Michele Mun and 110 KL Map PP13691/07/2013(032715) Nicholas Cheng from Snips 112 Getting Around KL New Age Dads Adrian Loh’s suit: Bonia GOINGS-ON ARTS MUSICAL BORAK ART THE MAGIC HORN SERIES – BREAKING At the invitation of the BOUNDARIES conductor, Sahara Bob (an Themed “Building Sustainability adventurer of questionable in Arts”, this inaugural character) brings his conference will focus on collection of exotic musical critical thinking and creative instruments to the concert. management of the performing Little does Sahara Bob arts with the goal of creating know the invitation is a trap, a network of collaborative for he is about to meet the efforts to push the Malaysian Tickets: RM20, RM40, genie of the magic horn, performing arts industry to the RM60, RM80 while the audience is about next level. to discover the power of 03-2051 7007 musical instruments. 15 & 16 June, Pentas 2, klpac www.mpo.com.my 8 June @ 3.00pm, 9 June Tickets: RM100 @ 2.30pm & 4.30pm, Dewan Filharmonik 03-4047 9000 PETRONAS, PETRONAS www.klpac.org « Twin Towers, KLCC « MUSIC CHILD AID ASIA 2013 Child Aid Malaysia Committee & The Actors Studio present a fund-raising concert for the Malaysian chapter of Child Aid Asia, in aid of Malaysian youth. Child Aid Asia is a regional charity helping economically disadvantaged children pay for creative Tickets: A minimum training and providing travel donation of RM60 grants for them to participate in competitions and concerts. 03-4047 9000 www.klpac.org 31 May to 1 June @ 8:30pm, 2 June @ 3pm, Pentas 1, klpac « THE MOON SPEAKS Tickets: Monday to FOR MY HEART Friday evenings and Savour the sweet music and Saturday matinees songs in this concert tribute – RM68, RM108, to the legendary Teresa RM148, RM188, Teng and be enchanted RM228, RM268 & by the musicianship and Saturday, Sunday voice of the multiple award- evenings and Sunday winning team of Dama. matinees – RM88, RM128, RM168, 14 to 23 June @ 8.30pm, RM208, RM248, 15, 16, 22 & 23 June RM288 Saturday & Sunday Matinees @ 3.00pm, 03-4047 9000 Pentas 1, klpac « www.klpac.org 6 l KL LIFESTYLE GOINGS-ON 3 CONDUCTORS, AN UNCOMMON JOURNEY 3-5 Joost Flach, Martin Rutherford and Cheryl Mah will bring us a unique repertoire that combines variety pieces ranging from Baroque fugue, folk song, and concert hymn to modern symphonic overture. 7 & 8 June @ 8.30pm, Pentas 1, klpac Tickets: RM53, RM33 and RM23 (students and TAS card members) 03-4047 9000 www.klpac.org « « HEINEKEN GREEN MUSIC ROOM Tickets: RM88 Heineken Green Room DASH BERLIN (Pre-Sale) & RM108 returns this June 15 at KL #musicislife WORLD (Door) TOUR 2013 IN Live with a cocktail of drums, dinosaurs & more! MALAYSIA www.heineken.com Dash Berlin is in town for 15 June @ 9pm, KL LIVE his #musicislife world tour this June, 15 at the Helipad, Sepang International Circuit. The Malaysian leg will see him performing an exclusive three hour set! The full line up includes MISCELLANEOUS international and regional acts – Lisa Lashes, Beat Service, Altuna, MisterAriffin and Adham Nasri. 15 June @ 5pm, Sepang International Circuit, The Helipad Tickets: RM93 (Presale) & Cabana RM4,500 (including 15 entry tickets) www.redtix.airasia.com « 3, 4, 10 & 11 June @ 8.30pm, WORLD’S BEST MOVIES Indicine, klpac Film buffs will be pleased that The Actors Studio will be revisiting some classic films from across the globe and Tickets: Free admission sharing them with you, all for free. This June, World’s Best Movies will be showcasing. Judas Kiss, a 2011 03-4047 9000 fiction drama film directed by J.T. Tepnapa and written www.klpac.org by Tepnapa and Carlos Pedraza. « KL LIFESTYLE l 7 GOINGS-ON THEATRE IN A NUTTYSHELL In a NUTTYSHELL tells a story of three friends from different races, religions and beliefs who discover they are not so different afterall. Funny, real and OUR MAN IN BEIJING Tickets: RM23 thought-provoking, IN A “Our Man in Beijing” is a NUTTYSHELL will make comedy about an Australian 03-4047 9000 you look at yourself in junior manager sent to Beijing www.klpac.org the mirror once more. to get a contract settled with a Chinese singer. Instead of a 7, 8, 14 & 15 June @ smooth course of proceedings, 8.30pm, Indicine, klpac John finds many cultural « challenges for which he was ill-prepared to manage. In the midst of being navigated through the dangerous waters of many cross-cultural encounters by friends and foes alike, John falls in love. 7 & 8 June @ 8.30pm, 9 June @ 3pm, Pentas 2, klpac « Tickets: RM33, RM23 (Students, Disabled, TAS card Members) BUNRAKU – « TRADITIONAL JAPANESE PUPPET 28 June @ 8.30pm, THEATRE 29 June @ 3pm & Witness the grace and DOUBLE PUNCTUM 8.30pm, Pentas 2, grandeur of a 400-year- Pam Lim, William Mok together klpac old Japanese tradition, with director Loh Kok Man 3 to 23 June, klpac performed for the first and choreographer Ming Low, Tickets: From RM30 time ever in Southeast reveal the possibilities from the onwards Tickets: Free Asia. Bunraku- Traditional gaze of spectacular sceneries. Admission Japanese Puppet Theatre Hence, they decided to depart 03-4047 9000 is a showcase of fastidious from photography, utilising www.klpac.org 03-4047 9000 teamwork as three photographs as elements to www.klpac.org puppeteers per puppet extend imageries of the work, « work in perfect unity with creating a double expose of live traditional music and photography and performing vocals. arts. 8 l KL LIFESTYLE GOINGS-ON COMEDY IN THE DARK A truly unique comedy experience where comedians take on the challenge of eliciting your laughter with the lights out. 1 1 June @ 3pm, PJ Live Arts, Jaya One Tickets: RM35, RM30 (LIVE cardholders/ early bird) 017-228 9849 « www.tix.my THE AGONY UNCLES « Join Laugh Guru Jon Atherton as he MEN IN TUTUS teams up with lovable local comic Who says ballet can’t Andrew Netto to field the most 15-17 be funny? This ultimate insensible, intimate, inappropriate send-up of both classical questions from the audience and 6 to 9 June @ and contemporary ballet try in their own inimitable way to 8.30pm, PJ Live Arts, is a great way to enjoy confuse the issues. Combined with Jaya One dance for the whole stand-up acts from this dynamic family.