Kota Kinabalu is no longer the quiet city that we used to know. In terms of urbanization, it is setting itself up as a party venue for those who are residing or touring in Brunei and the east side of Malaysia.



If you miss winter chill and need a great excuse to down that bottle of alcohol, Ice Bar has this famous ICE ROOM where you can go in to experience freeezing temperatures that go as low as -25 degree celsius. For that reason, the venue has earned the title of being the coolest hangout in town.



Due to our flight delay, we missed out on the early part of the party and arrived just in time to join the hyped-up crowd in celebrating the countdown with the Ice Bar resident DJs. At least for once, I was in another land experiencing the dawn of New Year 2010.



Morning came, we did a bit of a day tour around the city by ourselves. We stumbled upon this run-down building in the CBD district.



A stencil graffiti on the side of a staircase. More of them here.



Doodling on the wall. More of them here.



This is the view of the mountain from my hotel room window. I was kind of praying that the rain would not affect the night's turnout as it was pouring from late noon onwards.



Night came, I started spinning my Electrohouse set for the incoming crowd.



Nicky C from Malaysia spinning his Techno set.



Jamaster A from Hong Kong brought along a female GuQin instrument player to spice up his trance set.



One of crowd's favourite segment for the night was the beatboxing and dance moves of the Royal Phantom Dance crew. They are fun to watch, so I recorded snippets of their performance and uploaded them onto youtube - Check Part 1 & Part 2.



More pictures of the 2010 Countdown Fiesta & Power Party here.