Few hours ago, I was at the MRCA (Malaysian Retails Chain Association) 18th Anniversary & Award Night at Sunway Hotels & Resort. The theme for the night was Night of Heroes, aim at giving recognition to successful entrepreneur who are successful in their respective retain venture.
As usual, attended the night of glitz and glamour on behalf of DiGi.
Night of Heroes Photo shoot wall.
The Invitation card
Me & my colleague Ally
Benjamin Chan & myself.
There were more than 1,000 guest presents at the event which includes prominent retain chain owner such as Dato' Nelson Kwok (Founder of Nelson Corn), Ms Valarie Choo (Managing Director of Grand Surf Sdn Bhd, Redbox Karaoke), Dato' Tay Sim Kim (founder of OSIM (M) Sdn Bhd), Mr Lee Hwa Cheng (CEO of Sinma Jewellery), Mr Chuah See Yong (Managing Director of Golden Scoop Sdn Bhd, Baskin Robin Malaysia) and many more.
It's truly inspiring to see all these entrepreneurs being so successful in their respective businesses. Perhaps I shall start a special blog post and interview these successful owners considering that I've access to most of them in my current job scope.
So seriously which taker are you ? Don't have a clue on what I'm trying to ask? Well why don't you catch the premier of Takers (Everyone is after something) which will start screening on the 28th of October 2010. In a nutshell the movie is about a group of bank robbers(Idris Elba, Paul Walker, T.I., Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and Michael Ealy) find their $20 million plan interrupted by a hard-boiled detective(Matt Dillon). I'm trying to keep it as short as possible so that it wouldnt spoil the show when you watch it.
If I were to choose to play a role in this movie, I will definitely play as Jesse Attica the runner (played by Chris Brown) for the obvious reason that he is one of my favourite actor. Though he may not be some big superstar compare to Tom Cruise, but hey this guy has got some good acting skill under his sleeves and I'm definitely looking forward to be the first to catch him on the silver screen on the 25th of October 2010(yes there will be a special preview on 25th before the actual release), thanks to Sirens Media and Sony Pictures.
Be sure to catch it ya, will update you on the movie after the screening.
Was invited to attended the 1 Malaysia Entrepreneur Award 2010 yesterday evening on behalf of my company DiGi Telecommunications. Held @ Putra World Trade Centre(PWTC), the event was organised by Biro Ekonomi dan Pembangunan Usahawan Pemuda UMNO Malaysia (BEPU), and Leaders magazine, the event aims to highlight the achievements of Malaysian entrepreneurs in various industry. The event was officiated by UMNO Youth leader,YB Khairy Jamaluddin.
My team from DiGi Telecommunications (Jenny Tan, Winnie Ng, me, Yvonne Lim, Benjamin Chan & Emmerine Tan)
Dato' Tony Fernandes, C0-Founder & CEO of Airasia Bhd
Dato' Hj SM Faisal, CEO of Naza Group & me
Tony Fernandes & my team.
The event saw a list of entrepreneur gaining recognition for their success in their respective industry. The list of winners are as follow:
Masterclass Entrepreneur of the Year
Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Leong Hoy Kum - Mah Sing Group Bhd
Dato’ Sri Nazir Razak - CIMB Group Holdings Bhd
Dato’ Sri Tony Fernandes - Air Asia Bhd
Awards Sectoral
Outstanding Entrepreneur of the year - Dato’ Sri Edmund Santhara - Masterskill (M) Sdn Bhd
Emerging Entrepreneur of the year - Dato’ Jamal Md Yunos - Rukun Saksama Sdn Bhd
Emerging Woman Entrepreneur of the year - Tiffanee Marie Lim - Limkokwing University of Creative Technology
Automotive - Dato’ Hj SM Faisal - Naza Group of Companies
Entertainment - Tuan Haji Burhanuddin Md Radzi - Les’ Copaque Production Sdn Bhd
Technology - Datuk Shahril Shamsuddin - Sapura Group
Telecommunications - Digi Telecommunications
Bioscience - Datuk David Yeat Sew Chuong - INS Bioscience Bhd
Engineering - Datuk Ir. Kuna Sittampalam - HSS Engineering Sdn Bhd
Pre-Development Land Investing - Dato’ Abdul Razak Abdul Ghani - Walton International Property Group (M) Sdn Bhd
Household - Lim Kim Heng - Sen Heng Electric (KL) Sdn Bhd
Renewable Energy - Ramaness Parasuraman - Return 2 Green Sdn Bhd
Was at Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), Kepong earlier this morning to participate in the Frost and Sullivan 's "Frost the Trail" Corporate Challenge 2010. Organised by Frost & Sullivan for the second time since the first last year, this Corporate Social Responsibility(CSA) event is aim at gathering corporate Malaysian together and raising funds for the less fortunate. Not sure how much was raised but the beneficiaries were Pusat Kasih Sayang YWCA of Malaysia, Pusat Kanak-Kanak Kurang Upaya, KiRTAR Home and Yayasan Anak Warisan Alam (YAWA).
The event attracted some 25 teams of 4 participants from companies such as DiGi, BP, Ericsson, Symphony House and DataCraft. All participant are required to run across a 8.1KM circuit in FRIM.
This year the event has DiGi as the main sponsor instead of Celcom for the previous year.
DiGi's iPhone 4 booth
Me, Christian Schutt, D'zul, Erik Mossakowski, and Christian Thrane
The Winning Team
This year, DiGi 's team came well prepared and won both 1st and 2nd place for the team category. Well done guys.
DiGi Telecommunication, one of Malaysia's leading telecommunication company recently celebrated its 15th Anniversary with a big bang. In conjunction with its birthday, DiGi got itself in the Malaysia book of records for making the longest human domino.
The day started with all 1,500 DiGizen(that's what they call people who work at DiGi) gathering at the D'House, DiGi's award winning HQ based in Subang Hi-Tech Industrial Park. Due to the massive number of people involved, the organised split everyone into 80 teams. I was appointed one of the team lead and guess what, I manage to rope in Mr Henrik Clausen, the CEO of DiGi to be a part of my team.
Henrik Clausen, CEO DiGi Telecommunications & Me
Police Motorcade getting ready to escort some 40 buses of DiGizen to KL Town.
Everyone were transported on 40 express buses from Shah Alam to Pavilion KL where the human domino record will be created. We had a group of traffic police riding on their power bike escorting and stopping traffic along our journey down. We even drive pass tollbooth's without stopping. These really made everyone on the bus feels like a VVIP.
The crowd at D'House entrance.
Audrey Ho, Head of Investor Relation, Henrik Clausen, CEO, me and the yellowman
DiGizen in action forming the largest human domino
At the end of the day, DiGi successfully made it into the Malaysian Book of Record for the longest human domino. The success was made possible with the cooperation of 1,409 DiGizen. if you are wondering where the other 400 DiGizen disappear, well some of them were from the region while some were working back in office to ensure that all you customer out there will be able to enjoy DiGi's service without disruption.
Right after the record breaking event, everyone headed for lunch around Bukit Bintang before returning for more fun fill activities which requires DiGizen to interact with the customer's on the ground. Some of the activities includes, exchanging plastic bags with DiGi's environmental friendly bags(each teams is required to walk to 5 people on the street asking them if they would like to change their bags), giving cup cakes to people(every team was required to give out like 10 cup cakes to the public and inform them that DiGi is celebrating its 15th Birthday), getting the public to write birthday wishes for DiGi(each team was required to get 15 card written with birthday wishes) and many other games took place throughout the day. There was also a treasure hunt which run concurrently with all the games too.
This is me participating in one of the games which require me to entertain the public by dancing in the glass house at the entrance of Fahrenheit 88,
Basically the whole street along Bukit Bintang is painted yellow
This is me chilling with a glass of Carlsberg at the entrance of Pavilion KL.
At the time post is written, I'm not paid by to do this. hope they will consider though, don't mind having to post with a glass of Carlsberg in all my photo if I get paid and get free supplies
Everyone was treated to a really luxurious dinner @ Starhill Gallery where the entire lower ground floor aka Feast was close for DiGi's private dinner. DiGizen can enjoy free flow of food and beverages and hoop around all the 11 F&B outlets such as Enak KL, Fisherman's Cove, Jake's Charbroil Steaks, Koryo-Won Korean Restaurant, Luk Yu Tea House, Pak Loh Chiu Chow,Sentidos Tapas,Shook Restaurant, Tarbush The Village Bar and Vansh.
Right after dinner, everyone is transported with the same buses and police escort from Starhill Gallery to Bukit Jalil to catch Adam Lambert live.
DiGi's booth @ Bukit Jalil
DiGi Music's remote control flying craft
Everyone playing with DiGi's giant ball before the the concert starts.
and this is Adam Lambert live in KL.
If you missed the event, here's a video clip on the record breaking human domino's:
It was really one in a life time experience that money cant buy. How many company in Malaysia would actually charter 40 buses, hire 20 police escort, booked the entire floor of F&B outlets at Starhill for dinner and treat more than 1,800 of its staff to a concert perform by international artist? So far, its only DiGi Telecommunication that is able to pull together such a big project. Thumbs up for everyone at DiGi.
- Tan Sri Dato' Seri (Dr)Lim Goh Tong a.k.a Uncle Lim. (Founder and Honourary Chairman of Genting Group)
- Dato Tony Fernandes (Founder and CEO of Airasia)
- Tun Dr Mahathir (Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister)
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