Something New A Week #58 - Worship Night With Sidney Mohede@WG12

I'm a huge supporter of Big Bang! Just because I love their originality of songs, and their character! Yet, on the same night - Sidney Mohede will be leading worship at WG12 at church. What did I do? I sold off my Big Bang ticket, because nothing beats worshiping God together with so many other brothers and sisters at a worship conference!

So I went to church - and Sidney Mohede was indeed such a blessing to all of us, his message to us was very clear: "We worship only one God, and you are here not because of me, but because of Him!"

What's new to me:

Er..we danced to Gangnam style at church?!

Something New A Week #57 - Rue's a Tour Guide!

Not the first time being tour guide. In fact, this is my 5th Korean group visiting Malaysia and we brought them around some local must sees in Kuala Lumpur. But it's still something new to me - because the people...IS NEW! To add on, it's the first time I stood in front of Sg Gombak and marvel at it for more than 1 minute - being all historical and patriotic. 

What's new to me:

This

Yea I really didn't been there before. :/

Something New A Week #56 - First Bubba Gump Experience!

Yes I'm a failure for not trying Bubba Gump until it's up on Groupon! But anyway, there's a first to everything, never too late still! It was an awesome deal and I LOVE SHRIMPS! No food picture but a picture of just me and..parts of the interior! :P

What's new to me:

The whole stack of ONION RINGS!

Something New A Week #55 - The Joy Of Singing!

I've quite some friends who sing for a career: Thomas from Malaysian Chinese group TJ 东于哲, MY FM DJ Wayne who sings occasionally too, 8TV Host Wind Lee who of course sings occasionally too, Amy Yeoh and Juwita Suwito who are vocal coaches and also perform at awesome gigs. As long as you are in the entertainment field you would sing, somehow, I guessed. They made singing seems like a super easy thing on earth! How come I can't sing as great as them! Haha.

I have also one friend and her forte is jazz and classical music. She sings old classic songs which are rearranged with a jazzy feel. Her voice is really jazzy too. She teaches classical music in the day, and sings during other times :) She's known as the new Teresa Teng in Malaysia. She's Winnie Ho! Went to watch her live at The Venue@Pavillion, jazzing her way out with good ol' classic Chinese songs. :)

What's new to me:

Every awesome singer is not born with just a voice, or a talent - but it's the hardwork put to hone their techniques, it's the personal experience to communicate the emotions, it's the diligence to improve their musicality. It's so many things as Juwita has taught me. It's really....super duper hard. I think I'll stick with Karaoke!

Something New A Week #54 - The Canvas Huddle!

I'm very grateful for the people I work with and the people I lead. They made me who I am. Because of their drive, their attitude, their spirit, their thoughts, their ideas, their enthusiasm - I learned a lot from them instead! Brought the team out for a quarterly sharing session on each departments. 

I'm not a fan of boring office meeting space. I've got to say Groupon has great meeting space indeed! Yet once it's used quite often you tend to get bored with it too, so for this special huddle I've decided to support a new venture - The Canvas! They are a creative space which provides you.... SPACE! To do whatever you want, party, meetings, meet up, team building etc etc!

For more info, feel free to view The Canvas here.

What's new to me: 

The Canvas has this long huge wall for you to doodle to your heart's content!

Something New A Week #53 - Aspiring Actresses Learning From Colin!

After many weeks of learning the basics of acting - we're finally ended our Vessel's Acting class with Colin Kirton! It's such an honor to learn the art of performing on stage from him! Colin is known for his work as a director, trainer, musician, singer, host and voice actor etc. Lessons with him were very very fruitful, very very substantial - and he always went back to the basics of acting.

I'll always remember this phrase from him: "PLAY TO WIN".

Really thankful to God for bringing such a great trainer to lead us to serve him in the performing arts field. :)

Read up more about Colin Kirton here.

What's new to me:

Acting is so much more of what's going on in your brain and your heart, and not what's coming out from your face! Don't act - but BE the character!

Something New A Week #52 - Company Team Picnic!

Together with some driven team leads, we lead the operations team in the company! The first time different departments under the Operations umbrella came together to have a picnic at Titiwangsa! Although not everyone made it but it was a quick fun time together because of the picture-taking moments!

Unfortunately, in rained after an hour.

HAHAHA!

I will never call for a huge group picnic anymore unless I am 100% sure the weather will be bright and sunny and happy!

What's new to me:

Picnic-ing IN THE RAIN yo.

Something New A Week #51 - Hopped By Friend's New Biz - Kee's Creampuffs!

A high school friend of mine, Kenneth, partnered with Groupon as part of his marketing strategy to give an extra push to his new business - the creampuff business! Really happy for him and since I'm so in love with creampuffs, I ordered 100 creampuffs for a group outing (hoping that it'd better be really good!). Headed over to Kee's Creampuffs to collect and to catch up with this passionate entrepreneur or Puff Daddy (so he claims lol)

Apparently Kee's Creampuffs started off as an online business, I was quite blown away by the idea of selling creampuffs online! Not only just that, the mastermind behind the recipes of these creampuffs came from Kenneth's mother, and Kenneth would like to take this family business to the next level - such a lovely son! He quit his 9 - 5 job and dedicated all his time and effort into building Kee's Creampuffs.

The creampuffs were tasty! Love the fillings, would be even better if the size was a tad smaller so I can just pop the whole creampuff into my mouth :) Love creampuffs? Check out more here!

What's new to me:

Big tall guy making small little cute creampuffs - passion really is an amazing spirit.

Something New A Week #50 - Surprise Birthday Party @ ACME Bar & Coffee

Birthdays are happy occasions, what more when it's your besties' birthday! To make birthdays even happier, a surprise birthday treat usually works very well! :D The 4 of us decided to surprise one of our besties at ACME Coffee & Bar @ The Troika! Somehow 'Troika' sounds like a fish name, I suspect it's because of the Koi fish. Hmm..

Really awesome place to chill and chat, like a tai-tai (laughs). Love the deco, love the atmosphere, love the flow, love the songs, love the comfort! The perfect set for 5 girls to reunite and talk about everything and anything under the sky haha! Also a romantic place for romantic dates or a heartwarming family dinner.

Visit ACME Bar & Coffee @ The Troika here.

What's new to me:

The cake bar was really lovely. Girls fall for such things. Gargh.

Something New A Week #49 - Grateful for the Change Agent Award!

It's the quarterly award ceremony and I was awarded the Groupon Change Agent Award! :) Very grateful and honored for this award and most importantly, very thankful for everyone who contributed to each and every single change that we decided to commit to - I can never do it without all of you :)

What's new to me:

Having such a picture on screen as background =.=