I had the opportunity to share at one of the #MerdekaAward Roundtable among friends who are passionate about the youths and the impact it has on our relatively young country recently. I’m sure you know of Dzameer Dzulkifli, Co-founder and Managing Director of Teach for Malaysia; then you have the young Dr Kamalan Jeevaratnam, Recipient of the Merdeka Award Grant for International Attachment 2014; next is the pretty & amazing Suhaili Micheline Ahmad Kamil, Choreographer, Lecturer & Performer; and finally power lady Suzanne Lee, Documentary Photographer. Of course, we were hosted by Cynthia Ng of ASTRO Awani who I’ve met several times already, and still amazed by her intelligence & beauty!

Here’s the video:

You can watch it on the link above, but in summary this is what I have to say about the topic:

“With such rich and diverse cultures in Malaysia, our people can go anywhere, do anything and succeed. There is no reason why we can’t be a global citizen and do more for our nation. Our young people have an important role to play in our nation’s development, hence, they need to take charge of their future. They need to capitalise on the bountiful support available to them and get ahead.”

It is only then that the nation’s young generation will be ready and equipped to assume a bigger role in helping shape Malaysia as a developed nation, in the years ahead.

I’ve got more to say about this, but it’ll have to wait for another blog post. I’m the meantime I’d like to convey my thanks to the founders of the Merdeka Awards, the three supporting pillars Petronas, ExonnMobil & Shell, and to the royal patron Sultan Dr Nazrin Shah of the Merdeka Trust – He’s been super inspiring of the late among all the shit that’s happening, a voice of reason.

Thank you for driving the need for a #betterMalaysia thought this joint effort.

http://www.merdekaaward.my/News/Emerging-Leaders-How-will-the-Next-Generation-of-M.aspx

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Yes, you read that right! 

In case you didn’t know, #GDA is the most prestigious Korean Pop Awards in South Korea founded in 1986 that is presented annually by the Music Industry Association of Korea for outstanding achievements in the music industry in South Korea. Yeah, similar to our 8TV SHOUT Awards that happened recently, but with Korean artists and held OUTSIDE of Korea. What a way to globalize their music, huh?

Brilliant!

In any case, the voting is actually happening right this instant and you could decide which of your favourite K-Pop star will come to Malaysia for the Awards. Faster go vote for your favourite artist together with other Malaysians in this link right here while others from Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China & Japan are also casting their votes (thanks to MSN in ASEAN – clever way to distribute their voting mechanics)

But rumours are that there will already be an exciting line up of artistes who will be the emcees for Samsung GALAXY The 27^th Golden Disk Awards, and they are… *drumroll* Jung, Yong Hwa of CN BLUE, Lee, Hong-Gi of FT Island, Kim Da Som from SISTAR and Nicole  from KARA. Now that’s what I call a crazy (and gorgeous) list of emcees! ^_____________^

See, the point is that the Golden Disk Awards will be the biggest K-POP event to be held in Malaysia, as more than 20 groups of world-famous K-POP artistes will be performing on stage for fans in Malaysia aside from the awards ceremony!

You might even catch HyunA (yes that same girl from @Psy_oppa’s billion-viewed Oppa Gangnam Style)  of 4Minute performing ‘Troublemaker’ with Jang Hyun-Seung from BEAST – won’t that be a sight to behold

Okay okay so now that I REALLY have your attention again, here’s how it works: – you (and everyone else in Asia too) will begin to vote on http://entertainment.malaysia.msn.com/27th-golden-disk-awards/online-voting.aspx for your favorite amongst the artistes as below:

INFINITE, K.WILL, SECRET, SISTAR, B.A.P, B1A4, BEAST, (F(X), JUNIEL, TEEN TOP, SHINEE, CNBLUE, FTISLAND, T-ARA, SUPER JUNIOR, EPIK HIGH, G-DRAGON from Big Bang, LEE HI, AILEE, KARA, EXO-K, HYUNA from 4Minute

and one of them will be winning the award categories as per below:-

Disk Album:
Grand Prize in Disk Album
Disk Album of the Year

Song:
Grand Prize in Song of the Year
Song of the Year

Popularity Award:
The Most Popular K-POP Star
MSN Southeast Asia Award
MSN International Award

Special Field:
New Rising K-POP Star Award
Best Hip Hop Award
Single Album of the Year

After that, you will then go to www.ticketpro.com.my and purchase your tickets, priced at RM688 and RM999 (that’s a small price to pay to see 20 K-Pop artistes here in Malaysia!!) in order to see your favourite group receiving the Awards!!Should the website be down, you can try e-mailing info@ticketpro.com.my or call TicketPro at 603 – 7880 7999 instead. No excuses NOT to be part of Malaysia’s largest K-Pop event!

(yeah you don’t want to miss this being performed live in Malaysia!)

That’s as much excitement I can share about now. Follow my blog to get more juicy details about who’s coming and even maybe to win tickets to attend this prestigious event (no promises though!) The fact is I really can’t wait to see all these gorgeous guys and girls in the K-Pop scene come to Malaysia and inspire those of us here to be who we want to be, without fear of being judged.

My really great friend and mentor, @BakiZainal, is one of K-Pop’s most favourite host whenever they are down here in Malaysia, and he sometimes share me inspiring stories that they shared with him – stuff that they do to become who they are, the hard work and effort put into their body and voice, things they have to go through in order to survive the harsh world of entertainment yet at the same time, maintaining the crazy amount of effort needed to please their fans, of whom they cherish so much!

I want to experience what Baki did, and that’s why I’m so proud that Malaysia will be hosting the 27th Samsung Galaxy Golden Disk Awards this year, and I certainly won’t miss this opportunity of being one of the exclusive bloggers for #GDA which will provide me a media pass to access to the media zone, red carpet area, media room and also the interview room – what an experience of a lifetime being able to meet these global icons face to face and to be inspired by them!!!!!!

So yeah! Come join me in my journey and you could be winning favours from me hehe. You can begin by sharing with me who did you think won last year’s 26th Golden Disk Awards’ Disk Album of the Year – give it a try guys!

For more information on the Samsung GALAXY The 27^th Golden Disk Awards in Kuala Lumpur, please visit www.goldendiskawards.asia  or http://www.facebook.com/GDA2013. Remember to tweet me at @spinzer and hashtag #GDA so we’ll be able to keep in touch until the Awards night itself! Toodles til then

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Definitely a scene you don’t get everyday! #LIKEABOSS! Will share more in my next blogpost

Aaaaaand without further ado, let’s have a VERY brief lowdown of what happened today at the The World Bloggers & Social Media Awards 2012!

Obligatory shot with the backdrop after managing to rush from Putrajaya to PWTC and barely making it in time!

Met up with fellow Social Media Chambers members Chris and Ibdil… and man does the entrance look awesome or what!

Definitely a black tie event. And there I was, without any -_-

Congratulations to the winners! When I have more time, I’ll blog the content down with the links so you can see who the winners are (or rather, their blogs, lol)

I just have to share this dessert. It was so yums. Yums. MMmmMmMMmm!!

@Karrotgold kissing his award… damn I want one too!

Finally done! Congratulations to the Social Media Chambers for putting so much effort to make this happen! We rock!

Yeh yeh @karrotgold #LANSI with me! But seriously, #OCTTWTFEST deserved to win ANYWAY, largest tweet up in the world yo!

The ceremony ends

And everyone started hogging the stage

Including the awesome people who pulled the October Tweet Fest together. WOOHOO!!

Not to forget the fatherhood of Twitterjaya, @kruel74 and his @loveykatz, the two people you would want to meet.

@Altimet the man! In TUX too! What a rare situation haha… man, too hensem lah he. Talented too. I jelly.

Like I said, someone you need to know to know what #Twitterjaya is all about haha. Thanks @Altimet for taking this awesome picture. You da man

Nothing, NOTHING is ever complete without @klubbkiddkl. Seriously. Look at what he’s doing to the trophy for #OCTTWTFEST Campaign HAHAHA. BEST!

And it finally comes to an end! Congratulations to all the winners, though I don’t know most of you, the some of you I do know truly deserve your win today. Though the Malaysia Social Media Week for 2012 may have come to a close, a flurry of activities are sure to happen very soon, organized by the Social Media Chambers. Stay tuned for more, or visit here for more pictures on my Facebook!

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