Now this was exactly what I had in mind as I created my own startup called SocialGrooves.com, which is aimed to be a social business utilizing social media to promote other cause-centric businesses that are more often

not seen or known. Although the site is new, I’ve always been working with startups such as UKEC (or at least revitalizing it to its full glory), Young Corporate Malaysians (YCM), RandomAlphabets and its sister company Wago and even TeachForMalaysia, a new initiative whose objective is such that one day, all children in Malaysia will have the opportunity to attain excellent education. But most of these do not add to my rice bowl, hence, @SocialGrooves was formed on the 15th of December 2010, under the support of one Ong Kian Ming aka @imokman who said that I had to make a living for myself at the end of the day.

@SocialGrooves would not have formed if not for two people who joined me at the heart of it all, @YapThomas and @PD_Ren. Part of my own little ambition, the creation of the Engagement of Youth in the Economy (EYE) Project would not have started as well if not for @Re7a. The point here is that, if not for these people, none of this would have happened, and mind you none of them has gotten any pay because they want the companies to receive fundings first. Money will surely come, but passion and desire to make a winning product is really the most important factor as a startup! (this was how the initiatives mentioned above became successful anyway, because of the dedicated teams in each of the respective startups).

Now in every initiative, there are always leaders associated with them. For @WooThemes, there was @adii, Magnus and Mark and crew.

For UKEC, @WMFirdaus, myself and the rest of the crew compromising of Lopes, @aliaishk, @iedilputra, @rashdanh, Wan Zu, Ain and more.

For RandomAlphabets we have @ZainHD, @NikiCheong and I along with playas @vinivedivici @devuschka @shaqyl @radiojules and more.

For Teach For Malaysia, there was @Dzameer, @keeransivarajah and I before super crew @nawranajebe and others came in.

So you see, it always starts with a small group of people before the community grows. And now, all of the initiatives have grown so much it’s amazing. It’s part of people’s lives. It’s become a reason to live. The people who start all of these, they are inspirations by themselves. I needed @Adii to know this, and his reply was as above!

The next thing I know, he says

Tweets like this, makes everything so much more worthwhile.

Clicking the link brought me to his blog, on this post right here:

Can you imagine the thrill of having someone like @adii blogging about you, appreciating a reply from some random nobody who’s a big fan of his work? This is a person who leads some 45,000 community of users using @Woothemes and is currently heading Aboard Entrepreneurship, a project about entrepreneurship and empowering upcoming entrepreneurs do be better entrepreneurs in the future by teaching them skills and inspiring them via the shared knowledge and experience of all of AE’s contributors, some of which consist of the people in the list below:

• Alexa Andrzejewski, Foodspotting
• Jacob DeHart, Threadless (Ex)
• Todd Garland, BuySellAds
• Justin Kan, justin.tv
• Jenn Lim, Zappos
• Matt Mullenweg, Automattic (!!!)
• Alexis Ohanian, Reddit
• Naveen Selvadurai, Foursquare (oh yes)
• Collis Ta’eed, Envato
• Garry Tan, Posterous

You can’t tell me you don’t know at least 2 of the people in this list! Anyway the point is that if someone like me can be a reason for @adii to

do more, what if I, in turn, became an inspiration to others, too? It’s a whole ecosystem here, and a positive one, too

Seriously @Adii, not only did you inspire me with your work, but with this single post, I feel that I can achieve this year’s seemingly impossible target I’ve set for myself and my amazing team. The impact of your post even beats the highlight of being made into a referral point at Forbes’s blog for this post I made about Obama and the Digital Knights of the rectangular table

The above is a screenshot that I will forever remember as my first step into one of Forbes’s many powerful list

Yes, I am indeed inspired again and again this year for so many reasons. I cannot afford to fail myself, my team and my country and so will never give up and live up to the namesake of my father, the great Dr Tock Min Kin, who taught me the meaning of perseverance.

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Anyhow, questions aside, here is an excerpt stolen from ZainHD’s blog regarding #hideNseek.

I’ve been working on putting a flashmob project, hideNseek (on behalf of RandomAlphabets) on Saturday 20th November, that supports Unicef’s campaign against child abuse, Get on Board.

…

On Tuesday 16 November, at 8.15 am or a little after, I’ll be on BERNAMA TV to promote the flashmob (on the same cause as above) happening on 20th November. For the first time I am organizing a project that has a significant concentration and emphasis on participation from children. People of other ages are invited and welcomed to come, but we want to see loads of kids come, and their elders can come too.

So I came in, again, to help out and I can honestly say the site is one of my proudest work so far! Nothing wrong w/ being proud of your work right? At least I don’t go saying it’s the best site around… YOU do that for me

In any case, do get involved. Lend a hand. Share. RT the tweet at www.hideNseekflashmob.com.my. PARTICIPATE– that would be majorly awesome, as there’s surely going to be media covering this event… and remember:

It’s for a great cause.

Raise your hand. Be counted. Stop Child Abuse Now!

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RandomAlphabets.com, of which I’m part of is organizing one of the largest flashmob I’ve ever seen, which you can witness yourself as well going by the figures on the website. As you could have guessed following from the title, the Glee Flashmob Dance is neither unique nor original- it has been done all over the world, and now we feel it’s our turn to play

If you are a flan of Glee or just want to take part to have fun, join us as we create history in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as how it’s been done in Seattle, Dublin, Tel Aviv, Madrid & Rome!

How do you participate?

Step 1 – Click Participate and submit your email address
Step 2 – Click on Tutorials and learn the steps
Step 3 – Show up for rehearsal! Info will be given to you via email.

Make sure you know your steps. Practice, practice, practice!

To support this project, take a photo of yourself with ‘the L’ sign, and use it as your profile picture for Facebook and Twitter. MyKad also if you can. Just try la. Cuba k.

We’re also on Facebook, Twitter & also look out for the Twitter hashtag #GleeKL.

This project is brought to you by:

	RandomAlphabets.com, the same people who brought you KL Freeze in Unison, Tali Tenang and The Kuala Lumpur Pillow Fight!
	Wago, the guys behind #EveryoneConnects
	Star World, Watch GLEE first on STAR World (Astro Channel 711), every Wednesday at 9pm!
	French For Incredible does all graphic design work for RandomAlphabets and has been doing so since its inception.
	Blushberry.info is my designer whom I employ for my many web projects, including GleeFlashmobDance.com.my website

It’s gonna be crazy and it’s gonna be fun. See you there!

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ps- This is all made possible thanks to the Delicious Group who kindly sponsored the whole event! Wow never would have imagined they’d go this far to promote this collaboration launch, from inviting singers like Adibah Noor to the hot celebs you see wearing the t-shirts! You can also get the “I <3 KL” t-shirts and support Delicious and RandomAlphabets.com from the 11th of September onwards as it will be sold in all Delicious outlets (from which RM5 will go to SPCA or FTAGA for each t-shirt sold!)

Hopefully our local personalities would have caught your attention! Here’s Sarah Lian and Henry Golding cuddling up. hot wtf.

Zain and I, the advocates of love ;D

Elaine Daly who mc-ed the event together with Ben Ibrahim, both wearing the I <3 KL t-shirt for SPCA Selangor and the Federal Territory Amateur Gymnastics Association respectively. (more details here)

RA’s graphic designer on one side, and on the other, say hello to Zain HD (left) and Hashim (right), founder of RA together with Aidi who was stuck in between

Introducing my new bestie who declared I was her bestie even before we knew each other, Sherril Louisa Netto and of course the famous violinist Dennis Lau on the right!

Those who came include Dennis Lau, Sarah Lian, Amber Chia, Henry Golding, Rina Omar, Ben Ibrahim, Stephanie Chai and others!

The gorgeous ladies. Thanks for coming!

The macho men. Including one Rockerina

Ok just the guys for ladies to oogle on

My twitter celebs SpicyGuy, king of spicy foodstuff (go to him for delivery orders!)  in the middle and Altimet, local celeb artist on the far right!

Zain and Fudi my baby hahahaaha! He’s the lead singer for band Kyoto Protocol, follow them here! On your right is the one and only Rina

Diyana showing how much she love the t-shirts. heheheheheh let’s go burgerr!

The crowd were all amazed by the myriad of cultural performance happening at Delicious, Marc’s Residence including…

Indian cultural dances.

Classic malay and english music belted by the famous Adibah Noor, and Opera singing by chinese singers.

The Federal Territory Amateur Gymnastics Association giving us a superb performance! Do help them by buying RA’s t-shirts as RM5 will be donated by Delicious themselves for every shirt bought!

Thanks to Niki Cheong too, who’s such an amazing person to have met. Follow the Top Malaysian Twitterer here!

Shaz, my good old friend Thanks for making time to come down!

Come buy them t-shirts, the more you help, the more Delicious can continue to partner RA and the more we can do crazy ass flash mobs that you’ll love!~

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The preparation was solid. The execution was awesome. The resulting night was the final touch to the heavens.

I could write so much about it, and show you so many photos from the preparation, the execution to the finale, but I won’t.

Instead, I present to you, THE DANCING MASKED MEN of MERDEKA!

Dancing at Merdeka Train Party 2009 by Random Alphabets
(credits to DannyChoo.com)

Group Dance at Merdeka Train Party 2009 by Random Alphabets
(credits to DannyChoo.com)

Check out more either at http://thestaronline.tv/v/4054 on their coverage, or at http://randomalphabets.com. Thanks to everyone who came for the event, and of course, to you bloggers as well. You rock!

Where human beings get together to do something in unison,
without speeches,
or reference to age, colour, sex, beliefs and background.

~ RandomAlphabets.com ~

ps- Send me a link to your posts when they are up

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Some of you may or may not know about my involvement with a few main projects as described on my About page, but basically one group called RandomAlphabets.com, dubbed as the collective that essentially, seek to bring people together among other things, will be taking most of my time this week. Just a brief nature of RA, some of our projects are large in nature and some otherwise. There are times when we are advocating a cause, and there are times when it is out of enjoyment. But for now, right this instant, it’s about the day our beloved country, Malaysia, obtained its freedom.

This week, it really is all about Merdeka.

It all begun by a fateful meeting by ZainHD (the project manager) with the Relevant People last Friday, and lo behold, that single meeting involving himself at one end, and 6 on the other eventually gave birth to the Merdeka Train Project!

So what is it about? Below is a summary of it all.

Merdeka Train Party (MTP) Happy Birthday Malaysia! Imagine decorating the interior of a house for a birthday party. Now that is exactly what RA will do (in a few public trains!) on 31st August 2009 . You’re invited to join in. Anyone & everyone. We will decorate the interior of the trains. We will meet at 2pm for a briefing, somewhere convenient in KL. To find out about what it’s all about, do read everything found HERE. For more updates do join our group based on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14329425422 Who else wrote about this: Nikicheong.com

At the same time, we will also be running our RA+D Project, a combined effort by RA and Delicious to release our latest I LOVE KL T-shirts, this time supporting 2 other different causes, details as below:

For each t-shirt you buy Delicious pledges to contribute RM5 to either SPCA or Federal Territories Amateur Gymnastics Association. It will be on sale at all Delicious outlets beginning September at RM25 each. Ground Floor, One Utama Ground Floor, Bangsar Village II Ground Floor, Mid Valley Megamall Dua Residency, Jalan Tun Razak Marc Residence, Jalan Pinang More details here: http://randomalphabets.com/latest/our-new-t-shirts-will-be-at-delicious-outlets/

My vision for the project above is very ambitious, yet I know it is possible with the help of my friends out there including all of you blog readers. This will be a start of a new category I’ve been meaning to add, called the Project Mania category, so please check beck for further updates regarding my work on the organisations I’m involved in.

Apart from that though, please always remember that I am still the Chris Tock you know, the very same person who enjoys food reviews and to attend events with all the shared fun along with my blogger friends hehe. After all, we’re all human, right? Food ahoy, I say!

Coming up next…

Does it make your mouth water? Cafe Chulo isn’t just ANY ordinary cafe

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Update: SunburstKL.com.my site is down! For information, either go here or ask it live at the CoverItLive session above.

Come back at 12pm

onwards to see live comments from me, or you may even catch your friends queuing up at the Official Merchandise Booth!

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