United Hearts Foundation and Yayasan Bandar Tun Razak are both charity foundations, a shared purpose of them is providing sponsored tuition and education to underprivileged Malaysian children amongst many other charitable purposes.
As it happens to be, Jessica is involved with this United Hearts , as education is her business and dare I say it also her 'love' for children.
Thus United Hearts and Yayasan were organizing a concert at Genting Highland last weekend, profits of which were destined to the needy.
A concert? Yups, a concert.....but hold your horses first. It wasn't a rock concert, or something contemporary..........nopers..........the 2 performing stars on stage were local oldtime crooners.
Nonoo....I'm not implying anything negative........not at all.......hats off to these 'oldtimers'..........they still have the 'voice' and stamina to deliver the goods, but in retrospect, the goal of this concert was to reap in the necessary funds for distribution to the needy. And in hindsight, putting two 'crooners' on the billboard is not exactly going to attract the crowds, isn't it?
On top of that, the timing couldn't be worser.....scheduled on a Sunday evening, knowing that people have to work on Monday, kids need to wake early up to attend school. Maybe it's a Feng Shui thing.....who knows.
The adults in their 'golden' years thoroughly enjoyed the show, no question about that,......as for the younger and youngest amongst us........let's say we expected a bit more oooomphh.....
As for Jess and me, we were too busy helping out, but at least we didn't need a VVIP pass to go backstage and mingle with the performers. And for Laetitia?......she had the honour to be a flower girl that evening....:)
Was it a success then?.......Thanks to some generous donors, the projected revenue target was achieved and there is some talk of repeating another charity drive in a few month's time.
Hopefully by then, the organizers have wisened up a bit and give the 'people' true value for their cash.
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