With Russell Peters’ tour tickets selling out in just hours, it’s apparent that comedy is serious business. We speak with one of the bright talents in the Malaysian comedy scene, Kuah Jenhan on the business of being funny.
Jenhan holds a degree in Communications and Media Management and is currently doing comedy full-time. Can being funny put food on the table (rotten tomatoes aside)? We sit down with Jenhan to find out.
Do you remember music videos, Beavis and Butt-Head and Veejays? If you do, you may just belong to the MTV generation. While music is still the driver of youth, one could argue that MTV is slowly falling behind the times as the TV generation gives way to the internet generation.
Johnson Goh wants AtticTV to be MTV of the internet generation. While looking nothing like Beavis, Butthead or a Veejay, he has managed to bring AtticTV to life. We speak to the young entrepreneur on his musical venture. Read more →
Project ConcreteJungle is a search for Malaysian entrepreneurs of business venture or projects of thought provoking proportion to learn their origin story. The project is free resource but is supported by Greenroom136, learn about entrepreneurship from the experts.
It began with an obsession to remedy her daughter’s bad skin condition. Today, Michelle Ho is on a mission to remedy bad skin condition for the world.
Founder, Michelle Ho shares her story of starting Kindersoaps. Read more →
Project ConcreteJungle is a search for Malaysian entrepreneurs of business venture or projects of thought provoking proportion to learn their origin story. The project is free resource but is supported by Greenroom136, learn about entrepreneurship from the experts.
What would you do to fuel a fetish for shoes? Christy Ng had just such a problem and decided to take on entrepreneurship to pay for her passion. Learn how she listened to her gut instinct in building one of Malaysia’s leading online shoe retailer and in the process, gathering a horde of fans on Facebook. Read more →
Can you make a career out of skateboarding? Why, yes you can! Meet Fuad and Munir, the guys behind local deck makers Sibling Skateboards. Yes, KL has it’s own skateboard brand, founded and run by real skateboarders.
Less you think they’re all talk, co-founder Fuad has represented Malaysia in the Asian X Games and is a sponsored rider with several companies. We talk with co-founder Munir to find out why they decided to turn trees into decks for a living. Read more →
What do you get when you cross the Fine Arts and Film Studies? A yearning for learning, apparently.
Meet CultureRun, a service that hopes to make continuous learning easily accessible to the citizens of the Klang Valley. CultureRun is the brainchild of two sisters, Suwen Low and Su-Zen Low. With backgrounds in Fine Arts and Film Studies respectively, they’ve brought their collective heads together to try and bring their love of learning and self-improvement to the masses.
Is the Klang Valley ready for small learning workshops or are we too used to huge, fill-the-convention-hall type of learning? We talk to the entrepreneurial sisters about their yearning for learning, CultureRun.
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Chee Sukeats discovered his passion for skating when he was just 13. Life then intervened and when he graduated he went into advertising. Over the course of 7 years, he wrote copy and managed accounts for various agencies include O&M, a string of boutique agencies and finally, a boutique agency of his own.
Deciding that enough was enough, he decided to go back to his passion for skating and try to make living out of it. We sat down with Sukeats to talk to him on Wheel Love, his skate shop and how he grew his store into what could arguably be the most well-known skate shop in Kuala Lumpur.
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Irman Hilmi is a familiar name in the cooler side of things in Kuala Lumpur. Besides being known as a talented art director at both Freeform and advertising agency Dentsu, he has also been active in the music scene from being a part of Space Bar, Damage Digital, KLHPQ and recently started his own regular Friday night called #swank, as well as being known for his exciting approach in making the urban scene exciting. Recently he opened up Grafa Design in Subang Jaya, which is a design studio, bicycle shop and café all rolled into one. We took some time out to talk to Irman about Grafa Design. Read more →
There will always be a certain obsession-taking place like a season from cupcakes to doughnuts. Recently, gelato returns to take over the town. Hu Sau Keong is the man responsible for bringing the Stickhouse brand to KL for our ever-changing taste buds after he got a taste of it on his trip to the country that started it, Italy. Stickhouse’s authentic Italian gelatos are 100% natural without artificial flavoring, colouring or preservative, so it’s great for all! After making its debut in Cyprus, Dubai, Indonesia, Italy, Kuwait, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria and soon in Singapore, it has also taken over Kuala Lumpur on a very tasty note. KLue managed to chat with the Stickhouse Malaysia’s director, Hu Sau Keong, who has been working in the fashion industry for about 10 years before getting into the F&B industry for diversity and interest. Read more →
Patrick Lim is an entrepreneur. He’s in love with business, a business geek if you will. He just loves to think about the mechanics of businesses and how they work. With a background in Marketing and an MBA in hand, he seems more suited for large multinationals than a small manufacturing-based startup. In fact he’s been with such illustrious companies such as 3M, BMG and even Apple Malaysia.
Now, he’s given up all that for his urban bag business, Greenroom136. Greenroom136 is Kuala Lumpur’s first messenger-type bag company. We sit down with Patrick to find about more about Greenroom136 and if Kuala Lumpur is the right place to birth an urban bag brand. Read more →
