The Dine For Haiti Fundraiser at Damansara Village Steamboat last night was a YUMMILICIOUSLY ROARING SUCCESS.
Thanks to all of you generous people who turned up fighting the Friday evening rain and traffic jams to contribute to the earthquake victims in Haiti. All our guests had a great time enjoying the fresh seafood steamboat, meeting our celebrity guests and taking photos and also participating in a couple of celebrity item auctions conducted by
Amber Chia and
Andrea Fonseka.
The gorgeous Andrea Fonseka and her lovely assistant, May were the first to arrive. Ahead of Patrick Teoh, the organiser!!!
Yasmin and Patrick trying for the James Cameron AVATAR look without the James Cameron budget. brought a beautiful pair of
Ferragamo sunglasses for auction and managed to raise
RM600 from the auction.
Andrea donated her limited edition Adidas limited edition
Missy Elliot tote and got a top bid of
RM350.
The lucky lady who successfully bid for Andrea's limited edition Missy Elliot tote.Guests who came to dine checked in
RM15,715 and in addition donated generously when Amber and Andrea went round the tables to offer photo ops.
Andrea and Amber raised an additional
RM4,140!
This generous gent is a big fan of Andrea. I wish I'd gotten his name. He made a donation of RM700! Thank you, sir!
The celebrity guests putting their contribution into the collection box. From l-r Andrea Fonseka, Carleef, Ben Ibrahim, Patrick Teoh (holding the box), Amber Chia, Nottee Seng (asst to Amber. Seated: Yasmin Yusuff.We collected a total of RM19,855.
But that's not all Harith Iskander and Kuah Jenhan came over after their comedy show
"This Is It?" in the PJLA Theatre and pledged their personal earnings from Thursday night's show.
Other celebrities who came in support of Dine For Haiti included actor/director
Gavin Yap, comedian
Douglas Lim, cabaret star
Joanne Kam Po Po, actor-director
Joanna Bessey, radio legend
Yasmin Yusuff, host and columnist
Xandria Ooi and TV personality
Ben Ibrahim.
The blogosphere was very well represented. Led by the inimitable
Bernard Khoo (
Zorro Unmasked) the bloggers made up 3 tables of happy, generous diners.
All the money collected from last night will be sent to
AVAAZ to fund their efforts in Haiti. We shall keep you informed of the process when we send the money and receive AVAAZ's receipt for your contributions. Watch for details on this blog.
More photos of last night's event coming soon.
From all of us at Damansara Village Steamboat - thank you for your support and generousity.
God Bless All Of You.
We purchased a Maybank Bankers Check #35824789 which was made out to AVAAZ Foundation our intended receipient as annouced earlier)
