LIFE and Transit carolling
This year, LIFE and Transit were invited back to carol by the Sunway group CEO himself, after the great response last year. I guess it's because our carolling is quite interesing, done in a fresh and funny new way (even if we do say so ourselves). We not only carolled in Sunway Medical Centre and Sunway Lagoon Hotel, we also carolled twice in Subang Parade. Due to time constraints, we had to turn down a few other invitations from several hotels and shopping centres. Here we are at the preview in church.
Here we are again on Christmas eve at Sunway Lagoon Hotel. Lydia is doing her solo in the lobby. 
We were privileged to have a free run from the hotel lobby to several other parts of the hotel including the Avanti Italian-American Ristorante, West Lake Garden Chinese Restaurant, and even the ballroom where the Miss Tourism International Pagaent was being held. Was that a once in a lifetime experience or what?
Singing in Avanti was the fun-nest because the crowd was most sporting. They clapped, cheered, and even sung along. The atmosphere there was really beautiful, and it wasn't too hard for the audience to feel the presence of God. Even in a public restaurant like that.
It was a different kind of Christmas experience to be singing 'Jingle Bells' at the top of your lungs while walking in single file along the shopping centre. Yes, the same place where you just shopped with your friends yesterday.
We were supposed to sing the good news and shout out the real meaning of christmas on the streets, but here we were, joining forces with a dodgy looking santa claus, and his male 'santarina'. Sigh.
More shots from the beauty pageant crowd, pity it isn't very clear.
Santa and his assistant, thwarting our caroling once again. Hahahoho. I dread to imagine how many people in the audience thought Santa was the real star of Christmas.
Here's some pictures from us carolling at Subang Parade.
This is Sunway Medical Centre, where our carols brought some cheer to the sick patients spending a bleak Christmas. We hope we brightened their day, and we had loads of fun too! This was our rendition of "Felize Navidad"... in an interesting way. If you're wondering why we're covering our mouths with our hands, it's part of the gimmick. Dont know how to explain it... we did something like rubbing our hands together and blowing....
It was a interesting, if not funny, experience. Full of incidents and adventure, pitching and mis-hit notes. But all for the good cause. No problem.
This year's culmination event was the prize giving ceremony held at City Harvest Church in Subang Jaya. The twelve shortlisted songs were weaved into a musical, making it a melodious, colorful, and dramatic extravaganza.
The lead actress part was played by none other than Transit's very own 
Here she is with 
Among the cast was our very own 
The musical was power-packed, filled with high-energy dances, dramatic tension, and some pretty awesome light play. The crowd was really hyped up. The suspense made them even more eager to know the winners of the songwriting competition. Among hundreds of entries from all over Malaysia, several Transiters songs were selected.
Joni's song made the cut (we weren't surprised at all) but unfortunately she couldnt be present to sing it herself. She asked Joshua to croon in her stead. However, nobody explained to the crowd why a boy was on the stage singing when the screen displayed the caption "Joanna Lynne". Anyway, confusion aside, Josh was a hit, the previous year's winner named him as her favourite, and many of us overhead encouraging comments from the crowd. One of them was a man who couldnt help complimenting Joshua's singing to his neighbour. As it turned out, the person sitting beside him was Joshua's grandfather.
Also shortlisted was our Lydia Tan. All our finalists made us proud.
It was a night of stirring performances from all genres across the board. The panel was more inclusive this year and chose to recognize different types of songs including Bahasa Malaysia songs. In the end, Diana Wee walked away with the top prize for her song 'In Awe', and we were all in awe of the goodness of God as displayed in all the songs.
