the most talk bloggers' event of the blogosphere...

i mentioned here that there are currently some most talk bloggers' event of the blogosphere. i bet you IZEAFest is on top of the list now~

see what i mean? you people don't know of how i really wished to be there in seaworld orlando right now, with the rest of the bloggers. i felt so lucky anyway when i got the chance to watch some of the speakers last night liz strauss and brett bumeter, streaming live online courtesy of ustream. the talks were very good and informative.

and believe me people! this pic below will melt your heart. thanks to ben spark. he upload the pic from the venue straight to his flickr album via flickr mobile huhuu... more live pic uploaded by other bloggers/twitterers can be viewed here =)

if only i can get corporate companies or individuals (ehem...) to grant my wish for the same event next year fuhhh! i would be on cloud 9 i tell you guaranteed!!!... but who knows right people. with all of the hardwork and all... wish me luck ok :)

and here's why i am so excited about joining IZEAFest: i have been with them for quite some time already... kaching! kaching!

first i joined payperpost some time in january last year. followed by socialspark in may, same year. then recently i hooked up with sponsored tweets about 3 months ago. they are all under izea. not just that, i also has been selected as one of their TEDHead's! crew. the group was formed as a way to share the excitement of the new izea insider's program which began in january 2009. i am glad that i joined these bunch of people. they are all very nice and helpful. this has been proven that even though i may not known locally, but i am well received there. well if you haven't already, you better do it now people. do get more info about it in my blog, or email me for further queries and clarifications and i will try my very best to help you as far as i could :~)

alright then, since i was not able to make it to IZEAFest; my only hope now is for nuffnang asia-pacific blog awards! i doubt that its one of the most talk bloggers' event of the blogosphere as well especially in the asia-pacific, mainly malaysia, singapore, australia and phillippines. i have already submitted my first blog post to get an invite to the event. my second one is coming up very soon. so see you all there!...

updates... coming up!

i have just arrived from kuala lumpur around 7.45 pm or so. this time i went there by transnasional bus; easy as it is since i was alone... as you could see, besides that there are so many access to public transports i.e. lrt, commuter, monorail and such in the city in order for me to move about easily.

pic of my cousin yaya and i, is courtesy of sawanila.com

and when i went there, i didn't go for one particular reason only. in fact normally there were so many errands to do in a trip, no matter whether it was such a quick one or not. so puh-leaseee... it doesn't mean that i have to blog everything. for an example, don't tell me that i must blog about my appointments too, right. its rather confidential for me, so it will stay as it is. now i hope that i have clarified everything regards to one of my blogging styles *phew*

so as some of you may knew already by now that i attended the "berbuka puasa bersama nuffnang di the apartment klcc". more updates on this and(/or) whatever i think that is bloggable will be coming up very very soon!!!... you see, sometimes its not that i can't do live blogging with my dell whenever or wherever i were, but the thing is times are so jealous of me! whatever it is i will still try my very best to continue blogging no matter what. at least, its better late than never! at the meantime, do click on the above pic for so many wonderful and great pics by sawanila.com [remarks: diese and i launched kheirul's camera for that day's pics occay? hehee...]. and here i would like to thank kheirul for all the wonderful pics. i tell you what... i am very sure that one of these days you would aspect one of them to be a profile pic, like what i did for smashpop's pic here! takpe kan, kheirul kan?... ;)

the day "potluck with redmummy" featured in kosmo!

wahhh... its been almost 3 weeks since i joined "potluck with redmummy". its already been even featured in today's kosmo! (click on the above pic to get to kosmo!' site)... but i myself still haven't blog about it. shame on me! hey... anyhow i have load my collection of pics in my facebook's photo album though. ok ler tu... kan? well, i just thought that i wanna wait for this saturday, and post it under the title— "what i did today, last 3 weeks..." can i? alright, so i'll do it this saturday then insya Allah *big grin*

*pic courtesy of kosmo!

potluck with redmummy!!!...

howdie!!! people... fyi i am blogging from kuala lumpur. it's hard to get blogging here unless from places with wifi facilities, as my sis' new place in denai alam got no internet access wargghhh!!!... now you people know actually of how so many things for me to blog, but yet there are so little time for me to blog :(

whatever it is, let me spread this out first—

• what? potluck with redmummy
  
• when? 27 december 2008 (saturday), at 4—6pm
  
• where? taman putra perdana presint 1, putrajaya
  
• fees? no fees, but all attendees are required to bring a dish of food to be shared among the group.

and this is the map to the venue—

so for those of you people who are interested to join the above event, do send in your details i.e. name, blog url, nickname (if you are not redmummy' silent readers), type of food that you gonna bring, number of pax coming and your mobile number to potluck.redmummy@gmail.com; or better still, click on any of the above images for more details.

i have submitted my details myself although i am not sure yet. the thing is i can come insya allah… but NO cupcakes ler… wargghhh!!!!!… cuz my sis’ new place in denai alam got no oven and what’s not for baking yet huhuu... btw that’s the only thing that i’m good at, at the moment hehee… but anyhow i will try my very best to fit this in to my schedule this saturday, insya allah...

kuE' nuffnang friso family day out with megat!

as mentioned earlier, i am on holiday now hmm... but you know, even though it sounds like i won't update this blog too soon, as a truthful blogger tell me who can't resist this. thank god i can get easy access to the internet here, only that i can't post my pics just yet! grr...

so when i read that most bloggers already wrote about yesterday's event, i was like— "wahhh... this cannot be, i also wanna take the chance to win 32" lcd tv from sony!" hehee... i have already won a RM100 MPH voucher for being one of the 10 best written pre-event blog posts courtesy of friso (read my winning post here)... i wanna more!!!

kuE's note:
pics above are courtesy of redmummy and lina *big grin*

so as some of you people knew it, i was there at the event with my darling megat. actually we reached 1U +/- before 9.10 am. as the business hours start only at 10 am, we waited at the concourse level near the information counter until about 9.40 am; when we started to walk up straight to the kizsports & gym. how surprised we were that the organizers were all ready there to greet us parenting bloggers with our kids, including robb who later introduced me to tengku nila a very nice lady from dutch lady. i wished that i could know you more someday ;)

the event has been lead by marcus as the emcee. he really has done such a great job. i could see that all the kids lurve him! wahhh... who knows, maybe he can also host a children's programme like pak nil someday hehee...

well, as soon as we registered, megat didn't waste the time at all to enjoy himself playing at the kizsports & gym while waiting for the event to start. what when he heard marcus told me that parents were allowed to try the games too specially during that event. i did! it was fun and scary a bit though especially when i was sliding down the slides *glurp* arghhh!!!... all you people should see my pics better to describe that wonderful moment, unfortunately i won't be able to download them yet :)

part of the event was mentioned here. besides that, there were also some informative talk by ms evon tan, a nutritionist from dutch lady. not forgetting lilian chan, on her experience of raising her 5 kids aged between 6 to 18 years old. there was also a magic show by mr banana before the prize giving ceremony.

it was really a fun family day out indeed not just for kids, but parenting bloggers too! see you all again next year(?). i would like to take this opportunity to congratulate sawanila.com again, for winning the grand prize of 3D/2N trip to disneyland hong kong! don't forget some souveniers for me too occay?!! hehee...

NOW... can that 32" lcd tv from sony be placed in my mansion? *glurp*

take note that lotsa pics will be posted after my holiday, i promised! :)

updates: more great pics can be viewed here.

"berlibur" time...

i am currently out of town from thursday morning, holidaying ler... kiddos are on school holidays, so mama also gotta have some relaxing time *phew* i am now right here blogging from an auntie's place somewhere in TTDI. i was kinda shocked when i found out that this blog got quite a number of hits today from this entry because of this entry... perghhh!!!... i dunno what's going on there, cuz like i said earlier, i am on "berlibur" time... probably later huh?!! when i come back from holiday. now is the time for me to chill out!

today in fact, i had damn great time at "nuffnang friso family day out" with my darling megat! he got a hamper from friso for being one of the 7 winners for musical spots, that's quite similar with musical chairs. that was such one great idea though for using rubber coloured spots instead of chairs, and more safer especially for smaller kids. while i won myself a RM100 mph voucher. a big congratulations goes to sawanila.com for winning the grand prize of 3D/2N trip to disneyland hong kong. tqsm nuffnang and friso! and not forgetting kizsports & gym at one utama. what a great venue!

o yes... congratulations to marcus (go here to browse his blog) too! for doing such a great job as the emcee for the event. you are rock dude! lotsa pics will be posted as soon as i am back from holiday. good things come to those who wait! :~)

friso brings my family out

what is the meaning of the word family?

many of us are neglecting of the word FAMILY especially those who are working and not giving too much attention to people beside them. i personally experienced the same thing but when i've read the story below, it all change my perspective about the people around me. it is a story of a son who wants to buy the time of his father. a very touching story, a simple but very effective in changing the person's life. i got it from an email to me, i don't know where this story originated so i consider this as a God's Letter to all the people who do not know the real meaning of the FAMILY. here it goes—

a man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5 year-old son waiting for him at the door. “daddy, may i ask you a question?”

“yeah sure, what is it?” replied the man.

“daddy, how much do you make an hour?”

“that's none of your business. why do you ask such a thing?” the man said angrily.

“i just want to know. please tell me, how much do you make an hour?” pleaded the little boy.

“if you must know, i make $20 an hour.”

“oh,” the little boy replied, with his head down.

looking up, he said, “daddy, may i please borrow $10 from you?”

the father was furious, “if the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. think about why you are being so selfish. i work hard everyday for such this childish behaviour.”

the little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. the man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions. how dare he ask such questions only to get some money? after about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think: maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $10 and he really didn't ask for money very often. the man went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door.

“are you asleep, son?” he asked.

“no daddy, i'm awake”, replied the boy.

“i've been thinking, maybe i was too hard on you earlier,” said the man, “it's been a long day and i took out my aggravation on you. here's the $10 you asked for.”

the little boy sat straight up, smiling. “oh, thank you daddy!” he yelled. then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. the man, seeing that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. the little boy slowly counted out his money, then looked up at his father.

“why do you want more money if you already have some?” the father grumbled.

“because i didn't have enough, but now i do,” the little boy replied.

“daddy, i have $20 now. can i buy an hour of your time? please come home early tomorrow. i would like to have dinner with you.”

share this story with someone you like... but even better, share $20 worth of time with someone you love. it's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. we should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts.

if we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days. but the family and friends we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. and come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our family an unwise investment indeed.

so what is the moral of the story? don't work too hard... and know who you are working for... and... you know what's a family?

F = father
A = and
M = mother
I = i
L = love
Y = you


family day is the name of a statutory holiday in israel and the canadian provinces of alberta, ontario and saskatchewan, and a public holiday in south africa.

while in the united states of america, the country celebrates family day on 4th monday of september. i was unaware of the holiday until recently when i saw it online while i was browsing. in order to state my curiosity, i decided to do a couple of quick google & wikipedia searches to see what this holiday was all about. i’m really not any closer to finding the exact meaning of the holiday, but i suppose, on a very base level, it is about family and spending time with them and appreciating them. but do we really need a specific holiday to do that? shouldn’t that be something we do on a daily basis?

what does family day mean to you? is it another day off of work? is it another long weekend you can use to get drunk? do any holidays nowadays have the meaning they once did “back in the day” (as it were)?

so what say you parent bloggers out there, if we spare some time during this school holiday seasons to join ‘nuffnang friso family day out’, the first nuffnang parenting bloggers gathering courtesy of friso!

they are throwing in a big incentive for parenting bloggers to write as creative as they can to attend this event. the best creative blog post written will be rewarded with a dream vacation of a 3D/2N trip to disneyland hong kong for 2 adults and 2 children fully sponsored by friso!

but it's not just that... there are lots of other prizes for your family that you can win. among them are;

• 10 X RM100 MPH voucher
  
• and they are also rewarding parenting bloggers who write the best post event blog post with a 32” LCD TV from Sony!

so what are you waiting for mommy, daddy and/(or) parent bloggers out there? go here to find out more about this. now put on your thinking cap and let your fingers do the blog posting! who knows, your blog post might just win your family a trip to disneyland!

hmm... shall i say that i will meet you all there with my megat? i know i will, insya allah... :~)

more updates on nuffnang wild "live" blogging

(pics first, story soon...)

the day i am blogging from modesto's

hello there people of the world!!!


i am blogging from modesto's desa seri hartamas right now for the nuffnang wild "live" blogging event as mentioned earlier. i can see that everyone is having fun--getting to know each other, camwhoring, munching the great food, hmm... what else... o yea... i have already met johnny ong ;) well he's the one who approached me first. sorry ya dude, i am kinda shy lor... tehehee...

alright people my left hand is holding some rubber bands for some games later. the party's gonna start very soon!!!...

ciao!

are you all people a blogger too?

i asked because some of you may not. maybe some of you people came here by co-incidence, stumbling in to my blog from search engine i.e. google or yahoo. i knew it as i always check my blog traffics via site meter. so you ain't can't run from me. i got all your ip number recorded ;)




btw a big kudos to emily for her article published in star r.age recently. hey guess what people... she featured me too! thanks dear auww... so now what are you non-bloggers waiting for? in fact i have just posted a tag about why i blog, few days ago. read about it here.

kuE's note: click on the above pic to view a larger one, so that you could read the full content of the article.

penang bloggers meet, 25 feb. '07

i was there at the penang bloggers meet at e-gate starbucks. yea... i drove all the way from here. it was not a rare Qs for me, indeed. wow... it was the first, biggest and coolest ever bloggers meet that i have been! thanks to all of you bloggers that i met especially LogicYuan, the organiser. i could say that everyone were very sporting although most of us met for the first time. the above pics prove it all.

anyhow i 'tabik-spring' to you 5Xmom ler, for up-dating yours so fast one :P

megat and i reached e-gate around 10am. it was my first time there, parked my 4wd right in front of the starbucks. since i had an empty stomach, we headed straight to starbucks for breakfast. i didn't care already whether other bloggers already arrived or not. lapor (hungry) woh...

then i started to see millymin and CY. i knew already you two must have been there for the meet hehheee... then came LogicYuan and Koolz if i am not mistaken. there and then, more and more bloggers came, that we could easily identified each other via our dress-code (black, white and red). we adjourned out-door. unfortunately since the weather was rather hot, LogicYuan, with his 'selamba-dek' face, called everyone to go inside. the best thing was he dare to ask another patron to move outside to give way for us. i did not count the exact number of us who came but i bet you all know from the pics, that our group was big :D

although there was not much agenda, just chit-chatting and pics-taking session; the meets was wonderful. everyone really had a great time!

all of you people must have wondered, of how come puteri's face not there. she was too shy to join us at the last minute. i guess maybe she read from the list that there will be quite a number of guys too lol... its alright dear, maybe next time ya?

read and view more pics (more to add, after others have up-dated theirs) —

• 5Xmom (tqsm for the ang pow hehe...)
• cHrIstInA_YY
  
• CY (he is so good in remembering people's name i tell you)
  
• kahpeng
  
• hobart lim
  
• warren tan (he took passport pics of us—thank god mine turns ok lol...)
  
• cedric ang (dia ni pak lawak le...)
  
• aL
  
• joosing
  
• timothy tiah (he's one of the cute leng chai that day)
  
• jlshyang
  
• logic yuan d man!!!...
  
• minnylicious (she's so damn cute like china doll ler...)
  
• mischique (this girl is a very big fan of beautiful shoes, just like me when i was younger. now? well, i am still am hehe... but never show (yet) lol... btw i love to get to know more of you dear.)
  
• jayelle (from what i understand, she's a celebrity blogger)

click here for more pics ;)

kuE's note: if anyone of you penang bloggers meet have up-dated your blog, please let me know so that i could add more links here ;)

**last up-dated 9/03/07

penang bloggers meet @ e-gate starbucks!

the penang bloggers' meeting central — bloggers meet will be held as follows.

date: 25 february 2007 (sunday)

venue: e-gate starbucks

time: 11.30 a.m.

attire: black or white + red too! (since its CNY)
(note: black or white doesn't mean you have to wear the same colour from top to toe, as long as your shirt/blouse/dress or whatsoever is predominantly black or predominantly white)

kuE's note: click here for more details ;)

those who are interested please leave your name together with your blog URL in the comments section or just send an email that includes the requirements above to ji yuan.

yea... i'm back!!!

yes... i arrived home almost 10.30pm. started almost 6.30pm frm KD. lurvee driving during the chill cooooll weather tho' juz like last nite, so damn goood man... more cool when it started to rain. so i drove damn slow like 80-90 km/h. hmm... when talking about driving, that always reminds me that i still owe Zed "my don't drink and drive experience" ;) one day k...

anyhow if not because there's a discussion between parents and teachers at puteri's school this morning, i would have still be in kl by now lol. there will be some extra classes for puteri starting next month. this is a good initiative of the school teachers. puteri still in kl, enjoying her holidays. she will be facing the upsr exam next year, so thats why she is enjoying herself now.

i went to kl last saturday with megat and mom. for my kl trip this time, basically there were two important reasons i.e. first we went to cousin shanaz house-warming bbq party at putrajaya and the other, i met a very special friend for the first time! i didn't take any pics at shanaz's place. i dun have digicam. i also lost my purple colour nokia 7250i few months ago :( taraaa.... i still managed to put-up some pics of the party here with the courtesy from my cousin nivin. tqsm my dear.

smile...

...and we took a pic first while waiting for the rest ;)

girl cousins (complete)

front row from left: sarah, shanaz & liyana. back row from left: illa, ida, ina, nivin & me.

alright... banking at rhb sj yesterday morning was really sucks. things that could be done within minutes, took them hours to settle. grr... so i decided to do the banking stuff at the other bank in pj next time instead. at least i have another good excuse for me to drive down to kl again lol.

anyhow my most important "to-do list" yesterday was my lunch-cum-blind date with a very special friend. guess who?!!... hehe... i dropped-off megat and mom at MV (hehe... midvalley lor..) then i drove straight away to jalan raja chulan. i parked my 4wd at the weld basement parking area, walk across to the opposite building. gosh... i forgot the name of the building tho' lol... our meeting point was at the coffee bean. i didn't see any sign of her so i joined the queue. suddenly she sms me that she was on the way down, so i decided to just wait for her outside the shop. i sat on one of the chairs when my staff called for some problems back home. suddenly... ah ha... leilanie walked right infront of me. i smiled at her and quickly end my fon conversation. we walked in, ordered some food and drinks (ya lor... lapo hehe...). we chat while eating our lunch. i felt so damn excited meeting leilanie for the first time. at one time, i dun feel like eating anyway because i was so truly damn EXCITED!!! but at the same time, my stomach was singing damn loud, so i decided to eat too rotfl... we talked about everything... our life, family, work, blogs, Zed (hehe...), etc etc etc. i tried to take pic of leilanie using my new nokia 6680 that i juz bought on sunday in 1u. unfortunately its not captured. i dunno what have i done wrong. i am so sorry kawan. hmm... that was the fact that i didn't read the user's manual yet lol... luckily leilanie brought along her digital camera too. looks like i'll post the pics here after she email me the pics as promised. i am soooo sorry again, kawan.

kuE's note:
i) pics at shanaz's bbq party taken by auntie mia, using cousin nivin's nikon e4300.
ii) 16/11/05 ~ added pics of leilanie and me, using her digicam. read her version here.