Forever Young : Kuching Bloggers Meet 21st January 2006

by FH2o on January 22, 2006

I wasn’t going to blog this or even post any photos but some of you might be a little curious how the Kuching Bloggers’s meet went. It went well (thanks to the organisers) and was an interesting experience to be amongst these YOUNG people who are all so friendly, polite and all so young, young and young! You get the idea. Yes, Edison (aka kuching’s Jim Carrey wannabe) call me ‘unker’ one more time and I’ll use Felicity’s camera (reminds me of the 1st generation ‘brick’ hp!) on you!

Most of us were meeting each other for the first time, so apprehension and nervousness was the order of the night but eventually some of them garnered the courage to ask this senior (nicely put by the gracious ‘King Kenny’) why he is so “kay si” (loosely translated as “so in / with it”) to also blog? Being ‘cool’ is not solely the domain of the young ok. Why do I call him ‘king’? Take the number of hits in a month the rest of the bloggers put together and multiply that by 10 and we don’t even come close to the number of hits Kenny gets in a single day! Sick huh?

Except for Charmaine (pray harder! ;) ); this is the first gathering I had been to that everyone has a digital camera, so I diffidently took some quiet snapshots as well. It was really nice of the cool, calm and collected KC to offer to help me with my webpage (*sigh* of relief).

Oh, guess what happened by evening’s end as I was leaving ‘Tao’ where we adjoined to after ‘Hornbill’s Corner? All the Kuching bloggers want to try kayaking! Now I’ve got more than what I had bargained for! Bloggers Meet on the waters everyone?

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Chen January 22, 2006 at 6:36 am

wah… unker, u are so tall :O
my goodness…. don’t dare to stand beside u liao :P
I see u took picture together with Wilson as well, I met him during my last trip to Kuching in November 2005 :)

Now,u get lots of kayak kaki liao :D
must take number to go kayaking?
or have to pay a small token of $$$ ?:P

Desmond January 22, 2006 at 7:36 am

FH20 - wanted to meet you but time was not on my side. Within a few minutes I could not find out which was u :) You look very young in the photos so I cannot really find you as I felt was the oldest there :)

Kenny Sia January 22, 2006 at 8:03 am

Alright, when are we going to kayak?

Oh and it was nice meeting your daughter too. I hope I didn’t corrupt her mind too much. haha

SilveRaveN January 22, 2006 at 9:33 am

wah~ everyone gang up together to insult my poor brick camera horr??

kesian my camera…

*psst* i wanna go kayaking! :D

bonnie January 22, 2006 at 11:43 am

then you can bring them all to the International Kayak Blogger’s Meetup we’re going to have…uh…someday. Wenley said it’s in Spain.

Edison January 22, 2006 at 12:03 pm

Brother Ho!! dun la… say me until like that… i’m no Jim Carey ok?! i’m more like Charlie Chaplin with BOOMBOX… :D

so rite Brother… can i book 1 of ur Kayaks ok? :0 need 2 pay rental 1 or not?

Feli: u tell them.. “AT LEAST i haf a CAMERA” true onot? aAaHh… :D

cynical-idealist January 22, 2006 at 2:39 pm

Hehe, I’m stealing pics off everyone. Next time I come back from Perth I’ll be armed with a camera, so you all watch out!

Alicia January 22, 2006 at 7:25 pm

unca looks so young in the pic!

Robin January 22, 2006 at 8:35 pm

Wah, being the only Unker around must have rewarded you with a lot of attention.

haha.. u mean no one older then u, no aunty? Doc Chen, position to be filled?

sLenZieLiECioUs January 22, 2006 at 8:46 pm

now i know how u look like eh….
hiaks~!!

@ロウ 。LOW@ January 22, 2006 at 9:04 pm

Wow! Sounds like a lot of fun! Maybe next time i can fly to Kuching, register a new blog there and join you guys! Hehe!!!

Now, maybe someone will start a KL version…

Wilson January 22, 2006 at 9:06 pm

the gathering was fantastic :) is nice to meet u in person too :)

FH2O January 22, 2006 at 9:13 pm

slenz - i hope ‘hiaks’ is not a derisive word? but i dun like d sound of it though … lucky u didnt say ‘hoon’!

robin - i’ll ignore u as its too early in d mornin n i’d not had my 2nd caffeine fix yet!

alicia - my dear, u need glasses!

cynical-idealist - um, pray harder??

edison - when i want 2 scare the monkeys away from my jetty, I’ll call u! quick let me have ur hp number liao!

bonnie - Spain would be AWESOME! (but we gotta save up!)

silveraven - when we go kayakin’ dun 4get ur camera, u need it as ballast! ;p

King Kenny - woah! the KING has visited my humble abode! Dont worry about my daughter - MTV has already done all d damage!

Desmond - bro, u need GLASSES too!

Chen - see my comments to Robin!

Thanks Folks!
Now back to d GRIND!!!

Chen January 22, 2006 at 10:40 pm

unker robin,
u will be the second unker there if u attend the meetup session :D
btw, i’m still young :P

Lrong January 22, 2006 at 10:59 pm

Looks interesting… wonder if there are enough Kedahan bloggers to come up with such a meet… don’t think so…

FH2O January 22, 2006 at 11:17 pm

chen - ‘young’ is a relative term, to my 15-year old daughter, the bloggers that nite are oldies! ;)

lrong - there are Kedahan bloggers for sure; BUT leave the fish at home if u r goin to the meet!

kuiinyiih January 23, 2006 at 1:11 am

i want to go kayaking too! hahaha…it was freat meeting yu :D

FH2O January 23, 2006 at 1:29 am

jess - for a moment there i thought u wrote that it was “freaky” meeting unker!
now, now, now - don’t be nervous; i won’t bite!

kayaking with FH2o - take a number n join d queue!! (i still have unanswered emails) hehehe juz jokin’!

I’ll try to organise a “Introduction 2 Kayakin 4 Bloggers” meet at my place on a high tide weekend. Cool? Do i see a raise of hands from the Kuching Bloggers on this? I CAN”T HEAR U!!!!!

agus January 23, 2006 at 2:25 am

Looks like you had a blast! I would love to be there and meet every single blogger. Oh, and that includes married ones lah! This is a very good place to start, right on your blog jetty.

fullmoon January 23, 2006 at 9:07 am

;) wa francis ! u actually looked younger in these photos…! Finally got yr wish to go on 30

jason g. anom January 23, 2006 at 11:03 am

hey, that was fun, yeah. and you actually got the picture with me and the flame ‘flirting’!

yeah, when is the kuching blog meet on water thing?

cheers!

FH2O January 23, 2006 at 6:21 pm

jason! - d flame was not d only thing u flirted with! hehehe

we r bloggers remember - ever on the look out n quik w/ our wits n shots! *ahem*

will post here on the ‘kuching h2o bloggers meet’ - the coolest bloggers meet this side of d equator! but not so soon ok! ;p

cynical-idealist January 24, 2006 at 4:47 am

Serious we all gona meet on the water?

FH2O January 24, 2006 at 8:47 am

cynical-idealist - its juz an idea/rumour lah … but why not? but not anytime soon isnt it. but then again some of u r goin bak rite? we’ll play it by ear …

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