Hi there!
I know I'm supposed to blog about this a week ago but kinda wrapped up with work at the moment. And besides, I just received the piccas from my blogger friend who attended it as well. (After much nagging via fb, twittter and blog. LOL!) All pictures are credit to Hemy D. KindEmperor of course. I also brought my camera along but was more intent in listening than taking pictures that day.
I'm trying not to re-use the pictures that he already posted on his post. So here goes my take on the meetup! The first picture is the group picture!
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| From back row left: Adam, Steven, Fazly, Yogaretnam, Keri, Ilya, "yours truly", Jana, Emila, David, Ben, Thristhan, Hemy. From bottom row left: Fienuts, Mastura, Ruggedmom, Dian, Hannah, Anis Ibrahim |
I'm sorry, I couldn't get the names for Miss and Mister. Hope somebody could clarify this for me. Hehe.
Ms. Emila rectified for me via twitter, thanks!
Being among the late to arrive, it didn't take me long to recognize the bloggers around me since I've met pretty much some of them in past blogger events. But it was my first to meet (or perhaps glance. haha) Ms. Anis Ibrahim. (Pictured below on the left). Sorry didn't get to chat with you. =(
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| I wonder what these three are discussing. Hehe. Anis, Thristhan and Emila in deep conversation. |
And just about ten minutes later, the sharing session started. I believe Mr Steven was the chosen emcee for the session with Ilya Houben (
wonderfulmalaysia.com), Dian (
Tourism Selangor) and David Hogan Jr (
Malaysia Asia) as the panelists.
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| Steven, Ilya, Dian and David laughing at some remarks from the audience. |
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| We were definitely ALL EARS/ Hint: We stopped eating. haha. |
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| It felt like a debate among these three which was fascinating to observe! Haha! |
All three had their own ways and opinions on how to brand their blogs and perhaps themselves. While the two on the right preferred using blogspot but Ilya created his blog from scratch on his own servers! That's awesome! He'll never be afraid that his content be put down by third party servers. I wonder if I can drop my blog on his server as well? Err... (wishful thinking.)
Dian talked about being passionate on things you do and later on the way, you'll be rewarded. While David talked about numbers. Hehe. I'm not going deeper into this as these tips can be read from the blogs below.
Another thing to note, never stop shamelessly promoting yourself! Hahaha. (Don't think I can do that though. =p) Last but not least, a picture with the sponsor, Ms Hannah Pearson of Sedunia Travel. Kudos for the meetup, it was awesome! I believe some of my guy friends developed a crush on her. Awww!
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| Anis, Ilya (at the back), Dian, Hannah and me! Beside me is Fazly. Sitting below was Mastura and Emila. |
I believe there's a second meetup coming this September. Hopefully more people will come. Please don't be shy. We don't care if you're a true travel blogger, just as long you love to travel is enough.
The bloggers who weren't in the above pictures but came as well were Abbey, Lash and Tony who in fact came all the way from Singapore! Thanks to all for making this meetup a blast. Hope to meet you all again! =)
Regards,
Jard
