the CNY gathering

UPDATED: the podcast is ready! quick, download it here at once and listen to my voice (among a few others). or go to penang podcast and download it.

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19 17 people turned up for our CNY gathering!

i met yvy near prangin mall’s starbuck and later on, pras joined us. we waited for 10 mins. before we walked over to ong’s place.

the minute we stepped into ong’s place, we were greeted with this – registration. it was a good idea of ong, to make sure that we can keep track of all those who turned up. some though, did not notice this registration counter. he had a cute bloggers meet sign outside the house but i did not take a picture of it. yvy did, and i’m sure she will post the picture up.

when we reached ong’s place, vincent of penang podcast and a friend of him, tony, were already there. i guess he need to be early to set up his lcd, laptop, mic and so on for his podcasting talk and live talk.

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we started off with an introduction of members, which was followed by a talk by vincent on what is a podcast and how to set up a podcast. first, vincent get connected to another two podcasters, jeremiah foo in KL and john ong in US, and they chatted to us live. jeremiah stayed only a while, while john, who told us he was at that time in bed (as it was around 1.00am US time), stayed on to join our gathering. while vincent was giving us his talk about podcasting, john joined in now and then. he even answered questions from some of us.

after vincent (seen here above, with his very chinesey shirt) had finished his podcasting talk, all of us were given a chance to introduce ourselves and our blogs for a podcast. great! i can’t wait to listen to the podcast…. though i know i will sound terrible.

a few people like cmos, yvy, pras left immediately after the talk finished while the rest of us stay on chit chatting. a young girl, khor turned up rather late – after the podcasting talk finished and after a few people had gone back. anyway, there were still 5 of us around, and she did have a nice chat with us.

there were so much food – lots of CNY cookies, as you will notice from the red cover plastic container – those containers were all bought by different people. as we were busy listening to vincent’s talk, many of the food were not touched. after the talk, we did eat some here and there but still lots remain. well, in the end, we (kenny, n305er, khor and i) took back what we bought. at least that will spare poor ong from trying to finish up all those cookies.

ong, standing, talking to the bloggers and non bloggers who were seated at the table filled with CNY goodies.

adui! got pomeloes too! and look who’s busy eating it. (yvy!!). i don’t like pomeloes so no take it. oh i also don’t take oranges, which btw, were brought by yvy.

here are the names of those who turned up.
1. ong
2. yvy
3. n305er
4. cmos
5. kenny
6. vincent
7. prashanth
8. tan lee ooi
9. peter hutkins.
10. jonathan cheah
11. anwar fazal
12. chiang kee chun
13. VY low
14. lee
15. cheah
16. tony
17. teh
18. manjit
19. saw sook hua

ong, is sook hua from chinapress too?

thank you to all who came, and especially to vincent for sharing with us good valuable tips on podcasting… though i admit i’m not really interested in doing podcast. listen yes, i am interested. maybe one of the reason is i always said i am techie idiot…. which i am because i am lazy to learn. 🙂

the first person to blog on the meet is n305er. he blog live – while he was at ong’s place!
blogging live from penang bloggers meet.

UPDATED: kenny too blog live.

the others:
ong – a very different bloggers meet in penang
yvy – bloggers/netizens CNY gathering – HAPPENING!
vincent – penang podcast #006 – bloggeers gathering
cmos – CNY blog/netizen meet.
pras@centerpide – when bloggers finally meet up
khor of meus lacuna