Blogger bash - the longest lunch...

What would happen when you put some 30 blogger in a room!!!. We blogger know too well that even with just two blogger the chat would be endless. So with some 40 blogger/spouse it sure would turn the event into a riot of sorts. With everyone talking all the time on every subjects that come to their minds, at that moment in time the session would just explode into a frenzy of exchanges of information and ideas. I believe no other species on this planet could generate so much energy in such an informal gathering then this new species that we call blogger. This species live both in the physical world and cybersphere. Hence they have developed a new culture of communication that no other species have done before. First they just communicate in cyberspace and then when they meet in the real world it became an encounter of a different kind that only blogger know best. Even strangers seem to know more about one another and then when they meet in person, it is just to complete that relationship that had been nurtured in cybersphere. The atmoshpere of such meeting became cordial in mere instance.

Well folks, Starting with a SMS, a blogger meet/lunch was plans on November 29, 2008 at the Royal Bintang Hotel in Damansara Mutiara. The hotel is situated at the Curve shopping complex. The last time we gather for such a do it was held at the cafe nearby. But this time for wanting to have a large enough space the organiser MatSalo decide that the lunch be held at the Coffee Terrace of the hotel. So here we are in a great Coffee Terrace of a four star hotel where buffet spreads are aplenty and the price is not that expensive especially with the free flow of the Teh Tarik and Coffee.

After picking Pok ku and he acts as the GPS I drove the Honda toward the Curve. The route is not the usual one that I take to get to the Curve but with the experience of Pok ku, this part of the world been his territory; it was indeed an easy drive for I hardly had to think, leaving Pok Ku to tell me to turn left or right until I got into a familiar route as we near the Curve. We arrived just before 12:30PM as planned. On arrival I saw Elviza and Mat Salo were already having their chat. We greet each other and for the first time met Pibani, that charming lady blogger from Ipoh. I took my seat at the same table and then tried the buffet spreads. As I sat to enjoy my food more and more blogger came from as faraway as Penang, Ipoh and Malacca. By 1:30PM one section of the Coffee Terrace of the hotel was crowded with blogger enjoying themselves more on the chat rather then the foods. In the midst of the confusion I met Fauziah Ismail whom I had only known in cyberspere. As the time goes by I began to get to know more and more of the new faces. It would be just impossible at this juncture for me to name them all in this posting. With so many blogger tuned to their kind of communication time passes by fast indeed.

At this event I met more blogger then I had expected and some are complete strangers, whom I have not met even in cyberspace. With everyone so cheerful and full of love the introduction just comes easy and then we all set down and talk as though we have known each other for a long time. The chemistry among blogger was fantastic and everyone talk with ease and most seem to be thinking on the same wavelength. I just could not remember all the names for the memory chip of folks of our age is somewhat rusty. Anyway I would just summarised but a few like those three strangers from Ipoh [Alhusseyn, Azizul, Zainal] Now strangers no more and the familiar faces like Kerps, Shah, Dr.Zul, Nuriana, Raden... Kadir Jasin the vateran blogger drop in for a while and had a tt with the blogger. We even have a retired judge, though not a blogger as yet joining in to share his thoughts of the recent happening especially so on the changing political scenario of the country.

The greatest thing about such meeting of the minds are that the flows of information and ideas was just endless. I am indeed fascinated with the world view of the blogger of my children's generation. As usual with me I would just narrate some of the history so that they know that the country is in the process of change, and it is their generation that is going to be in charge from now onward.

Well, like any gathering of such nature time was not on our side and soon Pok Ku signal that his head is sending him a message of sort and that we have to move. On looking at my watch I notice that it is already 5:30 in the evening. Sure it was time that we move from the Coffee Terrace; for the lunch had been the longest that I had ever attended and we are getting tired. With that we parted, with a promise to meet again, perhaps with a bigger group.

This is Pok ku takes on the event and MatSalo's is here. This is from Elviza. Have a nice day.