Youth Malaysia 2008
Last Friday, I attended the “Youth Malaysia 2008“. I wouldn’t say it is an interesting event but I met some friends, that’s the most important to me.
I went there around 10am because I was curious about the special appearance of Friendster.com. Every visitor was required to register themselves for free. Surprisingly, there were only a few visitors. Everyone was walking around the booths without much interest.
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Friendster: Karen Kong
The Friendster.com special appearance started half hour late. The special guests were Friendster CEO and Karen Kong. Karen is a singer who built her popularity in Friendster.com.
She is a student of University Tunku Abdul Rahman. There was short interview about Friendster and Karen Kong. She didn’t perform her song anyway. Karen was quite cute but seemed nervous. By the way, there were only less than 20 visitors sitting below the stage…
Frankly, I didn’t know her until the day. When I went back, I asked my younger brother whether he heard about her or not. He answered, “Karen Kong? Hey, I am her fan!” Wow, she is quite popular! ;)
The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search
The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search was the main purpose I attended Youth Malaysia 2008. It was started late too. Not sure what’s the reason, probably waiting for VIP or waiting for more audience.
As expected, Paul Tan (pic) was the winner of “special award” that was most voted website. The “special award” is only a framed certificate. The grand prize (RM20,000 + laptop) was won by ShoutMix (pic), a chatbox widget.
I heard about ShoutMix a few years back. The founder developed the web app alone by himself. It has become popular and powered by two dedicated server, as I heard. Congrats to him!
The whole prize giving only took less than 5 minutes. Many people were wondering who are the winners and why they won? Many people asked why only 1 grand prize of RM20,000 cash, instead of dividing it into few more smaller prizes?
Paul Tan, the winner, wasn’t quite happy about the whole event.
Friends
Beside being curious about who the winner would be, meeting net friends was the other reason I was there.
(from left) SaiMatKong, AhKong, LiewCF, Adi, and Poh
Glad to meet them, although we don’t have time to sit down and have a nice talk. :)
Christy and I
Christy is my net friend. We met for the first time at Youth `08. She has a personal blog that I visit almost daily. I rarely read personal blog. Christy is a friendly college student. She is single and available, but she is not interested in love relationship at the moment. Check out Christy’s Facebook profile to know more about her.
“Traffic Jam”
Traffic Jam is one of the program of Youth `08 where 100 PCs display 100 blogs. Each blogger can decorate the PC that display their blog. It was started at Saturday but I peeped at the computers on Friday. Here are some decorations that I found interesting:
Click Here for other Traffic Jam’s PC pics.
More pics? Check out my Flickr photo album “Youth Malaysia 2008“!
Thanks for the linkie love, mate. ;)
Yeah, Paul Tan is definitely pissed and if I were him, I would to!
Though it would be wise not to remain too pissed on it for too long.
I also got to know about Karen Kong through friendster.com, didn’t know she is that popular. :p
As I was leaving, I stopped at the entrance to capture some screenies, then I saw Paul Tan coming out. He still recognizes me hahah. :D
(We got acquainted several years ago, back in 2002)
I congratulated him, exchanged handshakes and conversed for a brief moment before going off.
Boring event, but totally most exciting to be able to meet up with fellow local bloggers, and get to meet up and shake hands with Malaysian Pro Blogger – Liew CF – you! WOHOO! TOTALLY AWESOME!
Cheers, mate. :D
If I got chance next year, I will attend the youth.
Meeting net friends are wonderful!
hey, yeah nice meeting you in person too =)
I have been reading your blog for years and good to have a chance to meet you in person and actually you are very tall :)
Hi Liew, the link tot he post about Paul’s unhappiness doesnt lead me to that post of LYN.. whats wrong?
It brought me to the login page, but after login, I still cant find the topic. Even after searching “paul tan” as keywords, still futile..
Thanks.
Karen was my student before. I kind of following her singing activities online, friendster and radio.
how to meet up with you in the future, if there is a chance…hehe
@Ndmervin: I fixed the link. It should work now.
@kaiwah: karen was your student? that’s cool! Ya, of coz we have a chance to meetup in the future. Perhaps you will see my younger brother in UTAR later. :)
Wow, it looks like that pc there is full of cub webs :) but its cool!
Wow, this event seems boring but at least you have these events in your country. And Cristy is really hot! ;-)
Is this event the first of its kind in Malaysia? I am sure there is always room for improvement in the 2009 event :)
As ABBA says…. The winner takes it all…..
I receive an email about my blog was sort listed on 100 in the traffic jam, but too bad, I flight them… wakakakaka…
oh ya, i just meet the shoutmix founder just now in Penang Tech Nite, he is quite friendly guy, he approch me at the beginning of the event… I was shock
Karen? What Karen? LOL
my booth didn’t attract you ah .. =(
@doink: yours is nice too. I also took pic of your booth. :)
hehe ..i was just fishing for a shameless compliment :P