To convert theory to Reality Show, those 30-odd sign-ups who have pledged to pay, please turn up punctually at 2.15PM May 1 at the Lake View, to prevent palpitations rising in Tony's and Desi's hearts. Soft, not hard.
Theoretically, the magic number of 110 of Registrants was more than attained by about 10.00pm the day before D-Day which is May the First -- Labour Day, marking Bloggers' Universe Malaysia (BUM) 2008 Gathering at Lake View, Subang Jaya.
As Chair, Desiderata, knottyaSsusual, told a happy Tony Yew, whom I dubbed our MoneyMan to one caller who was numbered about 120, that he has led an A-teAm in accomplishing the Marketing Mission for BUM2008. "On behalf of all in awe, Syabas!"
Theoretically, the 10 or so late-signups, 24 hours after COB the day before Yesterady --hey, why are Malaysians such diehard addicts of being late, ah? -- might have to stand from 3.00pm to 8.30pm except for the Hi-Tea break and of course, when two lost lambs return to Warren Buffets' tabel to declare that dinner starts punctually at 8.30PM.
I just bought a nu'e watch from Chee Cheong Kai, just testing the saiko market. Oops, Seiko!
I don wanna the Japanese tycoons to sue the BUM2008 Organising Committee!
So to all comers -- Bloggers and non-, and Bloggers-to-be or not to be, that's the question, plagiarising The Bard -- ENJOY YOURSELF OKAY! Don't let any leg of the two lambs run away!
I did promise you won't regret signing on for BUM2008; after tomorrow, you would come back, like Oliver, or Olivia, asking for more. Or amore!:)
Thanks for the support, see ya very soon. I'm having FUN-d already, at thy expense;) -- Desi 12.42am, May the First, your day, my day, OUR day!
"DEAR ALL: Please send us the LINKS to any Posts you will write, I am sure, about this HAP Bloggers' Event of the Year. If any problem, email our Webmaster hohhelen@gmail.com"
*************************Small nu'es break!:) ************************
UPDATEd at Hi-Noon The Day After!: TWO UPPERS and wan Downer!
UPPER1:) The Reality Attendance was a lusty 170, with 130 paying Guests which means VVVVVVVe exceeded our tArget by 20! Next year Rocky's A-teAm from ALL-BLOGS will have to look for a LARGER VENURE -- to cater for 300?
UPPER2:) As I read theSun today, page 10, I was happily greAted by this news break. (At BUM2008 partee, I had shared with some MSM and non-MSM mates that I always enjoyed covering former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Love/like or hate him, he's colourful, fool of wit and byteing sarcasm, enough to rival RPK's (and of course, claiming greAtnurse by a(R)s(E)ociation, Desi's!)
Meet blogger chedet aka Dr M
PS: If you have to ask who this chedet is, please come toBUM2009, pay RM50+, ++ for tuition f(R)ee!
*********** Ah, the nu'es break! subhead:
Ocuppational hazard of being a Blogger:( **************
DOWNER wan!:( Received this sms from fellow BUM2008 OC ANCIENT MARINER aka Capt Yusof Ahmad, member at 10.38AM, and I waited to post this ringing around for more information, but could not get much more, so be patient okay! Will update when we get substantive details! "Latest development: 6 Policemen are in Raja Petra's house. Pls pass the word!! (from ............(name of Blogger wit'held until I get clearanz ~~ Desi:).
Stay tuned ...
12.42PM The Day After
CUT&PASTE from malaysia-today.net @1.14PM:
"Raja Petra Kamarudin being investigated under the Sedition Act
Posted by Super Admin
Friday, 02 May 2008
Raja Petra ordered to report to Bukit Aman at 11.00am tomorrow
At 9.00am today, seven police officers from the Cyber Crime Division, Bukit Aman, went to Raja Petra’s house to confiscate his PC and notebook computer. They left at 11.00am after issuing Raja Petra a notice to report to Bukit Aman at 11.00am tomorrow, Saturday, 3 May 2008.
According to the police, Raja Petra is being investigated under the Sedition Act with regards to an article he wrote, Let’s send the Altantuya murderers to hell. It seems a police report has been made against Raja Petra by another police officer.
The Bukit Aman Cyber Crime Division is at Kompleks Perdana, the old office of the Prime Minister behind Bank Negara.
We have no further news but Raja Petra will try to update the latest developments once he can get his hand on a new computer."
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UPDATEd from The Star Online @8.32PM:
Friday May 2, 2008 MYT 4:03:44 PM
Cops investigating Raja Petra under Multimedia Act (updated)
By LOURDES CHARLES
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin is being investigated under Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 for an article he wrote recently titled Let's send the Altantuya murderers to hell.
It is learnt that eight police officers from the Federal Commercial Crimes Investigations Department (CCID) visited Raja Petra’s house in Sungai Buloh here at about 9am on Friday.
They seized a laptop and a CPU (central processing unit) before leaving at about 11am.
According to Raja Petra’s wife Marina Lee Abdullah, her husband had also been served with a notice requesting him to present himself at the CCID office in Bukit Perdana on Friday evening.
It is learnt police officers from the cyber crimes investigations unit are expected to record his statement over the article he wrote and posted on the Malaysia Today online news portal on April 25.
CCID director Commissioner Datuk Koh Hong Sun confirmed his officers had visited Raja Petra to assist police in their investigations.
He declined to elaborate further.
It is learnt that the CCID officers would be investigating certain allegations made in the article that were deemed false and defamatory.
Under Section 233 of the Act:
1) A person who
a) by means of any network facilities or network service or applications service knowingly —
(i) makes, creates or solicits; and
(ii) initiates the transmission of,
any comment, request, suggestion or other communication which is obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person; or
b) initiates a communication using any applications service, whether continuously, repeatedly or otherwise, during which communication may or may not ensue, with or without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any person at any number or electronic address, commits an offence.
2) A person who knowingly
(a) by means of a network service or applications service provides any obscene communication for commercial purposes to any person; or
(b) permits a network service or applications service under the person 's control to be used for an activity described in paragraph (a),
commits an offence.
(3) A person who commits an offence under this section shall, on conviction,be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both and shall also be liable to a further fine of one thousand ringgit for every day during which the offence is continued after conviction.
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UPDATEd @9.39PM, from rockybru.blogspot.com:
Friday, May 02, 2008
RPK's breakfast (uninvited) guests
Raja Petra released after 2-hour "interview". update 7.30pm
RPK, who runs the Malaysia Today on-line, said the Commercial Crime Division of Bukit Aman had asked him to make a statement with regards to his posting headlined "Let's send Altantuya murderers to Hell". He refused to make that statement, of course. The cops gave up (for now, at least) after two hours.RPK was accompanied by his lawyer, YB William Leong, the MP of Selayang.
Scores of journalists, bloggers and Malaysia Today supporters waited at the entrance of the Bukit Aman.The MP of Wangsa Maju, YB Wee Choo Keong, arrived just after 5pm. After a brief discussion with Marina, RPK's wife, Wee told her he would try and meet the cops. He asked me to accompany him.
Wee took offence when the sentry on duty stepped in front of him and blocked his progress with an elbow."Wah, is this a police state now? I don't think we are a police state. Are we a police state?" Wee challenged the sentry's superiors. He said the sentry treated him like a criminal."If you can do this to an wakil rakyat," he continued, "what chance does the average citizen," he said, pointing at me, "your guard there will kick him out, hah?"
That's YB Wee for you!
Raja Petra said the cops still had his lap top and computer. He confirmed that he was being investigated under Sedition Act."For two hours they tried to make me make a statement. I refused. They threatened to charge me for refusing to make a statement. I told them, go ahead and arrest me or release me right now. And i told them that if they let me walk, I don't want to see their faces again."
Go to www.myblog-tv.com for our own Yew-Tube.
Go to http://mob1900.blogspot.com/ too for understanding why
A PICTURE IS WORTH 1,000 WORDS to say: RPK, We Are Wit' You!
LATEST&LAST UPDATE -- Monday May 5, 2008:
Go read the thing in FULL from the horse's mouth @www.malaysia-today.net; hear just the opening paras:) ~~~~~~~
Towering Malays and the ‘hush’ on Peace Hill
Posted by Raja Petra
Saturday, 03 May 2008
The bottom line is, either they get off my back or they throw me in jail and throw away the key.
I could not be bothered one bit what it is going to be. I am prepared for the worst. My objective is plain and simple. Altantuya’s murderers are going to be sent to hell. And I don’t mind going to hell myself to see this happen.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Sorry for not writing earlier. I know many of you must be anxiously waiting to hear what I have to say about yesterday’s episode at Bukit Aman. You know, of course, I no longer possess any computers and I don’t dare buy a new one lest they again come to my house and confiscate that one as well.
So expect some delay between articles until I get back my computers. They have already confiscated my computers three times since 2001 and although they are eventually returned many, many months later, the computers are all screwed up and can’t be used any longer.
What the hell do they do with these computers anyway? Anyhow, we will talk about this later.
Before that I would like to talk about Malaysia’s car czar, the recently deceased Tan Sri Nasimuddin Amin.Tan Sri Nasimuddin is being investigated by the UK Police (read: UK probe into dead tycoon's business practices ). It seems his company, the Naza Group, has been forging documents so that brand new cars from the UK can be imported into Malaysia as used cars, or, as they are fond of saying, ‘recon’ cars.
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God bless awe the change-promoters&concerned Malaysians
and especially Civic-Minded Fighters like RPK:)
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6 comments:
Hearty congratulations to you Desi as Organising Chairman, and to the Organising Committee, the speakers, as well as to each and person who helped in whatever way to make B.U.M.2008 such an outstanding success. It was indeed a day to remember.
desi, good job on bum2008. i have two suggestions:
1. banners at the entrance and car park to the lake view club would have been comforting as an indication that attendees were on the right track.
2. the name tag sticker should carry the option of the person's blog name as well, to facilitate mixing and making friends. For example no one knows Dave Avran but people know Spanking DA Monkey. Of course those who choose to remain anonymous may keep on doing so.
again, thanks for a great event and warmest regards
Hi Desi:
Great job on the succesful BUM event. Heard so many great things about it even though I was not there. Looks like you have a "who's who" list of bloggers last night. You are going to be challenged next year on the invitees list to send out. Just don't forget to invite this guy called "CheDet" and the other botox-enhanced "toyol" guy. They can be your court jesters. Great effort to you and team.
cheers,
sh tan
THANKS to "mindful mariner" who maketh a greAt PR-man -- art thou an ahli of Pakatan Rakyat, ah? OK, i's a rhetorical Q!:)
Thanks2 to all Bloggers who had PR-ed BUM2008 without my asking; charity on the quiet is always APpreciated ~~ come to Lingam's in Furong and I'd pamper Thee wit' tehtari! plus the bestA kambing if it had come back from WBuffet;s table!:)
dave avran:
dave, you were the one wearing Clark5 shoes and ran away after Desi a"V"-ed thee as another PR-guy, yes?
Hey, I wished you had ID-ed yourself at LVC to this Chairman trying vely the heART to look bee-sy!:(
I will forward backhand thy suggestions to BUM2009 -- I hear the knotty Zollo d Solo is undertaking that fullish miss-ion butt he has a meaty CatZjones by his aside:) This wan is 4 snatching the mike from the ricketti chair:) ~~ Desi,knottyaSsusual
sh tan:
The bum2008 miss'd Thee and other comrades who went AWOL -- nah mind, thy spirit was clearly wit' US!:)
See y at BUM2009 -- maybe I'll persuade Rocky&Gangz to move North:) Yeah, splendid idea, I hear mGf Helen and twin Tan sisdars from PP -- resident temp abroad, I'm sure post March 8, 2008! -- whisper:):):)
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