fear to tread. And BUMmers' terrain qualifies as one such because you may be shouthed down even if you are gifted wit' HI-desibelles like wan YL Chong.
"And what's BUM?", you may raise your impatient "V"oice, at daylight or at midnight. I prefer the latter because then you have to restrain yourself in case you wake up the 'hole neighbourhood -- neigh, NEIGH!
I just celebrated my fourth birthday the recent Ides of March -- seiLOL, Desi so olde ah? -- at My Blue H'aven. Now since the past year brightened up when I tap-danzed on the aweOFhelen's photographic skills. Helen bestowed on Desi the PL of speaking in ***DDC aka as "speaking in tongue-in-chic". She, as a civil society promoter, noticeable has downsized her own input @allofhelen.blogspot.com while Desi's Place UPstages himself IGNORAMUS-ing all critical commenters:(
What's Desi mumbling all about this mundane moUrn when most labourers would be wishing May Day is upon them. Ah,not me because I ain't no fooltimer -- I earn some B&B just putting pen to paper aka mousing the PC tap-danzing wit' thy fingers....
Okay, now to unravel the ***Da Desi Code a byte, be a GOoD childe or BUMmer, surf to bum2009.wordpress.com:
April 13, 2009...7:43 am
Bloggers’ Universe Malaysia (BUM) 2009 Takes Off at Starter’s Blog!
KUALA LUMPUR: About five weeks from now, BUM2009 will tap-dance in again at The Lake View Club, Subang Jaya, and the Organising Committee is giving you good notice to keep yourself free for a date at Da Bloggers’ Event of Da Year!
And we will have an extra session on top of last year’s two as we believe the new media scene has attracted a lot of interest after its power and influence and impact at the March 8, 2008 General Elections were duely noted by many quarters, both political and social.
Mark Saturday, May 16, 2009 in your diary. The BUM2009 Organising Committee has gathered at the Starter’s Block, and with these vibrant members all fired up to make the Event memorable for all BUMmers, with many who served at last year’s BUM2008 — does this Logo strike a chord with you? REF: bum2008-desiderata.blogspot.com -–
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making a re-apprearance.
Chairman: Sdr YL Chong aka Desiderata
Co-chairman: Sdr Ahirudin Attan aka rockybru
Bahasa Malaysia Chair: Sdri Helen Ang
Treasurer: Sdri Helen Hoh
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Liew Hui Mei, ES Shankar aka donplaypuks, Capt Yuosf Ahmad aka ancient mariner, Dr SM Yeoh aka maverickysm, Chris Chew aka mob1900, Frances Yee aka primrose.
ADVISER: Dr Lim Teck Ghee
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BUM2009 will feature the following:
THEME: 4th and 5th Estates — on Collision Course?
(1) Morning Session’s Topic:
The Media - Civil Society’s Perspectives
(2) Afternoon Session’s Topic:
This session will feature mainly Bloggers writing in Bahansa Malaysia
and the Chair coordinating this will soon announce the topic — Stay tuned!
(3) Evening Session’s Topic:
Has The Old Media Failed Civil Society?
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The BUM2009 OC — that’s for Organising Committee! — will try to keep the Entrance charge as low as possible, like maybe at last year’s BUM2008’s at RM50 per person, or an additional RM10 as there is an extra session this year! Of course, it’s FREE for our OC for all their hard work, and for the esteemed speakers, who cometh with special roles like lending their minds and thrust-and-parry with all comers durng the entertaining Q and A session.
PS: One morsel of information I must leave with you before I temporarily take leave: Desi heard on the grapevine for the May 16, 2009 dinner, THREE LAMBS are headed for the Warren Buffet’s table at da Lake View Club, Subang Jaya! Details of the programme will be posted within a week from now.
STAY TUNED!
YL Chong,
Chair
BUM2009 Organising Committee
13 April 2009
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About Us
Bloggers’ Universe Malaysia Gathering 2009 will feature three brainstorming sessions involving Speakers and Audience with the general theme of “4th and 5th Estates — On Collision Course?”.
This annual initiative — the third such outing in three years — is mainly by a group of bloggers — in association with the Centre for Policy Initiatives — acting on the Third Annual Event in May to mark World Press Freedom Day which falls on 3rd May. At BUM2007, the Organising Committee indicated it would like to pass the baton to the National Alliance of Bloggers Committtee (All-Blogs) to organise such events perhaps on an annual basis, but since All-Blogs’ official registration is still pending, this Group of “lazy” BUMmers quite excited with Blogosphere making the limelight nowadys, unashamedly take on the task to organise BUM2009.
We wish to emphasise that we do not represent any particular group of bloggers/writers affiliated with any particular political party as we serve in the BUM2009 OC in our individual capacities.
From year one’s outing that was BUM2007, the Programme as first mooted by blogger Howsy, is focused on Socio-Political (SoPo) Bloggers, and Civil Society activists, are are often encouraged by one Taiko-blogger’s — he’s now also an MP – motto “Thinking Aloud, THINKING ALLOWED“.
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