Wednesday, August 26, 2009

When bloggers collided, it was serendipity

Last friday was a total pleasant surprise for me as compared to the rest of the fridays, you know why? Why ? Because in a single day,i managed to meet up with two blogger friends of whom i have never met before.

The first surprise was, i managed to steal sometime to come face to face with this blogger friend from Sibu, he was none other than Suituapui.(STP). I have been following STP for a while now, i love his blog because of the way he writes, the flare from the way he uses his English, it has motivated me to learn more, he is kind of like my English teacher from the bloggershpere.

Arthur Wee aka Suituapui seen here with me.. I guess the moniker he nicked himself Suituapiu (beautiful fatty) is so aptly applied to him. He really exuded some sense of friendliness when we first met that went well with his pysique. Before him, i thought i was Sui (charming or handsome ahem) not untill i met the Sui ler Arthur... standing beside him, all my pomposity came to a naught...hahahah.

The second blogger that i managed to meet up and had a few drinks was another blogger(with his business partner,they both hail from the capital city of Kuala Lumpur) that i hold high esteem to, he was Yow Chuan Of meshio. He is the only Malaysia's financial blogger i follow. I stumbled upon his blog with sure serendipity,and to be frank to me he is special and unique in his own way in presenting his views as far as finance is concerned. I am not currying favor from him, but it is so true about his financial blog, it is so easy to read, and informative for a layman like me. Please do check him out, you can sure learn a thing or two or many from this blogger of which i have and will still be learning.

I, franked by Yow Chuan (left) and Ping, please remember them, i believe give them another 3 to 5 years, we shall see their faces in major business and tech magazines (mark my words), they are only in their late 20s,and they are the bomb. And guess what? Yow Chuan has even published a book about insurance, they can be grabbed from major local book-stores.

You know Confucious once said 三人行,必有我师也 "there bound to be a teacher in the company of three" and i was glad i had two from the meeting i had with Yow Chuan and Ping, i really learnt a lot from these wonderful guys.

They shared with me how at the early age of 20s, they started the online business, and how they triumphed and how they flopped, how their business expanded, and how it retreated, how they climbed and how they fell.

I really have high hope and high faith in them that they will truly succeed in their current online project, these guys are brilliant and they really have all it takes to be successful in the dot.com.

Please hop over to their new venture at http://www.a4trip.com/ if you are a travel buff, i am sure you will be amazed. Oops i forgot to share this with you, Pin (the guy on my right) is one avid cyclist cum traveller, he just loves to cycle, in fact he had cycled in Europe all byhimself for two months, so i guess when he started his web about travels, this guy just knows it..... go and check him out.

Q) Hey,do you have any experience meeting with another blogger(s) for the first time to share?


P/S : Be Humble and you shall learn more...................





21 comments:

  1. hope to meet up with u too, especially if im in Penang.

    ReplyDelete
  2. never for me because i don't know any bloggers from ipoh :(
    but i did meet some online friends that i got to know from a local forum.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Yow Chuan is my unimate. :P

    ReplyDelete
  4. I met some bloggers here in KK. Wasn't it just wonderful to get to know new friends via the internet that shares the same interest?

    Wish that we can meet up someday.

    ReplyDelete
  5. hehe.. nice to meet up with bloggers right.. and hope to meet you one day too in Penang..

    ReplyDelete
  6. eugene, i think your frens were in the papers before? sun paper, if i m not mistaken?
    so far, i met up one only.. eh, eugene, one day u organize la.. meet up in pg.. one gang... ok?

    ReplyDelete
  7. Nice beer and chat we have! We should do it again next time but I will come with my bike! :)

    ReplyDelete
  8. It's always nice to meet up with fellow bloggers. I've met up with only one at the moment.. hoping to meet up with more.

    ReplyDelete
  9. I alsowish I cant met more bloggers in futture... :)

    ReplyDelete
  10. I never met with any blogger friends.. well, except Pikey but I have known him before blogging came into trend.

    ReplyDelete
  11. Eugene, I had never met any before as I am still so new in this blogsphere. Hehe.

    ReplyDelete
  12. STP looking good, he must be having a good time with all the good food in Penang!

    ReplyDelete
  13. Gosh... No wonder I've had a few people commenting...and they said they came from Eugene's blog! Hahahahahaha....must hire you to be promo manager lah, even an old bull will seem like a handsome dashing stud! LMAO!!!

    My pleasure meeting you Eugene... Those who have never had the chance to meet you don;t know what they're missing!

    ReplyDelete
  14. Ya...Pete will be coming to Butterworth this weekend. He's a nice guy like you, Eugene... Hopefully, you can get to meet him. Dunno why though - I'm going to KL this weekend and he quickly runs away... Hahahahahaha!!!!

    ReplyDelete
  15. Hmm... I'd love to meet up with you and your family, Eugene...lol... I hope one day if I go to Penang or you come up to KL, we can meet up.

    ReplyDelete
  16. Eugene!

    Finally got to meet you in person. Really appreciate the hospitality and the stouts from you and your wife!

    I must emphasize this again- you definitely don't look your age! Must be the running.

    And you're definitely putting the pressure on us man.

    Pin, if you are reading this, time to shift gears, else we won't be able to make Eugene's deadline (3-5 years).

    BroccoliGinger, nice meeting you here!

    One of the best gifts I got from having a blog is the opportunity to make new friendships such as this one!

    ReplyDelete
  17. Hey guys,

    I am humbled by all your kind comments, and with this i just want to say how much i appreciate you guys.

    I hope all my sharing in my blog can be in anyway bring laugther,joy and all the nice feelings.

    sincerely yours

    eugene

    ReplyDelete
  18. wow some identities are disclosed here...hehe. I;ve knw some bloggers who have been hiding their faces..but definitely nt ur friends here eh, Eugene?

    Yes I was as thrilled as u when i first met my blogger friend who also happened to have twins. My twins & her twins had a great time, too when I took the initiative to organise a visit to the High5 Breadtwn last year.

    ReplyDelete
  19. wow some identities are disclosed here...hehe. I;ve knw some bloggers who have been hiding their faces..but definitely nt ur friends here eh, Eugene?

    Yes I was as thrilled as u when i first met my blogger friend who also happened to have twins. My twins & her twins had a great time, too when I took the initiative to organise a visit to the High5 Breadtwn last year.

    ReplyDelete
  20. yes, i met up with a blogger for the very first time, just this week. And it was a heartwarming affair. :)

    ReplyDelete
  21. Blogger I've never ... but Online Game's friend ~~ been met quite a few time XD .... it's interesting to meet someone from the internet and it come to REAL XD ... and i don't know what's the meaning for " Suituapui " and after reading this post ~ now i know haha ... think both of you are very kind and friendly blogger =D yea should have to meet up all of you if there's a chance next time ^_^"

    ReplyDelete