masquerade unmasked
6:31 p.m. and I was stuck outside my office, trying to make the U-turn at the traffic lights in heavy downpour. The lights weren’t working, the drivers weren’t giving way to one another. Yes, typical Malaysian kiasu-ness.
Needless to say, I was going to be late for the bloggers’ meet in KL, happening in just half an hour’s time. I arrived outside the building about 7:40 p.m. and received a text message from Lin Peh. “Nobody here yet! Come straight to R1.” *Phew*! Everyone else must’ve been caught in the rain and traffic as well.
When I entered, 2 men were sitting at the table. Oh, I immediately knew who Lin Peh was from the sound of his voice! The other… hmmmm… took me awhile, but after a few rounds of guessing games, it was none other than Wingz.
GBYeow made his entrance next, with Zara’s Mama, King’s Wife and Seng Kor following suit. Siao Cha Bor, after doing a few wrong turns and asking for directions, joined us at the table. In strolled KL Podcast clad in his leather jacket. Two more spaces left. Who could it be?
Cock-a-doodle made it to the scene not long after that. The last to make his grand entrance was 9393 (formerly 9394), who went to the wrong building and had to walk 5 minutes to get to where we were!
Dinner was good, the company even better! We were constantly entertained with Wingz’s spontaneous humour, joined in by Cock-a-doodle and Lin Peh. GBYeow was too busy laughing and kept knocking the back of his head on the picture frame. 9393 was still trying to figure out who’s who (since he came in last with 10 pairs of strange eyes staring at him).
Siao Cha Bor was busy playing footsie with Seng Kor throughout the night, whilst King’s Wife was the ever vivacious Silai of the Month, batting her permed eyelashes, and wow-ing us with her dazzling smile and bubbly personality. Zara’s Mama whipped up her big-ass canggih digital SLR camera and put all of our little ones to shame. KL Podcast had our whole conversation recorded, and was badly in need of a translator for half the session spoken in Cantonese.
We made a surprise call to JoMel, who was serenaded with the rooster’s rendition of “You’ve Lost That Lovely Feeling”. Ah Pek was also given a curtesy call at his home, semi-long-distance. (Pssst… it was Lin Peh’s fault, he sent the invite to the wrong e-mail address!)
And me…
I was just soaking it all in. *GRIN*!
So here’s my take on things.
We all come from different backgrounds, from different parts of Malaysia. Some are parents, some are still single (no prizes for guessing who it is). We write different things on our blogs, talk about totally opposite topics which will never have any correlation.
Yet everyone at that table tonight is special in their own way. People with good humour and great hearts. Uninhibited, unpretentious. Like Randy Jackson would say, “Just keepin’ it real, yo. Just keepin’ it real.”
Thank you all very much for an absolutely lovely evening, yummy food and the wonderful company! Special thanks to 9393 and Lin Peh for organising this roll-on-the-floor-laughing event!
*muah muah muah*!
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Boy oh boy did you have a great time. Sounds like you fell off the chair laughing * enviously eyeing the whole bunch *
I need to find more canadian bloggers for a frozen get together!
Thank you too for the wonderful evening. I’m pretty sure the rest of the humsap guys were envious of me sitting next to you.
What a great bunch of people! I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
DUCK??!!! NNNOOOOOooo!!!! i dun wanna be duck!!!!! later cocka will molest me wannn!!!!
GBYeow really knocked his head on the pikture frame ??!!! OMFG!!!! hahahaha!!! you shud have captured the moment !!!
Oh, Dang! I so jealous now!! LOL especially of Cock!! :-)… *whine* Haha, nevermind, FF, we’ll do one in Greenland soon.
Love the pictures of the Gang too! Excellent stuff.. *whine*.. Nice mushrooms.. *whine*
alamak yeow go sleep ledi!!! u got the group pic anot may ? can send to me now anot ?
pulezzzz …. rojaks.wingz@gmail.com
I was nearly asleep at my desk. But this is such a worthwhile read. Worth losing a few winks over. SCB told me she had a lot of fun. Now I know why. I am so envious. Wish I was there.. but you know.. I say only lah. Keke! Next time, I will try… I will..
I actually had fun during the telephone conversation. I was soaking in all the fun by listening to all your laughters and voices. You all sounded just like what you have said, “people with good humour and great hearts.”
Now, I can go to sleep! Sweet dreams mei mei.
wingz: Sent to you la. Ya… knock a few times. Suay only. I got video of Cocka eating ‘pat ku’. Haha.
Cockadoodle hogging Ah May the whole night. CLK.
Everyone else: You all running around blogs too much. Zzz… Better go before I become SleepWorker instead of BoredWorker.
You all really enjoyed yourself har?? LOL BTW, I really have to compliment you on your thorough reporting and beautiful photos of all those yummy looking bloggers!! LOL
Thanks!! Wish I was there! I so wanna see Cocka lar!
i dunno wat to say here la….i tink ah, must be sengkorr…i am mesmerised and intoxicated by his…his…his….
muahahahahahha
i had a great time la…some old ginger some young ginger and we mix those ginger up and what we get?
can send pics to me ah?
ah_girl_girl2000@yahoo.com
naa naa everyone, my email is up here, all you available rabbits. come come
Glad you had fun!
Love the pictures with those names! LOL! If I open a restaurant someday, I’d know who to call to help me with the menu.
OMG did I hear rabbits, love them to bits…..
Fantasyflier - which bit? Their awesome reproduction ability??
** quickly runs off **
can’t u see both mine and scb’s hands were always under the table.. so busy u know.. lol
cocka.. next time can u let me sit with may?? plleeeaassee….
Glad that you enjoy the meeting
wah, the chinese tea got to you too??
It was really fun wasn’t it?
Nice meeting you, May…
Wow the blog meet sounds wonderful. And the food looks so good. Damn I stabbed my fork into the computer screen. Whoops. Glad I’m at work. They can afford new monitor.
And call JoMel too. Good thing S & K don’t take the call instead. hehe
Wow.. this is quick!!
You left out comments about you.. I’ll put it in mine, but only later.
By the time I got home, I just wanted to hit the sack.
Btw, very nice corelation of the food with the people..
gawd, dishes with such exotic names..where the venue huh?
LB, i would not mind the gathering in maldives…go organize.
Fantasyflier - you’re coming back to this region for a holiday, yes? I heard you might drop in and pay helen a visit. you can have some teh-o-ais with us!
LB - awwwww… *M E G A H U G S* wish you were here too! y’know, your name was mentioned a couple of times; the hamsup fellas were very curious to know who the chic magnet was, with so many comments in every post! gotta meet up when you’re back for hols. still need to do all that gadget-shopping, yea? *wink wink*!
Cock-a-doodle - yup yup, very enjoyable! nevermind lah, this time you get lucky, next time give chance to the other hamsup fellas, ok? LOL!!!
wingz - eh, the duck very the happening, ok! chicken + duck = chuck?! ROTFL! you didn’t hear GBYeow knock his head a few times meh? Damn loud some more! you did a very good job with our group photo, where the heck did you get those animal heads? very fitting to each person too! hahahaha!
Huar.. the food is so… yummy… mmm seems like good food.. good people~ Heavenly~
Yamade ! LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JoMel - oh JieJie, so wished you were there joining in on the fun! those fellas were really funny, non-stop laughter throughout the night. did you like Cocka’s serenade to you? he really surprised us all… LOL! let’s have a nice all girls’ outing soon, no hamsup fellas invited, ok?
gbyeow - oi, I thought you sleeping already! some more post before me, and I thought I was the first on the scene… LOL! how’s the head? got lubang already anot? next time come early and sit next to me ma…. kekeke! 
helen - yeaaaaaa… so much fun! wish you were in town, it would’ve been a major riot with you at the scene as well! they said cannot expose faces mah, so had to substitute with food photos instead. I don’t have photoshop installed, can’t do the magic head replacements like what Wingz did. he so terror!!!
SCB - waaahhhh… public announcement on your e-mail address!! fooihhhh! bound to get a lot of love letters soon, and many many more from seng kor, yes? LOL! I’ll get those pictures to you as soon as I can, though I don’t have many good shots. old ginger + young ginger = very spicy gingers… hahaha!
bkworm - oh, it was a riot! I couldn’t post up the group photo since I didn’t have the right photo editor tools. when I took pictures of the food, they were like, “wah, why everything also most take wan??” so now they know why I took all those pix. had to find some substitutes!
Fantasyflier - wabbits?… *snuffsnuffsnuff* I think SCB was busy counting wabbits a couple of days ago… teehee!
helen - oooo… ok, I think I should stay off the wabbit topic for now… hahahahahaha!
seng kor - no wonder laaaaa! I was wondering why so quiet, you all busy “ta kung fu” underneath the table izit? so the lai-see big anot? ok lah, next time you sit next to me, we also “ta kung fu” and play footsie, ya! kekekeke!
Jo - it was great fun! if just 11 of us could make such noise, think of what would happened if the whole blogging community joined in. would bring the house down for sure!
zara’s mama - errrrr… I don’t have comments about myself, I’m the reporter mah. the privilege of being the writer instead of the subject matter… teehee! the chinese tea and shower kept me awake long enough to do the post. had to let it all out, if not, kenot tahan liao… heheheh!
king’s wife - ya lor!!! actually, I couldn’t sleep very well last night, chinese tea does that to me sometimes. forgot to ask for just plain water. actually I was itching to post up our meet also la… hahahahaha! thanks for gracing us with your presence, O Wife of King!
SA - ooo, can I get a new laptop replacement too? heheh! JoMel was a real sport talking to us on speakerphone. I could just imagine her grinning and giggling all the way on the other end of the line! now, if you’d kindly give us your phone number, we’d ring you too… on collect, of course… kekeke!
keatix - check out GBYeow’s site for more info on the venue. it was at a Chinese restaurant at Menara TA. but with a little imagination and great company, even the mamak stall could have such exotically named grub! did someone say maldives? I want, I want, I want!
velverse - the food was ok. but like what Wingz wrote on his blog, even maggi mee would taste like shark’s fin with the great company we had, laughing our heads off!
Lin Peh - so did you yamade when you went home after dinner anot? is that why you were rushing off? kekekeke! thanks so much for dinner!
Wow… U ppl been busy. I just woke up :p
Pics please! jaykayenn@gmail.com My poor E398 cannot compare to the A80’s and A410’s and C4040’s… :p
Really great meeting y’all and putting faces to the names. Turns out even crazier in real life
!#%!^$!@$ How come cannot access to Tan Sri’s punya website? Top secret ka???
ya for sure I’l be in KL after Ipoh, how to miss the shopping……:P
*sigh* I miss you too…
Ok AhMay. You can call me at 911. OK?
(999 is what you guys have I think)
JKN - wei, time to get yourself a real camera lah! you have such a canggih recording device, you need a nice digicam to go along with it, so we could have both sights AND sounds… *G*! can access Wingz punya blog wot. you got connection problem ka? “tapp chor seen”?
LB - *sigh*! would love to call you but don’t have your number, how? *whine*!
fantasyflier - set lah! we take you go “tai pai tong” eat noodles and what not. I’m sure having been to KL before, you would know the good places to eat also, right?
SA - you don’t happen to work for them as a telephone operator now, do you?
This Ah May is so sweet in real life.Melt your heart
“This Ah May is so sweet in real life.Melt your heart” - 9393
So desu yo!
93~93 - waaahhhhh… “lei tai kwo cheong lor!” since so sweet, got toothache or not now? heheheheh!
JKN - wei, jealous ke? *wink wink*! we are eagerly awaiting a copy of your recording… the non-censored version, of course! so where can we download this yummy piece of entertainment?
hey you name that fried soft crab FRIED 9393, next time i order that dishes would the captain knows what I’m saying..lol
now can i say something after being quiet for the whole day ka?
ah may so sweet, ok la , ah seng, u can sit next to her liao…i got new target oredi
old ting must go b 4 new ting come, right?
sob*sob*
btw, i had a great time
*hops over to helen, sniff sniffs, not heaty enuff yet, goes look for more veggies*
tai pai tong!! *already salivating*
93~93 - I think can kwa. if he doesn’t know what you’re talking about, remember to print out this page and show it to him ok? maybe then he’ll remember! heheh!
Fantasyflier - errr… helen not heaty enough? eh helen! don’t drink so much leong char wei, must be more heaty then only FF likey! *ahem*… so FF, anything you like to eat in particular around our backstreets, frontstreets, sidestreets, wallstreets?
SCB - ooooooh, did you have a “great time” after our dinner? woooot! LOL! awww, old ting new ting same ting - they’re all beautiful ting! (wot the heck am I saying here??)
LB -
Fantasyflier - sorry mate, too late. Your au naturel odor had mesmerized me. ** Hopping after fantasy bunny **
*looks back sees helen coming, sees leong char sweating from pores… eeks…scampers faster… heads for fishing boat….* LMAO
may dahhling, any street will do, as long its not duck street
hehehe No I do not. But I could do IM voice on computer. Whatchu think?
helen - ROTFL! so what does FF smell like? errr… Eu de FlyBoy? oh gosh!!! I just realised he’s now FlyBunny! hahaa!
Fantasyflier - watch out, helen’s got a good nose and will hunt you down no matter where you hide! LOL! any street, sure anot? petaling street… chowkit street… alamak, that should be chowkit road… heheh!
SA - VoIP? oooh, I love freebies! heheh! I tried Skype a couple of times, it’s pretty cool. it drops off quite frequently at one time tho, irritated the heck outta me. and when I could hear myself on the other side… woooo, so weird!
Can’t you do it on your Yahoo? I have done it a couple of time with some SIN buddies. Its kind of funny. We just giggled like 6 year olds.
Helen….yeah. It would have been fun with you around too. i also want to see whether you look like what Ah Pek have posted. hahahaha!
Seng Kor….your hands under the table playing with yourself ah? SCB didn’t help you ah? Hahahaha!!
gbyeow said;”cocka hogging May the whole nite”
I chick magnet mah….
I was also hogging Rojakz on my right, you didn’t comment! Tiu….
cock-a-doodle - LOL!!! I think gbyeow jealous lahhhh… hahaha! yes, I’m sure you wow the ladies with your moustache…
i dowan to comment!
aiyo, ah pek… don’t lau chann lah, ok? next time these fellas will be sure to send the invite to the right email address! and if they don’t… then saatttt! hahaha!