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Entertaining. Good.

But I didn’t get as much as I thought I would out of it.

Sad.

And I’m stopping right now, for I’ve got a burger waiting in my right hand.

Update:

I got into a mini-fight/debate over this conference. I was informing singaporean members of RBJ when one such member replied:

errr…........maybe i’m reading this wrong, but isn’t this like the ideal platform for the already famous bloggers (miyagi, brown, xiaxue) to just become even more famous?
the ‘fact’ that evey high school kid has a blogspot acct now, doesnt mean that there should be a conference thingy.
i question the intent and the purpose of this bloody thing.
and why the hell would singapore need a conference like this? so that they can blog about it afterwards?
(can you tell that i’m not a big fan of this?)

Indignant, I rushed in with claws out.

I wonder if I were all that right in saying that this is exactly what we needed.

Being a little blogger there, I was simply lost. It just didn’t feel right to speak up, what with so many big names around. I was content to sit back and listen, and laugh, and think.

Content, that is, during the conference itself.

After the event (sub-18s like me feel a distinct detachment from the rest), I couldn’t help feel empty. I had gone there alone, met a few people I knew; but with the exception of the big fuck, and i didn’t even speak to him much, there was no one I really met.

Perhaps what I envisioned it to be was a huge meet up, where you could actually meet people.

..in other words, kopi anyone? I just want to meet people.

The whole introducing your community bit left me feeling distinctly alone. Boo hoo. Poor me.

And they didn’t even allow us to drink.

Posted on 16 July 2005,
I know what you mean. I was sitting just in front of you and was talking to you on IRC but even then I didn’t really get to meet you in person. But I think a lot of it has to do with us geeks not being very sociable in the first place. (Why else would we be pouring our lives out into our blogs instead of our friends?)

I think the blogcon was just what I’d expected, with regards to the social aspect. I didn’t really expect to actually MEET anyone, but I did expect to be able to put some faces to names, and hear some voices, and walk away with the contented knowledge that there are real people behind the blogs that we read, and that their RL personas aren’t quite the same as their online personas. Nothing I didn’t already know, but it was nice to have it confirmed. Joel Pan | Jul 16, 10:11 PM | #
heh, good point joel. my purpose was just to see there are real people behind these blogs. and it was cool to see them.

vic: yeah, i went there knowing no one. though i knew that you were goin (was hoping other s’pore based rbjers would go). and i had a decent idea what you would look like. haha.
then we could have like represented RBJ? lol

but it was decent. and learned a few things here and there. was lookin forward to wendy givin a speech or maybe moderatin, but sigh… she didn’t. argee | Jul 16, 10:36 PM | #
For me, blogging has always been about the people; I don’t know, I was really hoping I could meet people.

I gave up after I got a series of weak grins and turn-aways as a response to my introducing myself. Vicnan | Jul 16, 11:15 PM | #
Well, I’m a small blogger too, who have just started out only recently. I really did feel like a small fish, when introducing myself to blinkymummy, bigfuck or kennysia.

It was a nice experience meeting the real people behind their “blogging mask”, though at times I felt myself like being at an IRC-outing, chatting away with a person like you know him/her for years, then you think “Hey…I only know them through their blogs….yet, it’s like I know their lives…” KingMeng | Jul 16, 11:20 PM | #
argh, i wish i could have gone, but i had a family function in the evening and for some reason my dad found it a must for me to reach home by four. if i’d gone, though, it would have been worse for me because i’m a small blogger in more ways than one. (: and i’d be feeling even smaller. hahha. cui | Jul 17, 12:43 AM | #
Hey you should’ve stayed on for the party! (even zhiyang stayed..i’m sure you’d have no problem)

I’m in the midst of setting up a new hosting account (with textdrive, no less). Sigh. Hosting woes. popagandhi | Jul 17, 08:42 PM | #
Heh, those textdrive people are always going on about their terrabytes of unused bandwith, put em to the test!

And I’m damn guniang lah. Stay also will feel guilty.

It didn’t help that I had assignments to complete; I didn’t even stay for baybeats! Mutter.

Cui: you should have come anyway!

kingmeng: hullo! Yeah.. Vicnan | Jul 17, 11:23 PM | #
vicnan, u din meet anyone cos you never go up and say hi mah… why so shy?? airhole | Jul 18, 01:09 AM | #
Sigh. Went up to those vee-jay-see people and introduced myself. They went “ok”, and turned their backs to me.

I crawled back to my corner. Vicnan | Jul 18, 01:27 AM | #
Aiyar, why were you sitting behind me when you quoted my “And the evangelisation begins…”(or sth like that)??? If you were sitting in front of me I’d have thwacked your head and demanded that you take it back (no matter how true it was that I’d said it)...

and THEN I’d have started a conversation with you ;D

You should’ve approached random individuals to talk to (not groups like *ahem veejaysee vote-pullers) because individuals are more vulnerable when accosted =p heee

But nevermind patpat it’s ok. While we wait for Bloggers.SG 2006, you have a whole year to hone your accosting skills =p fayeth | Jul 18, 09:43 AM | #
aiyarrr u meet me mahhhh….blink celly | Jul 18, 10:41 AM | #
Haha.. sorry lah fayeth, i couldn’t resist. I intend to meet bloggers before the next one. want kopi?

celly, i met you in january! haha. Vicnan | Jul 18, 11:36 AM | #
I don’t drink kopi lar.
But I don’t mind tea, fizzy drinks and alcohol, if you don’t mind after-office hours…work’s a bitch.

email me if u wanna do “kopi” k =p fayeth | Jul 19, 10:14 AM | #
Eh, tea, fizzy drinks, and alcohol at the same time? Teaching sub-eighteens how to drink ah? Vicnan | Jul 19, 08:48 PM | #
Well, I’m a small-time blogger, and you met me as well as Celly’s mum!

Approaching new people is a skill you develop over time. Just be yourself. I know very well how it feels to be freaking bloody akward and nervous, and feeling left out.

Anywhoo… dude, I think its more of a life experience thing. I meet people all the time as part of my job, and am an old hand at smoozing. I had no problems talking to people like XiaXue. I just started chatting with her when she was standing next to me. I didn’t even mention who the heck I was to her.

And you weren’t the only one who was shy. Celly was so shy about meeting Xiaxue that I had to drag her and intro her… and she was so surprised when XX said to her “I finally get to meet you!” :) mostlyharmless | Jul 20, 02:40 AM | #
chey! not at the same time la deh! tea+fizzy+alcohol = BLEURGH =p

*innocent * who teaching u to drink? fayeth | Jul 20, 03:09 PM | #

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