Okay...now that I'm finally sitting down to write this post do I realize that I have been outdated in my posts!!
The Vaseline party to celebrate great skin was held on October 2nd. That's like more than 2 weeks back. Yes. I am THAT back-dated! LOL~
Anyways, I can't tell you the excitement that I had for the event as it was my FIRST ever Nuffnang event! Yups...my first, and probably my last for this year. Why last? Cause the year is coming to an end, and I'll be busy working rather than blogging for contests/events :S
This post is gonna be a wee bit long as I wanna express a lot about what I feel as a blogger.
If you guys still remember, I joined the MySelangor Story (MSS) last September, and as soon as MSS ended, both me and MsXeroz rushed to do our posts for the Vaseline contest in order to get passes for the event! A day after MSS and 2 days before the dateline of the Vaseline contest, I submitted my post [here] and got my pair of invites to Luna Bar! *woots*
p.s: If you're already bored reading this just scroll down and have a look at the pics la.. I wanna talk a little more here :P
One way or another, I ended up being the driver for the day! Yes, I drove all the way from Klang to KL! Yup, that's how excited I was so much so that I didn't mind driving almost 100km for the return journey!! Along the way, I picked up MissXeroz, her sis RedButtockz, Feeq and Dylan.
But before all I was officially a driver, I got stuck in a traffic jam for almost 20mins one of the roads nearby my house or maybe it was more of I CAUSED a traffic jam.
I caused a traffic jam??
Wha????
How on earth????
It all began when I drove my dad's automatic car up a slope. Halfway on the slope, I felt that the car engine made weird noises, so I freaked out and immediately stopped the car halfway on the slope, and shut the engine.
When I wanted to restart the car, plain silence was all I got. The engine refused to start.
I panicked. I started texting my passengers, telling them I might not make it. Then I tried starting the car again.
Failure.
I then called my parents, and in the mean time was stuck in the car, waving my hands frantically to urge the cars behind to move to the next lane.
Thankfully no one honked at me. Maybe it's because I'm of the weaker gender, or maybe no one gives a damn anymore.
But nontheless, when my parents came I was sooo relieved and thought I'd not make it to the event in Luna Bar because I will have to send the car for repair. My dad popped his head into the car and said,
"hey, look at what gear are you at"
*looks*
OMG..I left the gear at D!
And that was why I COULDNT start my car engine for a good 20mins, and caused a loong traffic jam on the busy slope!! Yes. I am a NOOB-head~~
Nontheless, I managed to pick up all my lovely passengers, and got them all to Luna Bar in one piece! *woots*
Upon the entrance, we were for our names for our "nametags" I was pondering if I should name myself WenYi or Wene or Weneism, and decided Wene was the best :)
Although I made it to Luna Bar more than an hour after the time stated on the email, most of the guest have yet to arrive. Welcome to Malaysian timing people!
There were also girls going around asking people to try out vaseline lotion at the event. Well, I personally think that this is kind of redundant because I think that the bloggers who joined the contest must have tried Vaseline before. Thus I don't see why they needed these girls to go around. Plus Vaseline gave each blogger who attended the event a goodie bag that's PACKED with Vaseline lotion!! *hehe* I love the fact that I got to keep two goodie bags! One was my own, the other was taken from my pet-bro Feeq! SO that means I have a year's supply of Vaseline Lotion!! *evil laughter*
I was already hungry by the time I arrived at Luna Bar, so when I saw this: owh yes..loads of *nom nom noms* for me^^
But of course before I could dig in, the emcee: Jojo Struys graced the stage!Man, she's so petite and she's got an amazing smile! She talked for a bit, and introduced the big-shots of Vaseline and Nuffnang on stage. one of the big shots from Nuffnang (I totally forgot their names >.<)
And after that we were finally released to have our food!! That night, we were entertained by the comedian: JenHan
The only joke that I remember from him was about him complaining why it's not good to be a comedian to earn a living, especially when meeting the parents.
GF's father: Hello there young man.
Comedian: Hello, Uncle. How do you do?
GF's father: Now now, what a polite young man. What are you working as?
Comedian: I'm a comedian.
GF's father: WHAT??? YOU THINK MY DAUGHTER's a JOKE ah??
LOL...
Other than cracking jokes, we got a talented local artist who wow-ed the guest with her amazing vocals!! She's non other than Yuna!
And I loved this song which she sang on the stage that night. Somehow I can't find her official page on YouTube, but this song is really catchy! Me likey :)
Group pic with Yuna!
Of course we took pictures, and I would like to THANK my didi Feeq for being the photographer of the day (as an exchange for me bringing him to the event >.<) While snapping away, I was introduced to Cayenne. Apparently I look like her, do I? Okay, I guess the pictures below shall sum up the night :)
The grand prize winner: Atreyu Strange *man, if I knew writing could win me RM3k!!!! >.<* And owh, this is super funny. This chicka in green won herself a bright red coach bag! She was soo happy that she forgot to shake hands with the big-shot (director or CEO??) from Vaseline. LOL.
The dudes: Babboon, _____, TehTarik something, Serge
Lovely group shot!!
LOL..I kinda love candid pictures! This is me, making a funny face while thinking of poses. Finally a pic with Feeq in it!
Nicole making funny faces while I pose with Hooi Nee. Me and Audrey who's 4ft9. She really looks like Ayumi Hamasaki! And gawd, I look super old next to her >.< More bloggers whom half of them I don't know, nor do they know me. Meh.
Man. I feel like I've been super busy ever since the MySelangor Story started end of last month!! The 6 days of the trip was GREAT FUN! But within 2 days after that, I started work, and was diligently blogging about the contest as there as deadline to be met :S
In between sleep and work, I tried my best to squeeze time for the 6 posts required by the contest. SO please read and comment on them :)
Anyways, if you guys remember I've mentioned previously in my blog (here) that I am still searching for my other half. Well, that has just recently changed :)
*blush...amboi...Wen Yi is shy right now, believable?? :P *
Yes, even more shocking was the number of friends who liked it!! (If only all of them like all my 6 posts for MSS instead >.<) Not to mention the shock when I saw the number of comments which flooded in asking:
"Who's the lucky guy?"
"Where's his pictures??"
Well...the only picture I can give you is this :P
Yup, despite the busy schedule of:
Sleep + work + blogging for My Selangor Story
I managed to squeeze in time for my personal love life :)
It's really a pity that the contest came to an end, I was really enjoying myself and in fact on day 5 itself, most of the bloggers shared a similar thought:
"I don't want the contest to end!"
Yes, we love being in the My Selangor Story. We love being able to travel around together, despite being in the bus for long hours was a pain in the ass (literally). I really enjoyed myself throughout the competition so much so that it didn't feel like a competition at all.
Truth be told, this contest is biggest blogging contest that I have ever joined in my life! It's really the biggest, I am not kidding. I've only joined blogging contests to get free movie tickets and that's about it. So My Selangor Story is indeed the biggest contest I've taken part in and I am really thankful that I was given a chance to be in it! I sincerely have no regrets what-so-ever in taking part in this contest.
However I was a little skeptical about joining the contest especially on Day 1, because I know that the other bloggers are more professional than myself. Some of them are full-time bloggers, some of them are famous bloggers with more than 500 visits to their blog each day (if not more!), and some of them are professional photographers who started blogging to show the world their artistic photographs. Yes, I got a little scared and embarrassed because when some bloggers start snapping away with their big DSLR, my tiny Samsung camera looks like a toy beside them. lol. But after awhile I got used to the feeling of being a part of the "media" and realized that all those criteria doesn't really matter.
Personally I wanted the trip to continue because I really love the company throughout the trip! I've meet all sorts of different persons in this trip, from young to old, from different races and even different nationalities. But regardless of the differences we hold, I think that bloggers are generally fun-loving people because all of them infused the trip with happiness in their own way. Thus there wasn't really a boring moment in the trip because there's always things to do and see and people to talk and have fun with :)
I really do want to mention each and every one of the 26 bloggers who made it to the trip, but to be really honest, I really regret that I didn't take more initiative to talk to each and everyone of the blogggers, especially those from Indonesia as I was a little worried that they may not understand my Malay :S
I'll start by introducing our four Indonesian friends :)
First there's Fadly, whom I find to be really serious. I seldom see him smiling, whenever I see him, he's always with his white Pentax DSLR snapping away. Here's a picture of him with his Pentax at Kanching Waterfalls on Day 3 Second is the funny dude Alid!
LOL. Yes, that's how Alid looks and acts most of the time: crazy!!
Thirdly is Husni, whom speaks surprisingly good english with a wee-bit of American accent. That's myself, Max and Husni while queueing up for Flying Fox on Day 5 of the contest in Sunway Lagoon. Fun times indeed!
And last but not least, Citra: the shy one.I realized that I didn't get any pictures with him, so I visited his blog and grabbed this picture of him and the world's largest tankard made of pewter at Royal Selangor Visitors Center on Day 2.
Other than bloggers from Indonesia, there's a lone-blogger from Singapore: SYlistic! He's really thin and tall! What amazed me is the fact that he's a travel blogger who gets to go for free or subsidized trips overseas. I am honestly envious of him, he went to Japan a few days after the MySelangor Story ended! Man, I wish someone would sponsor me to go to Japan. If they do, I wouldn't mind doing a coverage titled "Cheapest way to travel in Japan!" LOL~
Alrights, now that I'm done introducing the non-Malaysians, it's now time to talk about the fellow Malaysian kakis!
The first one who came into mind is Feeq! Not because he was the first blogger I bumped into right at the start of the contest in Day 1, but mainly because he became my pet-bro, whom apparently gets bullied by me, throughout the trip! lol~ Feeq's a really famous blogger, who tries his very best to balance between his part-time blogging career and life as a student. He's always running around throughout the contest with not one, but TWO cameras! In fact, he's really famous in the contest as the "fish-eye-boy" because he always uses his fish-eye lens to capture group shots of the bloggers! His famous tagline would be:
"Wah...handsome-nye yang berbaju (colour of his shirt)" itu!"
Next person is MsXeroz @ Nicole!I have read her blog before her contests because she's a contest-junkie who won both blogging and non-blogging contests! I salute her creativity and "sampat-ness" :P But truth be told, I am kinda "sampat" as well, and because of that we made such a good combo and even came up with this short video just before leaving Kampung Dorani Homestay on Day 4! Do enjoy the video :D
Now after I mention Nicole, the next person that comes to mind is her best friend, Tian Chad.
He's a full-time blogger who covers loads of events and is too armed with a big DSLR! On a side note, I will always remember why he posed with a finger on his face. No, it's not to look cute, but it's to cover his big pimple for he fears that I wouldn't use Photoshop to eliminate the pimple. lol~~
Then there's Denise, the sweet law-student who was my roommate on Day 1 in Shah Alam :)She's really sweet and has a dimple! Not to mention a little blur at times, but that makes her even more adorable!!! Jing Yi was also my roommate for 2 nights while staying in Pyramid Tower Hotel, Sunway!I tried reading her blog posts on the contest, but I can't because it's all in chinese characters!*yes, I am a banana: yellow on the outside, but white on the inside*
Then there's Dania with her fantastic smile! One of the amusing things about the contest was that there's a couple who joined the contest together! That's the dude: KK!
He's another one of the guys lunging their DSLRs and even a tripod!
Then here's the babe: Chia Li The two of them are so sweet together! (not me and chia li lah~ I meant KK and Chia li). While we were mostly doing group activities e.g. running about in Sunway Lagoon, the two of them roamed together, so if you want to know what couples do while in Sunway Lagoon I suggest you head over and have a read on their posts :P
Up next is Spectre! The dude with his specs.. We took this pic because we saw that there's a contest by NewZealand Natural. lol. But in the end I didn't take part in the contest. Anyways, Spectre is a really great guy whom tweets a lot using his HTC smart phone throughout the contest. lol~
Then there's Dylan, the orange banana. Another guy with a big DSLR (I think all the guys own a big DSLR *scary betul*) When I asked him why he called himself an orange banana instead of yellow, he said...something which I forgot *oppps*.. LOL
Next is a fellow Klang-ite! Thristhan!! That's him with his signature pose: zombie-fied! lol...okay, I am kidding, I think it's supposed to be a hiphop-style-kind-of-pose, but the other bloggers called it the zombie-pose. Haha.
On first sight, he's really quiet. In fact I think he's the most quiet guy next to Citra. But once I talked to him, I found out a shocking fact: Victor's actually my SUPER SUPER SUPER SUPER junior from INTEC, Shah Alam!!! Yes, I am 4 years his senior :S
Next is Max, whom I remember because of his striking shirt which says:
LOL. Amusing t-shirt ain't it? Upon chatting with him, I found out that he's actually a hardcore runner who joins marathons a LOT! So here's a picture of me and him doing the "running-pose"! There was also a big bunch of Malay bloggers in the My Selangor Story contest. Prior to joining the contest, I had little exposure to the malay blogging community.
The most striking pair has got to be a mother and son team! That's Kak Zara and her son Zaid!
Did you know that Kak Zara is a writer for malay novels?! Interesting eh?
Then there's Azuan who gave an interesting three word to describe MySelangorStory: Monkeys, Nerds and Chicks!
And here's a picture of him and the chicks *perasan*, which I grabbed from his blog. As the saying goes, a picture tells a thousand words. From this picture itself, I shall tell you what went behind the scenes as the camera flashes went berserk as the chicks posed beside Azuan.
Other than being paparazzi-ed at, there were also "anti-azuan-supporters" going,
"Oi...take pictures with chicks lah! I tell your wife!!"
Those two were Eriqazz (who calls himself great teacher onizuka in his blog) and Abang Ben! Haha, i'm just joking about the "anti-azuan-fans", those three are in fact rather close to one another, and I just found out that they actually call themselves the "Bujang Lapok Trio!"
I think those are all of the bloggers (except for jac, who dropped out on Day 4 of the contest * i miss you girl*).
To all of you guys,
I would like to say a great big "THANK YOU"
for being so sporty and fun to be with! I think if it weren't for this group which we had, the contest would have been dull all the way. You guys have all made My Selangor Story memorable and unforgettable to me and I do hope that I too have played a part in making the trip fun for you guys :) May our friendship last!!
LAST but not least, I would like to thank our mummy Amelia being the great organizer of My Selangor Story. She yelled at us and had MANY MANY sleepless night because of the contest! I do feel really guilty about it, but honestly Amelia, you should get more rest. Your body needs it! Hehe~
Thank You to the sponsors because without them, the contest wouldn't have went on as well.
I have been told my posts are too long, but it's actually because I feel the need to cover all the events which we did, and mention all the sponsors in my posts, as a token of appreciation for what I have received throughout this contest: from the great food, to the great accommodation and the great privileges given to me as a My Selangor Story blogger!
So blame me for writing a wonderful story of my 6 days in this contest......
*eeeeekkkkkkkkk*
Okay, I know how gross this looks.
