As mentioned in my previous postthat I am attending the 3rd Malaysia Webmaster Gathering at the Curve, the Apartment Restaurant.
The event started around 1pm and we had a good refreshment (buffet lunch) sponsored by Exabytes.
This time the venue seems to be more exclusive and cozy as compare to the one held at KL Sentral.
Lim CS, was addressing opening note.
The 1st speaker was Rohan Thomas from Microsoft, who was talking about Microsoft Silverlight. To be honest, this topic was just to technical to me. Many keywords like SAAS…..I didn’t quite understand what it was about (though I know who is Microsoft, hahaha!).
The most interesting speaker and topic of the day was Liew CF, sharing about his experience being the 1st Malaysian Pro-blogger.
He started by showing us the apperance of the 2 blogs that he had during the early day. Then the next slide was “Mom I resigned from my job”.
He said he found it a bit difficult to explain to his mun about his new job (full time blogger). In fact, his mother was pretty worry about his resignation untill she saw cheques mailing in to him.
Being down to the earth, Liewcf revealed that at the early day he faced criticism on his command of English language. However, he added that his “broken English” is not a hurdle for him, he said as long as he knew what he was writing and his readers understood it then it is enough.
Apparently Google adsense consist of 75% of his source of income, which was also the 1st type of income to him.
What made him resigned was that his blogging income has way exceeded his full time job’s income (as a programmer cum IT support in a small company) as such je found no reason not to focus on blogging on full time basic.
He chose a good date to “enroll” to this new job i.e. 9.9.2005, (don’t know if he can choose to retire on a even better date i.e. 9.9.2009, ahahah!)
Below is the presentation slide of Liewcf, you may want to check out if you miss today talk.
Liewcf also shared briefly about the kinds of advertising income that he is earning, SEO tips, adsense optimasation strategy and also disclosed his earning per month. If you want to know how much Liewcf is earning, please continue reading…
Andrian from Neowave - sharing about prevention of fraud on online payment. He brief us about the normal types of credit card payment and the basic methods to fight fraud online.
He reminded us that the key point is “better be safe than sorry” i.e. if you found any abnormality of the order, you should cancel the transaction immediately.
I found his sharing was practical and pertinent to webmasters, like me.
Due to Alang, the legendary webmaster, did not able to speak at the event (last minute), Ikram Omar from Filament was the last speaker of the day.
Ikram shared about the concept of “Gribs On The Web”. As a non-tech person I am, I also was a bit lost during this session.
It is almost a convention of our webmaster gathering, Exabytes always kind to give out gift to the attendees. Louis was one of the lucky bloggers obtained prize during the lucky draw session.
In fact, I was very lucky too, I got 2 T-shirts and 1 coupon voucher worth RM399. I always feel that 2008 is a lucky year for me…hahahah!
As I said in my previous post, one of the greatest time during such gathering is to meet old blogger friends as well as new friends.
(from left) “Malcolm - a ex-neowave and now on his own at malcolmwong.com, Elvin from the famous iamfreelancer.com, Daniel - a jewellery accessory entrepreneur, Heislyc Loh - a young IT talent from go2this.com, and Andy- a going to be lawyer from HomeTuitionCare.com ”
“Danny Foo - the successful web designer cum blogger”
“Firdaus from JoomlaMalaysia.org”
“Sumardi Shukor, the founder of SMD”
“Kim Koay, a pretty and friendly college student”
“Yong a very interesting lawyer from TravelTurtles.com“
“Malaysia famous SEO expert. LimCS and dynamic young web designer Kailoon”
“1/2 done group picture”
Others webmaster that I met but yet to have opportunity to take photo with are:
Rahman, an internet marketer from site-booster.com
RuhaniRabin, a talented programmer.
Megat Fazir Izmir from Terzetto Technology.
Gray, a young and very talented IT geek from unlimitedInfinity.com
Chow Kar Meng from the organiser.
Chee Hong, my “old online friend” but only manage to meet 1st time during this event.
Of course also my good friend, Mr Part Time.
Overall, I am pretty pleased about this gathering and do feel the sense of belonging especially when I met all the old blogger friends.
I hope we all can meet soon again and don’t know if I would to organise the same would there be anyone joining…hahaha!
Oops, almost forget you are still waiting to know how much our Malaysia Problogger is earning per month. Being a programmer Liewcf presented the answer in the below formula:
Earning Per Month = USDX,000
INTERESTING right! HAHAHA!
If you still curious of knowing X = to what, the best person to give you the answer I guess is Liewcf’s mother lor. Hahah!
29 responses so far ↓
1 Ruhani Rabin // Jul 6, 2008 at 9:14 am
Eddie, that is so detail and visual overview of the Webmaster Gathering Malaysia. It’s an honor to know you in person and the other fellow members. Keep up the good work
2 Edward // Jul 6, 2008 at 11:30 am
Great to see so many webmasters attended the gathering!
3 Eddie Law // Jul 6, 2008 at 11:42 am
Ruhani - Nice to meet you too. Hope we can meet soon.
Edward - Next time you should come. LOL
4 SMD // Jul 6, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Eddie,
Thanks for the pic. It’s nice to meet u.
5 kailoon // Jul 6, 2008 at 5:08 pm
aiks, can take down my photo? so fat ….
Anyway, happy to meet you again
Wish my good luck, please …. Heheheh….
6 Danny Foo // Jul 6, 2008 at 8:51 pm
It was very nice meeting you as well, Eddie.
I’m very sure we’ll more to talk about in our next meeting. Be it eLawyer or views happening around online.
Looking forward to that opportunity.
7 Yong // Jul 6, 2008 at 9:06 pm
good overview. do you have phone number of Liew’s mum…???
8 Eddie Law // Jul 6, 2008 at 10:00 pm
SMD - Nice to meet you too. Since our office is near to each other, we should meet often.
kailoon - don’t worry, I am sure your gf won’t mind how you look in photo…hahah.
Danny Foo - ya..hope we all can meet again soon and hope will have more time to talk.
Yong- you should ask his dad for it. hahah!
9 SMD // Jul 6, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Yea. I;m interested to know more about your eFax. Will contact u later. Tq
10 Eddie Law // Jul 7, 2008 at 12:05 am
SMD - yes please, as I told you we are offering the cheapest price in the market for iFax.
11 Ashrufzz // Jul 7, 2008 at 12:29 am
Damn! I missed this event…Better luck for me next time.
12 catzer // Jul 7, 2008 at 9:24 pm
That was my 1st time being there, awesome food but my tummy already full at that time..I want to snap a photo with you in future event.
13 Eddie Law // Jul 7, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Ashrufzz- were you at the 1st webmaster gathering in KL Sentral?
14 Eddie Law // Jul 7, 2008 at 11:13 pm
catzer - sure we shall take some photos together in future.
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16 zaki blogjer // Jul 8, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Nice Post Eddie, now I know how the who’s who is M’sia internet industry looks like..
17 LiewCF // Jul 9, 2008 at 6:02 am
er… by the way, my mom also doesn’t know my income. Only 2 persons in the world know, I and my dear accountant
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20 Mr.Part Time // Jul 9, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Hi Bro, you are hard-selling the iFax service yar
Anyway, it is a very good service. I saved RM10 for each month on paper.
Btw, nice to meet you
21 Eddie Law // Jul 9, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Zaki - thank you for dropping by.
LiewCF- You have miss out another person, your banker. hahah!
22 Eddie Law // Jul 9, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Mr. Part Time - I just thought that webmasters will like iFax as it is really convenient and efficient.
23 Louiss // Jul 10, 2008 at 6:09 am
Cool to see everyone around here! Good Luck Eddie! Anyway, can you please buzz me your phone number, wanna date you out for a bak kut teh near Serdang there! lolx
24 Jeremy // Jul 10, 2008 at 6:21 am
Hi, please inform me for the next gathering.
I want to be there too!
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26 N // Jul 12, 2008 at 2:58 am
Great coverage on the event! Mcm lawyer betul. Didn’t miss any detail/proof…
27 Eddie Law // Jul 14, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Jeremy - no problem.
N- thank you for your compliment.
28 Pin // Jul 16, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I would love to take part too
29 Eddie Law // Jul 19, 2008 at 8:34 am
Pin - sure. do come by next time.
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