Pyramids, ancient civilisations and weight-lifting with music
As much as I’d like to blog in length about tonight’s very absorbing coffee session, I have DUN to cover first thing in the morning.
This is Dr Semir Osmanagic, or Dr Sam for short. He discovered the Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids.
The topic went from archaeology to ancient civilisations to Atlantis and aliens.
Overall a very interesting evening that succeeded in making me wonder how to levitate things with music alone*, but a blog entry for another day.
* Tibetian monks lifting giant blocks of stone with music. Google it.
Kenny goes bald
There’s no reason for me to pretend I’m not impressed by this. I was thrilled when the counter of his page passed the RM50k mark. But Kenny Sia exceeded his target. People kept giving. They raised and extra RM2000 right there at tHe Spring.
Needless to say, the man of the hour was mugged over and over for photos. Here, we’re both pointing at something that’s about to become history.
Despite all natural fears, Kenny actually looked good without hair.
But I think the whole reason behind the “Give Hope, Go Bald” campaign hit home when we were introduced to 6-year old Michael from Kapit.
His father will be going bald along with a bunch of other people this Sunday. Perhaps that bunch of other people will include me.
My collection is RM850 at the time of writing (watch the meter on the sidebar for updates), which is pretty amazing considering I only started rallying for donations on Monday. A huge bunch of thanks go out to my colleagues, friends and new friends who took up the cause and passed the word on.
There’s 2 more days left to contribute. Besides me, the following bloggers are also pledging to shave their heads:
- Jimmy Chin will do it for RM5,000.
- Albert Lim went past his original target and have marked it up to RM5,000.
Eat OK Food Blogger Gathering
The Kuching Food Bloggers Gathering @ Village Fast Food was nice and had a few new faces (“new” as in I haven’t already met them everywhere else), but I was too tired to mingle after we sat down and the food started coming out. I’ve been constantly tired the last few weeks.
I was too tired to figure out how my friend’s camera worked, hence I didn’t get photos and this is not an entry into the Eat OK blog post contest. Photo above? Stole it. Thanks Annna.
I must say that the Eat Ok logo makes a great icon in real life, as demonstrated by everyone in the photo.
I’m pleased that Gab, who designed the logo, was also there. We know each other from my church days and were already planning to meet up to swap Edward Gorey books.
I helped the organisers by writing up quiz questions on the fly. I knew Caroline at VFF will be making a speech and was gonna get some things from there, but I didn’t anticipate that Francis will be introducing everyone who attended. It did make a couple of other good questions though!
I think this is the first proper food review event organised for bloggers. There were 5 tables for us and we had feedback forms to fill. I’m quite pleased with the feedback form idea because it shows that the people from VFF are serious in getting a general feel of what people think of their food.
Despite not feeling very good, I enjoyed the event and the company. I’m only sorry I didn’t have enough energy to go make new friends that night, but I am glad to see the usual suspects and a few other people I usually meet elsewhere.
