February, the month of reunions

Sort of anyway.

This has been an interesting month. After all the events chronicled in the earlier post this month, I have been 'reunited' with 3 people I've not seen in a very long time.

Geoff
Room mate from college and good buddy.
I've not seen or heard from Geoff since college which would have been 18 years ago. He's managed to stay below the internet radar all this while or just never had email or a website. I finally found someone with his name and profile and it turned out to be him. He's a Presbyterian minister in New Jersey.

Cindy
Cousin I've not seen since Grandma passed away when I was 12. Ok, this was super long ago. A friend of mine knows her family told me she'll be in Selangor next week just when I'm in KL. Won't be able to see her, but I'll give her a call.

Sally*
Friend from Penang whom I had a crush on in high school. We met up again, after I returned to Penang from the US. We lost touch after I moved to KL in 1991, which is about 16 years ago. She calls me up yesterday after getting my number from a friend of hers who knows my brother. She see's her friend's phone ring with my brother's name, so gets the friend to ask the caller if he knows her. Turns out to be my brother after all. Small world, KL.
* not her real name.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 refers to the 2nd generation of web services such as social networking sites, wikis, blogs, etc, that emphasises collaboration and sharing . Wikipedia Link
Yeah, I know, some of you are too young to know that there was a Web 1.0. Trust me, it exists.

Anyway, this little video by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University explains Web 2.0 in under 5 minutes.

February

Well, much has been going on this month and its not even over yet.

Its Chinese New Year, obviously. Kong Hei Fatt Choy to all!

I've been sick for the past few weeks. Hacking my lungs out and I don't even smoke. Cheh.

Doctor says its bronchitis. Could be worse. Could be TB or pneumonia.

It sucks though. Spending the long weekend sick. Same thing happened over New Year too. Bleh.

Spent the past few days as down time to recover. Continued on some way overdue video work. Hopefully I can clear all this my month's end.

New antibiotics seem to be working. Found out that Moxiclav makes my stomach bloat with gas. Several days later, I'm still clearing the gaseous effects.

Oh yeah, dad celebrated his 70th birthday. Which makes him 30 years older than me. At the rate I'm going, I'll be more than 40 years older than my first child.



We had a great birthday dinner for dad. It was supposed to be a surprise, but he found out. We had 19 tables with his friends and associates, some of whom flew in from KL, Singapore, Penang and Brunei.

Thanks to the Sutera banqueting staff for a job well done and to Mahatir Lokman who was the MC.

There was a lot of singing that night. Dad sang, the MC sang, dad's friends sang, I sang. Big props to Roger Wang who came to play his guitar. Harry and Crew did sound and lights.

It went very well. Dad's happy. I'm happy. :)

I didn't take any pics myself. Will have to look for people who did.

I'll post the tribute video I did later. My aging iMac takes too long to down convert the video. Sigh. Anybody wants to buy me a new Mac Pro?

My former housemate and good friend, Angie was also in KK during that time for work and ended up extending her visit for several days as a holiday. It was good to catch up.

I also went diving for the first time in well over a year. Its true, its like riding a bicycle, you don't forget!

Next month (9-11 March) will be the 2nd Livewire Chargeup! conference in KL.
My buddy Louis is running the Photography workshop. I'm on the media workshop panel.

and after that will the Skyline SIB Youth Unquenched conference on the 16th of March
I'll be speaking at the afternoon workshop on Media in the church.