For those who were out of town or couldn’t make it to the ‘Karachi Bloggers Meetup 2008’ cuz of some reason missed out a great opportunity to party like a blogger. I know how it sounds like but trust me; we didn’t do anything of any sort which could have possibly made us wake up the other morning with a hangover Ok that was a lame joke and so will be the rest of the post. Those who have some sense of humor can read on the rest should read dictionary it will increase their vocab.

 

The event started for me when I along with deHog entered the venue (Royal Rodale – Royal 1) one hour earlier; why? Well I didn’t wanna be late plus my mum kicked me out of the house. When we showed up at the place the organizers were clearly surprised to see us because they just got there themselves and were setting up things.

 

Question asked: Who are you guys?

 

Ans: Dhakkan Mujahideens

 

Question: What?

 

Ans: We are Blaaaagerssssssss  =)

 

Salaina checked our name on the list gave us our badges and asked us not to take photos until they are done setting up the place. But do us eva listen muhahaha (evil laugh).

 

After taking some quick shots we decided to settle down on our table. Finally got the chance to meet both Badar Khushnood (Google Pakistan) and the famous Rabia Garib (CIO Magazine) both organizers greeted us with a big smile.

 

 

As the day progressed I got the chance to meet and socialize bloggers, old n new friends and discussed politics, blogging, and how tasteless the red bull was  So why were we drinking red bull in the first place and around 2-3pm in noon   Dude, it was free. We Pakistanis don’t let any free things go, even if they are allegations from neighboring countries

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights of the event:

 

• Rabia Garib with the microphone, the lady is a pro (13 years of experience no small deal). Every time someone tried to take the mic away from her (to ask a question); she used to give ‘em “The Look” and the scared ppl neva touched the mic again

 

• Badar Khushnood is as awesome and cool as google itself. Badar Sahab is google Paksitan hiring? CV fwd kero

 

• First thing on the agenda was the fact that Doctor Awab does everything but practice medicine, good for the blogging community, even better for his patients. Lolz

 

• Sabeen Mahmud was having fun on the rolling chair she rolled 3rice on her seat during the session. (Ok now somebody gonna ban me from entering t2f )

 

• Saad Hamid (20 Islamabad) and Haris (18 Lahore) makes more money then Asif Zardari ever made through proper (google) channel.

 

 

• The 2 kids make X000$ per month. Holy Kawwww…….. Everyone in the hall were staring the 2 with open jaws and greedy eyes.

 

• Fariha was typing typing typing……typing. We know who were you typing for

 

• If you are a good friend of Jamash, chances are that he’s gonna take a kick ass photo of yours for free and will put it up on the facebook. For people like me chances are slim [and I thought we were friends Jamal]

 

• Munir Usman and Imad Qamar who blogged like 3 posts in 5 years were sitting in the front row posing as professional bloggers. Sitting in front can only help you win some goodies but in Munir’s case even that didn’t happen.

 

• Ramla said the K word to everyone’s surprise; I would like to defend her in this post. “People; dog is an animal and a much loved one in many civilizations.”

 

• Everyone TOTALLY LOVED <3 my 5 minutes of Teabreak munjan (aka marketing). I was like BONO out there. [This is a clear example of how big liars we bloggers are haha].

 

• Mohtashim of IT TAZEE is actually a young energetic guy and for all that time I thought he was 40 something.

 

• Siyab was the youngest Pakistani blogger in the event (16 yrs). He got the Hassan Raza award

 

• Following the XMAS spirit goodies bag were distributed among the panelist, and those who were able to answer really difficult and mind blogging questions. Yes they copied the format from Tariq Aziz’s “NEELAAM GHARR”

 

• After there were no questions or goodie bag left they decided to take a Teabreak hmm teabreak….now where did I learned that term

 

• I ate 2 samosas, 1 small burger and that squared fried thing. I wonder what was that?

 

 

• Shahzad Khan aka Dehog forced me to make some tea for him, I had to his name ends with a Khan (*scared*).

 

Okay that’s about it for now I am not very candid with the rest of the lot present and therefore can not put them in this post; as a matter of fact I am not very frank with most of the people I mentioned above but I am sure KBM09 will take some time till then;

 

“Blog On! Before we get the Vietnami treatment”

 

I would like to thank Badar , Rabia and their team for smoothly executing such an awesome meet up, we would love to see more such events, but Iam sure most bloggers would like to see the emphasis on serious blogging and active blogger community. Money matters but it cant replace ones passion for blogging.

 

Photo Credit: Shahzad Khan, Imran Hussein and Jamash

Popularity: 19% [?]

For those who missed out ‘Karachi’s Bloger Meetup’. Here is the replay of the LIVE blogomentary. My friend Fariha Akhtar was covering the event for her site Ideas Hut and for our baby TEA BREAK.

And she did a great job, thanks Faree!

Popularity: 7% [?]