Nuffnang Perth Blogger Meetup

A few posts ago, i wrote about Nuffnang coming to Australia and what they could potentially bring to the Australian Blogging community.

Well, Nuffnang did make an effort and organized a Perth Blogger Meetup.

Unfortunately for me, the start time was slightly before my knock off time from the supermarket job that I labour for a temporary living, so i had to reorganize my work schedule a bit.

Justifying to the managers and peers were a bit awkward.. once i told them i was going to a Bloggers meet, they'd given me a new nick name- GEEK. Anyway, I don't really care, Nuffnang has setup a bar tab and also some finger food for the event, and I am not going to miss free food for a low level job.

So after work last Wednesday, I made my way to the Brass Monkey Bar where the event was held.

If you recognize this building from my previous post, you are right, its the same building that was at the background of the gay parade.

Anyway, i found the entrance and went into the bar to look for the nuffnang event.

I manage to find the Nuffnang crew with their florecent blue banner, and signed their register

in the photo above, the guy standing next to the banner was Martyn Thomas, the Director of Nuffnang Australia, and he had come all the way from Melbourne for this event.

Shortly after another Nuffnang Australia director, David Lee gave a quick rundown of what they are trying to achieve here in Australia, nothing not covered in their website.

Ming, the co Founder of Nuffnang was there too, apparently he came all the way from Singapore and was doing a tour around Australia

The Perth Nuffnang meet was not that massive. Looking around, the only blogger that i know was Karen Cheng

If fellow readers do not know who she is, well, she wrote about women's fashion and parenting. I know.. not the usual topic that i read but she updates her blog very often and sometimes talks about Perth, that's why i read her blog.

There were other bloggers too, but probably less than 25

The finger food was ok, just the normal pub food, I didn't manage to take a photo of it before it was almost polished off..

The meeting was actually awsome. Karen's Husband Andrew was there and we had a really good yarn about Perth and what's to do here. There were also other bloggers that were there and after hearing my sad story of coming to Perth looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, they suggested networking more, as apparently the secret of getting a job here is not what you know, but who you know. I'll be joining one of them in a few weeks doing volunteering work, hopefully i will meet some people in the engineering industry. Fingers crossed.

Anyway, seeing that this is the first time i meet a famous blogger, i thought it would be a good place to cam whore.

From some of the other Asian blogs i follow, a lot of them throw up some gang signs when they take photos, so i thought i'll be an egg and do the same.. i am not usually like this.. promise.