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TransMY In The Papers Again

TransMY was in the papers again after  a year long hiatus. Not only in the papers, but our boys are being featured in the videos as well, courtesy of Hoohaa.my. This time we were covered for attending last month's Malaysia International Toy Fair along with our fellow member's who runs a custom Transformers business booth - Wan de Real's Transworks. Both the video and the article about Malaysia International Toy Fair 2010 that was held last month in Mid-Valley, KL has been featured almost...

Concrete5 For Cool Corporatey Sites

There is much talk about Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal being the coolest and the most elite amongst all the CMS packages available in this world. However, I have just discovered not long ago and toyed around with this nifty CMS called 'Concrete5'. It has been around the block for sometime now since 2003 but the recent update in the software put CMS fans on high alert to possibly convert into Concrete5 users abandoning the already fashionable CMS scene. This is because the anticipated stable...

Sand In, Sand Away

A 6 wheel payloader was here today, pouring sand in front of our gate, and made a quick getaway. It was another minor makeover of our house. To be precise, the temporary kitchen floor. Mom & dad will bring in workmen doing cementing and floor levelling next week. It seems like the wheelbarrow will be put into full use again after some time of dormancy. Judging from the size of the payload, it was twice the size that we have used to level the compound behind the house. Upon completion...

TransMY Showcasing At Malaysia International Toy Fair (Day 2)

Day 2 kick started briefly after the doors were open for public. As for TransMYians, they need to unload the stuff back to the tables again. As we addressed this issue in our previous post, we dare not take any risk by leaving our stuff out in the open. Not to sound biased or judgemental, we have seen what real security is like in Queensbay Mall during the Revenge of The Fallen Transformers Expo that we were involved in last year. The real security that we are talking about revolves around...

TransMY Showcasing At Malaysia International Toy Fair (Day 1)

Earlier the night before, TransMYians Kosmonaut and Wan De Real has been scouting the area to to see how the space looked like so that they could decide how the layout plan would be for the next day. Most members were there as early as 9am but they were not permitted into the premise yet. Maybe the organisers had last minute work to carry out. Upon entering, the first thing that our team was shocked that no tables were provided. We summoned the organiser and requested for tables. The...

TransMY Team For Malaysia International Toy Fair

Here are further updates for the event. Though being invited in a very short notice, TransMY managed to pull it through. After the meeting in Amcorp last Sunday, all members involved have conversed deeply in the subject and the result is more and more exhibits and participation have been pouring in after the announcements and discussions in the threads. The update below combined the first wave and second wave of contributors. Here are the lists so far: Wan_De_Real will contribute all his...

Futuristic Military Transformers Technology Revealed by Texas Firms

This is 'Combaticons' news after all, though it does not involve giant gestalt bot fights :). It's like something out of a "Transformers" movie. Or perhaps "The Jetsons" -- if you're old enough to remember that space-age cartoon. The Pentagon office in charge of looking at futuristic technology has asked industry for ideas on whether it's feasible to build a vehicle that can be driven -- and flown. And a fledgling Fort Worth business, AVX Aircraft Co., says yeah, we can do that -- if you give...

Transformers 3 Has A Cool Opening, Spielberg Style?

Here are the latest revelation on how the Transformers 3 opening is going to look like. Take note that everything in this article is a spoiler but for only the first few minutes of Transformers 3. No major plot points are revealed. No massive secrets are given away. What I am about to tell you is a cool thing that opens the film in a surprising way that you will never have guessed it. If you already know you're going to see Transformers 3, skip this article. Enjoy the surprise on the day of...

Reinforcing TransMY With Facebook Pages

I have long abandoned TransMY's Facebook Page, and today I plan to jazz them up a little by sprinkling some oldies in the photo galleries. It is in such a disarray as my concentration towards the main site has left this page sidelined for sometime. Oh well, it does not need much work as membership have been steady there for about 200+ people. Since the page has been made autopilot earlier, interactions still occur but in a very minimal and sporadic manner. It seems like audience knew who...

Bigwigs Like Grylls Made UK Scouting Cool Again

While I was scouring around for snippets from fellow FB-er, I came across an article pinned by a fellow scout-FBer. The article is about how Scouting became cool again after some celebrity bigwigs took the helm of one of the most well-known youth groups in the United Kingdom. As I was doing scouting for sometime in England many years ago, I did felt the sense and sentiments heralded by the scoutleaders that I used to meet up with in our local perish in North Hill about how uncool scouting is...