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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...

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...

TransMY Was Compromised

This morning I had trouble going online. Only at around 7am I had been 'relieved'. Checked my Transformers site as usual, only to find it empty. The only message i got is a database connect failure. I immediately logged in my webserver's control panel and via phpmyadmin, I find my database was there but EMPTY. Not even 1% of data has been retained and reserved for me! I quickly fired up an email to tech support asking them what's going on. The site has a massive load of data amounting....

Transformers Revenge of The Fallen Convention in Queensbay Mall

Revenge is coming, and Penang was the host for the biggest Transformers convention in Malaysia this year. In 2007, Cineleisure in Mutiara Damansara became the witness of the first ever Transformers expo, and the Trans-mania kick-started from there. For the period of two years after the first movie, Malaysians have been fascinated with Cybertronian factions known as the Autobots and Decepticons. The craze go on, and not admitting defeat, Queensbay Mall transformed itself this year to...

Revenge of The Fallen Premiere With Transfans Malaysia (TransMY)

This is the moment that we are waiting for! We have done it in 2007 and we are loud and proud to announce that we are being given the opportunity to watch the premiere screening of Transformers Revenge of The Fallen again this year! Please follow this posting and details closely as there will be updates from time to time. Event: Transformers Revenge of The Fallen Movie Premiere Night Date: 23rd June 2009 (3 days earlier than US) Time: 9pm (approx) Venue: Either Mid Valley, 1U or...

Kitbash: Protectobots Homage

Robotcon 2007, a Transformers event where TransMY was closely involved prior to the Transformers Movie release was truly an inspiration for me to come up with this project for to 'establish' TransMY-themed Transformers realm that was geared up for future exhibitions and conventions. This project will be a debut to the 'launch' of more locally based TF kitbashes so that more members and fans might take up, thus pursuing this sub-hobby of kitbashing/customising as a main hobby apart from just...

Thanks TMNut

Thanks la TMNET! Bastardos! Is Merdeka month, and you hamper my efforts in trying to run a peaceful Malaysian centric site for Malaysian Transformers fans and collectors. I am tryin to work my ass off to promote a national pride site where local members can gather, interact with each other, promote muhibbahness, fostering new friendships and building camaraderies and you fucking ruin it all by banning TransMY's IP address just because of one puny scam-scare?! You are scared of scammers...

Hacked & Defaced

My TransMY site was hacked and defaced today, thanks to a Turkish coward. I was pretty surprised of how it can happen when the CMS that I was using (Joomla) was supposed to be quite robust in dealing with security compromise like this. I was wrong to conclude that Joomla was littered with exploits and backdoors in it’s coding that has resulted to this attack when I was enlightened by the official Joomla forum that announces a possible compromise that was caused by 3rd party add-ons. In my...

Cybertron Down II

TransMY was down again. The last I logged was an hour before midnight. Upon loading the page, I was shocked to be greeted by error 402. Sensing something wasn't right, I checked my FTP. Fortunately my FTP was still functional, but I was sadden that my webserver was empty. The only remaining file and folder was found was a com_expose component in the component folder. I was surprised and appalled for the first time in my webmastering years, something like this could have happen. I would...

Eve of Robotcon

The eve of Robotcon was filled with fun and laughter as avid TransMYians brought along their collections in mountain of boxes with GOC's (Gathering Organising Committees) working in the concourse till past midnight, battling with drowseyness and exhaustion ensuring the event is a smooth success. Robotcon officially kickstarts now in Cineleisure but last night, TransMY's GOC (Gathering Organising Committee) and regular volunteers/toy contributors are present at the venue along with the...