BUM2011 Rocks In with a Luncheon Forum on July 24!

YES< keep a date with a group of intrepid Socio-Political Bloggers -- who call themselves BUMmers, but some pronounce it as BOOMmers because of its obvious hi-desibelles! -- who have been cooking up a new recipe to welcome all-comers with RM50 to spare to a beautiful Sunday lunch downtown Kuala Lumpur. On Sunday 24 July 2011 at MAJU PALACE RESTAURANT, MAJU JUNCTION,- -- yes, Malaysians like to talk while they eat or they never stop eating throughout the day. I guess tha's why 7ELEVENs are sprouting up around every street corner -- gifting real meaning to the term "convenience store".


So here's extracting details from the dedicated website to promo the luncheon forum -- bum4msia.wordpress.com-- come for a sit-back-and-rest-and-relax chowdown with almost-2B-disqualified-as-MP (I understand they hold his staus as a BUMmer in hi-stead, so he survives to march down Batu Road!) YB Tian Chua -- you haven't heard of him? "Art thou from planet Mars?", KimQuek -- whose real name is actually Yong Thye Chong-- but few people know his real professional background, accountant or engineer? -- author of banned book "March to Putrajaya" all the way from Johor Bharu!

But before lunch starts punctually at 12.15PM, let's gift a hearing to the CEO of the most advanced state in Malaysia, Selangor, YAB Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim who will share some insights as Menteri Besar on a topic related to the forum's theme: ) Just add a rumour the BUM2011 Org Comm chair YL Chong, aka Desiderata, will be making the off-repeated SWANsong APpearance!:(

Okay, details from bum4msia.wordpress.com:

BUM2011 LUNCHEON FORUM UPDATE

Theme: Nation Building Across The Political Divide

Date: Sunday, 24 July 2011

Time: 10.30am to 2.30pm

Venue: Maju Palace Restaurant, Maju Junction, Kuala Lumpur

ADMISSION: Open to the Public, Fee Payable at RM50 per pax with Table booking at RM500 per table for 10 most welcome

Programme Outline:

10.00AM: Registration of Guests starts

10.45AM: Welcoming Speech

by BUM 2011 Organising Committee Chairman, YL Chong, Desi

11.00AM: Keynote Address by YB Menteri Besar of Selangor Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim on a ***TOPIC related to the Theme wrt Selangor Experience

Q and A to follow: 20 minutes

**************BUFFET LUNCH TO BE SERVED 12.15PM to 1.15PM***********************

Forum: 1.15PM to 2.30PM on Topic “Transformation&Reform: Sloganeering, Lip Service and Performance” featuring:

Panel of 4 to 5 Speakers to speak 10-12minutes each.

1. MP of Batu YB Tian Chua, “You haven’t heard of him? Thou art weird!”

2. Sdr Kim Quek aka Yong Thye Chong, malaysiakini.com columist

Author of “March to Putrajaya” all the way from JB!

3. Dr SM Yeoh, Maverick, Blogger-lawyer-management guru who gives free advice with a wit’ a dosage of Malaysian profanities

4. Sdr AB Sulaiman, malaysiakini.com columnist

Q and A to follow …

Kuala Lumpur

7 July, 2011

***NOTE: Topic to be finalised by Selangor MB’s Office

Updated @11.26PM:

Registration

BUM 2011 participation fee is RM50 per head inclusive of buffet lunch.

Payment mode: Online/ATM transfer to Public Bank a/c: 3149149826 ( FNR2U.Com Sdn Bhd)

After remitting payment, kindly email Kenneth Cheok at globallink.industries@gmail.com with the following details:

Your name:
No of attendees:
Amount paid:
Date of payment:
your email address/contact no.

BUM2011 Forum this Saturday -- Open Invite

From bum4msia.wordpress.com...

BUM 2011 forum this Saturday

PRESS RELEASE

Bloggers Universe Malaysia (BUM) is belatedly commemorating World Press Freedom Day with a forum by popular speakers.

The ‘Bloggers’ solidarity with the press?’ will feature:

• Cheam Toon Lee – former editor-in-chief who had served in Sabah/Sarawak,

• Zunar as Malaysiakini cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque is better known,

• Ambiga Sreenevasan – Bersih 2.0 chairperson and ex-Bar Council president,

• Hata Wahari – former National Union of Journalists president until his employer Utusan Malaysia sacked him recently.

Selangor state assemblyman Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad will give the keynote address on ‘Legislating freedom of information act in parliament”.

The event is co-organised by a group of bloggers in their individual capacities, the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall, and the Centre for Policy Initiatives.

CPI director Dr Lim Teck Ghee said that with the political environment becoming more hotly contested and the mainstream media working overtime as cheerleader and fear leader for the establishment, it is vital that bloggers and those with integrity in the mass media quickly close ranks and provide Malaysians with truthful, fair and objective news and analysis.

“I hope this forum will serve to galvanise media practitioners and bloggers to reassert their adherence to the norms of journalistic ethics and independent reporting,” Lim added.

BUM2011 organising committee chairman YL Chong aka Desiderata said this year’s event almost never got off the ground as the Sarawak state elections came in April and interrupted the preparations. The BUM gatherings in previous years were all held in the month of May.

“Nevertheless, I was motivated to press ahead after learning about Hata Wahari’s plight. His sacking explains the theme for our fifth BUM outing,” he added.

Admission to the forum is free and open to the public.

Date: June 11, 2011
Time: 7.45pm
Venue: Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall auditorium (1, Jalan Maharajalela)

More background and updates on the event are posted at the BUM dedicated website bum4msia.wordpress.com.

Contact person: YL Chong at 012-970 2285.

BUM2011 Is On!

FROM: bum4msia.wordpress.com:)~~~~June 1, 2011

BUM 2011 Is Now at the Starting Blocks!




An exciting panel of speakers has been lined up for the BUM2011 Forum on June 11, 2011 to mark World Press Freedom Day (which fell on May 3, 2011). This evening forum is co-organised by a group of bloggers in their individual capacities (who call themselves BUMmers), and the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall and the Centre for Policy Initiatives.

*************************

Theme: Bloggers’ Solidarity with the Press?

Date: Saturday, 11 June 2011
Time: 7.45pm to 10.15pm
Venue: Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall Auditorium (KLSCAH)

Admission: Free and Open to the Public

*************************
Programme Outline:

7.45PM: Welcoming Speech by Dr Lim TG, Director,
Centre for Policy Initiatives;

7.55PM: Address by BUM 2011 Organising Committee
Chairman, YL Chong, Desi

8.10PM: Keynote Address by YB Nik Nazmi
 Nik Ahmad on “Legislating Freedom of
Information Act in Parliament”

Q and A to follow: 20 minutes
*************************************

Forum: Bloggers’ Solidarity with The Press?

9.00PM to 10.00PM featuring:

Sdr Cheam Toon Lee, newsman, former GEIC


Sdr Zunar, cartoonist, writer 


Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan, Chairperson, BERSIH 2.0
;

Sdr Hata Wahari, NUJ President, “sacked” by Utusan Malaysia recently

Q and A to follow…

Kuala Lumpur
 June 1st, 2011