After being on this platform for approximately 2 months and knowing some Steemians, finally I went for my first meet-up with more from #teammalaysia for a Chinese New Year gathering hosted by 
Hive account@aaronleang and 
Hive account@joannewong last Sunday evening.
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The turn out was great though 
Hive account@iamjadeline and I arrived late due to our children's naptime. 
Hive account@danielwong who had been working the whole week due to the lack of staff in his burger place had to rest at home, had to miss this gathering because after I got back, he actually went to work on the preparations for a catering till 4am the next morning. Nevertheless, I was thankful that the boy could stay home with him after a long day the day before for a friend's wedding.
Teammalaysia CNY 2018 Gathering at the Pool Villa
I met many wonderful people but took very few photos by myself because the photos I take tend to be overexposed, so I got to learn to work on this more. Still, I was glad I could finally see the faces of many behind their Steemit IDs. Seriously, I wish I did not feel that shy to take out my phone to take more photos with you all.
Here are some wonderful posts by some in #teammalaysia about the gathering that I would like to link you to:
I am certainly glad that many have posted their posts about the gathering and thankful for all the photographers, which is why I thought they did an excellent coverage of the event so I would be writing about it briefly. I was happy to meet some of those I have met earlier some weeks ago at a food tasting event such as 
Hive account@zord189, 
Hive account@littlenewthings, 
Hive account@elizacheng, 
Hive account@casperleow, Hive account@aaronleang and Hive account@joannewong who are all ever-friendly and always make me feel at home with their presence, thank you. In the party itself, I met 
Hive account@digitalmind, 
Hive account@maverickfoo, 
Hive account@deborism, 
Hive account@calebleejl and 
Hive account@asherlee upon arriving at the car park.
After taking some food to just sat down and "observe" first, 
Hive account@kokuryo came to have a chat. I have always wanted to meet him because he gave me an impression that he is a very easy-going person, and true enough. Of course, we have to meet the big brother of #teammalaysia, 
Hive account@bitrocker2020 whom my husband has told me that he is a very nice guy. After warming up a bit, I met and chatted longer with 
Hive account@joyceann21 from the Philippines, an expat working in Mindvalley along with 
Hive account@chuazm, 
Hive account@cshaw and 
Hive account@elvira.galina. These are the ONLY two photos I took that night, hahaha! :P
Photo taken with Hive account@joyceann21
Photo taken with Hive account@elvira.galina
It was certainly my privilege meeting 
Hive account@siren87 whom I adore her desserts posts since I first joined Steemit, Not forget to mention, 
Hive account@dianaxiaz a young beautiful designer whom I met when we first came into the pool villa. We also met the talented 
Hive account@aaronteng. This place has a picturesque view of the whole cityscape of Kuala Lumpur with a little pool where the children had a blast dipping in, either their legs, hair or bottom, especially the super adorable Hive account@asherlee. They got all wet but the smiles on their faces said it all. Of course, 
Hive account@michelleloh168 whom I have known for years came to join in the fun later. 
Hive account@chloephuan93 and I were like enjoying ourselves watching the children and I am happy I finally met this young lady too. From far, I saw 
Hive account@natalielo and husband 
Hive account@crypto3d, whom Daniel has mentioned to me before and 
Hive account@khimgoh whose son was joining the water fun. Unfortunately, Hive account@iamjadeline and I had to leave earlier as her son, Jayden was having school the following day but we were stopped by 
Hive account@shenoy with his crew 
Hive account@varunpinto to be interviewed together with Hive account@dianaxiaz. I then learnt that they came all the way from India for this event. I literally wow-ed at their passion! I did not manage to talk to some of those that I saw from afar like 
Hive account@yasminep, 
Hive account@kevinwong, 
Hive account@sjennon, 
Hive account@firepower, 
Hive account@wackybecky, 
Hive account@arwinzen, 
Hive account@kimzwarch, 
Hive account@branlee87 and also 
Hive account@nickychu whom I met only on our way out. We got to meet 
Hive account@ackhoo and Hive account@zord189 of all places at the parking lot, haha. All in all, it was a very eye-opening night. I may have forgotten to mention some of the names, so sorry for that. Really thankful to Hive account@joannewong and Hive account@aaronleang for the efforts and hard work in organizing and catering! :)
Hive account@aaronleang asked me to pass a message to my dear husband who was absent that they would be going to Big Hug Burgers today. I tagged along with 
Hive account@littledrummerboy, Levi who shied himself away once he entered the door. Hahaha. At first, he wanted me to stick as close to him and did not dare to go near the table where 
Hive account@davidke20, Hive account@bitrocker2020, Hive account@joannewong, Hive account@sjennon, Hive account@varunpinto, Hive account@shenoy, Hive account@aaronleang and Hive account@firepower were seated at. So, we ended up sitting at a table behind them to let Levi "observe" them from behind. It took him a while to warm up and of course, his favorite food at his daddy's shop, THE FRIES helped a lot!
Hive account@littledrummerboy's best friend: THE FRIES!
Then he saw the uncles happily playing with the Steemit stickers Hive account@sjennon gave and he started to laugh along.
Hive account@varunpinto was friendly to come over to take interest in what Levi's watching and he gladly shared his interest about Mickey Mouse with him.
Next, came Hive account@firepower too. Maybe Hive account@littledrummerboy was explaining to them about the video he was watching.
Looks like Hive account@littledrummerboy has bonded with Hive account@varunpinto!
Hive account@varunpinto and Hive account@shenoy setting up to let Hive account@danielwong promote his Big Hug Initiative to pay with Steem!
Our honour meeting Hive account@firepower who is also a witness, committed to build this platform, evangelizing about it everywhere with his firepower team! You can tell they are on firepower when they would fly all the way here for the gathering! Photo credit: Hive account@aaronleang.
Hive account@sjennon and I. Finally, I got to speak with her a little today, got to know her as a Dutch who is travelling on to Singapore and Indonesia. She is also part of the firepower team. She is very tall and pretty Hive account@danielwong and I are glad to meet a real Dutch, when we only saw Van der Saar, Van Persie and all on TV lol!
I got to take photo with the two amazing hosts for the CNY gathering, Hive account@aaronleang and Hive account@joannewong, YAYYYY!
I also finally got to meet the legendary Hive account@davidke20, big brother for #cn-malaysia, whom I did not take photo with my phone :(
The Hive account@littledrummerboy was still talking about the sticker he received and called it the "smiling eye" before he slept.
It is truly my privilege to learn from and meet all of you in these two settings! I mean who would have thought a social media platform would connect us all together and we get serious with things to actually meet each other up right? Maybe Malaysia is a smaller country so it makes meeting up easier but still, it takes so much effort from all parties! I look forward to meet all of you again someday and till then, take care!
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