Pen Lovers 1st Anniversary Luncheon

Wow… what a day!!

We had a successful celebration of the Pen Lovers 1st Anniversary Luncheon on 29 October 2011 at Pizza & Satay Restaurant at USJ, Subang. The turnout was awesome!! All together, we have 40 Pen Lovers turnout for this event. 

Looking at the group photo, Man! We have broken our record high with 40 Pen Lovers there. 

All these started from a simple man’s vision, i.e, in love of Olympus Pen Camera. And now, it has been developed into a great Facebook Group called PEN LOVERS, which started from a humble beginning from one person and now, it has increased to 325 members as of to-date and the numbers are continuously growing. Thanks to our founder Koon Yik Chin who has this vision and made all these possible. He has successfully pooled many Pen Camera users together. 

PEN LOVERS FOUNDER - KOON YIK CHIN

Time flies…. The Pen Lovers are one year old now….. 

I salute Yeow for his initiative to lead on this project to organize the 1st Anniversary of Pen Lovers. Only people who had high enthusiasm would be generously volunteered to take on the extra responsibilities without any hesitation to organize the 1st Anniversary. I still remember his worries on the poor response from members. He was so grumpy like nanny about not enough people to meet the minimum pax of 30 for booking of a restaurant. One week before the date, the numbers were still not enough … I think he has a few nightmares because of this .. ka ka ka… 

Yeow Chin Liang - Important Soul in Pen Lovers

Worse still, many committed but yet to pay, he started to worry about people FFK or “Fong Fei Kei”, it’s literately saying “Flying Aeroplane”. In Cantonese, it means people didn’t keep their promise although agree to attend but failed to turnout eventually. 

Luckily, he has many friends’ support to release some of his worries. 

Yeow’s buddies in Pen Lovers have extended helping hand to him. People like, Gerald, Simon, Thian Jin, Robin, Mun Keat and Koon Yik have been given helping hands in many ways. Pen Lovers is like a big family, the core team worked with good team spirit and with willingness helping one another to get things done. For sure, you won’t be alone. Look how happy they are …. 

The event started with a sharing session on Photo Editing Technique on HDR photos, conducted by our beloved Thian Jin, he was voluntary to conduct a short course on HDR for members who wish to learn. This is one of the benefit of joining Pen Lovers because we have the opportunity to learn from other fellow members. 

Koon Yik wanted to let many of his vintage lenses and accessories for members to test. He always proud of his collections. I knew he had spent a fortune of getting all those items. Thanks to him, he was kind enough to let us play with his toys. BTW, Koon Yik was joking with us saying “PEN Lovers bring lots of equipment... even one idiot bring luggage bag, damn gila guy lor …. hehehe”.

LOL!!

The idiot guy he referring is himself because he was literally using a big traveling luggage beg with rollers to host all his camera, lenses and accessories …..

(Where can you get such a leader? You tell me lah!!) 

We acknowledged the help from Olympus to loan us one unit of 12mm lens, the newly launched Olympus EPM1 and 3 units of converter lenses (wide, macro and fisheye) for members to try on. As for the most talk about Olympus 45mm f1.8 lens, Yeow was generous enough to let his own precious baby (lens) to let other members to molest …. I guessed that is why he was famous of poisoning people …. Wakakaka. 

Beside those loan units, Olympus sponsored 11 T-Shirts and 9 fiber micro cloth as lucky draw prizes. Other team members also contributed their own gifts for lucky draw … the prizes were so many until we need to have 2 times lucky draw to finish it. Oh yah, we should thank two members who couldn’t make it but they have contributed gifts for lucky draw, they are our Pen Lovers’ buddies, Ronnie and Zeejay. 

It was indeed a wonderful event; I believe everyone have enjoyed themselves. I have taken some photo to share with you … hopefully, one day; you too, can also join Pen Lovers group in Facebook.  (Please click here to link to Pen Lovers)

With happy faces and satisfied feelings, many Pen Lovers are looking forward more PEN LOVERS EVENT … I wonder what’s next …hee hee hee …. and who can organize it ?

Hey, Hello...!!? Why is everyone runaway (except Yeow standing there wondering what’s going on ….) 

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Yeow, I think they all want you to be our chief organizer for the next 2nd Pen Lovers Anniversary ….
Good job, Bro!! We support you…….



The End :)