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If you’ve been reading my blog here, you would have know that i attended this very summit on the 16th and 17th of November 2009. It was the Youth Engagement Summit 2009 that was held at Putrajaya International Convention Center.

A conference that runs for 2 days time.

With around 500 youths and other corporate figures attending this very event, it really shocked me with a knock on my head that i was there to listen to the various talks by influential individuals over the world.

Security was tight and the hall was wonderfully awesome. It’s not like everyday i get to be seated in such a hall with comfort and all.

I felt as though as i was attending a Christian youth conference with Pastor and other people sharing the word of God. The difference here is that the speakers don’t quote verses from the Bible that is.

On the talks itself and its content and such, i won’t really share it all from A-Z here as it would DEFINITELY bore you out pressing ALT+F4 leaving my blog then.

There were a lot of speakers there in the span of 2 days and i’ll just state out juist a few things that i find it interesting. Not necessarily inspiring or encouraging but yes interesting.

What shared in the picture above is pretty inspiring and this is not the first time i’ve encounter such quotes then. It was one of the hundreds of stories of impossibles then, one that was shared widely among the people out there.

Such quotes, such stories will only work and happen if the listener have the determination to pursue his/her dreams, going all the way leaving the negatives behind their backs reaching out then. It will surely take a long time and sacrifices have to be made then.

Quite a simple explanation but there goes a whole lot of knowledge and life experience in there.

Another thing that interests me are the numbers. The facts. How Twitter was build from nothing to how it was today in 10 years time. Yes 10 years since Biz Stone left one of his child(Xanga) behind coming out with a random idea with his mate. Of course, that is base on years of experiences with the internet and such and Twitter is not an accident.

Facebook on another hand is another amazing site along with Twitter. With just a platform for the people out there, there were groups of individuals, students that join the circle and made it big from there and the rest of it, is what we are seeing now. Amazing? Yes but along with it comes bigger challenges.

Stories of how Twitter and Facebook saves life, helped in events, disasters and etc have been shared. Some that we all know of as well as some as i have no idea of.

Numbers are one of the important piece of puzzle then.

The founder of Air Asia was really funny then. Sharing his stories in a funny way. He mentioned that he actually thought of sponsoring the RED CARD of EPL. So when everytime a red card was used on a player, there’ll be a tagline behind the card – “You’re suspended, Now go have a holiday with Air Asia”.

That was how he attracted attention of the crowd then.

Basically, most of the things shared by the speakers can actually be found through the internet. Not like i know every one of the stories and such, but i was actually expecting a bit more from the speakers, something different from what i can find online.

The most interesting parts are the Q&A session with the different speakers then where random questions were threw at them. Just like someone asked this “Are you single?” to Randi Zuckerberg, the Director of Market Development at Facebook. Of course, such questions are stupid, but it was pretty fun listening to the replies as well as seeing their reactions.

One really funny thing i remembered was a question was asked to an Ex-Minister of China, “Why did China Block Facebook?” The Ex-minister reacted in a funny manner giving the question mark to the crowd and at the end of the day, he stated that he have no idea what is Facebook.

then, in another question during the same session, a reply sound like this, “I am not on Facebook, but We didn’t block Facebook!” That was the reply from a Minister of India.

Generally, the whole event was good, held for a good cause and such. But, the food sucks, its like erm, Malaysia, Food Paradise!!! Duh. No food catering from Eden anymore people.

Ok i think i type too much. Should really stop here then. So yea, inspiring yes encouraging yes but not what i’ve expected then. At the end of the day, i have not much to complaint, it was all good.

Thomas, Zoe, Chris, Jeff, me, HsuJen.

A few of us bloggers were there.

Youth Engagement Summit 2009, Glad to be part of it.