The TwiNews Times

First, I would like to congratulate our Twilight Trivia Contest winners!

Eliza Marie Uygongco (Iloilo City, Philippines)
Eow Ee Von (Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia)

Congratulations guys!! You both win Twilight Stickers! I’ll send it on Tuesday because Monday is a holiday (Labor Day) here so the post office are closed. I don’t know how long it takes for the mail to get there but I’ll send you both messages once I’ve mailed them out.

I would also like to thank the TwiYCon Survivors for waiting for me for *yikes!* 30 minutes *sorry about that guys! I’ll explain what happened at the bottom of this post!*!
diane lopez
nikki_13_nicole
julie ann jabonillo
Danielle Patricia Magali
malen manipon
ennovy the dy-chiong

For those who weren’t able to attend, we will have another Twilight Yahoo *snicker, y’all know why I crossed that out* Conference either next month or on October. We’ll do it on a Saturday next time so those who have school will be able to come.

Okay, as for the TwiYCon (TwiYCon stands for Twilight Yahoo Conference, btw) report here it is:

7am-7:30am
Brief Meeting with Country Reps

7:30-8am
Arrival of Attendees
Watch the music video Time Is Running Out *it’s the same video on my profile*
Watch Edward’s Volvo Ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBSDhSwdXjE and Alice’s Porsche Ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS0qoaoxCNM

8am-9am
Head Count
Discussion on Midnight Sun situation
Discussion of our theories for what the new Scenes in the movie will be (after looking at the new Behind-the-scene pics, we figured that it’s probably a scene about the peace treaty between the Cullens and the Quiluete leaders)

9am-9:30am
Chat Room Migration *haha* (we keep getting errors from YAHOO CONFERENCE so we all moved to the MEEBO chatroom on my profile)
Waiting Period

9:30am-10:30am
Twilight Trivia Contest
Closing *Twilighters exchange e-mails, IDs, or other contact info with each other*

What Happened During The Waiting Period
I was at my friend’s house (which was about 20-30 minutes away from where I live. Jacksonville is a huge city landwise) when I opened the Conference because I was having problems with the wi-fi connection at my place  during the night before. So to avoid any problems, I asked my friend if I could do the conference at her place. She said it was alright because she was going somewhere anyways so I can stay at her room.

During the middle of the conference, my Mom called me and asked me to come home and bring the cashbox because the carpenters who was fixing our house was there and they needed money (i forgot that I had the cashbox in my bag). So I went home and gave the cashbox to my Mom. I had one problem though. The internet was still down at my place. ISo  drove to the nearest Starbucks. But it turns out they only have T-Mobile "HotSpot" *whatever that is*. So I drove around some more trying to look for a place where I can get an internet connection *my laptops battery only had about 2 more bars left*. I passed by the local library several times but I knew they were closed (bec it’s a Sunday) so I didn’t think of them at first. When I was running out of places to go to, I drove to the Library’s parking lot cos I figured I might as well try it and see if their wi-fi works even though they’re closed. And Hooray, the library’s wi-fi does work! I parked and grabbed my stuff from my car. But since I couldn’t go inside I just sat outside in one of their mini-parks *they didn’t even have any bench* and opened my laptop from there. Finally, we were able to proceed with the conference.

I’ve been getting a lot of messages/e-mails from Twilighters who missed the TwiYCon due to confusion in the schedule. I’m really sorry about that, guys. But we will have another TwiYCon either next month or in October so you still will be able to join us next time. We’ll have another Twilight Trivia and watch more videos.

I’ll make the announcement at least a couple of weeks before the next TwiYCon to give enough time for everybody to attend. And I’ll try to do something about the scheduling so that it won’t be as confusing again.

Well, I hope everyone had fun at the conference. Cos I sure did. We’ll do this again next time.

And as promised I made a banner for The Survivors *heehee* There’s 3 different versions so you can pick which one you like best and put it up in your profile *if you want to* or just use it as a banner in wherever you want to use it. (Just copy and paste the image or use the link provided by photobucket)

Survivor Banners
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm55/mccute1/banner1.jpg
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm55/mccute1/banner2.jpg
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm55/mccute1/banner3.jpg

and I also made banners for my AWESOME Country Rep Volunteers! There are no words to express my gratitude! I wouldn’t have been able to do it without all of you! Y’all did a great GREAT job!

Indonesia
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm55/mccute1/banner_IN.jpg

Malaysia
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm55/mccute1/banner_MY.jpg

Philippines
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm55/mccute1/banner_PH.jpg

For any comments/suggestions for the next TwiYCon, please leave a message at the comment section of this blog entry. Thanks!