Dear All,

Ive always wanted to do this.

A group of close magic buddies... say 3-4 or more i dunno... travelling together overseas!

My target is Vegas (ive been there once but when i was young... below 18... i have my Golden Nuggets Token and Treasure Island Token with me... sorry only 2 GN and 1 TI... lol. Glad I kept them last time.. haha. I found it last week when clearing up my stuff. Man i should have gotten those damn decks when i was there!!! who knows Im to be such a card freak now! Aiyo!!!!)

Why Vegas, coz thinking back, there's a lot of entertainment there, good entertainment not the bad. Lots to see and lots to experience. wow.. i wish i can go there... then meet the pros of magic there.... surely v cool

I was thinking that maybe oneday I can find a few buddies in magic to travel together. Say we go there for a magic convention or something would be best!

Anyone interested? I know most of u are students but perhaps sometime in near future?

James, any suggestions or advice on this things? Im sure u are pretty experienced with this... have you travelled together with other magicians overseas for a magic convention? What is it like. What expenses and how much roughly to bring? US is not cheap... but man.. i love to experience this man.

Hopefully oneday I can... best to do it b4 getting married... hehe good im still single... but hey lets do this soon!

Dreaming,
Brendan

let me know if you're going... i'll try and plan to meet you guys there... hehe...

Let's go to inner mongolia (or Butan or Cambodia or similiarly un-tourist trapped location), on some Project Hope project, and entertain some kids at the same time.

THAT...would really be a dream... ^_^

If I had my way,

I'ma going to Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee.

Gonna see the King.

i never heard of the place before!
WTH i studied geography for 4 yrs~

you youngsters ah...hhahah
no idea what Graceland is..

google it buddy

Jeff

Graceland? Proves that you are old! :lol:
Unfotunately, me too :(

Vegas!!

Place of Cards. REal serious Card worker might be just walking beside you.
I mean I want to be there.
And shoot a video.
Imagine, my card vid in vegas.

Crazy Cool :)

But, as a student. Air ticket alone can kill me.
Unless someone can sponsor me. :D

graceland's a nice place... oh no! does that make me old too? haha... i'm ONE of the youngest here... i think :P

I heard somewhere in this forum - Aloy was mentioning that those who hit 10,000 posts will be rewarded by Aloy with an all expenses paid trip ...

He will take you across the cause-way so that you would land safely back to M'sia - he will make sure that during the journey you would not waste any money :lol: :P :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sorry got funny bone disease

OK on a serious note - who says you need a lot of money to travel to magic land in USA.

What is needed is organised knowledge and skills - be ready to give magic lectures.

Did you know how magic lectures works?

1st - you are paid a lecture fee
2nd - you are given a room for the night there
3rd - you get to sell your lecture notes to attendees
4th - you sell the balance of the leture notes to magic dealers

So, if you travel from each town to the other and do the above tips - you are practically being paid to enjoy magic everywhere.

BTW many lecturers are young today. The western magicians are very careful with their money and on top of that they also want to make more money (not necessarily full time) so that they can buy more props and learn more skills. So they organise their learning process and then plan to give lectures in many of the intl magic clubs.

This coming trip of mine to USA, UK, France, Canada, etc - I am also giving lectures in many towns and clubs. So my accomodations are taken care of and with the lecture fees I will spend them all on cards, more cards, even more cards.

Oh - half the money will go to card guards for the contests when I come back.

In fact I was surprised that I was asked by many pro-magicians friends to give lectures in their area. One of them wanted me to do it at the Magic Castle.

I would strongly encourage everyone to be organised in your learning process in magic. Besides learning the skills, pick up history too - like who invented which tricks, who is famous for what effects - that way when you mention these historical facts you will be respected by the Pros too.

On another note if you want to travel for fun and enjoy magic -Las Vegas is the place to go - after that would be California, and third Philadelphia - lots of magic happening in this two places.

After this trip of mine, and after a short rest I would be shooting off to the States again - for more lectures and also preparation for 2007 competitions - I will be competing in EVERY COMPETITION (stage and close up) and along with me my apprentices will be following me to compete too.

This preparation is to prepare for FISM 2009 - where I will be challenging with the best of the best. That is when I will be showcasing my magic inventions many magicians even from USA have not seen before.

So during the FISM competition I try to book a few dealers corner where some of us can go there to open up a roti canai stall - sell teh tarik to world champions.

Hey, think about it - you make history, man. So who is good in making teh tarik here or anyone knows how to make roti canai? When you flip the roti canai over your head you show how you multiply them and then turn one to roti-telur and another one to murtabak.

***** Headline in New York times, Newsweek, Forbes, Fortune ... ****

Jokers from Malaysia selling some roti in world competition - they caught attention of all participants - no one focus on the FISM event.

Three small short jokers were demonstrating the funny flips with the m'sian rotii while their other hands are doing some strange movement with a deck of cards and they call the demonstration - roti sybil cut canai

Another guy with a strange stage name - freekin JGan was moving in and out of everyone's mind - demonstrating his ability to predict how many spoon-full of sugar and milk an audience would use to make a glass of M'sian teh tarik. JGan even predicted the exact amount of calories the glass of teh-tarik contain.

At the end the FISM judges gave all the awards winning medals to these roti fellas.


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: - just can't help it - developed a funny bone today

lol...u are really driving us crazy... :lol: :D :P

hehe... v hilarious! haha LOL

Man... looks like you gonna have a blast!

Keep it up man. Show them the msian style of magic :) LOL

Meanwhile.. ill practice my roti sybils here... and piroutte the roti on my finger, and then later ill do a long distance spinner and land the roti right on top of the customer's plate. hehe, howzat? lol

Cheers,
Brendan

haha... brendan's going to be performing hummingbird roti soon!

i will do my invisible teh tarik and biddle roti trick.
yeah i will do hummingbird roti,
not with IT but with maggie goreng pedas.

Mr James, you really make us think that going to US and places like that so easy.
I really want to travel. Stuck in this place for my whole life.
I love Malaysia.
But, I want experience. To see the world.

Hope magic can bring me out of this place. :)

Magic is essentially a very good medicine to many magicians.

The art of magic has changed so many people's life.

All of you can also benefit from this art. Study it well, practise well and keep going deeper and deeper into it. The more you know about the art the more you will benefit from it in many ways.

Magic has been good to me. It has also been good to so many professionals. It can also bless all of you.

googled it
graceland :huh:

lol... lai really googled it? hehe... all the mamak food...take to US... no need to do magic... can just give the mamak food and they'll be amazed liao... throw the roti up and kau teem d! haha

Talking about mamak food ...

When I was in Las Vegas with a group of friends (from M'sia) for one week - and fortunately we took some maggi mee there - after three days of western and fast food, we were dying for mamak food.

There came a point where none of use can tahan the food any more and we stayed back in the hotel just to cook maggi mee. We were really enjoying our maggi mee so much that we look like a group of hippies high on drugs. Imagine maggi mee can give us that kind of satisfaction and we go high on it.

The moment we landed back in M'sia - we went straight to our favourite mamak store and order so much food and teh tarik immediately.

I can't imagine what would happen this time - one month without mamak and teh tarik when I am there.

So, guys and chicks, bring along your magii mee when you travel.

I'll definitely bring my Maggi Mee Asam Laksa and Indomee perisa asli and my Myojo Pedas with me if i go LOL....

im so hungry no... its time for lunch soon

i'm going to US for 1 year... then coming back for 3-4months... then going for another year! how to bring to much maggi mee?! i want to bring a mamak shop there!... magicians... help me make one from here dissapear and then make it reappear in US! hahaha

Sukyi, learn to cook if you dont already know. Cooking is fun. Go shopping for gorceries, chop meat, vege, and cook.

Where u gonna stay in US? With frens? relatives? How many housemates u gonna have?

Its cool to live overseas... so much freedom and so much more things to do as you are by yaself, do ya own cooking, cleaning, shopping, washing, an independant lifestyle....etc etc. A nice experience!

I miss my time when i was in Aus.

Im sure u'll have a great time there :)

All the best!
Brendan

going to stay with my grandparents and brother... 4 of us will be there and my cousins come over during the day(they live close by)... hehe... i don't need to cook... there's nothing better than grandma's cooking, eh? ;)

wow.... cool that's awesome... u can impress them with ya card flourish and magic skills...

hehe...