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DefinitionThe definition of TransMY encompasses the word trans and my where trans (trns) means;
And MY refers to;
Therefore, both trans and MY combined thus the word TransMY was born. In this context, TransMY bear the meaning of;
Background Also known as the Malaysian Transformers Fandom Group, TransMY's aims are to gather and unite all Transformers fans and collectors from Malaysia to provide a medium for information exchange, experience and fun with Transformers fandom. Members are currently made of old fans, rekindled fans and new fans alike where we try to stand as one of the biggest and united Transformers fan group, consumers and collectors based in Malaysia. TransMY was founded on the 19th of June 2003 in Plymouth, UK with its original members comprising of two people, which was the Wong brothers themselves - C.Y.Wong a.k.a Cryotec (founder, later known as Astrosurge) and Michael Wong a.k.a 'Monksterism' (co-founder, later known as Monkticon). Right after the founding, TransMY resided in Yahoo! Groups as a small and unpopular online hobbyist group. The old group still exists although it has run actively during its actual service in the period of June 2003 - Mar 2004. For now it functions as a proxy to divert members to our current site. After around two months operating in Yahoo Groups, the founder decided to advertise TransMY in tformers.com; which was an international Transformers news portal based in the US.
That is where few more members responded and joined TransMY immediately after the advert as released. With extensive knowledge of the fandom, some of them were promoted as moderators in the group and still serve as active moderators till present. On the 1st of March 2004, TransMY was migrated to a BB (Bulletin Board) styled website using phpBB as the platform hosted in phpbbhost.org, where they offer phpBB forums for free at that time. That was intended to be experimental at the beginning as the founder was keen on having TransMY as a portal instead of just a standalone bulletin board. The forum run well and gained more popularity locally. The forum was much more organised this time compared to the latter (Yahoo Groups) where discussion boards were broken into sections so that members can choose to interact in their favourite section. TransMY then moved a step further by migrating for the third time on the 1st of May 2004 to a CMS (Content Management System) using phpNuke hosted by timichost.net, thanks to Anthony Serrano the CEO of timichost.net (Timichost) who spotted me during my 'plea' for a free webhost in a web developers forum.
Anthony was kind enough to sponsor us for approximately a year. During that time, the membership was steady and we were able to promote ourselves in prominent search engines like cari.com.my, yahoo.com and google.com. We also did some promotion in other transformers forums based in the US and UK, and for the second time, we promoted TransMY again in tformers.com which leads us to a membership of 67 during the time of that record. We run the our very 1st Official Gathering on the 11th September 2004 with over 30 present. The second gathering followed up the year after that on the 19th February 2005 in conjunction of the founder's return to Malaysia, and the most recent one was held three days in Cineleisure, Mutiara Damansara from the 22nd-24th June. The third gathering was the biggest gathering ever as members participated in the event launched in conjunction of Michael Bay's blockbuster - Transformers Movie.
The event attracted so much press coverage that many members was featured in major newspapers, magazine, radio station and even TV talk shows! TransMY was officially 'branded' on September in he same year when a fellow member Tigatron (aka Kok Hoong), an honoured old timer completed his sketch, then designed and completed our very first logo based on a tiger motif which was a symbol of Malaysian national identity. In the following months of December 2005, TransMY acquired a webhost with a personal DNS server and migrated to the new webhost running a new CMS powered by 'Joomla'. TransMY undergone another migration in December 2007 to a local based webhost thus successfully 'returned' home after so long being hosted overseas. TransMY will look forward in the future for much bigger social event to gather more fans gearing towards appreciating this fandom. PurposeThe purpose of Transfans Malaysia's (TransMY) founding is to;
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