Yannick Albert

Whoops...

No, you don't miss a thing. It was just my fault... Try to use an object instead of an array:

var c = $({});
c.on('abc', function () {
    console.log('123');
});
c.trigger('abc');

http://jsfiddle.net/xt7Bb/

Nope, $([]) <= 3 bytes saved