When Ming and I first started Nuffnang a little more than a year ago, we did almost everything ourselves.

Everything from answering e-mails from bloggers to hiring more people to doing our own accounting to doing sales pitches to get the sales in.

Then as the network grew and our clients became bigger and bigger, the team grew bigger and we had more help but the growth of Nuffnang has been so fast that even till today we haven’t been able to hire everyone we need.

For a startup entrepreneur, it’s a very liberating yet worrying feeling to have more people working with you. Liberating because you have more help and can afford to delegate but worrying because you have to start trusting your colleagues that they will do a better job than you.

In the past, whatever community events were all mostly planned single-handedly by myself too (though of course they were in a very much smaller scale then since Nuffnang was a lot smaller then compared to now). That means I even did all the packing of goodie bags too.

But last weekend’s Wild “Live” Blogging event was a first for me.

One day many months ago my mum called me up and said
“Son.. you are working so hard you are going to burn out, you MUST learn to delegate and just focus on the things that really really matter”.

So in the Wild “Live” Blogging, I really let go. Rather than go through all the details, all I did was oversee to make sure everything was going as planned pre-event and signing all the cheques.

Robb and my other colleagues at Nuffnang handled the rest, even the sourcing of my LION COSTUME.

ROAR!!!

Okay I just have gotta say this.

Nuffnangers are among the most sporting people I ever know.

I mean… have an animal-themed party anywhere else and chances are.. maybe only 20% of the crowd will really come as animals.

But have one with Nuffnangers and almost EVERYONE turned up in their animal costumes.

I’m just gonna show you guys some pics of the wonderful night we all had.

Lets start with Michbaby who came as a bunny.

There were quite a few girls there that came as Playboy bunnies hehe.

The “COW BOYS” of the night. Check out their nipples.

Then there’s PinkPau who came as a ladybird armed with her own leaf.

A few MDG girls were there too including Hanis over here who came as a moth

And Ringo who came as a LIONESS

Kenny came as Winnie The Pooh!

The big crowd of everyone playing around that night.
Look how everyone is smiling…
such a nice feeling.

Michelle, PinkPau, Sam and Fayth

It got a little crowded there at some points but sooner
or later everyone learned to space out a little.

We had 5 laptops there all hooked up to Maxis Broadband for
anyone to LIVE BLOG about the event.

Kenny dancing with one of our “Cow Boys”

Sam, Audrey, Ringo and Suet all looking wonderful. Can you see Sam’s bunny tail?

I’m too short to take good pictures sometimes.

Check out the butterfly!
We had a few butterflies that night, all with big big wings. It was so cute.

And finalllyyy…

A group picture of everyone (well okay almost everyone) who work (or used to work) at Nuffnang.

Including our Nuffnang PR, Kim from KimKomm.

To my colleagues who did a fantastic job, congratulations.

Thanks very much to Maxis Broadband for whom without… we would never be able to hold such an event for all 200 of us.

And finally… thanks to all you Nuffnangers who made the party WILD beyond our imagination.

If you guys wanna see more pictures, click here for Shaolintiger’s set and here for Kid Chan Studios our official photographer of the night.