So the 27th of February this year was Nuffnang’s 5th Anniversary.
I can’t believe that it’s been 5 years since Ming and I stayed up one night to launch Nuffnang.com on the 27th of February between 2AM-4AM. Why did we go through all that effort to stay up? Because Ming went to see some Feng Shui master and the Feng Shui master said that for a successful business, we should launch it on that date and time.
Can’t say we really believed it then but I guess it’s a good thing that I can look back now and be thankful that I listened to that Feng Shui master. We never really celebrated too many of Nuffnang’s birthdays in a big way. There was the 1st Anniversary one, the Nuffnang Chipster Pajama Party where we had some of our bloggers then put together this video for us that we showed at the event.
But that was about it.
This year though we decided that we had to do something. Because it was our 5th year! Our team was just recovering from planning the biggest event we ever had, the Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards 2011 in December but they managed to pull a celebration together. Nuffnangs of all the 7 countries we were in would together hold their own parties and celebrations to celebrate Nuffnang Turning 5 years old!
I went for the one in Neverland, KL that was attended by 250 Nuffnangers. We also had a short video done by some of our Nuffnangers too.
The Nuffies asked me to go up and give an opening speech but in all honest truth I had no idea what to say until I got on stage.
I didn’t know how to prepare or anything. All I knew was that…. if I went up there and spoke from the heart, I’ll be ok. So I did… I told them about how Nuffnang came about right after I graduated from university, how my father supported me, the dream were painting for bloggers then and what we have achieved now. I also talked about how exciting the future looks for us… and of course… big thanks to all our clients and Nuffnangers who had always supported us.
This is us… some of the KL Nuffies on stage doing our Nuffnang Stickman pose.
I don’t know how that pose came along but someone in our early years did it and since then it has always stuck internally with all the Nuffies.
Nuffnang has indeed grown. From a community of 300 bloggers in our first 3 weeks, we now have over 1,000,000 bloggers in 7 countries in the region with over 100 Nuffies (staff).
Thank you for the support everyone!
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space