Phew it has been quite a busy week for me. Did so many things with many more to do. Tomorrow is my last work day for the week though. I took Friday off because Hong Kong Disneyland invited Princess and I and a few other bloggers from Malaysia and Singapore over for the weekend. I can’t wait to go back.

I love Disneyland.. it’s the happiest place in the world!

All the rides, the parades, the happy people!

It’s not going to be all play for me though. Supposed to go in for a quick meeting with the people at Hong Kong Disneyland. Did you know that HK Disneyland has been running campaigns on Nuffnang Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines? Gotta say I love working on Disneyland campaigns. Their ads are so cute!

Will blog about the trip in time to come. Can’t wait to go!

Have a great weekend everyone 🙂

I wanted to blog about what I did over the weekend but I realized that I did very little. My weekend was doomed the minute I decided to go buy this XBOX game that I waited so long for.

Was showing my new camera to everyone in the office just a few days ago.

So after work one day I started taking some pictures of some of the Nuffies and the things in the office.

Say “Hi!” to Michelle and Karen who both handle our Ad Ops.

To David who is always busy on the phone (Ladies Man #2 if you guys remember from the previous Nuffnang video).

Firdy here, Ladies Man #1.

Nicky, who demanded I give her this picture after I took it. So Nicky here it is.

And Vernice.

Vernice was slouching when I approached her. Then when I pointed the camera at her she quickly jacked up her left shoulder to give a sexy pose so that she’ll look good for the camera.

Tim 1 and Tim 2.

Rina…

Me on my own.

Me and Karen

Me and the girls.

After a while I started getting bored of taking pictures of people so I started taking close up pictures of things we use in the office (apart from our computers and printers and phones).

Here’s my calculator on my desk. The tool I use to calculate how little money I have sometimes.

The marker on our white board that we call the “Carol Board”. Something that we use to keep track of scheduling for blog ad campaigns.

Here’s a picture of Vernice’s mobile phone which looks like a rabbit foot.

We also have lots of stuffed toys around the office.

Here’s one of the Madagascar Penguins.

That’s all for today.

Sorry I’m too distracted to blog any further today. If you wanna know why…. THIS is why.

HAHAHAHAHAA

Now don’t blame the player…. blame the game.

Have a good weekend everyone! 🙂

We thought it would be nice to have a video that recapped the history of Nuffnang so that all of us will always remember how we came out so we came up with this video which was done by Kyanite and edited by this really famous video editor named Anne.

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It all started when Judd, one of our Filipino Nuffies was down in KL. He was going on and on and on with me about this apparently really kickass camera called the LX-3. Saying how it’s the most powerful compact camera ever made etc etc all at a time where I was beginning to feel like I could use a new camera.

So I went with him to a shop at Cineleisure and asked to take a look at one. They quoted me RM1,700 for it and they said it didn’t come with an in-built flash. So that was a huge turnoff for me. I ended up not buying it in the end.

Then just last weekend my brother insisted on going to Low Yat to buy something. So I followed him there and decided to pop by a camera shop just to take a look at the LX-3 again. The salesman just needed 10 minutes with me and I was sold!

Turned out that the LX-3 does have an in-built flash and is the best compact ever made according to the salesman. I made a decision to buy it there and then and have been taking lots of pictures.

I’m totally useless at photography. All I know is point and shoot. This camera though knows how to do all the thinking for newbies like me. I got home and I immediately started taking pictures of everything around my room.

Here’s a picture of my watch…

a picture of my mouse…

a picture of my thumb…

and as I was running out of things to take close-up pictures of, I ended up taking a picture of one of Princess’ curlers.

After I felt as if I’ve taken pictures of everything in my room I decided to bring my camera out. Went for dinner with my brother, Princess and Elise and I took some pictures of the food at Duck King.

That’s right… Timothy Tiah takes pictures of the food he eats. That’s something I don’t do so often but can you blame me when the pictures look so nice?

Here’s a random picture of my tea cup.

And here’s our sweet sour pork.

Our roast duck and siu yoke.

Nice huh.

Even the bowl of white rice looks nice!

I love my new camera!

I love how my pictures are so much nicer now and it didn’t take any skill improvement on my side. Ahh the pleasures of technology.

Overall I felt that it was such a fun journey. Apart from learning a lot more about some of the 7 bloggers we interviewed (stuff I never knew about them), I also learned a thing or two about how TV shows are made.

It’s such a long process with so much work involved it’s mind boggling. I mean shooting the video with multiple cameras takes long enough but there are other things involved like editing it all to turn hours and hours of film to just a few minutes so that it’s fast cut and not too draggy.

I kinda miss it now that it’s over and I hope there’ll be Season 2. We’re still discussing whether we will do a Season 2 or not but we’ll see how it goes.

There were many many really great episodes but one of my favourites have got to be this one.

Budiey vs Beautifulnara on the reverse bungee.

and how Beautifulnara’s girlfriend stepped in to help him.

I thought Budiey’s face on the ride was HILARIOUS.

And here’s the Season Finale of Project Alpha.

Hope you guys enjoyed watching it as much as we enjoyed making it.

This week I met up with Shaolintiger for coffee. We were catching up when he was just telling about a few new things he has in his life. One of which is his new car that he’s really really proud of: A Mitsubishi Airtrek.

He was so proud of his new car that he insisted he take me for a ride in it and it was beautiful even on the inside. For the first time in my life, I was looking at a man who displayed an aura of content and bliss as he sat in his driver’s seat. He didn’t need a big house in Damasara Heights, or a BMW or Porsche. All he needed was a car he liked and maybe some time in the future, a house he could call home.

It got me thinking. Being Chinese, we all grow up thinking of how we must strive for successful careers. How we must live our lives to accumulate a lot of money to buy big houses and big cars with them. How we must all one day strive to own our own businesses. These material dreams though come at a cost.

I don’t own a big house nor have I accumulated vast amounts of money but I do own a business. Not a big one but a medium sized one and one of the costs of that business is that it takes away my peace of mind. Weekends never feel the same again because your mind doesn’t stop working even then.

I have many friends who work on weekdays to service their housing and car loans but I see them on weekends and they are truly relaxed. Some of them don’t own a lot on paper but they genuinely are happy. So while money is important to provide a certain level of comfort, how much of it do we really need?

I think that probably differs between people and where we all go wrong is when we start to compare ourselves with others. You may have saved for many years to buy your dream car, say a Honda Stream but one day you see a few of your friends driving a Mercedes E Class and that somehow makes you less proud of your Honda Stream when it shouldn’t. But can you blame us for being like that? For naturally having to compare ourselves with our peers? That’s how we were all brought up.

Remember how in primary school your mum would compare you to her friend’s son or daughter who was doing better than you in school. So we all grow up comparing ourselves with one another and when we do so we sometimes pay too little attention to what we should be grateful we have and too much attention to what others have.

If you can imagine a group of Tai Tai’s comparing who has a more expensive and exclusive bag and who has a bigger diamond. The ones with the least to show of the group probably still has a Chanel and a diamond ring that most of us don’t have but she ends up feeling a little bad about it because all her peers have more expensive items.

I think the root of happiness is being happy with what we have in a material sense and achieving a good balance in other areas in life like family. I know right now that I could never be truly happy with all the money in the world if I didn’t have a family, with wife and kids that I love and who love me as much in return. Having happiness after all is what success should be measured by right? Not money. But happiness.

What do you need to make you happy?

Whew today was quite a day man. I was driving all around Klang Valley all day going for meetings after meetings but you know what the best thing was? I enjoyed every single one of them meetings.

I think I’m blessed. Blessed that I work with people I really really enjoy working with. I mean I have meetings with people who are smart, reasonable and fun people so it’s always a pleasure meeting them.

I ended the day catching a movie with Princess. While the Nuffnangers were all in 1-Utama watching the Nuffnang Screening of Phobia 2, I was chicken shit. I saw the trailer of Phobia 2, realized how scary it looked and I decided “FUCK NO!”.

So Princess and I went to Pavilion instead to watch our long awaited movie. Time Traveller’s Wife.

A lot of people were telling me that the movie sucks compared to the book but I thought it was really quite nice. The only thing I didn’t like was the ending though. The ending scene in the movie wasn’t what happened in the book and the ending in the book was just a lot more original. I don’t know why they would change the ending.

Oh well I guess we may never know.

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Another thing that’s new to me lately is my latest addiction. Every time I go grocery shopping, this has got to be one of my favourite aisles.

Now if you’ve been reading my blog from a long time back you’d know that I’m a big Yakult addict. One a day at least, sometimes more though I try not to have more than 2 in a day like I used to.

I’ve lately decided to switch to Nutrigen though. Just to try it out a little. The whole switch was a bit of a gradual transition. First I decided to buy like.. just one pack of Nutrigen and the rest Yakult. Then as I grew to like Nutrigen I ended up taking more and more and just this week I’ve completed my switch to just purely Nutrigen.

Funny because when I was a kid my parents used to buy me Vitagen. Then when I grew up I started drinking Yakult and now I’m drinking Nutrigen. It’s almost like I’ve been through all the drinks in this category.

Think I’ll stick to Nutrigen for a while. My fridge is pretty stocked up too 🙂

Does anyone else drink Nutrigen?

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Hey Everyone,

Ok before I start let me just say. You know how in the previous blog entry I posted some videos of Ray William Johnson up.

I ended up with getting like… 0 comments (well until the last minute I got one. One… out of 3,000 of you guys who read this blog a day) which is a whole new record. I don’t think I had ever gotten 0 comments in a blog entry before. Sure sure I know what you guys were thinking. You were thinking “As*hole… simply do one entry, dowan comment!”. But hey!!!! I liked his videos. Haha

Anyway on to today’s entry.

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You know sometimes when you’re a blogger and when you think you run out of things to blog about, I find the best thing to do is just bring your camera with you from the start of the day till the end and make it a point to take a picture to document everything you did that day.

Then at the end of the day when you start looking at all the pictures you take, you’ll realize that you have a story to tell.

Here’s my story for Saturday 🙂

Princess and I woke up really freakin late. We missed breakfast. Not only did we miss breakfast, I think we missed lunch too. By the time we were out for lunch, it was past 2.15PM.

We went for lunch at this coffee shop in Imbi.

After lunch we headed to Gardens.

We were supposed to meet Ah Quah there for a drink at Alexis but we got there early so we did a little bit of shopping.

After buying our CDs, she went to this little stall to buy a hat for her Mister Potato advertorial coming up next. She’s supposed to look like Mister Potato.

Or Mrs Potato. *ponders*… wait a minute… I’m watching you Mister Potato *waves fist in air*.

Then along the way she started shopping for some other stuff too.

Like this little hair band thing.

She was trying to decide on whether to go for the light pink one or the dark pink one. I told her that the dark pink might look better because her hair colour was kinda light so it provided more contrast.

She ended up buying the light pink one though. It’s one of those things where sometimes the girlfriend asks your opinion but she doesn’t really want it. She just really wants to make you feel included in the decision making process. It’s eventually up to her anyway.

Shortly after we bought our CDs, Ah Quah called to say that he was here. We met in Alexis where I had my favourite Pavlova.

I know a lot of people here know Alexis is famous for its Tiramisu but try the Pavlova, it’s awesome.

Ah Quah was telling us about how when Lee Min Ho came down he was one of the people who acted as his bodyguards for his trip here. That means he would follow Lee Min Ho around and do crowd control.

If you don’t know who Lee Min Ho is. He’s one of the actors from the Korean version of Meteor Garden called “Boys over flowers” or something like that. I remember watching it once on TV and remembering how they made all the guys look so good looking its no wonder Malaysian girls don’t find our local guys good looking anymore.

Hmph.

Apparently Lee Min Ho has this little stuffed toy that he brings around wherever he travels. His PA would carry it for him and he hugs it to sleep every night. I haven’t seen it so I don’t know how it looks like but if you see a lady carrying a stuffed toy next to him in an airport or something, that must be it.

With a full stomach and after having caught up on a lot of things, Ah Quah left. Princess and I went to do my favourite thing of the week.

Grocery shopping! Yay!

We went home after that to have dinner (made with the chicken we just bought). Then watched the DVD of Michael Jackson’s concert that I had just bought.

After dinner it was time.

Time for us to go to Bukit Jalil for DiGi Music Live to catch the All-American Rejects. It was drizzling when we left our home and we were expecting it to rain but I decided that rain wasn’t going to stop us.

We met up with David, Hui Wen and Judd (one of our Nuffies from the Philippines) there.

We also happened to meet one of our readers. She reads both our blogs 🙂

I think her name was Lynette.

Thank you for reading us Lynette.

Also met Vox, Benjicajess and some otherfriends there (Ah didn’t manage to get a picture with you guys. Will do next time).

When we got there, AAR was just about to come out to perform. The crowd… was freaking WILD!

Halfway through the performance it even started drizzling but nobody gave a damn. Everybody just sang along and clapped with their yellow DiGi clappers… which I thought were really cute by the way.

I took a video of them performing my favourite song “I wake up every evening”.

Apologize if it was a little jumpy. I took this video from my phone camera and at times I was jumping along with the crowd which explains the simulated earthquake.

I also kinda ruined another concert video again by singing along but I couldn’t help it. Everyone was singing along too and that made me want to join in. Check out the video and look at the cute little yellow DiGi clappers. I was trying to get my hands on one but didn’t know where to find it. Almost resorted to clobbering someone in the face and snatching it from him hehe.

At the end of the night, I thought it was really cool that DiGi planned this concert just for its DiGi Music subscribers. Thank you DiGi, for the wonderful concert.

So that everyone… was my Saturday. How was yours?