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SHIT STORM!!!!

The most annoying thing just happened to me this morning. It started off like a usual weekday morning. Wake up early for a pre-work jog at KLCC Park, jogged for an hour then get back into the car park to head home, shower then head to office to start my work day.

Today was a little different though.

Just as I was driving out of the KLCC Car Park….
“SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT…..”

I looked on my windscreen and realized that a storm of bird (or bat) shit had hit my car and when I say storm I MEAN STORM.

A storm means what must’ve been like 30 drops of shit… that’s right not one… not two… not three… THIRTY FUKING DROPS OF SHITT!!!

Now when some shit hits your windscreen the first thing you do is turn on the wiper to wipe it off right?

WRONG!!!

DOING THAT JUST SMEARED ALL THE SHIT ALL OVER THE WINDSCREEN. So after 5 minutes of wiping, this is how my windscreen looked from inside the car.

Look closely at the picture and you’ll see smeared shit on the glass!

Then I looked around my car and realized that it wasn’t only my windscreen that was hit but the entire car!

LOOK AT ALL THE SHIT!!!

THERE’S MORE

AND MORE!!!
AND MORE!!!!

AND MORE!!!!

AND MUCH MUCH MORE!!!

As I was driving back home I passed the Jalan Sultan Ismail traffic lights and even the cop that was there directing traffic had his eyes glued to my car as I drove past.

He was probably wondering to himself..
“WHAT THE HELL BIRD DID THIS POOR SONOFABITCH PISS OFF?!?”

ARGHH!!! DAMN BIRDS!!!

Now I know some people say it’s good luck to be shit on by a bird…. but this must’ve been 30 OR MORE BIRDS (or one bird having a bad case of diarrhea). Seriously I am starting to think those 30 birds planned it all out this morning.

They probably realized I leave that car park at that time every day and they decided
“Okay guys… when he drives out of the car park… we swarm him and shit all over his car! It’ll be so funny… he’ll never know what hit him and our shit is gonna smell real nice after all that fish curry we had last night.”

I MEAN SERIOUSLY!!! How often do you see bird shit on the floor?? THEY ALWAYS AIM FOR THE CARS AND THEY ALWAYS HIT!!!

What are the odds… I was STILL in the KLCC Car Park and my car was moving… how the hell???

I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO SHAT ON BEFORE IN MY LIFE!!!

TODAY HAD BETTER TURN OUT TO BE A REALLY LUCKY DAY FOR ME!!!

It’s past noon now and I’m still not feeling any of that happiness =(

Nuffnang Nokia’s Silent Halloween

Since this year, every 3 months the Nuffnang team tries to come up with a huge event for its Nuffnangers. In March it was the Chipster Pajama Party where I brought along my little buh buh which was then grabbed from me in a game the MC played with the Nuffnangers that night.
In June it was the Maxis Wild Live Blogging where I went as a lion.

Now for around October and November of the year we were thinking of what we could do and took a look at our calendar only to remember that October 31st is HALLOWEEN.

So on the 1st of November 2008 (one day after Halloween because it’s a Saturday), we’re working with Nokia and Universal Music to come up with the Nuffnang Nokia Silent Halloween!

We were looking wide and far for a venue for the venue this time but we decided on Borneo Baruk Club again (where we held our Nuffnang Chipster Pajama Party) simply because the place seemed just so ideal. It had a stage, high ceilings, a huge projecter screen and equipment for a band. Yes this time we’re even getting some bands to play the night away.

So just a few days ago I went with Robb and a few of our clients to check out the place and do some planning. The truth is, these parties take a lot of planning and work (and yes they cost a LOT of money).When I look back, I can’t help but admire how our events have evolved to such a scale thanks to sponsors like Nokia. I mean when Nuffnang first started off, we often tried to have events just to get the community together mainly for fun since just about everyone who works at Nuffnang are bloggers.

Our first events were just small simple lunches or movie screenings.
Then as Nuffnang grew bigger and we were fortunate enough to be able to work with brands like Chipster, Maxis and now Nokia, our added resources allowed us to have bigger and bigger events.
This Nuffnang Nokia Silent Halloween is going to be the First Silent Rave party we’ve ever had. I just recently learned the term “Silent Rave” myself. It’s where everyone puts on earphones from phones and dance to music they listen to on their music devices or phones.

So if you take off your ear phones at any time, you’ll see everyone else around you dancing to music that you’re not listening to. Sounds like quite an experience huh.

I gave it a thought for a bit then thought… okay why not?

So planning is underway!

If you wanna be one of the 200 people who are going to be there at the Nuffnang Nokia Silent Halloween, check out our site here to find out how to get invites.

Meanwhile, it’s back to work for the rest of us.

See you guys there!

The Morning Jog

It all started like this.

I was having lunch with the Nuffies at the famous Pudu Siew Yoke or what I call “Kobe Pork” because it’s so smooth and tender. As usual I’ve been trying to cut down on my food a little now so I limited myself to just three pieces of “Kobe Pork”.

Then Yee Hou insulted me!
“Aiyah Tim.. why you bother.. you’re already fat anyway!!!”

Heck!!! I’m not fat, I just have a little tummy but so do all guys my age. Once you get to a certain age, your metabolism rate slows down and you tend to develop a small tummy.

SEE?! I where got fat?!?

But anyway after some F words being thrown across the table I said
“OKAY!!! LETS BET AN EXPENSIVE DINNER: BY JUNE 09 I WILL HAVE ABS SO FIRM YOU CAN WASH YOUR JEANS ON IT… “

Yee Hou agreed.

So I started last week. Rather than joining the gym first, I decided to spend the first 2 months burning off whatever tummy I had before I started working out in the gym. Now every morning I wake up at 6AM and head over to KLCC Park to jog.

Armed with the earphones of my iPod/iPhone in my ears I jog around the track there for an hour.

KLCC Park is actually really nice and it’s not just because of the beautiful view of the Petronas Twin Towers and its surrounding buildings.

I mean I’ve been to quite a few other parks around the Klang Valley, but I gotta say this is my favourite simply because it’s just so well maintained and the view around the park is beautiful.

Jogging there also gives me a lot of time to think. Each time I run, I find myself reflecting on my life and all that reflection helps me clear my head for decisions on Nuffnang and also in my personal life.

Life is a little like a jogging track.

You always move forward but sometimes you tend to slow down a bit when the going gets tough and the people that are successful in making it to the end the quickest are the ones that never give up and push themselves the hardest.

Right after my jog I head back into KLCC where I see plenty of people dressed in their office clothes getting ready to start their workdays. Mondays are the funniest because out of every 10 people you see, at least 2 of them are grumpy as hell because it’s a Monday morning.
I head back home to shower and I get into the office just when everyone else gets in to start my work day.

They say a good morning’s exercise makes you feel fresh throughout the whole day. I think it’s not just that. I think the jog gives you the alone time that everybody needs at some point in his life.

The Word “SHIT”

Today started as a really busy day for me.

I started off with a 9.00AM meeting far away from the office which dragged on till 11.00AM and then having to head back to the office to clear up some work before I went off again for a 2.00PM meeting far far away from the office.

In between the short lunch time I had in the office, I ran down to the coffee shop and gobbled up a plate of fried rice in 10 minutes only to come up again to clear up my work emails as fast as I can.
Then before I knew it, I was going to be late but just before I left I ran to the toilet to answer nature’s BIG call (Yes I took the quickest dump ever performed in the history of mankind).

Once I got out of the toilet, I shouted for Pinky who was going to follow me for the meeting
“OI PINKY!!! JOM LETS GO!! WE’RE GONNA BE LATE!!!”

Pinky sprung from her seat and followed me out of the office and into the elevator.

While in the elevator I said
“Dammit lah.. I’m so damn busy today I don’t even have enough time in the office to clear up my shit”.Pinky suddenly gave me an awkward look and replied
“Uhh… so uhmm… you.. didn’t… wipe your ass after your shit just now? Uhmm… ok Boss”

My eyes opened wide and I stared at her
“NO LAH!!! “SHIT” AS IN FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING LAR… MEANING MY WORK LAH.. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!?!”

The Word "SHIT"

Today started as a really busy day for me.

I started off with a 9.00AM meeting far away from the office which dragged on till 11.00AM and then having to head back to the office to clear up some work before I went off again for a 2.00PM meeting far far away from the office.

In between the short lunch time I had in the office, I ran down to the coffee shop and gobbled up a plate of fried rice in 10 minutes only to come up again to clear up my work emails as fast as I can.
Then before I knew it, I was going to be late but just before I left I ran to the toilet to answer nature’s BIG call (Yes I took the quickest dump ever performed in the history of mankind).

Once I got out of the toilet, I shouted for Pinky who was going to follow me for the meeting
“OI PINKY!!! JOM LETS GO!! WE’RE GONNA BE LATE!!!”

Pinky sprung from her seat and followed me out of the office and into the elevator.

While in the elevator I said
“Dammit lah.. I’m so damn busy today I don’t even have enough time in the office to clear up my shit”.Pinky suddenly gave me an awkward look and replied
“Uhh… so uhmm… you.. didn’t… wipe your ass after your shit just now? Uhmm… ok Boss”

My eyes opened wide and I stared at her
“NO LAH!!! “SHIT” AS IN FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING LAR… MEANING MY WORK LAH.. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!?!”

The Things We Did As Kids

Not too long ago, one of my friends sent me an e-mail with pictures of stuff that we used to have during the era of people around my age group (That means if you were born around the 1980s).

The e-mail brought back memories of the things I used to do as a kid.

Lets start with the stuff I used to watch.

THE TV

I started off with this cartoon called He-Man Thundercats. I used to think that little red dragon creature in the picture was cute… *sigh*, what a distorted perception I had of the word “cute” back then.

Then I slowly grew up to learn to watch… DORAEMON!!!

Who doesn’t love Doraemon right? Even up till now I treasure my Doraemon memories. At one point when I was studying in London my phone had a Doraemon ringtone to it.

And finally, when I was getting older, the testosterone began to kick in and like all boys my age, we went to more “MANLY” and cool stuff to watch…


TRANSFORMERS!!!

I remember how they would always play all these cartoons somewhere between 5.00PM – 6.00PM each day. As far as Little Timmy was concerned, 5.00PM-6.00PM is private TV time.. nobody was allowed to touch the remote.

THE MUNCHIES

That’s also around the time when they would play TV commercials for things like TORA.


I still remember some of the Tora commercials. They never seemed to focus on the chocolate itself but always focused on the toy they had in each box. The commercials would have a bunch of kids all playing with those little plastic toys whether they’re little flying helicopters or little plastic bugs that squirt water.

And let me tell you this, those ads worked!

Whenever I went to my tuition class I would always sneak out to buy a pack of Tora that cost RM1.00 each just for the toy but here’s the joke: the toy in the TV Commercial looks soo much cooler than the actual toy!

Like if the actual toy could squirt water, it could squirt up to 5CM away but the toy in the TV Commercial looked like it could squirt water to 10 miles from where you were standing.

The thing about Tora also is that they keep updating it with new toys and new commercials almost each month so I never stop buying them. I mean once I feel that I’ve gotten all the Tora toys available, *POOF* another commercial with a new toy would appear in front of me and I would go out and buy it again.

But while I only bought Tora for the toys, I made sure my mum bought me plenty of these.
I used to love this…. and I still don’t understand why though. It’s just sugar on a biscuit. I used to like biting off the sugar and eating it on its own before going on to its biscuit.

Almost as much as I liked these little animal crackers.
But here’s what I loved the most of all the munchies we had back then.

BUBBLE GUM!!!

I mean I don’t know but somehow back in my school, when you were eating bubble gum, you were “COOL”. Probably because if you’re not allowed to bring bubble gum to school and if you got caught you get a huge scolding from teachers but I guess even as early as back then, girls loved guys who broke rules and acted all dangerous and so.

I also used to love this bubble gum for the temporary ‘tattoo’ that you could put on to your arm or anywhere. Just add a bit of water and stick it on till it dries.

THE TOYS

Then comes the things we play with.

I guess all boys grew up with these little toy soldiers.
I don’t know what it is about them but I loved lining up an entire freaking army of them all around my room. Funny thing though is after I’ve lined them up, I kinda lose my way on what to do with them. I mean they don’t exactly shoot each other or move around on their own.

So what I would end up doing is getting one of my big toy trucks and ramming them all down, making sound effects of the trampled soldiers
“AIEEEEE!!!!! AIEEEeeeee!!!!”

Of course, boys love to play with girls too and girls don’t fancy toy soldiers (No they think their Barbie Dolls are all so much better eventhough they don’t come armed with bazookas and M-16s).

So for games with girls, we used to play a card game called
“HAPPY FAMILY”.
I remember how after exams we would always play a lot of “Happy Family” in school. Probably one of the few games we were allowed to bring to school to play after we were done with our exams.

And when we weren’t allowed to bring anything to school before exams, the girls used to play games like this with the boys.
Now I never really friggin understood what the hell this paper thing was supposed to do but I think it was supposed to somehow tell my fortune or something… but I don’t know and I didn’t care… a girl was playing a game with me and that was the only thing that mattered.

Heck I lived a very confused childhood. On one hand I loved the attention the girls in my class gave me, but on the other hand I was the leader of the G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS) club that I started in primary school after reading way too much of Calvin & Hobbes.

Of course by the time I turned 13, hormones kicked in and I realized that I did like girls after all.. very very much indeed.

But well among the other cool toys I used to play with friends was this.
This little revolver gun that shoots a very small dose of gunpowder.

All my friends used to arm themselves with this and we would go hiding under cars and all shooting at each other and always shouting
“I GOT YOU I GOT YOU I GOT YOU!!!”

and some of us shouting back
“NO… I GOT YOU FIRST!!!”

or

“NOO!!! YOU MISSED ME!!! I MOVED AWAY”.

I was never too sure how anyone knew whether we hit or missed but I remember thinking to myself at one point:
“Sonofabitch always say that you move away… wait till I get a real gun and we’ll see you dodge my real bullet”.

Today all the friends I used to play this with are all grown ups working at big companies with girlfriends. Ishh … how did we even make it this far.

Now here’s the last thing that really brought back loads of memories.

The PENCILBOX.
Somehow back in primary school it was cool to have pencilboxes like these full of buttons to press. They had everything from pencil sharpeners, to a million different compartments and probably a coffee maker in there somewhere.

That was like the status symbol in school. The better your pencilbox the richer you were.. eventhough one of those probably one cost like RM5 – RM10 each.

Funny thing is how that pencilbox so quickly ran out of fashion. From being cool in primary school, to quickly becoming “childish” by the time we hit secondary school. By the time you were Form 5, your pencilbox had better me nothing more than a zip pencilcase or you were a lame ass.

But ahh.. finally.. there were the erasers.

All the girls took pride in little cute-sy erasers like this.
Which most of them never used to rub anything, funny enough. I mean all it was there for was to make their pencilboxes look pretty.

The guys like myself however… WE LOVED… THE FLAG ERASERS!!!

and I would collect loads and loads of them with all the different countries.

Ahh… I wonder if the kids of today grow up to the same or similar childhood as we all did during our time. I know they probably don’t watch He-Man or eat Tora anymore but maybe … just maybe… they still collect Flag Erasers from different countries.

Do any of you guys remember all this?

How Some Successful Internet Entrepreneurs Spend Their Money

One of my readers Chu King forwarded me this entry on CBT.com.my about this internet entrepreneur named Terence who runs the web hosting company Shinjiru.com

The article went on about his whole story and how at age 36 drives his very own BMW 5-series.

Read the full article here.
It’s just inspiring to see internet entrepreneurs make it, giving us all a glimpse of hope that maybe we could all make it someday too.

I’ve been lucky to meet Terence a couple of times and hear his story. If anything, his road to success was one with ups and downs but his determination pulled him through.

Once you hear how they made it, it’s interesting to see how they spend their money to reward themselves for all their hard work. The successful ones like Terence buy expensive cars.

All I can afford to reward myself with is a weekly scoop of New Zealand Natural.

*sigh*

They Start Young These Days

A few days ago I got an e-mail from a fellow Nuffnanger

It reads:

Dear Mr Timothy,

I am aware your time is rather limited and I would understand if you could not find the time to reply.

My name is Yap Ki-yun, and I am currently a student studying in Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology, located in Technology Park Malaysia, nearby Bukit Jalil.

I just turned 18 in June, and I am now in the 3rd semester of my Foundation program.

There is a module which is Research Method for Degree Study, and there is an assignment. The assignment is that us, the students need to know which company we wish to work for once we graduate.

I realize that there is a ‘Career‘ page in the Nuffnang website, and it was truly helpful since it was launched but I hope to clarify some of my doubts through this email.

Being a blogger myself, and also a Nuffnanger for almost a year now, I have seen Nuffnang continuously improving tremendously since I first joined in last year. It is no doubt fast growing in Asia Pacific and the proof of this is the recent opening of the Phillipines office. In a few years, I expect online advertising to be more competitive as Internet is gaining more users by the day and the number of blogs are increasing.

I am impressed by how Nuffnang has grown so rapidly, and by how the “Nuffies” have managed to do such a great job and have so much fun at the same time.

Long story short, I wish to be a part of Nuffnang after I graduate.I am planning to do Business Computing for my degree majoring in Marketing.

Needless to say it is a long way to go, but I hope to be able to contribute in the future.

May I know what positions will be available for me?

And what skills would be ideal for a student like me to develop in order to work in a company such as Nuffnang?

or courses that is suitable to attend that offers something that we can equip ourselves with.

If you have read till here, I sincerely thank you for your time and your willingness to read.

Regards,
Ki-yun

Now I can’t help but say I’m pretty impressed. I mean when I was 18 I really had no clue what I wanted to be and what I wanted to do. I just thought then that perhaps I was going to go into finance and work in a bank, after all that’s what everyone else around me seems to be doing.

But here’s someone at that age I once was and has such a clear idea of what he wanted to do.

I replied his e-mail:

Hi Ki Yun,

Thank you very much for your e-mail and most importantly thank you for your vote in confidence of the growth of Nuffnang. That vote does not come unappreciated, having gone through many hurdles in the growth of Nuffnang.

Remember that in the early days of Nuffnang there were many skeptics that had doubt we would come so far… and to be honest today when I look back at how far we’ve come in such a short time, even I am surprised. We do however owe it all to a lot of luck and support we’ve had from the right people, including people like yourself. I admire you for knowing what you want at such a young age. When I was your age (and that wasn’t too long ago), I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. Now let me answer your question.

To be honest, all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds work at Nuffnang. We have sales people, ad operations, admin, blogger relations, finance, programmers, designers and more.
I myself studied economics and whatever work experience I had was in finance and now I’m in advertising, isn’t that quite a leap. I guess to me it’s not so much what background you’ve had but how willing you are to learn and how passionate you are about Nuffnang and if there is something I appreciate and can’t take for granted for is that all the Nuffies are just as passionate as I am about Nuffnang and the things we do, some even more.

Nevertheless, you are indeed making a big decision right now and I think you should think of what you really want to do rather than where you want to work because you’re at an age where mindsets change very quickly.

When I was 18 I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do but I thought that I wanted to work at an investment bank. Once I graduated however, I had this burning desire to be an entrepreneur. Perhaps by the time you graduate you might have found another true calling, and it may not be working at Nuffnang.

So Ki Yun, decide on what you really want to do and preferably try to pick up a course that would give you some kind of skill set like computer science, or accounting or something.

Today I have an economics degree out in my pocket but if you compare me with someone with an accounting degree, there is nothing that I can do that the accounting degree holder can’t.. but there sure is something that he/she will be able to do that I can’t ie audit/accounting.

In the next few years when you do graduate, feel free to drop me a mail and I will be more than happy to interview you to see where you might fit in. Good luck in the next few important years of your life Ki Yun! Do take care. PS: Would you mind if I share your nice e-mail on my blog with my readers?

-Timothy Tiah

Now I know it sounds a little bit like I was discouraging him in my reply… maybe just a little but I was just trying to be honest.

Do you guys agree or disagree with my reply?

I am however fascinated how increasingly a lot of young people at a really young age now know what they want to do with their lives.

MAMMA MIA!!!!

Quick announcement: I’m going to be having my first radio interview on Monday with the new Business FM (BFM) 89.9 in Klang Valley. I’m going to be interviewed by a very nice Norina Yahya who has in the past interviewed people the likes of Michelle Yeoh, Lilian Too and some of our local Ministers.

If you’re on the way to work or college around 8AM-9AM, tune in and listen to me embarrass myself ok? Haha

The movie Mamma Mia just came out this week. Hundreds of Nuffnangers were among the first to get the chance to watch the movie at a Nuffnang screening we had on Tuesday… but I had to miss it since I was in Manila for work 🙁

So the very next day I got back, I raced for the cinema and watched the movie! When the Nuffies talked about it that afternoon Firdauz mentioned that I probably wouldn’t like the movie since it’s a musical and it’s true, I’m not a huge fan of musicals.
And this is what I have got to say about the movie:

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!!

It was unbelievable!!!

Throughout the whole movie I was singing and dancing in my seat… and when I wasn’t doing that I was waving my hands in the air…. I’m surprised the people around me didn’t get me kicked out of the cinema.
Let me just try to narrow down why I loved the movie.

1) It was so fun.. great songs.. I LOVE ABBA!

2) Unlike some other musicals I’ve seen in the past, this one actually had some proper conversation when it wasn’t suitable to sing a song. You know I don’t quite have a thing for movies where almost every single line in the movie had to be sung.3) Where in many musicals, you often get American Idol kind of singers with strong voices.. like Dreamgirls with Beyonce…. this time in Mamma Mia I felt that the singers (as much as many of them were good) were like doing it in a very casual kind of singing.

It’s like you can imagine yourself in there singing too.

You know… perhaps ABBA’s songs are relatively easy to sing but the casual feel of the movie made me want to sing along…. and yes that includes Pierce Brosnan’s not so perfect singing. I admit, I burst out laughing when he first started singing but I’m so glad he was in the movie.

4) MERYL STREEP IS AMAZING… that actress is just… WOW! I mean… from Devil Wears Prada to this… she can do ANY MOVIE!!!

MERYL STREEP.. IF YOU’RE READING THIS… I THINK YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!!!

5) AMANDA SEYFRIED IS SOOO CUTE/HOT…. well both! (I can’t decide)

This movie is a must watch!!! And I REALLY MEAN IT!!!

I left the cinema with a big smile on my face and I wanna watch it again!!!!!

Call me a chick, call me a woman, call me a little fag… I DON’T CARE… I LOVE MAMMA MIAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mamma Mia… here I go again… my my… how could I resist you!

Here’s the trailer if you guys haven’t watched it yet….

A Day in Manila in the Life of Timothy Tiah

Okay everyone. Last night I came back too tired after my work day and I thought about blogging about how my typical work day here in Manila but then after a while I gave up because I was just wayy too tired.

So tonight, as tired as I am after a full day of meetings and presentations, I am going to blog about my days here in Manila.

I’m staying in the Mandarin Oriental here in Manila.It’s a really nice hotel and more comfortable than I could ever imagine. So here’s how my morning starts.

I wake up really early in the morning to the sound of my alarm clock. I turn off my alarm clock and try to steal a few minutes sleep until I realize that I’m going to be late. The funny thing about Manila is that the sun rises early, like really early… and it sets early too. By 6PM it’s totally dark, like as if it’s 10PM in Malaysia.

I drag myself out of bed and when I look back the bed is a mess.

Seriously.

I mean this is how the bed looks like before I sleep on it.

and this is how it looks like once I get my lazy self out of it in the morning.


Yeah… I know.. it looks like a warzone…. even the comforter seems to have almost fallen off the entire bed.

I sleep like a barbarian.

I quickly rush to the bathroom to wash my face to make sure I’m awake.. you know so that I’m not tempted to fall asleep in my bed again.

Then I take a hot warm shower and get dressed for work.
I pack up my stuff and then leave my room to walk down this long corridor to the elevators to head downstairs for my breakfast.

The hotel has a great breakfast every morning. It’s a buffet kind of thing and they have chefs to help you fry eggs or.. you know have all sorts of things.



Plus there’s my favourite and very very oily hash browns that I almost can’t seem to get enough of.
I struggle so hard to eat my breakfast. I mean the food is great but it’s just waaayyy too early to be up in the first place.. but oh well… when you gotta work you gotta work.

After breakfast I walk into the hotel lobby.


Then out into the porch to wait for a driver to take me to work.


Now I have had a few types of work days so far.

One type was when I spent most of my time in the meeting room of our Nuffnang Philippines office working some things out with our Pinoy Nuffies and getting updates on how the operations are going on there.


I occassionally get to peek out of that glass room at everyone else.

Then there are my other days like today where I spend almost the entire day from morning to evening meeting clients and giving presentations to them only to occasionally break for lunch at a place like Max Brenner with some of our Nuffies.


Or if I’m lucky I get to have lunch with the whole Nuffnang Philippines team including the Bosses of Outcomm Inc, Jay and Eric who are the nicest people ever.

After lunch it’s normally back to the office or back to my meetings and the only next quick break I get is perhaps a quick Starbucks with some of the Nuffies in between some meetings.

My schedules for both work days I’ve had in Manila so far have been packed to the ultimate brim. That seems to be the case for all my work trips here… up till now I haven’t actually had a chance to sight-see or even shop a little.

It’s always come to Manila, then work work work until I leave.

The good thing though is that I love our Nuffnang team here too! They’re a bunch of fun people and very often after a long day’s work we have dinner together and if we’re lucky… drinks!

Last night we went to this popular bar here in Manila called Fiamma.

I mean you’ll be surprised man.. it was a Monday night and by the time it hit 11.00PM, the bar filled up with people… all on a Monday night!!!

Geraldine told me in the club
“Monday is the new Friday Tim”.

Well I could use a lot more Fridays in my week.

At Fiamma we had some drinks, talked a little, joked a lot and some of us danced our stress away.

Especially Jay.. he’s a great dancer.

After drinks I get sent back to the hotel and by then I’m really half dead but here’s the thing I love about hotels. I open the door to my room and I come back to a fresh room, everything all made up thanks to housekeeping.
It’s so nice having someone tidy up your mess sometimes hehe.

I sit on my computer for a while to clear all the hundreds of e-mails I have and then straight away go to bed.

Before I know it… it’s morning again and it’s another day at work.

It’s tiring.. really tiring and even tomorrow morning for example I have an early start with meetings all the way from morning till dinner but I guess there are two things that keep me going: I love what I do and I love the people I work with.

Because of that… I think I’m one of the luckiest people on Earth. I hope all of you will share the same joy as me someday.

Gotta go to sleep now everyone. Long day of work tomorrow.

This is Timothy Tiah.. signing off!

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