Yes… I’m guilty as charged.

I haven’t updated my blog for a while now.

Sorry been really really busy these few days with work.

Just to give you an idea of how busy I am, it’s the end of the month and this month alone Nuffnang is sending out something like RM80,000 in cheques to many many bloggers so you can imagine all the checking and double-checking and verifying that I have to do before I approve all these cheques.

Will blog tonight or tomorrow.

Sunday morning when I woke up I got a text from my friend Duncan who was organizing the Animation Comic Game Convention (ACGC) that was taking place at Berjaya Times Square.

He asked me to drop by if I’m free so I asked Sam if she was keen to go and she said okay.

I got there around twelve-ish and it was great.
There were all these computers around for the people there to try out some of the online games around today and even a Call of Duty 4 competition.

I love First Person Shooter games. Heck I was damn bloody good in Half-Life and CS (Especially Half-Life) but I’ve never before played Call of Duty 4 so I didn’t even bother trying to compete.
I’m so left behind in computer games now it’s actually shocking. And to think I used to call myself a hardcore gamer. Ish… shame on me.

But hey since I was there I decided to try on some of the games they had there.I tried on this game called…. Ok I can’t remember what it’s called but it’s some MMORPG game from Korea (yeah I know.. I’m not exactly narrowing it down for anyone here).
Anyway….. I figured that since I couldn’t really play many of the games there, I would just walk around and check out all the people dressed in Cosplay.

Heck it was pretty fun.

I mean we had people dressed like Hellboy.Girls dressed like some Anime characters that didn’t really ring a bell to me.

And even this fella here…

Whom I really don’t know who he’s supposed to be.

It didn’t take long before a girl dressed in a Japanese School Girl uniform came up to me and offered me a balloon.

Now when a hot Japanese School Girl offers you a balloon you take it!!! You JUST TAKE IT!!!

Heck even if she comes and offers you a lump of dog shit you say
“Arigatou gozaimasu!”

I was a little excited though.

I mean heck… the last time I got myself a balloon was when I was a little kid. Ever since then, nobody ever bothered to give me a balloon seeing that I’m all grown up and all so when handed me a balloon.. hey I felt young again!!!

I decided to give my balloon a name at the point in the time.
I called it “Behloon“.

Armed with my Behloon I walked shamelessly around the area to check out more of the Cosplay outfits.

They were all pretty cool so I decided to take pictures with a few of them (With Behloon of course).

Since Sam was there with me I would say
“Hey could you please help me take a picture” and go ahead and pose with whoever the Cosplay character was.

Now here’s where it started. Before a woman unleashes her wrath on you, she will always give you a few warnings. A few may be less than 3 but definitely at least ONE warning.

The stupid thing with men is that more often than not, we don’t notice those warnings until much later on.

The first warning came when I was going looking at the girls around and saying
“Holy shit.. that girl is pretty!!!” and Sam replied with a
“Where got hot… her nose not nice”. (She was actually quite pretty but I didn’t take a good photo).

Being the man I was, I ignored that warning unintentionally.

Then I went on and saw this girl in a Maid Cosplay kind of outfit.

I got so excited and went up to her and said
“Come come take picture with me and my Behloon”.

Sam grunted
“Why like that also you want to take picture with? Please lah!!!”.

That was my second warning but I ignored it again.
Finally, I was walking around when I spotted this girl dressed in a pink outfit.

I have no clue what she character she was supposed to be but she looked kinda cute to me!

I wanted to go take a picture with her but so did everyone else and she was so busy taking all those pictures, I didn’t get a chance so I tried repeatedly to get a good picture of her.

After this picture I felt that I didn’t get a good enough picture of her so I tried again and again.

That was when Sam shouted
“I SWEAR YOU TAKE ANOTHER PICTURE OF HER AND SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU?!?!”

Now that warning was pretty pretty clear even to a dumbass like me.

So I backed off and said
“Okay okay… lets go home”.

I grabbed my Behloon and started walking off.

On the way back to the car I was playing around with Behloon, bouncing it off Sam’s head and going
“Boing.. boing… boing…” you know just for some childish fun.

Sam looked pissed. She didn’t look entertained at all

I mean online when you see her blog you see cute cute pictures of her like that you think she’s a little harmless puppy right?

But let me assure you… if you get on her bad side… she will finish you off!

So I decided not to push her limits and I walked ahead of her a little bit with Behloon.

Suddenly I heard a loud BANG which echoed off all the walls in Berjaya Times Square’s lobby. Almost at the same time I felt a GUSH of air between my arm and body where I was carrying Behloon like a football.

I turned back to see Behloon on the floor, destroyed.

Sam looked at me and started laughing away
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA YOU SHOULD SEE YOUR FACE RIGHT NOW!!! LIKE A SAD LITTLE BOY WHO JUST LOST HIS BALLOON!!!”.

I got angry and I shouted
“WHY YOU BURST MY BEHLOON?”

and she defended herself with lies.

“I didn’t burst your Behloon, it just burst itself”.

Even that didn’t made sense to me… HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? HOW CAN MY BEHLOON BURST ITSELF??!?!She just kept laughing away.

So there you have it everyone.

Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman’s Wrath.

You piss her off, you get on her bad side, and she will hit you where it hurts.

In this case, it was Behloon, the very first balloon I have had in many many years.

As I drove home, the silence in the car was deafening.
We didn’t speak to each other.

Ok wait.. important announcement before I go on to the rest of this post.

Yesterday was Shaolintiger‘s birthday. He turned 30… damn old right the fella.
Happy Birthday Shaolintiger!

Ok back to my entry.

In case any of you guys missed it, The Star and New Straits Times both covered our Nuffnang Pajama Party in celebration of our Nuffnang’s First Anniversary.

Here’s the article from The Star.

And here’s the article from The New Straits Times.
Lol… Nuffnangers… give yourselves a hand. And also give Nuffnang’s PR Agency KimKomm a hand for whom this would not be possible.

It’s not every day anyone gets to be on the country’s two top mainstream newspapers IN YOUR PAJAMAS.

Hey on another note, in the Pajama Party, we printed this fun Nuffnang booklet with the Nuffnang story told from Ming’s eyes and also some Memes from some of our team members.

Download it here and read it.Especially read Ming’s story.

When I read it… a very nostaglic feeling came over me.

Okay so this is what struck me recently.

Here’s how it was okay.

I was sitting in a meeting with some people from a Tech company. Now we were sitting around in the meeting and everyone put their phones on the table.

It was almost as if the phone was everyone’s Avatar and the more Techy your phone is the more seriously I should take you. Heck half of them at the table even had Blackberrys right next to their phones.So with disregard of the environment I was in, I took out my phone and placed it on the table.

Instantly everyone around the table took a good look at my phone and then at me.

I left the meeting a little confused. I went home and told a friend about the weird experience only to get a reply from him
“OF COURSE LA!!! You are Co-Founder of Nuffnang, an internet company! You go around giving speeches for fux sake!!! You have an image to keep.
You’re supposed to be TECHY… but look at your phone!!! It’s not even the latest model of that particular phone!”.

I got a little offended at someone dissing my phone.
“But… it’s a DAMN bloody good phone. It’s 3G, it’s hardy, it has a 3.2 mega pixel camera, bluetooth, reliable… all for only RM1,200. That’s great value for money!!!”.My friend didn’t bother to explain further so I forgot all about that incident.

Then last weekend when Ming was down for our Pajama Party, we had another meeting with another bunch of Tech guys who really wanted to work with Nuffnang.

Everyone in the meeting had their phones on the table… and they all had iPhones.

I didn’t dare take out my phone from my pocket this time.

After the meeting I went on to ask Ming
“Oi.. how your iPhone.. nice to use ar?”

And he said
“Hated it at first but actually when you get used to it quite good. You should get one lar… better for image right as an internet entrepreneur.”

That experience with Ming reminded me of the previous meeting I had some time ago. Then I asked that same friend that gave me advice before
“Okay fine… what’s the hottest phone in the market right now?”

He replied
“The iPhone”.The next thing I asked was
“How much is that?”

And he said
“Between RM2,500 – RM3,000 depends where you get it from”.

Immediately I went “WTF?!?!?!?!?!?.

Now I know RM2.5K or so isn’t a lot of money to some people. Heck I’ve seen Kids have phones that cost as much or more… but for someone who never really spent much of phones before… that is a LOT of money to pay for a phone.

I am just NOT used to paying this kind of money for mobile phones.

I mean heck.. a phone is a phone… you use it to talk, and you use it to text why the hell do you need one that costs so much!!!… that is until peer pressure got into the picture.

So everyone… see that smile on my face?That smile actually only lasted until I realized that I was so broke I had to be eating Bread and Kaya for the next 2 months of my life. *Sniff*

Anyone wanna hire me to do any handy work? Gardening.. anything? Please drop me a mail.

Only RM5.00 an hour. Just 500 hours of Gardening or painting houses and I should be able to make back what I spent.

Damn peer pressure!

Okay people around me seem to be getting attached lately and I now kinda seem like on the verge of being in one so I can’t help but ponder…. how do people really know that they evolve from just dating into being a couple.

When I think back at my past relationships… I can’t remember the turning point when we became a couple. I just remember waking up one day and thinking…
“Hold on… when did I become “Darling” and what are we doing grocery shopping together?”
I mean how do you cross the line from being John and Jane to boyfriend and girlfriend?

Here are a few ways that some of my friends have told me in the past.

1) Holding Hands

According to Nicholas here who just recently got attached, he says you’ll know when you’re in a relationship when the guy holds the girl’s hand in public when walking and the girl doesn’t resist. Then he does it again another time on another occasion and if she still doesn’t resist then you’re officially a couple.

2) Kissing

Some people say that the deal of being in a relationship is when you make that first kiss.

And when I say kiss, I don’t mean a kiss on the cheek like what Dawn Yang gave this lucky dude.

I mean an actual kiss like that.

3) Shagging

When I was studying in the UK I had a close British friend that went by the name Alex. He was a babe magnet, he came from a well-to-do family and he was charming and confident to the extent that it was actually beginning to border arrogance (He never went over that border though).

So anyway, Alex used to tell me two things.
The first thing he said to me when he found out that I had a girlfriend back in Malaysia at the time was
“Mate… what the hell is that for? As if your dick could reach that far!”

Now the second thing he used to tell me was
“Mate… until you shag a girl you’re dating, you’re just best friends that kiss”.

4) Farting

One of my friends told me that you know you’re in a relationship with the girl when you like her and yet you can fart in front of her.Please tell me this is not true guys.

5) “Will you be my girlfriend?”

This is what some people do. And heck I got together with my first teenage girlfriend this way.
Just ask “Will you be my girlfriend?“

And if she says “Yes” then yay!!

If she says
“I can’t… I like you too much as a friend”

Then you’re totally screwed.

6) “Meet my Girlfriend”

Now here’s what I think in my opinion is when you’re really in a relationship.

It’s when a guy goes out with this girl that he’s kinda dating, then suddenly gets to know a really really really friggin hot chick which lets say is named Jenny.If the guy introduces you to that hot chick and says
“Hi Jenny, meet my GIRLFRIEND”.

Then you’re in a relationship.

Okay I’m gonna write a bit and do mostly pictures on the Nuffnang Pajama Party in celebration of Nuffnang’s First Birthday that we had yesterday at Borneo Baruk Club.

I usually try to link all the faces for each person there but I’m not going to do it in this entry because there are just too many links to put in, and I don’t have too much time to blog right now.

Anyway I’m going to start off by saying what the blogger gathering yesterday meant to me. When Nuffnang first started one year ago, Ming and I had always dreamt of the day that we could have our first cross-border blogger gathering. Bringing Singaporeans to meet the Malaysians and vice versa.The costs of course were most definitely going to be prohibitive especially since as much as we can, we don’t like to ask bloggers to fork out money to attend gatherings. We try best as we can to fund it ourselves.

It has only been a year since Nuffnang’s was born and I’m so lucky now to be part of a company that has grown so much so fast, in developing the resources be it the networks, manpower or financial muscle to pull an event like this off.

To the 300 bloggers who came yesterday, we have made history.

Okay on with the party.

Su Ann came up with most of the ideas for the party, one of which are the four beautiful girls that we hired and got to dress up in costumes, mainly a policewoman, a Japanese school girl, a French maid and a Nurse.

They helped with everything from the registration at the beginning of the event to the fun part of the night where they got to play games with everyone.Now honestly, when we first decided to do a Pajama Party, we weren’t sure how the response would be. Heck would people really come dressed in Pajamas?

But well, part of the culture in Nuffnang is to always be willing to take risks and explore new things. Nobody gets very far by doing the ordinary all the time right?

Well it turns out that this gamble really paid off.

You’ll see in the following pictures that most of the people that went for the event went in their Pajamas.
Anyway our event started off with some opening speeches.

Liang, our wonderful emcee for the night got everyone’s attention and passed the mic over the Ming and I.
Ming said a few words but mentioned that he already said his piece in the foreword of the program booklet that was handed out so he quickly passed on the mic to me.

I said a few words to thank our sponsors and thank our bloggers for coming all the way to our event. We had 100 bloggers from Singapore and 200 bloggers from Malaysia present there that night and the atmosphere was ripe with excitement.

Even I couldn’t contain my joy when I was addressing the crowd.

One day when I’m a grandfather, I’m going to tell my kids that there was a time I addressed over 300 people in my pajamas wearing my Doraemon bedroom slippers and carrying my smelly bolster (which is now missing *sniff*).

They’re not going to believe me so I’m going to show them this entry.
Anyway having so many bloggers, I thought it was a fantastic opportunity for Ming and I to do what we’ve wanted to do for a long time.

Nuffnang today has somehow managed to organically build a brand that is increasingly more and more well-known even to the layman non-blogger on the street. Problem is, when people think of the people who brought Nuffnang to where it is today, they think of Timothy and Ming which really is just only a part of the story.

So Ming and I decide to call the whole Nuffnang team on stage (well almost all of us, one of us didn’t manage to make it that night). We introduced the team to blogging community and assured everyone that heck, without each and every one of those people that stood there on the stage that night, Nuffnang will not be where it is today.
After my opening speech, we passed the mic on to Desmond who represented our Title Sponsor: Chipster to say a few words.

And then after Patricia from Panasonic went up to gave a short speech.
When all the speeches were over, we let the games begin.

We had all sorts of games that night, all of which required a lot of crowd participation. For example, there was a game where the emcee would call out an item that he wants and the first person to bring it on stage will win a prize.

At first the emcee asked for “Timothy’s Smelly Bolster” and a mob attempted to grab my poor smelly bolster off me but I threw it far away into the crowd instead 😛 I’m so evil.

Then the emcee asked for one of Ming’s SOCKS.

And the joke is, the person who found it had to smell the sock to win the prize. I bet if he knew he had to smell the sock he wouldn’t have ran up there with the sock in his hand so quickly.
Now the next item they had to get was both of Nicholas’s funny red “Patrick” slippers. Perhaps too excited about grabbing the slipper, it ended up with one guy each grabbing the slipper.
So the emcee decided that in order to determine the winner, there would be a push-up contest among the two.

The one who managed to do the most push-ups will take home the prize… but with a twist.

They had to do the Push-ups with the Nuffies (the French Maid and the Nurse) sitting on each of them.
That certainly caught plenty of attention with all the press and bloggers going up to the front taking pictures.
After that game, dinner was served and everyone rushed to eat something quick before the games continued.Heck we had so many prizes to give away in all these games we played.

All sorts of prizes from the big ticket ones like 3 Panasonic Digital Cameras to smaller ones as simple as bath towels, really nice pillows and etc etc.

We ended up spending somewhere about RM15,000 just on the prizes alone but it was worth it.

We wanted to make sure that as many people as possible would go home with something.

Heck one guy even won a kiss from Dawn Yang.
And there were a LOT of people there to give prizes to.

Let me show you how many.

Just on the Ground Floor alone, this was the crowd.
Don’t forget that we also have the 1st Floor that was crowded with people sitting down to chill or looking down at the stage area.
Somewhere later on in the night, Kenny Sia made an entrance to the event along with the girls from Malaysian Dreamgirls.
We had a game where each of the Malaysian Dreamgirl contestants would strike a pose and anyone from the audience who was able to strike the same pose just as well would win the prize.

For example: Malaysian Dreamgirl in Pajamas
Blogger in Pajamas.
How? Can ar?

Anyway quickly moving on to the other highlights of the night.

Our dear friends at Mindshare brought us all a huge cake (Thanks guys!!!).So Ming and I brought it up on stage for everyone to sing a Birthday Song.

It was hilarious hearing for the first time everyone sing
“Happy Birthday to… NUFFNANG”.

HAHAHA!!!

Now it’s what happened AFTER the cake that made me want to shoot somebody.

The very very “FUNNY NUFFNANG TEAM” decided to go behind both their Bosses’ back and buy them a custom made underwear that they forced us to wear on stage.
Niaaamaaa I looked like a bloody idiot but they were all laughing away…

I caught this photographer zooming in on my balls and taking a shot with his huge SLR and said
“HOI!!!! WTF?!?!”

So a message to the Nuffnang Team:

“YOU GUYS BETTER MAKE SURE I AM IN A DAMN GOOD MOOD MONDAY MORNING MANN!!!!! OR IT IS GOING TO RAIN FIRE IN OUR OFFICE!!!”

Okay okay guys.

It looks like this entry is getting a little too long and I have to head to bed now so what I’m gonna do is just leave some other random pictures here.

I also owe thanks to Su Ann, Michelle, Skyler, Samantha, Tim 2, Raff, Firdauz, Hui Wen, Scott, Nicholas, Robb and Lee Meng for whom without, this event would not be possible. They were all very very independent in pulling this event off so much that I hardly had to do anything. Thanks guys! I love you!

Oh one last thing!!!

We played a video that night which was produced by Yat.

It’s basically a compilation of Birthday wishes from a number of Nuffnangers.

Everyone that night seemed to love it so I thought I’d share it here too.

Watch it. It’s fun.

Here is Part 1

Here is Part 2

I just got back from the Nuffnang Birthday Bash Pajama Party and I am so damn tired right now.

Thank you to the Nuffnang Team for planning such a wonderful event. And thank you to all the Nuffnangers out there who came for the event.

Will write more about it soon. Now I’m so tired and it’s time for me to go to bed… ughhhhhhh… gonna go curl up into bed with my smelly bolster and sleep… wait… wait…. what the hell.. SHIT!!! I JUST REALIZED I DIDN’T BRING HOME MY SMELLY BOLSTER FROM BBC.

)@(#$*()#$*)(#*()$#*()$)*( AUGGGGH!!!!!!!

If anyone finds my smelly bolster please return it to me please thank you?

SMELLY BOLSTER… CHECK!

DORAEMON SLIPPERS… CHECK!!

NUFFNANG PAJAMA PARTY!!! HERE I COMEEEEEE

Since yesterday I have been having a really really terrible sore throat, so much to the extent that I’m even beginning to lose my voice.

Now being Timothy Tiah and NOT talking is difficult. VERY DIFFICULT. Trust me… why? Because a very important part of my work day is TALKING to people.

Not to mention I’m supposed to be at UKM tomorrow morning for this AIESEC EYLN Conference to give a speech. I wanna see how I pull that off.

So very bothered by this, I bought myself a box of Strepsils. Sore throat = Strepsils right? Good advertising by Strepsils.
Now I started popping them in like TicTacs because hey… Strepsils are sweets right? And you can eat as many sweets as you like especially and more so for Strepsils because well.. it was helping my sore throat.

I was happily popping them in and by the time 2 hours had passed, I had finished a dozen Strepsils when it suddenly dawned on me “Is there such a thing as a Strepsil Overdose”?Can’t be lah right.. I decided to read the instructions on the back anyway.

It said

“Strepsils is an antiseptic lozenge for relief of sore throat for children and adults”.

So I thought to myself
“Okay.. I’m an adult.. so that’s fine”.

It went on to say
“Dissolve a lozenge slowly in the mouth every 2 to 3 hours”.

So I thought to myself
“Well I suck on the Strepsils real slowly, well a lot more than one every 2 to 3 hours but bah what harm can it be?”
Then to my disbelief it said
“DO NOT EXCEED THE STATED DOSE”.

And I thought to myself
“WTF WTF?!?! WHAT STATED DOSE?!?!? ONE EVERY 2 TO 3 HOURS? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! I JUST HAD 13 IN TWO HOURS!!!!”

ARGGHHHHHHHHH

I’M GONNA DIEEE!!!!!!!!!

AUGGGHHH!!!!!!!!

GOODBYE WORLD!!!!

GOODBYE MY DEAR READERS!!!

Okay so early this morning I was at the National Eye Center in Singapore to see a specialist there about my eye.

Seriously you gotta love Singapore.

I mean they actually have a center JUST FOR EYES and they call it the NATIONAL EYE CENTER. HOW COOL IS THAT!I wonder what other body parts they have centers for.

You know… maybe a National Hand Centre, National Belly Button Centre, National Nipple Centre, National Peni…..

So okay I was getting consultation from the Doctor there when he said:

From the many other reasons why I suffer from a Recurring Corneal Erosion, one of the reasons is because… my left eye (which is the eye that always gets hurt), doesn’t blink.

Yes… you heard me.

IT DOESN’T BLINK!

As simple as that!

According to him, it’s because my eye doesn’t blink on a regular basis that it begins to get very dry being constantly exposed to open air hence causing my cornea to flake off a little bit when it’s dry hence requiring me to put a lot of eye drops.

and when I say a lot of eye drops I mean NIAGARA FALLS kind of a LOT.

Who thought blinking could be so important.

So well the Doctor layed out some for me to help cure my recurring corneal erosion. There were options that involved surgery and options that options didn’t involve surgery. Naturally I prefer the ones that didn’t involve surgery right.

And one of the options that didn’t involve surgery was for me to start blinking my left eye more often.

How hard is that! Imagine trying to remember to blink every 30 seconds of your life.

I tried when I was sent back to the waiting room and it didn’t work for me.Anyway I like to look at the positive side of things.

And here is the positive side of this situation.

First of all, the Doctor said that I need to blink my left eye more often right? He didn’t say anything about the right eye.

So when you blink one eye only… that’s… a wink right?

A wink is also another way for the male species to flirt with the female species (at least during the old days… now people just SMS-flirt).

So now say I go out and see a hot chick.
I’m not gonna hesitate to WINK at her.

And hey.. it’s a win-win situation for me.

First of all, if she takes my wink well and responds with another wink then I just got lucky.

But if she doesn’t and thinks that I’m some ham sap lou then I can just say
“Sorry… can’t help it.. Doctor’s orders!”.There’s like… NO downside to that!!!

Now I’m gonna go wink at as many girls as I can… any of you know any girls I can wink at let me know okay

I START WINKING TOMORROW!!!