Alright so I have been in Sydney all week.

And while I’m not working on my laptop back home, I get to go out to get a little bit of air.

So I took some suggestions of some of my readers and went to Darling Harbour.

Now I am going to state the obvious.

Darling Harbour… is a harbour.

No no… not just any Harbour…. but a DARLING one.

The kind of Darling where you’ll find expensive food all around it, targeted at tourists like me, who are assumed to have a lot of money to spend when we really don’t.

So for lunch, I skip the main courses and go straight for deserts like this.

Which looked nice, but tasted awful to be honest.

Now when you go to ANY city, the important thing that ANY tourist has got to do is to take a picture in front of the city landmarks.

So I trotted away and took a picture in front of Sydney’s Harbour Bridge.

And the Opera House.

But all that didn’t really amaze me.

Let me tell you what I would consider the Eight Wonder of the World!

I was at Bondai Beach the next day, apparently Australia’s most famous beach and it was a little cold there. The wind was so fierce I couldn’t bear to be outside for long.
So I sought shelter in a nice little cafe with a view of the beach.
Ah… nice and warm in there.

Anyway, it took only 2 minutes for my mum to later call me a little “Chicken Shit” and asked me to be more adventurous, to BRAVE THE COLD!!!

“GO LAH!!! How could you have spent 3 years in London without being able to stand even this kind of cold?”
Little did she know that I spent most of my 3 years in London in my warm fuzzy bed in the arms of a warm warm warmmmmm woman.

But anyway, to BRAVE THE COLD I WENT!!!

Sometimes it just isn’t so fun being brave.

But it was only with being brave that I saw it… THE 8TH WONDER OF THE WORLD.
I mean… THERE I WAS TRYING SO HARD TO STOP MY BALLS FROM TURNING TO ICE CUBES and looking perfectly normal since all the other men around me were wrapped up in winter clothes.

THEN HE-MAN OVER THERE SPOILS THE DAMN MARKET BY WALKING AROUND IN HIS UNDERWEAR AND MAKING THE REST OF US MEN LOOK LIKE FAGS!!!

WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS GUY EAT FOR BREAKFAST EACH DAY?!?! CEMENT?!?!

Well I hope you’re happy now He-Man… and SHAVE THAT DAMN ARMPIT HAIR!!! I CAN SEE IT THAT PATCH FROM A MILE AWAY!!!

THE REAL HE-MAN SHAVES HIS ARMPIT HAIR!!!

SEE?!?!!

HMPH!

Believe it or not, I have always been a job site user, whether it was before when I was looking for a job… or even now at Nuffnang when we were looking for more people to expand our team in KL.
Any idiot can also see how the market for job sites has exploded with a million of them sprouting out everywhere on Taxi ads. Yet somehow they all always gave me the same feel.

They are all very generic: Typical professional looking websites that want you to give you the impression that they mean business from the day you stumble upon their website.

But why do things have to be so serious?

My outlook on life is this… for the things that you know are supposed to be serious and a little dull… take a more fun approach and when it comes to job sites, a new Malaysian job site: Allyhunt has taken a whole different approach to job seeking in Malaysia.

I first learned about Allyhunt when they approached us for a campaign.
The people behind it are not new to job hunting business. They’ve been in the industry for umpteen years having built a successful offline firm of their own.

After I was done begging them to advertise on Nuffnang blogs giving them my usual marketing pitch, I had a drink with the founders and they shared with me their idea for Allyhunt.

They didn’t want to start another generic looking job site.

They wanted something different, something that took a more approachable stance and you can see that in the way their website is designed and the content it has.

Heck they even have regularly updated comics for its users.

And look at the way the website talks to me when I sign up.

Most websites would say
“Thank you for registering Mr. Tiah….”

But Allyhunt says
“AHOY THERE TIAH EWE TIAM!!!”

(Ewe Tiam is my other name in case you guys don’t know)

Which almost prompted me to reply
“ARRRRRRR… FIND ME A JOB MATEY!!!”

Or in the case of Nuffnang…

“FIND ME ANOTHER INTERN MATEY!!!”

Since Suet Li just recently left Nuffnang to further her studies in the USA.
*Sniff*

Anyway, when you guys find the time, do check out Allyhunt.com and sign up.

It takes 2 minutes…

TWO MINUTES!!!

It takes MOST MEN LONGER THAN THAT JUST TO GET THEIR HAIR DONE THESE DAYS!!!

Oh and in case you’re all wondering… I’m not being paid by them to write this. I’m just doing this because I think they’re nice people.

www.allyhunt.com

So I’m in Sydney with my cousins and I was given a lecture by the girls on how important camwhoring is.

Apparently… all the younger adolescent girls these days are seriously picking up on the camwhoring trend… and we… the older generation… seem to be left out on it!

So with the help of my cousin Rachelle that you see here in this pic.

I learned the LA LA 5-STEP POSE!!!

Watch and learn (watch the fingers)!!!

STEP 1
STEP 2
STEP 3
STEP 4
STEP 5

My cousins also taught me another type of camwhoring becoming increasingly popular among girls on Friendster these days.

First.. the cute cute blur blur look
Then there is the how do you say Purposely-Put-Camera-High-High-To-See-Tek-Tek look.

In which I first told my cousins
“BUT I GOT NO TEK TEK WOR….”

and they both said
“Nehmind wan… a lot of the girls that do it also don’t really have wan… just pretend you have it”.

So there you have it everyone!

I have officially graduated from the university of Camwhoring (with bad grades but still graduated)!

THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

I

AM

IN

SYDNEY!!!!!That’s right… that nice little city in Australia.

Let me tell you why I’m here.

Weeks back my family decided to make a trip here because my sister is coming to Australia to further her studies next year and she wanted to check out the universities here that she was applying to.

My sis is the chick in the middle (oh… and she hates being called a chick)

Lucky her because I didn’t know how my university in the UK looked like at all until I went there for my first day at uni.

At first I refused to go because I had work to do at Nuffnang but my parents insisted I needed a break and convinced me that whatever work I had to do, I could do it from my hotel room in Sydney as long as I had an internet connection.

Plus they felt that at the hours I was working each day, I needed a break… or I will soon burn out.

So I went along, also partly to visit one of my favourite cousins there who was studying at UTS.

Now let me be honest with you guys…

My trip so far has been a difficult one and I am actually a little bored.

I don’t know what to do and I can’t stop thinking about the work I have back home… I wanna go home!!!

I told Nicole that I miss home when she asked me how I was liking it here in Sydney…

And her reply to me was

“Miss home or miss your office?”

I guess she had a point.

Anyway… back to not knowing what to do.

I walked around Sydney, did a bit of shopping and had plenty of food, went to the casino and even followed my sister to check out some of her universities here but now I’m out of things to do.
My only consolation is that we’re staying in a really nice hotel with long corridors like this.

And a consolation it is… because that’s where I’m actually spending most my time here, connected to the internet and working.

There isn’t even a nice Australian lady to share my lonely bed with me here.

*Sniff* *Sniff*

The worst part is this… I have plenty of friends who’re studying or working in Australia right now… but believe it or not… NONE OF THEM ARE IN SYDNEY.

Just about a million of them are in Melbourne, a few of them scattered are all over Aussie and ONE dude in some island called Tazmania, mating with the koalas.

For a minute I thought that maybe… just maybe I might have a couple of readers from Sydney… but I highly doubt it.

Anyway if I do…. MY DEAR SYDNEY READERS!!!

I’m staying at the Radisson Plaza Hotel!!!
COME FIND ME AND TAKE ME TO WHERE THE GOOD FOOD IS!!!

I’m supposed to be in Sydney till Friday… but now I’m having second thoughts.. thinking of cutting my trip short… I miss Nuffnang

And our Nuffnang team misses me too? Right guys?

(If you guys ever want to tell a lie… now is the time).

I don’t know if some of you notice… but I have the super hero ability to be really really really fat when I feel like it.

Especially when I was in London and addicted to Krispy Kreme… seriously… I was so fat then, when I came home from the UK and walked around my house topless, my dad called me a “FAT SLOB”.

Heck even my fat friends in the UK used black marker pens to autograph my fat stomach… that’s how fat I was.

So all these years I was thinking that I should cut down on Krispy Kreme, potatoes, chips or any fatty foods if I wanted to lose weight but I was wrong.

I WAS WRONG I TELL YOU!!! WRONG WRONG!!!

There is something else that we all consume a lot that apparently has FAT IN IT!!!

And that is WATER!!!
IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!!!

I don’t eat so much… but I do drink a lot of water every day… more than most horses do.

And water is good for health.

It detoxifies your body, rehydrates you and bla bla bla…

So it’s good right?

WRONG!!!

I was at a lounge in transit for my flight to Singapore yesterday (to transit there to my current holiday destination that I will soon reveal)… and I found THIS!

Look closely at the bottle.. it says

FAT FREE H20!!!

Now two things hit me when I saw this bottle.

1) WATER HAS FAT IN IT?!?!?!

and the second thing:

2) *(@(*#(&@*#(&*@(&*##&(*$ THATS WHY I HAVE BEEN FAT ALL THIS WHILE!!!

So I grabbed a few bottles of the FAT FREE H20 and gulped it all down!!!

OHHHHH THANK YOU …. THANK YOU WHOEVER INVENTED THE FAT FREE WATER… NOW MY FAT TROUBLES ARE OVER….

You can even also see the difference almost instantly when you drink normal water and FAT FREE WATER….

Ok check these 2 pictures out.

SEEE?!?!?! SOO MUCH SKINNIER RIGHT?!?!?

HAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

BALLS TO ALL OF YOU WHO CALLED ME FAT BEFORE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

KRISPY KREME!!!

BOSS STEWIE HAS RETURNED!!!

PS: I know I said in the last post that I will reveal where I have gone for my holiday… but Ok lar ok lar..next post I will finally give up the mystery and reveal where I am now for my week long holiday okay?

Ming has got to be the most patriotic Singaporean I have ever met.

Then again, most Singaporeans I have met are patriotic to the bone… something I truly admire.

After the Nuffnang Rush Hour Event in Singapore, Ming ushered me off to a hotel room at the Ritz Carlton that his friends had booked.

The SGD900 per night suite was booked just in case Ming couldn’t get tickets to watch the much talked about National Day Parade in Singapore but Ming did get the tickets in the end and he put me together with some of his friends in the room to watch the parade from our window.
From the window, I could see a beautiful view of the city.

But most importantly I could see the STAGE of the National Day Parade!!!
Notice the red sea of people… just about everyone there at the parade was wearing a red shirt!

Heck there were even people in the next door hotel standing by their windows to watch the parade.

The parade started in the evening and I must say it was quite an experience.

There was the marching parade that was so impressive, it was obvious to any spectator that the army had been practising for months for this one event.
Then across the water were some artilleries for a gun salute.

Then came their jet fighters that flew over the hotel so fast I could barely get a good picture of it.

And of course, there was also Singapore’s latest pride and joy… their new Apache helicopters something Ming tells me just not any country in the world can have.

Bah!!!

But Timothy Tiah is a simple man!

I don’t need Apaches or F-22s to impress me.

All it took to impress me while I was at Singapore was…

THAT’S RIGHT!!!

AHAHAHAHA JUST AFTER I BLOGGED ABOUT THEIR TV ADS…. I FINALLY TRIED OUT THEIR DRINKS AND IT WAS FANTASTIC!!! BWAHAHAHAHAH

And to think I nearly forgot to try it.
Just while we were about to leave I stopped at a petrol station to get a drink.

I asked everyone in my car if they wanted a drink.

Then when it came to Firdauz’s turn, I asked him what he wanted and he said
“Anything lah… eh wait.. why not you get me that anything drink!”.

And so we had ANYTHING and WHATEVER to drink that day.

I LOVED IT!!!

While I liked Whatever more, I LOVED BOTH DRINKS!!!

Heck.. I posted the ad before on my blog and I’m gonna do it again!!!

WATCH THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY!!!

IT’S HILARIOUS!!!

Anyway, I’m in Singapore right now and I’m leaving for the airport soon for a week long holiday to….. (Shall reveal in my next blog entry).

Have a great weekend everyone!

While the Nuffnang team was at Sentosa we went on a ride called the Luge that partly required us to sit on sky swings to get from the bottom of a hill to the top. The sky swing is if anything… freaking scary!

Allow me to illustrate.

Check out this picture. You are hanging from many many feet up in the sky with tree tops at your feet and if you think the net in the picture is meant to catch you if you fall off the swing you’re wrong.

The net is only meant to stop you from crashing into the people down below!!! One thing I learned though is this.

The average girl… is always less afraid of heights than the average guy.

That’s right.. guys are generally more afraid of heights than girls.

And I notice that even in people like my dear business partner Ming. Ming is if anything a very very aggressive character.

The kind of guy that you never want to step on his toes.

But put him on a sky swing and… Bwahahaha….

So knowing that Ming is afraid of heights, I put together a small team for my little ploy.

The Plan

First, I got Suet Li to make sure she got on the same swing as Ming and kept taunting him. Then I got our Singaporean intern Hui Wen to arm herself with her camera and take a video of Ming while Suet Li was taunting him. In Hui Wen’s defense, she was afraid to play along at first…. scared kena scolded by Ming, not to mention, when it comes to Nuffnang Singapore (in which she was working under), Ming is the boss.

But I promised her that I’ll take the fall if anything happens so she agreed. So the 3 of them got on and the video started streaming. Why don’t you guys watch the video and tell me if the plan failed or succeeded.

The Result

If you watch the video, pay special attention to how both of Ming’s hands were firmly gripped on the handle bar throughout the entire ride.

On weekdays, I dress like the working class do.

Typical work shirt and sometimes with a TIE.
Nothing too fancy.. just presentable…Now on weekdays fine… I dress up a little more.

On weekends however… especially Sundays… sometimes I get fed up of having to dress up.

But someone thought it would be funny to take this picture of me pumping petrol for my car on a Sunday.

HEY!!!

IT WAS A FRIGGIN SUNDAY!!!
(They throw people in jail for wearing work clothes on Sundays)

AND I WAS GOING TO PUMP PETROL!

It’s not like I was going to Zouk all dressed like that…

LEMME WEAR WHAT I WANT!!!

And hey I like those blue shorts… sexy no meh?

The whole Nuffnang team was down in Singapore last week not just for a company trip, but also for the first Nuffnang Community Event in Singapore.
It was massive, 200 over bloggers and advertisers met all at Vivocity for a movie screning and a cocktail reception before the movie.
Ming and Hui Wen, had done much planning for the event and they left no stone unturned.

You name it, we had everything from name tags for bloggers, to goodie bags… over 200 of them… pink for the girls and black for the guys.
Heck they even went down the detail to have many types of name tags.

The name tags for the bloggers wrote
“I’m a Nuffnanger I blog at ________”

The name tags for the Nuffnang team wrote
“I work my butt off for you” (or something along these lines)

The name tags of the guests said
“I’m just here for the free food”.

The name tags of our advertisers/clients said
“I pay your bills!”

And for the VIPs it said
“Ming thinks I’m important”.

That day was the first day I really had the chance to meet soooo many Singaporean Nuffnangers.

Heck just about everybody who’s anybody in the Singaporean blogosphere was there.
Xiaxue, Cowboy Caleb, Dawn Yang, Sassy Jan, Sheylara… all were there!At one point, a Nuffnanger at the event came up to me and said
“Tim… Nuffnang events are great… you guys have somehow built the reputation of having events where the top bloggers whether in Malaysia or Singapore take the trouble to attend“.

I told her that we’re just lucky and these bloggers were just being nice to us.

Halfway through the registration process at the event, Ming’s friends made a grand entrance with a nice customized Nuffnang banner that they made… and they laid it out on a table for Nuffnangers to sign!

We accumulated hundreds of autographs on that one banner by the end of the day.

I don’t know about everyone else but the event to me was a great success but credit for that success isn’t just due to the Ming and the Singaporean Nuffnangers that came… lets not forget our team that put in the effort in handling the registration, logistics and planning of the event.

To you guys and girls… (you know who you guys are)… thank you!

Oh and I nearly forgot to mention.

That day we also announced our new upcoming Nuffnang logo and showed a sneak peak of our coming Nuffnang 2.0.

To those of you who missed it, check it out here.

On Tuesday this week, we decided to bring the entire Malaysian Nuffnang team (both Penang and KL) down to Singapore for our Singapore Nuffnang Rush Hour Event (all expense paid by the Company).

Not everyone could make it down, but most of us did.

The trip provided an opportunity for the team in Penang to bond with the team in KL and most importantly, for both the Malaysian teams to bond with the team in Singapore.
I decided to take a drive down and Cheeserland wanted to follow us so she tagged along with the team.

The idea was to have a half work/half play trip.

So the day after we arrived in Singapore, we all went to work in our Singapore office as usual with Ming explaining to the Malaysians exactly what was going to happen for the upcoming Singapore event

Some were paying attention.

And as you can see from the next picture, some weren’t 😛

After a long morning of working, Ming brought us all for lunch at the exclusive Tanglin Club in Singapore where apparently there’s a waiting list to get a membership there and you’d have to find yourself waiting for years before you get one.

Suet Li, Ringo and I decided to camwhore a little in that club… since for all you know, that might be our first and last time ever having the chance to get in.

(I like Suet Li’s dress in the picture.. so cute leh!!!)

I had my favourite Pesto Penne for lunch.
And spent most of lunch getting to know better one of our Singaporean interns: Hui Wen.

Now the thing about Nuffnang is… most of the team are bloggers themselves.

And you can tell you’re eating with bloggers when every time just when your food comes, everybody whips out their cameras to take a shot at it before you can even have a bite.We took our time to finish lunch and on most days… after lunch everyone heads back to the office right?

Not that day… and not for us.

After lunch we all headed to Sentosa for a good time completely funded by Nuffnang.

When we got there, we put on our helmets.

Joined a queue.

And sat on a ride called the LUGE!!!

Where you would basically sit on this slide thing and roll down the hill as breakneck speed.

FUN FUN FUN!!!

All of us raced with each other… and the girls just wouldn’t stop complaining that they were slow because their bodies were lighter.

Now the ride down the hill isn’t exactly the only fun part.

Even coming up the hill is fun… because they put us on these little ski swing thing called the Skyride.
Cool huh!!!

The good thing about the Skyride is that up there you’re treated to a beautiful view.
But the bad thing is…

THE FRIGGING HEIGHTS!!!

I’m not extremely afraid of heights but I don’t like the idea of hanging on a cable, a hundred feet above the ground.

The guys were all scared the first time we got on the ride but for some reason… the girls didn’t seem to be afraid of heights.

Especially Suet Li who enjoyed taunting Ming, calling him a chicken and even shaking the swing as much as she could…. the notty notty girl!

Look at this picture.

And notice a few things about it…
LOOK AT HOW TIGHT MING IS GRIPPING THE BAR WITH BOTH HIS HANDS.
(Ming is on the left btw)…

HE WAS HANGING ON FOR DEAR LIFE!!!

Even if he had the BIGGEST ITCH on his crotch, he wouldn’t have moved a muscle!

And look at how happy Suet Li is sitting in the middle of them.

But ai cheh…

We men learn fast.

After the first ride, all our balls grew bigger.

See how all the guys are acting cool now?

Ai cheh ai cheh!!!

So it is true when they say…. bola ada kembang ada kecut.