I watched Ratatouille last week! Bwahahahah, 2 weeks before it came out!

Do you know how??? HAH!!! NOT PIRATED DVD OKAY!?!?

Last Thursday, Buena Vista was nice enough to invite me and a few Nuffnang bloggers to for a media screening of Ratatouille, the new Disney Pixar movie coming out on the 16th of August. Now I’m not such a big fan of cartoons anymore for some reason. I used to.. but not anymore. I mean, when Shrek 3 came out, I wasn’t exactly jumping around in joy and excitement. I felt that way for Transformers, or Die Hard 4.0… but not so much for cartoons.

And you can imagine the first time I heard of the movie Ratatouille.

I was like… “How do you even say that?”

But now I have said it so many times that I’ve grown used to it and I even kinda like the way it slips off my tongue. But okay! TO THE MOVIE REVIEW!!!

Let me just say… I LOVED THIS MOVIE!!!

It reminded me a lot about my time in Paris simply because it was in Paris, the city that the movie claimed to be the food capital of the world!!! (That’s of course.. until they discovered PENANG!!!!).

Now the main character in the movie, this one…
…is not named Ratatouille.

His name is Remy.

Remy starts off as a little house rat that desperately wants to be a chef.

Now last thing I want to do is spoil the fun for you guys… so I’m not going to go into much detail about the movie here.

Heck I’m not even going to tell you why the movie is named Ratatouille.

And I bet a few of you now are saying
“OH YEAH!!! WELL I’LL WIKIPEDIA IT TO FIND OUT!!!”

To those of you who do that…

I only have one thing to say

“WHY LAR!! WHY DO YOU WANT TO SPOIL ALL THE SURPRISES IN LIFE?! WHY? WHY?!??! TELL ME WHY?!!?”
Watch Ratatouille.

I loved it. I’m sure you guys would too.

Let the trailer convince you!

Oh and uhmm.. I love the way the French speak English… SOOOOOOOOoooo what’s the word for it…..??

About 1-2 weeks ago I wrote about putting together our little Nuffie’s Corner in our little Nuffnang office in KL.

Now let me be honest with you guys.

When I put together Nuffie’s Corner, I had my own share of doubts.

I didn’t know if people would really go about using it.. hence I couldn’t decide it if was going to be a good investment.

Today, my fears are gone.

EVERYONE… that’s right EVERYONE uses the little Nuffie’s Corner.

Starting with Samantha.

Along with Arsyan and Suet Li.

Who sometimes make it a point to fight and hit each other there.

Heck even the guys use Nuffie’s Corner.

Especially Firdauz who more often than not uses it to sleep.
Now the thing about our KL Office is this.

Our air conditioning is way too cold… it’s almost below freezing temperature in there during the day.

Which is why we have a little blanket that Suet Li mostly takes her time to HOG when she’s seated and doing her work at Nuffie’s Corner.

Or even when she’s on a table itself.

But the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen Suet Li do is this.

Dear Suet Li… is this a hint for us to remove the air-con in our office?

Because I’m sure we could survive with one or two standing fans…

Look closely at the picture. You can actually see her right hand on her laptop’s keyboard.

On another note.

You guys have to check out this animation video that one of our Singaporean Nuffnangers did.

All the effort he put in… UNBELIEVABLE!!!

I have never met a Malaysian young man who ever once said to me
“Dude… I don’t like Japanese girls.. I don’t think they’re hot dude.. they don’t turn me on.”

But I’ve heard a million Malaysian girls tell me
“WHAT THE HELL DO YOU GUYS SEE IN JAPANESE GIRLS?!?!”

Well let me answer your question ladies.

SEE THIS?

HOT HOT HOT

AND THIS
HOT!!!

HOW CAN YOU NOT FALL IN LOVE WITH A GIRL THIS HOT AND SEXY?!?!

Now when we think of Japanese girls… we now also think of HARAJUKU girls, thanks to Gwen Stefani who has included a group of Harajuku girls in so many of her videos.

Harajuku girls are called Harajuku girls because… well….. they’re girls that hang around this train station or shopping district called Harajuku (or so Wikipedia tells me).

But who cares what they do!

Some Harajuku girls… mmm mmmm…..

Anyway, some of you may have heard of this Harajuku girl contest that Hotlink is carrying out on their website now in conjunction with Gwen Stefani’s concert.

I went on their website to check it out and decided to dress up my own Harajuku dolls.

The first doll I made was pretty simple.

I named her Sammy.

But that wasn’t much fun.

I then thought about all the Malaysian girls out there who got annoyed at how guys just lurrveee Japanese girls.

SO LADIES!!!

TODAY!!! BOSS STEWIE SHALL AVENGE YOU!!!

My mission for today… to make the ugliest worst dressed Harajuku Dolls ever!!!

EVERYBODY

MEET PRINCESS!!!

Princess has an “Excellent” sense of dressing..

Look at the way her BLACK TOP matches with her DARK GREEN SNEAKERS.

YEAH BABY!!!

SO “CLASSY”

Enough to make Jimmy Choo tear.

If you guys think can do better a better job than I, give it a shot here.

It’s hard trying to make a Japanese girl look ugly.

Nuffnang Singapore is having a huge event with over 200 bloggers for the movie screening of Rush Hour 3 on the 9th of August 2007.

Now to find a way to give out their tickets, the guys in our Singapore office thought of asking bloggers to write about what they would do for Nuffnang tickets.

Two guys caught my attention with their creativity.

First watch this guy.

Then go to this guy’s blog, read his entry and watch his video.

LOL!!!

The whole Malaysian team is going down to Singapore for the event and when we get down, I want to shake the hands of these two Singaporean bloggers.

OKAY OKAY!!!

Important tak tahu malu question of the day…

JENG JENG JENG!!!

WHO HAS A CRUSH ON ME?!?!

Come on ladies!!! I know you’re all out there!!!

HAHAHAHA!!! So many of you right?!?

Let me show you my face again to rekindle your feelings.

COME ON COME ON!!!

I KNOW YOU’RE OUT THERE!!!!

Anybody?

No?

Nobody?

No??

Really?

How about NOW?
Still no?

Really?

And Now?
Noo????

But but.. but… look at me!!!

I’m so cute!!!
No??

Not even from a guy?

Anyone?

No? Really?

Fine!!!

HMPH!!!

GO AWAY AND LEMME ALONE!!!

*runs to a corner and sobs*


Crush this person!
Get your own ThisCrush.com CrushTag!

EVERYBODY!!!

MEET CYNTHIA!!!

Cynthia is the latest addition to our Nuffnang team.

And guess what she does.

No she’s not my PA (I wish), she’s not a programmer, she’s not a designer… she’s… an accounting grad so she’s our new FINANCE PERSON.

I’m not going to have any OFFICIAL title for her… nothing like “Finance Executive” or something. Since she’s in charge of the money…

We’re going to call her our
“CHING CHING PERSON!!!“

So if any of you Nuffnangers want to get paid fast… go to Cynthia and scream!!!

SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!

SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!!!!

SHOW ME CYNTHIA…

SHOW ME THE DAMN MONEY!!!

On another note, on her first day of work we had a delivery to the office.

Cynthia’s boyfriend sent a bouquet of flowers!
The 20th Century Man’s way of saying to all the other males in the workplace.
“She’s mine so F*CK OFF”!!!

Well done boyfriend.

We hear you loud and clear.

WHAT A BORING BLOG TITLE!

I mean… how many times have you seen that line.. over and over again!!!

But like it or not… it is our source of life and hence our source of life at NUFFNANG!!!

Every office has to have one of these water dispensers.

MUST!!!

So the day we moved in, we placed an order for one.

It came the very next working day, along with this nice man to help us set it up.*Notice how the nice man didn’t pay any attention to the camera… probably thinking to himself “Stupid idiot… taking picture of people installing water dispenser also shiok”.

You would think that these 5 barrels of water is a lot but it’s only been a week and we’re down to 3 now.

After the water dispenser was installed, we all RUSHED to break its virginity: To be the first to draw water from the dispenser!

Unfortunately, Samantha beat us all to it and she was the first.

She said it felt sooo good.

One thing that people seem to not notice so much is that each person has a certain style of standing while drawing water from the water dispenser.

Look at Sam for example.
With her right hand on the cup and her left hand on her dress trying to prevent a wardrobe malfunction.

There there’s myself.
Very simple, left hand on the cup and right hand on the little switch to start the water from flowing!

And of course, there are some jokers… like Arsyan here who very recently just told me that he thinks he looks like a bear.

Arsyan doesn’t look like a bear… does he guys? no right?

DEAR RICH PEOPLE OF MALAYSIA!!!

NO LONGER SHALL YOU LOSE SLEEP AT NIGHT!!!

NO LONGER SHALL YOU STRESS ABOUT HOW TO SPEND THE MONEY IN YOUR BANK ACCOUNTS!!!

NO LONGER SHALL YOU NOT CARRY BAGS THAT DO NOT COST AN ARM OR LEG!!!

Because LOUIS VUITTON AT KLCC IS HERE!!!

And the day I first saw it open… what did I see?

A WHOLE LONG QUEUE OF RICH PEOPLE LINING UP TO GET IN!!!
and if that isn’t enough to get your heart pounding and the money in your pocket tinkering, LV even brought one of the guys that makes their hand-made bags…

ALL THE WAY FROM FRANCE.

They were nice enough to bring him to show the rich people how their beautiful high-quality LV bags were made.

And to show the poor people how to make it so we may one day make our very own imitation… LOOI WUITTONS!!!

Dear Rich People… whip out your credits and head over to KLCC today.

Can’t decide if you’re fit to carry LV bags?

Easy… Do you eat THIS for breakfast EVERY DAY?!!?
Or do you eat THIS?!?!

Because if you eat Bak Kut Teh for breakfast like me… then you probably can’t afford LV.

In fact, go in there with a packet of Bak Kut Teh in your hands and you might actually hear someone say
“Ewww… you disgusting people.. why the hell do you put pork in your tea?!?!”

But I don’t care!!! I LOVE MY TEA WITH PORK IN IT!!!

By last Friday, all the essential furniture of our KL office was in and the team had already moved in.

I like our office and even the girls Samantha and Suet Li seem to like it too.
There was one thing I didn’t like about our office though:
It looked TOO MUCH LIKE AN OFFICE!!!

So I decided that we needed a corner of the office that felt more homely.

Some place for people to relax.

And every dotcom office has to have one thing (apart from computers of course):
BEAN BAGS!!!

I asked around and found out that Tesco had good (and not too expensive bean bags) so TO TESCO I WENT!!!

The ones at Tesco required you to buy the bag and the beans separately, then put it all together yourself.
I was so excited.
The minute I got home I ripped off the bean bag and started filling it up with beans.

And within a few minutes…

TADAAA!!!!!! BEHOLD!!! OUR BEAN BAG!!!

Yes, it looked a little pathetic even after filling it up with 2 full big bags of beans.

But I thought, maybe it’s just meant to be like that.

So I tried it out.

And I figured…
“Nope… definitely not how a bean bag is supposed to be”.

So I filled it up again with another bag and tried it out.

“Nope… still not quite there”.

By the time I emptied all our bean bags, our bean bag only looked like this.

Which again looked pathethic.

So I got pissed off!!!

I went back to Tesco and came back with a shit load of beans, more than I could carry.
I ripped open our other bean bag as well and filled it up!!!

And now….

BEHOLD!!! OUR BEAN BAGS!!!

I love bean bags, especially when you have 2 of them.

There are so many things you can use it for.

Anything from an OSIM-Style kind of bed.

To a fort.To a….

don’t ask me what I was doing in that picture… even I myself don’t quite know.

I love my bean bags!!!!!

And they look great at the little chill-out corner we created in our Nuffnang office.

The girls have already found a name for it.
They call it “Nuffie’s Corner“.

After moving in most of our big office furniture, it was time to shop for the smaller less essential stuff…. like… a rubbish bin!!!

For that, I went to Ikea!

Going to Ikea reminds me of my London student days when I would go there to shop for furniture that I would have to bring home and assemble myself.

Some people enjoy assembling their own study tables, cupboards and even beds… but I don’t.

I like everything ready made! Thank you very much. Just plug and play!
Fortunately in Malaysia, Ikea delivers and helps you assemble it too.

Ikea is fantastic!

I mean… even if you’re not planning on buying anything, it’s just fun to walk around!!!

WHERE else would you find chairs like this!
I mean check out how cute this eggy chair is.

It can close up to be like this… just in case you feel like taking a nap!
And believe it or not, when I took this picture, there was an actual kid inside moving around the egg chair around making baby sounds.

Anyway, I went back to looking for my Rubbish bin and the first thing I spotted was this.

A LITTLE BABY RUBBISH BIN!!!

All the cute things they have in Ikea, they should call it Babyland!

I considered getting the full set to put on my table in the office but then my mum’s previous words came to mind and I decided not to.
Then… I spotted our very first real potential!

CHECK THIS OUT!!!

I mean… heck… this is the kind of bin, that REAL MEN USE.Just having one in your room would make your schlong grow an inch longer each day.

Samantha who was with me slapped me on the head
“WHAT A FUGLY BIN!!! ARE YOU FURNISHING YOUR OFFICE OR BUYING EQUIPMENT FOR MPPJ??!?!”

So fine, I let Samantha have her pick.

She spotted this and said
“WOOOOOO!!! SOO BEAUTIFUL!! SOO CUTEE!! WE HAVE GOT TO HAVE ONE OF THESE RUBBISH BINS!!!!”

I took a quick look at it.

Then shot back a glance at her and said
“My dear Samantha… that’s not a rubbish bin, it’s a lamp head”.
She laughed at herself and the quest to find the perfect bin carried on!

Until we spotted this!

A PILE OF THE CHEAPEST BINS YOU WILL FIND IN IKEA… EACH ONLY 50 SEN*!!!

*By 50 sen, I mean about RM6.90.

I decided to buy ONE red and ONE black.

Samantha started looking around for a PINK one… which was when I decided it was time to go before she turned our office into the Powerpuff Girl’s Hideout!