I love Jessica Alba.

Always have, always will.

I mean, when you have someone as cute and pretty as this. How can you not love her?

Here’s another reason to love her.

She apparently said that she’s all up for one night stands as long as the guy doesn’t stick around the next morning.

According to Cosmopolitan Magazine, she said

“”I just wanted to see what it was like to be with different people.

I don’t think a girl’s a slut if she enjoys sex. I could have a one-night stand, and I’m the kind of girl who looks over in the morning and is like, ‘Do you really have to be here?’

I don’t need to cuddle and do all that stuff because I know what it is and I don’t try to make it more. I feel like a lot of women try to make it into more, so they don’t feel so bad about just wanting to have sex.

I don’t really have a problem with just wanting sex. Never have.

Even when I was a virgin and wanted to marry the first guy who I slept with, I never passed any judgments about that. But now I’m done with dating around.””

Now ladies… I want your opinion. Would you consider that statement… “Girl Power”?

On Saturday, a friend introduced me to the joys of the Nintendo Wii (pronounced “Wee”).

And on Sunday… I found myself all the way at Sungai Wang… and coming home with…..

*Drum roll*

TAADDAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaa

I couldn’t help it… the Wii experience is just totally out of this world.

Let me bring you in on a little bit of what it’s like in a minute.

First… the UNPACKING.
I normally hate installing stuff like this but the Wii has made it so easy… excellent for people like me who never read instruction manuals.

After just a few minutes of installation and plugging it into the TV…

TADAAAAAA!!!!
IT LIVES!!!!

The most fun part of the Wii is this.

Now I never was the kind to play game consoles because I never got used to the controllers.

But the Wii is so simple. The controller is shaped to be like a TV remote so it doesn’t look out of place when you have it on your living room table and there are only a few buttons on it.

The real action of the remote comes from waving it around.

For example, if you’re playing a game of tennis.

Then you hold and swing your Wii Remote just like how you would do for a real tennis racket.

If you’re playing golf, you do the same.

Or even if you’re bowling, you hold the remote and swing like you’re swinging a real bowling ball.

It is sooo cool..

Oh and there is one more thing cool about the Wii.

And it’s not just that it looks cool.

It’s the Mii!!!

Miis are your own personalized characters that you use to play the games.

You can customize your own Mii.

First deciding of course whether it’s a guy Mii or a girl Mii.

And no guys…unlike games like WoW, it doesn’t help pretending to be a female character since the person you’re playing with is going to be right next to you.

You won’t be getting any special treatment.

Then, once you select your gender.

You can go ahead and customize your Mii to have it look like you or like anyone else.

Here’s my Mii.

Look just like me or not?

Ming, I’m seriously considering getting one for at least one of our offices.

I have been so terribly busy lately I can’t even find time for myself these days.

Just yesterday I found myself at Heritage Row while in between some of my meetings.

I’m sure I don’t have to remind everyone that Heritage Row is the HIP place in KL now with a very vibrant night life.

But unfortunately, I wasn’t there to drink, dance or look at girls… I was there to check out our up and coming Nuffnang office that is about to undergo massive renovation.

The Nuffnang office in KL is going to be at this building called Heritage House.Now before I go on, don’t be fooled into thinking that Nuffnang is making millions so much that we can open offices everywhere. We’re not… but we don’t have a choice.

To cope with the demands of our growing community, we’re expanding our team, even in KL and we most definitely need an office here to house them. I can’t possibly have everyone come work at my apartment can I?

I mean how unprofessional would that be. That would most certainly give the impression that we’re some kind of fly-by-night company.
Anyway, before we decided that this was the building we wanted, I was a little concerned about the location.

It was just too in the middle of anything happening. Right below our office (and in the same building itself) for example is the famous bar/club BED.

Not far from here is The Loft… and a whole load of restaurants/bistros just across the road.

I started thinking if any of our Nuffnang team mates will be able to get anything done being so close to entertainment.. but I decided… ahh.. people.. especially the people at Nuffnang who work too hard… need a break.

Anyway, I was there because we’ll be moving in to our KL office really really soon.. but before that.. we’re going to need to carry out some MASSIVE renovations.

Let me show you a little bit of how our office now looks before our renovation.

When you walk in we have an orangey lobby and reception table that our previous tenant gladly left us.

Then we have a restroom and pantry of our own.

And some other rooms for our team mates to work in.

The view from our office is breathtaking.

But unfortunately all our windows are currently blocked up so it’s hard to get a good shot.

I stood in that empty office with a notepad in my hand thinking to myself the things that the office needs.

New carpeting, newly painted walls, new furniture and new fittings = $$$$$$….

*sigh*… looks like I’m going to have to be eating Maggie Mee more often from now on.

Someone suggested that I have a PA seated right outside my own office but I don’t think I deserve a PA right now.

Heck I don’t even have my own office.. not even in the huge office space we have in Penang at Menara Northam.

I share a room and sit with everyone else there, even our intern Lance is placed in a workstation right next to mine.

While working at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, I learned to enjoy the open concept we had. Your boss sits not in an office of his own… but in the cubicle next to you.

That’s what Ming and I always wanted to cultivate at Nuffnang. No “bosses”… no “employees”… just team mates and team leaders.

One thing I would like though.. is my own parking lot.

Parking around the area at Heritage House is really hard to find.

So I want one just like the one I saw outside Cineleisure the other day.

It said
“RESERVED FOR MEGATRON… PARK AT YOUR OWN RISK”.

And on it was a smashed up car… obviously from some idiot who parked on Megatron’s lot… YOU DON’T PARK ON MEGATRON’S LOT… UNLESS YOU ARE AN IDIOT.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PARK AT MEGATRON’S LOT!!!
But sigh.. unfortunately…

In our Penang office, people park at my Reserved Lot all the time… and the most we can do is stick a paper on their windscreen that says
“This lot is reserved.. Please don’t park here next time? Please??”

And if he does it again then we leave a note that says
“Hi…. I don’t know if you got my previous note but please don’t park here.. this is reserved.. tenkiu ar…”

And if he STILL DOES IT AGAIN then all we can do is leave a note that says
“YOU DO ONE MORE TIME I TELL YOUR MUMMY WAN AR!!!”

or you could whip out your house keys and casually walk past the side of the car….
*Screeeeech*

Ok guys… I was reading the paper last week when I spotted this.

See it?

See it?

Look again!

Still no?

Look again at the laptop screen in the picture and look at this screen shot.
When I was younger, I used to read the paper and see how people would ‘accidentally’ get in a photo in the newspaper by being in the background of a photo.

I always wondered “Why is it I’m NEVER that lucky?!?”

Well.. it appears that Nuffnang’s a little luckier than me. Hehe.

The past few weeks have been crazy for us at Nuffnang.

So many new developments, so much work just coming in all at one go… all of us has barely had the time to have everything done in time.

Ming and I for example used to monitor blogs that talk about Nuffnang and personally address the issues that any bloggers have, but as of late, we’ve had so much work on our hands we can’t seem to find the time.
Our entire team has been just as busy.

They used to be able to reply support e-mails within the hour, but now we get over 100 e-mails each day and that’s from BLOGGERS alone, not even including the follow ups with our advertisers.

So one day while in our busy office, Ming and I decided that everyone needed a short break away from the computer screen so we got everyone in our Penang office together and headed for our Conference Room
(Well everyone except another two of our Nuffnangers who were out of the office at the time.. boohoo! unlucky you.. missing all the fun).

The objective… was for everyone to prepare alphabets of Nuffnang and put them all together to deliver an SOS message to the Blogging Community (that we need more people to sustain our growth).

Ming started off trying on an “N”

Then we all got together to grab our favourite alphabets.
And struggled to get organized.

Well we kinda spelled it right.
Then we all got together for the full name.

But Ming spoiled our picture with that blur look on his face.

So we tried it again and we got it right this time.

EVERYBODY!!!

At the end of it, everyone in the team was happy and morale was high again as everyone got back behind their workstations.

Some say we wasted some company time doing this… but I say everyone needs a breather every once in a while… and everyone was certainly much more productive after this.

You can check out the official post on our Nuffnang Blog here.

I was supposed to have my hair cut yesterday but in the last minute, my usual hair stylist canceled our appointment.

I don’t particularly like the hassle of often having to go and have my hair cut…. but there is one thing I love about cutting hair.. the washing hair (head massage) part… ooohhh that has got to be one of the best things in life.

Anyway, having my appointment canceled, I found myself at Gurney Plaza yesterday afternoon about to watch Ocean’s 13.

While waiting for the movie to start I actually thought to myself
“Hold on… why don’t I just go get my hair cut somewhere here.”

I walked around with my friends to look for a place when I suddenly came across a great looking place to have my hair cut.

But one of my friends found the need to warn me.
“Eh… this place, they cut hair for really young people… if you cut here they’re going to make you look damn young… younger than how you already look!”.

I thought to myself
“Younger than how I already look? Hmm… how much younger can I possibly look?”

So I decided to go on and give it a shot.

And 30 minutes (and one GOOD HEAD MASSAGE) later.

Voila!

Yes.. I was wrong.. apparently I can look a lot younger than I already was.

Even Linsey was a little shy taking a picture with me in public for fear that people might think of her as a pedophile dating an under-aged school boy.

But alright guys… here’s a close up.

Tell me how bad it is…

Do I look 18?

Younger?

Ok how about 16?

Younger?

Ok 15…

COME ON GUYS … I CAN’T POSSIBLY LOOK LIKE I’M UNDER 15!!!

Nuffnang has been hiring quite a number of people lately… not because we’re rich but because we’ve been growing too fast there’s too much for us to do.

Since we launched, our team has more than doubled in size… and that’s not even including the dudes at Singapore!

Now at Nuffnang… we hire interns too!!!

And the intern we have with us now is…..

MEET LANCE

Now here’s what happens when someone joins us.

Step 1: Made to sit right next to a more senior Nuffnang team member.

Step 2: Non-Disclosure Agreement

This is where the new Nuffnanger signs a document that says that he will not divulge any of the secrets he learns at Nuffnang or we’ll cut off his ballz and hang it outside our window sue.
Step 3: Forced Feed Cheezels

At Nuffnang… YOU MUST LOVE CHEEZELS.

Just like KFC now says “We must have rice”.. at Nuffnang, WE MUST HAVE CHEEZELS.

When I first asked Lance to eat a packet of Cheezels to officiate the joining of Nuffnang, he said “But I prefer Twisties”.

I slapped him and screamed
“BLASPHEMY!!!”

He gave in and ate away.

Step 4: NUFFNANG LUNCH!!!

We have a welcome lunch at Food Loft Gurney Plaza Penang, one of our advertisers at Nuffnang.

We joke, we talk cock talk about world affairs, eat and drink all under company expense.

This is part where Lance started taking awful pictures of me with rather weird facial expressions.


Of course, feeding a small but growing company is not cheap, so the bill turned out to be over RM227.60 for lunch.

Nuffnang Singapore’s company lunches are a lot more expensive… as you can imagine.. in SING DOLLAR.

STEP 5: MPH BOOKSHOP

Visiting another one of our advertisers, everyone goes to MPH to pick up books on programming, marketing or anything that could help them learn the job better. All on company’s expense again.
And there you go everyone.

Those are the 5 steps you have to go through while starting work with Nuffnang.

Oh and I almost forgot to mention… the 6th… to start a blog.

ALL NUFFNANG TEAM MEMBERS must have blogs. It doesn’t matter if they get a lot of traffic or not, they must still blog.

Lance coincidentally already was a blogger before he joined.

He now blogs about his internship experience at Nuffnang (*ahem* during working hours).

Lance.. go get me coffee when you read this. Two sugars, no milk. And grab me a packet of cheezels while you’re at it.

Today is my birthday.

And at 12AM sharp on the 6th of June, I started receiving an influx of SMSs wishing me Happy Birthday.

Thank you guys, you’re all so sweet.

One thing I noticed though, here is the list of the first 5 people who SMSed me.

1) Kelly
2) Stephanie
3) Cynthia
4) Cely
5) Michelle

Notice how THEY ARE ALL GIRLS!!!

WHERE ARE MY GUY FRIENDS?!?!?

DUDES… WHAT THE HELL???

It’s almost like I have NO GUY FRIENDS.

To name a few: Sin Thean, Matt, Gin, Melvin, Eric, Rayvin, Yii-Toong… SHAME ON ALL OF YOU!!!

One thing you have to learn about girl and guy friends.

“Girls are always so thoughtful… they’ll wish you when the clock strikes 12 or early in the morning. So if you get an SMS in the morning or afternoon then it’s probably a girl friend. If you get one in the afternoon OR THE NEXT DAY… then it’s a dude.”

Anyway thank you all for your kind wishes.

Well as for how I’m celebrating my birthday?

Not much… this morning I was up early to go for a meeting with a client.

I am now back in the office working but about to take the whole Nuffnang team out for lunch.

The funny thing is, once I came back from my meeting and walked into my office, I saw a nice wrapped present on my desk… courtesy of one of my dear Nuffnang colleagues.

And inside was…

HOLY CRAP A NUFFNANG TIE!!!
I AM SO WEARING IT TO THE NEXT MEETING I GO FOR!!!

I was driving around a rather nice residential area in Subang last weekend and I couldn’t help but admire the beautiful houses they had there.

Now none of the houses there were particularly huge per say… but it was a nice classy neighborhood that pretty much reminded me of Wisteria Lane on Desperate Housewives… only with bigger and more expensive houses…
and the best part is because it was in a Gated Community where only a few of the houses there actually had fences.

Now there were all sorts of houses.

I like to see houses as bachelor pads… more like.. you know, when you bring a girl home and show her your house, what they think of you. And it doesn’t matter if most homes like this belong to happily married families.

I’m not married now.. and when I think of a home.. I THINK BACHELOR PAD.

So for example, after a long night at Zouk, you bring a chick back to your home which looks like this, she’ll probably say
“Ahhh… a nice home for me to start a family… this guy’s a catch! He’ll never feel the warmth of another woman again.. NEVER!!! HE’S MINE!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA MINEE ALL MINE!!!!”

Or this house where she would think this is the perfect home for her man to go
“Honey I’m home….”

And for her to come up with an apron saying
“Honey.. I’ve made your favourite Fu Chuk pie tonight!”.

Or the ones that look like nice little cottages.
Then there were the ones that give the bachelor the wrong imagine.

Like if you brought a girl home to this house she’d say
“SHIT… ANOTHER MARRIED DUDE.. WHY DO I KEEP GETTING THESE?!?!”

Or this one where she’ll say
“Wait… how old did he say he was again?”

Then there were the slightly more modern ones.

Bring a chick home to this one and she’ll probably think you’re quite a cool guy… with a nice yuppy-style house.
Or the ones that were so modern, that she’ll ask
“I thought you were bringing me home? WHY THE HELL DID YOU BRING ME TO YOUR OFFICE!??!”

But of all the modern looking homes they had there… THIS ONE IS THE ONE YOU GUYS OUGHT TO CHECK OUT!

This house looks like… I don’t know… YOU TELL ME.

On some angles it looks like a space ship.

On other angles it looks like a cockpit of an aircraft carrier.

I mean.. can you imagine bringing a chick home to this kind of house after being half drunk and all.

Then you could even act modest and all…
“Hey Lisa… I live in a rather small and simple house… there… here we are.. look out your window… really simple and boring huh.. nothing special”.
And she could respond in two ways.

1) “Ooooh… I lurrvee your house.. it makes me sooo hot I wanna touch myself”.

Or if she’s drunk enough…

2) “WHAT THE FLYING PHUCK IS THAT ?!”

OKAY!!!

Now this is old!

I remember watching this years ago while still in London.

But I came across this again lately and for those of you who missed this video… make sure you watch it!

IT IS A MUST!!!

Now after watching this video… answer me this.

CAN YOU BLAME THE DUDE?!??!

I MEAN HOW HOT IS THAT CHICK… MOST GUYS WOULD’VE GIVEN THEIR LEFT NUT!!!