I never forget that it’s April Fool’s Day! Never! Because I’ve been trained to remember it. Growing up, on every April Fool’s Day my babysitter would prank me. I would wake up early in the morning for school, put on my school uniform then go down for breakfast. When she sees me she would say “Hey Tiam your fly is down”. I would look down and she would say “April FOOL!”.
So over the years I constantly forced myself to remember it. Until the years I got into secondary school I started Fooling her back too. So this year’s April Fool was no different. I knew it was coming but every year more and more people seem to want to fool me and they get smarter and smarter.

This morning I woke up, checked my e-mails as usual and I saw this e-mail from David Lee, a director of Nuffnang Australia.

I was shocked! You guys remember David Krupp right? David Krupp (or we refer to him as Kruppy) has been with Nuffnang Australia almost ever since we started off. Before Nuffnang Australia he was at MySpace so we were lucky to have him.

I knew he had always been a ladies’ man. Very charming and all so I wouldn’t put it behind him to get involved with someone in the office. The truth is that while our “official stance” is to frown upon inter-office relationships, in Nuffnang and ChurpChurp.. where everyone is young and hang out a lot so much it happens. So Ming finally decided that fine.. if it happens it happens because every Nuffie has the right to pursuit his own happiness. Just don’t let it affect your work or your colleagues around you.

In this case, David Lee was saying that it was causing problems in the office so okay. The next e-mail I saw was from Ming.

So I guess… ok Ming knew.

Then the next e-mail we got was from Kruppy himself.

And that’s when I went “FUUUUCCKK!!!”. So there you have it Kruppy, now you know how much we all love you.

I never forget that it’s April Fool’s Day! Never! Because I’ve been trained to remember it. Growing up, on every April Fool’s Day my babysitter would prank me. I would wake up early in the morning for school, put on my school uniform then go down for breakfast. When she sees me she would say “Hey Tiam your fly is down”. I would look down and she would say “April FOOL!”.
So over the years I constantly forced myself to remember it. Until the years I got into secondary school I started Fooling her back too. So this year’s April Fool was no different. I knew it was coming but every year more and more people seem to want to fool me and they get smarter and smarter.

This morning I woke up, checked my e-mails as usual and I saw this e-mail from David Lee, a director of Nuffnang Australia.

I was shocked! You guys remember David Krupp right? David Krupp (or we refer to him as Kruppy) has been with Nuffnang Australia almost ever since we started off. Before Nuffnang Australia he was at MySpace so we were lucky to have him.

I knew he had always been a ladies’ man. Very charming and all so I wouldn’t put it behind him to get involved with someone in the office. The truth is that while our “official stance” is to frown upon inter-office relationships, in Nuffnang and ChurpChurp.. where everyone is young and hang out a lot so much it happens. So Ming finally decided that fine.. if it happens it happens because every Nuffie has the right to pursuit his own happiness. Just don’t let it affect your work or your colleagues around you.

In this case, David Lee was saying that it was causing problems in the office so okay. The next e-mail I saw was from Ming.

So I guess… ok Ming knew.

Then the next e-mail we got was from Kruppy himself.

And that’s when I went “FUUUUCCKK!!!”. So there you have it Kruppy, now you know how much we all love you.

Update: Sorry just realized that I accidentally had my comments for this post turned off all this while. It’s back on now!

Updated again: I realized again that this entry was broken because of some WP problem I had. I published it with a line from number (4) missing. Sorry have added it back in.

Lets play a little game! Hehehe.. Simple game called 9 Truths 1 Lie. I’m going to tell you 10 Facts about myself but one of them is a lie. I’m going to elaborate each”fact” in detail and tell you a story as if each of them were true. See if you can spot the “lie” ok? Cool lets go!

1) I had my first girlfriend when I was 13.

We were an official boyfriend/girlfriend. Went around school hugging, holding hands, kissing… doing all sorts of stuff. Eventually it got the attention of the headmaster who then called us up to his office. Along with us went one of my other best friends in my class and his girlfriend. Up in the headmaster’s office, the school counsellor joined us and they both educated us about sex. I can’t remember what exactly they talked about but I remember being happy that I was missing class for that.

My parents eventually got tired of me causing so much trouble with the girls in the coed school that they threw me into a St Xaviers. A boy school! Believe it or not, my grades started to improve then.

2) I was a rebellious child growing up

While most kids growing up were rebellious in their teens, I was rebellious from age 9-12. I would argue with my parents and get into so much trouble in school that my mum was often called to school. I was the leader of this “school gang” which was a very very mild gang because it’s the gang of a small private school. We didn’t do half the shit the government gangster school boys did. We didn’t intimidate anyone. All we did was irritate girls and teachers.

We had a name for our gang. We called it G.R.O.S.S. (inspired by Calvin & Hobbes’ Get Rid of Slimey girlS). There were 5 of us official members. Today I’m still very close friends with 2 of them.

3) I have a Fu Chuk Obsession

For those who don’t know, Fu Chuk is this dried bean curd skin. I can eat. You can sometimes eat it when its put together with fishball.

Or sometimes eat it on its own in a steamboat pot.

This is my favourite!

This past weekend I think I had a big overdose of it. And I think that’s why I’ve now fallen sick.

4) I’ve only had 6 girlfriends my whole life.

Shorty is the shortest of them all but the only one I could really see myself living my life with.

5) I Spent A Good Portion of My Life Playing Counter-Strike

I spent a lot of time of my teenage years on Counter-Strike. I played so much that I eventually got bored of it but I kept playing those hours so I could get better at it. Why? Because me and my school friends at the time were in a team (back then we called it a Clan) we called ANTZ. We would then go play lots of Counter-Strike competitions. We hardly won first place but most of the time we always made it to the Top 4.

My girlfriend at the time got fed up watching me play Counter-Strike she once gave me an ultimatum. Either I choose her or Counter-Strike. I chose Counter-Strike. The good news was that she didn’t leave me for that. We broke up a year later for some other reasons. Still… I will always remember how I chose a computer game over a girlfriend. Would certainly never do that now.

6) I’ve Never Had Sex

I was very active in church starting from when I was say 14 years old. When I say active I mean like Wednesday I would go for prayer meetings, Friday for cell group, Saturday for youth group, Sunday bible class and all. Would even go caroling. So one thing that was drilled into me back then was that sex is a gift that should only be experienced by a married couple.

So with all my girlfriends, we’ve done some other stuff but never sex. I’m waiting for the right one to come along before I do.

7) I Once Got Kicked Out Of a Club

When I was studying in London, I would go with my uni friends a lot to this asian club there called Thai Square. It had good music and it was cheap so… great place for students to hang out.

One night we went there the music was really bad though. They were playing some canto-trance stuff or something like that. So not feeling the music, my friends and I just decided to spend our night drinking all sorts of different stuff. Later in the night, the music got better so some of us decided to head to the dance floor. I was already feeling really high so instead I fell asleep on a couch near the dance floor for like 10 minutes! In spite of all the noise and action happening around me.

By the time I woke up I felt like puking. So I pushed through the crowd in my rush to the toilet. I didn’t make it in time. I threw up right outside the Gents and Ladies with everyone looking at me. Then I went into the Gents, locked myself in the cubicle and puked the remainder there. Shortly after that I heard a loud bang on my cubical door. The person on the other side of the door shouted “Get out!”. I opened the door only to see this big black guy in a big trenchcoat waiting for me (exactly like the kind of bouncers you see in the movies). He waited for me to wash up then grabbed me by the shoulder and escorted me out.

After that some of my friends came out and we went to Chinatown for supper. Was feeling much better after puking.

8) I’m best in Table Tennis but my Favourite Sport is Badminton

Table Tennis to me is once of those family sports. My whole family from my father to my grandfather to my great great grandfather and everyone in between plays table tennis. So much that when I was 9 years old, my Dad hired a coach to train me and my brothers and sister in table tennis.

The result of that is that I became pretty good. Won some little trophies in the school years.

Then went on to university and college and played there too.

Once when I was back for my uni summer break, my Dad got the Malaysia Number 1 player to come train me for a month.

In spite of all that though, the sport I play the most is actually badminton. I kinda enjoy playing badminton a lot more than I do table tennis eventhough I’m not very good in badminton. Feels a lot more simpler to me. Table Tennis is just stressful sometimes. Having to estimate the spin of every ball that comes your way.

9) I Go Clubbing for the Dancing

When you ask a guy about why he goes clubbing, it’s often down to 3 reasons. To drink, to pick up girls or to dance. Most guys go for the first two but I’m one of the few that go for the third. I’m not one of those guys who can go to a club, book a table and then just sit down and drink there all night. If you want to drink and talk with your friends then go to a club.

And sure it’s fun going clubbing and meeting girls every now and then but what really motivates me is dancing. If I’m ever in a club, you’ll see me most on the dance floor. Just like badminton, I’m a pretty terrible dancer but I love dancing on the dance floor. It’s like… you set your troubles completely free at that instant and nothing in the world exists except you, the music and the dance floor!

10) My Favourite Gadget

I love gadgets! I have an iPhone, Blackberry, PS3, XBOX, Wii, Kinect, Kindle and all sorts of other things. I don’t have an iPad though. Just never knew what I was going to use it for if I ever had one. That being said I think I’ll get one when the iPad 2 comes out… just to keep up with times.

Of all my gadgets though, the one that I really can’t live without is my Blackberry. Nothing makes you feel more connected that the Blackberry does. I mean the iPhone is great in many ways and in some ways its far superior to the Blackberry but it just doesn’t make me feel as connected as the BB does.

When I go overseas though, the Blackberry is the only phone where I turn my data roaming on. I find that in my experience, if I just keep the data usage to just e-mails and BBM, my roaming charges come up to only RM25-RM30 a day or so. That’s pretty decent considering the wi-fi in hotels cost much more than that sometimes.

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So there you have it everyone? Which is the lie?

I came back to Penang yesterday. Going to be here for a few days before I fly off again for work. I’m back in Penang for two things mainly.

1) To celebrate my mum’s 61st birthday – Yes my mum is 61. When my little niece heard how old my mum was she went “SIXTY-ONE?!??!”

2) The second thing I’m back here for is to handle some work stuff back in Penang. A part of the finance for the Netccentric Group is actually handled out of Penang. So every now and then I have to come back and clear up some stuff.

Today though I had lunch at my Aunty’s beautiful apartment in Penang. Check out the view from her balcony

Having spent most of my time in KL these days, I sometimes forget how it’s like to be able to see the sea every day. Sitting in my Aunty’s living room with the balcony door open I could hear the sound of the waves hit the beach below. It was really peaceful. Sure not everyone in Penang lives next to the sea. I certainly don’t myself and it’s probably pretty expensive too but it’s definitely far cheaper than an apartment like that in Singapore.

I have no idea how much my Aunty’s apartment costs but I would imagine if you’d like a place like that in Singapore, it would probably cost you almost RM10,000,000. A week or so ago a friend of mine from Singapore came down. He’s been looking to buy an apartment in Singapore and was telling me how expensive it was. The cheapest apartment you can find there would cost you at least some RM2,000,000. I decided to give him a bit of a tour of what that kind of money could buy you in KL.

I drove him around some nice gated-community areas. Where you had beautiful houses with gardens and no fences. There are a lot of places like that in KL. Smaller ones like the Idaman Damansara near Tropicana or bigger ones like Desa Park City. Well in Penang, you can get a nice apartment, by the beach like this. With the beach view on one side.

Down below, the swimming pool of the apartment.

And on another side, a small view of Penang town.

I didn’t grow up in any of these beautiful houses though. Believe it or not, I actually grew up in a small housing area. On one side of the housing area was a Kampung and on the other side a cemetery.

I still enjoyed my old neighbourhood though. I remember the evenings I would spend cycling around with my neighbours and walking to badminton classes. I guess we can’t forget that what makes a home really isn’t how expensive or beautiful it is. It’s the family that’s in it.

Still I was thinking that it would be nice to have an apartment like that one day with this to look at every morning.

If we all work hard and pray… perhaps we’ll all get there some day. And if you become super-rich you can always buy an apartment like that IN Singapore and have the best of both worlds.

On Wednesday this week I went to watch Lat Kampung Boy, a Musical about the life of Lat. It was quite a rush for us. Right after work I had to pick Shorty up and rushed back home to change. We decided that since I did the world shame by wearing t-shirt and shorts to the Michael Buble concert the week before, I will go home and wear a suit to Lat. I’m glad I did though because everyone was dressed up really formal that night.

Jenhan was nice enough to get Shorty and I tickets… really good seats too.

Our PM Najib Razak happened to be watching the musical that night too and our seats were some 3-4 rows in front of them. I was so annoying, I was trying to get a picture of PM and Rosmah so I was waving my camera in front of them trying to take a picture of them while they both sat facing forward.

I was afraid they would get fed up and suddenly have their bodyguards throw me out… but fortunately that didn’t happen. Probably used to people taking pictures of them.

So anyway back to Lat. I didn’t have very high expectations of Lat to be honest. I mean it was a local musical and while I’ve seen decently produced local musicals and they were mostly just okay. I was pleasantly surprised though.

Lat turned out to be one of the best musicals I have ever seen in my life! Better than Phantom, Avenue Q, Les Miserables, Fame and all the other musicals I’ve seen. It comes only second to Wicked… but I really think it came really close to Wicked though. It was so good. The cast was brilliant, the music was beautiful, the songs were nice, the script was good and the set was world class! About 80% or so of the musical was in Malay language and 20% of it was in English but if you don’t understand Malay its ok because there’s a screen on top of the stage that displays subtitles.

I am so extremely proud that we Malaysians manage to produce such a high quality musical. I only wish it was a performance they kept running for years so that I could bring my overseas friends who visit to watch it. It had a really 1Malaysia feel to it too. I hope they sell the soundtrack for Lat. I would totally buy it!

Lat runs only until the 4th of April so if you haven’t seen it yet I strongly recommend you go watch it. IT IS THAT GOOD! I am a fan and this is my unbiased opinion! I mean I’m not paid or anything to write this. You can get tickets here.

So catch it soon 🙂

To the people who made Lat… well done! So proud of you guys!

Every now and then whenever we have the chance to, the Nuffies organize a little gathering they call the “Nuffnang Sharing Session”. Nuffnang as a company doesn’t make any money from these things. We do it just to get some bloggers together because we know how the community love to meet each other. We just go up to a restaurant and ask if they could sponsor food for some 20-30 Nuffnangers for us all to get together. What we also do is invite a couple of top bloggers to interact with other Nuffnangers and share any experiences they might have had as a blogger.

Last week we had a Nuffnang Sharing Session at Frames in Sunway Pyramid. Frames is this new place that has been around for less than a year. The whole theme was they had pictures they got from real people they knew and then put them all up in frames around the outlet. If you took a really good picture, even you could contribute to it.

We put an announcement of this gathering out and some 200 over Nuffnangers applied to come for it but unfortunately we only had place for 20. So if you asked for an invite but didn’t get it, don’t worry there will be a next time.

In terms of guests, this time we got Shorty, Cindy and Cheesie to come by and mingle with the other Nuffnangers. But there was a little surprise. On that weekend, Xiaxue and Mike happened to be down in KL and bunking with me and Shorty. So since we were going for this dinner with the Nuffnangers we decided to invite her along. At first she was shy about it… saying she didn’t want to intrude but she came along anyway.

Part of the reason why she was shy to come also was because she wasn’t exactly prepared for it. You know if you’re a blogger and you go for a gathering with a lot of other bloggers there you would make sure you dress up because you know a lot of pictures are going to go up on everyone’s blogs. Xiaxue wasn’t prepared.  But she was sporting about it! So let me first say that Xiaxue on a normal day (when she is not up at 6am and tired from shopping all day) is fucking chio ok?

Great.. now moving on 🙂

I didn’t really take many pictures there that night but here are the few that I took. This is Nuffies Michelle and Xinxian from our Blogger Relations side giving a welcome message.

The night started off with a little icebreaker. Where Xinxian passed around this “magic wand” and everyone who held it had to introduce themselves and say what they would do if they want a magic wand.

Here’s a picture of Rachel and Ming.

The owners of Frames happened to be old college classmates of both Rachel and Ming.

Shorty and me with Ming, Hui Wen, Rachel and Cindy.

Cindy doing her camwhoring.

Copykate, Sherry and Melissa

Cheesie, Xiaxue and Shorty.

Xiaxue intentionally closed her left eye when taking this picture because her contact fell out of place.

Here’s Thara… sharing something with the Nuffnangers there that day.

Thara is the only married Nuffie in the KL office. That’s right.. the only one!

Had a lot of fun getting to know more Nuffnangers that night. Thanks to Frames for sponsoring the venue and thanks to the Nuffies Thara, Rachel, Michelle and Xinxian for putting it all together.

So last weekend Xiaxue and Mike came down to KL and bunked with me. I brought them to my favourite Bak Kut Teh stall in Klang where we had BKT so good it was fit for the past Emperors of China. At the end of the meal though Xiaxue went missing. We didn’t think much of it at first until I decided to go to the toilet. On the way there this is what I saw at the back of the stall.

Holding her toothbrush with one hand and Colgate on another, she was brushing her teeth in the open. Apparently she does that at the end of every meal for good oral hygiene and I think she doesn’t give a fuk about what anyone thinks about it.

A couple of days ago I spent an hour watching this old World War 2 documentary made in 1944. It was one of a series of propaganda film created in those days to explain to Americans why they were fighting the Japanese in China. It started off explaining the history of China and Japan and how the Japanese ended up invading China.

The whole film is about an hour long and if you’re as into modern history as I am then I really suggest watching it. It’s a very good watch.

If you’re lazy to watch it though, here are some points I can remember from watching the video and from some research I did after that (in simple English).

1) China had a population of some 450,000,000 people at the time. Their country had a lot of natural resources that Japan felt it needed in order to expand.

2) Japan felt that the best way for it to expand its empire is by occupying other countries for their natural resources and people. So while China was spending its years producing all sorts of different goods for exports or imports, Japan was spending all their time producing tanks, bombs, warplanes etc etc.

3) Japan’s first plan was to take over China then use China as a base to feed it enough resources to then take over the rest of SouthEast Asia and eventually the USA.

4) Then in 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria (a part of China).

5) China at the time though was not united. The country was divided by provinces and some were run by warlords rather than one central government so when Japan took Manchuria, none of the other states in China decided to help out. China protested to the League of Nations though but nothing happened.

6) The Japanese continued to take other Chinese cities with ease because the Chinese military was very very weak at the time.

7) It was only in the Battle of Shanghai when the Chinese led by Chiang Kai-Shek managed to put up some resistance and held off the Japanese forces for 3 months. Eventually though they had to pull back. What the Japanese did after that was initiate massive bombing runs on Shanghai itself, intent on bombing and killing innocent civilians. Sort of to break the will of the Chinese. That was just the beginning though.

8) After Shanghai the Japanese reached the Chinese capital of Nanking. There during their occupation they butchered (some by beheading and some by setting on fire) some hundreds of thousands of disarmed soldiers and civilians and raped some 20,000-80,000 women (The video only states 40,000 people were killed at the Rape of Nanking but the actual number was not known at the time).

If you want to know more about the Rape of Nanking, this documentary is a good watch.

9) After the Rape of Nanking though, China decided to unite as a country to fight the Japanese. While they had lots of people they did not have an army so they got all their people to carry equipment and move everything to the west where they could start industrial production of war equipment. It was a huge migration and the Chinese took everything… even the railroad tracks that led to the west of China.

10) The problem the Chinese had though was that since the coastal areas of China was controlled by the Japanese, they had no access of supplies from the outside world. One alternative was to build a road through some mountains in Burma to the sea. The Chinese government looked for foreign contractors to do the project but were told that it would take years even with machinery in place to do it. So the Chinese decided to do it on their own with no machinery but manual labour. They managed to do it within a year.

11) Over time the Chinese built up an army but it was still inferior to the Japanese army though so it still lost most of the time except for some battles here and there. The Japanese though felt frustrated that they couldn’t occupy the whole of China so they just decided to carry on with the next phases of their plan. To occupy SouthEast Asia and attack Pearl Harbor. That turned out to be a mistake because when the USA came into the war the Japanese were stretched. Eventually that led to the Japanese losing the war.

I found these old films not just enlightening but also inspiring to see how the Chinese fought for their survival. One thing I’d like to discourage is any vengeful thoughts that people might have when watching these videos in light of the latest disaster in Japan. The Japanese soldiers that commmited these atrocities in the past are not the same Japanese that live in Japan today affected by the Tsunami and Earthquake. Sure, lets not forget what the Japanese in the past have done but let us also not blame it on their generation today that weren’t even born when all that happened.

When I look at our modern history, my perspectives on foreign intervention start to change. I used to wonder why is it that the Western powers or the UN often find the need to interfere in other countries’ conflict (especially since they haven’t always been right. Like Iraq). The latest one being Libya when the United Nations have agreed to let the USA and UK provide air support to the rebel forces especially after Libya’s leader openly announced that he will “have no mercy and no pity” on any of the rebels.

When watching history the history of the Rape of Nanking, I only wished that the USA had intervened sooner. Maybe they could have prevented the Rape of Nanking. When I think of this, I think of this quote:
“All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.”

Hey Guys,

Let’s play a little game.  See the following pictures?

Guess what city or country this is.

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Update: These pictures are taken in Fort Bonifacio in Manila, Philippines. Everyone I know who hasn’t been to the Philippines and whom I’ve shown these pictures to are shocked when I tell them that this is Manila. Their impression of Manila is that it’s this really poor place. Well the truth is yes there are poor areas in Manila but there are also really nice ones like this.

The Nuffnang Philippines office is here in Fort Bonifacio so I go back there very often. Every time I go back though I see changes. There are so many buildings coming up with so many cranes that it reminds me of the development in Shanghai years back. The Fort area truly looks like it’s some fully developed Western country. Perhaps more of Manila will be like that some day.

I’m in Manila this week for a Nuffnang Philippines Board Meeting and also to say hi to our Nuffies in the Philippines.

A Board meeting is a meeting that the company’s directors have together every now and then to get updated on what the company is doing and where we’re going moving forward. This is the board of Nuffnang Philippines Inc.

Nuffnang Philippines has been doing really really well. In 2010, revenue for it grew 250% and it has doubled almost everything from its staff count to its blogger base. It’s actually really exciting seeing Nuffnang Philippines really take off. I remember when we first started it off in July 2008. Nuffnang Malaysia and Singapore were only about one year old then.

Ming and I decided to take a gamble… we took whatever money we had (almost emptying our bank accounts) and invested it all into Nuffnang Philippines and later on Nuffnang Australia. Both companies today are profitable and are growing really fast so I’m very thankful how we’re so lucky.  If our investments had failed, things might have turned out differently for us.

I spent the entire day yesterday in meetings. From the board meeting to just meetings with some the Nuffies here in Philippines.

Meetings with the Nuffies to me are never boring. One thing I always fear about having lots of meetings in a company is where they become like those Dilbert comic strips you always see… where meetings are just a waste of time.

Today the whole Netccentric Group that includes Nuffnang, ChurpChurp, Nom Nom Media, Ripplewerkz and others have some 80-90 full-time staff. As a result of that we have lots of meetings going on all the time and I always try to make sure they’re quick, to the point and if I can help it… fun. I can’t stand long meetings where we take 3 hours to discuss and agree on something that would normally only take an hour.

So far this week, the only relaxing time I got is after work where we go for good meals and a night out. On the first night, Jay and Eric brought me to this really nice restaurant.

It was one of those restaurants where they would bring you a big blackboard to show you what the specials of the day were.

The last time I saw that was in this little quaint restaurant in Paris many many years ago.

Lunch the next day was in this nice Chinese restaurant near our office with the entire Nuffnang Philippines team.

On the second night we had some People food! The Nuffies brought me to this Persian restaurant where they had kebab and rice.

It was really cheap. One set of rice and kebab was only like RM10 each.

It was then also that the Nuffies made me eat the most disgusting thing I’ve ever had in my life. Ladies & Gentlemen, first let me ask you what this looks like.

Sliced chicken? Well you couldn’t be more wrong. That my friends… is “ox brain”.

The Nuffies made me ate that. It tastes exactly like how I imagined brain to taste like. A little sour maybe… and the texture… gosh.. it was mushy and … soft.. like….. just thinking about it again just makes me sick already.

They made up for it though. After the dinner the Nuffies took me to this really nice Jazz bar where we kicked back and listened to some nice music.

Took some pictures with some of the Nuffies with us that night.

Here’s Trixie and Jel.

Rendhl, me, Trixie, Jel and Marcelle.

And here’s Judd and Carlos.

After each long night though I go back to an empty hotel room to sleep. I used to try to save a lot on hotel rooms when traveling for business. I once stayed in this really crappy hotel just to save a couple hundred bucks because I was thinking hey… since I’m only going to be there to sleep why spend more?

Well I realized that I was wrong. After a long day’s work in an overseas place, going home to a crappy hotel room just makes you feel miserable. So since then I made sure I stayed in good places whenever I traveled for business. Every night in Manila now I go back to this beautiful hotel lobby.

And sleep in this not too big but comfortable room.

So good night Manila 🙂