Ok so last night I was at Velvet (Zouk) with some friends…. the first time clubbing in a long long time!

I had a lot to drink… because a particular pretty girl kept ‘challenging‘ me to drink with her and I came home not drunk but pretty high and happy.I was in that ‘high and happy’ state where everything I saw was amusing and made me laugh.

Even the cockroach I saw in my bathroom was funny… that is until I beat it to death with my FHM magazine which I threw away after it was tainted with cockroach juice.I know I know what you guys are thinking…
“BOSS STEWIE!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?! WHY THE HELL DID YOU USE FHM TO WHACK COCKROACHES?!?!?! USE AN OLD NEWSPAPER LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE DO!!!”

And to those of you who say that.. I have only 3 words to say
“I… WAS…. HIGH….”

I would’ve even used an LV bag to whack the cockroach if I had one around me.
So anyway back to my story.

I came home, chatted on MSN for a while, brushed my teeth, beat a cockroach, took a shower to wash away the stench of cigarette smoke on myself and then headed to sleep.
The next morning which is this morning, I chucked all my smelly clothes from last night into the washing machine and went out for lunch while I left it for a wash.

While leaving the house I checked my pockets for everything…

Mobile phone… check
Car keys… check
Wallet… check
Bluetooth headset….

Uhmm…

Bluetooth headset…..

I couldn’t find it. So I thought maybe I might have left it in the car.

But I went down to the car to look for it and it wasn’t there!

I looked high and low and everywhere for my Bluetooth Headset that is the size of a 50 sen coin.

Soon enough, I gave up for a while. Thought that it’s just one of those things that will show up sooner or later.

And true enough it did.

I was taking out all my clothes from the washer and hanging them to dry when I suddenly begin to feel something small and hard in the pocket of my jeans.
UH OHHHHhhhh…..
I DROWNED BY BLUETOOTH HEADSET!!!

Sure fair enough it was a stupid headset that kept giving me problems and was highly unstable so much that I was already planning to replace it… but it didn’t deserve to be DROWNED IN A WASHING MACHINE!!!

AUGHHH!!!

AUGGGHH!!!

Ok ok… I smell a shit storm coming.

My father reads my blog.

And eventhough my father is one who changes his bluetooth headset once every 2 months because it just fails on him, when he reads this, he is going to pick up the phone…

and he’s going to say
“GET HIGH SOME MORE LAR!!! YOU DESERVE IT!!!”

Ideas, ideas ideas….

We’re all full of it.

Maybe it’s just me, but it suddenly dawned on me that Malaysia has recently started off with a whole new breed of young entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs that share that huge dotcom dream just like the dotcom entrepreneurs of the famed Silicon Valley.

I myself have had the privilege in meeting many of these young ambitious personalities. Like it or not, the one thing I find in common with each and every one of them is how their success is benchmarked against the success of internet titans like Google, Yahoo or the most recent… YouTube.
That’s right, benchmarked against success that happens abroad, not within our borders.

With all this entrepreneurial drive in our homeland of Malaysia, why is it we don’t draw inspiration from the success stories closer to home instead? Success stories in which would be far more realistic benchmarks in our local environment.

I sat down and started thinking.

Thinking of a good Malaysian success story from a young entrepreneur that I could draw inspiration from. Sure there were companies like Jobstreet or even MOL that sold out to Tan Sri Dato’ Vincent Tan for RM 12 million but that was millenniums ago.
It’s true. In recent years I couldn’t recall many real dotcom success stories.

So the question is… if there were so few success stories of Malaysian dotcom entrepreneurs making millions or selling out… why is it that yet so many people are itching to start a dotcom of their own.

Almost as if it’s the “IN” thing to do right now when many of us on the other side already know that there’s nothing “IN” or “COOL” about it and unlike the Silicon Valley in California, this Silicon Valley is not crowded with office car parks full of Ferraris. And as if things weren’t bad enough, where the success stories are scarce, the failure stories are filling up a warehouse so huge it could fit Subang Jaya in it.

As I write this, I had just gotten news that a fellow Dotcom entrepreneur and friend of mine is on the brink of shutting down a dotcom he started just a few months before Nuffnang launched.

I recall the first time I met him.

He was extremely passionate about entrepreneurship and his new business. His passion ran so deep that when anyone tried to play Devil’s Advocate on his business model, it would never put him down.

I always imagined that people with this level of commitment and passion will succeed but I was wrong.

So why… why do people long to join the growing trend of dotcom entrepreneurs?

Why? Where is the light at the end of the tunnel?
What or how much do people think they’re going to achieve when they forgo proper jobs with security? Do they think that they will make 1 million? 2 million? 10 million or 20 million in their lifetimes?

Even then it wouldn’t be worth it since I happen to know of some professionals in Malaysia that have made RM40-50 million in their lifetimes, and that’s without taking any risk.

So where are all the Malaysian success stories for us to draw our inspirations from?

Someone please enlighten me!

Yesterday was another typical day at the office with the pressure mounting along with the increasing work load.

Things have been getting insanely busy for us at Nuffnang.
As much as we’ve expanded our team in Penang, KL and Singapore, the workload of a growing Nuffnang is daunting and the stress level has been mounting.

Even our intern Su Ann was beginning to lose her mind.

I decided that it was time we all had a breather so right around lunch time, every one of us left the office with our laptops and walked towards the nearest Monorail station.
We waited for a train and hopped on the first one to Sungai Wang. Where we all ran to KFC for lunch.

I bought everyone a huge bucket of FRIED CHICKEN and we all feasted away.
All of us of course, except our two Muslim team mates there who were on Puasa.

Now you must be wondering why we all had to bring all our laptops for lunch and risk being mugged and having everything stolen.

Well that’s because…. after lunch, the whole Nuffnang KL team (All 7 of us) went to Starbucks to spend the afternoon there working.

It was a change of environment for once.

Rather than working in the typical office environment we have, it was a nice change of environment to work inside Starbucks with Italian music playing in the background and with a view of the busy street along Low Yat Plaza right next to our laptop screens.
Some of us sat in pairs but some of us, preferred the privacy of their own tables.

Like Su Ann here.
Yet, it was pretty fun.

There we were with the small Starbucks outlet all to ourselves, with our own little tables within talking distance of one another.

Of course even when working in the relaxing environment of Starbucks, some of us decide to have breaks with packets of Chipster.

We love the Sour Cream & Onion flavour for Chipster and since Twisties is a client of Nuffnang, it has very quickly become a favourite of everyone in the team including the two Nuffies in this picture Su Ann and Samantha.

Speaking of Su Ann…

You would think the interns at Nuffnang mimic the interns of other jobs where the intern is responsible for making coffee for the seniors or photocopying 1,000 pages a day.

Not at Nuffnang… eventhough we have a pretty cool photocopier.
Our interns here work independently on hands on stuff and actually play a very important role at Nuffnang.

The best part is that our interns from now and the past have all been bloggers themselves so if anything, they understood blogs better than anyone else.

Su Ann, just like Suet Li before her,
Lance in our Penang office

and Hui Wen in Singapore played essential roles in making Nuffnang what it is today…

But just when I’m getting used to the comfort that Su Ann gives me.. what does she do?

SHE DECIDES TO GO FOR A 2 WEEK STUDY-LEAVE!!!

So now I am INTERNLESS!!!

SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL SU ANN HOW CRUEL SHE IS!!!

On my last night at Macau, I moved out of the Venetian and stayed at the Wynn.

The Wynn is slightly more expensive than the Venetian only because the Venetian is running on a promotion but on the outside the Wynn didn’t look as impressive as the Venetian so I didn’t keep my hopes up.
The good news though, is that the Wynn had more rooms available, so the staff there managed to give us an upgrade to a bit of a suite.

When you walk into the suite, this is exactly how it looks like.
There’s a living room with a plasma screen TV by the windows.

Once you walk in and look behind you, you’ll see the front door right in front of you.

To your left is a small toilet.
And to the right.. believe it or not… is a freaking massage room.

LOL.
I jumped on the massage bed as soon as I saw it and took a picture.
Not a nice looking picture, but still a picture 😛

And yes I know my glasses aren’t supposed to be on but hey, I wasn’t really having a massage.

Can’t afford to have someone over just to give me a nice massage.

Anyway, back to the living room.

The cool thing about the living room apart from the view of the hotel swimming pool down below,
is the presence of a small bar on one corner

and a small dining table at another corner.

The bar comes fully equipped with booze, a coffee machine, even a teapot and tea!

Now get this.

When you stand in the middle of the living room, you’ll see mirrors on the ceiling.

Bwahahahah how cool is that!
Perfect for the ideal living room shag.

The bedroom itself hasn’t got anything particularly fancy
but the bathroom… ho ho ho!

Now it’s quite common for a lot of hotel toilets to have phones right?

But how many bathrooms have… TVs in them for you to watch news while taking a bath?

Not like we ever use it … but still!!!

It’s not whether you use it or not… but it’s the luxury of having the OPTION of using it!

Bwahahah hahaha hahaha

The other smaller things I learned to like about the room are simple things like how the hotel phone is cordless.

How there is a little gadget alarm clock thing.

And how there’s this little stereo set.

But there is one thing though that I don’t like about Wynn.

They charge for internet access!

HK$ 160 for 24 hours!

Apart from that I quite like our room at Wynn.

And I will miss those red couches in the living room.

Hehehe..

I love red couches… I had a few in one of my flats when I was living in London.

They make me feel… all yuppie and all.

Disclaimer:
Now before any of you thinks that my father owns Genting or something… let me tell you that we kinda got that room for free ok? We didn’t pay for it. I’m not loaded.. I wish I were… but oh well…

So I’ve been in the Macau Venetian for the past couple of days.

Now, thanks to a particular celebrity blogger who recently blogged about the Venetian Macau, everything I say about the Venetian now is going to be OLD news… OLD NEWS!!!

Reminds me of that “tai jor lar!!!” Astro commercial.

Only this time it would be
“Kenny kong jor lar!!!”

So I’m not going to bother showing you much of my room.

Or much of the work station where my Mac and I spend most of our time working while I was there.
I’m going to show you the rest of the hotel (apart from the casino because they throw people in jail for taking pictures of Casinos).

Now most of you are probably expecting me to go on and on and on and on about how great the Venetian is and how you should all give your left nuts to go so I’m going to do the complete opposite and tell you that Venetian “did not” impress me.

HMPH!!!

Notty Venetian!
You think having massive spaces for function rooms impress me?

HMPH!

You think having countless beautiful chandeliers made out of Murano glass impresses me?

HMPH!

You think having an indoor ‘town’ with an artificial sky impresses me?
HMPH!

You think having found a human being that can paint himself white and act like a statue impresses me?
HMPH!

You think having an indoor canal with gondolas in it impresses me?

HMPH!

Well… I have got news for you my dear Venetian!

…
…
…
…
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YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT IT IMPRESSES ME!!!

BWAHAHAHAHA

And it’s not just your GONDOLAS!
Or your indoor town with an artificial sky.
Or your countless chandeliers in every part of the hotel

IT’S YOUR FREAKING LONG ESCALATORS IN YOUR HALLWAY!

BOSS STEWIE LIKEY LONG ESCALATORS!

(But he no likey long stairs)

Will cerita more about my trip in the coming posts.

Tonight is the last night in the Venetian and I must say it has been nothing but a pleasant experience!

Well done Venetian, you guys have built a hotel that I will really miss… and it’s not just because it houses the Largest Casino in the World.

I’m spending one last night in Macau after tonight but we’re moving over to another Las Vegas origin hotel in Macau called Wynn.

Hotel hopping is good fun.

2 Weeks Ago Over The Telephone…

Dad: Son, pack your bags! We are going for a family holiday again. This time to Macau.

Me: What?!? Dad… we just went to Sydney and I can’t go again. I have a dotcom to run!
Dad: You run an internet company, whatever work you need to do you can do it online. We’re going to Macau not to Siberia. There is internet in Macau.

Me: I don’t want to go away again lar! I have things to do here! The company needs me!

Dad: We are going over the weekend, at most you’ll only miss one and a half working days. That’s it!

And you have a partner who is just as capable as you to take care of things while you’re away.
Me: No I don’t want to go! I have work to do lar!

Dad: Son, if your company can’t survive without you being physically there for a few days, then something is really wrong with your company.

Me: Fine… work aside. I don’t want to go traveling again! It is very stressful for me.

I would rather go end of the year with a girl friend or something.

Dad: Son.. I thought I brought you up to be a smarter man than this.

If you go with daddy, you will be staying in the 6 Star Venetian hotel that costs about RM3,000 a night.

Now tell me son, if you go with a girlfriend of yours on your own, can you afford to stay in the Venetian or will you be staying in Motel Seng Seng that costs RM50 a night and have a man dressed in a singlet named Ah Long as your receptionist?

2 Weeks Later (Present Day)…

So apparently I’m in The Venetian Macau now.

I was watching CNN one day and they were talking about THIS video.

I didn’t think it was too big a deal until I watched it and realized that 7 million other people have too.

Now the questions is… when will one of my readers do that for me? Huh?

You know, fake cry a little… keep shouting
“LEAVE TIMMY ALONE!!!

YOU GUYS DON’T KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE FAT AND LOVE ICE-CREAM LIKE HE DOES…

LEAVE TIMMY ALONEEEEEEEeeeeeee!!!!”

On another note… I have to announce this to the world.

Dear World,

I have tried.

I have tried very hard to see what was the big deal with Facebook and why people are so crazy over it.

But I have failed.

The applications are not fantastic and unlike Friendster, we can’t go around spying chicks’ profiles when you have one of those drinking parties with your friends.

So any of you guys out there have Facebook, add me and teach me… SHOW ME THE WAY…. TEACH ME!!!

Click here for my Profile.

Okay… I am going to say it.. I am just going to say it… here comes…

Here it comes…

Here it comess…….

FACEBOOK SUCKS

RUN!!!

RUN TIMMY!!!

RUN BEFORE YOU GET YOUR ASS FLAMED BY YOUR FACEBOOK LOVING READERS!!!!!!

I was driving down from Penang to KL just yesterday when I decided to stop by a petrol station for a little pee pee.

After emptying my tea-cup sized bladder, I decided to go into the store to pick up some Cornetto (Yes.. I’m addicted to Cornetto… sue me).

It was a typical store… but as I walked over to the cashier, something caught my attention.

There was a little machine by the side of the cashier and it had two buttons with emoticons on it with the words “Rate My Service”.
I asked the cashier
“So uhmm… what’s this for ar?”

And she politely replied
“Rate my service!!!”
There was even a little counter there that counted how many times people gave her a smiley face and how many times people gave her a frown.

INGENIUS!!!

What a simple yet creative idea.

I mean.. think about the NOVELTY… this is just the BEGINNING… before you know it… entrepreneurs all over are going to be applying this new gadget EVERYWHERE!!!

Now lets say we were to have a computer version of this placed in front of every cashier at Tesco.A smiley face indicating it’s good service and a frown indicating bad service.

But even this can be innovated upon.

From a happy cartoon indicating good service to a cartoon throwing up indicating bad service.
From Gold indicating good service to crap indicating bad service.

From a thumbs up indicating good service to a not so thumbs up indicating bad service.

And finally, for brothels we could have…

From…. indicating good service to ….. indicating bad service.

The innovations are ENDLESS!!!!

EVERYBODY WHO’S ANYBODY in the blogosphere is joining this Chipster contest.

Starting from Kenny Sia to even Xiaxue all the way from Singapore.

So naturally.. I’m doing one myself.

Bwahahaha

I checked out their website and started making my own “Chipster Moment”.

At first I did a simple Chipster moment that showed a calm face in calamity.

But I decided that I wanted something better for my masterpiece.

BEHOLD!!!

THE MAKING OF MY CHIPSTER MOMENT MASTERPIECE!!!!

It starts from uploading a simple photo that I took just for this moment.

Then comes the erasing of the background to make sure the only thing left in the photo is me, the Chipster packet and AH BOP (who is my co-star in this pic).

Then comes placing me nicely in the background with the text and…

BEHOLD!!! MY MASTERPIECE!!!

After all that, if I STILL I DON’T WIN THAT MAC… I KNOW WHY…

IT’S ALL BECAUSE OF THAT ***** JOLENE!!!

With this photo of hers… SHE SET HER STANDARD TOO DAMN HIGH!!! ARGHH!! YOU EVIL WOMAN!!!

UPDATE:

I was just at the Chipster website to checking out the competition and I found the funniest Chipster moment of all time…

Check it out!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

HOW FUNNY IS THAT?!?!?!

DAMMIT THESE CREATIVE PEOPLE… MAKING ME LOOK BAD!!!

For the past few months, Cornetto has been running this Lurve Kliks competition where we can collect points by buying their ice-cream and then get into groups of 3s to bid for certain prizes they have.

At the end of contest there will be two winners, the highest bidding Girl Group, and the highest bidding Guy Group.

Now the minute I heard about this contest, I knew I wouldn’t have a problem winning… simply because I eat so much Cornetto each day it’s ridiculous!

But I wanted the Grand Prize… my guess was that the last prize of all would be the best so I accumulated all my points quietly while other groups won the earlier prizes.

While I collected my points quietly, I got together with Kenny and Lance to form a group of guys.

Kenny very happily called our group the Kennysia.com Lurve Squad and he took the liberty to design our Group Avatar.
Well the bidding ends tomorrow, and just in the last day of the contest… our group mobilized everything.

We got all the points together, brought in Lance to join our group to earn another 1,000 points and I put in ALL my 1,350 points I earned from all the Cornetto I had been eating in the past couple of months.

And the result…

BWAHAHAHA WE ARE THE TOP BIDDER!!!

We haven’t won yet.. but the contest ends just a day earlier and heck.. who else is going to try to outbid us..

I KNOW WE’RE GONNA WIN… AND WE’RE GONNA WIN THAT FREE SKY TOUR OF KL, A GO-KARTING EXPERIENCE AND iPod Shuffles!!!!!

WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!

I do however pity the Top Bidding Girl Group who will go on the Sky Tour with us though.

I mean… right now they’re all probably thinking that they’re going to win this trip and go for a ‘blind-date’ with 3 very eligible bachelors that look and dress like this.
Little do they know that they’re going to hopping on to a plane with these two guys.

One of which who likes to wear t-shirts like THIS.

BWAHAHAAHAHAHA
BWAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

I CAN JUST SEE THE HEADLINES IN THE PAPERS SOON!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHA

HERE I COME LADIES… HERE I COME.

PS: Btw, this is NOT an advertorial. I’m not paid a single cent by Cornetto to write this though they do advertise with Nuffnang, and I support our advertisers 😛

UPDATE: THE BID JUST ENDED… AND I LOST BY 8,000 POINTS!!! ARRGHHH THESE KIASU MALAYSIANS.. LAST MINUTE ONLY GO AND BID!!! AUGH!!!!