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.

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?