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!!!

Nuffnang has been getting a little bit of attention in the press lately. There were some magazines here and there and even an article in The Star that many of you seemed to have caught up on.

There was also Ming’s interview with Marketing Interactive in Singapore.

But of all the press interviews.

The most difficult one for me was the one with Guang Ming. Why? Because that was the FIRST TIME I had to do an interview about Nuffnang in MANDARIN.

Now I can speak Mandarin… learned it from a particular someone… but having to do an interview and talk about Nuffnang in it is…

I mean.. how the hell do you say “Unique Visitor” in Mandarin?

Now if that wasn’t enough, the journalists who interviewed me asked me in Chinese “What is the Chinese Word for Nuffnang ah?”

I said “Uhmmm….Na Fei Ne ? Na Ne?”

I was driving around in KL the other day with some friends looking for a place to eat. I’ve been feeling thrifty lately, so I wanted to pass on the more proper restaurant food, and go for some hawker food instead.

Then I thought of a place that I haven’t been to in a while, hidden somewhere behind Berjaya Times Square. Yes….. the famous PUDU SIU YOKE!!!

Lunch time almost every day, this coffee shop here is packed to the brim! I went for a late lunch so fortunately it wasn’t too hard to find a place. I sat down and ordered the food.

First came the chicken… which was okay lar.. not great but not too bad. Then came… THE SIU YOKE!

Now let me tell you a thing or two about siu yoke. The best siu yoke must fulfill 3 conditions.

1) The skin must be crispy… not too hard or too soft.. just CRISPY.

2) The fat between the skin and the meat must not be too rubbery.

3) The meat must be smooth and tender.

Now let me show you a picture of the siu yoke we had. DOES IT LOOK GREAT OR WHAT?

Let me tell you about this siew yoke.

1) The skin is crispy… almost like double decker potato chips.

2) The fat MELTS in your mouth!

3) The meat is soooo smooth and tender you can almost call it Kobe Pork.

The bill kinda broke my balls because it added up to about RM25 per head for just a tiny bit of siu yoke and chicken.

But it was worth it, what else do you expect when you eat siu yoke from a man who once got an award from the King (check out the picture he framed up in his coffee shop). And to answer some of the questions in your minds…

NO I DO NOT think he got the award for having the best siu yoke in Malaysia.

Welcome to Midlands 1-Stop of Penang.

Midlands used to be the Sungai Wang of Penang when everything happening happen there.

But years have passed since then… and now 1-stop has evolved from the Sungai Wang it used to be to a rather quiet place where not too much happens.

I remember how I used to love the 1-Stop bubble lift when I was much younger.

So while I was at 1-stop last week, I jumped at the opportunity to hop on to one of those.
Now when you enter a lift, the natural thing to do is to look at the buttons where you press what floor you’d be heading to.

And on that panel of buttons…. was a rather nice word being advertised for all to see.

So… sooo classy.

I pressed my floor and looked away from the foul word.

Only for the doors to close in front of me to hit me again.

Now if only advertising was always this effective.

The minute you look away from a spot, it hits you again from another place.

That is just soooo the way to go.

I wonder why advertising companies haven’t capitalized on that yet.

Putting ads on the buttons of elevators…. come on guys.. someone do it before it’s too late!

Ok guys!!!

I know you’re expecting to have me post up pictures but check out our Nuffnang blog.

We’ve updated some pictures there.

I am so exhausted right now, I’m struggling to blog… but I do notice so many of you still waiting for an update so here’s the best I can let out at the moment.

TGIF… because the past week has been madness for me. I have had meetings day after day having to pitch to clients and/or work on the coming campaigns with clients. Just on the day of the Pirates Screening itself I have had 3 meetings with advertisers before I attended the event.

Then the morning right after the screening I had to wake up early for another meeting with an advertiser, with two more in the afternoon.

Now it’s 9.39PM here on a Friday night and I can finally take a short break.
Pirates was quite a night for me.

Ming couldn’t make it because he had to attend another huge blogging event in Singapore that Nuffnang was sponsoring alongside Microsoft.

So throughout the night I found myself trying to balance between making sure everything was going right and most importantly meeting in person as many Nuffnangers as I could meet.

Everybody who’s anybody in the blogosphere was there from Jeff Ooi, Paul Tan, Wingz, Shaolin, Kimberly, KY, Xes… but the two that I loved the most that night was these two ladies.Yes… Suanie and FA!

HAHAHAH thank you both for making my day….

The minute the both of them saw me at the meet… they yelled
“FARKIUUU!!!!! WHERE IS YOUR PIRATE COSTUME?!?!”

Haih… my dear readers… please tell them.. that I TRIED.. but I ended up only at genie.

I know you guys know it… quite a few of the Nuffnangers I met that night even said
“Lucky you didn’t come in that genie costume”.

So you see??? Nuffnangers always know best!!!

And Boss Stewie listens to his Nuffnangers.

Ahh the MAMAK STALL.

No matter where you are in Malaysia.. the MAMAK STALL.. is where you go if you’re looking to kill time.
Mamak stalls are getting more and more creative these days with the new kinds of food and even a rather interesting variety of drinks.

I was having a drink last weekend with some friends and as usual, I ordered Teh Ais only to accidentally spilled my drink on the table which actually turned out to be a good thing.

Why? Because I SAW THIS !!!HAIR!!! A BLOODY STRAND OF HAIR IN MY DRINK AND I NEVER WOULD’VE KNOWN ABOUT IT UNLESS I SPILLED THE DAMN DRINK!!!

That’s right.. so apparently Boss Stewie drinks HAIR now.

I just hope it’s HAIR from the idiot’s head and not hair from his armpit or his ballz… cuz if it were hair from his ballz……

As the Nuffnang Pirates of the Caribbean 3 screening is coming up, I’ve been looking for a pirate costume.

I wanna go as a pirate.

So I managed to find some time on my busy day to pay a visit to a little costume shop.

My imagination was running wild!

Was I going to dress like Jack Sparrow?

Or like Orlando Bloom…
So I ran into the little costume shop with excitement!

And shouted “GIMME YOUR COOLEST PIRATE COSTUME!!!”

The woman in the shop looked like she instantly knew what I was looking for.

She said
“I have just the thing for you…. one minute”.

She came back with a stack of clothes and said
“Try this on… the most important part is the pants because that makes you look like a Pirate”.

I jumped with excitement and ran into the fitting room.

5 minutes later, I heard her knock on my door
“I’m coming in…. I wanna see how it looks on you”.

She saw me standing in the middle of the room like that.

I looked at her and said
“I said PIRATE… NOT GENIE….”

Anyone want 3 wishes?