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Malaysia Boleh!

Posted on January 23, 2010 admin

Today was the day I finally decided to renew my passport. My passport was due to expire end of this year and since I know I’m going to be traveling quite a lot for work this year, I thought I’d get it done. Man I really have a really busy travel schedule ahead of me.

For starters, next weekend I’m going to Kuching for a Project Alpha shoot. Then right after Kuching I’m heading to London for another leg of the shoot. That’s right, Project Alpha Season 2 has started production and is due out in April.

Adidas remains as the main sponsor with P1 and Malaysia Airlines as the other sponsors. If you’d like to keep track of the coming developments, join our Facebook fan page here.

The Nuffnang and Kyanite crew have all been busy updating the page with photos of the filming sets and stuff like that aside from the other stuff they have to do.

Anyway, after I’m back from London I head back to Penang for Chinese New Year. Then a few weeks later I’m off to Manila to visit our Nuffnang Philippines office. After Philippines, I’m off to Melbourne to visit the Nuffnang Australia office. Then after all that is over, I’m supposed to follow Princess to the USA for her bro’s graduation and then to Bahrain for Hasan’s wedding.

That’s right… my buddy Hasan is getting married!

You guys remember Hasan right?

Heck I’m going to be traveling so much the next few months it’s going to be so tiring. So I’ve been trying to cut the traveling down a little bit. Was invited to give a talk in Jakarta end of February but decided not to stretch it.

So back to my passport. I went to get it renewed today and man was it done efficiently.

First off, you don’t really have to take a number and queue anymore. All you have to do is go to the kiosks they have right outside the immigration office and follow the very simple instructions. You have to do stuff like insert your IC, give your thumb print, pay for your passport and then drop your new passport photos, a photocopy of your IC and your old passport into it.

You can pick it up two hours later. When I went to pick it up later in the afternoon, all I had to do was pick a number and wait for 5 minutes before I could collect my brand new passport.

That was it! I think all it took was something like 10-15 minutes just to get the whole thing done! (not counting the 2 hours it takes to get your passport ready because you can actually go have lunch or do something else and come back later to get it).

Man I was impressed. I told the immigration officer at the collection point that I thought they were very very efficient and he gave me a big smile. I’ve heard so much about the immigration office being efficient. Nice to experience it first hand.

I’m going to end this entry with a picture that shows how some Nuffies work in the Nuffnang Office. This is a picture of David talking on the phone with a client… walrus-style.

And you know what, I’ve seen weirder positions from some of the other Nuffies. So if you’re on the phone with anyone in the Nuffnang offices, there’s a chance that person might be talking to you in some Kung-Fu position instead of just sitting at a table.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Nuffnang Samsung Corby Carnival Day

Posted on January 20, 2010 admin

Last weekend we had a Nuffnang event that was a little different from the ones we’ve had in the past. Most Nuffnang events were parties, movie-screenings or meet up sessions. All indoor.

The Nuffnang Samsung Corby Carnival Day we had last Saturday though… was OUTDOOR!

In conjunction with their new phone (the Samsung Corby that lets you change the backing of your phone to all sorts of different colours) we decided to have an outdoor challenge between 4 teams of Nuffnangers, each to represent a different colour.

About 100 Nuffnangers or so were split into 4 teams represented by 4 colours (orange, yellow, pink and white). Then they were put together to compete in things like tug-of-war, rock climbin and even paintballing. I didn’t get to join myself but it was soo fun just to watch.

I took plenty of pictures and videos that day so I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking.

1) Everyone sitting down at the briefing for the day. Right before they all changed into their team t-shirts.

2) Princess just before she changed into her yellow team shirt.

3) Princess right after she changed. The shirt looked so big on her it looked like a dress.

4) Tug-of-war match between yellow and orange. It was done on water so the losing team would be dragged into the water.

I love watching Tug-of-war. If you look closely at the yellow team you’ll see a very small figure somewhere in the middle. That’s Princess. Don’t know how much she helped when it came to pulling the weight but … well… maybe she helped with the moral support.

Took a video of the tug-of-war match but had so much trouble uploading it on YouTube. Was so funny watching one team pull the other team into the water.

5) After the tug-of-war, everyone regrouped to go for..

6) Rock-climbing!

The teams had to take turns to go up the wall and grab a balloon each.

7) It was right next to the reverse bungee.

Man that is a ride I wouldn’t want to be on.

I mean I love rollercoasters and all but being tossed into the air is a whole other thing altogether.

If you want to see what it’s like, watch this video I took of it.

8) The last activity for the day was a paintball match between the teams.

9) Caught a picture of some of the Nuffies talking. One thing I notice is that some of the Nuffies use a lot of hand gestures when they talk.

Just like Christy here….

and Pinky here….

and Christy here again.

I have no idea what they were saying but everyone else seemed to be pretty intrigued.

10) A picture with some of the Nuffies there that day.

They were all showing off their blackened hands that they got from climbing up the back of the rock wall to place the balloons for the rock climbers to retrieve.

From left: Tim2, Christy, Xinxian, Pinky, Me, Michelle, Jestina, Yuen Yee.

11) Here’s Ker Loon. One of the people who we worked with to bring this event around.

12) Happened to see this group of people at the wave pool standing right in front of the water jet coming out of the lion’s mouth.

Some were massaging their backs

and some like this woman here looked like she was water massaging her butt.

Looks damn comfy. Man I gotta try that some day.

13) The Samsung Corby prizes.

The winning team (which turned out to be orange) won each a new Samsung Corby. There are supposed to be 25 in each team so that’s like 25 phones that Samsung gave away that day to Nuffnangers!

Naturally team orange couldn’t contain their excitement.

In second place was Yellow team who won RM2,500 in cash for the whole team which worked out to be about RM100 each.

14) And here’s a picture of the Nuffies who were there to put the event together that night.

Thanks for putting everything together Nuffies. And of course, thanks for the fun day Samsung.

Steamboat Dinner with Nuffnang Singapore

Posted on January 19, 2010 admin

I’m down in Singapore these few days for some work stuff.

Just had dinner with some of the team from Nuffnang Singapore and I now smell like steamboat.

Always a fun bunch to hang out with.

Thanks for the great company guys!

One of those days….

Posted on January 17, 2010 admin

Have you guys ever had one of those days where you were rushing somewhere and all sorts of things that don’t normally come into your life suddenly appear to slow you down. You know like a big truck on the road or something.

Well today I was supposed to meet Pierre and Lay See for lunch at Papa Rich in Bangsar. It was supposed to be at 12.30PM so I ended up leaving my place about 12.00PM or so. 20 minutes is all you really needed to get to Bangsar from my place.

Man it was one of those car journeys where everything was going wrong.

1) It first started with me taking a wrong turn. Instead of making a U-Turn at the Pudu traffic light then head to Bangsar through Jalan Parlimen, I went straight towards Petaling Street. I don’t know why I did that. I was headed to a longer and more jammed way to Bangsar.

2) So I was forced to go through Brickfields where there were somehow busses stopping everywhere taking up half the road and creating bottlenecks.

3) I was forced to stop at every traffic light. I nearly made it across for one of the traffic lights but this really slow car in front of me took its time and true enough was fast enough just to make the light but slow enough to be the last car to make the light (leaving me behind… asshole).

4) When I finally got to Bangsar there was a long line of cars turning into Telawi. Seeing that I wasn’t going to get any roadside parking I made my journey to the Bangsar Village 2 car park.

5) Again… there was a long line of cars inside the car park. All waiting for each other to park one by one. Plus you had one particular car that took an amazingly long time just to reverse park into a lot. I started tapping on my steering wheel impatiently.

6) Finally I found a spot and I tried to reverse it, only to realize later on that by the time I reversed in I couldn’t open my driver’s door in spite of me being so close to the pillar on the other side of my car. The reason: The asshole who was parked next to me was parked on one and a quarter lot. The extra quarter of a lot coming from the lot I was in.

7) So I had to give up on that lot and find another lot somewhere else.

8) After I parked my car I raced upstairs only to be stopped by a group of people at an escalator happily standing there and talking leisurely. Now I could’ve gone passed them and climbed up the escalator but there were a few of them there so I didn’t want to be a pain.

9) So I waited… and waited… and when I reached the top of the escalator I dashed passed the group of people who were blocking me.

10) Got to Papa Rich and saw Princess there waiting for me. She told me that Pierre and Lay See were waiting upstairs so we climbed up the stairs to see Pierre and Lay See at the other end of the room waving at us.

11) It was 1.00PM. We were unfashionably half an hour late! But our long journey of constant red lights and things in the way was finally over…. at least that’s what I thought.

12) While we were walking towards Pierre through the narrow spaces between the other tables, a grandma came in front of us and was walking in the same direction. So we respectfully waited for the grandma to take her time and get where she needed to go before we quickly walked over to Pierre’s.

One hour, to get from the city to Bangsar on a Sunday when most roads are empty (except Brickfields).

Man it was one of those days…

Fortunately Pierre and Lay See were nice and didn’t give us a lecture. I bought lunch in return.

Ok bed time for me guys. Gotta catch a flight to Singapore for work tomorrow.

Who Says Money Can’t Buy Love

Posted on January 16, 2010 admin

Oh yes it can! Oh yes it can!

I LOVE my boyfriend t-shirt… all for RM29.90.

Value for money!

FML 1 & FML 2

Posted on January 12, 2010 admin

FML #1

Finally got myself the time to go buy Lady Gaga’s album. Got it in 1-Utama just before the shops closed late at night. Was holding my CD happily in my hand when I got to my car and loaded the CDs into the CD Changer in the back.

There were two CDs. One of them was working fine but I couldn’t figure out why the second one couldn’t play. When I got home and took the CDs out I found out why: One of the CDs had a crack right down the middle.

I was like “WTF???…. come on if you bought a pirated CD and if this shit happens then fine. But that was an original album!”.

So the next morning I had to go back all the way to 1-Utama to change it. Princess went down to help me get it changed and she told me the woman at the counter gave her a black face and reluctantly exchanged the disc. I think she thought we broke it in less 24 hours and tried to get it changed.

C’mon! How would I buy a CD at night and break it by the next morning? I’ve never even broken a CD before.

FML #2

Also at 1-Utama that night, Princess stopped by this shop and saw some face masks. She said “OOH OOH.. LETS BOTH WEAR A MASK TONIGHT”. I didn’t seem to keen on it. Ignorant me… I always thought masks were only for women but Princess showed me one that was made just for men.

She called it the “MAN MASK”… or something like that.

She said it would help me clean my pores and do something something… I wasn’t really listening. Find it hard to listen when girls talk about beauty. I just like looking at beauty… not listening to how it comes about. It’s like you just want to look at your beautiful crispy fried chicken in the bucket waiting for you to eat it. You don’t wanna know how the chicken died before it got to the bucket right?

So fine… later that night we both tried out the mask.

Right after I took off the mask I began to see some redness on my cheeks. Thought it was nothing so I went to bed. Then in the middle of the night I felt some itch on my cheeks so I touched it only to feel like my face had just turned hard like a rock. An itchy rock.. if that makes any sense.

My face felt swollen. Started cursing and swearing mentally at the mask and telling myself that I shouldn’t have done it. It was still dark and I was tired so I kept telling myself to stop thinking and go back to bed.

I couldn’t…. my mind kept thinking about how my face looked and I had this image of me with the cheeks of Dumbo. So I got out of bed, went to the toilet and looked at myself in the mirror. I had two big round patches on my face. Rashes. I must’ve been allergic to something in the mask.

I let out a “Fuuuuucccckkk”… then I went to wake Princess to show it to her. The first few seconds that she began to wake she mumbled a “Huh??? Wha????” which actually meant “THE HOUSE HAD BETTER BE ON FIRE… OR IMMA KEEL YOU FOR WAKING ME UP FAT MAN!!!”.

Then when she saw my face she went all “Ohhhh….. noooo…. I’m so sorry baby”.

I looked at her with the most pitiful face I could make and said “It’s itchy…”

She then cuddled me to sleep.

The next morning it got a lot better but I still look like I had rosey cheeks.

And it was still itchy.

Fortunately by the end of the day it had began to really clear out.

So no more masks for me… ever!

FML 1 & FML 2

Posted on January 12, 2010 admin

FML #1

I was like “WTF???…. come on if you bought a pirated CD and if this shit happens then fine. But that was an original album!”.

C’mon! How would I buy a CD at night and break it by the next morning? I’ve never even broken a CD before.

FML #2

She called it the “MAN MASK”… or something like that.

So fine… later that night we both tried out the mask.

Then when she saw my face she went all “Ohhhh….. noooo…. I’m so sorry baby”.

I looked at her with the most pitiful face I could make and said “It’s itchy…”

She then cuddled me to sleep.

The next morning it got a lot better but I still look like I had rosey cheeks.

And it was still itchy.

Fortunately by the end of the day it had began to really clear out.

So no more masks for me… ever!

Nuffnangers at the DiGi Internet Pimp My Day

Posted on January 10, 2010 admin

Princess and I decided to drop by the DiGi Internet Pimp My Day Challenge at 1-Utama last Saturday. It was a whole treasure hunt that DiGi organized for some 100 Nuffnangers there that day. They had to go around 1-Utama doing all sorts of different challenges like hit a baseball, run 800m on a treadmill, make a TVC and etc etc.

Because there were so many Nuffnangers who wanted to take part and not enough spots, Princess and I had to sit this out but we did make it for the after party at Mardigras. It was heaps fun!

When I got there, all the Nuffnangers were busy updating their blogs from their laptops (hooked to DiGi Broadband).

If there was a Malaysian Book of Records for the Most Number of Bloggers Updating Their Blogs at One Place (at the same time), I think that day in Mardigras might have just made the record.

I was creeping up behind people up trying to take pictures of them blogging. I clearly wasn’t much of a ninja in my past life because almost everybody I tried to take a picture of noticed me in a corner of their eye and turned to stare at me.

Anyway there were a couple of highlights for the night. The first were the pole dancers who were pulling off stunts that made me feel fat, weak and heavy (again probably wasn’t a ninja in my past life).

The other was the KL Stompers!

You guys know about Stomp right? I first heard about Stomp when I was in London. They had a show there where a group of people took really random stuff that you can pick up from the streets and make music from the random sounds they make by hitting them with sticks.

I never knew there was one in KL and I gotta say that they were all really good. It’s these kind of talents that make me proud to be Malaysian. I just wish we all gave them a bigger opportunity to develop their talents.

I’m making it a point though to go see as much local stand-up comedy shows as I can this year.

Ah anyway here are some other pictures from the night.

Here’s a picture of me and Joyce from DiGi.

Picture with Redmummy!

Tziaa and Adele who called their team (The DiGi Girls)

People on the stage getting some prizes. DiGi gave out loads of prizes that night.

Everything from Levi’s and Swatch Vouchers to external HDs and laptops.

I particularly liked the uniforms some of the teams came up with. There were all in all about 25 teams of 4 that took part in the challenge. The dress code was just to wear anything yellow but some teams went about printing their own shirts.

Like this team here, that called themselves “DiGi Yellow Army”

Or this team, that all had sprayed on a little Nuffnang logo on their sleeves.

Or even this team that made a little DiGi Yellow Man teddy bear and wore it around their neck.

Ahhh thanks for the great night DiGi Internet.

Video of the Gurney Drive Christmas Celebration in Penang

Posted on January 9, 2010 admin

Just a few days ago my sister sent me some videos of the notorious Christmas celebrations at Gurney Drive. Some of the videos were a bit sad because they had people fighting but there was one video that I embarrassingly found funny.

This is it.

Before you watch this video, remember to pay attention to these things

1) Throughout the whole lecture they were getting from the man, the youths with the aerosol cans kept shaking it. As if getting ready to spray more.

2) Man gets back in car (the crowd starts cheering) and car starts moving again. That’s when the scene that cracked me up came.

3) As the car advances, the cameraman points to the back of his car where you can see like an entire platoon of “sprayers” cooking up what looked like an friggin snow storm on the guy’s car. Then when the car stopped again everyone totally stopped. That scene cracked me up so hard!

I thought it was interesting how the crowd reacted. While they were being scolded everyone was quiet like students being given a scolding by a school teacher. Notice though that while he was giving the scolding, none of the youths answered back or anything probably out of respect for the uncle. I mean had it been another youth in the car instead of the uncle a fight would probably have broken out but I guess we Malaysians still have it instilled in us to respect the elders and not answer back when being scolded (especially when we know we’re the ones causing the trouble haha).

As soon as the “teacher leaves”, they get back to doing what they were doing before.

3 Answers (Well more like 11)

Posted on January 7, 2010 admin

Hey Everyone,

Whew that was a lot of questions. It was so hard for me to pick among them so instead of answering just three I decided to extend it to eleven.

Still it wasn’t enough to answer everyone’s question so I’m sorry if I didn’t manage to answer them. Thank you anyway for the questions. I had fun reading them all!

Here goes.

1) By Kei: do u guys ever argue? cuz u two are just incredibly sweet. i am jealous. if you say you do have arguments sometimes, it will make you two more human. if you answer you don’t, then i am gonna be all jealous lol. me n my bf are sweet too but we argue all the time! 🙁

Tim: Fight? Nah… never had one of those before. How’re they like?

HAHA JUST JOKING!

Of course we fight sometimes Kei. We fight over all sorts of things because while we both love each other and get along very well, we both still do have our differences.

For example I’m the kind of person who likes to plan everything. I like having everything planned. How I’m going to spend my week, how I’m going to spend my next day etc etc. Everything is very carefully planned.

Princess on the other hand is one of those happy-go-lucky girls that just live in the moment. She never thinks any further than one step ahead of her. So sometimes we fight because I complain that she doesn’t plan her time properly and she complains that I take all the fun out of life from having everything planned.

The ideal situation of course is a good balance. A bit of her and a bit of me. Like it’s good to plan certain things, but it’s also nice to wing it sometimes. Something I learned from Princess and Ming is that sometimes I think about the future too much, I forget to enjoy the present.

2) By Khailing

tell us why do you hate long distance relationship that much.

Tim: Haha! Back in college I used to be one of those unlucky people who was always stricken with long distance relationship. When I was studying in KL, I had a girlfriend in Penang. Then a few years later when I ironically ended up with a girlfriend in KL, I was already studying in the UK.

Thing about long distance relationships is that it’s very often beyond our control especially in the student days where we have to be at different places for the sake of education. Just like many things in life though, I believe there is a time and place for everything.

This year I’ll be turning 26 which means I’ll probably want to be get married some time in the coming years. So I don’t want to spend these last few years in a long distance relationship.

I want to spend it with someone who’s always around so we can see if we can really tolerate each other enough for marriage some day.

3) By Cynthia

When was your first time? And last time if you don’t mind…heee

Tim:

First time was back in Form 5. When I was 17.

Last time was just… right after work and before dinner earlier…. you’re talking about driving right?

HAHA!

4) By Mark

What motivated you to start Nuffnang?

Did you always have that entrepreneurial spirit or did you learn how to become an entrepreneur

Tim: Hey Mark because I have too many questions to answer I’m just going to answer the first ok?

I was a blogger back in those days. On a blog that some of you will probably remember but a blog that I’m too shy to talk about now. Haha!

The experience of being a blogger in those days is far different from the experience of being a blogger today. Back then, blog advertising hardly existed. Many brands back then didn’t want to or didn’t know how to advertise on blogs. I remember how some of my blogger friends were even telling me how they were so willing to write for a brand in exchange for a brand’s product but it didn’t go through because the brand didn’t see any value in being involved with blogs.

We had blogger gatherings too but they were all mostly smaller scale ones where a few hardworking people like Jolene and Yee Hou

will organize everything and try to get everyone together at the gathering which is as always a lot of work. Worse still, I remember an occasion where some bloggers left a gathering accidentally forgetting to pay for their food and drinks.

So Jolene and Yee Hou had a hard time trying to figure out how to pay the bill in the end. I’m not sure but I think might have had to fork it out of their own pockets. I thought of how great it would be if we had a company that could represent bloggers and help bear the costs of these things.

So it was seeing the blogosphere in that state that motivated me to start Nuffnang. Ming and I had a dream back then to create a network where bloggers stood together and made up big numbers which made advertising on blogs worthwhile. Further to that we now have plenty of events and activities where bloggers can go, have fun and not worry about the money because everything is paid for.

(Thank you Jolene and Yee Hou, for having the earlier gatherings :))

5) By Sarah

Hi Tim,
First time leaving a comment here since there is such a great opportunity to ask u questions since u have become such a big shot since the day i met u and skyler in uptown.

My questions are :
1. When u started, u didn’t know anyone in the industry. Did it worry you and how did u go about to grow your relevant contacts?
2. How do u motivate your staff?
3. Do you think some bloggers are now overexposed and overpaid? Has blogging become too commercialised that consumers are not paying attention to advertorials anymore?
4. Your first ever client – do u still keep in contact with her? Has her business progressed from there?

Hope u answer at least 1!!
Happy 2010 and continue to inspire us.

Tim: Hey Sarah. Please don’t call me or refer to me as a ‘big shot’. That’s a term saved for the real big shots in town. I’m just a 25 year old kid.

Hope you don’t mind if I just answer your first question ok? Otherwise I won’t be able to find the time to answer the rest. Okay here goes.

Ming and I actually started Nuffnang without knowing a soul in the advertising industry. We didn’t know anyone… not even our parents or any of our relatives knew anyone there because none of my family friends were even in the advertising industry. So the irony is today whenever I go for any Chinese New Year family reunions, I’m actually the only one of all the Tiahs who work in advertising.

Back then a lot of people were telling us how important contacts were in doing business and I remember someone we knew even saying this to me

“You don’t know anyone in the advertising industry? What are you going to do? Cold call ar?”

And that’s exactly what we did. Because we didn’t have any other choice. Out of every 10 cold calls we made, maybe we would get 1-2 meetings and out of every 10 meetings maybe 1-2 deals might come through.

Fortunately we were really really lucky that it paid off. Many of our clients who are now my mentors and great friends today, we got to know through a cold call. I’m blessed to have good people around me.

6) By Star Sky

Why are you ‘Boss Stewie’ when you should be ‘Boss Timothy’?

Tim:

Hehe actually the nick “Boss Stewie” was something I used even back at university. The “Stewie” came from my huge obsession with the Family Guy character named Stewie back then.

As for the word “Boss”, back then I had this blog I shared with my friend Wilson. He’s one of my best friends and we used to call each other “Boss”. You know like how you call some of your best friends “Bro” or something.

So on the blog he gave himself the nick “Boss Lepton”. Hence, for uniformity I added a “Boss” to my nick “Stewie”. It was a blog that wasn’t meant to be read by anyone else apart from our own friends but somehow it grew and well….. it stuck with me all the way till today.

7) By Sam

Okay I’m an avid environmentalist. With the world climate drastically changing for few years running already, ever think of utilizing nuffnang as a platform to enhance environmental awareness among bloggers/net surfers?

For the only mother earth we have. =)

Tim: We actually worked with WWF on their Earth Hour initiative last year and we’re likely to do something with them this year as well (if they invite us in again of course heh).

Even in the office we’re quite conscious about some things we do. Like we use very little paper in the office. We only really really print when absolutely necessary. Our office has really big windows and orange walls so during the day the sunlight comes in through the big windows and bounces off the orange walls to light up the place. So we hardly turn on any lights in the office during the day.

I do think we could always do more.. and we’re constantly finding ways to improve on that.

8) By Hayley

Being the sweetest couple ever, i’m sure marriage came across your mind. so, when’s the planning for getting married? 😉

Tim: Hehe yes it was crossed my mind but Princess and I have decided we’re not going to rush it. *nervous*

Don’t have all these high expectations ok? We can’t take the pressure… who knows we might not even end up together. I’m just saying!

Must lower expectations among everyone… pressure 🙂

9) By value investing in Malaysia

hi tim,

whats your favorite real life success stories/business books that entail d A-Z of how an entrepreneur made it to d top? One of my favorite books is Sam Walton – Made in America or the story of WALMART. Have u read d book? I am interested to buy books like that.

Thanks for sharing. 🙂

Tim: For me… the book that really made me want to be an entrepreneur was Topman. It was a book about the retail tycoon in the UK, Philip Green.

I also really liked Richard Branson’s Losing Your Virginity. Also read iCon, a book about Steve Jobs… and some other books about other entrepreneurs.

What I really appreciate from the stories of these successful entrepreneurs is how they really made it to where they were today because they never gave up. Many of them had at one point made a lot of money, then lost it all again, then mustered the courage to make it all again.

10) By Brenda Ang

Hey Tim,

I heard/read how you started Nuffnang, etc. My question is, how HARD is it to get started? Alot of people have the vision, but to actually get started is really hard. And when you do start something, the first few times, you tend to fail, etc. Share 🙂 Thank you.

Tim: I think a lot of people expected Nuffnang to fail when it first started and the truth is that it wasn’t easy. I don’t think there’s a secret to it or anything but I honestly just had a lot of luck and was blessed with a lot of good people around me who chose to support me (our dear bloggers included of course).

11) By Donna Bong

Alright.. here’s something unrelated to your success and your awesomeous gf.

Growing up what show did you watch most? In sesame street, do you like elmo more or cookie monster more?

You did your university in UK did you get a chance to go snowboarding? Or skiing? Or any snow sports? Would you want to do any of that?
oh oh yeah, since you guys(you and aud) go to lots of places every year, what’s one place that you would really really want to go to with her and WHY? (okay fine something related to you and your awesomeous gf)

LOL. Thanks!!!!

Keep your daily posts up! I get soo bored here in Edmonton 🙁

Tim: Hi Donna! I gotta say you made Princess really happy by referring to her as my “awesomeeous gf”. Hehehe. Ok you have so many questions but the answers to each question are pretty short so I’ll answer them all ok?

Here’s all the answers to your questions in one go.

Garfield, COOKIE MONSTER ROX!, Nope, Nope, Been skiing once, Naples because I hear it’s beautiful.

Thank you for the questions everyone. I wish I could answer them all but I promise I’ll do this again some time in the future ok?

Have a great weekend ahead everyone!

Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space