Over lunch with the Nuffies yesterday
Tim Teoh: So you all played badminton last night?
Nicholas: No… not all of us, only four of us played.
Yee Hou: Yeah… we had “four play”.
Me: *turns to look at Yee Hou* The people I hire these days…
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Project 365: Day 31, 17th March 2009
I love ice-cream!
I’m sorry.. I can’t help it… but I LOVE ice-cream.
Since my bid to lose weight 6 months ago though I’ve cut down significantly on my ice-cream. I even went a whole month without ice-cream once… something I almost never do!
Now that I’ve lost a lot of weight and actually built up some muscles I occasionally reward myself by eating a bit of ice-cream here and there.
But only when Princess is not around. When she’s around and I want to eat ice-cream, she pokes my stomach to remind me that it can grow again.
Last night we were at Cineleisure Damansara for a screening of Confessions of a Shopaholic. I was queuing up to buy popcorn when I saw the yummy delicious ice-cream stand right next to the drink and snacks counter.
My mouth watered… but Princess gave me a glare.
So no ice-cream for me =(
I could only watch as other people happily bought and enjoyed their ice-cream =(
The Process of Negotiation
Princess: Baby I want to go do my eyelash extensions this Saturday.
Me: Oh? Where?
Princess: 1-Utama
Me: Wah! That means I have to take you there and wait for you to do it ar?
Princess: Yah
Me: How long?
Princess: About an hour.
Me: WHAT?!?! Okay… here’s what we’ll do. I’ll take you and I’ll wait for you. But in return you must sit with me and watch me play XBOX on Sunday for 2 hours.
Princess: What? My eyelash will only take an hour.
Me: Okay fine.. 1 hour.
So Saturday afternoon I was sitting in some shop in 1-U waiting for Princess to get her eyelash extensions. Knowing that I would be bored, I brought myself a book to read.
Plus… knowing that she’s going to be watching me play XBOX, I went out somewhere in between to buy some XBOX games. Total damage… close to RM400.
Then I went back to the shop and got scolding from Princess for spending so much money on games that I almost never play =(
It’s true. I don’t know what it is about me. I bought a Wii that I barely touch, an XBOX that I only occasionally play and so many games that aren’t even open.
I guess the little boy in me who never got to own these things just wanted to have something.
On the way back from lunch today I bought myself some Hello Panda and started snacking away on the Monorail. Vernice looked at me then commented
“How come you like to eat these things one? Like little boy”.
I nodded in shame
“Yes… it’s true. I like Yam Yam and Mamee too and I drink Ribena almost every day. I bet you never had a Boss like that haha”.
So anyway I spent the rest of Saturday afternoon watching Princess get fake stuff put on to her eyes and reading my book.
When I occasionally looked up I would see the sole of Princess’ shoe and that was when for the first time I noticed that the price tag of her shoe was still there.
The result of Princess’ one hour and RM90 fake eye lashes.
Cute huh?
My reward for it…..
“Don’t just sit there and use my laptop Baby… SAYANG ME while I play!”
And she sayanged. HAHAHA.
So that my dear readers is how you negotiate in a relationship! Men… be careful though. Princess told me about how she has a friend who agreed to give her bf a blowjob if he would tell her a secret about someone else she wanted to know about. The bf gave into temptation and gave up the secret but when she heard it she decided on her own that it wasn’t worth the blowjob so she went back on her word!
The poor bf was left with nothing! No secret… no blowjob….
So men…. remember… women can change their minds.
Project 365: Day 30, 16th March 2009
Fought the massive heavy rain and rush hour traffic jam to be at Mist Club tonight to watch the Malaysian Dreamgirl.
Look at the crowd!
I noticed many Nuffnangers there.. all taking pictures.
Project 365: Day 29, 15th March 2009
Ming was away in Manchester last weekend to watch the Manchester United vs Liverpool game with Pierre and Kenny.
I was driving home on Saturday night when I got hold of news that Liverpool thrashed Man U 4-1 on Man U’s home ground.
I immediately thought of Ming, the most hardcore Man U fan that I’ve had ever known. Then I thought about how angry the results would have made him especially since he flew all the way there to watch the match with Pierre.
For fear that Ming might be too angry to even look at his phone, I immediately texted Pierre.
And his reply (in white).
He was joking… I think.
We the Pillow People
HELO!
MY NAME STRONG BULL BIG BIRD OVER HIGH MOUNTAIN.
ME CHIEF OF THE PILLOW PEOPLE.
THIS MAH WIFE: BRIGHT SHINING ROMANTIC MOON OVER CALM BEAUTIFUL LAKE.
WE THE PILLOW PEOPLE…
WE ARE FRIENDLY
WE ARE COOL
AND WE….. …… we……. look incredibly stupid.
Okay okay here’s the story.
Princess was over at my place tonight and we were watching a movie. I was sitting on one of these poofs munching away on my Mister Potato and she was sitting on the couch right behind me.
Suddenly in the midst of hearing the potato chips crunch in my mouth I heard Princess start to hum a song in a rather beatbox kind of manner.
I turned around and I saw Princess looking like this,
humming the song (which she later told me was Coldplay’s Viva La Vida) and bopping her head up and down with her chin rested on the pillow.
I burst out laughing and it instantly inspired us to take stupid pictures of ourselves looking like this hence the silly entry.
Forgive us Pillow People. Very often the two of us laugh very hard about something nobody else but us finds funny.
Project 365: Day 28, 14th March 2009
This is probably one of them.
Project 365: Day 27, 13th March 2009
Was at the Nescafe Kickstart prize giving ceremony yesterday.
I was roped in as one of the judges to rate the many business plans that many young contestants came up with to win collective prizes of up to RM38,000.
The Grand Prize winner was a girl named Christy who had an SMS system that allowed you to send a text to a short code and you were automatically placed in a virtual queue rather than you having to go queue up in person.
So many young creative people… so many great ideas.
Congratulations you guys!
IT’S FINALLY HERE!!!
About a year ago, I succumbed to pressure to get myself a new iPhone. I didn’t like it that much at first to be honest. Found it hard to do stuff like type SMSs and all but after a few months of using it I fell in love with it.
Let me tell you why.
Forget the fact that it allows me to check and send e-mails wherever I go or surf the net without feeling like I have to control a little cursor with my keypad just to click on some links on the site.Forget also about the fact that I can keep my entire library of pictures in there so whenever I miss Princess, all I have to do is whip out my iPhone and smile at her pictures.
But it’s the other stuff that matters.
Like the applications that you can download from the iTunes App Store.
They have applications for everything. Apps that help you directly access your Facebook account, apps that can record your voice and type it out on to an e-mail, apps that help you remember all your friend’s birthdays and even apps that make farting noises for people who just like being annoying in life.
For me the apps I end up using most of the time is the Currency converter because I often find myself in foreign countries.
I use the Fring application quite a bit to talk to Princess on MSN wherever I go.
A lot cheaper than sending SMSs back and forth, something I used to do years ago.
And I use certain news feeds to extract news to read on the go.
I had grown to love my iPhone but there was one thing that bothered me. Basically the iPhone hadn’t yet launched in Malaysia so any of the iPhones we brought from overseas wouldn’t work on it UNLESS we cracked it ie “jailbreak” it.
I’m sorry I’m not proud of what I bought but I’m too big an Apple fan to NOT have an iPhone. I’m sorry Apple, I have been a very bad boy but you can’t deny such a big fan the iPhone can you?
Project 365: Day 26, 12th March 2009
“Jailbroken” phones work except that there are a lot of things you can’t do. Like if you want to update your software you have to delete everything then reinstall the software all over again which is quite a mess.
But now…. I had just gotten news that…..
MAXIS HAS FINALLY BROUGHT THE iPHONE TO MALAYSIA!!!
The Maxis package for the iPhone comes with a voice and data plan for a year (which is how I know they did it in the UK when you buy a new phone) but most importantly for me is that it comes with warranty.You should see how I abuse and drop my iPhone. Seriously, if there was the equivalent of “child protective services” for phones they would take my phone away and throw me in jail.
Now I have some shopping to do.
Things I Did in Manila
1) Woke up late on Sunday. Was too late to go down to the hotel coffee house for the nice buffet breakfast they had every morning. No thanks to Princess who I’m pretty sure would rather be spit on by a dozen yaks that be awake at 10AM on a Sunday morning.
If she were Queen of a Country, I tell you she would make it illegal for anyone to wake up before 11AM every day. She would jail anyone who did.
Fortunately we found breakfast in the club lounge near the top of the hotel.
Took a picture there without noticing the white dude behind us make pretend he’s flying.
2) Took Princess shopping where she unleashed a mini “stimulus package” of her own on the Metro Manila economy.
3) Found a Krispy Kreme store in one of the malls.
4) Indulged
5) While Princess looked on at me worried about how fat I would turn in the next few days.
6) Went sight-seeing at the “Old Manila” city.
7) I wanted to stay in the van that was taking us around but Princess saw a carriage and insisted that we get out of our modern day vehicle and sat on that medieval form of transport.
It didn’t matter to her that the horse had a shit bag tied right behind its butt to contain all its shit. With or without a bag of horse shit strapped to its ass, she wanted to be on that carriage.
8) Got on the carriage and looked down at the shit bag after my nose detected the smell of horse shit.
Made very slow movements to make sure I didn’t trip and fall into that bag of shit.
9) Woke up Monday morning in time for breakfast! But only because I had to go for a meeting so I managed to convince Princess to wake up earlier with me.
Watched as she bragged
“HAHA! You have to work today.. I don’t have to!”
10) Went to the Nuffnang Philippines office in Bonifacio High Street (and dragged Princess along with me).
Our unit number is 2E04.
Send us Krispy Kreme please!
11) Spent a long time going through a lot of paperwork and signing my signature on so many documents that I remember wishing someone would invent a pen that would magically sign documents for me.
12) Tried to focus on work while Princess (who was feeling neglected tried to distract me).
13) After some internal meetings with the Nuffnang Philippines team, I went for a break to get some Krispy Kreme. They were giving away free donuts at that point and I ended up having 3 and a half donuts.
3 of which were given to me for free.
You just can’t turn down FREE KRISPY KREME.
14) Had a very nice dinner with the entire Nuffnang Philippines team.
15) Then went on to this bar called Mag-Net where they had this thing on Monday nights called “Rockaoke”. It’s like Karaoke except that you go up on stage alone to sing in front of everyone with a live band playing behind you.
Eric and Jay forced both Princess and I to put both our names down to go up on stage to sing but only Princess got called up in the end.
16) Watched Princess have her 5 minutes of fame on stage singing “Kiss Me” by Sixpence None the Richer. Went up to take many pictures of her and stood in the crowd admiring her.
She looked like this adorable girl on stage that everyone loved and I wish I knew. She was like a star!
17) Thought of getting her phone number once she got off stage but snapped back into reality and remembered that she’s already mine when she got off stage and gave me a hug.
Project 365: Day 25, 11th March 2009
And that everyone, was my trip to Manila 🙂
Project 365: Day 24, 10th March 2009
I just realized that I forgot to take a picture on the 10th of March 2009.
Fortunately, Princess remembered to take one
So this is Princess at the Manila Airport waiting to come home.
I was sleeping on a row of seats when she took this.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space