One of my friends just sent me a mail to tell me that a friend’s daughter is missing.

Her name is How Li Min and she’s 29 years old.

She was wearing a pink T-shirt & pink long skirt (with some small flower chocolate dots) & blue long sleeve sweater outside. She went missing since 19.8.08 at approximately 5.00PM near TAAT House Jalan Tun A Razak (Johor Bahru).If anyone sees her, please contact Mr K S How at 016 777 5911.

Thanks guys. I hope she’s safe.

Update: Ok looks like they found her unharmed now.. Thanks anyway everyone

Monday mornings are sometimes the most dull and stressful for some people.

But not for me…. heck I love my weekdays… I love the work I do and I love the people I work with so I actually look forward to weekdays. This Monday however I started off on a slightly different foot.

See, Sunday night I realized that there was a small leak underneath the sink of one of my apartment’s toilets. I didn’t think much of it… I thought “Ok.. call the plumber tomorrow”.

Monday morning I woke up and you know what I saw…. that leak had turned into a bloody MONSOON!!!

Water was POURING out from the bottom of the sink and flooding the toilet so fast it had begun to leak into the bedroom and before I knew it… I woke up and the room was A SWAMP!!!

Has any of you ever heard of the term… “SPEED MOPPING”?

Well… allow me to introduce to you that new term.

Speed Mopping is when you grab a mop… and MOP THE HELL AWAY FOR FEAR THAT THE WATER WILL SPOIL YOUR WOODEN FLOOR!!!

While in the chaos I managed to grab my cordless phone and called the plumber.

The conversation basically went like this
“HEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!”

Then after a while of SPEED MOPPING… I realized that it hadn’t helped much and I had one of those light bulb moments where a light bulb lights up in my head.
Why don’t I just turn off the water mains where the water meter is. I jumped out of my apartment and straight to the water meter and I couldn’t remember which was my apartment and which was my neighbour’s water supply but I didn’t give a flying f*ck at the point in time…. I turned BOTH OFF!!!

I had a small image in my head of my neighbour in the shower covered in soap and suddenly had the water turned off before he could wash the soap off but I thought about it for a while and then just decided
“NAH!!!… What are the odds?”

After that I ran back to speed mopping with a bit more success this time and in a few hours time, the plumber arrived!

All he did was to replace a small little pipe underneath my sink and it cost me RM150.
I wanted to haggle with him… but I was too tired from all the speed mopping I gave him the money and laid down on my bed for a while before I headed to the office.

So there you have it everyone.. my unconventional Monday morning!!!

Don’t you just wish your life had so much drama!

I spent almost the whole day of Saturday at MidValley Exhibition Center for the Samsung WCG 2008.

Man what a day it was.

Okay let me tell you about my day.

I woke up early in the morning to drag myself to the Samsung WCG 2008 happening at MidValley Exhibition Center for our special mini-CS competition happening at the Samsung booth there.
There were going to be 8 Nuffnanger teams (each with a requirement of at least ONE female player) and the Nuffnang team was going to be one of them competing in the competition.

4 of us Nuffies from the Nuffnang KL Office were taking part and we got Jolene to be our female player.

Not too long after I arrived, we played our first game and the Nuffie team won.

The Nuffnangers were playing our small competition here at the Samsung booth

While the big boys of the real WCG played in these computers here.
Heck the big boys are the big boys.

You know they take gaming so seriously when they insist on bringing their own mouse and keyboard to play at the competition.
Heck soon they’ll insist on bringing their own computer.

At one point of the WCG, they started broadcasting one of the games that the big boys were playing on two big screens.

Both of the teams were really good but one was better than the other and the better team was kicking the ass of the other team.
Gosh so embarrassing, imagine having everyone at the WCG watching you getting thrashed. Fortunately I gave up trying to be a professional gamer long time ago.

Speaking of which… for many many years I have always heard so much about the Samsung WCG that happens each year. I mean what’s there not to love for a gamer, it’s like the Olympics for computer games but I never went.Why? Because I thought it was literally just a computer game competition so if I weren’t playing and my friends weren’t playing then why go right?

But going there yesterday, the truth was that there were just so many things going on for the public all day long.

Some of us KL Nuffies were there to play around with all that.
All sorts of games, and all sorts of prizes to win. And when I say prizes I don’t mean like a WCG T-Shirt… I mean Samsung MP3 players, mobile phones, Intel-powered desktops and stuff like that.

The other notion I had about the WCG was that it was an event full of guys because computer games are mostly a guy thing. Well that turned out to be not true either… I saw soo many girls there… heck even Cynthia and Debbie came to support us!

The Nuffie team played up till the finals but right before the finals we decided to have lunch.

Over lunch we knew that we were going to lose anyway. The team who was up against us in the finals was just far better than us… it’s like they studied Counter-strike in school or something.

We took some photos at lunch.

I have no idea how I managed to take this shot of Jolene with a flower exactly covering her face.

Sorry Jolene. Didn’t mean for it like that haha.

And here’s Pinky who went that to cheer us on that day too.

Anyway after lunch we got our asses whooped by the other team in the finals and when everything was over, everyone was just waiting for one thing… the prize-giving ceremony for the best blog entries of “My Favourite Computer Game of All-Time”, a contest that Samsung held on the Nuffnang Community a few weeks ago.

At stake were mainly 3 prizes. A Samsung Digital Camera for the Most Creative Entry, an MP3 player for the Samsung favourite and the grand prize… a 32″ LCD TV for the Funniest Entry!

Mr Gin won the MP3 player for the Samsung favourite and this guy won the most creative bringing home the digital camera.
Then it came to the time to announce the Nuffnanger who was going to walk home with the 32″ LCD TV that everyone was waiting for.

Just a few minutes before the winner was announced though, Robb came up to me and whispered into my ear
“Tim… I tell you a secret that you’re not supposed to know yet ok?”

I looked at him and said
“What what? I love secrets.. tell me!!!”

Then he went on to say
“The Samsung client said that they think your entry was the funniest entry and the entire team there agrees so they want you to win the 32″ LCD TV”.

A little taken aback I said
“No lah dude…. I don’t think we should do that”.

But Robb was already ahead of me.
“I know Tim, I told them that but they all insist that you win it, they thought your entry was the funniest, even if it was just done for fun”.

I didn’t think my entry was the funniest but well this put me in a really difficult position. I mean how would it look if I won a contest even as a blogger that was organized by Samsung on the Nuffnang Community.

In the few minutes I had before the prize was announced I quickly called up a very close friend to ask for him for advice.
His answer was simple…
“Look! The client picks the winners… not you or anyone in Nuffnang so if they insist your entry was the best and if you want to take it then what’s wrong? Besides some people are going to say what they’re going to say anyway… in the past even when you had done nothing wrong they would make up stories to try to put you down so why should this even stop you?”

I put down the phone and a few minutes later the winner for the 32″ LCD TV was announced. I heard the emcee shout the name “Timothy Tiah” and everyone started clapping.

As I went on to the stage, my mind suddenly had the answer. I couldn’t do it.

Up there I told the client and the emcee that I couldn’t take the prize. It’s not because of what people might think but what I would think of myself if I led that happen.

The Samsung people (Lynne, Sue and Annabelle), being as nice as they always are… insisted that I take the prize.
and the emcee went on to make a quick joke
“WAH!! 32″ LCD TV YOU DON’T WANT TO TAKE AH!! WHY TOO SMALL FOR YOU AHH??”

Even the two Samsung blue-haired girls were surprised

Then when they were certain I didn’t want to take the prize they asked me what I was going to do with it and I didn’t have an answer yet.

So we just went on with the prize giving ceremony while I told the Nuffnangers there that I would find another way to give out this 32″ LCD TV.

We had tea after the event and we decided that we would give the 32″ LCD TV to the Nuffnanger that wrote the best entry about the WCG event and well everyone was happy.

I spoke to many people that day and I had mixed opinions.

Some thought that I had done the right thing, but others thought that I had made a mistake.

To put it in the words of another Nuffnanger
“You can’t always be so nice.. you’re going to get stepped all over one day”.

Well, I slept well last night so I think at least my heart thinks I did the right thing.

What do you guys think? Do my poll on my sidebar.

If you’re one of the Nuffnangers who were at the WCG, click here to see how you can win the 32″ LCD TV.

So everyone, that’s the day I gave up an 32″ LCD TV that I would’ve been really nice to have.

I spent almost the whole day of Saturday at MidValley Exhibition Center for the Samsung WCG 2008.

Man what a day it was.

Okay let me tell you about my day.

I woke up early in the morning to drag myself to the Samsung WCG 2008 happening at MidValley Exhibition Center for our special mini-CS competition happening at the Samsung booth there.
There were going to be 8 Nuffnanger teams (each with a requirement of at least ONE female player) and the Nuffnang team was going to be one of them competing in the competition.

4 of us Nuffies from the Nuffnang KL Office were taking part and we got Jolene to be our female player.

Not too long after I arrived, we played our first game and the Nuffie team won.

The Nuffnangers were playing our small competition here at the Samsung booth

While the big boys of the real WCG played in these computers here.
Heck the big boys are the big boys.

You know they take gaming so seriously when they insist on bringing their own mouse and keyboard to play at the competition.
Heck soon they’ll insist on bringing their own computer.

At one point of the WCG, they started broadcasting one of the games that the big boys were playing on two big screens.

Both of the teams were really good but one was better than the other and the better team was kicking the ass of the other team.
Gosh so embarrassing, imagine having everyone at the WCG watching you getting thrashed. Fortunately I gave up trying to be a professional gamer long time ago.

Speaking of which… for many many years I have always heard so much about the Samsung WCG that happens each year. I mean what’s there not to love for a gamer, it’s like the Olympics for computer games but I never went.Why? Because I thought it was literally just a computer game competition so if I weren’t playing and my friends weren’t playing then why go right?

But going there yesterday, the truth was that there were just so many things going on for the public all day long.

Some of us KL Nuffies were there to play around with all that.
All sorts of games, and all sorts of prizes to win. And when I say prizes I don’t mean like a WCG T-Shirt… I mean Samsung MP3 players, mobile phones, Intel-powered desktops and stuff like that.

The other notion I had about the WCG was that it was an event full of guys because computer games are mostly a guy thing. Well that turned out to be not true either… I saw soo many girls there… heck even Cynthia and Debbie came to support us!

The Nuffie team played up till the finals but right before the finals we decided to have lunch.

Over lunch we knew that we were going to lose anyway. The team who was up against us in the finals was just far better than us… it’s like they studied Counter-strike in school or something.

We took some photos at lunch.

I have no idea how I managed to take this shot of Jolene with a flower exactly covering her face.

Sorry Jolene. Didn’t mean for it like that haha.

And here’s Pinky who went that to cheer us on that day too.

Anyway after lunch we got our asses whooped by the other team in the finals and when everything was over, everyone was just waiting for one thing… the prize-giving ceremony for the best blog entries of “My Favourite Computer Game of All-Time”, a contest that Samsung held on the Nuffnang Community a few weeks ago.

At stake were mainly 3 prizes. A Samsung Digital Camera for the Most Creative Entry, an MP3 player for the Samsung favourite and the grand prize… a 32″ LCD TV for the Funniest Entry!

Mr Gin won the MP3 player for the Samsung favourite and this guy won the most creative bringing home the digital camera.
Then it came to the time to announce the Nuffnanger who was going to walk home with the 32″ LCD TV that everyone was waiting for.

Just a few minutes before the winner was announced though, Robb came up to me and whispered into my ear
“Tim… I tell you a secret that you’re not supposed to know yet ok?”

I looked at him and said
“What what? I love secrets.. tell me!!!”

Then he went on to say
“The Samsung client said that they think your entry was the funniest entry and the entire team there agrees so they want you to win the 32″ LCD TV”.

A little taken aback I said
“No lah dude…. I don’t think we should do that”.

But Robb was already ahead of me.
“I know Tim, I told them that but they all insist that you win it, they thought your entry was the funniest, even if it was just done for fun”.

I didn’t think my entry was the funniest but well this put me in a really difficult position. I mean how would it look if I won a contest even as a blogger that was organized by Samsung on the Nuffnang Community.

In the few minutes I had before the prize was announced I quickly called up a very close friend to ask for him for advice.
His answer was simple…
“Look! The client picks the winners… not you or anyone in Nuffnang so if they insist your entry was the best and if you want to take it then what’s wrong? Besides some people are going to say what they’re going to say anyway… in the past even when you had done nothing wrong they would make up stories to try to put you down so why should this even stop you?”

I put down the phone and a few minutes later the winner for the 32″ LCD TV was announced. I heard the emcee shout the name “Timothy Tiah” and everyone started clapping.

As I went on to the stage, my mind suddenly had the answer. I couldn’t do it.

Up there I told the client and the emcee that I couldn’t take the prize. It’s not because of what people might think but what I would think of myself if I led that happen.

The Samsung people (Lynne, Sue and Annabelle), being as nice as they always are… insisted that I take the prize.
and the emcee went on to make a quick joke
“WAH!! 32″ LCD TV YOU DON’T WANT TO TAKE AH!! WHY TOO SMALL FOR YOU AHH??”

Even the two Samsung blue-haired girls were surprised

Then when they were certain I didn’t want to take the prize they asked me what I was going to do with it and I didn’t have an answer yet.

So we just went on with the prize giving ceremony while I told the Nuffnangers there that I would find another way to give out this 32″ LCD TV.

We had tea after the event and we decided that we would give the 32″ LCD TV to the Nuffnanger that wrote the best entry about the WCG event and well everyone was happy.

I spoke to many people that day and I had mixed opinions.

Some thought that I had done the right thing, but others thought that I had made a mistake.

To put it in the words of another Nuffnanger
“You can’t always be so nice.. you’re going to get stepped all over one day”.

Well, I slept well last night so I think at least my heart thinks I did the right thing.

What do you guys think? Do my poll on my sidebar.

If you’re one of the Nuffnangers who were at the WCG, click here to see how you can win the 32″ LCD TV.

So everyone, that’s the day I gave up an 32″ LCD TV that I would’ve been really nice to have.

In less than 12 hours I’m going to be at MidValley for the WCG sponsored by Samsung.

We’re having a mini-CS competition for our Nuffnangers and the Nuffnang team is one of the teams there.

Man are we gonna get thrashed….

In less than 12 hours I’m going to be at MidValley for the WCG sponsored by Samsung.

We’re having a mini-CS competition for our Nuffnangers and the Nuffnang team is one of the teams there.

Man are we gonna get thrashed….

This week we have a new addition to the Nuffnang team.

Everyone… MEET PINKY.

Pinky is our new Ad Ops Nuffie, meaning she’s one of the people responsible for managing and executing all our blog advertising campaigns.

When it comes to banner ads alone, Nuffnang in Malaysia runs something like 40 different ad campaigns at any one time on its network.

That’s a lot of work and a lot of coordination so much that we had to put together a team of people doing it to make sure everything runs smoothly and everything goes out when it’s supposed to.

Today, in all our offices, Nuffnang is run by 20 young and capable souls. Yes the youngest among us is 21, the oldest is 32 and the average age of the Nuffie team is 24.

That’s something I’m really proud of.. that here we have the youngest and among the brightest people working together to achieve great things.

As usual with many of the new people in our team, we all camwhored the evening away after work.

First, Pinky and Robb with his Heineken scarf.

Then Yee Hou, Firdauz, Robb and Pinky.

Then Nicholas and Pinky, pretending to take something out of our fridge.

And finally, Pinky and I.

It’s Pinky, it’s Pinky, it’s Pinky and the brain brain brain brain brain brain brain brain…

I love the people I work with.

I love you all Nuffies!!!
You guys make me love my weekdays !!!

“Look… I have had enough of your stupid computer games!!! You spend 8 hours a day in this smokey cybercafe and no time with me!!! You are going to have to choose. Counter-strike or ME!!! You can’t have both!!! SO PICK NOW!!”

When one of my ex-girlfriends asked me that before she became my ex, I knew that computer games had become a HUGE part of my life.

My answer to her was
“Counter-Strike…”
And I went back to looking at my screen…

I’m going to write about My Favourite Computer Game of All time because there’s this Samsung contest going on at Nuffnang and I am hoping that Samsung would allow me to win the 32″ LCD TV so I could put it in our new KL office and buy a Wii with it!!!

But haih.. again because I am who I am…. I’m sure I’m not gonna win.

Though I’m gonna do it anyway because I like writing about computer games.

Now my favourite computer game of all time is……… wait for it… wait for it…. wait for it….

BUBBLE BOBBLE!!!!

WHO REMEMBERS THIS CUTE LITTLE GAME?!?!?

How can you ever forget a game with two cute little baby dinosaurs shooting out bubbles from their mouth and baddies and popping them to kill the baddies!!!

I was in Primary school when I discovered Bubble Bobble, and it was the very first game that I was truly addicted to for the longest time.

I’ve played it so much that I can still even remember the music from the game.

Any of you remember?
It goes something like this
“Tuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh”... okay fine a bit hard to humm that song with words but you get the idea.

Now Bubble Bobble is not the first game I was ever addicted to, but the first time a computer game got me in trouble.

Because I was so addicted to it, I never studied or did any of my school homework so much that my mum had to ban me from computer games on weekdays.
Ish, not like banning computer games would make me study anyway, I would have had rather watched grass grow than do homework.

But one day after school, I came home to see my old computer on the table, all lonely without any lights on. And the Bubble Bobble game music hummed in my ears.. seriously.. it’s like it was tempting me.
So I didn’t care I just went to play anyway. I played until I lost track of time and the next thing I know, my mum had arrived home from work and was standing behind me watching me play.

She said in a very angry tone
“Having fun?”

And I sheepishly said
“Yes..”

I mean how could I lie right?

Then the next thing I know, she brought out the cane and whooped my ass till Kingdom Come…. and when my dad came home she told my dad too.. who again whooped my ass till England Come!

At the end of the day, my ass was so pink from the caning it looked very much like a baboon’s butt.

And that my dear friends, is the first time a computer game got me in trouble.
So after hearing that… choosing CS over a girl doesn’t seem like such a big deal after all right?

Nah let me show you all how Bubble Bobble is like.

Watch this video!

This is the Nintendo or something version… yes Bubble Bobble I think started off as an arcade game then only later adapted to the computer or something.

A friend of mine just asked me a question
“If you are given a choice to go back to Malaysia and achieve your dream… or stay in london with the girl you love… but just have a very ordinary life… which one would you choose?”

And my answer to him was

“Go back to Malaysia and achieve your dream cuz your dream… nobody can take that away from you. But the girl of your dreams, somebody can and somebody eventually may.”

When I told Wen-Qi she scolded me and told me to stop giving people wrong advice!

wenqi says: (12:02:28 AM)
u just pushed him away from his girl wtf

wenqi says: (12:02:46 AM)
why u liddat wan

Aww come on.

Do the poll on my sidebar and tell me if you think I gave my friend bad advice.

“What do you mean USA didn’t win the Gold for Basketball for the past few Olympics? They have the NBA!!!”

Well that was my reaction when my cousin told me that last night. He then later went on to tell me that the USA didn’t really take the Olympics basketball too seriously in the past few Olympics, just putting together a last minute team and not putting in some of their best players.

This Olympics however, they put together a dream team with all the famous players from Kobe Bryant to LeBrone James.

Heck I don’t watch or play basketball and yet I know these names. Shows how fehmes they are.

Now I don’t normally watch Basketball but I just had to watch this USA vs China match.

And heck.. it’s 11.45PM now in the fourth quarter and the score is

USA 74 – China 48

Dammit…

And Yao Ming couldn’t change the situation.
Haih

Update

It’s 11.50PM now and the score is

USA 87 – China 54

Haih no need to watch di… I’m just going to bed now.