So today I was at the Sime Darby Convention Center for the Malaysian Media Conference where I was going to give my speech.

I was there early in the morning to hear all the other speakers talk. I mean why wouldn’t I right? With such a star-studded panel of speakers.

My turn to speak actually turned out to be the slot right after lunch.So during lunch everyone cleared the function room and went into the adjacent room to fill their tummies. I quickly gobbled down my lunch and headed back to the function room to prepare my laptop for my Powerpoint Presentation that I was going to use in the speech.

I stood on the stage and stared at the many many empty seats in front of me.

Now I’ve given speeches to bigger crowds and more seats than this before but this time it wasn’t the number of seats that mattered but the butts that were going to be warming those seats.

All of which belonged to really really important influential people in the media industry.

This is me looking stressed right before the speech.

No wait I mean THIS is me looking stressed before the speech.

Soon after everyone started coming back into the room for the next session: MINE.

The moderator, HAM of Adoi Magazine gave me a very flattering introduction to the audience and before I knew it, I was taking steps towards the stage.

As I got on to the stage, I looked at the audience and I just had to speak my mind.

First I thanked Ham for inviting me to speak at the conference.

Then I said that it was truly an honour to have so many people there who have had far more experience than me in the industry, all sitting down listening to me speak when I feel that I should be the one listening to them.

Then I started talking about Nuffnang and blog advertising.

It turned out that the speech wasn’t so bad and at the end of the speech, I had quite a number of people come up to tell me that it was a great speech. Nicholas said it was far better than the one I did at the National Entrepreneurs Convention in January this year but I guess practise helps.

The good news is, a very big client who has always been against the idea of advertising big on blogs was convinced by the results I showed them during my speech and gave the go-ahead to spend a lot of money advertising on Nuffnang in the coming months.

So I guess… today was a good day for me. But it feels great to have it all done and over with 😛

In a bit more than 12 hours from now, I’m gonna be speaking at the Malaysian Media Conference, a very very big Malaysian conference attended by… allow me to quote

“an annual alumni of about 300 media pundits, industry specialists, and key media decision makers in the fields of media, marketing, branding and advertising across Malaysia. Amongst the speakers featured are noted personalities from Malaysia, Singapore and the United Kingdom”

Check out their list of speakers.
CEO of this, CEO of that, COO of this… and then a little Timmy Tiah there.

Now I’ve done quite a lot of speeches and public speaking since Nuffnang came about, (some better than others).

The largest crowd I ever spoke to was at the National Entrepreneurs Convention this January where I spoke to 500 people
but this coming speech I have here for the Malaysian Media Conference at the Sime Darby Convention Center has 300 of all the industry leaders and important people in the advertising and media industry.

Heck these are all important people!!!

And I’m probably not only the youngest among the speakers, but probably also one of the youngest actually going to be there at the conference, and all these people who have been in the industry probably since I finished my PMR are going to listen to me talk for 35 minutes.

STRESS STRESS STRESS!!!

THE PRESSURE!!!!!!

1 Year Ago

Dad: Oi!! Your KL Office is pathetic lar! Could you please do something about it? Clients come to your office also damn shameful!

Me: No lah Dad no need lar!!! Save cost a bit!! The clients also understand that we’re a Dotcom startup.

6 Months Ago

Dad: OI!!! WILL YOU PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR OFFICE?!?!

Me: No lah Dad!! Save cost lar… we’re a Dotcom Startup lah!!!2 Months Ago

Dad: OI!!! Do you still call yourself a Dotcom startup after how the company has grown so much? CHANGE YOUR OFFICE TO SOMETHING MORE PRESENTABLE CAN OR NOT?!?!

Me: *sigh*

I gave in to the pressure and today our team in KL moved into our new office.

Let me give you guys a sneak peak and a short tour of our office right before we moved all our stuff in.

(Please forgive me as I am a terrible photographer and had a hard time trying to take good pictures of the place, can’t seem to get the right angles).

When you walk into our new office, the first thing you see is a glass meeting room in the middle.
Then there are two sides to the office, the so called West Wing and East Wing.

I’ll be sitting on the East Wing on this big table here.

That’s right, I don’t have my own fancy office or anything simply because it’s just not really our culture at Nuffnang for the bosses to sit in their own private office.

We all sit together, laugh together, joke together and listen to the same music together and that’s just the way I want it to be.

The office has two seperate toilets. Meant to be one for guys and one for girls but I think the Nuffies have instead allocated each toilet by “virtue of business”.

If you want to do big business that will stink up the toilet for half an hour, then you use the toilet on the West Wing.View from the corner of the West Wing to the East

If you want to do small business that will have no effect on the air around the toilet then you use the toilet on the East Wing.

Then on the East Wing where I sit there is our favourite “NUFFIE’S CORNER”.

Bean bags, big pillows and blankets to sleep in if you’re tired during working hours.

I think we might be expanding on our Nuffie Corner but well … all in good time.

Oh and unlike the previous KL Office, we now have a…. KETTLE (or hot water dispenser or whatever you call it) and a microwave.

Oh.. and to dear Mehlin and Ron… you gotta see this.

We finally have…

A FRIDGE!!!!! Something both Penang and Singapore office has had for the longest damn time in the world but KL office never had.We were all so deprived!

Anyway, whew… more moving to do. Next month I hear the team in Singapore is moving into a spanking new office as well.

Don’t think they’ll have as much space as us though… right Ming?

Land in Singapore is expensive.

PS: Eh speaking of our Nuffnang Team ar.. if you haven’t signed up to challenge us and other Nuffnangers in Counter-strike at the WCG, quickly go sign up before it’s too late!

I’m going clubbing again tonight, this is the first night in weeks that I’ve been clubbing and she’s not around to watch me and make sure that I don’t misbehave in the club.

So what does she do?

Perhaps after reading my entry about how my buddy screws around in Vancouver, she says as a condition for going tonight, I have to wear THIS SHIRT.

Shirt says: PLEASE DON’T GIVE THIS MAN ANY BEER – THANK YOU, HIS SPOUSE”

Now I’ve heard all about woman repellents. From love bites to little bracelets or necklaces with a girl’s name on it worn on the guy but this shirt takes the cake.

It’s not only a WOMAN REPELLENT but a BEER REPELLENT too!!!

WTF?!?! WHY DO THEY EVEN MAKE SHIRTS LIKE THESE!!!

IT’S NOT FUNNY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO WEAR THEM!!!

I’m going clubbing again tonight, this is the first night in weeks that I’ve been clubbing and she’s not around to watch me and make sure that I don’t misbehave in the club.

So what does she do?

Perhaps after reading my entry about how my buddy screws around in Vancouver, she says as a condition for going tonight, I have to wear THIS SHIRT.

Shirt says: PLEASE DON’T GIVE THIS MAN ANY BEER – THANK YOU, HIS SPOUSE”

Now I’ve heard all about woman repellents. From love bites to little bracelets or necklaces with a girl’s name on it worn on the guy but this shirt takes the cake.

It’s not only a WOMAN REPELLENT but a BEER REPELLENT too!!!

WTF?!?! WHY DO THEY EVEN MAKE SHIRTS LIKE THESE!!!

IT’S NOT FUNNY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO WEAR THEM!!!

I’m a huge movie buff. Dammit I watch a new movie every week, sometimes twice a week if there are enough movies to watch. But somehow, I never get to write about them often enough so I’m going to write one now for a new movie that has just come out.

A few days ago, UIP invited a few of us Nuffnangers to the Press Screening of the new Mummy movie from Brandon Fraser.I was always wondering when they were going to make the 3rd Mummy.

Mummy is one of those movie franchises to me that makes you come out of the cinema not necessarily emotional attached to the movie, but certainly with a smile on your face from all the good entertainment value.

Lots of fun humour, good action and great computer graphics.Now in another typical Mummy movie, I was a little worried that they might do another Egyptian Mummy which gets boring after you’ve done it twice… but this time they actually did a Chinese Mummy! A good change!

And the Chinese Mummy was none other than Jet Li!

Yes I’m a fan of Jet Li!

For me, he’s all the way up there along with Jackie Chan.

And to name another member of the cast worth watching the movie for…

Datuk Michelle Yeoh!The best Malaysian actor of our time if you ask me.

Anyway I’m not going to spoil the movie for everyone before you guys catch it this weekend but I’m going to tell you what I liked and what I didn’t like about it.

I liked how the story although fictional still blended in with actual Ancient Chinese History of the Terracotta Soldiers. I’ve never seen a movie that had Terracotta soldiers actually fighting as an army.

I liked how the movie had a lot of explosive entertaining scenes… gosh I can’t ever get enough of all that.

I liked the computer graphics of the movie, thought it was great.

I liked Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh in the movie, and Brandon Fraser too.

But let me tell you what I didn’t like.There were two couples in the movie, Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser) with his wife and his son in the movie, Alex O’Connell and his Chinese girlfriend Lin.

I thought that as much as they tried to play on the romance of Alex and Lin, the two just had ZERO on-screen chemistry. They were such a bad couple!

But overall, I think it was still an entertaining movie certainly worth watching. So catch it this weekend if you have the time guys!

It’s Friday! JOM WHO WANTS TO GO CLUBBING TOMORROW!!!

MSG ME ON FACEBOOK!!!

Last night I braved a 2 hour jam just to get to Shah Alam stadium for the Chelsea match.

Yes I left KL City at 7.00PM and I reached the stadium only at 9.00PM. And when I did, I had the hardest time trying to find some people that I was supposed to give my Heineken sponsored tickets to.

Why?

Well because we all happily agreed
“I’ll call you when I get there then we meet up”.

Only to find that the phone lines were jammed when we got there, probably because there were just waaayyy too many people there at one spot.

Parking there was tough too.

After going round and round I couldn’t find a place and I happened to notice that most people started double-parking.
Hence I decided that it was a situation where you either double-parked or BE double-parked…

I came back later that night that in spite of me double-parking someone, I myself got triple-parked so the person I double-parked got quadruple-parked.

Yes, there were 4 layers or cars!
By the time I got settled down and found Abby to pass her the tickets, I had already missed the entire first half of the match but it didn’t seem like I was the only one.

There were a lot of other people there going in during half-time which must mean to me that everyone was stuck in the jam going there as well.

Some more just before we were about to go in, the bloggers I were with did the typical thing…

“Come come take picture take picture”
And we took that badly taken picture by KY.

Woi KY!

We eventually rushed inside the stadium and struggled to get a seat before the second half started.

I have to say this about my first LIVE football experience. The view is a lot better on TV thanks to guys like this who get to stand so near the field with camera lenses so huge you could probably see through walls with them.

But the thing about a LIVE match is… the 40,000-strong crowd and the way everyone cheered.My gosh.. it’s like you’ve never heard anything like that before, 40,000 people in a go screaming or sighing.
I sat and watched the match for a while. From where I was seated, I couldn’t recognize who was who on the field but one thing really impressed me.

Now everyone before the match was under the impression that before the match, Chelsea was going to beat the Malaysian team so bad there wasn’t even any hope. Yet, in the crowd that I was in I saw some very hard-core Malaysian supporters (and also some hard-core Man Utd fans that looked really out of place where they were).

These were people who were so into the game and supporting the Malaysian team so much they cheered really loudly at any attempt any of the Malaysian players had at scoring a goal. Made me feel proud for a minute there, that our general Malaysian crowd, is still very patriotic.

Only funny thing there is that they threw away our water bottles but allowed everyone in the crowd to keep their ciggys to smoke so the crowd was like a freakin chimney and Sam who was sitting on my left was extremely agitated by the smoke.
Though she didn’t really show it in this pic.

Seated on my right was Audrey who wasn’t exactly cheering away.

We left the match 5 minutes before full-time to avoid the leaving crowd and some of us headed off to McDs in Subang for supper.

At supper were Eri, Cindy from MDG, Kenny, Ringo and KY too.

We sat at McDs and chatted till the wee hours of the morning which was when I said
“Okay guys.. time to go…. I need to work tomorrow morning”.

And bloggers being bloggers.. *sigh*

Our exit took half an hour because everyone kept going
“Wait wait take picture take picture!!!”

I have to thank Heineken a million times for sponsoring us the wonderful tickets for this great experience.

Thanks Heineken. I shall drink more BEER!!!

Alright this is a follow up from the previous Heineken mini-contest I posted a few days ago for anyone who wants Chelsea tickets to post up videos of themselves singing the Chelsea song “Blue is the Colour” and holding a Heineken bottle.

Well here’s the irony… I always thought football was a guy’s sport, but all the entries I got were all from GIRLS!

Here are the best 2 winners.

The winner is Abby Chu who gets herself 3 Grand Stand tickets.

Abby if you notice your video is a bit senget Haha.

And the runner-up is Audrey ooi who gets herself 2 Grand Stand tickets to watch the match.

Enjoy the match everyone!

Nuffnang has this new initiative lately that gives a chance for Nuffnangers to give other Nuffnangers gifts.

Yes yes… it’s a bit of a shocker right? I mean we run lots of contests on the Nuffnang Community because somehow lots of our Nuffnangers love these contests but all the contests so far had prizes for the person who participated instead.This time we thought that it might be a good idea to allow the spirit of giving among our Nuffnangers, where we all suggest gifts to our fellow Nuffnangers and if our entries win, they actually get the present.

It’s the spirit of giving!!!

So well I spent the last half an hour on the Realmart website looking for gifts that I would give my fellow Nuffnangers and here it is (for the actual contest we’re only allowed one gift for one entry by the way, but I thought I’d do a bit more).
A bit of a disclaimer first. I’m not paid or asked to write this entry and chances are the people at Realmart won’t let me win the contest either since I’m… well.. Timothy Tiah *sigh*… but I’m just doing this because I think it would be good fun.

Okay here goes.

To Yee Hou

Yee Hou is one of my colleagues at Nuffnang. Just like everyone else at Nuffnang, he works really really hard and spends quite a bit of time in the office.The thing about him though, is that he has a very sensitive nose. Before any of us feel that the office is dusty and it’s time to call in the cleaners, Yee Hou’s NOSE picks it up and he gets the sniffles.
So Yee Hou, as a present to you I shall give you a VACUUM CLEANER worth RM500!!!To Pinkpau

One of my dear favourite friends, Pinkpau is going away to the USA soon to study in one of the top universities there that I can only wish I could’ve gotten into.It’s going to be the beginning of her college/university life for her… that means lots of drunken nights and waking up next to someone you don’t know (No I’m just kidding. Pinkpau is a very very good girl).

Anyway one of the things that I feel is important for every Malaysian student that studies overseas is…. A RICE COOKER!!!That’s right!

I never had a rice cooker while I was there because I was trying to save money so instead I boiled my rice using a pot. That’s a lot less inconvenient considering that you need to be constantly watching the pot to tell when the rice is ready as opposed to just leaving it in the rice cooker and let it do all the work for you.

So my dear Pinkpau… A RICE COOKER FOR YOU!!!

To Barry & Suet Li

Barry and Suet Li is probably one of the blogosphere’s most well-known couples.They’ve been together for ages.

And I mean ages…. like since the Great Wall of China was built or something.. maybe even longer.

When you know couples like that, you can’t help but wonder to yourself… how much longer before they get married!!! I mean why wait anymore!!! They’ve been through the tests of all tests throughout the many many years they’ve been together.

So here.. I am going to give them a china set that every married couple by tradition is supposed to have to jump start their marriage proposal.

Please go get married Barry & Suet Li…

To Wong Wen-Qi

In terms of traffic, I have seen few bloggers who have grown as fast as Wong Wen-Qi.

Within a month of her starting to blog, the traffic she got was almost equivalent to the traffic of me running this personal blog for a year.And here’s the joke… if you pay a visit to her blog, you’ll see not too many entries with pictures in them and let me give you the behind the scenes reason as for why that is the case.

SHE IS THE ONLY BLOGGER I KNOW.. WHO DOES NOT HAVE A CAMERA!!!

That’s right. The only time she takes pictures to put up on her blog is when she leeches off my camera or when she uses the webcam on her computer!!! That’s the truth!!!

So Wong Wen-Qi… for this I think you deserve.. A CAMERA.

And I intend to give you one of the best.

A Canon Digital IXUS 960 ISSay thank you 😛

PS: If you wanna give a fellow Nuffnanger a gift, check this link out.

A few days ago, the Nuffnang Wild Live Blogging party was featured on NTV 7’s Breakfast Show. Quite a number of our Nuffnangers were on TV that morning!

If you missed it, check it out here.

This is my 3rd time on National TV. The first time was on another talk show on RTM 2, where I was extremely nervous… being it the first time and being it a LIVE show.

The second time was on the NTV7 Prime Time News and that was okay.

Now the third time, I must say that I look extremely dorky talking in that lion costume. And I just realized that I talk really quick and am way too animated for a real person… someone’s gonna mistake me for a cartoon one day and drop a Grand Piano on me or something.

Gotta cut down on the Caffeine. NO MORE CAFFEINE FOR YOU TIMOTHY TIAH!!!

Oh well… we can’t always look our best 😛