Ok guess who I was with this afternoon.

The guys at Malaysian Dreamgirl were nice enough to invite me, Sam, Pinkpau and Shaolintiger to the top secret villa that housed all the Malaysian Dreamgirls.

I was surprised to see how nice the place was

It had a swimming pool, a big kitchen and a great living room wtih big sofas.We started off sitting together in the Living Room talking to the remaining Malaysian Dreamgirls, asking them how they were, if they were having fun and most importantly we asked them about the conflicts they’ve been having with one another.
The answer was… yes they were all having fun.. and no they don’t fight anymore, they’re now one big happy family.

This of course we found out to be untrue later on when we actually got the chance to speak to the girls one by one but I’ll go into the cold wars later on.

The first thing I saw when I entered the villa was a wall full of this.

There were drawings that all the girls had drawn apparently of themselves.

They were all UGLY pictures. I mean who the hell draws like that?

I came to a quick conclusion there that Pretty Girls are terrible at art.

When we were all gathered in the living room I shamelessly asked the girls about the art again which was then when I found out why their drawings were so horrible.

They apparently had an ‘exercise’ where each of them had to close their eyes and draw a face on a piece of paper.

But it’s not that easy.
You’re not allowed to just draw a face with your eyes closed but you’re supposed to do it in the order that someone tells you to do it. For example, someone might say, draw the nose first.. then the neck.. then the ears… and you end up having ears where the lips should be and lips where the eyes should be.

They later got Shaolintiger to try it out.
Then Pinkpau.

Then me in which they used a piece of paper to block my view to make sure I didn’t cheat.
And Sam.I’m not gonna show you the result we had because mine was especially embarrassing.

After two hours of playing games and chatting as a group, we decided it was time to talk to the girls one by one.This is when it starts to get a little complicated because we’re constantly hearing different sides of the stories from different people and sometimes we find it hard to connect the dots.

So all I’m gonna do is share with you guys what the girls told us. What I’m NOT gonna do and what I think we all shouldn’t do is to judge any of the girls ok?

They’re all actually really nice in person.

The first one I wanted to talk to was Cindy, so Shaolintiger, Sam and I walked outside with Cindy to talk in private.

The reason why I picked Cindy is simple.Many people who watch the show are now under the impression that Cindy is very much a bitch but I also understood that sometimes in reality TV Shows, a show might tend to skew a person’s character towards his/her bad side and not reveal much of the good side.

In short, I wanted to find out if Cindy really really was a bitch like many people online now think she was.

I asked her about a few issues and she brought up how there were two main factions that were fighting in the house.

We had Nadia, Fiqa and Hanis on one side… and Valerie, Jean, Adeline and Cindy on the other.

To my understanding, Alison, Jay, Ringo and Eyna have always been neutral and never picked a side.

The sides were mainly decided based on who shared rooms with each other. What apparently happened was that there was a time where Valerie was upset with Nadia borrowing her jeans and she was talking to Cindy about it.Cindy reacted by saying something along the lines of
“Ah forget about her lah.. no use wan.”

and it so happens that the walls between the two rooms were quite thin so someone on Nadia’s side overheard.

Since then there was a bit of tension between the two groups but Cindy’s group had began to shrink.

First Jean left, then Valerie leaving her with just Adeline.Doing Housework

I then asked Cindy if what some of the other girls said about her was true… that she never did any housework and that she would never help to cook or wash up. All she did was eat.

She said the only reason why she never helped to cook was because Nadia’s group was always in the kitchen already doing most of the cooking and it was rather awkward for her and Adeline to join in to cook when they were experiencing this sort of cold war.

She however reiterated that if anything… Adeline and her would always help to wash up. Nadia’s group will cook… Adeline’s will wash up.The Jeans Incident

As an extension to the incident with Valerie’s Jeans, Cindy then went on to tell me about how Valerie had lent some money to Nadia for her to buy Brand’s Essence of Chicken or something when they were out and Nadia hadn’t returned the money to her.

To Nadia’s defence, when Shaolintiger and I asked her about it she said that she had returned the money to Valerie and that she never knew that Valerie was feeling so upset about her using Valerie’s jeans.

When she found out, she washed it and returned it to her on the spot.The Tomatoes Incident

Each of the Malaysian Dreamgirls had the chance to buy some of their own food with their own money. The unwritten rule in the house was that they would each put all their food that was just meant for themselves in the fridge but tied up in a plastic bag.

Nadia bought herself some tomatoes with her own money, enough to last her a while. One day she woke up to find some of her tomatoes missing and she found out that Cindy had taken some.
She was furious but according to Cindy she didn’t know about the unwritten rule and Nadia went ahead to curse some foul words at her. Cindy said that she eventually apologized to Nadia and offered to pay for the tomatoes but Nadia told her to get lost.

When we talked to Nadia about it, she told us that it was hard to make that mistake with that ‘unwritten rule’. Just to double check when we talked to Ringo later on, I asked her about the rule and she said she knew about it so I’m not sure what went wrong there.One thing that Nadia was quick to admit though was that she was rather harsh to Cindy but only because she was very very angry. She doesn’t exactly have all the money in the world to spend and she was trying hard to save for certain things so when she found out that someone had taken her food, she lost it.

I don’t know about everyone else but I can totally understand that. Very often when I’m filled with anger myself… I say things I don’t usually say just to make sure I hurt someone. I think it’s very big of Nadia to see where she went wrong and admit it even to us. You’re great Nadia.

Here are a few things I’ve learned since visiting the girls at MDG today.

1) Everybody loves Jay

Everyone who lives in the villa loves Jay and I can certainly see why. She cooks, takes care of everyone and is very very politically correct. You’ll never be able to get Jay to say anything bad about any of the girls.A lot of people say that Jay looks like a “Tranny” but after meeting her in real life I just have to say that the photos don’t do justice. She looks really good in real life… and DEFINITELY like a woman… NOT a tranny.

2) Adeline’s English

When you talk to her in person, Adeline’s english is not as bad as many people think it is by watching her on the show.

3) Cindy isn’t a bitch in real life

I really don’t think Cindy is as bitchy in person as she is portrayed as in the show. Sure I know, I’ve only met her for a few hours but in those few hours, she was nice.

4) I wish I had come early enough to see Alison and Valerie before they went

Fortunately I had a chance to meet Alison for a short while during the audition but I never got to meet Valerie who looks like so much fun on screen. Take care Valerie, I wish you could’ve stayed longer but it was nice when you were around.

5) Ringo is keeping well.

You have no idea what Ringo does just to try to keep in touch with her readers.Basically each day each of the girls have 7 minutes each to spend on the phone or online.

Ringo will go around trading time slots with the other girls and save up for 3 days so that on the 3rd day she can go online for 21 minutes… just to blog. Her birthday is coming up this Wednesday as well.

Happy Birthday Ringo.

And Lastly…

6) It’s Not Easy Being On Reality-TV

If you ask me, being on reality-TV is like being a blogger and revealing who you are. Whatever you do can and chances are will be scrutinized by people out there.

You will have your supporters but you will also have your detractors. Any mistakes you make will be magnified and any attempts you make the fix those mistakes can be easily hampered.
For that I take my hat off to ALL the girls at Malaysian Dreamgirls, even those who got eliminated earlier on. I’m sure it’s not easy being on Reality-TV, but all of you are doing something few Malaysians get to have a piece of action of… and you’re all doing a great job.

I’m gonna end with this last picture of Eyna, Ringo and Sam.

Sam is a huge fan of MDG.

If you guys want to catch MDG, check it out here.

PS: There was a camera crew filming us the whole time we were there. I hope we don’t end up in one of the episodes. I’m terrible in front of the camera. I can’t act to save my life.

This is a short conversation Sam and I had this morning.

Me: So what you think of last night at Zouk? The girls hot ar?

Sam: Yah… one of them the boobs really damn big. Put mine to shame. Make me look small.

Me: Yeah I know… damn small.

Sam: OI!!! WHY YOU SAY ME SMALL!!! I DOWAN FREN YOU DI!!!

Me: What what??? I’m just agreeing with you!

I will never understand women.

When you don’t agree with them you kena whack, when you agree with them you also kena whack.

I was at Watsons the other day at 1-Utama when I saw something that brought back old memories.

While walking around looking for eye-drops, I passed the aisle that sold condoms. Just as I passed I noticed a young couple, looks like they were barely 18 standing facing the stacks of condom boxes, just looking.

I looked in their eyes and I could tell they were having a rather awkward moment there. It was pretty clear that they wanted to buy condoms for their sexy time but were too shy to.

I considered buying it for them for a moment, I mean I’m a realist so I know that they’re gonna do it anyway so why not help them do it the safe way.

The 2005 Durex Global Sex Survey says that most people have their first sex in Malaysia somewhere around the age of 19… they looked close enough to 19.But then again I thought…. bahh let them suffer like I did once before.

Heck I remember my first time trying to buy a condom. I was young (I’m not gonna say how young).

My girlfriend at the time said that it was the MAN’S JOB TO BUY THE RUBBER and that IF YOU’RE TOO CHICKEN TO BUY THE RUBBER YOU SHOULDN’T BE SHAGGING ME.

So fine… she challenged by ego and I decided to walk into a 7-11 to buy it.

This was in Penang.

I walked into the 7-11 in Pulau Tikus (which kinda looks something like this but bigger)

and looked for the condoms only to find it near the cashier. Then I slowly took a look at the cashier, because heyy… that’s the one person you’re gonna have to look in the face when you buy the condom.

I was expecting to see a nice dude at the cashier that might understand my plight, but instead I saw a nice conservative looking lady, probably in her 50s wearing a Tudung.

I thought to myself
“Oh GREAAAT!!!”

But I wasn’t going to go leave without rubber. I decided that much.

So I stalled a little bit.

I walked around the aisle and pretended to pick up a few things. I grabbed a Pepsi and a Mars Bar, then walked over to the cashier.

I placed the Pepsi and Mars on the counter and the cashier took my stuff to scan.
While she was doing it, I suddenly went
“Oh..”

as if it was a “by-the-way” thing and took a condom from the side of the counter and placed it with my Pepsi.

The cashier glared at me and said
“YOU MAHU BELI INI (pointing at the Pepsi and Mars), ATAU INI (pointing at the condoms)?!?!”

My face turned red as a tomato.Actually redder than a tomato. Somehow my reflex was to say “Ini sudah boleh”, taking the Mars and Pepsi alone and pushing the condom aside.

I paid for the Mars and Pepsi and ran the hell out of that 7-11 store never to go back again for the next few years.

I was so embarrassed. I didn’t get laid that night either.

But like all other things practice makes perfect. These days I’m not afraid to buy condoms anymore. In fact, just like when I buy anything else that doesn’t expire so quick, I buy them in bulk.

So I walk into KLCC’s Guardian, grab like 5 boxes of Condoms at a time and stand at the long queue at the cashiers.

When the person behind me looks at what I’m holding I proudly hold it up, smile at the person and say
“Yeah I know I’m really lucky”.

I’ve done that a few times but I’ve never ever once actually got a response. Normally the person just shyly looks away.

So to the couple at 1-Utama that day… sorry lah…. but it gets easier ok?

And remember.. always always practice safe sexy time.

This is a community service message by Boss Stewie haha.

Yes… I’m guilty as charged.

I haven’t updated my blog for a while now.

Sorry been really really busy these few days with work.

Just to give you an idea of how busy I am, it’s the end of the month and this month alone Nuffnang is sending out something like RM80,000 in cheques to many many bloggers so you can imagine all the checking and double-checking and verifying that I have to do before I approve all these cheques.

Will blog tonight or tomorrow.

Sunday morning when I woke up I got a text from my friend Duncan who was organizing the Animation Comic Game Convention (ACGC) that was taking place at Berjaya Times Square.

He asked me to drop by if I’m free so I asked Sam if she was keen to go and she said okay.

I got there around twelve-ish and it was great.
There were all these computers around for the people there to try out some of the online games around today and even a Call of Duty 4 competition.

I love First Person Shooter games. Heck I was damn bloody good in Half-Life and CS (Especially Half-Life) but I’ve never before played Call of Duty 4 so I didn’t even bother trying to compete.
I’m so left behind in computer games now it’s actually shocking. And to think I used to call myself a hardcore gamer. Ish… shame on me.

But hey since I was there I decided to try on some of the games they had there.I tried on this game called…. Ok I can’t remember what it’s called but it’s some MMORPG game from Korea (yeah I know.. I’m not exactly narrowing it down for anyone here).
Anyway….. I figured that since I couldn’t really play many of the games there, I would just walk around and check out all the people dressed in Cosplay.

Heck it was pretty fun.

I mean we had people dressed like Hellboy.Girls dressed like some Anime characters that didn’t really ring a bell to me.

And even this fella here…

Whom I really don’t know who he’s supposed to be.

It didn’t take long before a girl dressed in a Japanese School Girl uniform came up to me and offered me a balloon.

Now when a hot Japanese School Girl offers you a balloon you take it!!! You JUST TAKE IT!!!

Heck even if she comes and offers you a lump of dog shit you say
“Arigatou gozaimasu!”

I was a little excited though.

I mean heck… the last time I got myself a balloon was when I was a little kid. Ever since then, nobody ever bothered to give me a balloon seeing that I’m all grown up and all so when handed me a balloon.. hey I felt young again!!!

I decided to give my balloon a name at the point in the time.
I called it “Behloon“.

Armed with my Behloon I walked shamelessly around the area to check out more of the Cosplay outfits.

They were all pretty cool so I decided to take pictures with a few of them (With Behloon of course).

Since Sam was there with me I would say
“Hey could you please help me take a picture” and go ahead and pose with whoever the Cosplay character was.

Now here’s where it started. Before a woman unleashes her wrath on you, she will always give you a few warnings. A few may be less than 3 but definitely at least ONE warning.

The stupid thing with men is that more often than not, we don’t notice those warnings until much later on.

The first warning came when I was going looking at the girls around and saying
“Holy shit.. that girl is pretty!!!” and Sam replied with a
“Where got hot… her nose not nice”. (She was actually quite pretty but I didn’t take a good photo).

Being the man I was, I ignored that warning unintentionally.

Then I went on and saw this girl in a Maid Cosplay kind of outfit.

I got so excited and went up to her and said
“Come come take picture with me and my Behloon”.

Sam grunted
“Why like that also you want to take picture with? Please lah!!!”.

That was my second warning but I ignored it again.
Finally, I was walking around when I spotted this girl dressed in a pink outfit.

I have no clue what she character she was supposed to be but she looked kinda cute to me!

I wanted to go take a picture with her but so did everyone else and she was so busy taking all those pictures, I didn’t get a chance so I tried repeatedly to get a good picture of her.

After this picture I felt that I didn’t get a good enough picture of her so I tried again and again.

That was when Sam shouted
“I SWEAR YOU TAKE ANOTHER PICTURE OF HER AND SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU?!?!”

Now that warning was pretty pretty clear even to a dumbass like me.

So I backed off and said
“Okay okay… lets go home”.

I grabbed my Behloon and started walking off.

On the way back to the car I was playing around with Behloon, bouncing it off Sam’s head and going
“Boing.. boing… boing…” you know just for some childish fun.

Sam looked pissed. She didn’t look entertained at all

I mean online when you see her blog you see cute cute pictures of her like that you think she’s a little harmless puppy right?

But let me assure you… if you get on her bad side… she will finish you off!

So I decided not to push her limits and I walked ahead of her a little bit with Behloon.

Suddenly I heard a loud BANG which echoed off all the walls in Berjaya Times Square’s lobby. Almost at the same time I felt a GUSH of air between my arm and body where I was carrying Behloon like a football.

I turned back to see Behloon on the floor, destroyed.

Sam looked at me and started laughing away
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA YOU SHOULD SEE YOUR FACE RIGHT NOW!!! LIKE A SAD LITTLE BOY WHO JUST LOST HIS BALLOON!!!”.

I got angry and I shouted
“WHY YOU BURST MY BEHLOON?”

and she defended herself with lies.

“I didn’t burst your Behloon, it just burst itself”.

Even that didn’t made sense to me… HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? HOW CAN MY BEHLOON BURST ITSELF??!?!She just kept laughing away.

So there you have it everyone.

Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman’s Wrath.

You piss her off, you get on her bad side, and she will hit you where it hurts.

In this case, it was Behloon, the very first balloon I have had in many many years.

As I drove home, the silence in the car was deafening.
We didn’t speak to each other.

Ok wait.. important announcement before I go on to the rest of this post.

Yesterday was Shaolintiger‘s birthday. He turned 30… damn old right the fella.
Happy Birthday Shaolintiger!

Ok back to my entry.

In case any of you guys missed it, The Star and New Straits Times both covered our Nuffnang Pajama Party in celebration of our Nuffnang’s First Anniversary.

Here’s the article from The Star.

And here’s the article from The New Straits Times.
Lol… Nuffnangers… give yourselves a hand. And also give Nuffnang’s PR Agency KimKomm a hand for whom this would not be possible.

It’s not every day anyone gets to be on the country’s two top mainstream newspapers IN YOUR PAJAMAS.

Hey on another note, in the Pajama Party, we printed this fun Nuffnang booklet with the Nuffnang story told from Ming’s eyes and also some Memes from some of our team members.

Download it here and read it.Especially read Ming’s story.

When I read it… a very nostaglic feeling came over me.

Okay so this is what struck me recently.

Here’s how it was okay.

I was sitting in a meeting with some people from a Tech company. Now we were sitting around in the meeting and everyone put their phones on the table.

It was almost as if the phone was everyone’s Avatar and the more Techy your phone is the more seriously I should take you. Heck half of them at the table even had Blackberrys right next to their phones.So with disregard of the environment I was in, I took out my phone and placed it on the table.

Instantly everyone around the table took a good look at my phone and then at me.

I left the meeting a little confused. I went home and told a friend about the weird experience only to get a reply from him
“OF COURSE LA!!! You are Co-Founder of Nuffnang, an internet company! You go around giving speeches for fux sake!!! You have an image to keep.
You’re supposed to be TECHY… but look at your phone!!! It’s not even the latest model of that particular phone!”.

I got a little offended at someone dissing my phone.
“But… it’s a DAMN bloody good phone. It’s 3G, it’s hardy, it has a 3.2 mega pixel camera, bluetooth, reliable… all for only RM1,200. That’s great value for money!!!”.My friend didn’t bother to explain further so I forgot all about that incident.

Then last weekend when Ming was down for our Pajama Party, we had another meeting with another bunch of Tech guys who really wanted to work with Nuffnang.

Everyone in the meeting had their phones on the table… and they all had iPhones.

I didn’t dare take out my phone from my pocket this time.

After the meeting I went on to ask Ming
“Oi.. how your iPhone.. nice to use ar?”

And he said
“Hated it at first but actually when you get used to it quite good. You should get one lar… better for image right as an internet entrepreneur.”

That experience with Ming reminded me of the previous meeting I had some time ago. Then I asked that same friend that gave me advice before
“Okay fine… what’s the hottest phone in the market right now?”

He replied
“The iPhone”.The next thing I asked was
“How much is that?”

And he said
“Between RM2,500 – RM3,000 depends where you get it from”.

Immediately I went “WTF?!?!?!?!?!?.

Now I know RM2.5K or so isn’t a lot of money to some people. Heck I’ve seen Kids have phones that cost as much or more… but for someone who never really spent much of phones before… that is a LOT of money to pay for a phone.

I am just NOT used to paying this kind of money for mobile phones.

I mean heck.. a phone is a phone… you use it to talk, and you use it to text why the hell do you need one that costs so much!!!… that is until peer pressure got into the picture.

So everyone… see that smile on my face?That smile actually only lasted until I realized that I was so broke I had to be eating Bread and Kaya for the next 2 months of my life. *Sniff*

Anyone wanna hire me to do any handy work? Gardening.. anything? Please drop me a mail.

Only RM5.00 an hour. Just 500 hours of Gardening or painting houses and I should be able to make back what I spent.

Damn peer pressure!

Okay people around me seem to be getting attached lately and I now kinda seem like on the verge of being in one so I can’t help but ponder…. how do people really know that they evolve from just dating into being a couple.

When I think back at my past relationships… I can’t remember the turning point when we became a couple. I just remember waking up one day and thinking…
“Hold on… when did I become “Darling” and what are we doing grocery shopping together?”
I mean how do you cross the line from being John and Jane to boyfriend and girlfriend?

Here are a few ways that some of my friends have told me in the past.

1) Holding Hands

According to Nicholas here who just recently got attached, he says you’ll know when you’re in a relationship when the guy holds the girl’s hand in public when walking and the girl doesn’t resist. Then he does it again another time on another occasion and if she still doesn’t resist then you’re officially a couple.

2) Kissing

Some people say that the deal of being in a relationship is when you make that first kiss.

And when I say kiss, I don’t mean a kiss on the cheek like what Dawn Yang gave this lucky dude.

I mean an actual kiss like that.

3) Shagging

When I was studying in the UK I had a close British friend that went by the name Alex. He was a babe magnet, he came from a well-to-do family and he was charming and confident to the extent that it was actually beginning to border arrogance (He never went over that border though).

So anyway, Alex used to tell me two things.
The first thing he said to me when he found out that I had a girlfriend back in Malaysia at the time was
“Mate… what the hell is that for? As if your dick could reach that far!”

Now the second thing he used to tell me was
“Mate… until you shag a girl you’re dating, you’re just best friends that kiss”.

4) Farting

One of my friends told me that you know you’re in a relationship with the girl when you like her and yet you can fart in front of her.Please tell me this is not true guys.

5) “Will you be my girlfriend?”

This is what some people do. And heck I got together with my first teenage girlfriend this way.
Just ask “Will you be my girlfriend?“

And if she says “Yes” then yay!!

If she says
“I can’t… I like you too much as a friend”

Then you’re totally screwed.

6) “Meet my Girlfriend”

Now here’s what I think in my opinion is when you’re really in a relationship.

It’s when a guy goes out with this girl that he’s kinda dating, then suddenly gets to know a really really really friggin hot chick which lets say is named Jenny.If the guy introduces you to that hot chick and says
“Hi Jenny, meet my GIRLFRIEND”.

Then you’re in a relationship.

Okay I’m gonna write a bit and do mostly pictures on the Nuffnang Pajama Party in celebration of Nuffnang’s First Birthday that we had yesterday at Borneo Baruk Club.

I usually try to link all the faces for each person there but I’m not going to do it in this entry because there are just too many links to put in, and I don’t have too much time to blog right now.

Anyway I’m going to start off by saying what the blogger gathering yesterday meant to me. When Nuffnang first started one year ago, Ming and I had always dreamt of the day that we could have our first cross-border blogger gathering. Bringing Singaporeans to meet the Malaysians and vice versa.The costs of course were most definitely going to be prohibitive especially since as much as we can, we don’t like to ask bloggers to fork out money to attend gatherings. We try best as we can to fund it ourselves.

It has only been a year since Nuffnang’s was born and I’m so lucky now to be part of a company that has grown so much so fast, in developing the resources be it the networks, manpower or financial muscle to pull an event like this off.

To the 300 bloggers who came yesterday, we have made history.

Okay on with the party.

Su Ann came up with most of the ideas for the party, one of which are the four beautiful girls that we hired and got to dress up in costumes, mainly a policewoman, a Japanese school girl, a French maid and a Nurse.

They helped with everything from the registration at the beginning of the event to the fun part of the night where they got to play games with everyone.Now honestly, when we first decided to do a Pajama Party, we weren’t sure how the response would be. Heck would people really come dressed in Pajamas?

But well, part of the culture in Nuffnang is to always be willing to take risks and explore new things. Nobody gets very far by doing the ordinary all the time right?

Well it turns out that this gamble really paid off.

You’ll see in the following pictures that most of the people that went for the event went in their Pajamas.
Anyway our event started off with some opening speeches.

Liang, our wonderful emcee for the night got everyone’s attention and passed the mic over the Ming and I.
Ming said a few words but mentioned that he already said his piece in the foreword of the program booklet that was handed out so he quickly passed on the mic to me.

I said a few words to thank our sponsors and thank our bloggers for coming all the way to our event. We had 100 bloggers from Singapore and 200 bloggers from Malaysia present there that night and the atmosphere was ripe with excitement.

Even I couldn’t contain my joy when I was addressing the crowd.

One day when I’m a grandfather, I’m going to tell my kids that there was a time I addressed over 300 people in my pajamas wearing my Doraemon bedroom slippers and carrying my smelly bolster (which is now missing *sniff*).

They’re not going to believe me so I’m going to show them this entry.
Anyway having so many bloggers, I thought it was a fantastic opportunity for Ming and I to do what we’ve wanted to do for a long time.

Nuffnang today has somehow managed to organically build a brand that is increasingly more and more well-known even to the layman non-blogger on the street. Problem is, when people think of the people who brought Nuffnang to where it is today, they think of Timothy and Ming which really is just only a part of the story.

So Ming and I decide to call the whole Nuffnang team on stage (well almost all of us, one of us didn’t manage to make it that night). We introduced the team to blogging community and assured everyone that heck, without each and every one of those people that stood there on the stage that night, Nuffnang will not be where it is today.
After my opening speech, we passed the mic on to Desmond who represented our Title Sponsor: Chipster to say a few words.

And then after Patricia from Panasonic went up to gave a short speech.
When all the speeches were over, we let the games begin.

We had all sorts of games that night, all of which required a lot of crowd participation. For example, there was a game where the emcee would call out an item that he wants and the first person to bring it on stage will win a prize.

At first the emcee asked for “Timothy’s Smelly Bolster” and a mob attempted to grab my poor smelly bolster off me but I threw it far away into the crowd instead 😛 I’m so evil.

Then the emcee asked for one of Ming’s SOCKS.

And the joke is, the person who found it had to smell the sock to win the prize. I bet if he knew he had to smell the sock he wouldn’t have ran up there with the sock in his hand so quickly.
Now the next item they had to get was both of Nicholas’s funny red “Patrick” slippers. Perhaps too excited about grabbing the slipper, it ended up with one guy each grabbing the slipper.
So the emcee decided that in order to determine the winner, there would be a push-up contest among the two.

The one who managed to do the most push-ups will take home the prize… but with a twist.

They had to do the Push-ups with the Nuffies (the French Maid and the Nurse) sitting on each of them.
That certainly caught plenty of attention with all the press and bloggers going up to the front taking pictures.
After that game, dinner was served and everyone rushed to eat something quick before the games continued.Heck we had so many prizes to give away in all these games we played.

All sorts of prizes from the big ticket ones like 3 Panasonic Digital Cameras to smaller ones as simple as bath towels, really nice pillows and etc etc.

We ended up spending somewhere about RM15,000 just on the prizes alone but it was worth it.

We wanted to make sure that as many people as possible would go home with something.

Heck one guy even won a kiss from Dawn Yang.
And there were a LOT of people there to give prizes to.

Let me show you how many.

Just on the Ground Floor alone, this was the crowd.
Don’t forget that we also have the 1st Floor that was crowded with people sitting down to chill or looking down at the stage area.
Somewhere later on in the night, Kenny Sia made an entrance to the event along with the girls from Malaysian Dreamgirls.
We had a game where each of the Malaysian Dreamgirl contestants would strike a pose and anyone from the audience who was able to strike the same pose just as well would win the prize.

For example: Malaysian Dreamgirl in Pajamas
Blogger in Pajamas.
How? Can ar?

Anyway quickly moving on to the other highlights of the night.

Our dear friends at Mindshare brought us all a huge cake (Thanks guys!!!).So Ming and I brought it up on stage for everyone to sing a Birthday Song.

It was hilarious hearing for the first time everyone sing
“Happy Birthday to… NUFFNANG”.

HAHAHA!!!

Now it’s what happened AFTER the cake that made me want to shoot somebody.

The very very “FUNNY NUFFNANG TEAM” decided to go behind both their Bosses’ back and buy them a custom made underwear that they forced us to wear on stage.
Niaaamaaa I looked like a bloody idiot but they were all laughing away…

I caught this photographer zooming in on my balls and taking a shot with his huge SLR and said
“HOI!!!! WTF?!?!”

So a message to the Nuffnang Team:

“YOU GUYS BETTER MAKE SURE I AM IN A DAMN GOOD MOOD MONDAY MORNING MANN!!!!! OR IT IS GOING TO RAIN FIRE IN OUR OFFICE!!!”

Okay okay guys.

It looks like this entry is getting a little too long and I have to head to bed now so what I’m gonna do is just leave some other random pictures here.

I also owe thanks to Su Ann, Michelle, Skyler, Samantha, Tim 2, Raff, Firdauz, Hui Wen, Scott, Nicholas, Robb and Lee Meng for whom without, this event would not be possible. They were all very very independent in pulling this event off so much that I hardly had to do anything. Thanks guys! I love you!

Oh one last thing!!!

We played a video that night which was produced by Yat.

It’s basically a compilation of Birthday wishes from a number of Nuffnangers.

Everyone that night seemed to love it so I thought I’d share it here too.

Watch it. It’s fun.

Here is Part 1

Here is Part 2

I just got back from the Nuffnang Birthday Bash Pajama Party and I am so damn tired right now.

Thank you to the Nuffnang Team for planning such a wonderful event. And thank you to all the Nuffnangers out there who came for the event.

Will write more about it soon. Now I’m so tired and it’s time for me to go to bed… ughhhhhhh… gonna go curl up into bed with my smelly bolster and sleep… wait… wait…. what the hell.. SHIT!!! I JUST REALIZED I DIDN’T BRING HOME MY SMELLY BOLSTER FROM BBC.

)@(#$*()#$*)(#*()$#*()$)*( AUGGGGH!!!!!!!

If anyone finds my smelly bolster please return it to me please thank you?