One of my readers (who is now also a friend) found some time on her hands and made me a little computer graphic version of myself and my leetle dotcom logo.
What do you guys think?
Look like me in real life or not?
And yes, she didn’t forget to draw my mole… woohoo!!!
She also drew one of Hasan.
Look like the real person or not?
The real Hasan much fatter right?
HEHEHE
I remember the days of IRC.
It was the “IN” thing back in secondary school.
Students from all over Penang will spend their time on the channel #penang meeting other Penangites.
Conversations always went like that
CoolGuy15: Hi
BabyCrush14: Hi BabyCrush14: a/s/l?
Coolguy15: 15/m/pg Coolguy15: u?
BabyCrush14: 14/f/pg
Coolguy15: Cool… what skool are u from?
BabyCrush14: CPT… u?
Coolguy15: SXI…
BabyCrush14: oic
Coolguy15: so uhmm… yeah…. so how was your day?
Babycrush14: it was ok… u?
Coolguy15: it was ok too… soo uhmm…
Babycrush14: …
Coolguy15: uhmm… so you finished your homework today?
Babycrush14: Ya… u?
Coolguy15: yeah I finished too… great… uhmm… do you watch ultraman?
Babycrush14: Not really…
Coolguy15: how about doraemon?
Babycrush14: nop
Coolguy15: how about baja hitam?
Babycrush14: nop
Coolguy15: baja merah jambu?
Babycrush14: nop
Coolguy15: smurfs?
Babycrush14: nop
Coolguy15: carebears?
Babycrush14: nop
Coolguy15: DAMMIT WOMAN!!! TELL ME YOU WATCH SOMETHING
Babycrush14: i watch cnn, bbc, cnbc and the discovery channel. daddy tells me that boys who spend all their time watching cartoon network grow up to be idiots who never get laid.
Yes, hardly effective at most times, though I did meet quite a few girls over IRC that way (including one named Yi Jun who $(#&*((*#(#$*)
Anyway, the IRC trend faded away quickly and then came the recent years where guys met girls through social networks like Friendster, something that I never quite caught on.
Yes… it is true…
BOSS STEWIE HAS NEVER MET A GIRL THROUGH FRIENDSTER BEFORE.
I don’t know why… maybe it’s because I’m hardly the best looking guy there…
or maybe it’s because I haven’t updated my profile in years (it still says I’m in the UK and I am ‘in a relationship’)
or mayyybe.. it’s because when girls think of sending me a Friendster message, they first see my Friendster profile that says
“Last Login : 3 months ago”.
And they figure “Ahh forget it! The sonofabitch is never going to reply anyway.”
WHICH IS NOT TRUE!!! I do log in to Friendster every once in a while to reply messages!
I just don’t stay long enough to go around collecting 500 friends in 3 different Friendster accounts! 😛
Anyway… meeting girls over Friendster is already fast becoming out of date!
Today, there is a new way for shy boys like me to meet girls online.
And that is… by reading blogs like timothytiah.blogspot.com
I SHIT YOU NOT!!!
Meet William!
William has for long been one of my faithful readers from MMU!
He was doing the usual commenting on my silly blog entries until he caught the attention of a pretty Penang girl named Marian.
They used my blog as a chat base and eventually exchanged MSN contacts.
Today, they are officially … a couple!
Yes!
The very first couple to meet on timothytiah.blogspot.com
So there you have it everyone.
Just by reading blogs (or my blog), William has gone from shy boy
To MAN
Once again, to the shy boys out there… reading timothytiah.blogspot.com is good for you!
It has been a good week with Hasan being around.
But all good things have to come to an end and just a few days ago, I had to reluctantly send him to the airport
But just before he was about to board his flight it dawned on me that he didn’t buy ANY SOUVENIRS his entire trip (apart from 87 DVDs from Batu Feringgi)!
I looked around desperately for a souvenir stand in the airport only to find a stall that sold FRIDGE MAGNETS!
I dragged Hasan over and started told him that I would not have done my duty as a local if I didn’t persuade him to buy a fridge magnet souvenir.
At first he was open to the idea, so I looked at what was available.. from the top down.
We could buy a fridge magnet of our Tugu Negara, our Penang Bridge, our PROUD PETRONAS TWIN TOWERS, our Becas and our…
At that point Hasan shouted
“WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE RED ROUND HAIRY TESTICLES?!?!”
I explained to him that it was a fruit called Rambutan and people eat them by sucking off the white ball inside.
I told him that I would take him to try the fruit the next time he was around but in the mean time he could settle for a fridge magnet of our wonderful fruit but he refused.
“NO! I AM NOT BUYING RED HAIRY BALLS… AND I WOULD RATHER EAT COW SH*T THAN SUCK THE TESTICLES OFF A HAIRY RED SCROTUM!!!”
Then it dawned on me… heck.. that is exactly what a rambutan looks like… and we’ve been eating it all our lives.
I failed to convince him to buy anything in the end.
I’m sorry Tourism Board Malaysia… I HAVE FAILED YOU… 🙁
Hasan says bye everyone.
He will miss all of you.
Until the next time Hasan…
I’ve been going around the blogosphere and it seems almost every blogger out there is giving Chinese New Year wishes to their readers.
So to my dear readers, Gong Xi Fa Cai to all of you!
May you all still have the patience to read my blog in the year of the boar.
I’ve always lingered with the idea of getting my own web host and domain name.
People always tell me “Boss Stewie! A blogger like you should be having his own domain!”.
But I always resisted. Because I’m happy with Blogspot.
I’m not too fussed about being on a free host especially since there isn’t really anything I can think of that having my own domain can do but Blogspot can’t.
I can even put ads on my Blogspot blog…
But today I went a step further by searching for my own domain name. I searched “Timothytiah.com” only to find this. 
SOMEBODY STOLE MY DOMAIN NAME!!!
Now if it was “Timothy.com” I could perfectly understand that…
BUT WHO IN THE WORLD WOULD STEAL “TIMOTHYTIAH.COM”?!?! WHO?!?!?
I did a /whois on Godaddy to find out the details of the person who registered my domain only to find this.
Name: Admin
Organization: Maltuzi LLC
Email: admin@maltuzi.com
Address: 800 West El Camino Real Suite 180 City, Province,
Post Code: Mountain View, CA, 94040
Country: US Phone: 1.6508146730
So it was one of those domain holding companies that stole my domain!
Checking out their website, I found the culprit
“Our technology includes automated processes that scours the internet and mines millions of pieces of data to determine domain names that have the potential for generating traffic”.
WELL HAH!!! TOO BAD THEIR TECHNOLOGIES ARE WRONG!!!
Timothytiah.com is NEVER going to generate a lot of traffic because NOBODY is going to buy it especially now that I REFUSE to fall into their trap (and if I don’t buy it who else will).
(Unless somebody buys timothytiah.com and turns it into a bogel site)
I don’t CARE ABOUT timothytiah.com!
I could just go for timothytiah.net then!
HMPH!!!… …
*pause*
NOOOOO I WANT TIMOTHYTIAH.COM!!!
##$#*($*()$*()#$*()#$*)(#($)$
I AM SO PISSED OFF RIGHT NOW.
NOT JUST THIS KIND OF PISSED OFF.
OR EVEN ERIC CARTMAN’S KIND OF PISSED OFF.
I AM THIS KIND OF PISSED OFF.
NOW WHO’S WITH ME?!?!?
PS: To anyone who’s thinking of saying “Well technically it’s not YOUR domain because you didn’t register it”…… DON’T!!!
I AM NOT IN THE MOOD FOR BEING “TECHNICALLY” RIGHT OR WRONG!!!
Yesterday afternoon, I was so nervous.
I had asked her the day before if she would be my Valentine’s Day date, and she said “YES”!
It was a chance I bet many guys would have given their left nut for, but the lucky one this time was me.
There I was getting all nervous preparing for the big night.
I took 20 minutes and picked my favourite white shirt.
Then I sprayed on myself the perfume that all the ladies always tell me makes me smell irresistible. 
Then I jumped into my little car and braved the traffic jams all the way to pick her up from her home.
She hopped into my car and we started driving to the restaurant which brought me to my next problem.
I wasn’t quite sure where exactly to take her.
At first I thought perhaps I could take her to Rasa Sayang Hotel’s Spice Market Buffet that costs over a hundred bucks per head… but I knew buffet dinners wouldn’t be romantic enough.
Now people tend to relate romantic dinners with fine dining.
I was considering taking her to a French or even German restaurant… but in the end I just decided that the right thing to do would be to take her for something that no other Valentine’s Day date would take her…
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STEAMBOAT!!!!
Now I don’t know about you guys but there is nothing more romantic that watching food cook with a hot pot in a very noisy environment… seriously…
Okay okay fine fine.
Here’s the truth.
My friends and I go to Golden Gate Steamboat every Wednesday for our weekly steamboat ritual, something we call Steamboat Day!
It just so happens that this year’s Valentine’s Day falls on a Wednesday ie Steamboat Day.
Now Valentine’s Day is cool and all, it’s nice to take a girl out dating but if you had to pick between Steamboat Day and Valentine’s Day… you just HAVE to PICK STEAMBOAT DAY!
So that’s right… even the beautiful girls in our group threw away their Valentine Dates just to come for STEAMBOAT DAY!!!
One good example is Linsey over here.
See how happy she was to be at Steamboat Night instead of at Haagen Dazs with her date.
So there you have it.. that’s how I spent my Valentine’s Day.
To the guys who Linsey rejected for her Valentine’s Day date: I’m sorry dudes… it’s just bad luck that Valentine’s Day this year clashes with an even more important day. She didn’t mean to… and she does like you… muster the courage to ask her out again okay?
The most beautiful house in Penang is located in Jesselton.
The house has been around for many many years and up till today… it still looks as beautiful and well-kept as it was when it was first built.
That house belongs to successful businessman Tan Sri Fumihiko Konishi who owns Texchem Berhad which also happens to own companies like Sushi King (Yes… he’s the franchiser of Sushi King… NOT the Franchisee).
It’s inspiring to hear of success stories like that.
The story goes that Tan Sri came to Penang many many years ago and fell in love with the place.
He then decided to stay and build his empire and build his empire he did!
Now every once in his lifetime, a poor Penang boy will have a chance to taste the life of the rich and famous and last weekend… that boy was me.
Through a friend, I was invited to a big garden party at Tan Sri’s house.
A house that I’ve been so used to seeing from outside the gates.
I arrived in the evening of the Garden Party to find a whole lot of cars parked at the side of the road outside the house.
Ashamed of my tiny car, I parked somewhere far far away and walked towards the front gate praying that the guards won’t change their mind and send me away in the last minute.
Just as I reached the front gate… it OPENED FOR ME.
Note: This pic of the gate opening was taken earlier in the day before the party started
I was on a natural high as I walked into the beautiful compound which was filled with cars of the guests of the party.
When I reached the back where the Garden Party was being, a beautiful woman greeted me and took me to my seat.
Many of the seats were empty when I arrived but were quick to fill up.
The party started with an opening speech by a refreshing and inspiring speech by Tan Sri.
After his speech, an entire orchestra played music in the background while the rest of us guests rushed to get our food (ladies went first but the men joined the queue shortly after).
The place was packed, there must’ve been over 500 people there.
So pack that you would imagine a garden party like this in Malaysian weather would feel like we’re all packed into a microwave… but this party had many of these outdoor air-conditioners to keep everyone as cool as they could get.
It turned out to be quite a fun party
In the end, the guests (which were mostly business associates and golfers) got together with the Tan Sri to dance the night away.
Ahh… I went home that night… sober (even though wine was served).
But I managed to take a few last pictures of the beautiful house before I left that night.
Ahhh… the life of the rich and famous… something I’m sure many of us hope to be a part of some day.
A recent conversation with a friend of mine who lives in the UK.
Friend: Congratulate me Boss, for I have just used up all 1 terabyte of Hard Disk Space for porn.
Me: …
Me: Well done… I can’t think of a better use of Hard Disk Space and your UK broadband line.
For those of you who don’t know, 1 terabyte = 1,024 GB.
Now lets put things into perspective.
1 terabyte = 1,024 GB = 1,048,576 MB
Assuming a good quality movie is 700MB for one and a half hours.
(1,048,576/700) = 1,498 movies.
Since each movie is one and a half hours, 1,498 movies is 2,247 hours.
So if you were going to watch one terabyte of porn… it would take you 93 days (3 months) non-stop assuming you don’t eat, shit, sleep or do anything other than watch porn!
I bet the visionary who invented the Hard Drive said decades ago
“Hard Disks in the future will be used to store all sorts of important information from financial records, to research material to historical archives”.
And I bet today if he finds out where the bulk of Hard Disk Space is going, he’ll be thinking
“CRAP! How the hell did I NOT see that coming?”
Disclaimer: If you live in Malaysia… please DON’T TRY TO BEAT THAT RECORD… partly because PORN IS ILLEGAL in Malaysia… but also because our lines are slow enough after the earthquake… so please don’t slow them down even more with your torrents!!!!
Have mercy on the people that depend on the internet to make a living (like Stewie).
Hasan (my middle-eastern buddy from my London days) arrived in style at the Penang airport yesterday.
After graduation, he has since become an investment banker by profession and having just gotten a big fat bonus he decided to make a trip to Penang to visit me.
The first thing he said when he arrived at Penang was that he wanted to see the BEACHES and the SEA!!!
So after picking him up from the airport, I rushed him to the nearest public beach.
To the disappointment of many Penangites that contributed to the famous WALL OF CRAP near the Crown Prince Hotel Beach in Penang… Hasan the tourist… wasn’t impressed.
And he wasn’t even impressed that a particular “Daniel” had spray-painted his own name on the wall.
So to the Daniel that took the effort to display his artistic talent, I’m sorry you had to hear this…
At the end of the dreadful alley was the beautiful beach that people “apparently” come to Penang for (that is of course… according to Hasan) 
Many public beaches in Penang are dirty as hell… littered with anything from plastic bags to condoms.
So on the beaches that ARE well-kept, there are big reminders to tell everyone using it to keep the beach CLEAN.
And the state government not only provide these beaches with a couple of bins
But up to four of them at ONE spot.
Just in case anyone is blind enough to miss them (I know plenty of such people).
Then again, it does help that this particular beach is taken care off by these two hotels (without them we’ll be walking on used condoms instead of sand).
So after confidently assuring ourselves that we are considerate Penangites that don’t litter, we walked deeper into the beach!
And took some pictures of the scenery 
And of us IN the scenery … WOOHOO!!!
Now the thing about the beaches in Penang is… PLENTY of locals hang out there… young and old (though most of the time young).
So while loitering around the beach I bumped into Eve, a fellow blogger and reader of this blog who upon seeing Hasan said
“OH!!! I KNOW YOU!!! YOU ARE THE GUY WHO HATES MACS!!!”
Hasan took a few minutes to defend himself by telling Eve how he thinks Macs are inferior to Windows-based PCs (and that I’m an idiot for buying one).
In the hope of stopping Hasan from talking shit about my Mac, I distracted him by pointing at a drink stand selling COCONUTS.
And being the nice polite host, I bought a coconut for Hasan.
To distract him further, I got him to pose with his coconut.
By the time he was sucking blissfully on his coconut, he had totally forgotten about his life-long mission to bitch about me buying my Mac (that I lurrrrrveee btw).
Now I think the coconut is a DIRTY DIRTY FRUIT!
There is just no “innocent” way of holding it.
Pay attention to the way Hasan was “cupping” his coconut.
That is soo sooo dirty!
But how else would you do it?
How do you guys hold your coconuts?
I was surfing round the internet as usual and I found this picture of one of our favourite celebrities!
Guess WHO???
UPDATE: Alright alright it’s Jessica Alba… and yes that looks like a napkin on her head.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space
