Whenever I reach the end of the year I always look back and think to myself how the year has passed so quickly. I wonder then what I did the whole year. So I do a couple of things. I go through my blog archives and I go through all the pictures I’ve taken for the year. Those two things tell the story of what I’ve done in the past year.
That’s the thing about blogging or being a blogger. It’s not just what you publish online but it’s also the discipline you have to take pictures wherever you go. Pictures always tell a story.. of what you’ve done or what you were doing back at a certain time. Here’s just a quick summary of the things I did in 2010.
Early January was the first time I’ve started using the Kindle.
Ming bought it for me for a Christmas present the year before. It remains today an awesome gift. When it comes to reading books, nothing beats the Amazon Kindle.
I went to East Malaysia for the first time in my life. It was for the filming of Project Alpha Season 2. We shot a few episodes in Kuching and one even in Kenny Sia’s gym.
Like a week after Kuching I had to leave again for London for the shooting of another episode of Project Alpha there. It was my first time going back to London since graduation so I took some time to meet up with some of my old uni friends who were still there.
Julia, my British Born Chinese friend that always amazed me how she sounded totally English when she spoke English with her accent and totally Hong Kee when she spoke Cantonese.
and Adrian who is working at the Bank of England now.
Took a walk down memory lane too. Visited my old University College London where I spent 3 years of my life.
and even visited the old council flat I used to stay in as a student.
Spent a bit of time on a food adventure too.
Had my typical English Breakfast.
Went back to Alounak, my favourite Persian restaurant in Bayswater.
and actually went for lunch at Maze, a Gordon Ramsay restaurant.
Dropped by Miu Miu at the later part of the trip to buy Shorty a gift. Met a salesgirl there who happened to know all about Nuffnang 🙂
Got back to Malaysia just in time for Chinese New Year. Played sparklers for the first time since I was a little kid.
That’s me playing it with Shorty.
Back in KL the Nuffies had a Chinese New Year lunch because Robb insisted on having his Yee Sang.
Felt really bored one weekend with nothing to do so Shorty and I decided to make Oreo Truffles. Turned out to be quite a hit.
Had a little Nuffie BBQ at my place.
Saw the biggest pint of Guinness I’ve ever seen in my life (made out of balloons).
Went to AMP Radio and met up with some of the Era DJs 🙂
Headed off to visit our office in the Philippines. Here’s the first dinner we had with the team there.
After that dinner we went to this really nice bar where people could go up and sing a song they wanted to sing with the backing of a live band. I went up and sang “How to Save a life” (badly).
I wouldn’t have done it without the help of the Filipino Nuffies… and the booze.
The next day we had dinner at Jay’s house. The cook for the dinner that night was this TV celebrity chef in the Philippines they referred to as the Martha Stewart of the Philippines.
Met Hannah there too.
Came back from the Philippines and then made a trip to Singapore with Shorty to visit Universal Studios there.
Ming booked us a luxurious night at Capella. A once in a lifetime kind of experience because it’s too expensive to stay more than a night.
Since we were having a luxurious night, Shorty and I dressed up and went for a good dinner with some friends too.
Came back from Singapore in time for the Project Alpha Season 2 launch. Filming was done and it was time for the blogger launch at Cineleisure Damansara.
Moved into my new place.
Nuffnang and Gatsby held Malaysia’s Largest Blogger Gathering with over 500 bloggers at Berjaya Times Square one afternoon.
Everyone had a sticker with the number they were. We hold that record still till today.
Went to Malacca one day for my favourite Chicken Rice Balls.
I can never get enough of that and it doesn’t matter if I have to queue. I spent all the time queueing just taking pictures with Shorty here.
Went to Japan with the Jipaban team in September for a trade show.
Had Xiaxue, Ringo and some other tag along too.
Popped by Tokyo Disneyland for a day too right after the tradeshow.
Right after Japan I headed back to the Philippines for work.
Came back in time for the Nuffnang-Vaseline party at Lunar Bar. One of the few cocktail-classy kind of parties we’ve ever had.
After that I headed to Hong Kong for some meetings. Took this picture while waiting for the people I was meeting to come into the meeting room.
Shorty and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary. Got Firdy to make us these little clay figurines.
Went for the Horeca Temptations party at Seven Ate Nine with Gin and Coring.
Took a flight one day and remember seeing this Firefly attendant wearing an Air Asia cap.
Attended the Glitterati Plus Open Meeting at Taylor’s for the launch of our new program for bloggers who want to be really active.
Went to San Francisco after that for the Web 2.0 Summit.
Ming and I visited the Google office and many other offices of Silicon Valley companies then.
Over the weekend I made a quick trip to Vegas too. Just to check out how it’s like.
Came back in time for the Merry Guinness Christmas party.
December came and we went for our first Nuffie company trip ever with the staff from Nuffnang, Nom Nom Media, Netccentric and ChurpChurp.
We went on a cruise.
And that everyone was my year.
I did miss out one part of it though. My business trips to the Nuffnang Australia office but I’ve lost all those pictures because my Macbook’s hard disk crashed some time in the middle of the year. Sucks but that’s life.
Hope you guys had a great 2010 too. I wonder what 2011 has in store for us!
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space