Saturday night we had another Nuffnang Community Event for about 100 Nuffnangers. It was the LG Cookie Monster Party that was in-line with the launch of their new LG Cookie phone range.
The event was held in Neutral Club. I thought the concept of the venue was really interesting. I mean it’s a club that had white walls, white furniture white everything. The wall had no decor but each of these big walls had a projector which could project all sorts of things on the walls. Be it a movie, trailer or even just a logo.
It was pretty cool. It’s like a club that can change its interior every few minutes. The theme of the LG Cookie Monster party was… needless to say… Monster! So we had Nuffnangers dress up as all sorts of monsters… one of the most elaborate was this guy who came as a Predator. No joke! Full costume all the way man!
Kenny Sia was the emcee for the event and we had all sorts of games. Like a game where we had an eating contest on stage to see who could eat a packet of Chipsmore and finish a glass of milk the quickest.
The highlight of the night for some of us though, was the performance by the “WonderNuffies”. How that came together was a couple of months back, Robb asked one of the girls in the office if they would like to do a performance that night. All the girls in the KL office agreed to it and born were the “Wonder Nuffies”. They would all perform “Nobody Nobody” after the Korean band Wondergirls.
They all practiced so hard. Every day in the office after lunch or after work they would all get together and learn the steps. Most of the time I saw them practising though I heard lots of laughing here and there so I can only assume that they had fun. Finally the night came and well… let me share a video that I took in the middle of their performance. Here it is.
The crowd cheered really loudly after their performance and demanded an encore. At that point I thought it was funny how they all looked at each other not knowing what to do since… well.. they didn’t expect that the crowd would ask them for an encore. Some of the people at the event didn’t know that the “Wonder Nuffies” were all staff from the KL office.. but for those who did know, they joked about us getting a surge of “male applicants” to join the company after that night. It didn’t happen though. Nope no surge 🙂
Here are some more pictures from the night.
1) Eric Soong, Kitteh, Lainey, Kenny and me. Kenny went as shrek. I on the other hand pulled out my Domokun t-shirt from the closet and wore that to the party.
2) Here’s me with Nuffies Elaine and Pinky (oh and Domokun too).
3) Me and Lionel, from Ripplewerkz.
4) Me and Hui Wen.
5) Me and Tim 2… who has been with Nuffnang since the early days.
6) Here’s Jolyn and me.
Jolyn is a Nuffnanger from Penang and I always admire how she so often makes a trip down just to attend Nuffnang events. Not only that, she always comes very well dressed too.
7) Some of the Nuffies.
8) One Nuffnanger came in a full Stitch outfit. This is her when she was eating some cookies on the cookie & milk eating contest on stage.
Haha damn cute. If i had a Stitch outfit like that I would’ve so worn it to the party.
9) This is probably the scariest outfit of the night. Mummy girl!
Seriously! I mean her outfit on its own was creepy enough but what was worse was that she had this little “baby” she carried around with her. Like a mummy baby. Man that was freaky!
A bit of a shock though when you talk to her though. I mean when you look at her you get a bit scared, then she comes up to you and this bubbly girl starts talking to you and you get confused on whether you’re supposed to be happy or scared. Heh…
10) This is a picture with Maylene, Elaine and Pinky.
Notice the Cookie Monster eyes on Pinky’s head? She made it herself. All she did was take two white Ping Pong balls, paint black dots on it and then put it on a hair band. So easy yet so nice huh!
11) Finally a group picture of all the Nuffies there that night.
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After the LG Cookie Monster party some of us Nuffies decided to go to Velvet for an after-party. When I showed up with My Hello Kitty, the Nuffies had the biggest “surprised look” on their faces! It’s like they didn’t expect us to come. They expected us to be an old boring couple that just goes home after an event and not go out for an after party. Hah! We proved them wrong!
Them bastards tried to get me drunk though. One by one of them took turns filling up my drink with as much whiskey as possible and getting me to bottoms up with them. To make matters worse, I met a lot of other old friends in Velvet there that night and they all made me bottoms up with them too. The intention of the Nuffies was so obvious though. You could see them all whispering amongst themselves… plotting to get me drunk. One thing they didn’t know was… while I’m generally quite an alcohol lightweight, I for some reason have a pretty good tolerance for whiskey. It’s like.. I can drink a lot and a lot of it and it doesn’t seem to have as much of an effect as me as say wine or even beer!
I don’t understand why….. but nevertheless after all the whiskey I did get a little high… or more like “happy”, That was like… the happiest few hours I had all week. Booze really does some things to you. And you know what, I bought a bottle of whiskey for everyone that night and the bottle cost RM438. I paid RM450 in cash and he never returned with my change! Then again, maybe he couldn’t find me given how packed it was there that night. Heck I wonder what would’ve happened if I had given him my credit card instead. I would’ve had to spend the whole night hunting for the waiter to get my credit card back.
The Nuffies I learn are really different while clubbing as opposed to how they are in the office. I’m not allowed to talk about what happened there that night but lets just say I saw a whole other side to some of them. *Wink* Xinxian. Either ways I was all just happy and having fun anyway. At one point of the night, Maylene nudged me and pointed out to me that some guys were chatting my girlfriend up. I looked over at her and decided two things:
1) The guy didn’t look like a creep.
2) My Hello Kitty looked like she was having fun from the attention she was getting.
So I just said “Bah! Let her have her fun”. Not like I didn’t care or anything but I like to give my girlfriend some space whenever I can. Besides, I trust her 🙂
The next day though she told me that one of the guys was Japanese and after talking to her for a bit finally asked her
“Would you like to share a hotel room with me?”
At which point she then pointed at me and said
“Haha no thanks. That’s my boyfriend there!”.
I only wonder how I looked like at the moment she was pointing at me. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t looking all macho ala Old Spice Man …. but I just wonder if the guy looked over at me and saw me bouncing around (or trying to dance) and thought “Man that guy looks like an idiot!”.
Oh well… I had a really fun night though…. the music in Velvet was great (as always) and we had good company there. Ahh what a night.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space