I met up with an old friend of mine lately. Her name is Michelle. I was 14 when I first heard about her existence. She was staying in a house just a few doors down from my cousin’s house back when I was still a secondary school student in Penang. We were outside my cousin’s house just playing around when we saw Michelle’s car open the gate and go into her house. My cousin then said “The girl who stays in this house.. is damn hot!”.
I then began to hear about her from friends in school. How this girl from Methodist Girl School was perfect. Like she was pretty, top in her class and also a school or maybe even state tennis player. I don’t remember how I officially met her but I think it was through some other friends many many years later when I was in college. It was just before we were about to start university in London together (she, going to LSE) and so we kept in touch and hung out quite a bit in London. We used to do a lot of stuff together… but after graduation she got a job in London whereas I came back to start Nuffnang with Ming. I hadn’t seen her since until recently… and I think some 3-4 years might have passed since I last saw her.
Now she’s off to another high paying job somewhere else in the world but she managed to stop by Singapore for a day and paid me a visit at our office. Ming who also knew her, set up the lunch we had that day. It was really nice seeing her again and it’s funny how things panned out huh. From the time when I first heard about her some 12 years ago… and now.
On another note, yesterday I was at Sunway Lagoon for the Sony Cybershot TX-5 event with some Nuffnangers.
We had about 100 Nuffnangers with guests there for some games so some of the Nuffies and I went along.
The TX-5 is the camera Kitteh is using now and she seems to love it not because it’s a great camera but because it’s “clumsy-proof”. Like it’s water-proof, dust-proof and shock-proof so you can be clumsy like Kitteh and still have a working camera at the end of the day.
The games they played that day tried to highlight that. Like they had this game where mockups of the camera were put inside this box full of … some kind of liquid and stuff and you had to dig them all out to find them.
Or this game where you tried to throw cameras into these round boxes.
Or this one where you’re supposed to find these cameras in an ice-box. That pink one there is Kitteh’s real camera.
Or another one where you had to take an underwater photo with the camera.
I spent the rest of the afternoon after the event sleeping… I don’t know what got into me, just got really tired and sleepy. When I woke up though I played Starcraft 2… until I got nagged by Kitteh.
Halfway through the weekend already… man weekends just fly by too quickly.
I’m going to end this Baywatch like picture I took of Huai Bin at the Sony Cybershot Event. He came fully prepared with his trunks!
Have a good weekend guys.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space