I’m in Thailand now for a short business trip to hold some meetings with the management here at Nuffnang Thailand. I haven’t actually been to Thailand that much in the past year because the operations here was handled primarily by Ming and Hui Wen.
It’s amazing what change a year can bring. In the past year Nuffnang Thailand has practically doubled in size and moved into a new office. This is how it’s like.
Our office is right in the city along Sukhumvit and it’s still kinda new so we haven’t done much with it yet. Heck the chairs in the meeting room still has plastic wrapped around them.
The one thing cool about the Nuffnang Thailand office is the environment. The Thai Nuffies here are a super lively bunch. Actually every Netccentric office in the region is fun and kinda noisy but the Nuffnang Thailand office takes the cake.
Throughout the entire day someone is always talking, laughing, joking or even singing. It’s so festive I wonder how anyone gets anything done.
What I’m grateful for is the progress Netccentric has made regionally. We started off as a company just based in Malaysia and Singapore and we immediately knew we wanted to be regional. So we invested whatever profits we had to organically expand and honestly we went through a phase where we were wondering if these investments were gonna pay off.
Last year proved it all for us. Our overseas operations today contribute to so much of the growth of the whole group. It took a long time and a lot of stress for us to get here but we’re glad we did.
One thing I realized about the Nuffnang Thailand office is that just like our offices in Malaysia, Singapore and China… everyone takes off their shoes in the office. I didn’t realize that and very stupidly walked into the office with my shoes on. Nobody corrected me.
I looked out the window of our office to a view of Bangkok.
I remember coming here a few years ago to set up our operations here. We were optimistic but we were also cautious because we knew how hard it was to expand to another country.
A few years on, Nuffnang Thailand is a fairly sizable operation. Our challenge now… is how to bring it to the next level. And we’ve got a lot of challenges ahead of us for that.
So much has changed in a year. I wonder what next year will bring.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space