My Nuffnang story started in 2007.

It was the summer of 2007.  I was back from Kyoto and was interning appropriately at Dentsu, a Japanese advertising agency.

Suetpants was also interning at the time – with a small startup called Nuffnang.  She and I would get dropped off by Fat Her every morning at my office and then she would meet up her boss – some fella called Tim – to start the day’s work.

I was quite suspicious of the whole thing because as far as my (limited) knowledge went, 23 year olds didn’t own companies.  Much less a blog advertising one with a weird name wtf.

Nevertheless when my superior at Dentsu talked about alternative advertising, I called Suet up, spoke to Tim and passed the phone to my superior.

Then at the behest of Suetpants, I signed up for Nuffnang.  Then I went back to Massachusetts.

Months later at Mount Holyoke I saw RM200 in my Nuffnang account!!! Damn happy didn’t think I’d actually make anything out of this.  Nuffnang ads are targeted to Malaysian IPs anyway so I never saw any ads in the US.

I cashed out and I think my mother probably took the check wtf.

Then fast forward a year later and I came back to Malaysia for good!

And I got my first ever advertorial!  It was for Oreo hahaha the story was about fighting Lolo for Oreos I think.  Lolo damn disgusting who sticks cookies down their skirts WTF.

Oh and I also finally met Tim the cofounder of Nuffnang who would end up as Fatty ahem.  He’s a changed man now ahem again. Story another time.

When I first joined I had no idea what Nuffnang was about!  I only joined cos I’m a sheeple and Suet asked me to wtf.

Then I found out that can make some pocket money with it especially crucial since I was unemployed (no job yet that time)

Up til then I hadn’t even known there were so many bloggers, not to mention who they were.  I only knew my friends’ blogs, and Kenny Sia was some overly patient dude who kept leaving comments in my blog FHL.

Oh but I knew Xiaxue la everyone knows Xiaxue wtf.

Then I realized that actually it’s more than that.  It’s a whole community of bloggers who have met because they’ve all registered with Nuffnang, go to events together, socialize, sometimes become friends, and maybe even push a brand to marketing success because of their collective power under Nuffnang.

I was thoroughly fascinated!  Wanted to go to the Nuffnang Chipster Pajama Party for their first birthday and dress up in cute sleepwear but still stuck in the US.  Contented self (with Suet) by scrolling through blogs covering the whole party *sour

But it’s been 3 years since I’ve been back and Nuffnang has been such an integral part of my life I can’t think how it would be like if there was no Nuffnang.

The first bloggers I ever met! This was after the Chelsea game with Malaysia sponsored by Heineken.

Forgotten I met all these people so early on!! Especially Eri, Cindy and Ringo.  Actually Ringo I met earlier same time as Fatty hehehe #crypstic.  I remember being very awed because Cindy told me she majored in theater and she was also awed (or maybe secretlyh WTF) cos I told her I majored in Asian Studies wtf.

Without Nuffnang I wouldn’t have…

gone for the Maxis Broadband Girls Day Out which still ranks up there as one of my favorite events ever.  Wouldn’t have met people like Kimcun and Karen!  (Jolene and Cynthia don’t count already know them before wtf)

Wouldn’t have danced like an idiot with Pooh at Maxis’s Wildlife party.

Would never have seen Fatty as Mexican WTF if not for the Mister Potato party.  And Redmummy too of course <3

Would not have met Sixthseal.  Or would have met him but only at a later stage 🙂

Would not have the chance to be on a TV show (Project Alpha although i don’t suggest you watch it wtf).  Would not have visited the kids above at a home in Chow Kit.

Would not have gone to HK Disneyland with Xiaxue and Cheesie!!!

Wouldn’t have planted a tree.  Ok fine not by myself – Kinkybluefairy, Cindy and Cheesie helped too wtf.

Wouldn’t have the chance to be a promoter girl for eyeliner standing on a basket at a pharmacy.  Thanks Maybelline wtf.

Would not have met my buddy Fish!!!! *thick skinned

Would not have been sent to Bangkok on a week long trip 🙂 Just realized I never posted this video on my blog hehe.

Would not have gotten close to my #addiction.

And although not directly through Nuffnang,  I would probably have never met this Fatty. 🙂

And definitely would not have attended the first ever Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blog Awards!! (cos Nuffnang won’t even exist duh wtf)

Pictured here with the PH partners Eric and Jay and their wives!

Also the adorable Violet Lebeaux and Grace, the wife of David of Nuffnang Australia.  If I look drunk here, that’s because I am WTF.  Thanks Grace for dragging me out of the ballroom and forcing me to take shots at the bar next door now you know everyone.

Fatty and Bobss Ming at the NAPBAS 2009 with the super pretty girls from Love, Bonito *crushes paper cup in fist wtf.  Hahaha they’re perfect lo like tall pretty intelligent good business sense and rich.  Everything I’m not WTF.

The Nuffnang team at NAPBAS 2009!  The Nuffnang group has expanded crazily to a 100+ people now.

And these 100+ people manage a network of a million blogs and more today all over Asia Pacific.

Since 2008 Nuffnang has achieved so much.  It has changed the landscape of digital advertising in Asia, created additional income streams for many (even a living for some); it has created friendships and relationships between people who would never have known each other otherwise – apparently a couple even met through the community and got married wtf.  And it will continue to do so.

Congratulations on the amazing past 4 years Nuffnang!  And may you have a billion more wtf.

On 16 December 2011, 500 bloggers from around the Asia-Pacific region will flock to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards 2011 in Putrajaya Marriott. The Awards aims to not only honour the region’s best bloggers, but also to bring together blogger communities from across Asia-Pacific. The Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards is brought to you by Volkswagen Malaysia and Putrajaya Marriott.

If you want in on the very glam and prestigious looking NAPBAS, just go here to complete your submission.

You can either choose to write an entry titled “My Nuffnang story” like me wtf or “Nuffnang Blog Awards, Here I Come” with the top 3 reasons why you want to attend the awards.

I will see you there 😀