IF Interactive ... Agency Of The Year 2010 Kancil Awards ... HISTORICAL!

Fri 26th November 2010 ... IF did it again! We were awarded Agency Of The Year 2010! http://www.kancilawards.com/index.php

Last year, 2009 we were awarded a Golden Kancil!

It is totally epic and mesmerizing! (*I kept using exclamation marks ... dats how i feel ... totally proud & awesome) What makes us different is we walked down in HISTORY ... :) We are the FIRST Digital Agency to be awarded so!!! Our long, late nights, quarellings & squabblings, brain dead brainstorm sessionS ... totally paid off.

It is totally remarkable for us Ifians (dats wat we call ourselves ... am totally honoured to be one) ... In comparison to ALL agencies, we have the smallest team ... with 20 odd of us (Creative cum servicing cum programming, Programming cum creative, Servicing cum highclass despatch cum tea lady, Multitasking roles, etc, etc, etc ....) in comparison to ALL international big boys ... and yeah we are ALL 100% Malaysian Chop :), and most in their early 2os (well, i am one of the few above 30ish lar in the team ... bleh ... so what ...) Even when we stood up on stage with McCann (Agency of the Year 2010 too), they almost pushed us ALL off stage! (We were all cramped at a corner and tried hanging on and not dropped off stage)

I ... felt honored having an opportunity to work with these whole bunch of CRAZIEEEE but AMAZING people!!!
And they are (names mentioned not with any preference yeah ... totally random and not in sequence) ...

Ben ... the 'Garang' & 'Strict' Art Director with ideas that is totally great & functional
Birdie ... the Artsy Fartsy Art Director with wackiest ideas all year round
San Yen ... Creative Director, the don't-wanna-grow-old & wish to-be-pick-by-hot-chicks-at-ALL-times
Chris ... Executive Director, the ever noisy, loud, and head bang
Lee Peng ... Designer, always 'cool & calm' with a light smile
Evonne ... Copywriter which also the FB, Youtube, LIVE streaming queen
Alex ... Account Manager cum PA to ALL, he will be the instant reminder to ALL on B'days :)
Chia ... Designer but often with multi-task & multi role, never say 'NO', BEST Prop master!!!
Olala ... Designer with a smile
Wang Teck ... Designer, Banner King! dun-play-play
Zaid ... Copywriter, such polite gentleman
Andrew ... Designer and drama queen
Alan ... Designer and HARD DRIVE supplier :P
Sue ... Copywriter, sooooo noisy larrrrrr
Stella ...Account Executive, woo-hooo ... ROCK CLIMBER!
Miki ... Account Executive, soooo pretty and kan-cheong ler
SanLing ... Account Director, the-ever-MOST-keng-drinker (Alcohol lar)
Kunliang ... Programmer, the whole office cannot leave without him lar
Penny ... $$$
Mui Yen ... MORE $$$

Steffiecake & HunHun ... Loud, Noisy, Crazieeee, supplier, ... misses u both :)
Locksin ... our much loved Art Director, always with the wackiest fashion style & sense!!!

.... Hope next year will be a better year :)

CHEERS!!!

Do Re Mi KOHs :)

BALI with GREAT FRIENDS!

BALI is Heaven on Earth! We misses it like crazieeee ... it has been 3 months since we left for holidays. It has been great place, amazingly friendly & humble people, great booze ALL day long, GILA SEDAP food ... Chris & i reminisce it all the time ... we can't wait till our next trip to the Island ...

Enjoying the GILA SEDAP Babi Guling & Bebek Bengil in Ubud

.... and they have breath taking deco in ALL the restaurants ... how posh kan?

Oh this is a restaurant in Seminyak ... superbly cool!

KU DE TA ... how can anyone missed this sunset haven that serves great drinks & food

Sooooo chill ... even Chris & Alan indulged themselves in a padi & mani after a whole body scrub & massage ... Yup ... they both sure know how-to-pamper-themselves :)

Cocoon Beach Club ... you can just lounge by the pool, drink, and have a skinny deep ... all you want and not care 'bout the world :)

Wade Warung serves the most sedap Nasi Campur .... with performance for ALL!

Captivating sunset ... all round

This is sooooo good for morning breakie ... over looking the beach with serene waves sound ... awesome ...

Alan & Chris heading towards the beach with not so high waves, and not so canggih know-how to surf!

Christian ... our little Koala!

Christian is at his most adorable stage now ... soon to be 16 months old!
He haven't managed the trick of talking back, except with his own missed-pronouncing talking manner .. very babyish, very funny.
He loves to feed himself during meals ... of course it is messy at times, but what the hack, he needs to master his motor skills.
He loves 'trucks', balloon, balls (his 1st love and still am), music, guitar, drum, and ... of course FOOD :)
He is not keen in books at current .. unlike Kiersten. A boy thing ...
He loves taking a walk ... anywhere ... guess it is the independency that he is enjoying.
He loves going to the play gym with kiersten and have a ball of their time climbing like monkeys.
.... and ...
I love to carry him and hug him like hugging a little Koala ... that's why i always say he is mummie's little Koala.
He loves making funny faces. Enjoys it most when you told him NOT to. Yes, his 1st attemp of defying our remarks and testing our patience.
.... what he dislike ...
He doesn't like to brush his teeth.
He doesn't wanna be bath, but once in the bathroom under the shower, he doesn't wanna come out.
When he is dissapointed with anything, he will wiggle on the floor. Guess he will be the 'floor-rolling' type ...
... Kiersten & Christian ...
... che che and Christian's relationship ... they are GROWING in love (with bit of salt, fight, argument in their own manner)
Che Che love to play with him and at the same time trying to bully him or rather him bullying her too at times :) Can't wait to see them in a fight ... hehehe wanna see who is the one that will be getting the bruise on the eye :P

Da da & i LOVE them immensely ... they are such a blessed gift ... AMEN!

Chinese Dumpling 'Chung' by Yen Yen

Yen Yen is my paternal grandma. Why such manner of addressing instead of a common Ma Ma? Well that's because we are the 'Sun Ling' dialect speaking people within the Cantonese Clan. Further information into the heritage ... well i guess i'll need the World Wide Web ... best libray ... Wikipedia! Guess it is the NOW generation problem ... we are losing touch, sense, love and care to our heritage! Coz we are too busy, too caught up in our own world! What's everybody's heritage now? LOMO, iPad, anything APPLE, Wii Console, ... and the list of canggih heritage goes-on.
I love my Yen YEn's 'Chung' very much. Yen Yen and my late Yeh Yeh (you guess it right, my paternal grandpa) will be spending nights of sleepless night to boil & cook the 'Chung' in a big pot under the charcoal stove before the dumpling festival. Lots of work and patience ... guess that piece of positive enthusiasim is the essence of ALL CHINESE whoever, & wherever we are (since most of us are migrants, unless if you leave in China and you are a Chinese, you are considered leaving in your kampung lor. Nope, not right? At least i think that way).
I was pondering on the thought of learning the craft of making 'chung' (craft of wrapping, cooking the ingredient, cooking the FINAL wrapped 'chung'), would love to preserve the heritage and continue the culture in the family. Hopefully i'll be able to bring on this culture & heritage to Kiersten OR Christian one day ... if they don't mind learning!

P/S: Hahaha ... Moon cake festival is near and here i am talking about 'chung' only now :) Blame it on my 'BUSY with the NET Heritage' :P

Christian's Milestone

Anothe milestone reached! Christian is now 15 months old. He is already up and walking since two weeks after his 1st birthday :) He is fast, he was trying to RUN even with his wobbly walking manner. Why? He is trying to catch cheh-cheh during TAG game. And now, with so much of walking he is kinda running a little, those sort of speed walking :)

What can this little boy of mine do:

Speech (i guess boys will be boys ... less chatty and more action)
Request for "walk-walk" whilst reaching out to our pointy fingers for him to hold.
Call out to Da-Da, cheh-cheh, yeh-yeh, Pak (My paternal grandma. Pak also means playing badminton to him. It's the sound of the racket hitting the shuttlecock which he will make during the game with ma-ma & cheh-cheh), meh-meh (that's me),
'Tak' for 'Truck'
Bird .. very clear pronounciation
Ball .. very clear pronounciation
Wa-wa .. for Waffle
Boe .. Boe
Vroom-Vroom ... to get to da-da's driver seat

Action
Love listening to ALL the nursery rhymes, songs, tunes, etc ... he will immitate Kiersten & all the characters dancing manner.
Love kicking balls :)
Love spinning the hoola-hoop
Love playing TAG
Love playing catching
Love running in the park ... and chasing da-da & the kite aimlessly
Love swimming (he will sleep whilst in the float ... super luxury)
Love eating ... YES ... he is certainly BIG on FOOD. JUst show him the plate of food, call out his name, ta-da ... you'll see him come running dropping everythng else he is doing :)
Will fight for his stuff with cheh-cheh
Love doing all kinds of facial expression .. wink his eyes, stick his tongue out to irritate me, shouting competition with cheh-cheh in the car (u can imagine me joining in except that my scolding is drown by their screams. And they both LOVE it.)
Snap the mosquito
Bit Waffle & Boe ... pretending that they are naughty

Dislike
Pooping in the potty!

Little Ballerina

Suddenly sooooo demure kan :)

Ballet Concert ... Such Sight :P

Went for a Ballet Concert with Kiersten lately and guess what? Well the concert was so .. so.. only.
And ... behold my sight, the *little girl that stands-out from the rest ... unbelieveable!

Hooray!!! Urbanscapes 2010 at KLPac

Entrance to Urbanscapes + Ticketing area. Can you spot Chris?

Awesome weather ... SUPERBLY HOT!!! Luckily Beers are SOOOOO AVAILABLE!!!

People hanging out under the old shady tree ...

Love the Architecture in KLPac ... Hope this will stay and not be demolished :P

Electric Tea-Party (http://www.urbanscapes.com.my/news/2010/6/24/electric-tea-party.html) It was pretty awesome!!! You can just 'place / poke / stir / etc" your fingers into the little tea cups (which filled with IKEA looking glass pebbles) and it will create random sound that jives with the background music. Something IF/ can do :P certainly!!!
Unfortunately this cool piece was tucked at a hidden corner. Those that stumbled upon it were usually trying to use a short cut from the main hall to the entrance or market area. Should have it a little more upfront though.

It was such a cool event you wouldn't even mind having the entire 'Family' there .. from the youngest to the eldest! And it is not an unfamiliar sight. We took Kiersten to the much previous Urbanscapes and she ceratinly had soooo much Fun too! Why aren't Kiersten & Christian there this time? Well, guess then you don't have so Viruses like Influenza OR HFM Desease around. Valid kan? http://lynettecheng.blogspot.com/2008/07/kiersten-at-urbanscape.html