Meme Proposal - Publicity for whom? An analysis.

With Timothy Tiah's wittiness, he made use of 9gag's popular memes to propose to long-time girlfriend, Audrey.

Yesterday, this video was at 78,000 views. Today it's heading towards 700,000. Something is wrong with YouTube though, they're not updating the views real-time so don't be surprised if the views balloon up to 2,000,000 views tomorrow!

His documented marriage proposal video has the world slicing onions crying their hearts out.

Ever Christina Perri (Jar of Hearts singer) watched the video! (it's on her twitter)

In all seriousness, it touched my heart. Heck never knew I had one wtf.. Watch the video.

Marriage difficulty level: Asian

Congratulations to Fatty and Shorty!

Summore it's made in Malaysia.. the country that barely has any achievements. Fuiyoh

You can congratulate Audrey at her blogpost:
http://fourfeetnine.com/2011/12/11/the-proposal (I'm her 165th comment woot)

And you can congratulate Timothy over here at:
http://timothytiah.com/2011/12/21/video-of-our-meme-proposal/



Now, it's time for me to be a lil kepochi to identify the publicity this video generated for the following parties.


no.1 Timothy Tiah & Audrey Ooi Feng Ling

If you actually type 'Timothy' on www.google.com, his blog is number one on the search results. The last time my blog was number one on Google's search result was when I posted up my brazilian wax post and generated 6,000 views over the course of 2 days before it fell from no.1

It's been 3 days and Tim's blog still maintains the top result so.. he must be getting about 10,000 to 30,000 hits on his blog.

As for Audrey her blog is top 5 in top google results. Can lah... how to compete with Audrey Magazine? Since she's a girl (as you know people are more curious about girls than guys), her blog must be getting about 20,000 to 50,000 hits to see her response to the whole thing.

Depending on their next blog posts, if it's spiffy enough they can capture 1000s of blog followers.


no.2 Nuffnang

As you know Timothy is made in Malaysia. And he also happens to be the big boss of Nuffnang.

Check it out here on wiki! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuffnang

Nuffnang is the main blooger advertising community in Asia boasting about 150,000 blogs under them.

So this morning Nuffnang just posted up the video on it's fanpage. If it gets a buttload of shares their fan count might hit 34,000 to 36,000. Unlikely to balloon up to 50,000 since Nuffnang mainly targets bloggers.

no.3 Crazy Monkey Studios 

If you went to Timothy's blog (timothytiah.com) he mentioned the name of the studio that produced the video.

In Malaysia people are known to copy styles from each other so if you hear a Malaysian girl shrieking 'i wan a video like tim and audrey!! dun care!!!!!' loudly at a kopitiam, don't be surprised. Right now http://www.crazymonkeystudio.com  is also number one on google search results. No surprise if they gets a million phonecalls to produce wedding videos.

So goes the saying.. 'Fellas, we're in business!'

no.4 Neroteca, Kuala Lumpur

The restaurant mentioned in the video is, again, number one on google search results. Thanks to the meme proposal don't be surprised if everyone starts going to the restaurant to propose. If Neroteca is smart enough, they'll provide 'Surprise proposal discount' package bookings! If that happens, walauweh...

no.5 9GAG

9GAG may have generated a shitload of publicity for the video

But nerds like you and me know that not everyone knows about 'memes' or the existence of 9GAG.

The views on YouTube for the video will probably hit 3,000,000 in a week and people will be wondering 'wtf's a meme', and voila. More people will start registering at 9gag.com (which was originally from 4chan)

If you're still feeling all sad sappy and shit from watching the meme proposal video, this next video that's making waves around facebook will cheer you up.

Sam Insanity, over and out.

new Malaysian ringgit bank notes design for 2012

BREAKING NEWS

Are you seeing this?

Not sure if it's a hoax but apparently these photos were 'taken by Sinar with permission from Bank Negara.'

Looks like monopoly money..

I googled it and can't seem to find the news anywhere. Looks pretty authentic, but keep your second thoughts!


Sam Insanity, over and out.

*Note - The news is now official. The Star newspaper just published it yesterday evening!

North Koreans weeping for Kim Jong il video: Why are people hating on it?

So just a day before yesterday I surfing the net for some Kim Jong il news and found a video

Two days ago 40,000 views; today 4,000,000 views and climbing.

I am peculiar about this though..

Why is everyone hating on the video? 

Sure it's dreadful to hear, comparable to a mix of penguins and walruses barking out a mating call.. but don't you think it's weird for there to be so many hateful comments on YouTube?

People claim that this is proof that Kim Jong il has totally brainwashed the people of North Korea, but really now, if you were American and Obama died; wouldn't you shed tears for your leader? Seems like a very normal thing for me. (Although I wouldn't shed tears for Najib..)

Another thing to keep in mind, Asians tend to have a more closely-knitted community than westerners (who have a more independent-kind of community) so it might be a bit of a culture shock and a lil weird to see so many people crying together.

Furthermore, as you all know there has been a claim by John Perkins that the US government has been sending Economic Hitmen to developing countries, manipulating foreign policies and establishing US presence in countries throughout the world with lucrative monetary offers which plunge third-world countries further into debt and reap profit from them. If you remembered the video below.

Now, the country of North Korea has always been known to refuse conforming to US advances, closing off it's country to the public. Thanks to that, everyone thinks North Korea is filled with a bunch of pale-skinned malnutritioned asians who have never seen the sun in their life, operating military bases to produce nuclear warheads.. Puh-lease. Be realistic will you?

In my opinion, I feel the US government has unfairly kept the truth from its people and has been continuously launching a series of smear campaigns to portray Kim Jong il as a dictator, along with the other two (Saddam, Gaddafi). But who knows what the truth has been has been twisted into after so many decades!

Let's step back and take a break from all this finger-pointing.

Another video has been making rounds around the net (a much less dreadful one thankfully)

Enjoy this video, and have a smashing New Year's Eve.

~ Sam ~

NEW BLOG! 6 NEWS. Kim Jong Il dies. ChengMan's Prank, Google's let it Snow? Granpa Shufflers! Chris Crocker Left Britney Alone and bonus.

Celebrate. 

for Sam Insanity's blog reconstruction is now.... COMPLETE. 

I have spent 8 fucking hours going through useless HTML guides and doing everything myself just to finish my new blog template so.. 

Welcome to Sam Insanity.

Now, on with some real news. Check out what you missed in the last two days

no.1 Kim Jong Il dies 

Apparently this afternoon today 10 minutes after I woke up, Kim Jong Il passed away.

Could this mean the beginning of the unification between North and South Korea? It sure is the number one news of the day. Funnily, three dictators have died this year. But, are they really dictators? Or were they smeared with the term by the American government's propaganda in retaliation for interrupting loan payments set by the Economic Hitman? Makes you wonder, doesn't it.

no.2 The ChengMan's Sexy And I Know It Prank

The video says it all.


no.3 Google lets it snow 

Did you know Google has snowflakes today?! 

Go to www.google.com right now and search 'let it snow'

If you leave your screen on until the frost covers everything, a Defrost option will come on.

Ah, and you wonder why people don't care about electricity being wasted.

no.4 Chris Crocker leaves Britney alone


Remember the LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE guy?

Turns out he's left the Britney alone, the look that is, and now he's lookin' like a real man. Here's a recent video of that's been making waves

..still, his voice could pass as Justin Timberlake.

no.5 Granpa Shufflers. 

Say what? Start lmfao-ing at LMFAO people. Elderly people will beat your ass at shuffling. Any. Day.  

Good laugh among friends. Go gramps!

Bonus* Malaysian Latest College Scandal 

Malaysia Malaysia.. always with the scandals. Here's the latest college scandal on youtube.

Bet you pissed your pants.

You will not believe how many people have fallen victim to this one.. let's have a looksie below. 

And believe it or not, that was just yesterday. The victim count is heading towards 30 (trololol)

I've missed out on a lot while I was in Taiwan guys

What big news or funny videos have you heard of the past few days?

~Sam

Fucked up blog

Okay, right before I was about to write a new blog post I was in the middle of revamping this god damned blog and the template I tested saved itself while I was having supper with friends. Fuck.

As you all know I haven't been posting much due to my videos, assignments and final exams; but I've also wanted to revamp the blog for a while now to suit my taste.

The blog is going under reconstruction. Tamadecibai this blogspot.. sigh.

Visit again in a few days!


~Sam

Sam gets a full body massage @ Cah'ya

Sam hasn't had the time to blog very often.

I was put in charge of producing three videos for TV production assignment. As if one video wasn't stressful enough. One music video, one documentary and one corporate video. Ugh. Do you know how stressed I am to be a director?! For all three shoots no budget was allocated so I have next to nothing to work with. Over here I have to manage my group's schedule and look for talents who will work for no pay. Over there I have homework, tests, presentations, events, examinations, class, work out sessions and blog posts to do. Somebody shoot me. 

One fine Friday evening as I sluggishly typed out my speech in a nonchalant manner resembling a bloodshot-eyed zombie, the lovely JamJam called me up and went..

Jamie: Sam! 

Sam: What. 

Jamie: Let's go for a massage. 

Sam: You are so random. 

Jamie: Come lah~~ I got discount from the red elephant, I manja you dun wan?!

There I was thinking, "Stuff from red elephant is good. I need this anyway." 

(At this moment I gave the camera which I took pictures with, back to the owner for our shoot. When I get it back I'll upload my own pictures. For now I'll steal some from Jamie, hiakhiak)

We paid quite a good price thanks to http://redelephant.com.my. 

Funnily this Jamie ah, she set the appointment at 10.45am when we decided to leave at 10.00am! I wasn't at all bothered at arriving punctually at the dot, since I had to travel from KLCC to Mont' Kiara grabbing breakfast and Jamie from Cheras in between. We found the place and arrived at 11.20am.

We got scolded. 

The fact they scolded me itself impressed me as it shows they took their job seriously. It was I who disrespected their schedule; and its sort of a good wakeup call to stop fooling around. 

Nevertheless, the place felt.. foreign. To be honest I felt like I was in Indonesia or Thailand.

The shoe rack makes me want to live there.

Fully equipped with Australian oil.

Jamie with the ladies. 

These ladies are trained professional killers. 

Well not really, but you'll be surprised to know they come from Sarawak and possess over 30 years experience in traditional Bidayuh deep tissue massage. Did I say 30? Yes I did.

Pinecones! ❤

A peaceful waiting room served with heart-warming ginger tea. 

Jamie and I had a pretty sweet time together, getting massaged by aunties. They had a wide range of massages, but its pretty obvious I opted for the Anti-Stress Aromatherapy Massage. (heh)

The rooms are beautiful.

But of course with age comes wisdom, and experience. As she smothered me with Anti-Stress oil, I took advantage and asked her about places she's seen and been to. 

She's been everywhere. 

Venezuela, Berlin, Hawaii, London, Bangkok, Mumbai, Paris, you name it. I asked her, which country she preferred the most. Despite getting the chance to travel throughout different countries she still picked Malaysia! Second best was indonesia for the food. She told me how she always misses the weather and Malaysian food. I will never understand her preference due to me being such an unpatriotic citizen. 

Jamie has a bigger..

Thank goodness the massage was such a stress relief. Of course all fairy tales come to an end, as had to rush to another place right after the session. Once again, I mourn and face my workload with diligence. 

(Please look forward to my music video and corporate shoot. I'm working very hard on them)

Jamie was as happy as a lark. You can view her blog post here. Overall I'd have to say Cah'ya scored a 10 out of 10 for it's great foreign-like ambiance, veteran staffed masseuse all of whom have practiced Bidayuh massage for 30 years, peaceful body and mind stimulation as well as a pleasure cruise to the nostrils.

If you happen to feel adventurous and stressed at the same time, have a go at a Bidayuh massage. 

Here are the details as listed below. They're quite busy so you'll have to book an appointment with them. Remember not to be late!

Cah'ya Aromatherapy

Tel: 03-62034500

Address: Suite B-03-01, Plaza Mont’ Kiara,
No 2 Jalan 1/70C Mont’ Kiara, 50480 Kuala Lumpur

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~Sam

Being a virgin: My first condom.

"Sometimes I wonder if I will remain a virgin forever,
the very thought of it scares me."

R.I.P Sam the virgin

~5th of October 2009 : 1.30am~

Today I welcome the 1st of October, celebrating my two-year anniversary since the day I bought my first condom over here.

Ahh I was so innocent and pure back then. I wonder if that auntie still works there

Though my life is awesome now, being a virgin back then wasn't easy.

I was nervous. I was pressured by people around me; teased.. made fun of.
I was shy. Girls would joke about my dick size. Guys would brag about their sex jokes.
I was a social outcast. I'd lie I wasn't virgin just to avoid being made fun of and for the sake of fitting in.
I was sad. There was no one I could relate my situation to, no one I could talk to.

In poorer lesser developed countries, a common scenario plays out a group of pranksters actually decides to play a trick on someone virgin, especially girls.

Set a day, drag her out to a quiet place, surround her, and take turns rape her.

Being a girl is difficult.

Being a virgin is not funny topic to talk about or joke around among your friends; whether it be guys or girls.

Growing up, I see things differently now.

I bought my first condom two years ago on 2009, and I lost my virginity very recently last year 2010 at the age of 20, two days after my birthday which was just a year ago.

Because of all the confusion and taunting, I felt I needed to lose it instead of being mentally ready to accept it.

Now I feel a part of me is missing.. empty; it was not what I wanted.

Being a teenager is difficult. For many people it reminds them of happy times.

For some of us, we lie waiting in the dark where being young was only a time of pain.. confusion, and we grow up unhappy and differently from the others.

Please, if you are making fun of your virgin friends..

Stop.

If you know a virgin out there who needs help or someone to talk to, you can ask them to talk to me,

A don't worry, there will be no judging.

I will listen.


~Sam