Yes, my original iPhone 2G that my parents brought back from New York for me back in October 2007 has been laid to rest.

It was a long time coming – it has crashed twice on me, cleared all my data once (thank God for backup) and the battery has been dying on me every half a day for the past couple of weeks (yes, I am a heavy iPhone user I suppose).

Still, two years is a long time in iPhone years. Heck, aren’t most mobile phones out of date after six months to a year anyway.

So, it is with great sadness that I lay it back in the box that it came to me in (funny that it should be shape like a coffin). I’m not sure if this is quite, “Earth to earth, ashes to ashes” but it is definitely “box to box”. A couple of people have asked me for it already but sorry folks, I’m keeping this one in the Niki Time Capsule. So that when I come back from 3 million years into the future (looking pristine, and like I’ve not aged at all, I will remember what the first greatest handheld computer look and felt like).

Do not cry for me, Argentina Malaysia (and cyberspace) … for like Dumbledore and the great mythics across the ages, I believe that these things do return – greater, stronger and better. Of course, I wish I had not scoffed at the “ashes” bit of the saying earlier – after all, it would be apt to talk about the Phoenix rising from the ashes at this point.

Because … behold, THE RISE OF THE iPhone-ix!

Hello, my iPhone 3Gs. I love you so much.

9.32am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)

Basically, the idea was that road races have been covered by the media in many forms – broadcast, print etc – but mostly from the outside. This project was to capture elements of the race from the “inside”.

This video will explain it all.

Nike+ Human Race 10K LIVE from the INSIDE from BBDO argentina on Vimeo.

I came across this through @thechannelc, who wrote on her Posterous blog:

The Nike Human Race is a massive event and it’s covered by all sorts of media across the world. But this year, BBDO Argentina decided to do something a little different, they’ve covered it live from inside the actual race with a mashup of voice + twitter and google maps combined with real time broadcasting of all the information to a dedicated website and even directly into web banners on sporting portals.

I wish I was part of it!

Speaking of the race, a few weeks ago, Amanda Choe and I – representing the Sambal Sprinters and Rojak Runners respectively – together with the Nike Malaysia crew and other local personalities handed over a mock cheque for RM10,000 to WWF as part of Nike’s pledge to donate RM2 for each kilometre clocked in for the Nike+ Human Race 10k Ambassador’s Challenge.

This event was held at Methodist Girls School in KL where local personalities like Hitz.fm’s Adam C, Azura and Era FM’s Nana showed up for the Nike Run For My School Challenge. Some of us ran about 2km with the girls. I don’t see Adam that often, so it was nice to catch up and take a picture together. Thanks to Amanda for the pix (actually, she doesn’t know that I stole it from her blog).

Of course, the biggest star there was Datuk Lee Chong Wei. The girls all went crazy, some asked some very good questions (I liked the one which asked about him and Lin Dan). Even Amanda and I became like groupies and asked for a photo with him. Hehe

8.48pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)

It was an event held in conjunction with Merdeka Day, where we got about 200 people to come together and decorate all seven Monorail trains running on that day. You can read more about what happened and see some pictures in my previous post.

I just wanted to share with you the official video of the event that was just released a few days ago. See if you can spot me at the beginning of the video!

Oh, and because R.AGE is a media partner, we had produced our own video too. Check it out.

Good night all! Have a fabulous week ahead!

12.42am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)

If you want to know who she is, look for the most mental-looking person in the picture above. These are my colleagues and I posing in front of the newly-renovated reception area at Menara Star. It used to be R.AGE at StarDeck, where we worked from. Obviously, Sharm is the only one not upset at the whole thing (or rather, has a really strange way of showing it).

This would explain the mentalness of the birthday poem she wrote for me – and posted on my FB wall. It is some sort of a tradition ( (okay, well, she’s only done it ever once before) but I am very touched and I love it. Really.

Thanks Sharm! *smiles*

Wanted to share it with you guys:

There is a boy,
Tall and skinny,
His hair quite short,
And his laugh a bit funny.

He looks thirteen,
Though he’s actually thirty,
He’s young at heart,
That’s what keeps him him pretty.

He loves to run,
And tweet and blog,
Can eat a …bucketful of pork,
But never a dog (I hope).

Has a nice hat collection,
And a whole bunch of tees,
So colourful and unique,
Even Rio wanted a piece.

He loves to sing,
Though cannot carry a tune in a bucket,
Belts out Spice Girls despite stares,
In his head he’s like “F*** It!”

He’s generous and kind,
Though not at all times,
Can be jahat and sarcastic,
Well no one said he’s fantastic.

But at the end of the day,
He’s just a Bangsar Boy,
Who spends crazy money,
On lotsa weird ass toys.

Like stuff called Poken,
And a watch difficult to read,
He’s unique in every way,
Never follows, always leads.

Thanks Sharm, I really, really love it.

On a separate note, about a month ago (a few weeks after my 30th birthday), I received a Tweet from one Shiva Ruppeni. It read:

I clicked on the link and lo and behold, I found that Shiva had created a Wikipedia page for me. Damn shy. But it was very thoughtful of her, considering that we’ve only ever exchanged some Tweets. Thanks Shiva.

Oh, and thanks to JayDee for this blogpost too. I shy to write too much about it because I think my blog post today is quite syiok sendiri already.

I love receiving presents when it’s least expected. Don’t you?

12.08pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)

I think he put in some elements of the er hu (or something other classical Chinese instrument) and the piano gets a bit jazzy at some points. I’m not a big fan of Lee Hom (mainly ‘cos I don’t understand Chinese) but I really love this.

So wanted to share it with you this weekend. Thanks to James for sharing this.

2.36pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)