Okay... do a little experiment.
Look at your MSN contact list now.
Now think of all the people you know in your list, then think of their age.
Sort them all by age.
What you will notice, or at least what I notice on my own side is that all the people Above 25 in my list have their MSN nicks as their own names... e.g. Sarah, Andrew Lim, Mehlin etc etc.
But the people BELOW 25 have nicks like
"*B@bY_CRUSH85" or "ARCHillies" or "Sl@yer" or something really complicated made up of MSN emoticons.
Similarly, my MSN nick is "Stewie", after "Boss Stewie" which isn't my real name.
So since I spend a lot of my MSN time talking to clients, I decided to adopt a more grown-up MSN nick... "TIMOTHY TIAH".
Yes... that's as grown up as an MSN Nick gets... well unless I had "Mr. Timothy Tiah" which would then give people the impression that I'm 75.
Now I waited to see if anyone took notice or if there was any change in the way people talked to me.
With my colleagues like Michelle here... no difference. She just referred to me as "Boss" so I wasn't gonna get anything exciting out of that.
But you know to the outside people it might matter.Like before if people msged me on MSN they would say
"OI dude... you there?"
Maybe this time when they see an 'older' MSN nick they might go
"Hello Timothy! Are you there?"
I waited and waited for someone to message me... and I was disappointed with the result. The message I got was
"WOI STEWIE!!!"
Anyway while pursuing my little experiment I came across a very different result just tonight.
This dude messaged me.
*unicef melvin says: (8:51:09 PM) ehhh
*unicef melvin says: (8:51:14 PM) ur timothy tiah??
Now Melvin here is someone I've never met before but known from the UK. We used to be in the small Malaysian community of Counter-strike players there and we used to play friendly matches on the same team.
That's how stupid online relationships can be. I mean here's a guy who I used to shout at online
"WOI MAHAII GO DEFUSE THE DAMN BOMB LAR YOU CAMP THERE FOR FUX AR?!?"
And he doesn't even know my name.
So anyway I replied him.
Timothy Tiah says: (8:51:54 PM) yes
*unicef melvin says: (8:52:04 PM) ehhh din know man haha
Timothy Tiah says: (8:52:37 PM) then who did u think i was
*unicef melvin says: (8:52:46 PM) the guy who taught me how to CS source
*unicef melvin says: (8:52:48 PM) hahaha
Timothy Tiah says: (8:52:58 PM) ishhh
Timothy Tiah says: (8:53:03 PM) then u know who is timothy tiah?
*unicef melvin says: (8:53:28 PM) ehhh my frens were talking bout ur blog lar
*unicef melvin says: (8:53:34 PM) din know ur timothy tiah
*unicef melvin says: (8:53:41 PM) then u put timothy tiah on ur nick then i know haha
Timothy Tiah says: (8:55:10 PM) hahaha
Timothy Tiah says: (8:55:25 PM) so u never knew all this while that i'm timothy tiah Timothy Tiah says: (8:55:28 PM) even during the uk days
*unicef melvin says: (8:55:36 PM) yeah lar only know by CS nicks mah
*unicef melvin says: (8:55:39 PM) ur stewie
Timothy Tiah says: (8:55:41 PM) ohh
Timothy Tiah says: (8:55:42 PM) haha
*unicef melvin says: (8:55:42 PM) that's all i know
Timothy Tiah says: (8:55:45 PM) so ur friends read my blog ar
*unicef melvin says: (8:55:57 PM) but then again i'm quite detached from the KL population so can't blame me
*unicef melvin says: (8:56:05 PM) aiyah they told me ur big timer in kl lar
Timothy Tiah says: (8:56:24 PM) waht?
Timothy Tiah says: (8:56:24 PM) who say
Timothy Tiah says: (8:56:25 PM) where got
*unicef melvin says: (8:56:49 PM) hahaha quite lar, ur blog so many hits
*unicef melvin says: (8:57:02 PM) aha anyways gotta go out now
*unicef melvin says: (8:57:09 PM) good to know ur name finally ahha
*unicef melvin says: (8:57:10 PM) take care dude
Timothy Tiah says: (8:58:41 PM) okok see u
I wonder how many people I have on my list who don't know me by name.
stewie...looking for escort from sufiah yusof ah? hehehe...
ReplyDeleteCAUGHT YOU!
HAHAHAHAHAHA
ReplyDeleteokokok you caught me wikipedia'ing her
lucky i wasn't doing anything else
Actually your real name is Timothy or Stewie? O_o
ReplyDelete"eh your timothy tiah???"
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHAHA
"actually your real name is timothy or stewie?"
hahahhahahahahahahahha ahhhhh stewieeeee why the world got so many cute people :P
tim, bout ur question. u gotta be engaged or some sort to sue.
ReplyDeleteei. your statement about people below 25 who put on funny nicks are not true!!! plus you make me feel old now! aargh. way too old since ive been using my name as my nick all the while since i started messenger. no wait... hmmm... i think it was icq that time... darn
ReplyDeletelol i noticed ur change of nick la. n tks for pointing out that i'm old... :S
ReplyDeletehahahha, ya man...reminds me of last time when i played CS back in malacca, everybody just call me "yipguseng" "yipguseng", when my friend ask them do u know who is "boon", they say dunno -_-
ReplyDeletehmmm, didn't know there's a msn for mac, i'm still using some open source software, anyway... not just nick, sometimes they also have weird email ... even weirder than the nickname. but i'm proud of my name~ co no need any fancy nick
ReplyDeletehow the hell did howzan knows about u wiki-ing about sufiah?
ReplyDeleteboon, even after cs still ppl call u yipguseng la.
boss,
u played CS in pyramid often in 1-stop ah ? around 1999 - 2000 like tat...
eh i donch have ur msn leh, add me, add me!
ReplyDeletewhats michelle holding there?
ReplyDeleteclf: timothy
ReplyDeletepink: haha yes yes plenty of cute people
samantha: what? how do u define engaged? a verbal agreement to get married?
peggy; hahaha okok fine fine u're an exception
immi: haha!
boon: yes yes yes.... but i know u're boon!!!
clement: yah.. yes yes.. u're all grown up now clement
jb: yeah i used to play a lot in pyramid during those years
mrchrispy: what's your msn ad?
miss: hahaha!! it's a pad
And I thought you were Richard Andrews or something... guess I was wrong.
ReplyDeletei tot ur name was pro-porno finder/cute girl pic looker/a pimp wif a sexy mole or sumthing along dat line?!?!?! nooo... din noe it was so far fetched... my idol boss gt a normal name!!! LoL...
ReplyDeleteaiyah, know la know la.. full name i also know! :p
ReplyDeletei know you by your name :p
ReplyDeleteIf I had you in my MSN list, I would know. Trust me, I would. YOU TIMOTHY TIAH! fwoaaah!! xD
ReplyDeleteHahaahahhha!!!! Me also not in leh boss!!
ReplyDeleteIf I knew, I would have knew you. Then again, even if I did, I probably would have done the same thing as well LOL
Where got people over 25 then use their names as nicks. I'm under 25 and most of my friends are under 25, yet we use our names as our MSN nicks.
ReplyDeleteI beg to differ. I'm under 25 but my nick is my name. Hah!
ReplyDeleteSo I'd like to conclude my comment with this: It's not the age of the person that matters. It's the maturity.
Right, Stewie? =p
walau!!! my msn nick name is XiangMei...does that mean my age is 25 and above???Urghhh!!! I'm only 15 !!! 15!!!!15!!!!15 only! lolx,must change my nick name before anyone call me old lady.
ReplyDeletehmph. i'm below 25 but my msn nick is my name!
ReplyDeletecopykate is considered my name right right? at least it's not something awful like
*(opyK@+3*
wtfreak XD
that's why i can't prank people with my age using MSN.. -___-
ReplyDeleteI don't have your MSN. But usually I'll go by my name Simon Seow or my nick Ryuji.
ReplyDeleteDoes it mean that if I want to feel young I'll just use super complicated names?
ReplyDeleteOklar...time to google some badass nick. Maybe I can fool someone to believe that i'm a 8yr kid. XD
melvin you disappoint me......
ReplyDeleteEh? But i have been having "Nicole" as my msn nickname since i was 20. @_@
ReplyDeleteDon't really agree, most of the people I know on msn uses real names...n they are below 25...keke.....do la research again..
ReplyDeletewah howzan..so free u go scrutinize the pics :D btw, i saw sufiah yusof too..LOL
ReplyDeleteso boss..ur name is Stewmothy? LOL..or Timowie? :P
hmm.. i used to have an email with the domain @freeandsingle.com and @fuckingrude.com, it was N years ago when www.myownemail.com was still around.
ReplyDeletei don't think it's the age or maturity thing, it's more of social requirement i suppose. Most of my colleagues have 2 MSN accs, 1 for office use [Jason Tan or Nicole Lim etc], and another which they use at home with alot of weird names.
I'm sticking to just my RealGunners for the moment, since I'm an Arsenal fan lolz..
and i only knew u r timothy tiah from nuffnang web when i joined. Cely always refer to u as Boss Stewie only in her blog.. hehehe
ReplyDeleteNot true, I am waaay under 25 and yet I used "David" as my display name all times, not D@vid or |)@\/1|) or something.
ReplyDeletelol, but I DO hate people who constantly change their user name. I have to like "hi, may i know who are you" all the times.