A few days ago, we sent out a call for help on behalf of Nuffnanger Azmaniza bt Mohamad Kamal, who urgently needed to raise funds for her son Ammar Danish’s surgery. As we mentioned in this post,, Baby Ammar suffers from Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) since birth, and he needs surgery to close the hole in his heart.

In the short span of just 3 days since we blogged about it, we’ve managed to raise RM 3,359 from Nuffnangers for Baby Ammar! We’re also happy to announce a bit of good news which Azmaniza relayed to us: Institut Jantung Negara (IJN) has agreed to waive part of the fees for Baby Ammar’s surgery, and Azmaniza has also been carrying out some fund-raising efforts of her own. As such, in addition to the funds that Azmaniza already has, the amount that has been raised so far will be enough to cover the amount needed for Baby Ammar’s surgery.

Azmaniza is very grateful to all of you out there who’ve contributed generously to this cause, be it by spreading the word or by donations. Here’s a short message from Azmaniza herself:

Because Azmaniza already has sufficient funds to foot the bill for the surgery, we’re ending this fund-raising effort today (8 February 2010). Once again, thank you for your generous contributions. We’re really proud of all of you for coming together as a community for a good cause!

Just in case you have not heard, storms do not happen often and that is why the Celcom BlackBerry® Storm™ 9520 is just as rare!

The ever generous Celcom are giving away TWO (2) Celcom BlackBerry® Storm™ 9520 to Nuffnangers! This would be an excellent gift in the coming Year of the Tiger, wouldn’t it?

All you would need to do is to blog about why you want to own a BlackBerry® Storm™ 9520 and why Celcom would be the best Storm-tastic place to get a BlackBerry® Storm™ 9520! Once you’re done, just send in an email to celcombbstorm2@nuffnang.com with your full name and your blog post’s permalink and you might just end up winning a brand new Blackberry Storm 2 from Celcom!!

For those who are looking for bonus pointers on how to write the blog post, be sure to check out the BlackBerry® Storm™ 9520 event at Chinoz KLCC on 5th February 2010 (which is today!!) Take pictures and make sure to include them in your blog posts for extra brownie points!!

The contest starts today (5th February 2010) and will end on 25th February 2010!

The Celcom Blackberry Storm 2 is here. Are you part of the storm yet?

UPDATE

Thank you for your support, Nuffnangers! We’ve raised over RM 3,000 for Baby Ammar’s surgery already, and this fund-raising project has now ended. For more details, please refer to this blog post.

We’ve always thought that the great thing about Nuffnang is that not only do we get to share the fun times together with all the contests, movie screenings and events that we have, we end up forging real bonds and friendships along the way. On that note, we’d like to share with all of you in the Nuffnang community something that has touched our hearts recently.

2-year-old Ammar Danish has suffered from Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) since birth. He has a hole in his heart which results in oxygenated blood and non-oxygenated blood mixing together, which in turn puts a lot of strain on his heart and lung arteries. In some cases, the hole eventually seals itself up after some time, but during a routine checkup on 11 January 2010, it was clear that that wasn’t the case with Baby Ammar and doctors pronounced surgery as being necessary to prevent the situation from growing worse.

Baby Ammar’s mother is Nuffnanger Azmaniza bt Mohamad Kamal, who blogs at http://mylife-asz.blogspot.com. When this misfortune was brought to our attention by some concerned Nuffnangers, we immediately felt compelled to do something to help a member of our community. The deposit for the surgery to close the PDA will cost RM12,000 and is a tremendous burden for Azmaniza, a full-time working mom with five children to feed.

There are a few ways you can help Baby Ammar get the surgery that he needs; we’re sure everyone would be able to contribute through one of the ways as mentioned below:

1. Enable ‘Show Charity Ads’ in your Blog Manager preferences for the duration of this fundraiser. You will not be paid for displaying the ads, but the ads will greatly help to promote this cause to more people who might be willing to do something for Baby Ammar.

2. Blog about Baby Ammar’s condition, and include a link to this Nuffnang blog post so that your readers will know where to go for more information. Again, this will also do a great service to Baby Ammar by spreading the word about his condition.

3. Make a donation to Azmaniza Mohamad Kamal – 514093114912 (Maybank). Every little bit helps, so please do contribute any amount you can.

Baby Ammar’s surgery is scheduled for 22 February 2010, and the fund-raising effort will end on midnight at 17 February 2010. It is indeed a short period of time, but let us all rise to the occasion and prove to everyone the strength of a blogging community like ours. We’ll update in this post from time to time on the amount of donations raised.

Thank you all very much for your support on behalf of Azmaniza and Baby Ammar. You can check out this blog post to read more about Baby Ammar’s condtion, and if there you have any questions about this cause, please drop us a message via our helpdesk.

Hello Nuffnangers,

Due to unforseen difficulties during the last maintenance exercise, we will unfortunately need to bring down one of our servers again at 1am, 5th February 2010. The ETA for this exercise is 30 minutes.

During this time, the site will be inaccessible and banner ads will not show.

We apologize for this inconvenience.

Thank you!

Why do we like it longer? Because the new LG Chocolate is LONG, sleek and sexy like a supermodel and is making the world its own runway. LG’s new Chocolate BL40 is the latest handphone innovation by LG, which elegantly combines technology with fashion. With the LG Chocolate looking like a supermodel in itself, Taiwanese actress and model Lin Chi Ling also sees it as her perfect companion.

As previously announced, LG will be giving away 3 brand new LG Chocolate BL40 phones worth RM2,199.00

For those of you who might have missed out on our previous blog posts on the LG Chocolate ‘Why I Like It Longer’ Contest, please feel free to check it out here.

To stand a chance to win a brand new LG Chocolate phone BL40, all you have to do is write a blog post about ‘Why I Like It Longer’ and send in the blog permalink to whyilikeitlonger@nuffnang.com. The top 3 bloggers with the most creative posts will be the proud owner of this supermodel LG Chocolate BL40 Phone.

We also want to use this opportunity to thank Nuffnangers for the overwhelming responses we’ve been receiving for this ‘Why I Like It Longer’ contest.You guys and girls ROCK!! So continue to rock on by keeping those contest blog entries rolling in!!

Am sure by now, all of you are feeling super enthusiastic to know more about the new LG Chocolate, so we’ll share with you a video to show how cool this new phone really is!

Hello Nuffnangers,

Nuffnang Malaysia will be upgrading one of our servers at 1am, 3rd February 2010. The ETA for this upgrade is 30 minutes.

During this time, the site will be inaccessible and banner ads will not show.

We apologize for this inconvenience.

Thank you!

Catchy title ain’t it? I bet most of us are familiar with the context but for those who aren’t, you can check out the video below.

Your Grandfather’s Road (YGR) is a groundbreaking film project which aims to produce a road-movie BY the Malaysian public, FOR the Malaysian public, in a way and scale that has never been done before.

The idea is to harness the creativity, thoughts, feelings and aspirations of an entire generation; to open the filmmaking process to film-lovers, amateur storytellers, budding artists, and everyday Malaysians just like you and me.

The producers believe in, and want to work with, local talent, hidden or known.

Story and character ideas will be crowd-sourced through comment streams around thematic posts. A script will be created after two months of the project going live. This script is then given back to the public for design, location, casting, music, art direction and cinematographic ideas. The professional Pit Crew will curate and grow the ideas of the public during this pre-production period.

In the end, the Pit Crew will shoot the people’s movie – Your Grandfather’s Road! and it will be screened in local cinemas.

It’s pretty simple actually. All the producers need of everyone is to visit yourgrandfathersroad.com and share whatever experience you have had regarding the topics shared. For example, were you a troublemaker or some sort like a boy who peed in shoes when you were young? Share tales of mischief here and who knows, your tales might just make it to the big screen!

If you don’t have tales of mischief to tell, why don’t you share your opinions on various issues? What about who would you award a Datukship to if you could do so? Of course among those bestowed this title is a baby-faced songbird who wooed the hearts of a populace, a valiant badminton champion who almost succeeded at beating the Chinese on their own turf and a specialist hip-gyrator whose vigorous thrusting motion whilst belting out Hindi numbers in the Alps (among other scenic locations) remains his singular most outstanding talent (refer picture below). If you have a person in mind, do share it with the good people at Your Grandfather’s Road!

All these and more topics of interest which you can share your opinion, views and experience to help make a truly Malaysian movie. Let’s put all our tales together and bring it to the big screen!

Check out www.yourgrandfathersroad.com for more information.

Remember the flymas.mobi blog contest? Yup, that’s where we first introduced you Nuffnangers to flymas.mobi, the new mobile site by MAS where you can book your flights and check all necessary details from your mobile phone.

With free flights from MAS to Australia, ASEAN countries and within Malaysia up for grabs, the response from all of you was simply overwhelming! Thank you for your enthusiasm in participating, and we’re happy to announce the winners for the contest as below:

1st prize: 2x Economy Class Return Tickets to Sydney/Melbourne
Winner – Terence Lee Han Yang (http://theterencelee.com/?p=516)

2nd prize: 2x Economy Class Return Tickets to any destination in ASEAN
Winner – Ahmad Fitri b Mahadi (http://fitrihadi.blogspot.com/2009/12/flymasmobi-as-easy-as-1-2-3.html)

3rd prize: 2x Economy Class Return Tickets to any destination in Malaysia
Winner – Nigel Sia Ling-Wei (http://nigelais.blogspot.com/2009/12/flymasmobi-as-easy-as-123.html)

Congratulations to all the winners! If you didn’t win anything this time, fret not as you still have another chance to win flight tickets to exotic destinations with the flymas.mobi video contest which is currently ongoing. For more details on the contest, head on over to http://www.nuffnang.com.my/blog/2010/01/11/flymas-mobi-video-contest/.

LG Chocolate is back and longer!! Yeap, you heard right, not bigger but LONGER. LG’s new Chocolate phone (BL40) is the latest innovation in the LG Chocolate series. It’s a refreshing break from standard mobile phone designs with its uniquely long shape that allows for a 4-inch widescreen. Complete with a 5.0 Mega Pixel camera this fully touch screen phone with multi touch function features LG’s proprietary S-Class UI that offers the best in finger-friendly 3D graphics, intuitive responsiveness and easy accessibility. To make things even better, as a privilege of LG’s association with Twentieth Century Fox, the new LG Chocolate phones comes embedded with special content from James Cameron’s epic action movie AVATAR. What better way to utilize LG Chocolate’s amazing 4-inch widescreen with crystal clear HD resolution to give users a cinematic experience all in a grip. Featuring a stretched 21:9 ratio HD panoramic display, LG brings a better user experience when browsing web pages, checking emails or viewing videos on the cinema-like screen.

The seductive new LG Chocolate is more than just a phone, it is also labeled by fashion experts as the ‘Supermodel’ of Phones. World-renowned fashion magazines like Vogue, GQ, ELLE and Esquire have unanimously proclaimed the new LG Chocolate phone as a breathtakingly sleek supermodel. Its elegant design is enough to rule the runway on its own. It is described by GQ’s Dylan Jones as “Glossy, sleek and thin like a supermodel.”

The LG Chocolate BL40 also comes with a stylish Twenty8Twelve’s limited-edition designer case designed by the fashionista and actress Sienna Miller and her designer sister Savanna. This designer case comes free with every purchase of an LG Chocolate BL40 at the LG Concept Store.

Want to be the proud owner of this ‘Supermodel’ phone? We have a treat for you Nuffnangers out there!! Just write a blog entry about ‘Why I Like It Longer’ and the Top 3 most creative posts will win an LG Chocolate phone (BL40) worth RM2,199 each. It can be your personal experience, a story you came up with or relevant issues relating to the theme of this contest and at the end of your post please attach the image below.

So get your creative juices flowing!! And send your completed blog entry permalink to whyilikeitlonger@nuffnang.com by 14th of February 2010.