How to ring in 2011 Part 4 - Know the OTHER co-founder of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin

This is about the weirdest thing that's happened to me in my 21 years of existing and occupying your oxygen.

Couple of months ago, I was invited by a friend to a company private screening of The Social Network, the movie based on the book The Accidental Billionaires, which is the origin-story of Facebook and the feud between its two co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. I loved both the movie and the book, and I don't care if what the book/movie says is true, or if Mark says it's all bullshit, I enjoyed it on the account of it being a great and well-written movie. Thank you, Sorkin. I liked all the actors, and all the characters in the movie, regardless of who's an asshole and who's not, but I particularly liked Eduardo more than the rest. Mostly because he was the kicked puppy of the movie, and because he was played by the very cute very squishy future-Spiderman Andrew Garfield.

Jacqkie really likes Andrew Garfield (corrected, that's just me) Eduardo too. So, yeah, after the movie premiered here in Singapore, news got out that Eduardo Saverin is here in Singapore, funding Singaporean Facebook game developers with the moolah he got from the Facebook case.

So my life went on as usual. This was the last week of my 8-month stint as a temp project coordinator/corporate and marketing communications executive in the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. I literally packed up my stuff like 8 hours ago. But enough about me and my big step in advancing my career and turning an important page in the book of my life! Let's talk about EDUARDO SAVERIN.

At a meeting earlier this week (that I found out later I need not had sat in for), I was trying my hardest to pay attention, until my boss mentioned that our CEO had recently met with Eduardo himself. She even mentioned (or joked, I don't know, my attention span for the moment couldn't really tell) that the company should invite him to speak at one of our future events.

After the meeting, I tweeted about it.

I should get a reward for being so honest in public.

Apparently Mr Saverin is quite the party animal, and goes to a lot of Singaporean hot-spots, especially The Butter Factory in One Fullerton. I haven't been there, cos' though I used to party a lot back in Malaysia, getting a job made me boring. Also, I think Australia made me lazy, cos' now I'd rather drink beer at a pub with friends rather than do something energizing and exercising, like dance on a podium.

@sarahcuda is Sarah Lacy, author and journalist at TechCrunch and BusinessWeek. I have actually seen her in person at a casual networking event at Hackerspace in Singapore (a subsidiary of my company invited her to Singapore to gauge the entrepreneur environment in the country). I didn't speak to her, partly because I'm a loser, and partly because I was being floored by two business partners, this one Canadian guy and this one German guy thinking, since I was from IDA, I would potentially fund their new business. They also told me that I looked Spanish. Polynesian maybe, Filipino I'll take it, but Spanish?! Really!?

But my colleague did get to take a photo with Sarah, she was quite excited about getting to meet her.

Now here's us. Can I look anymore Chinese? Spanish indeed!

Sarah must've found out through her endeavors in Singapore that Eduardo was laying low in Singapore, and after posting it on TechCrunch, the news jumped all over it.

Then the weird happened.

Ben Mezrich, author of The Accidental Billionaires actually tweet-replied our conversation. I, being the spaz I am, got excited of course. After all, I read his book, and found it quite enjoyable. It's actually the first book in two years that I managed to finish. I'm telling you, it's just my attention span.

Plus, I come from Malaysia. God knows how much we're deprived of celebrity and international attention. There's a word for people like us me, and it's jakun. Wiki it if you'd like.

Behold, the art of kissing ass. Kidding, I did enjoy the book much.

I thought his response was really cute, like..."PSSSSHHHH as if it were that easy!"

This afternoon before clearing all the stuff off my desk, I checked my Yahoo email, and there was this email from this Brazillian dude claiming he's a journalist. I thought it was spam, since people get emails like this all the time, like "RELATIVE IN UGANDA DYING, SEEKING SOMEONE TO CLAIM INHERITANCE".

But then what caught my attention was Eduardo Saverin's name in the email subject. And Eduardo is of Brazillian lineage. Okay so it's not spam. Click!

I sat there at my desk stoning at the computer screen for a good 10 minutes. A journalist wants to interview Eduardo Saverin, and thinks that I, me, moi, Audrey "just-adequate human being" Chan is acquainted with him and knows how to contact him. I didn't know if I should laugh or scoff.

I am sorry if I tricked you readers with my deceiving blog-title. Obviously I do not know Eduardo Saverin, have never met him, and most certainly do not have his phone number and email address. I'd not be so much of a loser if I did. It's just that Mr Brazillian journalist here assumed that I know him, and I felt quite excited to be assumed that for a moment.

Anyway I wrote Mr Brazil a very polite reply.

I hope it clears up the misunderstanding, and I hope he manages to get to Eduardo. It was nice that he tried. So here's me, being a somebody. At least someone thought something of me, and I think Mezrich knows I'm a fan so it's all good.

Mr Saverin sir, if you happen to be reading this, a Brazillian journalist wants to talk to you. I have his details, send me an email at the address above if you think this is not a prank and are taking this seriously and also if you want to go out to dinner some time.