Kenny Sia

Infobox Celebrity
name = Kenny Sia

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imagesize = 300px
caption = Kenny Sia,
birth_date = 27 November, 1982
birth_place = flagicon|Malaysia Kuching, Malaysia
website = [http://www.kennysia.com kennysia.com]

Kenny Sia Tze Foo (zh-stp|s=谢致富|t=謝緻富|p=Xiè Zhìfù), born 27 November 1982, is a Malaysian blogger.

=Personal life= Kenny Sia was born and raised in Kuching, in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. He was educated in a Chinese language school [cite web | url=http://www.kennysia.com/archives/2006/05/chung_hua_middl.php| title=Kennysia : Chung Hua School Number 1| accessdate=2007-08-23] , which is evident in his accent when he speaks English [cite web | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehR8rfz8gGA| title=Kennysia : Maggi Should Salute Me| accessdate=2007-08-23] . In 1997, he went to study in Perth, Western Australia. He graduated from Beaufort College in 1998 and Curtin University in 2003, with a Bachelor's degree in Physics and an Honours degree in Electronic & Communication Engineering.

Sia is able to speak and write in English, Malay and Mandarin. He is also able to converse fluently in the Chinese Hokkien dialect. He often uses Manglish in his blog to post on "ah beng" culture in Malaysia. [cite web | url=http://kennysia.com/archives/2005/08/writing_an_ah_b.php | title=Kennysia : Writing An Ah Beng Blog | accessdate=2007-01-17]

=Blog= Sia's blog is at kennysia.com. His blog's tagline is "When Routine Isn't Exactly Normal". He started to blog in January of 2005 so as to "chronicle the drastic changes over that tumultous (sic) period" of his life. [cite web | url=http://www.kennysia.com/archives/2006/08/about_me_1.php | title=kennysia.com: About Me | accessdate=2006-10-29]

His blog comprises a myriad of topics: satire and crude humour, day-to-day life, personal experiences, his travels, product reviews and politics. He also blogs about his hometown Kuching, and Perth. Some of his readers consider that his posts are written with a sense of humor. Some of the articles have generated vigorous discussions, as some find the articles controversial, and even potentially offensive. However, Sia generally maintains a hands-off attitude on the comments unless he sees the need to reply or intervene.

He frequently satirises international and local celebrities, his fellow bloggers, and himself, often using photoshopped pictures. However, this has led some readers to criticise Sia for being insensitive. Ironically some companies parodied by Sia have sent him free gifts in appreciation.

He is a spokesperson of many commercial products, and gets money and free gifts for promoting various products ranging from shoes to cellphones.

Sia expressed his disdain towards blog elitism, which is rampant in the Malaysian blogosphere, where popular bloggers tend to dictate blogging "rules" and interfere with other bloggers' blog contents. He admitted that he has a bad relationship with some of the prominent Malaysian bloggers due to elitism. He is a firm believer in freedom of blog expression. He used the term "Bloglitics" to describe the political nature of blog critics. [cite web | url=http://kennysia.com/archives/2005/07/bloglitics.php | title=Kennysia.com : Bloglitics | accessdate=2007-01-17] However, he himself once commented that he dislikes some of the blog layouts and he parodied such blogs by creating a fancy blog with crazy frog video. [cite web | url=http://www.kennysia.com/archives/2005/08/blogskin_sins.php | title=Kennysia.com : Blogskin Sins | accessdate=2007-01-17] Each blog post has a "Podcast" feature where the audience can choose to listen to his post verbally. Sia is currently a supporter of Bloggers United campaign to defend the freedom of speech in Malaysian blogosphere.

=Popularity= Sia's blog has won a number of awards, such as PPS Blog of the Year 2005. His blog occupies a fairly high ranking in Technorati. [cite web | url=http://www.technorati.com/search/www.kennysia.com | title=Technorati Search: www.kennysia.com | accessdate=2006-10-29] Although Sia is from Malaysia, he is more popular amongst Singaporeans. [cite web | url=http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2005/06/kenny_sia_comes.html | title=Kenny Sia comes to town | accessdate=2006-06-19] In 2005, his blog was nominated for the Asian Blog of the Year Award. [cite web | url=http://aboty.wordpress.com/ | title=Asia Blog of the Year | accessdate=2006-06-19]

=Controversy= Sia came under heavy criticism for posting a naked picture of Isabella Tan aka SarongPartyGirl. He also received attention in several posts related to religion and politics. He responded by posting less and publishing milder content in the posts that followed. [cite web | url=http://kennysia.com/archives/2007/01/kennysiacom_tur.php | title=Kennysia.com : kennysia.com Turns Two | accessdate=2007-01-17]

Sia came under even heavier criticism for posting pictures of a traffic accident with multiple fatalities where the body of at least one of the dying (as he reported) could be seen. [cite web | url=http://www.kennysia.com/archives/2007/05/trauma.php| title=Kennysia.com : An Unfortunate Accident| accessdate=2007-08-24] . Many requested that the offending picture be removed. Sia never removed the picture(s), choosing instead to defend his position, citing the permission granted from the victims' sole surviving family member as reason. [cite web | url=http://gwgaccident.blogspot.com/ | title=The Tragedy | accessdate=2007-12-07]

= References =
*cite news | url=http://www.theurbanwire.com/stories/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=317&Itemid=57 | title=Popular blogger - Kenny Sia | publisher=The Urban Wire (Ngee Ann Polytechnic newspaper) | accessdate=2006-06-19 | date=16 July 2005

=External links=
* [http://kennysia.com/ Kenny Sia's blog]
* [http://www.kennysia.com/archives/2006/08/about_me_1.php Kenny Sia's autobiography]

Persondata
NAME = Sia, Tze Foo Kenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = 谢致富 (Chinese)
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Blogger
DATE OF BIRTH = 27 November, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH = Kuching, Malaysia