Friday
Wanted to have tuition today so that I could go to ahyee’s house earlier but WL said it’s not possible. Nvm, so I cleaned the house. The target was to clean the toilet, yard, dining + computer area and room but only managed the dining + computer and toilet. Packed all the papers to send to the recycling bin - an achievement nevertheless!
Saturday
Tuition was cancelled, cheh. If I had known, I would have gone to ahyee’s house earlier. But then, while packing my bag, I found out that cooper was going to be there too. Bugger that! Plan aborted, now the long weekend looks dreary. 2.5 days, what to do? SOS bf, he said tomorrow we’ll go out and have Snowflake, wooty! My bf rawks lol :D
So off I go to Timmy’s house to beraya. Only Eric was there when I arrived, better than none at all. QL came shortly later, looking very regal in jeans :D Never seen him wear jeans before and later I found out the reason why. Waited for Nick and then we makan. Food was very pedas =P QL was an amusing sight and Timmy’s mum said “Kesian dia”. Bwahaha. His line of the day was “German from Germany” only for Timmy to retort each time “Bladi German”. Haha, those 2, never fail to make me laugh. And then there was that chue yok fun joke. My gosh, mat salleh speaking Cantonese is hilarious!
Sunday
Hari untuk bercinta! Decided to go to Ikea and The Curve, haven’t been there for a long time. Only managed to buy my beanie at Daiso. No nice gloves, so that has to wait til later. And at Ikea, we ate the much-awaited meatballs and other cheap food at the Ikea cafe, felt torturous and couldn’t finish the food.
And then we went on a shopping spree!
Mine: Toilet brush and laptop table (which was actually a breakfast-in-bed tray)
Sunshine’s: A dining set with 4 chairs, a table lamp, an alarm clock, 2 bulbs for the lamp, 3 stalks of artificial flowers to go with the dining table and a packet of 100 tealights!
Oh, and since we got a RM10 voucher, off I went into Ikea again and spent it on 2 cookie jars. Too bad that we couldn’t use it for food at the Ikea cafe, else I would have gotten Swedish chocs and biscuits =P
Monday
Sent bro to college with mum, waited for about an hour at McD and had pancake with tonnes of maple syrup, went to fat ahyee’s place and waited while they talked and had lunch, then off we went to Pyramid for a while before picking up bro at 4pm. At 1st, she said she is so bored. And then she said that we walked around Pyramid aimlessly like stupid idiots and that every mall is the same. I’m so tired of her.
And then we had Snowflake!
Snowflake is the most glorious thing on planet Earth!
Not a single moment was spent in boredom. No tears, no restlessness :D Very likey this long weekend!
Friday, September 17, 2010
My appearance on CNN!
As promised, here is the video!
And for authenticity purposes, here is the link where it was found: My CNN fame
As I was looking for the vid on the CNN page (Phil only told me that I would find it there without giving me the exact link), my hands were cold. Afraid of seeing what I might not like to see!
Turns out that I was the first one to be featured! Yay!! That means people don't have to watch the entire vid, besides the first one is always more prominent right? Woots!!
And then, I found out that my mouth and the audio didn't jive. Idiot - they had used the video from the 1st recording and the audio from the 2nd one! Bodoh! They could have just used the 2nd video; I had even worn my Banana Republic shirt for it! But my hair was messier though :D
So.. that's me, the CNN girl!
And for authenticity purposes, here is the link where it was found: My CNN fame
As I was looking for the vid on the CNN page (Phil only told me that I would find it there without giving me the exact link), my hands were cold. Afraid of seeing what I might not like to see!
Turns out that I was the first one to be featured! Yay!! That means people don't have to watch the entire vid, besides the first one is always more prominent right? Woots!!
And then, I found out that my mouth and the audio didn't jive. Idiot - they had used the video from the 1st recording and the audio from the 2nd one! Bodoh! They could have just used the 2nd video; I had even worn my Banana Republic shirt for it! But my hair was messier though :D
So.. that's me, the CNN girl!
Saturday, September 11, 2010
I.am.appearing.on.CNN!
How it started
I saw Nelly post it on FB: “Global Connections: Can you connect Sweden and Malaysia?” Well, the only thing that comes to mind when Sweden is mentioned is: Timmy goes there for work lo. I glanced through the page. What you have to do is to submit a comment on what connection there is and then you might get to appear on the programme. Featuring on a programme is not an attractive prize to me; I take part in contests for cash prizes and goodies. I thought of being the cheeky-me and submit “I send bf to airport, I cry. Bf come back, I happy”. But somehow I came to my senses and decided to be professional instead.
“Sweden and Malaysia are connected when the Swedish bank, SEB, has an outsource office running here in Kuala Lumpur. My boyfriend leads a team of programmers and travels to Sweden once or twice a year. From his photographs, I've had the opportunity to see the country in a closer view, while hearing about the extreme cold, such a contrast from the scorching sun in Malaysia!”
-September 4th, 2010 9:51 am-
I then pasted the thing on bf’s wall and asked him to take part. He’d definitely have better thoughts on how Sweden and Malaysia are connected; he might strongly have something to say.
I thought it was spam
September 6th, an email came. I guess I didn’t even look at the title; it might not even have rang a bell if I did, for of course I was not expecting anything out of that comment I wrote! To me, it was more of a lovey-dovey comment about my bf and Sweden. I decided to give this ‘spam’ a chance by reading it before deleting it.
Hi
Hope you’re doing well. (this part looks dodgy, don’t you think? Probably cos it wasn’t addressed to anyone)
My name is Phil Han and I’m a producer with CNN International’s Connect the World. I am writing you today because I am looking after the viewer interaction element to our new segment on the show called “Global Connections.”
As you know, this week we’re going to focusing our attention on two countries – Sweden and Malaysia and from what I know, you just submitted some comments and opinions on what you think connects these two countries.
Ideally, what we are looking for is if you would be able to say your comments and opinions in a quick little Skype webcam interview sometime this week. It would only take two or three minutes and it would be a great way to illustrate some of your great comments to show on air. This would be televised on CNN International and your participation would form the backbone of our launch week program.
Thanks so much and please do let me know as soon as you can whether this would be something you would be interested in doing.
Best,
Phil Han
Digital Producer, CNN International
Turner House, 16 Great Marlborough Street
London, W1F 7HS , UK
Skype webcam interview? Show on air? Televised on CNN International? O.Mai.God!!
Making the appointment
Phil suggested September 7th evening, London time. Unfortunately, I slept at 9.30pm that night in pain and didn’t get the email til the next morning. Rescheduled it to the following day, 10pm Malaysian time.
THE day
Since I had not taken this entire thing seriously until an appointment was made, I had 2 hours upon reaching home to make the preparations – namely write a script. No thanks that there was no dinner, so I had to tapau. Half hour before time, I brought the laptop to the room, turned on the Acer webcam, pulled the curtains nicely, chuck away the pillows that appeared in the background, arranged my hair and checked how I looked like with the headphones, applied concealer to the HUGE pimple on my face, apply more and more concealer to the pimple.
I was so obsessed with looking at myself in the webcam that when the Skype call came, it won’t show my image because my Acer webcam was on :D I had to call him back for it to work.
And then Phil emailed, asking me to say that both countries had their first astronaut in space in 2007. Malaysia’s is that who-else while Sweden’s in Christer Fuglesang. Ok. And before that, I managed to speak to bf just before he went to bed; he said both countries have kings and are democratic countries.
So.. I had to say “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from Malaysia ..” and say the similarities. Phil said that it was all pre-recorded, so if I’m not happy with the answers, I can always do it again but I guess it all went well, no need to redo. They wanted it to be fun and didn’t think my bank-similarity was ‘fun’, so that was why Phil gave me the astronaut thingy for me to say. Was kinda disappointed but somehow I said all 3 in the end!
I said the 1st similarity is the astronaut thingy, 2nd is the democracy, ceremonial role kings thingy and the final one is the SEB thingy! I remember Phil asking me “You said your bf went to Sweden?” and he asked if I’ve been there (I haven’t gotten the chance to), if there are any Swedes here (I said his manager is and that several team mates come down once in a while), how do I find the people (I’ve never met any la, so I said bf finds their working ways different and admires the way they work). Now I wonder if all those were going to be on air or was just casual talk after I had spoken on the similarities. I was caught off-guard for those questions.
So Phil said that the programme would be on air on Friday 10pm! He said since I would be asleep by then, he would send me the link. It’s not that I have CNN anyway.
When I was done, my hands were cold... real cold. So nervous, so stressful. But it’s CNN! As bf said, who cares about TV3 when you have CNN! He said “dahsyat la budak tembam ni” hahaha.
Reshoot!
Last night (Sept 10th) while I was trying to finish the entire HBV Asia report to be sent back to UK while I holiday, Phil emailed:
Hi Sue Ann
We have a big EMERGENCY!
Are you able to re-skype with us? We just need you to re say something?
Are you free now? If not now, perhaps tomorrow morning London time? It is very important
Thanks
It was 11pm and I was very tired with a headache. I told him I would do it tomorrow, he asked if we could do it really really quickly now. I decided to let it be, as though I was no longer online. It was an hour later that I decided to go for it – what if they decided to drop me? The programme was due to go on in 2 days, they might just decide to omit me. Besides, I wanted to sleep in peace and don't want to have a sleepless stressful night. All tasks must be completed by today!
So I mailed him, yes I would do it *groan* Bad enough that my hair was tied up and I hadn’t bathed but I was too tired to bathe and let it dry before coming online. So I repeated the steps of bringing the laptop to the room, turning on the Acer webcam, pulling the curtains nicely, chucking away the pillows that appeared in the background, arranging my hair (it was tougher this time) and checking how I looked like with the headphones and applying concealer to the HUGE pimple on my face. It is as tiring as it sounds.
Phil said that his coll would do it this time and shortly later, a Keiren Buchanan dropped a note. And then he said the Skype suite is busy, could we do this in 15 mins? At this time, I felt like setting an alarm and dozing off a little. When he finally called, I was caught off-guard and disconnected the call cos I had removed the headphones and hadn’t put them on yet. I need to see how I look before accepting the call!
And then I realised with all the preparations, I had forgotten to plug in the mike and the headphones! >.<
It took a few more tries to get connected. Keiren wanted to do a test run and gave me word-for-word of what I should say. Hey, I’ve done this before la, I don't have to follow every single word you say! So, I did a test run with the sentence that I had rehearsed. He said I did very well! And it would be good if I can do it for the subsequent weeks!
Ok, so now he’s going to start recording and so I said again, “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL. The connection between Sweden and Malaysia is that both countries had their first man in space within a year from each other” and end it with a stupid smile instead of just being expressionless. And then he said it wasn’t recording, so let’s try again. “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL...”
Nope, he’ll go and get his producer to check what’s wrong. “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL...”
Maybe it’s the tape. He put in a new one. “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL...”
I could hear them discussing among themselves. Each time I speak, I wonder whether I’m going to fumble on my next word. My heart thumps; do not fumble! And I did not and it took the 5th try I think to get it working!!
Phew, at that point, I really felt like an actress acting out the same scene over and over again. It is seriously tiring. And not getting sleep too. Boy, being a celebrity is stressful and not fun!
I asked Keiren if the previous clip is not going to be used; he said it would and it’s just that this astronaut part needs to be redone. But then, I spoke about the astronaut part as the 2nd point, why do I need to introduce myself again? I thought of wearing the same shirt as I was the day before but I had a feeling that they only wanted me to say the astronaut thing and nothing else, thus a fresh shirt doesn't matter. (I wore my new Banana Republic top some more, with the label still intact :D I feel like a newscaster who’s wearing a nice top but sarong underneath :D)
I was reading the other’s comments and it’s no wonder why they thought mine was one of the best. Some fella said that both are Muslim countries and an idiot said that both had 4 letters left in the name after the vowels had been removed.
And I found out that the astronaut thing was actually submitted by someone else. I had thought that they had found it out themselves and wanted me to add it in. So why didn’t they ask that guy to present his own point? Cos they like me!
Am waiting for the link!
(My and all other comments are found here. Search for 'sue ann' and you'd see the comment that brought me this fame! :D)
I saw Nelly post it on FB: “Global Connections: Can you connect Sweden and Malaysia?” Well, the only thing that comes to mind when Sweden is mentioned is: Timmy goes there for work lo. I glanced through the page. What you have to do is to submit a comment on what connection there is and then you might get to appear on the programme. Featuring on a programme is not an attractive prize to me; I take part in contests for cash prizes and goodies. I thought of being the cheeky-me and submit “I send bf to airport, I cry. Bf come back, I happy”. But somehow I came to my senses and decided to be professional instead.
“Sweden and Malaysia are connected when the Swedish bank, SEB, has an outsource office running here in Kuala Lumpur. My boyfriend leads a team of programmers and travels to Sweden once or twice a year. From his photographs, I've had the opportunity to see the country in a closer view, while hearing about the extreme cold, such a contrast from the scorching sun in Malaysia!”
-September 4th, 2010 9:51 am-
I then pasted the thing on bf’s wall and asked him to take part. He’d definitely have better thoughts on how Sweden and Malaysia are connected; he might strongly have something to say.
I thought it was spam
September 6th, an email came. I guess I didn’t even look at the title; it might not even have rang a bell if I did, for of course I was not expecting anything out of that comment I wrote! To me, it was more of a lovey-dovey comment about my bf and Sweden. I decided to give this ‘spam’ a chance by reading it before deleting it.
Hi
Hope you’re doing well. (this part looks dodgy, don’t you think? Probably cos it wasn’t addressed to anyone)
My name is Phil Han and I’m a producer with CNN International’s Connect the World. I am writing you today because I am looking after the viewer interaction element to our new segment on the show called “Global Connections.”
As you know, this week we’re going to focusing our attention on two countries – Sweden and Malaysia and from what I know, you just submitted some comments and opinions on what you think connects these two countries.
Ideally, what we are looking for is if you would be able to say your comments and opinions in a quick little Skype webcam interview sometime this week. It would only take two or three minutes and it would be a great way to illustrate some of your great comments to show on air. This would be televised on CNN International and your participation would form the backbone of our launch week program.
Thanks so much and please do let me know as soon as you can whether this would be something you would be interested in doing.
Best,
Phil Han
Digital Producer, CNN International
Turner House, 16 Great Marlborough Street
London, W1F 7HS , UK
Skype webcam interview? Show on air? Televised on CNN International? O.Mai.God!!
Making the appointment
Phil suggested September 7th evening, London time. Unfortunately, I slept at 9.30pm that night in pain and didn’t get the email til the next morning. Rescheduled it to the following day, 10pm Malaysian time.
THE day
Since I had not taken this entire thing seriously until an appointment was made, I had 2 hours upon reaching home to make the preparations – namely write a script. No thanks that there was no dinner, so I had to tapau. Half hour before time, I brought the laptop to the room, turned on the Acer webcam, pulled the curtains nicely, chuck away the pillows that appeared in the background, arranged my hair and checked how I looked like with the headphones, applied concealer to the HUGE pimple on my face, apply more and more concealer to the pimple.
I was so obsessed with looking at myself in the webcam that when the Skype call came, it won’t show my image because my Acer webcam was on :D I had to call him back for it to work.
And then Phil emailed, asking me to say that both countries had their first astronaut in space in 2007. Malaysia’s is that who-else while Sweden’s in Christer Fuglesang. Ok. And before that, I managed to speak to bf just before he went to bed; he said both countries have kings and are democratic countries.
So.. I had to say “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from Malaysia ..” and say the similarities. Phil said that it was all pre-recorded, so if I’m not happy with the answers, I can always do it again but I guess it all went well, no need to redo. They wanted it to be fun and didn’t think my bank-similarity was ‘fun’, so that was why Phil gave me the astronaut thingy for me to say. Was kinda disappointed but somehow I said all 3 in the end!
I said the 1st similarity is the astronaut thingy, 2nd is the democracy, ceremonial role kings thingy and the final one is the SEB thingy! I remember Phil asking me “You said your bf went to Sweden?” and he asked if I’ve been there (I haven’t gotten the chance to), if there are any Swedes here (I said his manager is and that several team mates come down once in a while), how do I find the people (I’ve never met any la, so I said bf finds their working ways different and admires the way they work). Now I wonder if all those were going to be on air or was just casual talk after I had spoken on the similarities. I was caught off-guard for those questions.
So Phil said that the programme would be on air on Friday 10pm! He said since I would be asleep by then, he would send me the link. It’s not that I have CNN anyway.
When I was done, my hands were cold... real cold. So nervous, so stressful. But it’s CNN! As bf said, who cares about TV3 when you have CNN! He said “dahsyat la budak tembam ni” hahaha.
Reshoot!
Last night (Sept 10th) while I was trying to finish the entire HBV Asia report to be sent back to UK while I holiday, Phil emailed:
Hi Sue Ann
We have a big EMERGENCY!
Are you able to re-skype with us? We just need you to re say something?
Are you free now? If not now, perhaps tomorrow morning London time? It is very important
Thanks
It was 11pm and I was very tired with a headache. I told him I would do it tomorrow, he asked if we could do it really really quickly now. I decided to let it be, as though I was no longer online. It was an hour later that I decided to go for it – what if they decided to drop me? The programme was due to go on in 2 days, they might just decide to omit me. Besides, I wanted to sleep in peace and don't want to have a sleepless stressful night. All tasks must be completed by today!
So I mailed him, yes I would do it *groan* Bad enough that my hair was tied up and I hadn’t bathed but I was too tired to bathe and let it dry before coming online. So I repeated the steps of bringing the laptop to the room, turning on the Acer webcam, pulling the curtains nicely, chucking away the pillows that appeared in the background, arranging my hair (it was tougher this time) and checking how I looked like with the headphones and applying concealer to the HUGE pimple on my face. It is as tiring as it sounds.
Phil said that his coll would do it this time and shortly later, a Keiren Buchanan dropped a note. And then he said the Skype suite is busy, could we do this in 15 mins? At this time, I felt like setting an alarm and dozing off a little. When he finally called, I was caught off-guard and disconnected the call cos I had removed the headphones and hadn’t put them on yet. I need to see how I look before accepting the call!
And then I realised with all the preparations, I had forgotten to plug in the mike and the headphones! >.<
It took a few more tries to get connected. Keiren wanted to do a test run and gave me word-for-word of what I should say. Hey, I’ve done this before la, I don't have to follow every single word you say! So, I did a test run with the sentence that I had rehearsed. He said I did very well! And it would be good if I can do it for the subsequent weeks!
Ok, so now he’s going to start recording and so I said again, “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL. The connection between Sweden and Malaysia is that both countries had their first man in space within a year from each other” and end it with a stupid smile instead of just being expressionless. And then he said it wasn’t recording, so let’s try again. “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL...”
Nope, he’ll go and get his producer to check what’s wrong. “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL...”
Maybe it’s the tape. He put in a new one. “Hi, I’m Sue Ann from KL...”
I could hear them discussing among themselves. Each time I speak, I wonder whether I’m going to fumble on my next word. My heart thumps; do not fumble! And I did not and it took the 5th try I think to get it working!!
Phew, at that point, I really felt like an actress acting out the same scene over and over again. It is seriously tiring. And not getting sleep too. Boy, being a celebrity is stressful and not fun!
I asked Keiren if the previous clip is not going to be used; he said it would and it’s just that this astronaut part needs to be redone. But then, I spoke about the astronaut part as the 2nd point, why do I need to introduce myself again? I thought of wearing the same shirt as I was the day before but I had a feeling that they only wanted me to say the astronaut thing and nothing else, thus a fresh shirt doesn't matter. (I wore my new Banana Republic top some more, with the label still intact :D I feel like a newscaster who’s wearing a nice top but sarong underneath :D)
I was reading the other’s comments and it’s no wonder why they thought mine was one of the best. Some fella said that both are Muslim countries and an idiot said that both had 4 letters left in the name after the vowels had been removed.
And I found out that the astronaut thing was actually submitted by someone else. I had thought that they had found it out themselves and wanted me to add it in. So why didn’t they ask that guy to present his own point? Cos they like me!
Am waiting for the link!
(My and all other comments are found here. Search for 'sue ann' and you'd see the comment that brought me this fame! :D)
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Super fun day in Melaka
Happening month! 2 weeks after ATV, we went to Melaka! It was like we suddenly realised we are getting old and need to squeeze in as many activities as we can. Or the Restless Legs and Hearts Syndrome had intensified.
So... we convoyed and followed behind Lawrence who was driving very ‘cautiously’ :D The brilliant me suddenly had an enlightenment *ting!* Hunger drives people to produce intellectual thoughts. Siew pau!
I’m not exactly a fan of siew pau but let’s just say I eat a lot nowadays and we’re passing the Land of Siew Pau. Actually there was a huge siew pau empire by the highway but we went deep deep in Seremban to find a shop. Paiseh also.. but I saw a shop called HATIM. We were so excited to see such a shop but didn’t catch what it was selling.
The itinerary at A-Famosa:
- Elephant show – exploitation of elephants and nice to see elephants exploit humans back by using their trunks to thump their dicks lol. And then step on it, bigger lol.
- Multi animal show - cats, parrots and don't remember what else.
- Safari ride – The reason we are there. Definitely something different than what we get from the zoos. The animals were exactly crowding around our truck as in the Kenyan safaris but it was definitely cool seeing strange species of animals upclose.
- Bird show - beautiful parrots, majestic eagle and hornbill and don't-know-what bird that does mimicry VERY well)
Us posing at the bird show. No pics of birds worth posting =P
- Wild Wild West show - surely could do better in storyline but I was impressed by the stunts. The gunfire made me terperanjat, the Red Indians actually rode horses at full speed, they actually burned the windows of the ‘bank’ and a guy leapt 3 storeys from a water tank into water beneath. Wow..
- Monkey Island – where the guys had great fun feeding monkeys and seeing a group of Iranian tourists being called beruk for dancing on the raft :D
And then there was the chicken farm! The highlight of the trip! When I entered the 'farm', I instantly saw the room of a thousand yellow fluffy chicks! I was not drawn to enter it until Cath went in. I'm amazed that I did for I'm against the touching of all animals.
They's so fluffay!!
I can't believe I'm holding an animal in my hand
Last camwhore pic before we say bye bye to the animals
Hahaha, I’m not much into animal shows actually; they remind me of the sea lion shows that I watched at the zoo when I was young. But I’ve never been there and it’s not like I had anything else to do anyway. Definitely an experience with bf :) and being all sweaty and sticky, we took a bath at the Ayer Keroh R&R before heading to Jonker!
There was this stall selling wallets of ‘Korean influence’. It was cool; open it up, put the notes inside, flip to open it at the back and the notes somehow has gone into the rubber straps. I wanted to buy one because it was a novelty and also to go home and analyse how it works. But I told myself not to buy things that I will not use, bravo me!
Curly potatoes, the new in-thing! Yummy yummy, couldn't find it in Pandamaran pasar malam
Egg-shaped ice-cream that I asked someone "Hai pin tou mai ga?" rather than go home dejected at not being able to eat Melakan ice-cream. We had already walked up and down the pasar malam and of course we didn't see the freezer situated along the corridor. How did people see them then, I wonder..
We had a long long drive to Umbai for ikan bakar. It wasn’t the kind I anticipated with sambal and lady’s finger on the top. Instead, it was bakar-ed just like that, kosong. Hmm.. I was already super full from all the nonsense I had been eating plus the drinks I had to take due to the spicy otak-otak, so I couldn’t finish the little rice and so I started to day dream and forgot to chew til Timmy marah.... :D
Tired and super full, I slept in the backseat, just like how I did when I was 5 :D Nice outing, nice pictures, nice friends, nice paktor with bf!
Now planning the next one ngek ngek ngek.. I already know what it is! Nom nom nom..
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