cringe worthy mandarin

it has been a super duper long while!! goodness gracious me!
*flicks the cobwebs away, wiping off all that were left over from last year's christmas party, the new year party, and on-going chinese lunar new year celebrations*
!!!!!!!!

i have totally lost my blogging/typing-down-news/events-that-have-occurred-sharing-my-thoughts-in-long-paragraphs mojo (not that i ever had a good done anyways!)

my ex-intern screamed at me over the email tonight, threatening that it would be the last reminder i get from her, about updating this forsaken business blog which i occasionally use for personal agenda and rants. i say screamed, because it was in bloody caps, underlined, and highlighted. i get your point. so even though it is 3.10am right now as i am typing this, i'll just get it done right now, because i'll most probably (definitely) just forget yet again tomorrow.

sooooo..... !!! the promise i made end of last year, which i had failed to fulfill - telling those of you, random readers, whom might not know yet, about our very first interview on singapore telly! :)

last august 2009, i was interviewed for a current affairs docu in mandarin, tuesday report 星期二特写之《360行以外》, for a feature on some of the less-taken paths (jobs/career paths/life goals) some people in singapore have chosen to take on. my segment was about how i used the world.wide.web. to help kick start littleoddforest.

one fine sunny afternoon (not kidding), i got a phone call from one of the producers of this programme, asking me about lof and etc., and so it began.

the producer was really nice and friendly, heck, the small crew consisting of the camera man and light guy, were all super nice and chatty! the first day of filming took almost one whole day. the second time they filmed was mainly for the customer interview portion, including some additional questions for me, and that also took quite a few hours, and the third and last filming was for additional shots which were needed to help in sequencing the shots. they filmed for so many many hours and it was all compressed into just about 10-15 minutes! woah. and my segment was broadcast on tv on 29 sept 2009.

this was the best 5th year in business present we can ever ask for.
from the heavens. if there was one.
the best things in life, you don't ask for, they just fall onto your lap.
thank you, crystal, and especially mandy, lijun and hazel, who have most sportingly and generously agreed to be interviewed for the littleoddforest's customer interview segment :)))))

below are some of the clips and behind-the-scenes shots,













{ of course i had to read off from somewhere! my mandarin... woah. haha! and yes, google translator rocks. }









so here you have it. done in less than 30 minutes! a very long post, no? space taken up mostly by the videos and photos. ha!! i'm allowed to cheat on my own blog, dammit. i hope this will keep me from being harassed about the next blog posts. teehee....