25 January 2020

大团圆2020 (24/1/2020)

今天是新年除夕,也就是说游子会在这一天回家庆祝新年。

爸妈接我下班,我们去吃印度煎饼当午餐。回到家,我和妈妈做最后一分钟的整理,确定每一样都有带回马六甲家乡。三舅舅三舅母到了,就是开启回家之旅!准备回家迎接新年!

一路上,我播放历年的Astro 新年主题曲,从第一个鼠年(2008)至今年的鼠年(2020)。三舅舅问:“文儿,你会所有的Astro新年的主题曲吗?” 我信心满满说:“会啊!放马过来吧!” 三舅舅问所有的新年主题曲,通通都会全部。“哇,文儿!你好厉害啊!” 三舅舅竖起大拇指。

三舅舅还教我几句的雷州话,“等回到家,刚才我教会你的,你跟外公说。他一定会几惊讶!” 三舅舅说。到了家,阿姨迎接我们的到来 ,她说:“你们是第一个到!” 我就秀一下刚学会雷州给外公:“阿公,我们会回来咯!很多车!(wak nang dui lai lo! jin choi chia!)” 一回来就是打开新年歌,练唱一下,晚上有一年一度的Astro倒数新年除夕夜活动。当然不会错过啦!

“出来吃团圆饭了!” 阿姨说,在阿公阿嬷(外公外婆)家吃团圆饭是最好、最幸福!吃了团圆饭,我到客厅 “霸” 着电视。晚上九时三十分,就是Astro新年除夕夜倒数活动!历年的新年主题曲都朗朗上口,舅舅们说:“文儿,好厉害啊!” 晚上十一时三十分,迎接财神到家。三舅舅还问我一些中文字,我一一为他解答。

凌晨十二时正,新年到了!鼠年到了!希望大家有快乐幸福的新年!

15 January 2020

Astro媒体新春团拜:迎新来Say Cheese 好运鼠于你!(14/1/2020)

续Carlsberg 的新春媒体团拜后,Astro 带来好运到《The Star》 总部。早上十一时三十分,我到大厅等待艺人们的到来。Astro的工作人员在忙着准备游戏摊位、周边产品、音响等等。

我在大厅的大门口看到第一组的艺人已经来了!"Nicole姐!" Nicole姐姐惊讶问:"你怎么会在这里啊?" 我说:"我是这里的实习生。" 不久,六年多没见的洁莹姐姐也来了。还有Danny许佳麟、Jacqueline程玲、新出炉的《Astro国际华裔小姐》的三甲、英文电台Hitz Morning Crew 的主播们———Ean & Arnold 也在场当今天的司仪,可是有点小失望新闻组主播们没来。

在节目开始之前,我和艺人们聊聊天拍照。他们还问我:"你实习这里多久?" 我说:“十二个星期,要一个月了。” 时间到了,大家都聚集在大厅中央准备今天的新春媒体团拜。在Ean和Arnold的介绍之下,艺人们向我们提早拜年。在鼓声的敲击下,媒体新春团拜正式开始!粉红舞狮过来向我们 “撒娇” 超可爱!

在菜青的过程中,我托身旁的同事替我照相。舞狮向我走来,一时在想它要做什么呢?原来是给我柑呢!我还摸了摸两下,希望今年好运鼠于我。可爱的好运鼠在大厅向我招招手,心就马上“飞” 过去了!Danny、Nicole姐姐以及洁莹姐姐一起拍张照记录,一起say cheese!Danny 哥哥还给我红包封呢!包包满载而归!还遇到 Melody DJ 《I Love You 早晨》———— 大宝和Anson,当然少不了MY DJ ———— Jack 叶朝明!

我到游戏摊位玩,在等待时候,其工作人员说:“来,这是给你的新年礼物。” 玩了两个游戏,得了好运鼠的周边产品。艺人们即将离开,我有点舍不得,但很开心和Astro 艺人们在《The Star》提早过年。

回到办公室,好运鼠气球在柜台迎接我们的归来,仿佛在说:"嗨!你们回来啦!" 迎新来Say Cheese,好运鼠于你!




Nicole and MY DJ Jie Ying 
Jacqueline Tiang 

17 December 2019

First Day of Internship The Star (16/12/19) 

The semester break is still ongoing but for Katelyn is her first day of internship at The Star- The People's paper under its Corporate Communication department. It's been a dream of mine to work at The Star since I was a young girl and now I'm here to work as an intern.

After my daddy drops me off, I head to the HR office to sign myself as an intern officially. After that, my mentor, Ms. Julianne, leads me to the seventh floor, where the Corporate Communication department is located. I'm welcomed by the senior manager, Ms. Siti Hajar, with open arms and introduced to my fellow colleagues. 

While waiting for my computer to set up, Ms. Julianne gives me a brief overview on how the department works as a whole, and I'm already given my first task of the day- study The Star's annual report, kind of reminded me in Investor Relations class. Ms. Julianne also shows me some of the cover samples which are going to be used as this year's annual report cover. 

My fellow colleague, Lutfil, introduces me his job scope, mainly on the educational magazine- Kuntum, which is also I grew up with to brush up my Bahasa Malaysia back then. I ask is there anything I can help but no task is given yet except reading the content of the annual report. During lunchtime, I get to know about writing a CEO's "Thank You letter", which reminded me of writing the foreword for the booklet of Sunway University Buddhist Society- SBS' past two musical dramas. 

We head down to Star Bytes for lunch but the food are sold out when we got there. Ms. Siti tells me that the first day of internship is kind of slow but slowly the work will build up soon. The rest of the day is not much just chilling in the office whole day. I guess is to get myself familiar with the surroundings since it's the first day of internship.

Whichever task I'm given throughout my three months of internship, I'll give my best and hopefully landing a full-time career after completing university next year. 

A star struck journey is about to begin.
First day of  internship at The Star 

15 November 2019

2359 SU Fashion Drama: Reset the Clock (14/11/19)

It’s a rainy day for today’s 2359 Fashion Drama but the weather doesn’t dampen the spirits of the students of Sunway University, especially the Communication gang- as they are out in full force to support their fellow cousemates in the Aug 2017 batch. Before I go further, let’s do a bit of memory refreshing. What is 2359 Fashion Drama? It is an Event Management project run by Year 3 PR Project Management students under the Department of Commnication (DoC) at Sunway University. It is to raise awareness on environmental and climate that the world is facing today. It's fashion with drama!

To suit the theme, I choose a floral dress which I dub the "SUNMUN dress". The colours on the dress kind of incorporate with the promotional poster, just to give a little nod to the event. I make my way up to the Art Gallery, as the time is still early, students and guests are waiting for the registration time. To kill time, yummy food and drinks to make that tummy happy! For me, I just have a drink of orange juice and chocolate cheese cream- a favourite dessert of mine, as well as curry puff. I want to have the egg sandwich but my tummy is full.

Chocolate cheese cream cake
As the time reaches 5pm, I head over to the registration counter to sign myself up and back at the JC auditoriums’ corridor to wait for the doors to be opened in an hour’s time. I have a catch up with the students in my batch. To know more about the event, there is QR code for us to scan which leads us to the intineary. We are given the green light to enter the Art Gallery, our environmental warriors act as our guides to our seats. Lucky for me, I have my own "VIP seat".

Our senior, Ruwan is back to his emcee gig! A promotional video is shown at the ceiling before the show, I find it cool! Environmental warriors, are you ready to take out your weapons to save the Earth? Let the show begin! First off, we have Mother Terra- a guardian to all land creatures. From the crawling ants to the furry foxes, you name it! As time passes, humans are starting to build big buildings that we see today, deforestation, and illegal poaching for fur of the animals in the fashion industry, which destroy the creation of Mother Terra!

Secondly, the guardian of sea- Ocena, a little bit of King Triton from Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Like King Trition, Ocena guards the underwater world, all fishes are living the dream under the sea. The nightmare comes as sharks are fished for their fins for shark fin soup that are served in Malaysian Chinese restaurant, especially weddings; fishes are lying dead. Ocena angrily stumps her trident, that one day all that humans will pay on what they have done to her sea kingdom.

The intro of I See the Light from Disney Tangled is on, featuring my singing buddy and performer of the night- Siak Foong. Lady Skye gracefully flying her way to the stage. Butterflies, birds, bees, and bats, you name it. The sky is the best place to soar and break free from all the worries. All it seems to be perfect but the discard of plastics on beaches causing sea gulls to suffocate, bats are unable to pollinate and butterflies, they can't help but to see to their homes destroyed once more. For Lady Skye, it will never be the same for her!

The nature's enemies such as plastics and polystyrene, have become a part of our lives but at the same time it's killing all the three elements that guardians of Mother Nature have created, some day we humans will pay all the crimes that we have committed!

SDG 13: Climate Actions
SDG 14: Life Underwater
SDG 15: Life on Land

Maybe we should add one more- Life on Sky!

Reset the clock, let's do this together! We have a part to save the Earth. Tell me, how can you save the environment in your own way?

If you want more green information, check out their official social media websites:
FB: 23: 59 Fashion Drama
Instagram: @23.59_su


The stage is ready

Lady Skye and our performer- Siak Foong 
Flower power (Source: 23:59 Fashion Drama) 

Protecting our endangered friends 
I'm with Yuki- our environmental warrior 

生命中的朋友十周年校园造势活动(14/11/19)

出席自家同学的活动后,我以最快的时间赶去另一场活动—— 生命中的朋友十周年校园造势活动。我看着窗外在下着雨,往毕业学楼必须经过大学的天桥。特别是在雨天的时候,要多注意安全。幸好有几位学生们愿意陪我到活动现场,“Kate,你到了啊?不是说你出席同学的活动吗?” 我说:“是啊!他们活动提早完毕就赶过来。” 他们说:“你太有心了!”

既然已经答应要主持此活动,就全力以赴把这个角色办好。再说,如果我赶不到活动现场,就托理事会替补我的位子。我安顿自己后,就把司仪稿再看一遍,“袈文,你来主持或者我来?” 家乐问,我说:“我来吧!” 他说:“好的!你等我给你的指示,然后活动就可以开始。”

时间接近晚上八时,活动即将开始了!家乐给我指示,一收到讯号就进入主持状态。“谢谢主持人!大家晚上好!我们是生命中的朋友!” 生命中的朋友大马著名音乐团创办于2009年,以歌声散播正能量和爱;他们在我中二成为我的歌唱伙伴,我还记得第一次听他们的歌是《生命中的朋友》—— 此歌也是以同名专辑的主打歌。在中五的时候,每次在等待物理室或化学室的门打开,佛学会的学弟学妹们会在第一个铃声响前练唱《生命中的朋友》。

从此每次感到失落或无助,有生命中的朋友的歌声陪我度过每个难关,让我勇敢面对生命中的挑战!在第一组的歌曲中,我当然喜欢《微笑》、《候鸟》、《生命中的朋友》等的歌曲。“现在我们邀请另一位 ‘重量级’人物—— 我们请李木祥博士!” 李博士说他这首歌—— 《一直都相信》的灵感源自于来自对佛法的信念。如果信念不够稳定,就会被其他事来干扰我们的意念。想不到李博士有一把的歌声呢!

最后的一首歌是——《善苗》,我们要把福慧的种子把他们茁壮成长。我还跟着他们一起唱呢!最后我以这一句作为结局:一个善意的微笑,一个温暖的问候给大家幸福;当我们看到失落的时候,走向前给他们一个拥抱一个微笑,因为微笑是魔法般的奇妙!相信大家有自己的生命中朋友给我们勉励来陪伴我们勇敢面对生命中的挑战……”

“哇,你把所有的歌词念出来!” Kah Jun 哥哥说。在双威大学佛学会主席—— 姚静慈,陪同李木祥博士颁发纪念给生命中的朋友。就此,生命中的朋友十周年校园造势活动圆满结束!

18 October 2019

2359 SU Fashion Drama Promotional Booth.

After my class, I head straight down to the university foyer hoping to see a tree but it's no where to be seen, all I see is three campus clubs' booths. Where could the tree be? "Well if the tree is not at the university foyer, it must be growing at the college side," I thought. Sure enough the tree is "growing" at the college link bridge.

Once I reached the booth, I'm offered to write a message to Mother Earth. What would I want to see in our world in five years' time? I also include a Sustainable Development Goal in my message (hint: it has to do with the environment can you guess which goal is it? ). If you wanna say something to Mother Earth, you can "leaf" a message and help them to "grow" a tree.

 After much warming up, our environmental warriors are at the booth ready to get their weapons out to save the environment! Whenever students pass by the booth, they are doing the best to get some of them to stop in their tracks. To make it more effective, the environmental warriors take their "weapons" out to promote the event around campus.

I feel that I'm in a tropical forest as I can hear the birds singing, and we have a tiger as well? Relax guys, they are just animal sounds on the bluetooth speaker not the real life ones. But, we have a role to protect their homes as these beautiful animals are loosing their natural habitat due to illegal deforestation and poaching.

If you ask me, how would I save the environment? I would use a reusable bottle because it can save up 167 plastic bottles. Besides that, I would separate the rubbish into the right category. In addition, whenever I follow my family on grocery or shopping, we would always bring our recycle bags with us. These are my tips on saving the environment.

We have a role to play to save our Earth and the environment. Miss out the booth today? Don't worry, our environmental warriors will be on campus walking around, be sure to say hi when you see them!

Note: Early birds ticket are on sale now only RM 15, normal price is RM 20 (all ticket prices are inclusive of light refreshments).

Reset the clock, 2359 let's do this together!

If you want more green information, check out their official social media accounts:
Facebook: 23: 59 Fashion Drama

Instagram: @23.59_su

3 October 2019

Harimou Promotional Booth & Mini Game Station (3/10/19)

I come down to the university foyer after political communication class. As I'm walking around, I come across two cute soft toys tigers, and the table is decorated with a jungle themed. At first, I thought whether I'm in a jungle or tropical place but no it's the Harimou Campaign!

Harimou Campaign is run by Sunway University's Year 2 Communication students under the Department of Communication (DoC). It's to educate the public and raise awareness about tiger conversation. To start up, heir first mini activity is up- a game of darts! If you we hit the orange bulls-eye, we'll get free stickers, and we all know Malaysians love free stuff right? Who doesn't want free stuff?

Due to my poor hand-eye coordination, I did the best by throwing the darts at the orange bulls-eye but I'm so close! Well, I try for a second time, still so close to the target! It's okay, at least I get to meet the two soft toy tigers- Timmy and Tiffany, who are at the booth to greet their visitors who come and drop by. Timmy,is chubby and cute, while Tina has this power in her. If you asked me, who I like best, it's definitely Timmy!

I just can't get over the soft toys because they are just too cute and cuddly! Anyway, there will be a big revelation at 3.30pm. I wonder what it is? Unfortunately, I didn't stay back as I head off for another event. I manage to see the big revelation on Harimou's Instagram post, it's a picture of tiger swimming in the water but there a lot of holes due to the darts that the visitors played earlier on- which means, tigers are killed mercilessly by poachers every now and then , the holes are like bullets from the guns.

Stop shooting our tigers and spare them a life to live! Besides orang utan, hornbill, Malayan Tapir, tigers is the most symbolic of all in our country! If you see our national logo, there are two tigers on each side of it which means the symbol of strength and bravery. Did you know? 200 tigers are left in the Malaysian wild, if we don't protect them, our future generation won't be able to see our national fighter.

If we want be a part of the tiger conservation, you can sign the pledge to save a tiger's life. Are you willing to fight for our tigers and hear them roar?

For more roaring details, follow Harimou's official social media:
Facebook: Harimou Campaign
Instagram: @harimou.su

Save the Tigers