one day as a reporter...
hey lin! what you doing in UK - study what course? never tell...still thought you are at bugis. have a good study experience!and now to my day yesterday...i was given a brief to go to the orchard area (botanic gardens and orchard) to get public i.e. consumers to test out video calling on a 3G phone (nokia of cos lar!) and pass me a quotatable comment. my gawd! we are such a self conscious/shy/inane/anal bunch of losers! what is wrong with being photo-graphed and asked comments on??? i cannot bloody get it.
so me and my camera guy went to botanic gardens to try catch families having a picnic, couples strolling etc...to get them to test out doing things like a video call with each other afterwhich i will interview them and ask simple questions like 'how did you find the experience? did you find it different/novel/pain in the ass (etc)?
the responses i got for people turning me down were nothing short of creative. whoever said singaporeans cannot think, should try out what i did. these guys had only like 30 secs to think of something to turn me down with.
me: hi, i am doing some research on anhere's another good one that came up.
article that i am
writing for a newspaper, i was hoping that you could help me
out...
guy
A: cannot cannot. i don't think i can.
me: i will just need you to give me
one line
on how you feel...
guy A: i don't read the papers.(and looks at
me as though i will challenge him.)
me: hi, i am doing somein case, you think it's only the men who give anal answers.
research on an article that i am
writing for a newspaper, i was hoping
that you could help me out...
guy
B: i don't know anything about
technology.
me: can i show you this
process?
guy B: you show me also i don't know how to
do it. cannot.
bye bye. (and he flees the scene with wife and kid in tow)
me: hi, i am doing some research on an*she should have tried out for the SEA games 200m dash.*
article that i am
writing for a newspaper, i was hoping that you could help me
out...
girl
C: umm, umm (eyes start to look
around wildly for some excuse to reject me
when the baby she is carrying suddenly
starts to cry)
me: is the baby
ok?
girl C: cannot help you, my baby crying.(and she is away from me in a
flash.)
well, at the end of the day, i got the number of quotes i needed for the article. would like to thank all those who didn't run away or reject me. hope the article comes out alright. after yesterday, i now empathise with the general news journos when they have to go out/on scene with their camera/video crews and get members of the s'porean public to comment on anything.
posted by inspirethereal @ 4:37 PM
2 straight, not straightened:
BOO! in UK North Yorkshire, uni of York studying English (lit) and Philosophy. sorry lar, din mean to leave without a word, didnt want to broadcast as well. it was HEEREN btw. haha!! i think u'll love it here. quaint is the word u use to describe york. awe struck is what u say when ur 8 weeks into the lit course. and breathless is what u get when u wake up every morning and realise its the ceiling of the halls of residence that greets u instead of ur room. =)
lorri wuz here *farts* ... wahahaha. joking. im too civilised to fart in front of ya just becos i wanna leave my mark. hmmm ...
oh and i thought my blogskin was original *wah* heheh. do u realise we have the same bloody blogskin and fonT ! except yours is in BABY BLUE and mine is in SWEET PINK ! how cute ! twin blog skins and matching fonts. wahahaha
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