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Meeting Denise Keller

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Posted 30 Sep 2009 — by jotwein
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For some reason I feel compelled to blog about this experience, because I find it quite amazing and I’m truly excited about the things that I get to do as a journalist. But lest this blog become a list of the things I get to do at my job (although I don’t really know who reads anyway), I shall hold back.

Anyway, on to the story.

Yesterday, I attended the press conference for this year’s World Contraception Day where shocking results of a sex survey were released (for more details look here). Fast forward to the end of the press conference and Denise Keller was picking out name cards for a lucky draw. Now I was switching off by then because the Youth.SG name card is smaller than usual name cards but somehow or other, mine was picked.

Once that happened (because it rarely does), you won’t easily forget our card because it’s so unique and special. In fact, everyone who receives one of our cards comments that it’s very cute. So it was nice and memorable, I guess, and I got a $50 Supperclub voucher for it, which was nice.

So I thought that was it, the end. After all there wasn’t anything left to do right? Wrong. Somehow or other, the PRs managed to get me to stay and take a picture with Denise. And after an interview with Mobtv (because I indicated I needed to leave), I stepped up to take a picture with her and lo and behold, she remembered my name!

We chat a little, and finally snapped a picture before I left, but it was really quite an interesting experience, especially because she seems like the bubbly enthusiastic kind, but she got so solemn and serious when talking about sex education (the topic at hand).

Once again I’m gonna brag (at least for now) about the things I get to do at my job. And this post must end now, but I leave you with a picture. The only one that matters, really. Enjoy!

Photo courtesy of World Contraception Day 2009, Asia Pacific

And it was all yellow

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Posted 28 Sep 2009 — by jotwein
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At the risk of wasting money on this domain because I’m not blogging, hello!

Life’s been a rollercoaster these last few weeks, last week especially because it was F1 week and there were events going on left right centre. It’s been two weeks since I last wrote a post but the time’s really gone by phenomenally quickly. So here’s my life in a nutshell.

I’m into my fifth week working for Youth.SG and am totally having a blast. Despite the long hours (9.30am to 6.30pm daily), I feel pretty good about what I do and what I get to do. I mean just on Sat I took a media tour of the Ferrari F1 Garage (read more here). Who else gets to do stuff like this?

Of course it’s not all peaches and cream. I do feel an almost depressing shortage of rest and a social life these days because I spend most of my time working. Am also contemplating cutting short my stint by a week so I can get at least some break before school starts. But I don’t quite know about that. Seems too late now if you ask me.

Contemplative matters aside, I’m really getting the hang of doing an online magazine. I think it’ll really help if I get online journ for one of my electives. But y’know, we’ll see in a couple weeks. By then I think timetable would be out? Hopefully.

In other news, Canon has announced the EOS 7D and I have to say I’m excited. I probably won’t be able to get it anytime soon (if at all) but it sounds really good to me, and no surprises here, I want one. It’ll even put off my upgrade to a FF right now. That’s how good it sounds to me. Only thing is it’ll probably be around S$2.5k when it’s out. Bummer.

That lens looks pretty good too, but let’s not get carried away here. I do have my 24 – 105L and that’s not going away. I just need to get it fixed and it’s a pain that Canon’s service centre is only open on weekdays. Not cool.

Anyway school’s starting in about 3 weeks’ time. I guess it’ll be nice to see everyone again. But it just draws on closer to the end and we all know what that means. National Service!

Right so I guess I’ll come back here every now and then to lay down the word but most of my time is (again) spent on Youth.SG (bold and orange because that’s the website’s housestyle) so you can see my stuff there. I could always blog twice though. I do so prefer my own blog’s admin interface.

Until next time then.

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Posted 14 Sep 2009 — by jotwein
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It’s been about four weeks since I came back to Singapore and the time’s passed way too fast. In the true spirit of trying to kill myself, I haven’t had a proper break since I started working. First weekend was spent working and second weekend was spent at NTU with pro-ams. But it’s all good. This week I’m resting.

Anyway, I just want to indicate my life. You can read my work at Youth.SG, including blog posts because we blog as well.