GiGa Singapore Ambassador

December 15, 2008

I wrote for GiGa.de as a Ambassador for Singapore back in early 2000. And occasionally did live phone interview with the hosts. How I came about this was, my boyfriend(then) had his webcam turned to his television and this show called, GiGa was showing. I asked him what it was all about. He told me that it’s a variety cum tech show. They also had GiGa Games.

I checked out their website,which is still around,and saw they had this special section looking for people who were living outside Germany to write about the countries they came from. I was pretty excited over it and wrote to them. And as they say, “the rest is history”. I got a part in the “Ambassador section” and wrote religiously about the latest happening in Singapore.

The video that you’re watching is a live phone interview I did with the show. I had a lot of fun being one of the Ambassador on Giga. I kinda miss writing for the show!. Hopefully, they have something new in the future!. Maybe a reunion would be great!.

Vodcast Blooper!

December 14, 2008

As you can tell, I had a hard time trying to get the sentence right! This was recorded in my hotel room in Antwerp, Belgium. I now know how it is like being a Presenter!. So instead of publishing a well done first Vodcast of mine,I decided to put this one as my first Vodcast!.

“Meow Meow?”, Baby Cat said to Baby Doggy while still looking out the window with his paws and face rubbing the window as he speaks or rather meowed, watching the human kids playing at the playground near the building they were staying. “Do you think they will let us go play at the playground today too?”. “Wooof woof”, Baby Doggy replied. “Well, I’m not sure what they have in mind today..”.

It is a beautiful Sunday afternoon in a small town called Karlsruhe. In the land where everyone is speaking in a special language called, German. Not known to Baby Cat and Baby Doggy. Where they came from, everyone speaks the animal language or in Baby Doggy exact words are,”Woof Woof Woof!”. “It’s call the Baby Animal Language!”.

The Babies decided to ask the humans if they would bring them to the playground today. Climbing down from the window panel along with Baby Doggy, Baby cat who is a tab bit cubby,”Meow!”. I mean, furry. Had some trouble trying to jump onto the desk which was near the window panel. “Woof woof!”,Baby doggy said. “Just jump,Baby Cat!” who has already made it to the table. Baby Cat took a deep breath and jumped off from the window panel. He flew a few inches off into the air and waving his paws franticly and with a loud thud, he almost made it to the desk. His rear paws were dangling from the edge of the desk. Baby Doggy came to his rescue,pulling Baby Cat onto the desk. “Woof woooof!”. “Baby Cat,you really need to go easy on the chocolates!”. Baby Cat gave him a shocking expression. “Meow meow meow meow?!”. “But it’s my favorite!” and following Baby Doggy jumping down to the chair and making their way to the floor.

Standing at 25 centimeter and 20 centimeter respectively, all the furniture around them in the bedroom were,to them,extremely massive. Hopping towards the open door,passing the bathroom,turning to the left where the massive bookshelf stands and towards the red couch where the humans were sitting talking to each other. The Babies stopped where the human feet were,meowed and woofed to get their attention. Baby Cat tried hopping higher,with no success. Baby Doggy waved his paws at the humans.

“Woof woof woof?”, Baby doggy said to Baby Cat. “Do you think we should climb on their legs?”. “Meow meow!”,Baby Cat replied. “Yeah,let’s do that!”. And so the Babies started making their way up to the human feet until one of the human looked down. “Ah, the Babies are here!”,exclaimed the human lady. The lady human picked the Babies up from the floor and settled them next to her. “Baby Cat, I really think we should wash you sometime soon”, said the tanned human lady with long black hair to Baby Cat. Baby Cat looked at her and smelled himself. *sniff sniff* “Meow Meow?,he said. “I don’t smell anything”. The human lady smiled. The babies turned to the other human who was sitting next to them on the sofa with his big shinning television(MacBook Pro)on his lap and typing furiously on it. “Woof Woof woooof?”, Baby Doggy said to the human. “Do we really need to take a bath?”.
The other human fixed his fingers to the “television” and turn only his head to face Baby Doggy. “We can wash the both of you on the sink and you can play with the rubber ducky,if you want!”. And went on,”You’ll like the warm water and the soap too! Won’t you like that,Babies?”. The Babies looked at each other,thinking and turned to the human lady,”Meow! Woof!”,they exclaimed. “Okay!”.

“Meow Meow Meow?!”,Baby Cat tried asking the humans. “Can we then play at the playground today?”. The humans thought for a second. And nodded their heads. The other human with a week long beard who has his television on his lap said to the Babies,”But you know that once you start to get dirty again,we have to wash you.”. The Babies folded their ears and sighed. The human continued by saying the magical word. “You’ll get chocolates if you take a bath…!”. At the sound of the word,the two furry stinky Babies jumped around,meowed and woofed happily.

TBC…