nokia’s surprise/ jun-e’s book on blogging/ tell magazine august 2008

Nokia sent over a box last week. It was simple but pretty, with a dark brown ribbon and a misspelling of my name plastered on it, heh. But it was very exciting and I loved it, mainly because I seldom receive nicely-packed stuff, unless I bought it from Amazon.com.

Nokia package - what is in the box
Guess the package

Well, it turned out to be an invite to a Nokia event tomorrow at the KL Hilton (which I’ll be going for). They’ve assembled some stuff together and labeled them accordingly as you can see in the photo below. I already know what they will be launching tomorrow, and I thought it was pretty smart of them to come up with this package. A reminder of how things used to be…

Nokia package - can you fit everything into one
Can you fit everything into something?

Well, I kept the invitation card. But I gave the box and everything else in it to Ryan. Except for the compass, which my sister is keeping. Suffice to say, Ryan was pretty much ecstatic over it. I showed him how to work the yo-yo (the best I could) but I don’t think he quite got it. He took the video cassette and asked me, “what is this?” I told him that it’s something he will never learn how to use. Heh. My mom who’s here for a couple of weeks made two square holes and a slit to the box, and Ryan wears the box like how people in handcuffs wear paper bags when they are being led to somewhere. I should take a photo of that soon.

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Sometime last year, Jun-E Tan interviewed me (and a few other bloggers) for her Masters thesis, titled “Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia”. Since then she has graduated with a Masters degree, got a place to study for her Ph.D in Singapore and published her thesis into a book. She’d also successfully hitchhiked from Butterworth to KL with a friend, but that’s another story.

Book cover - Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia
Wahey, congratulations, it’s a book!

We met up a couple of weeks ago with Sharizal and she kindly gave us a copy of her book (personally autographed some more). She’d also acknowledged and quoted us in her book, which I thought was very nice of her to do so :D I tell you, it’s a weird (the good type) sort of thrill to see your name in a book, even if it’s just one or two lines, heh.

Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia - acknowledgements
Spot my name!

Not sure if it’s already available in bookstores, but you can buy it directly from Jun-E for RM 25.

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Earlier in July, I blogged about not being able to camho properly, what with being stuck in between two professional camwhorers. It was a small photoshoot for TELL magazine for an article that Jesscet wrote about the Malaysian blogging community.

Well it was published in the August ‘08 bumper issue, and I managed to get my grubby hands on it.

Suanie holding a copy of TELL magazine August 2008
Forgive the expression on my face, I woke up not long before this photo was taken

I’d sent Jesscet a bunch of photos of me and friends at assorted events and bloggers’ gatherings, and it looked as if they published them all.

TELL magazine August 2008 - bloggers
At a Happy event, at a Tuborg event, at the Nuffnang Pirates event, at a Royal Selangor event

TELL magazine August 2008 - Suanie
At a Heineken event, and a photo of me taken by Syazuan Sulaiman

Heh. Cheers to all.

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8 comments:


  1. KY, 25. August 2008, 17:38

    pics so big in magazine, so fehmes!!!

     
  2. chris tock, 25. August 2008, 17:43

    wah femes! lol… i hope your market price didn’t just go up by another 10k for all these =.=

    by the way, met your sis a few days back.. holla there!

     
  3. Dabido, 25. August 2008, 21:12

    ‘Can you fit everything into something?’

    Um … is that a sexual innuendo I’m too scared to touch? Or do you mean fitting everything into the Universe. :-)

    ‘Spot my name!’

    See Spot. See Spot name. Nope, don’t remember that from Dick and Jane books!!!

    Hmmm, wonder if they have a section on foreign invaders to the Malaysian Blogosphere! lol
    I will be back Dec 30th to see if I can make it onto every ones blog next year! :-)

     
  4. Jeff, 25. August 2008, 22:37

    Wow… you are even more famous blogger now.. congratulations

     
  5. Huai Bin, 25. August 2008, 23:02

    I like the Nokia box, it’s very nicely done and there’s a lot of stuff in it too. Very artistic, but VHS? I don’t even know where my video tape player is anymore. ;)

    Congrats Suanie! I’ve always wanted to write a book, but being in a book would be the second best thing. :)

     
  6. FA, 26. August 2008, 9:11

    FEMESSSSS THANKS SUAN

     
  7. Suanie, 26. August 2008, 16:44

    KY: same to you same to you :P

    tock2: hah yah she told me

    dabs: oO wow it’s going to be one year since you were last here already

    jeff: thank you thank you bwahahahaha want to see me take over the world next? stay tuned :P

    HB: heh yah i thought it was very creative too. this particular agency is something.. everything they’ve sent makes me think that they laboured day and night to prepare everything, because they look so… home made and personal, heh

    FA: ho ho ho no more famous than you z0mg

     
  8. Dabido, 27. August 2008, 12:21

    Yes, I am returning one year fatter! :-)

     

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