You are dependable, popular, and observant.
Deep and thoughtful, you are prone to moodiness.
In fact, your emotions tend to influence everything you do.
You are unique, creative, and expressive.
You don’t mind waving your freak flag every once and a while.
And lucky for you, most people find your weird ways charming!
Hmmm. What do you wanna know? What I can tell you is that, journalism IS a very interesting profession. Everyday you’ll be doing different things. But of course, the core of it all is still writing.
For me, I write court stories, human interest stories (my favourite), dry political stuff, environmental pieces, issues that affect the community and even question the politicians on current issues.
What I haven’t done is crime stories. This is something I’m not good at and usually I’m not assigned to cover crime. We have a reporter who specialises in this area.
Anything else you wanna know? And oh, not forgetting, I’ve had the opportunity to cover football matches involving Penang and mind you, it hasn’t looked pretty at all.
During my eight months or so, I’ve travelled as far as Lunas in Kedah for assignments. However, there are some days when you have virtually nothing to do. On days like these, you either try very hard to find a story to do. If you REALLY REALLY can’t, then you just sit in the office and read anything and everything you can find.
Best of all, I’ve a great boss and wonderful colleagues. Jokers, they are.
5 responses to “Who Am I?”
Eric Ho
November 13th, 2006 at 01:20
Hi Melissa… nice articles… ;D
U graduate when? recently? i m also USM Comp Sc.. but grad 2001.. ;D
Melissa
November 19th, 2006 at 13:38
Graduated in August this year. Communication, majoring in Journalism.
Jiahao
May 20th, 2007 at 13:02
Hi there. Journalism sounds interesting, can you tell me more about it?
Melissa
May 20th, 2007 at 18:29
Hmmm. What do you wanna know? What I can tell you is that, journalism IS a very interesting profession. Everyday you’ll be doing different things. But of course, the core of it all is still writing.
For me, I write court stories, human interest stories (my favourite), dry political stuff, environmental pieces, issues that affect the community and even question the politicians on current issues.
What I haven’t done is crime stories. This is something I’m not good at and usually I’m not assigned to cover crime. We have a reporter who specialises in this area.
Anything else you wanna know? And oh, not forgetting, I’ve had the opportunity to cover football matches involving Penang and mind you, it hasn’t looked pretty at all.
During my eight months or so, I’ve travelled as far as Lunas in Kedah for assignments. However, there are some days when you have virtually nothing to do. On days like these, you either try very hard to find a story to do. If you REALLY REALLY can’t, then you just sit in the office and read anything and everything you can find.
Best of all, I’ve a great boss and wonderful colleagues. Jokers, they are.
Andrew Ng
March 25th, 2008 at 14:01
Hi Mel, any opening in NST for an internship programme for 8weeks?