Featured in Utusan Malaysia - Mega

Alhamdulillah, syukur :). I was featured in Utusan Malaysia - Mega today! I was interviewed by the Utusan Malaysia journalist Puan Rina a few weeks ago via email regarding an article she wanted to write about Raya cards and how it has become a phenomenon these days to not send any Raya cards the traditional way to our family and friends. I was asked to give my point of view on it. Again, this was a challenge for me as my Malay is not that good hehehe......but as always I did my best to convey my thoughts on this issue. I'm so glad to see that there were not many editing done to what I wrote.....so I guess my Malay is not that bad after all...hahahaha :D

Since the interview was done via email, so even the photos were taken by yours truly for the article. I had to ask my Mom to help me take photos of myself with the cards by my PC hehehe! Gosh! That was a really funny moment since she is not good with the camera. She had to take photos of me so many times before she finally got that shot! LOL! It was a good experience though. I seriously need to get me a tripod for the camera so that I can take photos without having to trouble anybody in future projects :). 

A special heartfelt thank you to Puan Rina for this interview. I'm actually quite surprised that she still remembers me from my first interview with her last year. Didn't know that she still follows my blog till now. I really appreciate that a lot :).

I would like to make some corrections here from the article. My name is Noor not Nor. And I've only been involved in this online business for almost 4 years now....not 5 years hehehe. Just minor mistakes hehehe....which is kinda normal.....it happens sometimes. :)

You can read the short version of article at the Utusan Malaysia online link HERE.

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Featured article in Berita Harian - Minda

I was contacted again by Miss Khairunnisa, who is the Berita Harian journalist a couple of weeks back to provide an article for the Berita Harian's Minda section again this week. Actually I was a bit lost for ideas for the DIY article. I kept thinking and thinking what shall I share with everyone this time around. So, I decided to share about the quilling technique so that school teachers and students can benefit from the article.

I've already blogged about the quilling technique here in this blog recently, especially about how to make your own quilling tool. Check it out HERE. In the paper article, there isn't enough space to put all the photos I submitted for the quilling technique. So for those who are a bit lost when reading the paper article, you can just view that blog post to get a clearer picture on how to make your own quilling tool. Once you can make your own quilling tool, you can easily do the quilling decorations on bookmarks and greeting cards. :)

Thank you again to Miss Khairunnisa for giving me an opportunity to co-write a DIY article for Berita Harian. I really appreciate it!  It's pretty challenging to write in Bahasa Melayu.....but I gave it my best shot! Hope the article can benefit a lot of people who are interested to learn new craft techniques and be able to try it out themselves in the comfort of their own home. :)

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Featured in Berita Harian Minda

Last week I was contacted by the Berita Harian - Minda,  journalist Ms. Khairunnisa who was keen on featuring me in the Tips and Panduan section that's dedicated generally for school kids. This particular section of the paper guides school kids to do DIY projects at home or at school. So I was asked to co-write the article and guide the kids with some tips on how to make a very simple handmade greeting card.

Sounds simple enough right? hahaha.....well, I had trouble deciding how to do it at first. I thought of doing quilling or pop up cards, but the journalist insists that the card had to be something very simple so that the kids can easily do it at home with their limited tools and materials. So in the end, I wrote a step by step instruction on how to make a simple handmade birthday card, including several photos of the process itself from beginning till the end. But looks like only 4 photos showed up in the article hehehehe. Oh well, there isn't enough space to show all of them anyways. :)

Everything was done and arranged through email. I never even met the journalist because she's working in Kuala Lumpur. So we just corresponded online. This is the first time for me to actually write something for the paper and it's pretty exciting. It was a little difficult as well since I'm not used to writing in Malay...hehehe.....so I had to write and edit several times to make sure people can understand what I'm trying to explain hehehe. All in all, it was a good experience. I'm so glad I took the chance and did it in the end. :)

I'm sorry I couldn't scan the article.....something wrong with my scanner and I don't know how to fix it huhuhu....so I was only able to take photos of it using my digital camera. I was hoping the article can be found online at the Berita Harian website, so that I can link it here....unfortunately it's not available there. So, this is the best that I can do for now...sorry ya. :(

Thank you so much to Ms. Khairunnisa for giving me this opportunity. I really really appreciate it! :) Yay!!!

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