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The reason I’m not posting too often on this blog yet…

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

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…is that I may have a major newspaper interested in me blogging about my time in Penang for their website.

Which would make this here blog defunct.

And which is all rather exciting.

I’m not at liberty to divulge which major newspaper it is, but here are some clues:

a) My parents read it. In fact: most parents read it.

b) It has a very good blogs section (not that my/your parents would know).

c) It rhymes with ‘Baily Wellygraph’.

Should the Baily Wellygraph not want me to blog for them, I will be posting here, daily - and announcing my presence as loudly as possible to the online world, have no fear!

Hopefully I’ll find out shortly whether they do, indeed, want me. In the meantime, just to be considered is slightly thrilling. I mean, even the wonderful Andrew Collins has just got excited about getting his first piece published in the Baily Wellygraph (see his post from December 6).

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What I know about Malaysia

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

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Postcard from Penang

So, I’m off to Penang at the end of the month. I’ve never been to Asia, let alone the subsection Malaysia, before. The furthest east I’ve ever been is Prague.

As a young girl, I had a penfriend in Penang. She used to send me postcards of this exotic, colourful island, and some really great stickers. I used to send her postcards of Wolverhampton town centre, and some slightly rubbish stickers. Unfortunately, though, I can’t remember her name, so I won’t be able to look her up. Which is a real shame, because British stickers have improved hugely since then.

I’ve travelled in Europe and North America, but never to anywhere remotely exotic before (although Las Vegas comes close). As the agent who booked me on this gig - who will henceforth be known as ”T” - told me: you don’t work in Asia for the money, you do it for the experience.

Hopefully he meant that in a good way.

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