Leech In The Papers!

So, way back in January, I posted that I helped a friend do an interview in the papers. Well, it finally came out about 2 weeks ago... in The Star! Yes, it took nearly 3 months + to go into print, and to be honest I am quite afraid to read the article because people who did see it (my MIL, my ex-line manager, my parents & brother, 2 of my ex-colleagues) all seem to tell me warped things. My MIL thought that I had become an ambassador for Watsons (if so, please send me more freebies! -_-). My ex-line manager thought that I had become a skincare specialist and started asking me my thoughts about Hada Labo (lol!). My parents just liked to pick on things that they thought was funny, e.g: the journalist stating that I'm "in my twenties" which my dad LOL-ed and said that I'm a liar. I AM NOT! I have not turned 30 yet!

And the #1 thing that they all harped on was whether I got to keep the things that was photographed. Whut? Those ARE MY THINGS TO BEGIN WITH! I didn't get anything to do the interview, hahaha. I guess I do feel like a right idiot, especially if people got the impression that I was advertising for Watsons (I wasn't! But I like the pharmacy, but I also like Guardian, ok?). I did debate whether I should ask the journalist to put my blog address in the article as a favor as well.. but I decided I didn't want the attention. I am quite ok with the Google adsense that comes trickling in, and besides, with the timing that the article came out... it wouldn't look good for me to promote such an inactive blog. :P Also, I do NOT want my MIL, ex-line manager and my parents reading this blog! They are all aghast that I spend so much on skincare and bath products now! (Now that they found out the "props" in the photo are ALL MINE.)

FYI, I am really impressed with MYSELF that they would think that the photo was professionally taken. It was taken with my Olympus non-SLR camera, and it was balanced on a stool and a pile of books (makeshift tripod). I dressed myself up, and after pressing the timer, I had to run and pose cheesily behind my pile of products. LOL! I think I took a total of 4-5 photos ONLY and then edited the photo a little to make it more presentable. Simple things like brightening the picture (because the only area I could take a photo was pretty dark, so I just lightened it ONCE in Photoscape. Yeah, not even Photoshop! Which is no use, cos in the end, the paper made me look so ORANGE wtf.

Anyway, here's the paper in question... and ohai, I see you Michelle & Tashny. *heart*