My favorite part of my work is that i'm pursuing my passion.

An added plus to that is, working together with my morning team.

I have such a great team, the best team in my opinion.

I really am blessed to have a good and strong team to work with and depend on, because a non-stop 4 hour bulletin, especially starting in the wee hours of morning is not easy. Everybody’s got to be on their toes and alert, cause somebody’s mistake becomes everybody’s mistake.

Here goes my Emmy speech, “There’s SDs James and Vincent and the whole studio crew, Mong, Sue,Aud,Hal,Moe,Suzie,Fi,Deeps,Jending,Khenh, and of course my two partners Richard and Paul”

If I left anybody out, please forgive…..

The least favorite… it’s gotta be waking up whilst everybody is enjoying their visit to their dreamland.

It really gets very tough when you don’t take care of yourself on this shift, cause it’s an irregular cycle throughout.

Weekdays you are an owl, working night, sleeping day, and weekends, you do the opposite.

I think my body is confused now, can’t tell day or night. I just sleep whenever I feel like it.

I was “bitten by the news bug" while I was in college.

I had no idea that I would be a journalist before I went to college, but it just became such a natural path for me, since I majored in journalism and my passion was growing every year with every new project, every step of the way. I guess the passion was in me somewhere since long time ago, but I just didn’t realize it till later years.

It was during my short stint with NBC in California, while attending UCLA that my mentor made me realize I always wanted to be a reporter. I just loved working with them! And they were such sweet nice people too!!

My grandfather was a journalist during his younger days, so that could have been another influence to me I think.

My mother also used to tell the story of how I would bully my younger sister and brother to play “tv games” with me. We would take turns and come up with funny advertisement punch lines that we saw on tv or pretend I am interviewing someone, using a DIY mic. It was basically my dirty smelly socks on a chopstick!!! No wonder my siblings ran away from me all the time.

First day of job at CNA as a reporter was exciting. Field work was fun, running around, and filing reports. I could get to know the local scene better.

First day on the job as a presenter was exciting, but excitement of a different sort. My palms were a little damp before I went on air live, and I had butterflies in my stomach, but that’s what makes going live on air, breaking news, delivering the latest updates to viewers etc.. so enticing! I thinks that’s the charm of a job of a news presenter. It’s exhilarating!

If the show looks good, the credit goes to all my colleagues who make the show look good too.

Unglam…?

Well at times, it's a real mad house. While I may look peaceful and at ease at my seat on the set, it’s not so necessarily.

The studio director’s talking to us in our ear, the producer is trying to get our attention, the producers are talking to the directors, there's no shortage of distractions. Everyday we also have guests who sit in for an interview on the show and they are always amazed at how we can carry on a conversation and then with 2 seconds out, snap back up to the camera without missing a beat. It's all about getting accustomed to the distractions and learning how to work through them. After a while you'd be more concerned if there weren't any distractions. That usually indicates something is seriously wrong.

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I love to travel. I wish I had more opportunities to do so. There are so many places I’ve not been to yet. I believe there’s no better education on the planet than travel.

The world is out there for me to explore, boy do I need to save up money now.

For the past year I’ve been waking up at about 1:30am, but now it’s a little better, I can catch an hour more sleep.

What I would do when I first wake up in the morning is watch other 24 hours news station to see what stories broke while I was sleeping. I will have my breakfast, hit the showers , do my hair and makeup next , before I zip out of the house to catch a cab to go to work. I will then be in the office by 3 or 4am, depending on what kind of shorts I had that day after the live show.

Once in the office, we write our stories for the morning, cut the pictures, voice the report packages, and this whole process take about 2 hours. Once that is done, I use my remaining time to go through the rundown, research and gather more information on important events or on interviews slated for the day etc. By 6am, I’m in the studio, recording some short news bites, 6:20 I’m taking a last glance at my bulletin rundown and 6:30 sharp, i start the day with my first “Good Morning!!”

Job is not done yet. After our last bulletin, I spend hours reading, writing scores of emails and corresponding with people who would be coming to our show for an interview. For a good interview to be conducted, ample time has to be invested on researching and talking on the phone with people to find out more about that particular subject so you know you can come up with a good set of questions.

Well, this just goes on and on till I fall asleep in the late afternoon.