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Tv & Radio > News & Features Sunday February 4, 2007
Race to lose weight
AIR RAVES
By Anthony Thanasayan
SO who is it going to be eventually, folks – the Greenman or the Navsta?
I’m talking about the challenge currently being faced by the deejays of TraxxFM’s Wake Up Show on weekdays, 7am-10am.
Navsta has been sweating it out since Jan 24 in his quest to lose 5kg before Feb 23.
If he fails, he’ll have to play cabby for 10 straight hours later this month.
Although the deejay will get to sample first-hand what’s it like for all our taxi men and women out there, it certainly won’t be a bed of roses.
For instance, Navsta will inevitably be picking up fussy customers in addition to being stuck in all those jams on the road that most people would want to avoid.
The only way out of those jams, including the tight spot he’s in at the moment, is for Navsta to shed those pounds – and fast!
Should the deejay succeed, then it’s co-host Greenman (aka Nigel Green) who’ll have to play fall guy and take on Navsta’s punishment.
Sounds pretty unfair, doesn’t it? But that’s the rule of the game, apparently.
And as an interesting twist, one of TraxxFM’s listeners will also be playing in the game and possibly paying the price for it as well.
For the full details and to find out how this adventure is shaping up, tune in to the programme.
On another note, Muslims the world over marked Maal Hijrah (the Muslim world’s New Year) about a fortnight ago.
It was raining heavily over much of Kuala Lumpur during the afternoon period when I tuned in to my radio.
The continuous wet weather that resulted in traffic jams and flash floods in certain parts of the city strongly reminded many unaffected Malaysians of the terrible suffering that flood victims in hardest-hit Johor went through recently, even though news reports at that time were suggesting that the situation was beginning to improve.
Five days earlier, BBC World Service from London had informed its worldwide audiences that the flood situation in Malaysia was putting to test the aid efforts of the country.
“The relief centres in southern Malaysia are reported to be bursting at the seams with more than 100,000 people evacuated from their homes after heavy flooding,” the BBC observed.
It even added that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had said that a state of emergency might be declared if the floods worsened.
The BBC, through its online service, also invited readers, viewers and listeners who had been affected by the floods in Malaysia to send in their personal accounts and experiences by filling in the details in a form it provided on its homepage.
As for our local broadcasters on Jan 20, they did their best to be upbeat, despite the rain.
TraxxFM played Stevie Wonder’s I Just Called to Say I Love You, which I thought, funnily enough, helped boost one’s spirit.
But perhaps the best local broadcaster that managed to keep the occasion sober yet remain optimistic was KLFM heard on FM 97.25MHz in the Klang Valley.
The DJ who hardly introduced herself took the opportunity to wish Muslim listeners a meaningful New Year.
She also made announcements of certain religious events, talks and kenduri being held that evening in the capital to mark Awal Muharram.
She kept the hour busy with the latest reports on the weather, traffic situations and flash flood areas for drivers to avoid.
Though it was simple, the information was timely and useful for listeners on the slippery and unpredictable roads that afternoon.
Despite living in the cyber age, Anthony Thanasayan insists that radio still provides a unique window on the world. When he isn’t scanning bandwidths, he trains service dogs for disabled people through his organisation, Petpositive (Malaysian Animal-Assisted Therapy for the Disabled and Elderly Association).
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