It's been a time of topsy-turvy for me as today is my first day in a new workplace. I loved the old one, but it was time to move on for new challenges, new situations.
Due to the fact that I am re-starting a new project, I will need to take a break from this blog for a few weeks at least. I am still following Fernando's progress, still yelling myself hoarse during F1 weekends, but for now, every minute of my waking hour is being spent thinking about work, and/or travelling.
Will post when I can, but am afraid, I won't be as regular until my new role has somewhat stabilised.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Balderdash... Yawn.. Yawn...
The media must be really missing statements from Fernando these days. With little being said, there is little to twist and turn and crochet into another stupid yarn of lies for the readers. So what do they do? Drag up old stories, insinuations, and then slap on it the question that need not even be asked... "Can Fernando Ever Rise to the Top Again?" (YES!) then, he gives the most obvious answer to that: "Only Time will Tell..." Whoo hoo! Excellent piece of journalism. You MUST be blushing with pride.
Am not even bothering to copy and paste the link to this article, but seriously - Mike Doodson, whoever you are, can you be MORE original?
The thing is, we are tired of old stories. Let me help you come up with some new storylines that could potentially be of interest to F1 readers.
- The future of Anthony Davidson and Takuma Sato (that has to be at LEAST a few pages worth of speculation that you could come up with.)
- How about surprising us with a re-cap of Barichello's career since he has HAD so many races under his belt?
- Oh, here's a nice thing to write about, since you are so into re-cap, let's look at the number of career wins that Lewis Hamilton has had, and include the mesmerising wins that he has had from the back of the grid? This from the wunderkind who *choked* and threw away his lead in the WDC standing. Seriously. You give the kid too much credit in terms of him affecting Fernando's performance last year.
- Oh I read something today, about Lewis Hamilton comparing himself to 90 year old Nelson Mandela... That HAS to be something to write about. Here's the suggested headline:
"Lewis Hamilton is the Next Nelson Mandela, because like Mandela, He TOO makes mistakes.."
If you want to put a spin to a story, at least do it with style - and use new materials please.
Rehashing the 2007 story is OLD. It's 2008. CATCH UP WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD!
Yawn ... Yawn... Yawn....
Am not even bothering to copy and paste the link to this article, but seriously - Mike Doodson, whoever you are, can you be MORE original?
The thing is, we are tired of old stories. Let me help you come up with some new storylines that could potentially be of interest to F1 readers.
- The future of Anthony Davidson and Takuma Sato (that has to be at LEAST a few pages worth of speculation that you could come up with.)
- How about surprising us with a re-cap of Barichello's career since he has HAD so many races under his belt?
- Oh, here's a nice thing to write about, since you are so into re-cap, let's look at the number of career wins that Lewis Hamilton has had, and include the mesmerising wins that he has had from the back of the grid? This from the wunderkind who *choked* and threw away his lead in the WDC standing. Seriously. You give the kid too much credit in terms of him affecting Fernando's performance last year.
- Oh I read something today, about Lewis Hamilton comparing himself to 90 year old Nelson Mandela... That HAS to be something to write about. Here's the suggested headline:
"Lewis Hamilton is the Next Nelson Mandela, because like Mandela, He TOO makes mistakes.."
If you want to put a spin to a story, at least do it with style - and use new materials please.
Rehashing the 2007 story is OLD. It's 2008. CATCH UP WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD!
Yawn ... Yawn... Yawn....
Monday, May 5, 2008
Strategising...
OK, I am tired of thinking and writing things that require a lot of thought. So, I am going to come out of my closet and disclose the extent of my "fan"atism where Fernando is concerned.
I have developed a strategy of how I would meet him for the first time, and this was planned for the Malaysia F1 in Sepang or Singapore F1.
Plan 1:
Camp outside the hotel he stays in and ambush him on his way in/out with a bag full of merchandise along with 10 cameras snagged around my neck. This way I get to detain him for a few mins while he signs the merchandise items and take photos with all the 10 cameras with me.
- urr not gonna happen. He will probably sign one merchandise, take 1 photo and run! Run like the WIND! (and who would blame him...?)
Plan 2:
Wait for him to come out of the hotel, pretend to stumble and go into anaphylactic shock so that he would be forced to help me...
- urr not gonna happen either. Chances are, I would fall flat on my face and with me not knowing what anaphylactic shock entails, would display the wrong symptoms resulting in him assuming that I was suffering from rabies and make his exit quickly!
Plan 3:
Be really nice to my journalist friends and borrow their press tag so that I can gate crash the FIA press conference and run after him as he exits the stage and engage him with some delightful banter.
- urr not really gonna happen. My friends would rather interview him themselves. Even if it worked, and my friends take a leave off their senses and risk losing their jobs to give me my 3 minutes with Fernando, given the extent of my awe of the great man, I would probably end up giggling and ogling like an imbecile instead of garnering enough brain-power to engage him in any kind of conversation.
Well, there are other plans, but they get more and more ludicrous, so will not share!
So there you have it. So much for the master planner and strategiser, aye?
Anyone else out there have any plans to share?
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