Yeyyey Kak Long Masuk TV, Yeyyey Kak Long Masuk TV

We came back from Port Dickson on Wednesday at about lunch time and I read an eMail from Tessa that she has to appear on TV (NTV7) to talk about PETRONAS Formula 1 community service programme at 9 am on Thursday. Although excited, she said she was apprehensive and afraid she may fumble and so on. By the time I get to read the email my other children had already responded to her. By their response both of them registered excitement, one saying “yeyyey Kak Long masuk TV, yeyyey Kak Long masuk TV” (both siblings call Tessa Kak Long) and the other saying, “Alamak, can tape or not, where can get TV at 9 am in the morning (during office hours that is!!)”.

The programme started off at 9 am with commentaries on current news and events interspersed with advertisements as usual and Tessa did not come on until about 9.30am. She was interviewed together with Rosman, the Senior Manager of Motor Sports by the NTV 7 Anchorman. Rosman spoke about the involvement of PETRONAS in motor sports from the humble introductory beginning many years ago to participation for world recognition and now comes the stage for PETRONAS to be amongst the top players in F1. Indeed PETRONAS has been recognized the world over and its logo is familiar to many as a result of this evolvement. Tessa on her part spoke about the programmes laid out by PETRONAS for the locals not only for those attending F1 races at Sepang circuit but to the communities all over the country, reaching even to those in the remote areas. A sort of outreach programme. Over the years PETRONAS has brought the F1 car and all its ‘regalia’ to every state and every town in the country. I know for a fact that, staged performances of the F1 cars, including pit stop actions were held in these visits. Parts of the roads in the towns were closed for these staged performances. It has excited many and many have shown interest in the sports and in PETRONAS as well. Other than that, extensive programmes to expose the young to the world of oil and gas, apart from motor sports, were held with positive response.


Overall the programme was informative and inspirational. Tessa, worried that she may fumble, worried for nothing really. She did very well and was eloquent. The flow of facts and her thought sequence showed how confident she was. As I told her earlier Ram and I have all the confidence in her, and this morning she did deliver, and delivered it well too. Talking to her later she said that she was at one point distracted by her image on the video screen near her but she got out of it in time and continued with the interview.

Sita told me that she ‘sneaked’ out to the canteen and watched her sister on TV there!! I am sure she was not alone in the canteen. Shaffik also saw the TV in the office. Ram had an appointment with her eye doctor in the morning. We went late to the hospital but she got to see the doctor as by the time we reach the hospital there were still quite a number of patients yet to see the doctor and she just got into the queue.

See some of the screen shots (not very clear) below……

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