It was yet another weekend with KP to do our radio show. The proposal’s approved and yes, we are hitting off right away as soon as the radio station hits Yangon, our city. The name of the show’s CRAZY DJ’s and it would be either me on my own or with KP himself, babbling our asses off with 7-8 songs for a 25 minutes show on Cherry FM.
Unlike radio stations abroad, Myanmar’s radio station is not really live. It’s only fair enough since we don’t really want politics activists to bombard the only element that can bring people together; music. So, when KP let me listen to the edited version of my radio show and my first time job as a DJ on air, I nearly cried since it just sounded like my dream. I have always wanted to be a disc jockey and he’s done a pretty good job at mixing things right. Working with KP has never been an issue though. We have these crazy weird moments where we both just know what the other one of us wants.
Before working on the episode, KP and I went to phone shops since KP was buying a Blackberry for his wife as her birthday present. Watching them makes me think of BooMan. Both of them are always arguing but it was just small little arguments which later turn into a bit of a ‘pay each other out’ teases between each other. Not cheesy and natural at its best, this couple was worth spending my lazy Sunday morning. Being in the car with them also made me think of BooMan, how I wish I could spend my time with him already. I don’t know. It seems crazy but I want to be with my husband more than ever lately.
At the phone shop, they were playing Burmese songs when suddenly KP looked at me surprisingly and said ‘your album’s out?’. I was like ‘no fuckin way’ and then we found out that one of my tracks of my new album has leaked into this phone shop. Then, I noticed how. One of my fans from facebook was working there and I’ve given him one of my finished songs as a sample. But I never knew he was gonna play that in the open as a leak track. Unethical and wrong but KP and I were so happy that my track was actually played at stores. He was going on about how leakage never means songs to be played just anywhere and how only GOOD songs were played. Haha thanx KP!
I was a bit nervous about doing a show with KP. KP does not really have English as his major first language and I do NOT want to outspeak him in the show. I do not want my wits to come across as intimidating or stealing his spotlight; it’s even riskier because we’re best of friends.
Once we started recording, things went smooth. KP and I were natural DJs, paying each other out and giving each other chances to have a bit of spotlight or embarrassing moments. Both were willing to goof around while being smart asses on air. There was a point I tried to piss him off by doing robotic voice and there was a moment where he called me a dummy. There was also a time when I tried to record a track while he was gone for toilet break. It was kinda set up but it was just natural and an ease.
I was glad BooMan was still online since I promised him I would be online at 1pm and I was working for the radio show until 5pm. We talked for a couple of minutes but no thanks to the stupid connection, we had to stop chatting and quit without any goodbyes. I was happy I got to send him my radio show, some parts of it and I got to say goodbye and I love you on the phone when I rang him as soon as I got home.
I’ve promised BooMan that I will play one of his favorite tracks on my first show on radio. He chose Kylie Minogue. It was funny when I brought that up to KP. KP is a punk band frontman and having Kylie Minogue on the first day of the show he’s producing was just funny; we had a two seconds silence. He didn’t mind and he let that pass but it was funny how he mentioned to his wife later how I have somehow managed to insert a gay icon artist along with other rock bands on the first episode of a show he’s produced. I was just happy that song got through.
I can’t wait for this program to premier and air in public!
Unlike radio stations abroad, Myanmar’s radio station is not really live. It’s only fair enough since we don’t really want politics activists to bombard the only element that can bring people together; music. So, when KP let me listen to the edited version of my radio show and my first time job as a DJ on air, I nearly cried since it just sounded like my dream. I have always wanted to be a disc jockey and he’s done a pretty good job at mixing things right. Working with KP has never been an issue though. We have these crazy weird moments where we both just know what the other one of us wants.
Before working on the episode, KP and I went to phone shops since KP was buying a Blackberry for his wife as her birthday present. Watching them makes me think of BooMan. Both of them are always arguing but it was just small little arguments which later turn into a bit of a ‘pay each other out’ teases between each other. Not cheesy and natural at its best, this couple was worth spending my lazy Sunday morning. Being in the car with them also made me think of BooMan, how I wish I could spend my time with him already. I don’t know. It seems crazy but I want to be with my husband more than ever lately.
At the phone shop, they were playing Burmese songs when suddenly KP looked at me surprisingly and said ‘your album’s out?’. I was like ‘no fuckin way’ and then we found out that one of my tracks of my new album has leaked into this phone shop. Then, I noticed how. One of my fans from facebook was working there and I’ve given him one of my finished songs as a sample. But I never knew he was gonna play that in the open as a leak track. Unethical and wrong but KP and I were so happy that my track was actually played at stores. He was going on about how leakage never means songs to be played just anywhere and how only GOOD songs were played. Haha thanx KP!
I was a bit nervous about doing a show with KP. KP does not really have English as his major first language and I do NOT want to outspeak him in the show. I do not want my wits to come across as intimidating or stealing his spotlight; it’s even riskier because we’re best of friends.
Once we started recording, things went smooth. KP and I were natural DJs, paying each other out and giving each other chances to have a bit of spotlight or embarrassing moments. Both were willing to goof around while being smart asses on air. There was a point I tried to piss him off by doing robotic voice and there was a moment where he called me a dummy. There was also a time when I tried to record a track while he was gone for toilet break. It was kinda set up but it was just natural and an ease.
I was glad BooMan was still online since I promised him I would be online at 1pm and I was working for the radio show until 5pm. We talked for a couple of minutes but no thanks to the stupid connection, we had to stop chatting and quit without any goodbyes. I was happy I got to send him my radio show, some parts of it and I got to say goodbye and I love you on the phone when I rang him as soon as I got home.
I’ve promised BooMan that I will play one of his favorite tracks on my first show on radio. He chose Kylie Minogue. It was funny when I brought that up to KP. KP is a punk band frontman and having Kylie Minogue on the first day of the show he’s producing was just funny; we had a two seconds silence. He didn’t mind and he let that pass but it was funny how he mentioned to his wife later how I have somehow managed to insert a gay icon artist along with other rock bands on the first episode of a show he’s produced. I was just happy that song got through.
I can’t wait for this program to premier and air in public!
Listening to: Armin Van Buuren – Not giving up on love (feat. Sophie Ellis Bextor)
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