De-Stress With May

Wednesday June 11, 2008

De-stress with May

AIR RAVES
By ANTHONY THANASAYAN

DO you have a cantankerous boss? Or what about having to deal with jealous colleagues in your workplace?

Then again, you might just be a student who is having a hard time trying to adjust to your peers in class.

If such things are stressing you out, then cheer up mate! The good news is there is a radio show that truly cares about you, the listener.

Laughter Noon is a three-hour show on 988 that is guaranteed to brighten up your day.

Aired daily from Mondays to Fridays, the programme on the Chinese radio station that is operated by The Star comes on at 2pm.

Hosting the show is 26-year-old May whose chief mission is to keep listeners happy and stress-free until the clock strikes five.

In addition to listeners sharing their problems, the deejay also has topics for discussion in the Talk, Play, Love segment.

A couple of them included how to avoid being punked (tricked or teased) by your friends to the most romantic moments shared by you and your loved one.

To take part in the discussions, type and SMS it to 32733.

Laughter Noon also includes a hilarious segment called Kalefe Action where May turns serious songs into funny ones. For instance, the song titled From Tai Bei to Pei Jing provided lots of laughs recently when it was changed to From KL to Penang.

May is occasionally backed up by local pop artiste Danny One of the single, Siapa, fame. The song was a hit last year. One’s latest offering Let’s Pray was released for Earth Day in April this year.

Meanwhile, World Environment Day, which was observed last Thursday, received unprecedented attention from a number of FM stations.

Airtime Management and Programming Networks (AMP), in its biggest environmental project to date, involved all nine of its broadcasters in a single location in Sepang, Selangor, over the weekend.

Radio announcers from all the stations (including Tamil network THR Raaga and Bahasa Malaysia Gegar which share the same frequencies) spent their weekend mornings planting trees to help the environment.

The green deejays performed their thumbs up effort in Sungei Janging in Tanah Merah, Negri Sembilan, with live crossovers.

The trees were planted from the money pledged by listeners (RM50 for each tree) over the networks for the green day occasion.

The effort called a “Tree Party” was jointly organised by AMP and Wild Asia. AMP went further by pledging to bear the cost for the upkeep of the trees for the next two years. Now, how is that for great follow-up action?