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The Busy life continues
Thursday, Apr 14, 2011 3:23PM / Members only
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The New Men's Health Shots
Thursday, Nov 18, 2010 4:53PM / Members only
Got my hands on the new shots from DECEMBER'S Men's Health SingaporeI know I haven't been blogging recently - fortunately it's due to being ridiculously busy - catch me next month hosting MISS EARTH ;)
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My Open Letter of Complaint to DELTA AIRLINES
Wednesday, Jul 14, 2010 1:46PM / Members only
Dear united airlines,
I feel compelled to e mail you on the truly astounding level of customer service that we received on flight 281 from Narita to Singapore on the 13th July 2010.
I have always flown Northwest Airlines to the US via Japan, and I must admit they were left wanting. The only relief I ever had was that the plane to Japan was relatively new, and the staff onboard for the Japan leg was professional and courteous.... We won' t even mention the US leg.
However, I have not flown them since Delta bought them out, and I was eager for change.
And, well, gee wizz, hot-diggity damn did I, and my friends receive that change in spades on the flight we just endured into Singapore.
We feel we must congratulate you on your hiring practice of only finding the most truly bitter, dried out old hags to work on your 'esteemed' airline. My only concern is that although their sarcasm level is exemplary, their delivery and variety did leave us, at times, wanting.
My friends and I, must excuse ourselves. We did inadvertently offend said hags by asking for a drink with dinner. When questioned whether one of our friends was underage, we simply replied 'no, he's 20' (over age in japan, our origin, and singapore, our destination and country of residence). We were (courteously) informed they could not serve our friend a drink. He asked for a coke, and I joked 'it's okay... He's my son... Ha.. Ha... Ha'
We all laughed, the stewardess laughed and even called me 'too handsome to be his father'
Hilarity was had by all and I basked in the compliment.
However it appeared that we had inadvertently called your entire 'rear of plane team' c*nts without realising it.
How foolish of us.
For the next 7 hours we were refused service quite inexplicably. Irrelevant of whether our service light was on or not, we were pointedly ignored. It was obviously our interacial friendship of doom that seemed to turn them away from us. My friend Mohammed is quite obviously a terrorist... My being white means I must have automatically assumed that the 4 asian staff were actually whores who wanted to sleep with my wallet, and my asian friend was secretly a kung fu evil master plotting their demise.
At one point my entertainment system crashed (I can't blame them for that, though the cackles were very well timed). After ringing my bell once every 5 minutes for 20 minutes I finally got up and stepped one whole step to the Galley - as we were in row 57, the final row of the plane - and mentioned that my system was down giving my row - 57 and my seat number
'Are you sure you it's row 57?' (Look at the other 3 girls and cackle)
'Yes, its the final row of the plane'
'Are you (snigger) sure?'
'You do work on this plane right? What is the last row? 57 right? Then yes, 57!'
Eye roll... Group cackle
The lady took a whole one step and saw my empty seat and proclaimed 'row 57' and laughed... Genius.
As a brit, I have been brought up on meagre comedy like Monty Python and Blackadder.... The true comedy genius of 'row 57' escaped me, and to my eternal shame I will never get that joke.... Most likely because your employees appeared more drunk than I.
Getting into the whole 'sarcasm' lark I joined in laughing heartily as I asked
'Was it?!! Haha, was it row 57!?!? Wow??!'
Again my humour appeared to miss the mark. I asked for a beer in the hope that alcohol could at least dull the pain and speed the journey.
'Ooooohhhh get the man a BEEEEEERRRR' one cackled - Genius, a true first grade stab through the agressive comedy heart
I asked for a Tiger
'Get the man a TIIIIIGGGEEERRRRR' - epic
But it was then fully realised in it's epic example of epic epicness as one of the other Stewardesses proceeded to do the 'RAWR' face and gesticulated at me with her makeshift claw she created with her hand.... I'm really not joking
On receiving my beer I confess I replied 'thanks for the beer, and I appreciated the sarcasm'
Once safely out of ear shot, the girls discussed this.... Oh no, wait I was sitting 2 feet away, but once around the corner the girls (read hags) cackled once again at the top of their voices as they had done for 20 minutes (employing the knowledge of 2 year olds and dogs - I.e, if I can't see them I must be invisible and unheard') - a good thing nobody else was trying to sleep... Except the whole plane.
I made sure to thoroughly enjoy the flight, which - to my amusement - really pissed off your staff, who did their best to ignore me (while looking at me as they passed)... I even used the trash they refused to take from us to make sculptures (I appear to be quite good - though over 7 hours I had a lot of practice).
Once the flight ended I made sure to sarcastically assure them their service was 'excellent'
A proudly loud and sarcastic 'I hope so' followed me and the remaining passengers down the corridor to excessive cackling.
Dear Delta, your service isn't bad, it's insulting. Get you staff laid or something... They hate themselves, their lives, and the whole world.
Enclosed would be a photo of your great staff which I took at departures with 'this is for your boss' as a calling... I wonder why they tried to hide their face. - except I can't attach to this e mail. It will be however attached to the public version of this letter I post on my fan pages, twitter account and blog as well as on the e mails about this I send to all your competitors just to give them a good giggle
Go f*ck yourselves
Sincerely
57E
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2 months, 5 shows, 4 Networks, 10lbs
Monday, Jul 5, 2010 1:31PM / Members only
HI EVERYONE!!!Yes, I know... I have been invisible for months and months... but for good reason... well, okay... kinda a good reason combined with just being lazy... but in my defense, for the last 2 months I have barely even seen my family, let alone had time to blog.It's been a great few months for the Pettigrew family (including my wife Linda Black)... It seems that this year is our year, and a whole bunch of great projects came our way and made us busy-bee world traveling hosting junkies.Outside of shooting Sony Style for AXN and EPAD on Max, I have also been busy working for Lonely Planet: Best in China for Discovery Channel, the Food Network (US and ASIA) as well as Ascott residences.Over a 45 day period I travelled Singapore-Tokyo-Kyoto-Tokyo-Singapore-Ho Chi Minh-Singapore-Tokyo-Singapore-Seoul-Singapore-Sydney-Singapore, with only 1 or 2 days off to relax and chill out... It was hard work... but the best kind. In my line of work it's never bad to be busy, we spend far too much time doing nothing the rest of the time anyway.I've grabbed a whole bunch of photos to try and show you what I've been up to... I'll try and guide you through them!This season on Sony Style we've gone a new angle... one I've been trying to get down for a while... it's a lot more fun for me to make, and hopefully for you guys to watch.We've had some great interviews this year:-Adam Lambert
Who was great fun to interview... he was game for a laugh and we had a lot of fun before, during and after the interview.Then there was The Fray, who you'll know from the Theme to Grey's Anatomy
Who were also good guys, a little jet jagged though.. but a good bunch of fellasI also got to meet the Wondergirls the other day too... who spoke excellent English and turned out to be a great interview
So apart from all that, I also had a BLEEP load of travelling to do for work.First up was Tokyo and Kyoto for Ascott residences. I was shooting there new International Corporate Video. Nice job, easy work and a great crew. I spent most of the time sightseeing, eating and drinking... which is always a nice way to earn money ;)
Kyoto was gorgeous too
Honestly, Kyoto was the shiznitz, I had such a good time there....A few days after that I was off to Ho Chi Minh for 2 days and then back to SIngapore for my second trip to Japan for Sony Style. I have no photos from that trip because I spent most of it sick in bed at the hotel. I caught some bacterial infection of my lungs and throat and spent the week with an unreal temperature, no voice, no sleep and an antibiotic drip... score! Some regular viewers would notice I sound bizarre during the Japan episodes and that over the course of 3 days I lost 10lbs.... it was not fun, but we got the shoot done and all worked out in the end.No rest for the wicked though... back to Singapore, where any days off for the other shoots were filled with shoots for Lonely Planet and the food network around Singapore... crazy craziness... but great as I was working with 2 old director buddies of mine.... The me and the food network head of to Seoul Korea to torture me with crazy food....
mmmm yummy. That would be breakfast... chopped octopus, still moving... raw...
I look thrilled, by Director Julius looks plain scared... as he should be
Seoul is quite a cool city. But it's so big... and the traffic is an unbelievable pain in the butt... which bothered me a bit... but we made sure we had a good time. We met some great people, ate some tasty food (and some not so tasty), but me and the crew are buddies... so we partied the night away all week. A-woo-hoo
After Seoul, it was back to Singapore again for a few days before leaving ONCE AGAIN for Sydney baby!!!
My third destination in as many weeks that I have never been to... It's so cool.Sydney is the best guys... and we had a great time there. It was a content rich environment for shooting and we got some great stuff:-WINE TASTING
WINE DRINKING
'WORKING'
And playing!!
AwesomenessIn between all this stuff I'd had a few events to host too... one fun one, was one I hosted with my wife called Shades of Pink in honour of the Breast Cancer society, organised by my photog friend Zurina Bryant - who, along with Paula Robinson had their photos displayed for charity purchase
And of course the biggest event in Singapore in recent memory - the Opening of the Marina Bay Sands which I got to host with my buddy Dom Lau... it was epic fun and was a night to remember... Kelly Rowland and Diana Ross were awesome, I bumped into my magician friend Cyril from Tokyo and I stayed up till stupid o clock partying with a great crew... awesome
And with that all... you are up to date again. I have to run back to Tokyo this week... and LA later in the year... I'l let you know what's what again soonlaters727 views Share
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The fun continues
Friday, May 14, 2010 11:34AM / Members only
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- After plunging into the modeling business in 1999 in Hong Kong, Oli began his career appearing in ads for a number of renowned international brands that culminated in a year long Levis campaign and a...
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