"recycle" housewife - Mylene

today I woke up around 6.30am and get ready to depart from Penang with my student by 7.45am. Waited for him until around 8.15am, get to Bukit Mertajam to meet up my pregnant partner by 8.45am, then went to the press office by 9am. the coordinator was late, so wait til 9.20am. he arrived with a reporter who would bring us to Mylene, our interviewee's place.

we reached Mylene's house around 9.40am, she already waited for us with her hubby, Don. She is a chinese lady, housewife, whom with the help of Don, a Portugese guy, practise recycle and promoting it to the neighbourhood and other ppl. they have held more than 200 seminars teaching ppl how to recycle practically everything that could be recycle at your own household. They are very aggressive ppl, the minute we arrived there, not even started to set up the camera and lighting, they started talking already and inviting us to attend their seminar... so the whole 2 hours she and Don talk talk talk like nobody's business. good thing is we don't have to ask questions, they already answer everything. bad thing is, all the points are so draggy and spread in the 2 hours video footages, we need to find out bits by bits from this long duration to edit out only 4 minutes of video... that's tough!

they are very respectable, all they care is the environment, a better earth for the coming generations to live. they have their own collection centre next to their house. then every week ppl will collect from them, like papers, glass bottle, plastic bottle and containers... then the money they get, every single cents go to charity. i respect them a lot. they believe that a thousand miles starts with a single step. if ppl do not start recycling, they will never. however 1 point i do not agree with them is they said they want to make ppl feel guilty about not recycling... do you need to do that to get ppl's attention? i think we should teach them to appreciate the outcomes of the recycling rather than make them feel guilty. teach them to be thankful about it, not scare them away. in fact, their aggressiveness actually set me off a bit...

at around 11.30pm, we have to say goodbye because we need to rush to UUM for the next shoot that same afternoon. another reason is if we dun stop them, they will never stop... that 2 hours, we even talk about public transport in Penang and Malaysia, how underground trains can help, Pak lah and other politicians, entrepeuneurship in recycling.....

after finally getting to say goodbye at 12pm, we headed to a restaurant to have yam rice with pork intestines and ham choi tong... very nice!! :)

to be continued.....