TV/Public appearances, newspaper and magazine articles - From Jan 2004

2010-07-13T11:32:00.000-07:00

I got lazy...

Seventeen Magazine - November 09 - Book review

2009-11-06T06:34:00.000-08:00

Cleo magazine - October issue 09 - Young Achievers Award

2009-10-12T11:18:00.001-07:00

Women's Weekly Magazine - July 2009 issue

2009-07-27T09:25:00.000-07:00

Kosmo newspaper - Mengarang sejak kecil - 4 March 09

2009-03-08T19:44:00.000-07:00

The article is here. I can't find the hard copy yet.

Some photos from it:

Still no hard copy :(

The Star newspaper - Sayonara, 08 - 31 Dec 2008

2009-03-08T19:42:00.000-07:00

RTM 1 - Tv appearance - 6 December 2008

2008-12-05T20:23:00.000-08:00

The Star Metro Saturday 11 Oct 2008 Nicole's column yay!

2008-12-05T20:14:00.000-08:00

The Star newspaper - Our Young Writers - StarTwo cover story - 24 Sept 08

2008-09-24T03:28:00.000-07:00

Female Magazine August Issue

2008-07-31T07:49:00.001-07:00

Seventeen Magazine August

2008-07-31T07:44:00.000-07:00

Author Appearance for Times Book Fair @ Pavilion 19 July 2008

2008-07-24T05:37:00.000-07:00

NTV7 The Breakfast Show - 27 June 2008

2008-06-26T23:54:00.001-07:00

The Star NIE Stuff@School - Teen jottings - 18 June 2008

2008-06-26T23:49:00.000-07:00

Sin Chew newspaper - Today I'm Most Beautiful - 1 June 08

2008-05-31T10:01:00.000-07:00

Berita Harian - Nation News Page 15 - 28 May 08

2008-05-28T19:35:00.000-07:00

Click to enlarge.

The Star - Nation News Page 21 - 28 May 2008

2008-05-28T05:46:00.000-07:00

The Star - Readers' Choice Awards result - 28 May 08

2008-05-28T05:44:00.000-07:00

Voted Third Most Popular Title at Readers' Choice Awards Ceremony at Book Fest 2008, KL Convention Center - 27 May 08

2008-05-28T05:40:00.000-07:00

Author Appearance at Popular Book Fest 2008, KL Convention Center - 26 May 08

2008-05-28T05:34:00.000-07:00

Traxx FM Radio Interview - 5 May 08

2008-05-05T01:12:00.001-07:00

The Star - Guide to the Prize - 20 Apr 08

2008-04-24T19:48:00.000-07:00

The Star newspaper - VOTE FOR ME - 15 Apr 08 Every Tuesday and Sunday!

2008-04-14T19:13:00.000-07:00

The Star - Celebrating local talent + Make your choice - 13 April 08

2008-04-14T08:02:00.000-07:00

Missed =(

2008-03-20T09:46:00.000-07:00

1. iFeel magazine interview and photoshoot
2. Hello On Two show on RTM2
3. RedFM radio interview
4. MPH Quill local authors spread
5. Cleo magazine spread

Hate missing interviews and TV shows because of school. Ah well, I’m in school no more! Rejoice! :D

New Straits Time - Book review - 16 Feb 08

2008-02-16T19:39:00.000-08:00

The Sun - Book review - 2 Jan 08

2008-01-05T09:13:00.000-08:00

It's stuck in Acrobat Reader. How to get it out????

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Okay got it. THANK YOU SEAK CHIEW.

Astro Awani - TV appearance - 4 Jan 08

2008-01-05T09:11:00.000-08:00

Star Newspaper - Lightweight Chick Lit - 28 Dec 07

2007-12-28T01:51:00.000-08:00

RTM 2 - TV appearance - Dec 07

2007-12-06T22:11:00.000-08:00

Galaxie Magazine - According to May Zhee - Nov 07

2007-11-29T20:24:00.000-08:00

KLue Magazine - Young and Published - Nov 07

2007-11-29T19:12:00.000-08:00

Nuffnang Featured Blogger of Oct 07

2007-11-29T18:06:00.000-08:00

http://www.nuffnang.com.my/featured-blogger/bg-2007-oct

New Straits Time - Article about my book - 9 July 07 [Only 17 (16 actually!), she's written two books]

2007-07-09T03:31:00.000-07:00

The article

Star Newspaper - Published Article - 3 July 2007 [No place like home]

2007-07-03T07:56:00.000-07:00

The article

Star Newspaper - Published Article - 22 Apr 07 [Shallow, and proud of it]

2007-04-25T09:18:00.000-07:00

In StarMag

The article

RTM 1 - TV appearance - 17 March 2007 - Sabtu Resensi

2007-03-16T22:32:00.000-07:00

Click to enlarge.

NTV7 - TV appearance on The Breakfast Show - 12 March 2006, Monday

2007-03-12T00:54:00.001-07:00

Mix FM - Author in the Spotlight - March 2006

2007-03-12T00:28:00.000-07:00

Click to enlarge. Or visit http://www.mix.fm/05/interests/books/author/default.asp/

Published Work - 2 Dec 2006 (sorry, posted one month late) - thecicak.com

2007-01-03T01:37:00.000-08:00

My article

By LIM MAY ZHEE

The other day as I sat for my Moral exam, a question regarding the boundaries attached to the freedom of speech got me thinking.

Implicitly proving that nothing comes free in this world, here are some of the restrictions which come with freedom of speech in Malaysia:

- Never criticise the government
- Never raise sensitive and racist issues
- Never say things that will provoke fights
Racism never ceases to amaze me. It can induce something as minor as a
one-on-one wrestling match, or even the crumbling of a dominant nation.

But before you put a blogger’s hands in cuffs for piquing a certain race, think about why racism is such a big deal in the first place.

That would be because we made it a big deal.

Truth be told, everybody is a racist at heart. Just because you impede us from vocalising it doesn’t stop our heads from having that kind of mindset.

“Rape case again. Surely a [insert race here] is involved!”

Imagine if uttering statements like these in public was not deemed provocative by the government, and instead treated as just another insult. It might, at worse, have sparked a small-scaled flame war in forums, but would ultimately be just another insult.

A few other examples would be the perception of sex as dirty, of thinness as the epitome of beauty, and how Asian women perceive fair, porcelain skin as perfection.

- We see how prudish people nowadays talk about sex in such a way that implies God should not have invented it. But if a child is raised liberated from society’s apprehension towards sex, would that child see sex as an obscene activity?
- At present, how closely a girl resembles a stick is used as a common evaluation point for attractiveness. Girls are influenced by the figures strutting on runways, and the faces and bodies plastered on newspapers and magazines, and their minds and eyes are tricked into believing that thin equals beautiful.
- Chanel concocts whitening miracles in a bottle for Asian women, while bronzers and self-tanners are formulated for Caucasian women. Since Asians grow up in an environment where a fair complexion is worshipped, they shield their skin from the unrectifiable sun-induced darkening.
Our eyes and brain can easily be deceived.

When we apply this to more consequential things like racism, we realise that silencing us will not keep our thoughts at bay. Conversely, it might just make us more truculent.

Because we have been moulded into individuals who denounce racism, it is no longer our choice. Things would just be fine if society and the government did not take racism so seriously from the very start.

Racist slurs are just as bad as any other derogatory remarks about one’s family, career and life, so why should it receive special treatment? Doing that just invites trouble.

Racism is offensive, yes, but should it really be lawfully wrong?
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LIM MAY ZHEE is a spunky 15-year-old published author who is trying to be cool by not describing herself like the rest of theCICAK team but is not succeeding. Visit her site.

MPH Quill Magazine – Personality and Local Authors Event – Dec 2006

2006-12-18T19:34:00.000-08:00

Event - Third author appearance at Mid Valley - 17 Dec 2006

2006-12-17T19:08:00.000-08:00

Event - KL Writer's Circle - MPH Booker's Room, 1 Utama - 16 Dec 2006

2006-12-17T18:46:00.000-08:00

Klue Magazine – Mayzhee.blogspot.com reviewed by Kenny Sia (!!!) – Dec 2006

2006-12-16T03:53:00.000-08:00

The Sun Newspaper - Book Review - 6 Dec 2006

2006-12-08T05:47:00.000-08:00

MPH Website - Author Appearance and Guest Author at KL Writer's Circle

2006-12-08T05:43:00.000-08:00

Star Newspaper - Published Article - 29 Nov 2006 [Shift in values]

2006-11-29T17:16:00.000-08:00

This is, by far, a letter that got edited THE MOST. Very heart pain. Will post the uncensored, uncut and erm, undiscovered article here.

I was 15 years old when I contrived to write and self-publish my first book Vanitee Bee, which was released in bookstores nationwide this July.

Like the imprudent brat I was, I did not even whisper a word to my parents throughout the laborious publishing process. Thankfully, my butt escaped in one piece when they saw my book reviewed in The Star. It took me a good six months to produce a manuscript, and that was just the unedited script. Time soon became more valuable than a Louis Vuitton bag to me and I could not afford to dissipate so much as a single drop of it.

Since then, I have been busy writing article after article, doing what others conjectured as stupidity, because I was going to spend the whole holiday sitting in front of my laptop, while they drown in the raptures of shopping. To top it off, my piano exam which I paid around RM400 for is looming closer.

My parents obdurately decided that this moment was most apt for me to help them out at their office from 9 to 5.

Here I am, giving up virtually all the R and R in life for the sake of my writing ardor and they help the situation by being resolute I use eight hours of my life for two weeks to be an office girl.

My parents, like many in the Chinese community, have been instilled with traditional moral values. As an endeavor to inculcate those in me, they told me stories about what their parents did to them, demands and punishments which would have been deemed appalling in this passage of time. Back then, even the most prolific youth can kiss any sort of ambition in him goodbye because his sole purpose in life is to swallow everything his parents fed him.

Filial piety, you say?

Present-day parents understand what they did in the past were so much more than acts of filial piety. They lived by the principle ‘our parents gave life to us, hence we owe them all there is of us’.

Problem is, parents understand, but they do not comprehend. The lenient twist in the stringent traditional custom is the result of their understanding yet sometimes they still surmise in certain situations, we owe our lives to them.

I would be contrasting if I used a sadistic case involving abuses to illustrate this matter as I intend to focus more on the moderate things in life.
Writing has always been the greatest passion in me and now, it’s like a job regardless of whether there’s a munificent paycheck waiting at the end of the day or not. I regard writing as my life and you don’t usually expect life to pay you, right?

Armed with that defense, I gave them coherent reasoning and hoped it would come across as potent grounds to guard my precious time. Almost instantly, they fired back with stories about their past and begin the whole cycle again.

I see my parents as people whom I respect and love unreservedly but they are not a master to me. When they do not treat me like their submissive slaves, I do not see why I should not return the favor in this sense? A father can be everything to his son, but he might not be the character in the ‘My Idol’ essay.

My parents shower me with opulent affection and that is the value they have indoctrinated in me.

For my part, I think filial piety and devotion are two different things.

Now behold, the edited version. *sniff*

Eve and Adam Magazine - Oct 2006 - Article about book

2006-11-25T06:06:00.000-08:00

Please contact me if you have the magazine. PLEASE.

Star Newspaper - Letter about my work - 8 Oct 2006

2006-10-07T21:33:00.000-07:00

[Photos] Second Author Appearance in Popular, Ikano Power Center

2006-10-07T06:37:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Author May Zhee - 1 Oct 2006 [Smart, Young and Published]

2006-10-01T07:11:00.000-07:00

[Photos] Local Authors Hi-Tea - 27 Aug 2006

2006-08-28T04:23:00.000-07:00

[Photos] Author Appearance at MPH 1 Utama - 26th August

2006-08-26T08:54:00.000-07:00

For more photos, please view http://mayzhee.blogspot.com/2006/08/author-appearance-aka-retarded.html

Star Newspaper - Advertisement - [Local Authors Hi-Tea]

2006-08-23T07:54:00.000-07:00

This is a temporary one. I'll use my camera to take a new one soon.

*Too lazy. This will have to do.

[Poster] Malaysian Authors List for High Tea

2006-08-17T23:38:00.000-07:00

[Poster] Malaysian Authors Campaign

2006-08-17T23:31:00.000-07:00

[Event/book promotion] MPH website

2006-08-17T23:24:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Book Review - 14 Jul 06 [Vanitee Bee]

2006-08-13T04:49:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Article about my book - 2 Jul 06 [Local witches, anyone?]

2006-08-13T04:42:00.000-07:00

My very first book, Vanitee Bee's, very first appearance in the newspaper.

Star Newspaper - Article about my work - 19 Oct 05

2006-08-13T04:38:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Published Article - 12 Oct 05 [All for Daniel]

2006-08-13T04:25:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Four articles about my work - 5 Oct + 17 Oct 05

2006-08-13T04:16:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Published Article - 28 Sept 05 [Love And Life]

2006-08-13T04:12:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Published Article - 7 Sep 05 [Waiting to turn 18]

2006-08-13T03:47:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Published Article - 3 Aug 05 [Clearing the air]

2006-08-13T03:44:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Article about my work - 20 Jul 05

2006-08-13T03:39:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Published article - 6 June 05 [Fill that void]

2006-08-13T02:56:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Published Article - 25 May 05 [Parents Decide]

2006-08-13T02:54:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Published Article - 22 Dec 04 [Put Age Aside]

2006-08-13T02:50:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Published Article - 19 Oct 04 [Pillar of Strength]

2006-08-13T02:48:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Published Article - 13 Oct 04 [My dear comrades]

2006-08-13T02:39:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Three articles about my work + Note from Editor - 4 Aug 04

2006-08-13T02:30:00.000-07:00

Star Newspaper - Four (some angry) articles about my work - 21 Jul 04

2006-08-13T02:27:00.000-07:00

My first bunch of anti-MayZhee's! *open champagne*

Star Newspaper - Published Article - 21 Jul 04 [May Zhee Replies]

2006-08-13T02:05:00.000-07:00

My first huge-name-in-block-letters!

Star Newspaper - Published Article - 14 Jul 04 [The Gems of Chinese Music]

2006-08-13T01:59:00.000-07:00

I'm a big ardent fan of Jay Chou!

I openly demeaned and criticized Chinese singers in this article., except for my Jay

Star Newspaper - Published Article - 21 Jan 04 [The Crux of Crushes]

2006-08-13T01:54:00.000-07:00

First baby of all babies! I was only 13, a young mother. Weeee....!*swings baby back and forth*