For a long time I didn’t think Asian people worked in Australian media. And the reason I thought that is because Asian people didn’t work in Australian media unless they were portraying sex workers in Thai bars or war victims. So I didn’t think I would ever become anything to do with music journalism.
I thought, you know, fuck this, I’ll be a chef. So I worked at a bunch of restaurants around the country, but I still had this fantasy that I might be something different. My friend showed me an ad in the street newspaper that said: “Are you hot? Do you have big boobs and blonde hair? Do you like music?” And I’m like, “Why are you showing me this ad?” She said: “Keep reading, keep reading.” And it said: “Because we don’t want you. We just want people who are fanatical about music.”
