My Puppy Pumpkin Made Her TV Debut today

My Twitter was Buzzing this morning with everyone telling me that my doggy made the headlines on Intens (Celebrity Gossip Show) RCTI, thanks for all your kind messages, "Yes Pumpkin is doing well, and is pampered like a pooch of her class should be hehe" Also a big Thanks to my Friend Maia Estianty who took care of Pumpkin for more than 3 weeks when I was away in London. "Big Hugs"

If your not already following me on twitter, please do @Sam_Brodie

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face"

For more information on Intens Infotainment go to 

http://www.rcti.tv/sinopsis/infotainment-intens

"All for fun, and fun for all!

Hello peeps, hope you've all made to the half way mark of the week, its been a crazily busy week for me, been back and forth to the immigration office getting my new passport pictures taken, the process is so long and tedious but thankfully I survived the many long hours lining up with the others of hundreds of people waiting to do just the same thing.

"Indonesia has one of the highest populations ever" and I felt like a tiny little ignored ant at the Immigration office, but when it came my turn, the immigration officials were awesome, friendly and pretty efficient. "So many thanks"

Very excited for this coming Sunday, as I will be the main MC at a charity event for 'TK Mini Carnival', as I will be the guest Star the event....I'm sure your wondering what TK Mini is all about?  Well basically its a charity first set up by a Man called Pak Kasur who changed the Indonesian schooling system with what is now called the TK Mini program which promotes a positive image of fun, happiness and well being at school while using transcripts, photographs, and fun activities for Children to reflect on their assumptions, strategies, and goals of how they wish to tailor there own individual learning experience.

If you would like to find more information on TK Mini learning methods, visit their website at http://www.tkminipakkasur.com/

Well time for bed now peeps, I'll leave you with some pictures of this past week for me and also my latest Interview with the press: "Happy Reading"....


My Latest Press Interview with inilah.com below

Sam Brodie Interview with Press Tabloid and Media Cetak

INILAH.COM, Jakarta - Sam Brodie mendukung penuh acara Big Brother yang akan ditayangkan Trans TV. Sam adalah peserta Big Brother Inggris, dan menjadi selebriti setelah mengikuti acara tersebut.

"Sebagai peserta Big Brother di Inggris, pastinya aku mendukung acara tersebut. Ini pasti jadi tontonan yang menarik untuk masyarakat Indonesia," terang Sam, saat ditemui di kawasan Mampang, Jakarta Selatan, baru-baru ini.

Big Brother adalah tayangan reality show yang sudah sangat terkenal di seluruh dunia. Di Inggris misalnya, tayangan ini mampu bertahan hingga sepuluh tahun. Begitu juga di USA dan beberapa negara Eropa, tontonan ini sempat menjadi tontonan nomor satu.

Big Brother mirip dengan tayangan Penghuni Terakhir di ANTV. Tapi yang membuat beda, Big Brother tanpa ada skenario dan rekayasa. Semua yang terjadi, seperti tangisan, pertengkarangan, bahkan cinta terjadi dengan real.

"Aku yakin ini beda dari yang sudah ada. Karena nanti akan ada puluhan kamera yang mengintai kita. Segala aktivitas, diawasi dan bisa dilihat penonton. Peserta juga bakal jadi selebriti, karena setiap hari dilihat orang," sambung Sam.

Sam adalah cowok kelahiran Medan, 14 April 1988. Di Inggris Sam mengikuti Big Brother dan dia sangat terkenal lantaran saat ini Sam menjadi waria. Usai mengikuti acara itu, Sam pun mendadak jadi selebriti dan kerap terlihat jalan bareng Paris Hilton.

"Acara ini memang sangat terkenal. Bahkan seleb seperti Pamela Anderson, La Toya Jackson dan Shilpa Shetty ikut acara ini. Semoga Big Brother bisa jadi tontonan yang menarik," katanya

New Hangout Alert "LARGO KEMANG"

Afternoon everyone, and "Happy Monday", Monday is always such an odd day for me, sometimes I’d like to be able to say that I’d declared this a mental health day, but the truth is that that’s not the case. I’m meant to work at sending out my CV out to various companies on Monday, however I think that’s just not going to work out. Mondays are hard – I have to do my blog which I've dedicated myself too and prep my whole week out. 


“Monday is the key day of the week.”


I have to deal with the weekend’s mess – it inevitably happens, Monday morning rolls around and I can't get out of bed, for the sheer thought of needing to wrap up some writing that did not quite get finished over the weekend, finish the work for my entertainment work portfolio that I could not do over the weekend because the server froze me out... 


And I'm sure everyone knows how the day goes....Slow, Long and it feels like the clock just stopped!

The Gals @ Largo Kemang (Birthday Gurl/Owner of largo "TITI" Far Right)

Moving onto more interesting stuff, I was recently invited to a friends 30th Birthday Party, her name is 'TITI' and she is a local celebrity here in Indonesia, very friendly and has an amazing sense of humor, a little cheeky sometimes, but thats what makes her popular as she is very outspoken but god damn hawt! :p

Sam Brodie (Myself) and 'TITI'

She just recently opened and renovated a new quaint Resto / Coffee house with her husband who is as sweet as can be. 


The place is named "LARGO" situated in Jl. Benda in the Kemang area, very pleasant ambiance and the hot chocolate is to die for!
You guys should check it out


Phone: (021) 7883-1979
Jl. Benda Raya No. 7 A, Kemang
Mampang Prapatan, Jakarta


Here are some pictures from her Birthday Bash for you guys to goggle over.

From far Left: Mr. Attet, 'TITI', Papa-Hedwan, Mr. Aming

In the mean time, have a pleasant Monday 'Adios'....

My Exclusive Interview with Grazia Magazine

Today I think has officially been the wettest day for a while, I spent most of the day lounging around at home, some days its nice to just catch up on some sleep and watch a few old movies whilst trying to plan the week ahead


"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless"

On a cheerful note, the latest edition of Grazia Magazine was sent to my home address today, which I was very anxious to take a look at, as I had done my exclusive interview with them a little over 1 month ago.


The people working for Grazia were extremely nice, helpful and very professional when I did my interview and shoot.

"A really big thanks to the team at Grazia Indonesia, the editor, my new friend 'Maeya' and a thank you to my old friend 'Bimo' for the kind recommendation, look forward to working with you guys again.


Please follow this Amazing Fashion and lifestyle Magazine on there twitter:


@graziaindonesia


If you are interested to read my interview "Hidup Baru Dalam Image Berbeda" pick up a copy of Grazia at any good bookstore / retailer


Have a nice read peeps! 

Finally the Reality Show that sits close to my Heart is coming to Indonesia "Big Brother"

Broadcaster Trans TV has commissioned a locally produced series of Big Brother, marking the first Indonesian commission for Endemol’s reality franchise.

PT Televisi Transformasi Indonesia (Trans TV)  will produce the series in-house, due to air on April the 4th 2011 which will make a nice early Birthday present treat for me :)

This is the third deal for the format in the region, after Big Brother made its Asian debut in Thailand. More deals are expected to be announced at a later date.

Wishnutama Kusubandio, president director of Trans TV said in a statement, “Big Brother has a great fan base all over the world and I’m extremely proud to be the first broadcaster to bring the show to Indonesia. This is the ultimate reality format and I truly believe it will be a big hit with viewers all over the country.”

I of course being the first ever Indonesian to ever appear on the Big Brother franchise show back in 2006, would love a chance to be part of the show some how, just crossing my fingers that god opens some doors for me. (winks for Mr. Tama) 

Naturally with all the hype a number of Indonesian media contacted me to arrange an exclusive interview on my thoughts of what I thought about the show, here are my interviews in Indonesian so forgive me if I haven't got the time to translate all of it.

The following courtesy of Kapanlagi.com

Kapanlagi.com - Sebuah program reality show yang pernah mengguncang dunia televisi di puluhan negara, BIG BROTHER, kini hadir di Indonesia. Sam Brodie atau yang lebih dikenal dengan nama Sam Brodie mendukung penuh program bernama BIG BROTHER Indonesia tersebut.

Maklumlah, pria yang akrab disapa Sam ini merupakan jebolan program yang sama di Inggris. Ya, dirinya terpilih dari seleksi sebanyak 400.000 peserta BIG BROTHER UK season 1-7.

“BIG BROTHER Indonesia akan lebih seru tentunya. Awalnya sih orang akan mikir, ngapain akan nonton orang makan, ngobrol. Tapi setelah ngikutin pasti akan suka. Saya senang dan 100% support akan program reality show dunia yang tayang di Indonesia ini,” ucap Sam Brodie di Gedung TRANS TV, Jakarta Selatan, Jumat (11/3).

Hal inipun menjadikan Sam Brodie flashback ke waktu di mana dirinya mengikuti program tersebut di negeri Ratu Elizabeth beberapa tahun silam.

“Dulu karakter saya lucu, lebay banget, juga sensitif dan gampang disakiti. Bikin empati ke orang yang nonton,” lanjutnya.

Untuk BIG BROTHER Indonesia yang akan tayang bulan depan di TRANS TV tersebut,Sam Brodie pun menekankan akan tayangan yang sopan dan tidak kebarat-baratan.

“Sensor harus ketat. Kalo di Barat kan lebih bebas, ada ciuman dan bahkan adegan yang mengarah ke seks. Tentunya di sini tayangannya harus bisa menjaga perasaan pemirsa dan juga peserta,” ujar Sam, “Good luck for the show. Saya sih bersyukur banget kalo bisa dilibatkan di program yang membesarkan nama saya,” pungkasnya.   (kpl/ato/bun)

Well Thanks for reading peeps, I will keep you updated on any news, need all of your help and support and prayer....none the less even if I'm not involved in the show I will be keeping an up-to-date diary of all the gossip in the Big Bro House (Indonesia) this year.

“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” 

If anyone would like to see me involved in this years Big Brother and be a roving reporter for the show? 'Spread the word across to Trans TV just tweet to one or all of the following':

@BigBroTrans  

@TRANSTV_Corp 

@Wishnutama 

and just mention "@Sam_Brodie to be involved in Big Brother Indonesia"

Thanks Bloggers

Morning World....I'd like mornings better if they started later!

This photo was taken in a quaint little street in Paris very early one morning!

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible, so you'll know the feeling I have just now. 


Just literally woke up, showered and sitting in front of my laptop, all the commotion in the morning trying to get out of bed is such a pain in the ass....and after getting myself all ready and organised to go get my passport photos done at immigration this morning "my assistant" tells me that my photo will have to be postponed till mid-day!  How frustrating, "welcome to Indonesia and its forever changing of times, they have a name for it here 'Jam Karet' which means rubber time"!


If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

Samuel Brodie (Kick Andy Show) episode: 'Mendadak Tenor'

Welcome to "Hello Sam Brodie"

"Hello Sam Brodie" here....


This is my first official blog, so forgive me if it is just brief,


A little bit about myself:


I'm a well Spoken, Bubbly Peoples Person, Born in Medan (Indonesia), I'm an Aries (14th of April),


I am an Individual, I like to be a little different, but not too over the top everything in small portions, I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.


I have a passion for Travel, for those that have never traveled, I would advise you to grab the chance when you can, it's something that you should not miss out on!

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.


I'm currently pursuing my dreams and goals just now "to be the best at everything I put my mind onto whether it be acting/singing/presenting/radio-host/friend to my many close buddies"   


I've had it good, had it bad, and I know what its like to start from nothing time and time again, I was first discovered after many years of performing/singing and acting in Scotland, until I jumped into the deep end of the fame game after taking part in a reality show called "Big Brother", it was a turbulent time for me....but I managed to come out of the whole amazing ordeal unscathed, and luckily by moving back to my home country "Indonesia" I managed to keep my reputation in-tact.


This Blog will be an account of my on-going journey to reaching for my goals, dreams and ambitions.....and also a diary of my feeling's, emotions and achievements, so forgive me if I have a "Bad Day"


IF YOU HAVE TWITTER, ADD ME ON : @Sam_Brodie

A lot of people ask me "whats it like to be a 'Celebrity'?

Well in my definition: "Celebrity is a funny thing". It enhances some lives and destroys others. Some people are aware of how famous they are while others act like they are just ordinary people. And in truth we are all just human beings like the rest of you. Were just better known, and have better access to nicer more expensive things.

I get to meet a variety of celebrities. I get to meet some who are on their way up, and I get to meet some who are on their way down. I meet some who take themselves very seriously and others who don't seem to have a clue that they are stars. It varies from person to person. "I however go with the flow"....


Okay well I'm signing out now, have an early start tomorrow, going to go get my new Passport photos taken....


Selamat Malam / Good Night

Getting sleepy now, time for a quick bath and off to bed z z z z ZZZZ