SOCHEWS

I’ve been a writer since 2001, and it’s been a long, eventful journey.

I’ve written hard news, online articles, feature stories, profiles, did copywriting for two years, and operated brand Facebook pages.

I’ve written for The Star, FHM, Esquire Malaysia, The Blurb (Australia), THINK Online, for global ad agency TBWA, and also started my own student mag called antiphony with another dude named Jon Chew. For real.

I always thought this was too schizo a portfolio. Now, I’m very thankful for being a jack of all trades.

Here are samples of my work. There are online links where possible, and you can download PDF versions of some work as well. If you would like to contact me for a writing job, you can email me at sochews@gmail.com or call me at 016-365-6823.

The Blurb (Australia) (website)
The Mystery of Charles Dickens theatre review
Room for Squares by John Mayer album review

The Star (spent two years as a hard news journalist)
“Kepong Star” - Malaysian Idol finale story
“Lew to celebrate 80th birthday” - story on my grandpa’s 80th birthday. This was kinda my birthday/anniversary present to them
“Passion of Christ gets nod” - story
“Indon man charged with murder of ‘good Samaritan’ - story
“Three charged with murder of student hairstylist” - story
“Blast survivor a ‘miracle man’” - story
Archive of The Star news reports with byline

FHM (website)
Review of the Seabreacher vessel (Republished in FHM Thailand)
Review of iPod nanos (Yeah. That’s me. In my most seductive)
Review of Acer Ferrari Phone
Story on PR2 Robot
Story on Fisker Karma car
Story on Zeroracer bike
Story on Hyundai i-Flow car 

Esquire Malaysia (where I am currently as the senior writer/web editor)
Feature story on Hannah Tan, May 2011 Issue (excerpt)
Feature story on Tony Eusoff, July 2011 Issue (excerpt)
Feature story on Ida Nerina, August 2011 Issue (excerpt)
Feature story on Andrea Fonseka, September 2011 Issue (excerpt)
Feature story on Paula Malai Ali, October 2011 Issue (excerpt)
Feature story on Sarah Lian, November 2011 Issue (excerpt)
Feature story on Deborah Henry, December 2011 Issue (excerpt)
Feature story on Zee Avi, January 2012 Issue
Interview with Sebastian Vettel, April 2011 Issue
Interview with Tash Aw, July 2011 Issue
Interview with Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (astronaut), July 2011 Issue (excerpt)
Interview with MGMT, online
Fake interview with Ken Doll, September 2011 Issue (Republished in Esquire Spain, excerpt)
MaHB: TV column “The Multitasking Man”
MaHB: TV column “Guilty as Charged”
MaHB: TV column “The Real Screen Shady”
MaHB TV column “It’s Good to be King”
MaHB: Food column ”The Naked Cheat”
The Style Experience: The Boyzilian story online

ADVERTISING
I worked two years as a copywriter at TBWA/ISC Malaysia. Accounts worked on included Standard Chartered, Seasons, Tourism Malaysia, UniRazak, Bank Negara, Adidas, and so on. Here’s a short sample of some work.

UniRazak: print ad “Arguments” 
UniRazak: print ad “Money”
Bank Negara for microfinancing: radio ad “Kak Ngah Episode 1”
Bank Negara for microfinancing: radio ad “Kak Ngah Episode 2”
TBWA CNY ad to clients: Front and back