Creative selfie lands librarian an iPhone 7
KUALA LUMPUR: A selfie of her balancing a football on her head has landed Wan Nur Hazirah Norizan an iPhone 7 in the New Straits Times Press’ (NSTP) Selfie and Win iPhone 7 Contest.
Wan Nur Hazirah said the selfie was her mother’s idea.
“At first, I thought I wouldn’t be able to do it because it was difficult to balance the football on my head.
“After more than 15 attempts, I succeeded. I took a selfie with it and posted the photo on my Instagram account.
“The photo garnered 141 likes. I guess because of the number of the likes, I beat the other nine short-listed participants in the contest,” said the 25-year-old librarian from Subang Jaya.
Wan Nur Hazirah said, besides uploading selfies on her social media account, she also met other criteria of the competition.
“I subscribed to all three publications — New Straits Times, Berita Harian and Harian Metro — for only RM159. Then, I took a selfie with a creative Sea Games theme, together with the hashtag #NSTPSeaGames2017.”
She said she posted two selfies and a video. It took a week and two days, she said, to come up with the ideas.
“I thank my mother, who has been very supportive and helpful throughout the week,” she said.
Organised by NSTP’s Newspaper Sales and Distribution Department, its trade marketing head Mohd Fikre Hashim said the competition was the first selfie contest that the department had organised.
He said the objective was to increase digital revenues for NSTP publications by leveraging on the KL 2017 Sea Games campaign and promotion.