'MTV' VJ Shanty's fishy story

'MTV' VJ Shanty's fishy story

JAKARTA: Singer and MTV Video Jockey (VJ) Annisaa Nurul Shanty had nightmares before she did a photo shoot for MTV Asia's coffee table book titled Brave the Heat.

After learning from organizers that the theme for the shoot was diving, the 24-year-old Indonesian brought along all her swimsuits.

"The first question they asked me was if I was afraid of diving, and I said no. Then they asked if I was afraid of sharks, and that's when I really started to wonder what this was all about," said Shanty, who was in Surabaya, East Java, when the call from MTV came.

"I had nightmares when they told me that I was to dive into the shark pool at SeaWorld in Singapore. I begged them not to make me swim there," she said during the book launch here. In the end, the shark pool scene was dropped and Shanty's photo shoot took place on Singapore's Sentosa Island.

"What a relief! And I've never been to Sentosa so I was really excited," Shanty said in her usual frank way of speaking.

Brave the Heat is a collection of stories and photographs of MTV Asia's seven VJs with various places in Singapore as the backdrop. -- JP