HP Space's Official Blogger: Mo the Mingler

Hi, I'm Mo (short for Mortimer Owen Lang). 

Apart from declaring that I'm a Reality TV Junkie (and proud of it!), I guess the next best thing to highlight my candidacy for HP Space's Official Blogger is to casually mention...


I'm a crowd-pleaser and I get on exceptionally well with everyone. In fact, I'm a brilliant team player and am a ball of fun to hang out with.

I love listening to stories and asking the right questions to get someone's side of the picture - even if it means making myself look silly to help someone else feel comfortable talking. For example, let's say I meet you and you're a bit shy, I'll go

"at least you're not called 'MO'! With that kind of name, you're always getting comments like - 'MO'? as in HO-MO? or Ang-MO-Kio? or MOMO or MO-Ped or MOMA or MOmentary lapse in judgement.... I've heard it all. And believe me when I say that there is nothing you can say that'll make you more embarrassed than I am right at this very minute."

And if you pick me, as a bonus, I'll even throw in my version of this "perfect italiano" ad (this'll crack you up):

I speak my mind and provide a unique perspective on things. And having worked in government, I've got a sensible head on my shoulder. But not too sensible... did I not mention fun, fun, fun?




And I deeply enjoy meeting people from different backgrounds.

I'm great with details and enjoy crafting visually-arresting blog posts. It just makes voyeurism way easier... popcorn anyone?

I take it you like to look too.

Sight for sore eyes?

And, I'm kinda arty-farty - having been trained as an architect, working in the design field, and starving as an aspiring artist. Some of my art:

My "Saucy Margaret" (Margaret Thatcher) piece.

I love being close to the limelight - I'm drawn like a moth to a flame (or, well, like a clump of hair circling the drain)



I've worked with STV 12 in the past and have been in front and behind the camera. Ask me for more details.


And I'm bilingual (got an A for Chinese at O'Levels - click through for a sample of my writing).

To here me mumble out the above:

mortimerlang.mp3 - Mortimer Lang

Pick me!

In Chinese

你好, 我是康崙 。



我认为自己是一个受群喜爱的人,

不管是谁都能相处得很好。

蛮喜欢群体合作，而在团体中我都是个出色的队友。

实际上, 有我在的时候，一定会有欢笑和喜乐。



我懂得并愿意倾听，

常常提出一些合适的问题来了解别人的弦外之音。

我对事情有非同一般的观点，

並能说出自己的想法。

因为在政府部门工作过，

所以训练出我果断的思维。



常对事物有很敏锐的观察力，也喜欢为我的部落格精心编织有趣的，视觉上引人入胜的博文.



我曾经在 STV 12 工作过，

幕前和幕后的工作我都有做过。



请挑选我!

Who is this Mo?

I'd like to think that names don't mean much, that my being a Mortimer is as wonderfully pedestrian and normal as the sea of Johns, Ah-Tans and Pablos out there. But can a name mark a person a Moses, Ghandi or Madonna? And if yes, is that why Mortimer, or, "Mo" as my friends so affectionately call me, has so branded me thus (Think "Moe" from 'the Simpsons'): dead-boring personality, body language of a post-coital zombie, thought-processes buried 6 feet deep in... er... earth? (although Mortimer roughly translates to "dead sea") And the list goes on. I suppose I'll have to lay down the welcome mat now: Welcome to the morgue[insert macabre joke here].

Just a few basics to get your interest piqued: Was born in Melbourne, grew up in Singapore, did college in Brisbane, uni in Melbourne, love London, almost died an hour out of Chefchaouen, Morocco, and I'm addicted to those penny-pressers in the U.S. (See how I 've shamelessly tried to imply how international/ well-travelled I am? - I'm not. Alas.)

I'm a fortunate public policy and management grad, as well as an unfortunate architecture grad (take the course to find out why!), heavily interested in social theory, public policy and international law. Have constantly flirted with doing a law degree at LSE, or taking a year off to paint, sculpt, exhibit, bludge, drive round Oz... but for many and one reasons, I've never really gotten round to it. I deeply enjoy travelling and believe that it's an integral part of the way I will live my life for a long time. But travel guides irritate me - they're so... prescriptive. And, local.

Part of moving around a bit when I was younger's left me with this constant desire to be somewhere else no matter where I was (grass greener yada yada), but I've discovered that Melbourne's crept up and grown on me in a very strange way: I used to find the lack of density to the city very disorienting, and the aged shopping malls somewhat dystopic - but I've changed as much as the city has in the last 8 years and its swanky new buildings and refurbished urban rooms have captured me as much as its pace of life, the splendour of its rural backyard, the bay and the wonder that is home. Am currently based in Perth where I stay in an incredibly beautiful Californian Bungalow (it's an architectural housing typology in Australia) which I hope to renovate somewhere down the track. I also have an incessant need to name everything (my house is named "Popolo").

Hit my blog to get to know me better!