My Perfect Weekend with One FM DJ Carrie Chong
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Radio deejay Carrie Chong getting an early morning workout at a F45 gym.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF CARRIE CHONG
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Who: Carrie Chong, 48, is a familiar voice on the airwaves as a radio deejay with One FM 91.3.
The Singaporean presenter co-hosts The Morning Drive alongside The Flying Dutchman on weekdays from 6 to 10am and helms the Sundays With Carrie show on Sundays from 7 to 11am. She was previously with SPH Radio’s Kiss92, which she joined in 2019. It marked her return to radio 12 years after she left Mediacorp’s 987.
“My perfect weekend is waking up to the crashing waves and gentle breeze of the Indian Ocean after an uninterrupted and restful night’s sleep, and having absolutely nothing planned for the day except indulging in a good read and some bubbly by the deck at my private villa in the Maldives. We can all dream, can’t we?
Seriously speaking, my weekend typically starts on Saturday mornings at 8am. Call me a sucker for punishment, but I try to get in an hour-long gym workout at fitness centre F45.
It is not the easiest hauling myself out of bed, especially when I am up at 4.30am every weekday to make it into the studio for The Morning Drive, but it is something I do for myself before the madness of the weekend really kicks in.
It also feels good to get the endorphins going first thing in the morning.
After the workout, I usually grab a cup of flat white at Les Mains Bakehouse. It has great coffee, delicious pastries and a bunch of awesome guys running the place.
I also try to get in a run in the early evening on Sundays. It is nice to take in the sunset while pounding the pavement, and is a somewhat gratifying albeit sweaty way to wrap up the weekend. It helps to get my mind sorted around plans for the upcoming week.
As a mother of two girls aged 13 and nine, the weekend is almost always dedicated to sending them to classes or running errands for the family.
But my husband and I will always try to find pockets of time to spend with them doing activities outside of schoolwork.
Saturday nights are movie nights – we prep the popcorn and usually choose a classic the kids have not seen.
We have done Back To The Future (1985), which they loved and, more recently, Dead Poets Society (1989), which had me and my teen bawling our eyes out by the time the credits rolled.
I am an avid baker and cook, so whipping up a meal for my loved ones is my love language.
Some Saturday nights, I will host my folks or friends over a simple meal of steak and wine. If I am really up to it, I will throw in a homemade brownie or blueberry kuchen for dessert.
Carrie Chong in her kitchen preparing a meal for guests.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF CARRIE CHONG
We usually end up chatting late into the night over a cheese platter and a game of Cards Against Humanity – after we’ve tucked the kids in, of course.”
