Remember some where in may, i was talking about ripple and js on a big secretive project? if you cannot remember, please read that posting again.
They have finally completed the big project after 4 long months.. and here we have...
Presenting.... jsrs!!
A lot of details in the painting, check out the details from js' blog here.. you just have to be impressed by the kind of talent rip has right? ok gotta give js some credit too, he did help out...haha
This photo has been shamelessly grabbed from cruz's blog... even without asking
For the fans of fm933, you would have remembered the 5 episode long radio production called dark alley in april this year.. if you have no idea about it, you can read all about it here.
The reason for this post is that, starting monday next week, dark alley 2 will be airing on 933 and it will be staring cruz, of course, he's the producer and also zhentao!! after not being in the media for some time, this ex superhost is back!!! so remember to tune in every night k? there's repeat telecast around noon on the next day too!! and the theme song of this production is very nice.. it's xiao qing ge by soda green!! and it's dark alley (first season) that made the song popular!! soda green should give cruz a big treat for that!
21st Sept 2007
Met up with libing at xenbar again, they were having a party, quite a number of people turn up, i think it's all their students, free flow of lychee martini, and some performances from libing and gang. it's the same dance as what we saw previously (see here, and here, and here, and here) so i shall not post too much on the dance performance.. cos it's the same faces too...
This time, i got something interesting. i wonder what kind of dance this is... we gotta ask him.
Here's one of the 2 performances they did for the people who were present. really not easy to take photos of people dancing, cos they move very fast and the lighting is not very good there, luckily they had a powerful spotlight at the front. and the mirrors around the sides of the walls aren't helping, difficult to find a position where i won't catch the reflection from my flash.
As the music plays, everyone will look for a partner and find a nice spot on the dance floor to show what they have got. there are quite a few of them who dance pretty well..
And for people like me who know nuts about salsa, we can stand by the balcony for a fish eye view of the dancers, it's quite enjoyable to stand there and look at people dance too.
Very delayed. i think i gotta put in the date of the event in order not yo mislead people..
6th sept 2007...
There was a plan to meet up for dinner this night. but early in the morning, got an sms from bw saying the jh is on the way to the hospital, jerard can't wait to come out... haha.. so everyone was anticipating.. and just a few hours later, we got news that he's out, even got an mms from the dad. so evening plans was changed. we'll all meet at the hospital and then decide if we are going to go for dinner at the same time and same place...
Jerard was sleeping all the while, i didn;t get the chance to see how his eyes looks like. but while he's sleeping, he'll yawn, sometimes cry, have small movements.. etc etc.. very cute!! are all babies like that?
Mb carrying the fragile looking jerard, no one else among us dared to carry him, cos he's so tiny and we do not know how much strength to use to carry him up.
I've chose a nicer photo of jh, cos she felt that all the photos taken that day didn't feature her very well.. esp those with the double chins.. but i think this one is not bad, just that the hair is a little messy, but sleeping on the bed sure messed up right?
Btw, little jerard has already started his own blog. do visit him and check out on his progress at littlejerard.blogspot.com...
Bangjun's first round of the competition was held a few weks ago at mediacorp. i had to post this now, cos there will be more updates after the next round which will be held tonight.
It was quite obvious that bangjun's supporters are more than the rest, it was a sea of red in the studio. there were lots of banners and small items made by friends and family to be distributed to the supporters before th show begin, everything was red and gold, it was quite a wonderful site, you should be able to see it from your tv screen at home.
He did quite a good job in all the segments, esp the dancing one. and he got through to the next round, let's hope that he'll continue the good work and work his way to the final round!! remember to tune in to channel 8 tonight for the show!!
Keeping the props after the show, to be used in the next round. and i waited quite a while to get a photo of him, but he was busy with the interview and didn't look up, and before he showed us his face, someone came over to me..."sorry no photos!!"
As usual, we proceeded for supper after the show. some time ago, when there was superhost, the super had to be chop chop cos it's back to the studio at 11pm for the result. this time, no voting, thus results are released immediately, so we have all the time after that for supper. but the star had to stay back for briefing, and he couldn't join us.
Jia you bangjun!!
Sorry for the lack of posts recently, was too busy with work and with that little bit of free time left, i filled it up entirely with activities... now that i have a little more free time, i'll start to post pics from the past 3 weeks.. gotta give me a few days...
Anyway, kelvyn is going on a community service trip to nepal to help the kids in terms of education and he's currently doing his bit by doing some fund raising so that they will have more funds to help these kids... you can read more at his blog here... but to summarise, he hopes that we can donate a small token and then he will get the kids to write their thoughts and send the postcard to us from nepal... sounds cool right? i donated $20.. to many of us we can spend $20 easily in a meal, but i think this money means a lot more to the kids there, if you ask me to take time off my busy schedule to go there to help them, i think it's very difficult for me, but if my $20 can help them, i think it's going to be for a good cause.. so if you see this and feel that you wanna help them too, you can either email kel (his contact is on his blog) or you can let me know and i'll pass the message to him.. or you can donate and then request that the kids write "happy belated birthday to jx" and get the postcard posted to me... it would be really nice.. haha
photo taken directly from kel's blogZhiwei will be storming up an italian cuisine with his team from shatec @ Charcoal Restaurant from 17th to 22nd sept this month.
Theme: EXQUISITO ITALIANO
Place: Charcoal @ treasury building. (Cityhall, next to Funan center)
Price: $28 nett
Dress code: Smart casual.
Date: 17th to 22nd sept
Seating timing: Monday to thursday: 530pm to 10pm (last order 930pm)
Friday to saturday: 1st seating: 530pm to 745pm, 2nd seatings: 8pm to 10pm (last order 930pm)
Prelude of dishes:
1st course: Trio of antipasto
2nd course: Zuppa di italiano
3rd course: Soursop Sherbet
4th course: Choice of main course 1st: Roasted Duck leg served w orange sauce, summer greens & parsley mashed potatoes OR 2nd: Seafood squid ink pasta served w salsa di burro
5th course: Lavender & passion fruit mousse with strawberry sauce
Coffee or Tea with petit four
I was really busy, and i realised that today is the last day for reservation. Saturday 8pm onwards is full already. You can walk in too, if course makig a reservation will give you a guarantee of seats. I hope the food lovers out there will give him some support!
Thanks!!
(you can let me know if you wanna make a reservation, i'll help you with that)
Everyone have been asking me for the photos... sorry, i have been quite busy with work and other stuffs.. and there are lots of really backdated photos to post.. here are those from stanley's birthday celebration at food for thought.
I was a wonderful celebration. stanley got around 20 plus friends and the whole cafe was for us only, it's not a big place, but quite cozy. and here we have yy presenting the big ang pow present to birthday boy.
The food looked fantastic, the garlic mash potato was marvelous. the other items are so so.. but the staffs there are really very service oriented, even though the food wasn't that good, i'm sure going back again, hopfully they will have improvement everytime i go back there.
From left to right, there's yunying, borong, js and rip.. waiting to dash over to the serving counter for the buffet dinner..
Surprise visit from superstar diya, something that stanley did expected. when he was asked to turn around, cos there's a special visit from a guest star, he was so shocked and excited, cos he thought his all time fave idol was going to appear.. but to his slight disappointment, it wasn't. but still a super star right? i have no superstar appearing for my birthdays??!! oh but i have a bunch of superhosts though ..
I group photo before the party ended.. i still have many more photos. still very messy in my harddisk, i'll send them out once i'm done with shrinking their sizes and simple touchups. so far i think there's birthday boy, andy and js who wants the photo, if you want them too, send me an email or an sms to let me know.
Went down to comex to check out external harddisks, meili requested for us to help her get one as she's running out of storage spaces for her serial videos...
Cruz was there hosting a show and cos i was late, i didn't get a good spot for photos. but i guess with so many more pro photographers around, there shouldn't be a lack of nice photos of him.
Got the seagate free agent Go 80Gb for meili. comes with 5 yr warranty,and it looks really chio in black and orange..
During every computer fair, you never fail to see this huge wastage of paper.. and this is only a small little part of the 2 big hall. i wonder how much of these brochures are collected and thrown away at the end of the show.
Went down to double o bar last friday with bingwei to check out a dance performance by the xenbar guys. and of course i have a task, to take nice shots of libing in action.. Firstly we have libing with justin and yanqing
And here we have libing and more friends who went down to support him.
They performed a total of 2 dances, i didn't get good photos of everyone as the place was quite small and there wasn't a lot of space for me to move around. here are the better ones that i got from the preformances.
There are more photos, interestings ones were taken when everyone was a little high.. but i won't be showing those here... and we can all see that libing has indeed improved from the last time we see him perform. on his way to becoming a pro dancer!!
Hi! I am Jerard Tan.Woo... welcome to the world jerard... can't wait to go meet him in person
Yeah, one more september baby!!
Libing performed at double o bar last friday on their invitation. ok not him alone, but the guys from xenbar... haha
I haven't got time to do up all the photos yet... so here's one of him first.. more to come in a few days time!!
Poor zt, after a visit to nuh for a check, he ended up with a big bandage around the head. the kind where you usually see on a person who just had a car accident or a bad fall and suffering from severe head injuries.
This photo was self taken when he was at the hospital, and while he was walking around the car park, he couldn't remember where he parked his car, a staff actually asked if he was ok, most probably thought that he must have lost some memory with the head injury. it looks really serious right?
So i was telling him jokingly that with this bandage, he'll not be able to perform at the getais, and there's not many days left in the lunar 7th month. but i was wrong, according to him the performer usually go on stage with a headdress, so he can actually have the big flower petals headdress from 881 papaya sisters to cover up his big bandage... then going on stage wouldn't be a problem..
Of course, having mindy ong as his partner on stage will be even better...
Remember to inform us on the date and venue for the performance, i'm sure all of us will be there to support you.
After watching 881, i really felt thaht i should go take a look at a getai performance. a few days ago, i was in yishun and there was a getai set up at the carpark. so i decided to go take a look to see if the performers were as entertaining as the papaya and durian sisters.
There's this guy from taiwan, and he could sing a duet by himself, and he alternates between the male and the female voice. his costume was interesting too, when he first appeared, he was wearing this funny gold colour cap that looked like an oversised cook's cap(is there a term for the headdress?), and he had a cape, all in gold like some sort of a superhero. immediately i thought to myself, if he can go on stage to perform, i'm sure zt can do so too, with a mum being able to teach him singing techniques, he just needs to get some costume and go on stage. i'm sure cruz is more than willing to help him get a slot from his getai manager friend.
A malaysian singer.. claimed to be the lizhi of malaysia
After staying around for a while, i felt that it was not even half as entertaining as that we see in 881, or are there famous getais that actually have better performances, anyone knows about it?
Another scene you see quite often if the getai it set up in the car park. you get makeshift box seats!!
And not forgetting the lighting man.. without him, the performers' glittery costume will not be shimmering in the dark.
It's the hungry ghost festival again. i'm sure we all know that, esp this year cos of the movie 881.. as a annual company event, we decided to have our prayer session last week, for those who do not know, this is called por dor in hokkien, i dunno what it means, just hear it year after year. some photos from the session here.
Dad lighting the joss sticks...
Mum praying for a better future for the company...
Offerings and food(our workers love this session for this)!!..
This year, we have more staff and thus more people at this event. check out photos from last year here.
After all the praying and burning, it's time to enjoy the food.. here's my nephew from malaysia, cute right? i realised that i have so many cousins that i cannot keep track of the nephews and nieces i have..
Ok .. i have picked a few photos of andie from the roadshow to be posted here, cos come friends read my last post on star search and asked "so who is your friend?" ...
Here's him posing for the wild crowd while the hosts are interviewing the rest of the contestants. during the roadshow, they contestants go one stage in groups of 4 to interact with the audience with some games. and andie's game was charade.. i'm sure he mist have enjoyed it totally, moreover he was the one acting!! look at the photo below and you know why so many people says that he looks like jim carey, i wonder if he will be tasked for such a role in the competition.
He and his naughty pose while waiting for the finale where they all go one stage for some photo taking. and look at the girl on the far right, i felt that she resembles a hk actress, but i cannot remember the name. anyone think so?
Last tuesday was the first studio live recording for the competition. mainly to introduce all the 20 contestants to the public viewers and also the 3 judges.
I arrived a little late, so i ended up with a lousy seat at the side. and it was so far from the stage, i couldn't get a decent photo of andie from here, thus i shall not post photos of him. jeremy, another of andie's supporter from mdc was late too, and he sat beside me, and during the waiting times we chatted a bit.. but only after the whole event that bangzhi told me he was one of the members of g-force, one of the contestants for superband. i guess when he introduced himself to me and i just chatted with him casually made him felt like "hmmm so you do not know that i'm a member of g-force". ok other than the 2 of us who had to sit on a seperate block because there's limited seats, here are the rest of andie's supporters, mostly in red.. 
Including his grandma, in a hip hop pose showing her bling bling ring.. and look at her bling bling shoes!!!
At the end when the recording ended, andie's aunt who saw me carrying a big camera, asked me to follow her down to the stage cos she wanted me to help her take photos. i was thinking to myself "no point lah, cos the contestants won't be allowed to waste time posing for phototaking, moreover they are all walking into the baskstage already, and there're lots of chance for her to take photos with andie next time" it was only a while later that i realised that she wasn't intending to take photo with the contestants, it was the judge she was eyeing on, and she even got andie's parents into the photo..
Remember to tune in to channel 8 every tuesday at 8pm for the competition. no votes required this time. the next show with him will be on 4th sept!! if you want tickets for the recording, do let me know, but i dunno if he will have enough tickets, but i guess no harm asking right?
It was sunday, and the plan was to go sentosa for a day of sports, sun and fun.. and the it draws nearer to the stipulated time, the sky became gloomy.. hai .. met up ay vivo city and decided to not go sentosa, just in case it rains when we got in. after some light snacks at vivo, we decided to go goldie and shengrong's place for wii! i have never played on a wii although i have heard quite a lot about it.
Wii bowling, where you swing your hands like you are holding the bowling ball, intersting man! i was quite impressed by the handheld sensors!! next we tried wii boxing, and shengrong gave us a demostration. it seems very easy, he was sitting down and he just waved his hands a little here and there!
Bangzhi and kelvyn decided to play against each other and instead of just waving their hands to control the character, they decided to play it like they are really in the boxing ring, with fall scall hand and leg movements!! it can be really tiring!! so i guess they got some sports although we were indoor and sentosa plan was cancelled.
