I want to visit It's a Great Great World movie set!
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Posted @ 12:25 PM
I want to visit the set of It's a Great Great World!
Went there today but didn't alight to go walk around, got to see the '鬼火车' set only... saw the camera crew at a distance... wanted to alight to walk around and see but parents didn't want to~ oh well... I was afraid we might disrupt their shoot as well...
ahh...!!~ I want to see the whole set so much! It's always fascinating to see a drama/movie set!
The last time when I saw it was a drama set of a home setting in MCS, Jov, Ying and I was so excited over it! 'cos it looked real on screen and it's nice how they set up the place to be as similar as the actual ones. And oh one thing for us is that we tend to look into details of dramas/movies... and sometimes we are very picky over things like that. HAHA... so just enjoy watching your dramas/movies!
I want to visit the set of 大世界 so much!~
Labels: film, itsagreatgreatworld
comment (0)300th post! - The 7 meet up again
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Posted @ 10:50 PM
Yesterday calefare-d as wedding guests with Jov, Flo and Ying on Wee Li Lin's film - Forever. The 'bride and groom' in the film which we all along thought were the main leads wasn't so, which we found out only like 3 - 4 hours later. HAHA
Oh and director Han Yew Kwang was there too.
The film is a romantic comedy, will be shown on the big screen in the later half of 2010.
Then met up with jie meis for dinner at Suki Sushi, which the power tripped before we even start eating.
It's the second time I experience power trip after Friday's studio power trip, which all machines just got switched off and the floor downstairs were all dark. Took us quite some time for rehearsal to resume again. Things didn't turn out very smoothly at studio on Friday 'cos conti took over too early and our logos hasn't rolled yet! =/ But well, it's settled now.
And our juniors 'toured' the panel like an exhibition before the show starts... which is only see see look look haha. But I guess it'd have been a feel of 'wow-ness' because of the complications of the machines all around.
Were planning with jie meis on our overseas trip... and today received an email from Leen on the tigerairways 99cents flight! Hope will be able find time and make plans soon before the offer is over... which, is not quite possible until the following week.
It's either me or it's Orchard changing too fast. I haven't been to Orchard for a long time...
Christmas exchange session next Saturday! I don't know what to buy and what to wear!
Christmas greetings up first!
And our juniors 'toured' the panel like an exhibition before the show starts... which is only see see look look haha. But I guess it'd have been a feel of 'wow-ness' because of the complications of the machines all around.
Were planning with jie meis on our overseas trip... and today received an email from Leen on the tigerairways 99cents flight! Hope will be able find time and make plans soon before the offer is over... which, is not quite possible until the following week.
Takashimaya
Wisma Atria
Paragon!
Made of 'Ferrero Rocheo'
The interior
It's either me or it's Orchard changing too fast. I haven't been to Orchard for a long time...
I was @.@ for 1 second when I saw two exits at Somerset MRT, one to 313, and another to Orchard Rd. Then I took the Orchard Rd one, going up the escalator... "EH? SHOPPING CENTRE?" When did this shopping centre came up?!"
So shaking off my shock, I exit by my left, "EH? Where is this?" Then went back and go by another exit. Then got it right.
I used to always see the 'Bovis' construction site which is forever under construction. So that's the shopping centre which they managed to settle with.
Christmas exchange session next Saturday! I don't know what to buy and what to wear!
Christmas greetings up first!
TV bonus edition - "The Little Nyonya"
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Posted @ 1:50 PM
Time flies even during (busy) holidays.
Wals, Carri, Jov and I was "making the little nyonya bonus edition" in the suite yesterday. It was super hilarious I tell you. HAHA, wait till I get the video from Jov and upload it here to show you all.
Let me do the character introduction first,
Wals - Yue Niang
Carri - Chor Chor
Jov - A Tao
Me - dubbing for Yue Niang (in "Sakura ad")
The Little Nyonya 之 Your mum is a slut
The Little Nyonya 之 Sakura ad
The Little Nyonya 之 Yue Niang gets beaten up
*Crux of this clip: "晕倒! (faint) 晕倒! (faint)"
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18 grams of love
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Posted @ 11:52 PM
Seen this poster?
Story:
Zihua and Ah Hui are two long time friends. They suspect that their wives are cheating on them. In order to allay their suspicions, they decide to "test" their wives by having the other write a love letter to the other's wife, to see if she will respond.
But as they get caught up in their ploy, they start to ignore their own wives. Subsequently, their lonely wives also start to respond to the love letters that they received.
One day, Zihua's wife writes back to Ah Hui and proposes a meeting in a love hotel...
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It's a local film directed and written by Han Yew Kwang (韩耀光), the same guy behind the story of Folks Jump Over The Wall (飞越佛跳墙)!
And just to name some of his works, which some that you should have heard of are:
Right Frequency (播音人), this should ring a bell if the title doesn't sound familiar - "Wo shi Chen Mei Guang guang guang guang~"
Don't Worry, Be Happy (敢敢做个开心人)
人生导火线
等一个晴天 etc.
Was very attracted to catch this film when I read about it in the papers, and this film has won 3 awards overseas! Then our school organised for us to go watch it, and so I grabbed the chance!
We passed by this flight of stairs while we thought we were on our way to Sinema Old School, and commented: "Wa... this stairs very nice ar..."
And just to name some of his works, which some that you should have heard of are:
Right Frequency (播音人), this should ring a bell if the title doesn't sound familiar - "Wo shi Chen Mei Guang guang guang guang~"
Don't Worry, Be Happy (敢敢做个开心人)
人生导火线
等一个晴天 etc.
Was very attracted to catch this film when I read about it in the papers, and this film has won 3 awards overseas! Then our school organised for us to go watch it, and so I grabbed the chance!
We passed by this flight of stairs while we thought we were on our way to Sinema Old School, and commented: "Wa... this stairs very nice ar..."
and continued on.
When we couldn't find Sinema Old School, we called up to ask the lecturer where it was, and he pointed out to the flight of stairs which will lead us to the place.
(Top viewing down, when we were going down)
It was the longest direct-route of stairs we ever seen.
136 steps in all.
And so we hike our way up...
And here it is!
This was us, ready for the show!
And this is taken with the director.
The film was very interesting! It turned out to be not what I had expected it to be like. The camera angle approach was very unique, especially at the 4-person quarrelling scene. It was actually a space constraint area that they had to work in, but they managed to work within constraints to take the 4 angles of the 4 characters, and the editing dishes out a very fresh point of view.
There was a Q & A session with the director after the screening, and when I asked about that scene, the director said they took one whole day to film that, which was the most tedious scene. We all could see that, and of course that effort paid off because we were very impressed!
It only took him 11 days to film everything, which to us was such an amazing speed. Haha.
His take on humor is out-of-the-box and is the funny-funny type, not the not funny-funny type. Yeah, you get what I mean?
A very good scriptwriter, imaginative and creative. All the experience with writing for TV shows help I guess. A potential director rising.
It simply shines some light of hope to see such good films being produced by the local film makers.
Oh and there's sale of all local films DVD there! And Gone Shopping was sold out!
Catch it at Sinema Old School
Tickets:
Regular - $6
Concession - $5
Special - $8
Dates:
December 21, 2008 - 8:15 pm
December 22, 2008 - 5:30 pm 9:30 pm
December 26, 2008 - 7:00 pm
December 27, 2008 - 3:00 pm 9:00 pm
December 28, 2008 - 7:00 pm
Official website: http://www.sinema.sg/18gramsoflove/
Labels: film
comment (1)Eye through the camera
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Posted @ 7:54 PM
Went to the long awaited IT show - Sitex 2008 yesterday!
Have been planning to buy a new camera after my beloved lost one...
and here you see, in the above picture, is my new camera - Canon Powershot SX110 IS! (Proudly sponsored by my 2nd Bro)
The digital zoom is great man, the image doesn't pixelate even though I zoom to the max. You won't believe how far it can go... I can see the plastic bag on the corridor of my opposite block with the word - Fair Price on it! HAHA
And also bought a 1 terabyte hard disk for a very reasonable price! There's a lot of people at such fairs... who says it's recession? Oh, maybe it's because of such fairs that help to boost the economy. =x
Guess what? I'm still going to watch a play with all that shopping! Lucky Dad is always there to transport them on his vehicle! YAY! So I've shed away the "weight" with me, but of course, keeping the camera with me 'cos it'll come to good use.
It's amazing how I survived through the whole day with my continuous sneezes going on and my inner double eyelid showing... So I'm not posting up pictures of me with my one-eyed double eyelid photos!
We got kinda lost at Redhill and actually thought of walking to Tisch Asia... in the end we gave up and took a cab, it was sure Ulu-balu...
The play was named "It's not the size that matters!" by students of Tisch Asia. Seven 10-minute plays in all. It's not your usual drama performance, but they use their voice to act out the play! And I enjoyed all of them! It's a unique way of putting up a play. Wee LiLin (director of Gone Shopping) is involved in directing, scriptwriting and also narrating different plays. She got her scholarship to study scriptwriting in Tisch Asia - a New York University, School of the Arts.
Oh, and this picture is amazing. It wasn't me wearing the knee-length bermudas, wearing pointed white pair of shoes and holding to the programme sheet. It was someone beside me, but it looks like the hand and legs belongs to me!
Here are some of our imitation of the posters there...
Below are imitations by Me + Leen, and Wals + Jov. Which is a better imitation? =x
This wasn't an imitation actually, Jov is trying to be a "thief" in stealing electricity to charge her handphone HAHA
LiLin was very nice to offer us a ride out 'cos it's really ulu-balu there... and she got her mum to drive us. So honoured! Her mum is a nice lady too, she's very supportive and proud of her director-daughter. Leen and Wals alighted at Redhill while me, Jov and another girl who's a theatre actress (whom we almost forgot that she's hitching a ride with us 'cos she went to the loo first) alighted later at Orchard.
Orchard is so beautiful to look at with the lightings ready for christmas celebration!
And so you can see, the camera really come in handy!
Dress up in nines!
Friday, November 21, 2008
Posted @ 1:18 AM
Update for 20 Nov, Thursday.
It was couple of weeks ago...
Took part in the anti-piracy video competition (The Media Challenge) jointly organised by SP and Motion Pictures Association America, supported by 4 schools:
School of Business
School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology
School of Communication, Arts and Social Sciences
School of Design
We only started our plans on Wed (5 Nov), Filming & Editing on Fri (7 Nov) *There was quite some problem with the importing on Friday man* and Editing on Sat (8 Nov)... and the submission date was Monday, 10 Nov! We did it within 4 days!
Award ceremony was held TODAY (20 Nov).
We were supposed to go for the rehearsal yesterday, but was busy with organising Saturday's Face Off event, so weren't able to.
And we only get to know the winners of the The Media Challenge today!
They actually 'crashed' a lecture to hold the award ceremony in that MLT. No wonder there's so many people. HAHA
When they had the mouse-over the '2nd prize' video, it showed the duration of the video being 49secs, so I knew it wasn't ours. And the 'special prize' video's thumbnail view isn't ours too.
The put the '1st prize' video in another folder. That is when we got nervous.
When they played it, we were all so elated about it and cheered so loudly!!
WE WON!
(There's just so many reasons to dress up nicely today 'cos we got class photoshoot and award ceremony and also staying back till late for dry run of Face Off event. Clothes are fully utilised today! HAHA)
And I teared while watching our video being played before everyone's eyes! LOL
And YAY! the whole team went to shook hands and took picture with the Guest-of-honour - Mr Dan Glickman, CEO of Motion Pictures Association America!
That's such great honour man.
Now now, you will sure be asking "So what did you win?"
We won $300 Harvey Norman vouchers (as a group), Certificate, and the chance to meet Mark Burnett (the producer of reality shows e.g. Survivor, Amazing Race)!
WOOHOO! That's awesomely cool.
We just got so excited after the award ceremony that we can't wait to share the joy with the others, we couldn't care much even when lots of food was displayed before us! LOL
Went to the the staff room long stretch of corridor, and knock on the ones that we know to inform them about it!
First up was Ms Trudy and another lecturer... hoho! They were happy for us, and even wants someone to write about this thing so that it can be published in the school's magazine.
Next was Ping! Her reaction was so BIG! And I mean BIG! She literally jumped out from her $699 chair and exclaimed with such excitement! LOL WAHAHA That reaction totally rocks! Ping, if you are reading this... hahaha. You should have seen it yourself. So funny!
Then along the way met RJ, his reaction was so flat. HAHAHA. Then went on to tell Christina... Dioni... =x
All of them asked the same question immediately "So what did you all win?" So Jovis answered repeatedly. HAHA!
Last week I told my team mates I dreamt that we didn't win. And they went "Aiyo", "CHOY" HAHA That goes to show how dreams are different from reality. =x
Now, I want to thank all my superb team mates - Jovis, Syawal, Aqmar, Aileen, Sin Kai & Lay Teng!
Our duties in this video production:
Me - Director/Editor
Jovis - Assistant Director/Story line-up
Syawal - Soundman
Aqmar - Cameraman
Lay Teng - Assistant Cameraman
Aileen - Assistant Editor
Sin Kai - Producer
(And oh, we also made guest appearance in the video itself. HAHA)
Not forgetting my casts to thank for - Celest, Cassandra & Flora!
Oh by the way, 2nd prize was won by Kevin, who is also our classmate! He did a one-man show! Kudos to him!
Here's a group picture for the winners!
Here's the video! (Quality quite bad after conversion. =/ On your speaker louder too!)
Happy Teachers' Day!
Friday, August 29, 2008
Posted @ 4:00 PM
Happy Teachers' Day!
Went back to sec school today... got a chance to engage in some small talks with the teachers. Some teachers were missing though... transferred, on maternity leave, in hospital...
hope to see them next time!
I missed the moments when the whole school celebrate a occasion together! There's so much atmosophere in the air... but misses aside, I don't want to go through O levels again. =x
Some teachers were actually performing when it's supposed to be teachers' day celebration, I guess that's a chance for them to showcase their talents other than teaching! Haha!
The students were cheering along and it was very entertaining! I guess that's where the fun is.
The librarian shared her experience with the students with us... and wah... ok. I'm a super Guai Kia (obedient child), get it? HAHA!
Some teachers were actually performing when it's supposed to be teachers' day celebration, I guess that's a chance for them to showcase their talents other than teaching! Haha!
The students were cheering along and it was very entertaining! I guess that's where the fun is.
The librarian shared her experience with the students with us... and wah... ok. I'm a super Guai Kia (obedient child), get it? HAHA!
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Updated at 12.47am (30 Aug)
Caught Money No Enough 2 in the cinema just now with Dad and Mum!
It's my FIRST time watching with both of them together!
Ok, let me say about the movie.
It was superb ok!!
The lines were very interactive, lively and convey straight to the point!
I like the... editing of the mother talking to different sons and replying in the same way...
and the lines were very touching, you can feel the love of a mother for her children no matter what.
Script was very well written.
And don't be surprise, the best actor in the movie was Hui-Ge!
The you-will-laugh-like-mad scene between Hui-Ge and the mother (Li Ming) was so so hilarious!
Tears flowed because of I laughed too much at that, also because of the touching scenes...
Normally shows/movies that came out with a 2nd series would not be as good as the first one, but Jack Neo's movie doesn't happen this way!
Just look at I Not Stupid Too and Money No Enough 2, and you can't help but praise the brilliant ideas and improvements he has made to the movie though it relates to similar issues.
His movie selling point is the content of the story, which is the skeleton of the whole movie, and which is a very crucial support.
I've been listening to the song 家后 (Gei Ao as pronounced in Hokkien) which means 'Wife' since Tuesday... (and also first heard of the song in Taiwan soap opera) because the lyrics were extremely meaningful and with the complement of the music, it's such a classic. Listening it again during the movie still moved me to tears.
Some movie critics gave his movie half a star/one star, and I feel that's too underated. Seriously, how could you rate him so unreasonably?!
The negative points would most probably be the hard-selling of sponsored products, but I think that's inevitable, if not, where do you think the budget come from?
I thought that the movie has been in cinemas for about a month already (31 July premiere), there wouldn't be that many people, but till today (29 Aug) the whole cinema is almost full! So can you imagine how good the movie's response is?!
So yeah, if you haven't watch Money No Enough 2, go catch it. Chop! Chop! You won't regret it!
Updated at 12.47am (30 Aug)
Caught Money No Enough 2 in the cinema just now with Dad and Mum!
It's my FIRST time watching with both of them together!
Ok, let me say about the movie.
It was superb ok!!
The lines were very interactive, lively and convey straight to the point!
I like the... editing of the mother talking to different sons and replying in the same way...
and the lines were very touching, you can feel the love of a mother for her children no matter what.
Script was very well written.
And don't be surprise, the best actor in the movie was Hui-Ge!
The you-will-laugh-like-mad scene between Hui-Ge and the mother (Li Ming) was so so hilarious!
Tears flowed because of I laughed too much at that, also because of the touching scenes...
Normally shows/movies that came out with a 2nd series would not be as good as the first one, but Jack Neo's movie doesn't happen this way!
Just look at I Not Stupid Too and Money No Enough 2, and you can't help but praise the brilliant ideas and improvements he has made to the movie though it relates to similar issues.
His movie selling point is the content of the story, which is the skeleton of the whole movie, and which is a very crucial support.
I've been listening to the song 家后 (Gei Ao as pronounced in Hokkien) which means 'Wife' since Tuesday... (and also first heard of the song in Taiwan soap opera) because the lyrics were extremely meaningful and with the complement of the music, it's such a classic. Listening it again during the movie still moved me to tears.
Some movie critics gave his movie half a star/one star, and I feel that's too underated. Seriously, how could you rate him so unreasonably?!
The negative points would most probably be the hard-selling of sponsored products, but I think that's inevitable, if not, where do you think the budget come from?
I thought that the movie has been in cinemas for about a month already (31 July premiere), there wouldn't be that many people, but till today (29 Aug) the whole cinema is almost full! So can you imagine how good the movie's response is?!
So yeah, if you haven't watch Money No Enough 2, go catch it. Chop! Chop! You won't regret it!
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comment (0)Gone Shopping DVD autograph session!
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Posted @ 11:15 PM
Went to the event today @ IMM!
Bought another copy of the DVD 'cos they gave out the poster as well, and it's at a lower price than in the retail shops! So this copy can let my bro in Aust to watch!
And with a small amount of donation, we can get a goodie bag which includes the following:
This bag is so nice!
Kym and the director - Wee Li Lin, did some introduction to the movie - Gone Shopping.The film was played in Shanghai, Italy, New York etc. and the response was pretty good.
Kym's response was: "Wa, then I am an internationl star also!" HAHA
And LiLin mentioned that some guys in Italy came to ask her for the female lead's number,
Kym: "Faster give faster give!" LOL
And LiLin mentioned that some guys in Italy came to ask her for the female lead's number,
Kym: "Faster give faster give!" LOL
Before the event started, there were Q & A with prizes to be given out.
It was voluntarily. HOHO
During the event, same thing.
During the event, same thing.
This time was involuntarily. HAHA
But anyway in both cases, I'm happy about it! =x
LiLin said my name was the same as her sister's. Haha...
And the question for both was the same, what was the occupation of Kym's role in the movie before she became a TaiTai?
Air-stewardess. =x
Wals went up the stage and played a game too!
There was an auction of the DVD as this event was partly for a charity cause also. And the bid went up to $120! How generous!
Then starts the autograph session!
Posters were given out too!
Wals went up the stage and played a game too!
There was an auction of the DVD as this event was partly for a charity cause also. And the bid went up to $120! How generous!
Then starts the autograph session!
Posters were given out too!
And had a mini chat with them while letting them sign on the DVD. HAHA
They are really really nice people to talk to!
Kym mentioned about our video for our school project that we produced - Welcome To My Lfe, and LiLin asked if we were film students and where we study etc. and even invited us to add her on facebook and paste her the link to our (humble) video!
How honoured!!
After the event ended, we could go and take photos with them! It was so VIP treatment! =x
Later also had another mini chat with the director about her upcoming film and such. Wah... really feel very honoured!
And also, I've watched GS before going for the event, and I could further comprehend the meaning of the film! Some transistions used were very smoothly and beautifully done!
P.S. to director: I don't mind not being paid to be extras in your film! haha...
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