A Tough Road

It's tough being in the Entertainment Industry. This, I've known since 4 years back. All the glamour you see on screen and on stage are what are the result of hours and days and months of hard work. Noone sees that. When you do wrong, you get criticised. Though I have not been through real hardcore hardships, I would still say that it's never easy being an artiste. It's more than what you see, more than what most people perceive and believe.

I'm saying this because recently, two artistes from Mediacorp left and decided to call it quits. Both cited personal reasons and personal time and space. I'm sad because Dawn has been one of my favourite actress since I first saw her at Teens Model Search at Plaza Singapura. I think she's really cute and I hope to be able to work with her one day. When I heard she was preparing for her album, I was excited. But now, she has decided to leave the industry.

Jessica on the other hand, I saw her filming at Studio 6 once while I was at Mediacorp for my acting classes. She's really beautiful in person, and she's very friendly too. Her professionalism and charisma attracted me. Felt sad that she had to leave. I hoped she could do more.

Whatever it is, one thing is for sure, I'll miss them. I wish them all the best in their future endeavours. Best Wishes!

I'll be attending Hippo and Duck tour with OMY.sg tomorrow. My first visit!

How To Train Your Dragon

As promised! The movie review!

How To Train Your Dragon

Genre: Fantasy
Director: Dean Deblois, Chris Sanders
Cast (Voice of): Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel
RunTime: 1 hr 35 mins
Rating: PG

Movie Synopsis
From the studio that brought you "Shrek," "Madagascar" and "Kung Fu Panda" comes "How to Train Your Dragon" - a comedy adventure set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, based on the book by Cressida Cowell. The story centers around a Viking teenager named Hiccup, who lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. The teen's smarts and offbeat sense of humor don't sit too well with his tribe or its chief, who happens to be Hiccup's father. However, when Hiccup is included in Dragon Training with the other Viking teens, he sees his chance to prove he has what it takes to be a fighter. But when he encounters (and ultimately befriends) an injured dragon, his world is flipped upside down, and what started out as Hiccup's one shot to prove himself turns into an opportunity to set a new course for the future of the entire tribe.

Movie Review

Absolutely stunning movie. Little wonder there have been so many people recommending me to watch this film. It's definately worth the price anytime anyday. Animal lovers should watch this movie. People who likes Stitch should watch this movie (because the dragon Toothless really have a strong resemblance to Stitch). In any case, I strongly recommend everyone to watch it. No regrets! Promise!

Official Movie Trailer

Overall Rating: 4.5/5

F&N Singapore Dance Delight 2010

Went to watch the Preliminaries of F&N Singapore Dance Delight on 27 March 2010 (Saturday) at Takashimaya Shopping Centre after receiving the invitation from OMY. I was quite surprised to see so many peoples there waiting for the competition to start. I believe most of them are the contestant's supporters.


The competition kick off at 7.30pm sharp and many teams took part to challenge for the best street dancers to represent Singapore at Dance Delight Vol. 17 in Osaka, Japan.

Many contestant teams are excited to showcase their power dance on stage. I would say that there are many skillful and talented dancers in Singapore. I'm so proud to be there to do a blog write-up for OMY last Saturday.


This event not only attracted many youngsters, it also capture the attention of aunties and uncles as well. Saw the picture below? Wow! Even aunties are amazed by the contestant's dances. I personally felt that we should have this type of contest more often as it can bring everybody closer too. (",)

I did a video recording for two team and share with my readers and supporters. Actually for more information on the next round, you can also visit http://www.dancedelight.sg/.

Short Clip from two of the Teams


LIVE Interview from the audiences



Video Clips of the Three Teams that I liked!

More video clips are available at Youtube. You guys may check it out at Youtube and tell me in my chatbox which team do you like. Let me know your answer ok? :)

F&N is the presenter for Singapore Dance Delight 2010. Apart from that, they also take care of all the supporters and audiences by serving free soft-drinks at Orchard Road during the competition. Of course myself and rest of my friends also went to get ourself a cup as well. I'm always a fan of F&N drinks anyway. Lol.

Remember them? They are Andy and Ah Wei, members of SOUL from Superband Season 1. Took a picture of them too. They are great dancers and they are there to support this event. SOUL rock!

The winner of Singapore Dance Delight Vol. 1 will represent Singapore in Dance Delight Volume 17 in Osaka, on 21 August 2010.

Quick facts on Singapore Dance Delight Vol.1

• Singapore Dance Delight Vol.1 is proudly presented by F&N Fun Flavours and produced by O School.

• This is the first time such a prestigious international dance competition will be brought to our shores.

• This competition is for street dancers of all sorts – ranging from New/Old school Hip-Hop, Break Dancing, Popping-Locking, Soul, Krumping, Waacking, Punking to name a few.

• Judging the inaugural Singapore Dance Delight Vol. 1 will be a panel of street dance veterans from both Japan and Singapore in the search of the best street dancers to represent Singapore at Dance Delight Vol. 17 in Osaka, Japan.

• Interested participants must form a group of 2 to 8 dancers and choreograph a 3-minute routine at the Preliminaries. Once through to the Finals, the teams will present another dance routine of 5 minutes for the panel of judges. They will be judged on their technical abilities, showmanship, musicality, originality and professionalism.

• Dance Delight Volume 17 is the 17th installment of the international street dance competition created by Mitsuhiro Harada a.k.a Machine. Since 1994, the slickest and most dynamic street dancers from all over the world bring their best moves to battle with other dancers in Osaka.

The event attracts audiences of up to 10,000 each year and to win the competition is considered an exemplary mark of glory for any street dancer. In the past, participating countries include France, United States, Taiwan, China, South Korea and now Singapore.

Visit http://www.fnn.com.sg/ for the latest updates on how F&N Fun Flavours can be a part of your life. Meet others who love F&N Fun Flavours by joining the conversation at www.facebook.com/FnNFun or www.twitter.com/FnNFun.

Supporters and interested parties are encouraged to check the http://www.dancedelight.sg/ and http://www.fnn.com.sg/ regularly for promotions, updates and ticketing details for any of the competition dates.

More details on this exciting dance competition can be found on the official website - http://www.dancedelight.sg/

Movie & Donut

Was suppose to have training today but Boss was down with the runs last minute so we all got to rest at home.

娟姐, Cat 姐 and I decided to pay a last minute visit to Boss as well as to get some food for him. It was meant to be a surprise visit. I hope he was surprised. After he took his dinner and medication, we headed to Causeway Point for a short relaxing night out.

Stopped by Donut Empire and I bought my favourite donuts again. Hehe.


After that we caught How To Train A Dragon. It is an awesome movie. Will do the review some other time!


After movie we headed to the Pasar Malam just beside for a walk. It was the usual stuffs, except we saw this interesting "ride" among the usual rides in the amusement park section. It was so cool to see this in a Pasar Malam. It's a water sport ride. Some boy goes into a deflated plastic and the staff just pumps air into it and inflates it into a ball. The boy in the ball is then helped into the water and he's allowed to play in it for a period of time. I wanted to try but I guess I was overage and maybe also overweight. Maybe Joseph can try next time! Haha!

After that my two sis got me a gift. They always 破费 buy me things. It a jigsaw set of my idol's poster. Which idol? You all guess! :)

Thank you for the wonderful night!

Ala Carte Buffet

Today, Aunty May treated us dinner at Akira Japanese Restaurant. I've always drive pass or just go pass that restaurant and have always wanted to try it out and finally got the chance to today.

It's pretty cool when we stepped in we were ushered to a room or in china they call it the “厢房”, which means we had a room for ourselves. For some reason, we felt important as there are only 4 rooms while the rest of the people eats outside as per normal. Maybe because mummy made reservation. But anyway, my initial feeling was cool and excited.

This is the room. Cool right!

My aunt looking happy after receiving her gift chocolates! (It's not her birthday though)

Sashimi Set

The other random orders

It's ala carte buffet, which means you order anything you want on the menu and they cook it and deliver it to you. Supposedly it's free flow la. So we ordered quite a fair bit of dishes. Some came, some didnt. I had ordered plain rice earlier and it wasnt served. 15 minutes later the waitress walked passed and I told her to get me a bowl of rice and she said ok, but the rice didnt come. It happened for 3 times until I was quite upset already. One bowl of plain rice also take so long to serve. I went out and stood outside the room. I was calling out to every staff who walked passed me and they were "busy" with serving their food and walking around. I said to one of them, "Hello, can you help me with my order?" and she said, “好的，稍后就来。“

So I stood outside the room waiting. Waited for 10 minutes but I was like transparent to everyone. My aunty went out to join me and we were both ignored too. After some time one staff finally noticed and came in to take our orders. Everything happened smoothly after we requested to feedback to the Boss. But anyway the food there was quite nice la. If those thing didnt happen, I'm sure I'd have enjoyed my dinner more. I just hope it's an isolated incident. :)

After dinner I met up with my cousin. He was so emo. So many people in relationship crisis now. I hope everyone is ok. Not ok can find me talk! (",)

Bioskin 要你好看 Ep 2

These are the footages taken by Shirley on TV for the second episode of Bioskin 要你好看. It's also the last episode already. Thank you all for supporting this program and supporting Elson in this program.

Thank you the team from Mediacorp for giving me this valuable experience! Hope to work together again! :)

Movie Marathon!

Ok, I didnt exactly go for a movie marathon. But rather I watched three movies this month which I havent share with everyone.

Kidnapper

Genre: Action
Director: Kelvin Tong
Cast: Christopher Lee, Phyllis Quek, Jerald Tan, Jack Lim
RunTime: 1 hr 38 mins
Rating: PG

Movie Synopsis
Lim (Christopher Lee), a struggling and obnoxious 40-year-old taxi driver, is a complete failure. His wife left him years ago. And his only son - Wei Siang (Jerald Tan) - is frequently neglected. Mistaken for a rich man's son, Wei Siang is kidnapped at an arcade one day and held for an enormous ransom. Thus begins one father's relentless quest to get his son back. In the process, he gives up everything in his life to raise the ransom, only to discover that the nefarious kidnapper (Jack Lim) wants even more money. Unable to raise the second ransom, Lim descends into madness as grief and self-doubt overwhelms him. His own morals are threatened when he flirts with the dark side in a desperate attempt to get his son back.

Movie Review

I think this is one of the best locally produced movie. Good quality, good storyline, value for money. Nothing much to write about this movie except - IT'S GOOD.

Official Movie Trailer

Overall Rating: 4/5

Just Another Pandora's Box

Genre: Comedy/Action
Director: Jeff Lau Chun Wai
Cast: Alex Fong Lik Sun, Eric Tsang, Xu Jiao, Athena Chu, Sun Li
RunTime: 1 hr 30 mins
Rating: PG

Movie Synopsis
Bandit Ronald Cheng effortlessly pulls out the magic sword belonging to Fairy Athena Chu, and Fairy Sun Li who lives by love, is drawn as moth to flame by this deja vu-like infatuation. As Sun Li chases after the Ronald Cheng, who just wants to get away from this "rotten peach blossom", the Pandora's Box opens a doorway into another time zone.

Movie Review

This is a damn stupid movie. It is the chinese version of Epic movie. Though they have a strong cast, but the humour is so bad, I cant appreciate them. But if you got the time to spare, go watch it.

Official Movie Trailer

Overall Rating: 2/5

Confucius (孔子)

Genre: Drama
Director: Hu Mei
Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Zhou Xun, Lu Yao
RunTime: 1 hr 48 mins
Rating: PG

Movie Synopsis
"Confucius" tells about Confucius' transformation from an ordinary bookkeeper to a philosopher and a sage. It follows his long journey around small kingdoms in northern China preaching his beliefs, and his 72 disciples.

Movie Review

This is a great movie! I love it, though most parts of the movie is really quite complicated. One must learn and find out more about the great Confucius before watching the movie or else you will be confused by Confucius because he is confusing (if you didnt notice the "confu" part) Ok lame! I think it's good. Should watch.

Official Movie Trailer

Overall Rating: 4.5/5

Ice Kacang Puppy Love - 初恋红豆冰

A new movie is going to launch in Singapore coming 15 April 2010. The title of the movie is Ice Kacang Puppy Love (初恋红豆冰), produced by 阿牛大哥. He is a singer who sang 对面的女孩看过来 and 大肚腩, two very popular songs in late 90s and early 2000.


I was invited by OMY to attend this movie preview party and was happy to see him in person. I also saw DJ Jia Hui from YES 93.3 FM, as she is hosting the event. She did well and asked 阿牛大哥 alot of question. I also saw many of his supporters coming down to the event. He also played one game with his supporters on stage. Maybe you can click to see the video below. Lol.

He sang one song too! That is the song from his latest movie! You can preview the song in my below video as well. (",) The movie poster is so nice and I nearly wanted to bring it home with me. Inside the poster, you can see Gary Cao and Fish Leong also. Lol.

Attached two video that Boss took during the event and share with all of you.

A group of artistes and talents from RIG was invited by OMY to Ice Kacang Puppy Love media event, and my supporters Shirley, Mandy and Joseph(ine) also attended the event. Today got to know a new supporter, her name is Wei. I will upload her photo in my Facebook later.

More picture, click to http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=186572&id=1432781110&l=078ea8d587

I personally hope that all of you can show your support to this movie. I can feel 阿牛大哥's effort and his hardwork in this movie. The trailer quite well done and many famous artistes and singers acted in the movie. Hope next time I get a chance to act in movie too! Lol.

About ICE KACANG PUPPY LOVE 初恋红豆冰

Cast: A Niu, Fish Leong, Angelica Lee Xin JIe, Gary Cao, Nicholas Teo, Eric Moo and most Malaysian singers

Movie Synopsis

A woman brings her daughter Da Jia Yu run away from her husband. They live in a small-old town and stay at friend’s house earn for a living. The son of the kopitiam tauke, Botak falls into this small little girl. In Botak’s life, Da Jia Yu plays an important role. She accompany Botak till they growth up. Botak secretly admires Da Jia Yu. Along the journey, he explores the meaning of true love, devotion and forgiveness.

夜玩场 - Let's Play!

Thank you all for tuning in and joining me on air today!

Today is T.'s birthday! Actually tomorrow to be exact. Boss and I celebrated with him on our way to Mediacorp. Haha.


This is the donut gift cake specially custom made by Donut Empire for Peifen 姐 and Yes 933 FM. Beautiful right? (",)

It's my first time going to Yes 933 FM for interview. I'm actually quite nervous. Haha. Before going in, many thoughts were running through my mind. I didnt know if I'd do well, or if I'd be loss for words or say the wrong thing. I also didnt know what the DJ would be like.

But upon meeting Peifen 姐, I relaxed a little. She's very sweet and pretty in person (though she will protest my saying, haha). She kept saying she hasnt got any make up on but I really thought she looks good today.

The interview soon begun. Before that I was in a dazed. I didnt know what was coming and suddenly I was brought on air. Haha. I managed to keep calm and began the show. The hardest part was the 绕口令. Haha. I dont usually practice 绕口令 but today I was tasked to do a short tongue twister. After sweating my guts out, I managed to complete the task. Lol.

I hope I did well. And I hope everybody enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to my next radio interview! Thank you Yes 933 FM for giving me the opportunity and thank you Peifen 姐 for her guidance and patience towards me. (",)

Thank you Joseph, Serena, Shirley, T. and Shuping for coming down today. 大家都辛苦了! :)

Me before the interview :)

On the paper was the 绕口令. See my expression? Stunned. Haha.

Peifen 姐 and Me after the interview (",)

Will be attending another media event tomorrow for OMY.sg. It's a movie preview for ICE KACANG PUPPY LOVE 《初恋红豆冰》. Will be doing it with Ah Niu (阿牛) at Dragonfly!

A Surprise

After meeting Boss today, together with Joseph, we decided to give YP a surprise visit at his residence at NUS because it's his birthday today!

He came down with his glasses and new haircut and one glance, we thought MLB's Nic is walking towards us. Haha. But it's actually my dear junior YP. Anyway he's really cute la. 23 years old liao, but still have the 小孩子心态. Haha!

We brought him to WCP Mac for a mini celebration. I hope he had a good time just now.

This is YP and me with his mini cake and a makeshift lighter as candle. Haha.

Sorry it's quite last minute, next year we'll do something more fun ok! Happy Birthday YP!

Anyway, tomorrow 9.30pm, remember to tune in to Yes 933 FM for my radio interview ok! Very excited now, I cannot sleep liao. Hahaha. :)