SURVIVOR: PALAU

Monday, December 27, 2004

Haizzz...... wat is the date today.... let me see..... 27 of december WHOAAA! so long never blog lieow, juz came back from Shanghai a few days ago, definitely had a wonderful time there.. Wah liaoew... if can spend a few more days there then no need so rush already and heard can experience snow. First time went on package tour, found it more fun then normal free n easy tours...... can see more tourist attractions and the group also so re qing. The stories told by the tour guide for example the Yue Fei one, Ji Gong one all so interesting....normally u're say so much in school lah san guo yan yi all this, go there the buildings can relate to the stories.... oops wrong word is invovle and uesd in this stories like the cave in hangzhou of where ji gong sleeps and how he escapes the mountain..... The weather there damn cold n damn nice, i wan to experience that type of weather again, standing in the front of the boat for the Xi Hu(so much fog everywhere shuang....) and Huang Pu Jiang boat ride was like SHIOK.... should try, singapore also don hav.... then got oso sit the maglev train... 7 mins then reach the other station already the first in the world, go by road needs bout 1 hr i guess.... the visit up the dong fang min zu was oso nice the night view of Shanghai was like a colour picture but the day view... u guess lor a black and white picture........ i don wan to say so much....... k now don noe wat to blog....

Kuan Huai another day on the islands, 1:38 pm
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Friday, December 10, 2004

It rox man.....

Haizz..... good .things always come to an end in just a blink of an eye, 3 days have just flown by n the course in Mediacorp is over, let me describe the experience in every single part of the course starting with the Dance Workshop. As usual it was quite fun trying dancing for the 1st time. 1...2..3...4...5...6...7...8... count man, n left right left n hook, n 1, n 2, wah liao very in teresting, at least made me realize i can dance!Hip Hop oso learn, then don noe wat was the type of dance we learn on the first day the 1...2...3....n hook.....

Then the styling workshop with Alvin Goh which was one that i enjoyed to, clothes clothes n fashion, wat muz have n how to dress up properly ,showing us the different clothes combinations that are best n telling us all about his work. Also asked him some questions on fashion lah, got fashion stylist there for me i con firm ask lah, now I know the importance of wearing the correct clothes if not..... As alvin said, you make look like a fat and plump person from far but actually u r the opposite of plump n fat. He told us one encounter that he had with Stefanie Sun, they were at Kembangan at a cafe n Stefanie was just sitting across from him n Alvin could not recognise her, she was just like a girl next door, (this make me wonder could I have oso passed Stefanie Sun and not know it was her), why was this so... So obvious right it lies with fashion again, she was not wearing make up n looked completely different.

Then comes to the singing part, by the Peter, i like his voice, say his album coming out in 2-3 weeks time i wanna buy n listen should be very nice, hope it is a chinese album and it should be a chinese album. Overall, I think the singing workshop hmmmmmm................. was like interesting, first day he tell us all about the bitbox thing about the making of the sound, " beh", "tsk" to mimc to drum thinggy the big one, WOW.... he can do until like tian cai man....... Then he ask us to prepare a song n next day must sing to him so go home, cannot think, then cannot hink, in the end i thought of Guan Huai Fang Shi as it was one of my favourite songs and also very soothing to the year. Nervous before singing as i saw one or two people sing before me n they were good, then i go up n sing the Guan Huai Fang Shi, he play the guitar then i sing lor, then comments by him.....surprised that we know the song, i shall not say the extra comments except that i can listen to the music and sing to the tune..... (eeehhh.... i know wat you're are thinkin, i am not that bad okay at least i can sing properly only juz need some more training to the voice)........

Following up is the speech and the presentation one, it was like quite okay, it was better than what i thought it would be, playing some warm up games before starting the lesson proper, warm up like playing games like whacko and people, place, event....... The lesson was like to practise on tongue twisters sayin and saying from short ones to long ones.... then what is important when in a presentation, for example eye contact, tone, power, posture, these are all very important factors, by the way the room also very cold studio TS306 where we also did the styling workshop... then the other one studio TS304 is at least better where we did dancing and singing.

Saving the best for last the meeting with Yvonne Lim, Wah Liao she rox man.... this section is the best the best and i enjoyed it the most, the acting class by her was like excellent considering all the tips she gave us for acting, very useful to my future. It started off with us introducing ourselves to Yvonne n she said must make an impression on her so she can remember us forever and can even be friends and I mean normal friends when we can say hello and chit chat on the streets, i hope she remembers everyone of us, and i hope she remembers me just like when i asking for her autograph she knew my name wah liao shuang leh..... not every actress or actor is like this ok.....again hope she remembers me.... Then she shared on her experience in actig, how she from a small girl became an actress, what is she like in the past and her experience in Star Search damn nice man.... Hope next time can be like her.... (ni men dou bu shi bu zhi dao wo de zhi yuan shi shen me hor...) Then she show us one of her scripts which has n she is acting now, still got homework to do one ok.... must noe when to change clothes...when to say this and that...... kkkk.... Some more a script for 1 episode is already like quite thick already ok... is about 20 over pages..... So can u imagine how Holland Village and Double Happiness scripts would be like.... Anyway coming back to the topic, we had to act a small part of her script, k the show is Jing Zhong Ren (Episode 6) Yvonne is playing the role of Xiao Fen in the show who is in love with Jian Sheng but Jian Sheng loves another girl so she only could hide her love for him. Then the scene is... one night Jian Sheng came home drunk and when he reached home Xiao Fen came and helped him and help to defend him against his parents complaining of his drinking. My group was the 2nd group to present and i was playing the role of Jian Sheng, at least Yvonne commented i knew how to improvise from the script and at least was more interesting to watch then the first group, my first step to...... See i got so much to say for this i truelly thinks that this is the best section...... Wish her lluck in the upcoming Star Awards, hope she can get into top 10 most popular female artistes...

Then the finale party lor, the item consisting of the fashion show, a song, a dance and a skit, i think our group did okay not bad but lacking in one thing teamwork.... it was oso written in Joice's notebook okay...... then the food was nice, the drink oso nice, then take photos and more photos to remember our experience in Mediacorp, Grp A 8-10 Dec 2004 Unleash your Potential- Be a Star...........

I think this workshop could definitely be better if they even took us on a tour around the studio to find out how all these acting takes place and how they work.........

Kuan Huai another day on the islands, 3:14 pm

Star Awards 2004 Predictions

Best Actor

Edmund Chen

Best Actress

Jeanette Aw

Best Supporting Actor

Andrew Seow, Jeff Wang

Best Supporting Actress

Vivian Lai

Best Comedian

Mark Lee

Best Variety Host

Michelle Chong

Best Tv Drama

A Child's Hope 2

Best Variety Show

Maid to Order

Best Newcomer

Joanne Peh

Top Ten Most Popular Male/Female artiste

Christopher Lee, Edmund Chen, Xie Shaoguang, Tay Ping Hui, Vincent Ng, Mark Lee, Qi Yu Wu, Dasmond Koh, Gurmit Singh, Chen Han Wei
Fann Wong, Vivian Lai, Jeanette Aw, Huang Bi Ren, Sharon Au, Xiang Yun, Jacelyn Tay, Ivy Lee, Joanne Peh, Fiona Xie

Kuan Huai another day on the islands, 2:28 pm
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