Was at Raffles Place this afternoon during lunch hour to promote the revamped Busniess Times Weekend. Seeing that they (SPH) are such nice people, i'll pull a plug for them on my bloggie.

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Alright. I'm off to watch Zaini Mohd Tahir do his thing at the Next Wave Dance concert! Have a good weekend!

Hey Folks.

Seeing that Sense of Home premieres tomorrow night, I thought I'd just back track a little bit and upload some photos from the shoot in Shanghai...

Fiona, Aunty Cat and myself shooting the interstitial for P5.

May stealing the scene & TJ getting the best out of his DOP, Joel.

On our day off, Aunty Cat and I decided to go around taking photos. One of the amazing things about Shanghai is the existence of both old and modern residential areas. These were taken at some back alley of a slum area that we were filming in...

The old lady you see at the end of this set of photos, is actually dumping off the crap (pang sai) collected from her tiny flat. Every now and then, when her 'potty' is filled up, she has to make a trip to the common toilet downstairs and dump it all off into that "refuse collection unit"... that's what I call it, at least.

Edwin, our Cam Assistant, eating a freak bao... with a nipple.

Filming along Qi Pu Lu. There were so many people it was not funny. Edwin's nightmare location. "Hey Edwin! Where is the camera?"

Me enjoying a nice hot bowl of ChongQing Suan La Fen. Hmm.... Heaven! I swear, its shiok one!

And finally, here are some prop photos. You know the kind of things you stick around the set to make it look like the characters are authentic? Hahaha!

There are more pics in the photo album. Later folks! :)

I was on shoot for the new Chan Brothers Travel Fair commercial yesterday. Did both the English and Mandarin versions.

I'm so hungry now, all I remember from yesterday is the awesome briyani i had for lunch. Crap! Didn't take photo. But I took photos from the shoot!

Playing The Happy Announcer.

...The Serious Announcer.

And of course. Here's an outtake, for your pleasure. The back story is that Gavin (the director) said, "say it like your life depended on it." So I fooled around and did this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5iC-1q3PD8

Ok. I cannot take it. I'm gonna get me some Katong Laksa! hmm...

I made a guest appearance on an episode of Calefare earlier this week. Was fun hangin with the crew again. Miss those shanghai days. Fiona is in the main cast too, so it was kinda like a Sense of Home reunion for me.

So the main cast includes Gurmit, Fiona, Benji, Kak Mas, Vadi, Tracy 'Tommy' Tan & the very funny WOODY Milintachinda. According to him, his dad had a "woody" when his parents were "making" him. (No shit...) Thus the name.

Its great when you have an ensemble of comedians on the one show. The Saturday Night Live vibe shoots through your veins like a river rapid! I ablsolutely loved it. Very different feeling from Yang Sisters. On the Yang set it was more like I was at home. Also cos the set was like... a home la, and the 3 sisters were like very maternal one lor. But on this one, its total comedic chaos. I knew right away I was in good company.

I didn't take pictures on my first day, which was the day we had a full cast. But anyway here are some from day 2 with Gurmit.

Son of a gun! Stupid cops!

"Give me some lines, dammit!" -- Holding the love crew hostage.

Shooting myself -- Yes, I'm getting better at it. I must say, the framing & focus is quite choon. Hahahaha!!!

Calefare airs on National Day August 9. After the NDP.

Till next time! :)

Celebrated my 29th this past week in Shanghai with the cast and crew of "Baby Blues" which is the last episode of the Sense of Home series.

It was after a long day and we were just about wrapping up in the last location, which was also my apartment. I had already gotten into my sleep wear and was finishing off some emailing on my lappie, when they switched off all the lights. Then somebody said, "Equipment check." So i was like damn blur la. What kind of equipment could you possibly be checking for in the dark??? what the hell, right?

Then it came... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU... HAPPY BIRTHDAY...

Look at them. How sweet this bunch of people are. They even bought me 2 cakes! Woohoo!

But I believe there is a deeper reason behind the 2 cakes than just their love for me (ie: too many people, one cake not enough?).

It was a nice & memorable birthday. Thanks guys! :-)

I've been fortunate to have spent my last few birthdays overseas. In Brissy, then in LA, last year in Hongkong and this year in Shanghai. I wonder whats next... Hmm...