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The Carrot Cake Conversations opens Nov 6 at Golden Village cinemas!
Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008 3:15PM / Standard Entry
The Carrot Cake Conversations opens tomorrow at GV cinemas.
I have not seen it myself so I'm a little, you know, petrified. But its all good. Director Michael Wang was a joy to work with.
Cross your fingers and hope for the best! :)
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The Asian Film Market in Pusan.
Friday, Oct 24, 2008 11:49PM / Standard Entry
I know this is late. As always. Sorry folks.
So Anyway, Eng Tiong (my producer) and I decided to attend the Asian Film Market in Pusan this year. This would be my first trip to Han Guo. And here is a little pictorial commentary on the trip...
So my first meal in Korea was... yeah I know. Brilliant ain't it? Oh give me a break. I was hungry. So I picked the first thing that resembled food.
I was on transit in Seoul. My plane was late as you can tell... by 2 hours. So I lazed around...
Upon arriving. The first order of the day... Porn. No seriously, we were going through the trade papers. That's a poster of a "chick" flick called Drifting Flowers.
I watched "Cape Number 7" btw. It was pretty awesome. Very simply done. But did the job. I enjoyed it immesely. I can see why it did so well in theTaiwan box office.
Eng Tiong Still indulging in porn... :p
Opening Night party. Lots of good food. Nothing really Korean though. I also missed the dessert. Damn! However we made up for that by going to Baskin Robbins after that. So I basically went through my first day in Korea without consuming any Korean delicacies. :(
I did SEE some while walking through the Haeundae Night Market though. Check these little buggers out!
So meanwhile, back at the film market...
Thunder Boys poster proudly on display outside the MDA booth.
Good location. Just right next to the lift lobby, where most of the ttraffic takes place.
Then if anyone walks into the MDA booth, the first thing they see is...
...TADA! Another cool Thunder Boys poster!
Then its off to lunch. My first "proper" Korean meal. Cheers to that!
Mr Juan Foo, aka Co-Producer from The Shooting Gallery Asia, toasting to a successful project!
My lunch. Its been quite a while, so I can't quite recall what this meal was. I think it's some beef noodle stew... with rice on the side. Rather plain looking ey? The tastiest stuff is probably the kimchi and green chilli you see at the top.
Took a walk in the afternoon, in between meetings...
Me outside the Seacloud Hotel, our Film Market Venue.
The lovely Haeundae Beach. Would have loved to get myself one of those chairs.
Along the beach, were stalls set up to sell merchandise or anything related to movies and film. It was film paradise! Actually I saw one very random thing which i regret not having a photo of. And that is people giving away free bananas! Had no idea what that was all about, but it sure was funny. Cool Bananas!
There was also a visual arts school, which had set up a booth at the beach carnival, recruiting students!
Eng Tiong and I were the only 2 people in blazers walking around the beach. A little over dressed?
And just to prove that I WAS at the beach...
Ok that doesn't exactly prove anything. But ok never mind. Moving on...
Some things we take for granted. This may be an everyday piece of equipment for us, but people actually que up for a "ride" on this dolly.
After we got bored of the beach we decided to go and steal Festival Posters...
Damn it! Kena caught!
Actually we were helping to put them up. Honest!
On the Pusan subway. Don't remember exactly where we were going, but I do remember being damn hungry. Ah! Must be going for dinner!
Indeed. DInner it was. With our friends from the SFC. That's Chee Wee, the number 2 man in SFC at the moment.
Btw, can I just say that in Korea, their restaurants are sooooo specialized that when you open the menu, there are only about 5 to 6 dishes you can choose from. And they are all a variation of the same thing!
For example, at this reataurant there was Chicken Stew with rice; Plain Chicken Stew; Ginseng Chicken Stew with rice or without; Kimchi Chicken Stew with rice or without... You get my drift...
And this was my dinner. Aw man! The best damn chicken I ever tasted! It's ginseng chicken stuffed with rice. Its damn yummy! oh my gawd!
You see that chicken in the soup? cut it open and rice comes oozing out. Shiok one!
And finally, we got down to business...
The four musketeers talking action plans for Thunder Boys... over what else but packets of good ol potato chips!
That's all I have for now.
Kamsahamnida! Annyong haseyo!
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Business Times Weekend - Revamped
Friday, Sep 19, 2008 5:28PM / Standard Entry
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.
So for those of you who don't already know, Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) is giving away prizes to the first 3000 subscribers to the new Bunsiness Times Weekend. If you are one of the first 3000 subscribers, you are automatically entitled to a SURE WIN Lucky Draw. Top prize is a 6D/5N trip and accomodation to the Maldives!!!
Even if you don't win that, you'll definitely win something. Packard Bell laptops, Ball watches, Sony Ericcson handphones, Singapore Flyer dining vouchers, among many other things in the list of 20 desirables! Those are the 20 desirables that I'm pointing at there.
So what are ya waiting for?
Subscribe here - http://circulation.sph.com.sg/worldatyourdoorstep/newspapers.asp
Alright. I'm off to watch Zaini Mohd Tahir do his thing at the Next Wave Dance concert! Have a good weekend!
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Sense of Home airs tomorrow 14 Sep, 10pm. Channel 5.
Saturday, Sep 13, 2008 2:13PM / Standard Entry
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! :)
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Chan Brothers Travel Fair is Back!
Saturday, Aug 30, 2008 12:09PM / Standard Entry
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...
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