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Workin' and Playin' in Singapore
( 繁 | 简 | 日 )Saturday, Sep 26, 2009 12:47AM / Members only
For most of September, I was under the employment of a production company by the name Picstalk in Singapore to choreograph and shoot eight action/stunt/fight sequences for a 13 episode television series dubbed, Mr. and Mrs. Kok, an action-comedic-drama about a married couple of private investigators who solves cases together while experiencing the expected ups and downs of their slightly odd relationship. It was a rewarding production and I was quite happy with the footage that we were able to shoot and paste together. Though we did bust our behinds to best match our envisioned ambition to what was eventually captured on tape, my trip wasn't all just about work as I did manage to celebrate my birthday twice, meet up with some good friends, and hang with some very familiar members of the alivenotdead family (as they happened to be in Singapore for an event that I also took part in), all of which were definitely causes for much joy and merriment!
my home-away-from-home (and base of Farmville operations) in Singapore...
look who's face I found covering the walls of the production office! it's none other than Johnny Lu, not only the new face of Singapore television, but also the homie who recommended me for this gig!
WORK WORK WORK
"is this thing on?"
on location...
"I solemnly promise that I will stab someone in the face if I don't get all my shots in today."
first choreographing the fight sequence, than teaching it to the lead actress of the show, Tan Kheng Hua...
ballroom-dancing-kung-fu...
"I solemnly promise that I will smash this monitor into someone's face if I don't get all my shots in today."
making stuff up + telling people what to do + looking into a tiny monitor = my job
designing the action and picking the angles to capture it...
PLAY PLAY PLAY
on our off days I had a chance to meet up with some pretty super friends...
also had a chance to visit a national landmark and gain confirmation that Faye Valentine did indeed spend her childhood in Singapore...
got a chance to celebrate sister Race-a-Roni's birthday in her home town this year!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...
our producer Pauline and the crew surprised me with a cake and song on the set... notice me enjoying the cake with our hilarious leading man, Mark Lee...
the production crew then took me out to a Korean BBQ the next night! woohoo!
sister Rozy and her lovely family taking time out to celebrate my birth anniversary with me, I was very surprised and quite touched :)
absolutely amazing! I got exactly what I wished and prayed for!
ALIVE NOT DEAD
The Alive boys were in town to screen the Heavenly Kings movie and to do a question-and-answer session at the screening location. Since I was already in Singapore and had the day off, I gladly joined the artiste panel after the showing and had the super-duper opportunity to speak with local Singapore audiences, artistes, and supporters!
looks who's all in town...
pretending to know what I'm talking about during the post-showing discussion panel...
hanging with elvanna and terence...
wished I could have continued to consume more whiskey and the carry-out McDonald's, but alas I had an 8:30am call time the next day...
MISSION COMPLETE
Pauline and crew took us out for an awesome "Phil-is-finally-going-back-to-Hong-Kong" dinner, which included much delicious food...
great food...
...and great people!
final step before heading back to Hong Kong - cutting up the footage and sticking the pieces back together so hopefully it will all make sense when the sequences are broadcasted onto your television sets!
A big THANK YOU to the entire cast and crew of Mr. and Mrs. Kok for making us feel so welcomed and happy during our time on and off the set in Singapore. This whole trip was a very positive experience that I will treasure and remember always. I am happy to say that I have "survived" Singapore and plan on going back for seconds someday soon!
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Channel [V] presents: GOING GAGA event at FINDS...
( 繁 | 简 | 日 )Friday, Aug 14, 2009 9:58PM / Members only
Was invited as a guest tonight for Channel V's "GOING GAGA" event at FINDS earlier this evening... I don't tend goto these events that often, but it was fun tonight, especially since I bumped into friend and fellow World of Warcraft enthusiast (and one of the VJs for the evening), Lisa S....
they gave me a bunch of mics, and then I proceeded to talk into them...
I was trying really hard to look "tuff" in this photo, but I think merely the fact that I was standing next to the vertically superior Lisa S. immediately made me appear the exact opposite of "tuff"...
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Good times were had, good things are happening, and good happenings are approaching.
( 繁 | 简 | 日 )Friday, Aug 14, 2009 9:51PM / Members only
Hello everybody! Hope y’all been doing well and good out there. I had spent a good majority of the last several months working in
Though the bustle was about a 45-minute-car-ride away, I did (on a few occasions) find myself taking a day trip to the actual city part of Shanghai with several fellow actors to do a bit of shopping and a great deal of eating...
This picture was taken in April during the first few days of my stay in
Tourists…
Nic and I with the Strikeforce middle-weight champion, Cung Le (who was also working on Bodyguards and Assassins with us). I nearly sprained my jaw trying to bite through his deltoid.
My friend Kate and the stage production that she was a part of were on the Shanghai leg of their tour and a few of the actors from her production was friends with an actor from the production that I was working on, so we all got a chance to grab a dinner and drink out in the city.
On the set.
A metal wing combing over the clouds of a gradient blue sky.
Soon after I returned to
Spurred on by our training sessions in
My Si-Hing, Cliff giving Nic a few words of advice.
Looks like Jen wants to learn how to efficiently punch a person in the face too.
The paparazzi followed us for most of the evening and waited for us to leave the school. Of all the photos they took, they decided to print this one of Nic sucker-punching my sternum while we waited for the elevator outside of my kung fu brother’s Wing Chun school.
Nic and I returned the following Monday (a couple of days ago) to train some more.
Another good session.
And last night, director Teddy Chen invited a few of us out for a dinner and a chat. A good time and good discussion was had by all.
Good times were had, good things are happening, and good happenings are approaching.
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It’s all about LOVE.
( 繁 | 简 | 日 )Tuesday, Mar 24, 2009 1:18AM / Members only
Superfriends at work!
As some might have read, I was recently given the opportunity to direct my first non-martial-arts-action commercial short film for my good friend, Race Wong, to be released as part of a DVD/CD package with her upcoming album.
Race was given the tremendous task of producing and performing both her own music video as well as a 20-30minute short film that is to be released along with her upcoming album. While she was able to do the near-impossible of gathering together every necessary component together to perform such as task, she would need help in areas that she might not be as familiar with. Having came up with a very romantic love story about two lost souls needing to be found by each other, Race needed someone to direct it as she would have multiple difficult tasks to handle as the film’s producer and lead actress. Gratefully, I had enough of her trust to have been asked to handle the task of directing her story.
Lucky for me, after having worked a number of years as both an actor and martial arts director I had gained some confidence in my own ability to tell a story through movement and images. So I took that approach while telling this story, using very little dialogue, relatively slow camera movements, and letting the actors do their jobs in midst of long takes. This gave the actors the luxury of going thru the different stages of an emotion in real time rather than doing the performance out of sequence.
This is the first time that I have really worked with Race on a commercial project, but our super friendship made working together a great joy. Now I know why she’s so popular with directors, she is a super actress. She thinks through her actions and then uses the moment to makes it happen into reality, and the exact same can be said about my buddy, Vanness Wu. Vanness and I have worked together since our first film (with him as an actor, and me as a fight choreographer), and directing him has made me realize how much he has grown as an artiste. It was a joy to witness him juicing his past experiences and distilling them into every scene. Not only was I fortunate to have such wonderful actors (and friends) to work with, but I had the opportunity to work with a great DP (Jam Yau) who took the shots that I wanted to a new level with his great framing and fantastically controlled camera movements. The list of wonderful people involved with this project goes on.
This project is also a testament to the power of honesty in friendship and business that has developed alivenotdead.com into a place of trust that can bear a fruit such as this. If not for alivenotdead.com, I would not have met Race or Rosanne, and would not have had the opportunity to introduce them to my buddy Van, and then the likelihood of this project coming to fruition would have been much slimmer. Also, it was through Patrick that Race had connected with the representatives of the W Hotel, whom generously let us run amok for several days through their entire facility with great cooperation from their wonderful staff.
It was a tough and difficult two-day shoot, with everyone’s incentive for making this film mainly being our love for each other and our love for making film. After we wrapped the shoot on the second day, Vanness, Race, and I bowed our heads while Vanness led a prayer that thanked God for His love, and His blessing us with the opportunity for being there for each other through a rather meaningful experience that was worth every ounce of each person’s effort.
Please support our collective effort by picking up Race's new album when its released to take a look at our happy little project.
Some press photos from the press-con at the W Hotel
"Superfriends powers, ACTIVATE!"
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Have a Super Merry Christmas and an Awesomely Happy New Year!
( 繁 | 简 | 日 )Wednesday, Dec 24, 2008 4:40PM / Members only
Hello everyone and thank you for all of your warm holiday well-wishes. I'm currently in the good ol' US of A enjoying the holiday season with my family for the first time in over 5 years. I've been back to visit within those 5 years, but never during the winter. So this will be the first white Christmas that I'll be celebrating since a long while ago.
Cool Stuff 01 – Going to da Bears game with my pops.
Herding towards Soldier Field...
The winning field goal!!! Go Bears!!!
Cool Stuff 02 – Going the da Bulls game with my pops.
Greats seats, woohoo!!
Cool Stuff 03 – Kicking face with the boys.
And no visit back to Chi-town would be complete if I didn't spend half my time at my family's martial arts studio. Check out the following clip of one my boys, Big Al working the mitts during one of our workouts. I've been training this kung fu brother since he was in high-school, now he’s whooping face in the ring along with the rest of the NFCMAA full-contact fighters (more clips online). Represent!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uos7SLd_ZI&feature=channel_page
Have a super Merry Christmas, an awesomely Happy New Year, and God bless everybody!!!
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- Philip Ng is a Hong Kong actor who is also a master in the martial arts. Trained in Ving Tsun Kung Fu under the late Sifu Wong Shun-Leung...
- Occupation: Actor , Action Director , Martial arts
- Gender: Male
- Total visits: 350,958
- Translators: applenic, radwynn
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