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• a few days in the life of yours truly...
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  Sunday, Nov 9, 2008 4:36PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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  Thank you everyone for the love and patience, it’s been pretty hectic around here. But if hectic means working, and working means paycheck, and paycheck means Gears of War 2, then being hectic sure is good.

   

  In addition to the non-stop statically-progressive background preparation for a certain upcoming project, I have also been occupied with a few outside endeavors as well.  I’ll let the following images and words acquaint everyone with the current happenings in the life of yours truly.

   

  Nike Sportswear Store Grand Opening

  

  A press-photo of me and my super-friends at the Nike Sportswear Store Grand Opening celebration.

   

   

  A photograph of us after the Onimal and I found and ravaged the open bar...

    

  Miss Asia 2008

  

  A press-photo of our attendance at the 2008 Miss Asia pageant to support V.Dubb’s little sister who’s competing this year.

   

  

  (left 2 rite) Daphinator, Gabster, V.Mommy, V. Dubb, and Yours Truly.

   

  

  There’s Van’s little sis, standing on stage.  Last time I saw her she was only a few feet tall, now she’s taller than me with heels on.

   

  

  After the show, we left the TV station with this paparazzi car tailing us all the way back to the Hotel Philafornia.  They even drove into the residential parking lot to point a handy-cam in our direction as we exited our vehicle.

   

   

  Here, I'll save the paparazzi the trouble of fabricating a story.  This is exactly what happened after we entered the building. Van gave me a book that he wrote (I think it's about some guy named Vanness Wu), then we watched several episodes of  "Married With Children" before we all decided to take a nap. We woke up a short time later and headed out to dinner.  Very news-worthy indeed.

   

  A New Cure For Momentary Insanity

  

  This particular issue of "Beauty Pro" drove Sammy to the brink.  Since I still need his wits intact for my upcoming project, I decide to save his sanity.

   

   

  Faster than Billy Batson can utter the word "SHAZAM", putting on the Ng Family Chinese Martial Arts tee-shirt immediately punted Sammy's mind back to reality.

   

  

  Having discovered Sammy's new found tee-shirt-given-ability to repeatedly execute the Dempsey Roll, the Onimal found it fit to challenge Sammy to a friendly sparring match that wasn't so friendly to my living room...

    

  Philip Ng x jhde

  I was recently asked to model some clothes for my good friend, Bill Tam (who just so happens to be the designer behind jhde).  I was very happy to lend my support. The following are a few of the pictures we took for this endeavor (photographs by Zion photography).  Check out my album for more pictures from this photoshoot.

   

  

  New Monday Magazine Vol.420

   

  

  Kicking.

   

  

  Sitting (read it again and notice the lack of the letter "h").

   

   

  Jumping.

   

  

  and "posing" with the designer, Bill Tam.

   

  Somebody To Love (and to kick in the face)

  Just wrapped on an independent-romantic-kungfu-comedic-film (tentatively titled, "Somebody To Love") by the up and coming Irish director Seamus Walsh.  Working on this film had me engulfed by the professionalism I had come to expect from having work on larger-scale projects, while simultaneously, the independent nature of this production gave the cast and crew very little restriction to create freely.

   

  It was a tough shoot, but it was one of the most enjoyable projects that I had been involved with in quite a while.  Seamus came up with a very clever scrīpt that drove the action quite well, and his unique sense of humor shines through in his direction.  Our award-winning DP, Henry Chung pointed his new RED camera in all the right places and the image on the screen is pretty awesome.  The fight sequences were placed together very well by action-director, Jude Poyer (who has done quite a bit of stunt work in Hong Kong before relocating to England a few years back, and is quite a capable fight-choreographer in his own right).  Every single cast and crew member involved with this project was there because they wanted to be and everyone offered their professionalism and expertise without reservation.

   

  

  Hong Kong stuntmen making me look tougher than I actually am. (photograph by Lucas Griego)

   

  

  Kicking someone in the face. (photograph by Lucas Griego)

   

  

  Kicking someone in the face. (photograph by Lucas Griego)

   

  

  Doing a 540 over a chair... (photograph courtesy of Jude Poyer)

   

  

  ..then running outta frame. (photograph courtesy of Jude Poyer)

   

  

  Working with action-choreographer, Jude Poyer, on the final fight sequence. (photograph courtesy of Jude Poyer)

   

  Once again, thanks for all the love and support!  In the meantime, I'll be busy fighting off the Locust Horde for next couple of days ;)

   

  Until next time!