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:: south afrika ::
Friday, May 8, 2009 7:16AM / Standard Entry
helloooooooooooooo... been a while, yes it has... Sorry.. been doing a whole lot of nothing as well as somethings.
Just got back from South Africa, Durban (where World Cup 2010 is gonna be held!) for a shoot. it was a small role but I enjoyed it thoroughly nonetheless.
Its called the Philanthropist. an 8 part series for US channel NBC about a philanthropist who goes around trying to help people. the episode I was in is set in Burma so this is me in South Africa pretending to be Burmese in pretend Burma!
Here are some pics. View from the hotel.
Looks so pretty right?? But once you're on the beach, things get kinda dangerous. well, during the day's ok, but once the sun starts setting, like around 4 or 5, beach cops will ask you to start heading back towards ur hotel. Nightfall is when all the bad guys come out to play.
Was kinda bummed out when we only had a layover in capetown, coz I heard capetown had the world's best sunsets and I really wanted to check that out.. but then when i got to durban, I saw the soccer stadium being constructed and I thought, awesome! I still can't believe I didn't take a single photo of it... but.. I got a mini version of it!!
a sand stadium!!! yepz, that looks almost like the real thing!!! I'm not sure if all stadiums look like that, but the one in durban looks like that.
Some random pics of Durban now. Me posing with trash.
That's me terrorising the Durban pigeons! A funny thing happened. we were just goofing around with the pigeons and I mean so they flap around here and there but then suddenly, ALL OF THEM flew away. like one second they were there, and u blink and they're gone! so we were like wtf happened right. And then 20 seconds later, it started to rain cats n dogs. like big time. The damn pigeons knew man!
This little girl is soooooo bee-yoo-tee-fool I almost wanted to be like Angelina Jolie and take her home. I didn't know she was smiling for the photo coz usually when i ask a kid to take a photo with me, more often than not, they have terrified looks on their faces. maybe my crazy hair scares them. But this one, what a sweet smile!!
I could sit on this pier for hours on end. ok maybe not HOURS. But I hung around on it for a good 30 minutes before I got hungry and went off to look for some food.
Will ya look at that! I am definitely a beach girl! .... and a snowboard girl in winter. :p
Then at work...
My own little trailer!! I'm not trying to show off but.. ok, maybe just a little bit. :p
I don't know if this happens in the rest of asia but it sure don't happen in Singapore! My own bed and maybe the toilet looks nasty in the pic but it was really very clean.
This was part of the set. It was too big and I didn't have any pockets to carry my camera around so I didn't get a lotta pics.
Myo! Our Burmese language coach! oh, and a real burmese exile living in Joburg now! he has crazier hair than me.
Edric, another actor from Singapore and our lead guy, James.
Sorry to scare you, no make up! Me and Alain from LA, who plays my brother.
Screen shot of me after being hit and screamed at by Alain.
On our last day, we visited the safari. Hluhluwe & Umfolozi Game Reserve. I don't know if its the biggest but it's one of the oldest safaris in South Africa and its #%^&%# HUGE!! Didn't see any lions unfortunately but saw other cool animals!
And of course when you go on a safari, you HAVE to go in your best safari appropriate outfit!
I saw this and I was like RHINO! and the Rhino turned and looked right at us. Our guide Thami gasped and whispered, "Ros, this is not a zoo! They're wild and will attack us!"
An african elephant! The safari signs didn't say beware of lions or leopards or anything. Instead, the signs said "Elephants in this park are extremely dangerous!" can u imagine? First elephant i've ever seen with tusks.
Random note: I had a classmate who wanted to name her daughter Elephant. She said if you didn't think about the animal, the word itself sounds quite pretty. and we could all call her daughter Ella for short. so I was like why don't u just name her Ella. Ella's gonna hate you when she grows up.
This right here, is the elephant's best friend. What issit? well, Its a beetle. But a very special beetle. its a DUNG beetle. Oh yes, so it rolls around in poop. finds a nice round one, and starts rolling it away... That particular one was moving quite fast. I don't know where its taking its shitball but it sure was in a hurry!
Do you ever see this at the zoo?? Noooooo... the zoo animals never move... these wild little thingers just moved so gracefully I could cry. I want to be a giraffe with their pretty eyelashes!!
And then my favourite... well its a close shot between the zebras and the dung beetle. Look at the female so loving with her partner! Do you see that at the zoo?? NOOOOoooo..... all they ever do is just eat eat and eat!! I assume that's the female with her chin on her man coz when we drove up, the one in front kinda ran in front of her protectively. Do you see THAT at the zoo? NOOOOO....
.lost for words.
That's real lion skin right thurrrr and a tuft of its armpit hair ( do lions have armpit hair?) on the top right of the pic. I was kinda scared to touch it. I was a zebra. it might eat me!
so fun. weather perfect.
Edric called this the sunbathing zebra photo.
And.... THAT'S ALL FOLKS! Till next time!!
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:: PowdeRRRrrr Party ::
Monday, Feb 23, 2009 2:09PM / Standard Entry
So a bunch of friends and I went to Mt. Naeba in Japan for a weekend of snowboarding except that this was an organised event for 200 snowboarders/skiiers.
We coulda taken the shinkansen (bullet train) which woulda taken 1.5 hours but we decided to take the bus (which took 5 hours) that the organisers had chartered to ride with the rest of the 200 people. it was fun but we were dead tired by the time we got to Naeba.
This was a pic taken on the bus. That's my friend's hat. And after I put it on, she told me it was artic fox on my head. I almost vomited and gave the fur hat back to her right away.
That's us in the bus. Everybody spoke English (I guess coz the organisers were white and invited a lotta English speaking friends) and you just didn't feel like u were in japan.
All covered up. Guess which is me!!
Ok, that's me.
What a beautiful day. Super blue skies. We went up to the summit coz we had heard the view was beautiful. HOWEVER, the only way down were black and red slopes. The red slopes were JAMPACKED with people and it wasn't like just one way down. it was like a narrow winding road all the way down for at least 20 min so there was literally a human traffic jam with people at corners waiting for the road to clear so they didn't run over the ones who fell over. We decided to go down the black slopes on our butts. We made it down alive. :)
What a view. And I promise you, the real thing was 10 times more amazing than that. It sure took my breath away~
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:: Beaches and Peaches ::
Monday, Feb 9, 2009 4:46PM / Standard Entry
Ok, I dunno what to say here except I had a KICK ASS time in the phillippines. I LOVE beaches and I think beaches love me coz I didn't get burnt bad at all, the sun, the sand, the sea was just perfect!
Words cannot describe my trip so here are some pics.
First stop: Palawan!!
Ok, that's not the island I was on but that's the only pic of an island I have. So pretend that's it.
Chillin on these wonderful hammocks that were EVERYWHERE. I love listening to music and I come from Singapore which is a busy city so when I first got to the island, I was thinking, ok ok pretty beach, so what else is there to do?? But then i realised I'm supposed to just enjoy the beach with no interference from anything.
Roz sits there. ::quiet:: hmmm ::quiet:: ARRGGHHH!!!! (screams for fun) ::still quiet:: ok.. i guess this is it. ::dead quiet::
After an hour, i could finally just lie there in the quiet, listening to the waves. BEAUTIFUL.
My beach
Have you ever noticed how your legs always tan faster than the rest of your body? I was trying to even that out with the knee high socks. :p don't laugh! It was a private beach! nobody saw!! and I don't get it. My legs were still darker than the rest!
Passing out on the patio/deck/whatever you call these outdoorsy thingys.
Watching the sea at sunset. Those are not pimples on my back. those are water droplets. :p
When it gets dark, one needs to find activities to entertain oneself.
So that's me climbing a coconut tree. But being the chicken that I am, I didn't get to the top. But hey, I got halfway and when the ground got too dark to see, I thought I better make my way back down.
Next Stop: Boracay
My hotel. How cute is the sign!!
The Beach
A hat i bought off this man on the beach.
wow. 30 min painful horse ride for this. Totally worth it.
Sea snake in a bat cave!! Sorry but the bat photos didn't out well so this is all you get.
Entertainment for the night. Dancing filipino style. I thought my legs were gonna get clipped off!! But it was super fun.
Fire Lady. Very impressive.
Last stop: Palau!!
I wish I could show you all the pics but there are just tooooo many!!
yes I know I'm not supposed to touch them but really, this cuttlefish kept swimming around my legs.. really really close to shore. not scared at all! super friendly. This is the only thing i touched, i swear!
my favourite nemos in the most beautiful anemone i've ever seen.
russians drinking on board our dive boat.
Russian chilling.
Russian cutting birthday cake russian style.
Russian taking videos with a towel to protect his head from the ceiling.
Russian dancing russian style with dive helmet on his head.
Russian puking off the boat.
Russian dancing russian style
Russian dancing a gentle waltz of some sort. I didn't get it, but I hoped he wasn't naked under his robe.
Crazy russian suddenly grabs me. you can see my toes curled in horror. I now know how a cavewoman being dragged by the hair feels like.
Swinging another victim around.
And then....
CAKE FIGHT!!!!!
Jellyfish Lake
Shark and Manta Ray
Turtle being followed by not sure what fish and bumperhead!!
Me trying to convince the bumperhead to swim over.
The Live-a-board.
Ok, that's all for today.. that was a LOT of photos.. Gonna leave you guys with some videos.
Hmmm.. can't figure out how to upload my own videos.. soooo... lemme figure that out and post it another day.
Peace!
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:: Love Matters ::
Monday, Feb 9, 2009 3:01PM / Standard Entry
Jack Neo's latest movie is out!
Well it was out like 3 weeks ago but i forgot to blog about it. :)
Remember my previous entry about a movie I was working on called Republic of Happiness? Well, It's called Love Matters now. Catch it if you can!
Me and one of my best friends posing under the poster!! Sorry the pics are blur.. her camera sucks~. :p
Oh and I'm gonna upload some phillippines pics like I promised! AGES AGO!
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:: Republic of Happiness ::
Friday, Nov 21, 2008 2:10PM / Standard Entry
At least that's what I think the title of this new movie is called. If nothing changes, that's what its going to be called.
Shot entirely in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, here are some photos from the movie!
Looking all sweet and innocent for this scene. (I need to learn to stand with my legs closed.)
As you can see, its a very hot day. I'm lucky because I get to wear a sleeveless dress but look at poor Derong, who has to wear a very hot long sleeved sweater AND jeans!
This scene looks like fun but its the hottest place on set. There's no ventilation whatsoever. Instead of a smoke machine, we used smoke from charcoal to create the smokey effect. Its very smelly. And everyone is sweating heaps but I guess the actors have to look like they're really into the scene instead of thinking about the sweat dripping down our backs under our clothes. Put a bird in this room and I'm sure it won't be able to glide in the still stale air, it'll have to flap its wings like crazy just to get from one end of the room to the other.
There was one shot, I had to climb over him with a little knife and I kinda bumped into him accidentally and I said, sorry, and he said its ok but your nails sure are sharp. and I whispered very apologetically, my nails are short. i stabbed you with the knife. Derong was like WHAT!!!! u KNIFED ME! But he was tied up on the table, so he couldn't do a thing!
He is ready for the sacrifice. You can see the fan in the background and portable aircon vents too but we were pnly allowed to use them when camera wasn't rolling. So the sweat on Derong was real.
Chilling with make up artist Yami on a comfy swing during breaks. Little kids who saw us ran off when they saw the scary make up. Especially when we shot the night scenes.
Our very energetic and passionate director, Mister Jack Neo. Ok, that's not a very good picture of him but its all I have. And the back of my head with my super dry hair.
Derong and I. Shocked that it was my last day of shoot!
The lovely Auntie Ming who just got nominated Best Actress for the Golden Horse Awards in one of Jack Neo's movies. Congratulations!
Like one fifth of the crew we managed to gather to take this picture. The rest were running around the house like little children on imaginary toy horses. Working, of course. (I still haven't learned to stand with my legs closed.)
Movie will be out around Chinese New Year 2009! Unfortunately, I think it will only be out in Singapore and Malaysia.
Thanks for sticking around! More pics to come soon from my trip to the Philippines!
