Check out my latest pets!

 




( So huggable!!!! )

Usually my reading revolves around answering techsupport emails and solving problems for people, so I always look forward to getting a new script to read.

I got more than my fair share of reading recently at an audition where they had me audition for 4 characters. Yup so I had to prepare 4 different kind of characters with one day of preparartion.

Heeee and this was the first time during an audition I was given a very interesting imagery to help me with my character. The casting director suggested that I give a bulldog temperament for one of my characters while I heard my friend had to be like a Jack Russell! Woof woof, hahahaha that really puts a very clear impression of how characters will be!

Fun fun, but on the spot the director decided I should try one new character, and so I had to quickly memorise the script and create my character. Hahahahah stress, have to quickly improvise my character. But it went well so let’s hope for a chance to act with them.

Anyway going back to a lack of reading, I was caught unaware by the mélange of emails I got recently, it appears that for Bubbleboyz, I have been appearing frequently in the TV section. Wow, thanks anyway next week is the last episode… let’s end off the last episode with a Bang!

 

Normally most dramas that I have acted in, I feel little emotional attachment (usually I feel it more for the short films I acted in), but Bubbleboyz is definitely a different case for me…







I actually look forward to it every wed night, just to see the ppl I know and work with once again, living and breathing their characters to life on the screen. And it’s a wonderful experience seeing how words on paper (our script) translate to the images on TV.



And my mum will be saying why we PTIs like to bully the kids so much…. They are so cute!!!! Hahaha

Well the final episode will be out next week. And we are having the wrap party at the same time… I miss the kids and it’ll be great to catch up with them again. I wonder if I have to wear the blue outfit again! PTI Ronnie is a nice character which I find hard to put away (and I love Rudy's glasses). 

While I’m still working on my story and consolidating pics from my colleagues,
I was recently informed that my agent has a new talent and we both look extremely similar.



Check it out, he’s a body builder and wow we have similar profiles.
OMG, we decided, we must join the media line as twins!!!!

Talk about coincidence, both Bryan and myself won the Mr Personality title before!

I always wondered if I had a long lost brother! Now I know.
Next time either of us wanna take leave, the other can cover for him. Hahahaha 

Wow it has been one hell of a great week.
Besides the disturbing encounter I mentioned in my last entry, I really enjoyed my holiday in Chiang Mai. I even found a water cooler just for myself!



Wow our hosts went thru a lot to make this a wonderful meeting… arranging gala dinners with fireworks shot up over the skies of Chiang Mai.

 
 

We even had a cultural show during our final night with amazing Thai performances.

 

And the dinner ended off with us lighting up sky lanterns and filling the sky with our blazing lanterns. I sent 5 lanterns up myself, heee this year all my bad luck should go!

 

Heee it was meant to be a sales meeting, but we ended up spending most of the days travelling around the area. I went to cruise down a river…    Race down a mountain on the luge….

 

Sit in an ox cart and an elephant!

 

Pole down a river on a bamboo raft!

 

Sleep with tigers! Oh they were simply cuddly, but boy were their tails heavy!

 

As I look thru my collection, I realize that the pics can be used to make an interesting story! OK I’m gonna start thinking of a story now!

 OK I'm headed to Chiang Mai for the whole week for a business trip! 

Goodbye cruel word, hello seclusion hahahhaa.

My weekend was definitely a very interesting one.
I got to host a FB friend who just came over from HK to Singapore for a holiday. Yup it’s the first time we met but wow we really managed to find a lot of stuff in common. I guess it’s because we’re from the same industry so hahahah we had a lot of fun chatting about the similarities between the Singapore Media Circle and the HongKong one.

It was interesting being a part time tourist guide for my friend, I suddenly began to see some of the fun parts about Singapore we take for granted.



Like the arthouse posters outside YangTze, cheap steamboats in Singapore and the nooks and crannies in Far East! And the very cool bar in Marina Mandarin. I really discovered some fun and interesting stuff that also made me feel like a tourist. That was a very tiring but very fun two days.



Anyway now’s he’s back in HK tieing up some loose ends. Hope he’ll be back in Singapore soon and we can catch up again. It’ll be interesting to see him host variety shows in Singapore.

We got a live Christmas tree this year and we finally took down the decorations…. But check out who’s living in the tree!

 

Yup it’s our dear Pearly… having fun climbing up and down the tree. Took a while to coax her off the tree…. Hahahaha reminds us to get a shorter tree next year.

 

So this year I got to try a new occupation too…. a lumberjack.
So as I was sawing the wood, I was thinking of the old rhyme… “How much wood can a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?”



I dunno the answer but wow sawing wood is a slow process, I doubt I can be a shifting cultivator…. Slash n burn practices are too much work for me… I should hire these wood chucks.

I was chatting with my cooking idol, Charles! And we are gonna do a remake of “Julie & Julia”. It would be a most interesting concept, a guy who cannot cook goes into the kitchen and learn from the master of cooking himself, Charles! Yes, he's the best, I love the pics from his cookbook-blog...



I can so picture all the mess I’ll make in the kitchen…. I even got myself my cook’s garments to look the part!



Hahahahaha I’m kidding, while I’m actually inspired by Charlie’s cooking, I was actually doing a training video commissioned by the Singapore Culinary Institute to promote good practices in restaurants.

( Food really goes well with hungry actors! )

Hwa Chong really has a lot of people who dun like the school. I was happily walking back from Hwa Chong just now when I noticed that their big signboard got defaced with..... guess what?





Nonya Kueh!

It’s the green type with the coconut filling. So here are pictures of the carnage. One whole packet of Nonya Kueh wasted like this….. I can think of much better uses for Nonya Kueh den to be used for such artistic expression.



Anyway this is not the first time that Hwa Chong has had its walls defaced. Back in 2007, they also had their signboard splattered with egg yolks. That was horribly smelly…. (you can read my entry about it here.)

 

To the inconsiderate vandal… even if you dun like the school (or the nonya kueh tasted really bad), think of the poor ah soh who have to clean this up.

As an actor, there are many shows that you can act in. But only some of them were so immersive that you really live and breathe the character and the set.





Cubik: The Movie was definitely one of the films I did where I not only had the most fun but I learnt so much as an actor too. The released shots already rock and rather than talk about the project here, I’ll give the lowdown of the work that went behind the scenes and how they transited to movie magic!



( Check out what happened behind the scenes! )

This picture really sums up the feeling I got when I finished the soccer scene on BubbleBoyz! SHAGGED!



I am still amazed that wow the final shots that appeared on TV made me look like I could really play a bit of soccer. Can score a goal too hahahahhaha. That’s TV magic for u!

Yay next week’s episode will be the one where we go hiking! Hahahahah I am lookin forward to it. Sigh I miss those kids!

I went swimming earlier today. After a nice cruise up and down the lanes, I got ready to get my clothes from the locker but….. my locker key had a problem!

Ahhhhh the key had a problem fitting into the lock. So I was stuck locked out of my locker and all my clothes were inside. I wonder what the ppl ard me were thinking when they saw me - a dripping wet guy only in trunks trying to jack the lock open! Yes it's the most himbo lockpicker at work...

Anyway after 5 minutes, I managed to force the lock open and I could get my stuff back!

Why do I get into such himbo moments?

Anyway I’m starting a swimming regime again after not swimming for a while. Used to swim a lot but I always get a break out after swimming. But I found a very unique facial lotion, Clearify, which prevents breakouts from happening. Hee I can say my problems are Clearified.

Seriously, I do not know how strippers can stand wearing this kinda outfit. While you may have many props like the baton and the cuffs, it’s hot and has lots of stray bits everywhere that poke into u. Not to mention that you have so many paraphernalia on the belt that it takes a long time to take it all off….

( N why am I in this? )

I got this very cute game recently. About rubber duckies racing around in a bathtub. Oh yes it’s perfect for my boardgame night at Nic and Claris’ place during their New Year party.

 

N despite its deceptively cute look, these ducks can drive ppl crazy with their random movements around. What you do is basically choose a card to determine your duck’s movement around the bath tub and try to race around to get to the different checkpoints while blocking other ducks from reaching the goal!

 

I got to say it’s a damn cool marketing gimmick to have 7 random duckies in each box. So freaking cute!

  

Hahahahaha to my army friends (check it out, there really is a recce duck)! I am so definitely gonna think of new games to use these duckies in.

In the end I didn’t travel out this weekend because I had too many meetings and had to do a TV ad yesterday. It was really cool cos I got to meet my old friend Shino again! And all I needed to do in the ad was basically smile...



Yup it’s been so long since we last teamed up to splash acid on Julian in Perfect Cut!

 
 

Anyway previously I wanted an adventure but ended up having more than I bargained for… now I got a very sore ass!

( Ouch.... )

After watching Avatar, this morning I had the urge to go out hunting for something to ride too.
So while I may not have optic fibers growing out of my trees, I have a whole plantation of prickly barbed cactuses. And I spy something lurking behind them.



Suddenly the creature pounced out into view!


Unlike Avatar, I just cut my hair so I dun have a Ma Jie pigtail n it would not be appropriate to poke the creature with something else ahhaha. So in a bid to control him, I took the next best thing! Tadaaaaaa!
 

Yeah a good grooming can domesticate any wild creature. As I pounced onto it,


I gave him a good combing and backrub and there u have it. A happy GouGou for me to ride upon.
 

I got to say I really love this picture of him….


Now that this guy is mine, I need to tame a creature of the air too…. Cue climatic fight music….

I had an amazing weekend last week. On the eve of Christmas, other than filming the last scenes for Bubbleboyz, I managed to make it in time for Charles’ housewarming party. So nice to meet so many new ppl, n got to sample Charles’ amazing cooking again! Which also reminds me that I got to save money for Vicky and Bernard’s wedding next year – yes it’s the event of the year!

And on Christmas, it was the Wii party at Glenn’s place. Got firsthand experience of how evil a Mario game can be….



Boxing day was spent with both my pageant friends as well as my JC buddies! Cale needed to shop for cosmetics so she had 3 male bodyguards escorting her to all the different makeup stores in town. I think we all stress the makeup girls as we orbited like satellites around Cale.

 


Hahahahha I like the effect of this steamboat pic, we all look so fuzzy cos the steam distorted the image taken by QQ’s cam! Avatar wasn’t that great but the company was good!

All in all I’m really glad to be able to have a wonderful weekend with my best pals. Now the next weekend is coming up, tomorrow it’s Nic and Claris’ housewarming! I’ll bring one or two boardgames to entertain them :) Been a while since I had a boardgame night!

I experienced my first 喜怒哀乐 moment a few days ago and it all happened in the space of 5 mins.

怒 - Anger
I was about to walk out of a lift when this guy forced his way in, so I gave him one of my blackest looks….

喜 - Surprise
But then as I turned and started to walk out, someone called me. It was an old acquaintance and I was so surprised to see her.

乐 - Happiness
Immediately my face changed from evil mode to happy smile smile mode.

哀 - Despair
After saying hi-bye, I realized that she had actually seen my evil look. Ahhhhhh siao liao, my evil look is not meant to be seen by friends!

Hahahah I must remember this incident next time I need to do any of these expressions on the fly! Perfect for auditions at MCS!