My thoughts on President's Star Charity and New paper New Face 2008

Happy Birthday to Nicky Bryne (Westlife) and Kendric Tan


Due to the F1 SingTel Grand Prix and other factors (namely the cancellation of future Ren Ci shows), this year's President Star Charity had been pushed to early October, and got less publicity as a result, compared to the last 2 year's PSC shows. And if there's one thing I'm not very happy about, it's gotta be the poster layout as seen in this week's copy of 8 days...

The biggest travesty has gotta be Jon Leong's image positioning in the ensemble... he is located at the very back row (behind 'Broadway Beng' Sebastian Tan's), and his face is barely visible under the poor contrast!! I felt that Jon's image (as well as Olinda's) should be placed within the same row as Taufik, Hady, Ping Hui, Fiona and Daren!! Jon and Oli are also rising stars, therefore they deserve much better positioning!! And poor Fathul of By Definition, his face is barely visible in the poster since it is located very near to the centrefold of the magazine.

I also feel that the poster design committee oughta be sued, cos the background color is totally salah for a supposedly jovial event like PSC!! With the background color being black in color, it only makes the poster look weirder, with the darkness mixing with the artistes' black hairdo... and that makes the heads of artistes like Jon, Hady, Fiona and Daren look even weirder!! What happened to the design team's sense of color theory and variety???

And to a lesser degree, I seriously think that Kym Ng's face should be placed BEHIND... not at the front most portion of the poster. matter of fact, I think she should switch places with Jon!! I feel she rather over-rated... and OLD. I heard she might already be in her 40s?

Tomorrow I will be going to Takashimaya Square/Ngee Ann City to watch the New Paper New Face 2008 finals, even though most of the girls totally cannot make it. I ain't even gonna place my bets on who's gonna win... I'm going there only to kill time and try my luck on spotting celebs...

OH WAIT!! I read from today's New Paper that there is indeed a celeb going there... 'JINGYI'!!! :-D

National Day variety show at Jurong West

Happy Birthday to Barack Obama, Janice, Kailing and Dave

Yesterday's speaker for Sunday service was Rev Rusty Russell, the message he preached (Isaiah 60:1-5) was quite meaningful and interesting. After service ended, me and Mum had lunch at Heartland Mall, then went back home to rest.

I checked my email once I got home... I found out that I've been accepted for the Calefare shoot!! WOO HOO!!! :-D I picked the dates and times of availability... high chance I might be able to see Miss FX one of these days!! :-p Man I am getting really excited... but of course I won't get too cocky.

Firstly, I left the house at 4 something, took a train to Jurong East and had dinner there. Then I took a bus to Chinese Garden station... I took the opportunity to explore only abt half of Chinese Garden. Due to the fact that I had climbed up a 7-storey pagoda, I was too tired to explore further, so I decided to cut short the exploration route at abt 1845 hrs. After a good rest for abt 20 mins, I took a bus to Jurong West Street 41. More pictures of Chinese garden can be found in an upcoming post (not neccessarily the next one).

The hosts for the variety show were Pornsak and Charlyn Lin Cuifang. First half of show was rather dull, lots of old singers on stage, so I didn't take much pictures. I spent a few minutes playing my PSP elsewhere, and it was at a void deck that I got a 'surprise attack'... by Source??? :-O Towards end of first half, I saw Ice, Delphine, Rachel, Lijuan and a few other familiar fans.

For the start of the second half of the variety show, Ebi Shankara sang 2 Tamil songs. Last time i saw him was at the Courts Megastore 1st Anniversary last December.

Then came a Malay singer named Rani.She's either from "Live The Dream" or "Anugerah", I don't know.

Aliff Aziz sang 2 Malay songs from his first album. Second album is in works I think.

Tan Diya was next, singing Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" and "Happy Birthday", her original. Can I say that I hate the smoke used throughout most of the show?? Makes it difficult for us to get a clear pic of any performer on stage. :-(

Fel came at abt 9.50 pm. She sang a Chinese song (possibly by Rainie Yang) and an English song, "I'm Your Venus, I'm Your Fire", an 80s Disco song by Bananarama.

Then came Ping Hui... dats I had no idea he was involved too. I forgot the names of the songs he sang, for I was more focused on the fans snapping pictures of Fel at the backstage area. His was the very last item.

Then all the artistes and guests gathered for the (second) finale... singing a few National Day songs. Last song was "We Are Singapore".

As expected, many fans followed Fel all the way to the van at tha parking lot. My intention was to get an autograph from Fel on behalf of my friend, but given the situation, the mission ended in failure. But that's ok really, there's always a next time. I was however, quite surprised that Ping Hui had 'teleported' mysteriously. I find it a bit sad that the fans would rather go after a Princess than after a Prince.

Return route: took bus to Chinese Garden MRT station, took MRT all the way to Eunos, took bus back home. And I found it rather hard to sleep, so I had to wear my 'ruby quartz' shades to 'improve' the insomniac case.