Monday, May 25, 2009

Big Idea day 2 part 2... Ultimatum cast and aftermath

Continued from previous entry... in the minutes leading to 4 pm, the crowd at the Big Idea tent located outside Plaza Singapura had increased tremendously, and the stuffiness got worse within minutes. After a 15-minute preview, the cast of the upcoming blockbuster drama "The Ultimatum" finally graced the stage at 4.05 pm. All 12 cast members scheduled beforehand showed up, plus an additional member, Constance Song!! :-D


Line-up and group photo prior to individual interviews


Zoe plays Ye Yucheng, daughter of Songnian and Wenyu raised by Songnian's 1st wife Suzhen. Yucheng and Songqiao, half-sisters born on the same day, were swapped at birth due to the negligence of the hospital staff. Upon discovering who she really is, she goes to extreme measures to keep the secret at all costs.


Fann plays Fang Songqiao, her biological mother is Suzhen but she ended up being raised by Wenyu. She is the half-sister of Yuchen fighting to reclaim her birthright.


Ping Hui plays Sun Jie, a security manager who is best friends with Zhou Zhida (Li Nanxing) and love interest of Songqiao. Cunning and arrogant, he takes the law into his own hands and believes he is superior to all human beings, and even finds Song Qiao's upright ways unrealistic. His character goes through a drastic change when he loses his ability to steal after the right side of his body is handicapped.


Felicia plays Sun Min, the younger sister of Sun Jie who has a passion for gambling, and inspires to be the Goodess of Gamblers. She dresses herself up as a boy in order to work at the coffee shop just to get near Zhida (whom she believes to be Zhang Feng), and is determined to help him regain his lost memory. In a sad twist of fate, Sun Min is later violated by Ye Ren De, who causes her to lose her sanity. Fortunately, Song Qing does not give up on her and stands firmly by her.


Zhenhuan plays Fang Songqing, the younger son of Wenyu and actual brother of Yuchen He is a kind-hearted pastry chef who has no lack of suitors, but has eyes only for his cake creations. He has feelings for his close friend Sun Min, and is willing to stand by her even though she treats him like a punching bag.


Elvin plays Ye Renyi, second son of Fang Songnian and Suzhen. He and Renxiao (played by Benedict Goh) are the biological brothers of Songqiao. This marks Elvin's first true villanous role, a cunning and manipulative fiend in contrast to the good-willed and earnest Renxiao.


Terence Cao
plays He Chao Qun, love rival with Sun Jie competing for the affections of Songqiao.


Chen Sucheng plays Ye Songnian, patraich of the Ye family. He is the father of Yuchen, Songqiao, Renxiao, Renyi and Rende. His first wife Mei'E and eldest son Ye Ren Zhong died sometime before the timeline of the series.


Huifang plays Zheng Wenyu, a tragic woman who got raped by Songnian and bore her own child Yu Chen; her father was killed by Songnian soon after her rape. It was she who purposely let the Ye family raise her own daughter Yuchen, while she raised their daughter Songqiao. She and Fang Weiguo have a younger son Songqing. She only revealed the truth to Yuchen and Songqiao many years later.


Meijiao plays Shen Suzhen, second wife of Songnian and mother of Renxiao, Renyi and Songqiao. She is completely unaware that her biological daughter Songqiao was swapped with Yuchen.


Constance plays Jiang Ruolin, godsister-turned-3rd wife of Songnian and mother of Rende.


Cynthia plays Chen Xiaobao, wife of Zhou Zhida who is believed to be Zhang Feng, love interest of Yuchen.


Jerry plays Ye Rende, only son of Ruolin and the youngest child of Songnian. Extremely spoilt and rebellious to the core, he is often at loggerheads with his half-brothers Renxiao and Renyi.



The cast members turned around to face the camera while all the fans creamed along with them "Qing shou kan Suan Zi Xing!!". About 400 fans then started forming a queue behind the tent, stretching all the way to the detour in front of 7-Eleven. We all got up on stage to shake hands with the cast members... Jerry, Elvin and Felicia obviously knew me, I think Ping Hui did too. I did say "congrats" to Fann, who had been officially wed to Chris Lee a week prior. Naomi, Ice and myself then headed down to Radiogate. where we saw a few other fans already waiting down there. :-)

The crew returned at around 1730 hrs. Constance, Terence and Sucheng drove off without stopping. Fann did stop for a short while, but only a handful of fans approached her car; she was gone in less than 30 seconds.

But the next 3 individuals who drove out of RG soon after were willing to park their cars by the side and interact with the fans.


Finally got to take picture with Jerry. That means I had taken picture with ALL 6 of the Star Search 2007 grand finalists (including Celia Pan prior to the finals). :-)


Felicia surrounded by lots of fans. Yep haha, I actually took this opportunity to 'tou pai' a few of tha fans... :-p


Me with Felicia... 25th time taken picture with her I believe.


Me with Elvin. Obviously I will see him again at Plaza Sing in a week's time.


Elvin signing on an Elvinology poster. Hehe, some fans actually mistook Elvin's cousin (who was waiting to fetch him) for Terence Cao!! Upon realizing that, the poor guy blushed away while the 2 female passengers seated behind him started giggling :-D



Belinda Lee drove out sometime after that... the few of us fans were lucky to have stayed on a little longer, even though something very displeasing happened between the time that Elvin had left and the time that Belinda drove out. More details on that unpleasant experience can be seen in my Facebook note.


Wang Yuqing came out not long after. He showed us a picture of his older son (7 yrs of age) from his PDA. :-)


The view of Lornie Road taken from the overhead bridge after i got out of the MediaCorp region.

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