SPD charity show

Happy Birthday to Yi Qing and Vince NCH

Went to church as usual from 9 to 10.30 am. Then me and family went for lunch at Plaza Singapura. Soon after that, I went to Orchard Road for a while, and then took train to Ang Mo Kio. Camped myself with a few Jolliteers at the stage region located in front of AMK Hub. Artistes involved in the inclined arm flex hang segment were Zheng Geping, Hong Huifang, Gurmit Singh, Brandon Wong, Alan Tern, Dai Yang Tian, Joanne Peh, Jade Seah, Rebecca Lim, Darren Lim and Christopher Lee. The host for this interactive segment was Dasmond Koh. For the next 4 hours or so, the place was jam-packed with tons of people, turnout was no different from the Together roadshow at Jurong Point as well as the True Hearts charity show at Toa Payoh Hub in early June. Lots of photos taken during the 4 plus hrs. For the next 2.5 hrs, there wer about 100 people who did inclined arm flex hang... 5 dollars for every second, means that 1 minute of holding will lead to 300 dollars :-)

After the cast left at abt 10.45 pm (earlier than initial planned endtime), me and 4 more fans headed back to Radiogate by bus to await the arrival of a few artistes. I managed to take pic with Andie and Elvin, left Rg at abt 11.30 pm (had no desire to stay too long anyway), to catch last few buses back home. Reached home at abt 12.40 am. Was glad not to spot MKP amongst the Stefanie Sun fanclub, he must have left early top prepare for another day in school...

Click on the following links to view the photos (540 in all!!)...
SPD charity show Part 1
SPD charity show Part 2
SPD charity show Part 3

Plasma TV launch at Ion Orchard

Happy Birthday to Mavis and Melissa Lim
Rest in peace, Cory Aquino

Yesterday after doing closing shift at 7 pm, I headed to Ion Orchard for the launch of the Plasma TV. The corwd wasn't as scary as I had thought it to be, there was plenty of walking space. The event started at about 7.45 pm, and the celebs involved left the party abt 1 hour later. Blame it on my lack of courage, I couldn't get an autograph from Joanne. Me and a friend then went to Ngee Ann City to have dinner, then went sparate ways back to our own homes.

Anyway, the celebs involved in the event are...
- Mr Lucas Chow (CEO of MediaCorp of course!)
- Joanne Peh (my main reason of going, heh)
- Jade Seah (eh, I saw her at Shaw House the other time!!)
- Michelle Chia (aka Mrs Chen)
- Michelle Chong (hehe, another Michelle)
- Jack and Rai
- Shan and Rozz (super tall guy with tattooed lady)
- Justin Ang aka one half of Muttons In The Morning
- Flying Dutchman
- Otelli Edwards

Go here for the photo album on Facebook.

P.S. while I was relieved not to see a certain hypocrite at the event, it bugs me to think that she may be going for an upcoming birthday party later this month... I still find it hard to forgive her for her past misdeeds, and I still going to give her the 'cold shoulder' treatment...

Happenings before and after Anniversary Gala

Happy Birthday to Beth Phoenix and Ivan

Hello everyone, I'm back from a job interview in the morning. My mind is still in a whirl, I guess I'll have to talk abt what I did before joining the queue for the Anniversary Gala, and after that...

I reached Mediacorp a bit late at abt 4.40 pm, and went to the toilet to wash up a bit... to think that the first person to enter the toilet when I was abt to exit is that... that... JACKASS!!! And I know he was staring at me with disdain and hatred in his eyes, so I returned him none. I did see him behave weirdly later on whilst chatting with others at the parking lot, and thinking he's so damn famous. From the last time I saw him at Bugis, I can already see him becoming weirder and more psychotic this time round. Damn qian bian lor, this MKP... he left me no choice but to create a new PPV event involving him going on various matches against different WWE Superstars. No prizes for guessing who's the loser for all the matches... (evil smirk)


Anyway, I got to tha parking lot and had some curry puffs for early dinner. Other than the Naturals whom I'm quite familiar with, I did see the RBKD fans, the Felicians, the Jolliteers, the Yuwu Paradise fc, the Jeanius fc... eh ehhh wait!! I noticed Willie and Amir among the Jeanius fans!! I somewhow expected them to be going for it, haha. :-p


6.30 pm- finally, the doors to the balcony region were opened, and we headed to the place. We were seated somewhere at the right section of the upper gallery (refer to diagram). Of all the 7 Princesses' fanclubs present, there was one fanclub noticeably absent... Fiona's fc. From what I heard recently, it was 'close to dying' due to certain circumstances.


7 pm- Anniversary Gala begins!! Lot of whistling, screaming and laughing till our throats went hoarse. Full details in next post.

10 pm- End of event. Evereyone had to leave the upper gallery as quickly as possible. Some of the fanclubs waited at the reception while others went to get changed. I saw MKP behave in his usual arrogant and flashy type of flair on the way to RG. I could have changed out of the red t-shirt into a dark blue t-shirt, but decided to continue wearing red t-shirt (cos I may look like a phantom if I wore dark colors, and I may sweat even more).


10.15 pm- we all headed to RG. In typical Wolverine-like rage, I dashed forward rather quickly to see who was in the lit-up car... it was Nick Shen. I managed to chat with him a little before heading to RG.


10.17 pm- Rui En drove out, and she went out of her car (a new one btw) to take pics with her fans as well as assorted fans. Myself included obviously. RE stayed for rather long.

10.25 pm- Elvin drove out of RG without stopping!! We later found out that he failed to notice any of us given the very dark skies, and hence thought all the elves had already gone home.


10.28 pm- Saw 2 very familiar looking faces being surrounded by fans at RG. I went forth and found out that it was none other than Jesseca and Jade!! Double Happiness I must say, muahaha. I asked Jess if her pet cats were doing ok, and blushed a little after taking pic with Jade. And Baoguang was still using that very outdated film roll camera. Oh pleasssse, film roll cameras are soooo passe lor. Better save money to buy a digital camera for goodness sake, Baoguang.

10.32 pm- Joanne came out. I managed to get her signature on an 8 days issue featuring her in F1 jacket and dress. That abomination came forth saying, "Hi Joanne!! Long time no see you already" and I was going, "Whatever, you dickhead". Whilst on my way to Nat's side, I waved goobdye to Pat Mok whom I had not chatted with for ages.

10.35 pm- Took group pic with Nat, then individual pic with him. Nat's car was parked right in front of his 'sister' 's car (Rui En lah, who else).

10.40 pm- Huang Shinan and Pan Lingling came out, I didn't take pic with them, but I did get Lingling's autograph on an i-weekly issue. Me and Ryan agreed to leave RG after seeing Felicia.

10.45 pm- Nat left, followed by Rui En soon after. Various artistes came out... Paige Chua, Dennis Chew and Jeanette Aw. If I had been a little braver, I could've gone forth to see Jeanette, but I didn't cos she's the only princess I'm not too familiar with (and you know I don't have 'international tendencies' even though Im a member of abt 5 to 6 different fanclubs). I still found her a bit fierce somewhat in spite of her petite size. Hui Si very cute, she asked me if the girl near the shelter was really Jeanette, and when I said it really is her, she thanked me and quickly rushed forward to take pic with her. After that, I went on to pinch Hui Si's cheeks! As well as Jerena's later on... :-p

10.55 pm- Feeling rather bored, I decided to play a bit of WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2007... starting a one-on-one brawl between Mr Kiam Pa and the Animal Batista!! Muahaha... :-D

11.10 pm- Felicia finally came. The response was just about as big as that for RBKD earlier on. It was at that time that I got to chat a bit with Ice and Darren. Dawn's van drove out at that time, and very few people noticed. Could have been good if I got to take pic with all 4 Beach Ball Babes... but then again, taking pic with 3 out of 4 BBBs in one night isn't so bad, I feel.

11.25 pm- I purposely let myself be among the last to take pic with the ever sweet and beautiful Fel. Dunno why I look a little shorter than her... could be either she's wearing high heels, or my legs had 'become jelly'. She was quite surprised to see me with a cam phone and not a digicam, and I had to explain to her that my digicam got spoilt earlier on. But I actually see it more of a blessing cos the flash function for the digicam had gone AWOL yet again.

11.27 pm- Ryan and I then went on to take pic with Belinda Lee, the very last artiste for the night. She confirmed with the few fans that everyone else had left the place. If not for the stupid light behind, this could have been a perfect picture. But doesnt matter really...

11.30 pm- We all bade farewell to Fel, and as the fans were leaving, I flipped double fingers at MKP and yelled out, "MKP, YOU SUCK!!!" He so does not deserve to be called by his full name. I was glad I held back my punches and refrained from getting into direct conflict with him, otherwise the situation could turn out a lot worse. Next time round maybe, when my bottle is more full. Ryan and I shared cab with Kaileng and Pamela, dropping off at respective destinations... chatting abt random stuff from fanclubs to abominations and the like.

12.20 am- Reached home safely, but only after buying a burger and a drink from 7-Eleven to fill my growling stomach. And I lost some sleep due to the sorethroat I got during the show...

Poor Jade doesn't deserve this :-(

Happy Birthday to Jason Ling and Giselle

Netizens have been up in arms about an alleged flub made by former Miss Singapore Universe contestant-cum-Mediacorp artiste Jade Seah on Today in Beijing.

During a live telecast of the show on Aug 13, the 25-year-old MediaCorp artiste was alleged to have uttered an expletive after incorrectly pronouncing an athlete’s name.

When contacted by Chinese newspaper Lianhe Wanbao last Friday, MediaCorp’s Artiste Management Division confirmed that there was no slip-up.

Further investigation into the matter has revealed that an expletive was indeed uttered off-air.

In a statement released by Channel 5 yesterday, Jade admitted that she may have “inadvertently expressed [her] frustrations audibly” due to nerves.

Said Jade: “TODAY IN BEIJING is my first major sports show and I am putting in every effort to give of my best to the viewers, every night.”

Explaining the fluff, Jade said: “In a live show, things do not always go clockwork. In overcoming the jitters of a live telecast, I may have inadvertently expressed my frustrations audibly. However, it is never my intention to cause any grief or controversy.”

“I sincerely hope the viewers will give me a chance to improve myself. To me, this is an invaluable learning experience which I will cherish for a long time,” she added.

No go, then, to the vociferous calls from some netizens for Jade to be ousted from the show. She will continute to host the show alongside Mark Richmond for the next few days.

Responding perhaps to ongoing criticism of the choice to have Jade Seah on Today in Beijing alongside veteran Olympics presenter Mark Richmond, Channel 5 explained that she “was chosen as the female presenter of Today in Beijing due to her sporty and outgoing personality … she brings to her delivery a fresh appeal.”

Channel 5 “deeply regrets the unintended leakage of the off-air expletive” and assures that “measures have been put in place to prevent future occurrences from happening.”

Jade being slammed again, haiz. Imagine my surprise when I saw her face on the full front page of yesterday's edition of The New Paper. This certainly isn't the first time she's been slammed for her lacklustre hosting. She had it much worse when she was hosting "The Dance Floor" alongside the more experienced Glenn Ong and Flying Dutchman, in the first quarter of last year. I personally thought that she's been showing vast improvement for this show, as well as her hosting stint alongside Michelle Chong in 2 seasons of "Sweets For My Sweet".

Regarding Jade's accidental uttering of the f-word, I believe that it was a slip of her tongue, purely unintentional. I know because I recently had a 'slip off the tongue' case, and I caused a rising actress to be hurt, and consequently put more hurt onto myself. Only difference was, I used a b-word, and it is NOT the word for female dog!! If you really wanna find out more on that incident... please refer to the April 29th entry. I myself am not ashamed to bring that up again, cos that taught me an invaluable yet painful lesson on watching what I say. And that taught me to be more caring and understanding towards others. And MKP, I wanna say again that I already apologised to Felicia long time back, so shut up and move on with your filthy life will ya!!

Who would know then that such a small thing like a tongue can cause an epidemic whenever we say the wrong things? Well, I guess this incident reagrding Jade happened at just the right time cos a few weeks ago, I had written a post on how deadly the tongue can be, dated 18th July.

Back to Jade... I personally feel that we should all give her a chance to improve herself, she's still human after all, it's natural to err. Even the most experienced actor or actress (eg Huang Wenyong) is bound to make mistakes, right? It's not uncommon to spew vulgarities; don't the movie stars do that in some films?? Don't some singers like Eminem spew out the f-word often in their songs?? It's not as if Jade insulted anyone's parents or gossiped about anyone in general... heck, she didn't even cause a controversy like what Sharon Stone did a few months ago, with the latter's 'karmic response' on the Sichuan earthquake. I am also encouraging those who may not like Jade to just give her a chance and stop flaming her.

Jade, if you ever get to read this, I just wanna say that I have faith in you, and even though you may not really be one of my top fave artistes, you nevertheless have my support always. So don't you worry about a thing, ya? I will pray for you, that everything is well with you. Keep the faith!! ;-)

P.S. I still find a little hard to believe that you're 2 weeks older than me, but that should be ok, heh :-p