Showing posts with label Tay Ping Hui. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tay Ping Hui. Show all posts

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.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Travel Fiesta Day 2: Tay Ping Hui

Happy Birthday to Hayden Christensen, James Franco, Alyx, Jenny and Amanda Ng

To start off today, we went for church service in the morning, then we took bus to Suntec. Customer service at a certain Aston's Specilaties restaurant was horrible... we had placed our order before a few orders, but the waiters failed to serve our drinks first... in fact, the young guy who served us went to take down other people's orders instead of settling our MIA drinks!! After more than 20 minutes of waiting, we decided to leave the place in a huff. Talk abt poor customer service, esp when most of the crew happen to be young guys (and the outlet opened just a few days prior). :-(

Anyway, I rushed to Suntec Convention to meet Naomi, and we went to see Ping Hui perform. He sang 2 Chinese songs, one of them bing the theme song for "The Golden Path" (he is nominated for Best Actor for his role as the despicable Huang Kaijie). The female host looked quite hot in that dress even though she's rather plump. After he was done, lots of fans queued up to take pic with the handsome actor. Including me of course :-)

After that, I headed to Esplanade to meet my mum, we went to watch the afternoon show of CATS. Naomi later sent me an MMS on the 2 weird brothers at Suntec... none other than Mr Hao Lian and Mr Gwai Lan. If I have to admit, that sweaty giant Melvin totally freaked me out by actually following me?? Please save your breath and stench for someone else, will ya... :-S

More pics can be viewed here... http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=106875&id=556354026

Friday, March 27, 2009

Top 40 list out already

Earlier today, there was a press conference for the Star Awards Top 40 Most Popular Artistes held at Marina Mandarin Hotel.

The Top 40 Most Popular Nominees were selected and chosen via a poll of around 1000 people (age 7 and above) conducted by a media research company. 50% of the votes came from the research survey, while the other 50% were from public voting. The Top 40 nominees were also present at a press conference this afternoon to pick their telepoll numbers. Voting lines open today, and will close on 26 April, 9.00pm.

The results of the Top 40 will be revealed during the Star Awards 2009, 26 April, 7 pm ‘Live’ on Channel 8.

Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes Nominees
十大最受欢迎男艺人

Chen Shu Cheng 陈澍城 1900-112-2001
Zhang Yao Dong 张耀栋 1900-112-2002
Tay Ping Hui 郑斌辉 1900-112-2003
Zhu Hou Ren 朱厚任 1900-112-2004
Zheng Ge Ping 郑各评 1900-112-2005
Qi Yuwu 戚玉武 1900-112-2006
Marcus Chin 陈建彬 1900-112-2007
Pierre Png 方展发 1900-112-2008
Pornsak 1900-112-2009
Henry Thia 程旭辉 1900-112-2010
Mark Lee 李国煌 1900-112-2011
Adrian Pang 彭耀顺 1900-112-2012

Gurmit Singh 葛米星 1900-112-2013
Chen Han Wei 陈汉玮 1900-112-2014
Elvin Ng 黄俊雄 1900-112-2015

Guo Liang 郭亮 1900-112-2016
Christopher Lee 李铭顺 1900-112-2017

Bryan Wong 王禄江 1900-112-2018
Richard Low 刘谦益 1900-112-2019
Huang Wen Yong 黄文永 1900-112-2020

Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes Nominees
十大最受欢迎女艺人

Patricia Mok莫小玲 1900-112-2021
Ivy Lee 李锦梅 1900-112-2022
Hong Hui Fang 洪慧芳 1900-112-2023
Dawn Yeoh 姚懿珊 1900-112-2024

Yvonne Lim 林湘萍 1900-112-2025
Felicia Chin 陈靓瑄 1900-112-2026

Michelle Chia 谢韵仪 1900-112-2027
Jeanette Aw 欧萱 1900-112-2028

Michelle Chong 庄米雪 1900-112-2029
Quan Yi Fong 权怡凤 1900-112-2030
Pan Ling Ling 潘玲玲 1900-112-2031
Kym Ng 鐘琴 1900-112-2032

Rui En 瑞恩 1900-112-2033
Lin Mei Jiao 林梅娇 1900-112-2034
Jin Yin Ji 金银姬 1900-112-2035
Fiona Xie 谢宛谕 1900-112-2036

Joanne Peh 白薇秀 1900-112-2037
Xiang Yun 向云 1900-112-2038
Jesseca Liu 刘芷绚 1900-112-2039
Vivian Lai 赖怡伶 1900-112-2040

Arghhh... I not too happy with the male artistes list... I realized taht there are quite a lot veteran artistes there (those aged above 45). But I am totally cool with the female artistes list. This is who I think should be included and who should not...

SHOULD be in list: Nat Ho, Shaun Chen, Dasmond Koh
Not in list, but kinda understandable: Edmund Chen (no longer full-timer), Terence Cao, Jeff Wang
SHOULD NOT even be in list at all: Marcus Chin, Henry Thia, Gurmit Singh (sorry)

Now the "real countdown" begins... I have exactly one month to consider whether or not to request for tickets for the live show, even if the voting system may be as screwed up as always...

Link: http://community.mediacorp.com.sg/TV/CS/blogs/baguatv/archive/2009/03/27/2009-40-star-awards-2009-top-40-most-popular-nominees-revealed.aspx

Sunday, November 02, 2008

Travel event at Suntec Convention Day 1

Happy Birthday to Ong Ai Leng


The first day at the Travel Fiesta event was quite a crazy one. The first thing that happened was that I bumped into Khai soon after I entered Suntec Hall 601 at abt 1.30 pm. Basically, he wanted to interview several guests on their thoughts about the Travel Fiesta event, and I agreed to volunteer. Quite nervous doing it, but the short scene was done in about a minute. I felt kinda unnatural when being filmed face-on...


Pictures of the different tour agencies involved. The double decker tour bus looks kinda spooky in the inside.
Programme listing for the event

Anyway, I went to the place firstly to watch Huang Wenyong and Pan Lingling voice their thoughts on overseas travel. They were last seen playing Dawn's parents in the recently concluded "Crime Busters X2". Wenyong sang about 2 songs, Lingling sang one, and they ended off by singing a duet. I couldnt get Lingling's autograph due to the overwhelming crowd, and the fact that they both got escorted out. But thats alright really...


Oh, and there were also the 5 adorable mascots of the Beijing Olympics... you can see that the red one is missing a glove.

Not to forget a very cute penguin macot for Five Star Tours. :-)


Seeing that the next celeb performance would only be at 6.30 pm, I decided to loiter around Suntec City... and then I decided to go to Marina Square. And guess what, I saw Xiang Yun and her daughter (along with security)! It was the first time I saw Xiang Yun in her new svelte figure. I quickly went to look at the programme chart, and I was going XUETE cos her segment started at 4 pm, and had just ended at the time I arrived at the central podium! Anyway, I went around taking pictures of the Women's Day exhibits, including the standess of the slim Xiang Yun and other artistes' pics. I then headed back to Suntec Convention sometime before 6 pm.


When I got there, I saw Valerie and her mum, as well as Shanwei and Hoetian. And I took pic with Wu Luoyi... I knew beforehand that we had met before at Kaki Bukit Driving Center some 6 years ago (really, Im not making this up!!). So good to talk to him again after so long... :-)


And err... I saw a familiar-looking abomination. I'm not referring to MKP or that Hutt named Alvin, but another one whom I had not seen for months... THAT HAO LIAN FREAK AND HIS BROTHER!!! Those two are real retards... stay tuned for an upcoming entry on them. :-(



At 6.35 pm, Ping Hui got on stage and talked aout his latest project, as well as the countries he had been to for filming (be it drama or documentary). He then sang "Lu", theme song for "Huang Jin Lu" and an English original which he wrote for a close firend who decided to regain his life after a near-death experience from drug overdose.


After his performance ended at 7.10 pm (way before the 1-hr mark!!), several fans went to take picture with him... myself included :-)


Then we waited til abt 8 pm for Diya to come. She sang 2 Chinse songs, and an English one too.


As yep, I was one of the fans who managed to take picture with her.

Me, Shanwei, Valerie and Auntie Irene (Val's mum) then went for dinner at Marina Square foodcourt...

Guess who we met there!! Kang Jia Xi :-O

After dinner, we took separate trains... me and Shanwei to the East Coast and Val with her mum to West Coast. I went to Changi Airport to meet up with Tris, and we fetched Mother back from T1 Arrival Hall at 11 plus.

We barely 'made it out alive' due to overwhelming crowd.

Stay tuned for Part 2 of the Travel Fiesta event ;-)