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Pretty much another busy schedule for me this week. But at least i'm doing something.
Last Thursday and Friday I had the privelege of acting for Mediacorp on a Life Story 2 episode entitled "Quah Kim Song"... some footballer of the 70s.
I got over to the TV builidng in Mediacorp and found the Channel News Asia office so I was like "hahahahaahaha wtf". Channel News Asia has brought me through a lot of rough times....
I saw a group of Malay boys.. plenty of them... sitting around as usual. I needed to find the Wardrobe area so I came up to a couple of them and asked where is it. They looked at me.. in some funny way... like as if I owed them something. One of them flashed his eyes and pointed it to some place behind me.
"It's there." he says.
I turned around and the wardrobe had this little window and behind it was a HUGE laundry-room-like looking thing.
I met a guy named Fish... yeah.. Fish... and he looked awfully familiar. We started talking about stuff. More boys came in including two other Chinese boys. I asked him who were they and Fish said,"Oh... they're the National Squad..."
I was in the same room as the National Squad Under-18s?
I asked Fish if he acted before, since he looked so familiar, and he put up four fingers.
"Four years."
Then bam.. i knew it was that guy I keep seeing on tv.
This episode the main character was played by Randall Tan. I was sitting with another part-time actor and I made eye contact with him. He smiled and I thought he looked like some actor Ting would love to screw over everyday in bed so I smiled back.
Pretty funny guy. He's 34... and doesnt know how to play soccer and acting in a soccer episode.
We had the shoot at a footbal field along Jalan Kayu on Thursday. I met plenty of familiar faces in the crew from the times I've been showing up with Uncle Jimmy on Mediacorp productions. We exchanged nods and smiles as usual.
I felt like it was a pretty small crew today... five people... and Fish gasped,"This is considered big already you know!"
So we're overdoing it in school?
Having a minor role that day gave me some time to go around nosing about. Randall, Fish and I were hanging about together. Randall is like Shah... so there.
Fish and I were talking about the industry and I asked about whatever Mediacorp was. I was reminded of the time Daryl and I were in Tampines, hanging our balls out to dry the day before, and he mentioned how none of the Mediacorp actors can act. So I asked Fish about this and he started chuckling. He gave me some names of people whom he thought couldnt act but are making it big and climbing up the ranks anyways.
I asked if they were actually given acting courses of anything and he said it was pretty much training-on-the-job. I get it now.
We had an old man named Uncle Bill, who plays Uncle Choo, come in on set. He seems to be really well-known around the industry, what with a restaurant under his name, a veteran actor and was setting a date for Pat Mok and Michelle Yeoh to come to his restaurant. Michelle Yeoh, wtf? I think i got the name wrong...
He was saying stuff about how the new generation of kids in the industry are spoiling a lot of things. Like Kwang Wei said... they come in and get jobs like Assistant Director (I got offered that position already lol) and in this case, Casting Director.
Uncle Bill was saying how the people of old would keep records for the actors but the new kids dont. As such, the old veteran actors are forgotten and now they find people like us, poly kids, to act for their shows. It's only by luck that Uncle Bill was spotted on AADB... much like how i was spotted for this shoot.
The Friday shoot was held at NTU's Track and Field area.
Pretty interesting morning that time. Before we left I was waiting in the bus for a new friend of mine to get on. I was replying Ting and was about to ask her to set a date so that we can all go meet Sly and Family one day. That was when I spotted Sly's biggest fan - Patricia Mok!
Hey I like Pat Mok. She was wearing something really sweet with lots of flesh showing. Those in bus who saw had to admit that she had a nice figure... then *someone* said her face was pretty too... just that her mouth was as big as a whale.
I LOL-ed.
Pretty much another busy schedule for me this week. But at least i'm doing something.
Last Thursday and Friday I had the privelege of acting for Mediacorp on a Life Story 2 episode entitled "Quah Kim Song"... some footballer of the 70s.
I got over to the TV builidng in Mediacorp and found the Channel News Asia office so I was like "hahahahaahaha wtf". Channel News Asia has brought me through a lot of rough times....
I saw a group of Malay boys.. plenty of them... sitting around as usual. I needed to find the Wardrobe area so I came up to a couple of them and asked where is it. They looked at me.. in some funny way... like as if I owed them something. One of them flashed his eyes and pointed it to some place behind me.
"It's there." he says.
I turned around and the wardrobe had this little window and behind it was a HUGE laundry-room-like looking thing.
I met a guy named Fish... yeah.. Fish... and he looked awfully familiar. We started talking about stuff. More boys came in including two other Chinese boys. I asked him who were they and Fish said,"Oh... they're the National Squad..."
I was in the same room as the National Squad Under-18s?
I asked Fish if he acted before, since he looked so familiar, and he put up four fingers.
"Four years."
Then bam.. i knew it was that guy I keep seeing on tv.
This episode the main character was played by Randall Tan. I was sitting with another part-time actor and I made eye contact with him. He smiled and I thought he looked like some actor Ting would love to screw over everyday in bed so I smiled back.
Pretty funny guy. He's 34... and doesnt know how to play soccer and acting in a soccer episode.
We had the shoot at a footbal field along Jalan Kayu on Thursday. I met plenty of familiar faces in the crew from the times I've been showing up with Uncle Jimmy on Mediacorp productions. We exchanged nods and smiles as usual.
I felt like it was a pretty small crew today... five people... and Fish gasped,"This is considered big already you know!"
So we're overdoing it in school?
Having a minor role that day gave me some time to go around nosing about. Randall, Fish and I were hanging about together. Randall is like Shah... so there.
Fish and I were talking about the industry and I asked about whatever Mediacorp was. I was reminded of the time Daryl and I were in Tampines, hanging our balls out to dry the day before, and he mentioned how none of the Mediacorp actors can act. So I asked Fish about this and he started chuckling. He gave me some names of people whom he thought couldnt act but are making it big and climbing up the ranks anyways.
I asked if they were actually given acting courses of anything and he said it was pretty much training-on-the-job. I get it now.
We had an old man named Uncle Bill, who plays Uncle Choo, come in on set. He seems to be really well-known around the industry, what with a restaurant under his name, a veteran actor and was setting a date for Pat Mok and Michelle Yeoh to come to his restaurant. Michelle Yeoh, wtf? I think i got the name wrong...
He was saying stuff about how the new generation of kids in the industry are spoiling a lot of things. Like Kwang Wei said... they come in and get jobs like Assistant Director (I got offered that position already lol) and in this case, Casting Director.
Uncle Bill was saying how the people of old would keep records for the actors but the new kids dont. As such, the old veteran actors are forgotten and now they find people like us, poly kids, to act for their shows. It's only by luck that Uncle Bill was spotted on AADB... much like how i was spotted for this shoot.
The Friday shoot was held at NTU's Track and Field area.
Pretty interesting morning that time. Before we left I was waiting in the bus for a new friend of mine to get on. I was replying Ting and was about to ask her to set a date so that we can all go meet Sly and Family one day. That was when I spotted Sly's biggest fan - Patricia Mok!
Hey I like Pat Mok. She was wearing something really sweet with lots of flesh showing. Those in bus who saw had to admit that she had a nice figure... then *someone* said her face was pretty too... just that her mouth was as big as a whale.
I LOL-ed.
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