Babe For Life

A dinosaur is found wandering in the carpark of MediaCorp on Wednesady. It attracted staffs gathering around, trying to catch a glimpse of the extinct species. CNA newscaster Susanne Jung was there to make live report on the commontion.

Of course the dinosaur is fake. It was the crew from 'Walking with Dinosaurs' bring one dinosaur, shooting for the coversage in News. The dinosaur is custom to make to the actual size of a real creature, so this is just one of the small size one amoong the dinosaur kingdom.

I was quite impressed with the whole thing, because it looked so real!!! Although I will never get to see a dinosaur in my life, I could tell how magnificent it would be during that time. How was this small creative going to fight for survival when there were bigger and stronger ones out there?

Though it only stayed in our compound for a short while, but I could tell everyone has a good time.

Super busy October and November, as I got quite a lot GRO jobs to do.

I have done Indian variety shows and Chinese Talk Shows within these 2 months, all in Public Holidays, and all the weekend. Nope, I am not hardworking, just that I need extra cash flow... :P Yes, yes, I will be paid for it.

There are really difference in the way different races do a show. For Chinese show, they will keep quite closely to their timeline, like 8.30am to 9pm, and have us standby around the area, so the PD could come out and call us anytime. Everyone including the artistes will have to be in the compound, even if it is not their turn to go on air yet. I have to sit outside the studio, and look out once the door was opened. Fortunately for me, there are always 2 GRO for one show, if not I will be bored to death.

For Indian show, the PD would ask me to wait for her call at the reception, because there will always be someone coming for recording throughout the day. Recording could start from 10.30am but it may end early or late at night depending on your luck. The last time, it ended at 2am in the morning. I was lucky that it ended at 10.30pm for me that day. Throughout the day, I have been walking in and out from the reception to the studio bringing artistes, Deejay, dancers and audiences. I was very amused that they will provide meals for everyone in the studio. Yes, everyone. From backstage to artistes, GRO to audiences. They ordered food for everyone, and keep asking me to eat. Haha, good! Save my money. Chinese show also will cater food for GRO too, but not for the audiences.

For pre recorded show, we will always have to pray hard that everything run smoothly, so they can knocked off on time, and we can go home and have a good rest too. Experience GRO knows what we need to bring to pass time, to keep ourselves warm and keep ourselves full. we will never know what time it end, what will happen and what is needed for us to do. The most frequent job is to walk, walk and walk. It can be from the theatre to the reception, or to the car park, or it be climbing up and down the stairs. Of course, there are easy job like staying at the reception and gather all the people for the show. However, this kind of 'good life' post will be given to the uncles and aunties GRO working with us. I am always the one running around. Good exercise.

Sound fun right? Wait till you see my blog on complaints.

Yao Man is back!

Previously, she was quite down due to some personal reason, and now she is back to herself!

We went for KTV few weeks ago, and she kept telling me she can not sing.

I said, 'Sure or not??? Who knows you might give us a surprise by singing Susan Boyle's Memory'.'

Yao Man replied, 'Please lor!!! I can not sing nicely hor.'

We shall see...

On that day, our dear Yao Man sang so many nice songs with perfect voice. Gosh!!!! Mandarin songs, Cantonese songs are not of any challenge to her. She even sang a Hokkien song by MayDay!

From that day onward, I decided to call her Hazzie Boyle.

Just attended a wake at Singapore Casket. My very good friend, whom I regard her as my sister, Lisa, has just lost her beloved mother.

She is very strong, and she related to us that she actually told her mother, to let go and pass on peacefully, no need to worry about her, as she has grown up and married already. I am very touched to hear that because being an emotional person, I know I am not so strong like her.

We were chit chatting at the table, when one of her friends mentioned that she can not talk to her mother as much at home. So she do not know how to start a conversation with her mother. We thought they had fights or something. The truth is , she said no matter how close she wants to to be with her mother, she feels very awkward.

Lisa and I had the same thought. We both think, our parents just want to have dinner with us. Even if no one start a conversation, they will still be very happy, as they just want to see us at home, keeping them company. 只要一餐饭，I believe that is not a difficult thing to do...

I thought I have conquer the hectic workload, and everything was right on track. I thought I can go home at 6pm everyday to go for dinner with my friends or with my parents, or to work out at the gym. I thought I have everything under control, and I can clear the requests as and when emails come in. Seems like I am wrong or laugh too early...

For the past few days, I have been staying late for my work. Not forgetting I have heart pain previously, I learnt to relax and do not be too tensed up. Somehow, I got things stacking up, but I was trying my best to clear everything within deadlines.

I did not stay in the office till too late at night now. 8pm is my limit. If it was a report that I must submit by the next day, I will rather copy the files into my thumb drive and bring home to continue, but I try not to do that. Sometimes, I really think, is it worth my hard work? Anyone appreciate? Maybe I should just pack up and go home. Regardless how urgent it is, regardless how many people will be chasing me... Maybe I should be irresponsible and goo enjoy myself... However, I know I can not, and I will not too...

Hope this crisis will be over soon, and I can resume my gym life, social life and personal life...

As usual, the Gym Family will organise an outing whenever Pfeiffer went on holiday. To us, that will be our resting period too, so we will try to do something else.


This time we went for Tree Top Walk in Macritchie Reservoir. After potluck breakfast, and pictures taking, and we started our journey.

Everyone was high and energetic when we just started at 9am, singing, chatting and walking at the same time. Every place with nice scenery, we will stop and take pictures. However, everyone started to keep quiet one by one, not because we were scare, but because we were very tired. We climbed so many slopes and walked do n many curves, and the walk had not completed yet. Most horrible thing was we must to be very careful when we saw monkeys along the way. A monkey actually snatched a packet of food from my friend, it really turned fierce when it saw that Jonathan never gave in. Fortunately, we had a very full breakfast before we started and there were not much left in the plastic bag.

Our dear Anita mentioned, 'Hmm... I wonder if these monkeys have diabetes or high calories? They have been eating food from human. Cakes, egg tarts, all the junk food.' Funny right, at this point in time, she can still think of that.

We were all so happy to reach the top, but only for a short while, because we still have to walk down again. At that time, it was like 11.30am, and the sun was shining on us mercilessly. By the time we reached the bottom, we cheered with our heart, and then we realised, it was 1 plus and we were in Upper Thomson already. Imagine what a long distance we have walked.

Nevertheless, we have successfully completed the walk, all safe and sound, but sweaty and tired. A great achievement, and I want to salute people who climb Mount Everest and other famous mountains and cliffs. Walk has been so tough, how about people in uneven roads and bad weather?


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Been working as a GRO for the above mentioned program, 'Let's Talk' for the past 2 days.

It was the last 2 recording days, and they recorded 5 episodes within this period. Therefore, I was like been in MedicCorp, like normal working hours, reporting at 8.30am going home at 8pm...

The concept of the show is quite similar to the Taiwanese Infotainment, '大学生了没?' hosted by 陶晶莹，Ah Ken and 纳豆. Students from different levels and schools are invited to come and voice out their thought on a topic discussed that day.

Many people might think that, 'See! MediaCorp is copying the overseas production again.' However, I think likewise. I think this is a very good place for teenagers to voice out. They talked about Love, Studies, Friends, Idols, Depressing moments etc and I strongly feel that, not only the students must watch this program, parents and teachers are also encourage to watch.

There are times when teenagers can not speak up their mind, not because they do not want to, but they can bring forward their messages upfront. As there are large age gaps between adults and youngsters, the distance in thinking is also wide. That is why we always hear the common excuse, 'You Do Not Understand Me!!!'

I am wondering, why there are no such program given to us at my teenage period. I have a lot of 'Silent Sufferer' friends who keep everything within themselves. If they will to watch program like this, will they still feel that they are the 'most unfortunate' person in this world? Will they treat themselves better, then to hide in the house? How come I know? Yes, they called up to talk to me, but never go straight into the point. Anyway, I am always lending them my listening ears.

Yesterday was their last episode, and they have mini celebration for the production team. I think they must have recorded about 10 to 15 episodes all together (Well, I only took over the last 2 days, so I do not know how much episodes in total.) From strangers to friends, they have been recording this program for the past 1 week, naturally they felt sad to bid everyone good bye.

Looking at them, I started to miss my school friends. 'O' Level and 'A' Level classmates, how many are still keeping contact with me?? Married with kids, Single and successful with career, are the 'Silent Sufferers' still keeping to themselves? Maybe one day I should try to find every single classmates out one by one and try to see how's everyone is doing. Who knows, I might come out with a book, 'School Daze' just like Army Daze. Hahaha!