Star Awards 20 Show 2

I was excited for the night to come because I will be attending Star Awards 20 Show 2. 

This was my second time attending Star Awards Ceremony, I looked forward to seeing the celebrities in their best suits and gowns, as well as catching the ceremony live.

Here we were at Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre for Star Awards 20 Show 2. 

We took a group photo at the photo wall showing our OOTD.

With GF and Hong Wei. Thanks Hong Wei for the tickets (:

It was a night to reward the artistes for a year of hard work.

All the artistes were standing on stage to grace the opening ceremony.

Let's see who outshine the among the artistes and become a winner at Star Awards 20 Show 2:

Best Info-Ed Programme Host: Cavin Soh (《全民新煮艺》 Let’s Cook)

Best Info-Ed Programme:《边城故事》 Borders 

Best News Story: 小印度骚乱 滋事者放火烧车 Little India Riot 

Best Current Affairs Story: 前线追踪:《惊天72小时》Frontline: Face to Face with Typhoon Haiyan and 焦点: 《国庆群众大会：海外回响》Focus: The Impact of PM Lee’s National Day Rally speech reaches overseas

Best Supporting Actor: Guo Liang (《志在四方》The Dream Makers)

This was the first acting reward for Guo Liang, no wonder he was so happy receiving the award.

Best Supporting Actress: Rebecca Lim (《志在四方》The Dream Makers) 

Best Variety Show Host: Quan Yi Fong (《寻U先锋》 Finding U) 

Best Variety Programme:《快乐速递》 The Joy Truck 

Best Variety Drama Serial: 《志在四方》The Dream Makers 

Best Variety Special: 《红星大奖2013颁奖礼》Star Awards 2013 Show 2

All-Time Favourite Artiste: Bryan Wong and Chen Han Wei

Both Bryan and Han Wei had graduated from the Top 10 class and they will be entering another stage of their career.

Best Actress: Chen Liping (《志在四方》The Dream Makers)

GF and I were joking around. In The Dream Makers drama series, the husband, wife and "so called" mistress all got their acting awards.

Best Actor: Pierre Png (《信约：唐山到南洋》The Journey: A Voyage)

Pierre got his first acting award as well. His acting is really good, totally a badass guy in this guy.

Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes: 

Elvin Ng 

Lee Teng 

Qi Yuwu 

Zheng Ge Ping 

Romeo Tan 

Pornsak 

Zhang Zhen Huan 

Desmond Tan 

Dennis Chew 

Xu Bin

Wu Zun and Zoe Tay was the award presenter for Top 10 female artistes. Wu Zun had revealed that Zoe Tay is his idol and he even showed her a photo that he took with Zoe with he was 13.

Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes: 

Rui En 

Rebecca Lim 

Joanne Peh 

Chris Tong 

Yvonne Lim 

Belinda Lee 

Vivian Lai 

Jeannette Aw 

Quan Yi Fong 

Ya Hui

The show has ended, congratulations to all the winners. Everyone has done well for the past one year.

While everyone was leaving the hall, we stayed for another group photo. 

Thanks Hong Wei for the photo.

Took a photo with the girls at the photo wall.

With GF who just came back from Japan. Thanks for the goodies (:

It was a great night to catch up with everyone and making new friends too.

Private Screening of Channel U's Drama Scrum! 冲锋!‏

Channel U is back with a new youth drama this February called SCRUM! 冲锋!

It's been quite awhile since I last watched an idol drama, therefore I am looking forward to SCRUM! 冲锋!

Synopsis:

From the producers of Jump! comes yet another inspirational idol drama Scrum! which takes viewers into the world of rugby set in a polytechnic. 

Five years ago, Greenwood Polytechnic’s Black Rhino rugby team was the undisputed champions in the rugby arena. The situation changed when senior players graduated and the standard of the current team steadily declined.

Although the rugby players are passionate about their game, no matter how hard they try, they experience failure year after year at competitions. As a result, some players have given up and traded their dreams for greener pastures while others have lost faith and drive in life altogether. Their only hope is for an experienced coach to lead them on a path to victory. 

Huang Zhao Nan is a champion rugby coach in the B Division boys’ team. She hails from the elite class, with an ivy-league education and an in-born arrogance. When a twist of fate lands Zhao Nan in Greenwood Polytechnic as an interim rugby coach, she takes on the job grudgingly to bid time, with no intention of lifting a finger to train the players. In her view, the poly boys are amateur players, with no will or skills to compete. However, after a few eventful encounters, the Black Rhino boys’ sincerity and hunger for success start to change Zhao Nan’s attitude.

Thanks Channel U for the invitation, I got the opportunity to attend the private screening of Scrum which was held at Sheraton Towers Singapore Hotel.

I brought GF along with me.

The host of the night was Jeff from Y.E.S. 93.3FM. Some of you might be familiar with him, he hosted 午餐霸王 every weekdays from 12pm to 2pm.

And here come the casts of Scrum.

From left to right:  Felicia Chin, Chris Lee, Jeffery Xu, Allen Chen, Jae Liew, Carrie Wong and the rugby boys.

One by one, the cast did a short introduction about their roles in the new drama.

Scrum is Felicia's first drama comeback after she quits her studies. You can expect a totally different Felicia in this drama. She turned herself into a monster coach and drilled hard on her players.

Apart from Felicia, this is also Chris first local drama debut. Chris played the comical role of an over-aged Polytechnic student who is actually an undercover agent from Interpol on a mission to infiltrate an illegal online gambling syndicate. He explained that this role is so unlike his previous acting in Taiwan where he played the role of devoted loving man.

Previously I have watched Allen's acting in The Journey, I think that his acting is good and natural. I look forward to his drama in Scrum too.

After which, Jeffrey has sang us the theme song of Scrum. I like the song very much, it is very catchy.

Jeffrey has good stage presence. He has his charisma that captured the audience's attention. He even pulled all the casts back on stage to join him.

Time for first episode.

I got hooked after watching the first episode. It was pretty entertaining and I couldn't stop laughing. It brought back old good memories of polytechnic life.

Scrum has good storyline as well. It inspired us to step forward and pursue our dreams. In the drama, the rugby team actually lost 48 games and they still continue to take part in all the match. I admired their perseverance. Never be afraid of failure. Everytime we fail, we are actually one step closer to success.

We have an opportunity to take photo with the casts. So happy, Chris and Allen were standing behind me (:

I am going to catch this drama on Channel U when it airs. Be sure to catch it too, I am sure you will like it.

Scrum 冲锋 will debut on Channel U this 26th February, Wednesday to Fright at 8pm. 

Channel U Reality Programme - Find the WASABI《Wasabi 新体验》

こんばんは, おげんきですか?

Hello everyone, greeting in Japanese. The above sentence means "Good evening, how are you?"

This is one of the greeting sentence that I remembered from my basic Japanese language class. Japan is a really beautiful country which I hope to visit one day, they have beautiful scenery, yummy Japanese food, kawaii fashion style and etc.

Now I can find out more about Japanese culture, food, lifestyle and people through Channel U new reality programme - Find the WASABI《Wasabi 新体验》.

Thanks Channel U for the invitation, I attended the private screening of "Find the WASABI" which was held at Kuishin Bo, Great World City.

Continue reading to find out more.

The host of the day was Ivy Tan from Yes 93.3 FM (left).

Credits to Channel U.

The cast appearance: Seraph Sun 孙欣佩, MediaCorp Artiste.

Seraph shared with us a background of herself: She was spotted by MediaCorp after winning the Ms Popularity title in “SNAP”. She joined MediaCorp as a full time artiste in 2013. And in this February, Seraph will embark on the reality series - Find the WASABI.

Credits to Channel U.

“Find the WASABI!” is an info-variety, reality-TV Asian co-pro series in which 3 Asian celebs with extensive knowledge on Japan compete against each other to find the hidden taste of Japan – further discovering its culture, food, lifestyle and people through challenging tasks and games.

The 3 Asian celebrities are also known as theWASABI hunters. They are representative from 3 different countries. Let's see who are they:

Singapore: Seraph Sun 孙欣佩 

Thailand: Palm (lead vocalist of band “Instinct”) 

Indonesia: Sheryl Gething (19 year old female vocalist)

Interwoven throughout the programme are latest news on Japan’s fashion, beauty and culture – making it the most exciting, entertaining, and up-to-date visual travelogue to Japan.

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This was so different from what I thought. I thought in every episode, they will be hunting for different food and mix it with wasabi. This was totally wrong.

We got to watch the preview of the first and second episode.

In episode 1, 3 Asian celebs have come to Japan for a competition to find the “secret spice” of Japan. The 3 WASABI Hunters will live together in the “WASABI House”, and every week, they will face the challenges of various “Japanese Cultural Mission”. 

Only 1 person will emerge as the ultimate winner and be crowned the prestige title of WASABI CHAMPION. 

The battle begins on this day of arrival...

Now who are you rooting for?

I am rooting for Seraph, I support team Singapore :)

In episode 2, the 3 WASABI Hunters receives another mission. RAMEN Report! After learning the skills of TV gourmet report from the Japanese master himself, the 3 hunters rival at the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum. The loser faces the first BATSU GAME of the series!

So happy, Seraph won the first round. Good job!

After the screening, we proceeded for a mini game where audience were picked and answered questions relating to Japanese culture.

And loser will face batsu game where they have to eat sushi with wasabi.

Credits to Channel U.

"Find the WASABI" will be airing in 4 different countries - Singapore, Japan, Thailand and Indonesia.

The 13 episodes long programme will debut on Channel U this 18 February at 8pm. 

Credits to Channel U.

A group photo to end off the screening session. Wow, that's really a big group.

A photo with Seraph. She is so pretty.

With Ivy. Ivy is good at hosting event, she never fail to entertain the audience with her jokes.

After which, we proceeded for a yummy buffet at Kuishin Bo.

I must say this is an unique and entertaining variety show. If you love Japanese culture, remember to catch "Find the WASABI" on Channel U.

Debuts 18 Feb 2014, every Tuesday 8pm!

Channel U's Private Screening of Served Hot《烧。卖》and A Taste of History《寻味地图》

Hey everyone.

 Right in the beginning of 2014, Channel U will released two new food-related programmes - Served Hot 《烧。卖》& A Taste of History 《寻味地图》.

Being a food lover, these two programmes are something that I should not missed.

Thanks Channel U for the invitation, I had the opportunity to attend the private screening of A Taste of History and Served H.O.T which was held at Swatow Seafood Restaurant.

Keep reading to find out more about it.

I was assigned to table 1.

With Tracy who was in the same table as me.

Meet Bryan Wang, the host of the event. Bryan is really funny and good at cracking jokes. The first thing he said when on stage was: "Welcome to Channel U's Private Screening of 《烧。卖》, English name Siew Mai."

Upon hearing, the room had burst into laughter. Lol.

Besides being the host of the event, Bryan is also the host for the new infotainment show, A Taste of History 《寻味地图》.

Without any further ado, let's invite the casts of Served H.O.T up on stage to share with us some exciting insights of the drama.

The cast from left to right: Shane Pow 《包勋评》, Ian Fang 《方伟杰》, Ya Hui 《雅慧》, Aloysius Pang 《冯伟衷》, Zhu Houren 《朱厚任》, Chew Chor Meng 《周初明》, 《Lee Teng 李腾》 and the host: Bryan Wong 《王禄江》.

Bryan started questioning them one by one about their views and experience when filming the drama.

Bryan posted one question to Ya Hui: Between Shane, Ian and Aloysius, which one is her idea guy?

Make a guess?

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Well, her ideal guy is actually Lee Min Ho. Haha, even Chew Chor Meng knows who is Min Ho. He said: "Oh, is it the one who act in The Heirs?"

Served H.O.T was Lee Teng first major acting role. He shared his thoughts on the difference between acting and hosting.

Right after the interview session, Bryan's fans surprised him with a birthday cake. Bryan's birthday is actually on 30th January, happy advance birthday to Bryan.

While waiting for the food to be served and to watch the first episode of A Taste of History《寻味地图》, Bryan shared with us about his views on the show and the historical significance behind every dish.

A Taste of History《寻味地图》

Taste the rich flavours of traditional delicacies. Feel the deep sentiments attached to their heritage. From the past to the present, we shall let our taste buds discover and relive these fond memories. 

A Taste of History ingenuously combines food with history through selected local delicacies featured in every episode, presenting their local ethnic origin and long standing heritage.

In the first episode was on the history of Former Katong where Bryan introduced Peranakan Pastries, Taw Kwa Pau and Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee. Other episodes will include Former Joo Chiat, Former Boat Quay, Former Chinatown and etc.

Tracing the source of popular local delicacies, one will realise that they contain the touch of our ancestors, including early immigrants of Singapore, and the integration of modern lifestyle and wisdom.

Wow, one day I gotta head down to the stall to try all the dishes for myself.

A Taste of History 《寻味地图》will debut on 7 Jan 2014, every Tuesday at 8.30pm on Channel U.

Here comes our 7 course dinner:

Siew Mai with Fish Roe

Braised Crabmeat Fish Maw Soup 

Steam Sea Bass in Teochew Nonya Style 

Swatow Kampong Chicken

Wok Fried Vegetable Deluxe

Singapore Laska 

Sweet Yam Paste with Pumpkin and Gingko Nuts

I guess you already know which dish is my favourite right?

Yes, you are right. Siew Mai is my favourite, I have a soft spot for dim sum.

Served Hot《烧。卖》

‘Nanyang Delicacies’ is an established food stall on the lookout for someone special who can taste the distinctive flavour behind its signature Laksa dish. The one who has the correct answer will be rewarded with the Laksa secret recipe, worth a million dollars. Many have attempted but failed, until the day three boys in their twenties walk into the shop. Upon tasting the Laksa, they request to see the chef. From that moment on, their lives will never be the same again. Through the story of three ex-convicts and their entrepreneurial spirit and pursuit of love, the drama uncovers the heritage, secret ingredients and touching stories behind Singapore’s favourite local delicacies. Combining the modern with the traditional, new flavours and recipes are created.

Credits to Channel U for the photo.

The three guys are buddies. They fought together, went to jail together, were released from prison together, opened a shop together, and pursued their happiness together… They called themselves H.O.T.

Ever dream of being a chef?

See how these youngsters relight that fire in their hearts and cook a good dish out.

Served Hot is a pretty entertaining and meaningful show that is worth watching. 

Served H.O.T. 《烧。卖》premieres on 10 Jan 2014, Monday - Friday at 10pm on Channel U.

After the dinner, we had a mini game played with the artistes. It's popiah making competition. The artistes were being assigned to three tables each to wrap a popiah. The group with the nicest popiah wrap will win the game.

Ya Hui was being assigned to our table.

See the nice popiah that Ya Hui has wrapped. And yes, our group won the nicest popiah title.

Credits to Channel U.

Shall end off the post with the photo of the lovely girls at my table together with the artistes. Thank you Channel U for the invitation once again.

Remember to catch A Taste of History on 7 Jan 2014, every Tuesday at 8.30pm and Served H.O.T. on 10 Jan 2014, Monday - Friday at 10pm on Channel U.