Additional Red Geisha Shots

Following on from this.... little by little, the pictures are coming in so here's more from the shoot. I know I look a little royally pissed in this one but I'm just HOT. Temperature HOT aka sweating alot! That golden robe can really heat you up and you'd think that silk robes should be airy? NOT! Not when there's no aircon to bask in. And yes.. that is that chao dah *burnt* tan line still there.. I'm probably the only mamasan with tan lines.

And before I become mamasan. Thats me with Lydia whom I lovingly call "Madame Director!"

I am plain ole me without makeup and without anything in my hair and also almost without standard clothes. I came on set all days in very minimal and easy to change clothes that left no impression on my skin aka no garters and no tight waists to "kiap" aka make fat lines on my skin. *Screams* This is a rare shot of me on this blog that I will not repeat... scary!!*

Then I go for makeup in the sunlight and rollers in my hair to curl me up... I love these rollers! They're instantly heated, just plug in and heat and roll them in your hair and voila! Goldilocks curls!! Shiok.. anyone want to get one set for me? Hhaahhaa

Then a shot with my 2 "girls".... all in our silky night robes.

And the Red Geisha would not been reality if not for the creative genius of Lydia the Director/Producer of this film and the competent crew she had working with her. Credits go to these guys for showing professionalism in their work, passion and good application of technical know how.

From Left to Right:

*Back left* Cai Yuen Eden (director of photography/cinematographer)and *Back right* Nicholas Lim (1st Assistant Director/Camera assistant)*Middle 5* Hafiz (Sound/Gaffer), Qin Yu aka Fish (Production Manager), Lydia (Producer/Director), Endra (Gaffer - the ones who sets up the lights after Eden decides wat lights he wants and where), Alvin Tan (Art Director) and the one lying down is Mohan (Sound).

And the final day shot where all the adults were not needed was Day 4 where they shot the children "in the past" aka the young Leon aka young Pavan played by Jathis, young Violet aka Sharda played by Nadia Natasha Katerina and the young Pearl aka Amanda played by Clarissa Yeo.

Obviously since this film is somewhat in the genre of macabre where there are body parts being taken as a collection.. this part makes sense that the horrible fascination with human body parts must have been ingrained from experience from their youth. *shudder*

And Jathis aka young Leon playing with the detatched heads of the dolls. Eeekk! Reminds me of what I used to do with my own dolls when I was young.. hahhahaha....

And a final shot of Eden doing his camera work. I thought this shot really showed the essence of filming from the production point of view. I like how serious he looks because thats just how professional he was during the shoot. No awkward moments at all! Nice... More to come if I get more pictures.. :)

Red Geisha Filming Day 2

Filming the Red Geisha was quite an enjoyable experience for me. The cast was easy to work with and the crew was professional and it did help that I got fanned and made up like a star... With the makeup artist ready with the little sponge pad to touch up my face and crew fanning me bc I sweat easily. *smirk*

Now that I look back at the photos of day 2, I really have to applaud the director, Lydia for casting so well. The girls she casted were pretty and all had big eyes. They also knew how to act well! They made me up so I think I can pretty much pass for a real mamasan too! Aka the old money minding Bitch... hahahah

Points I'd remember for quite a long while during the filming of this show are mainly the bloopers that happened. Some were hilarious and left us in a laughing fit.

Stuff like....

• Day 1 - Where Pavan aka Leon had to get up from the bed and put on his shirt and slammed his hand on the cupboard making a big "kdong!!!". I burst out laughing. The 2nd take after this still had me in the giggles as he was afraid to hit the cupboard again so his hand was really short like a turtle. Bwwuahahahahahaa... *CUT!!!!!*
  
• Day 2 - When we were on the bed for the "dead" scene where they were cutting me up with a real scalpel. The bed broke! with all of us on it. Kdong!!!! Half the bed fell through!! OMG!! My face!!!! Heng no one got injured. *CUT!!!!* Thats all of us on the bed through the "mon" aka Monitor where the director checks for framing of the shot. And Yes, my eyes are open in this picture as we're not filming yet! hahahah....

• Day 2 - Where the "crowd" came and we realised that 2 of our extras were actually secondary school boys!! Too young to be patronising a brothel lah! So we spent the time calling them "Little Boys!" aka Sam and Frodo aka B1 and B2. (Think Bananas in Pyjamas)Kua kua kua...! "Eh, Ah di! U think this is a school excursion issit?" They were pretty sweet and sporting after all lah... I hope they enjoyed their stint as extras.

• Day 2 - My cheong sam was SOOO TIGHT. It was almost like a whole day of abs exercise just by sucking in my tummy and even so, I still had a tubby tummy. *alas, that just added to the old charm of being an "experienced aka old" mamasan; sigh*

• Day 3 - I had a line which I absolutely could not say. "I make the Decisions here. Not You!"... I said "I make the Dechichions..."... again... "I make the Didgigions...."... ahhh fuck lah... try again... and Action!! " I make the dechidions...." *Screams* ((thud)) *CUT!!!!!* .... Chant... Decisions. Decisions... ok... finally... ACTION!! "I make the Decisions here. Not You!" .... ahhhhh phew!~

This is my collection of dolls for this show. No prize in guessing who the Red Geisha is and who the Mamasan is in this collection. But they were really pretty.

And this is the Red Geisha.. aka Pearl aka real name Amanda Tee. She's an acting student at La Salle and has the most elegant swan like neck I've ever seen anyone have. We had alot of fun joking around. It definitely made the experience alot more enjoyable when u laughed till ur stomach ached and ur face feels like it was cramping from laughing so much.

And this is Girl #2 aka Fizah. She's real pretty too but really very shy and quiet.

And this is Girl #3 aka Maria Baluyut. She has really huge eyes lah just that she's looking down here and is very very friendly too! She blogs here. I like her.

And this is my right hand lady, Violet aka Sharda Harrison. She's a real pretty lady this one. This is one example of a Eurasian mix at it's best. Very very pretty. Too bad I don't have a front view shot of her right now...

And finally, the 3 main cast members. Mamasan Tang aka Me.. *cough I really look like a mamasan hor!*... Leon aka Pavan... and Pearl aka the Red Geisha aka Amanda. Thats about it for day 2. I'll update with further pictures of Day 1 and 3 when we get our hands on them... but for now, will be crossing my fingers that Lydia really does some magic with editing up all the shoots that we did and makes this film. Gorgeous.

Shark's Fin Soup

CJ made soup last night. Shark's Fin soup nonetheless. Made with Shark's Fin, mushrooms, fish fillets, crab meat and alot alot of eggs in a chicken soup base... It was so very good. *I still have a little container in my fridge so I can have it again.* *Tap tap some white pepper and dark vinegar and we're set to go!!* Yummy!

Have u seen a baby snort?

Over the weekend, I went over the Shelly's place to pick up my new sexy heels.. *whoot! they're pretty hawwwwwt!* and play with her son Joshua.

He's one CUTE BABY OK! So very heavy too.. really really heavy. I've never seen or carried such a heavy baby before in my life hahahaha... and he's almost coming to 10 months old only!

And he makes the funniest cutest snorting face too! He crunches up his face, squints his eyes, pouts his lips and makes this snorty "Snnnrrr snrrr snnnr" sound.

Its SO CUTE!!! I caught it on video too when Eirian was playing *ahem* more like annoying him by putting her face in his face.

Enjoy!

More Media Appearances

I know I've been tooting about this like for MONTHS already but its a work in progress mah! *Don't groan okay.. hahhaaha I'm very pleased. Even though I may not look that pleased in this photo taken in my dad's car. I am. Okay!*

Refer to this if you haven't read back so far to know what I'm talking about...

I got to "speak" to the magazine editor over email today and she confirmed my feature this year. With the exception that its not coming out for the July issue as they need to work forward ie as in work 2 months prior to the issue so that means that I SHOULD be 55kg by May... which......*sob* at the rate that I'm going is VERY hard lor! I don't want to end up eating "air". I'll die hahahaha... no one should diet eating "air"... must eat.. and eat alot!!

I guess that its my body regulating itself from it's initial drastic weight loss of the first 16kg in that first 2 months of my diet and only allowing a 1kg loss per week or so since I broke plateau. That would mean that I would be in time for my July reveal aka 30th Birthday but not so in May. *crossing my fingers that my next plateau won't take that long again!!*

SOOO.... instead of having it fall exactly on my birthday on the 2nd of July *ahem, u all now know when my birthday is hor.. hahah I expect pressies!!! hahahahahahaha*, the photo shoot will be taken right after it in July instead and come out in August for the September 08 issue! Whoooot!!!! Still good lah!!

That gives me around 3 months left and 21kg to go. I can do it lah!! If I can wallop 24kg off this body, I can do another 21 by then. *Lao Gong; HELP ME!!!!*

Quoted by the editor:

"we'd like to put the focus on you, and track your journey, stage-by-stage, through a journal leading up to the "big reveal". We'd like to do a shoot with you at the end of it"

"we will feature you after your big reveal... we'll finish the story by end of July (plus the photos of your party) for the September issue, which is out in mid-Aug"

This had made me a really HAPPY CHICKA OKAY!! *big grin*

And then!!... another piece of good news... after a little discussion and some information swapping on stories.....Both CJ and I will be featured in the June 08 issue for a marriage article!!! *screams!!* Faint. (((thud))) ~~floor has a little crack liao with me slamming on the floor~~

I will post that up, when it is published. Kua Kua Kua.... *Happy Happy*

Pimping my Hubby *Not!*

I thought it would be nice to start the week off pimping my hubby. Hahhaha... He's come a long way from 115kg to his 86kg size right now. So Hamsap *cough* I mean.. Handsome right? Hahahha I like this picture.

Does it help that he's on a quest for his 6 pack abs now and spartan shoulders? Argh!! I claim him now hor.. HE'S MINE.

Bwuuhahahahahhahaha.... *claws coming out*

And if you were wondering what the heck he does on a daily basis.. well here u go... *warning - unless u think u're spartan, don't attempt to do this without professional advise or help.

He. different. He's a coach; can self administer.*

I only do PART of what he does on a daily basis and I'm already half dead and panting on the ground. But what I do in my regime, others might find it a little hard to handle too. What would I do without his training advise leh? Thats how I got my body today. I work out 4-5 times a week but he does it almost daily.

That being said. He's been in Men's Health March Issue... He did a Radio interview last month too.. so anyone who may need a commercial talent who's roughly around his size and built. He's very fluent in English and can do mandarin work too. Cheerful disposition but has a killer stare that can make u piss on the spot. Open for press ads/commercial/contemporary/photo shoots if available. Please email me if interested.

Now here u go, and close ur mouth. *smack*

Atkins Update: 76kg

After 2 days of filming, and 3 days of not working out. I stepped on the scales and Lo & behold... hahahaha I've dropped another kg. See what I mean by Acting is hard work! Haha...

So there's the update for now... 76kg dated 3rd April 2008. In this goes to my weightloss record chart. Another 21kg to go... and if I can move from 100kg to 76kg.

Anyone can. Just really depends if you want to. :)

Red Geisha Filming Day 1

Filming has begun. Today is day one and my first scene is the bedroom opening scene as Mamasan Tang. I'll leave details of this to if you catch this film one day and when Director Lydia wins an award during this year's Asian Film Festival! hhahahaha....

But you could expect a really steamy scene with a great set. *ahem!* I tried lah Director.. I hope it was good enough* I'm crossing my fingers/toes and whatever that after all the editing and music etc etc... that this scene is going to be artistically beautiful and highly sensual enough to make an impact towards the rest of the show.

My co-stars are absolutely BEAUTIFUL! The director really casted well. They really look like DOLLS!! I'll take some photos of them tomorrow on Day 2 of filming.

*Ahem* Makeup wise... yes I know it looks scary on photo but in real life, with all my bouncy curls, glittery eyes, super lush eyelashes and white skin. It really looked very doll like.

Whats that under that Golden robe? Well nothing much except a Black Victoria's Secret Lingerie. *cough* *cough*

And this is Pavan. My co-star who's named Leon in the film. He's an acting student at La-Salle but has been acting professionally for the past 8 years. He's really good with his script. He practically memorised MINE including his... and I was having trouble remembering mine sometimes.... *smack head*

And this... is the mamasan dresser with all my mamasan "stuff" in my "bedroom"....

And finally... my mamasan bedroom set. The whole room was painted black and dark pink.. it had lush lighting, a chrome bed frame, alot of plush pillows and a brand new silk set sheet and comforter... very luxe!

The shoot took about 3 hours to complete for this scene alone.. tomorrow there are more scenes so Day 2 to come! Time to put on my face mask.. lie down and close my eyes.. more acting to come tomorrow... *crossing my fingers that I'll be fine* *Breathe*

Prelude to the Singapore Flyer Post

Yes, we took the Singapore Flyer. How was it? Well, you'll find out in one of the upcoming posts. In the meantime... just a couple of photos from that evening....

*Awww... spending some cuddly time in the sky....*

It was my grandmother's Birthday too! 78 years old already! Whoot!

Say Cheese!!!

And finally, a shot of Lauren, CJ and myself at the peak of our "flight"... Eirian was running about the capsule with my baby cousin. More to come... perhaps next week after my filming.... stay tuned!

Yet another Before & After...

I did this mini compilation for my parenting forum as they had a thread for before and after shots so I thot it would be good to have it here too.

But before anyone decides to ask me in whatever form; email - msn - sms or via cbox. Please read this, and this and this and this FIRST before you do so. PLEASE. It goes from recent to a little older but please go through them first before you decide to ask me.

"How did you do it?"

Thank you! Much Much Appreciated.