Every now and then, you come across different songs with a similar-sounding melody or chord progression...

For eg. during my a cappella singing days eons ago, we mashed up the classical "Pachelbel's Canon" with local TV serial theme song "Guan Huai Fang Shi", which became a popular item on our repertoire...

Now here is a "medley" of six pop songs, mashed into one, by the creative genius Peter Bull of Norwegian Recycling fame...

After taking many months off from acting and performing, I finally took the plunge last weekend, and went back to local TV land with a controversial story, that of "sexual harrassment"...

This will be part of an episode in the upcoming Channel 5 documentary "Behind Closed Doors", hosted by Vernetta Lopez, which delves into the various secrets and skeletons in the closets of everyday people...

I got to play the part of an engineer who took sexual advantage of his Indonesian maid while his family wasn't around. Basically a wolf in sheep's clothing...

It was a fun and easy shoot, with just one quick scene filmed on Friday afternoon, and the bulk of it shot on Saturday at a condo apartment at Bukit Batok...

The only difference with this shoot, is that it contains my very first topless scene on TV, as well as my very first "rape" scene on TV!

Oh, the things we do for the sake of Art... LOL

But of course, this being local TV, don't expect anything too *-rated ya? :-P

The director of this episode was Chan Bang Yuan, with whom I'd the pleasure of working with last year in the sitcom "Maggi & Me", and my sister was played by Sandra Koh, and the maid, Shasha Ya'kob...

Here are some photos taken during the production...

Behind Closed Doors



L-R: Sandra, Chan, Shasha & Edric

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I am SO furious right now!

While getting ready to leave the pool's changing area after a good swim just now, I witnessed in the mirror reflection a plump man in his 40s or 50s in the toilet suddenly lowering his swim trunks and pissed all over the toilet floor!

Too bad for him, I was not too shocked to stop myself from shouting out in disgust...

Me: "Hallo!!?!! Stop that! Why are you pissing all over the floor??! The urinals are just right next to you!!!!!!"

Freaking Asshole (FA): (stunned mid-pee) "Oh! Sorry sorry, erm... I urgent lah..." (not very convincingly...)

Me: (not convinced at all) "Can't you do it at the urinals or at the WC? This is damn disgusting!!!"

FA: (knowing he can't win) "So what you want? Call the guards?"

Me: "I won't, just don't do it again."

FA: (raising voice) "Eh, this is not your club okay? Don't tell me what to do or not to do!"

Me: (raised voice to match) "Hallo this is not YOUR club either, OKAY? Nobody wants to step on your urine!"

FA: "So what you want to do? I dare you to call the security lah!"

At that point we were already at the pool entrance where the pool staff was...

Me: "Ok fine." (and goes on to tell the pool staff what went on...)

After a heated exchange, two security guards came over and tried to placate the situation. The Freaking Asshole decided to change tactics and claimed he had bowel problems, and tried to make me look like I was in the wrong...

In the end, the guards took down our membership card details. That guy tried to sneak a look at my name, but I was faster than him...

Anyway, this totally unrepentantly disgusting person is Lim XXX XXX and his NRIC no. is S14XXXXXX...

The guards told me they have noted his particulars and if he got caught again for such offensive behaviour, action will be taken...

With the situation more or less under control now, I was able to extricate myself and leave...

But still, I really can not believe what some people are thinking! Why would anyone want to do that?

From what I had seen in the mirror, obviously this person gets turned on by doing such acts...

Too bad for him, I am NOT!

Those who enjoyed the photo of the tortoise and catfish that I took recently (see previous entry), might be interested to know what those two very different creatures might be saying to one another...

Well, crimsonvelocity has kindly found time to put words in their mouth (literally), and made it an amusing dialogue...

Check it out...

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After shifting focus from film and theatre to my current illustration and graphic design career, and sating my wanderlust with frequent travels, I finally found time yesterday to be involved in my first film shoot of the year...

I was invited to appear in the promotional trailer video for "A Nation In Concert", a charity event that benefits the handicapped in several participating organisations, and I got to act with the soon-to-be-wed-in-Paris and former-Mediacorp artiste, Carole Lin...

Also appearing in this video are four "Hunky Ants" (played by Kenneth, Joseph, Wei and Jeremy), as well as sign-language performer Melvin, who were featured in previous performances of this show...

The crew for this shoot included Jerry Siah (Producer/Trailer Script), David Kong (Financier), Terence Teo (Director), Manfred (Camera/Editor), Tan Soon Kiat (Camera), and Alvin Lim etc...

For those who'd watched previous runs of "A Nation In Concert", this new production, complete with new script by local playwright Desmond Lim, and featuring additional new cast, will be staged at Victoria Theatre on 11th & 12th October, 2008...

Okay, enough background talk. Here are the photos taken by David and I during the shoot, and gleaned off his blog...

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ANIC Promo Video Shoot - Cast & Crew

Early last month, I had enjoyed my very first trip to Japan, travelling on the ANA 7D Hokkaido Delights tour...

My tour mates were Katrina, her mum Mrs Mah, her nieces Amanda and Aerikka, her nephew Alexander, and her ex-colleague Othman...

It was a truly wonderful and eye-opening experience, and I loved every second of it...

All in all, I took exactly 2GB of photos, which is around 1975 images altogether, including tons of landscapes and food pics...

And finally I have sorted out the first batch of pics, and uploaded them onto my Facebook Photo Album! You need not have an account to view them...

Check them out here...

My Japan Trip
Tokyo | Hokkaido
Day 1 - 2nd February 2008



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