tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82035052399376019532024-03-08T03:33:45.291-08:00MICHAEL CHUA ACTOR TELLING STORIES THAT NEED TO BE TOLDmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-2099097400056154702023-12-23T19:28:00.000-08:002023-12-25T17:39:24.189-08:00Every Tech, Everywhere, All at Once - 2023 <p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiblSUJD_X8M6NME245Z3RyVy4VJy5mhXCA4qhe5Yhz96WbLYr-mblanBe9gwdCI2mN-ciD4r9jpITUa-CplNuB80tTU23h6-L25_8_r0DbooPh5OF_7Top13BrFHtLpeNYu-bgt8_V6Ahsud1X2YZfElmqYRBVqU8Ev40GYEeeOtUj2UGMfsyBLOayjDw/s2403/20231205_124352.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2403" data-original-width="1448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiblSUJD_X8M6NME245Z3RyVy4VJy5mhXCA4qhe5Yhz96WbLYr-mblanBe9gwdCI2mN-ciD4r9jpITUa-CplNuB80tTU23h6-L25_8_r0DbooPh5OF_7Top13BrFHtLpeNYu-bgt8_V6Ahsud1X2YZfElmqYRBVqU8Ev40GYEeeOtUj2UGMfsyBLOayjDw/s320/20231205_124352.jpg" width="193" /></a>This is Christmas eve and this is my first and probably the last blog post for 2023. The year passed quickly and then I realised that I have not blogged for the whole year. I only checked the blog after someone I met at the Asia TV Forum (ATF) 2023, asked about it. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I am surprised. I stopped writing because I thought very few people, if any, read blogs these days. Instead Tiktok videos are all a rage!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@michaelchuaactor" target="_blank">My TikTok</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But I am glad that somebody remembers me because of my blog. Well not quite really, as I also learned that she also happened to promote the short film "<a href="https://youtu.be/1DUYlHZsZfc?si=DKBjcpvY4UlkKDP5" target="_blank">Gift</a>", which went viral in 2014. So, a good film does hangs around in people's minds for a very long time,</p><p style="text-align: justify;">A video/film is remembered because it tells a story that makes profound emotional connections with the audience. These days with the Internet, videos can go viral worldwide instantly.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The persistence and wide reach of Youtube also means it is now difficult to estimate the loading fees for commercials. As once online, the commercial technically has a global reach and unless it is taken down, it will be online perpetually. I believe this has caused some downward pressure on an actor's loading fees.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Also these days, talent can also be discovered online via social media. Granted that not every online celebrity has the desired acting abilities or of be of commercial material, the Internet does cast the net very wide. Thus thrusting more potential talents to the front of the camera. I cannot complain about this, as I was too talent scouted online via social media 14 years ago. Though not an influencer, I was picked up out of the blue and thrown into the deep end of acting. The rest is history.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So much so that actors are now expected to have some social media presence. However, not much is done to educate them about how they should go about with this new avenue of self-promotion. Many actors formerly protected by their managers are now thrown into the wild wild world of social media. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Social media can be a double edged sword. Wrongly applied, it can ruin the online persona and branding of the actor. It can also overexpose the actor.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Also these days, some businesses use online influencers, instead of actors, to promote their products. Usually, this results in more casual production quality and possibly risking the desired perception of the brand name. However, such promotional videos are likely to be cheaper to produce and they usually work well with brand names that have less snobbish requirements.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In some instances, businesses have also done away with human actors/models/influencers entirely and use Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated avatars. These avatars are sculptured to look picture perfect and will never age a single day from the first day you use them. Besides, they are also free of scandals. These avatars have been applied with some success in the US and China, even though the followers know that they are not real.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As a learning exercise, I have used AI to generate a dialogue, fictitious faces and animate a 2 minute video recently. Here it is:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">
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</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">AI will continue to make onslaughts into film production and acting. At the lower end of corporate videos, businesses may not need a human to illustrate their product. For instance, if it is a video to illustrate the instructions to use a microwave oven, human emotional connection is less important, but rather, clear and explicit graphics are crucial. I have given a talk to film makers, technologists and artists about this. See <a href="https://youtu.be/RXpxfJO0GM0?si=ccyT_nb9sfg9pesC">here</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Over time bad actors, that is, those that are unable to deliver the necessary human emotional connections will be replaced by photo-realistic avatars in lower end spectrum of instructional videos. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Conversely, actors that can deliver strong emotional bonds with the audience and turn them to be loyal following, will get more work despite and because of AI. So, now AI can make the actor look younger, or older, to suit the story. In the case of a story where there is a character that goes from youth to old age, the same actor can be cast.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I believe that with technology, there will be more videos/films made, because it will be cheaper to do so and also that it will be cheap enough to create content that cater to niche interests. Though, the audience will still expect quality productions. The lousy ones will still be ignored, unless it is so bad that they attract a cult following. :)</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyUNphEy56T_l45Dl1MB8Yjvs5RCpMGFEiwYIOD6_rz92V6WXw9MhhrBJX6ops83qgS0brUH7s1AJu_lKWelw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p style="text-align: justify;">As we speak now, more and more tech is seeping into film production. Besides the well known AI-enabled deepfakes, LED backdrops, robot rigs...etc, there is now automated product placements. So, it is now even possible for product placements to be automatically inserted into the film during post-production. This saves time, effort and money, compared to placing products during production. Besides, product placements inserted during post production can be geography, culture, context and time driven.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Where will this all stop? I don't know. But I know that we can all make the best of it, if we continue to improve our craft. Yes, I believe that spontaneous human analogue delivery will still count and be here to stay.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have now been in the media industry for 14 years, mostly as an actor, but recently also into screenwriting, producing and directing my own content. To date, I have won 2 acting awards, have 2 short films gone viral, and recently, also had a film that I produced, "WFH - Worry From Home", won a best film award. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the last 2 years, I have also appeared as the main antagonist character in "Titan Academy", a uber viral webseries with very young fans, probably from 4 to 16 years old. Each of these episodes garner upwards of 2 million views. So if I do get recognised in public these days, it will most likely be from a child or a teen. The fans have even set up a fan page for me. Thank you so much guys! </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eemmenVQARM?si=21LKywi72H3YvzMH" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This contrasts a lot with the mainstream media in Singapore, which I estimate probably gets 150k to 350k for each of their drama episodes. I believe this is the same for all free-to-air TVs around the world. This is confirmed by a few random media professionals I met during the recent ATF. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In fact, I was once corrected by a young chap that I shouldn't use the term "mainstream media" to refer to free-to-air TV (or TV), instead, "mainstream" ought to refer to the the Internet. He then suggest that I refer to free-to-air TV as "legacy media". I find it hard to debate that, especially while still reeling from his harshness!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">That said, this is Christmas and we should also give thanks to the legacies that have propelled us this far. Many artistes and talents have spent a lot of their waking hours honing their skills and craft to entertain and inspire all of us all these years. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Thus Channel News Asia (CNA) has now made a 3-part mini-series called "Untold Legends", to remember some women who have contributed to the arts in Singapore.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I was interviewed in the episodes that featured Doris Young, who was the lead actor in the Cleopatra Wong movie series in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They interviewed me about my part working with Doris in Reel Frenz, a hobby film making group and as the lead actor in the feature film <a href="https://youtu.be/j-Y_iGY_cyI?si=DSukeiNRR5eER8hB">Certified Dead</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tune in CNA at 9pm, 31st December 2023 for the episode "Untold Legends: Doris Young".</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzJR7VA93CYx-ruqIARyQzu6X1DFqIIpHzWtR7ZSQZweIhlRmzqLaCLbXTfrsa8B5GC-GauPuI6tfZArhihYQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOhwa2NqCn2AELrTZbVpu3CE3mOaO-rWRmknSRJsXqKgL51OmheT2-aqBk6HTsLJuE34hq8WBA7KAlKoifgli8-tAJ9TTI2IcCorpJkS0_atCc8CHM8IZZnS38KaxMOFC9X-aMMBYQCmRMDm-JeIN6TpZnt8qU8AbmVM5oOOpuYThlNUAlmf-13_D3Bw/s2048/xmas.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1151" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOhwa2NqCn2AELrTZbVpu3CE3mOaO-rWRmknSRJsXqKgL51OmheT2-aqBk6HTsLJuE34hq8WBA7KAlKoifgli8-tAJ9TTI2IcCorpJkS0_atCc8CHM8IZZnS38KaxMOFC9X-aMMBYQCmRMDm-JeIN6TpZnt8qU8AbmVM5oOOpuYThlNUAlmf-13_D3Bw/s320/xmas.jpg" width="180" /></a></div>Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We are living in exciting times!<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-11237179954126606692022-05-03T00:11:00.001-07:002022-11-18T18:45:08.027-08:00A Seat At the Table Podcast<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikoMOhD0kiqwumoHhpJXVWbEdjN5jazuqeuU3tKvfCwlkb7XGbCLP8fx94E4wRz86P_uOyYs3NYNm8uqNO-40Xr9axKX_GiFajHc0CdCRk1WjX0EvjpHWSbw43vGuMaXBUT3NbyoVOZ6qOYqQtYu76AhEF5sthhXD917EW-4ZCEAFWZcQ2QyFiAnWS" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="350" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikoMOhD0kiqwumoHhpJXVWbEdjN5jazuqeuU3tKvfCwlkb7XGbCLP8fx94E4wRz86P_uOyYs3NYNm8uqNO-40Xr9axKX_GiFajHc0CdCRk1WjX0EvjpHWSbw43vGuMaXBUT3NbyoVOZ6qOYqQtYu76AhEF5sthhXD917EW-4ZCEAFWZcQ2QyFiAnWS=w331-h329" width="331" /></a></div>This is an interview
by Jane Singer, a Hong Kong based American podcaster, about how I got started
in the film industry and the struggles and joys that came along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">I have worked hard, but I think have been
lucky as well. Now after 400+ gigs and 11 years later, there are no regrets having
taken the plunge into a road less traveled of part fantasy and part real life.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">Should you take such
a plunge yourself? </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Listen in </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/4wep2TQ9Ycu7UiAaROYhJp?si=9W3_QkKNSBOfN0BjSdwpjw&utm_source=copy-link" style="text-indent: 0in;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> and find out.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></p>michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com0Hong Kong22.3193039 114.1693611-5.9909299361788442 79.0131111 50.629537736178847 149.3256111tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-25966536620603037332022-02-16T03:31:00.009-08:002022-02-16T03:55:13.384-08:00Anita, the movie - Review<p><br /></p>
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<p><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">"Anita" the movie is beautifully made, complete with 1980s fashion chic and scored with several of Anita Mui's hits in that era. It chronicles her singing for a living from a very tender age of 4, leading to her superstardom in adulthood. Yet, like many superstars, she dwell in loneliness much of her life, as she had never seen her father, had several failed relationships and was never married. All these probably culminating in her succumbing to cervic cancer and her eventual demise. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Watching it in Cantonese allowed all the little nuances of her life to be felt more closely, something that would be lost in the Mandarin version. In Singapore, we managed to watch the Cantonese version only after an online petition to the government, but even with that, only a limited number of screenings were allowed and only in one theatre. Quite expectedly tickets sold-out in no time. Isn't this telling of what the people really miss deep down?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I managed to get one of the last tickets for a seat right in front. I had to tilt my head as much as I could to capture the entire screen within my peripheral vision. Luckily, I don't need the subtitles, otherwise my eyeballs would have had a hectic workout. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There were happier and lighter moments in the movie of her performing on the small stages of community theatres and nightclubs in the 1980s. Then, she sang HK Canto pop songs, many of which were heavily influenced by their Japanese counterparts at that time. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The later parts of the film are more emotional - of her relationship breakups,; her brush with a mob boss, that drove her to take refuge in Chaing Mai, Thailand; her losing her sister to cancer; and then her own battle with the same disease and death. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I was living in the West and was absent from HK pop fandom in the 1980s and 1990s. We didn't have the Internet like now, so I listened and watched Anita's music and concerts from CDs and VHS cassettes; and eventually on Youtube and TV from the 2000s till 2003 before she died. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Anita" the movie, fills a bit of the cultural blackhole I missed as a result of living in the West for a long time. In that sense, it feels like a home coming for me. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is her last concert:</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-52078482026136187072022-02-03T22:10:00.006-08:002022-02-03T23:24:15.183-08:00Influencer Cheat Sheet<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxb5wdu-Mv8_QsA9B52abFb2PPwUmV0PmADJHoaZ-qO4bcLIu-VZuZPzCOc0l_6CdoAU2r2m41WT7RLUORzD-Z43uulbUccNM1tmnEq3N4PHSzmaJxJEaz8_QupLwut2ZCU2svqXYU07GH6CuIYDkau0yhU5AwVJ9RsyvCBkMjHCGsARYN3_BfyBJt=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxb5wdu-Mv8_QsA9B52abFb2PPwUmV0PmADJHoaZ-qO4bcLIu-VZuZPzCOc0l_6CdoAU2r2m41WT7RLUORzD-Z43uulbUccNM1tmnEq3N4PHSzmaJxJEaz8_QupLwut2ZCU2svqXYU07GH6CuIYDkau0yhU5AwVJ9RsyvCBkMjHCGsARYN3_BfyBJt=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>
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<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Transcript:</div><div><br /></div>That is how you can cheat your way into influencer super-stardom. Well, it still takes a lot of hardwork and time, but here is a formula:<div><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;">Influencers must add value to their audience and
build communities and then monetise.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">The days are over when influencers are just
people who look good.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Post your content consistently, then you will
build followers.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Don't worry about people not following. They
will, when you show your sincerity and authenticity.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Different influencers go along with different
followers. So, there will be some that will follow you.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Ignore the haters or those that will discourage
you. There are far more supporters than haters. Don't allow them to pull you
down into the Imposter Syndrome.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Your content is likely to be something you have
always wanted to talk about for a long time.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Work out a systematic way of creating your
content. eg. Create 10 min youtube videos, that can be easily formatted into a
podcast; bite-size video clips; transcribed blog posts...etc. Organise
one day a week to do enough content for the entire week. That way, you won't have
to worry about content every day.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">There are software platforms that you can
subscribe to for a fee that will do all the laborious 'sales funnel' work for
you. Eg. Sending out emails at allocated times, reminders,...etc.</li></ol><div style="text-align: justify;">Dwell deep into yourself first. Its often about understanding oneself first. :)</div><!--[if !supportLists]--><p></p>
</div>michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-23394746771514962762022-01-08T21:25:00.004-08:002022-01-09T04:02:24.485-08:00Kid Hero<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjla39GsY0oMF5qcujLkkjVeeFP2uvNJNMWOYcvKPnoiL1emFJQAttrGKNgFDXUTSD0IDbKMKrAmZA-TeBHeY8axDEo5bFbaE-4IHKx4TuqUdakABu4ZuKrvNDFUUdzbyifrsm5yr286CBnbaQGAWBe5SNqphho5kjrTArGvAv1qKTadZG8IRgpqX5K=s1440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjla39GsY0oMF5qcujLkkjVeeFP2uvNJNMWOYcvKPnoiL1emFJQAttrGKNgFDXUTSD0IDbKMKrAmZA-TeBHeY8axDEo5bFbaE-4IHKx4TuqUdakABu4ZuKrvNDFUUdzbyifrsm5yr286CBnbaQGAWBe5SNqphho5kjrTArGvAv1qKTadZG8IRgpqX5K=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Kid Hero, written and directed by Andy Hui, is about a kid's fantasy about his superpowers and his mini roadtrip adventure to look for his father, who is his idol and hero in his life. I enjoyed working with the very talented actors Ricky Lo and Estovan Reizo Cheah; and Esther Leong.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Here is the film:</p>
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text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIK-TFBOQe_I-AmsJBIkAkj3hsVUlufdDY7QFUf6tJRaBQpF4oh0yivbCt-AhWWiGf2eW-ireT7BOg6x4CcES1Qkon_fpn7rSeEjTSOhsid3WcAoN2iLrBYX2-p6YdsO_GyrKL0zj2LCU/s1364/twtw.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="1364" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIK-TFBOQe_I-AmsJBIkAkj3hsVUlufdDY7QFUf6tJRaBQpF4oh0yivbCt-AhWWiGf2eW-ireT7BOg6x4CcES1Qkon_fpn7rSeEjTSOhsid3WcAoN2iLrBYX2-p6YdsO_GyrKL0zj2LCU/w640-h354/twtw.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Will To Wheel is a short film based on a <a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/wheelchair-bound-grabfood-delivery-woman-085004276.html" target="_blank">true story</a> of wheelchair bound food delivery lady in Singapore and her will to be a useful member of the society.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span><i>"</i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.005px; text-align: left;"><i>Sure, you could say that we should treat the disabled no different than the able-bodied. But folks are finding it inspiring that even someone with limited mobility would </i></span></span></span><i style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18.005px; text-align: left;">(be) </i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.005px; text-align: left;"><i>willing to go beyond what was expected of her and find work that involves traveling distan</i></span></span><i style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.005px; text-align: left;">ces to pick up and distribute food orders."</i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.005px; text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.005px; text-align: left;"><b> - Yahoo</b></span></span>!<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18.005px; text-align: left;"><b> News </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; text-align: left;"><b>23 November 2018</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The film is directed by Florence Look and produced by a bunch of students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic's Film Sound and Video School (FSV) which I have acted for in many of their films over the last ten years.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Will To Wheel has also been shotlisted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ciNE65/" target="_blank">ciNE65</a> for the F</span><span style="font-family: arial;">avourite Actor, Favourite Actress, Best Sound Design & Best Cinematography awards!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you like to vote for us, click <a href="http://bit.ly/cine65MMA2021" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><u>Note</u></b>: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">1. The Favourite Film Voting Page appears</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">2. Vote one you deem fit from the drop-down list. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">3. The </span>Favourite Actor and the Favourite Actress Voting Page appear.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">4. Vote for <b>Michael Chua</b> and <b>Agnes Goh ☺</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">Thank you in anticipation.<b> </b></span><b style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">☺</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;">The awards ceremony will happen on the 15th June 2021. I supposed the winners will be announced then. Will keep you posted.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>ciNE65</b> is a an annual short film competition that e</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">xplores the Singapore Identity and expresses what Singapore means from the perspective of the film makers. It is supported by Nexus, a Singapore Government initiative.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Here is the film:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div>For all the cINE65 videos that I have acted in over the years, including this one, click <a href="https://michael-chua.blogspot.com/search/label/cine65" target="_blank">here</a>.<p></p>michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-68145641880690577492021-05-11T21:41:00.037-07:002021-05-12T08:52:55.149-07:00Titan Academy<div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp9sil9X11OT0cPQfh1jpOKcHiRAiA4jhZkKSI-2FpcNBFnHJFSRz9-ixCiA0I1SAMfX1qRjgDIIa9PB-8iIzaj04VQF8LZVh_z7wm14xH1eFtt1WLV1K6W1J7AbJpPpIoQLAyZKgxsb8/s1366/titan10b.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp9sil9X11OT0cPQfh1jpOKcHiRAiA4jhZkKSI-2FpcNBFnHJFSRz9-ixCiA0I1SAMfX1qRjgDIIa9PB-8iIzaj04VQF8LZVh_z7wm14xH1eFtt1WLV1K6W1J7AbJpPpIoQLAyZKgxsb8/w640-h360/titan10b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div>At the time of writing, this episode of Titan Academy has hit <b style="background-color: #fcff01;">1 million views</b>, <b>71k Likes</b> and <b>14.5k comments</b>, barely <b>48 hours</b> from being released online. From their recent track record, the viewership will likely grow to 3 million hits by the end of its 4th week. These numbers are music to the ears of advertisers and the Titan team.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;">JianHao is currently the number one Youtube channel in Singapore, with a subscriber base of 4.7 million and growing. It is likely that their subscriber base has already extended beyond Singapore, to include Malaysia, India and other English speaking countries.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;">Perhaps it is time to consider creating content for the Chinese market and distribute it via iQiyi, QQ and Youku. It is a vast market waiting and the Chinese are curious about how life in Singapore is like. Singapore is to China, what Australia is to Americans. Same same, but different. The latter is evident in 1986 when the Aussie movie <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_Dundee" target="_blank">Crocodile Dundee</a> took America by storm.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;">Currently, JianHao's channels comprise mostly listicles, but we may see more short film style episodes in future.</span></p></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is my second time working with JianHao and his company Titan Digital Media, but my first in a Youtuber style video. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My first time working with them was in a short film called "<a href="https://youtu.be/1c6NT1qiu6M" target="_blank">Majid The Legend</a>", commissioned by 15 Shorts. In that short film, I acted as Singapore's football legend and coach Uncle Choo Seng Quee, in Pulau Ubin, an offshore island of Singapore. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In this short film episode "Welcome to Titan Academy", I played the corporate raider that buys over the school to run it ruthlessly for profits. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Compared to my first time working with them 18 months ago, they have made impressive strides forward in film making. There is now a lot more focus, precision and efficiency. The team's youthful enthusiasm and energy are also a breath of fresh air.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Most of the cast you see in their videos play multiple roles in front and behind the camera. So the girls and guys you see on screen, will also be running around adjusting lights, supervising scripts, setting up props, buying lunch,...etc, when they are not in front of the camera. Even the camera guy appears in some of the videos. But most of all, it is JianHao, who writes, produces, directs and acts; and I guess, runs the company too. How does he ever find such time and energy?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>TRIVIA: </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">Did you know that Titan Digital Media's </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">real-life </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">accountant </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">also plays </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">a </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">reel-life role in Titan Academy?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is the kind of efficiency that mainstream media companies will find hard to fathom, let alone catch up with. In some jurisdictions, such flexibility in labour deployment may not even be permissible, as the unions will come down on you like a pile of bricks.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">JianHao and several other celebrity-influencers in Singapore are chipping away at advertising revenues that traditionally went to mainstream media companies like Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and Mediacorp, in the context of Singapore.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">SPH's revenue has dipped so much, that their media arm is now hived off to form a non-profit charity organisation that will tolerate losses, even huge ones, as they will be propped up by government funding. See <a href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/sph-media-restructure-not-for-profit-falling-revenue-14753484" target="_blank">SPHMedia</a>. In other words, they have surrendered.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Let's see what will happen to Mediacorp in a few years' time, as it is also suffering from sharp falls in revenues. Will they be restructured into an entity insulated from the harsh competition of the real world too?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Here is the episode:</b></span></div>
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</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;">If the video does not appear, click <a href="https://youtu.be/sciKJUWCrI8" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/sciKJUWCrI8</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">This is the third video I have acted in </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">that has hit or crossed 1 million views.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">Find out about the other two videos below...</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The morning after the episode was released, I woke up with a lot of new followers on my Instagram account </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/michaelchuaactor/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">MichaelChuaActor</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. I didn't see that coming, as I don't get new followers at all on my social media platforms when Mediacorp TV programmes that I am in, got broadcast. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">JianHao's subscribers are young (18 to 35 years old), thus inferring that in future, this may be how content will be created and distributed.</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Traditional free-to-air TV will continue to struggle to stay relevant and respond to their viewers' changing tastes, interests and demands; and also the disruption by yet more cheaply available new technologies. They will face rapidly declining viewership and advertising revenues that will eventually compel them to transform into the new media or face their own demise.</span></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Behind-The-Scene pictures:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivsbYjUTXrQCtjM0eU2CxMVXRlDtoM74YfPE2_0i0jehhbtFgvUwHgyGVx-VE4MRIdoJxE25YGYBkzZuVh0HV0eIXgCT8-6V4g-YptraoJa8GS35_RkSDrXx_4dT1qI5pZ1iWsMIH9rcg/s2578/20210427_201949.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1220" data-original-width="2578" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivsbYjUTXrQCtjM0eU2CxMVXRlDtoM74YfPE2_0i0jehhbtFgvUwHgyGVx-VE4MRIdoJxE25YGYBkzZuVh0HV0eIXgCT8-6V4g-YptraoJa8GS35_RkSDrXx_4dT1qI5pZ1iWsMIH9rcg/w640-h302/20210427_201949.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmxSQVCITkI0OOeMmJS_iGizhZQXQ2cuY7EXZXQgoFrBwSKq66sNmiYOes6rTv6Yt1CWrr3J2xSjwzz-pqkUAcITg8MEfugmN7hZ67ZtLIDiEZL6fMwyKe0UhmM7bsiCXpzAGpyPiRqek/s2048/20210427_194600.jpg" style="clear: left; 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font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">Follow me on Instagram at </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/michaelchuaactor/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">MichaelChuaActor</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Note:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is the third video I have acted in that has hit or cross 1 million views. The other two are:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHCrMbPCKyeFAP_VqG0TUI_QO7qOXJ78Bsx-pCbrVTcAty3a7gGoiO4DF91aXzAlHkGaN02-pt-q4YEcHhjSE9Sh0hNFU8kENLx4qyzxyruljAkPD_dIh6yjcEaGIkX-NR7icx5mIfP8k/s1280/hentak+kaki2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="77" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHCrMbPCKyeFAP_VqG0TUI_QO7qOXJ78Bsx-pCbrVTcAty3a7gGoiO4DF91aXzAlHkGaN02-pt-q4YEcHhjSE9Sh0hNFU8kENLx4qyzxyruljAkPD_dIh6yjcEaGIkX-NR7icx5mIfP8k/w136-h77/hentak+kaki2.jpg" width="136" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://youtu.be/TukUlXU6P84" target="_blank">Hentak Kaki</a> (estimated 1 million hits). For more info, click <a href="http://michael-chua.blogspot.com/2012/03/hentak-kaki.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicZza4fbjW2zb0nQGAFIdtLCLJf2PLtMZXHlVDapGW9hZmjZ-_sZZzEdaKErc6wMUyWnHDQY7_io8NelpMoAeXgl9jgPl0-6xZsK7VtVBphUpmKTn63F6eASvaxHMEuEYXlqlDUnz6U0E/s1920/gift.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="76" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicZza4fbjW2zb0nQGAFIdtLCLJf2PLtMZXHlVDapGW9hZmjZ-_sZZzEdaKErc6wMUyWnHDQY7_io8NelpMoAeXgl9jgPl0-6xZsK7VtVBphUpmKTn63F6eASvaxHMEuEYXlqlDUnz6U0E/w135-h76/gift.jpg" width="135" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://youtu.be/1DUYlHZsZfc" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">Gift</a><span style="text-align: justify;"> - (estimated 30 million hits). For more info, click </span><a href="http://michael-chua.blogspot.com/2013/12/comchest-gift.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="text-align: justify;">.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com1Singapore1.352083 103.819836-52.293752048350754 33.507336000000009 54.997918048350755 174.13233599999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-86866091693065858232021-05-01T21:22:00.003-07:002021-05-02T04:10:57.567-07:00Finding The Perfect Language<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLklMeX98l6QkSRjTTDgFGsgXMPeNGVU444oF0scUC4i1AXfgQZ0xehX9koY0qRQPjMGDXP8QT0FB_i4VSZG_28PP4zsdnavRQFfts-Ur4scPqYgVxgeuB7aoFf8woNc8vshelNWsMTP0/s1440/IMG_20210312_122513_714.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1440" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLklMeX98l6QkSRjTTDgFGsgXMPeNGVU444oF0scUC4i1AXfgQZ0xehX9koY0qRQPjMGDXP8QT0FB_i4VSZG_28PP4zsdnavRQFfts-Ur4scPqYgVxgeuB7aoFf8woNc8vshelNWsMTP0/w640-h414/IMG_20210312_122513_714.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This is a documentary about the 'Perfect Language' for humans. I was there because I speak Teochew.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">For the documentary, I was asked to bring an item that is symbolic of the language. It was hard to think of something, so I asked around. Unsurprisingly, all my Teochew friends came up with something to do with food. lol </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Eventually everyone agreed on the Teochew Glutinous Rice Cake mould.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Can you think of something else symbolically or uniquely Teochew?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAmF6hsvh2EZT54UBt9-BGxpoWyyQGmFPgzksF7WlfgGaZC3XprxDrHWfgq9MWZTRNf7WBJ4oCA3NhuL06Nz2uvQ9pVuT7Sxvm8HBozzugoRXv38wTQN-M4bWQgEyPmiSIcWMM_pzSjn0/s1440/IMG_20210312_122513_830.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAmF6hsvh2EZT54UBt9-BGxpoWyyQGmFPgzksF7WlfgGaZC3XprxDrHWfgq9MWZTRNf7WBJ4oCA3NhuL06Nz2uvQ9pVuT7Sxvm8HBozzugoRXv38wTQN-M4bWQgEyPmiSIcWMM_pzSjn0/s1440/IMG_20210312_122513_830.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAmF6hsvh2EZT54UBt9-BGxpoWyyQGmFPgzksF7WlfgGaZC3XprxDrHWfgq9MWZTRNf7WBJ4oCA3NhuL06Nz2uvQ9pVuT7Sxvm8HBozzugoRXv38wTQN-M4bWQgEyPmiSIcWMM_pzSjn0/s320/IMG_20210312_122513_830.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><br />Anyway, here is the documentary...<p></p><div><br /></div>
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<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/38RUMJSCZTY">https://youtu.be/38RUMJSCZTY</a></div><div><br /></div><div>So what is the Human Language?</div><div><br /></div><div>For more posts about languages in this blog, including this one, click<a href="https://michael-chua.blogspot.com/search/label/languages" target="_blank"> here</a>.</div>michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-56752309409723915392021-04-21T09:52:00.031-07:002021-04-23T20:38:52.609-07:009 Nyawa - 9 Lives<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjF2xIwa2-IaP6OrZ7nOE-B-5T2OQwt3C8nB5hdBKkhwMnHZK144y5aeBP0P6ajJiTrD9yGjQBvJ2bLc3SfmkqdWcwjULjtuEkI0tELeUVWozGpYx0Wx3QTEoy3jkWEoUKTh0LikNZm1E/s1349/9+nyawa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="1349" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjF2xIwa2-IaP6OrZ7nOE-B-5T2OQwt3C8nB5hdBKkhwMnHZK144y5aeBP0P6ajJiTrD9yGjQBvJ2bLc3SfmkqdWcwjULjtuEkI0tELeUVWozGpYx0Wx3QTEoy3jkWEoUKTh0LikNZm1E/w640-h362/9+nyawa.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">9 Nyawa (9 Lives) (2016), written by Christopher Yeo, is a Mediacorp Suria TV police and crime drama series. Chris is also the writer and director of "A Land Imagined" (2018) that won the Lugano International Film Festival's prestigious Golden Leopard Award. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">You can watch 9 Nyawa for FREE, <a href=" https://www.mewatch.sg/search?q=9%20nyawa" target="_blank">here</a> .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I played the factory supervisor of a glue factory, incidentally also called "Mr Chua". </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">There was supposed to be a stunt double for the dunking and drowning of Mr Chua, but he turned out to be a lot shorter and smaller build than I am, so it did not work. As the show had to go on, I did the stunt myself.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This is what appeared in the final cut:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='503' height='419' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzLbOR9oXRH0zUbAV_TETsmMWF6K1TGDl1ovumhRsouivot19knQBQsM9oW3RxseAFC8rA3AmlGGQVchxkudw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='505' height='418' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyRXb0LsCggRM0na1f-K-stnsUywDGJUZXv5KWVtDQlLN-q0RvvEGRnmtZgDEz-qqhcF0okSTstA1bbsGay0g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This (below) is the behind-the-scene shot. It wasn't as difficult as it looks, as there is a method to the struggle. The difficult part was when I had to remain totally motionless in the water while playing dead. Then, the water rushed into the nose along with the piercing and stinging pain. It probably only lasted for about 15 seconds, but it felt a lot longer. Such a relief when I heard 'cut'.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We did about 3 takes and it was done. We got it. It actually felt quite relaxing after that, just like how it feels after a good swim.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='449' height='373' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz9_8oDJiFvNNuDup4DBaYp9NMRZBJ8JcSHMj8pPSH5_OjauohDsF_pQ7jrbqIjg7kEO9D828zXGbY4D-5wfg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>To check out the Malay shows I have been in (including this post), click <a href="https://michael-chua.blogspot.com/search/label/Malay" target="_blank">here</a> </div>michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-79388474260176976602021-02-17T18:17:00.003-08:002021-02-18T04:21:33.460-08:00My Film Journey - Past, Present and Future <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsfqLgJ_1HyOvDLNiLnG4XWWF50DmovlT0BBHWMUff9ux0-J3iFzxirAtOla4dNMHGA70g-BFXbFBGDNaUUVASQ82UllumPgKX0k9gcRGdYDlQvXPmnRIGihZXr-QD4zuc9Vd79PoLvh4/s1366/image_2021-01-30_124408.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsfqLgJ_1HyOvDLNiLnG4XWWF50DmovlT0BBHWMUff9ux0-J3iFzxirAtOla4dNMHGA70g-BFXbFBGDNaUUVASQ82UllumPgKX0k9gcRGdYDlQvXPmnRIGihZXr-QD4zuc9Vd79PoLvh4/w640-h360/image_2021-01-30_124408.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Some of the movies that I have acted in have done famously in the theatres and are now screened on Netflix.</p><p>
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</p><p><br /></p><p>While others are less successful in their distribution routes.</p><p>
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</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet others only need Deep Fake inserts to look like I have acted in them. This one is from Spiderman. It couldn't quite fit my face into the Caucasian face structure. Not so convincing.</p>
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</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>This one fits my face more seamlessly because I cleaned up extraneous facial lines in my input image. It seems that the app is not capable of rendering shadows cast by facial features.</div><div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VfjprA2sFR0" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>This one is very well done, as it morphed my face very well into both the characters and also lip-synced the dialogue neatly.</div><div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/32_RLwKGbvs" width="560"></iframe></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Makes me wonder what the future of cinema and films will be with this rapid advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. </div><div><br /></div><div>Will actors be still needed the way they are now?</div><div><br /></div><div>I have also posted about the future of TV and Films in this blog in the past, if you are curisous, click <a href="http://michael-chua.blogspot.com/search/label/Future" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-16265963990457957062021-02-01T18:23:00.003-08:002021-05-01T21:17:04.355-07:00Keeping Hokkien, Teochew and Cantonese - PART 2<p>This is a continuation of the earlier post <a href="https://michael-chua.blogspot.com/2020/12/voice-over-of-chinese-regional-languages.html" target="_blank">Keeping Hokkien, Teochew and Cantonese</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpyHwGRknwBXdMYFU4i6_X8xSma9FyAiN1Qa95apVGooSKfjxhpJx-tDLTZaFAp4zFJ8u0VL3tXWqHI_pyVUCNp7MzuYjzvQ-kJA2gNL0QmoHCLr4STyczV-vX-Kkr_vopVY61-LCzsBg/s2048/20210125_235343.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1151" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpyHwGRknwBXdMYFU4i6_X8xSma9FyAiN1Qa95apVGooSKfjxhpJx-tDLTZaFAp4zFJ8u0VL3tXWqHI_pyVUCNp7MzuYjzvQ-kJA2gNL0QmoHCLr4STyczV-vX-Kkr_vopVY61-LCzsBg/w640-h360/20210125_235343.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The video that I voiced-over in Mandarin, Hokkien, Teochew and Cantonese for the Ministry of National Development Singapore is now on Youtube.</p><p>I dubbed the voice of this gentleman in the video:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4g8w0sGUJIIJqBZ6LZ_o2SpXqmkIH1jJdHRKVfWesHQAfQFHtqSDaXKjT64k8YeECiZhy7s6KdJZ6ItHJnjEHBuUi2btbXt6O6wEn47HSnr8h32RczR-vDojcKNp5dRo-BXnyu6onUos/s1366/image_2021-01-25_235807.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4g8w0sGUJIIJqBZ6LZ_o2SpXqmkIH1jJdHRKVfWesHQAfQFHtqSDaXKjT64k8YeECiZhy7s6KdJZ6ItHJnjEHBuUi2btbXt6O6wEn47HSnr8h32RczR-vDojcKNp5dRo-BXnyu6onUos/s320/image_2021-01-25_235807.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Here is the original video in English:<div><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M6-v5QSb01k" width="560"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p>... and this in Mandarin...</p></div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FFKnu8r2A8E" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>This one in Hokkien:</div><div><br /></div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Op1hn40ZM78" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>... in Teochew</div><div><br /></div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IvABuGX4EMA" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>... in Cantonese:</div><div><br /></div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S-S2fYWzDoU" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>For those of you who understand all the 4 Chinese languages, does each language give you a different feel and vibe?</div><div><br /></div><div>For other blog posts on Chinese Regional Languages, click <a href="https://michael-chua.blogspot.com/search/label/Chinese%20regional%20languages" target="_blank">here</a>,</div><div><br /></div>michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-35792776938927907592021-01-25T07:41:00.000-08:002021-01-25T07:41:23.923-08:00Interview: Meditation, Healing and the Arts<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjblw68ceoec9baSpfWY7WUvXM8yfrvKC2ma9LZX8T2Gleb23iu-0KrBnexKlWTp9VPP-L-BsA9wffAXKVEenc-5fF2LidWfdLcCNkhyU22GNRlWZNc4HaXGCd8hL2A9kXXOH46odLCsw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjblw68ceoec9baSpfWY7WUvXM8yfrvKC2ma9LZX8T2Gleb23iu-0KrBnexKlWTp9VPP-L-BsA9wffAXKVEenc-5fF2LidWfdLcCNkhyU22GNRlWZNc4HaXGCd8hL2A9kXXOH46odLCsw/w640-h360/image.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is a summary of a 4-part series interview by the Self Awareness Society Singapore in November 2020. We spoke about how meditation has helped me in healing, acting and writing over the last 20 years.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I participated in the Self Awareness Centre's 7-Day Transformation Journey (7DTJ) programme in the year 2002 and have benefited from it immensely. Therefore I am sharing this here, so that you too may benefit from it. The 7DTJ is a time-tested and money-back guarantee programme. Over 40,000 attendees have benefited from the programme over the last 26 years.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">See <a href="http://jupilier.blogspot.com/2005/07/soar-above-clouds-over-years-most-of.html" target="_blank">Soar Above the Clouds.</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is the playlist:</span></p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZcjBI7I_7PE" width="560"></iframe>
<div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>PART 1:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- What is your aspiration? Is it very different from what you are doing every day?
- How does meditation help you in acting?
- What is success to you?
- When you quit, that means that your passion is not strong enough?
- Street fighting analogy to fearlessness.</span></span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>PART 2:</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">My novel "Maid In Singapore"</span></div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- Writing it amid the silence of the Covid-19 Lockdown.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">- The inspiring maids behind the story.
<div style="text-align: justify;">- Why it is written as a romantic comedy, instead of a social realistic drama.</div>- The difference between a novel and a movie in storytelling.
<div style="text-align: justify;">- 1 in 5 homes in Singapore has a maid - very alien to US, Canadian and European cultures.</div>- The difference between a theatrical release and a video-on-demand drama series.
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">See the concept video trailer is at <a href="https://youtu.be/vOMLUiwW3NE" target="_blank">Maid In Singapore trailer</a>. </span></div></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To buy a copy of "Maid In Singapore", go to <a href=" https://www.facebook.com/groups/52949" target="_blank">Facebook Maid In Singapore Group</a>. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #030303; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>PART 3:</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #030303; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 7-Day Transformation Journey Programme</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">- That leap of faith.
<div style="text-align: justify;">- The mental growth by multitudes of intellect.</div>- The heart feeling light like a feather
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="text-align: left;">- The beautiful aura after the programme.
</span></span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How I heal my excruciating chronic back pain through meditation. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">- Coping with life in pain</div></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;">- Encounters with charlatans, conmen, quacks and naysayers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">- How I could possibly have forgotten about pain during a TV shoot. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Also see </span><a href="http://jupilier.blogspot.com/2016/04/pain-2.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">How I Overcame my Chronic Pain</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>PART 4:</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- Why I have meditated regularly since the year 2002.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">- Why busy people need to meditate more.
<div style="text-align: justify;">- Why we should always be vibrating at the highest level even in the bleakest of times.</div>- How meditation keeps you looking young.
- Meditation helps me to get into character more easily in acting.
<div style="text-align: justify;">- How I navigated myself in the TV and film industry.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I have also appeared in other interviews in the past. Click <a href="http://michael-chua.blogspot.com/search/label/Media%20Interview" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgntANbEmdAl9x_a3JCcGFpL1UDHLnZ1cS-2KVmW5GpwrJq3M1ISumvvNiy6-slafpOYOjkc5JTcyPwxzlhfpswAzpgC9fAsDJtUozN_jfoQQHafN633gAlUrUlrcUyJ_VqR6cVuDQ6iDg/s360/image_2021-01-05_122427.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="360" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgntANbEmdAl9x_a3JCcGFpL1UDHLnZ1cS-2KVmW5GpwrJq3M1ISumvvNiy6-slafpOYOjkc5JTcyPwxzlhfpswAzpgC9fAsDJtUozN_jfoQQHafN633gAlUrUlrcUyJ_VqR6cVuDQ6iDg/w200-h177/image_2021-01-05_122427.png" width="200" /></a></div></div></span></span><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #030303; font-size: 14px;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #030303; font-family: arial;">THE SELF AWARENESS CENTRE (SAC), since 1988, is an institute for Human Resource Development and Spiritual Upliftment. It is a non-religious, non-communal and non-political organisation. SAC conducts transformational, motivational and spiritual programmes. The core to its programme module is the 7-Day Transformational Journey (7DTJ). </span></div></span><div style="color: black; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); text-align: justify; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none);"><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.selfwareness.com.sg&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbkVubld5aVZBWTY2STl1N2lTY0k1bEtCeWtjd3xBQ3Jtc0tsblFjbXV0WFJrSC1icTREUzNVZ2VyWTNEdE9aWFRKRnZLaDdkYV9aSUpDNFlmQVdCbVBWc1F5TXlzOG1CbGg5SzhPTGNVdUEzOXNkRE44ZXdHRWdyWnNlSnNZdU1yQ3FEazJVYXhFNkF1ZE8ta1pWNA%3D%3D&v=ZcjBI7I_7PE&event=video_description" rel="nofollow" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none);" target="_blank"></a><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.selfwareness.com.sg&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbkVubld5aVZBWTY2STl1N2lTY0k1bEtCeWtjd3xBQ3Jtc0tsblFjbXV0WFJrSC1icTREUzNVZ2VyWTNEdE9aWFRKRnZLaDdkYV9aSUpDNFlmQVdCbVBWc1F5TXlzOG1CbGg5SzhPTGNVdUEzOXNkRE44ZXdHRWdyWnNlSnNZdU1yQ3FEazJVYXhFNkF1ZE8ta1pWNA%3D%3D&v=ZcjBI7I_7PE&event=video_description" rel="nofollow" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none);" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">http://www.selfwareness.com.sg</span></a></div>
</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcibnvPsXTgN4n401N5-m_DrumhcapH-J9M3C_-nWy4_64P5dGdprWb2e7HAywBe91p3x8j-M7pPQHx_qjo8tZBQRoXZHSXEKicILMPnbQD4cs6CLvUclHuBKJ4z7X6wHCkkwVje76PUQ/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img alt="" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="266" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcibnvPsXTgN4n401N5-m_DrumhcapH-J9M3C_-nWy4_64P5dGdprWb2e7HAywBe91p3x8j-M7pPQHx_qjo8tZBQRoXZHSXEKicILMPnbQD4cs6CLvUclHuBKJ4z7X6wHCkkwVje76PUQ/w200-h200/image.png" width="200" /></span></a></div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #030303;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Self Awareness Society (SAS) Singapore is formed since 1996 to support the attendees of the programmes conducted by the Self Awareness Centre (SAC).</span><span style="font-size: 14px;">
</span></span><div style="font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div>michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-29840358313552853982020-12-31T19:49:00.002-08:002020-12-31T19:49:31.957-08:002020 - No Regrets?<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIi1CRkQpTUjsOjRTf2IXMfXeLF4iIuakNM8WGm0TfRAk_Kqm14GkOsq3uyv0mXnpGIK6Qdhb32JUsZDpXdLqWHHZpSdZGkuZAPuVeXaB4E0QdJikH8Jhw_IhoCAvPG1aJgMy83v-VciE/s1366/image_2021-01-01_113733.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIi1CRkQpTUjsOjRTf2IXMfXeLF4iIuakNM8WGm0TfRAk_Kqm14GkOsq3uyv0mXnpGIK6Qdhb32JUsZDpXdLqWHHZpSdZGkuZAPuVeXaB4E0QdJikH8Jhw_IhoCAvPG1aJgMy83v-VciE/w640-h360/image_2021-01-01_113733.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">To many, the year 2020 passed quite painfully amid a pandemic, lockdowns, faltering businesses and a reduced income. Yet, were there things that you felt that you should have done?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Do you have any regrets? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Are you a man with no regrets? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Watch this video I acted in for a friend and very creative film maker Mr SK Ting...</span></p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U4DUaKlYruQ" width="560"></iframe><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">The man who has no regrets will always regret that he should think that he has no regrets. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">Live not with your regrets but learn to live within your regrets. </span></div><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">Search not for regrets to cease but understand that each regret will make you a better man. </span></div><div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: -0.063px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">The better man is not the man with no regrets but the man who can understand the power of each regret in his life.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">- the Wandering Wonder</span></b><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span><span class="av cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 34px; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;"><a aria-label="Author Homepage" href="https://okw24.medium.com/?source=post_page-----98db3a8853a5--------------------------------" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">流浪奇人</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">.</span></span></div>michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-6520571083451069962020-12-17T21:59:00.031-08:002021-05-01T22:38:43.470-07:00Keeping Hokkien, Teochew and Cantonese<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrHl_ti122k4kpJHtiiLfNaxX9LBuiRkuWTB3slae7_BK1J5oQLNN_YwBg1cM7nqfHZxn1R5EIFZq9x0vEGC6-pMeUjucy0blEbSbhenZthFYH7EWXymFKWw4GkFoC-xxF-YS2bxz_6vc/s2048/20201210_122343.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1151" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrHl_ti122k4kpJHtiiLfNaxX9LBuiRkuWTB3slae7_BK1J5oQLNN_YwBg1cM7nqfHZxn1R5EIFZq9x0vEGC6-pMeUjucy0blEbSbhenZthFYH7EWXymFKWw4GkFoC-xxF-YS2bxz_6vc/w640-h360/20201210_122343.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I have just finished a voice-over gig in Mandarin (普通话), Cantonese (粤语 / 广东话), Teochew (潮语 /潮州话) and Hokkien (Minnan, 闽南语) to dub over a government video that is in English. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">Note: Cantonese , Teochew and Hokkien are Chinese regional languages, but are erroneously translated into and referred to by Westerners as 'dialects'. There are commonalities among the languages, but they are not variants of Mandarin, the national common language in China. The written characters however were standardised 2,000 years ago in China by the 1st Emperor of Han China Shih Huang Di (<span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">18 February 259 BC – 10 September 210 BC).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Southern Chinese languages are hardly spoken in Singapore nowadays following the Speak Mandarin Campaign in 1978. Instead, a confusing cocktail of Mandarin and English, spiced with Chinese regional languages and Malay is spoken in a single dialogue.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Therefore VO gigs in Chinese regional languages are messy, as we often have to sort out what is authentic and what is commonly spoken, but borrowed from Malay. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Here are some examples: </span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">'Clever' in localised Cantonese is '<i>panlai</i>', which is borrowed from the Malay word 'pandai'.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">'To marry' in localised Hokkien is 'k<i>owyin</i>', which is borrowed from the Malay word 'kahwin'.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">'Toilet' in localised Teochew is <i>'lianglang'</i>, which is borrowed from the Malay word 'jamban'. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">'<i>Lianglang</i>' is almost always used and understood by all local Teochew speakers, as opposed to 'cesou' (</span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;">厕所), so we use that in recording, since it is a public service announcement video where colloquialism is tolerated, rather than an academic video where accuracy is prime.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;">However, for other instances, it is important to stick to the original as far as possible.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Unfortunately for regional language VO gigs, scripts are often translated by young people who have a superficial understanding of the languages and do not speak the language in their day-to-day life. As such, they rely on online translators, which can yield hilariously wrong results, as Aritifical Intelligence (AI) in its current state still cannot pick up context and nuances properly.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As a result, my previous Hokkien VO took 11 grueling hours and I needed two days after that to recuperate and rest my vocal chords.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thankfully, we did this one in 1 hr 45 mins, wrapping 15 mins early. Bravo!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>ONLINE RESOURCES:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The following may help you to improve your knowledge of the regional languages, but for professional media translations, do consult a human language specialist.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Among the Chinese regional languages, only Cantonese has an online translator, though without audio output.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CANTONESE TRANSLATION RESOURCES ONLINE:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div>https://www.stars21.com/translator/english/cantonese/</div><div><br /></div><div>https://tradukka.com/translate/yue</div><div><br /></div><div>"Dreaming" is translated into "發夢" which is correct as opposed to "做梦" in Mandarin.</div><div>Curiously, the Cantonese 'discover dreams' (發夢), while Mandarin speakers 'make dreams' (做梦). Wonder why.</div><div><br /></div><div>I also found a Cantonese online dictionary, but it is more complicated and less helpful when tested with the entry of "dreaming", as it gives a clutter of related texts. See http://www.cantonese.org</div><div><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FqFdq3_CU2MquEm-z4b8gJFquMnOxTD1r92MH9gCU6D4sI60WEgrQTnm8KUFyQEJwiu_maIwQTOaW29r38oFzCHiYu8Z9pHuWc9B8vluBHrqklE5gEQuapXFQzk_JmSm01IIdKGh0G8/s751/Cantonese.org.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="751" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FqFdq3_CU2MquEm-z4b8gJFquMnOxTD1r92MH9gCU6D4sI60WEgrQTnm8KUFyQEJwiu_maIwQTOaW29r38oFzCHiYu8Z9pHuWc9B8vluBHrqklE5gEQuapXFQzk_JmSm01IIdKGh0G8/s320/Cantonese.org.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b style="font-family: arial;">HOKKIEN TRANSLATION RESOURCES ONLINE:</b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There are also no online Hokkien translators online, but I found a useful dictionary instead, which yields satisfactory results. (</span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">http://niawdeleon.com/hokkien-dictionary/). The following is the result of translating the word 'dreaming':</span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center;"></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKfruMSoYa49Pt3-j4dgXeHYqBM63Fdk_TVOI5cVaW50vYPmRVOQjPyM4XVUbuZ3N1bCbS2IL17ZWhuJFjMvsic_wwA65824gbxMolu5XE4Hp5nXBVKl3iTdtRdrN54U65taW2s0dYrg/s741/HOKKIEN+-+NIKLOEN.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="741" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKfruMSoYa49Pt3-j4dgXeHYqBM63Fdk_TVOI5cVaW50vYPmRVOQjPyM4XVUbuZ3N1bCbS2IL17ZWhuJFjMvsic_wwA65824gbxMolu5XE4Hp5nXBVKl3iTdtRdrN54U65taW2s0dYrg/s320/HOKKIEN+-+NIKLOEN.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There is also an online Penang Hokkien dictionary, but it could not translate the test input 'dreaming'.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJwpl6ixY0U7v9G0HTDHEm07avAvr8HtQ2CnFsS0kTM40E_ybbY76HJQQjoLt2y7dLbLjrIjiy_xwuJGfjM1m4IzkIV5sX8dMkISEAd_F1QjTcpOjEbTVCjXbAKq6TV4tyJFtEE_dbHL0/s1211/penang+hokkien+dict.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="1211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJwpl6ixY0U7v9G0HTDHEm07avAvr8HtQ2CnFsS0kTM40E_ybbY76HJQQjoLt2y7dLbLjrIjiy_xwuJGfjM1m4IzkIV5sX8dMkISEAd_F1QjTcpOjEbTVCjXbAKq6TV4tyJFtEE_dbHL0/s320/penang+hokkien+dict.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>TEOCHEW TRANSLATION RESOURCES ONLINE:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are no online translators or dictionary online, but there is a mobile Teochew dictionary app WhatTCSay, that has audio outputs.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3menJsaqKljMM27T_bpvw8QWMgSKNP5zZn4KZYgR1jRvH52LKL86Ye94lw2-c9MGKPITO4eFW10YyNQ4E7sTP3KMUECn76K2T9pdctHji2hOEVJOw0xRaxKONgLjUbcRG6ATtariU2kY/s755/TEOCHEW+APP+WHATTCSAY.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="755" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3menJsaqKljMM27T_bpvw8QWMgSKNP5zZn4KZYgR1jRvH52LKL86Ye94lw2-c9MGKPITO4eFW10YyNQ4E7sTP3KMUECn76K2T9pdctHji2hOEVJOw0xRaxKONgLjUbcRG6ATtariU2kY/s320/TEOCHEW+APP+WHATTCSAY.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">It could not translate my test input "dreaming".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrMHR5CKkPMFHhPlWRhn6HBTX4k8M4_42NitJ4M0dS63xqHj2JyZhLoCmOoKf6mdkznZ_BzWPxIF3BTxalC98G2A6pENgjWtJ31iDsUua8oyj2aSigm6aIg0ie3G4pNBLcaZTFNrkHY08/s1079/Screenshot_20201218-104556_WhatTCSay2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="1079" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrMHR5CKkPMFHhPlWRhn6HBTX4k8M4_42NitJ4M0dS63xqHj2JyZhLoCmOoKf6mdkznZ_BzWPxIF3BTxalC98G2A6pENgjWtJ31iDsUua8oyj2aSigm6aIg0ie3G4pNBLcaZTFNrkHY08/s320/Screenshot_20201218-104556_WhatTCSay2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But it does understand what is "dream".</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQLQmEzJWiu2R7M4kY7LGb5BH6kE8aJgqz2vdMdPVVkIRrwDH60hx9Vb-Ddx8m8tC4AnpXNLYqSSLqlB0aGunrnSAOBJ_js0oO6JAjGawkTTA6yH78HAOw86sFuCAmpFCC-xh59PJiJs/s1077/Screenshot_20201218-104532_WhatTCSay2.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="1077" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQLQmEzJWiu2R7M4kY7LGb5BH6kE8aJgqz2vdMdPVVkIRrwDH60hx9Vb-Ddx8m8tC4AnpXNLYqSSLqlB0aGunrnSAOBJ_js0oO6JAjGawkTTA6yH78HAOw86sFuCAmpFCC-xh59PJiJs/s320/Screenshot_20201218-104532_WhatTCSay2.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I suspected that it did not understand verbs in continuous tense, but I was wrong, as it translated "eat" and "eating" correctly.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6PHAQOGj8V12aAzFxpsBej7KIN3MpfqIktYzEyhajWv9pgAZrbzMysTnS53v8AMFsvWFP2wOzD_bu9iluzVrFsHPqkcanHlWDk50_YnTN0vaQUfyDnHCJSdgI74cai54J-Jf7DwZb6kE/s1353/Screenshot_20201218-104605_WhatTCSay2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Now let's enjoy some songs:</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><u>Cantonese:</u></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The older ones will love this song from Cantopop star Sam Hui. You know who you are. :) It is about life's journey and destinies.</span></div><div>
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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vqzfYudFbck" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sadly as the older generations die, so will the languages and the cultures, as there will be less and less in the younger generation that will have the proficiency in these Chinese regional languages. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">See <a href="https://www.quora.com/Can-Singaporeans-speak-Cantonese/answer/Michael-Chua-20" target="_blank">Can Singaporeans speak Cantonese?</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><u>Mandarin:</u></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Lastly, this one is from Mandopop superstar JJ Lin, a proud Singapore son and one among the new Mandarin speaking generation.</span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BocMPQv9brE" width="560"></iframe><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyNQ35CTyXV_tPD5MBeEwEacMm7X1ZB2e01OdjqRCt4rbHRf1Re-yzdPF0oCIjGbs4qiEcAgIMyYSwNhLsSPzDSyBYv9ibKs0VMX4fknP59JyqrpMmmIM_Cp0BAcbItr-5etG80bJU0zA/s2048/20201218_105329.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyNQ35CTyXV_tPD5MBeEwEacMm7X1ZB2e01OdjqRCt4rbHRf1Re-yzdPF0oCIjGbs4qiEcAgIMyYSwNhLsSPzDSyBYv9ibKs0VMX4fknP59JyqrpMmmIM_Cp0BAcbItr-5etG80bJU0zA/w150-h200/20201218_105329.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: arial;">I love working with Chinese regional languages as they remind me of my childhood and the multilingual environment in Singapore during the old days. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: arial;">I learned them before the age of six and therefore do not need preliminary translation from another language when spoken.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: arial;">As a Teochew, it is easy for me to learn Hokkien, as they are from the same Min family of languages. I learned Cantonese (Yue language) from my neighbour which spoke the language though they are Hakkas.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;">I was gradually coming to grips with Hakka and Hainanese before, but lost them completely when I went to live overseas for many years. Now even my feeble abilities in French and German are probably better than my Hakka and Hainanese.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;">There are also the more obscure languages like Hockchiew and Heng Hua, which are Min languages, but are less intelligible to me. I suspect that some young Singaporeans today would not even know these languages exist, let alone understand or speak them.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;">I will post the dubbed videos later when they are released.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;">Also read: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://michael-chua.blogspot.com/2018/08/different-voice-same-lines.html" target="_blank">Hearing Voices.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://michael-chua.blogspot.com/2017/10/hokkien-voice-over.html" target="_blank">Hokkien Voice-Over.</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-46634568444549410232020-12-01T20:19:00.012-08:002020-12-03T20:52:41.884-08:00Maid In Singapore Follow-up<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9YULaRamrvjEY_o0-jbutVsJd4DtyCvZlgHA5XZCDILTr4__aYuOyp2-bdIvex9Zkn4KDy0eXl4ejabq0g-V1kHHB-KLJGCemMwpPbIjZItw8VELOaJEBOZWFNyJ9mSz9zUf40RbhqYo/s1080/thumbnail+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9YULaRamrvjEY_o0-jbutVsJd4DtyCvZlgHA5XZCDILTr4__aYuOyp2-bdIvex9Zkn4KDy0eXl4ejabq0g-V1kHHB-KLJGCemMwpPbIjZItw8VELOaJEBOZWFNyJ9mSz9zUf40RbhqYo/w640-h480/thumbnail+%25281%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>We have been making various videos following "Maid In Singapore" release as a novel. </p><p>Extra hard to shoot it during the pandemic!!</p><p><br /></p>
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<p> </p><div><br /></div><div>Behind-The-Scenes...</div><div><br /></div><div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lo0vsUsseBM" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Media Interviews:</div><div><br /></div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HoMTFgttCa0" width="560"></iframe><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Radio FM 973</div><div><br /></div><div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YCgNaSuCksQ" width="560"></iframe> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>There will be more events coming up...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-jGBZaeJaKF4hl9AmhuoYAsxoSiO6dbaO9aCwq7TXjrvGFgQX-_pHv6MYjJyhGe023mKrZv-oeHoJl5cservgkX2gaAfncJKDK5r7HnMjxeTCsZgp95k2pqd9ZV09_J-pQDc6IJ_wa8/s843/9fc7bdae-3a14-4a58-8994-c6aca30626f4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="843" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-jGBZaeJaKF4hl9AmhuoYAsxoSiO6dbaO9aCwq7TXjrvGFgQX-_pHv6MYjJyhGe023mKrZv-oeHoJl5cservgkX2gaAfncJKDK5r7HnMjxeTCsZgp95k2pqd9ZV09_J-pQDc6IJ_wa8/w640-h640/9fc7bdae-3a14-4a58-8994-c6aca30626f4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br />Have a Merry Christmas! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRkdBo10Y1AFrleRgPbccbcEBZRy5fTi6oZFJ-3JnGgjGh8Uh2vOicsjilGNjlSlTuLeTXxospDCAGuJAhYaLznP8fbnwEG-YmJIcJMwpVmsM_YUvqowsj7g42xYjTmYmpqEmoTNh59c/s720/christmas+%25284%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRkdBo10Y1AFrleRgPbccbcEBZRy5fTi6oZFJ-3JnGgjGh8Uh2vOicsjilGNjlSlTuLeTXxospDCAGuJAhYaLznP8fbnwEG-YmJIcJMwpVmsM_YUvqowsj7g42xYjTmYmpqEmoTNh59c/w640-h480/christmas+%25284%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRkdBo10Y1AFrleRgPbccbcEBZRy5fTi6oZFJ-3JnGgjGh8Uh2vOicsjilGNjlSlTuLeTXxospDCAGuJAhYaLznP8fbnwEG-YmJIcJMwpVmsM_YUvqowsj7g42xYjTmYmpqEmoTNh59c/s720/christmas+%25284%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /></div></div>michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-38925225381424985562020-09-12T02:43:00.013-07:002020-10-22T21:03:03.993-07:00Maid In Singapore - Ready to Ship!!!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisqBn39pi7RhKoD2cZfZFe9Vvj9EE2_1tFwtZL03Q0m5Ji1kHdXxyoZxNpB9T3l-Cs-sCi_g73uYuNO2awyAqOcbtBLgNF6a-Ii3dy-PiN4kT_PlJfScjLrOGooxjkaIT_vlbFOP2klLU/s2000/Orderform+header_0000001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisqBn39pi7RhKoD2cZfZFe9Vvj9EE2_1tFwtZL03Q0m5Ji1kHdXxyoZxNpB9T3l-Cs-sCi_g73uYuNO2awyAqOcbtBLgNF6a-Ii3dy-PiN4kT_PlJfScjLrOGooxjkaIT_vlbFOP2klLU/w640-h480/Orderform+header_0000001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">. <br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: 0in;">. <br /></span><span face=""segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0066ff; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">SG$16 per copy in Singapore.<br /></span><span face=""segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0066ff; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">US$19 per copy outside Singapore.<br /></span><b style="font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0066ff;">FREE DELIVERY<br /></span></b><span face=""segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">.<br /></span><span face=""segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>TO ORDER:</b><br /></span><span style="text-indent: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>1.</b> C</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: 0in;">lick <a href="https://form.jotform.com/202538080612448" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>. </span><span style="font-size: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="text-indent: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>2. 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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wrote this novel "Maid In Singapore" in six months </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from conception to ready-for-print. Quite fast,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> thanks to the pandemic Lockdown. As acting gigs ground to a halt, I found myself having this luxury of time in hand for creative work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This novel is inspired by the maids that I have met in Singapore, what they have told me, the stories I have picked up from employers and maid agencies, the sleazy bars that I have wandered into and the rapid rise of online influencers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As of the year 2019, there were about 250,000 maids in Singapore with one in five households employing a maid; this is up from the year 1990 when there were 50,000 maids and one in thirteen households employing a maid in Singapore. These maids help with general household chores, cooking, elderly care, infant care or caring for disabled members of the employer's family. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having a live-in maid is no longer a luxury in Singapore. Some people would even perceive it as a necessity, as married couples both hold jobs and will need help in the housework and childcare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While there are some articles about maids in the press, they are mostly superficial and cursory accounts of their life. In the extreme, they are ugly cases of maid abuses. There are few accounts about what these maids' inner thoughts and aspirations are.</span></div>
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never easy. They work long hours each day away from home, living in somebody
else's house. With poverty lurking back home, the need to make money to pull their
family out of poverty, spurs them to push on. However, amid the hardship,
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is probably too painful to write a social-realistic documentary about maids in Singapore and hence this fictional romantic comedy so that we can all laugh about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is a sub-culture in Singapore that most people would not stop and look amid the hasty urban life and architecturally glamorous cityscape.</span></div>
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Cepat Jalan (quick march) is a prequel of <a href="http://michael-chua.blogspot.com/2012/03/hentak-kaki.html" target="_blank">Hentak Kaki</a> (marching on the spot). A full-length feature film script has been written and here is the concept trailer:</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Date: 1st July 2020</span><br />
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Executive Producers: Elliot Chan, David Murphy, Michael Chua<br />
Written and directed: Michael Chua<br />
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"Afterlife" is a sci-fi short film produced and directed by Sydney based Singaporean Perry Lam. It is part of Storeys, a series of original short films about Singapore, supported by Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and supervised by a talent company, CreativesAtWork.</div>
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The protagonist is played by Kris Mavericko. I played a supporting role of Eric, the repairman. Ok, no more spoilers, let us watch the film now:</div>
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Many of us probably have someone departed that we love and miss very much. Therefore, it is plausible that in the future, we might use holograms to remind us of them. This will take off when prices for the device become affordable to most people, like the smart phone. Even better, may be holographic projection capabilities will be built into future generations of mobile phone models.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With the holographic Mirage (Agnes Goh). Thank you Popular Book Store for letting us use their premises.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From left to right: Kris, Agnes Goh and Perry Lam, the writer, producer and director.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Chinese Folk Religion Altar was Kris' suggestion, and so it was added.</td></tr>
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I met Uncle Choo soon after the Cup was won at his sports shop in Plaza Singapura. I remember him to be a tall man with a booming voice. We were curious teens who had heard of his sports shop and wanted to steal a glimpse of him. He noticed us and ushered us to come into his shop.</div>
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<br />michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-17820708715263666762019-12-08T23:39:00.002-08:002019-12-12T05:53:10.070-08:00Asia TV Forum 2019 - What I Have Learnt<br />
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I have learned the following from the 20th Asia TV Forum & Market 2019 held at Marina Bay Sands Expo from 3rd to 6th December 2019:<br />
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<b>1. Streaming</b><br />
The video streaming market in the year 2019 is worth USD25 billion and is projected to double by the year 2023. Free-to-air TV will fade away to streaming video-on-demand and subscribed (paid) video-on-demand (SVOD). The SVOD space is getting very crowded with Amazon, Apple & Disney, joining Netflix and HBO in the global market, among the many incumbents. I think the year 2020 will be a blood bath for SVOD players.<br />
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<b>2. Community based TV</b><br />
These networks create special interest group communities through social network and crowdsourced ideas, putting these ideas to a vote in the community. The selected ideas/content are then developed using resources, crowdfunded from the community. Eg. The Chinese LGBT community.<br />
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<b>3. Alliances</b><br />
Strategic Alliances that create online entertainment that is pertinent to specific end customers with special needs. For instance, creating videos appropriate for airline or bus rides, like ensuring that the content family friendly, tab bite-sized duration and easily downloaded/viewed from the mobile phone. That means planning visuals for the very small screen.<br />
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<b>4. Format</b><br />
The viewership of long form videos (more than 20mins) are overtaken by short form videos in the year 2018.<br />
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Further, micro-form videos like Tik Tok, Haokan, KuaiShou,...etc are gaining traction very rapidly and may overtake short form videos. Micro-form videos started in the 3rd and 4th tier cities in China, initially catering to young people 15-30 years old. It has now spread to big cities and a cross-section of demographic.<br />
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Sponsors like shorter or micro videos because they are easier to plant brand advertising in them and monetise.<br />
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<b>5. Product placements</b><br />
Brands have invaded the short form space. For true story telling unfettered by advertising, short films will have to be funded from sources independent from commercialism. Eg. 15 Shorts and Storeys, in Singapore.<br />
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<b>6. Making content travel</b><br />
a. This can happen by leveraging on countries with similar language and cultural background.<br />
b. Using actors that are known in the countries you are selling to.<br />
c. Remaking of content with actors local to the target market.<br />
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<b>7. Good Content </b><br />
Good content will live longer in the Internet ecosystem of Over-The-Top (OTT) web streaming platforms, as it gets relaunched and re-licensed many times in many platforms.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Other posts..</b></span>.<br />
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<a href="http://michael-chua.blogspot.com/2019/02/asia-tv-forum-2018-what-i-have-learned.html" target="_blank">ATF 2018 - What I Have Learned</a><br />
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<a href="http://michael-chua.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-future-of-cinema-and-tv.html" target="_blank">The Future of Cinema and TV</a><br />
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<br />michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-1505100680547246952019-10-13T23:42:00.002-07:002019-10-16T20:12:35.782-07:00Review - So Long, My Song (地久天长) (2019)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SHOULD BE THE MONTH OF <span style="color: red;"><b>OCTOBER 2019!!! </b></span></span></td></tr>
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<i>"So Long, My Son"</i> could well be called <i>"So Long this Movie", </i>as you would have had 3 hours taken away from your life if you had watched it. It is something the producer and director <a class="fl" data-ved="2ahUKEwj1-JXFkJvlAhU68HMBHV4lC_kQmxMoATADegQIDBAU" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?client=opera&hs=e7w&sxsrf=ACYBGNQPstHgyUrHegSROYC_qwUqHPc83Q:1571034757437&q=Wang+Xiaoshuai&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LVT9c3NExPj7coNDEzV-LUz9U3MI8vMMzVEstOttJPy8zJBRNWKZlFqckl-UWLWPnCE_PSFSIyE_OLM0oTMwHLGX7mRQAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1-JXFkJvlAhU68HMBHV4lC_kQmxMoATADegQIDBAU" style="color: #1a0dab; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Wang Xiaoshuai</a> ought to reflect on. </div>
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There are numerous extraneous scenes that could have easily landed on the editing room cutting floor and had it reduced to a 90-minute film. There are also numerous confusing scene flashbacks that are swapped in-and-out among three time zones within the story. I think if the editor had wanted to confuse the audience and then call it art, then he would have certainly succeeded.</div>
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While the film has interesting content, the tensions are not built up gradually into a climax, but instead they go through a repeating saw-toothed up-and-down journey on a relatively flat plain. This makes it quite a drag at times.</div>
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<span style="color: #1d2228;">The film won the </span><span style="background-color: #fffbf4; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "galaxie polaris" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.5555px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Silver Bear (Best Actor & Best Actress) awards</span><span style="color: #1d2228;"> in the 69th Berlin International Film Festival this year</span><i style="color: #1d2228;">.</i><span style="color: #1d2228;">Wang Jingchun and Yong Mei definitely deserve the award, as they fleshed out their characters brilliantly. Their characters go through a series of excruciating grief - the grief of losing their son, of losing friends, of finding them back, of living through the changing political climates in China,...etc.</span></div>
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In all, it is a film worth catching if you do not mind killing 3 hours away. In the era of Youtube and Netflix, I suspect this will not go down well with the majority of people.</div>
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I watched it at the Asian Film Archive's Oldham Theatre.</div>
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If you are interested to catch it, click <a href="https://www.asianfilmarchive.org/events/new-release-so-long-my-son-%E5%9C%B0%E4%B9%85%E5%A4%A9%E9%95%BF-2019/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/364996828">SO LONG MY SON by Wang Xiaoshuai (Singapore Trailer)</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/anticipatepictures">Anticipate Pictures</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Thank you Pitch Media Asia for having me as a guest in Episode 6 of Sounds of Our City Podcast to talk </span><span style="text-align: justify;">about "The Languages of Singapore".</span></div>
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The interview location was at Swiss Hotel Merchant Court at Clarke Quay, Singapore River. My father's shop was just across the road at New Market Street and the hotel location was where my father's godown (warehouse) used to be. Read Bridge connects the hotel side of the river bank to the other side where my father used to live. He lived in a tiny room in a shop house with my mum and six of my siblings. We lived there until we got a two-bedroom flat at Redhill Close. Then, it was such a big relief in terms of space by the standards of those days. However by today's standards, we were still cramped up like sardines.<br />
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The hotel area is where the Teochew quarters used to be. Teochews are seafarers and traders and we are used to live near rivers and ports. So once upon a time, you would find Teochews around the Singapore River and Hougang (the river behind). There are still more Teochews living in Hougang till this day.<br />
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For more about how Singapore used to be in the 1960s, click <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-was-Singapore-like-during-the-1960s/answer/Michael-Chua-20" target="_blank">here</a> (warning: a very long, but worthy article to read.)<br />
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To get enough gigs as an actor in Singapore, one has to be multi-lingual. I act in English, Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese and Teochew. I have also acted in Malay, Japanese and Thai. The same act delivered in a different language evokes a different emotion. I don't know why it is so exactly and can only guess that subconsciously there must be a powerful association among the sounds, meaning and memories that results in the different emotions.<br />
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It is an advantage to be able to speak different languages. When I speak the language native to the place, the locals lean towards me and I often get away with a lot of things. :)<br />
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To know about languages of Singapore and listen to the full interview, click <a href="https://soundcloud.com/soundsofourcity/languages-of-singapore-part-2-mandarin-teochew" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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For my interview by "A Hero's Journey", click <a href="https://michael-chua.blogspot.com/search/label/Media%20Interview" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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For my interview by Lush Magazine, click <a href="http://michael-chua.blogspot.com/2019/06/we-are-very-flattered-that-we-are.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://michael-chua.blogspot.com/2012/11/my-radio-interview-at-988.html" target="_blank"><img height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJIYZ4xLrvvRZu6uBAzRqmYTWo97qg2jvKmSfuA9SM5L89xREFWyIm7-hWFvVlsdL-M6uG5Luk1-kZiOBv0esg9ht6ja0al3WpbsTpSgWxth1B0KDAOILU75TBwqX0Fbc7g54iPSIUldo/s200/IMG_20121101_183840.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
For my interview by Internet Radio 988, click <a href="https://michael-chua.blogspot.com/2012/11/my-radio-interview-at-988.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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For my interview by RSVP, click <a href="https://michael-chua.blogspot.com/2015/05/interview-by-rsvp-singapore.html" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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<br />michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11867685967275729776noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203505239937601953.post-27188455055722954942019-07-25T19:29:00.004-07:002019-07-26T03:59:55.593-07:00The Hero's Journey<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For the full interview, click <a href="https://theherojourney2016.wordpress.com/2019/07/23/the-heros-journey-of-michael-chua/" target="_blank">here</a>.</td></tr>
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The Oxford Dictionary defines a hero as: "A person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities."<br />
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So it is an honour to be interviewed by The Hero's Journey's Peter Kuster.<br />
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The Hero's Journey is a guide to people who makes money doing what they love, living in various great cities around the world.<br />
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I would also like to take this opportunity to send my tributes and love to the many unsung heroes out there. Particularly those who have taken the plunge to live their passions in the arts: to be a professional singer, musician, dancer, actor, sculptor, painter,...etc. I understand the hardeous, but satisfying journey that you are undertaking.<br />
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For the full interview, click <a href="https://theherojourney2016.wordpress.com/2019/07/23/the-heros-journey-of-michael-chua/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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For the other interviews I have been in:<br />
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