Wednesday, February 21, 2007

For The Campus Superstars 2007 Wannabes



I noticed a recent buzz across the blogs about how many students are deeply inspired by the first Campus Superstar competition in 2006 and want to join the next round of competition and give a personal shot at superstardom.

I decided to share a little bit more about the preparations needed for the competition. After all, music is about sharing and if my suggestions can somehow uplift the quality of the competition in 2007, it is still a good thing in the long run. Who am I? I am just another person who wish to see the true talents being discovered and continue to grow and shine for the sake of everyone else who loves music.

The most important thing is - do you learn more about yourself and singing in the remaining of the blog post before you sign up for the competition?

Knowledge of Songs & Personas (歌曲的了解):

How many songs do you know? I don't mean the number of songs, but the songs which you truly understand what the song means, what the song is trying to portray, who the song persona is, what the storyline behind the song is all about and the intensity of emotions in singing the song.

Most people know how to sing songs, but if they don't have the intimate knowledge of the songs that they are singing, they are only skimming the surface of the songs and thus can never move the audience with their songs, no matter how good their voices are. Sadly, such singers only know the lyrics, the notes and pitching but nothing about the songs themselves.

Listen to the songs on my main music playlist on my blog - do you know some of them? Do you know why the songs are sung in that manner and not in any other format? Do you know the storyline behind the song lyrics? If you do, good for you and continue to work on learning more about songs, which is more than lyrics, notes and pitching. If you don't or find yourself lacking in such an area, please start doing your homework on songs now.

Knowledge of Singing Capabilities (实力的了解):

How developed are your singing capabilities? It is not merely about how many songs you can sing at the KTV before your voice gets hoarse. It is also about the notes that you can reach, the notes that you can't reach, the genre of songs that you can portray well, the ones you can't mimick at all, the depth and variation of notes and pitching that you can manage, the amount of lyrics that you can memorize in a given time, the level of tempo you can keep up with, the amount of improvement that you can make before you hit the stage.

Be very sure of what you can do and cannot do because the stage is not the place for you to discover your strengths and weaknesses. The stage is for you to show the people what you have to offer to become a Campus Superstar. Once onstage, the audience, or at least I myself, will have little tolerance of wastage of attention on singers who don't seem to know what they are doing. Whatever preparations or training should have already been done beforehand.

Knowledge of Stage Capabilities (舞台的了解):

Being a Campus Superstar means far more than being able to sing, you will also need a comprehensive set of stage skills in order to meet the audience, impress them visually with the clothes you wear and the stage movements you have, interact with them, wave to them, smile to them. Can you dance, do any footwork, move according to the music, react accordingly to the stage lighting, respond accordingly to the cameras facing you while you sing and of course, handle the sheer stress of just being in front of hundreds of screaming or staring members of the audience. Add all of these to the strain of the stage lighting plus remembering the director's cues and instructions.

Sounds a little tough and complicated? It is. I feel that there is no easier way to put it across. I am not here to frighten you. I am here to tell you what it is necessary to become a stage-sensitive Superstar. Few can handle all of the above stage skills overnight and practice is an essential process. Do you have enough practice? If not, what are you going to do about it? Go get your practice now then.


Knowledge of Your Motivation (动力的了解):

Behind all the physically accountable work onstage and offstage, your personal motivation deep down inside you to push forward is the engine behind your mental efforts.

What are you doing in the competition? Are you seeking personal fame and fortune? Are you working for the gloryof your school? Are you trying to prove something to family, friends, boyfriends or girlfriends? Are you seeking media attention so that you can pursue other careers like acting or hosting? Are you singing for the crazy fun and hectic madness of the competition?

If you are sure about your motivation, go ahead and sign up on the 16th and 17th March 2007. If you are not, find your true motivation first before signing up or you may have a harder time rather than enjoy the competition process.


Good luck to all the future participants and contestants of the Campus Superstars 2007! Jia you! May the best person wins the competition!

Music clears the mind, fills the heart, moves the soul."


(Quote source: Sean Ho 14 Feb 2006)

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

20 February 2007 End of the Day Post


I woke up at around 9am and realized that since it was going to be an indoors day, I decided to grab the morning's opportunity for a good map in Maple Story - the zombies map. It was a good decision as I literally ripped the map and the zombies apart with my formidable attacks. But the smooth training streak soon ran into a commotion as my mother was complaining that she had forgotten to buy rock sugar to prepare some birds' nest soup for the coming visitors for Chinese New Year.

So off I left the hard-gotten map (the journey to the zombies from El Nath was horribly dangerous) and rushed off to get those packets of rock sugar. When I was done, I went back to the zombies and luck of all luck, the map remained miraculously empty even though it was supposed to be one of those maps that could be sold for over 100k mesos by players hoarding the maps.

The guests arrived at around 12pm and we had a sumptuous lunch of duck, seafood soup, cocktails, salmon, and of course, yu sheng, since most of us would be working the next day. Lunch's dessert was the birds' nest soup, which I contributed by jogging to the supermarket so that the soup could be prepared in time.

I took the liberty of the afternoon to buy two of my favourite VCDs, which I have delayed purchase for quite some time now - X-men III and Curse of the Golden Flower. I liked the two movies because of the emotional conflict and turmoil enacted by the characters in the storylines and it was great spending time and money on things that I really like to keep. Knowing that my aunt, who always spends CNY with us, had never seen the Curse of the Golden Flower, I ran the VCD on my desktop and she and my mother moved their chairs to watch the movie together with chocolates on their laps. It was a fun VCD watching moment together.

Dinner was a simple affair of light food because lunch was really heavy on the stomach and thank god for the light dinner because I was pretty mad with one of the characters in Maple Story, who was saying how selfish maplers were in map training and he was raiding my zombie map as he spoke about sharing maps. Such a super-hypocrite. I chosed to forgive him because I did not want to start anything messy online since it was still Chinese New Year so I took my maple chair and rested at a safe spot until he left the map ten minutes later even though I was fully capable of wresting the map from that hypocrite. I am glad I survived another test at keeping my anger under control.

I spent the remaining of the evening reading and answering posts from the supporters of Teresa on idollic.com/teresa. Some of them are such fervent supporters of the young girl that it would be hard to imagine their reactions if the new upcoming Campus Superstars 2 competition starts doing egg-throwing comparisons between the 1st and the 2nd batch of Campus Superstars. I hope I would be ready to defuse the situations then and keep the support focused. They are good people basically but some of them are still too young to understand how complicated and ugly the music and entertainment scene (in any country) can get when the stakes run high.

I fixed up some of the broken music links on my music playlist so that the songs can be played properly. And I think the last item for the day would be to finish typing this blog post and publish it before I go to bed. Tomorrow would be another working day and the CNY public holidays would be over. I hope it will be a good year ahead. I leave today's blog post with a song by Jay Zhou. Enjoy~


The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is
the attribute of the strong.


By: Mahatma Gandhi Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)


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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Happy Chinese New Year 2007


18 Feb 2007 End of Chinese New Year Day One Post:

I started the new year talking to Sushi Rabbit on the MSN, who was pretty distressed about her studies because they were mountainous, even during the Chinese New Year holidays. Those professors were so inhumane and not understanding about giving students a break during holidays. I was hoping to cheer her up. Hoped I had managed to do that.

After the MSN-ing, I was typing an email to Teresa, praising her for the good performance given during the Chinese New Year Live Show. I thought the performance was pretty important because it was the major CNY show on television and most of Singapore's CNY-celebrating people would be watching it after the reunion dinners. Thankfully, the girl did not disappoint and managed to leave everyone a very good impression of her.

After a five hour sleep, I woke up at 8.30am to have the first breakfast of the new Chinese Lunar Year and to my family, it was just as important as the reunion dinner and the table was laid out in some of the most delicious cakes, tarts, karopok, grilled meat, beverages and everyone was there to have a nice, leisurely breakfast.

We followed the usual tradition of a family movie together and left for Orchard Cineleisure to watch the locally-made movie "Just Follow Law". The movie was entertaining in its own right, making comical jabs at the inefficiencies of the civil service sector in Singapore but I personally don't think it is a suitable movie for Chinese New Year and the jokes were targeted not really at the general audience but specifically at the civil servants.


After the movie, I gave my parents, aunt and brother a later lunch treat at 2Hot Halal Cafe at The Esplanade. We had some really interesting and delicious courses such as asian salad, grilled lamb and marsala fish & chips. The grilled lamb was pretty skilfully done and I promised myself to go back again for more of it.

The final Chinese New Year family tradition is the visit to the Singapore River Hongbao Festival Fair near the Esplanade and although it was drizzling intermittently, the whole family managed to slowly sift through the stalls and took photographs of the usual God of Fortune statue as well as an interesting golden tree where people kept throwing coins to sound the bell intertwined in the trunk of that tree.

The rain got bigger by the time we finished the tour of the festival fair and we hailed a cab back home to enjoy the rest of the Chinese New Year Day One in the luxury of the living room in front of the television. Am glad that the year started and ended with an eventful yet peaceful day.

(Image Source: m constant, 28 Jan 2006, stock.xchng)

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

14 Feb Valentine's Day / Friendship's Day 2007 Post



My Valentine's Day Music Playlist:

Hmm.. I decided to do something different from my usual long wordy blog entries, avoiding using too many words to ride on this day's theme of love and friendship.

Instead, I have included a personalized music playlist (click on the section title three lines above or simply click here) because since I am more familiar with music and songs, I shall use them to tell the story of love instead. I hope the thirty-nine songs that I have selected can accompany all of you who are visiting my blog through this day which is meant to celebrate love and friendship. No matter where you are, I really believe music can indeed clears one's mind, fills one's heart, and of course, moves one's soul.

Happy Valentine's/Friendship Day to everyone! =)


Love is the unconditional giving and acceptance of everything
treasured between two persons with the beating heart of
one.


(Quote source: Sean Ho, 14 Feb 2006, 14 Feb Valentine's Day/Friendship Day 2007 Post)

Saturday, February 10, 2007

One of My Best Buddies' Wedding Day


My apologies to all those following my blog that I have taken so long to blog again. Last Sunday was one of my best buddies' wedding day and I was totally committed to helping him survive his big day with very little sleep in-between. It took me a couple of days to recover those missed hours of rest and when my work piles up, I could only blog until now.

The wedding tested my organizational abilities intensely because I was designated as "The Stage Master" for the entire wedding day and my responsibilities were one long and complicated list. Here's how it started:

1) I received a call from my best friend (the groom) on Saturday night around 8pm, calling me to try to reach his new house as soon as I could because he had "some important details" which he wanted to discuss with me. It turned out to be his entire wedding plan. Haha....

2) After a quick bath and packing my suit and all, I took a cab and reached his place by 10.30pm and he brought me to his LCD computer terminal to show me his "battle plan" for his big day.

3) We sat there and discussed the flow of events until 11pm before another of my best buddy came along - The Changed Man. He would be the main "Operations Manager" for the whole wedding and his responsibilities were even more complicated than mine.

4) By 12am, all three of us were fervourly preparing what we were supposed to do - the groom (aka The Married Soldier) was rehearsing the wedding day's procedures with The Changed Man while I was busy trying to put together the wedding day's soundtrack for all the events a few hours later.

5) 4.30am - Bleary-eyed, all three of us managed the best that we could and forced ourselves to grab some sleep before the big day dawned in a couple of hours. It had been quite a while since I had worked for the near entire length of the night and I was soon fast asleep.

6) 6.30am - Quick Breakfast of two char siew buns and a packet of chrysanthemum tea and I was off to get dressed in white shirt and khaki pants to prepare for the trip to the bride's place.

7) 8.30am - We had a funny encounter (we called it "The moment of hesitation") on the way to the bride's place when the Married Soldier guided the entire convoy to the whole exit on the expressway. The Changed Man then quirked "Hey, buddy, there is still time for you to change your mind". Hysterical laughter followed inside the bridal car and we joked about how the Married Soldier was buying some more time to reconsider the whole thing but his face eventually settled down to that of determination and we safely reached the bride's place at 9.10am.

8) Knocking down the bride's door took longer than expected as The Married Soldier was supposed to dance with a caterpillar on his suit, do some pole-dancing with the poor caterpillar, drink some obnoxious concoction from the bride's friends, retrieve the key from an iron mug filled with hard frozen ice, sing a song for the bride, and piece out the bride's name using slices of bread and only his mouth.

9) 10am - I took a small group of people back to The Married Soldier's new house to prepared for the Tea Ceremony for the bride's parents and I quickly took the opportunity to recharge the two laptops that I was supposed to bring for that day's wedding banquet as well as finish up the wedding soundtrack's song selection and burning the songs onto audio CDs.

10) 12.30pm - The Tea Ceremony commenced and the bride's parents were kind enough to bring lunch to the place and I helped myself to some of the bee hoon, roasted pig and lots of packet drinks. Was really famished and needed to replenish myself since I had less than two hours of continuous sleep on Saturday night, topped by alot of standing for two of Teresa Tseng's roadshows on Saturday.

11) 2pm - With only the bride, groom, The Changed Man and myself left, the four of us began to pack for all the necessary equipment needed to bring to the wedding banquet and it was like at least four big suitcases. We reached the hotel and bridal suite room by 2.30pm and both The Changed Man and myself immediately plugged ourselves to the laptops because I needed to do a final check on the wedding soundtrack as the bride wanted specific songs to be played during some specific events at the hotel. The Changed Man was full of concentration working on his photo montage to be screened at the wedding banquet in a matter of hours.

12) With countless trips made between the bridal hotel suite and the banquet room, both The Changed Man and myself busied ourselves with all the necessary details to tie down with the hotel personnel about the wedding banquet procedures and all these took about three hours before I started to prepare for the wedding solemnization for the couple.

13) 6.30pm - Wedding solemnization was completed and I waited until everyone left the room before I rushed over to the wedding banquet room where the rehearsal for the swordbearers had already started and I was supposed to coordinate the sound and the video montage as well as the photo montage.

14) 7.30pm - The guests were slowly filling in the banquet room and I crossed my fingers, hoping that everything would work out fine for the newly-married couple. The photo montage was finally ready and everything was in place for the night's event to carry on.

15) 8.00pm - The wedding dinner officially started and the video montage, the march-in of the couple, the swordbearers' guard went smoothly and when the first dish was served, both The Changed Man and I heaved a short sigh of relief before we made ourselves a little more comfortable by seating ourselves at one of the dinner tables and eating a couple of the dishes before the second march-in of the couple came along with the photo montage. Dinner was delicious and especially more so for both of us who were famished but dared to eat at ease because we had so many things on our minds then about the proceedings of the banquet.

16) 10pm - The wedding banquet was finally over and both The Changed Man and myself were again the last two persons to leave the banquet room and we watched quietly as The Married Soldier promised to his his in-laws about how he would treat his bride after they were married.

17) 11pm - The Married Soldier, The Changed Man and myself ended the whole wedding with a huge group hug. The Married Soldier was still trying to find words to thank The Changed Man and myself for our parts in the wedding. The two of us just smiled - that's what buddies are for. Amidst the thanks and the promise of a thank-you meal by the newly-married couple, we gave them our warmest blessings. The two of us left the hotel shortly afterwards.

Well, that was it. Time for me to sleep. Tomorrow would be a long day of lessons again. I would not be able to attend Teresa's Chinese New Year Album Promotion roadshow at Bishan Junction 8 but I hope the girl will do well anyway.

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an
imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

By: Dave Meurer, "Daze of Our Wives"

(Image source: stanltp, 19 Dec 2005, stock.xchng)
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Saturday, February 03, 2007

Report on Teresa at CNY Album Promo Roadshow at Northpoint & Causeway Point on 3rd Feb


Report on Teresa at CNY Album Promo Roadshow at Northpoint & Causeway Point on 3rd Feb

Hi faithful supporters of Teresa!

Sorry for the late report because I just reached home after a long day’s worth attending the roadshows in which Teresa has made her most recent public appearance. Please kindly bear with the lengthy report because it contains two roadshows, which happened consecutively on the same day.

The 1pm Roadshow at Northpoint in Yishun:

After my morning lesson has ended at 11am, I went to Causeway point to grab some lunch from BreadTalk before making my way down to Northpoint in Yishun. I reached there at around 11.30am and Xiangrui joined me shortly at the second row in front of the small stage outside the main entrance of Northpoint Shopping Centre.

We began chatting and catching up until 12pm when the crowd around the stage area began to increase significantly in size. When it was around 1.05pm, Teresa, Zhiyang and Renfred and Adriano, appeared at the side of the stage and caused quite a stir from the crowd but the three of them were recalled backstage as the emcees of the roadshow have not went onto the stage yet.

The roadshow began with two celebrities from another upcoming drama and Teresa only appeared at around 2pm after the senior actors of Let It Shine had completed their onstage games and activities. Of course, the screaming and cheering reactions of the crowd when the four of them appeared, obviously showed that the young Campus Superstars were the true highlight of the roadshow after much waiting.

Appearance of Teresa at Northpoint and Causeway Point:


MC King and Xu Qi were the emcees of both the roadshows today and they were very quick-witted with their stage management and interviewing of the celebrities. Teresa was dressed in a small white over-jacket with a thin, lacey top beneath, blue denim jeans and short black pointed heels.

Although she was not as elaborately dressed as the other three male Campus Superstars who are decked out in heavier and gaudier jackets and accessories, Teresa’s casual and relaxed outfit today still managed to grab the attention of the photographers and cameramen who occupied most of the front rows of the stage. The light-ness of her outfit today made a comfortable contrast with Zhiyang’s and Adriano’s strong white and Renfred’s strong dark maroon outfits.

I personally think that the girl is making a good fashion statement to all those present who have the eye for good taste, even though she is in a more casual outfit than the one in Hougang Mall and I hope she will be endorsing some fashion label soon enough. As she appeared onstage. Teresa did not forget to face and smile at the clicking cameras and video-cameras and I have points added due to her careful and gracious attention to the media. I believe somewhere within all of that clicking and filming, Teresa managed to recognize and smiled at me in the crowd. Teresa, for your information, Xiangrui was standing on my right and the idollic.com administrator was holding the video-camera over our heads. Gaara_undead from idollic.com was somewhere in the crowd as well.

4.1) Fashion appeal and impression (4 out of 5 marks)
4.2) Suitability for song genre (Not applicable)
4.3) Suitability for stage movement (Not applicable)
4.4) Suitability for lighting effects (4 out of 5 marks)
4.5) Suitability for image of performer (4 out of 5 marks)

My grading For Teresa for her Stage Attire is 12 of out 15 marks. Well done.

Stage Activities of Teresa at Northpoint:

MC King and Xu Qi were the emcees of both the roadshows today and they were very quick-witted with their stage management and interviewing of the celebrities, making them one unique challenge for Teresa and the rest of the Campus Superstars as they tried to answer their sometimes razor-sharp comments and questions.

Initially, Teresa was chided by MC King for speaking too softly because MC King said Teresa is already a Superstar and thus must make a stronger attempt at announcing her name and presence to all the audience around the stage. I find no fault in this and I hope Teresa will develop the kind of confidence necessary. Teresa reintroduced herself in a much clearer and jovial voice and that was a big improvement. Teresa began to answer some questions posed by the emcees about her acting experience in Let It Shine and her answering of emcee questions had indeed improved from her previous showing at Hougang Mall because she managed to answer in an audible and attentive manner. However, the emcees were so excitable and talkative that Teresa’s answering segment was heavily punctuated by the emcees’ bantering with each other instead.

The emcees then put Teresa and Renfred in one group and Zhiyang and Adriano in another group. With another additional contestant from the public in each of the two groups, all of them began playing a game of guessing the song titles of Chinese New Year songs and getting the public contestants to sing a couple of lines from those Chinese New Year songs. Being reserved and pretty much unknowledgeable about those CNY songs, Teresa’s group did pretty badly and was trounced 2-4 in the end. But Teresa maintained good gamesmanship and flashed her megawatt smile throughout the game.

A couple things for Teresa to consider though – One, try to avoid supporting the microphone hand with the other hand because crossing the hand over your waist implies a less positive body language. Two, you should make an effort to communicate with the public contestant(s) in your stage activity group, as a gesture of friendliness and thoughtfulness to these contestants who are probably very nervous onstage.

3.1) Stage posture (4 out of 5 marks)
3.2) Stage movement (Not applicable)
3.3) Audience interaction (3.5 out of 5 marks)
3.4) Camera interaction (4 out of 5 marks)
3.5) Mcee interaction (3.5 out of 5 marks)

My grading for Teresa for her Stage Presentation at Northpoint is 15 out of 20 marks. Still can improve a little bit more.

After the game, prizes were awarded for the participating public contestants and the four Campus Superstars were joined by all the remaining celebrities from the roadshow to start giving out empty hong-bao packets to members of the audience there. Xiangrui left for the foodcourt to get some rest on his legs and a drink and I continued to stay back with the idollic.com administrator to watch that segment. As there was a total of 500 hong-bao packets to be given out, all the celebrities were lined up onstage and the audience could get handshakes from a few of the celebrities they liked and get an hong-bao packet from any of the celebrities.

That became quite a long segment in the roadshow because Adam Chen and Zhiyang were the first two celebrities lined up when the audience went onstage and most of the audience at Northpoint were supporting the two of them. In the end, Teresa and the rest of the celebrities had a little trouble giving out the hong-bao packets on their hands.

By that time, the idollic.com administrator had finished filming the Northpoint roadshow and I encouraged him to go onto the stage because he had always wanted have closer contact with Teresa and he finally went up and shook her hands and took an hong-bao packet. Kenneth also went onstage and did the same and for those interested in his experience, you can read his post at the idollic.com forum

With less people at the front of the stage, I placed myself right in front of Teresa and watched her and the other celebrities in close proximity giving out the hong-bao packets. As there were too many hong-bao packets, the emcees pitched in and started giving out the packets to the cameramen and photographers at the front row, thanking them for their efforts to record the event and I was given one of those nice hong-bao packets from Xu Qi as well.

With the hong-bao packets given away, the roadshow at Northpoint ended successfully and all the celebrities left for the backstage in the midst of applause and clapping. I limped away from the roadshow because together with Xiangrui, my right foot was being sat on by one of the smaller children squatting at the front row and it took the whole journey to the Yishun MRT station before I could work the blood circulation back in my right foot.


The 4pm Roadshow at Causeway Point in Woodlands:

With Xiangrui and the idollic.com administrator as company, all three of us reached Causeway Point at Woodlands at around 3.20pm. Kenneth could not go for the second roadshow and Xiangrui chosed to position himself at the second floor because he wanted to avoid the difficult plight of having children sitting on his feet again. I took up position right in the front row of the stage behind the barriers (the red carpeted area with a lot of sitting children and their maids and mothers) with the idollic.com administrator on my left and since we arrived early, he began to do his homework reading on his PDA while I stole some time napping (because I was a little concussed with only four hours of sleep – it had been a bad three days of crisis management for me).

The 500-strong crowd at Causeway Point began to stir at around 3.50pm and I spotted the Campus Superstars entering the backstage area. Suddenly, half the crowd in the red carpeted area began to stand up and both the idollic.com administrator and I were forced to follow suit because we would have been trampled if we did not. I really pity the young and shorter children because they were almost totally drowned by the height of the adults thronging into the red carpeted area and both of us were packed like sardines in a matter of seconds.

MC King was at his razor-tongue element at the Causeway Point roadshow and he dealt a tough mocking comment at Zhiyang, Renfred and Teresa respectively. Although Teresa did not exactly laugh at the mocking comment made by MC King about people ignoring Teresa as a budding actor in Let It Shine, Teresa did relatively well but recovering her smile soon enough and avoid retorting the comment. To Teresa: Good call made because MC King would make a further and sharper dig at you if you had retorted him. It is his personal style as an emcee and he had done so to many celebrities in the entire course of his emcee history.

Stage Activities of Teresa at Causeway Point:

Instead of being the third group of celebrities to be called onstage, Teresa and the other three Campus Superstars appeared as the second group and were told to play quite a different stage game. The game was now about getting two opposing contestants sitting opposite of each other and wearing a picture of a celebrity on one’s head. The two contestants were then supposed to alternately ask the other a question about the celebrity on one’s head until one was confident enough to guess the identity of the celebrity on one’s head. Teresa was matched up against Zhiyang at the first round and poor Teresa lost the round because her celebrity to be guessed out was much harder than Zhiyang’s who happened to be Zoe Tay, the previous queen of Caldecott Hill. Who was the celebrity that Teresa was supposed to be guessing but failed to do so? – none other than herself.

Nevertheless, there was much laughter and fun in that round between Zhiyang and Teresa and I personally thought it was quite an interesting segment throwing favorable light onto the two of them because they managed to entertain the audience fairly well with their amusing questions to each other while guessing the celebrities.

After their segment of stage game and plenty of laughter and jokes abound, the senior actors of Let It Shine made their segment interesting as well with the construction of hongbao lanterns and the roadshow ended with the same hong-bao packets giving away segment. I stayed with Teresa all the way till the end of both the hong-bao giving segments in the two roadshows. I must say I was very impressed by how genuinely polite she was to all the members of audience who went onstage. Throughout the entire segment, Teresa was always smiling and saying "Xin Nian Kuai Le" to them and was even bowing gently to those who took the hong-bao packets from her. Her smile never faded and her bows never let up in the lengthy segment and it spoke volumes of how professional and well-mannered she was as a Superstar, compared to some of the celebrities whose smiles had gradually faded and their mild impatience was showing on their faces as the segment drained them.

3.1) Stage posture (4 out of 5 marks)

3.2) Stage movement (4 out 5 marks)
3.3) Audience interaction (4 out of 5 marks)
3.4) Camera interaction (4 out of 5 marks)
3.5) Mcee interaction (3.5 out of 5 marks)

My grading for Teresa for her Stage Presentation at Causeway Point is 19.5 out of 25 marks. Fairly well done.


Well, that’s all for my report. Stay tuned for the video recording from the idollic.com administrator and hopefully, well-taken photographs of Teresa from JR who was supposed to be at the roadshow but he did not contact me about his presence today. Hope he was there today.

I would like to make use of this report to thank all those faithful supporters who went to support Teresa today and for the convenience of all the supporters of Teresa to access this roadshow report, I will duplicate it both
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/teresafc/ and on http://idollic.com/teresa/ for their reading pleasure.

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