Part Time Job - 2003 - ENERGY CONCERT ROADSHOW.

If Oliver hadn't send that SUPER SILLY email below,
I prbbly won't go dig out all the old photos I have.
ALL hard copies photo (cos we dont have digital camera then)
lots of it are present from Energy fans.
Speaking of which, this is one of the most memorable PT job.
not because Kai Zen company still owe us money,
like RM3,000 each..... its gone by now anyway.
But because it was a 2 month long roadshow!!
THOSE WERE THE DAYS,
YOU STILL HAVE THE ENERGY TO DO IT.
ITS UNTHINKABLE FOR ME NOW, haha.
Every Friday, after college,
i will rush home to pack my stuff,
and head to the gathering point in WangsaMaju
(cos we're all students, and most of us live near the college)
where we'll all be picked up by the company 12/14 seater van
and head to various states in the peninsular for promo tour.
Main Objective: To promote Energy's (Taiwan's Boyband) concert
which will happened at the end of two months in Putra Stadium.
For example, Friday midnight, we'll sleep all the way
5 - 6 hours downsouth to Johor Bahru,
when we arrive, breakfast immediately,
we get to work, setting the stage up,
THE STAGE: its a HUGE ASS TRAILER.
(imagine a trailer bigger than SHELL TRUCK,
and it can open up & lay out like a mobile stage!)
We change into our crew shirt,
(sometimes we dont even get to shower first)
go through a briefing and a rundown for the day
and our roadshow will be 10am -11pm / 12am
RUNDOWN
MC INTRO
DANCE INTRO
MC SELL CONCERT SESSION
GAME SESSION WITH PUBLIC
MC SELL SPONSORS SESSION
GAME SESSION WITH PUBLIC
MC SELL CONCERT SESSION
DANCE CLOSING
MC ANNOUNCE BREAK
BREAKTIME
(and repeat that all over again!)
ONE TIME, the promo clash with my midterm exam on Saturday!!
Luckily the promo tour was in KL!! So during my break time
10am - 12pm, one of the crew drove me back to college for exam,
(technically i only have one hour for my paper,
compared to others who had two hours)
afters, we rush back and begin the show at 12pm.
(and i pass the paper, PHEW!)
THE CREW
MC - Fei / Oliver
DANCERS - 5 boys / 2 girls
PROMOTERS - 6 girls
(about a gang of 12 - 13 at each show)Of all, the one partnering with Oliver was the most fun!
cos SOLO is soooooo BORING / TIRING / DEPRESSING.
This last one, is where Energy was right there!!!!
Watching us perform, we were like sooo PROUD of ourselves!
*** giggles giggles crush crush crush.... i was what 19??OLIVER's EMAIL (i'll slap him 50times myself, lol)

Hi there!

We have not met each other for 5 years after the 2003 Energy Concert! And finally we will meet up for steamboat on coming Tuesday night (3/6/2008).

Please find the details for your reference.

Subject: Gathering in Puchong

Confirmed to attend:

1) Handsome Oliver

2) Coco Chua Li Yee

3) Big Mouth Chuen

4) Rain, Sepet Wen Khai

5) Freckle Joan

6) Nicole, formerly was known as Rachel Fun...

7) Tiger teeth Ivy

To be confirmed to attend:

1) Ling Fat Wen

Impossible to attend:

1) Black Bear Fam Wee Siong (coz he is in UK)

Venue:

Please gather in front of Giant Hypermarket (Bandar Puteri Puchong) at 8.00pm, then Ah Chuen will lead us to the steamboat restaurant that he highly recommended. He already reserved table, please DON'T BE LATE and DON'T Fang Fei Ji...

Time:

8.00pm (For those who are late, everybody can slap him / her for 50 times)

Meeting Agenda:

1) To discuss the main reason why Si Fu and Yenny broke up.

2) To discuss when is the right time for Coco to pull off her orthodontics.

3) To discuss why Wen Khai looks like Rain.

Dress Code:

1) Guys: Striking Red Tuxedo with White Rose on left chest

2) Ladies: Striking Red Cheong Sam with White Rose on left breast.

* Finally, I attached some photos which we took during the Energy Concert... You see all your faces 5 years ago, and now you see the mirror....Then you know time waits for no one.

Hope to see you all next Tuesday! Any question may call me....thanks!

Handsome Oliver

Past & Present 2 - IDOLS leads the way.

THESE are SIGNIFICANT.

so significant that i had a really hard time

to decide whether to throw or to give these away!

i guess no one likes The Moffatts anymore do they?

They ruled my life, my taste in music, guys,

pictures, colors, dream profession,

language especially, cos i was a Chinese-Edu kid,

so i had to work extra hard to understand

what the hell are they talking abt in these mags,

i guess this is really the basis of why i fervently

aims to improve my english.... its EVERYTHING!

and it was SCARY but i think its purely a coincident

that my favorite member happened to be Scott,

its a common name aint it in Canada (?_?)

freaky, but i laugh and stash this away.

I feel like a library or something, *** SNEEZES!

I figure I can auction these away to collectors too,

but decide that the music scene is changing so swiftly,

these may not be valuable to anyone anymore,

OK...this is freaky, this is my fav guy from the group 5ive,

his name is Scott too..... this is wayyyy too scary.

BOYBANDS - MY RANKING

1. Westlife

2. 5ive

3. 911

4. 98 Degrees

5. the rest of the boybands in the world

Do you know? these magazines RULED my life from

13 to my college years? can you imagine the amount of

allowance / angpows / part time cash spent on these?

AND this is the MOST EXPENSIVE of that LOT!

I always suffered that big pinch when i pay for it

but i know inside there are lots of

pin-ups / gossips / interviews / lyrics / more pictures

of everyone they i idolize..... LOL~~

yeah and im the kind who scream

when i see a good picture,

(i still do that, dont i??? hahaha)

This is the FIRST EVER concert i attend!

I was 15 years old, i was BEGGING MY DAD,

to let me stay at my friends place so

we could go see The Moffatts together!

I beg, i cried, i wrote a long letter, i wish,

i save RM90 for the tickets and i did

everything i possibly could so he'd let me go.

cos my mom couldnt handle me anymore!

EVENTUALLY, it was 12am when my dad came home,

my eyes were still red and bulgy from crying every night,

he finally said yes, and gave me more pocket money,

and the next morning, i skip school, (@_@)

so i could go to the Concorde Hotel in Shah Alam,

just so we can catch a glimpse (more like STALK)

our favoriteeeee boyband!!!!~~~

it made me feel like the luckiest person on earth

to see them performing LIVE!!!~~ and to sing

along every song and jump and scream

and NO i did not cry, and just hug everyone

after the concert ends, I LOVE THE MOFFATTS!

Suddenly i was 17 & 18 and i no longer go so crazy

about any boybands or idols or whatever....

until I saw this picture in a chinese magazine,

i must emphasize that i HARDLY look at chinese mags,

thats why I can even remember who showed it to me!!!!!

it was Caren, Mandy & Felice, we were all 17 back then.

I asked Caren, pointing at the guy in the picture

"Who is this? Looks amazing!"

"Dont you know? He is Edison Chen!"

"What does he do? actor?"

"Yeah, he was in the latest Gen-Y-Cops"

"wah......is it good?the movie? can he act?"

Caren rolled her eyes "dont u even watch movies?"

"er no.... NOT those stupid movies from HK anyway!!!"

"well,this is different, its action packed, u'll like it"

"so he speaks cantonese too? he doesnt look very canton to me"

"i think he's from Canada, and was spotted while in HK,

he speaks canton in a weird accented way"

"SEEEEEE i knewww it!!!" I exclaimed,

"if this guy were any other HK actor,

i wouldnt even asked you!!! i just knew his DIFFERENT!"

(@_@) so thats how i know EDC.

and thats why, i fuggin~ hate it when ppl judge me

"why do u like edison chen?"

well, i cant possibly just tell them

"i knew he was different the moment i saw his face"

cos it sounds f***ing shallow, right?

there are somethings u just cant explain

but it will all fall into place and its PERFECT.

and do you know why I chose Media Studies

when I have to decide a major in college?

its all thanks to Edison Chen too!

Yes, he was the basis of my course selection,

i remember counting the years,

"to spend 4 years to get education,

2 years working experience

and I should be ready to go work for EDC"

i keep this in my head throughout my years in college,

i myself know it sounds SUPER SILLY,

but you know what, if it keeps me going,

why should i IGNORE it?

i sincerely thank my family, my friends,

BL AND Edison Chen

for my good grades during my convocation,

it felt like a chapter was complete when i receive my scroll on stage.

thank you so much!

not like EDC will ever know this, but isnt it amazing?!

someone i dont even know can make me do amazing things!

just cos the first time i saw him i thought he's amazing too!

most mags are contributions from friends,

especially EdmundTan, gave me tons of chinese mags,

and ArielChong too (sometimes), cos she likes EDC too,

i think i just might be able to WRITE a LONG essay

on why i like edison chen, hahaha!!!~

And of cos, Jien,

our Malaysian Idol host

was there briefly to keep me thinking

about a profession in media industry.

College proove to be one of the most fruitful years,

the fact that i like EDC = desire to work with EDC

and so, it all begans with my first volunteer work

with a local event organizer company

in a Music Award Ceremony, in Genting Highlands

it featured soooo many chinese superstars,

from Aaron Kwok, Coco Lee, Lee Hom, David Tao, SHE etc

but my main aim was bcos EDC was there, hehehe..I also discovered some of my bestest friends there ever,

I mean, to spend day and night, working tirelessly,

these friends were those who motivated me,

by staying supportive, and teasing me abt Edison,

but i love them all. i really do.

and this volunteer / part time venture

went on for the next 4 years,

covering sooo many concerts / events

to see Jay Chow, Jolin Tsai, MayDay,

FIR, Energy, Elva and many more idols of the lot,

i REALLY lost count! The thing is, idols never seemed to die,

its a phase in my life, from The Moffatts to Boybands,

and that drastic change to EDC, including now,

the top chinese rockband MayDay,

I began to read more chinese books,

cos i've 'devoured' more time to read english mags,

than any other stuff, so i guess Mayday ASHIN came

at the time where i learn to appreciate the

chinese language... honestly, it was then,

i spend every evening in the college library,

searching for books that they read too.

and then a funny thing happen,

i watch a Korean Drama "Full House"

and i think this tall lad with small eyes

is really one of a kind entertainer!

his name is Rain. lol.

yeah, he is also the last of all the idols

that i've ever look up to,

and i said to myself

"this will be the last concert that i'll work"

and then like a chapter of my life complete

i feel good about all of them,

they have all been such positive influence in my life!