Aaaarrrhhh... Bloody Stage Fright!

Karen Lai, as promised, here's the blog post you had been nagging me for about 3 days now... Nah...

I had an emcee job last weekend for the Smart Kids Talent Quest at PWTC. On Sunday I invited Ducum to come along to take some pictures for me since I've never had any real pictures of myself working as an emcee, a job that I love so much but am still new at, thus not yet really good at.
After a sleepless night, Ducum was quite hyper in the morning, so she took loads of pictures on our way to PWTC...Macam-lah it was a big day out for Ducum herself... ==|||
Didn't these pictures make you think of Justin Timberlake??? Sexy back... Okay, that was a joke...
Still waiting for the LRT to come...
And as expected, we were a bit early when we arrived. So I decided to give Ducum a breakfast treat at McD. To my surprise(super duper surprised), Ducum had never knew or tried the Big Breakfast!!! For a McD fan like her, it's just unbelievable! It was just bloody funny to see her taking pictures of the breakfast... Hahahaha...Ducum's first McD's Big Breaky! See how excited she was???
So then, off to work. Started with the rehearsal, and then the real thing. Like the first day, I had absolutely no time to rest in between rehearsal and competition. So make-up also had to be done while rehearsing. That's ok, but like the first day, I didn't do too well on stage. I'm still very disappointed with myself on that. I mean, this is a great chance for me to perform. If I do good, then the employer will continue giving me jobs, but then I just ruined it! I wasn't very nervous, no shaky hands, legs or lips, but somehow whenever I started to talk, I just couldn't even get the sentence right. I think it may have something to do with the fact that I had to basically say everything in Chinese, then in Malay. God only knows how long I've never had a real chance to speak Malay! Every time I said a line in Chinese, part of my brain was already thinking about the next line in Malay...
Anywayz, I would say I did pretty good when I was not on stage. Whenever I was at the side of the stage announcing teams and performers, I was pretty good. In fact, I think I improved on the second day! :)Rehearsal time... Working hard...
Presenting... Shirlexia Tan on stage!!!
Pretty confident while I wasn't on stage... Damn, that's not right!
Yes, and by the end of the day, my employer 刘姐gave me some comments... 你的声音很漂亮、外型也ok，只是你在台上紧张，是经验不足，但在台下就没问题。Well, at least there were some compliments there. I really really hope she doesn't give up on me, I really really hope she would offer me more jobs in the future!!! I promise, I will do better next time!
By the way, check out this cute little boy from Krista Cahaya! He is soooooooooo cute! Look at his spiky hair! He was always the slowest one, so funny! I was going back stage to take a picture with him after the show before finding out he has gone home! Poor little boy, must be real tired after performing twice! My cute boy... The shortest boy there... Aaaawww... He's just too cute!
The deserving top three winners, well, according to Ducum, who watched the entire competition.
Oh by the way, I know this may be a bit unethical, but then I couldn't help. Part of me is launghing so hard reading that but part of me is worried, how can a school teacher has such bad English? How are they going to teach their students? Here's a summary of the performance given by one of the participated schools that I refused to read when I introduced the team...

Alice is a lovely little girl. She always dreams to become an excellent Latin dancers. She is thinking until fell asleep. Suddenly, strange things happen, those puppets in her room are revival. They are happy dancing with Alice. Happy time always quickly to past, when the music stopped she returns to her true indentity - a lovely puppet.

Yup, we can say it together, once again! WTF???
Okay, that's about it.
I am not too happy with my performance on stage. The bloody stage fright has definitely got the better of me!!! Aaaarrrhhhh... But who am I? I'm Shirlexia, the optimistic Bao! I'll take this as a lesson and will prepare myself for the next challenge! Come on, bring them on~!

Films & Food!!!

Both movies are based on books, I prefer the second one more...
Confessions of a Shopaholic
I was amazed reading reviews of some bloggers saying they like this movie, especially when they actually came from guys! So how can I miss this movie??? Well, I watched this two weeks ago but kept the review till today... So you know what I mean, right?
I like the main guy, but I thought the main girl was a bit too old-looking for that kinda character. And unfortunately, I think they shown not enough of the 'shopaholic' part of her... Very disappointed with that, honestly. The entire story is just too expected...
But well, there is just one scene I really love, which is the dancing part! Love that part so much, I laughed like SO SO LOUD in the cinema!

He's Just Not That Into You
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!
Obviously, I wanted to watch this movie just because of Jennifer Aniston. I actually expected it to be another cheesy love movie or something. But I was so wrong!
The story (or stories) isn't too fantastic, but somehow they are not too cheesy, very cool, very funny and touching! And Great script too! I think the best part is them being very 'real'. It really shows lots of the real thing in a girl or a guy's mind! Like the obvious one, whether to call a guy or wait for him to call you thingy... You feel so like yourself watching it! Almost everything in the movie could happen to us! And I actually cried when Ben Affleck proposes in the movie!
And the cast, you can't beat that you see... You have Jen, Ben Affleck (though I'm not a fan of him), Drew Barrymore, Scarlett Johanssen, Jeniffer Connolly, Kevin Connolly, Justin Long, Bradley Cooper, etc... It's like a dream team!
Love this movie, definitely A MUST WATCH!

I just accidently tried having my meals at the following restuarants and found them really good, so it's gotta be good food but wihout any nice pictures since they were all taken with my mobile phone...
Ccozi & Friends
Yea I know that name sucks, and worst thing is, it's actually a Korean restaurant, or to be more accurate, should be a stall located on the F1 Asian Avenue (or La-La Land in my term). I've heard about the rice balls being really nice before going to the restaurant myself.
One day I just decided I wanted some rice and to me Korean food is nothing if it's not for their rice. So I went to Ccozi & Friends and totally fell in love with it. Their rice, or do you call them Bulgogi, was really good and filling! I had the Tuna & Kimchi one the other day, and then I had the Spicy Shirmp one yesterday with Karen.With some vegetables and oyster mushrooms, the Bulgogi are both fantastic and filling! Karen had some lunchbox which looks pretty good too. I also ordered this chicken skewer which was not too bad too! :)Lazy to put caption lar... But I'm sure you feel hungry looking at them! :p
I think the best thing is the fact that the price was so reasonable! To me, Korean food in Malaysia means EXPENSIVE! But here, they sell bulgogi starting RM10, and lunchbox from RM9! Isn't that cheap? Their special Korean tea is RM1 per cup and you can refil as much as you want! So yea, although I'm trying not to eat too much rice, but Ccozi & Friends will definitely be my first choice whenever I have a crave for rice!

Canton-i 香港粥面家
It's a relatively new restaurant in Sunway Pyramid. Ducum and I have wanted to try it for a while, but we were worried it's going to be freaking expensive. Well from the deco and all, it really looks like that mah...The fancy-looking Cnaton-i.
So that day we decided we should just go! Being porridge lovers as we are(ohyeah, especially HK-style porridge), we ordered the Intestines & Fish Porridge（炸大肠鱼片粥） and the Intestines Porridge（状元及弟粥）, plus a chili salt Deep Fried Sotong（椒盐鱿鱼须） to share. We love the porridge! It so nice I feel like they had blended the rice before cooking them! Ducum just couldn't stop saying how nice it is! Hahaha... Well she can't always go there for the porridge though, because it's at least RM9.80 for a bowl of porridge, unless if she wants the plain porrdige with dried scallop, which is RM4.00. The Deep Fried Sotong was not too bad actually, only thing was, we ter-makan a few pieces with the whole bunch of salt on it! Yucks~!Food are not too bad, but the drinks are a bit too pricy for that kinda quality. Even Kim Gary does better.
The two very satisfied customers...
They also serve HK-sytled noodles, rice, dim sums, dessert, etc. Can try lar~!

Actually... I still have more to blog about, but sorry lar, have to owe you guys first for now, have some work to do first.... Ciao for now~!

Some flashback and American Idol

Seriously, what is wrong with the internet connection??? I don't know if you guys are having the same problem as I do? Both Streamyx at home and my Maxis Broadband is running really slow over the past few days. YouTube is loading super duper slow!!! Aaaarrrrhhh... Really fed-up with the Malaysian whatever shit services man! Gosh I've never had the same kind of experience in other countries!!!
Anywayz, I've just finished my two days of emcee-ing at PWTC. Gosh it was tiring! More updates on that later when I got all the pictures.
For now, sit back, put on your safety belt, we are going back to last month, the weekend of March 20~March 21...
Sorry lar, since the photos were taken with other people's camera (well, professional ones), I had to wait for them to transfer, edit and then to upload to Facebook. So yea, I bet some of you had already saw them in my Facebook, but I'm just going to put some nice ones here with some caption, just for your information!
March 20
It was Ducum's big day! Her 22th birthday. So I joined her friends for the party which started only at night at Wong Kok Cafe...I Rene was the make-up artist for my eyes that night. Looks really nice hey?
With Chuan Yee, the one that I love and hate! Hahaha... Remember the 'oren name tag'?
The birthday girl with her friends... And sister.
At Wong Kok Cafe, you get this giant milk tea on your birthday, for free! Here's the Tan sisters... And just in case you wanna know, that lovely dress was from Singapore! Cheap stuff, only S$10!
And then it's clubbing time. Believe it or not, that was my first clubbing experience in KL! I mean, you have no choice, I'm certainly, definitely, absolutely, confirmed I'm not lying! I've been to the club a few times when I was in Perth, but definitely not in Malaysia. So we went to Scarlett at The Curve.
Well, not to say all the songs suck. They are ok, at least not techno. But I really didn't enjoy the songs there. It's just not my style, not the kind that will make me wanna dance like crazy. Well but... It's at least an experience, my first clubbing experience in Malaysia!Ok lar, it's blurred, but I like that deco mah...Me, Sok, I Rene and Lily... So proud with our drinks!I LOVE THIS PICTURE! If only Chuan Yee didn't look so silly... ==|||
Ducum's birthday cake this year was JCO dounuts!
And I also bumped into Chow Chee Peng, my ex-schoolmate! Ok, he prefers to be called Jeep Chow, I think.

March 21
Wow~ I remember it was a hectic weekend. Returning home from Scarlett only at about 4am. Slept till afternoon, then had to go out for the 1st International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta at Putrajaya with the Cincai Group. It was bloody hot that day we felt like we were roasted pig, roasted chicken and roasted duck. Ah, I want to be the duck lar, I like duck more! Kakakaka...
It was quite an interesting event lar. I was really amazed by the crowd hey! Of course, I met someone there accidently! Someone really cute, indeed. :)Just a few of the participating ballons... You see the clown's face one? It has two different expressions!
Trust me, I wasn't that excited, not especially after all the sun burn...
Honestly, this picture makes Wei Jian and me look like a very cute couple, isn't it? Eh, we are not a couple okay, people still single and available! I mean, both of us!
I bumped into Cheng Chu Sian!!! The archer I've mentioned in my blog earlier! And I can confirmed he is damn cute in real person, and tall, and mascular... A perfect boy! But in this picture, he looks absolutely stupid and plastic...
*Pictures courtesy of Lijing Khoo.
That's about it lar.

Oh, before I forget, I KNOW I MISSED DAVID ARCHULETA in KL!!! Aaaarrrhhh... I heard he was so friendly and cute! Aw~ Love that boy!
But I've been following the latest season's American Idol. My earlier favourite was Jamar Rogers, who unfortunately was eliminated I think in top 36 or something. And then there is Adam Lambert who caught my eyes very early on. And he just made me like him more and more every week! Gosh, that fellar really can sing! And of course, I like his look too, reminds me of Lee Harding of Australian Idol, although I wouldn't say he's the cutest one on the show right now. Well, yes he is the cutest one, to me! I LOVE YA ADAM LAMBERT!!! I really hope he would win the competition!
Adam~! Adamn~! Adam~!
My second favourite is Anoop Desai. I mean, ANOOP DESAI!!! Aiya, you know I always like Indian guys (maybe less now, since I recently prefer single eye-lit guys)... Anoop is not very cute you see, Ducum said his lips are too thick. I think his brows are too thick. Haha. He is not consistent. He can look very silly on a bad week. But on a good week, you will love him like crazy!!! I know as an Indian, he is not going to win the competition, but I really really hope to see him stay as long as possible! Ah... Not like I can vote or do anything... :( Anywayz, GO ANOOP!The Slumdog Millionaire fever continues with Anoop in American Idol!
Who's your pick this season?

来听听我的作品吧！:)

N个星期前我悄悄地又再一次从The Voice Academy毕业了，不过由于整个节目太无聊、太闷了，我自己的相机连一张照片都没拍到，就也没什么好“报道”的啦！学校的相机拍的啦！当天我穿得有点“清纯”fu！哈哈哈....
其实我结束整个电台主持课程都已经超过半年时间了，只是最近才拿到成绩单、才有毕业典礼。那今天就要让大家听听我的结业作品啦！看到我的名字的就按PLAY吧！有intro、内容、必做的interview和最后的结尾总共四段哦！
http://www.voiceacademy.com.my/2009/4th_graduation/radioHost.html
自己刚听过一遍，感觉第一段很不自然耶，然后接下来的就好像慢慢变比较好了。本来最担心的interview部份反而感觉Ei，好像最自然就是那一趴！但老实说，我自己真的不觉得自己的声音很“上镜”。你们觉得咧？听过请留言给点意见啦,ok?
丽叶老师给我打了76分，确实比我之前念电视主持时来得高分了，还真的有点意外。老师给我的评语是很简单的三个句子：语气自然、轻松、流畅，访问四平八稳，应减少语助词，咧、啊、喔。派发成绩单的那天老师还在众人面前称赞我到整个有点飘飘然的感觉！那，也是另外一个“意外”。更重要的是，丽叶老师给了我一个很好的鼓励，她叫我不要放弃！！！
“不要放弃”这四个字对我来说真的很重要！
当个主持人一向是我的梦想，虽然我很少很积极的表现出来。不知道为什么平时好好的，到了audition的时候表现总是不好，有时候是紧张，有时候是可能太casual，人家感觉我好像很不认真似的（其实自己都发现了）。也没错，为什么在我拥有一份稳定收入的工作时，我要那么在意我有没有达到我那个梦想呢？但是偶尔我还是对这个梦想念念不忘的。就像我那天才跟朋友说的，如果要我放弃马来西亚回去澳洲我当然很开心，唯一不舍得的其实是当主持人的梦想.......真的要放弃了吗？？？在我已经都25岁的时候是不是应该就放弃了呢？在现在这个随便一个选秀节目出来的人，只要长得漂亮，不管咬字、发音好不好都可以当上主持人的年代，我是不是该放弃了呢？还是随便去参加一个选秀节目就算了（no......根本没有一个选秀节目适合我的）?
所以，感谢丽叶老师的鼓励，我会多加油、多坚持多一下下的！:)

P/S:后天与大后天接了一个job，算是一个新挑战来的，因为要说很多话，而且要三语并用，还要考临场反应。自己默默地期待着，也紧张着！加油！

我是A咖茄哩啡，咔咔咔咔咔~！

两天前美琪突然问我要不要去演戏，当“茄哩啡”，而且是有对白的。虽然有点怀疑自己的能力（毕竟没有经验嘛），但还是衝了，反正我已经差不多当了一个星期的宅女，星期天就去当临演吧！
当然，自己也算曾经是电视制作的一份子，辛苦的拍摄、要等一整天那些我是早就做好心理准备的了。只是比较讨厌的是要在太阳底下拍摄，拍到sun burn了，*现在立刻就在敷美白mask了，我不要变黑妹，no way!*，然后又一直下雨，等于一时要暴晒，一时要淋雨.......希望、千万、拜托不要生病啦，接下来的一个星期我还有很多东西要忙咧！茄哩啡经过少许化妆，先来自拍一下！
今天就做了很多很多次的路人，都是演学院生啦。幸运的话，大概有很多集都会看到我的踪影吧？也有短短两句对白，感觉还蛮好玩的，至少不紧张、没NG！
Anywayz，这一次我“参演”的本地偶像剧我暂名是咖啡恋人馆，7月才会启播。有许多本地的一些偶像的，但今天和我们一起拍的就只有戏中其中一pair，是谁？你猜看看？
当然，有clue的，看看以下的图吧！黄色衣服那位就是男主角，空档中还是一直在自己演、自己high！:p
是哪个男主角竟然不顾形象的就这样睡在地上？？？哦，穿着裙子的就是女主角啦！




大概猜不出来吧？
Okay，答案揭晓！
女主角是郭晓薇啦，男的就是主持节目和真人都那么综艺的谢承伟！
其实Rickman是我还蛮喜欢的主持人之一耶，因为我就是喜欢像他那种综艺咖！而且，见到他真人才知道原来他本人都是很hyper、很搞笑、很爱演的，那边的工作人员说没有他的话就很安静了呢！虽然对我们这些茄哩啡不是特别热情，但也是很友善，说要拍照就站着任你拍。不错啦，这样的艺人我会很欣赏啦！好可爱、好综艺的谢承伟，到现在还是觉得他主持的好吃是最好看的！
其实还有一张和其他茄哩啡&两位男女主角的大合照的，但在别人那边，等拿到那张照片我再update好了！:)
是说，我其实也很想见到另一个主角Duncan的，可惜没机会啦！那个也是很可爱的感觉，虽然应该比Rickman文静啦！
对了，不得不说，一到片场就看到久违（是真的很久很久，大概有5年）了的Tuck，我college时期的junior！问题是我一看到他就认出他了（虽然是发福了一点点），还猛向他挥手！怎知他要走到很靠近我才大声地问：“笼包是吗？”==|||然后还说我瘦到他认不出来了！Oh my god，开心死我啦，哈哈哈哈~！！！能再见到Ah Tuck真的好开心哦！竟然好说我瘦到他也认不出来了（强调第二次，哈哈）！
Tuck就跟我“报告”了所有人的去向，感觉大家都“事业有成”的感觉哦！尤其是......忘了叫什么名的还去了数字电台当DJ，跟YV一样，酷毙了！
哎呀，什么时候才轮到我啦？

Talentime... Brilliant!!!

YEA, BRILLIANT MY FEET LAR!
It was awful!!! Like shit man!!!















HAHAHA, GOTCHA!
HAPPY BELATED APRIL'S FOOL DAY! :p

I was actually planning to write a movie review after my other movie outing tomorrow. But after watching Talentime, I just can't wait to share this with you guys!
You know I'm a big fan of Yasmin Ahmad, though not those crazy ones, but I make sure I don't miss her movies whenever possible.
Talentime is a very Yasmin Ahmad-styled movie. It has all the 'Yasmin Ahmad's film' elements, from racial issues, religion, love... I guess the one big difference is that this time around the main guy is an Indian, oooooohhh, I mean a VERY CUTE INDIAN GUY!
Well, you saw my title, I basically love the movie!!! The ending was a bit of a shock, but then I thought, well, nothing much to say now, you understand what's the ending, right? The story is cute, lovely and touching, plus gives people a very good laugh in the cinema too! :) It got cheesy here and there, but I can actually accept most of them. I especially love the way Yasmin added scene of the bridal shops when the main characters' love started to gloom. I love the reality bits too! Chinese being strict with their kids' result, Indians being dramatic over everything. It's like if you want to learn more about the people and culture of Malaysia, you can just watch Talentime! I also enjoy the songs, especially the Indian song! Oh yea, and that's the other difference between Talentime and other Yasmin Ahmad's movie! Great sountrack!
I think the only thing I have problem with is the actors. Okay, nothing about their acting, they weren't too bad, though not fantastic. Pamela Chong who plays Melur is definitely too old to play a secondary school student! In fact, she is 7 years older than Mahesh in real life! WTF? And Jacklyn Victor is also too old as a college student lar! Other than that, I think Mahesh is absolutely CUTE! And at 19 years old, he has such great body! Oh, just looks so yummy! Hey hey, I don't mind dating younger boys! I know I've just switched from liking Indian guys to single eye lit Chinese recently. But it's okay, I can always switched again, just for you Mahesh! Ha! :p Kahoe is also quite cool too, I reckon he's that kinda 'silent killer' boy.
Oh wait, two more questions here... What's with the babies at the park??? And aren't people with hearing impairment not supposed to be riding on a bike?
By the way, I was so excited to see 'Jason' again, even though it was only for like one second! Haha, you might even miss him, so pay attention or you'll miss him!
Anywayz, GO WATCH TALENTIME!!!

Alright, I've also watched Marley & Me and Tale of Deparaux earlier. I thought Marley & Me was touching enough to make me cry, but not as fantastic as how people had told me. Tale of Desparaux is cute but that's about it lar. Most probably going for another movie tomorrow, wanna guess which one is it?