kinta 1881: 2007

Monday, October 1, 2007

KInta 1881 cast featured in National Wushu 2007 Championship magazine

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

one of those crazy moments on set

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Patrick Teoh love playing the villian

“I love playing the bad guy, it’s a lot more interesting. I think heroes are boring.” “I’d like to do more drama… I’ve played many different roles, but they tend to be focused on comedy, so I think I want to try doing more serious stuff.” said Patrick Teoh in his recent interview.

Read more about Patrick at http://colour-blind.org/?p=798

Thursday, August 2, 2007

kinta 1881 - behind the scene video, training in cave

Watch Kuan smashing himself against a cliff and injuring himself in the process. Or shall I say, his good friends Michael, Robin and David slammed him against the rocks? Actually, Kuan like the rest of the boys impressed all of us when they wanted do the stunts themselves and without using props. In this case, we had fake cliff done up but Kuan wanted to try on the real thing. Watch the video and you will know what I mean.

In the video, you will see Michael showing off his body by hanging from the cliff and Robin jumping from 20 feet cliff.

Also interesting to see Kah Yen acting for the TMO and Ngai & team helping to prop up the cave with sand.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Kinta 1881 music director won song writing competition

Congratulations to our beloved scriptwriter, screenplay writer and music director for winning the "live to love" song writing competition in Bhutan recently.

Eight finalists were short-listed. Judges of the song-writing competition were: His Holiness the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa, Their Eminences Drukpa Choegon Rinpoches, His Eminence Thuksey Rinpoche, His Eminence Khamtrul Rinpoche, His Eminence Dorzong Rinpoche, His Eminence Dugu Choegyal Rinpoche, Venerable Sey Rinpoche and His Excellency Sangay Wangchug, Secretary to the Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs of Bhutan.

The finalists were short-listed based on the criteria as set by His Holiness earlier. Those contestants who were unable to make it to Ladakh had their songs being played before a public of about 86,000 people, and the two contestants who performed live, Kunga (Trent Williamson) from Australia who personally performed and sang his own entry/composition, and Chow Kam Leong who played the guitar, with his song performed by Jeffrey Lim Chew Few, a member of the "Baby" pop group in Malaysia, won the Grand Prize jointly. Both Kunga and Chow will be going to Nangchen with His Holiness and his group of students and friends.
excerpt from http://ladakh.drukpa.com

To listen to his winning song go to http://ladakh.drukpa.com/programs_live2love.htm

Aiyo, so now we know where our missing wig is.
Our hairstylist was freaking out coz he can't find it.
Bengio, please get it back from JinLiang.

This is how he actually looks like. Much better looking right?

Sunday, July 29, 2007

kinta 1881 - behind the scene video, tin mine fights

The fight scene on the stairs was where XiuBin almost lost his thumb on the fall. The other fight scene between Shawn and Kuan was spectacular too. In this fight, Kuan's arms and hands were quite badly bruised courtesy of Shawn. But according to Kuan, that was nothing compared to diving into the fire without any protective gear.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Kinta 1881 - behind the scene video, street

I cannot forget that night when we were filming the back lane fight scene . That night, I was amazed with Andy's professionalism, attitude and courage.

It is not easy to lie down on the ground, push yourself up and get kicked in the face. Andy did just that. But the 1st take didn't look good on camera. So we asked Andy if he can take another kick. Another kick in his face. He just said yes.

Well, it is not that we wanted to kick him again and again but we really needed it to look good on camera. So we went from one take to another and after every take, Andy said yes to another take (meaning another kick for him) without hesitation.

On the last take, we were all happy as it looked really good. Then we realised Andy had passed out. We were all worried and rushed to him. Luckily he regained consciousness a few minutes later. Got Owen to rush him to the hospital for check up. Really glad that he is fine, alive and kicking today.

Andy, I salute you for your dedication and for showing the Kinta spirit. Thank you.