Balloon Sculpturing Rehearsal Which Brings Up A Topic.....

Alot of people think entertainer has a very good life as they just work for 1 hour and get paid at least a hundred and above and the rest of their time they are able to rest at home and do nothing. In fact, is that the real fact that entertainers just work when they are on stage?

The answer is NO! NO! and NO!

Besides all the shows on weekend and meetings & proposal on weekdays; we also spend our weekdays rehearsing our shows. In fact, we are working more than normal office hours!

I got a up-coming children shows on Mid Autumn Fest. Since it is for kids entertainment, besides being an emcee, I will also dress up as a clown and do an hour of balloon sculpturing during the pre-event segment.

Luckly I have Roy who is one of the very first Balloon Artist in Singapore as my partner. So, these few days during my spare time, I am busy "Twisting My Hands".....

Sausage Dog & Giraffe


Grape & Bee


Purple & Pink Flowers


After 30 minutes of beginner workshop, I ended up twisting more than 30 items.....


After 3 hours of non-stop balloon twisting, I have a bag full of balloons..... I am quite sure that there are at least 100 balloons consumed. And this situation will go on for a couple of days. All these balloons need to be thrown away.... well I know it is wasteful, but what to do....

FYI, each pencil balloon cost around S$ 0.15- S$ 0. 70, depends on what brand and quality we are talking about. So, you can imagine what's the time and cost spend behind every show. In fact I can even break even for this up-coming show after deducting all the balloon, costumes rental cost!

We as entertainers just show our smiling face and kept entertaining and bring SMILE to people. And sometimes it gets very fed up when people calling for show and keep asking for cheaper prices and compare professional full time artist and part time "money-aholic" who are doing this for fun!

I really hope people who engage entertainers can understand what is the meaning of PROFESSIONAL rather than comparing prices. It makes people very frustrated and demoralized when we are getting things like this. Entertainers really give their life and soul to their work. Recently cost of living is getting so high, entertainers main transportation - Taxi(need to carry alot of props with us) is also going sky high. We not only maintain at the same price and yet at the same time people are asking for lower price?!?

If one really wants to make so much money, why not eat maggie mee every day rather than eating out? And why not compare the price of this hawker call and restaurants in Clark Quay? It doesn't make sense right?

Do respect what us as a PROFESSIONAL ARTIST or else you won't be respected by the others. Just ask yourself one thing, you want a high quality show or making money out of entertainers?!?