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?!?

French Mime for Bowne International

Was invited to perform for Bowne International (A MNC in the finance sector) on 22 August 2008. Their office is located at Maybank Tower.

The private event is held in line with the post-National Day Fire Work Celebration. The event was superb, guests are fun, delicious food, nice view of firework display, funny jokes all the way and warm treatment from the GM of the company..... GREAT MEMORY!

The Main Entrance of Bowne :


Chocolate Fountain.... One of my favourite bites, I ate alot of them after the show... haha... ;-)



Mingling with the Crowd (Just Manage to take 2 photos. The client will send me more pic after they touch up :-)


Roy met his buddy - Reggie Wan, the well known Caricaturist in Singapore


After a delay of 20 minutes, finally here the fire work comes.... fantastic view and I can see tiny little dots of people flooding the bridge beside the Merlion Park....


After the show, I still can't stop snapping photos in the changing room.... probably didn't got to take much during show


After washing up, in my fastest speed, I didn't rush to get my pay cheque but to Reggie's place to get a FREE portrait of myself :-)




Visit his blog at http://www.sg-caricature.blogspot.com/

After getting my cute cute portrait and the pay cheque. Roy and I head to Clark Quay for a drink. On the underpass from Boat Quay heading Clack Quay, Roy met his friend who is busking there. We cheer, clap, and sing along when he is performing. Managed to push up his sales(collection from public).... hehe : >



Great Music, Great People, What A Great Life :-)

Advertorial : ST701

I recalled there was once a friend of mine asked me a question.

"Wendy since you are now into performing arts, where do you get people to engage your services?"

"I advertise, by word of mouth....."

"What, you advertise?!?"

I was shocked when I see my friends reaction. Yes, in fact freelancers like me are consider a "half business woman". In business everyone know that advertising and word of mouth is the main source of business. So, it applies to me as well, just that for services like mine, we always narrow down to advertising options that requires a low investment like online advertising.

I first advertising on Google Adwords when my entertainment company HEART NEU CIRCUS is formed. Sooner or later during mid 2008, I found out that ST701 provides free online advertisement placement. Then I started marketing my shows on ST701.

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P/S: I am posting the photo(taken from my show last weekend) and advertisement while writing this advertorial. It is so user friendly. It just takes around 3-5 minutes and your ads are up!

As I first stated up using the free advertising option on ST701, I often have to re-post a new advertisement after every 14 days.

I then start using ST701's silver package where I just have to pay S$ 5.00 for a 21 days duration advertisement. Instead of 3 photos, I have an opportunity to post 12 photos, 1 video link and top picks with bold title.

With this I just have to post my ad once a month and my ads will be more outstanding compare with other advertisements.

Also, S$ 5 a month is consider one of the lowest if compare with other forms of online advertising.

Why not ? :-)

SHOW TIME!

It's 45 minutes before show time, after viewing the performing spot, my artists started putting on the costume and make-up at our changing room. While I was still at Asian Civilization Museum's Level 2 Ballroom preparing the platform for my artists!

Cham, by the time I got back to the changing room, I only left 15 minutes before the first slot of our performance. Rush Rush Rush!

My friend Janice came down as my stage manager to coordinate with the artists, guests and client. You know hoteliers(all the invited guest are management levels of 4&5 star hotels in Singapore) can be quite high-class and classy, better leave it for my friend to do it :-) Thank god.... luckly we manage to kick start the first set on time!



The First Set of 45 minutes performance is pure statue so it is quite a challenging act as all of us have to "endure" throughout and the muscle control plays a very important part in this set.
Joey On Action (Chef)


Ming Xi On Action (Bartender)


Tina (Model from Finland), she is acting as a General Manager. Frankly she look very "fake" due to her European Figure. I lose already, no fight :S Haha....



Roy On Action (Bellman)


Kevin On Action (Chef)


Wendy On Action (Bartender)




Our first set of performance ends when the emcee announced SHATEC's CEO - Dr. Steven on the stage for a speech.

Hurray finally it is break time! After the cake cutting ceremony, all the artist went back to our platform for the second set of 45 minutes performance.

This time round instead of statue only, we started transforming into mime which move in a very active manner. This is when the laughter starts! The guests and the client love this part of performance. We started to act like our character as chef, bartender etc. Unfortunately I don't have any photo to show case.

After the 2 sets of "enjoyment", finally our job is done.


The client is so kind to pass us some of the photos taken and printed instantly during the event :-)