Watching Titanic 3D!

Watched Titanic in 3D!

It's great being a blogger! 

As a blogger, I get invitations to many events! The most recent was this; the premier of Titanic 3D! 

While I don't usually attend such events, but this, I simply cannot miss! 

 I loved this movie so much that back when it was first shown theaters in 1997 (Gosh, 15 years ago!), I watched it three times! And just about a week ago, I was mesmerized by the in-depth story of the vessel & voyage at the Titanic exhibition!

Titanic, the exhibition at the ArtScience Museum Marina Bay Sands

The nice folks at omy.sg (blogging community) gave me a pair of invites, so I invited Daisy along. Daisy is huge fan of Titanic! And not just the movie..

 

So this marks the 4th time I watched Titanic the movie! This isn't the same as the original movie, it was re-made in 3D!

 I'm still extremely fascinated by how they managed to accomplish this. How do you turn a 2D, single-lens recording into a 3D film?

According to a few articles I read online, each frame was manually processed by first determining the depths of each object then applying the 3D effects to it. A whopping 279,000 frames! They spent US$18million and 60 weeks to accomplish this feat! 

I was first skeptical on how good the "effects" will be, but I was pleasantly surprised! The whole 3hr movie was rendered so perfectly that you'll get lost in the world and you simply cannot believe that it was shot on a single-lens camera!

Remember this scene? This is one of the most beautiful scenes in the movie, and watching it in 3D really brings a whole new experience! Just this scene alone made the movie very worth watching!

Titanic 3D opens 4th April in cinemas island-wide!

And the Titanic exhibition is now showing at the Marina Bay Sands ArtScience museum till 29 April 

Both are something you shouldn't miss!

Thank you to all the nice people over at omy.sg for this wonderful experience! :-)

With Love,

  - Kiki Tay

Hong Kong with Albert & Daisy!

Hong Kong, before heading home!

On the way back home, I dropped by Hong Kong to visit my good friend Albert Tam, a highly respected master in the magic community.

Daisy happened to be in Hong Kong as well, she joined us while we all hung out at a restaurant nearby.

The authentic "Yum Cha" experience in Hong Kong!

Cue pictures of food... and.. GO!

Cue saliva... and... DROOL! 

It was nice catching up with Albert again! The last time we met was when Albert brought his family to Singapore for a holiday. We went to universal studios! See my previous blog post!

That's "M" for Magic!

And erm... "W" for.. Woman?

I only had a few hours before I had to fly off from Hong Kong, no chance for any sightseeing :-(

The last time I've been to Hong Kong was for a show at Disneyland! See this blog post

Off to the airport!

Hong Kong international airport

It was a fun trip... 

Taking off from Hong Kong, I was left with this beautiful memory of flying through the clouds during sunset. 

I will be back again...

With Love,

  - Kiki Tay

Watched "Cooling Off Day" by Wildrice

I was invited to the gala night of Wildrice's "Cooling off day"

I invited Daisy as my date for the night!

"Cooling off day",  is a collection of real testimonials from citizens on the subject of the election day and the views on the political parties. Presented in a fun and dramatic way. This is the second season of the show, the first run was part of a festival.

Written by the amazingly talented Alfian Sa'at

I had the honor to work with Wildrice on many productions, namely the annual pantomimes. See my post on Cinderel-lah, and few month back Aladdin! (Yet to blog about it)
It's always great to see the guys at work. Wildrice is made up of really hardworking, passionate and creative people!

Post-show reception...

"Cooling Off Day" is now showing at the SOTA theatre till 11th March, catch it

Thank you everybody at Wildrice!

With love,

  - Kiki Tay

Singapore Association of Magician's Annual Dinner 2011!

29th September 2011, I attended our Singapore Association of Magician's Annual Dinner!

It's amazing how time flies, it's been a year since our last annual dinner but this year's dinner was as amazing and fun as the last.

Lots of entertainment for the night as members volunteered themselves to entertain the guest with close-up magic as well as stage performances! Andrew Kong, our vice president entertained us with some incredible magic!

 Joe Yu, an incredibly talented dove magician with an amazing dove act! Check out his website here!

 I had the honor to host SAM's dinner for many years but this year's dinner was hosted by Imran and Jeremy Tan. They did an EXCELLENT job hosting the stage programmes and had kept the audience laughing through the night!

 Daniel Teo, our club's treasurer, actively helping out in all of our club's programmes!

Daisy Ho, our assistant secretary, also a fantastic magician! Daisy was one of my guest performers in March's edition of Magic Carnival!

Pambudi, one of my favorite magicians! Pambudi was also one of my guest performers during July's Magic Carnival! I love his shows! He does an extremely funny and highly entertaining mentalism act!

 XiangZhi & Markson came as my guests for the dinner :-)

Imran had the audience laughing through the night!

 William, an ITE lecturer and veteran magician!

 Roger Heng amazed us with his new act! He surprised us with a highly skillful manipulation act, away from the usual stuff he performs. He did a great job!!

 Jeremy Tan's amazing crystal ball manipulation & magic act!

 Our club's new president Gordon Koh!

 
 Lots more performances kept us entertained throughout the night!

 Calvin Teo's new chinese themed act!

My hero, dearest Baha! Baha runs a successful video production company and he's extremely passionate with magic! Baha has been a great help in many of my productions, always supporting me in everything I do! Good morning Baha!!

Charles Choo, owner of a magic shop. When I was young I often hanged out at his magic shop, which kickstarted my career! I've learnt so much from him!

 Gician Tan, an excellent magician and owner of "Gift-A-Name", previously known as "House-of-humor"

Roger Heng & Bob Chua, veteran magicians with decades-long experience! Always insightful talking to them!

I had a GREAT time! Looking forward to next year's big events!

With love,

 - Kiki Tay