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

Kiki Tay's Lights, Lasers & Magic!

This has been an act that I've been dying to try out for the longest time, and what better place to debut it than my *SCAPE Magic Carnival April's "ALL-STAR" show! 

But time had been my greatest enemy. Putting focus on producing the show took very much of my time and energy away from developing the whole idea to exactly what I had in mind. 

A large part of this dream act requires hours of planning on paper and not to mention tens to hundreds of hours worth of soldering, sawing and drilling. Instead of leaving it out totally, I took the leap and went ahead with a much scaled-down version of this act. 

Filling the entire theatre with magical "Stars"! (The dark areas were filled with "stars" also, but it doesn't really show up well in photos ) :-(

 I have this really weird obsession with LEDs and everything that glows! Everywhere I go, wherever there are shops or signs with bright flashing LED lights, it will draw me in like an insect being drawn into an insect zapper...  Check out some of my other LED obsessions here

Lasers and Lights! :-)

But something happened during *SCAPE Magic Carnival "ALL-STAR" Show. It has nothing to do with the act, it went on well :-) But me wanting to capture the act on video, I had 2 hi-def cameras set up to record it, one main camera and another one as back up. But somehow, both cameras FAILED during this act. One of the camera ran out of tape >.< and the other had memory card problems. And to add to the problem, the effects and lightings made it very difficult to capture good photos on still cameras.

In my attempt to re-capture this act on video, we went back to the theatre the very next morning, set up the entire stage exactly as the night before, and performed the entire act all over again. Just for the camera. But the result wasn't as I expected... The camera really couldn't capture the "essence" of it. Or at least, I'm not capable of figuring out the settings to make it work >.<

Here is another picture of the magical "stars"

This was taken from SRJC's Musical, which I directed about a year ago...

Anyway, one of the purpose of this post is to thank the people who was with me, who woke up early in the morning the next day after an intensively busy and stressful night, to help me set up the entire stage again. A sincere thank you to Xiangzhi, Norvin, Tianle, Kendron, Catherine & Jack!

Thank you!! From the bottom of my heart!

With love,

- Kiki Tay

Walking with Dinosaurs!

Walking with Dinosaurs!

Watched "Walking with Dinosaurs" at the indoor stadium with Ivy, Francis & XianZhi!

My ticket was a birthday gift from Ivy! Thank you Ivy!! :-)

It was a full-house when the show started, the entire stadium was filled!

It was SPECTACULAR!! The theatrics, the lights, music and effects were fantastic and of course, the dinosaurs were MIND-BLOWING! 

I cannot imagine all the technologies that goes on behind the dinosaurs, their movements were extremely life-like, and although they are huge, they are no way clumsy at all! It's a technology and theatrical marvel!

Ivy's Dino claws!

Walking with dinosaurs is now playing at the indoor stadium till 12th December! Don't miss this amazing spectacular!

Thanks Ivy for this amazing experience!

-Kiki Tay