ILO ILO Gala Night - Who's Who In The Singapore Entertainment Circle

Marina Bay Sands Theatre
South, Singapore
24 August 2013

 

Merlion Wayfarer was invited to the Gala Night of ILO ILO (爸妈不在家) held in the MasterCard Theatre at the Marina Bay Sands last weekend. Compared to the oh-so-many movie "gala premieres" that she had attended, this event was a true "gala" event attend by the A-list in the Singapore entertainment circle.

Little indication at the entrance to the Theatre other than some very well-dressed audience waiting for their partners, a whole bevy of security personnel (Sorry, no photos!)
and a few queue poles with the movie poster...

  

 Channel NewsAsia presenter Glenda Chong with a TV crew preparing for the shoot... 

    

 Local veteran actress, Jin Yin Ji, being interviewed and posing for photos...

     

 Presenting the cast of ILO ILO as they make their way down the stairs in a grand entrance...

 

The Emcees interview Anthony Chen and the cast -

Yeo Yann Yann (杨雁雁), Koh Jia Ler (许家乐), Angeli Bayani, Chen Tian Wen (陈天文)...

 

Anthony says a few words about the film...

 

Remy Martin presents a special token to Anthony Chen...

A very classy member of the French film crew...

    

Yeo Yan Yan was 6 months pregnant when she filmed this movie.

Her daughter is now 1 year old and celebrates her birthday today...

After the movie, the director and cast were on stage again... 

It was a very emotional moment for everyone...

 

More so for Anthony, who waited three years to stand here

to see the success of his film on a Singapore screen...

Anthony's touching thank-you speech...

 

 

The shot taken of the director and the cast with the entire three-storey audience behind...

(For that shot, for once, the photographers shared the stage)

 

President Tony Tan bids his farewell after the movie...

Look who's here - Eric Khoo (Film Director of Mee Pok Man and 12 Storeys), a dashing Pierre Png that stood out even up upstairs with his charisma, Andrea D'Cruz, Eunice Olsen who was stunning in her white-black cheongsum, Ivan Heng (founder of Wild Rice), many other MediaCorp personalities, other cast in the movie - the principal, the Lucky Plaza hairdresser...

 

The MBS crew all lined up alongside the red carpet to give all a memorable farewell...

ILO ILO was first released at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors' Fortnight on 19 May 2013. At the festival, the film was awarded the Camera d'Or award, thus becoming the first Singaporean feature film to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival.

 

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ILO ILO 爸妈不在家 - Nuclear Family In the Asian Financial Crisis

Marina Bay Sands Theatre
South, Singapore
24 August 2013

 

Merlion Wayfarer was invited to the Gala Night of ILO ILO held in the MasterCard Theatre at the Marina Bay Sands last weekend.

ILO ILO (爸妈不在家) is a 2013 Singaporean family film. The debut work of director Anthony Chen, the film features an international cast, including Singaporean actor Chen Tianwen, Malaysian actress Yeo Yann Yann and Filipino actress Angeli Bayani.

 

ILO ILO was first released at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors' Fortnight on 19 May 2013. At the festival, the film was awarded the Camera d'Or award, thus becoming the first Singaporean feature film to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival.

 

      

Set in 1997 against the backdrop of the Asian Financial Crisis, it shows how the family of three coped with the financial crisis - the mother, Hwee Leng, being the administrative staff who typed out all the retrenchment letters for her company, the father, Teck, being retrenched from his salesman job, and Jiale, the primary school-going son, with his constant discipline problems. It illustrates how Teresa (or Terry, for short), the Filipino domestic helper, coped with being away from her young toddler to come to a foreign land to work, the discrimination she faces as a maid, and about her efforts to  moonlight to earn extra cash. It ended with the family having to give up their recently-employed domestic helper due to a lack of financial resources. On a social level, the film highlights a challenge many nuclear families face - both parents having to work to make ends meet, a latchkey child with behavioural challenges, leaving childcare to a stranger, and dealing with the close emotional bond between "Aunty" and Ah Boy.

Although ILO ILO was supposed to be an adapted snapshot of a period in Anthony Chen's life, Merlion Wayfarer finds the pace of the movie a tad slow. She is also not comfortable with some of the scenes in the movie, e.g. Jiale picking up and actually smoking Teck's cigarettes, the close physical relationship between the maid and a primary school boy, Jiale hurting himself to implicate the discipline master, a suicide case with little relevance to the plot (only the scars on Terry's wrists were shown but not elaborated on), a scene in the bathroom with Jiale spraying water on Terry who was wearing a thin loose-fitting T-shirt. The abrupt ending also left several movie-goers in the gala premiere stunned.

(Source : ILO ILO Movie)
 



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Help! The Fan Blew Up!

Singapore

August 2013

This was a Morries fan. It was less than 6 months old when  this happened earlier this week.

 

According to Merlion Wayfarer's family member:

"The fan was very noisy for the past few days. So noisy until I had to switch it off. Tonight it was noisy again and I was trying to adjust it. It wasn't as noisy as before. Who knows, just as I was about switch off the fan, there was a loud grating noise. Next thing I know, I felt a bump on my arm and everything was in pieces all over the room. I hadn't even touched the fan!

Apparently the impact of the disintegration was so great that it blew the metal cover (which was still clipped to the other cover in two places) across the room. My arm was slightly bruised from the impact.

Some of the pieces of the fan were sticking to my curtain. It was scary as I was standing beside the fan and could have been badly hurt."



NTUC Fairprice, this was purchased at your Nex Xtra outlet. Merlion Wayfarer hopes that you will take such reviews into consideration when bringing in similar products.



Afternote
JK, the importer for the Morries product line, has since replaced the fan with a new set and attended to this case with a personalized installation of the product. Thank you for the prompt attention!

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