Event: Wedding @ Carlton Hotel
Date: 28th Feb 2008
Venue: Esplanade Room
Pax: ~300
Style! Emcee:
This is my first wedding event hosted in 2008! The entire wedding event was spectacular. Here are some highlights (and maybe also some suggestions for couples preparing for their wedding event)
1. The groom was on the stage and the bride came in and started to sing "Lovers' Concerto" immediately after the door was opened. (The effect was enough to bring the audience to tears)
2. The champagne toast and "Yum Seng" was done after the first march-in. This allow family members, relatives and friends to have a good dinner without interruption of the traditional toast
3. For the second march-in, the couple came into the ballroom on a Harley Davidson! The engine was roaring at full majesty and everyone was amazed. (If you have a long straight aisle, it's the best)
4. Surprise the guests by having dessert buffet outside the ballroom with a myriad of various desserts like cakes, pastries, sweets, macaroons and other delights
5. Get buddies or mutual friends (without the couple's knowledge) to go on stage and share how the couple got to know each other and dated. Best time also to let loose some jovial moments
6. Get a good emcee (get someone whom is comfortable with speaking to a crowd and spontaneous).
** If you have come across some good ideas to share, be it in your wedding or others that you have attended, drop me a comment. Thanks **
Bukit Batok East Lunar New Year Celebration Dinner
Event: Bukit Batok East Lunar New Year Celebration Dinner
Date: 16th Feb 2008
Venue: Blk 283 Bukit Batok East Ave 4
Time: 7.30pm - 10.30pm
Pax: ~300
Style! emcee:
After the Chinese New Year break, it's time to get back to emceeing! Had a great new year of foodies and goodies (angbaos aka red packet).
The variety program unfolded with various artistes and groups. The lion dance troupe led the evening with an auspicious and symbolic performance of "cai qing" (plucking the green). This performance according to chinese, means good luck, prosperity and good fortune. The chairman of Bukit Batok East Citizens' Consultative Committee was invited on stage to receive the lucky banner.
Following the grandeur of lion dance, next was a chinese dance performance by 3 young ladies. After that, we invited our first singer VJ, who is an entertaining indian singer with his song and dance. Although majority of the crowd couldn't understand the tamil songs, however everyone enjoyed the catchy beat of the songs. The evening rolled on with malay dance titled "Joget Silat" performed by Bukit Batok East MAEC.
The second segment was simply awesome. Not only was it entertaining, it was a great opportunity for me to meet singers from various walks of life. There was an indonesian chinese (couldn't remember her name) who belted out teochew and chinese tunes. Among the few singers, Cheryl Chan caught my attention. She was tall and poised, dressed in a nice flowy tube dress. Then later did I realise that she was the cast for the movie "I Not Stupid" (a local movie production that received tremendous viewership). She sang 2 chinese and 1 english song. The crowd had a fabulous time!
Another highlight of the evening was the acrobatic show performed by Choo and Geen. The crowd was totally amazed that despite their seniority, they were able to perform acrobatic stunts and tricks to wow the audience. Their finale item was the bending of the chinese spear using the throat. My heart was held in suspense as I witnessed them accomplished the amazing feat.
The finale highlight of the evening was an unusual twist of singing performance by 圣文 aka 泰国千变王子. He came out in a clown costume and sang 奇异的约会. It was totally hilarious! Within a minute, he went off stage and came back up in a policeman uniform of the olden days in Singapore when the policemen were all wearing short. He delivered another 2 songs (Teochew and Cantonese).
To complete the event, the crowd did a cheer together with the emcee. Each time the emcee shouted "Hip Hip", the crowd would go "Huat ah!". The cheer was repeated thrice and the entire compound was filled with echoes of the word.
I am sure the crowd had an awesome time at the dinner. Throughout the evening, there were throngs of passerby standing around and enjoying the performance too!
Date: 16th Feb 2008
Venue: Blk 283 Bukit Batok East Ave 4
Time: 7.30pm - 10.30pm
Pax: ~300
Style! emcee:
After the Chinese New Year break, it's time to get back to emceeing! Had a great new year of foodies and goodies (angbaos aka red packet).
Lunar New Year Celebration Dinner
This event was held to celebrate chinese new year together as one big Bukit Batok East family. The evening started with the arrival of distinguished guest Mdm Halimah Yacob, MP for Jurong GRC and Advisor to Jurong GRC GROs. The lion dance troup gave a rousing fanfare for her grand entrance, together with the thunderous applause accorded by the audience and guests. Upon her arrival, she was ushered onto the stage to partake in a mega "loh hei" (tossing of the chinese raw fish delicacy) accompanied by the other grassroots leaders. Every table had a plate of "loh hei" and instantaneously at that moment when the emcee gave the signal, strings of blessings and properous words were the predominant voices heard.The variety program unfolded with various artistes and groups. The lion dance troupe led the evening with an auspicious and symbolic performance of "cai qing" (plucking the green). This performance according to chinese, means good luck, prosperity and good fortune. The chairman of Bukit Batok East Citizens' Consultative Committee was invited on stage to receive the lucky banner.
Following the grandeur of lion dance, next was a chinese dance performance by 3 young ladies. After that, we invited our first singer VJ, who is an entertaining indian singer with his song and dance. Although majority of the crowd couldn't understand the tamil songs, however everyone enjoyed the catchy beat of the songs. The evening rolled on with malay dance titled "Joget Silat" performed by Bukit Batok East MAEC.
The second segment was simply awesome. Not only was it entertaining, it was a great opportunity for me to meet singers from various walks of life. There was an indonesian chinese (couldn't remember her name) who belted out teochew and chinese tunes. Among the few singers, Cheryl Chan caught my attention. She was tall and poised, dressed in a nice flowy tube dress. Then later did I realise that she was the cast for the movie "I Not Stupid" (a local movie production that received tremendous viewership). She sang 2 chinese and 1 english song. The crowd had a fabulous time!
Another highlight of the evening was the acrobatic show performed by Choo and Geen. The crowd was totally amazed that despite their seniority, they were able to perform acrobatic stunts and tricks to wow the audience. Their finale item was the bending of the chinese spear using the throat. My heart was held in suspense as I witnessed them accomplished the amazing feat.
The finale highlight of the evening was an unusual twist of singing performance by 圣文 aka 泰国千变王子. He came out in a clown costume and sang 奇异的约会. It was totally hilarious! Within a minute, he went off stage and came back up in a policeman uniform of the olden days in Singapore when the policemen were all wearing short. He delivered another 2 songs (Teochew and Cantonese).
To complete the event, the crowd did a cheer together with the emcee. Each time the emcee shouted "Hip Hip", the crowd would go "Huat ah!". The cheer was repeated thrice and the entire compound was filled with echoes of the word.
I am sure the crowd had an awesome time at the dinner. Throughout the evening, there were throngs of passerby standing around and enjoying the performance too!
More Photos From Eastpoint Mall Chinese New Year Celebrations
Photo 1: Posing with Andrew
Photo 2: Captain Dazzle & Style! emcee Captain Dazzle is a well-known professional clown in Singapore. Check him out at www.stardazzleconcepts.com
Photo 3: Event Organiser Jenny, Me & Balloon Magician
Photo 4: Style! emcee conducting stage games for kids
In this game, the kids have to learn a few actions and mimick the God of Wealth. It was indeed entertaining and hilarious to see the kids with their own actions and expressions
Photo 5: Style! emcee conducting stage games with families
The objective of the game was to peel the mandarin oranges, using the orange slices and forming the chinese word '福'. Over the 3 weeks, I managed to invite indian and australian
families to join in on stage and learn more about Chinese New Year!
families to join in on stage and learn more about Chinese New Year!
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