Fortune Street 13 Days Event at Resort World Singapore

Felt blessed to have a chance in-charge Face and Palm reading for the 13 days event (5 Feb - 17 feb) organised by Resort World Singapore at Sentosa. That was real great to know many fortune telling master in the event.

Chinese Paper Cutting for CNY Lo Hei Event

Did Chinese Paper cutting demo and give away for a private event and great to meet Chinese Calligrapher Mr Goh during the event.

There are lion dance, Wealth God mascot, Chinese music instrument performance and Chinese dance in the event.

The food handler was preparing "Lo Hei" dishes.

Mr Goh at work ;p

Caricature for SUSS CNY Event

Great that had a chance do caricature drawing for SUSS Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS)) Chinese New Year Event.

Met this balloonist in the event ;p

One of my work.

Nowadays really not easy to get caricature jobs due to too many people are doing it so became very competitive, many clients or event companies thought cheapest artist is the best one while they forgot about how many faces to be done per hour and what is the quality they artist provide.

Palm Reading at Fairmont Hotel

Did palm reading for a Chinese New Year event at Fairmont Hotel Singapore yesterday.

Great to meet many nice guests in the event and met Katherine Mah doing her keychain art during the event ;p

some of her work.

There are martial art with stunning performance in the event.View from the ballroom level.

Palm Reading at Bukit Batok CSC

Did palm reading for a Dinner & Dance at Bukit Batok Civil Service Club under event company's arrangement.

Palm reading is one of the hot fringe event activity during this Chinese New Year month, which before and after Chinese New Year.

Basically my palm read reading, will be add on some quick face reading if the queue not so long yet. Usually I will spend about 5 minutes reading per guests, but if the queue was very long, will make it shorter to allow more guests get entertain during the booking hour.

Chinese Paper Cutting Preparation

After the peak period for dinner and dance in December, is time to prepare my Chinese new year theme item, which is Chinese Paper Cutting.

I remember in about 15 years ago, the artist who hired in the event, they just need to do some simple demo,the main resemblance of Chinese Paper Cutting just from the pre made artwork displayed from the artists. The most art piece to be giving away just limited to 1 or 2 pieces within the whole duration of the event booking. That was big different compared with nowadays, every items of event booking we must prepare certain amounts to be giving away during the event booking hour.

I would say, for event wise, only few people doing Chinese Paper Cutting in Singapore, because this item was really tedious and too time consuming to be produced, it just a seasonal art that having limited life time.

Event at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall Singapore

Did Chinese paper cutting at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall Singapore last week for Chinese New Year's special event.This is my very first time visiting here, that was very interesting to being the memorial hall for China's famous people, Mr Sun Yat Sen.Met Diana doing her Chinese calligraphy ion this event.

Event at Illuma

Did Chinese Paper Cutting for Tuas Power Event.Met my event Kakis (bodies) in this event, that's real great!
Chuan was doing his fortune telling. Poor thing for him, many guests queuing for his reading, see the signboard behind him : "No Resting" told the story! Heehee!Just mentioned about rainbow calligrapher Mr Lim (or Mr Lam) and met him in the event next day! He got new image now! Haahaa!Another Kaki: Dragon Beard Master: Jason Yeo (See: http://www.talentsdata.8m.com/dongbeidragonbeard.htm).Wendy and her husband was doing Dough Figurine.(See: http://talentsdata.8m.com/wendylim.htm)Cyril was the Emcee in this event! Big show, will see him! One of the best Emcee I met often ;p A customised backdrop for the guests to take photos.

The Earlier Coming Chinese New Year in 2012

That will be many events activities and promotions during Chinese New Year period, especially the weeks before Chinese New Year.

The 2012's Chinese New Year was happened in a really early date, which at 23th January 2012 (first of Chinese New Year) instead of every years' about 4th-6th February for first day of Chinese New year.

Meanwhile, there were really less than a month for and Chinese New Year related commercial activities to be held. If look around around, you will noticed that on the 2nd day of the Christmas Day, you starting to hear many shopping mall playing Chinese New Year related theme songs and the decoration worker was rushing to put on Chinese New Year related decorations.

We only got about 21 days left for related Chinese New Year theme stuffs promotion since 2012's Chinese New Year Eve fall on 22nd January 2012. It became very tight schedule for all the related event set up.

Many event companies was really busy planning and preparing for Chinese New Year related event at least few weeks ago before Christmas Day I guests.

Chinese Paper Cutting Preparation

As per next year's Chinese New Year is coming earlier at 22nd January Sunday as Chinese New Year Eve, there were some event companies start to inquiry some related fringe arts activities, including my Chinese paper cutting. Seems I have to work harder to prepare the time consuming Chinese paper pre-cut zodiac and related designs.Due to usually Chinese new year fall on 2nd-14th Feb, year of 2012's Chinese new year came quite early, hence there are shorter time for event companies to arrange Chinese New Year's activities, therefore many event management was asking related stuffs start from this month.

Just an Event

Did an event in Woodland area and great to come across many old friends I knew!
Meng Choon was doing his dancing balloon twisting on the stage.EZ was in the event as well.Great to meet Katherine Mah doing her body art! I found her face painting was very unique and very nice!

Fortune Telling at Shangri-La Hotel Singapore

With the event management company's arrangement, I got a chance do my palm and face reading in Shangri-La Hotel Singapore at 2nd day of Chinese New Year's event! Yeah!Fortune telling is one of my event services, as a fortune teller in an event, we usually tell the character of the guests and tell the weak point and strong point of the guests and point out what they should be improve and make use of their own strong points.

There was Dragon Dance in the event.

Chinese New Year Coming Soon

Time flies as arrow, once Christmas over, the next cultural big event or celebrating will be Chinese New year. You will see the street’s change to Chinese New Year theme deco soon.
As an event artist, I was struggling preparing Chinese New Year’s Chinese Paper Cutting.
Chinese Paper Cutting is one of the popular demanding items during Chinese New Year period other than fortune telling, Chinese calligraphy, lion dance and etc.Thought not much people doing Chinese Paper Cutting demo in the events entertaining market, I think it could be due to this type of art really need lot time to design and produce.

F1 is coming again!

Time flies as arrow; 20days later will be F1 event again in Singapore! (25th Sept – 27th Sept)I just passing by City hall MRT and saw the whole area was decorated with the F1 posters!

Drawing from photo during Events booking?

Doing portrait or caricature from photo usually taking longer times, this is because of the limited detail and info you can get from the photos, hence many artists would charge in a higher rate to draw from photos especially client required to be done in a short while.

Hence, during then event booking like family days, dinners and dance etc, I usually do not accept any drawing from photos or mobile phones, because of we are doing live drawing and all of us charging in hour’s basis, we are hired to entertain as many guests in the event as possible within the booking hour.

If we take in any photo during the event, then we have to ignore or stop the long queue and going to spend at least 25-35minutes to do just only ONE drawing from the given photo, and you will get complaint as well as losing the purpose so call entertaining the crowd.

Drawing from photo, you need to spend lots energy and concentration to observe the photo to be done, if there are limited timing given and moreover there are people waiting or the related guests or organizer asked you to draw faster caused the unpredictable result yet you get blamed; because portrait or caricature is not just an action that ‘just take a pen and draw on the paper’, else why they unable to just draw themselves? Haahaa!

The worst was the photo given is the photo that taken few years ago, hence they will get the real person and come back later to compare his/her current look with the drawing you did just now from his/her photo and tell you “Is doesn’t looks like me at all!” in front the big crowd, this is a true thing commonly happened in Asia country.

As an event caricaturist, you have to prepare for that. Heehee!

Fortune Telling at Event

Fortune telling for event is one of my favorite items. It need my portrait drawing skill and silhouette cutting skill in faces observation and related metaphysics knowledge I had learn in the pass. The requirement for an fortune teller in entertaining service was always only talk the good things and not the bad thing, because we do not like to affect the guess’ happy mood who mainly come to the event to enjoy everything.

As a fortune teller who work in an entertainer role, I usually add in some entertaining ingredient and yet emphasizing on character telling especially the strong point and weak point of the guess and give a little advice for them about how to improve their weak point or any blind point they might be unable to see themselves.

As a fortune teller, I prefer to see myself as a healer that tries my best to help people during then reading session. I always try my best to improve myself, because you have to be firm enough by having great knowledge to support your points, moreover sometimes you might be meeting highly intelligent and top level guess light some kind of CEO, chair persons of big companies etc.

Fortune telling / Metaphysics is a very unique science that giving me unlimited funs; it was a tough but interesting science to me. Metaphysics need lots of reading, courses and practical experiences, that is only part one, the part 2 is you need a lots of common senses and the understanding of many kinds of living and personal experience from almost all kind of area.

Photo taken at Singapore Cricket Club’s Chinese New Year event.Supreme Court, photo taken from Singapore Crickets Club. SwissotelSuntec City, Marina Mandarin Hotel and etc...the area of Formula One Car reace 2008 SIngapore.This big field in the above photos is called ‘Padang’ which is meaning the field in Malay language! Haahaa!Before I went to my working place ‘Padang’, I ate my early dinner at Bugis Junction food court, the ‘Nasi Padang’! Haaha! A bit expensive while I saw the charging, but I found the taste was really nice, hence I found that the charging is worth.

Have a Best 2009 New Year!

Did Chinese paper cutting demonstration in an event yestersay. That was great many guests come to us.I would like to wish everyone have a best 2009 Chinese New Year / New Year, and getting all your dreams come true!Singaqpore's porpular dough figurine artist May Toh also in the event as well.Passing by Orchard, the crowd was slightly lesser than normal on this Saturday, maybe people was really busy buying Chinese New Year stuffs the day before Chinese New Year Eve (Saturday).Some busking artist was there.The most crowd attraction busking artists: the percussion theme.It was really full of people stopped on the whole walking way to watch the percussion performance.