Watchign Getai on Monday, 28/9/2009 农历8月10日 at Bendemeer and 29/9 农历8月11日at Open field opp Hougang Police station Ave 4 - 精义舞台秀

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28.09.10 (Mon) 农历8月10日

Mum and I went to Bendemmer Road near Boon Keng MRT station on Monday, 28/9/2009 to watch getai. We are informed by Hao Hao and Wang Bihua at the Serangoon North Getai that there would be a getai in memory of lin li whom passed away last year. I had at first though that the host is Hao Hao.Nevertheless, it is a nice trip as there are over 30 singers that night although we were late in watching the performance.



Mum and I had lost our way, we exit from wrong side of the station. Walk and walk till we can heard the speaker from the stage that directed us to the correct area. The open field is actually opposite dad' ex company, we should have taken bus 147 directly from our area to the open field at Bendemer Road. After some 30 min walk around the Boon Keng MRT, we finally found our way to the stage at around 8.45 pm.



It is an eye-opening to watch so many singers at one go - there is my favourite Hao Hao with Da Bao (Bao Bei Jie Mei elder sister), Mingzhu sisters, Lee Bao En, Zheng Ying Ying and Tan Kaiqing. I am not very familiar with the rest of the singers so cannot make any introduction nor do i take any more photos for unfamilar faces. Each singer is entitled to sing one or two songs . The host that night were Wang Lei, Ah Nam and Wang Bihua.



Mum and I were lucky to manage to find a space at the right side of the stage. Get to watch the singers close up. Zheng Ying Ying is so cute, i had watch her performance online.

I found a video of Hao Hao and Da Bao performance for that night taken by gtqueen. Hao Hao danced very well in the second song.

I am able to view hao hao but not much of Da Bao from my position. I was merely holding my camera in the air and clicked non-stop to get a clear shot. I was facing the side of the stage the whole time when Hao Hao was performing till a kind uncle asked me to stand near to the front of the stage as he saw i was trying to get clearer shot in the rows of heads in front of me

Audience that The newspaper estimated to be around 4000 ++ but from the area, i really doubt we had so many audience that night as the area are quite cramped actually.

The Live Band

Lee Bao En

Tan Kai Qing also from JB, Malaysia, like Bao En

MingZhu Sisters



吕伟伦 singing No 3 Mummy


Zheng Ying Ying

Yesterday (29/9), we went to the open field opposite Hougang Police station at Hougang Ave 4. The host was Wang Lei and Ah Nam. Both were super funny yesterday. Yesterday was also the first time i watched 林姿逸 Lee Zi Yee performing Pole dancing.


Read from the website that a 20 min performance will cost the Taizhu at least $800 or more. Wang Lei also tried to perform at the Pole, he was super funny. I heard that this is the first time in Singapore our Getai had pole dancing as performance. I would say that the pole dancing is qutie unique, something special as compared to common singing.



Today Audience - we are lucky to found two chairs - i found my chair at 930pm. We are also blessed to have so many fans on top of the tentage.


Today getai is for temple celebration. I loved this Guanyin and 'Hu ye'.


Lee Bao En


Lee Bao En and Wang Lei singing 男人情女人心


Small MingZhu singing


Talented Lee Zi Yee doing pole dancing.





Wang Lei trying pole dancing, he was super funny when he removed his long pants

Princess Xiami

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Xiami decided to make herself comfortable on Mum's bed with sister while mum was out yesterday night. Mum said that she can only see the black on Xiami's eyes. Comparing Sweetie and Xiami, Sweetie's eyes look so round and big while xiami has a pair of tiny eyes.

Xiami

Sweetie

Getai Performance At Blk 153 Serangoon North - host 皓皓 26/9/2009 农历8月8日 - 精义舞台秀

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26.09.10 (Sat) 农历8月8日

Today Mum and I at first intend to go to Old Tampines Road to watch opera but heard from dad that outside our area at Serangoon north, there will be two getai performance on 25 and 26 2009 for temple celebration. We did not know whom the host was for tonight but we planned to watch first, if the host is not good, we will take the bus to Old tampines Road. Yesterday, I had a company dinner at Pinsi in Yishun, if not, i may have watched yesterday Getai performance too since it is so near to my house.

I was crossing the Road when i saw that host is my favourite 皓皓. I am over the top. Mum and I managed to get two seats at the far end.

皓皓 had promoted his concert at Downeast on 1/2/2010. The VIP seat that cost $68 per person are already sold out... Feel like going to watch but Pasis Ris is so far far. But Bus 88 will take me direct to Pasis Ris but no one is going with me - JH said that she is considering to go, maybe should go if JH going.

I just learnt that 皓皓 is performing at Lot 1 on every Tues night and AMK NTUC club on every Weds night. Sound very tempting to become a NTUC member just to enter NTUC club at AMK hub.

I am actually vvv(101%) happy that i get to take a photo together with 皓皓. He's very friendly, i just called him once and he turned, i pop the question and he agreed and get into position at once. I had also bought his Feb concert DVD - 皓 角 响 起 模 功 魅 力 演 唱 会 and got him to sign for me on the cover. Very happy with today... I had also signed with 皓皓 fan club - i think i am bit of crazy over 皓皓.


This is the second time i took photo with celebrity. The first time i took was with Fann Wong when she was in our secondary school sport day at Yio Chu Kang Stadium to film for the Drama: 阳光列车. Most of the Drama outdoor scene were taken in my secondary school at Guangyang secondary school. I had 'act' as one of the stupid students cheering for the 'teachers' at the Sport stadium, still remember that day i returned home like a cooked lobster just for a miserable amount of a mere $20 for a 3-4 hours of waiting.


Below are some of the photos i took tonight, i was sitting too far away from the stage so everything looked so tiny.


Opening by 皓皓 singing 十二神歌


This is tonight audience, i was so far away from the main stage








皓皓 custom is so nicely designed





皓皓 and another singer singing No 3 mummy





Me with 皓皓.Thanks to mum for helping me to take this nice shot.hmm, i should have take his DVD to pose together.... Yipeeee


皓皓 was posing for another uncle but.............


when he saw me taking his photo again, he faced me to allow me to take this photo, so charming of him... yipeeeee


皓皓 DVD for his Feb 2009 concert, one of his asistant asked him to sign but i took the DVD from his hands thanking him also..yipeeeeeeeeee




皓皓 fan club, the bottom is torn off with details of my contact and email

Ge Zai Xi At Xiangudian - 狸猫换太子 20/09/2009

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Today, we went to watch opera titled 狸猫换太子. Still remember how tragic the opera was when i watched the one casted by Yang Li hua on TV. For chinese version, i like the one titled 包青天３－狸猫换太子 casted 何家劲, 范鸿轩 and 金超群.

As the whole storyline is very long, 筱麒麟劇團 decided to have the whole opera completed in 3 days. Today is only part 1 of part 3. I will only watch part 1 since i need to work on tue.

It was quite dragging story esp between 9.10 and 9.40pm, the story line is still stuck at the point of divine intervention where the immorals tried to stop the palace maid from drowning the young son till the enunch appeared and thought of a plan to save the prince - a whole dragging 30 min that made me almost want to sleep.

Performance wise, as expected where the whole cast are of above standard performance. It is a opera worth watching in fact.



Here is what the story is about from this site:

传说中的包公最辉煌的功绩是审出了发生在宫中的一件大案——狸猫换太子案，替宋仁宗皇帝找回了自己的亲生母亲。《三侠五义》中用了好几个回目大肆渲染了这件事。那是宋真宗第一个皇后死后的事情。当时，刘妃和李妃都怀了孕。

很显然，谁生了儿子，谁就有可能立为正宫。刘妃久怀嫉妒之心，唯恐李妃生了儿子被立为皇后，于是与宫中总管都堂郭槐定计，在接生婆尤氏的配合下，乘李妃分娩时由于血晕而人事不知之机，将一狸猫剥去皮毛，血淋淋，光油油地换走了刚出世的太子。刘妃命宫女寇珠勒死太子，寇珠于心不忍，暗中将太子交付宦官陈林。陈林将太子装在提盒中送至南清宫抚养。再说真宗看到被剥了皮的狸猫，以为李妃产下了一个妖物，乃将其贬入冷宫。不久，刘妃临产，生了个儿子，被立为太子，刘妃也被册立为皇后。谁知六年后，刘后之子病夭。当刘后得知李妃生的儿子并未死时，乃将他收来抚养，并让他补了太子之缺。

一日，太子在寒宫与生母李妃见了面，母子天性，两人都面带泪痕。刘后得知后，拷问寇珠，寇珠触阶而死。因此，刘后在真宗面前进谗言，真宗下旨将李妃赐死。小太监余忠情愿替李妃殉难，放出李妃。另一太监秦凤将李妃接出，送往陈州，秦凤也自焚而死。李妃在陈州无法生活，只落得住破窑、靠乞食为生。幸亏包拯在陈州放粮，得知真情，与李妃假认作母子，将李妃带回开封。此时，真宗早已死去，李妃的儿子已经做了皇帝，史称宋仁宗。包拯又趁进宫向仁宗狄皇后贺寿之机，将李妃带进宫中，李妃才得以与自己的亲生儿子仁宗见面，并道出了真相。后来，包公又设计让郭槐供出真相。已做了太后的刘氏知道阴谋败露，惊厥而死。由于包拯在这一案中立了大功，被仁宗任为首相。

整个故事生动曲折，有头有尾，于是有人把它编成戏剧，搬上舞台，在社会上造成很大影响。

A further search had this whole story in details in form of a ebook type: http://www.huaxia.com/wh/jjjc/gs/00047754.html

I will not go into details of story plot since this is a 家喻户晓 story. Below are photos for part 1 of the story:


刘妃 and 郭槐. Liu informed Guo that she was carrying the imperial baby in her.


李妃


宋仁宗


The emperor was delighted that both his two concubines were carrying his children.


Both concubines showing respect to the emperor


Liu and Guo making their evil plot


Liu and Guo requested the palace maid, 寇珠 to change the baby son into a raccoon. In order to save her own life 寇珠 had no choice but to follow the order.


寇珠 wrapped the skinned raccoon body with the intention of setting up the Lee lady for giving birth to a bloody monster.


Lee had no words for giving birth to a racoon.


The silly emperor ordered his guards to take Lady Lee to be jailed.


寇珠 was interferred by the immorals each time she want to drown the new born prince.


寇珠 and 陈林 thinking of how to save the young prince. TangLin decided to hide the baby in the basket and bring the baby to 八贤王(the eight brother of the Emperor)


Tan Lin was forced to open the basket in front of Liu and Guo whom were both almost electrocuted by the immorals forces when they touched the basket.


八贤王


八贤王 and Tan Lin. It so happened that the eight prince oncubine had just gave birth to a baby so the eight prince decided to adopt the baby son as his own child making him appeared to have a pair of twins.


7 years passed, GuanZhu with Liu son. Liu son later died in a accident.


The eight prince was delighted to know that Liu son had died so he decided to visit the wake.


All the ministers paying respect to the dead prince.


The eight prince punishing Lady Liu for her evil plot



Guo was also beaten