Sunday, April 29, 2012

Mediacorp : Star Awards 2012 Show 2 at Sands Grand Ballroom MBS

When my manager Ms Tay told me that she got an exclusive red carpet invitation to MediaCorp's Star Awards 2012 but she's not interested to attend, I knew she wanted me to go instead. Star Awards has been an annual events since 1994 which gives MediaCorp a platform to recognize the contributions of performing talents as well as behind-the-scenes production talents. In the past, without fail, I would watch the Star Awards when it's airing on TV so that the next day in school, I would have more common topics to talk about with my classmates. As I grew older, I don't really care about who wins or who didn't. I don't really watched MediaCorp's drama that often too. It's like if I'm home and got nothing to do (which is nearly impossible) then I'll watch the TV or I'll probably watch the show if my favourite artiste is acting in it.    

Photo from the e-mail invitation but it seems like they are still using old photos of the artistes.
"Join the celebrities for a night of glitz and glamor as MediaCorp's Star Awards 2012 take center stage at Marina Bay Sands and catch a glimpse of your favourite local artistes!"  This is what the email reads. Sometime, I wished that I'm the one going up on stage to get the awards instead of always being the audience and cheering for others. Waiting for this chance to come. Hehe.


Now, this two tickets in my hand didn't come easy. Luckily, Ms Tay called them up to check because she have to personally go down to collect this pair of tickets on the event day itself and she can't just like write an authorisation letter to get me to collect on behalf. Somemore, prior to this event, I have another events and I was really rushing like mad woman. Good thing, my dad come picked me back from event venue, went back home and drove me down to Suntec to collect the tickets from Ms Tay first. Really appreciate!


Show 2 of Star Awards is the more exciting one. Last week was Show 1 which acknowledges the people behind this year's best production. While this week's Show 2 gives out the most anticipated Best Actor/Actress and Top 20 Most Popular Artistes award which will ends off with a post celebration party.


Me with Shu Qing, my blogger friend, do visit her blog here on her post of this event! :)  Great thing she came with me and it's both our first time watching the Star Awards live. Her enthusiasm somehow makes me feel even more enthu about it too. The grand ball room was super big, we nearly get lost with so many entrance. From our seat, we can't really see the stage that well, can only depends on the projector but the atmosphere is superb.    


Hosts of the Ceremony : Guo Liang 郭亮 and Bowie Tseng 曾宝仪。


Show started, all the artistes were called out to make an appearance first. Look at how our views were obstructed by the long black black thing. I think it's the live mike to capture the sound. Lucky still have one shot (3rd photo) which didn't get obstructed. 


The first award was given out and I shall list down the list of awards.
Fonts in Red and Italic is the winner.

PROGRAMME CATEGORIES

BEST INFO-ED PROGRAMME 最佳咨讯节目
- Behind Every Job 2 美差事 苦差事 II
- Culture In A Bowl 吃出一碗文化
- Daddy 101 爸爸秘笈
- Tuesday Report 2011 : A Taste of Life 星期二特写:人。情。味
- Tuesday Report 2011 : Applaud to Life 星期二特写: 谢幕人生


BEST VARIETY SPECIAL 最佳综艺特备节目
- ComChest TrueHearts 2011 公益献爱心
- Lunar New Year's Eve Special 2011金兔呈祥喜迎春
- Star Awards 2011 (Show 1) 银光闪耀 红星大奖2011
- Star Awards 2011 (Show 2) 金碧辉映 红星大奖2011
- The SPD Charity Show 2011 真情无障碍

BEST VARIETY PROGRAMME 最佳综艺节目
- Food Source 2 事在好源头2
- Going Home 2 回家走走2
- Mission Possible 小村大任务
- Rail Thrill 铁路次文化
- Renaissance 旧欢。心爱

BEST DRAMA SERIAL
- A Song to Remember 星洲之夜
- C.L.I.F. 警微天职
- Secrets For Sale 拍。
- On the Fringe 边缘父子
- Kampong Ties 甘镑情


Out of the 20 programmes, I've only watched A Song to Remember, Secrets For Sale, Going Home 2, Renaissance and Behind Every Job 2. Some is watched halfway only some more.    

PERFORMANCE CATEGORIES

BEST ACTOR 最佳男主角
Tay Ping Hui 郑斌辉
(Bountiful Blessings 万福楼)

BEST ACTRESS 最佳女主角
Joanne Peh 白薇秀
(A Tale of 2 Cities 乐在双城)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 最佳男配角
Chen Shu Cheng 陈澍城
(The Oath 行医)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 最佳配角
Vivian Lai 赖怡伶
(Love Thy Neighbour 四个门牌一个梦)

BEST VARIETY SHOW HOST
Mark Lee 李国煌
(It's a Small World II 国记交意所 2)

BEST INFO-ED PROGRAMME HOST
Lee Teng 李腾
(Let's Talk 2 你在囧什么 ?!2)

BEST NEWS PRESENTER
Tung Soo Hua 董素华 and Zhang Haijie 张海洁

BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS PRESENTER
Iriana Halim 林有懿 and Chun-Ong Guek Lay 曾月丽
(Focus 焦点 and Good Morning Singapore 早安您好)

BEST NEWCOMER AWARD
Kate Pang 庞蕾馨
(A Tale of 2 Cities 乐在双城)
 
   
If there was a prize for the most enthusiastic fan club, it would goes all out to those fans in Elvinology and RBKD (Rui Bu Ke Dang). (Rui En's) Seriously, flash a scene of either one of them and they will start shouting, during the commercial break, they will start to cheer.

SPECIAL GUEST


JAY PARK! He sang three songs in total. Great to have him to come and sing some catchy songs like Count on me (Nothing on you)

POPULARITY CATEGORIES

ALL-TIME FAVOURITE ARTISTE 超级红星


None other then Tay Ping Hui 郑斌辉 ! Read his thoughts here. I think he deserved it! 

TOP 10 MOST POPULAR MALE ARTISTES 
Bryan Wong 王禄江
Elvin Ng 黄俊雄
Chen Han Wei 陈汉玮
Zhang Yao Dong 张耀栋
Pierre Png 方展发
Zheng Ge Ping 郑各评
Qi Yu Wu 戚玉武
Ben Yeo 杨志龙
Dasmond Koh 许振荣
Dennis Chew 周崇庆


TOP 10 MOST POPULAR FEMALE ARTISTES 
Rebecca Lim 林慧玲
 Yvonne Lim 林湘萍
Rui En 瑞恩
Kim Ng 鐘琴
Vivian Lai 赖怡伶
Paige Chua 蔡琦慧
Jeanette Aw 欧萱
Cynthia Koh 许美珍
Joanne Peh 白薇秀
Ann Kok 郭舒贤


For the first time in the Star Awards history, online voting can be included as 50% of the votes for the Top 10 Most Popular award. The other 50% is via telepoll voting. I wonder for those more senior and who have fans who don't know how to do online voting, won't they lose out?


So sweet of  Qi Yu Wu 戚玉武's fan to put these balloons up just outside the ballroom when the show ends.


We stayed outside for awhile and managed to take a photo with 黄世南(Huang Shi Nan). Although he didn't get any awards, he still has that charisma around him. Talk about charisma, it seems like most of the artistes didn't looked or grow old one? :) The rest were at the post show party. It was a great experience overall. Congrats to the winners.

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