FOTC Blogger Event! :D

September 1, 2008 at 6:54 pm · Filed under Blogger event!, HBO Asia, Inside jokes, Singapore

Hello hello!

So I have to recap the wonderful happenings that took place in the HBO office last Thursday. Over the course of the 5 posts here, I’ve made some amazing new friends and I finally got to meet them in person at our Flight of the Conchords blogger event - which went AMAZING :) But paiseh for the late post; I am not as consummate a blogger as you guys!

First I have to give a big fat thank-you to the folks who turned up, and their +1s. Jerrick, Claudia, Nadia, Krisandro, Gilbert, Yu Hui, Marina, Sheylara, Wilfrid, Nicholas and Hillary - I hope you guys had a great time!! Ack that was a mouthful.  

The night started off in a panic for me as I was readying the trailer contest page for presentation all the way til 6+pm, and our first guest turned up way ahead of time to add to the pressure..gah! But that was good too, as most of the folks arrived on time at 7pm and we managed to kick off our office tour more or less on schedule. Everyone was split into 2 groups led by 2 of our senior Tech & Ops staff - Smanda, our Senior Director (big-shot!) and Vincent, our Senior VP (even bigger shot!). I was with Smanda’s group and we went on the 4 stops in this order: studio, audio room, edit suite and master control room a.k.a. the Fishtank. Our very game colleagues Boris and Nick even set up equipment for people to try so kudos to the willing sacrifices Jerrick, Hillary and Krisandro! I’ll find out if your test reads/audio samples were saved into our library ;)

While we were roaming around the office, our hidden gem of a caterer was busy setting up the food for everyone in Deadwood, our recre room of sorts. Seriously, this isn’t product endorsement but Absolutely New Zealand, our source of authentic NZ fare, was absolutely wonderful that night. The items came non-stop and everything was yum! Well, the little bits I got to eat, that is. I hope all of you guys had your fill of the yummy food cos I didn’t; thought I’d come in to the office and eat more on Friday but it was ALL GONE. *horrors* Some pics for me to reminisce and mourn its loss :(

apple crumble, NZ seafood pie, chicken/celery wrap and quiches

roast beef with aioli, 2 kinds of bruschetta and a tossed salad

YUMMY RIGHT. Anyway after the food, came the main highlight of the night: two whole episodes of FOTC! I know I’ve stated it countless times here but despite my job, I honestly love the show and I still laughed as loud as the audience that day, on my (I think) 4th time rewatching! Heh but really, seeing the warm response made the whole event all worthwhile. The audience got the jokes, didn’t laugh at the wrong bits and best of all, everyone got the hotdog reference!! It’s like raising a little kid to see it start walking…or something :)

the rapt audience. awwww!

Heh all in all I really enjoyed myself, and it’s the true cliche about how I finally got to meet in real life the folks whose blogs/Plurk pages I’ve been secretly stalking - like Krisandro, Nadnut, Marina, etc. Yep yep I am guilty as charged. And the “hotdogs” that I said we prepared in the last post…

…were these! Pssst I took a hotdog for myself too! haha :)

We capped off the night with my grand announcement of our I ♥ Flight of the Conchords Trailer Contest, which I have to plug here once again hehe. Detailed information can be found here, but do take a quick glance at our very arty EDM for basic facts!

Can win MacBook Air ok!!

All the honorable guests of last Thursday will be receiving a copy of it so please do forward it to any video-crazy friend of yours! And lastly, I hope my post does justice to what everyone experienced last week - which from the following entries sounds like a ton of fun. Thanks once again you guys!! (If I missed anyone out, feel free to send over an annoyed comment haha)

Related posts:
Wilfrid - HBO Asia Premiere of Flight of the Conchords‏ - A Blogger Event
Hillary - My Ex-Boyfriend Recommends FotC
Yuhui - HBO Asia blogger event: “Flight of the Conchords”
Claudia - Blogger in HBO Latest Comedy?
Jerrick - Flight of the Conchords Blogger’s Night
Gilbert - Flight of the Concords Preview at HBO Asia Office in Singapore
Youth.sg - Flight of the Conchords gets its chords right
Krisandro - Preview of Flight of the Conchords at HBO Asia Office!
Nicholas - The journey of musicians..
Sheylara - One rather large hot dog for sale
Nadia - What if you were Flight of the Conchords?
Guorong - barrage of photos
Su - Flight of the Conchords

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Good things are worth waiting for :)

August 27, 2008 at 7:03 pm · Filed under Blogger event!, Bret, HBO Asia, Jemaine

Hello Conchord fans!

First, my apologies for having disappeared from here. Work has been swampy and it takes too many brain cells to come up with a good post for you guys! Anyway, I just had to log on at the last minute today to share some exciting info about Bret and Jemaine…exciting, but geeky. haha.

Did you know both Bret and Jemaine are bona-fide movie actors?? Ok they are nowhere near the Brad Pitts and Matt Damons but they have been in Hollywood pictures. Just check this out:

Bret. Is. An. Elf!

Haha kudos to Mintea for alerting me to Bret’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance in LOTR! I’m not an LOTR fan (okay don’t boo me!) so I never knew about his guest turn, nor the term Figwit which was created to refer to his un-named elf and stands for ‘Frodo is great…who is THAT?’ haha. It just tickles me to know that LOTR was really a “grassroots” project for NZ - almost anyone can get a part in it!

Ok ok these are even better. Jemaine - I know I’m biased! - has actually been in a couple of movies prior to acting in Flight of the Conchords and unfortunately for him, his cheesy past is easily available on YouTube! Look at the hip-swivelling going on here:

cheesy or what! :)

There’s more. Jemaine is involved in this upcoming movie called Gentlemen Broncos with Sam Rockwell (“Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”) that’s written by Jared Hess (“Napoleon Dynamite”). Pardon the name-dropping..I’m quite a film geek too :D Anyway he plays this character called Ronald Chevalier and there’s this viral clip of Chevalier floating around cyberspace. I almost couldn’t recognize him but had a great big laugh when it dawned on me!

Isn’t it amazing how actors morph themselves into various roles? I find it damn cool, and it’s added points to both Conchords ‘cos they write songs too! Nothing more attractive than that! I hope this useless info has been of great amusement to you guys because I had great fun digging out the videos hehe.

Now I need to head off to dinner but first - to the Singaporean bloggers, I’ll be seeing you guys tomorrow!! You know who you are; the ones tagged in FOTC 201 and our newly added RSVPs Sheylara, Wilfrid, Willy and Nicholas. I’m very excited to meet everyone tomorrow and I hope this post makes its way to you in time :) We’ve got yummy NZ food and *ahem* hotdogs lined up for you guys. Btw, do come looking glam and armed with cameras; our “slaves” have been toiling to present a fun and uniquely HBO (haha) experience for everyone. Whee!

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