Part 4 is not really the last part of the PK challenge after all heh. In this episode, 6 selected PK challengers from the first 4 parts of the PK Challenge are brought back to challenge the final 6 contestants on One Million Star 5. No one will be eliminated from this part onwards as the top 6 now go into the points accumulation round.
The PK Challengers and the top 6 are grouped into 2 opposing groups. The group with the higher points gets a prize. This should be the last part of the PK Challenge this season. Enjoy it!
Check out how the 4 Singaporeans fair in the PK challenge special!
超级星光大道第五季―對―踢館賽 special
Tay Kewei 郑可为 vs Cecilia Liang 梁曉珺
Intoduction
Performances (results next vid)
Olivia Ong vs Rose Liu 劉明湘
Tay Kewei's results + Olivia Ong performace
Rose Liu's performance and results
Ng Chee Yang 黄智阳 vs Ami Yang 楊駿文
Performances and results
Rachel Chua 蔡艾珈 vs Rachel Hsu 徐泳琳
Performances
Results
The PK Challenger ends with this episode and the Singaporeans have done quite well. Rachel Chua and Olivia Ong are among the more impressive PKers this season. Olivia Ong even managed to win Rose Liu this episode ... cool.
I'm sure we will see more of them in the future!
This is my last post for this season's One Million Star. If there are Singaporeans involved in next season's competition, I'm sure I will post episodes of them in it. =)
Its part 4 (last I think) of the One Million star season 5 PK challenge and 3 Singaporeans remain, just like how it started heh. Only Rachel Chua from the initial 3 remain though and she is joined by Yutaki Ong and Olivia Ong.
Check out how they fair in part 4 of the PK challenge!
超级星光大道第五季―對―踢館賽 part 4
Yutaki Ong vs Rose Liu 劉明湘
Performances (results next vid)
Olivia Ong vs 曾梓淞
Yutaki results + Olivia Ong's performance
曾梓淞's performance + results
Rachel Chua 蔡艾珈 vs Rachel Hsu 徐泳琳
Performances
Results
Next Episode Preview
It seems like it's the end of the PK challenge but 4 Singaporeans will be back singing next week! The final 6 one million star contestants go into the point accumulation round, but they will still be competing against 6 selected PK challengers. Of those 6 challengers, 4 are Singaporeans!! Rachel Chua, Olivia Ong, Tay Kewei and Ng chee Yang are the 4 who will be competing again in the next episode!! Jia You!
It's another week of PK challenge over at One Million Star, and Singapore have sent some reinforcements to assist the 3 remaining SG PK Challengers, Yutaki Ong, Rachel Chua and Ng Chee Yang!
In part 3 of the PK challenge, Tay Kewei 郑可为, famous background vocalist for Asian pop artistes such as David Tao, Amei and JJ Lin together with Little Nonya theme song singer Olivia Ong were invited as PK challengers.
Check out how they and the 3 existing PK challengers fair in part 3 of the PK challenge! 超级星光大道第五季―對―踢館賽 part 3
Yutaki Ong 王顺达 vs Ami Yang 楊駿文
Opening plus performances and results
Tay Kewei 郑可为 vs Cecilia Liang 梁曉珺
Performances and results
Olivia Ong vs 李杰宇
Performances (results next vid)
Ng Chee Yang 黄智阳 vs Rose Liu 劉明湘
Olivia results + Chee Yang's performance (results next videos)
Rachel Chua 蔡艾珈 vs Eric Lin 林育澤
Chee Yang's results + Rachel's performance
Results
Only Yutaki, Rachel and Olivia made it through this week. How will they fare in part 4? Can't wait! Jia You!
In case you want to see Kewei's youtube video of her cover of 方大同's 愛愛愛 (as mentioned in the show). Here is the video!
There is a link to her blog at the Youtube video page!
One of the songs from the album Olivia Ong released in Japan (as mentioned in by Tao Zhi in the show)
P.S: Tonight got Newcastle United match live on TV!! First time this season as Starhub don't usually show Championship matches. Will definitely watch it later!! Howay the lads!!!
In part 1 of the PK challenge, all 3 of our SG PK Challengers managed to either win or draw and thus had the opportunity to sing again in the PK challenge part 2. In part 2, another Singaporean, Yutaki Ong, has joined in the fun.
Check out their performances in part 2 of the PK challenge!
超级星光大道第五季―對―踢館賽 part 2
Yutaki Ong 王顺达 vs Cecilia Liang 梁曉珺
< opening plus performances from Yutaki and Cecilia
Results
Tan Diya 陈迪雅 vs 李杰宇
Performances and results
Ng Chee Yang 黄智阳 vs Jui Wang 王璿
Performances and results plus a little bit of Rachel in the end
Rachel Chua 蔡艾珈 vs Ami Yang 楊駿文
Performances and results
3 out of 4 are safe and get to come back in the next episode. Congratz to Rachel Chua for her full marks performance! Can’t wait for next episode.
One month plus ago, I blogged about the Chosen 3 to represent Singapore at the One Million Star 超越星光大道 5 PK challenge. They have recently flown to Taiwan and began their PK challenge journey. Besides the 3 of them, another Singaporean guy (Yutaki Ong 王顺达) has joined them in their battle against the top ten contestants in this season's One Million star 超越星光大道.
Check out their performances in week 1 of the PK challenge!
超级星光大道第五季―對―踢館賽 part 1
Rachel Chua 蔡艾珈 vs 胡采書
skip to 2:10 for her appearance and performance
Results
Tan Diya 陈迪雅 vs 孫自佑
skip to 1:50 for her appearance and performance
Results
Ng Chee Yang 黄智阳 vs 楊駿文
skip to 7:35 for his appearance and performance
Results
1 Win 2 draw but I think it should be at least 2 wins based on my judging. I think Rachel Chua is the most impressive. Anyways, all 3 of them will be back for the next episode and Yutaki will be joining in the fun.
Will definitely watch their performances again when they show it on TV at the end of this month.
As my grandfather is from Taiwan, my father seems to be influenced by his roots and watches the Taiwanese news and talk shows on a regular basis. Sometimes I would join him in his daily Taiwanese "entertainment". It's quite amusing to see the talk shows where the host and his guests spends the whole 2 hours of the show scolding every tom dick and harry and sometimes also disagreeing with each other especially when members of ruling (KMT) and opposition (DDP) parties are on the same show. Fight, fight fight!
Before I continue, I would like to say, I'm just an ignorant fool and the things I'm saying are just random ramblings about the entertaining Taiwanese talk shows. Not trying to be an expert in any way. My knowledge of Taiwan is all from the Taiwanese shows I watch on TV. Something like the pro-Tibet supporters at this link, who don't have a clue why they are protesting. Unless you have stayed in a particular country for a few years, you can't really know for sure what you see on TV, newspaper or the internet is true. The bottom line is, you don't have to take me seriously.
Anyways, those who have not watched these talk shows should watch them once in a while. I think ratings are high that's why more of these shows are popping up on TVBS and CTI, 2 of the channels my father and I watch. Who wouldn't like seeing people scolding other people? You have some shows in the afternoon, evening and night. The one I watch most is a show called "2100全民開講".
At first there was the former president Chen Shui Bian (陳水扁)'s corruption case...
It's fun to see all the different tactics he and his family members are trying to get themselves out of trouble, how his spies are assisting them and the current government not doing anything to the spies despite all the scolding on the talk shows. I think Chen Shui Bian's case was the catalyst for the sudden popularity of these talk shows. To produce a show with high viewership, just get a few "ming zuis (名嘴)" (which literally means famous mouth) on the show and start scolding Chen Shui Bian and family, some shows also allows the public to call in to scold him ha ha. I think these "famous mouths" must thank Chen Shui Bian for the problems he has caused. Without his huge amount of corruption cases and antics, they will not so much things to discuss about and will have less jobs. Some of these "famous mouths" appear on 2 shows a day and according to my father, they get around S$200 to S$300 per show, which means they can get freaking $600 a day for sitting down and scolding people! Let's say they work 5 days a week (although I noticed some work on weekends too). 5 days x 4 weeks x $600 per day equals to a cool $12,000 a month!!
Actually we from Singapore have to thank Chen Shui Bian too. His first detention number (2630) came out rumbled (6230) as the second prize in 4D a day after he received that number!! My father wanted to buy the 24 combinations, but it was sold out! I guess lots of people strike 4d that day. My father also bought the second detention number (2185) but he did not strike ha ha. I think the next hot 4D number is his prison number =). Anyways, his case is related to many other cases, and more recently the talk shows are talking about the corruption in Taiwan's military which involves army personnel bribing for promotion. There so many new generals recently that the general to soldier ratio is 2:1000 (highest in the world). That is even higher than USA and Israel! Pay $100,000 for a promotion and you get about S$10k every month for the rest of your life after retirement, good investment heh.
The numerous amount of cases will give the "famous mouths" enough material to talk about for a few years I think. Lucky them Taiwan has so many problems, I wonder if they are really angry when they are scolding cause they are actually earning money while scolding. Do they try to create trouble when there is no trouble so that they can argue about it? I don't know he he.
And now finally to the title of this post. Last week Jackie Chan said this ...
BOAO, China — Action star Jackie Chan said Saturday he's not sure if a free society is a good thing for China and that he's starting to think "we Chinese need to be controlled."
Chan's comments drew applause from a predominantly Chinese audience of business leaders in China's southern island province of Hainan.
The 55-year-old Hong Kong actor was participating in a panel at the annual Boao Forum when he was asked to discuss censorship and restrictions on filmmakers in China. He expanded his comments to include society.
"I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not," Chan said. "I'm really confused now. If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. Taiwan is also chaotic."
Chan added: "I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want."
This week, the talk shows responded to his comments. They were all very angry and condemned his comments, defending the democracy of Taiwan, on the "Scold Jackie Chan" section of the show. The funny thing is, after all the Taiwan defending, they then proceeded to their daily routine of scolding all the bad things that happened in Taiwan, and there are so many things for them to scold. Freedom of scolding!
To make matters worse, this happened in Taiwan (whom I consider the "freeiest" Chinese nation) a day after the Jackie Chan bashing ...
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party Lawmaker Chiu Yi-ying slapped her male colleague Lee Ching-hua from the ruling Kuomintang yesterday for insulting her family.
Lee was speaking at the lectern during an Internal Administration Committee session discussing relations with China when Chiu made loud remarks. Lee accused her of not having been well educated by her parents.
Chiu rose to approach the lectern and spar with Lee, who challenged her to hit him. When Lee faced his fellow lawmakers complaining about her and reportedly using insulting remarks, Chiu approached him from behind and slapped him on the left cheek, cable stations showed.
Lee accused the DPP of being a violent party, leading to a mass of lawmakers from both parties surging to keep their two colleagues apart. The committee meeting was adjourned.
I know you want to see the video! I found it on Youtube! This female legislator, Chiu Yi-ying (邱議瑩) also pointed a middle finger at her colleagues recently. I found the video too! Now for the videos ...
Chiu Yi-ying Slaps Lee Ching-hua (with a little stephen chow touch)
Chiu Yi-ying points middle finger and denies it despite having video evidence, plus more slapping.
She is actually quite good looking. Too bad she has a bad temper. Like My Sassy Girl? Chili padi heh. Jackie Chan must be laughing at his villa while watching this. A slap in the face for Taiwan? Wahaha (I applaud myself for thinking of this).
Jackie Chan has responded to the complains, stating that he was talking about the Chinese media industry and not Chinese in general that needs to be controlled. Less talk shows and Chinese "Gou Zai Dui (狗仔隊)" /Paparazzi? Edison and friends would not have gotten into such deep shit without them. Do I think Jackie Chan is right? Honestly speaking, I don't care lol. I just made this post primarily to show the cute slapping video which made reference to a Stephen Chow's movie he he. It will be great if we had those Taiwanese type of talk shows in Singapore though. The Complain Show or like how we pronounce in Singapore, The Comprain Show!!! (Don't think it will be approved because we don't have freedom of speech right ha ha)
Intro to Singapore One Million Star PK challenge
