The Sunday Times lifestyle | 12 July 2009 | Jocelyn Lee
Indeed, the three shows preceding The Ultimatum featured way more down-to-earth characters engaged in humdrum, everyday activities such as going to school, playing table tennis and keeping house. Viewers could identify with the characters and the plotlines.
All three serials fared better than The Ultimatum despite starring mostly second- string artists, newcomers and veteran character actors.
My School Daze was about primary school children and their kiasu parents, and starred Chen Hanwei, Terence Cao and Rui En. It had an average of 986,000 viewers from April to May.
Table Of Glory was an idol drama which revolved around table tennis. Its stars, Joshua Ang and Dai Yangtian, are promising actors whose track records as marquee names are as yet unproven. It attracted an average of 1,016,000 viewers in April.
With a median 1,076,000 viewers, Housewives’ Holiday, which aired in March, fared best of all three. The dramedy starred veteran actresses Hong Huifang, Xiang Yun and Ann Kok playing housewives with problems such as unfaithful husbands and nosey in-laws.
Obviously, viewers had no trouble identifying with such dramas dealing with real- life issues.
Source: The Sunday Times
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（2009-06-16）洪铭铧 报道
新传媒重头剧《双子星》打出郑惠玉、范文芳两大阿姐14年来首次合作，配以阿哥李南星、郑斌辉等一众耀眼和实力配角，但自播出以来，不仅口碑欠佳，连收视也不及《书包太重》。
新传媒重头剧《双子星》播出以来近两周，口碑欠佳，连收视也差强人意。据了解，有些集数，《双》的收视甚至输给前一档《书包太重》。
据了解，今年收视最高的剧集首推《煮妇的假期》和《团圆饭》，接着是《书包太重》和《乒乓圆》，而《双》名义上是重头剧，收视无法一马当先，反而往后再跌，只比后两部剧略好，让一些希望《双》能像《小娘惹》爆冷出位的人大失所望。《书》探讨的是教育问题，走写实路线，《双》则描写家族恩怨，气派华丽得多，为什么观众反而不买账？
Source: Zaobao
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In drama series The School Daze, Koh and Lim acted together once again, as a money-grubbing couple, who try all means to scrimp and save for their child’s tuition expenses. This is also their third partnership as a couple in drama series following Kinship and The Little Nyonya.
Besides, after acting as a couple for three consecutive dramas, the duo has developed a certain level of chemistry, even spontaneously adding extra lines during filming which did not require any form of communication beforehand.
Koh said that co-acting with different actors will result in different kinds of chemistry and audiences are not oblivious to the sparks created on screen. Even the ‘cool princess’ Rui En could not help but break out and laugh at the humorous pair when they start to bicker during filming.
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瑞恩到英国参加”新加坡日”，偷得浮生半日闲，到伦敦和巴斯(Bath)走马看花。
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芭芭垃姬: 最近我都在追看《书包太重》哦，不过大多数人可能会忽略这部戏hor? 讲老师、小孩子的，很小品，但却很贴近生活。
四眼佬：是咯，现在的老师不好当，学生越来越聪明，还会诬赖老师呢。
芭芭垃姬: 瑞恩还是一贯冷冷酷酷的样子，有一点闷咧，是时候该有些突破了。
四眼佬：对对对，许美珍跟郭舒贤，演技比公主们自然多了。
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2 May 2009
林雯莹 采访报道 叶婉伶 摄影
在《书包太重》中，林明伦和许美珍饰演一对抢钱夫妻，为了帮孩子凑足补习费，想尽办法，闹出不少笑话。这是他们继《手足》和《小娘惹》后的第三次合作。
两人的默契，旁人都看得出。在台上，两人同声介绍自己是“炒虾面的”，直接扮演起戏中角色斗嘴，连酷酷的瑞恩也被他们惹笑了。专访时，他们轻松吃着点心做访问，你一句我一句，互相搭腔，甚至还现场互道“I love you”（别误会，只是在角色扮演）。
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By Ng Yan Bo, Channelnewsasia.com | Posted: 30 April 2009 1621 hrs
SINGAPORE: Every school kid falls into one or more stereotypical categories in school.
There’s the popular kids – half the school know who they are, there’s the goody-two shoes who play by the book, there’s the jocks – they spend half their time playing sports and the other half wooing members of the opposite sex, there’s the brainy kids in their triple science classes, and there’s the rebel kids – they spend half their time trying to break all the school rules and the other half serving detention.
The cast of “My School Daze” may be all grown up now and acting the parts of teachers instead of students, but we reckon if we put them back in a classroom, they’d very nicely fill up every category.
Three of the cast members were complete badasses who have fought, cheated or smoked their way through school. And because when there is yin, there is yang, another three of the cast members were so well-behaved they sailed through their education trouble-free. The seventh was a jock while the last two went through school in a daze.
Channelnewsasia.com rounded up the cast at a recent press conference, where they boarded the school bus down memory lane and told us who was naughty and who was nice.
The Goody-Two-Shoes
The bad kids are evened out by the good kids three against three.
Rui En sailed through school with ease, going from Singapore Chinese Girls’ School to Raffles Junior College (RJC) to the National Technological University of Singapore. The naughtiest thing she has ever done? A mini water fight in the RJC canteen. Her only woe? Bad Chinese language results.
“I was my Chinese teacher’s worst nightmare because I was never very good in Chinese. Isn’t it ironic right now that I’m playing a Chinese teacher?” She joked. “So this is a message to all the kids: please pay attention during Chinese because you will get your Karma when you grow up you will end up playing Chinese teachers.”
In contrast, Chen Han Wei learnt his lesson the hard way. He tried to cheat on a test in Primary School but was caught by his father, who was the teacher of his class then, and was caned in front of his classmates. The humiliation caused the father-son relationship to sour for almost two years, but the incident transformed the actor into a role-model student.
“I totally changed, I studied very hard,” he said. “But I was stressed because I maintained my grades at the top three positions in class all through Secondary School. I was like a tutor and I helped a lot of my classmates, I took part in a lot of co-curricular activities, and my teachers and parents never needed to nag at me.
Also on the good student list is Eleyn Kok, who was the “goody-two-shoes, wear spectacles, look nerdy, nerdy Bukit Panjang Government High prefect”. Her most mischievous act was to draw graffiti on the chalkboard – just once – and got caught. “I drew some comics on the board because I was bored, and the only time I was naughty, the vice-principal had to walk past and catch me! But I was just lightly reprimanded.”
MediaCorp Channel 8′s new family drama “My School Daze” features the star-studded cast, with its plot centring on school life in Singapore, revolving around students, teachers and parents.
Chan Han Wei plays a stuffy, traditional Chinese teacher who fails to command the respect and interest of his students, and eventually quits his profession to join his wife’s (Ann Kok) tuition centre.
In contrast, Rui En plays a popular and trendy teacher who gives her students rides in her sports car. She shares a romantic relationship with freelance deejay Terence Cao.
Darren Lim and Cynthia Kok take on the role of typical ‘kiasu’ Singaporean parents who bombard their kid with endless courses and classes.
Catch My School Daze on Channel 8, every Monday to Friday at 9pm.
Source: CNA
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