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Foong Woei Wan
In With You, Adrian Pang and Rui En give worthy performances.
In the real Singapore, like it or not, the languages the average person is most proficient and poetic in might be the coffee shop Chinese and Singlish.
On to With You, the Channel 8 Drama which is coincidentally, about being neither here nor there.
Part paranormal family-values fantasy, part odd-couple comedy and part weepie, it tracks a plumber (Adrian Pang) and a ghost (Chen Hanwei) whose lives are linked up in a road accident.
Somehow Chen’s unearthly character is zapped into Pang’s cellphone and somehow, the former browbeats the latter into looking after his family.
Implausible as it is, the drama is driven by genuine unease at road safety and the Singapore dream of car ownership. The good guys, Pang and Chen, are rather responsible drivers. The bad guy is Nat Ho, a reckless driver who stops at nothing to buy a flashy car.
Keeping it real, too, are the actors. Chen Shucheng and Rui En are understated as Chen Hanwei’s grieving father and gentle widow.
With You, weekdays, 9pm. 3 out of 5 stars.
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WITH YOU
Channel 8, 9pm
Siqi (Rui En) mistakes Wen An for a thief when he tries to fix a broken drawer handle.
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NICOLE Han, 20, is hoping to win the battle of the sexes and do her bit for charity at the same time.
Together with her sister Merliza Lim, 24, the pair are pounding the roads as part of Nike’s Guys vs Girls Challenge.
The girls, led by Hype Records’ artiste Rui En, are supporting The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund while the guys team, led by Media- Corp artiste Tay Ping Hui, will run for the World Wildlife Fund.
The group who clock the longest distance for each week from now until the Nike + Human Race 10km run on Oct 24 will win a portion of the $50,000 total for their chosen charity.
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INANDAROUND
National Day is here! And other than looking forward to an extended weekend, we teens can also expect to hear this year’s National Day theme song played again and again over the airwaves.
There is just one problem – the song itself.
So what exactly does an NDP song need in order to score with us youth?
Three things: Fast-paced, catchy music, meaningful lyrics, and how much it touches our hearts.
A good example of such a song is Reach Out For The Skies, the 2005 theme song sung by Taufik Batisah and Rui En, the year I watched the NDP Preview live.
As the song was performed, the sea of students and other spectators was swaying so enthusiastically, I thought they were ready to jump out of their seats and do a song and dance number themselves.
The words to the song were simple, yet conveyed a strong message to Singaporeans to do the best they can and make their nation proud.
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National Day songs were first created to help evoke a sense of national identity.
By MALINI NATHAN
THEN
National Day theme songs were first introduced in the 1980s. Many are sung every year during the grand finale of the parade, in what has come to be known as the Sing Singapore Medley.
Stand Up For Singapore was first sung in 1984. With its catchy rhythm and positive lyrics, it spread the message for Singaporeans to be “prepared to give a little moreâ€.
In the 1986 parade, Count on Me Singapore, sung by Clement Chow, reminded Singaporeans that they must, and can, achieve excellence.
In 1990, the song titled One People, One Nation, One Singapore, penned by Jim Aitchison with music by Jeremy Monteiro, was sung by people at the Swing Singapore Party 1990 held in Orchard Road as confetti rained down on them. It was also sung in the 1990 parade, commemorating Singapore’s 25 years of independence.
NOW
Over the past few years, National Day theme songs have become more modern, incorporating pop elements. They have also been performed by popular home-grown talent.
Some favourites include Home, sung by Kit Chan from 1998; Where I Belong by Tanya Chua (left) from 2001; and Reach Out For The Skies performed by Taufik Batisah and Rui En from 2005.
This year’s National Day theme song is entitled What Do You See. Performed by local rock band Electrico, the song aims to foster community spirit and pride in Singaporeans. The Mandarin version will be sung by Chen Wei Lian.
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By boon chan
Top actress Zoe Tay has critiqued seven of MediaCorp’s most popular young actresses in an interview with a fashion magazine.
On Rui En: “She is totally different from the rest. She has character and a bit of a temper, like an ice queen. Not everyone will like her. But what we have to admit is that she leaves a deep impression.”
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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.
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The Sunday Times Lifestyle 5th July 2009 Boon Chan
THE DEFINING MOMENT (2008)
Rui En rejected the high-profile role of an ambitious businesswoman struggling with mental illness because of a rape scene in the script. It went to Fann Wong instead.
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