don’t let the meow out of the cat.

Will do. Though i doubt i’ll be participating in any gameshows in the future. Super tiring i gotta say.

Many thanks for your kind words next time you see jason and/or i along the street please do say hello, would be great meeting you - think you’re currently one of our most consistent comment-ers. Thanks again!!

See you some time soon.

Cheers!
m

You are one of the better singers on the show so far. I like your rendition of “Don’t wanna miss a thing” by Aerosmith. My friends and I attended the recording for the orange lady (the week before your episode aired) and it wasn’t a really pleasant experience.

Congrats on the cash and all the best for your future endeavours!

Apologies that this post affected the show. It really wasn’t intentional at all.

thanks very much for coming by and dropping us your views. we know it’s because you care enough to even let us know.

All the best and do hope to see sometime random in town.

Cheers!

Here am I observing him on TV and deep down inside, I already knew that he walked away with 10k…thanks to this post.

And for being my alibi.

latest noose: Mark’ll be on TV this Thursday, 29 Jan 2009.

Dont miss it!

Appearing on TV woots!

Left Woodlands to Mediacorp studio,which is at Caldecott Broadcasting Centre, Caldecott Hill in a specially booked bus at around 6pm, for recording of the last episode of Don’t Forget The Lyrics Singapore Version:VIP(Voices In Parliament) Special which was a special edition of the show where they let people in Parliament play the game for charity. The broadcast centre was like hidden behind a whole row of terrace houses. The game if you dummies out there have no idea what it’s all about is to sing songs and fill up the missing lyrics and earn cash. Got it? No? YOU’RE HOPELESS!!

When arrived,I practically just waltzed in.No security at all. *hint hint* Wow….I’m so important they didn’t need to check my identity. ^^ Well luckily they didn’t. Forgot to bring my IC so I probably would b left outside…..phew. Went to some room to wait before we could go into the studio. Had 5 TVs there!!One for each channel. Can literally watch all 5 Singapore channels at once.
Haha. Then had to go to go the studio for the recording of the show which was in another building where it was all studios.Took the seats on stage just behind the contestants, the MP for my residential area,Admiralty, Dr Mohd Maliki Osman and some other chinese MP from some other area whose name I forgot hehe. Which means I will be on TV! For a few sec at least ….=) lolz.

B4 we started there were some ‘warm up sessions’ where the audience especially those on the stage like me had to learn some acting and were also told not to record or take photos or we would b killed. When the lights in the room turned blue (when the contestant was locking in the answer) we had to give expressions of suspense…when it was green (when the contestant answered correctly) we had to act happy, cheer and clap and when it was red (when the contestant answered wrongly) then we had to act emo and sad. And the audience who were not on the stage (the ones u guys at home watching TV will not be able to see) were told to clap their hands over their head so that the camera can see people clapping so that the people at home can see it too….Yep u guessed it..all the happy “Yeah!!”,the sad “Aww” and the clapping u hear in TV shows are all faked.Even the production crew occasionally gave fake claps and shouts during the show to add more sound to the show.

Then the recording started….and our host came out and it was….Gurmit Singh!!He emphasised the importance to SHUT UP and don’t sing along with the contestants in case we accidentally sung the answer during the show which would get the MPs disqualified. Started the recording where the two MPs (yes, they’re competing together as a group) and their backup friend were introduced. The wacky categories were introduced. They were ERP(Eighties Rock something…), GST(General Sing-Along Tunes or someting lidat),GRC(Gold something Classics), Leo’s constituency, Ballot something,Voting With Your Feet,En-Bop,US Selections,Water Conspiracy and the rest I forgot. Apparently before each song was recorded the MPs had to practice with the band of the show who played all the music so they know whether they should play the song higher or lower based on the MPs singing ability so they wouldn’t sound like and idiot if the band played too high a note they can’t reach. Then each song was rehearsed about 3 times each to familiarise themselves with the tunes and stuff like that. They managed to get past 6 songs b4 they finally gave up and won S$25000 for charity but not without bending the rules a little …*ahems* in the name of charity…

In the 4th round, Dr Maliki specially requested to sing together with the other MP when he was actually supposed to attempt that round alone and they were like “What the heck, it’s for charity, OK!” and let them sing together. Then in the 6th round they didnt know the answer and neither did they’re backup (in fact throughout the whole show he didn’t know a single song 0.0…) and they used up all their ‘lifelines’ but apparently their wives knew….So once again everyone was like “Never mind.Its for charity!!” and let them come on stage to help out and they got it right. Then during some round I forgot, when Gurmit was putting his arm around the MP like brothers while locking in the answer, he accidentally pulled up the bak of the MPs tuxedo. Since we were at the back of them….we could see all this and we were laughing silently like shit. Whether Gurmit knew it or not, he couldn’t move anyway…they were recording lolz.

The recording ended at around 10pm…Very tiring..Had to clap practically non stop, and if we didn’t we had to smile,make noise, still had to keep constant mental note to myself to not do anything stupid in front of national TV! 6 questions…each song sing at least 3 times AT LEAST. So songs were sung at least 18 times oh my goodness..Go toilet also so troublesome.Want go toilet? Only can go during break if you’re the audience sitting on the stage. And they have only 1 toilet for each gender. So when you urgent and need to go toilet you have to hold on until one of the many breaks when they were not recording and you still have to queue up and hold your bladder outside the toilet too..How torturous….Lucky I didn’t need to use. xd.

So catch me on TV!!Watch Don’t Forget The Lyrics Singapore Version:VIP Special. Its the last episode of the VIP special! Sitting on the left hand side of the stage 2nd row of the supporters! Will air in a few weeks/months time!! What time it will air is also not confirmed yet so watch all the episodes!!!To see me!!!Me!!MEEEE!!!!LOLz

More importantly, let me try to clear the air…

I was in the audience (Seated on the right stepped seats, 2nd row 2nd from the right together with another 5 of Mark’s buddies, brother, sister-in-law, girlfriend etc) and..

I wrote the post.

He said that he was the contestant, and he also mentioned that he had signed an agreement with regards to the announcement of the results.

In the latter part of his blog post, he clearly flounted the terms in his contract didn’t he?

If it’s a audience member, I wouldn’t mind. But it disgusts me when contestants are brazenly challenging the rules that they are supposed to adhere to.