who do you think will make it big?

Posted at August 20, 2007

I helped to create a page for Patrick Teoh on Wikipedia.org (for fun, no profit, needs some clean-up or maybe lots of it), and in the process got him involved. Erm, I mean I have to right, seeing that there’s no available similar documentation available that chronicles his previous works. I didn’t listen to him when I was growing up, mostly because I was so engrossed in Singapore radio (from Johor mah). But I’ve heard of the man, know enough to know that he is a local celebrity of some sort, then got to know the man via TV Smith, he’s fun.

Anyway I staged a mini-interview with Patrick last week (that included a damn funny short clip of him claiming not to know why he was fired from TV3 for Wikipedia citations ;) ). It was really interesting to learn of his work in radio, seeing that he’s a radio legend in Malaysia throughout the 70s, 80s and mid-90s. Seeing him rack his brains trying to remember details for questions that I asked (especially dates) was funny.

I also googled a bit to get more information on Patrick (again, for citation purposes). Some articles that are available on the Net mentioned his various works, including being owner/ manager of a pub and inviting a singer to perform when very few people would have him. I also learnt that he started ADDaudio, a post-production house that I greatly like today. Little bits and pieces such as the reason for his leaving radio and termination from TV3… well all the interesting stuff.

While adding stuff to the Wiki page, I was thinking of Patrick’s past, and what he is today. Sort of like, wow how fun it would have been to know him back then, at the height of his career, just to keep track of it. I can’t describe exactly what it is, other than a moment of wishing I was there when all those stuff were happening. At the very least, I wished I had listened to Radio 4 ;)

But throughout this whole reminiscing thing, I thought of Swifty, a.k.a. The Great Swifty Speaketh, a.k.a. Edmund Yeo, a.k.a. a film director/ producer who also blogs. Honestly the dude irritated me at first — I mean, the amount of narcissism on his blog! Fuwah, felt like slapping him, kan? Heh.

Then I began to talk to the guy on MSN, and he kept bugging me to watch his short films. I was like, err.. no. Then I was invited to watch ‘Love Conquers All‘, and so I asked him to come along, knowing that he is an indie/ independent (well not so much now) director/ producer and would probably enjoy this kind of artsy local stuff. That was my first time meeting Edmund in real life, and I found him a rather enthusiastic chap whose informed thoughts and opinions on the local movie industry came tumbling out faster than he could speak :P

He also presented me with two DVDs of his short films — Girl Disconnected and Vertical Distance. I watched Vertical Distance first because it was more fun. It’s about a guy who feels insecure because he’s shorter than his girlfriend, and I really really liked it. Fun and sweet.

I’d put off from watching ‘Girl Disconnected’ for a myriad of reasons, even though it was more popular than ‘Vertical Distance’. Then last week Edmund gave me a DVD with the final cut of ‘Girl Disconnected’, and last weekend I decided to plonk my arse down to watch it.

I was mesmerised at how talented the fucker is.

Dude’s only 23 years old too.

So yeah, I think he will be big. And I’m glad to know him while he’s still relatively unknown, and here’s looking forward to tracking his career.

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