Trip up caldecott hill

Woke up early this morning to meet the rest of the soccer guys at Eunos mrt. We were given tickets by lovely Amanda(Noordin's friend???) to watch the recording of ESPN kickoff, a new football trivia show debuting on ESPN soon. A hour later, we reached caldecott hill, the home of the stars in Singapore.

Made all the way up hill to the reception area. Aparently we were too excited and reached there too early, before the hosts and the guests of the show even arrived. So we decided to leave our prints in caldecott hill in an once in a life time expericence for us. Captain SYED wrote"TPJC soccer was here" on the pillar downstairs. Took some pictures to kill time..

Dict and I posing with Stefenie Sun(how come i could not see

anything below???)

Idol wannabes...

Finally we were ushered into the studio.

Studio 4

This is how it looked inside the studio

Basically, our jobs is to be a good audience behind the contestants. We have to follow these simple rules:

1:Clap and cheer when instructed to do so

2:Smile when instructed

3:Look nervous when instructed

4:Keep quiet unless someone asks you to make noise.

We were basically free actors. Got to do some "shots" of us clapping, looking nervous etc. after the game has ended so that it can be edited into the show.

Took some pics with Andy Penders the host and Sir Les Ferdinand after the 2nd show has ended...

This with Andy Penders(he's a nice and funny guy on and off the show)

(Taken with Les Ferdinand.Damn big guy by the way)

(Another pic of him signing autographs)

Made our way downhill after that...

This trip was really an eye opener for me. Firstly, i get to meet 2 great footballers in Les Ferdinand and Lee Sharpe whom alot of us idolise on the tv since we were young. 2ndly, i was able to see how an actual recording of a show works, from the stage crew to the asistant producers and producers and even "the crowd warmer" someone who actually gets the audience "high" b4 the recording starts. Notice that i was in different tops b4 and after the recording-we were told to bring as xtra top as we are recording 2 seperate episodes of the show. It will be funny if the same person in the crowd appeared on 2 weeks in the same top.