Hong Kong movie star, Chow Sing Chi (aka Stephen Chow) is one of my favorite movie stars that I like to watch. He is a comedian and his films of ridiculous funny characters and dialogs can make everyone feel happy while watching him. He has tried his best from his humble beginning of acting until he achieved his biggest achievement of best director award.

Recently I found a lookalike Chow Sing Chi in a small town of Simpang Pulai, just outside the big city of Ipoh in Malaysia.

1. Although he is very young, about 16 years old, much very younger than the real Chow Sing Chi, but I thought that both of them almost have similar face. Well, maybe not very similar, but at least ALMOST. However, he claimed that he is much taller than the real Chow Sing Chi.

2. I have interviewed this lookalike Chow Sing Chi and his name is Ho Min Shen and he is still studying in a local secondary school. His ambitious is to be a superstar like Chow Sing Chi and he loves Kung Fu as well like Bruce Lee, similar to the interest of the real Chow.

3. Here are the comparison of the photos of both the lookalike and the real Chow Sing Chi.

 4. If anyone would like to hire a stuntman for Chow Sing Chi, this is the one maybe you can consider. He is young, energetic and willing to learn.

5. If anyone would like to hire a lookalike for Chow Sing Chi to appear in their events or shows, let me know. E-mail me at victor@victorwan.com.

In one of the previous post titled : Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contest, I have put in the videos of the two winners for the club level Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest for Money Mastery Kuala Lumpur Toastmasters Club. I have promised to you that I will add in more videos for the other contestants for you to enjoy watching them performed in the contest.

1. Here are the videos for the other contestants for the Humorous Speech Contest in no particular order. If you think the sound is soft, please turn to higher volume so that you can heard the speech clearly. Again, I would like you to give some evaluation to their speech by clicking on the comments button in the post title here. In Toastmasters, we give evaluations to speakers so that they can improve further and enhance their speeches to be more interesting and presentable to the audiences in the future speeches.

2. MK Low’s Humorous Speech

3. Victor Wan’s Humorous Speech – that’s me.

4. KL Loh’s Humorous Speech

5. That’s 3 videos at this moment. I will add in the last 3 humorous speech contestants’ videos in the next post. If you want to be informed by e-mail when the next post is added to my blog, please sign up for e-mail alert on new posts available at the right side of this website.

I hope you enjoy watching the videos and please remember to give comments to their speeches. Thanks.

As of today’s latest news (15 Aug 09), more than 50 deaths have been reported in Malaysia due to the infection and spreading of Influenza A (H1N1) disease. However, by looking at the situation, it seems that the Malaysian attitude towards this disease is like as thought that it is just like nobody’s business.

1. In Mumbai, India, they have closed all the schools and cinemas after the confirmation of 15 deaths. The figure there is just 15 and they are serious about tackling and controlling the situation. But in Malaysia, it seems that the government still thinks that the situation here is in control and no need to be panic at this moment.

2. In Malaysia, every family has children and babies as well as senior citizen. These are the people afraid of getting the disease. With the government only announcing the numbers of people infected and the number of deaths, they should do more than that. They should announce where the infected areas are so that we can take precaution such as not going to the infected area.  Every day we take public transport to work and go home. We are facing so many people, touch the same thing around us and go to the same area we hang out to and the maximum precaution we can do is to wash our hands every time we reach office and also reach home. Looking at these, it seems that everywhere is infected area. So, where can we go now? Well, better stay at home. This is because every time we reached home, we do not know whether we have been infected or not. HOPEFULLY NOT!!!

3. Wearing a mask is one way for precaution but when you wear a mask and walk around outside, everyone will look at you like a crazy “kiasu” weirdo and then make you feel very uncomfortable of wearing it. But somehow, that is just a way to protect the family from infection.

4. My son was sick last week with fever and cough that similar to the H1N1 symptoms. Fortunately, he managed to overcome it and got well afterwards. Then, we heard from his school that many students were sick and absent from classes. The most shocking news was that there was a reported Standard 4 student confirmed with H1N1. Whether it was true or not, the government and the schools must take action to treat this H1N1 seriously. Announce where are the active places NOT to go and BAN this area. But I guess…………everywhere is not safe………….not only because of H1N1………..but of high crime rate as well.

Money Mastery Kuala Lumpur Toastmasters Club held their annual Humorous Speech Contest and Evaluation Contest for 2009 recently.

1. There were 7 contestants for Humorous Speech Contest and 8 contestants for Evaluation Contest.

2. In the Humorous Speech Contest, the oldest members of the club which was also the Chartered President for Money Mastery KL Toastmasters Club, Haji Naburi Idin, won it with his speech titled “Those were the Days!!!” Below is the video of his humorous speech. Just click the “Play” button to start playing the video.

 3. If you have comments about his humorous speech and would like to give evaluation, please feel free to click on the “comments” at the Headline Post above and type in your comments, areas for his improvement etc.

4. For the Evaluation contest, the winner was Toastmaster Low Meng Koon, another Past President for the club. He was evaluating the speech of the contest’s test speaker, Toastmaster Cheah Soon Chuan from MIM Toastmasters Club. Below is the video of MK Low’s evaluation and please click on the “Play” button to start playing the video. Also, please feel free to give comments as well.

5. There are some more videos of other contestants for these two contests. I will insert them into my blog later stage by stage. If you want to be informed of the other videos to be posted here, please fill in your name and your e-mail address below to get e-mail alert from me of the new posts.

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Today marks one month old of my blog. Yes, my blog www.victorwan.com has been setup since 1st July 2009.

1. Although my blog is still new, there has been more than 200 visits to my blog and is still growing.

2. My blog is still in progress of changing……….. That is changing to the most suitable theme, my sponsors, advertisements, features and most importantly are my posts. Due to most of my time has been used in designing my blog, at this moment, I do not have time to add in latest posts. However, do not worry, from August 2009 onwards, I will constantly write more and posts them in my blog.

3. I have learned a lot of how to create and design my blog to suit the best for myself and also to my readers. Through writing in my blog, I am also able to learn how to write English efficiently which can improve my English writing and speaking. I apologies if there are broken English in my postings and I will keep on correcting it as I am still learning.

4. Most importantly is to say thank you for your support for visiting my blog and read my posts. But, I need one favour from you. YES…..YOU, MY FRIENDS, MY VISITORS. Please feel free to give any comments to my posts, my blogs and give whatever suggestion or recommendation for room of improvement to my blog.

5. Please also feel free to write to me at victorwan.blog@gmail.com if you do not want to leave comments in my blog.

Thank you and keep on coming back.

The greatest football team in the world, Manchester United FC, just completed their tour to Malaysia and played two matches here. I did not attend the first match against the Malaysia team on Saturday 18 July 2009 due to my commitment to attend an event. However, when they announced they were to play another match due to their cancellation to Jakarta because of the hotel bombing incident, I was ready to go to the second match on Monday 20 July 2009 at the same venue, the Bukit Jalil National Stadium.

1. This was my third time seeing them playing LIVE in front of my own eyes. The atmosphere inside the stadium was great. Everyone was enjoying their time.  However, while the first match was almost full house, the second match was filled up about half of the stadium only. Maybe, it could be due to Monday, a lot of fans still need to work. Here I was inside the stadium.

 2. My favorite player, Michael Owen was in the starting lineup. Here is the starting lineup for Manchester United team.

MU and Malaysia team together before kickoff

3. The match was played very fast between the two teams and I was able to capture Macheda’s goal on my own video camera. However, 2 minutes later, I was still excited about the goal and did not able to capture their second goal which was scored by my favorite player, Michael Owen.

Macheda's goal

4. In the second half, Rooney, Berbatov, Ferdinand, Nani, Anderson and Scholes were among the players came in for substitution. The match was still very energetic and both sides almost score their goals. However, at the end, the final score was still 2-0 won by Manchester United.

5. I enjoyed my time watching them played in Malaysia and looking forward to the new football season coming soon. May Manchester United continue to dominate the English Premier League and capture back the UEFA Champions League.

Good Luck to you, Manchester United.

2. The new president, Liew Siew Yin, made her first official presidential address during the meeting and together with the new officers and committee members, they all pledged to ensure the club to continue with great performance to achieve the President’s Distinguished Club award again and to become the best Toastmasters Club in the Klang Valley as well as in Malaysia, if possible. Oh, yes, we can !!!

Money Mastery KL Toastmasters Club President 2009/2010 : Liew Siew Yin

Exco 2009/2010 (from left) : Wilson, Julia, EK Yeo, Siew Yin, Sook Meng, Haji Hashim, Gean & Aziz

 

3. The Immediate Past President, Haji Hashim, also presented his last speech as the president of the term 2008/2009 and he was very proud of his acheivement on the successful year of the club journey. He also thanks his exco members of 2008/2009 and presented a small token to them as an appreciation of their dedication and team effort for the club achievement. The small token is an umbrella which remind them of their commitment to run the club and still show up in meeting as usual even during raining season.

Immediate Past President : Haji Hashim Adnan

Previous Exco 2008/2009 (from left) : Haji Hashim, Siew Yin, EK Yeo, Haji Naburi, Gean & KH Song

I was very sad when I heard the news of the death of Michael Jackson. Even though he had no relationship to me but his songs were related to all of us.

1. He had all those songs that gave meanings to all of us. Especially the song “Heal the World”. The world is dying and he wanted us all together to try our best to heal the world.

2. My second son, Julian also got to know this song when he was one of the perfomers in his kindergarten concert last year 2008. He dressed as one of the trees and urged all of us to save the trees to save to world. And he liked the song until now that he still like to listen to it.

3. My eldest son, Joey, got to know him from the song “Beat It”. Well, not that he wants to beat everyone but to beat away those bad things, bad experience surrounding us.

4. My youngest son, Joe Dean, well, he is still young and don’t know what is happening to him. But at least he heard and know a bit about Michael Jackson.

5. My wife had watched him before in front of her own eyes when he came to Malaysia for the only concert in his life. At least, she was able to see him in person.

6. As for me, I still have his “HiStory” CDs with me inside my car and I will still listen to his songs again and again and again………..

The King of Pop is already gone but for us, life goes on……….

When I looked around the environment surrounding me, the places I have been, shopping centres, residential areas or even on the road, there is one thing I noticed that everyone could be fooling around each other, and that is the economy crisis.

1. Is there really an economy crisis? I am just wondering.

2. You see, when I looked around, I saw a lot of people still able to renovate their houses. Not just a minor renovation but a major renovation as well. Completely changing the structure and design of the houses. Are these people too rich and not border about the economy crisis that has been hitting everyone that talking about it?

3. When I was on the road, I saw many cars still moving around and the cars are not just small and ordinary cars but big, huge, expensive and new latest cars as well. From what I know, the new cars are not cheap and could be more than RM150,000 even though some still can afford for cars that are priced around RM100,000. So, for those driving those new expensive cars, are they really too rich that they can afford to buy a car that only bring you from one place to another and nothing much can be done?

4. When I was at the shopping centres, I still saw many people crowded everywhere inside doing shopping or maybe just window shopping. Maybe there are many people at the shopping centres due to no other places to go and still can afford to walk around and look around of merchandises and feel the cool air-con. Yes, just walk and look around like browsing and not buying at all which is window shopping. But with the big SALES season now in Malaysia, I guess many people will be spending again with lots of discount but for me, there is no discount at all. You still have to spend spend spend and seems that nobody is affected by the so-called “Economy Crisis”.

5. So, in the end, is there an economy crisis now? I am still wondering.

Thank you.