Speaker 1: Hi. Say so this is Zara and welcome to our
Speaker 1: very first episode of Hush extra.
Speaker 1: So what exactly is harsh extra, something extra coming from Hush.
Speaker 1: That's right. Because last episode, we spoke about weddings, the
Speaker 1: craziness of weddings, the crazy amount of money we will
Speaker 1: spend a wedding. That's right. And another aspect of weddings
Speaker 1: that is very complicated is that
Speaker 1: relationship, family dynamics. And today we have a guest who
Speaker 1: knows quite a fair bit about that. He has had
Speaker 1: his own wedding. He has done a series about wedding
Speaker 1: with that. Let us give a warm hand to filmmaker
Speaker 1: and director region.
Speaker 1: Hi, welcome. Welcome. Tell us more
Speaker 2: about yourself. Hi, I'm a region. I'm a filmmaker and
Speaker 2: I'm a director of the Wedding Pick and Wedding. But
Speaker 2: series created by a very good friend of mine, Chelsea.
Speaker 2: So we
Speaker 1: know wedding is a complicated thing. Family even more complicated.
Speaker 1: You put it together. It's chaos basically. Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So is that what wedding pick a wedding bird
Speaker 1: is
Speaker 2: about? Yeah. So wedding but is actually about two sisters
Speaker 2: who fight for a very expensive family heirloom and which
Speaker 2: of course tears them apart and in the story, the
Speaker 2: older sister should get an heirloom. But because the younger
Speaker 2: sister gets married first, she's getting a first. So it's
Speaker 2: a bit unfair. It's a bit traditional but we see
Speaker 2: them fight
Speaker 2: out. Yeah. So there's a clash of traditions and modernity
Speaker 1: and for you yourself. Right. You've got siblings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have one sister, one elder sister and two
Speaker 2: younger brothers.
Speaker 1: And what would you say your sibling relationship or dynamic
Speaker 1: is with
Speaker 2: them? Actually, most of, most of us we are, we
Speaker 2: are pretty good with one another, I think mainly because
Speaker 2: we are very non confrontational. We try to avoid, avoid
Speaker 2: conflicts and if it happens, somehow it happens, we just
Speaker 2: walk away. So that's how we deal with
Speaker 1: it. Well, of course, today we want to understand more
Speaker 1: about wedding but, and how different it is from wedding
Speaker 1: p but before that, can you tell us more about
Speaker 1: your personal wedding? How is it? Like
Speaker 2: my personal wedding was not the happiest one, but it
Speaker 2: was very
Speaker 1: memorable. Still the tt,
Speaker 2: yeah. So, ah, ok. Where should I start? Well, I
Speaker 2: guess something happened the night before. So the night before
Speaker 2: the wedding
Speaker 2: my, my mom came into my room and she said
Speaker 2: she in my room, she wanted to, like, ask me,
Speaker 2: you know, how am I and all? But after that,
Speaker 2: when she turned around and she saw I have a suit,
Speaker 2: of course. Right. Yeah. And the suit is black. In color.
Speaker 2: So traditionally you can really wear black so black la
Speaker 2: to a, to a wedding. Yeah. Or any, any kind
Speaker 2: of auspicious events. Yeah, but it was 12 midnight. And
Speaker 2: where can I get another suit?
Speaker 1: Right. So she wanted you to change
Speaker 1: the black suit
Speaker 2: somewhat, somewhat. But she an idea, she said, why don't
Speaker 2: you go and buy a bo you put on the,
Speaker 2: for your chairs on the pocket? Then then at least
Speaker 2: there's some life to it. Some colors to it. And
Speaker 2: I say it's tight. Can you get? You can? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then after that I don't want to get because it's
Speaker 2: 12 at night. It's so late tomorrow I have to
Speaker 2: wake up at 5 a.m. to prepare all the stuff.
Speaker 2: And then,
Speaker 2: ah, it's my fault because I didn't know that actually,
Speaker 2: my wife already prepared the Boer. So the plan was,
Speaker 2: the plan was the next morning I go to her
Speaker 2: place before the gate crash and all I go to
Speaker 2: a place that I collect from her and my mom
Speaker 2: still said she's, she's quite traditional. She said that cannot
Speaker 2: do that when you touch, when you, when you step
Speaker 2: out of the house, you must be ready in that
Speaker 2: full set and then you go to her place. Prepare. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So we cannot do this kind of arrangements. So it's
Speaker 2: very rigid. A lot of,
Speaker 2: ah, a lot of these traditional stuff that place. So,
Speaker 2: in the end, I think we argue, argue, argue a
Speaker 2: lot of drama involved my my wife's family also my
Speaker 2: in laws. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean if you had gone to fair price and
Speaker 1: gotten it, you have been there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So a bit of regret, bit of regret. But I
Speaker 2: but because that was not the first time that happened.
Speaker 2: So a month before we did quarterly, OK. Something else
Speaker 2: like that also happened. So it kind of builds up
Speaker 2: and then to the point of the wedding where I
Speaker 2: think my family, not my mom, especially not very happy
Speaker 2: with my performance.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So it was, it was not the happiest but
Speaker 2: still very happy because I finally got married. It was
Speaker 2: a very long and arduous process with especially with COVID. Very,
Speaker 2: very difficult. Yeah. But we are just glad that it's over.
Speaker 2: We're married. I have a ring on my finger
Speaker 2: child.
Speaker 1: I also read in an article whereby you say you
Speaker 1: would have preferred to do without the go. Oh
Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah. Without the go.
Speaker 1: I feel you. I mean, as young people, I feel
Speaker 1: like we don't want to spend time and effort on
Speaker 1: these things for what just to fulfill certain traditions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no point, right? But I would assume that your
Speaker 1: parents have wanted it. Correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So you know what we do it, we do
Speaker 2: it for the bride family, right? Because we want to
Speaker 2: show our sincerity, my family on the shows
Speaker 2: and say that we are very sincere. We really want
Speaker 2: to marry your wife. She comes at the value. But
Speaker 2: when I asked my in laws, they said that to
Speaker 2: do that. They were like adamant and don't do it,
Speaker 2: please don't do it. But my side they say that
Speaker 2: you must do it. You must show sincerity.
Speaker 1: Usually it's the other way around, the bride wants it,
Speaker 1: you know,
Speaker 2: and it's the other way around. It's easier. So like, ok,
Speaker 2: I just do it because it's for you anyway. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But this time they don't want to do it in
Speaker 2: my mind. So I want to do it. Then I
Speaker 2: had to another argument and say that so traditional and then,
Speaker 2: and all. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then during COVID times so a bit difficult to arrange,
Speaker 2: difficult to get all the items. Yeah. So another ho
Speaker 2: ha another fight. I have a short film on that
Speaker 2: inspired by it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And my boys, I mean, it comes down to
Speaker 2: traditions and traditions and if the next generation, we should
Speaker 2: follow all these traditions and if it's even necessary to do.
Speaker 2: So
Speaker 1: that's the thing, that's the thing about weddings, about family
Speaker 1: as the one getting married, you feel like it should
Speaker 1: just be about us, right? The opinion of two people
Speaker 1: to find a compromise is hard enough. And then you
Speaker 1: add in two families, right? Because you're not just marrying
Speaker 1: your partner, you're marrying the entire family sometimes you want
Speaker 1: to think that it's my wedding.
Speaker 1: But like for your parents, maybe they're all excited and
Speaker 1: then everybody wants to have a say in something. It's
Speaker 1: hard for me. I don't want to do the gold,
Speaker 1: but I have one fear in my heart and that
Speaker 1: is my marriage will be cursed. You know, the, you say,
Speaker 1: I know they always say that you have to do
Speaker 1: this because according to tradition is good luck is auspicious
Speaker 1: for your marriage. So I'd be like, oh man, then
Speaker 1: what if I don't want to do it when my
Speaker 1: marriage be cursed? I think you can
Speaker 2: do a truncated one. So you at least do it.
Speaker 2: But it's not easy.
Speaker 2: Is a man
Speaker 1: getting married is like t business. I swear. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've heard it so many times over and over again
Speaker 1: after someone gets married, they go, I swear, I'm never
Speaker 1: planning another wedding ever again. There we go. OK. A
Speaker 1: quick fire round questions. Region. We're gonna ask you a
Speaker 1: couple questions. It's a to choose one kind of thing
Speaker 1: and you're gonna pick the answer right off the top
Speaker 1: of your head. Ok. First question. If your family possesses
Speaker 1: an heirloom traditionally pass
Speaker 1: down to the first to marry, would you claim it
Speaker 1: or would you preserve it for your younger siblings?
Speaker 2: This is assuming that I'm the first born. No,
Speaker 1: you're the first to get
Speaker 2: married on the first to get married, correct? So it's
Speaker 2: supposed to go to the first person, first person to get. Ok. Ok.
Speaker 2: So it's like the wedding, wedding, wedding. Pick it. Yes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think, I think I'm cool with it. Just pass
Speaker 2: it down whoever gets married first and get the price
Speaker 2: even if it is not you. Yeah, I think, I
Speaker 2: think it's fine. My siblings, we are non confrontational so
Speaker 2: I'll just give it to them.
Speaker 1: What a nice brother. Ok. Question number two. Traditional wedding
Speaker 1: or modern wedding. Definitely
Speaker 2: modern. But your mom would not agree to agree. It's
Speaker 2: not possible but I prefer for.
Speaker 1: So your wedding was a traditional eight course dinner kind
Speaker 1: of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. Yeah. If I had a choice, wouldn't
Speaker 2: need a wedding at all. You just sign them done.
Speaker 2: Save so much trouble, save so much money. I hope
Speaker 1: your mother does not listen to this episode. This is
Speaker 1: why I'm starting a company to help people. Look
Speaker 1: OK. Third question. Big grand wedding or small intimate affair,
Speaker 1: small intimate
Speaker 2: affair, sir.
Speaker 1: How many people did you have for your wedding? Were
Speaker 1: your parents like wanted to invite everybody and anybody, everybody
Speaker 1: in the film
Speaker 2: industry. If it was not for COVID, they wanted 100
Speaker 2: tables during the there's like 1000 1000 people, 1000 people.
Speaker 2: I was like, I I cannot do this, I cannot
Speaker 2: afford this. But what
Speaker 1: help you with the cause? I mean they wanted it.
Speaker 2: They invite those people say, if you want it, then
Speaker 2: you have to pay for it first. But I mean,
Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter because, I mean, their friends are
Speaker 2: pretty well to do so you will earn it back.
Speaker 2: But I think the issue is not, not so much
Speaker 2: of the money but a lot of the logistics, you know,
Speaker 2: you have to plan so 100 tables. Not funny. But
Speaker 2: because of COVID, I think we managed to, I think
Speaker 2: with only 500 I think still a lot LA is
Speaker 2: half 50 100 tables, right? You have to go around
Speaker 2: taking photos with 100 days of people. So you have
Speaker 2: to smell for like
Speaker 1: 100 times. That's the top of his concerns 100 times. Ok.
Speaker 1: Wedding gifts or wedding, wedding for sure, man. That's why
Speaker 1: I pick also use practical wedding for sure.
Speaker 1: Ok. Question follow up question. Was there an impractical wedding
Speaker 1: gift that you got? Ah
Speaker 2: I don't know if you say this but we got
Speaker 2: a photo frame? I cannot, I cannot say what brand
Speaker 2: but it's a very shiny photo frame. Ok. I think
Speaker 2: cost over $100 and my wife and I saw it
Speaker 2: and I was like, I think we don't need it.
Speaker 2: Let's just put on carousel.
Speaker 2: I think they were, it's quite high demand. I think
Speaker 2: maybe they want to buy the gift someone else. I
Speaker 2: don't know. Yeah, because if you have such a shiny
Speaker 2: photo frame, it's I don't know distracts you from the picture, right?
Speaker 1: You have a good point. Ok. So that's one of
Speaker 1: the more impractical ones. What about the most practical wedding
Speaker 2: gift? Most practical? I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: I don't think I have any practical wedding gifts. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think the,
Speaker 1: is the gift of finance helps you cover the cost
Speaker 1: and stuff like that? Ok. What's the biggest pa that
Speaker 1: you have received on your wedding, do you remember?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I recorded it down. Oh,
Speaker 1: nice.
Speaker 2: Love it. I think, I think it was over 1000. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And there were quite a few of it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: These people are there. What to do. They give my,
Speaker 2: my family face. Yeah. So it doesn't go in my pocket.
Speaker 2: I have to pay for the banker and I had
Speaker 2: a deal with my parents. I said that if you're
Speaker 2: going to pay for the banquet, then you can also
Speaker 2: have it. So that's a deal. I don't know how
Speaker 2: much she profited, how much she lost. But I think,
Speaker 2: I think at least we broke even. So I think
Speaker 2: we are very, very thankful
Speaker 1: that I'm very sure it's a profit. I don't know, man. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I've been listening to people like now,
Speaker 1: apparently it's hard to even break even. Right. Right. Like
Speaker 1: a wedding lunch at a restaurant can go up to
Speaker 1: like 230 bucks.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. It's like after the COVID. Yeah, the price
Speaker 2: is like, so, so inflated. I have, I have two
Speaker 2: weddings to attend this weekend. You know, so I'm going
Speaker 2: to be broke after that.
Speaker 1: Ok. On the other hand, what is the biggest Pao
Speaker 1: you've
Speaker 2: given? Oh, not a lot, I guess,
Speaker 2: maybe 200. Yeah. But it really depends on the market
Speaker 2: just to cover the,
Speaker 1: cover the cost. You also go to Singapore wedding
Speaker 2: also depends on the relationship that you have with the person.
Speaker 2: If you're probably closer to them. I think the friends
Speaker 2: around me, their weddings are not so flamboyant, they're actually
Speaker 2: quite simple. They are, they are like buffet wanted to
Speaker 2: do that and I got scolded. So I can't
Speaker 1: OK, last question, tell us more about wedding but, and,
Speaker 1: and how it evolved from Wedding P
Speaker 2: so Wedding P started as a play, my good friend Chelsea.
Speaker 2: She wrote it. I think the stage play was so
Speaker 2: good vy, I got the rights to it. And then
Speaker 2: we came up with a series. I think the series
Speaker 2: was pretty well received, I think especially with El and
Speaker 2: Regina's performance. A lot of love their performance, love their
Speaker 2: characters and then media c
Speaker 2: and then they decided to do OK, then we do
Speaker 2: an audio drama with it. Yeah. So for Wedding, but
Speaker 2: we actually expanded the world a lot of things in
Speaker 2: the video series. We cannot do like going to Paris,
Speaker 2: going back to the fifties or sixties. We cannot do
Speaker 2: all these in film in the video because it was
Speaker 2: so it will be so costly, very impractical. But a
Speaker 2: you just add some sound effects. I just add some
Speaker 2: audio
Speaker 2: French. French passes by all these and then we can
Speaker 2: create a world that can get listeners to imagine what
Speaker 2: it would be like if they were in Paris.
Speaker 1: This is why I love radio audio element with the
Speaker 1: step of finger. There you are across the world. So exciting. Wow.
Speaker 1: So let's say someone hasn't watched Wedding Pig. Can they
Speaker 1: still listen to Wedding? But and get it
Speaker 2: definitely, I think all the more you should listen to Wedding.
Speaker 2: But because we have more stories, we have more back stories. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Can understand the characters more, you can feel for the
Speaker 2: characters more and the characters are we expanded so that
Speaker 2: he has a fuller art is more complete and we
Speaker 2: have more perspectives on the same, on the same issue.
Speaker 1: Exciting. I can't wait for that to happen. So it's
Speaker 1: going to drop 20 24th, a fourth of January every
Speaker 1: Thursday all the way to the eighth of February right
Speaker 1: before Chinese New Year. So make sure you stay tuned
Speaker 1: to wedding. But all right, last but not least region.
Speaker 1: Any final words for listeners. He had harsh extra.
Speaker 2: Please catch a wedding
Speaker 2: but support us, support this audio drama. It's a new
Speaker 2: thing that we are doing, we're exploring and what he
Speaker 2: don't mention it's audio has so much the sky is
Speaker 2: the limit. We can do so many things and I'm
Speaker 2: so excited to show the world what we have and, and,
Speaker 2: and just tell our
Speaker 1: stories. And next week we're gonna be interviewing the actresses
Speaker 1: of Wedding P They are also gonna be in Wedding,
Speaker 1: but they are sel and Regina. So stay tuned to
Speaker 1: Harsh Podcast. Ok. Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: We stay tuned to Wedding, but thank you. Thank you.