Wong Fu Productions @ Philip Wang, Wesley Chan & Ted Fu - Team Asians

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Let’s start off with a little history of Wong Fu Productions. It all started with Philip Wang when he was still in high-school. The name Wong Fu is a nickname that Philip was given when he was in the seventh grade. It was nothing big at first, until he met his classmates Wesley Chan and Ted Fu through a school production in 2004. The trio began working on small scale projects in their spare time and for class assignments. They did not originally consider film-making as a career when they entered university; Wesley explored an interest in animation, Fu had been a student in electrical engineering while Philip himself considered a career in economics. After graduation in 2006, the three moved to LA area and continued their venture under the professional name Sketchbook Media. And after 5 years of hard work, Wong Fu Production finally hit 1 million subscribers in 2011. 

How I got myself into Wong Fu Productions? This I have to relate back to Jin Lim. If you watch one of Jin’s video “Abuden”, there was a scene shot at Hitz.fm. The one who answered Jin’s call is Philip Wang, the other one with glasses who answered Jin with “No, this is Narnia” with a magnetic voice (well obviously he’s my favourite ) is Wesley Chan. I searched for Wesley at first, and then I was linked to Wong Fu Productions. So, because of Jin and Wesley, I gotta know this awesome group of film-makers.

My first view of Wong Fu Productions was the sketch “Hugger”, which I still find it funny till now. These are some my favourite funny sketches (watch it here): Real Friends, Buffet, Our Summer Flop, Hot Lava, The Screen Test

Besides sketches, Wong Fu Productions also came up with a lot of beautiful shorts which hit millions of views in a short time. Some of these shorts even made it into well-known international film awards such as Cannes Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and San Diego Asian Film Festival. These are some of my all time favorites: Shell (Official Trailer for 2011 Seoul International Extreme-Short Image and Film Festival), Strangers again, These Four Walls, The Last (ft. Harry Shum Jr.)

If you’re looking for something more relaxing, there’s Wong Fu Weekends! Release on every weekends (Duh!), members of Wong Fu teach you their way of baking a cake, doing laundry, making gingerbread houses, cooking Ramen and some other daily routine staff (most of the time). Wong Fu Productions were also involved in some charity events such as The Supply Cup soccer game & ISA Charity Basketball Game.

They also released a new web series together with AT&T recently, called "When It Counts", starring Philip Wang himself, and other superb dancers like Yuri Tag, Mike Song and Anthony Lee. 

When It Counts Ep. 1

When It Counts Ep. 2

When It Counts Ep. 3

When It Counts Ep. 4 Finale

All of the vids featured are linked, so you may just click and watch some of their best vids recommended by me. Visit their official website http://wongfuproductions.com for more of them (Blogs, their own products: http://areyouaniceguy.com/) or follow them on twitter / facebook. Or even better, subscribe Wong Fu Productions channel on youtube to get more of their vids. 

Jin Lim @ Jinnyboy – The first

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Jim Lim, local Deejay of Hitz.fm who is also my first known youtuber introduced by my sister. Well, I’m not that old ya’know. I mean I know that there are some people posting beautiful shorts in youtube, just that I've never bother to go check it out till then. 

Okay, cut the crap and back to Jin. Let’s start off with a little introduction about Jin.

Jin Lim, or more popularly known as Jin from Hitz.fm, is the DJ who hosts the Hitz Party show, which airs every weeknight from 8 pm – 12 am. This multi-talented radio host / emcee / photographer discovered music at the tender age of 14. In high school, Jin performed lead vocals in a rock band he formed with mates, which went on to produce a hit single on hitz.fm, entitled Fever. Jin’s career in radio hosting took off when hitz.fm recruited him in 2008, co-hosting with Adam C at one point on the night show before taking it over solo. Being on air is a demanding job, but Jin works hard at what he believes is fun doing – sharing the latest music, being the voice behind the microphone, not to mention interviewing celebs which are the talk of the town!

I first knew Jin through a video he made call “Abuden”. I gotta admit it is the funniest video ever. The word “Abuden” means “Duh” in English. While you’re watching the video, you’ll find how people often ask questions (well more like repeating your actions in words) even they know or they see what you're doing at that time.

After this video, I searched for some other videos of Jin and found a few more. One of my favorite is “My Generasi”, a video dedicated to those who born in the 80’s & early 90's. This is exactly how my childhood was (see, I’m not old!). I shared this video to my friends in Facebook, and most of my friends re-shared it to their friends.

Then comes the short – “Unfold Part 1”. A common storyline; common as in it’s something that happens or happened to us or our friends around us. Something that you don’t aware of, Jin turned it into a beautiful short. Later on, Jin released “Unfold Part 2”, which of course in my youtube playlist as well and it was just as good as the first one.

There are also a few good ones which you can watch it here. Locals would easily get the meaning of those clips.

The Class Clown

101 Excuses

Only in Malaysia

Good job Jin, and keep it up. Subscribe or follow Jin on youtube, twitter or erm, tune into Hitz.fm if you wanna listen to his voice.