Tochi's Hut

A while back, KH showed me pictures he took at some Chinese cultural festival. I've wanted to take a crack at shooting under similar settings. On Saturday, I finally got the opportunity, as I went to Market for another Toronto First Radio event. This event was entitled "金腰面之決戰前夕" (The Duel) starring the two DJ's from the 男人咀對咀 show. 腰面派兩大掌門決裂 - 武林勢必哄動!

金腰面 is a game they've been playing on their radio show for many years. I don't fully understand the rules, but normally, the two DJ's each pick a song. Callers will then select one of the two songs (Song A or Song B), whichever they like more. After some complicated voting system, the winning DJ will say to the losing DJ : "你金腰面!!" Not fully sure what it means, but one theory is that it sounds like "你'禁'要面!" (You really want to 'save face').

In this night, it was the ultimate showdown between the two host DJ's. Ten of the stations DJ's were split into two teams. One DJ from both teams battle 1-on-1 in each round by both singing a song. Audience would then vote for Song A or Song B. Five rounds - Best of three. The losing side in each round will have to suffer one of "滿清四大酷刑!" (Qing Dynasty's four major forms of torture!) While the singing was very good overall, the most memorable parts were, of course, the punishment! Kind of wish I had a P&S to record some videos, but pictures are worth a thousand words.

Round 1 Punishment: 辣辣壽司 (HOT HOT SUSHI)

Two plates of sushi, one hot, one not.

Ah Lau picked the normal one. He's home free.

Hold on.... Punishment requires eating BOTH dishes.

>_<;;;

Round 2 Punishment: Balls

One of the more severe and hilarious punishments of the night. Golf ball - up one, down other. Pictures tell all.

Round 3 Punishment: Pie in Face

Pretty self-explanatory...

Round 4 Punishment: Shoe in Face

Rather disgusting.... Sniff three times.

Round 5 Punishment: ULTIMATE punishment

Dress up and take five pictures with the audience and collect five quarters. LOL.

Final Results

Overall, a fun night. Learned a lot about photography and the limitations of my camera and lens under low light conditions. The faces in the pictures were redder than normal, but I suspect that was due to the uneven lighting on the stage. Try to account for that next time.