The MediaCorp actress was filming ‘Precious’ in Hengdian

MediaCorp actress Jeanette Aw has celebrated almost all her birthdays at work since she started acting. And this year is no different.

The actress had spent her birthday (June 28) filming her latest drama, Precious, in Hengdian, China. In the drama, Jeanette plays three different characters — including a mother-daughter pair — spanning across three different eras.

Precious is adapted from Ch8′s 2008 blockbuster drama Little Nyonya. While Qian Jin’s tough personality resembles that of Yue Niang, the former is more outgoing and not as sad.

In a phone interview with xinmsn, Jeanette said, “Almost all of my birthdays were spent on set, since I entered showbiz. I thought things would be quiet because I’m overseas, but it was quite lively.”

The production crew had specially prepared a surprise for Jeanette.

On her big day, the actress arrived on set at 4am for makeup. She later shot a kidnapping scene, which made her “feel hot and dirty”. The filming only ended at midnight.

Then, the crew suddenly brought out a cake to celebrate her birthday. They even went for steamboat together.

“I received the most number of flowers I had in my entire life. Fans sent some to the hotel, my company and the production crew gave me flowers too. I can be a florist now,” Jeanette quipped, when asked about the presents she received.

She might have spent 71 days filming in Hengdian but Jeanette enjoyed every single day there as she loved the drama and the cast and crew were very nice to her.

Filming for Precious wrapped last month and Jeanette returned to Singapore to begin work on Ch8′s upcoming drama 995.

After the completion of 995, the actress will be filming for Absolutely Charming from January to April next year.

In Absolute Charming, Jeanette plays a fox spirit, who becomes an ugly girl, after she was banished to Earth from Heaven.

The actress said that she had read the plot and is looking forward to the drama. Jeanette let on that while she had appeared on screen with makeup on previously, this would be the first time she played an ugly character.

The actress even requested the producer to make her as ugly as possible.

“I’m not worried. I’ll go all out for it, since I’ve already accepted the role,” Jeanette laughed.

Tay Ping Hui, Jeanette Aw, Yvonne Lim, Ben Yeo, and the rest of the Rescue 995 cast underwent a grueling one-day training session at the Civil Defence Academy

To prep for their roles and bring forth a realistic portrayal as paramedics in the upcoming 2012 Ch8 drama series, the Rescue 995 crew had hands-on training on basic first aid and road traffic accidents procedures to learn the proper steps involved when dealing with different kinds of casualties. When we arrived at the Civil Defence Academy in the afternoon, the entire production team and cast were already mid-way through their practical session.

A couple of dummies were lying on the floor and the artistes were split into three different teams as they carried out their practical session. While everyone watched on intensely when it was Tay Ping Hui’s try to insert a syringe into a dummy’s arm, laughter broke out across the other side of the room as Huang Wen Yong and Ben Yeo attempted to perform CPR on a dummy model.

The grueling training progressed at such a fast pace it was hard to even get a quote or two out of the cast. It was a non-stop learning session for these actors as they fielded their trainers with questions in-between cramming information during the theory lessons.

When we finally managed to speak with Jeanette and Ping Hui for a couple of minutes, they unanimously came to a consensus and declared their newfound respect for those in the paramedical line.

Rescue 995 aims to encapsulate the lives and experiences of three paramedic officers – Jeanette Aw (Shi Haoran), Yvonne Lim (Xu Wenqian), and Tay Ping Hui (Huang Yixun) and an emergency room doctor played by Pierre Png (Shi Zeming).

Some people say that the ambulance paramedic’s job is the toughest in having to deal with accident victims or critically ill patients. In Rescue 995, this is aptly shown as paramedics do not draw attention to themselves but carry out their work in quiet efficiency, always at the frontline of life-saving work to re-ignite the light of life for those on the brink of death.

Check out more photos on their training session below!

Watch a video footage we took of their training session here!

Rescue 995 is slated to debut in Feb 2012.

Jeanette Aw plays Shi Haoran, the daughter of a cardiac specialist and TCM practitioner. She went against her father’s wishes and chose to be a paramedic instead of studying medicine like her brother, Shi Zeming (Pierre Png).

Tay Ping Hui plays Huang Yixun, a paramedic who has seen the fragility of life. The thought of being sick and alone spurs him to save lives so as to gain good karma for his kind act.

Ben Yeo roughly gauging the size of Jeanette’s jaw.

The artistes are taught to bandage wounds and head injuries the proper way.

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The cast playing paramedics in “Rescue 995″, Jeanette Aw, Yvonne Lim, Tay Ping Hui, Ben Yeo and Huang Wenyong attended an intensive one-day theory and practical training at the Civil Defense Academy to equip themselves with basic knowledge in Basic First Aid, One-Man Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) & Automated External Defribrillator (AED), Road Traffic Accident (RTA) procedures, medical equipment knowledge and usage and Patient Assessment Model (PAM).

Not only do the artistes need to memorise their lines and deliver them, not to mention with the appropriate accompanying facial expressions, they also need to act like real paramedics. Looking like one is not good enough. Seeing them in class made us feel that our job is kinda cushy. For that one moment :p Hope the boss is not reading this, lol.

Being the noobs we are, of course we had no idea what was going on when we dropped by the training. Our minds went blank 10 minutes into the CPR training and could feel our brain cells slowly dying away while the cast was listening intently. We decided to make ourselves useful by going around taking pictures instead before we were caught dozing off.

Ping Hui never fails to crack us up with his corny jokes all the time off-screen but he was dead serious in class that day.

We salute all the cast for remembering the steps in just one session!

Jeanette in all smiles as the class was coming to an end.

Check out an interview clip of the training done by the good folks at xinmsn
Video: Artistes undergo paramedic training! 艺人学习如何当救护人员！

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AND NOW TO THE HIGHLIGHT OF THIS POST: WHO ARE OUR CELEBRITY BLOGGERS?

Wait a minute, celebrity bloggers? There’s more than one blogger? Yes!

We’re honoured to have Jeanette Aw and Yvonne Lim onboard to blog for us Please give them a warm welcome!

Our celebrity bloggers will take over from here starting with Jeanette’s first entry here on Bagua8 blog next week. Look out for it!!

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