Thursday, March 24, 2011

Update....

The commercial that my hands appeared in is finally airing on Fairchild TV and the interview for the Bridal Magazine that Sing Tao Newspaper did on me will be in print on March 25,2011 so make sure you pick up a copy at the newspaper stand. Thanks.

Monday, March 7, 2011

A Day in Coal Harbour and West End

Woke up to a beautiful day this morning so I quickly got all my errands done and headed out for a nice walk in the sunshine. I took a nice walk at Coal Harbour and English Bay and capture as much sunshine as I can before the snow and rain hits us again, I need my vitamin D for another long week ahead of me.

I took my camera out with me and got to capture a few photos here and there. The temperature was 10 degrees and found a pair of duck just swimming in a fountain front of a condo at Coal Harbour, kinda feel like Spring is just around the corner. Before the sunset I ended up at the English Bay Starbucks where I sat and watched the sunset while doing some work on my computer. The clouds came in before the sun has set, Oh Mr. Sun I already miss you, please come back very soon.
Ducks swimming in a water fountain at a Condo



Coal Harbour Docks

Burrard Inlet

English Bay Gazebo


Monday, February 14, 2011

Chinese New Year Performance.







The morning started out quite stressful as 7:57am I recieved a text message on my cell that one of my stage crew is messaging me to let me know he won't be able to do the show as he has a very bad headache and sore throat. The only thing in my mind is that the show must go on so I contacted a friend of mine for help and luckly she was available after work to help me out. I am glad I was lucky enough to get help last minute, thanks to facebook where I posted my request.





Started packing up the Van with all my equipment and it started to rain hard, felt like there was more water coming down from the sky then my shower at home. By the time I got to downtown there was a bit of traffic jam on a Saturday afternoon, I guess it's from the Olympic Anniversary Celebrations. I finally got to the venue and unloaded my van but oh dear, we had to take all our equipment down the stairs, man what a workout. We got all the illusions all ready to go by 5pm and had my sound check all done by 6pm. We had 3 hours of break time before we go onstage for the show. We took a nice walk outside and headed over to Cactus Club for dinner. We had a nice dinner at the heated outdoor patio, I had the heat lamp right over my neck, I thought I had a sunburn after the meal.
 






The show started late as the program before us was overrun but it was all good, gave me lots of time to do my hair and make up before going onstage. We got a nice introduction from the MC Andy Lung and here we are Sarah and Oslen ready to present the first Illusion. The stage was quite small only 12' x 8'  for 2 illusions and 2 performers plus we do a dance number together, there were moments I thought one of us will fall off that stage. After the opening dance number and illusion I invited a volunteer to come up and do some magic and he walked away with a bottle of Coke at the end. Followed by the Chinese Linking Rings routine and a card trick with an audience volunteer calling her friend on the cell phone to do a magic trick, the selected happened to be in a deck of card but only one card was flipped with the back facing the audience and that was the selected card. Very quickly we moved into an illusion having a gentlemen coming up to help tie me up with ropes then we both stepped into a cloth curtain, matter of seconds his jacket disappeared from he body to my body and the ropes where still tied. He then untied me and I returned his coat but his wallet was still with me in my hands, the audience loved it and had a great laugh. I then presented My Miracle act making it snow in the restaurant. Then I did my new act that I been working on which is called the Dream Prediction. I had a dream and I wrote my dream down on a piece of paper sealed in an envelope which has a clear window so you can see it at all times which was hunged on a pole. I threw a beach ball out and asked the audience a series of questions. At the end I invited the lady to come up and read the prediction I had which matches exactly what the audience has selected, got great feedbacks on this act. At last we performed our final illusion of the evening, Metamorphosis, the fastest illusion in the world. That concludes our show for the evening. The audience came up after the show to tell me how much they enjoyed the performance, thanks everyone for making this show run so smoothy especially my dancer/assistant Sarah, my last minute replacement crew Mary and Daryl for taking photos and videos for me. Thanks!





Sunday, January 23, 2011

Oslen in Seattle for Mickey's Magic Show

I had a great weekend here in Seattle catching Disney's Live, Mickey's Magic Show. The show was wonderful and it brought me back in time just like I was a little kid again.  My friend Brad Ross was in the show and he knows how to entertain his audiences and the kids loved him. The music was great, as we know Disney always produce the best stuff so expect to hear lots of Disney showtunes. The cast includes Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Snow White, Jasmine, Belle, Gaston, Madhatter, Cinderella and her fairygodmother and a cast of 6 dancers  plus many more. If this show comes to your city make sure you go see it, you dont want to miss Mickey's Magic Show. Lots of fun, laughter and magic so go check out Disney's Live website and see when they are coming to town.

During this trip I also stopped by Pike Place Magic at the Public Market and got a new piece of magic to put into my show so, stay tune for some new magic in my show.



Magician Brad Ross and Oslen



After the show I met up with my good friends for hotpot at Hong Kong Bistro in Seattle Chinatown, all you can eat for only $13.99 pretty good price but the food quality and selections is never as good as the ones I had in Vancouver.

Monday, January 17, 2011

First weekend in Vancouver for 2011

Had quiet weekend, just relaxing and working out in the gym. Working on a new website to be launched soon. Keep visiting my blog as I will be sharing with you all more of my magical life.

Dance & Illusions of Oslen

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Oslen is here

Oslen has finally made it to the blogging world. Keep posted for updates of Dance & Illusions of Oslen.