Yesterday, with just a few hours of sleep time, and just as many hours getting to and from the SDC school show in the morning, I was surprised to find myself in good spirits and energy. That despite a huge fall which tore my favourite cargo pant's leg, and left me with a sore right lower back and wrist... *ouch*

The afternoon picked up with a nice tea and chitchat with Bernard at Coffee Bean before we headed off to Mediacorp to get ready for a whole night of filming...

Here are more production still shots I took during the 2nd day of filming for "True Files Season 4, Episode 5, Transvestite"...

Above: Contestants of the Miss Universe 1989 Beauty Pageant for Cross Dressers

Above: Susan, aka Lim Yeow Chuan, as Miss Italy

Left: Susan flanked by other contestants / Right: Maggie as Miss USA

Left: Dion as Susan / Right: Michael as the Compere

Extras playing cross dressers, commonly called transvestites

Left: Susan, played by Dion / Right: Maggie, played by Jung

Above: Leo Chin Hwang flirts with the beautiful transvestites

Above: Susan seduces Leo

Above: Leo Chin Hwang urges his buddies Soosay and Kuppiah to help him find Susan

Above: Leo spotted Susan, who stole his gold chain and wallet

Left: Susan & Maggie hooking up with potential customers / Right: More transvestite streetwalkers

Above: CID officers questions transvestites about Susan's murder

Above: CID offers, played by Bernard and Rachel

Left: Transvestites seduce Soosay and Kuppiah / Right: Leo questions Soosay about Susan

Above: Edric & Bernard

The filming took place at a rigged stage set at Mediacorp for the beauty contest, as well as a 24hr coffee shop near Duku Road. The camera and equipments attracted lots of curious stares from passers-by as well as customers of the shop, but it was the over-the-top transvestites played by extras as well as actual cross-dressers who drew the most attention...

Despite the rain and huge amounts of delay, we surprisingly wrapped the shoot an hour ahead of time, at about 4.15am!

The first night's shoot saw me drinking an entire bottle of Tiger Beer during the bedroom scene with Dion, but last night's filming had me actually smoking no less than 6 sticks of cigarettes. Thank goodness for menthol filters...

I've a brief scene to shoot tonight and will be back with more photos documenting this episode. Stay tuned!

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