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I n 'Made in SG', Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Poh Keng Jin – better known as KJ - creative director and founder of RetroCade. A maker and seller of retro arcade machines, RetroCade also offers old-school arcade machine assembly workshops in Singapore. Poh will talk about how his passion for building such machines started, how he came up with new designs for such machines, and how he started conducting workshops for fans from all walks of life.
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CNA938 Rewind - Old school arcade machines FTW – the RetroCade story with founder KJ
I n 'Made in SG', Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Poh Keng Jin – better known as KJ - creative director and founder of RetroCade. A maker and seller of retro arcade machines, RetroCade also offers old-school arcade machine assembly workshops in Singapore. Poh will talk about how his passion for building such machines started, how he came up with new designs for such machines, and how he started conducting workshops for fans from all walks of life.
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The trio were speaking to us recently on the set of Decalcomania, an upcoming eight-part thriller series that is a collaboration between Singapore content studio Mocha Chai Laboratories and Thailand's entertainment giant The One Enterprise. In the series, two women with identical faces — Neungdeaw, a hardened owner of a nightclub in Bangkok and Leia, a sheltered Singaporean socialite — suddenly have their souls swapped after a car crash. Neungdeaw must now learn to survive a world of high-society manipulation, while Leia must navigate a criminal underworld unknown to her. Both Neungdeaw and Leia are played by Thai actress Mookda Narinrak, 28. While Pierre, Cynthia and Huifang don't move in such cutthroat and vicious social circles as the drama characters, we were curious how they handle people relations. When it comes to matters of gossip, they die down with someone like Cynthia, also 51. She said: "I always believe if someone gossips about me and I hear about it, I'll go to the person directly. I won't go anywhere else. And if I hear gossip about someone else, it stops with me. I don't create any tension, and neither am I accepting any tension. That has been my work ethic for many years." Huifang, who has been a veteran in the entertainment industry since her mid-1980s debut, was surprised by the question and shared: "I don't know if I'm good at navigating people politics. I've never handled such situations before. Maybe if I had to, I might not be able to handle it? I'm not so sure. But I prefer to be peaceful." On encountering gossip, the 64-year-old said: "I can listen to gossip, but it's because I cannot move away from it. I'll just keep quiet, because if I add my words in, people will point at me and say that I contributed to the gossip, even no matter the extent." 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