Location:3063 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5,Singapore 569868 Ang Mo Kio, Singapore. The school is near Yio Chu Kang MRT station and is served by 7 SBS Transit bus services namely:86,13, 853, 951, 269, 138, 45 Yio Chu Kang Secondary School was established in 1965 in the same year that Singapore become a Republic. It was built to provide secondary education for the pupils who lived in the Yio Chu Kang area in response to a request made by villagers during a visit by Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, the Prime Minister, t
Dick Bagwell and Vincent Twice — who may or may not be in Cobra Starship — sound off on 2011 nominees. By James Montgomery VMA “experts” Dick Bagwell and Vincent Twice Photo: MTV News In addition to looking a whole lot like Cobra Starship’s Ryland Blackinton and Alex Suarez, world-renowned journalists Dick Bagwell and Vincent Twice are also the go-to guys for hot scoops and slightly unnerving personal revelations. So it makes sense that they’d be in Los Angeles this week: After all, it’s the location of the 2011 Video Music Awards . After a few hours spent marinating in the SoCal sun, boy, do the revelations get personal. Earlier this week, as Cobra Starship were rehearsing for their VMA Pre-Show performance , MTV News was lucky enough to catch up with the dynamic duo to get their take on the field of nominees for the big show. Much like our previous encounters , Bagwell and Twice had an awful lot to say. For example, both are beyond excited to see what Lady Gaga will do in her VMA-opening number (“If I could put my money on it, I’m gonna bet she’s gonna be walking out in somebody else’s skin!” Twice enthused), and both can’t wait to see who takes home the Moonman for Best Male Video (Bagwell is partial to Cee Lo Green’s “F— You,” since “[It’s] how my ex-wife Teresa says good morning to me!”). And while they seemed mystified by most of the VMA noms — in response to Nicki Minaj’s Best Female Video nod for “Super Bass,” Bagwell let it be known that he’s “more of a tilapia fan,” and Twice was convinced that not only were the Foo Fighters Asian, but their Best Rock Video-nominated “Walk” clip was actually spelled “Wok” — they both agreed on a favorite in the night’s biggest category, Video of the Year. “I’m going to have to go with [Tyler, the Creator’s] ‘Yonkers,’ ” Bagwell enthused. “I once dated a gal who lived up there whose [ censored for your protection ]. I miss you, Cheyenne. Give me a buzz sometime.” You know what? Perhaps it’s best if you just watched it all for yourself. Check out the video above for Bagwell and Twice on the 2011 Video Music Awards. View at your own peril. The 28th annual MTV Video Music Awards will air live Sunday, August 28, from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles at 9 p.m. ET/PT, following the Selena Gomez-hosted pre-show at 8. See the list of nominees, revisit last year’s highlights and vote for Best New Artist by visiting VMA.MTV.com . Related Videos 2011 VMAs: Behind The Scenes Related Photos 2011 Video Music Award Nominees VMA 2011: Behind The Scenes Related Artists Cobra Starship Lady Gaga Cee-Lo Green Nicki Minaj
Video makes its television debut Thursday at 7:49 p.m. ET/PT on MTV and Logo, followed by a live Q&A with Gaga herself. By Gil Kaufman Lady Gaga Photo: Getty Images Lady Gaga promised that her Nebraska-based video for the power ballad “Yo
With little money to her name, several lawsuits pending and a vitriolic public still calling for justice, Casey Anthony may have been better off in jail . So where is Casey Anthony ? Completely MIA since her early Sunday release from the Florida jail where she resided for three years, that’s where. Her attorneys wisely won’t reveal her location or plans, but their calls to respect the verdict and leave Casey alone have largely gone unheeded. Casey Anthony Heckled Outside Jail The accused child killer could be in hiding in Carlsbad, Calif., near San Diego, according to a nwq report this morning on NBC’s Today show. Tracking the ownership of the Pilatus PC-12 private jet that whisked Anthony out of Orlando Sunday morning, NBC pointed to California attorney Todd Macaluso, who at one point had been a member of Casey’s defense team. Macaluso reportedly had given her $70,000. Macaluso’s firm maintains an office at the Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, with a private plane available to the firm anytime on very short notice. There are also reports that Macaluso left Anthony’s defense team early last year after running into trouble with the California Bar Association. The plane carrying Casey Anthony is believed to have taken a circuitous route before landing at John Wayne Airport, in Orange County, Calif. The Phoenix Fox TV station KSAZ reports that one of the stops could have been Prescott, Ariz., which is also a possible destination or Casey. NBC also says the IRS has placed a tax lien against Anthony, and that one of her moneymaking plans might be a pay-per-view TV interview. Anthony was ridiculed by hecklers as she walked free this weekend. We can only imagine the uproar if she charges foir a television sit-down.
‘We were cozily sandwiched between the prison for the criminally insane and the hospital for the mentally insane,’ actress tells MTV News. By Kara Warner Amber Heard in “The Ward” Photo: Echo Lake Entertainment John Carpenter fans have had a long wait between films from their favorite genre man. The director of cult favorites like “Halloween,” “Escape From LA” and “The Thing” has been on a hiatus of sorts but finally returns to multiplexes after a 10-year absence with this week’s “The Ward.” This psychological thriller takes place in a special ward in a mental hospital and revolves around new arrival Kristen (Amber Heard), who has no idea how she ended up institutionalized. As she slowly gets to know the other patients, played by Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Lyndsy Fonseca and Laura-Leigh, she realizes they are all hiding a terrible and deadly secret. When MTV News caught up with Carpenter and Heard to talk about their thriller, we asked how much of a creepy factor was added into the film simply by the practical effect of their filming location — an actual abandoned mental hospital. “It was in an abandoned building on a campus with crazy people in a mental institution, the criminally insane,” Carpenter explained of their set. “We were cozily sandwiched between the prison for the criminally insane and the hospital for the mentally insane,” Heard added. “We had this prime little location right between the two. We were fenced in.” Carpenter said they didn’t have to do anything to make the set look scary. “It’s an old building, a dusty old building that they had left and was perfect for us,” he said. “What’s scary about this location was that it was real. It was just creepy.” When asked to explain if there are any signature shots or nods to Carpenter’s previous work that fans might appreciate in this film, the veteran genre director said he can’t please everyone, so he focuses on stories that he likes first. “John Carpenter fans are unexpected human beings. A lot live under freeways and cardboard boxes, a lot live in mental institutions,” he said. “I really can’t think about them too much when I make a movie. The prime inspiration for me is the story. What kind of story? I got typecast as a horror director in the late ’70s with ‘Halloween,’ but I’ve managed to have a career by doing different things,” he revealed. “This one was great, an all-female cast, an ensemble cast who had to work together in an isolated dark shadowy location, and there’s something walking around at night. [It was] great fun.” Check out everything we’ve got on “The Ward.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com .
Producer tells MTV News of sending track to Em, in Mixtape Daily. By Rob Markman Eminem on the set of his “Space Bound” music video Photo: Eric Ford / On Location News Behind the Beats: Jim Jonsin Before Eminem could make the heart-wrenching “Space Bound” a hit single, the song’s producer, Jim Jonsin, had to rework the track, which he had previously recorded with British songwriter Steve McEwan. “It was actually a full song with verses, b-section, chorus,” Jonsin told MTV News of the original Eminem-less version. “Me and Steve McEwan actually wrote the song, we actually did it here in New York on guitar — it was just a guitar vocal on an iPhone,” the multiplatinum producer said. “We took the idea later in Miami, like three months after, and produced the track, and we sent it out to Eminem to see what he thought about it. He loved it. So he interpreted it his own way.” The initial concept remained mostly intact, and the song’s chorus acted as a guide for the Detroit MC to add his own twist. “The chorus was based off of a chase, a guy who’s chasing after a woman that he’s crazy about,” Jonsin said of the theme. “He loves her; she’s everything to him. I’m a rocket ship aiming at her heart, her heart’s the moon — I’m going full-on.” It was Jonsin’s manager who suggested that he send the track to Slim Shady, which he did, even though he didn’t believe anything would come of it. “He had me strip down the verses, take them out, and make the track a little more hip-hop, and he sent it out,” he said. “I didn’t really believe that it would end up on Eminem’s album, let alone be a single.” The video for “Space Bound,” now the fourth single off of Em’s multiplatinum 2010 Recovery album, was released last week on iTunes. The clip, which stars ex-porn actress Sasha Grey, depicts a rocky romance that eventually leads the rapper to kill himself with a single shot to the head. For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines . Related Photos Eminem’s ‘Space Bound’ Video Shoot Related Artists Jim Jonsin Eminem
Philly MC will talk about his Jay-Z drama and his future moves next Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET on MTV.com. By Rob Markman Beanie Sigel and Jay-Z in 2007 Photo: Getty Images Some call him the Truth, others call him the Reason, but most just call him Beanie Sigel . And next Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET, we’ll call the former Roc-A-Fella rapper our guest when he joins Sway on “RapFix Live.” There will be much to talk about with the Philadelphia MC as we will address his relationship with Jay-Z , the brash comments he’s made about Hov and the apology he supposedly issued to Jigga at the top of June. Last week, during a radio appearance on Sirius XM, the Broad Street Bully denied that he ever apologized to Jay-Z and charged that his quotes were taken out of context by XXL magazine, the outlet that first broke the news of Beans’ supposed olive branch. He did, however, acknowledge that it was Jay-Z who gave him his start in hip-hop, and for that he expressed his gratitude. Sigel rose to rap prominence after he was signed to Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records, where he released his debut album, The Truth, in 1999. Respected equally for his rap bars as well as his street bravado, the MC has seen his career tainted by legal trouble. In 2004, Beans was sentenced to a year and a day in prison after he pled guilty to federal weapon charges. It was around this time that Roc-A-Fella co-founders Jay-Z and Damon Dash split, leaving the company fractured and forcing artists on their roster to choose sides. Sigel managed to release 2005’s The B. Coming on Dash’s DDMG label and then his 2007 follow-up, The Solution, on Roc-A-Fella Records two years later. Still, the relationship between him and Jay has since been damaged. In 2009, Sigel addressed the drama and threw shots at Jay-Z on several songs, including “What You Talkin Bout,” a track he released in October of that year. Now, Sigel aims to set the record straight on the next episode of “RapFix Live.” Related Artists Beanie Sigel Jay-Z
Five people were arrested, five officers injured during Smif-n-Wessun’s album release party on Tuesday. By Rob Markman Smif-n-Wessun Photo: MTV News It was all love, according to Brooklyn, New York, rap group Smif-n-Wessun and their producer Pete Rock . That was until the police came and busted up the group’s album-release party in Manhattan on Tuesday night. “It was beautiful, man. Me and my wife and my family walked up in there, everybody giving us love, pounds, they’re happy I’m in the house,” Pete Rock said of the scene at Tammany Hall, the club where Smif-n-Wessun performed and held an album-release party for their new LP, Monumental, released on Duck Down Records. According to Rock, the night went smoothly as he, Tek and Steele (the two rappers who make up the group Smif-n-Wessun) performed songs from their new album in front of the sold-out crowd. For the group, the first signs of trouble arose when the club’s house lights came on. “We noticed two cops came in when the lights came on. Then they went back out, then they came back in,” Pete Rock recalled. The legendary hip-hop producer, who has crafted hits for Kanye West, Busta Rhymes and Mary J. Blige, then saw his friend Lewis Pe
‘It reminded me of Alanis Morissette’s ‘Ironic’ video, where she’s got her and her two other egos in the car,’ song’s producer tells MTV News. By Rob Markman Eminem on the set of “Space Bound” Photo: Eric Ford / On Location News Everyone seems to have their own take on Eminem’s new “Space Bound” video , in which the Detroit MC commits suicide after finding out that his girlfriend is cheating on him. The song’s producer, Jim Jonsin, likened the clip to a movie, and while the video is indeed shocking, he believes Eminem is clearly playing a character. “Things happen in movies all the time. People kill themselves, people get killed, they kill other people,” the multiplatinum producer explained to MTV News on Monday. “When my kids watch it, I like to explain to them in that manner: ‘It’s like a movie, ya know? He isn’t really killing himself.’ ” Jonsin, who was on set when the Joseph Kahn-directed vid was shot in February, suggested that viewers watch the clip a few times to figure out the plot and then draw their own conclusion. “The video itself, it’s tricky to figure out what’s going on in certain scenes,” he said. “It’s going to take them a moment to figure out why he did it. It’s not exactly spelled out, like, ‘I killed myself because this girl drove me to it or she’s cheating on me or she’s texting some other dude,’ or whatever it might be. So you’re still guessing a little bit.” Another element of the video that can be interpreted in a few ways is the two different versions of Eminem that appear onscreen simultaneously. Sasha Grey, who plays the rapper’s girlfriend in “Space Bound,” sees one of the two Shadys as Em’s subconscious. Jonsin had a similar take and compared the visual to Alanis Morissette’s 1996 video for her hit single “Ironic.” “It reminded me of Alanis Morissette’s ‘Ironic’ video, where she’s got her and her two other egos in the car,” he said, before turning the conversation back to Em. “I think it was him living in the now as a person going through it and him living as a person who is witnessing it and can make other choices to not be in that scenario. Maybe he would’ve chose differently, so now he’s watching himself.” How did you interpret Em’s video? Let us know in the comments below! Related Photos Eminem’s ‘Space Bound’ Video Shoot Related Artists Eminem Jim Jonsin
‘Even the strongest of love meets destruction at some point,’ the ex-porn star tells MTV News. By Rob Markman Sasha Grey on the set of Eminem’s “Space Bound” video Photo: Eric Ford/On Location News There have been quite a few takes on the meaning Eminem’s “Space Bound” video, in which we see two sides of a suicidal, love-torn rapper. Since the clip hit iTunes on Friday, fans have taken to comment sections dishing out theories about its meaning. Some have said this is another depiction of Em’s relationship with ex-wife Kim Mathers, while others likened the clip to a video game. And Eminem ‘s co-star in the video, Sasha Grey, has her own take on the video. Grey, who no longer works in porn, is now expanding her acting chops. She appeared, as did Em, on the seventh season of HBO’s hit series “Entourage,” and though the two never met on set, she got the offer to star in “Space Bound” at the request of the video’s director, Joseph Kahn. The clip features alternate versions of the Detroit MC, one agitated and cynical in the company of his girlfriend (played by Grey), the other more pensive and calm. “You can read into it a few different ways, but I imagine one character is actually him, and the other is his subconscious,” Grey said. Things begin to take a turn for the worse when the rapper discovers the love of his life is cheating on him. He later attacks her, then turns a gun on himself and commits suicide with a single shot through the head. “Space Bound,” like “Love the Way You Lie” depicts a tumultuous relationship in which domestic violence once again is a topic. “Em simply becomes company for her, and she mistakenly takes advantage of that,” Grey says of her character. “Before each take, Joseph and I would talk a lot about her motives and attitude. Her ultimate moment doesn’t come until the end, so I had plenty of time to build the fear!” Grey doesn’t have a clear-cut explanation of the video, but she ultimately sees “Space Bound” from a pessimistic view — hopeless romantics take heed. “I don’t know if it necessarily has a thorough message, but I think it shows that even the strongest of love meets destruction at some point,” the ex-porn star told MTV News. “Whether or not you come out of it together and whole is an entirely different question.” Related Photos Eminem’s ‘Space Bound’ Video Shoot Related Artists Eminem
