Die, die, must Twi
November 28, 2009
THERE’S another breed of Twi-mums in town – the Twi-mum wannabe.
TWI-FAMILY: (From left) Pan Ling Ling, Kynaston and Huang Shinan. –TNP PICTURE: CHARLENE CHUA
Among them is local actress Pan Lingling.
The 38-year-old celebrity mum was not obsessed with Twilight – yet – when The New Paper first spoke to her early yesterday.
But she wanted to know the series ‘inside out’ so that she can bond with her 10-year-old son Beckham, who is a Twilight fan.
Said Lingling: ‘In fact, I’ve rented the Twilight DVD and will watch it later so that I can talk to him about it.
‘I have bought all four books for him and I hope to be able to share this craze with him when he returns.’
Beckham is currently in Taiwan on a student exchange programme and will be back in Singapore tomorrow.
He had begged his mother to buy him the Twilight books as he is fascinated with skeleton-related stuff and all things werewolf.
New Moon, in particular, focuses on Bella’s growing friendship with her werewolf pal Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner).
Lingling confessed that she was ‘stressed out’ when she had no clue about the Twilight universe.
She had sought help from fellow local actress Ivy Lee’s 12-year-old daughter Mikki, whom Lingling had seen reading the book.
Mikki had told Lingling that although she did not understand all the ‘descriptive phrases’ in the book, the plot was easy enough to grasp.
When we called Lingling again after she had watched the DVD later yesterday, she said she had already ‘been sold’.
Her husband, local actor Huang Shinan, and younger son, 7-year-old Kynaston, were also hooked.
Apparently, Kynaston managed to find the books although Lingling had hid them.
She had wanted Beckham to finish reading his other enrichment class books first before starting on the series.
‘Kynaston just came to me and said, ‘I open the Twilight books for elder brother already’,’ she said with a laugh.
The NewPaper