Shedding 5 kilograms in 3 weeks; Nicholas Teo afraid that pants will fall off

Nicholas Teo's 「From Now On」Live in Malaysia concert will take place next Saturday. Recently, he came to Taiwan for a 3-week training and practised dance moves for 5 hours daily. Following, he also went to the gym, jogging, did breathing exercise and even having only one meal per day at times. He successfully shed 5 kilograms. Last night, he laughingly said, " Dancing has been overcome. Now, I'm worrying about changing costumes at great speed onstage. Even more so getting insufficient time to wear my belt and the pants fall off while dancing."

Upon choosing to hold the event at the 10,000 seating capacity Bukit Jalil Indoor Stadium(Kuala Lumpur), Nicholas Teo is the third Malaysian singerto do so after Fish Leong and Guang Liang. Last night, he starting counting the days soon approaching the concert and got worried about this and that. 「Before, I was afraid of dancing and singing at the same time without end. Now that there is confidence in the dance part getting better, I started fearing that there will not be enough time for costume change.」

Actually, there is an arrangement for the concert, which is for Nicholas to perform hot dance onstage first and afterwards, to disappear swiftly down the stage. Then, he has to quickly reappear and sing slow ballad. Since the tempo is fast, he is afraid that somewhere along the procedure, he lose control. In the end, it might turn out that the upper garment would not be neat and went up the stage in distress. When asked whether he would apply any protective measure? He laughed and said, 「Guys should be okay. As long as the leather belt is worn tightly and pants not to fall off for sure，the rest will leave it up to responses」.

When mentioning about the event costumes，it is also a struggling point for him. He said while smiling：「Because the designer was concerned about stage results，the clothes were made to be eye-catching. There's one which has colours yellow, purple blue and many more. The whole piece is also Bling Bling very shining. It's not something I like to wear and when trying it on, I was afraid it will be too over. But later, I felt that it's okay. At least, the fabric gives a sense of reality and feels comfortable」On Thursday（20th）he will bring with him the results of 3-week long tough practicing to board a plane back to Malaysia, continuing the last week of band training and rehearsal.

【2008/03/18 聯合晚報】@ http://udn.com/