Glimpse into the Unknown…
Dear friends,
My dear friend, Li Kim, is once again featured in the news. This time the New Straits Times interviewed her for her role as the host of The Paranormal Zone. She sure is getting popular! Hehe..
The Paranormal Zone is a TV series on paranormal activity. This will be their first season, which is due to be aired on our local channel NTV 7 premiering on the 1st of October 2012.
I like what was mentioned in the article… where there will be no fabrication and special visual effects in their episodes. It will literally be, “What you see is what you get”.
Do read the article below and make sure you watch the premier of The Paranormal Zone tomorrow!
Tsem Rinpoche
Glimpse into the unknown
Get into The Paranormal Zone to experience things that go bump in the night, writes Aref Omar
Datuk Sheila Majid is featured in one of the episodes. Phng is on the right
GET ready for a dose of the strange and unexplained. From haunted houses to child apparitions, a new TV series The Paranormal Zone will entertain, scare and possibly shed some light on these fascinating stories and mysterious accounts.
With its tagline, “What we see may not be real, what is real we may not see”, The Paranormal Zone premieres this Monday on ntv7.
The new reality-based documentary is hosted by the charming and bubbly Phng Li Kim. At The Paranormal Zone launch party in Petaling Jaya, she said: “The truth is that I’ve never been normal and I do believe in the existence of ghosts and paranormal activity.”
A business woman and motivational speaker, Phng is currently CEO of Kechara Media & Publications, as well as one of the directors of the Kechara organisation.
Phng explained that The Paranormal Zone featured real stories and each topic presented was thoroughly researched.
“There’s no fabrication and no added special visual effects. When we came across stories that needed to be manufactured, we scrapped them and moved on,” said Phng.
So don’t expect to see explicit horror movie versions of paranormal activity. Phng said although there were creepy or scary moments, viewers would only see more subtle visuals.
An episode that dealt with haunted houses had Phng staying in one alone for two hours.
“There was an infra-red camera that captured energies in the form of mists, glowing orbs of light and fast lights rushing across the screen,” she said.
According to Phng, The Paranormal Zone is meant for everyone — believers and sceptics alike — to find out more about the unknown. Viewers can make up their own minds after watching or choose to pursue the topics in depth at their leisure.
“I’m not qualified to give people advice on the paranormal but what makes me not afraid though is the compassion I have for these unseen beings,” said the 40-year-old mother of three.
“My spiritual teacher says that all these spirits are basically lives — with emotions, feelings and thoughts — just like humans except that they don’t have human bodies.
“This knowledge helps me to keep calm and unafraid,” said Phng trekked into dense forests and hung out at cemeteries to investigate the unknown.
Produced by Kechara InMotion, each 30-minute episode will offer both the mystical and academic perspectives on a particular topic.
The first season consisting of 13 episodes in English, will cover various aspects of the paranormal realm from haunting, cryptozoology, spirits and trances to local myths, dreams and alternative healing.
Along the way Phng and her team talk to celebrities, researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts, as well as believers and sceptics about their experiences.
The first season features Phng and her team travelling around the country. She said there were plans to expand and include regional phenomena in the future.
Catch The Paranormal Zone every Monday. The premiere episode, The Ghost Child is at 9pm on ntv7 this Monday.
(Source: http://www.nst.com.my/life-times/showbiz/glimpse-into-the-unknown-1.149335#ixzz27jkppgSs)
Other interesting links:
Must Watch: The Paranormal Zone on NTV7
NTV7 Chinese Golden Awards 2012
‘The Promise’ launch on national TV
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I cannot wait for the second season of the paranormal zone! I think that Li Kim has been placing a lot of effort into this show and I can’t wait to see more. Congratulations to Li Kim and thank you, Rinpoche for sharing this blog post.
I really enjoy the TPZ series. Although it might be a little scary, but it is really good as it explains things that we would usually miss or just brush it aside due to our ignorance towards the things that are happening around us.
Hopefully, there would be a day when science can explain all these things. At the same time, the doctors would stop diagnosing people to have mental illnesses when they say they have such experiences and encounters.
I really admire Li Kim for her commitment in Dharma in such a short period of time. Being a student of Rinpoche for not more then 5 years, she has consistently shown her devotion towards Rinpoche and for the Dharma and commitment in using any means possible to promote the Dharma including her own self. Not having any experience at all in acting or being in front of the camera… not to mentioned going in to paranormal zones… she just basically plunge herself in to it and gave her all and followed Rinpoche’s 100% word and trust.
Another thing about Li Kim which I admire is I see a powerful woman whom is very strong yet compassionate, focus yet fun, firm yet kind, and her warm compassionate motherly nature care with wisdom and fairness. She is also flexible and adaptable in so many ways, I mean from a lady who had it all, with 3 kids, she could give handle and juggle 3 portfolios and now being in charge of Ladrang, Rinpoche’s main PA… WOW… is definitely admirable.
Thank you Li Kim for showing us we can do it, if we put our mind in to it and well “woman power”… very Kechara, very Vajrayogini 🙂
If there was anyone in Kechara I would like to learn from, one of them would be her!
It is very wonderful that Malaysian can produce our own local version of the spirits and the unknown 🙂 The production crews have traveled to many places and met with many people to record a wide variety of these phenomena. Keep it the good work guys! And may there be more seasons coming
There are a lot of phenomenons which cannot be explained by science, and generally they are termed under the category of Paranormal. Since young, I am fascinate by UFO and believe that they exists even though I have not seen one before. I hope one day TPZ can cover UFO too…
So far I can see that TPZ covers quite a lot about the spirits related topics. What I like about TPZ is that it is academic. There are many other good shows similar to TPZ, but TPZ seems to be one of the most academic among others.
I wish Li Kim all the success in TPZ and hope that with paranormal topics, people will explore subjects which are more than just money, business, wealth, etc.
I’ve always been afraid of the unknown. Because stepping into the unknown area means getting out of the place where I am, where I’m more familiar and comfortable in. I have never been a fan of the paranormal since young because I’m not a fan of the darkness.the topic of ghosts and spirits always makes me cringe and sends shiver down my spine. After meeting the Dharma and learning more about spirits, I realized that I should empathize them instead of being afraid of them. All these while I’ve been so selfish and kept thinking of me,me,me and how they could’ve harm me and hurt me. So instead of being afraid of them, I need to learn to empathize them and dedicate my prayers to them in hopes that theyd be able to pratice Dharma in their future lives..
I am still learning everyday. My knowledge is too shallow. Need to absorb more!
May I have the good merit to meet Rnpoche and the Dharma in all future lives.
Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments and encouragement. THANK YOU for watching the pilot… TPZ did well with 345,000 views for this pilot. And for the second episode, it increased by 61%. I am truly happy people are watching and it makes all the hard work worth while. THANK YOU KIM and Dato’ Ruby. And always, thank you Rinpoche.
Keep watching Mondays; 9 pm; NTV7
I really want to watch this series so so much and Li Kim only brings the bext
Very nice to see KIM’s sweats have all paid off after months of preparations and actual works.
I exclaimed in excitement when I set my TV on NTV7 on 1st Oct at 9pm. It was a very nice feeling to see all those familiar names appearing on the TV screen after the show.
A wonderful feeling to see Kechara getting more and more onto public domain.
I wish many more great success for KIM!
I watched the 1st episode on ntv7 and feel very happy and rejoice that Kechara’s program is aired on national TV at prime time.
The 1st episode on ‘Ghost child’ is really thrilling. I like that it is not just another paranormal show with scary footages but it offeres explanations and advices as well.
Li Kim is looking great in the show 🙂
After watching the first episode, the NTV7 TPZ is really offers both the mystical and academic perspectives on a particular topic. Compares to some of the paranormal show I watched before, TPZ TV series (at least the first episode) may be offering no answer to a particular or some of the phenomenon, but it based on the universal values of compassion, respect and understanding that make it not merely a show that impress people by claptrap, but with some insight to certain issue/phenomenon. Thank you for the good show produced.
I have watched The Ghost Child several times including a good half hour last night (Oct 1) and I still find it fascinating. I am very proud of Li Kim, as she is very natural in front of the camera and she takes her work on TPZ seriously, and yet maintain her humility despite her being a celebrity host. I promise you, the rest of the episodes will be good! Like Li Kim said, nothing is fabricated, and I find the interviews with the professionals very educational and interesting. Hope more people will get to know about the TPZ and watch the next 12 episodes. Do share with your friends and families!
It’s a great show! I think I have to absent from monday puja class for continuous 13 weeks…heheh … (no lah, can attend chinese one on tues)
Well done! Sister Li Kim & team are doing great! I enjoyed watching your show on TV7 last night
Unlike other paranormal tv series which were either too sloppily done or lack meaning, Kechara’s show promoted compassion and wisdom! Above all, thanks to Rinpoche for his compassionate, wise and skilful presence!/
Really wonderful that Kechara ‘s show is on TV !!Really looking forward for the show…
Firstly, I would like to thank the media and press for your support in our recent TPZ Launch Party and press conference. Li Kim is a natural and I salute her patience and tenacity in sitting through alone in total darkness amidst mosquitoes, centipedes, bats, for hours to get the footages that audiences are looking for. She is one brave girl! Stay tuned everyone, we go on air tonight 1 Oct 9pm, every Monday night for 13 consecutive weeks.
Don’t the TPZ has its members gathering on a weekly or bi-monthly to sit and share their uncanny experiences of the unknown among its members?? Sometime it is interesting to hear from various people of their strange encounters that often not spoken about becos of the fear of rejection by society. If TPZ has such a gathering, let me know and I would like to come by and hear such paranormal stories.
I can be contacted via my email : sayeng2000@yahoo.com
I thank HE Tsemtulku Rinpoche for setting up this TPZ blog.
Dear Observer,
Thank you for your suggestions. We will surely inform you when we have a gathering or sharing session. In the meantime, do tune in to ntv7 every Monday starting 1st October 2012 at 9 p.m. to watch The Paranormal Zone.
Cheers,
Wendy
Email: wendyloh.kmp@gmail.com
Hi Observer, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It help greatly to know people are interested in such gatherings. Perhaps such gatherings with some expert’s opinions would be enlightening to some unanswered questions.
Dear Observer and Wendy,
I would like to attend such meetings too!! I hope we can have this kind of meeting once a month to discuss about interesting topics!!
Dear Observer and Wendy… I think it is a brilliant idea to have such gatherings because there are many out there who is dying to share but have not found an outlet and honestly some actually seriously need help or advice. When you do have such a gathering… you must inform and make it known. I wanna attend too! It is one way to benefit r help someone as well.
There is always more to it when it is something manifested fromTsem Rinpoche! 🙂
Joy on Jan 2, 2013 at 3:01 am
Dear Observer and Wendy… I think it is a brilliant idea to have such gatherings because there are many out there who is dying to share but have not found an outlet and honestly some actually seriously need help or advice. When you do have such a gathering… you must inform and make it known. I wanna attend too! It is one way to benefit r help someone as well.
There is always more to it when it is something manifested fromTsem Rinpoche!