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''Measure of Man'' (大男人, 小男人) is a
Singaporean Mandarin Singaporean Mandarin () is a variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken natively in Singapore. Mandarin is one of the four official languages of Singapore along with English language, English, Malay language, Malay and Tamil language, Tamil. Singap ...
language drama, telecast on Mediacorp TV Channel 8, 9 pm. It made its debut on 7 August 2006 and ended its run on 8 September 2006. It is exactly the opposite of another show,
Beautiful Trio Beautiful Trio (大女人·小女人) is a Chinese language drama broadcast on Singapore's largest television network, MediaCorp TV Channel 8. The show was filmed in 2003 but broadcast in 2004. It stars Huang Biren, Ivy Lee, Stella Huang & Zha ...
(大女人,小女人), also produced by Mediacorp. While Beautiful Trio examines the problems that Singaporean women face, Measure of Man deals with the problems men face instead, with Huang Wenyong, Ben Yeo and Zhang Yaodong as the lead actors. The 2 shows have the same director and executive producer. This show has a total of 25 episodes and it was the second most watched local drama serial for the year 2006 after ''Love Concierge''. Veteran actor and actress Huang Wenyong and Aileen Tan were seen as potential
Star Awards 2006 Star Awards 2006 is a television awards ceremony telecast in 2006 as part of the annual Star Awards organised by MediaCorp for MediaCorp TV Channel 8. The ceremony, alongside the Walk-of-fame and the Post-show party, were held on 10 December 2 ...
Best Actor and Best Actress nominees because of their excellent acting that the audience enjoyed. However, both were not nominated. The show received mixed reviews. While Aileen Tan, Huang Wenyong and Li Yinzhu (Cai Lianwei's sister-in-law) were praised for their acting, new artistes who had less than 2 years of experience in Mediacorp, such as Ben Yeo and Ezann Lee were heavily criticized both by critics and the general public.


Plot

Despite having a bright five-year-old son and a successful position at a bank, Lian Wei is hardly the man he once aspired to be. Already, Lian Wei's relationship with his wife, Patricia, is breaking down due to the recent spade of major setbacks. At work, Lian Wei is caught up with the problems of his close confidant and colleague, Norman, who is forced to choose between forsaking his carefree ways and committing to Melissa, his present love interest. Still serving National Service, Lian Wei's nephew, Shen Gen, is already married to his girlfriend, Kate, because of an unexpected pregnancy. Meanwhile, Patricia is constantly lashing out on Lian Wei for taking full responsibility of caring for his parents' expenses. Amidst a failing marriage and the eventual loss of his job, Lian Wei finds solace and comfort with his ex-colleague, Hazel. Soon, an affair develops and Lian Wei's marriage took a turn for the worse when Patricia files for divorce.


Cast

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Huang Wenyong Huang Wenyong (25 July 1952 – 20 April 2013) was a Malaysia-born Singaporean actor, host and teacher. Huang died at the Singapore General Hospital at around 5 pm (GMT+8) on 20 April 2013, at the age of 60 due to lymphoma. Early lif ...
as Cai Lianwei, 43 years old *
Ben Yeo Ben Yeo Chi Lung (born 23 September 1978) is a Singaporean television host, actor and businessman. Career A former model, Yeo was first scouted on ''Snap'', SPH MediaWorks Channel U's talent show. He won the competition and was signed by S ...
as Cai Shengen Root, 22 years old *
Zhang Yaodong Zhang Yaodong (born Teoh Yeow Tong on 17 December 1977) is a Malaysian actor and businessman based in Singapore. Career Zhang entered the entertainment industry after finishing first runner-up in the Malaysian edition of talent-search cont ...
as Norman, 30 years old *
Aileen Tan Aileen Tan Lay Ching (born 18 October 1966) is a Singaporean actress. Life and career Tan studied at Willow Secondary School. Tan worked in sales for more than a year before becoming an office administrator at an advertising agency. Tan pa ...
as Patricia (Cai Lianwei's wife), 40 years old *Lynn Poh as Melissa (Root's sister and Norman's lover), 29, later 30 years old *
Ezann Lee Ezann Lee (born 5 February 1982) is a Singaporean actress and television host, who is best known for her roles in the television series ''Destiny'' (2005) and ''Making Miracles'' (2007). She has also appeared in the film '' Be with Me'' (2005) ...
as Kate (Root's wife), 22 years old *
Constance Song Constance Song (born Song Qing Qing on 18 May 1975) is a Singaporean actress and entrepreneur. Career Song was a model before joining Star Search Singapore in 1997 and was subsequently offered a contract by TCS (predecessor of MediaCorp). Sh ...
as Hazel (Cai Lianwei's lover), 30 years old {{DEFAULTSORT:Measure Of Man Singapore Chinese dramas 2006 Singaporean television series debuts 2006 Singaporean television series endings Channel 8 (Singapore) original programming