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It had been a while since I last saw Ayden Sng, and he had visibly slimmed down. He stands 183cm tall and weighs 68kg — by my reckoning, that puts his Body Mass Index (BMI) at around 20.6, which for a man is on the lean side, with a low level of body fat.好一阵子没见到孙政，他明显瘦了一圈。183公分的高个子，体重68公斤，我算一算，他的身体质量指数 (BMI )约 20.6，对男生来说，属于脂肪水平偏低。
When I ask whether the demands of filming have worn him down, he laughs: “Actually, my weight has always hovered around 70kg. The prevailing aesthetic in China leans towards a lean, ‘lithe’ build rather than a bulky one, and since I’m in the middle of a shoot, I’ve trained myself a little slimmer.” He has cut back on carbohydrates and stepped up his cardio, all so that he looks his best on camera.问他是否拍剧太辛劳，他笑答：“其实我的体重一直维持在70公斤左右，中国的审美是倾向于‘薄肌’，不喜欢‘大只’，加上我正在拍戏，于是练得瘦一点。”他减少摄取碳水化合物，并加强有氧运动，为的是在镜头前展现最佳状态。
Maintaining his figure is deliberate, but so too is the round-the-clock grind of shooting. His 32nd birthday fell on 17 November, and that day he was on set in Nantong, China, filming from 5am straight through to 2am the next morning. During a break, the crew suddenly rushed out bearing a cake and flowers and broke into “Happy Birthday.” He admits to being intensely shy, and unused to being fêted by so large a crowd, he felt rather awkward. “It was so embarrassing — really ‘pai seh’.” Then everyone tucked into the cake; he took a token bite, and just half an hour later, it was back to work.维持身型是刻意为之，但无日无夜赶戏也是事实。11月17日是他的32岁生日，当天他在中国南通拍剧，从清晨5点拍到隔天凌晨2点。拍摄空档，剧组突然端着蛋糕和鲜花冲出来，唱起生日歌。他自认极度社恐，不习惯被这么多人围着庆祝生日，让他有些局促。“感觉很不好意思，很’歹势’。”然后大家忙着吃蛋糕，他象征性吃了一点，短短半小时后，又继续开工。
No Line Between Work and Life, Growing Through the Job公私不分，在工作中成长
Asked about his birthday wish, Ayden answers crisply and without hesitation: “I hope my schedule stays packed with work.” When I press him to share a more personal wish, he replies: “For me, there isn’t much of a line between work and private life. Right now, in both Singapore and China, the entertainment industry has slid into a bleak winter — production budgets are being slashed everywhere, and it’s getting harder and harder to be an actor. So if my calendar can be full next year, that’s a good thing.”问及生日愿望，孙政答得干脆响亮：“希望工作档期排得满满。”我继续追问，请他分享属于个人的心愿。“对我而言，公私没有太分明。现在无论是新加坡或中国，演艺环境已进入萧条的寒冬期，很多制作预算都被砍，演员越来越难当，如果来年工作能排得满满的，那就是好事。”
Being an actor in Singapore, he says, is a bit like holding a nine-to-five: once a shoot wraps or an event ends, you can go home and rest. But in the year-odd since he moved to China to grow his career, his life has been almost entirely consumed by work — the film crew is his only company, and even his emotional highs and lows are bound up with the job. Yet he revels in it. “Work makes me feel my life is full, that I’m making progress and learning new things — growing a little every day. Between takes I study the guqin and the pipa, and I even take Chinese lessons. One day, all these skills might come in handy on set.”他形容，在新加坡当演员有点像上班族，拍完戏或出席活动之后就能回家休息。他到中国发展一年多，生活几乎完全被工作占据，身边只有剧组，连情绪起伏也都与工作紧密相连，但他乐在其中。“工作让我觉得生活充实，觉得自己有进步、学到新事物，每天都在成长。拍戏空档时，我学古琴、琵琶，甚至补习华文，这些技能有朝一日都能在拍戏时派上用场。”
Shooting abroad, he is often cocooned in a closed-off environment, so once filming ends he always makes a point of heading out to walk the streets and feel the pulse of the city. “An actor has to remember to actually live life — that’s the only way to act better.”在国外拍戏，他常处于封闭的环境，因此拍完戏后一定会到外头走走、感受城市脉动。“演员要记得过生活，才能把戏演得更好。”
Deeply Introverted, Happiest When Working超级内向，偏爱干活
Ayden recently filmed the interactive reality series Smile Store No. 1, in which he and 34 other men from all walks of life opened bricks-and-mortar cafés across four cities — Harbin, Chongqing, Hengdian and Shenzhen — running them for three months and developing more than 50 products inspired by local culture, all to experience the challenges and thrills of starting a business.孙政早前录制了互动真人秀《微笑一号店》，与34名来自各行各业的男生在哈尔滨、重庆、横店、深圳四城开设实体咖啡馆，运营三个月，并结合在地文化研发了50多款产品，体验创业的挑战与乐趣。
He and a few of the other men ran the café in Harbin, where fans streamed in every day. Even though it was for a show, the work was anything but easy — cleaning, stocktaking, prepping ingredients, baking cakes, mixing drinks, hard at it until the early hours. “It was really fulfilling. For one, I picked up a new skill — baking — and I got the chance to open a café, which is a dream for a lot of young Singaporeans.”他和另外几个男生负责哈尔滨的咖啡馆，每天有很多粉丝上门光顾。虽然是拍节目，工作绝不轻松，必须打扫、点货、备料、烘蛋糕、调饮料，每天忙到凌晨。“挺充实的，首先我学会了新技能——烘焙，并且有机会开一家咖啡馆，这是很多新加坡年轻人的梦想。”
If another reality-show opportunity comes along, Ayden says the “roll-up-your-sleeves” kind suits him best. “My nature is to say little and do a lot. I’m not good at being funny, I can’t giggle and clown around to warm up a crowd, and I’m a total ‘big I’ — deeply introverted, with no craving for the spotlight. Variety shows just aren’t for me.”下次如果再有机会参加真人秀，孙政说“干活类”的节目比较适合他。“我的性格是少说话、多做事，我不擅长搞笑，也不会嘻嘻哈哈炒热气氛，而且我是个’大 I 人’，超级内向，不追求存在感，不适合参加综艺节目。”
He explains that the MBTI (Myers–Briggs Type Indicator, a popular personality-typing tool) is all the rage in China right now: on first meeting, people ask whether you’re an “I” or an “E” — that is, an Introvert or an Extrovert — before they even get to your star sign. “In private I’m absolutely an ‘I’, but at work I can switch between ‘I’ and ‘E’.”他解释，中国现在很流行MBTI(Myers–Briggs Type Indicator，一种常见的性格类型分析工具)，初次见面会问对方是I 人和或E 人，也就是Introvert(内向)或外向(Extrovert)，跟着才问星座。”我私底下绝对是 I 人，但工作时可 I 可 E。”
Filming, Always Tinged with Regret拍剧充满遗憾
Ayden returns to Singapore once a month, usually landing at dawn, cramming all his commitments into a single intensive day, dropping in on his beloved cats at home, and then flying back to China to resume filming. On his late-November trip home, he packed 18 hours with events and shoots — including this eighth-anniversary cover story for MU/SE. Ever on the move: that has been the watchword of his life for the past year and more.孙政每月回新加坡一次，通常在清早抵境，以密集方式在一天内把所有工作做完，顺便探望家中心爱的猫儿，然后飞回中国继续拍戏。他在11月底回来新加坡一趟，利用18个小时出席活动和进行拍摄工作，包括为《MU/SE》拍摄这辑创刊八周年封面故事。马不停蹄，是他这一年多来的生活关键词。
In 2025 alone, he shuttled between Singapore and China at least 20 times, spending well over S$10,000 on airfares — enough to make him wince. Because his schedule is so hard to pin down in advance, he often finds himself hastily booking flights online just days before departure; once he even misread the date and booked a ticket for the following year, nearly stranding himself abroad.2025 年，他往返新中两地至少 有20 次，花在机票的钱应该有万多新元，让他直呼心痛。由于难以提前敲定工作档期，他经常在出发前几天才匆匆上网买机票，甚至曾看错日期，订了来年的机票，差点回不来。
After shooting two period dramas back to back in China, he is currently filming a contemporary series. “No wig to wear, so I get to look sharp every day. The story spans ten years, and I play the character from older back to younger — it feels like reliving my secondary-school and university days. It’s a real test of your acting.”在中国连拍两部古装剧之后，他近期正在拍摄一部时装剧。“不用戴头套，每天可以帅帅的。剧情跨越十年，由年长演回年轻，感觉像回到高中和大学时期，很考演技。”
This modern series is heavy on emotional scenes, giving actors plenty of room to stretch themselves. The catch is that, filming a full 20 hours a day, he has to switch emotions at a moment’s notice — cry on cue when told to — until he feels almost like a robot. He sighs: “Making a drama series is work full of regret; the external conditions simply don’t allow an actor the time to slowly inhabit a role. With a film, you might shoot only two or three scenes a day, and 90 minutes of footage can take a month; a series shoots 12 episodes in a month, so all an actor can do is give the best possible performance within those limits — and inevitably, some regrets linger.”这部现代剧集有很多感情戏，让演员有很大的发挥空间。只是，每天拍足20个小时，他必须随时切换情绪，要你哭就得哭，感觉有点像机器人。他感叹：“拍剧是充满遗憾的工作，外在条件不允许演员花时间慢慢揣摩。如果是拍电影，一天只拍两三场戏，90分钟的戏可以用一个月来拍；剧集是一个月拍12集，演员只能在有限条件下把份内的工作做到最好，难免会留下遗憾。”
A White Christmas, Just for Himself许自己一个白色佳节
Having previously appeared in the local film Seven Days, he remains full of hope for the big screen; one of his New Year resolutions is to work with a Singaporean film director in 2026.他之前拍过本地电影《七天》，对于大银幕仍然充满期待，他的新年大计之一是希望 2026年能有机会与一位新加坡电影导演合作。
“And there’s one more thing — I suddenly have a real longing for a white Christmas.” Well, well — the workaholic has finally let slip a private wish. Still, he always locks in his plans at the last minute, booking flights only days before he leaves, so the destination and dates remain, for now, an unknown.“还有，我突然很想过一个白色圣诞。”哇塞，工作狂终于透露私己的心愿。然而，他总是在最后一刻敲定行程，出发前几天才匆忙订机票，目的地与日期如今仍是未知数。
Whether this white-Christmas dream comes true will depend on whether the mood strikes him on the eve of the holidays. After a whole year on the move, here’s hoping Ayden can, before the year is out, carve out some beautiful memories of his own in a land of snow.这个白色圣诞的梦想能否成真，端看他在佳节假期前夕是否心血来潮。马不停蹄了一整年，但愿孙政能在2005年结束前，在雪乡留下属于个人的美好回忆。
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