I have some very very happy news to share!
My books finally came today!
This is the first time that I bought something online overseas.
And it worked out pretty darn well. Took only 5 days for the books to arrive! Wheee!
Ah~can't wait to go home and read my books!
In case you're wondering, I got Qiao En's new book and a Fated to Love You storybook!
My Fated to Love You obessession is still not over yet! Hahahahaa!
By the way, the title of this post is a line from the movie, "In the Wild". (A movie a man who wanders alone into nature.)
6/30/2009
Happiness is Real when Shared
Press apologizes for Show Lo's false online dating scandal
Source: Yahoo Singapore News
Various publications have expressed their apologies to Show Lo for their untruthful reports on his "online dating scandal".Soon after TVBS Weekly published its apology for its fabricated report and defamatory remarks made with regards to the recent scandal, Hong Kong's Oriental Sunday followed suit.
Three female models and a Hong Kong girl, Fanny, exposed their cyber relationships with the Taiwanese singer, damaging his reputation instantly. Lo's talent management later sued the publications for these reports that they claimed were false.
Lo was quick to brace himself again, and thanked his fans for their support. "I have already let the matter pass and forgiven the girl who has cheated me."
Over this period, Lo's popularity was not affected. According to reports, Lo started re-engaging fan club members earlier this month and the number of registrations surged over ten thousand within a week.
To thank his fans, Lo decided to call every member personally on their birthday to send his wishes. He also intended to call 100 lucky members this month. The entertainer "warned" his fans not to treat him as part of a swindle syndicate when they receive his call.
Thanks, leeyann for the article! Wah~ they finally decide to apologize, although it's late but better late than never. Seems like Show has gotten over this matter. Good to hear.
Easy Fortune Happy Life Episode 4 English Subs
Joe Chen who has acrophobia, was escorted up the ferris wheel by Blue Lan and Roy Chiu in celebration of ‘Easy Fortune Happy Life’ high ratings.
Source: Wowonews
Translation: Ocean168 @ http://asianfanatics.net
‘Easy Fortune Happy Life’ drama obtained high ratings again and on 28 June, the ratings was 4.36 high. On 29 June, TTV arranged for the cast to board the ferris wheel for celebration. However, Joe Chen who has severe acrophobia asked to be excused.
Blue Lan after hearing and together with Roy insist and accompany Joe Chen to go up the ferris wheel and said that it was also his first time on board the ferris wheel. The two guys were very thoughtful and knowing that Joe is afraid, create conversation to divert her attention and Joe Chen was touched by their gesture and said that it is the first time the three of them get together in a room. Blue Lan even revealed that while cycling yesterday, he noticed a big stone in front and he wanted to put the stone away in case others slip and fall but unexpectedly while picking up the stone, there was a turtle and the turtle even urinated on him and Joe Chen jokingly said he will prosper then.
In the next episode of ‘Easy Fortune Happy Life’, Joe Chen will go through a transformation from a village girl and this make-over made Joe very happy that she can be dressed beautifully. However, in this drama, Joe Chen said it was the most tiring as they have to travel long distances to capture a scene. Just filming Blue Lan's house alone, there are a few places; the dwelling place scenery is in Nantou, the living room scenery is in Tainan and the filming of the bedroom is in Taipei.
Joe Chen who hates long travelling, begged the director as much as possible to film in Taipei and she would rather act more bed scenes.
Quite a number of internet fans complained that Blue Lan and Jocelyn Wang have too much intimate scenes and neglect Joe Chen. Blue Lan smilingly replied that the director revealed that besides fighting scenes, Blue will be transform into a strip star! And he ask the audience to wait a moment for the really interesting part to be shown.
Hahaha! Look at her expression in the photo! Comedy Queen is comedy queen! By the way, episode 4 rating of EFHL is 4.36! Yay! The storyline is also starting to pick up!!! Episode 5, come faster!!!
6/29/2009
Black & White Comes to an End; Director Cai Sheds Tears
Source: UDN News
Translation: xbunnylicious @ http://asianfanatics.net
The finale for PTS drama "Black and White" was broadcasted on Saturday. Director Cai Yue Xun brought the main leads to an outdoor event at Kaohsiung for a celebration event. When Director Cai went on stage to express his gratitude, he mentioned how filming this drama made him have no time to accompany his family, causing him to shed tears.
Zhao Shu Hai's son Mark Zhao shot to stardom through this drama. Paul Chun jokingly introduced his children to Director Cai and even handed his phone to him and said, "If you have a chance, please look after them." Jimmy Hung also said, "I also have a father (Sammo Hung) and we can cooperate in the future."
During the event, they also played a guessing game on who's acting was the best. The answer was actually Mark Zhou and the reason is because he is an "insightful hero" (Mark's character in the drama is named Hero.") To get the fans excited, Director Cai also announced that the "Black and White" movie will contain the original actors and actresses. Filming will start at the end of the year and Zai Zai, Mark Zhao, Janine Chang, and Ivy Chen are all on the list. The ending to "Black and White" was left with a lot of foreshadowing for the movie. PTS also decided to re-broadcast the drama starting July 1 from Mondays to Fridays.
Aww, I hate it when good shows end! This show was amazingly twisted in every possible way. I love how the director just keeps throwing surprises into every single episode. This is definitely not an idol drama. It's a real drama with real actions and a real storyline. Be real and watch it! Ahhh~ this is another drama I'm going to miss a lot! We are all going to have to wait a whole year to watch the movie that's supposedly the sequel to this drama! Ahh~ can't wait to watch it! I think this is the first time that I'm so excited to watch a movie~usually I just hate watching movies. Hahahaa~
6/23/2009
Raymond Lam and Tavia Yeung in new TVB Series
Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: Choccho @ http://asianfanatics/net/
Following the concert, Raymond Lam will be filming a new series with Tavia Yeung and Kenneth Ma which is scheduled to commence filming in July. This series was written and drawn under the inspiration of Japan’s famous TV series ‘Detective Galileo’.
The tentative title of the series is [談情說案], taking the role as Galileo, Raymond, is a university associate professor in physics. As a rational scientist, he believes that in everything, there exists a connection with the philosophy of science.
Raymond will pair up with the criminal investigator, Tavia in solving many criminal cases. In the new series, they will be romantically linked up as well.
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Raymond said that he grew up with detective novels, however, this would be his first detective series and that this would be a new experience for him. Asked if he has watched the TV series, Raymond said : [I don’t even have the time to watch the series that I have acted in, hence, time just does not permit me to watch other series]. Asked if he is worried that he will be compared with Masaharu Fukuyama, he said : [In everything that you do, you will still be the subject of comparison, nevertheless, there are many differences, from the the scripts and plots to the actors and actresses with different portrayal of each roles and characters, I believe they are different altogether].
Focuses on Romantic relationship
This would also be Tavia’s first time taking on a role as a criminal investigator. Tavia said : This is a fresh new experience for me. The plot is also different, I certainly look forward to it].
Asked if she is worried that this series will be compared with Japan’s ‘Detective Galileo’. [Not worried, it’s totally different storyline, and according to the Producer, Lau Ka Hou, this series will also focus on the romantic relationships, hence, I believe the audience will not compare this series with ‘Detective Galileo’].
Wahh~ A detective series! Ooo, my interest in watching TVB has suddenly risen. I'm so darn tired of watching so many family dramas. My Heart Of Greed fever wasn't even over when they started to air Moonlight Resonance. By the time, Moonlight Resonance ended, I started to dislike watching family dramas, just a little disliking. Then along came Gem of Life...and -sigh- interest in family dramas dropped below 0. Interest in TVB also started dropping rapidly. I'm so tired of watching people argue in every single episode. That's why I kinda like and don't like Rosy Business. The storyline is interesting but I'm so sick of those arguing scenes and fights over inheritance. Life is tough enough, I don't need to be reminded of that.
6/22/2009
6/21/2009
Black and White: The Last Battle (SPOILERS ALERT)
Last week's episodes were cleverly twisted. It turns out that Pi Zi is not Chen Lin's brother. It was all a mistake. The real brother is Ying Xiong! WHOA! What a twist. From the beginning, Pi Zi's identity was a mystery and just when he was told that he had actually had a family, it is all taken away from him. Poor guy~ That's the first twist. The second twist involves Pi Zi turning to the dark side! It turns out that the supervisor of the South Department is a baddie! I always thought for sure that he was on the good side...I got fooled...
So this week, there's another twist. It turns out that Ying Xiong is not Chen Lin's brother. In fact, there was never a 'brother' to begin with. Ying Xiong is the illegitimate son of the current President! AH~ things are starting to make some sense now. Apparently, the current President and the leader of San Lan Hui fell for the same woman but the woman chose the President and they had a child. This was kept a secret because there are enemies who want to pull the President down, and they will go after that child by any means. San Lan Hui Leader, because of his love towards that woman, decides to help the President protect his son. Wow, what a big mess they created.
Old Lee is dead. He was killed by the South Department supervisor because he knew too much. Old Lee is one of the good guys and is working for another group of people who want to bring down the evil group. Old Lee gathered some evidence against the evil group but he could not pass them to his colleagues in time. Earlier, he had hinted to Pi Zi that he really likes to listen to Teresa Teng's songs. Yepp, you guessed it, the evidence was on the CD with a Teresa Teng cover. Pi Zi found it but it's kinda bad timing because at this time the supervisor walks out and points a gun at Pi Zi. What bad luck...
Lei Mu Sha is also dead. She shot herself because she didn't want to kill Ying Xiong. Her choices were kill Ying Xiong, be killed, or suicide. She couldn't bring herself to kill Ying Xiong and if Ying Xiong doesn't die, the only road left for her is death by her boss or suicide. She chose the latter. Mark, surprisingly, was excellent in this scene. I felt that his acting has improved a lot from the beginning of this show. It was so emotional seeing him cry all over his old flame.
Next week is the finale of this show! OMG! Coming to end so soon! In the final two episodes, Pi Zi and the team will finally go up against the big evil group. And they are a group that you don't want to mess with because they got these assassins with 100% accuracy. With essentially all the evidence wiped out, will Pi Zi and the team be able to bring down this evil group? How will they fare against BOSS? Will evil triumph over good in this series? Find out next week!
6/17/2009
Jiro and Jinglun brave lives filming Momo Love
Source: ChinaTimes
Translated by Starylosophy @ AsianFanatics
GTV's idol drama Momo Love was filmed at the side of Shihlin's Fu Lin Bridge. Scenes filmed were riding a motorbike and jumping into the river. Male lead actors were treated not as well as the female lead! Jiro and Jinglun reached the filming scene at 8am for their hair and make-up thereafter filming the motorbike and swimming scenes while female lead actress Cyndi only arrived at 3pm and was sitting by the side of the river watching them film.
During filming, the crew is afraid that scenes will be leaked which is why they deliberately started filming at 8am. But while riding the bike one of Jiro's lines was "Xiao Mei! Xiao Mei! Where are you?" which startled a few joggers who were near the river, and soon there were a whole bunch of people started watching them film.
Jiro and Jinglun filmed searching for Taohua scenes in the morning and in the afternoon they had to jump into the waters. Both bravely jumped into the river and had to also search and carry a mannequin, though it's not an easy task searching in the murky waters, both had to find the mannequin before they could go back on shores. While Cyndi came much later and was drinking her beverage watching them film.
6/16/2009
2009 HITO Pop Music Awards List
Source: TOM
Translation: Sarah @ http://asianfanatics.net
7 heavyweight radio stations from across Asia: Shanghai Oriental Radio Station, Beijing Music Station, Guangdong Music Station, Hong Kong Radio Television, Singapore FM 93.3 YES Channel and Malaysia 988 Channel have together chosen the 2009 HITO Pop Music Awards winners. The singers or groups winning these awards represent Asia media’s best of the year.
2008 Best Western Song:
1. Leona Lewis – ‘Bleeding Love’
2. Boyzone – ‘Love You Anyway’
3. Coldplay – ‘Viva La Vida’
2008 Best Japanese/Korean Song:
1. Thelma Aoyama – ‘Stay By My Side’
2. Rain – ‘Rainism’
3. Utada Hikaru – ‘Heart Station’
2008 Best Overseas Singer:
Singapore – JJ Lin
Malaysia – Gary Cao
Hong Kong – Eason Chan
HITO Awards:
Longest Chart-topping Album: Mayday (6 weeks) – ‘Poetry Of The Day’
Longest Chart-remaining Album: Joanna Wang (19 weeks) - 'Start From Here'
Best OST: ‘Bull Fighting’
Best Singer/Songwriter: Jay Chou – ‘Capricorn’
Best Newcomer: Jam Hsiao – ‘Self-titled Album’
Best Band: Mayday – ‘Poetry Of The Day’
Best Male Group: Fahrenheit – ‘Two-Sided Fahrenheit’
Best Female Group: S.H.E – ‘My FM S.H.E”
Best Female Singer: Joanna Wang – ‘Start From Here’
Best Male Singer: Jay Chou – ‘Capricorn’
Top 10 Chinese Songs Of The Year:
1. Mayday – Suddenly Miss You So
2. Joanna Wang – ‘Let’s Start From here’
3. Khalil Fong – ‘Love Song’
4. Jam Hsiao – ‘Collection’
5. Aska Yang – ‘Dove’
6. Eason Chan – ‘Don’t Speak’
7. Angela Zhang – ‘Don’t Want To Understand’
8. Yoga Lin – ‘Mystery’
9. S.H.E – ‘It’s Quiet’
10. Jay Chou – ‘Fragrant Rice’
2008 Professional Awards:
Best Lyricist: Ashin – ‘Poetry Of The Day’
Best Composer: Khailil Fong – ‘Orange Moon’
Best Arranger: Gary Tong – ‘Mr Magic’
Best Producer: Tong Cheng Hu – ‘Change Life’
2008 Recommendation Awards:
Public’s Favourite Song: Aska Yang – ‘Dove’
DJ’s Favourite Album: Khalil Fong – ‘Future’
Asia Media Award: Mayday
Cutting class to post up this news. Hahaha~ just kidding. I'm on my break right now. Wah~ congrats to everyone who got an award! Fahrenheit and S.H.E received best group award! Whheeee! The one thing that surprises me up there is Best OST! Bull Fighting! That was kinda unexpected. Bye~ gotta sprint to psychology class now!
"Easy Fortune Happy Life’’ viewership ratings shot new height, Blue Lan and Joe Chen use ‘old ginger’ to celebrate
Source: Now news
Translation: Ocean168 @ http://asianfanatics.net
TTV, Sanlih idol drama, ‘Easy Fortune Happy Life’ viewership ratings shot up, and emerged champion amongst all cable and non-cabled television programs.
On 14 June both Blue Lan and Joe Chen presented ginger to Ding Qiang for celebration. Ding Qiang humbly said that the younger generation will supercede the older generation. Blue smilingly replied that though they are the esteem, they are not advancing to the beach.
‘Easy Fortune Happy Life’ telecast its second episode on TTV on 14 June 2009 and Sanlih broadcast the first episode on 13 June 2009. Both stations emerged champion in ratings in competition with cable and non-cable stations. Especially the part where Ding Qiang was relating to Gino the past of 60 years ago, regarding Cui Xiang, the ratings rose to 4.09 high. Both male and female leads, Blue Lan and Joe Chen presented ‘old ginger’ to Ding Qiang representing ‘old ginger is hot’.
In the drama, Ding QIang is very fierce to Blue and this sometimes causes ‘NG’ and he laughingly said whether this will spoil his image. After filming, he dared not acknowledged Blue and just leave the scene. Blue laughingly said that he does not know that Ding Qiang has the burden of being an idol, and is afraid of tarnishing image.
Ding Qiang praised the two artistes, Blue Lan and Joe Chen and mentioned that sad scenes need three days for practicing and to practice happy scenes three days will not be sufficient and thought that young people will just bluff the way through and he never expect both of them to act just perfectly . Blue learnt a lesson from Ding Qiang and Blue thought that Ding Qiang forgot his script but he was actually using his tone to act and to change his moods.
Ding Qiang is preparing to publish a book and he does not know how to use the computer to type. He started practicing by sms in the handphone but the publisher wants him to write fifty thousand words. And he said that it is very difficult for him. Blue told him that Joe Chen is producing her second book, Joe looked down and is a bit shy about it. Ding Qiang asked her about the names of her book and she replied that the first book is called 「喬見沒」 and the second which will be out soon is called「喬見巴黎」and jokingly said if she publishes the third book, it will be called: [喬見巴黎沒」。
Wooo! 4.09 rating for second episode! First episode got 3.99! Hope the ratings will continue to soar!!! And...Roy, unfortunately, did not appear in episode 2 instead his first appearance will be in episode 3!!!!
Hehehe~ I'm so happy because I just ordered her second book! And shipping is pretty darn expensive. To bring the shipping cost down, I was planning to buy both of her books but sadly, her first book is out of stock. They also ran out of EFHL storybook too! :( In the end, I settled for a FTLY storybook! WOO! That's just as good. Somehow I must get my hand on her first book...hmm...ARGGG.. just send me to Taiwan and everything will be good. Hahahhaaa~
Fahrenheit cares for the impoverished kids; are spokesmen for TVBS Charity
Source: TVBS News
Translated by: Celeste^^ @ http://asianfanatics.net
Credit to tvbs.com.tw and uploader)
*TVBS (Care for Taiwan Culture and Education) Foundation has for the past 8 years help support surpass 140,000 impoverished schoolchildren. This year, the foundation has engaged Fahrenheit to be endorsers/spokemen hoping that the Fahrenheit’s popularity can encourage more kind heart people to join and help more needy children.
Advertisement direction as given by the commercial director to Fahrenheit was to give the sense of achievement, encouraging and commend one another.”
TVBS 關懷台灣文教基金會 charity foundation spokeman and lifelong volunteer Li Tao specially brought steamed rice dumplings when he visited Fahrenheit on the set to thank them personally. He presented to them “ sweet steamed rice dumpling.”
Li Tao also told a sad story that moved Fahrenheit to tears.
“One day, an elder brother took his younger brother with him to bring their Daddy a packed lunch (to his workplace) in Taipei. The elder brother's pant was caught by factory machine and he was pulled into it ...(人被捲/roll了inside進去). Several days later, the younger brother looked for his teacher and said that he wants to study. He had never and could not read English originally but now resolutely learnt by memorizing (現在一直背一直背).
According to the statistics, TVBS foundation for 8 years has received compassionate donations from 76,000 people and has helped 140,000 impoverished schoolchildren in remote districts. With popular Fahrenheit (人氣偶像飛輪海當代言人) as spokesmen, it is hoped for that they can appeal for more people join together to help the children. Hidden Text: My comments: Aaron was visibly shaken and teared at the poor children’s story. The expressions on his bros were more controlled and showed grimfaced concern. The kid in the story probably resolved to study because education is a way out of poverty. Can overseas people donate to this TVBS foundation? Anyways, Aaron and his bros looked very handsome in their preppy casuals.
*Unsure the actual English name of foundation but the http link is TVBS Foundation.
hazel: I edited the title and some of the text (grammatical errors) plus removed personal comments, but other than that I left everything unchanged. Thanks for the translation! (:
ehhh...Jiro...hair....
6/15/2009
Easy Fortune Happy Life Episode 2 Eng Subbed
6/14/2009
6/12/2009
Chen Qiao En smilingly said that they celebrate by wearing winter clothings in the new drama and praised Roy Qiu for being good-looking
Source: http://ent.163.com
Translation: Ocean168 @ http://asianfanatics.net
Netizens (pictures /article by Taiwan press group and Cai Shi Wei) reported that on 11 June 2009, Blue Lan Zheng Long, Joe Chen Qiao En, Roy Qiu attend the first screening event of the drama, ‘Easy Fortune Happy Life’. The screening of the first episode was promising with good results, hence the media asked how did they celebrate. Chen Qiao En replied that at 12 noon they wore winter clothings inside the car without switching on the air-conditioner.
The idol drama, ‘Easy Fortune Happy Life’, held its first screening event yesterday, 11 June 2009 at Xin Yi Wei Siu where Blue Lan, Joe Chen, Roy Qiu etc were present. The first episode obtained good ratings of 3.99 and the marsh scene even broke the record of 5.5 in ratings. The press asked when the drama broke all previous records how would they celebrate. Joe Chen Qiao En replied that due to the fact that previously Ethan Ruan has already strip, so now they will wear winter clothings at 12 noon inside the car without switching on the air-conditioner to celebrate.
Roy Qiu outlook and preparation is quite eye-catching and Qiao En said that in the beginning of the drama he chased the horses and had fighting scenes and even falling on the ground scenes where he looks graceful. Blue added that Roy is the exceptional kind of actors which will look stylish at any angle.
Blue Lan’s face always glow and he smiles very often and is very different from his previous image of being ‘cold’. This gives the implication that he has found a new love? Blue laughingly replied no but it could be under the influence of Niu Zheng Zhe and his thinking has changed. He has grown up and look at things differently.
Sky Wu flew back from Beijing yesterday to specially attend the premiere event. He bestowed the symbolic pair of black eagle wings and a pair of white angel wings to both Blue Lan and Joe Chen respectively in hoping that their attainment in the drama will fly as high as possible.
6/11/2009
I Ace That Test
Or at least I hope I aced it. It was a psychology test that I've been worry about this whole week. This is actually the first time since entering college that I studied full force with minimum distraction. I was studying everything; notes I took from the book, powerpoint slides, class notes, study book. My study notes were 1/2 inch thick! And this test only covers four chapters!!! Crazyyyy!
Ha~heck~I shouldn't complain anymore~ hehehe~because everything paid off in the end! I was totally prepared for that test! Four sections: Multiple Choice, Fill in, True or False, and Short Answers! One fun rule with this test was that we had to omit one question from each section! That was totally sweet of the teacher! (but that doesn't change my mind about her class, it's quite boring). Hehehe~ I like summer school.
Wheeee! Enjoy your summer!
6/10/2009
Chen Qiao En washes the feet of Na Dou, audience is bewildered
Source: UDN
Translated by meosles @ http://asianfanatics.net/
Sunday idol drama "Chinese-Korea competition". Even though the ratings of SET/TTV "Easy Fortune Happy Life" is half that of the final episode of "My Queen", it still remains the ratings champion. In the first episode, Chen Qiao En has a scene where she washes the feet of Na Dou, causing netizens to say with pain: "How can the female lead do such a scene?". They are bewildered by the arrangement of the production unit.
The highest rating segment for "Easy Fortune Happy Life" first episode is the scene where Blue Lan fell into the marsh. When celebrating yesterday, Blue Lan joked: "If the audience likes to see me suffer, then let me become bankrupt a few episodes later!"
Even though they like to see Blue Lan suffer; in the scene where Chen Qiao En is treating Na Dou's feet for athlete's foot, Chen Qiao En not only uses her hands to massage his feet with medicine, she even washes his feet. Many audience finds this inconceivable. Chen Qiao En joked yesterday: "Na Dou's feet are quite clean. Before filming, my hands are covered with emulsion so all I smelled are the fragrance of the emulsion. I didn't smelled any strange odour. In that scene I pressed very hard, and Na Dou keep crying out in pain!" Yesterday the leads went to Baoan temple to pray for blessings and to celebrate. But Blue Lan prayed instead to the goddess of birthing, cause others to suspect his intentions. He explained: "Because both my two sisters are pregnant, so I am praying for their well-being!"
Hahahaha~ I like how she always inject humor into her answers. "In that scene I pressed very hard, and Na Dou keep crying out in pain!" Hahaha~ so far my favorite scene has got to the marsh scene! It's sooo funny especially when Blue freaks out cuz there's a catepillar on his hair~ Hahahahaa~ can't wait for next week's episode to come out~ and I'm also highly anticipating Roy's apperance in the show~ i hope he comes out soon~
6/09/2009
Blue Lan pray to the Empress earnestly while Joe Chen Qiao En look in disbelieve
Source: Liberty Times
Translation: Ocean168 @ http://asianfanatics.net
The TTV， Sanlih (SETTV) drama, ‘Easy Fortune Happy Life’ starring Blue Lan, Joe Chen Qiao En and Roy Qiu emerged champion in ratings of 3.99 last Sunday when the first episode was telecast.
Yesterday, the three of them went to ‘Bao An Kong’ to pray and to celebrate.the success. Blue was mediating in front of the Empress for a long while Joe Chen Qiao En (having her ‘period’), who could not use joss-sticks smilingly teased him for being so pious. Blue explained that he is praying for his sister who is pregnant.
When the drama was airing that night, Blue dare not view and went to play Billiards. Joe Chen Qiao En on the other hand, watched the picture montage where they ran all over Taiwan to film exhaustively. She also examined the kissing scene between Blue Lan and Jocelyn Wang where they stick out their tongues. Quite a number of the audience were surprised that Joe Chen would give Na Dou a foot massage for the treatment of athlete’s foot. She said that Na Dou foot was cleaned and with fragrance. She even jokingly said that the next round might consider giving Blue Lan a foot massage.
To act as an ordinary girl, for Joe Chen is easily accomplished and she admired herself for being able to act out different kinds of ‘sparrows’ and she also realized that in the drama, the sentence ‘I want to be your family member’ she ever said this phrase to Ming Dao three years ago in ‘Prince turns to Frog’.
6/08/2009
Easy Fortune Happy Life Episode 01 (English Subbed)
Episode 1 Part 1
Episode 1 Part 2
Episode 1 Part 3
Episode 1 Part 4
Episode 1 Part 5
Episode 1 Part 6
Episode 1 Part 7
Special thanks to the people who helped English sub this drama. Even though the quality of the video isn't that great, your time and effort to sub this is greatly appreciated!!! Thank you!
EFHL Opening Video
Credit: gar6301@youtube
WWWOOOOWWWWW~ ME LIKE THIS ONE TOO! Qiao En is soo pretty here compared to Village Fu An. AHH~ And Blue ~ hahaha~ I love his fierce look~ ROAARRR! His look was soo scary that at 1:12 Qiao En dropped the black feather~ Hahahaa! Rocker Blue and singer Qiao Ennn! She is so hyper when holding that mic! WOOOooo!
EFHL Ending Video
Credit: gar6301@youtube
WAHHH!!! I like this video and the song too! The watch seems to be a very important symbol. Let's see, a watch usually points to time. And it was the grandpa who gave the watch to grandma, supposedly as a token of his love to her and tells her to wait for him. Hmmm, maybe this means that their love is put to test of time. But sadly, time runs out and their fate ended as represented by the watch which has stopped ticking. Gosh, I really like the grandpa-grandma story even though it's too late for them but at least their next generation would have chance. Wheeee! Fu An + Da Feng~
EFHL Mud Scene Behind the Scene
Credit: Gar6301@youtube
So this is the making of the infamous mud scene shown in the first episode of Easy Fortune Happy Life. The scene itself was very amusing to watch but the making of it seems pretty difficult and um...icky. hahaha~ As I was watching this, I was getting a bit worried because Qiao En and Blue were both in that mud hole for so long and I was afraid that the mud would solidify and the two of them would become frozen mud figures. Hahahahaa~ At the end, she had to be dragged out of the mud hole because she couldn't move at all!!!!
Haha~ at 1:52, Qiao En starts to complain about SET for not giving her those pretty scenes. She wants to have one of those really pretty and grand entrances but so far that has yet to happen. Hahaha~ she complains about always given those disaster scenes like getting hit by car resulting in miscarriage, being in the pouring rain without an umbrella, hanging on wires crying, falling into mud hole, etc. Hahaha~ she has a good sense of humour.
6/07/2009
6/06/2009
完全娛樂褔氣又安康特別企劃
All Video Credit to Gar6301@youtube.com
Hahaha~ Blue and Roy~ O boyyy! They are soo cool~ There are so many previews in these clips!
“Kissing Blue Lan gives me the feeling of experiencing my ‘First Love’" remarked Joe Chen
Source: YahooNews
Translation: ocean168 @ http://asianfanatics.net
“Kissing Blue Lan gives me the feeling of experiencing my ‘First Love’ “remarked Joe Chen
In TTV, Taiwan and Sanlih (SETTV) new drama, ‘Easy Fortune Happy Life’ Joe Chen Qiao En and Blue Lan had a romantic kissing scene under the Tung Oil Floral Tree and the scene was a recollection of 60 years ago, and the feeling was like experiencing their ‘First Love’. Blue Lan mentioned that they were like a pair of young sweetheart and were very happy together.
The leading cast of the drama ‘Easy Fortune Happy Life’ comprises Blue Lan, Joe Chen, Roy Chiu and Jocelyn Wang and this drama will start airing over TTV, Taiwan on this Sunday at 10 pm.
In the drama, Joe Chen stars as Xie Fu An, a village girl growing up in the mountain and who is familiar with Chinese herbs and medicine. And she was involved in the inheritance contend of 80 billion dollars by coincidence. And she and Yan Da Feng acted by Blue Lan who is the likely successor of the inheritance and debt collector, Han Dong Jie acted by Roy Chiu have a complicated love entanglement.
Joe Chen mentioned that because they stay in the mountain, they went to Bingdong three thresholds with the Miaoli tung oil tree colored forest to film. The travelling time took more than 10 hours as they hope to capture the best scenes for the audience to view.
The kissing scenes of Joe Chen and Blue Lan was filmed in Bingdong and Miaoli and they filmed it twice. Because it was a 60 years ago recollection, hence they did it indoor and outdoor.
Joe Chen smilingly said that this scene is different from the intense kissing scene with Ethan Ruan in the drama, ‘Fated to Love You’ as they drank red wine then. This time the feeling is like experiencing ‘first love’ .
Before filming this scene, both Joe Chen and Blue Lan brushed their teeth and took chewing gum. And this scene reminds Blue of his sudden urge to eat betel nut and asked the crew for one before a kissing scene and now when he recollected that incident, he felt so embarrassed.
AHHHH~just a few more hours before I get my hands on episode oneee! AHHH~ Qiao En! Nai Nai! Mr. Blueee! Easy Fortune Happy Lifeee!
Jimmy Lin moonlights as wedding photographer; Looks forward to season opening of the China Rally Championship
translation by l_coco @ http://asianfanatics.net
source : online.sh.com
Jimmy Lin moonlights as wedding photographer
Jimmy Lin and Wallace Chung attended the grand opening party of the Chuech Photo Studio in Shanghai Hongkuo 1933 Plaza today (6/6/2009). Wallace Chung was an invited guest in the event and walked down the catwalk with a model. Jimmy Lin has another special mission. He minored in Photography in high school and will be a wedding photographer for the studio.
Jimmy revealed that he has already been booked and his bookings have been scheduled for the next 6 months. He didn’t say what his pay will be and said that it has to be negotiated with the studio.
He evaded the question about whether he has a bride-to-be to take wedding photos with. He said he has no idea when it’ll be. But one thing for sure, he will definitely go thru it sooner or later. His ideal wedding photo op site is the oceanfront. He likes that fresh and natural feel.
Jimmy Lin Looked forward to the season opening of the China Rally Championship
The season opening of the 2009 China Rally Championship will be held next weekend in Nanjing Jiangning. Besides top racers like Liu Bin, Han Han, Wang Rui, racing fanatic Jimmy Lin will also be in the race. He will represent Guangxi Speedone Racing Team in the International division races.
Jimmy attended Chuech Photo Studio grand opening party today and talked about his outlook on the 2009 CRC. He said he raced in the 2007 CRC race in Beijing and is familiar with rally racing. He is looking forward to the upcoming race.
He didn’t comment on his outlook on the race but said that he’ll do his best and earn points for the team. When asked about which racers he has his eyes on he didn’t say anything about the other top racers but instead praised his teammate Tam Zhuo Yong and wished him good luck.
Earlier this year, Han Han talked about Jimmy in a talkshow – “Jimmy Lin is the best racer among the stars. I don’t think there are any differences between us because #1 and #8 are only off by 7. I could slow down a bit or he could slow down a bit.” At the time, netizens criticized him for patronizing Jimmy’s racing skills. When asked about this Jimmy said that Han Han is an excellent racer but they are in different divisions so it’s hard to compare. If there is a chance he’d like to compete with Han Han in the same race.
WA~SE!!! Is there anything that Jimmy can't do?!?! Holy moly, he's like an all in one tool. An actor, an entrepreneur, a singer, a racer, a photographer, plus plenty more all rolled into one person called Jimmy Lin. He's so cool and so handsome and looks so darn young!
6/05/2009
Fated to Love You Artwork
OMG! Look what I found at FTLY's Baidu Tieba! These artwork are soo darn cute, I want to print them all out and taped them to my wall (next to Arron).
omg~ cunxi!!! where is your mouth?!?!?!
Hahahahaha~ a cute version of the real scene!
AHHH~ Nai Nai!!!
Hahahahahaa~ this artist is very creative! Wish this was really shown in the show though!
Aww, a would be happy happy of four if not for THAT incident! Wondering which incident? Watch FTLY to find out!
KAWAIIIIIIIIII!
Every baby is bought to this world by God.
I LOVE THIS DRAWING!
Jia You, Ji Cun Xi!
Yayayayayayayaaaa! Baby Gi!
Hahahahaa~this scene was so kuso! And this drawing captures that kuso spirit very well!
Chen Xin Yi Version 1.0 - called by one my friends who recently watched FTLY in a matter of days.
-GASP- It looks just like the poster!
OMG! Who could ever forget this scene! Love the drawinggg!
AHH~ Fated To Love You!!!
Kiwi: Fated To Love You heals the soul
I Like Summer School
Taking school in the summer is so relaxing!!! One of the classes I'm taking in summer school is Statistics because it's a required class and it doesn't fit into my fall schedule so I have to take it in the summer. Omg~ this class is so fun, mainly the teacher is so darn happy all the time and the happiness just spreads in the classroom. Hahaha~ Life is good when times are good~
I'm only taking two classes in the summer. One was statistics and the other one is pyschology. Ahhh~ I thought this class was going to be fun and interesting but it turned out to be the exact opposite. Boring and boring. The teacher is a happy person too but she often goes off topic. And she just repeats everything on the slides that she makes us read the night before. It's soo repetitive and so boring~~
One week down, five more to go!
EFHL coming out in a few hourssss!!!!
Ming Pao Weekly Coverage on Ella, Jerry and "Just" Filming - Ella’s Hilarious Antics Won Over “Difficult” Jerry
MAGAZINE FEATURE
Ming Pao - Issue 049
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translated by : syyang @ http://asianfanatics.net/forum (Ella's AF thread)
Ella’s Hilarious Antics Won Over “Difficult” Jerry
Jerry’s cool has been conquered by Ella’s funny and approachable personality! In their latest collaboration for new idol serial [Just Want to Depend on You], both artistes are like part of a family on-and-off screen. In the past when filming idol serials, Jerry would be labeled as “difficult” and “showing black face” etc; but this time, he is actually full of smiles. Even the producer is full of praise for the ambience and indeed, Ella’s charms are irresistible.
The new idol serial [Just] is a collaboration between GTV and Domani. Ever since the male and female leads - Jerry and Ella are announced, this pairing has been the centre of everybody’s attention. Producer Ke Yi Qin expressed, even if we do not mention about the interesting clashes weaved in the plot and subplots of the drama, with just Ella and Jerry’s contrasting “warm vs cool”, “funny vs introvert” personalities, the artistes’ unique attributes are already a big draw for viewers.
Waves of Jokes Coupled with Funny Expressions
Indeed, it has been proven that the producer’s thoughts were right. Based on what we have learnt, since [Just] started filming, despite being the first project Ella, Jerry and the production crew are working together; everyone was very quickly drawn into the lively and friendly ambience. This is especially so for Jerry, whom many used to think of as “introvert and emotional”. Under the waves of “attack” from Ella’s smiles + jokes + funny expressions, even the most reserved and strict “mask” of Jerry crumbled, and his smiles are seen more frequently, and just like what Ella has promised to do - to “melt” Jerry, during the press conference of [Just].
When asked to share on his experience working with Ella to date, Jerry has expressed via his artiste manager, Fenny that Ella is very lively, adorable and interesting. She also likes to joke, thus, acting with her is very comfortable, relaxing and with no pressure. As he feels at ease acting with her, even his smiles have increased and he feels very happy at the collaboration.
According to what some crew members shared on their experiences initially. The first to report for filming was Jerry and his role in [Just] is as a lawyer - Xiang Yu Ping (XYP). As it was the first collaboration between them and with the new environment, initially, everyone’s impression of Jerry was polite and modest. He is very professional, but as he does not really chat nor joke around with the rest, it felt a little boring.
Subsequently, Ella started filming with the team. Her role in [Just], Yang Guo, is the 17th nanny employed by XYP to take care of his 2 mischievous nephew and niece. Initially, as Ella was also unfamiliar with the production team, there was a little distance between everyone. Hence, other than during filming, she was not as “playful and funny” as what others often say, and less chatty. She seldom talked beyond her lines, which surprised many people.
Letting Guards Down, Stifle Laughs Resulting in NG
Nonetheless, Ella is still Ella after all. After a few days of filming, and having gotten to know members of the crew a little better, she could no longer carry on the “dainty lady charisma”. Her bubbly, extrovert and approachable personality was not only “set free”, but also went on “full blast”. As long as it is not during filming, one could catch her chatting and joking with crew members, and rallying everyone to bring them into the mood and becoming everyone’s source of happiness.
After letting down her guard through initial observation, Ella also started chatting and joking with the director, Ke Han Chen. She is able to crack jokes timely coupled with many expressions, putting Jerry at ease. Crew members shared that as Jerry is acting as a composed, intelligent and cold lawyer; whenever they filmed parts on the lawyer firm, he would become very stern. However whenever Ella is around, she would throw in jokes on the sideline with her many funny expressions, as a result, Jerry will become more relaxed and even smile. His expression would also soften a little and sometimes he could not refrain from laughing and getting NG which crew members would also be tickled by him.
Even the reserved Jerry was tickled; needless to say, so was the director. He had long “surrendered” to Ella’s friendliness and will also join everyone in the “rest and relax fun” when not filming! For instance, one day Ella arrived on the set in the afternoon. As usual, Ella would first report to and greet the director, “Good afternoon”. In response, he decided to act cool and replied playfully, “You are ‘Good afternoon’, but I am ‘Good morning’.” Meanwhile, Jerry who was standing by the side, surprised everyone when he suddenly chirped in with a “I am also ‘Good morning’ ah”. In response, Ella could only throw her arms open and said, “Who ask you all to schedule me for filming only in the afternoon!” The crew members laughed. To a total stranger who do not understand them, he / she would probably thought the director and Jerry were being sarcastic to Ella for being late. But in fact, the director and Jerry are cracking jokes together at Ella, expressing their envy that she could sleep a little longer till the afternoon before her turn to film.
Nearly Lose Chance of Acting Due to Being Late
Actually, despite already being handpicked and confirmed by the production team and TV station for the female lead role in [Just], Ella was close to losing the chance to act in the drama. Ke Yi Qin revealed, “During the first meeting with Ella, myself, the scriptwriter, director and almost all the important members of the production team were present; never did we expect Ella to be late for over an hour. Initially we were a little upset, but Ella was able to handle the situation well. She requested for her artiste manager to buy beverage for everyone and hurried over to the meeting venue first, to help explain the reason for her being held up, and to reassure and pacify everyone. When Ella subsequently rushed down, she immediately bowed and apologized sincerely to each and every one personally when she stepped in. She is someone who is very worldly-wise and respectful, and with her warm smile, she makes everyone feels comfortable and could not bear to blame her further. Hence, everyone forgive her quickly and we proceed with the meeting happily.”
Since collaborating with Ella for over a month, Ke Yi Qin was moved by her unique personality. She shared, “Not every artiste can act well. Ella is very intelligent and her reflexes are quick. Not only does she possess the unique traits required of an artiste, she also has the talents in acting. Her acting is natural and not pretentious. You can say she is born to be in the entertainment industry. But despite her earlier serials receiving good viewership ratings, and left viewers with positive impression, she does not have a role which could stand out totally. The storyline of [Just] can be said to be customized for her, as the role is well-suited to her personality. I personally feel that this will be her most representative role, in relation to her past idol serials.
Director Full of Praise for Right Casting
Director Ke Han Chen is collaborating with Ella for the first time and he expressed great satisfaction with her performance to date. Based on the director’s observation, Ella last acted in GTV’s idol serial [Hana Kimi] in 2006, and she has not acted for more than a year. Therefore when she first joined the production team, she appeared a little unfamiliar with the whole setting. However, Ella views filming as “play” and was able to very quickly identify her interest. Coupled with her innate artiste nature; using her intelligence, professionalism and positive team-spirit attitude, she is able to promptly pick up the “feel” for acting and adjust herself to shorten the “running-in” time with crew members and become part of the team.
With regard to Ella’s performance, Ke Yi Qin feels that they have really casted the right person for the role. She shared that one of the reasons for choosing Ella to act as YG in [Just] is because of the vast contrast of personalities between Jerry and her. The second reason is because Ella and YG’s personalities are a perfect match. The moment Ella steps before the camera, she hardly requires any twigging in her acting skills to convincingly portray this role.
“The female role, YG, is a kind-hearted, innocent, optimistic and contented girl. Despite being hit by drastic situations and bad luck, she would always be able to find ways to encourage herself, and to believe in “real love conquers all things”. Ella’s girl-next-door bubbly, natural personality, an ordinary disposition without any coquettish feel, gives one the impression that she can embrace and overcome any situations cheerfully, which fits well with the storyline and the role.” Ke Yi Qin shared.
Able to Portray Role Convincingly
The production team handpicked Ella not only because she could “melt” Jerry, and possesses the unique characteristics akin to the role; the third reason is also because only Ella is suitable to act in certain parts of the subplots. Ke Yi Qin quoted an example. The male lead, XYP, first ran into the blur waitress, YG, in a restaurant where she made a blunder. Under some misleading confusions, he mistook YG as a lesbian, with no interest like other women who would bother and scheme about marrying him. Therefore he let down his guard to hire her as a nanny, and let her into his house.
Ke Yi Qin expressed, “With just this important plot alone, if you look within the entertainment industry, regardless Drama Heavenly Queens Ariel Lin or Rainie Yang, they would not be suitable. We need someone who has a more androgynous feel, hence, Ella who acted as a girl with a boy’s disguise in [Hana Kimi] is the best person for the role. Therefore, this role is specially customized for her and only she can convincingly bring out the plot.”
Although everyone is anxious to watch Ella and Jerry’s performance in [Just], it seemed that viewers have to wait till after the winter holidays. The reason is because both Jerry and Ella are very busy artistes. Jerry is going to release his new album and it is inevitable for him to be doing local and overseas promotions for 2 months or so. Meanwhile, Ella, together with SH will be holding their concert in Macau at the end of June and prior to this, there would be many rehearsals. The production team must make full use of their available timeslots to quickly finish filming. Producer Ke Yi Qin said, “We are fully aware of such situations prior to filming and will exercise flexibility in arranging their schedules, so as not to affect the progress of filming. Of course, another factor which would affect the telecast of the serial would be the programmes-line-up by the TV station. Therefore we urge viewers to wait patiently.”
Thumbs up, Ella! He finally gave in to her sunshine attitude! Hahahaha~
Mike He's new drama, airing in July, having changes
Source: appledaily
Translated by applejuice @ http://asianfanatics.net
Mike He and Ah Sa's idol drama "Calling big star" was supposed to air on CTS in July. However, "Calling Big Star" is a collaborate drama between China and Taiwan. It needs to get the approval of Mainland Administration before it begin to broadcast.
The producer "Comic-ritz" does not manage to send the full editing to Mainland. It is confirmed that it will not be broadcasted during July. The main problem is in Mainland. Mike is having difficulty to gain back his Taiwan idol drama big brother position.
Mike focus his career in Mainland. Recently, Ethan Ruan has gained his popularity with his dramas "Fated To Love You" and "My Queen", becoming the new big brother in Taiwan idol drama.
6/04/2009
"I'm willing to do charity my whole life" - Stars talk about doing charity
Source: XinHua
Translation by minivicki @ http://asianfanatics.net
Amguulan from Mongolia said "We shouldn't forget how we started off. In the past, a lot of people helped me before. They helped my family. Now that I have the ability, I definitely must know how to repay the help and appreciate the help. Yesterday, I walked around Fu Zhou's streets and ZuoHai Park in order to attract more kind people, using actions to call out to others to join us in doing charity."
A reporter found that Amguulan has been silently doing alot of charity things and Amguulan embarrassedly laughed "I feel that doing charity isn't something we need to let everyone know. Just do it yourself. In my hometown in Mongolia, I'm sponsoring 12 poor children, helping them to successfully complete their education. Actually, a lot of friends around me are doing charity."
Amoa (艾梦萌) who has been to Fu Zhou three times put in just as much effort as Amguulan too, walking around Fu Zhou street in the hot sun. Amoa still looks like a child but when talking about doing charity, her statements are mature. "Although I'm helping others but I often feel that my individual ability is really very small. I hope that using my advantages, I can encourage others. There's afterall, power in numbers."
Taiwan "Popularity king" Aska Yang was in Fu Zhou for the first time and its his first time taking part in JeansWest charity too. He said that in his whole entertainment industry life, he has been receiving the care and concern of many around him and now, he wants to use his own strength to give other people more love. He mentioned that "I plan to center my next album around my life, to spread love and to show being loved."
Idol drama actress Joe Chen who became popular in Taiwan through idol drama "Prince Turned to Frog" and "Fated to Love You" even got injured by a car in the process of trying to recruit more charitable people to the event. When talking about the accident, Joe sounded very unconcern. "It was just an accident. Doing charity of course requires some sacrifices. Its a very meaningful thing to do charity using the status of a celebrity. If possible, I'm willing to do charity throughout my whole life." Fu Zhou also left a deep impression on Joe. She said that "Fu Zhou has a great weather. There's lots of good food and pretty girls too. Additionally, the Fu Zhou people are very kind and outgoing."
Yay! Charity! Yay! Fu Zhou! Yay! Qiao En!
6/03/2009
Jiro Wang had diarrhea needing to have emergency treatment
Source ent.sinchew-i
Translated : Elvenstar@ http://asianfanatics.net
Fahrenheit on the previous day had a press conference to announce the concerts on 24th October and 25th October at Taipei's Arena. But , Jiro because of previous promotions in Malaysia had caught the cold and had diarrhea. Yesterday looking weak and wearing a hat and mask, reluctantly still posed on stage. But not even after 10 minutes he quickly got off the stage to go to Tai'an hospital to get emergency treatment.
Having a weak body he knew the assistant accompanying him had to leave 1st, so with no choice he said " They always abandon me leaving me all alone!" but after the examination it was only found to be an ordinary cold and had no relation with the H1N1 influenza
His whole body lacking strength, Jiro was directly lifted out of bed from his home by staff members the previous morning. Not wearing the same promotional clothing as the other attending group members, he wore a shirt with a pair of jeans and with no make-up to the press conference. The staff also revealed that once he got there he had rushed to the toilet with diarrhea, After seeing the doctor, the staff member helped him get a taxi to let him rest in his home in Panchiao (city in Taiwan).
As for Arron Yan who was originally meant to star in "Mo Mo Love" but was taken over by Jiro, has been criticized by people of "leaving the mess for Jiro". Being misunderstood, he could no longer withstand it and wrote on the HIM website " don't bully me because of my age....." venting out his anger on the wild accusations.
OMG~Jiro! Jeez, they should let him rest at home instead of dragging him out of bed. The best cure for cold is to drink plenty of water and get lots of sleep. I'm sure the fans wouldn't mind if Jiro stayed at home and rest because of his cold. The most important thing is health. Take care of yourself, Jiro! And guys, please disregard all those news, rumours, gossip about Arron leaving Mo Mo Love. That is all in the past and we should forward to the future instead of dwelling in the past.
Chen Qiao En alarmed by accident in China, car brakes suddenly injuring her right knee
Chen Qiao En alarmed by accident in China, car brakes suddenly injuring her right knee.
Source: Apple Daily
Translation by meosles @ http://asianfanatics.net
News at 3rd of June in Beijing. According to Taiwanese media, when Chen Qiao En attends a charity event in Fuzhou, she was alarmed by an accident! And the car she was in braked suddenly injuring her right knee.
Aska Yang has a slight scratch
When Chen Qiao En was in a car in th city area, it brakes suddenly. Her mother who was also in the car hit her head and her manager's nose bled when it was hit. Her knees was also bruised from the impact. The first car in front braked suddenly because it nearly hit someone. Aska Yang's car luckily only bumped lightly into it; but the car that Chen Qiao En was in braked suddenly causing everyone to lurch forward. Chen Qiao En heard her mother cry out and asked immediately: "Mom! Are you allright?" It was only when she found out her mother is okay that she realized that her knee was in pain. For a while she couldn't stand up and was limping a little when she walked.
And then when she returned to Taiwan the next day, her car burst a tire on the way to the airport. Chen Qiao En and her group had to quickly moved to the side of the road and waited for someone to come and help. It was fortunate that again nothing serious happened. But when they reached the airport they had missed the flight and switched to another flight which stopover at Hong Kong. It was nearly morning when they reached Taipei. This journey is full of mishaps.
Yesterday (2nd June), Chen Qiao En promotes her new SET/TTV drama "Easy Fortune Happy Life" and wore long dress to hide her bruises.
Wahh~ two car accidents, a missed flight, and a bruised knee!!! Good thing she's okay. I was scared by this article title for a moment. Four more days till Episode 1 of Easy Fortune Happy Life!
14 Blades' off to a high-kicking start
source: wuchunfever.com
credit: prella@AF News
The shoot began in Hengdian (in the Ningxia province) on May 16 and is expected to continue till mid-August. Directed and produced by Hong Kong’s Daniel Lee of Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon fame, this wuxia actioner stars heavyweights Donnie Yen, Zhao Wei and MediaCorp’s very own Qi Yuwu.
Set during the late Ming Dynasty, it focuses on a highly trained warrior loyal to the emperor, forced to fight his former comrades in order to protect the empire. Slated for release in the first quarter of next year, it’s billed as being “Asia’s answer to the Bourne Identity”.
MediaCorp Raintree Pictures is the biggest overseas investor in the film that has its managing director all excited.
Said Raintree Pictures managing director Daniel Yun: “The ‘jing yi wei’ (secret agent) concept is still quite new for Chinese cinema and there are many other stories we can spin from it. We’re hoping for this to become a franchise for Asia, similar to the likes of Bourne and 007.
“We would like it to be a cult classic so we really want to get this first one right — the costuming, the look of the film, the characters … We want the sensibility to be cutting-edge and the pace relentless.”
Martial arts star Yen echoed his sentiments. “I was very excited when the producer (Daniel Lee) told me that he will project to the audience a martial arts world that has otherwise not been seen, “ he told Today.
Raintree’s first production in China was Painted Skin, which coincidentally also starred the three stars of14 Blades, and was a box-office success that took home two Hong Kong Film Awards including Best Cinematography.
Kissing Blue Lan, Joe Chen says tastes good
Source: UDN
Translation: Sarah @ http://asianfanatics.net
Blue Lan & Joe Chen have kiss scenes in SETTV's new idol drama 'Easy Fortune, Happy Life'. Yesterday, they held the drama testing at Microsoft Taiwan, and Joe Chen boldly praised Blue, saying he 'tastes good'. However, the female enterprise staff weren't going to let him off that easily, asking him: "Do Da S & Patina Lin look alike?" making him feel extremely awkward.
'Easy Fortune, Happy Life' is about to air and Joe Chen, Blue Lan & Roy Qiu are busily promoting, displaying all their charm. Blue showed his rare sense of humor, saying: "Not used to making such a racket in this work place!" Microsoft's female staff brought on a sensitive topic, asking him: "Do Da S & Patina Lin look alike?" At first, Blue pretended he didn't understand, but it seemed he had come prepared, and after persistent questioning, did he boldly reply: "Me & Da S were together for many years, they don't look alike la!"
'Easy Fortune, Happy Life' will premiere this Sunday. The character Blue plays is like a devil, and Joe joked: "We're having an animal-beast love!" Talking about her kiss scene with Blue, Joe praised him saying he 'tastes good'. But unfortunately the scene was filmed in a water pit, so deducted points for romantic atmosphere! On the side, Roy Chiu also said that he is anticipating the drama crew will give him a kiss scene too.
Blue & Roy don't have much to say, but during filming, if they got on the topic of cars, they would talk non-stop. Blue laughed saying: "Roy is strange, every time he talks to me about cars, his hands will imitate changing gears and his feet will imitate braking, it's as if he's having a seizure!"
OMG~ are they holding EFHL goodie bagsss?!!?!?!?!?!??! Why am I not in Taiwan for summer vacation?!?!?! -sigh- Life is limited. Btw, EFHL is coming out this SUNDAY!!!
TVB's [The Last Breakthrough] won Korea's Most Popular TV Drama Series
Translated by: choccho@http://asianfanatics.net/forum
TVB series [The Last Breakthrough] which was aired in Korea last year has won the most popular TV Drama series of the year. However, the male leads, one of whom is the newly-crowned Hong Kong Best Actor Nick Cheung and Raymond Lam who is busy preparing for his concert, are not able to attend the awards ceremony in Korea.
In this respect, TVB Executive, Ms Virginia Lok will arrange for the cast in [Palace Scheme] to head the promotional activity in Korea. This has created a traveling opportunity for the rumored couple, Kevin Cheng and Charmaine Sheh. It has also been reported that Tavia Yeung and another female lead in [The Last Breakthrough] Sonija Kwok will be heading to Korea as well.
Whoa~this is quite a surprise! Congrats to this series! Leila and Raymond were awesome in this show. I actually really liked Bosco in this show, he was so funny and childish at times. Anyhow, this show was really good. I enjoyed the scenes in Kenya more than the ones taken in HK. Hahaha~
6/02/2009
The Loud Side of Chen Xin Yi
Credit: a1061@youtube.com
Hahahaha~this starts off with Chen Qiao En showing off her pretty umbrella and she goes around to ask people if her umbrella is pretty. Hahahaa~ then Qiao En models with the umbrella and Xiao Tian's like that's not how rich lady walk and then he demonstrates! Hahahahaaa~ The next BTS is filmed in a room where the two of them have fun beating each other up. Hahahahaa~
6/01/2009
"Citta Bella" June Magazine: We're very real! Joe Chen & Blue Lan
Translation by minivicki @ http://asianfanatics.net/
Credits to forjoe @ baidu.com 陳喬恩吧for the magazine scan
Earlier on, media were speculating on how Blue and Joe will not get along. However, this time, "Bella" magazine seen for ourselves the interactions between the two and regarding this question, we can give a different answer: Both of them are too real. Joe directly says that she has no interest in "Humans" and instead loves movie, acting and little animals; Blue however is a vegetarian, reads the buddhist scripture. The two of them have good interactions but do not bother with polite speech. They are both very sincere people. (Live report; When Joe was putting on make-up, Blue arrived later at the photoshoot place. Joe turned around and shouted "Mr Lan you're here!" Her tone was just like a auntie.)
Besides that, both of them are very professional and serious. Faced with the different actions that have higher level of difficulty (Jumping and sitting on top of each other), they were both very cooperative and strived to meet the requirement.
This year is "Bella" magazine's 25 anniversary. The two of them generously shared their story of them at 25 years old and 25 blissful things to them in life. They are all very true. Real life experences that came at the expense of sweat and tears.
To be able to sincerely and truthfully talk about "Bliss" with the two of them is really a bliss in itself.
"Myself" is the answer to blissfulness - Joe Chen
The characters that Joe act are usually a huge contrast to her real personality. In "Easy Fortune Happy Life", her female character role has another name "Grass Girl" (Meaning a girl that is a vegetarian, has a easygoing personality and is easily satisfied.) which is very different from the male lead "Carnivorous Male" (Meaning a person that is very ambitions and unscruptous when it comes to attaining his aims. Like a prey set on his food.) When talking about the drama's challenge, Joe laughed and said "Actually, I'm not a grass girl. I'm a carnivorous girl. Blue Lan is the one that's a grass male! The biggest difficulty in the drama is that actually, we're acting each other."
"I'm not..." "I am..." Joe is always able to easily answer such questions which showed how her understanding of herself is very deep and she's not a person easily influenced by the surrounding or other people's opinions. They will not blur her own understanding of life. She's just like a painting which has the basic structure out already and in each interview, the answers you get will help add colors to the painting but the structure will not change. Her firm unchanging stand is probably what independent at thirty refers to.
If Joe's current 30 year old life is put as "golden" then it is shaped by the "fire" in her 25 years old life. Joe said that that point in time was when the company forzen her and she was going nowhere in the entertainment industry. No one can be blamed but there's a hole in the heart that she does not know who will be able to fill too. At that time in point, her love relationship wans't good too. "There was once when I was feeling down, I called my boyfriend at that time and he answered 'I'm working'. I immediately said bye bye and hung up. I will always remember that moment. I didn't dare to say that actually, I wanted to see him!"
With a unsuccessful career and a devastating love life, Joe had a lonley 25. "I remember how I was alone at home during my 25 year old birthday. Right before that day pass, I quickly used the lighter as an imaginary candle and sang: Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to me! And I let that day passed quickly."
Joe felt that 25 years old is the time where for females, things start to diverge. What you need in life and what you don't need will start to become more clear. "In the past, I will hope that there's someone I can hold tightly and go through life with. Now, career is everything to me." Joe was very definite, as though love to her is really no longer important. When I reconfirmed with her, will that really make life more relaxing? She answered "I'm the type of girl where when my career is good, then life is good. If your career is very good, then you don't need others to give you happiness."
"I'm really not interested in humans." Although Joe can be very sunshine and cheerful, as though everyone can be her friend, but she always states that she's actually the type of person who does not like interacting with others. She said that "Humans have the habit of showing their best side only when in front of others. But I don't like to do that"
After 25 years old, when talking about "humans", she often seem like an outsider. There is a small corner in her heart which she keeps to herself. She need not talk to others but instead will watch movies, read books, play with cats, focus on acting well and enjoying the happiness she has in her own little world.
Her book "See Paris (Qiao Jian Paris)" will be out in June and when Joe talked about her trip in France, how she had to wear short sleeve clothes in the cold weather for photoshoots, she exclaimed "The sun in France is fake! The sunshine looks so beautiful but the temperature is actually freezing." Actually, isn't Joe just like France's special sunshine? -- She lights up brightly but she does not attempt to please you.
"Other people" are the gift of time - Blue Lan
Blue doesn't speak much on shows and besides when acting, he does not show much emotions. His perfect feature and body figure ratio often causes people to term him as "handsome". Otherwise, it is his status as "Da S's ex-boyfriend" that is often being brought up. But besides these, what do we have? Actually, if you inspect his drama works, you will discover that from his early "Big Hospital Small Doctor (¤jÂå°|¤pÂå®v)" to his recent "Police Et Vous", his acting has been maturing and the speed of improvement is shocking! It is as though inside him, there is a clock which you cannot hear but the hand is slowly moving. When it reaches the right spot, he will do what needs to be done.
Other people" are the gift of time - Blue Lan
Blue doesn't speak much on shows and besides when acting, he does not show much emotions. His perfect feature and body figure ratio often causes people to term him as "handsome". Otherwise, it is his status as "Da S's ex-boyfriend" that is often being brought up. But besides these, what do we have? Actually, if you inspect his drama works, you will discover that from his early "Big Hospital Small Doctor (¤jÂå°|¤pÂå®v)" to his recent "Police Et Vous", his acting has been maturing and the speed of improvement is shocking! It is as though inside him, there is a clock which you cannot hear but the hand is slowly moving. When it reaches the right spot, he will do what needs to be done.
New drama "Easy Fortune Happy Life" is a big challenge to him. Inside the drama, he acts as a "Carnivorous male" that is highly ambitious. In reality though, his life is very simple and not heavy at all. Not only does he read Buddhist scripture, and exercise regularly by cycling, he has also been a vegetarian for many years. When talking about the environment, he also started to speak alot which is very rare. "Do you know that how much more pollution you're doing when you eat one cow compared to being a vegetarian?" In order to protect the environment, he has even went to Mongolia before to join in a save the progress towards becoming a desert by planting trees movement. Blue said that he has little wants in life. Currently, other than smoking, there isn't much that he feel must be done. "If I can quit smoking, then I can probably go be a monk already!"
Blue seriously said that "I'm similar to my drama character in the sense that we both want to have control to our life. And be rich. But unlike him, I will not sacrifice other people. I hope more that everyone can work together!" His manager expressed that there was once when he was feeling down because his friend betrayed him. He poured out his problems to Blue and he replied "Never mind, you still have us!"
Although Blue is a person of few words, he is actually a very warm person that shows great care to his friends.
However, this trait that is admirable is actually something Blue only learned recently. He said that before 25, he was quite a self-centered person that does not think about others much. "When I go outside, I'll feel very proud. When filming, I just want it to be over soon so that I can go home. Now though, I find myself very insignificant. In a drama, there's still the props, lightings and other details. I'm only in charge of acting well." Now, he will help other workers put together the prop and buy drinks for everyone. Besides being a good actor, he is also part of the family of the production team.
Regarding love, Blue has also moved from being self-centered to opening up a space in his heart, giving more room to his girlfriend. "All the girlfriends I've had feels that I do not treasure them enough." For example, when playing with a group of friend, if his girlfriend wants to leave first, he will say "Then you leave!". He will not attempt to keep her or send her. The current him is more able to take care of the safety of others and treasure his girlfriend though. "Afterall, everyone are humans, brought into this life by their parents! I should treasure the females." he said smilingly.
When he was 25, he started filming in mainland and had lesser time for his family. Thinking about that year's mid-autumn festival, spending it with friends in mainland, lying on the grass and looking at the stars, he felt that at that time, he truly understood the chinese saying of "missing your love ones every festival" Now, what he finds most blissful is to have dinner with his family. Its a pure and realistic happiness. Because he is more able to care about others, his handsome face now shows traces of warmth too.
His inner clock is constantly ticking forward. Knowing to adjust himself, time will bring to him various beautiful gifts.
Joe & Blue's 25 private likes.
1. Your best childhood memory?
Adopting the wild dogs near my school so that they will not go hungry.
Going back to Yi Lan in the summer. Cycling to very far places with my cousins and then eating ice under the tree.
2. Your favourite food?
Meat! (I'm a carnivorous girl.)
Smelly Tofu
3. Trick to skin protection?
Removing my make-up thoroughly. I will usually clean 2-3 times.
Drinking more water. I drink a lot of litres everyday.
4. Favourite style of clothes?
Sweet punk style. Short skirt plus boots.
Simple, black and white.
5. Maintaining your figure?
Not eating.
Cycling twice a week and two hours each time.
6. Favourite idol?
Maggie Cheung
Brad Pitt
7. Age when you had your first love?
19 years old. At that time, I was thinking: Its so great to have this person beside me.
15 years old. At that time, the happiest thing was sending her home on the bike. Its very funny.
8 First job?
Making coffee in a coffee restaurant. I spulged on a big meal when I received my first pay.
Waiter at a coffee restaurant. When I got my first salary, I used it to pay my school fees.
9. Type of boy/girl that you like?
Clean, quiet, polite
Big eyes, because that makes her look purer.
10. Favourite music?
Chinese pop music, Lisa Ono
Movie Soundtracks.
11. Most important person in your life?
(Ah! I was stumped by this question.) Should be "myself"
My parents.
12. Your good point?
Strong enough!
Very innocent.
13. Your most enjoyable time of the day?
When I wrap up and return home.
The time after my afternoon nap.
14. Favourite entertainment?
Watching movie.
Playing pool.
15. Which part of yourself do like admire most?
My body figure ratio.
My nose.
16. What you want to do most in the future?
Still acting.
Behind-the-scene production.
17. Your favourite corner at home?
The cats' room.
Bathroom.
18. The bravest thing you've done before?
Skyjump.
Nude swim.
19. The song you like to singmost at KTV?
Zhang Xuan's Bao Bei
Jay Chou - The Cow is Busy (And with dancing!)
20. Your favourite book?
There's many. Most recently is "¹T±ù¹Ø¥qªºªF¨Ê¤H©d¤é°O". Its very funny!
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
21. The sweetest thing your boy/girlfriend has done for you:
Giving me detergent. (Because I'm a life-idiot. I won't know when I've finished using it.)
Alot alot...
22. Favourite country:
Heaven.
Taiwan.
23. Favourite type of friend:
Simple, no motives. Abit like grandma personality.
Sincere and eyes must look innocent.
24. Praise that you like to hear the most:
Your acting is very good!
Your acting is very good!
25. Type of character you want to try?
All! As long as its not repeating the current ones.
Gang leader.
OMG! I MUST GET A COPY OF THIS MAGAZINEEEE!
Fahrenheit world tour concert, Taipei's final concert will ignite in October
Source ChinaYes
Translated : Elvenstar @ http://asianfanatics.net
Fahrenheit's 「想入飛飛」world concert tour, after touring for half a year preforming, it will return to Taiwan in October 2009 to hold it's final concert. Choosing to leave the last concert to the fan's in Taiwan. This time the 4 guys have done a lot of preparation, wanting to bring the highlights of all the tours and leave the most perfect appearance in Taiwan. This time for Fahrenheit's world tour they want to leave the most perfect mark. From abroad they went to Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan to tour, even though they had other multiple commitments they always put the concert in 1st place. Removing all the countless difficulties they still finished the world tour, the 4 members because of the passionate fans forgot their illness, injures and the hard work, taking the past 2 months achievements from their hard work fully preforming to their supportive audiences. Bringing joy and satisfaction, Fahrenheit expressed "We put in 100% effort!"
Sincere Calvin Chen said " 1st when the concert started I felt it was a really hard mission, but after receiving training and practice we've finally now completed it!" Formed 3 years ago Fahrenheit, established from the 1st day, their common desire was to open a large scale sell-out concert. Calvin said " From taking on the responsibility of being guests for our seniors S.H.E, to our own small concert, up until now we finally get to open our own sell-out concert. This road Fahrenheit has put in hard work and have improved step by step".
Arron Yan also expressed, because of this concert, they have put in a lot of hard work, hoping the audience can feel their seriousness. Since young, scared of standing up on stage to preform, Wu Chun on the previous night stood on stage especially high. He laughed saying " My most happiest is, before I was the shyest person to stand on stage, but now I can preform on stage for all to see".
Recently busy shooting a drama; Jiro Wang, because of catching the cold he felt unwell. Hurriedly attending the press conference for the Taipei concert but left the scene straight after, just shows how much the concert means to Jiro. No matter how busy or how tired, he will still help drum up support for the Taipei concert. For the upcoming World tour, ignoring his foot injury, he insists on completing all the dance routines, making people feel touched and his professionalism level worth 100%.
Taipei's concert will be 1000 times spectacular, the 4 will show all their wonderful tricks to fulfil their fans. Fahrenheit in the concert each will have a solo, but unexpected,this solo part they feel is almost the most difficult part. Wu Chun will preform a large scale acrobatic fight, holding onto a rope swinging to the stage and using a knife sword to fight the group of dancers; Arron has put in a lot of hard work and will show his strength playing an accompaniment while singing.
Jiro Wang because of having to rush filming and also train for the Fahrenheit's concert, he will be busy both ends. To keep up with the pace, after filming everyday he'll obediently arrive at the company to practice the guitar. Calvin Chen apart from B-Box has secretly been practising a solo dance and DJ Scratch, He laughed saying " everyday I urge the teacher when we finish the lesson to put the CD away properly, to stop the fans waiting downstairs at the company to discover am practising this".
After the baptism of many concerts, returning to Taiwan, in regards to themselves being in Taiwan's Arena in October, Fahrenheit already been through hundreds of battles but feel scared as they are near their home town. As they need to preform for the Taiwan fans, it has made them feel especially nervous. Fahrenheit expressed they have to preform their best to repay the Taiwan fans for their continuous support and encouragement.
AHHH~Taiwan fans are soo luckyyy! I wish I could take some days off school and fly to Taiwan to watch their last World Tour concert! [My mom would be extremly mad at me tho]
Xiao Tian and Blue have a PK competition for arm wrestling; popularity is off the charts
Source: UDN
Translated by: hazel. @ http://asianfanatics.net
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San Lih’s
At the fanmeet session, Ethan Juan was able to hand over the baton in full glory, and he wished for Joe Chen and Blue Lan’s new drama
Meanwhile, the other pair of male leads Wen Sheng-hao and Roy Chiu too competed, them doing push ups in fifteen seconds instead. By some stroke of “coincidence”, both of them managed nineteen in the small frame of time.
All four suave male leads were very open on stage, leading to an uproarious event for both fans and cast alike.
The battle between Qiao En's husbands! Hahahahaa~ Too bad Qiao En couldn't attend this event. It would have been the perfect showdown. Hahahaa~
Wu Chun Admits to be a Perfect Man
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Wu Chun Admits to be a Perfect Man
[2009.05.30]
Jiro Wang, Calvin Chan and Arron Yan frankly admitted that they were envious of Wu Chun doing movies and joked that they want a cameo appearance in Wu Chun’s current movie [14 Blades]!
Fahrenheit once again made a whirlwind trip to Malaysia for a press conference and an autograph session. For the press conference, three of them wore black and white in perfect tacit agreement. In addition to speaking freely about their third album [Loving You More and More], the four of them also shared their recent activities and future plans.
Jiro Wang, Calvin Chan and Arron Yan readily admitted that they were envious of Wu Chun who was in two movies and joked that they want to exchange places with Wu Chun next year in that Wu Chun would shoot three TV dramas while they would do movies. Calvin Chan even said drolly that he wanted to have a cameo in Wu Chun’s movie [14 Blades] which had everyone in the room laughing.
Good Brothers in Real Life
Also, because Calvin Chan collaborated with each of the other three in dramas such as the upcoming [Momo Love] and [Parfait Tic] as well as the earlier [Romantic Princess] and in each drama, he played the love rival of all three, the other three took the opportunity to “accuse” Calvin of trying to “steal other people’s love interest”. Calvin could only laughed ruefully that in real life, they were actually like brothers.
As for Wu Chun who had been consistently rumored that he did not want to do any more TV dramas, he also took the opportunity to clarify matters: [Some people said that I won’t do TV dramas anymore but in reality, I am just waiting for the right role to come along. I still want to do TV dramas very much!]
When asked whether he had any opinions on the romantic rumors of Jerry Yan and Ella that came out during the shooting of [Just Want to Depend on You], Wu Chun expressed with a laugh that no matter who Ella works with, she would be very good to them. The other three also chimed in and praised that Ella is a nice person and that everyone likes her. Earlier Ah Sa had praised Wu Chun was a perfect man. When asked how he felt about that, Wu Chun laughed: [I think I am too because I love family life. Fahrenheit are all good men.]
When asked if the four of them ever considered releasing a solo album, Calvin Chan expressed that Fahrenheit was a four-as-one group. Currently the most they would do was to have a solo song within their album. Anything else would depend on the arrangement of the record company.
Fahrenheit will be performing their second concerts in Taiwan, Macau and other Chinese cities. In view of everyone getting injured in the previous concerts, Calvin Chan expressed that they had learned from the experiences of the past eight concert performances and knew which areas needed more attention so that no one would get injured again!
translated by : wyn0602 of CEFC
credits : CEFC and orientaldaily.com
original source : http://www2.orientaldaily.com.my/read//285...VDa5DSu3Hc81sj9
Hahahahaa~ I like this article! They are so funny, accusing Calvin of "stealing other people's love interest"~ hahahahahaaa! Can't wait to watch Parfait Tic Tacc!! Woo~! Yay! Wu Chun = perfect man. Can't argue with that at all. The bonus about him is that he can cook~~ Woo~hahahaha
The Death of Ji Nian Ping
Credit:hk7f
Awww, Chen Xin Yi! She cried because the water is freezing cold. This was the saddest scene in the whole show! The freezing rain, the shouting, the car accident, the blood, the unconscious Xin Yi, and the director who lost all sense of feelings all contribute to this very depressing scene. -sniff sniff- The first is filming in the rain. Not only do the actors/actresses have to endure the freezing "rain", they must ignore the numbness and recite their lines! Good thing, they got that done soon. Can't bear to watch them stay in the rain too long~ might catch a cold! However, the most difficult part in filming this is scene is the car accident scene. It's a pretty scary scene to film because the driver has to drive the car really close to Qiao En. They kept NGing cuz the driver was scared that he was getting too close to her. So in the end, one of the crew worker came out and volunteered to stand in for Qiao En. Sooo Niceeeee but pretty weird looking tooo!
Credit:hk7f
Hahahahaaa~ Qiao En is so grateful and happy that someone is willingly to help her film the crashing scene. Of course, she still has to fall from the car herself and she does it a couple of time too. Ouch! And omg, Xiao Tian (Ethan) screamed until he couldn't scream anymore. This scene...-sniff sniff- so sad. The music, the flashback, oh my, just can't hold back those tears....
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