Rainie attacks Arena too vigorously, loses sleep every night

"Cute Princess" Rainie Yang successfully controlled the stage at the Taipei Arena last Saturday, showing her flexibility and ballet skills that awed her fans. Finally having achieved her dream, she was extremely happy, and her sugar high lasted her through the next week after the concert, causing her to lose sleep almost every night. Every time she closed her eyes, she would hear the beating of her heart, "and I could see the concert over and over again".

Shields her emotions onstage, feels elated inside

After a full 10 years, Rainie completed her fantasy of "A Wild Fantasy Concert" by rehearsing nonstop, ignoring rolled ankle injuries, and constant nightmares due to intense pressure. Before her opening, she also suffered from a heavy flu, and her condition was all over the place. It wasn't until her concert ended that she finally believed that her beautiful dream had finally come true, and could finally rest at home, but she couldn't even fall asleep! "Because I'm just too excited! I close my eyes and all I can see is the concert." She said that she was trying to hide her emotions while onstage, because she didn't want her fans to see her cry, but inside she had already cried many tears of joy.

Takes up role of special guest at Xiao Zhu's Hong Kong concert

However, after concentrating on her own concert, Rainie now has to work on her project as Xiao Zhu's special guest at his Hong Kong concert, and rehearse for her "Wild Fantasy Singing Selections" autograph and singing concert in May. Will she be sleepless as the special guest for Xiao Zhu's concert? She said, "Actually, no, because we understand each other completely." She remained tight-lipped about the program, and asked fans to wait and see.

Source: Liberty Times
Translation: casablanca-- @ AsianFanatics

Loves fried chicken and bubble tea, G.E.M willing to gain 4 kg

Hong Kong singer G.E.M will be in Taiwan promoting her first album in May, and the Taiwan-food lover has already eaten 15 pieces of fried chicken during her 10 day promotional stay in Taiwan right now. Every meal, she drinks bubble tea, and will not stop even if she starts breaking out, joking that she has already considered moving to Taiwan, so that she can eat the wonderful food everyday.

G.E.M is enthralled by all the Taiwanese eats, and praises fried chicken and bubble tea as the world's best food and drink. After being in Taiwan for only 10 days, she has already gained 4 kg, "Taiwanese food is really super delicious, I have seriously considered buying a house here, heck, I'll move here, just to eat the fried chicken!" One of her company's artists, Charge Pu Xue Liang, upon hearing of G.E.M's love for Taiwanese appetizers, personally made spicy stinky tofu for his "younger sister" to try. However, she caught a whiff of it and said, "It stinks!" She reluctantly tried it, and exclaimed, "It's smells so bad, but it's very delicious!"

Exudes Hong Kong manga girl

Two years ago, a 16 year old G.E.M was releasing her first album in Hong Kong, and her vocal abilities caught the attention and praise of the likes of Eason Chan and Alan Tam. Earlier, she was captured in a Hong Kong manga, where her image was transcribed into manga form as the female lead, and will be releasing it's first volume soon, which will definitely break into the "zhai nan" market.

Source: Liberty Times
Translation: casablanca-- @ AsianFanatics

Mainland China steals idols' fame, claims Wu Zun advertises circumcisions

Celebrity spokesperson fees often reach an outrageous 7 figure number, but if you "borrow their image", then it's free! Recently, netizens have found that a Mainland clinic has illegally taken Wu Zun's photo to advertise a circumcision procedure; and Hong Kong star Andy Lau's name has also appeared on ads selling salted ducks.

The more popular the celebrity, the higher revenue that their advertisements rake in. One of Mainland China's clinics found a liking to the well built, handsome and multi-talented Wu Zun, and privately attached his photo on the advertisements. At first glance, Wu Zun appears educated and professional with his glasses, but that image clashes with what he is promoting: a Korean style circumcision procedure. A blurb above his head states that it is "only 80RMB (360TWD)" to complete the surgery. Wu Zun was both angry and amused that his picture was used to advertise a procedure that he evidently did not agree to.

In Mainland China, celebrities' images being taken advantage of has happened so often it is considered the norm. Popular singer Andy Lau had similar occurrences. A 60 year old Andy Lau, who lived in the Mainland, sold salted ducks and sausages for a living, and had run his shop there since 1960. To protect his copyright, he used his own name to register the license, never imagining that he would run into a court battle with Andy Lau, who was suing him for reputation violation. The old man was very distraught, because his only error was having the same name as the huge star, and had to be involved in a court case.

Source: Nownews
Translation: casablanca-- @ AsianFanatics

Donnie Yen buys pads for his wife

Although the 46 year-old “Universe Strongest” has been married for seven years, he ruled out the possibility of any seven-year-itch. Donnie Yen was in Taiwan to promote his highly anticipated movie Ip Man 2. He couldn’t help but express his love when he talked about his wife, “She is still very attractive for me. Kissing each other is just the basic, if (I’m) not tired, (we’ll) enjoy ourselves a bit more, since I’m still young.”

Following a series of Ip Man movies, Donnie Yen has become the spokesperson of grand masters. In the film, his character is respectful and caring to his wife, much like his marriage in real life. He said, ‘Women are supposed to be spoiled, and cared for. She is my partner, (I’d) give my greatest effort to make her happy.” He revealed that he would even go pick up sanitary pads for her.

Donnie Yen said the success of the first Ip Man put everyone under great pressure, because it wouldn’t be easy to make a better sequel. He acknowledged that the new film has even more tension, in addition to showcasing the speech and manners of old Hong Kong. He said, “I had to speak much slower (for the film), and turn away slowly. (I) only ate one meal per day to stay slim, and remained seated without moving when there was nothing to do.” He joked, “Because it was tiring to death, so (I) couldn’t move, HA!”

He also revealed that his 2 year-old son is an active kid and even creates his own “moves.” The boy had once tried to stop an elevator door with his own finger. Unfortunately the doors didn’t open and ended up clamping his finger instead. The shocked and sobbing Mrs. Yen called Donnie for help but he was on set filming a movie. The “crisis” was eventually resolved by local firefighters.

As for his 6 year-old daughter, Donnie Yen said he tries to embrace her whenever he can, “If I don’t hug her now, it will be her boyfriend hugging her later on.” When asked if he is worried that his daughter would date a bad guy someday, he said, “Tell him to watch Ip Man a few more times and learn about the principle of living.”

Source: AppledailyTw, Libertytimes
Credits: PA @ CpopAccess

Xiao Xiao Bin wants to shed some weight

The cutie is determined to drop those dreaded pounds after his grandma recently commented that he is “getting fatter and fatter, and looks ugly on TV.” Xiao Xiao Bin has taken the initiative by sticking to veggies at lunch and let his brother Mini-Bin have the meat. He even asked his grandma to make him some tea because, “TV ads said drinking tea helps with weight lost.”

His dad Xiao Bin Bin definitely opposes the diet plan, “He’s only 5 years old, 21 kg, 110 cm, why dieting?” Xiao Xiao Bin wants to follow the footsteps of his P.S. Man costar Blue Lan, “Because Blue GeGe said being vegetarian is very healthy, in addition to losing weight.”

No worries, Xiao Xiao Bin’s signature chubby cheeks should be here to stay. His dad said, “Xiao Xiao Bin has a sensitive body type. We are very cautious with his diet, especially seafood with shells, because they would cause a reaction right after. He shouldn’t need to lose weight. I think he was just talking about it, only to follow Blue Lan as he is vegetarian. He ate a drumstick when I gave it to him at home, he even ate ribs, and then he quickly forgot about the promise he made earlier.

Source: Appledaily
Credits: PA @ CpopAccess

Eddie Peng has hot kiss with Tiffany Hsu in latest MV

Eddie Peng who has gone from acting to singing, invited good friend Ethan Ruan's girlfriend Tiffany Hsu to act as lovers with him for the MV of his new song "Summer Around the Corner" (轉角的夏天). The couple had very good chemistry which made hugging and acting close not a problem. However, when it was time to film the kiss scene, they kept laughing because they were too familiar with each other.

Eddie Peng is releasing an album for the first time and for the MV of his debut song "Must Love", he invited international film queen Shu Qi to help him out, at his autograph session he also invited Kwai Lun-mei to support him onstage.

Today recording company Avex expressed that for the second hit song's MV, they had invited Eddie's good friend Tiffany Hsu to support him. In the MV, Eddie and Tiffany act a couple who are in love but can't be together. First the director made them go to a market early in the morning to film some sweet scenes, then later on they were taken to Yang Ming Shan to film crying scenes.

Tiffany Hsu who is already taken, said that because she knows Eddie so well already, acting out crying scenes and hugs are no problem but when she saw that there was a kiss scene in the script, "Inside I thought, oh dear, we are definitely going to end up laughing".

Since both are very experienced in acting, filming of all their deep emotional scenes together went smoothly, they really looked like two lovers passionately in love, only their kiss scene would easily become an awkward laughing scene. Since her good friend is releasing an album, Tiffany praised Eddie's vocals and also mentioned that since pre-order sales began, she has already bought two copies of the album.

Source: UDN
Translated by: catalie @ AsianFanatics

Jay Chou latest single "Fireworks Cool Easily" exposed, Chinese style gains recognition once again

Jay Chou's look in his new album "The Era" has been exposed! His cool looking face turns into a "vampire prince", making the theme of his new album prominent, he said: "I hope my music is like a vampire, never aging!"

It's been well over 1 year since his last album, Jay Chou's 10th big piece is finally ready, he turns himself into a vampire from medieval ages, he wears a suit with a feathered cape inside a gorgeous old castle, so handsome. Even though 9 years ago Jay Chou already wrote a vampire song "William's Castle", but he guaranteed that there'll definitely be a breakthrough this time, he hopes his music can be like vampires "spanning across era after era". "The Era" album will be up for pre-order on the 28th of April at all major record shops and 7-Eleven.

Hot on the heels of the first broadcast of Jay Chou's new album main plugged song "Superman Can't Fly" on radio yesterday, another of Jay Chou's new song "Fireworks Cool Easily" is exposed, compared to "Superman Can't Fly", "Fireworks Cool Easily" is a song full of Chinese style, the melody is sweet and elegant, the lyrics are deep, it's an excellent piece that is great to listen to.

A lot of fans online have expressed that just with this song "Fireworks Cool Easily" is enough to defeat all the songs from Jay Chou's last album "Capricorn", you can see how popular it is!

Following the appearance of the two songs, Jay Chou's new album will soon greet everyone, the fans who have waited so long can finally fully enjoy the heavenly king's incomparable charm.



Source: Liberty Times
Translated by: http://www.jaychoustudio.com

Peter Ho and Huang Xiao Ming go shirtless for sake of ratings

In hope for big ratings at the start of the show, FTV/GTV's Summer’s Desire will follow the trend of having its male leads shirtless in the first two episode in order to seduce the viewers. Peter Ho, who has previously done underwear commercials, was asked to go on screen with only his swimming briefs. Despite his previous experience, he still felt a little uneasy, “I asked the director if I could wear swimming trunks instead, but the director said that swimming trunks does not show enough pride, so he forced me to wear swimming briefs.”

Peter expressed that he felt like he was the monkey being watched in the zoo during the filming of the scene (while in his swimming briefs). He explained, “We were filming at the pool at the hotel and it was open for all to see. Although we were filming on the weekend and closed off the area, the floor above could see the pool in full through the windows. While I was filming downstairs, many people watched from above.”

But Peter, who is also the producer of the drama, was determined not to be the only one in humiliation, thus he requested Huang Xiao-Ming to join him, “Originally, Huang Xiao-Ming was not required to show his upper body in the drama, but I decided to strip his shirt off.” Peter revealed that he specially added the scene of Huang Xiao-Ming changing his clothes where Barbie Hsu suddenly barges into the room.

So between the 186cm tall Peter and the 175cm tall Huang Xiao-Ming who has a better body? Peter carefully responded, “Our bodies are not built the same. Xiao Ming is bigger while I am slimmer.”

Source: Appledaily TW
Credits: fufu @ CpopAccess

Amber Ann and Alicia Liu “Guess” with Jacky Wu

As reported earlier, Amber Ann and Alicia Liu have joined the struggling variety Guess Guess Guess as co-hosts. Following the departure of Aya, the show will rotate its female hosts alongside Jacky Wu in an attempt to resurrect ratings. The new combo created quite an awkward picture as both ladies are over 170 cm tall, while Jacky Wu was noticeably shorter.

Although he supports the production team’s decision, Jacky Wu sighed, “The current lack of female Taiwanese hosts is rather serious. There are too many semi-popular celebrities, but (their) experience in the battle field is lacking.” Nono overheard the comment and added, “Amber Ann is not bad! She can be like Ma Shi-Li, making money just by smiling, and she is well-liked by the audience. Why not get her and Ma Shi-Li to cohost with Jacky Wu!”

As for Alicia Liu, her autobiography/photo album is set for release in May. She will talk about facing herself bravely, as well as the process of her sex change operation. The book also contains pictures from her childhood and highschool years, in addition to the photo album. She said frankly that she was nervous about being photographed naked, “But there were protective things taped over (my) chest, so it wasn't be too uncomfortable.” She is currently on leave from hit show Big Party and said she hopes to return soon.

Source: Appledaily, Chinatimes, Nownews
Credits: PA @ CpopAccess

FTV will air Summer’s Desire at the end of May

Great news for fans that have been waiting for the release of Summer’s Desire. The drama starring Peter Ho, Barbie Xu and Huang Xiao-Ming was previously rumored to be turning away buyers because of the cast’s age. Fortunately, it was finally picked up by FTV and is expected to hit the air at the end of May. Huang Xiao-Ming has already requested time off from his current movie to promote the series in Taiwan next month. The three A-listers’ stylists, plane tickets and living arrangements for the 4-day promotion are said to cost more than 2 million (NTD).

Summer’s Desire was adapted from author Ming Xiao-Xi’s best-seller by the same name. The story depicts the relationship of two men and a woman, and has been described as the idol version of the “Flower” series (popular Taiwanese soap opera from the 90s.) The HD production alongside with its love-hate melodrama is expected to attract audiences outside of the idol drama core. FTV hopes it will continue their Sunday drama programming as they have been airing Kimura Takuya’s classic series in the time slot.


P.S. Man has been averaging in the mid 4% range over the past month.

FTV briefly entered the Sunday night idol drama battle in 2007 with Pretty Ugly and Full Count. The dramas' ratings failed to meet the network’s expectation, therefore the time slot was given to variety programming instead. Much to the surprise of FTV, their Friday night idol drama K.O.3anguo broke 2% in the ratings and inspired them to join the idol drama battle again. Summer’s Desire will compete with the current top-rated Sunday night series P.S. Man at the end of May.

Source: UDN
Credits: PA @ CpopAccess

2010 Forbes Chinese Celebrities List: Jackie Chan is No. 1

Yesterday, Forbes announced its "2010 Forbes Chinese Celebrities List" for the 7th year in a row. For the first time, the list this year includes celebrities from all 3 regions of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; the order of the standings is based on the amount of money the celebrities made in the past year as well as the frequency of exposure in the media. The “overall” list takes into account artists from all 3 regions combined.

With his international superstar status, constant media exposure, and close to 200 million Yuan [Chinese Yuan / Renminbi] in earnings last year, 56 year old martial arts star Jackie Chan took the No. 1 spot overall. Last year, Jackie was the first celebrity to hold a concert at China’s Olympic venue “Bird’s Nest” and his movie "Little Big Soldier" broke the 150 million Yuan mark at the box office.

Coming in at 2nd place overall is Taiwan singer Jay Chou, who made close to 120 million Yuan. His strategy last year of branching out into other areas (singing, acting, as well as directing) paid off, taking the #2 spot and also ending up #1 in the “Singers” category among all 3 regions combined. His ex-girlfriend Jolin Tsai took the No. 7 spot, earning 46.5 million Yuan last year.

The No. 3 spot went to Hong Kong artist Andy Lau, whose ‘secret marriage’ situation was a huge focus in the entertainment industry last year. Add to that his unceasing workload throughout the year, which brought in earnings of 86.2 million Yuan.

Mainland actress Zhang ZiYi took the No. 5 spot overall, primarily due to her constant exposure in various media outlets last year. The ‘charity money’ scandal as well as other high profile situations caused her to be on numerous magazine covers last year, though it also brought with it a lot of public criticism. This year, she has taken a more low profile approach to avoid further criticism and scandal, however her earnings were not affected much, coming in at 69 million Yuan, which was only 9 million Yuan less than what she made the previous year. On the mainland China list, Zhang ZiYi came in at No. 2, behind basketball star Yao Ming.

In addition to taking the No. 1 spot on the mainland China list, Yao Ming came in at No. 4 overall with 250 million Yuan in earnings, though compared to the previous year’s 350 million Yuan, the amount is significantly less. Olympic sprinter Liu Xiang’s foot injury prior to the Beijing games caused him to sit out most of the year, taking him from No. 5 the previous year (130 million Yuan in earnings) to the No. 9 spot this year, with only 64.6 million Yuan in earnings. Olympic diver Guo Jing Jing took the No. 50 spot with earnings of 15 million Yuan.

As for Hong Kong’s “Four Heavenly Kings”, with Andy Lau taking the No. 3 spot overall, the other 3 “Kings” also made it into the Top 100. Aaron Kwok took the No. 15 spot with earnings of 36 million Yuan and Jacky Cheung took the No. 32 spot with 32.5 million Yuan. Leon Lai came in at No. 76 with earnings of 6.75 million, which was the least among the “4 Kings”.

With his starring role in the box office hit "Ip Man", not only did Donnie Yen’s popularity sore, he also gained many endorsement deals as well as film projects, giving him the No. 8 spot on the overall list with 86 million Yuan in earnings.

As for other film/movie stars: action film star Jet Li took the No. 24 spot with 95 million Yuan in earnings; returning to the Asian film market, actor Chow Yun Fat came in at No. 23 with 80 million Yuan; Tony Leung and his wife Carina Lau took the No. 37 and No. 41 spots with 18.6 million Yuan and 21 million Yuan respectively. Mainland actress Tang Wei, who was banned in China after her seductive role opposite Tony Leung in "Lust, Caution", was “unbanned” last year and was able to make it to the No. 96 spot with 5 million Yuan in earnings. Another mainland actress, Vicky Zhao – who just gave birth to a daughter – came in at No. 20 with earnings of 19.6 million Yuan.

Singer/actress Charlene Choi, who launched a solo career last year, came in at No. 52 overall with earnings of 17.5 million Yuan.

Source: Mingpao
Translation: llwy12 @ AsianFanatics

Donnie Yen Is Willing to Buy Sanitary Napkins For Wife

Donnie Yen attended to a press conference for "Yip Man 2" in Taiwan. He said: "You're supposed to love and care about women. Because she's my life-long partner, of course I'll have to treat her well 100%." Donnie even disclosed generously that if his wife is in need, he will go to the pharmacy and buy sanitary napkins for her. He said with laughs: "Although it might be a little embarrassing, but still have to buy it." His caring words touched host of the press conference and she said: "Companies should consider asking this Yip Man to endorse female hygiene products, it will be 'Yuet Man.'"

Talked about his two year old son, Donnie said his son hasn't watch any of his films yet. He didn't teach his son kung-fu neither. But he can play a set of kungfu quite professionally, making Donnie feel that his son inherited his good genes.

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: Kay's Entertainment

Mark Zhao is juicy; gets hugged 20 times in a row

Mark Zhao was one of the awards presenters yesterday at Singapore's "Star Awards", where his co-host was "Spicy Hot Queen" Regine Wu. Once they were on stage, she hugged him tightly without letting go, and allowed the "Top Ten Favoured Female Artists" to hug him as well, added together, he was hugged over 20 times. Fans and audience members protested at Regine's obvious advantage of "tofu" Mark, and shouted at her, "Cougar Jing " (TN*: it basically means someone who takes advantage of younger boys, and plays on the last character of her chinese name)

Doesn't mind heating up the atmosphere

On the 25th, Regine first praised Mark as a "Piping hot fried chicken", and then hugged him, not letting go until the MC coughed, "It's time to hand out the awards!" Afterwards, she said she didn't mind being criticized, and reminisced the feeling of hugging Mark as very "Juicy!" At the awards show, the organizers asked them to use an A, B format to stir up talk, but it was hard to stir up the atmosphere like that. Added with the quick speed of the awards show, the organizers further requested the two to play out their script for as long as possible, which led to her allowing the top ten female artists to hug Mark in turn. Everytime someone hugged him once, she would match it and hug him as well.

Regine laughed, "Singaporeans who watched me in 'Diamond Club' know my limits, and the organizers wanted me to be open and play around, and not be too uptight." Mark's PR manager Xu Wei Qi said, "That day she wasn't pushing it past the line, the organizers wanted them to be more lively, so she did what she could, and the results were fantastic, we don't mind."

Praised Janine Chang for being genuine

Yesterday Mark was the spokesperson for a cellphone, and his good friend Xiu Jie Kai attended as a special guest. The two men had rumours with Janine Chang, and Jie Kai said that getting to know Janine, was like hanging out with one of the guys, it was very casual and they would talk about sports, movies and electronics. She wouldn't purposely dress up if they went out. "It's very relaxing hanging out with her, why do we have to be dating? I want to treat her as a lifelong friend, I don't want to ruin this feeling." Mark agreed, nodding his head, and said Janine and Ivy Chen both belong to the genuine group of girls who, when they eat dinner, "eat it with good effort."

Source: China Times
Translation: casablanca-- @ AsianFanatics

Yao Yao's acting debut and subsequent duet with F.CUZ

Yao Yao (Guo Shu Yao) plays the male lead Tony Yang's younger sister in SETTV's "Ni Ya Da", a girl who hopes for true love but ends up falling and stumbling on her road to find it. Her acting is bubbly and lively, and really makes the viewer look twice in surprise. Her singing activities haven't ended however, and she took time out to lead her Korean juniors F.CUZ to sing their hit song "Jiggy".

Yao Yao was handpicked out of a huge pool by the director Tsao Jui Yuan, and in the drama Yao Yao strives continuously for true love but is constantly lied to and tricked, showing her brave character in never giving up her dream. It is a far cry from her previous acting abilities, which were quite bland and blunt.

Her Korean juniors F.CUZ's hit song "Jiggy" will be released in a Chinese version, so they asked Yao Yao to sing with them. The four members practiced hard for three days before being able to memorize the right intonations, constantly running over mushy lines such as, "The first time I saw you, my heart beat like crazy" and "I really want to hold you". Also, there were some more common household related lines such as "If your mom's breakfast store needs help" and "If your mother wants to go to Dong Da Men (*translators note: It's a traditional market in Seoul, Korea)". These last two lines made F.CUZ members query, "What does it mean?" After a long day they finally figured out that Yao Yao's family owns a breakfast restaurant.

Source: China Times
Translation: casablanca-- @ AsianFanatics

Aaron Yan and Serena Fang have a ghostly romance mid-air

Serena Fang will be acting as a goddess of death involved in a romance with the human Aaron, and to enhance her ghostly role, she will be suspended in mid-air for most of the day and have to further the romance in a tree with him. She joked that since the start of filming, her foot has never been able to touch the ground!

PTS' "Goddess of Death" will be holding a press conference today (27th) that will include attendees such as Serena, Aaron, Lollipop's Wang Zi and Ah Ben, Chanel (Xiao) Man, and (zeropointsix) Andy Chen etc. Death goddess Serena revealed that her feet haven't touched the ground since "because every entrance and exit scene I have to 'fly' in". Even Aaron noted, "Although I don't have to fly, I still have to get up in a tree to start a romance with her."

Nicknamed "New expert on wires ", Serena is suspended all day at a height higher than 6 floors, and still has to maintain a cold cool demeanor. "Not only am I not allowed to eat before being hung up there, I'm not allowed water, so it's very painful, I'm so dizzy that my eyes start crossing." She continued, laughing that she would overturn everyone's stereotypes about the mean creepy god of death, and would be a very cute one instead.

Aaron acts as a young man who has a brain tumour. "This drama really address all the problems that young people in the society today will face, such as bullying at school, and family abuse etc. I hope that just from the airing of this drama, more people will realize that young people need help from them to solve these problems." He also encouraged young people to face their challenges courageously, because life is still beautiful and miraculous.

At the press conference, Peter Ho had a surprise visit, returning to Taiwan. He laughed that previously, he worked on "One Missed Call 2", but he didn't have fun, so this time he was looking forward to the many young idols that would be collaborating together, and revealed that he and Serena

Due to rumours that the script was a plagiarism of a Japanese manga, director Chou Mei Ling honestly said that she did "consider" "Jigoku Shoujo" and other related materials, but she persisted that she hoped to create a Chinese television drama that could compete with the Japanese idol drama "Death Note".

Source: epochtimes
Translation: casablanca-- @ AsianFanatics

Eddie Peng roams due to management disputes

In the past half-year, Eddie Peng has been "traveling." It is not to say that he actually went to many places, rather it is because he has been in a dispute with his management. Even though he is still in the show business, he has to temporarily put aside his heart and force herself to take a look outside.

Eddie confessed these disputes have severely affected him. Even now, he is still grievous. "From this, I have realized how much I was protected in the past. I am coming to an understanding with the responsibilities and work in show business."

During that period, "I was alone." I read the contracts myself, found lawyers, made decisions about the next step by myself. "I didn't want my mom and my older sister to worry. Plus, entering into this profession is something I chose myself. When something like this happens, I must take responsibility for it myself. It's really funny. I had never seriously take a look at my contracts before. Once I trust the other person, I am willing to do anything for the other person."

Does he regret it? Eddie shook his head, "Something else that I have thought about is that everyone who appears in your life has a significance," he said. Before he never thought about how blessed he was to have this job, but now he understands. "As a result, I have seen many things that normal office workers are unlikely to come across. I also suddenly felt that I had more responsibility towards society. All these things are now in my heart."

For Eddie's new album, the question on most people's minds is, "Can he really sing?" He laughed and said, "Singing was really a weakness of mine in the past." However, he isn't singing to win a prize, he is singing to express his determination. "Perhaps some people might say, just do you acting well. But I want to express another side of me."

His new song, "Must Love"'s, MV invited Shu Qi to make an appearance, creating much talk. Eddie laughed and said,"It only because she lost playing ball with me, so she owed me one. I just didn't expect that she would agree as soon as I asked her. I think I'll have to take her out to eat for 10 years before the favor can be completely returned." Reportedly, when Eddie spoke out about Shu Qi's at the meeting, he frightened even his record company. The reporters said to him, "If you want to show that you have strong contacts, wouldn't inviting Jolin Tsai be more powerful?" The Eddie who has now gone through much crisis was much more seasoned and answered with, "I listed many names, but I don't seem to have listed her!"

For his photo shoot, Eddie wore LV pulling a RIMOWA suitcase to board the plane. He had a lot of fun. A yellow LV suit made him the unrivaled eye-catcher. He said, "I always liked to wear bright colors before, especially when I go surfing. I always wear extremely bright ones. One the one hand, it looks good. On the other, it allows other surfers to spot you, making it safer."

Source: UDN
Credits: Zahra @ CpopAccess

Channel [V]'s Top 20 Countdown (4/17/10): S.H.E. Leaps and Bounds

S.H.E. leads the pack once again, however not for their powerful first single "SHERO" (which actually dropped to 10th this week), but for their sophomore effort "Just Love" which jumps 20 places from being the featured "HOT!" song of last week to being number 1 on the chart this week. Show Luo, for the first week in a long time, only has one song on the charts as "Dance Without Limits" finally drops off but "Why Should We Be Together" stays strong as number 2. Newcomers this week include Eddie Peng's catchy "Must Love" and new mix-gendered group dance flow's "Come On! Come On!".

There has been much controversy with Xian Zhi's MV for "You Belong To Yourself". Juxtaposed with the haunting melody, the MV contain sensuous content not common in normal Taiwanese media although rather mild compared with American media. According to news reports, Xian Zhi's mother did not even know about how her daughter was portraying herself until she saw the MV herself on television. Imagine her shock! However, this commotion seems to be benefiting Xian Zhi as her MV rose 3 places to be number 5 this week.

(NEW) 1. S.H.E. - Just Love 愛就對了 | MV



(--) 2. Show Luo 羅志祥 - Why Should We Be Together? 為什麼要在一起 | MV

(↑1) 3. Rainie Yang 楊丞琳 - Absolute Darling 絕對達令 道 | MV

(↑2) 4. A-Mei 張惠妹 - Open Happiness 快樂暢開 | MV

(↑3) 5. Xian Zhi 弦子 - You Belong To Yourself 你是你的 | MV

(↑1) 6. Rene Liu 劉若英 - We Aren't Together 我們沒有在一起 | MV

(↑4) 7. Da Mouth 大嘴巴 - Happy Birthday 買滴兒 (My Dear) | MV

(NEW) 8. Kelly Chen 陳慧琳 - Forever's Fortune 永遠的福氣 | MV



(↓6) 9. The Drifters 浪花兄弟 & Jay Chou 周杰倫 - You Are My Band-Aid 你是我的OK繃 | MV

(↓9) 10. S.H.E. - SHERO | MV

(↑2) 11. By2 - This Is Called Love 這叫愛 | MV

(↓3) 12. Kenji Wu 吳克群 - Parasitic 寄生 | MV

(NEW) 13. Jane Zhang 張靚穎 - Bravely Love 勇敢愛 | MV



(↓9) 14. Kelly Chen 陳慧琳 - Glimmer 微光 | MV

(NEW) 15. Eddie Peng - Must Love | MV



(↓6) 16. Zhang Xuan 張懸 - I Guess You Are Leaving 我想你要走了 | MV

(NEW) 17. dance flow - Come on! Come on! | MV



(NEW) 18. Huang Ping Yuan 黃品源 - Darling I Love You 達令我愛你 | MV



(↓2) 19. Coco Lee 李玟 - Barbie Girls 美夢 | MV

(↓4) 20. Kevin Lin 林隆璇 & Chang Yun-Jing 張芸京 - When Did We Forget? 怎麼開始忘了 | MV

Credits: alee @ CpopAccess

Peter Ho makes special appearance on Aaron Yan's new drama

Four years ago, when Kris Shen (AK) was filming the movie Spider Lilies, Peter Ho had once visited the set. After being acquainted with director Zero Zhou (周美玲), Peter and the director expressed their interest in working together, but the opportunity didn’t come until now. In director Zhou’s new work on PTS, “死神少女” (roughly translates to Death Goddess) starring Aaron Yan and Serena Fang (房思瑜), Peter accepted a small special guest role without a second thought before even negotiating the price. In addition to fulfilling his wish of working with the director, taking on the role was also to show his support to his juniors, AK (Kris Shen and Andy Chen), who are also participating in the drama. Peter later learned that he is to play a rather interesting role - which is one that commits incest. He will appear in a span of two episodes.

It was Peter’s first time meeting Aaron Yan yesterday at the press conference. Peter complimented Aaron on his good manners and politeness, and Aaron immediately responded, “My mom likes you a lot!” Aaron plays a character that is diagnosed with a brain tumor. In order to act out his character that often has headaches, he specially went to Wu Chun for help. Aaron explained, “Wu Chun often has headaches, so I can just observe his expression when his head hurts.” Serena Fang on the other hand, plays a female ghost in the drama. She revealed that most of her scenes require her to be on wires, and one time, she was flying on wires six stories high that caused great pain.

Source: Appledaily TW
Credits: fufu @ CpopAccess

Viter Fan and Cyndi Wang is the ugliest breakup in Taiwan showbiz

On April 26, Yahoo Kimo started the poll, “The ugliest breakup in Taiwan showbiz.” After just two days, Viter Fan and Cyndi Wang have received over ten thousand votes, obtaining 60-percent of the total number of votes. Harlem Yu and Annie Yi sit at second place, while Xiao S (Dee Hsu) and Mickey Huang are in third.

Without a doubt, the Viter-Cyndi ex-couple has been the hottest topic of the month. First, on April fool’s day, Viter released a past photo of him with Cyndi. Shortly after when he was interviewed by a magazine, he spoke about his "first time" with Cyndi and revealed that Cyndi did not give her “first night” (virginity) to him, which caused many heated discussions amongst netizens and criticisms regarding Viter’s ethics. Although Viter made a public apology to Cyndi just days ago, the impact of his actions is obvious. The poll conducted by Yahoo Kimo is to end on May 3rd, but the Viter-Cyndi ex-couple is already way ahead of the rest. Viter did not comment while Cyndi’s manager expressed, “We will not respond to anything related to Viter Fan anymore.”

In second place, the Harlem-Annie ex-couple has gained 2,800 votes thus far. The two were married nine years ago, but the year before, Annie was infamously photographed with actor Huang Wei-De (黃維德) holding hands together. Harlem and Annie announced their divorce last year March. Recently, the discussions of this ex-couple has risen again as Harlem has just held a concert and Annie has returned to Taiwan to release an album.

The Mickey Huang and Xiao S ex-couple follows close behind in third with 2,200 votes. After nine years since their breakup, Mickey releases a new book revealing that he had once lived together with Xiao S for half a year.

Source: Appledaily TW
Credits: fufu @ CpopAccess

Blue Lan Zheng Long and Sonia Sui Tang play with the Facebook, netizens search for them

The Facebook fever upsurge continued, recently many news and events have something to do with it. On 25 April 2010, TTV, Sanlih drama: ‘Tou Xin Da Sheng PS Nan’ episode, there was a scene where Blue Lan and Sonia Sui need to play on the FACEBOOK , and there are sharp-eyed viewers who noted their two nicknames, and search the internet immediately. In a short time, two groups each had an account and influx in a thousand friends, hoping to become friends with the two groups accounts.

‘Tou Xin Da Sheng PS Nan’ emerged first with ratings at 4.55 in viewership last weekend, because of the script, Sonia Sui Tang and Blue Lan Zheng Long use nicknames of ‘Braces Girl’ and ‘Little Prince’ in playing the Facebook, and the fans made a search on the address, even Blue Lan is surprised and exclaimed: ‘Very terrible! The audience speed is too fast!’ The account was set up originally just for the script, but however, not to disappoint the fans, the crew said that they will consider to pick an auspicious date to open it to the audience in future.

In addition, Wen Sheng Hao (acting as Meng Cheng En), Blue Lan (acting as Xia He Jie) and Sonia Sui (acting as Ma Xiao Qian) ambiguous relationship, lead the audience to discuss and say out: ‘Xia Meng Qian’ this triangular love is too stimulating.’ Also in the plot development last week, Blue Lan collapsed and was hospitalised and seized the opportunity to ask the concerned Sonia Sui to speak out her true feelings, netizens said it is crafty, and in the drama, Sonia Sui innocently beckon; and afterwards she said: ‘The real me is not that easy to deceive!’

Source: NOWnews
Translation: Ocean168 @ AsianFanatics

Viter Fan: Hit Cyndi twice, cheated on her? Surprised she wasn't a virgin at 17

Viter Fan and Cyndi Wang started dating in 2000 after being introduced by director Zhang Zhuo Chi, but it has been a constant on-off five year relationship, fettered with many rumours. After their breakup in 2005, all their issues were laid on the table and brought to light, including their sweet moments, cheating, and reasons for their breakup. Their vocal-less fighting has been confirmed through all these rumours by both parties, with the exception of one: allegations that Viter would rough Cyndi around. Now, in an exclusive interview with China Times Magazine, Viter admits, "I roughed her around twice!"

On April Fools Day this year, Viter uploaded an old photo of an intimate scene with then girlfriend Cyndi on his Facebook, starting rumours a-flurry once again. In the limelight again due to his past relationship with Cyndi, he said that he posted the photo online to remember the best moments of the relationship, and to give it a beautiful ending.

Cyndi and Viter's relationship had been kept under tight wraps because at the time each excelled in their own piece of the world; one was a rising star in the acting industry, and the other the sweet princess of the music industry. However, after their five year relationship ended, all of their personal details about their life together was exposed to the world through news headlines when they started an epic drawn out fight over the pages of the newsprint. From how they started dating to Viter's cheating, then Cyndi's cheating, all of it ended completely with Viter's posting of a moment of sweetness in their tumultuous relationship.

To rumours that during their days of dating, they had unending arguments that led to Viter roughing Cyndi around, both parties never commented nor acknowledged these allegations through their publicists. Everytime this question arose, both of them would skirt around the issue.

(For more details and in-depth analysis, please see the 1679th issue of China Times Magazine when it is available.)

Source: China Times
Translation: casablanca-- @ AsianFanatics

Top 10 Mandarin Albums (April 16 - April 22)

1. Rene Liu (劉若英) and 'Together' (在一起) with 31.8% sales (NEW!)
2. Jaycee Chan (房祖名) and 'Chaos' (亂) with 23.43% sales (NEW!)
3. BY2 and 'Growing Up' (成人禮) with 11.98% sales
4. S.H.E and 'SHERO' with 5.43% sales
5. Yen-j (嚴爵) and 'Thanks Your Greatness' (謝謝你的美好') with 4.69% sales (NEW!)
6. Show Luo (羅志祥) and 'Rashomon' (羅生門) with 4.03% sales
7. Dance Flow with 'df 1' with 1.35% sales (NEW!)
8. Kang Kang (康康) and 'North Drift' (北漂) with 1.07% sales
9. Tiger Huang (黃小琥) with 'Simple/Not Simple' (簡單／不簡單) with 0.72% sales
10. Da Mouth (大嘴巴) and 'One Two Three' (万凸3) with 0.48% sales

Source: G-Music
Translation: Sarah @ AsianFanatics

Taiwanese Idol Drama Ratings (Sundays 04/25/2010)

1. P.S Man 偷心大聖PS男 (TTV) - 4.55
2. Down With Love 就想賴著妳 (CTV) - 2.99
3. Because of You 星光下的童話 (CTS) - 0.24

Credits: Kay's Entertainment

Show Lo's Spectacular (Tokyo) Concert - Sakuras Go Crazy

[caption : Yesterday, was Show "Xiao Zhu [Little Pig]" Lo's first Japan concert, and already getting an extremely warming welcome and causing great excitement.]

Show "Xiao Zhu [Little Pig]" Lo held his first concert in Shibuya Tokyo, winning over 1,500* sakura girls (Japanese girls), the wild/crazy scene had all of Shibuya on a high. After the concerts, fans were falling over each other, eager to join the fan club, an unprecedented grand occasion.

Entirely in Japanese : Zero-Distance With Fans

Unlike any other Taiwanese artists that have held concerts in japan, Show Lo's fans were almost all "pure" sakura girls. His opening number of song and dance got his fans to the peak of excitement immediately. For the entire concert, he used the Japanese skills he had learned from watching television to communicate with his fans, "Zero-distance."

Yesterday, he sang a total of 18 songs, including SMAP's "Lion Heart." When he got to his performance of "Ji Fen," he invited a fan on stage, holding her hand and giving her a hug. At the end, he even let her kiss him, making all the sakuras in the audience scream in jealousy.

Koda Kumi Sends Flowers To Cheer Him On

After the concert, Show was interviewed and he had mentioned that he was very happy to have been able to fulfill his dream of holding a concert in Japan. Next time he hopes to, "enter the Nippon Budokan (another venue)." He said he saw fans in the audience cry, which made him really touched. In the past couple of days, he was recognized by many Japanese fans as he shopped in Tokyo, which made him very excited as well.

At the concert, Koda Kumi had sent flowers that were extremely eye-catching. He said that he had originally wanted to invite Koda Kumi to sing at his concert, but she was having a concert out of the country.

Show said that he was envious of Lin Chih Ling being about to film a Jdorama, especially when working with his "most favorite" Kimura Takuya. He directly said, "I'm in admiration, being able to stick with Kimura Takuya everyday, and possibly kissing scenes." The media then started to ask, "You want to film kissing scenes with Kimura Takuya?" He shyly responded, "If you let me dress up as a girl, then I'm willing."

*The maximum occupation of the Shibuya AX is 1500 (so the concert was a sold-out venue)

Translated by: o_ost1nao_o @ http://love4show.forums1.net
Source: Liberty Times

Rainie and Jerry hugs and become inseparable

Tonight, Rainie Yang finally had 10 year dream come true, reaching the Taipei Arena for her own concert and also invited Jerry Yan as special guest. The good relationship of the two were playing hug hug on stage as if about to pretend to kiss. However, the two actually got stuck together, having the costume stylist to come up on stage to release the tangled two.

To open up the introverted Jerry, Rainie especially picked a Taiwanese duet "愛情限時批", which opened Jerry up a bit, the two were holding hands on the heart shaped stage singing happily together.

After the duet, both Rainie and Jerry kept praising each other. Jerry says, "Rainie is so cute it makes me very nervous." Rainie also shouted, "Jerry's hand feels very good to be holding" and her hand went directly towards Jerry's chest proving what she had previously told the media about taking advantage (tofu) of Jerry.

Jerry also changing his usual restrained character, shouted on the stage that he wanted to kiss Rainie. Fans below the stage acted up and all wanted them to kiss. Rainie gets shy and also being scared of Jerry's fans said will wait for future collaboration opportunities to kiss.

In the end, the two had a passionate hug but unexpectedly they became inseparable. Rainie called out to the staff on stage for help as the decorations on her chest got caught to Jerry's clothes. Jerry also screaming with fear that he was scared of touching Rainie's chest so resisted to untangle it. Rainie hadn't forgot to joke around and responded, "I'm scared you might not be able to find it (my chest)!" In the end, the stylist came on stage and successfully seperated the two.

News Clip of her concert



Source: udn.com
Credits: tdrama*addict @ AsianFanatics

Hey Girl goes on diet for endorsement

Hey Girl after re-grouping now consist of 4 members of Xiao Xun, Ya Tou, Tang Guo and Yong Tu. Yesterday in Taiwan, they had a photoshoot for the clothing brand Knights Bridge's endorsement. The four had encouraged each other to start dieting back in the beginning of April. So Xiao Xun resisted from eating red meat, Tang Guo didn't eat after 8pm, Yong Tu wouldn't eat carb related foods, Ya Tao wouldn't eat midnight snacks.

However, after the past 20 something days, the result seemed to show no improvement. This is because both Ya Tou and Tang Guo didn't have much meat to lose in the first place. At the day of the shoot, both already wearing size small still had to use pins to make sure the clothes won't fall off. Xiao Xun had tiny improvements, her weight beginning with a 5 now to a 4, but that is only being measured without intaking breakfast. Yong Tu was the most embarrassing. Because she started hosting this show which made her have a bigger apetite. There was a shirt that because her upper body was too obviously sticking out, she couldn't fit in it. She could only switch the shirt for the smaller size Tang Guo to wear. Fortunately the photoshoot results came out pretty good, all four of the girls were happy about it.

Source: paper.wenweipo.com
Credits: tdrama*addict @ AsianFanatics

Managers deny that Elva Hsiao secretly met Nick Chou to see Lady Gaga

Last week, Elva Hsiao and Nick Chou met secretly in Japan. Were they meeting to watch Lady Gaga together? Rumors about the two’s relationship have spread before.

On the 22nd, Nick Chou had a photoshoot schedule. He also revealed that he had gone to watch Lady Gaga’s concert. Coincidentally, Elva Hsiao also went to the same concert. However, both of their managers have denied this occurrence. Manager Jiang said: “A lot of artistes went to see Lady Gaga. This kind of connection is too outrageous.”

For his 7/10 concert hoping to gather 3000 people, Nick Chou shot a 3rd photo-op. When asked about the rumors, he said: “I’m not against a younger male-older female relationship or the other way around. The most important thing is the feeling. But anyhow, we’re just in the same business.”

On his feelings about Lady Gaga’s concert in Japan, he commented: “After the concert, I felt revitalized. It also ignited my shopping spree the very next day. I brought my manager along again to spend about 100,000 TWD for outfits.”

This time during his photoshoot, Nick Chou challenged his mother Billie’s most beloved – the leopard print. The entire setting was full of leopard print including his outfit and facepaint. Nick said: “Of course, this was all from my mother’s influence. This is like a representation that I’m my mother’s son.”

Source: China Times
Translated by: minchong92 @ AsianFanatics

Viter Fan apologizes, Cyndi Wang still believes in true love

Those cherished memories of one’s youthful past have all been marred by the ex-boyfriend. He used the most despicable way to reveal unnecessary details about their relationship that has long past. After Cyndi Wang broke down, she left a message on her Facebook to express her feelings about the current situation: “As imperfect as that love is, I would never want to end it with regret.”

Cyndi also stated that she hopes that she will experience the right kind of love in the future. Viter Fan, the ex-boyfriend, has already publicly apologized for his statements. However, the anti-fan movement against him has already exploded. They want him to leave the entertainment circle.

Cyndi Wang was disappointed. She thought that she would be able to avoid the bad moments of a relationship and just remember the beautiful things that happened instead. But the good and bad parts of love don’t just disappear. One is unable to remember just the good parts: “If that one romance can let you learn so much from it, perhaps it’s not just lost memories.”

When the netizens reacted towards this situation, Cyndi said: “As imperfect as that love is, I would never want to end it with regret. I would rather see myself lucky to overcome that relationship when I was so young.”

Over the past few days, she has broken down once. Then she went to eat a meal and play with her dog Pluto. Cyndi is ready to welcome the new day.

After her last relationship, Cyndi has matured quite a bit: “A lot of people tell me – ‘No wonder, you haven’t been in a relationship for so long.’ But actually I still believe that there will be the right person who will love me. It’s just that when I meet with love, I’ll be braver and wiser to face it.”

Yesterday afternoon, Viter Fan released his public apology. Towards Cyndi, he sincerely apologized. However, Viter also added in a 700-character statement that he was the one tricked by media. The interview he gave was one based on trust. And as a result, this misplaced trust resulted in his fall from grace in the entertainment circle.

Source: UDN
Translated by: minchong92 @ AsianFanatics

PLAY Magazine - Jing Chang: "The Moment of Touch"

Am I someone who is easily touched? Mmhmm~ I probably am. And once I get touched, this “touch” stays in my heart for a long time. I’ll keep on thinking back to that moment and keep on pondering over it. On the outside, I may appear calm. But behind that nonchalant composure, my heart is probably restless (^^) ~

Recently, the movie that has touched me the most is [The Time Traveler’s Wife]. In this movie, the male lead is like Benjamin Button – his life is full of unthinkable occurrences. Since he has a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel unpredictably, he’ll disappear without a moment’s notice and end up in either his past or future…

Everyone’s probably stumped at this right? I think that the most commendable character in this movie is the female lead. Even if her husband disappears, her love will never change. She’ll still persevere to wait for him. This…really is too admirable!

Perhaps some people might think that this wife is too naïve, too innocent. If this was the average person, she would probably divorce her husband out of loneliness. But I think one would be willing to do this if they truly loved the other. In the past, my mindset was similar to that of the female lead. I would be focused on liking that person. If I liked him/her, I could like him/her for a long time. But now, I don’t know if I can still do that. I can only find that answer when I experience it in the future. But anyhow, even if I do have a significant other, I’ll probably say “I don’t have one” haha!

(PLAY: Master Jing is so mischievous~)

Before, an artiste from my record company sang a song called [Mom, Thank You/Ma, Xie Xie Ni]. She used her clean and soft voice to sing: “Mom, don’t worry. I’ll eat my three meals on time. When it’s cold, I’ll put on another layer. Mom, thank you for raising me, for teaching me these principles.”

These lyrics are simple, but they’re able to inspire others. The MV even made me feel like crying. There was a limping old lady crossing the road. And then a car driving past suddenly shocked her and made her drop everything she was carrying. She bent over to pick up her things and then from afar, another car drove towards her…
I watched the MV at home and just when it was showing the mother crossing the street, my eyes started turning red. Luckily, I was the only one at home. Or else, I might have felt a bit embarrassed. I guess a lot of things on this earth can touch me. And if it is regarding family relationships, I really can’t help it.

In my opinion, a daughter or son’s basic duty is to be filial to his or her parents. Maybe that is why whenever I see news reports of the sick elderly with no one to care for them, I especially feel pained. Whenever these kinds of news come up, I try not to watch because I really can’t take it.

Before, I had a fan write to me. She said she wasn’t happy when fighting with her mother. I replied to her that her mom’s every action is made out of love and care for the daughter. You can love music, you can like an idol – but you must always remember that no one can replace your family. Maybe it’s because everyone always rebels in their teenage years so not many people understand that reasoning.

Since I was 14, I’ve always had an “old-person personality”. Even when I entered puberty, I would still be respectful and I wouldn’t talk back to my parents. My family was quite at ease with me. Of course, I still have my stubborn side (*shy). Aiya~ where are we rambling to? Anyways, I talk too much…what I want to say is actually quite simple: Don’t let your loved ones worry about you and remember to respect your parents!

Source: PLAY magazine
Translated by: minchong92 @ AsianFanatics and @ http://jingcastle.forumotion.net
credit to 米緗's atlast post

Show Luo's 8 Concerts Completely Sold-Out ; Happily Announced First Guest Stefanie Sun

Show Luo's Manhattan 2010 Show Luo Wu Fa Wu Tian 3D World Live Tour will kick off on April 30th in Asia. Gold Typhoon Music had already announced the first batch of guests as 4 pop queens : Amei Chang, Sammi Cheng, Elva Hsiao, and Yang Cheng Lin! Yesterday (4/22), the announced 8 concerts in Asia were completely sold out, rolling in a total of $150 million! Show also happily announced that for the first concert on 4/30, the guest will be "Pop Queen" Stefanie Sun! He happily said, "Stefanie and I almost had the chance to be senior-junior of our record company, I haven't worked with her before, and being able to invite her as my first concert guest is a rare occasion. So I also practiced hard on lots of instruments, ready to look to her on the stage!"

Happy Announcing First Guest Globally - Stefanie Sun

Show then said, "After it was set that Stefanie and I would be working together, I started to think up of what kind of performance she and I will be doing. Stefanie has lots of memorable songs and performances, like the tap dance for "Lv Guang (Green Light)," "Shen Qi's" indian dance, and the song that everyone knows, "Tian Hei Hei,"all these classic songs. I also had thought that I would do a more rock performance with her for the song "Di Yi Tian (First Day)" that May Day had composed. Because there are so many possibilities for our performance, I had prepared lots of songs to discuss with Stefanie, even up until now, we haven't made a final decision yet!"

Hong Kong Ticket Scalping : Tickets up to $8000 HKD; Show Lo Shouts Out to Fans : Don't By Scalped Tickets

Because the 8 concerts have been completely sold out, whether it's Taipei, Hong Kong, or Singapore, scalped tickets are starting to appear, and these tickets are priced at extremely unreasonably high prices! The organizers at Gold Typhoon music even got a call from fans saying, "We heard that the scalped tickets are priced at $8000 HKD (~$35,000 NTD, ~$1030USD). We weren't sure whether the organizers were going to add more concerts, so a lot of our friends who weren't able to get the tickets early on are planning on getting scalped tickets!" Show had come out and told his fans not to buy scalped tickets, he said, "Due to the shipping of the special effects equipment for the concert, adding concerts right now would be a little difficult, but I will discuss it over with my management company and organizers. In the end, we will give a final decision that will please all fans!"

Translated by: o_ost1nao_o @ http::/love4show.forums1.net
Source: Gold Typhoon Music

Show Luo Music Drilling : Breaks 3 Violins

Show "Xiao Zhu [Little Pig]" Lo's Manhattan 2010 Show Luo 3D World Live Tour concert was announced yesterday to be completely sold out for its April, May concerts in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, totalling $150 million. Besides having 5 different pop queens "saluting the pig" for his Hong Kong and Taiwan concerts, he will also be putting on a talent show, recently he had been practicing the violin, in a month and a half, he broke 3 violins.

Evaluated "Not Bad" : Closes Self Off to Practice Painstakingly

To bring something new into his concert, his schedule of homework/practice was completely filled everyday, practicing according to schedule, "I've done the piano already, this time I'd adding in the drums. My manager asked if I wanted to learn to play the violin. I thought it was a good challenge, and I also wanted to try."

He had to start completely from square one, lots of pressure, so he had to practice even harder. Besides having an instructor teach him 3 days week, 2 hours per session, whenever he had the time he'd go to the office to practice the violin. When he went out of the country, he brought the violin with him. In private, he even forced his friends to go to his house and be an audience, but when they evaluated him as "Not bad," he didn't say a word, and continued to practice hard, making every effort to give his most perfect performance solo of "Hao Peng You (Good Friend)."

Stefanie Sun and Cheng Lin : Hong Kong Guests

He spent a total of $560,500TWD for class tuition, just for re-choreographing his concert songs alone was $350,000TWD, violin lessons $50,000TWD, magic lessons $50,000TWD, drum lessons $30,000TWD, ribbon dance lessons $60,000TWD, and 10 session of $25,000TWD one-on-one personal training.

The concert kicks off on April 30 in Hong Kong, with Stefanie Sun and Yang Cheng Lin as guests. Because scalped tickets have been priced up to $8000 HKD (~$35,000 NTD), organizers are considering adding more concerts.

Translated by: o_ost1nao_o @ http::/love4show.forums1.net
Source: ChinaTimes

Play till fight! Blue Lan Zheng Long hurt Wen Sheng Hao; Xiao Xiao Bin: so realistic!

Blue Lan Zheng Long, Wen Sheng Hao, Sonia Sui Tang, Xiao Xiao Bin and the kindergarten children were playing 'The Eagle grabbing the chicken', and did not expect Blue Lan and Wen Sheng Hao to play to the extreme! Not only Sonia Sui is shocked, Wen Sheng Hao's arm was scratched by Blue Lan's watch, Blue Lan immediately apologized to Wen Sheng Hao.

In the plot arrangement, the cast play the 'Eagle catching the chicken' game at the kindergarten, Xia He Jie (starring Blue Lan) as an eagle, Meng Cheng En (starring Wen Sheng Hao) as the hen, to protect Ma Xiao Qian (starring Sonia Sui), Xiao Tuo Luo (starring Xiao Xiao Bin) and the kids, in the process, both of them became more and more serious, and more physical contact, Xia He Jie looks like going to snatch back Ma Xiao Qian, Meng Chen En uses all his strength to hinder, because the children cannot keep up with the pace, they stood aside from the team.

Before filming, the director Liu Jun Jie asked Blue Lan and Wen Sheng Hao to imagine that they are playing basketball, using the body to collide and push each other, and both of them in order to emphasize the drama scene of Xia He Jie and Meng Cheng En confrontation and conflict, play till it looks like both were striking violently!

Xiao Xiao Bin led the children to move slowly towards the corner, Xiao Xiao Bin cannot help but say: 'very realistic.' During shooting, Blue Lan uses the elbow to hit at Wen Sheng Hao while Wen Sheng Hao locked on Blue Lan's throat to block, Wen Sheng Hao said with a smile: 'I like martial arts, so add some 'Wing Chun' moves in there, I wonder if it will look like ' Ip Man'?'

In the course of wrestling with each other, Wen Sheng Hao was accidentally scratched by Blue Lan's watch, there is blood in the arm and wrist, the director asked the staff to help to stop the bleeding and apply medicine, Blue Lan apologized immediately.

Source: NOWnews
Translation: Ocean168 @ AsianFanatics

Xiao Xun as a lesbian in new drama, protecting long hair with her life

Hey Girl Xiao Xun will star in a new drama director by Zero Chou, who directed the movie 「Spider Liilies」, she started throwing away her girly clothing and try to wear baggy pants, but she sees only see her life complete with her long hair, so she is protecting them and not willing to cut them, which is an obstacle for the director.

Xiao Xun has a pair of electrifying eyes, and a lot of male artists admire her too, she said "I am a girl who loves boys, I doubt I will ever be a homosexual in my life, but if I can experience being one in a drama is not bad too." This drama 「Si Shen Shao Nu/Teenage Death Girl」[Choco: there isnt an official title yet, so I translated it to the best of my ability] will be a drama produced by Taiwan Public Television Service, director Zero Chou already told Xiao Xun to observe and study the movie 「Spider Liilies」by Rainie Yang and Isabella Leong and also research female homosexual thoughts and feeling on the internet.

Xiao Xun purposely asked her mom "If one day I fall in love with a girl, what should I do? " At the end her mom replied her "Did you went crazy ? " She admits she can be into her character very easily, and maybe during filming, she would really get intimate with girls.

Yesterday Xiao Xun was filming clothing endorsement with Hey Girl members, Ya Tou, Tang Guo, Yong Tu, four of the girls started their diet in the beginning of April, Xiao Xun wouldn't eat red meat, Tang Guo wouldn't eat after 8 at night, Yong Tu stopped eating carbohydrate, Ya Tou wouldn't eat midnight snack. As a result yesterday when they were taking pictures, Ya Tou and Tang Guo were wearing size S and it was still loose, Xiao Xun's weight dropped from a 50 to a 40, only Yong Tu diet didn't success because her stomach capacity got bigger due to the hosting of a food show 「Lu Xing Ying Yuan Tuan」, one of her top didn't fit because of her upper part of the body.

Credits: CHOCOBABY♥ @ AsianFanatics
Source: UDN.com

Jay Chou's new song 'Superman Can't Fly' premieres 26th of April on Hit FM; describes his 10 year journey

Every move heavenly king Jay Chou makes stirs up excitement in the Chinese music industry, in 2008 when he released his album "Capricorn", he won the acknowledgement of 8 GMA nominations, he won 3 big awards, his results were great. After nearly 2 years of fans anticipation, Jay Chou is finally releasing his 10th new album in May this year, "Just want to listen to music Hit Fm online network" are premiering it worldwide, they will broadcast the first plugged song "Superman Can't Fly" from the new album on the 26th of April at 10 to share Jay Chou's latest work with all listeners, don't miss out!

Jay Chou wrote the melody and lyrics for the new song "Superman Can't Fly" as well as producing it, in a lyrical style he slowly sings about his 10 year journey. In the lyrics he mentions the phenomenon he has brought to society and music, he mocks himself for becoming the representative of good people and good deeds, he needs the greater public to review him and then naturally he can bring out his unique Jay humour style and make people smile, Jay Chou expressed "Generally lyrics that have some intent on being critical use heavy beats or rapping to package it up, but I'm using a lyrical style to give everyone a new feeling!"

The name of the song "Superman Can't Fly", mocks Jay Chou who doesn't have any special abilities, he only has a dream and persistence to make music! Who could have thought his songs could become educational material, every move he makes has become examples for society, every one is helping him count up the ratings, box office and awards, his image, expression, words and actions, even the cars he drives, the apartments he lives in, or his albums, what isn't top? Has his movies set new high box office records? All of it has been dug up and examined closely, for instance the lyrics say "Mother says don't take things too much to heart, it's just a sense of duty that finds me, I can't sleep.", he can't help but sing "At the end of the day am I a singer-songwriter or a representative for good people and good deeds!" Jay Chou expressed it's inevitable that you'd feel tired of a life like this, you need space to breathe, but the lyrics also reveal at the same time "Don't ask me if I've cried before, because superman can't cry!" He still displays his manly personality.

Jay Chou made a Jay style superman look to go with his new song, he gelled his hair back, wore a leather coat and put on a pair of sunglasses, he's cool but has an enchanting temperament, the bat mobile he has collected has also made it's official appearance with him, "Superman" plus "Bat mobile" creates a mixed hero style, such creativity.

The MV for "Superman Can't Fly" narrates a moving story about a "ordinary hero", it talks about an ordinary guy who has a kind heart, everyday he does something good, until a day when he meets the leading female, an exciting interaction. But this time Jay Chou is not the main star of the MV, but instead he sings the lyrics that match up with this moving story, Jay Chou believes this MV can encourage many ordinary people to have the courage to become heroes, create unlimited possibilities for society and themselves.

"Just want to listen to music Ht Fm online network" is leading the new music trend, in order to match the new song of the heavenly king, they are working with MusicRadio and City Fm, Malaysia's MY FM, Singapore's 1003, Canada's Chinese station, Los Angeles' AM1300 Chinese station to broadcast it globally, Taiwanese audiences should stick on Hit Fm at 10am on 26th of April, you'll be able to hear heavenly king Jay Chou's new single "Superman Can't Fly". For online listeners please go to hitoradio.com. Hit Fm online network, North FM107.7, Centre FM91.5, South FM90.1. Passionate PLAY, just want to listen to music!

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Source: Liberty Times
Translated by: http://www.jaychoustudio.com

Eddie Peng refuses Jolin's invitation to dance

Popular idol drama actor, Eddie Peng began his fight into the music business yesterday by formally releasing this first single EP Must Love. His management company, avex, spent an enormous amount of money for promotions. Besides reserving an entire MRT (subway) car, they also held a grand press conference yesterday. For the first time, Eddie performed his powerful song, showing the strength of this dancing taught by a famous Japanese teacher.

After the dance, Eddie Peng admitted that he had been a bit nervous because besides dancing in night clubs with friends when he was studying in Canada, he rarely had the opportunity to dance in the past few years. Yesterday many artistes sent congratulatory flowers to him. Jolin Tsai wrote on her card, "Eddie Peng, let's go discoing together." In regards to Jolin's dance invitation, Eddie said laughingly, "It'll be hard with me being busy with album promotions. She is too awesome, how can I dare to dance in her presence?"

Eddie cleverly evades the frequent probing questions by the media about Jolin. When asked whether his and Jolin's feelings have warmed back up, he answered, "The media wrote a few things that I didn't even know." When he heard that Jolin said through the media that she wanted to invite him to go surfing, he openly said, "I didn't know she could surf, the only companion I have for surfing in the circle is Ethan Ruan. I wasn't aware that any other artiste could surf. Now that I know, I will invite her when I go surfing in the future.


Disco invite from Jolin

For the press conference, a female lips test was prepared. The company first helped him avoid Jolin as an option. Eddie immediately recognized Shu Qi who he has just collaborated in the MV with. Besides being very grateful to Shu Qi, he also admitted that he was "electrified" by Shu Qi at one point. He said, "When we were in close proximity, she suddenly held up a finger to prevent me from speaking. I was a little electrified then." But what made him pleased with himself was that he actually made her laugh behind-the-scenes. He said, "I made a face at her wanting to say that I wouldn't be influenced by what happens behind-the-scenes, which resulted in her laughing and NGing!" Eddie, who is currently carefully choosing a new drama, also hopes to work with Shu Qi again.

Source: UDN
Credits: Zahra @ CpopAccess