Ken Zhu Xiao Tian

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The name Ken Zhu Xiao Tian

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The meaning of the Mandarin Chinese word tiān

tiān – noun

= sky, heaven
= God, Heaven
= weather
= day
= season
= nature, world of nature

Source: Oxford Starter Chinese Dictionary, (2000), s.v. “Tiān.”

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ken (ken), noun, verb, kenned or kent (kent), kenning

- noun
1. range of sight or vision: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies. When a new planet swims into his ken (Keats).
2. range of knowledge: What happens on Mars is no longer beyond our ken. Much has lain outside our ken (Thomas Hardy). Synonym: cognizance

- transitive verb, Scottish
1. to know, be acquainted with; be aware of.
2. to recognize; identify; distinguish.
3. to know, understand.
4. (Law) to recognize (a person) as legal heir.
5. (Obsolete) to admit to be (genuine, valid, or what is claimed).

- intransitive verb
(Scottish) to have knowledge.
{Old English cennan make a declaration <>cann know, can]

Source: The World Book Dictionary, (1987), s.v. “Ken.”

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ken \'ken\ verb kenned; ken·ning [ME kennen, fr. OE cennan to make known & ON kenna to perceive; both akin to OE can know – more at CAN] transitive verb

1. archaic: see
2. chiefly dial: recognize
3. chiefly Scot: know ˜intransitive verb, chiefly Scot: know

ken noun

1. a. the range of vision
b. sight, view <’tis double death to drown in ˜ of shore – Shak.>
2. the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge

Source: Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, (1979), s.v. “Ken.”

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Ken Zhu Xiao Tian's Birthday

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* Ken Zhu was born on the 15th of January, 1979, a Monday. *

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What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Your Birthdate: January 15

With a birthday on the 15th of any month, you are apt to have really strong attachments to home, family and domestic scene.
The 1 and 5 equaling 6, provide the sort of energy that makes you an excellent parent or teacher.
You are very responsible and capable.

This is an attractive and an attracting influence.
You like harmony in your environment and strive to maintain it.
You tend to learn by observation rather than study and research.

You may like to cook, but you probably don't follow recipes.
This number shows artistic leanings and would certainly support an talents that may be otherwise in your makeup.
You're a very generous and giving person, but perhaps a bit stubborn in ways.

Source: http://www.blogthings.com/whatdoesyourbirthdatemeanquiz/

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Horse
1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014

People born in the Year of the Horse are popular. They are cheerful, skillful with money, and perceptive, although they sometimes talk too much. They are wise, talented, good with their hands, and sometimes have a weakness for members of the opposite sex. They are impatient and hot-blooded about everything except their daily work. They like entertainment and large crowds. They are very independent and rarely listen to advice.

Source: http://www.tsinoy.com/kaisiao/birthsigns.cfm

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If you are born in the Year of the Horse then you are amazingly hard working and very independent. Although you are intelligent and friendly, you can sometimes be a bit selfish. Careerwise you would make a good scientist or poet.

Famous people born in the Year of the Horse:

Cuthbertson, Ian
Eastwood, Clint
Franklin, Aretha
Harris, Rolf
Kohl, Helmut
Streisand, Barbara
Thaw, John
Wagner, Robert

Source: http://www.new-year.co.uk/chinese/calendar/horse.htm

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Horse

7 February 1978 - 27 January 1979
Earth Horse

The horse person is cheerful, popular, and quick-witted. He is very perceptive and loves to talk. He is quite physical and exudes raw sex appeal - the type who will fall in love easily and fall out of love just as easily. Impulsive and stubborn, he will want things done his way.

Source: The Philippine Starweek, Volume XVIII Number 53, 6 February 2005, page 6.

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Capricorn – The Goat
Birth Dates: December 22 – January 19
Group: Earth
Characteristics: Ambitious, cautious, dignified, patient, persistent, practical.

Capricorn is the 10th sign of the zodiac. Its symbol is a goat. Astrologers believe the planet Saturn rules Capricorn. They consider Saturn to have a stern influence. Capricorn is an earth sign.

According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Capricorn, from December 22 to January 19, take life seriously and do not have much of a sense of humor. They overcome hardship well and enjoy the challenge of difficult problems. Capricorns do not rush into friendships, but they remain loyal after their confidence has been gained.

Capricorns behave with dignity and do not like to hurry. Their stubbornness often leads them to insist that their opinions are right. They can sometimes be too stern.

Source: The World Book Encyclopedia, 1987 ed. S.v. “Capricorn,” by Christopher McIntosh.

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January, the first month of the year, is named for Janus, a Roman god. According to legend, Numa Pompilius added January and February to the end of the 10-month Roman calendar, about 700 B.C. He gave the month 30 days. In 46 B.C., Julius Caesar added a day and made January the first month. The Norse people named the month for Thor, their god of thunder and storms. The Anglo-Saxons called it Wolfmonth because wolves came into the villages in winter in search of food.

Activities. In the northern half of the world, January is usually the coldest month of the year. Nature is quiet. The birds travel less, and many animals, such as bears and woodchucks, sleep both day and night. Plants rest in preparation for the next growing season. In the southern half of the world, January is usually the warmest month of the year. Plant life is growing, and animals are active.

January Symbols. The snowdrop is the special flower for the month. It often blooms in the snow. Some persons consider the carnation the special flower. The garnet is the January gem.

Important January 15 Events:

- Feast day of St. Arnold Janssen
- Feast day of Saint Remi in France
- Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) was born in Besancon, France. A French writer and political theorist, he was the Father of Modern Anarchism.
- Horatio Alger, American author, born 1832
- Pierre S. DuPont, industrialist, born 1870
- Aristotle Onassis, tycoon, born 1906
- Edward Teller, physicist, father of the "Hydrogen Bomb", born 1908
- Lloyd Bridges, actor, born 1913
- Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, born 1929
- Faye Dunaway, actress, born 1941
- Philippine construction king Isidro Consunji was born
- Palanca Awards Hall of Famer and the Philippine Star columnist Jose "Butch" Dalisay was born

Sources:
Eucharistic Planner 2005. Manila: Sons of Holy Mary Immaculate Quality Catholic Publications, 2004.
Lourdes School of Mandaluyong Student's Handbook
The World Book Encyclopedia, 1987 ed. S.v. “January,” by Grace Humphrey.
http://www.famousbirthdays.net/january15.htm
http://www.fun4birthdays.com/birthday/january_15.html
http://www.genealogytoday.com/birthday/january.html

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Ken Zhu Xiao Tian's Contact Information

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Fu Long Production Co., Ltd.
9th Floor Number 46 Section 1 Ba De Road, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
02 6632 5050

(Thanks to KikayC of http://www.youtube.com/)

Taiwan Weather

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English to Metric
Fahrenheit to Celsius
Formula:
5/9 (degrees F - 32) = degrees C

Metric to English
Celsius to Fahrenheit
Formula:
(9/5) (degrees C) + 32 = degrees F

Source: http://www.jobo-usa.com/instructions/instructions_misc_conversion_table.htm

Taiwan Currency - NT$

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New Taiwan Dollar (NT Dollar)

Philippine Peso Equivalent: 1.6280

United States of America Dollar Equivalent: 0.0308

Euro Equivalent: 0.0241

Source: "Currencies." The Philippine Star, 9 July 2006, Business Section, p. B-1.

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Ken Zhu Xiao Tian and F4 Pictures

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View the Photobucket album of Ken Zhu Xiao Tian. With F4 pictures.

Click here:

http://photobucket.com/albums/v506/kenzhuxiaotianblogspot/

and

http://photobucket.com/albums/y70/kenzhuxiaotianblogspot2/

(Images from http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2246/2005-7-27/140@261210.htm)

Ken Zhu Xiao Tian Website Links

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http://fly.to/cheersforken

Cheers for Ken
With profile, gallery, lyrics, sounds and videos, drama, art, etc.

http://go.to/f4kenchu or http://www.geocities.com/f4kenchu/
F4 Ken Chu: Xiao Gan Dong Tian
Profiles, music, acts, gallery, forum, links.

http://k-ken.com/
Korea Ken Fanclub
A Korean website. With pictures.

http://ken_sunnydoll.tripod.com/
Free & Ken
A Chinese website. With photos, music, downloads, etc.

http://kenature.sg.st/

Kenature
With news, profile, gallery, music, etc.

http://kenchu.f4friendsunited.org/

One Fine Ken
With news, profile, gallery, downloads, portfolio, message board, merchandise, etc.

http://kenzhuxiaotian.tripod.com/ or http://www.geocities.com/kenzhu_xiao_tian/
Ken Zhu Online
With biography, profile, filmography, quotes, facts, lyrics, downloads, pictures.

http://lovekentw.tripod.com/
Wo ai Xiao Tian
A Chinese website. With profiles, performances, media, downloads, etc.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~SP4F-MSW/ken/index.htm

Ken Chu Garden
A Japanese website. With pictures.

http://www.f4-ken.co.to/

Ken's Perfect World
A Korean website. Hear the song "Show Me Your Love." With pictures.

http://www.geocities.com/arin_is_coming/

ken.zhuxiaotian: a dedication to the coolest guy alive!
with pictures, wallpapers, screensavers, 2003 calendar, Winamp skins, Jakarta fans gathering, links.

http://www.geocities.com/kenzhu_mania/
Ken Zhu Mania
with news and updates, biography, photos, articles, and links.

http://www.geocities.com/kenzhu_xiao_tian/

Ken Zhu Online
"This is a tribute to the man with a mysterious smile - Ken Zhu, the talented and gorgeous member of Asia's biggest boyband, F4! Here you'll find goodies I've gathered from other sites, videos and magazines. This is an unofficial site of Mr. Ken Zhu, I don't know him personally and this is the only thing I can do for him as a responsible, devoted fan. I'm just totally addicted to him" - JC Zhu

http://www.geocities.com/kenzhufamily/
Ken Zhu Family Online – Sisterhood of the legitimate wives of Zhu Xiao Tian (Kapatiran ng mga tunay na asawa ni Zhu Xiao Tian)
With things to do and calendar.

http://www.kenchu.com/
Ken Chu International Fans Club
Select your area: China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, North America, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan.

http://www.kenchu.com.tw/

Ken Chu International Fans Club
In Chinese. KCIFC.

http://www.kenchu.o-f.com/
Ken Chu
With profile, music, multimedia, TV series, movies, commercials.

http://www.kenchuindo.com/

KENCHUINDO
Ken Chu Indonesia for Zhu Xiao Tian's Fans
Click on the Profile, Portfolio, Indonesia Fans, and Forum.

http://www.kenforever.com/

Ken’s voice – voice from heaven
Forum on Q&A, links, photos, wallpapers, audios, clips, news.

http://www.kenshouse.net/

Ken's House
A Korean website. With pictures and information.

http://www.sinwagon.org/ximen/
My Very Moment: The Official Xi Men Fanlisting
The only approved fanlisting for the character of Xi Men, one fourth of F4 from the engaging Meteor Garden series.

Ken Zhu Xiao Tian's Cookbook

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ISBN: 957679997X

Source: http://www.kingstone.com.tw/Book/Book_Page.asp?id=2018551240729&actid=tornado&Partner=xxx&Owner=NULL&Nid=&Page=&Uid=0

Source: http://www.eslitebooks.com/cgi-bin/eslite.dll/search/book/book.jsp?idx=1&pageNo=1&PRODUCT_ID=2680094511002

Ken’s Book Promotion Itinerary

This book will introduce Ken’s favorite dishes, pictures and words that he’d like to share with all of you, the most natural Ken that you’ve never seen.
Chih (12 December 2005)

His new book autograph session is confirmed to be held in Taipei on January 14, please come and support him!
Chih (23 December 2005)

January 5, 2006 (Thursday)
1400-1600 (2:00-4:00 p.m.)
Book Release Press Conference
Venue: Eslite Book Xinyi Store, 3/F Cookery Books Area, Taiwan
Theme：Ken will announce the successful launch of his book, and demonstrate a few dishes
**not open to fans**

January 14, 2006 (Saturday)
Autograph Session confirmed
1400-1630 (2:00-4:30 p.m.)
Kingstone Book Tingjhou Store, Taiwan

Source: http://www.chihchat.com/message.asp

Ken Zhu Xiao Tian's album - On Ken's Time

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On Ken's Time
Sony Music Entertainment Taiwan
Release Date: 7 January 2005, Friday

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On Ken's Time now available in the Philippines!

P450.00

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(Images from Sony Music Taiwan)

Song List:

1. Yong Bu Ting Zhi (Never Stop)
2. Ke Shi Wo (What About Me)
3. La La La
4. Yi Ge Hao Ren (A Good Person)
5. Hei Bai (Black and White)
6. Zhong Ji (Trapped)
7. Sha Qing Ren (Fool Lover)
8. Fu Huo (Reborn)
9. Ling Wu (Understanding)
10. Dai Wo Li Kai (Take Me Away)

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Vote for Ken Zhu Xiao Tian's "Yong Bu Ting Zhi" or "Never Stop" on MYX!

type: MYX (space) VOTE (space) YONG BU TING ZHI and send it to 2366.

As of Sunday, 20 March 2005, Yong Bu Ting Zhi is at number 17. Keep on voting!

#15 - 13 March 2005
#13 - 27 February 2005

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Download the polytone of Yong Bu Ting Zhi/Never Stop!

Type MYXPT YONG and send to 2366.

For monotone:

Type MYX YONG and send to 2366.

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(Images from http://www.sonymusicbectero.com/album/asian/viewans.asp?id=1081)

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(Images from Sony Music Hong Kong)

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Name：Chu Xiao Tian
English Name：Ken
Birthday：15 January 1979
Height：180cm
Weight：72kg
Measurements：36/31/38
Horoscope：Capricorn
Blood Type：AB
Language：Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Cantonese
Hobbies：Online, Swimming, Listening to Songs, and Cooking
Collection：CDs
Food：Anything without beef
Color：Sky Blue, White
Personality：Challenging & Kind
Favorite Part：Cats
Favorite Movie：Breakfast At Tiffany
Favorite Artist：Beatles
Favorite Instrument：Guitar
Favorite Country：Taiwan, Singapore
Favorite Pet：2 Cats and 1 Pig
Favorite Style：Natural and comfortable
Favorite Drinks：Ice Wine
Country most want to visit：Venice and Greece
Dream：Backpacking around the world
Unforgettable Incident：In Singapore
Most hated thing：Losing weight, no money, and sweating
Favorite Music Style：Jazz Trip Hop Drum, and Bass Ambien

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Images and information from:

http://www.sonymusic.com.tw/pop/kenchu/
http://www.sonymusic.com.hk/
http://www.sonymusicbectero.com/

Lyrics

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Meteor Rain
F4

(Vic) Wen rou de xing kong
ying gai rang ni gan dong
wo zai ni shen hou
wei ni bu zhi yi pian tian kong
(Jerry) Bu zhun ni nan guo
ti ni bai ping ji mo
mong xiang de zhong liang
quan bu dou jiao gei wo
(Vanness) Qian ni shou
gen zhe wo zou
fong zai da you zen yang
ni you le wo
zai ye bu hui mi lu fang xiang

Pei ni qu kan liu xing yu
luo zai zhe di qiu shang
rang ni de lei
luo zai wo jian bang
yao ni xiang xin wo de ai
zhi ken wei ni yong gan
ni hui kan jian
xing fu de suo zai

(Jerry) Shang gan ruo tai duo
xin dui gei wo bao hu
pi juan de yan huo
wo hui ti ni dou gan zou
(Vic) Can lan de yan yu
zhi neng dian zui gan qing
ruo guo wo chen mo
ying wei wo zhen de ai ni
(Ken) Qian ni shou
gen zhe wo zou
fong zai da you zen yang
ni you le wo
zai ye bu hui mi lu fang xiang

Pei ni qu kan liu xing yu
luo zai zhe di qiu shang
rang ni de lei
luo zai wo jian bang
yao ni xiang xin wo de ai
zhi ken wei ni yong gan
ni hui kan jian
xing fu de suo zai

Yu he yun jian jian san kai
sa xia yi pian wen nuan
wo yao fen xiang ni yan zhong
de lei guang

Pei ni qu kan liu xing yu
luo zai zhe di qiu shang
rang ni de lei
luo zai wo jian bang
yao ni xiang xin wo de ai
zhi ken wei ni yong gan
ni hui kan jian
xing fu de suo zai

Pei ni qu kan liu xing yu
luo zai zhe di qiu shang
rang ni de lei
luo zai wo jian bang
yao ni xiang xin wo de ai
zhi ken wei ni yong gan
ni hui kan jian
xing fu de suo zai
ni hui kan jian
xing fu de suo zai.

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Here We Are
(F4) Ken Zhu

Sha na jian
ni yan kuang hong le
Wo xin ye sui le
Hao duo zhen xin
Ni zhuang kan bu jian
ba ju li tan zai mian qian
wo bu yao zai gu gu dan dan deng zhe ni
ai qing xi ti fan fan fu fu

Here we are
It's not a perfect world
Hui bie le ai qing
yao yuan zou gao fei
Here we are
It's not a perfect world
Rang shang hen tai bai
jiu bu hiu tong che xin fei

Wo bu shuo ni ye hui dong de
wo wei he zou le
rang ni ji xue zhe yong gan
ye yao xue zhe jian qiang
wo bu yao zai gu gu dan dan deng zhe ni
ai qing xi ti fan fan fu fu

Here we are
It's not a perfect world
Hui bie le ai qing
yao yuan zou gao fei
Here we are
It's not a perfect world
Rang shang hen tai bai
jiu bu hiu tong che xin fei
tong che xin fei

Here we are
It's not a perfect world
Hui bie le ai qing
yao yuan zou gao fei
Here we are
It's not a perfect world
Rang shang hen tai bai
jiu bu hiu tong che xin fei
tong che xin fei

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At the First Place
F4

(Jerry) Lei le bu yao jian wai
ba wo wa qi lai
tu ge tong kuai
kan bu guan peng you you nan
shui hai leng leng de wei guan
wo de shou xin wei ni wo qi lai
(Ken) Fan le bu yao jian wai
ba wo zhao chu lai
pei ni fu dang
(Vanness) Xu bei ka fei de wen nuan
yi zhi nuan dao ni xiang kai
ni xin qing de ken dong rang wo lai tian mang
zuo tian hui bu jin tian ming tian lai qu dai
dong xin de gan qing bu hui tao tai
guan xin chang zai

Jiu suan ni wo zai re nao xuan hua zhong zhou shang
you qing hui di yi shi jian gan lai
rang tiao ruan de xin pin tang xia lai
cong xing de hu xi jian dang
shen shen de man man de
peng you zhi yao ni bei gu dang ya de jiao bu chu lai
wo di yi shi jian song chu guan huai
re re de yan shen pei ni kan kai
zhao hui na pian da zhi rang
wei zhe ni bao jin ni xiang xin ni
wo jue ding

(Vic) Lei le bu yao jian wai
ba wo wa qi lai
tu ge tong kuai
kan bu guan peng you you nan
shui hai leng leng de wei guan
wo de shou xin wei ni wo qi lai
(Ken) Fan le bu yao jian wai
ba wo zhao chu lai
pei ni fu dang
xu bei ka fei de wen nuan
yi zhi nuan dao ni xiang kai
ni xin qing de ken dong rang wo lai tian mang
zuo tian hui bu jin tian ming tian lai qu dai
dong xin de gan qing bu hui tao tai
guan xin chang zai

Jiu suan ni wo zai re nao xuan hua zhong zhou shang
you qing hui di yi shi jian gan lai
rang tiao ruan de xin pin tang xia lai
cong xing de hu xi jian dang
shen shen de man man de
peng you zhi yao ni bei gu dang ya de jiao bu chu lai
wo di yi shi jian song chu guan huai
re re de yan shen pei ni kan kai
zhao hui na pian da zhi rang
wei zhe ni bao jin ni xiang xin ni
wo jue ding

Jiu suan ni wo zai re nao xuan hua zhong zhou shang
you qing hui di yi shi jian gan lai
rang tiao ruan de xin pin tang xia lai
cong xing de hu xi jian dang
shen shen de man man de
peng you zhi yao ni bei gu dang ya de jiao bu chu lai
wo di yi shi jian song chu guan huai
re re de yan shen pei ni kan kai
zhao hui na pian da zhi rang
wei zhe ni bao jin ni xiang xin ni
wo jue ding.

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Show Me Your Love
(F4) Ken Zhu

Xian zai shi xia wu si dian ban
wai mian de tian kong hai you yi dian dian de lan
xiang chu qu zou zou
mei fang xiang
deng le you deng hai shi me you ni de dian hua
Talk to me
Zhi xu yao ni shou shou hua er yi
Talk to me
Wo jiu zai zhe li deng zhe ni

Show me your love, what you need, what you feel, what you see
Ai qing ta bu hui deng ni man man kao jin
Show me your love, what you need, what you feel, what you see
Ai bu hui yi zhi deng ni
Show me your love, what you need, what you feel, what you see
Hai rang wo zhan zai zhe li sha sha deng ni
Show me your love, what you need, what you feel, what you see
Ai bu hui yi zhi deng ni

Xian zai shi wan shang shi dian ban
zhao ji ge peng you pei wo yi qi chu qu wan wan
ni hu ran chu xian zai wo shen bian
deng le you deng ni hai shi mei shuo yi ju hua
Talk to me
Zhi xu yao ni shuo shuo hua er yi
Talk to me
Wo jiu zai zhe li deng zhe ni

Show me your love, what you need, what you feel, what you see
Ai qing ta bu hui deng ni man man kao jin
Show me your love, what you need, what you feel, what you see
Ai bu hui yi zhi deng ni
Show me your love, what you need, what you feel, what you see
Hai rang wo zhan zai zhe li sha sha deng ni
Show me your love, what you need, what you feel, what you see
Ai bu hui yi zhi deng ni

Show me your love, what you need, what you feel, what you see
Hai rang wo zhan zai zhe li sha sha deng ni
Show me your love, what you need, what you feel, what you see
Ai bu hui yi zhi deng ni
Ai bu hui yi zhi deng ni

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Heat of the Night
F4 Music Party

She calls my name
Say it all be the same
Now rest your head
On my bed find the way

Well, I'm in a world of dreams with things I love
They they are now fading out in her hands

Why did she lie?
I'm not the one
I thought it would be alright
Run into the heat of the night

Now time has come to a point where I'll cry
Though couldn't sleep have to dream
Tell me now

Why did she lie?
I'm not the one
I thought it would be alright
Run into the heat of the night

Why did she lie?
I'm not the one
I thought it would be alright
Run into the heat of the night

Why did she lie?
I'm not the one
I thought it would be alright
Run into the heat of the night

The heat of the night.

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Can't Lose you (Baby Baby)
F4

(Jerry) Mei you ni
wo hui shi hui
xin ting zai ni li dou bu dui
na jin tian
ca diao zuo tian
kong bai yi pian
(Vic) Na yi tian
zai na yi tian
ke yi ji xu
wei wan qing jie
zai zhe jiao
cha dian shui pei
zai ni shen bian
(Ken) Jiu suan quan shi jie dou yao ba ni fou ding
ye bu neng rang wo fang qi ni
(Vanness) Jiu suan wo men de guo qu dou mei you le zhen ming
Wo yi rang shou hu ni

Oh baby baby baby
My baby baby
Wo jue bu neng shi qu ni
ni shou zin
ni sheng ying
hai zhan lin wo de xin zen neng wang ji
xiang ni jiu xiang shi hu xi
oh baby baby
my baby baby
Wo jue bu neng shi qu ni
bu guan ni
zai na li
wo yi ding hui zhao dao ni

You yi tian
ya you yi tian
you liu xing yu
zheng zai zan yao
ni jiang hui
fa xian yong yuan
bing bu yao yuan
Jiu suan quan shi jie dou yao ba ni fou ding
ye bu neng rang wo fang qi ni
(Vanness) Jiu suan wo men de guo qu dou mei you le zhen ming
Wo yi rang shou hu ni

Oh baby baby baby
My baby baby
Wo jue bu neng shi qu ni
ni shou xin
ni sheng ying
hai zhan lin wo de xin zen nang wang ji
xiang ni jiu xiang shi hu xi

Oh baby baby baby
My baby baby
Wo jue bu neng shi qu ni
bu guan ni
Zai na li
wo yi ding hui zhao dao ni

Oh baby baby baby
My baby baby
Wo jue bu neng shi qu ni
ni shou xin
ni sheng ying
hai zhan lin wo de xin zen nang wang ji
xiang ni jiu xiang shi hu xi

Oh baby baby baby
My baby baby
Wo jue bu neng shi qu ni
bu guan ni
Zai na li
wo yi ding hui zhao dao ni
bu guan ni
Zai na li
wo yi ding hui zhao dao ni.

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Season of Fireworks
F4

(Ken) Ni wei xiao de yan
wo kan dao wu qing tian
wen wo de lian de na yi tian
ying you quan shi jie
(Vanness) Wei lai shi yi ge yuan quan
zai ni wo ming zhi jian
wei wo men nuo yan lai jia mian
wan mei de ju dian
(Jerry) Yao ba ni yong jing wo wai tao de li mian
wei ni dang feng xua
(Vic) Rang ni kao zai wo de jian
fen xiang mei yi ge ming tian

Qian ni de shou qu gan jue yan huo zui mi ren de ji jie
zhao liang xing fu de shun jian
hao rang wo men kan de gen yuan
qian ni de shou qu gan jue yan huo zui mi ren de ji jie
dian liang shen ming de yi qie
zan fang wo men de xi yuan
zai ai ni de mei tian

(Jerry) Zhen chang de hua mian
quan dou shi ni de qing jie
si nian ting ge zai ni de lian
wen nuan bu hui jie
(Vic) Wei lai shi yi ge uan quan
zai ni wo wu ming zi jian
wei mo men nui yan lai jia mian
wan mei de ju dian
yao ba ni yong jing wo wai tao de li mian
wei ni dang feng xue
rang ni kao zai wo de jian
fen xiang mei yi ge ming tian

Qian ni de shou qu gan jue yan huo zui mi ren de ji jie
zhao liang xing fu de shun jian
hao rang wo men kan de gen yuan
qian ni de shou qu gan jue yan huo zui mi ren de ji jie
dian liang shen ming de yi qie
zan fang wo men de xi yuan
zai ai ni de mei tian

(Ken) Guo qu xian zai huo wei lai ye qi dai jiang ni de ai xia zai
(Vanness) Yong yuan bu gen gai
you xin xing zhe yang ai

Qian ni de shou qu gan jue yan huo zui mi ren de ji jie
zhao liang xing fu de shun jian
hao rang wo men kan de gen yuan
qian ni de shou qu gan jue yan huo zui mi ren de ji jie
dian liang shen ming de yi qie
zan fang wo men de xi yuan
zai ai ni de mei tian.

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Ai De Ling Yu
F4

(Ken) meng de gao yuan xia zhe yu
wo ting jian yi zhong yao qing
wei le ai chu fa
zheng jiu yi ke xin
mu biao shi yao xun zhao dao ni

(Vic) ai shi zui mei de mao xian
ye shi quan shi jie de mi
shi guang he liu zhong
wu xian de shen mi
dan zhi jue hui gei wo zhi ying

(Jerry) wo zai wei zhi de lu shang
hui yu jian ni duo mei de ji lu
wo zai qi dai zhong tiao wang zhe
wei lai de feng jing

(Vanness) wo yong zhen xin jiao huan ai de qi ji
jia su du qian jin
yong heng bu shi yi zhong ju li
er shi yi zhong jue ding

baby wo yao zhao dao ai de ling yu
qin yan kan kan jing xi
oh zhe pian tu di
yin wei you ni yong yuan dou shi tian qing
wo dai ni qu ai de ling yu
qin er ting ting zhen xin
oh bie zai you yu xiang xin zi ji
(Vanness) ai shi yi zhong yong qi

(Jerry) ai shi zui mei de mao xian
ye shi quan shi jie de mi
shi guang he liu zhong
wu xian de shen mi
dan zhi jue hui gei wo zhi ying

(Ken) wo zai wei zhi de lu shang
hui yu jian ni duo mei de ji lu
wo zai qi dai zhong tiao wang zhe
wei lai de feng jing

(Vanness) wo yong zhen xin jiao huan ai de qi ji
jia su du qian jin
yong heng bu shi yi zhong ju li
er shi yi zhong jue ding

(Vic) ye xu mei yi ge ren
hui yi li dou you yi ge shen
wei ni tui kai na shan men
meng zai yan qian

Source: http://www.songlyrics.com/song-lyrics/F4/Miscellaneous/Ai_De_Ling_Yu/149161.html

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Qing Tian (One Fine Day)
(F4) Ken Zhu

Wo Kan Zhe Na Pian Qing Tian Yong Ni He Wo De Zuo Tian
Feng Man Man Cui Cui Gan Lian Shang De Yu Shui
Wo Zou Zai Na Pian Qiang Tian Ba Ni Zai Hao Hao Xiang
Yi Bian
Wo Shen Bian Wen Nuan De Gan Jue Mei Gai Bian
Zai Yao Yuan Zai Duo Bian Ni De Ai Yi Zhi Gen Zhe Wo
Zai Wo de Er Duo Xiao Sheng Shuo Ni Ai Wo

Ni De Xing Hai Liu Zai Tie Hui She Xin Xiang Li
Dang Shi Wo Xu Yao Yu Ji Hou Chuang Wai Kong Qi
Wo Na Zhe Ni Wo Guo De Shan Xiang Nian Ni De Shou Xin
Shi Qu Ni De Nan Guo Zhe Ci Wo Bu Hui Dai Zhe Zou
Jiu Yan Zhe Cheng Shi Zhong Wo Men Ceng Qian Shou Jing
Guo De Mei Ge Jie Tou
Na Xie Huan Xiao Na Xie Yong Bao
Rang Wo Men Zhe Fen Ai Zou Dao Na Li Dou You Yang
Guang

Wo Kan Zhe Na Pian Qing Tian Yong Ni He Wo De Zuo Tian
Feng Man Man Cui Cui Gan Lian Shang De Yu Shui
Wo Zou Zai Na Pian Qing Tian Ba Ni Zai Hao Hao Xiang
Yi Bian
Wo Shen Bian Wen Nuan De Gan Jue Mei Gai Bian
Zai Yao Yuan Zai Duo Bian Ni De Ai Yi Zhi Gen Zhe Wo
Zai Wo de Er Duo Xiao Sheng Shuo Ni Ai Wo

Ni Ai De Ka Fei Dian Lan Tian Yi Da Pian.
Jiu Hao Xiang Wo De Xiang Nian Na Xie Hong Lu Deng
Na Xie Lu Kou Hai Shi Yi Dian Mei Bian Wo Men Zen Me
Ke Yi Gai Bian

Wo Kan Zhe Na Pian Qing Tian Yong Ni He Wo De Zuo Tian
Feng Man Man Cui Cui Gan Lian Shang De Yu Shui
Wo Zou Zai Na Pian Qing Tian Ba Ni Zai Hao Hao Xiang
Yi Bian
Wo Shen Bian Wen Nuan De Gan Jue Mei Gai Bian Bu Hui
Bian

Wo Kan Zhe Na Pian Qing Tian Yong Ni He Wo De Zuo Tian
Feng Man Man Cui Cui Zou Wo Yan Di De Luo Yan
Wo Zou Zai Na Pian Qing Tian Cong Wen Ni Kao Zai Wo De
Jian
Wo Shen Bian Wen Nuan De Gan Jue Mei Gai Bian
Zai Yao Yuan Zai Duo Bian Ni De Ai Yi Zhi Gen Zhe Wo
Zai Wo De Er Duo Xiao Sheng Shuo Ni Ai Wo

Source: http://www.top50lyrics.com/f/f4-lyrics-4945/qingtianonefineday-lyrics-517503.html

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Dang Ni Shi Peng You (You As A Friend)
(F4) Ken Zhu and Vanness Wu

(Ken) Zhe Ge Shi Jie Tai Duo Li You Bu Hui Shao Wo Yi Ge Ren
Shuo Yi Jing Xi Guan Bao Ci Chen Mo Bao Qian Leng Luo Ni De Er Duo Er

(Vanness) Wei Xiao Bing Bu Dai Biao Jie Shou Chen Mo Bing Bu Dai Biao Leng Mo
Dang Ni Fei Yue Wo De Lin Kong Ni Shi Fou Neng Kan Dong Zhe Yang De Wo

(Ken) Mei Ge Ren Wen Rou De Fang Shi Bu Tong

(Vanness) You De Xiang Zheng Feng You De Xiang Ba Huo

(Ken) You De Dou Fang Zai Xin Zhong

(Vanness) Mei Ge Ren Cheng Nuo De Fang Shi Bu Tong

(Ken) Duo Xiang Mei You Cuo Duo Shuo Mei You Yong Bu Ru Zuo Le Zai Shuo

(Ken and Vanness) Zhi Yao Xin Li Dang Ni Shi Ge Peng You Shang Shan Xia Hai Jue Dui Er Hua Bu Shuo Ru Guo Ou Er Gen Ni Shi Qu Lian Luo Wo Zhun Zhong Ni Ji Mo De Zi You
Yin Wei Xin Li Dang Ni Shi Ge Peng You Zhong Shi Ren Ding Bu Shuo Ni Ye Hui Dong Ni You Ni De Wo You Wo De Jie Zou Zhen Xin Jiu You Xiang Chu De Ba Wo

(Vanness) Mei Ge Ren Wen Rou De Fang Shi Bu Tong

(Ken) You De Xiang Zheng Feng You De Xiang Ba Huo You De Dou Fang Zai Xin Zhong

(Vanness) Mei ge Ren De Chen Nuo De Fang Shi Bu Tong

(Ken) Duo Xiang Mei You Cuo Duo Shuo Mei You Yong Bu Ru Zuo Le Zai Shuo

Source: http://lyric.pragard.com/view.aspx?sid=7214

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Te Amo (Wo Ai Ni)
F4

(Vic) Jiu suan shi jian wang le suo you jing guo de di fang
Wo hai shi zhao de dao ni yan li qing che de guang

(Jerry) Gao su wo di qiu shang de yu yan zhen me qu xing rong
Na yi zhong bi yin he geng jiu geng wen nuan de yong yuan

(Vanness) Ni zai wo shou li shen shen de fang man gan dong
Fang man le ai
Rang zhe yi ke xin you yi pian luo di chuang
Jing jing de kan
Wo men shi zhong xiang zhe yang guang

(Vanness) You le ni wo cai neng wang geng da de lü zou
Pi juan bu guo shi ou er qi fu de sha qiu

(Ken) Na yi chang chuan you meng ye you lei de hua mian

(Ken and Vanness) Bu guan rao le ji quan
Ta hui dai wo hui dao ni de sheng bian

Zhi xiang dui ni shuo te amo
(Cong ni de er chui nuan jin le xin zhong)
Pin fan you jian dan de xin nian
(Wang wang rang liang ge ren zou de geng jiu)
Zhi yao ni kuai le wo cai neng xiao le
Ai shi wo men de ling kong

(Jerry) Ru guo ba yong you ni de gan jue xie chen yi shuo si
Ni jiu shi yi wei jing jing shuo hou wo de tian shi

(Vic) Jiu suan zai bie de tian kong xia kan dao bie de cai hong
Wo yi jiu zhi xiang xing he ni kuang ben de yu zhong

(Ken and Vic) Zui mei
Zai sheng ming de zhuan wan lu kou yu jian le ni
Yu jian le ai
Rang na yi xie cha jian er guo de yi han
Man man san kai
Ran chu yi zheng pian de wei lan

(Ken and Vanness) You le ni wo cai neng wang geng da de lü zou
Pi juan bu guo shi ou er qi fu de sha qiu
Na yi chang chuan you meng ye you lei de hua mian
Bu guan rao le ji quan

Ta hui dai wo hui dao ni de sheng bian

Zhi yao ni dui wo shuo te amo
(Bu tong de wo ai ni xiang tong gan shou)
Zhi you ni zhi de wo wen ruo
(Cong ci bu zai zhui qiu bie de zhui qiu)
Ai zhe pian tian ye
Qing cao de xiang wei
Rang wo dai ni qu ti yan

Source: http://www.top50lyrics.com/f/f4-lyrics-4945/teamowoaini-lyrics-517506.html

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Ask for More
F4

(Jerry) Yong gan shui zhe shi zui hao de ji hui
(Ken) Gan jue xiang guan yi kuo ma zhe pao de kuai le
(Vic) Xiang qian fei wu fa fu zhi de ti hui
(Vanness) Wei ni jie wo de ke

(Jerry) Rang ke wang wu xian de zai sheng shang
ai bing bu shi shi huan xiang
(Vic) Rang she shi jie sui she yan jing yan chang
you xiang xiang jiu you neng liang zai fei xiang

Don't stop, ask for more
Wo men zhi de zui te bie de geng hao geng duo
Ni de wen shi sheng ming li zui tian mei de pei fang
cong ci yi qie bian de bu zai yi yang
yong gan zhui zhe shi zui hao de ji hui
gan jue xiang guan yi kou mao zhe pao de kuai le
xiang qian fei wu fa fu zhi de ti hui
wei you ni jie wo ke zai meng xiang li zai tan suo

(Vic) Rang ke wang wu xian de zi sheng zhang
ai bing bu zhi shi huan ziang
(Jerry) rang zhe shi jie sui zhe yan jing yan chang
you xiang xiang jiu you neng liang zai fei xiang

Don't stop, ask for more
Wo men zhi de zui te bie de geng hao geng duo

(Ken) Ni wen shi sheng ming li
zui tianmei de pei fang
cong ci yi qie bian de bu zai yi yang

yong gan zhui zhe shi zui hao de ji hui
gan jue xiang guan yi kou mao zhe pao de kuai le
xiang qian fei wu fa fu zhi de ti hui
Wei you ni jie wo ke
zai meng xiang li zai tan suo

Don't stop, ask for more
Wo men zhi de zui te bie de geng hao geng duo
Ni de wen shi sheng ming li zui tian mei de pei fang
cong ci yi qie bian de bu zai yi yang

yong gan zhui zhe shi zui hao de ji hui
gan jue xiang guan yi kou mao zhe pao de kuai le
xiang qian fei wu fa fu zhi de ti hui
Wei you ni jie wo ke
zai meng xiang li zai tan suo

yong gan zhui zhe shi zui hao de ji hui
gan jue xiang guan yi kou mao zhe pao de kuai le
xiang qian fei wu fa fu zhi de ti hui
Wei you ni jie wo ke
zai meng xiang li zai tan suo

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Can't Help Falling In Love
F4

Vanness
Ni bu guai you shi hui zuo guai
Dan ni bu huai zhi shi bu zhuang ke ai

Jerry
Leng xia lai qi fen dou bei po huai
Suan ni li hai re dai dou bian han dai

Vanness
Ni jiu shi tian shi bie huai yi
Huai pi qi zhi shi mei ren dong ni

F4
Hao yun qi neng he ni yi qi
Coz I can't help falling in love with you

(Rap)
Vanness
Everytime I look u straight into your eyes
I can't explain this feeling it's blowing up my mind
The touch of your hands and the touch of your lips
Make the temperature so I know that this is it

Vic
Ni bu guai you shi hai hui shua lai
Dan ni bu huai qi shi ni hen ke ai

Ken
Bei dai bai ni po huai tian cai
Ju jue fan mai xu wei zuo zuo dui bai

F4
Hao yun qi neng he ni yi qi
Coz I can't help falling in love with you

Vanness
I just can't stop it, I just can't help it
Falling in love with you, no matter what I do
You taking me to heaven with everything you do
So I'm falling in love with you and baby that's the truth

Vanness
Ni jiu shi tian shi bie huai yi
Huai pi qi zhi shi mei ren dong ni

F4
Hao yun qi neng he ni yi qi
Coz I can't help falling in love with you

Source: http://www.top50lyrics.com/f/f4-lyrics-4945/canthelpfallinginlove-lyrics-214722.html

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Can't Buy Me Love Lyrics
Beatles
(Lennon/McCartney)

Can't buy me love, love
Can't buy me love

I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel
alright
I'll get you anything my friend if it makes you feel alright
'Cause I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love

I'll give you all I got to give if you say you love me too
I may not have a lot to give but what I got I'll give to you
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love

Can't buy me love, everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love, no no no, no

Say you don't need no diamond ring and I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want the kind of thing that money just can't
buy
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me
love

Source: http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Beatles/Can-t-Buy-Me-Love.html

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Desperado
Eagles

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet

Now it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get

Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no youger
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talkin'
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're loosin' all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before it's too late

Source: http://www.elyrics.net/go/e/Eagles/Desperado

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Inside Of My Guitar
from Love Storm
Ken Zhu

Now, there's a place I want to show you
And don't you know it's not too far
And there's a place I want to know you
Inside of my guitar

In my guitar there is a garden
Where rainbows bloom and shine like stars
If you say no, I beg your pardon
Come inside of my guitar

I'll make you laugh
And make you sing
And we can play among the stars
And we'll make love and dance beneath the strings
Inside of my guitar

Now, there's a feeling that I'm after
So please don't think my love's bizarre
But I hear music, girl, and laughter
Inside of my guitar

I'll make you laugh
And make you sing
And we can play among the stars
And we'll make love and dance beneath the strings
Inside of my guitar

I'll make you laugh
And make you sing
And we can play among the stars
And we'll make love and dance beneath the strings
Inside of my guitar

I'll make you laugh
And make you sing
And we can play among the stars
And we'll make love and dance beneath the strings
Inside of my guitar

Come inside of my guitar.

Source: http://www.top50lyrics.com/f/f4-lyrics-4945/insideofmyguitarkenzhu-lyrics-517494.html

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Ke Shi Wo

From the movie “Sky of Love”

Ni Shi Bei Da Duan De Ju Zi

Wu Fa Chen Xin De Guo Shi

Ke Xi Wo Zhao Zhi Dao Jie Ju

Que Lai Bu Ji Qu Zu Zhi

Ni De Mi Mi Shuo De Ru Ci De Zhen Shi

Dan Ni Wo Que Xiang Bu Ren Shi

Bu Guo Yi Ge Xin Tiao De Ju Li

Dan Ni De Xin Que Yong Yuan Bao Bu Jing

Wei Le Ni Wo Ku Guo Tong Guo Dou Bu Suan She Me

Ke Shi Wo Gao Su Wo Ni You Mei You Zai Hu Guo

Tai Duo Ru Guo Que You Zhong Bu Chu De Jie Guo

Hao Xiang Peng You You Bi Peng You Duo Le Yi Dian She Me

Wei Le Wo Ni Xiao Guo Wen Guo Dan Ni Bu Kuai Le

Ke Shi Wo Shi Zhong Zuo Bu Jing Ni Xin Li Jiao Luo

Tai Duo Ru Guo Que You Zhong Bu Chu De Jie Guo

Ni You Ni De Wo You Wo De Ge Zhi De Ji Mo

Ke Shi Wo Wei Le Ni

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Stand By Me
By Ben E. King

When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No I won't be afraid, no I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me

And darlin', darlin', stand by me, oh now now stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me

If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
And the mountains should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me

And darlin', darlin', stand by me, oh stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me, stand by me, yeah

Whenever you're in trouble won't you stand by me, oh now now stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me

Darlin', darlin', stand by me, stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me.

Source: http://www.weddingvendors.com/music/lyrics/song-188.html

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Song List:

1. Liu Xing Yu
2. Wo Shi Zhen De Zhen De Hen Ai Ni
3. Here We Are
4. Shui Rang Ni Liu Lei
5. Wei Ni Zhi Zhou
6. Di Yi Shi Jian
7. Yao Ding Ni
8. Ni Bu Ai Wo Ai Shui
9. Show Me Your Love
10. Zui Te Bie De Cun Zai
11. Can't Lose You
12. Season of Firework
13. Love's Terrain
14. Lonely Winter
15. One Fine Day
16. You As A Friend
17. Te Amo I Love You
18. Only I
19. Ask for More
20. Can't Help Falling In Love

Movie - Tokyo Trial

2004-06-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

'Trial' Recalls Post-war Justice

2006-09-18 09:16:29 Shanghaidaily.com

"TOKYO trial," a Chinese film portraying the court proceedings against Japanese war criminals, will be shown in cinemas and about 100 universities across the country today to mark the 75th anniversary of the start of Japan's invasion of China.

Theater tickets for the general public will cost 10 yuan (US$1.30), half the normal price, and students, service personnel, teachers, lawyers and judges will enjoy further discounts, Yan Wei, media liaison director for the distributor, Oriental Film and Television, said yesterday.

"Tokyo Trial," shot by Chinese director Gao Quanshu, recounts the court proceedings against 28 top Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East after World War II.

Gao said the film shows how a Chinese judge involved in the case managed to sway the opinion of an international panel of 11 judges to "narrowly avert a miscarriage of justice."

Chinese Judge Mei Ru'ao gave the final speech after two years of court proceedings, charging the defendants with stealing Chinese resources and crimes against humanity. He secured a six-vote majority for death penalties for the seven class-A war criminals, including Hideki Tojo, the army officer and politician who ruled Japan during the war years.

"The movie evokes patriotism and the pursuit of peace, rather than stirring hatred between China and Japan," said Mao Shi'an, a Shanghai movie critic.

The low-budget film boasts a star-studded cast. Hong Kong veteran Kenneth Tsang plays a Chinese prosecutor and Damian Lau a judge. Taiwan star Kelly Lin portrays a Japanese girl who falls in love with a Chinese journalist, played by Taiwan heartthrob Ken Zhu.

Source: http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/09/18/60@140480.htm

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CITYLIFE / what's on

"Tokyo Trial"opens nationwide

(cityweekend)
Updated: 2006-09-15 10:52

The "Tokyo Trial", an historical film recounting the trial of top Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal 60 years ago, opens nationwide in September.

The movie focuses on the trial of 28 Japanese war criminals at the end of World War II and depicts how the eloquent Chinese judge Mei Ru'ao charged the Japanese for war crimes, maintaining China's dignity on the international stage.

For more information, contact: Sun Dong An Cinema City

Address:5/F, Sun Dong'an, 138 Wangfujing Dajie
Tel: 021-65281838

Source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/citylife/2006-09/15/content_689619.htm

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"Tokyo Trial" Opens Nationwide

2006-09-15 13:38:53 cityweekend

The "Tokyo Trial", an historical film recounting the trial of top Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal 60 years ago, opens nationwide in September.

The movie focuses on the trial of 28 Japanese war criminals at the end of World War II and depicts how the eloquent Chinese judge Mei Ru'ao charged the Japanese for war crimes, maintaining China's dignity on the international stage.

For more information, contact: Sun Dong An Cinema City
Address:5/F, Sun Dong'an, 138 Wangfujing Dajie, Beijing
Tel: 010-6528 1838

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Source: http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/09/15/271@139690.htm

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"Tokyo Trial" Opens Court in Beijing

2006-08-30 14:37:26 CRIENGLISH.com

Cast

The all-star cast turned up to share their experiences with the audience when director Gao Qunshu's historic Chinese epic "Tokyo Trial" Gao Qunshu premiered in Beijing on Tuesday.

Hong Kong veterans Damian Lau and Kenneth Tsang, Kelly Lam and Tse Kwan-Ho, starred in the film alongside Ken Zhu from the Taiwan boy band F4 and Chinese mainland actor Ying Da.

Damian Lau told us about his role as the Chinese Judge Mei Ru'ao.

"Doctor Mei is a person with strong ethical spirit and national pride. He's representing his country as it deals with a significant international affair, so he has to bear the burden of heavy pressure. If he had no such impulse in his inner heart, he might not solve the problems well. He is wise and calm in all his dealings."

The movie centers around the trial of top Japanese war criminals at the International Military tribunal for the Far East nearly 60 years ago.

Rather than violently condemning the war crimes carried out by the invading Japanese troops, the film focused on personal stories and the pain the war inflicted on Chinese and Japanese civilians.

Hong Kong veterans Damian Lau and Kenneth Tsang, Kelly Lam and Tse Kwan-Ho, starred in the film alongside Ken Zhu from the Taiwan boy band F4 and Chinese mainland actor Ying Da.

Hong Kong actress Kelly Lam and Ken Zhu from the Taiwan boy band F4

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Hong Kong veterans Damian Lau and Kenneth Tsang

Hong Kong actress Kelly Lam and Ken Zhu from the Taiwan boy band F4

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Hong Kong actors Tse Kwan-Ho and Chinese mainland actor Ying Da

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Hong Kong veterans Damian Lau and Kenneth Tsang

Ken holding a teddy bear

Source: http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/08/30/60@132859.htm

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Film "Tokyo Trial" Opens in September

2006-08-09 11:39:18 CRIENGLISH.com

Taiwan heartthrob Ken Zhu

The historical Chinese movie "Tokyo Trial" is finally set to hit movie theaters on September 1 across China.

Led by director Gao Qunshu, all the cast met the press in Beijing on Wednesday.

Six main theater chains in China will join for the first time to screen the Chinese film.

The movie centers on the trial of top Japanese war criminals at the International Military tribunal for the Far East nearly 60 years ago. Eighty percent of the dialogue is in English and Japanese, adding to the international flavour of the film.

The director revealed he had borrowed 5 million yuan to finish the film when financial problems took place.

He has to shoot TV dramas later to pay back the loan.

The film also attracted leading US and Japanese actors. Gao said he had thought Japanese actors would turn down the opportunity to perform in this historical movie, but they accepted the plot and delivered a professional performance.

He added some Japanese theater chains also have contacted him to buy the screening rights in Japan.

With a reportedly low budget, director Gao Qunshu nevertheless managed to gather a star-studded cast for his movie.

Hong Kong veterans Kenneth Tsang and Damian Lau play a Chinese prosecutor and judge respectively.

Mainland comedy star Ying Da and Taiwan heartthrob Ken Zhu are among the leads.

Source: http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/08/09/60@124561.htm

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Movie - Sky of Love

2004-03-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

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Top stars Gigi Leung and F4's Ken Zhu are romantically entangled in "Sky of Love"!

One fine day Yan Xiao Jia (Gigi Leung) coincidentally stumbles over a walkie-talkie, which gets her connected with Jia Hui (Ken Zhu). As luck would have it they both study at the same university and try to make an appointment. However every time something else prevents them from meeting in person. Therefore, they fall into the habit of keeping in contact with their walkie-talkies and end up becoming close friends via extensive verbal communications.

Artist Names: Gigi Leung | Ken Zhu
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Duration: 91 Minutes
Publisher: Mei Ah (HK)
Director: Teng Hua Tao

Xiao Jia, a university student, secretly admires her class monitor, Wen Tao. In a twist of an event, Xiao Jia accidentally gets hold of a radiophone. One day, as she daydreams of Wen Tao, the radiophone connects to Jia Hui and they start communicating through the radiophone. From their conversations, they discover that they are actually studying in the same school and plan to meet up, but both of them miss the date and finally find out that they exist in two different worlds.

Source: http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1003167199/did-0/code-c/section-videos/#prodcontent

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Starring:
Ken Zhu
Gigi Leung
Hong Tau
Da Wei Tung
Liu Zi

Written by: Yue Ming

Directed by: Hua Tao Teng

Love Knows No Boundaries...Love is Timeless...

Pop idol Gigi Leung ("First Option," "Full Throttle") and Taiwanese pop superstar Ken Zhu of the group F4 star in this time-travel romance fantasy based partially on the Korean film "Ditto" and the sci-fi drama "Frequency." Xiao Jia (Leung) and Wen Tao (Zhu) have never met, but their friendship is maintained by voice via radiophones. As Xiao Jia finds herself falling in love with a man whom she has yet to see face to face, she is also shocked to discover that Wen Tao may be from the future, with the radiophone acting as a time machine that connects them. Sky of Love is a tender melodrama about loving someone beyond two vastly different worlds.

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Synopsis:

Similar to the Korean romantic drama DITTO and the American science-fiction drama FREQUENCY, SKY OF LOVE blends time travel with unbreakable emotional bonds. The film follows Xiao-jai (pop star Gigi Leung) and Wen Tao (F4 pop star Ken Zhu) as they become friends through the course of conversations on a radiophone. Over time, the two fall in love, but are shocked to realize that Wen Tao lives in the future, and that their only physical connection lies in the radiophones. Exploring the idea of loving someone who comes from a completely different life, SKY OF LOVE provides a sweetly romantic drama that capitalizes on the appeal of its stars.

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Synopsis:

1982 - XIAO-JIA dressed in a bright red cardigan, white dress and white sneakers looks elegant as she walks briskly past slogans "Study for making China strong!" "Work down-to-earth to make China strong" across her University campus. She turns to peer into a classroom, a shy smile creeps across her face when she sees WEN TAO, a handsome young man. When he turns, Xiao Jia ducks into an empty Radiophone room before he can spot her.

Frantic, she accidentally knocks a broken short wave radio to the floor. Hearing the noise, Wen Tao comes in. Xiao-jia startled, looked towards the radiophone...it's my hobby! Embarrassed, she takes the radio home.

A lovely full moon illuminates the night, Xiao-jia daydreams of Wen Tao, photos of him decorate her room. Suddenly, the radiophone squeaks to life... "CQ, CQ."

Shocked, Xiao-jia picks up the handset - "Anyone there?" A male voice crackles, "What ... did ... you ... say?" The handset goes dead.

Xiao-Jai's obsession with Wen Tao continues to be a constant distraction. She visits her best friend YA QIN in the hospital and talks endlessy of her love for him. Ya Qin rolls her eyes. That night at a play, Ya Qin meets the famous Wen Tao and we get the feeling she disapproves.
Xiao-jia sits in front of radiophone the next night - "Hello?" The same voice answers. He is also a student at the university, his name is WEN JIA-HUI. They decide to meet next to the Chairman's sculpture on campus at 2:00 p.m. the next day.…

Source: http://www.aoe.com.my/upcoming.asp?search=6skyoflove

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Heroic Cinema
The Guide to Asian Movies in Australia

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Film Info
Year: 2003
Director: Teng Hua Tao
Cast: Gigi Leung, Ken Zhu, Liu Zi
Rated PG
Running time: 98 minutes

Synopsis:

Xiao Jia, a university student, secretly admires her class monitor, Wen Tao. In a twist of an event, Xiao Jia accidentally gets hold of a radiophone. One day, as she daydreams of Wen Tao, the radiophone connects to Jia Hui, a youngster who loves to mingle with radiophones. As they both communicate thru the radiophone, they discover that they are actually studying in the same university and plan to meet up....

Review:

There I am walking into what is obviously a romance by myself with my 'Kill All Humans' hat on ready to fall asleep after a particularly lethargic day at work. Which is a pretty strong indicator of the strength of the film when I can say Sky of Love is actually worthwhile seeing.

The plot follows two people who live in very different worlds who meet by accident via short wave radio and, with the help of the anonyminity of the medium, reflect upon their experiences of love and fate. Despite what it sounds like, this is no tale of "star crossed lovers" destined for tragedy - if anything, the film maintains a very strange balance between the two leads that keeps the film from devolving into a soppy affirmation upon the "power of love."

Xiao Jia is falling in love as Jia Hui is falling out when they they encounter each other and the relationship that develops sees them in constant contrast to each other such that the ending is both happy and yet tainted with a despairing resignation that makes the resolution somewhat phyrrical.

I am not sure whether it is the strength of the direction and script or just Ken Zhu's charisma but it is really difficult to hate his character, Jia Hui, despite the very despicable nature of the character and his actions as compared to Gigi Leung's much more innocent Xiao Jia. I think it is perhaps I may have more empathy for Jia Hui's stoic cynicism but even I can still see he is a bit of a bastard most of the time.

What the film does suffer from is that it really is quite predictable. I don't think I'd be giving too much away by saying there is a plot twist you can quickly guess at once the the two leads are introduced. It also seems strange that a supposed Hong Kong film is set entirely on the mainland and I do get the impression that the version I saw was a dub from Mandarin but the difference is quite subtle and hardly noticeable if you are focussing on the subtitles. On that point though, there are one or two moments in the film, there is some written information that you just wish they translated but didn't.

Depite this, Sky of Love is really quite enjoyable and would appear to be another chip away at my angry cynical demeanour. Who knows? I might even be considered normal one day....

8 Oracular Short-Waves out of 10

by Eugene Chan

Source: http://www.heroic-cinema.com/review.php?ID=skylove

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Love HK Film

Ken Chu and Gigi Leung connect Ditto-style in Sky of Love.

Year: 2003
Director: Teng Hua-Tao
Cast: Gigi Leung Wing-Kei, Ken Chu Hsiao-Ten (Chu Hau-Tin), Tong Dawei (Tung Dai Wai), Tao Hong (To Hung), Liu Zi (Lau Chi)

The Skinny:

China-HK remake of the Korean film Ditto is as pleasantly told as the original, but it's more ham-handed and strangely enough, lacks heart. Otherwise, it's nearly a shot-by-shot remake. This film can be summed up in one word: unnecessary.

Review by Kozo:

Yet another member of Taiwan boy band juggernaut F4 gets a big screen push in Sky of Love, a conspicously close remake of the 2000 Korean film Ditto. Ken Chu is Jia Hui, a university student in 2003, who gets a ham radio call from Xiao Jia (Gigi Leung), a fellow university student who he assumes lives somewhere nearby. Sadly, he's mistaken. Xiao Jia actually exists in 1981, and their ham radio connection is some amazing cosmic coincidence that allows the two to bicker needlessly and then later compare notes on their respective times. It also allows the two the opportunity to dissect the meaning of love, and how it relates to both of them. Xiao Jia is sweet on her class monitor Wen Tao, while Jia Hui has an obnoxiously pushy girlfriend/nemesis who pesters him constantly. Eventually, lessons are learned and growth is achieved, but not before the big twist which shouldn't be a shock to anyone who saw Ditto.

If you're going to take the time to check out Sky of Love then you should most definitely see Ditto first. At then, after seeing Ditto, you should debate whether or not it's even necessary to check out Sky of Love. The short answer: probably not. Sky of Love, while set in China and possessing of some cultural differences that may make it more accessible to Chinese viewers, is still a total copy of Ditto. Not only was the basic plot lifted, but scenes, plot development and even dialogue are copied wholesale. The big differences: the film is shorter by about 18 minutes, and as such goes by comparatvely quicker. Also, the film ends in a somewhat downbeat manner, whereas Ditto managed to be bittersweet and even touching. Sky of Love also leans a lot more on the present-day romance between Jia Hui and his nutty girlfriend, which could be interesting if you happen to enjoy watching Ken Chu a whole lot more than Gigi Leung. If not, then that's another strike against the movie. If you're counting, that's like strike nine, which means a whole inning in baseball.

Those unfamiliar with the story behind Sky of Love might find some enjoyment in its pleasant, languid storytelling and the tried-and-true buttons pushed by director Teng Hua-Tao. The premise of the film is certainly interesting enough, and the innocence with which love is portrayed is probably made-to-order for some cinema romantics. Those who don't realize that there's a superior picture out there might find Ken Chu's "I am dead inside" performance to be fittingly self-centered, or Gigi Leung's big-eyed sweetness to be affectingly enjoyable.

Then again, Leung isn't really a step up from Ditto's Kim Ha-Neul, and Ken Chu would be smacked around in a charisma competition with Ditto's Yoo Ji-Tae. If anyone reading this review thinks that it's unfair to so soundly trash Sky of Love thanks to the existence of Ditto...well, tough. It's the way of the world; you shouldn't copy someone else and not expect some comparison. As it is, Sky of Love is only recommended for Ditto completists, and there's even a Japanese remake called Scent of Time for those who must see every film with the same ham radio hook. If you're really pushing it, you can see the American film Frequency, which featured a son chatting with his dead father via a ham radio—except they used their powers to fight crime instead of debate the existence of love. Maybe Sky of Love shouldn't have gone so far as to have its protagonists change history, but something to make it different from—or even as good as—Ditto would have been nice. (Kozo 2004)

Notes: Sky of Love was sync-shot in Mandarin, so if you watch the film you should make sure NOT to turn on the dubbed Cantonese soundtrack. True, Gigi Leung does handle her voice in both languages, but given the choice, who really wants to hear words that don't match the actors' mouths? Besides employees of Miramax, that is.

Source: http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/sky_of_love.htm

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Entertainment
F4's Ken Zhu goes solo in 'Sky of Love'
Posted: 10:20 PM (Manila Time) | November 18, 2003
By Rito P. Asilo
Inquirer News Service

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A NUMBER of movie titles grabbed our attention when we browsed through the entertainment section of the Straits Times on our trip to Singapore last week. The scope and variety were impressive-from contemporary European features and Hollywood popcorn flicks to Asian filmfare (including some vaguely familiar Filipino movies like "Kool Ka Lang").

But knowing how popular the boy group F4 is, one particular movie piqued our curiosity. So, we caught a screening of Johnnie To's "Sky of Love," a Taiwanese romantic drama made significant by the casting of its male lead-"Meteor Garden's" Ken Zhu, in his big-screen feature debut.

If there's one thing we like about Taiwanese movies in general, it's their technical polish and visual pizazz-and To's movie is no exception. Sometimes, its lighting establishes the general mood of a scene, even when there are no words exchanged between characters.

The movie tells the story of two people from different times, 20 years apart, communicating only through a CB radio. If you're not familiar with Hyun-seung Lee's "The Sea" or Gregory Hoblit's "Frequency," the Jeannot Szwarc classic, "Somewhere in Time," demonstrates the same mood.

Wide-eyed optimist Xiao-Jia (Gigi Leung), a third year university student, stumbles across a broken shortwave radio while stealing glances at a handsome man she subsequently falls in love with. But she and her best friend share the same affection for the young man, who seems to reciprocate her feelings.

One night, while fiddling with the broken radio, she ends up talking to Wen Jia-Hui (Ken Zhu), a cynical freshman from the same university. After some easy banter on-air, they decide to meet at the school foyer at 2 p.m. the following day. But they both find themselves stood up by the other-she standing in the blazing heat of the sun for an hour, he in the pouring rain, completely soaked. Of course, they seethe at the inconvenience. We wonder if these characters have ever been introduced to the concept of umbrellas and raincoats, though.

It turns out it was really nobody's fault. She is in the year 1982, he in 2002, and they are simply brought together by the machine that allows them to talk despite the years that separate them. After exchanging caustic remarks, they figure out the situation, but not the reason. (The movie never explains the "mysterious" radio.)

As their friendship grows, so does the attraction between them, as they discuss their lives across 20 years.

Soon, Jia-Hui shares his amusement over the similarity of the names of the man Xiao-Jia is in love with and his father.

But they soon realize that Jia-Hui's mother and father were Xiao-Jia's best friend and true love, respectively. It dawns on Xiao-Jia that the love she has isn't meant to be, and that she will forever be haunted by her ill-fated affection to Jia-Hui's father.

While the movie sometimes meanders into moments of malaise, it nevertheless stands as a winsome, bittersweet romantic drama that could do well at the box office here. The leads don't meet, except in one scene.

Wanting to find out if Xiao-Jia has gotten over her heartbreak 20 years later, Jia-Hui searches for her, then rushes up to the school where the older Xiao-Jia teaches. We don't see her face, but her hunched shoulders speak of loneliness as she walks in the shadows of the school corridor.

Leung gives a remarkable performance as her character journeys from discovering true love and experiencing heartbreak. Zhu, the 24-year-old F4 veteran, truly has a popstar's presence, but doesn't fare as well as Leung.

Zhu isn't bad, but his detached brooding pales beside Leung's heartfelt wistfulness.

The movie tugs at the heartstrings. Filipinos will fall for the film's simple narrative and vivid depiction of a love found and lost.

Just don't expect it to have the emotional, gut-wrenching punch of "The Hours."

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I watched this movie fully expecting it to be a complete rip off of the hollywood movie Frequency from a few years ago.. with a love story twist. As I got into the story it became less of an Asian frequency and more of a strange little hybrid of that movie and the amazing Il Mare. Then it changed pace on me once again and turned into something more like Back to the Future. The point of this rambling? This isn't the movie that the box cover would have you expect.

That's a good thing obviously, but it also leads to some of the negative points about the movie. It doesn't flow very well. It has elements of a love story, a thriller and a social commentary but it never really follows any of them through satisfyingly.

Xiao Jia (Gigi Leung of Fat Choi Spirit) attends college in 1981 and has a major crush on Wen Tao who seems to reciprocate her feelings. While playing with a radiophone she begins a conversation with Jia Hui, a student at the same place in the year 2003, and they strike up something of a friendship, confiding in each other about the differences in their societies and their feelings and desires of love.

However things take an unusual twist just as you suspect the two may be falling for each other. I can't say that it was unpredictable and shocking because the twist was always a possibility in a story such as this, but the movie was either intentionally or otherwise filmed to give some red herrings as to how the plot was going to plan out.

The music in this movie is beatiful, the acting is for the most part quite good and the difference between the two decades is striking so credit must be given for style but its the plot that eventually makes this a mixed bag of a movie.

As I said previously it tries to be so many things as a film that it often doesnt tie up things neatly or conveniently. The love story in this movie is for the most part fairly shallow and underdeveloped and actually seem more like schoolgirl crushes than full blown love. The thriller part of this story is a non starter, sometimes the music builds and you wait for something to happen but it never does, and the commentary on the nature of love being the one constant in times and change is very nearly let down by the ending.

Still, underneath the criticisms Sky of Love is a diverting and occassionaly charming movie that is definetley worth taking a look at to decide for yourself but it is no Il Mare.

Reviewer: Neil (April 30, 2004)
Grade: 3.25

Source: CinémAsie http://www.cinemasie.com/hk/fiche/oeuvre/lovelinkedbyathread/noscritiques.html

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Television Series - City in the Sky

2003-12-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

City Of Sky (End) (Taiwan Version)
~ Ken Chu | Lee Bing Bing

Li Bing Bing and Ken

Ken and Michelle Saram

Rainie Yang and Ken

Our Price: US$87.99 [~PHP4,604.96]

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Ken Chu of F4 stars in City of Sky, a new project produced by Angie Chai who once created the hugely popular Meteor Garden and brought F4 great fame. This time Chai collaborates with China Central Television to line up the hottest young idols from Taiwan and Mainland China. Ken Chu stars as a photographer who travels into the most scenic Southwestern China for shooting. There he meets a girl who looks exactly identical to his ex-girlfriend, played by top Chinese actress Li Bingbing. Taiwanese hot singer Rainie Yang plays the photographer's cute younger sister, who will develop a romantic relationship with a handsome boy in Southwestern China. Michelle Saram from Meteor Garden II also takes up a role in City of Sky. With all the energetic and gorgeous young stars and the beauty of the unpolluted nature, fans have all been waiting for City of Sky to come out on DVD for it has never been released outside Mainland China. Get ready for this spectacular masterpiece!

Product Information
Product Title : City Of Sky (End) (Taiwan Version)
Artist Name(s) : Ken Chu | Lee Bing Bing | Rainie Yang
Release Date : July 26, 2006
Language : Mandarin
Subtitle : Traditional Chinese
Package Weight : 500 g
Publisher : Sony BMG Music Entertainment (TW)
Other Information : 5DVDs
YesAsia Catalog No. : 1004423392
Shipment Unit : 3

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Television Series - Love Storm

2003-09-28T01:15:00.000+08:00

Get ready for the ultimate "Love Storm"!

Time to get entangled in romantic emotions again! A passionate tidal wave is sweeping over Asia in 2003 again as the touching TV series "Love Storm" starring super idols Vivian Xu and Vic Zhou and Ken Zhu of F4 fame spreads out its magic!

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Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/ent/2005-03/01/content_2634009.htm

Television Series - Working Girl

2003-06-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

Starring Jolin Tsai, Alan Luo, and Ken Zhu.

Taiwanese pop princess Jolin Tsai teams-up with F4 's Ken Zhu again to offer you more adventures that take place in one of the most chaotic advertising agencies that you can think of!

Jolin Tsai slips into the guise of screen character Yi Leng who makes a living as girl Friday in a company for commercials. Just when she thinks she 's had enough, the arrival of a new handsome superior changes her mind!

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Television Series - Meteor Garden II

2003-03-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

"If I ever lose you again, wait in the place you saw me last and I promise you, I will find you."
-Dao Ming Si

"I know that you are on the road, on your way home to me, right now. I will wait for you. I will wait for you forever."
-Shan Cai

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Adapted from a popular Japanese comic, the debut of "Meteor Garden" has successfully brought Jerry Yan, Vic Chou, Ken Chu, Vanness Wu of F4 and Barbie Xu to fame. Now you can enjoy Taiwan's heavyweights again as they return in the explosive sequel, which is one of the talk-of-town TV dramas this year.

The story happens in Spain where the pair of Jerry and Barbie spend their high-school graduation trip. Unfortunately, Jerry loses his memory after a car accident and meets Michelle. At that time, Vic finds himself falling in love with Barbie... So will there be a happy ending? What happens to the quad-love between Jerry, Barbie, Michelle and Vic? You dare not miss 2002's hottest drama!

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Episode 1

To celebrate their graduation from Ying De University, F4 decides to go to Spain and Dao Ming Si demands that Shan Cai go with him. They are a loving couple, despite frequent punctuated arguments that F3 is, by now, so used to. At the airport, Shan Cai forgets her passport, which is quickly brought to her by her mother and Ching Her, but since Ah Si yelled at her, she does not want to go anymore. And then Ah Si does the totally unexpected: he apologizes. F3 then surprises them with their plan of letting Ah Si and Shan Cai go by themselves on a sort of honeymoon. Hua Ze Lei gives Ah Si a letter and tells him to open it in Spain.

Barcelona is the perfect city for the two lovers, even though they nearly lose each other in a plaza as Ah Si takes too long to buy her a balloon. Ah Si tells Shan Cai that if he ever loses her again, she must stay in the last place he saw her and he will find her. Lei's letter tells Ah Si of a church with legendary blessings on lovers and how he wanted to propose to Jing in the church; he asks Ah Si to propose to Shan Cai in the church to fulfill his legend. Ah Si arranges the proposal asks Shan Cai to meet him there while he buys a meteor ring that Shan Cai was admiring in a market. As he drives to the church, Ah Si is so excited he takes the ring out to look at it. Distracted, he swerves to avoid another car, making him lose control and turn over. As he lies unconscious and bleeding on the street, Shan Cai is patiently waiting for him in the church.

Episode 2

Ye Sha is a Chinese mestiza living in Spain as an artist. It was her car that nearly bumped into Ah Si's and she takes him to the hospital. Shan Cai waits a long time at the church, even thinking that Ah Si is playing a joke on her. She returns to the hotel and after a while, calls Teng Tang Jing, who is working in Spain. Shan Cai discovers Lei's letter and weeps over Ah Si's plan, because he did not have to propose to her in that church, anywhere would do. They try to find Ah Si to no avail, and finally decide to call F3. F3 arrives in Spain and starts to look for Ah Si. They get impatient as the days go by with no news. Jing tries to resurrect any old feelings from Lei, who now seems so grown up, but he ignores her, concentrating only on Shan Cai. Mei Zhuo and Xi Men eventually find out from the police about the car accident that involved an unidentified Chinese man and they all go to the hospital where the reports say the man was taken to.

Ah Si has amnesia. Infuriated by his loss of memory, he is violent to Ye Sha and walks out of the hospital on his own. When Ye Sha discovers him gone, she runs out after him, passing F3, Jing, and Shan Cai in the hospital corridor. Ye Sha finally sees Ah Si and follows him, slowly convincing him he should go home with her.

Episode 3

Ah Si does not remember a single thing about his past. Although he can not remember why, he finds himself constantly looking at the stars. Ye Sha notices this and names him Ah Xing (xing is Mandarin for star). Ye Sha lives in a wine hub and patiently tries to get Ah Si out of his shell. She succeeds when an attact symptomatic of an illness she has comes on and faints, making Ah Si frantically call for help. Ye Sha and her friend Sha Ge celebrate the first words out of Ah Si's mouth and make him drink wine. He surprises them that he seems to be a connoiseur; Ah Si is surprised that knowing good wine is not common knowledge. They decide from the way he speaks that he must come from Taiwan.

Meanwhile, Shan Cai and F3 suspect that Dao Ming Si was kidnapped by Dao Ming Feng, in order to separate him from Shan Cai. They contact her at first to confront her but in her despair, Shan Cai promises to leave Ah Si alone if Dao Ming Feng sets her son free. Dao Ming Feng, not knowing that her son was missing, finds this as a good opportunity to regain her son, so she lies to Shan Cai and agrees to it.

Episode 4

Dao Ming Feng hires investigators to find her son and goes to Spain to fetch him. She wants to create a new personality for him, telling him that his name is David Dao Ming and he is an American. Ah Si thinks this is weird since he knows that he is Taiwanese and not an American but Ye Sha convinces him to go back with Dao Ming Feng. Everything with Dao Ming Feng feels wrong though, especially when his mother would not answer any of his questions. He picks up the phone to call Ye Sha and overhears Dao Ming Feng give instructions about destroying all traces of her son's past. Ah Si grabs his passport and at the first chance, escapes from his mother. He goes back to Ye Sha and tells her he has to go back to Taiwan to recover his memory on his own.

At the airport, F3 and Shan Cai again nearly see Ah Si, but Xi Men discovers from Che Che that Ah Si is not in New York. They conclude that they are being tricked by Dao Ming Feng. SHan Cai is convinved that she must stay in the last place Ah Si saw her and refuses to leave Barcelona. Mei Zhuo and Xi Men decide to go to New York then to Taiwan to find out all they can, while Lei stays behind with Shan Cai and they spend their days waiting at the church.

Episode 5

Dao Ming Si and Ye Sha arrive in Taiwan, they stay with a friend of Sha Ge's. One night, a thief breaks into their room and steals the meteor ring; Ye Sha and Ah Si try to stop him but he manages to get away when Ah Si rescues Ye Sha from falling down the stairs. That night, thinking he is asleep, Ye Sha tells him over and over again that she is sorry for everything.

In Spain, Shan Cai panics that she cannot remember which side on Ah Si's face is his dimple. She asks Lei, who tells her that his dimple is in her heart. She tries to stand on her head to stop from crying, and chides Lei for lying to her as her tears could not be held back.

In Taiwan, Ye Sha comes up with a plan to post Ah Si's face in a newspaper ad. Shan Cai's parents see this but do not believe that it is him until Mei Zhuo and Xi Men visit them with the news. They call Lei and Shan Cai with the news that they have found Ah Si. Zhong Zhe sees the ad first however and manages to drug Ah Si and Ye Sha, with a plan to ransom them out to Dao Ming Feng. Ye Sha manages to stab Zhong Zhe and escapes with Ah Si. The next day, Dao Ming Feng arrives at the house at the same time as F3 and Shan Cai to discover Zhong Zhe. Dao Ming Feng announces that they are all useless as Ah Si has lost his memory and remembers none of them, then blaming them for letting vengeful people like Zhong Zhe hurt her son. Before Dao Ming Feng leaves, Shan Cai tells her that just like her, she will not give up on Dao Ming Si.

Episode 6

Ye Sha and Ah Si spend the night in a park; they do not want to return to the house. Sha Ge's friend advises them to rent from a disgruntled old lady that Ah Si manages to charm when he ties her shoes for her. They call her Popo, even if she told them not to. The room is empty though and they manage to fill it with furniture they find in a garbage dump.

Shan Cai spends a lot of time by herself, frequently visiting the room Ah Si had just left. She decides to write on the wall: "Dao Ming Si, I know that you are on the road, on your way home to me. I will wait for you. I will wait for you forever." She sees an electronic billboard and inquires how much to put up an ad and is appalled at how expensive it is. She takes on another job after her work at the Italian Tomato, which requires her to wear an ugly outfit and sing stupid drinking songs. She is so busy and tired that she has no time for F3 who constantly call her. Lei texts her, "Is the snail standing on her head or hiding in her shell?"

Ye Sha and Ah Si needs money also. Ye Sha joins a drinking contest and wins, though she gets really drunk. Ah Si takes care of her. Popo sees their efforts and takes only part of the rent money, saying they need it more. The two go shopping and buy too many coconuts that were on sale.

Episode 7

Ah Si is surprised that everyone in Taiwan knows about the Dao Ming family, even the people you ask off the street. While checking out one of the buildings of the Dao Ming Corporation, they almost run into Dao Ming Feng. Ye Sha starts to tail her and figure out her schedule, letting them plan the best time to visit the Dao Ming mansion. They manage to get inside but Dao Ming Feng is alerted and she orders her guards to capture her son. With the help of Auntie Jade, Ah Si and Ye Sha manage to escape, bringing with them a photo of F4. Ye Sha investigates who the boys in the photo are and where to find them.

Meanwhile, F3 are about to scold Shan Cai for avoiding them and discover that she is trying to make money for the electronic billboard. They surprise her by paying for it themselves and she feels her hope on every billboard in Taiwan. Unfortunately, Shan Cai's phone is besieged by prank calls, upsetting F3. Ah Si sees the billboards and musters up courage to call Shan Cai but when he does, he encounters an irate Mei Zhuo screaming at him. Ah Si decides that his friends are not nice after all. Still, Ye Sha pretends she is a student doing research and chats Mei Zhuo up to get information about Ah Si's past. She finds out where F3 hangs out.

Episode 8

Ye Sha brings Ah Si to a pub where F3 hangs out and convinces Ah Si to stay. By himself, he watches his old friends from a distance. F3 are as usual worried about how to find Ah Si. An old girlfriend is even unable to flirt with Xi Men; guys from the next table start heckling her and Xi Men is able to hold back a now hotheaded Mei Zhuo until one of them starts to make fun of F4, because they are now the "Funny 3." Mei Zhuo throws the first punch and a rumble erupts. Lei gives the bartender money for damages to the bar and F3 start to leave when the drunkard lunges at Mei Zhuo with a bottle. He is stopped by Ah Si. F3 is happy to see him but he runs away from them, insisting that he hates his past and who he used to be. Lei screams at him that he can hate his past but he cannot hate Shan Cai. Ah Si has by then ran too far away and does not hear him.

Mei Zhuo takes Shan Cai to the seaside and tells her about seeing Ah Si. Shan Cai tells him as long as Ah Si is okay, then she is happy. She tells him that they must stop dwelling on the past and move on with their lives. They agree to always "Play up!" Meanwhile, Ah Si decides to make a clean start with his life and forget his past forever. He starts looking for a job but is always turned away until he helps out in a breakfast canteen. It looks promising and he works hard, but the boss would not hire him because he can not even fry an egg. Ah Si is determined to get that job and, with the help of Ye Sha, practices in Popo's kitchen.

Episode 9

Ah Si and Ye Sha go back to the canteen and she demands an egg cooked for her by Ah Si. Yi Lin, the boss' girlfriend, is impressed by Ah Si's determination and hires him, to the boss' chagrin. On Valentine's Day, they coax Ah Si to make her a special dinner, which Ah Si agrees to because he feels much gratitude to her. The dinner is very romantic, with many creative touches from Ah Si, and he tells her how much she means to him.

Meanwhile, Ching Her tries to ask Shan Cai out on a date but she had committed to working both shifts at the bakery that day and was too busy to pay him attention. He hatches a plan to greet Shan Cai on the radio and tries to involve F3 but they all reject it. So instead, he does the dedication himself. He picks Shan Cai up after work and pretends to get soda as the dedication comes on. Alone, Shan Cai hears Ching Her's dedication read by the DJ, about how she asked for half his punishment in middle school and how he wishes to bear half her sadness now, and it makes her cry. Ching Her sees her crying and decides that F3 was right about it being a stupid idea. Then, F3, who had been listening, each call the station to give her their own messages. Xi Men tells her to keep smiling because she is prettier when she smiles. Mei Zhuo yells, "Play up!" And Lei plays a tape of a young Dao Ming Si orating how he wished to protect his family, F3, and his future bride. Shan Cai starts weeping harder.

Episode 10

Ah Si meets Ah Liang, an old teacher from Ying De, and helps him change his tires. He asks Ah Liang why he is afraid of him and tells him that he is now different. Meanwhile, Shan Cai and Ye Sha finally meet as they coincidentally both punch a man they saw harassing another girl on the bus. They become friends and Ye Sha even gets a job in the bakery Shan Cai works. Ye Sha tells Ah Si about Shan Cai and asks him to meet her. Then, a pain from her cancer overwhelms her and Ah Si runs out to buy her medicine only to discover that the stores are closed. He returns to bring Ye Sha to the hospital and discovers that Popo had given her medicine already. Ye Sha laughs it off but agrees to go to the hospital the next time she feels pain when she sees that Ah Si had run out without any shoes.

He tells her he would not know what to do if he lost her. The next day, Shan Cai buys oranges for her boss and sees Ah Si on the street, on his way to pick Ye Sha up and meet her "new friend." She follows him. He gets on a bus and there she is sure that it is Dao Ming Si. The bus pulls away and she runs after it; she screams his name but he cannot hear her because he is wearing a discman. She falls to the ground, crying. Meanwhile, Ah Si takes Ye Sha to their old house to get her art supplies which they had left behind, so that she can still paint. There, they discover Shan Cai's messages to Ah Si writen on the wall. Ye Sha leaves Ah Si as he tries to rack his brain for his memory of Shan Cai.

Episode 11

Ye Sha seeks out her only friend besides Ah Si; she and Shan Cai talk over their heartaches, not knowing that they are speaking of the same person. Ye Sha decides to "return" Ah Si to the woman who must still love him, telling him that she is an innocent in this situation, but Ah Si tells her that all he knows is who he loves now. Ye Sha insists she leaves and he takes her to the train station and tells her not to look back at him when she goes so that he will remember what her back looks like. She still looks back at him though and it makes him run after her. He discovers her sitting on a bench and she tells him she remembered that it was her responsibility to get his memory back. He embraces her.

Ching Her chivalrously helps out a girl who is not able to pay for her tuition in Ying De. Her name is Mimi; Ching Her has a good feeling about her. Meanwhile, Xi Men is now the managing director of his family's company. He goes out for lunch and sees Ah si mopping up the floor of the breakfast canteen. He asks to talk to him and Ah Si agrees. As Xi Men asks him if he needs anything, Ah Si abruptly tells him that he needs for them to leave him alone. Shan Cai gets an order from Mr. Gao for a birthday cake to be delivered to Ms. Zhang. Ms. Zhang turns out to be Popo, who rejects the cake and a bunch of other cakes piled up in front of her house. She tries to call Mr. Gao but cannot find him. She decides to look for him because she feels it is dishonest to take his money for a rejected cake.

Episode 12

Shan Cai looks for Mr. Gao in his building but nobody seems to know him. An old man she had helped outside the building sees her searching for Mr. Gao and takes her to his office - he is Mr. Gao, president of the company. He likes Shan Cai because she was nice to him even if she thought he was an old man on the street. Consequently, Dao Ming Feng was impatiently waiting for him to arrive and, to her consternation, he tells her he can not see her because he has an important meeting with Shan Cai.

Ah Si prepares a birthday coconut for Popo and she tells him to take care of her house when she leaves for Canada. She also tells him to take good care of Ye Sha. When Ye Sha discovers that Shan Cai's rude lady is Popo, she investigates why Popo returns all his cakes. Mr. gao had been her old boyfriend and they broke up because he got too busy for her to remember her favorite cake. Ye Sha tells Shan Cai and she disrupts another meeting with Dao Ming Feng as Mr. Gao takes Shan Cai with him to look for the sponge cake he had eaten with Popo thirty years ago; he had promised to buy her all the sponge cake she wanted when he became rich and is sad that he had actually forgotten that promise. The next day, Ye Sha and Ah Si try to stall Popo's leaving for Canada so that Shan Cai can return with Mr. Gao and the sponge cake. The elderly couple reunite and Shan Cai, seeing this, runs away in tears, missing Ah Si again. Popo thanks Ye Sha for her efforts to get them back together and says she is still leaving for Canada, but this time, Mr. Gao will go with her.

Episode 13

Mr. Gao tells Shan Cai and Dao Ming Feng that thanks to Shan Cai, he has found the most important thing in his life and now agrees to the merger with Dao Ming Corporation. Dao Ming Feng tells Shan Cai to ask her one favor because Dao Ming Feng is too proud to owe Shan Cai for anything. Shan Cai turns her down. At work, Ye Sha asks Shan Cai to go watch the stars with her. Then, Dao Ming Si enters the bakery and Shan Cai shouts his name in her surprise. Ye Sha realizes they know each other and Shan Cai admits only that they met in Ying De University. Ye Sha convinces the two to buy snacks for their trip while she watches the bakery.

Xi Men tells Mei Zhuo about seeing Ah Si working in a breakfast canteen, about how Ah Si told him he wants to be left alone in his present life. Distressed, Mei Zhuo calls Shan Cai but she had left her cellphone at the bakery and Ye Sha answers the call. To stress that it is urgent his call is returned, Mei Zhuo tells her to tell Shan Cai he has news of Dao Ming Si and Ye Sha discovers that Shan Cai is Dao Ming Si's girlfriend.

Shan Cai is stunned to see Dao Ming Si. While they walk back to the bakery, Dao Ming Si decides to ask her if he had a girlfriend in Ying De. Shan Cai asks him if he remembers anything about a girlfriend and he says no, he is just curious about a message left for him. He tells her to forget about it but Shan Cai breaks down and repeats the message she wrote on the wall for Dao Ming Si, confirming that she is the girlfriend in Ying De, the same girl who will wait for him forever. He panics and rushes off to find Ye Sha, leaving Shan Cai crying in the street. The next day, Ye Sha asks Shan Cai to meet her and gently confronts her about Dao Ming Si.

Episode 14

Shan Cai did not want to tell Ye Sha about her real relationship with Dao Ming Si, but Ye Sha tells her she already knows and takes Shan Cai bowling. She tells Shan Cai to knock down all the pins as if they were all the obstacles between her and Dao Ming Si, but Shan Cai's ball rolls into the gutter. Ye Sha knocks down the pins herself, announcing that she will help remove those obstacles. She tries to put up a brave face when she says goodbye to Shan Cai but Shan Cai runs after her to find her crying. They embrace as they say their goodbyes.

Mei Zhuo goes to the breakfast canteen and tells Dao Ming Si that if he really likes his present life so much, he will have no choice about having Mei Zhuo in it anyway. He then starts helping his friend clear tables and take orders from the customers. They later play a game of basketball and Mei Zhuo is impressed with the new, more open-minded, yet still determined Ah Si. Meanwhile, Xi Men is also working hard, but is belittled by his father in front of his employees. Xi Men's staff can see the injustice, though, and assure their boss that they will work overtime with him if he needs them to.

On Shan Cai's mother's birthday, Shan Cai's father borrows a car to take her around in. The company accuses him of stealing the car right before he returns it and try to take him to the police station. Hua Ze Lei arrives in time to save him by pretending that he booked the car from Shan Cai's dad and asked him to take it for a test drive. With the car and all her troubles, Shan Cai leans on Lei and tells him how glad she is that he is back. The next day, Dao Ming Si discovers that Ye Sha had gone and confronts Shan Cai, accusing her of making Ye Sha go away. Shan Cai slaps him.

Episode 15

Bothered by her confrontation with Dao Ming Si, Shan Cai goes to her first day of school with a heavy heart. She feels the absence of F4 until she opens her locker and screams to find a toad waiting for her. A grinning Lei appears; it is a prank to remind her to watch out for what life has in store for her. This firms her resolve to try to wake her Dao Ming Si up so she visits him and gives him her number, telling him that even if he does not want to call her, she will still visit him everyday.

At work, Xi Men impresses everyone with his thorough report and proposal on the marketing strategies of their company and his father leaves him a message that he is proud of his son for proving that his place in the company is founded on more than mere nepotism. Meanwhile, Ye Sha faints on her way to the airport and is taken to the hospital, where they finally discover what is wrong with her. Sha Ge arrives from Spain to take care of her, and are both informed that Ye Sha's condition will worsen after three months. Ye Sha tells Sha Ge that he must accompany her to tour the world while she still can. He does not want her to leave the hospital, but has to agree.

Dao Ming Si has been in the foulest mood after Ye Sha's departure that Da Xin punches him to snap him out of it. Ah Si decides to go to Barcelona to look for her and the breakfast club offer to lend him money for he plane ticket. Then, Dao Ming Feng's secretary asks Dao Ming Si to meet his mother, who proposes to find Ye Sha for him if he comes back home to her. He agrees. When he returns to Popo's house, Shan Cai is waiting for him with a box of things that might help him recover his memory. She asks him to at least try and to call her after looking through them.

Episode 16

Dao Ming Si looks through the box of memories and can not remember anything until he finds the meteor necklace he had given her. His head begins to spin and he quickly puts it back in the box. He calls Popo and apologizes that he cannot watch the house anymore. Then, he calls F3 and asks them to meet him. He cooks them a meal of fried eggs and tells them that he would like to be their friend again, but only if they are willing to be the friend of the new Dao Ming Si. They agree and F4 are reunited again.

Mimi asks Ching Her to dinner to repay his kindness at registration. About half in love with him, she asks him what kind of girl he likes and he starts to describe Shan Cai. When he takes her home before 10 p.m., Mimi is convinced that Ching Her is the man for her. Meanwhile, Sha Ge shows Ye Sha the partner of the meteor ring that was stolen from Ah Si, which Sha Ge found in a flea market in Barcelona. Ye Sha decides to keep the ring for herself as it only brings bad luck to lovers if separated from its partner ring. They start to leave for a faraway province; on the way, Ye Sha asks Sha Ge to check if Shan Cai is happy - if she is, then her leaving Dao Ming Si will not be in vain. While Sha Ge talks to Shan Cai in the bakery, Dao Ming Feng's goons kidnap Ye Sha. Dao Ming Feng tells Ye Sha she knows Ye Sha is a runaway princess and that she wants her son to come home and to augment her family prestige with marriage into royalty.

In a familiar ice cream house, Dao Ming Si and Shan Cai meet but only so that Ah Si can return the box of memories to Shan Cai. He tells her to give up. Shan Cai tells him that if she could give him up, she would have done so a long time ago and that he had once said the same thing to her. All he says to her is these are her memories, not his.

Episode 17

Dao Ming Feng proposes that Ye Sha marry her son for three months to help her financially troubled kingdom and at the same time guarantee that Ah Si comes back to his house and birthright. Ye Sha only agrees after the matriarch says she also plans to let Shan Cai get close to Ah Si under those conditions. At Ying De, Mimi is starting to get close to Ching Her without his noticing. She makes him a picnic lunch which gets rained on. He drags her to a laundromat to get their clothes dried while waiting naked under borrowed blankets; since he does not try to sneak a look at her, she is again convinced that Ching Her is the man for her.

Ah Si comes home to the Dao Ming mansion to find Ye Sha waiting for him. He learns about Ye Sha's true identity and is ecstatic about their engagement when she convinces him she has agreed to marry him because she wants him to be happy. Meanwhile, Sha Ge has looked all over Taiwan for Ye Sha and decides to ask for Shan Cai's help but she is walking around the city by herself, depressed, until Lei calls her. They spend the night talking about whether to lose hope or not and Shan Cai thanks him for being her friend. They fall asleep in his car; when Lei wakes up the next morning, he sadly watches Shan Cai sleep.

When he finally takes her home, they find Sha Ge impatiently waiting outside her house. They help him look for Ye Sha until they see an electronic billboard air a live coverage of the announcement of Dao Ming Si's engagement to Princess Ye Sha of Bhutan.

Episode 18

Shan Cai and Sha Ge try to convince F3 that Ye Sha must have been forced into this engagement and Xi Men agrees that it must be one of Dao Ming Feng's manipulations. They are interrupted by a call for Shan Cai to meet the "queen mother" herself. Dao Ming Feng reminds Shan Cai of the favor that needed to be returned and offers her a job in Dao Ming Corporation, just as she promised Ye Sha. She explains to Shan Cai that both families will profit from the marriage, but as Ye Sha does not love Ah Si, Shan Cai must be around to comfort Ah Si when his marriage has to end. In truth, she has no plan of letting the marriage dissolve but manages to convince Shan Cai to consider the proposal. Ye Sha visits Sha Ge, inviting him to stay at the mansion with her. He refuses and scolds her for trying to deceive him about how unhappy she is. She tells him that no matter what happens, he will always be her best friend.

Shan Cai decides to quit school and work at Dao Ming Corporation. Ching Her is aggrieved over the news and unwittingly passes another test Mimi puts to him as he does not notice how ugly she made herself up. She demands they go out but Ching Her tells her that she become more like Shan Cai. The same night, F3 visit Dao Ming Si and confront him about the engagement; Ah Si happily tells them it was Ye Sha's idea. Although bothered, especially regarding Shan Cai's new job, F3 congratulate him.

Shan Cai begins work the next day as Dao Ming Feng introduces her son and her future daughter-in-law to the company. Ye Sha sneaks Shan Cai out to tell her that she hopes Ah Si will recover his memory soon so that she can be free again and they can all be happy. They promise each other they will not give up. When Shan Cai goes back to the office, she finds Ah Si trying to work the photocopying machine and helps him. He is nice to her and she tells herself this is a good start.

Episode 19

Mimi goes to Shan Cai's house to ask for pointers on how to be more like her. Shan Cai, tired from work, tells her she should just try to be herself. The next day, Dao Ming Si joins Shan Cai for lunch when he sees her eating alone. They talk about work and Ah Si volunteers to help her count inventory since all he does is sign documents all day. Late that afternoon, Ah Si falls accidentally from a ladder which also almost falls on him, but Shan Cai pushes him out of the way and gets hit herself. This triggers a memory where Shan Cai takes a blow for him, covering him when he is about to be hit by a chair. It also causes his head extreme pain and he yells at Shan Cai not to help him recover his memories.

Ye Sha escapes from her bodyguard and hangs out with Da Xin and the breakfast club. She asks if she can get a job there but they tell her the owner decided to take the cafe back as his and soon they will be out of a job. This gives Ye Sha the idea to present them with a breakfast van so that they can work and still travel, like they always dreamt and makes plans with Ah Si. Dao Ming Feng tries to manipulate Ye Sha into appearing at Xi Men's victory party with Ah Si, but she refuses to go. Ye Sha and Ah Si fights over this, which Shan Cai overhears. Ah Si complains to Shan Cai that Ye Sha has changed and Shan Cai comforts him and tells him not to give up. He asks her why she's helping him and she tells him, "I just want you to be happy." Overwhelmed by her kindness, Ah Si embraces Shan Cai.

Episode 20

Shan Cai is too startled by the embrace and her feelings for Dao Ming Si that she works all night and forgets to go to Xi Men's party. At the party, Mei Zhuo eyes a girl, whom Xi Men says is a rich corporate partner's daughter and Mei Zhuo dismisses her as another stupid beauty. Then Xi Men's father arrives, scandalizing his son by bringing his new girlfriend. Xi Men embarasses his father in his thank you speech, praising his patient mother who waits at home for an undeserving husband. When Ah Si arrives without Ye Sha, Xi Men drags them out of the party to go drinking.

Much later, F4 go see Shan Cai at her office. A very drunk Xi Men reprimands Shan Cai for missing his party and demands she drink 3 glasses of wine as punishment. Unused to drinking, Shan Cai barely manages to get the first glass down and suddenly, at once, Ah Si and Lei offer to drink the rest for her. The awkward silence is broken by Mei Zhuo, who is also very drunk and quickly in need of the bathroom. As Lei and Ah Si help Mei Zhuo, Shan Cai and Xi Men have a heart-to-heart talk. When Xi Men gets home, he eats the dinner his mother has waiting for him, even if his stomach hurts. It makes him angrier at his father. The next day, Ah Si fixes up a room in his house as a painting room for Ye Sha, which touches her and makes her guilty for pushing him away. Sha Ge arrives that day at the Dao Ming residence, making Ye Sha happy that she finally has somebody to really talk to. Meanwhile, Xi Men succumbs to his ulcers and is rushed to the hospital.

Episode 21

F3 and Shan Cai visit Xi Men at the hospital and he notices that Shan Cai's eyebags are getting bigger, commenting that the Queen Mother must be making her work too hard. Ah Si asks who do they mean by Queen Mother and they tell him, his mother, which makes him laugh. Ye Sha visits Ah Si to give him the design for the breakfast van, but does not find him in the office. She sees a photo of F4 with Shan Cai on his desk and is happy that her plan is working. Mei Zhuo's mother has chosen her future daughter-in-law and summons him to meet them; it turns out to be Xiao Qiao, the girl he saw in Xi Men's party. He is rude to her because she asks for requests for her to play on her cello and does not know how to play his favorite piece; still his mother is insistent that he at least try to get to know her so he agrees to take her out on a date. Ah Si and Shan Cai eat lunch together again and when he discovers the design for the breakfast van, he rushes to Shan Cai to ask her father to book a van with those specifications. Just as Shan Cai started to feel better about her relationship with Dao Ming Si, she sees the designs and realizes she cannot compare to Ye Sha.

That night, Xi Men finds his dad watching over him in the hospital and the older Xi Men explains exactly what is wrong with his marriage, which is the complete opposite of what Xi Men used to believe. He forgives his father. Meanwhile, Ah Si and Ye Sha talk on the phone and he tells her that F3 calls his mom "Queen Mother." Ye Sha is not listening anymore because the muscles in her arms have stiffened and her condition seems to be getting worse. Mei Zhuo goes out with Xiao Qiao but leaves her so she can go shopping, even giving her money. She gets back at him by spending it on his mother, saying they picked out presents for her together. Infuriated, Mei Zhuo takes Xiao Qiao to a club and introduces her to two of his other "girlfriends." The two girls mock her and say she is not Mei Zhuo's type of girl.

Episode 22

Xiao Qiao decides to show Mei Zhuo that she can be the kind of girl he wants and starts undressing in the club. He grabs her and takes her home. When he reprimands her, she tells him he cannot get rid of her that easily. Xi Men comes home and urges his parents to eat dinner with him. That night, his father agrees to give his wife the divorce she had been asking for. As he drinks away his sorrows, Xi Men joins him and comforts him that he has not lost everything he loves; at least he now has a son. Meanwhile, the breakfast van is ready and they celebrate by driving around in it. As they wait at an intersection, Dao Ming Si sees Ching Her and calls out to him. Ye Sha asks him why he remembers Ching Her when they never saw each other after the accident and Ah Si realizes his head did not even ache. Ching Her believes that Ah Si must have recovered his memory and goes to tell Shan Cai, which Dao Ming Feng's secretary overhears. Ah Si later confirms to Shan Cai that he has not regained his memory but does not know why he remembers Ching Her. He asks her to lunch but is waylaid by Dao Ming Feng who tells Ah Si that Shan Cai is trying pathetically to get him back. He does not want to believe her and leaves angrily. Mei Zhuo is bored and gets F4 together to hang out like old times. Xi Men goads Mei Zhuo that he is bothered about his new girlfriend and asks why he does not like her, forcing Mei Zhuo to summon her. Ah Si doubts she will come and Xi Men tells him they can always make girls come to them; he has only failed with Ye Sha. They make a bet who has the more obedient "fiancee," but Ye Sha is with Shan Cai and refuses to meet them. F3 are uneasy with the news, so Ah Si asks why they do not like the idea of Shan Cai working for Dao Ming Corporation and they reply that they do not want to see her hurt. This makes Ah Si think about what his mother said. Xiao Qiao arrives and Mei Zhuo introduces her to F3, informing her that if they all fell into the sea, he would rescue F3 first. Xiao Qiao tells him she does not mind that because she can swim. F3 tell her in turn that they can all swim also and all Mei Zhuo has to worry about is saving himself. Mei Zhuo still acts obnoxious to her by calling her his 101st girlfriend and rudely kissing her.

Episode 23

Xiao Qiao apologizes to F3 that she has to leave right away and Xi Men forces Mei Zhuo to see her off. Ah Si is appalled by his behavior and but Lei points out that Mei Zhuo must be in love if he does not know how to handle a girl. Before she leaves him, Xiao Qiao slaps Mei Zhuo, then tells him to pick her up the next day, stunning Mei Zhuo further. Meanwhile, Ye Sha and Shan Cai buy books and look at a travel book with pictures of cities from all over the world. They come to Barcelona and Shan Cai says she would like to go back soon. Ye Sha then asks if the meteor ring belongs to her and Shan Cai admits that all she knows is Ah Si asked to meet her at the church while he went to buy the ring. She smiles as her word trail. Ye Sha realizes that Ah Si was going to propose to Shan Cai. She decides to be more aggressive in pushing Shan Cai and Ah Si to each other.

Mimi has convinced Ching Her that he must be the key to Dao Ming Si's memories so he writes an essay about the Shan Cai and Dao Ming Si love story. Meanwhile, Ye Sha exchanges phones with Shan Cai with a recording of Ah Si yelling "Idiot, answer the phone!" set as a ringtone. Ah Si hears the ringtone with Shan Cai and is further bothered when Ching Her and Mimi force him to listen to Ching Her's essay. Slowly, some of his memories resurface and when he goes to the hospital for a check up, he is told that the gore in his brain is dissolving. He asks Ye Sha to travel with him but she ignores his requests and gives him a book about memory and he angrily believes that Shan Cai has put everyone up to helping her win him back. He confronts her about it and upsets her because it means he has totally forgotten what kind of person she is. He upsets her even more when he tells her that even if he remembers everything, he will still forget her. Ching Her and Mimi ask Ye Sha's help and they plan to go swimming with Shan Cai, to which Ah Si agrees to begrudgingly.

Episode 24

At the poolside, Dao Ming Si is still cold to Shan Cai, Mimi, and Ching Her. This prompts Shan Cai to tell Ye Sha that she has finally decided to give up on Ah Si. Ching Her goads Ah Si into competing with him in swimming the way they used to. While underwater, Ah Si sees something shining at the bottom of the pool and tries to reach for it. It turns out to be a coin but a flashback hits him where he is reaching for a ring on the floor of a car and suddenly a car is coming towards him. Ah Si is overwhelmed by the vision that his head pounds again and he drowns. Ye Sha jumps in to save him and they take him to the hospital. Dao Ming Feng blames Shan Cai for this and later reprimands Ye Sha for keeping her true feelings from Ah Si for Shan Cai's sake.

Meanwhile, Ah Si starts to remember everything. When he wakes up, he imagines that it is Shan Cai sleeping by his bed and as he reaches for her, he realizes it is Ye Sha. Then Shan Cai enters the room and Ah Si is so distraught that he asks them to let him rest alone. Then, he leaves the hospital and goes to Popo's apartment to think over everything that has happened, more importantly, what to do about Shan Cai and Ye Sha. Everyone is frantically searching for him, and Ye Sha is so relieved to see him walking home to the Dao Ming mansion that she tells him she loves him and kisses him. Shan Cai sees the kiss and, her heart breaking, runs away.

Episode 25

Ye Sha and Shan Cai meet each other to go bowling. Ye Sha admits that she has fallen in love with Dao Ming Si and Shan Cai tells her she knows this and she has decided to give up on winning Ah Si's love. Depressed, Shan Cai secretly flees Taipei, but unfortunately, she loses her wallet on the train. She accuses a man who bumped into her of stealing her wallet. The man, Ah De, denies stealing it. His sister Ah Mei see them fighting and thinking that Shan Cai is Ah De's girlfriend, picks a fight with Shan Cai. They eventually clear everything up and Ah Mei offers Shan Cai to stay at their house for a while.

Mei Zhuo takes Xiao Qiao by the river. Since she is overprotective of her cello, he teases that maybe she should date her cello instead. Xiao Qiao tells him that she had once fallen in love with a boy before she left for the US; when she played her cello, she poured into it all her unrequited love. Mei Zhuo tells her he might be jealous, prompting Xiao Qiao to throw her cello into the river. Mei Zhuo dives in to rescue it. He later asks Lei at a dinner party to help him get the cello fixed. Xi Men teases Mei Zhuo that he is so far gone in love and persuades Ah Si to side with him but Ah Si is lost in his own thoughts. They find out that Shan Cai had left without telling them and Ah Si tries to hide his feelings. Xi Men and Mei Zhuo debate whether they do something to get her back while Lei goes off by himself to look for her. Meanwhile, Shan Cai's wallet is discovered on the train, helping Lei find Shan Cai.

Lei shows up at Ah Mei's ice shop and he takes Shan Cai to a cottage he rented in the same town. He tries to pay Ah Mei for taking care of Shan Cai; when she finally agrees, he tells her to keep the change, but Ah Mei refuses to be beholden to anyone.

Episode 26

Ah Mei and Ah De resolve their differences, as Ah De promises that he wants to be a better man. Meanwhile, Dao Ming Si is troubled that Ye Sha and his mother seem to be on friendlier terms. He tells his friends at the breakfast van that he has finally regained his memory and does not know what to do as he had already promised both women he would love them forever. Yi Ling tells Ah Si not to tell anyone about his memory yet, until he figures out whom he really loves as he may lose both Shan Cai and Ye Sha. In the province, Shan Cai makes dinner for Ah De and Ah Mei to thank them for all their help and spends the day in preparations with Lei, even helping an old lady sell vegetables. Lei buys Shan Cai flowers from his earnings as a vegetable vendor and Shan Cai feels that her luck is not that bad after all.

Lei happens on the master violin maker collecting wood in the forest and immediately calls Mei Zhuo to bring Xiao Qiao's cello. It is fixable and Lei plays a tune on a violin to celebrate while Xiao Qiao accompanies him on her cello. Ah Mei is smitten by Lei while Shan Cai notices that Mei Zhuo is in love with Xiao Qiao. Before they leave, Lei asks Mei Zhuo to keep their whereabouts secret as Shan Cai still needs time to heal. Shan Cai tells Mei Zhuo that Xiao Qiao is a great girl, while Mei Zhuo tells her that Lei is also a great guy. He tells Lei and Shan Cai to take care of each other but hopes Shan Cai can come back home soon because they all miss her. Meanwhile, Ah Mei has decided to ask Lei to be her boyfriend.

Episode 27

Ah Mei wakes up a sleeping Hua Ze Lei and announces that he has the honor to be her boyfriend. Lei sleepily tells her that he is not interested in her. As Ah Mei storms out, Shan Cai disparages him while he teases her that he would agree to be her boyfriend if she wants him. Later, Lei finds Ah Mei throwing a tantrum at the beach and convinces her that they are not in love with each other. Ah Mei then makes him admit that he is in love with Shan Chai.

Ah Si tells Sha Ge that he has regained his memory and that he knows that he is in love with Shan Cai. Sha Ge pleads with him not to tell Ye Sha because she has suffered so much for Ah Si, finally revealing that she is dying. Ah Si rushes to Ye Sha to confirm it, arriving just as Ye Sha has a pain attack. As he gives her medicine and puts her in bed, he disparages her about not telling him about her illness and she tells him she loves him so much she does not want to give her back to Shan Cai anymore. Ah De, Lei, and Shan Cai throw a surprise birthday party for Ah Mei. Ah De gives her a ring, which looks like the meteor ring Shan Cai saw in Barcelona. When they are alone, Shan Cai asks him about it and tells him that if it is not the same ring, it is almost exactly like the ring her boyfriend must have bought from Barcelona but was stolen from him. Ah De is stunned at the coincidence. Lei hears the entire conversation.

Ah Si brings Ye Sha to the doctor and he says they may have a bone marrow donor for a transplant; the three are happy and hopeful for Ye Sha's recovery. Meanwhile, the police shows up at Ah Mei's ice shop and arrest Ah De.

Episode 28

Lei helps Ah De out of prison. Ah Mei refuses to be beholden to anyone and proposes to set up her ice shop as payment. Lei instead asks for the meteor ring. In a bar in Taipei, Xi Men goads Mei Zhuo about being in love, which Mei Zhuo denies. Infuriated, Ah Si calls Mei Zhuo an idiot. It stuns the two, who laugh that it scared them that the old Ah Si is back. Ah Si asks why it would be bad for the old Ah Si to resurface and the two agree that it would complicate the new relationship between Lei and Shan Cai. Overwhelmed, Ah Si leaves and decides to look for Lei and Shan Cai. He checks on Ye Sha first and gives her medicine. He is unable to look at her as she happily declares that drinking her medicine will give her 300 years more to live with him.

While walking on a mountain road, Lei gives Shan Cai the meteor ring, which she throws away, saying the story for that ring is now over. Unknown to them, the ring lands on a nearby bridge, right at Ah Si's feet. Lei asks Shan Cai to go to Japan with him and kisses her. Ah Si sees this and runs away. When Lei and Shan Cai arrive home, they discover that Ah Si had come looking for them. Lei confirms that Ah Si has regained his memories and leaves him and Shan Cai alone together. Dao Ming Si confesses to Shan Cai that it has never been clearer than now that it is she he loves. Shan Cai says that they must let fate decide and proposes that if they see a falling star that night, then they should be together, never mind if they hurt Lei and Ye Sha. But none fall. At daybreak, Shan Cai gets up but Ah Si tells her he does not accept it. He gives her the meteor ring she threw away just a few hours ago. He also reminds her that she has never told him she loves him. As he walks away from her, Shan Cai weepily shouts "Dao Ming Si, I love you!" The two are too despaired that they do not notice a meteor storm suddenly filling the sky.

Episode 29

Dao Ming Si returns home to discover that Ye Sha's transplant is unsuccessful. He decides to take her on that trip around the world he promised her. Ah Si notifies his mother and gets angry as she admits to the three-month deal she made with Ye Sha. As he leaves, she tells him that Shan Cai has resigned from the Dao Ming Corporation. Xi Men and Mei Zhuo catch Ah Si before he leaves and make him admit to recovering his memory. They agree that no matter where any of them are, F4 will endure.

Three months later, Shan Cai is working for a travel agency. Mimi works there part-time. Shan Cai loves to arrange trips for her customers because when they return with news of their travels, she gets a feel of what Ah Si and Ye Sha must be doing. She is looking forward to heading a tour group to Japan, where she can be with Lei. Lei and Ah Mei meet up in Taipei while Lei visits Shan Cai. She asks him why he would not go after Shan Cai and he explains that the story between Shan Cai and Ah Si is far from over. Ching Her discovers that Mimi also works in a nightclub as a ledge dancer. She confesses that she has to work hard because she does not have a father, she only lied about him because she does not want Ching Her to hate her. Ching Her promises to take care of Mimi because she is his friend. Mei Zhuo meanwhile has successfully returned Xiao Qiao's cello to her, good as new, just in time for her concert. They share their first kiss.

Lei is about to leave for Japan again and Xi Men and Mei Zhuo have a drink with him before he leaves. They discuss their friendship and Lei's with Ah Si. Xi Men tells him that no matter where they go, they will always return to Taipei, because it is home. Before he leaves, Lei tells Shan Cai that he will be her friend forever.

Episode 30

Ye Sha sends a letter to Sha Ge, telling him she knew Dao Ming Si has recovered his memory and she is grateful she had become part of their story as they have inspired her to live. She relates that she had a successful operation with a better matched donor and has returned home to Bhutan. She asks him to help Ah Si find Shan Cai and to thank God for how everything has turned out. At Xiao Qiao's concert, she dedicates her last song to her childhood love and Mei Zhuo is about to leave in a jealous rage. Then, he stops when he hears that the song is the same song he requested her to play from the first time they met: her childhood love turns out to be Mei Zhuo himself.

Dao Ming Si returns to Taipei and goes to his mansion, but only to get Ye Sha's painting of herself which she asked to be given to Sha Ge. Dao Ming Feng intercepts him as he leaves and he swears he turns his back on her forever. He meets up with Sha Ge to give him Ye Sha's painting. Sha Ge gives him the meteor ring he bought in Barcelona. He also surprises him with a dinner with F3. Thinking Lei and Shan Cai are together, Ah Si tries to ask Lei about her and gets angry when Lei says he left her to work in a travel agency in Taipei. Lei hits him and tells him that it is only because Ah Si is the only person who canmake her happy. He gives Ah Si a ticket and tells him to go to her. He tries to catch up with Shan Cai at the airport but does not find her. At the last minute, Shan Cai's tour group is switched; she is requested to take over a tour group in Barcelona. Once there, sitting in her taxi cab, she stares out the window and remembers all her memories of Dao Ming Si.

Episode 31

Shan Cai introduces Barcelona to her tour group,as if she had been in Barcelona all her life. She is very pulled together in the bus while talking to her tourists, but once she gets outside and looking at all the places she and Ah Si have been, she finds herself lost in her memories. They are given free time to watch the famous running of the bulls, but Shan Cai is accidentally pushed during the commotion. As she tries to get on her feet, a hand is reached out to help her out. As she takes it, she realizes that they are both wearing similar meteor rings.

It turns out to be Ah Si. They talk shyly and politely for a while, away from the crowd. Neither is able to say what they really want to say until the tour bus signals that it is time to leave. Shan Cai bids him goodbye and Ah Si wishes her well. As he watches her go, he realizes he cannot live without her and he may lose her forever. He runs after the bus as it drives away but it is too fast for him to catch up with. Then, he hears Shan Cai calling his name. She did not get on the bus after all.

They go to church in Barcelona and Shan Cai asks Ah Si what he is praying. Ah Si tells her is asking God to stop making jokes on them. She scolds him for being rude to God and he silences her with a kiss. He writes their names on the bench outside the church, free of the curse of the rings and ready to live their lives together, forever.

Television Series - Marmalade Boy

2002-12-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

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Starring Ken Zhu Xiao Tian, Jeff Chang, Guo Ching Chun, and Stella Wong (Huang Xiang Yi).

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Chu Xiao Tian is another F4 to star in his own TV series. Co-starring Jeff Chang and Huang Xiang Yi, "Orange Jam Boy" is adapted from a Japanese anime "Marmalade Boy."

A teenage girl coped with the divorce and remarriages of her parents, her feelings about two different boys, only to find out her boyfriend is her own brother. What will happen?

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Episode 1

Episode 2

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Television Series - Come to My Place

2002-09-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

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Starring F4, Valen Hsu, and Tien Hsin.

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Television Series - Sunflower

2002-06-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

Starring Ken Zhu.

Television Series - Meteor Rain

2002-03-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

Xi Men Episode

Although she had already migrated to Canada, Xiao You returned to Taiwan to pursue her feelings for Xi Men. They agreed to meet, but upon seeing her, he realizes that she left her parents just to be with him. Xi Men is touched by this but he is still afraid of committing himself to a steady relationship. In her effort to win him, Xiao You tells him that she is really trying to understand his heart. Xi Men then decides to tell her of the one time he felt any kind of love.

This happened when Xi Men was a senior in high school. He had a childhood friend and neighbor, Xiao Geng. While he treated her like a sister, Xiao Geng had slowly and unsuspectingly fallen in love with Xi Men. He never thought much of love because he had seen how it continually destroyed his parents and without this trust of love, he plays around with women - no commitment, no responsibilities. Still, over time, he finds his heart warmed by Xiao Geng's adoring smiles. Xiao Geng knows of the emptiness of Xi Men's heart and she wishes to nurture it, slowly succeeding. Unfortunately, he realizes that what Xiao Geng feels for him is changing and he did not want their comfortable relationship to change because of love.

One day, Xiao Geng found a way to express her love for Xi Men and left a message on his answering machine to meet her the next day on top of a building at five in the morning. But by this time, Xi Men was beginning to avoid Xiao Geng and did not pay attention to the message. The next morning, a few hours after their supposed set meeting, Xi Men is stunned to find Xiao Geng standing outside his house, crying and obviously very hurt. He wished in his heart that they could go back to how they used to be, but Xiao Geng never showed herself to him ever again. In the end, she eventually found someone else to love and has gone from Xi Men's life forever.

After Xi Men reveals his memories to Xiao You, she decided she wanted to see what it was that Xiao Geng wanted to show Xi Men. Diligently, she went to each and every building in the area that Xiao Geng had possibly wanted to meet Xi Men until she found it. At dawn the next day, she brought Xi Men to the top of that building. From there, they could see a billboard that said "Siemen Electronics, My True Love." But with the positioning of the sun's rays hitting the billboard, it instead read "Siemen My True Love." It is only at this moment that Xi Men realized the depth of what Xiao Geng had felt and thinking of all that wasted love, Xi Men broke down and cried.

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Television Series - The Poor Prince

2001-12-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

Starring Vic Zhou and Ken Zhu (as Vic's father).

Television Series - Meteor Garden

2001-09-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

Now showing on ABS-CBN Channel 2 Philippines after TV Patrol, Monday to Friday!

starring F4 and Barbie Xu

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"...the story of a poor girl who meets four rich guys, falls in love with one of them, punches and trades barbs with another, and changes their lives forever."

- Cecil Estrada and BK Yao
Guide, July 2003

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F4, a four-member boys group, is showing us the strength of today's youth; they have participated in TV productions, movies and music. This TV drama "Meteor Garden" proves why the foursome has come to fame in Asia.

Episode 1

F4 is a group of young men coming from the wealthiest and most influential families in Taiwan, striking fear in every student and teacher in Ying De University. Anyone who crosses Dao Ming Si, Xi Men, Mei Zhuo, or Hua Ze Lei will most often be tagged with a red card that bears the message: "You'll be dead - F4," a sign that the rest of the school will have ostracized them as outcasts. Victims of the red card either transfer schools as soon as they can or be subjected to all kinds of bullying. Outside campus, the gang is notorious except to jealous boyfriends of girls that Xi Men hits on, and their blind rage proves detrimental as F4 is loyal to each other and can beat up anyone who gets in their way.

Shan Cai attends Ying De despite her parents' financial problems as they hope that on campus, she will land herself a rich boyfriend. Shan Cai wishes no such thing, but goes to school to please them. She is incensed at F4's behavior and how they can get away with anything, although she is intrigued about Hua Ze Lei's downplayed kindness. As she complains about her miserable campus life to her best friend Xiao You, she is told that she seems to have changed from the brave and outspoken girl she used to be.

That part of Shan Cai resurrects when her schoolmate Li Chen accidentally bumps into an irate Dao Ming Si. He pushes her away but is surprised when he gets a lecture from Shan Cai. The next day, Shan Cai finds a red tag on her locker and no one dares talk to her, unless to play tricks on her. Instead of giving in, Shan Cai puts up a good fight. She starts an all out war with F4 and slaps her own red card on Ah Si's head. To scare her, Ah Si arranges for two guys to pretend to rape her. The two guys get carried away with their task but, luckily, she is saved by Lei who teaches her to stand on her head to stop the tears from coming. The next day, Shan Cai surprises Ah Si by punching him in the face. She also tries to befriend Lei, who tries to ignore her. Later, Shan Cai is kidnapped, finding herself in Dao Ming Si's house, being informed that she has earned the right to become his girlfriend. Instead of gushing like he expected, Shan Cai calls him ridiculous and turns him down flat.

Episode 2

Now that Shan Cai has F4's respect, her jealous classmates are trying to get the better of her. Shan Cai finds an announcement on the blackboard about her being an unscrupulous slut. Furious, she assumes it was F4's doing and seeks them out, yelling to Dao Ming Si that she is still a virgin and kicking a laughing Mei Zhuo. Ah Si however starts to think that she might like him back after all. Meanwhile, two social climbing rich girls, Pai Her and Chien Hui, befriend Shan Cai and invite her to a party only to try to humiliate her. They were also the ones who wrote on the chalkboard; they want F4 for themselves and would not allow a girl of such low status to snag even one of them. Shan Cai manages to get back at them by making them look like fools at their own party. They continue their scheming however, first recording Lei's and Shan Cai's innocent meetings at the rooftop and showing Shan Cai a magazine with the love of Lei's life on the cover, a beautiful model named Teng Tang Jing. Dao Ming Si arrives just as the two are taunting her and threatens them not to mess with "his girl." Depressed over Lei, Shan Cai lets out her anger on Ah Si.

Later, she finds Lei and debates over asking about Teng Tang Jing. At the same time, Jing sends him an SMS that she is arriving in Taiwan, making him so happy that he kisses Shan Cai. Now, Shan Cai is confused. Meanwhile, Dao Ming Si takes a relationship test and finds out he sucks. He tries out some of the advice given and is laughed at by F3. They meet up with Jing, and at this reunion, Shan Cai sees the beautiful girl and becomes more depressed.

She is comforted by the arrival of her childhood friend, Ching Her, at the university, but Ah Si sees them together and becomes jealous. Soon, Ching Her finds a red tag on his locker. She asks Ah Si to take it back, but he would not. As Shan Cai helps Ching Her escape the bullies, they bump into F4 and Tang Jing. Lei helps Shan Cai up and Dao Ming Si gets mad, kicking him out of F4. Tang Jing helps Shan Cai clean up and they become friends. Lei is depressed that Jing only sees him as a "little boy" and Shan Cai accompanies him on the rooftop as he lights up fireworks in the night sky.

Episode 3

Overcome with fatigue, Shan Cai falls ill and Dao Ming Si is so concerned that he visits her at home, causing an uproar with Shan Cai's parents when they learn who he is. He offers to pay for her expenses for an upcoming class trip but she coldly tells him that she and Ching Her are going on a cruise instead. Dao Ming Si then buys the yacht that Ching Her booked, forcing all of them to go on vacation together. Shan Cai relents when she finds that Lei and Jing are coming with them. Mei Zhuo and Xi Men try to make Ah Si forgive Lei, while bemoaning their "boring" vacation as the only other girls around are the pesky Pai Her and ChienHui.

That night, Jing offers to dress up Shan Cai and she is gorgeous. F3 (Lei, Xi Men, and Mei Zhuo) all ask Shan Cai for a dance. The jealous Pai Her and Chien Hui plan a party game where you had to kiss your crush when the lights go off. When the lights come on, Shan Cai finds herself kissing Dao Ming Si. He starts to believe that she does like him, not knowing that Shan Cai becomes more depressed when she hears Lei telling Jing that he is in love with her.

Back in school, Ah Si decides to apologize to Lei only to find him on the rooftop with Shan Cai. He takes off angrily, chased by Pai Her and Chien Hui, who show him the footage of the "clandestine meetings." Ah Si is so mad that he breaks their handycam. He goes up to the rooftop again and finds Shan Cai is alone. Like a madman, he starts grabbing her and kissing her forcibly, stopping only when he realizes that she is crying. To apologize, he sends her a dress to wear to Jing's party but she gives it to Li Chen instead. She persuades Xiao You to come with her but Shan Cai's mother finds out about the party and forces them to wear her hideous clothes from when she was a teenager, convinced that the two will lure the rich guys for sure.

Episode 4

At Jing's party, Xi Men is the first to greet Shan Cai and automatically flirts with Xiao You. Shan Cai immediately warns him to stay away from her best friend. Dao Ming Si and Shan Cai avoid each other at the party and she finds herself in a secluded bar with Mei Zhuo, who orders drnks for both of them non-stop. Meanwhile, Li Chen arrives wearing Shan Cai's dress and Dao Ming Si humiliates her, making her leave hastily.

At the height of the party, Jing announces that she is moving to France forever, news that crushes Lei. A quite tipsy Shan Cai tries to look for him, but bumps into Dao Ming Si instead and is about to argue with him and is stopped only because she vomits on him. The next day, Shan Cai tries to convince Jing to stay for Lei to no avail. Lei sees this and is angry at Shan Cai for even trying. F3 and Shan Cai see her off. Lei does not show up until after she has gone, but it is alright as he has bought himself a flight to France. He thanks Shan Cai for giving him the courage to go after Jing.

Dao Ming Si asks Shan Cai for a date but she ignores him as he asks so rudely. Still, her huilt and curiosity get the better of her and she checks out the place hours later and finds that Ah Si had been waiting in the rain for her since that morning. To compensate, she treats him out for tea but Ah Si wants to go to an expensive cafe. They ended up arguing in the staircase of the hotel and find that they were accidentally locked in and are forced to spend the night there. Ah Si gets sicker and Shan Cai takes care of him, making him try to kiss her the next morning but they are interrupted by a cleaning lady. News of them spending the night together spreads through the university.

Episode 5

Pai Her and Chien Hui try to befriend Shan Cai again, inviting her to a club, where the DJ does a backflip that reminds Shan Cai of Lei's upside-down tears-control method. Later the DJ joins the group for a truth or dare game, getting Li Chen very drunk in the process. Shan Cai asks Ching Her to bring Li Chen home, leaving her alone in the club, very drunk herself. The DJ brought her to a nearby hotel and she awoke the next day, almost naked.

At the university, Dao Ming Si was happy to see her but Shan Cai is worried that he might find out about the night before and be red-tagged again. Ching Her passes Shan Cai a note from the DJ who meets up with her to return her school ID and assure her that nothing happened between them. Ah Si finds them together and they pretend that the DJ was only asking for directions. When the DJ leaves, Shan Cai and Ah Si start arguing again. It bothers Ah Si, so he seeks counsel from Xi Men and Mei Zhuo who convince him that from her actions, she must like him back. Ah Si's happiness is cut short though when photos of Shan Cai and the DJ circulate the campus. Shan Cai asked Ah Si to trust her but he is too hurt and proud. The Ying De students start tormenting Shan Cai once more. After a drinking spree, Ah Si mistakes Li Chen for Shan Cai and kisses her. She brings Ah Si to a hotel and when he wakes up, she professes her love. Ah Si rebutts her and rushes to find Shan Cai, who is about to be beaten up by a mob of students. He holds a bruised and crying Shan Cai in his arms, asking for forgiveness and telling her he will always trust her. He takes her home to clean her wounds and here they share their first real kiss.

Ah Si makes up for his lack of trust by buying her a new bike and sending household appliances to her home. He also asks his personal assistant to investigate about the photos. Ah Si gives Shan Cai a cellphone so that he can find her anytime, anywhere. He calls her at home and demands she meet him at a pub right away and she is irritated to find out that it was not all that urgent, as all he wanted to do was hang out with her. To everyone's surprise, Lei appears at the pub, back from France. In a moment of panic, Ah Si puts his arms around Shan Cai and announces that she is his girlfriend.

Episode 6

Hua Ze Lei seems to have changed; very cocky and forward, nothing like the shy and gentle Lei that Shan Cai used to know. At home, Shan Cai ignores her ringing cellphone, plagued with worry about Lei. The next day, Shan Cai seeks Lei at the rooftop where he teases her about her new boyfriend, confusing her with his flirting. Meanwhile, Dao Ming Si has found the culprit behind the photos and takes Shan Cai for a confrontation. It turns out to be Li Chen, who had always been in love with Dao Ming Si and jealous of Shan Cai. The friendship is broken and Li Chen leaves Ying De University.

Ah Si takes Shan Cai for a vacation in Japan with the rest of F4, who all bring their own dates. Shan Cai worries when she learns that she and Ah Si would be sharing a room, but he assures her he just wants her near. Restless, Shan Cai decides to go for a walk after Ah Si falls asleep, finding Lei sitting on the beach. To her surprise, he pulls her down and asks him to hold her. The embrace is interrupted by her ringing cellphone and Shan Cai returns to find Ah Si panicking about her disappearance. The next day, while F4 play volleyball, as Ah Si retrieves a cellphone that falls out of Lei's pocket, Lei tells him that he had been meaning to give it back to Shan Cai who must have left it on the beach after their talk the night before. Ah Si is stunned, more so when Shan Cai lies about her phone's whereabouts. Suddenly, Ching Her appears with the news of Teng Tang Jing's wedding, to which Lei merely nods to. They all realize that this is the cause of Lei's new personality. That night, Shan Cai seeks Lei out on the beach and he asks her to hold him again. This time, Lei loses his self-control and kisses her, with Dao Ming Si watching. Enraged, Ah Si hits Lei and declares him no longer a part of F4.

Back in Taiwan, Lei and Shan Cai start dating but she always finds herself thinking about Ah Si. Meanwhile, Ah Si's sister Che Che comes home from New York to find Ah Si in the worst of tempers and gives him a hard time for being such a sissy. Intrigued, she invites Shan Cai to their house and get to know the first woman her brother ever cared about more than himself. She finds that she likes Shan Cai.

Episode 7

Ching Her is chosen to replace Lei in F4, much to the chagrin of Xi Men and Mei Zhuo. Dao Ming Si even tries to get Lei and Shan Cai kicked out of school but Che Che challenges them to resolve the matter with a game of basketball with F3 versus Lei, Shan Cai, and Ching Her. Lei promises Shan Cai that he would not let her get expelled. The night before the game, Ah Si waits for Shan Cai and asks her to tell him that she loves him and he will cancel the competition. Shan Cai rejects him, but feels very confused about Ah Si and Lei. At the game, F3 overpower the three until Lei starts to act sweet and intimate with Shan Cai during time out, succeeding in making Ah Si jealous and unable to concentrate on the game. Still, it is not enough for them to beat F3 and at the last minute, Ah Si proclaims it stupid and cancels the game, surprising everyone except his sister who knew him best.

Ah Si walks around in a drunken daze, bumping into a bunch of vagrants who try to rob him. He ignores them until he hears one of them say the word "Lei," making him violent. He single-handedly beats them up and is in good spirits until he arrives home to find his friends celebrating and they they locked Lei and Shan Cai together in the guest room to consummate their relationship. He does not know that all they do is talk about Teng Tang Jing and Ah Si tells his sister that he will go with her to New York. When Shan Cai finds out, she confronts him, hurt that he did not even plan to tell her. Lei sees her reaction and reminds her of her advice to him about Jing, shouldn't she do the same? But Shan Cai decides to be as cool as Dao Ming Si.

Shan Cai's father is fired from his job and they move to a smaller house, with her mother taking on babysitting jobs. At the airport, Ching Her tells F4 of Shan Cai's current financial problems to explain her absence. But just as Ah Si is about to board the plane, Lei tells him that it is Ah Si whom Shan Cai really likes. It sinks in only when they are airborne and Ah Si tries to get off the plane, much to Che Che's consternation. Meanwhile, F3 visit Shan Cai at the Italian Tomato to help her sell cakes by throwing in free kisses from Mei Zhuo, and Shan Cai and Xiao You get raises in their salaries.

Episode 8

F3 each receive an SMS from Che Che that Dao Ming Si has returned. They wait for him but he does not turn up, though Lei knows where he is. Shan Cai finds Dao Ming Si waiting for her outside her house. He is ill from non-stop flights to New York and back and Shan Cai's parents ask him to spend the night, shoving both of them into her bedroom where Ah Si immediately falls asleep. Shan Cai tries to be cool with him but often catches herself watching him tenderly. They go to the university together the next day and F4 is reunited again.

There are more problems for Shan Cai's parents as her father had borrowed money from loan sharks who demanded payment. Shan Chai hesitantly borrows money from Ah Si, to which she can only repay by going out with him on Saturday. Before meeting him though, Shan Cai is stuck with a babysitting job for her mother and brings the boy along. They argue over the boy and how she should pay him back but manage to enjoy themselves throughout the day until they start to argue about the money again. Although Ah Si tells her she does not have to pay him back, Shan Cai looks for a second job. Along the way, she meets up with a strange lady who tells her to beware of the man she loves as he will only bring her trouble. A man recruits her for a modelling job which turns out to be a trick and she manages to escape with the help of Xiao Suen, a delivery boy. He eventually becomes her friend, and gets her a job at Burger King. When Ah Si visits her there, he gets jealous of Xiao Suen, hits him and calls Shan Cai a tramp. She is so mad at him which heightens when she overhears Xi Men tell Ah Si that Shan Cai has an unappealing figure; she does not hear him tell Ah Si that he should apologize to Shan Cai because even if she looks that way, he is in love with her.

Xiao Suen gets a real modelling job for Shan Cai, but the photos were used in a bad way. He goes to the university to explain to an upset Shan Cai. Dao Ming Si sees them together and starts to get violent with Xiao Suen again. Remembering the warning of the lady, Shan Cai feels that she must then draw the line between herself and F4 and screams at Ah Si to leave her alone. Stunned, Ah Si desperately tells Shan Cai that he loves her.

Episode 9

Shan Cai is overwhelmed with Dao Ming Si's declaration of love for her but she decides to avoid him. Rebuffed, Ah Si becomes recluse, worrying F3 when they cannot find him anywhere. Shan Cai finds a red tag on her locker again and while trying to escape from the school bullies, she is abducted by a group of strange men. Ching Her starts to worry about Shan Cai's disappearance and calls up Xi Men to ask about the red tag. F3 is surprised and decide to hunt Ah Si down to get to the bottom of it. Ah Si finally returns home but is just as surprised and concerned as F3 and Ching Her when hearing the news. Then, they get a call from Shan Cai's abductors, demanding that he meet them at a certain place, then sending him a photo of a bound Shan Cai.

Meanwhile, Shan Cai is shocked to find that Xiao Suen is the mastermind of the kidnap. She asks Xiao Suen why he is doing this and he reveals that he had planned everything from the first fake modelling job. He and a bunch of guys who have been beaten up by Dao Ming Si had planned their revenge and their bait was Shan Cai. Just as they wanted, Ah Si arrives and does not put up a fight as the men gang up on him, beating him severely. Ah Si's tough acceptance infuriates Xiao Suen and he angrily throws a chair at him, but as he does, Shan Cai runs to protect him with her own body and he hits her instead. He leaves them alone. At the hospital, Shan Cai dreams that Ah Si died and she wakes up to frantically look for him. F3 tell her that he did not make it. She runs to his room and weeps over Ah Si until he wakes up and tells her to shut up while F3 are laughing hysterically outside. They leave them alone to talk. Later, F3 return to inform Ah Si that they have exacted revenge on his assailants, confusing Shan Cai about her feelings for such a violent man.

For Ah Si's birthday, Shan Cai bakes cookies in his likeness. She is surprised when F3 pick her up to give her a makeover, insisting that she must be presentable to Ah Si's mother. Ah Si is happy to see her so beautiful but she panics when he tries to introduce her to his mother and they struggle, eventually causing plates to crash. Dao Ming Feng confronts them and announces that she does not believe F3 when they say she comes from a wealthy family. She challenges Shan Cai to play the piano, which she says is a test as all rich girls know how.

Episode 10

Everyone is surprised to find that Shan Cai plays the piano rather gracefully. She mocks Dao Ming Si's mother, who angrily tells her to leave. F3 wreak havoc on the party so that Ah Si can rescue Shan Cai, driving her to the riverside. Ah Si explains his family history to Shan Cai, later asking her about their "relationship," which Shan Cai distracts him from with her cookies. Ah Si is so touched by the present that he refuses to eat any of them. The next day, he shows them off to a sleepy Lei, who groggily eats one and nearly gets strangled by Ah Si.

Meanwhile, Dao Ming Feng investigates Shan Cai's background and turns up at her house to offer her US$1 million to stay away from her son. Shan Cai is happy when her mother refuses the money and tells Dao Ming Feng to leave their house, only to find that her mother will settle for nothing less than the estate they will acquire if Shan Cai marries Ah Si. Dao Ming Feng has other ideas, however. She arranges Shan Cai and Ah Si to meet in a restaurant to introduce them to Xiao Ji, Dao Ming Si's new fiancee. In a panic, Ah Si grabs Xiao Ji, mistaking her for Shan Cai and running off with her, finding his error too late. Shan Cai assumes the worst and refuses to see Ah Si when he tries to explain what happened. Xiao Ji falls for Ah Si and decides to try out being engaged to him, later seeking out Shan Cai to befriend her.

When Ah Si tries to talk to Shan Cai again, she goes on and on about how he should just marry Xiao Ji because they are better suited. Appalled, Ah Si slaps Shan Cai, who runs away from him, sad and hurt. Ah Si becomes more depressed that he hurt her. Xi Men and Mei Zhuo decide to court Xiao Ji to get her off Ah Si's back but she sees through it and plays the trick right back at them, making her more convinced of wanting to be with Ah Si. Dao Ming Feng then corners Lei and offers to help the Huas in their financial problems if he agrees to date Shan Cai and steer her away from her son.

Episode 11

Lei refuses to date Shan Cai as Dao Ming Feng had hoped; despite his family's business problems, Lei would want his best friend to be happy. But Xiao Ji suddenly informs Shan Cai that Dao Ming Si had finally agreed to their engagement. Shan Cai is devastated while F3 could not believe the news. Dao Ming Feng was satisfied that Ah Si had come to his senses, though it worried her to learn that Xiao Ji had befriended Shan Cai. Meanwhile, it pained Shan Cai to be friends with Xiao Ji because she had to listen to her talk about Ah Si all the time. It nearly drives Shan Cai mad, but Lei faithfully stands by to console her.

Xiao Ji demands from Ah Si that he kiss her to prove that he was indeed over Shan Cai, and Ah Si relents. Coincidentally, Lei and Shan Cai were passing through the area and see the kiss; Lei notices that Shan Cai becomes unstable. He treats her to a cup of espresso after to school to find Xiao Ji and Ah Si having a date in the same cafe. They sit together and Xiao Ji invites them all to a vacation at her villa. Shan Cai is about to refuse when Lei accepts for both of them. At the villa, Xiao Ji invites Shan Cai to try out the spa, but she is so bothered and tired that she passes out. Xiao Ji calls for help and Ah Si frantically rushes to save Shan Cai, but is beaten by Lei, who arrives before him. Still, it proves to Xiao Ji that he still has feelings for her Shan Cai. That night, she tries to seduce Ah Si by undressing before him, eliciting no reaction at all. Heartbroken, she throws a tantrum.

Shan Cai and Lei share a room at the villa and she realizes that Lei has become a good friend to her while Ah Si had definitely taken his place in her heart. When she hears the noise from the other room, Shan Cai goes to check up on them to see Xiao Ji sitting on Ah Si on the floor. She apologizes for interrupting them and leaves hastily. The next morning, Lei and Shan Cai leave the villa, and Shan Cai breaks down crying. Xiao Ji is crying also, as Ah Si leaves her as well. At home, Shan Cai discovers that her parents have decided to move to the suburbs, leaving Shan Cai to live in the city alone. Later, Xiao Ji visits Shan Cai to explain what really happened, hoping they could remain friends. Meanwhile, Dao Ming Feng is furious to learn that Xiao Ji has called off the engagement. She quarrels with Ah Si, who runs away.

Episode 12

F3 visit Shan Cai, coinciding with a visit from Dao Ming Feng who is attempting to buy her off again. This time, Shan Cai declares a war on her when Dao Ming Feng speaks badly of her family. Dao Ming Feng is so angry, she buys the place where Shan Cai is living and had her kicked out of her home. Meanwhile, F3 informs Dao Ming Si of what happened and he excitedly goes to her house but Shan Cai does not live there anymore. He drives around to look for her, worriedly leaving voice mail messages on her cellphone. Shan Cai finds herself in the place where Ah Si had slapped her and decides to call Xiao You so that she would stop feeling sad. She turns her cellphone on to hear the countless messages Ah Si left for her. As she listens, she watches Ah Si walking towards her and, with tears running down their cheeks, they embrace.

Dao Ming Feng is in New York, so Ah Si takes Shan Cai home with him to spend the night. His Auntie Jade is waiting for them, declaring that if Shan Cai wanted to live in his house, she must do so as a maid and not as a guest. Shan Cai agrees to show that she cannot be bought; Ah Si agreees when Auntie Jade tells him Shan Cai will be assigned as the young master's personal maid. Xi Men and Mei Zhuo tease Ah Si about Shan Cai living in the same house and challenge him to try something with her. He agrees and asks Shan Cai to his room that night, only to take her outside for stargazing. He gives her a beautiful diamond necklace and asks her to at least try being his girlfriend for two months. The next day, she finally agrees.

Xiao You has a new boyfriend herself and asks Shan Cai to double date with them. Ah Si is negative about it, but goes for Shan Cai's sake and ends up hitting Xiao You's boyfriend, Chong Her. Shan Cai gets mad at Ah Si and keeps apologizing to Shao You because Chong Her would not call Xiao You anymore, thinking it was all Ah Si's fault. A few days later, the two girls bump into Chong Her, who is with another girl and pretends not to know Xiao You. Hurt, Xao You runs from them, crying.

Episode 13

Chong Her tells Shan Cai what he had said to make Dao Ming Si angry during their double date and it makes Shan Cai punch him herself - twice! She rushes to look for Xiao You, who had run away from them. Xi Men happens upon Xiao You crying on the sidewalk and brings her to his house where she explains her heartbreak to him. Xi Men tells Xiao You not to feel bad and be more confident about herself. To help Xiao You achieve closure from her first relationship, Xi Men decides to teach Chong Her a lesson. They find Chong Her at a club where Xi Men humiliates the errant ex-boyfriend. Because of this, Xiao You starts to like Xi Men. Meanwhile, Shan Cai calls up Ah Si to apologize about Chong Her and to ask him to help her look for her friend, but Ah Si already knows everything from Xi Men. This alarms Shan Cai because Xi Men is a notorious playboy himself. Ah Si tries to talk to Shan Cai about their own relationship as their time was running out, admonishing her that she did not seem to care, but she embraces him from behind and thanks him for everything he has done, making Ah Si feel better.

The next day, Xi Men asks Xiao You on a date, but more as a scheme to get Ah Si and Shan Cai to spend time together. He knows that Shan Cai would hound them, dragging Ah Si along and it would be like they had a date themselves. Shan Cai and Ah Si follow them to the hotel that Ah Si owns and get the room beside theirs, thinking they had successfully intercepted Xi Men's seduction ploys: champagne, flowers, chocolates, and a violin player to serenade them. It was quite romantic until they start fighting again and soon Shan Cai discovers it was all a trick. She walks off in time to see Ah Si's mom entering the hotel. She rushes to Ah Si's house to pack her stuff but is caught by Dao Ming Feng on her way out. Auntie Jade threatens to kill herself if Dao Ming Feng insists that Shan Cai leave that night and Shan Cai is able to stay one more night in Ah Si's house. Auntie Jade tells Shan Cai that she is helping her because she has known Ah Si to be a difficult boy but it seems that Shan Cai has somehow managed to change him for the better. Dao Ming Feng then decides to get to Shan Cai by attacking her friends.

Meanwhile, F4 discuss the return of Ah Si's mom and decide it would be best if Ah Si moved out and went to live with Shan Cai. On a date, Ah Si proposes the plan to Shan Cai, which she rejects, but they manage to resolve the matter without fighting. Shan Cai surprises Ah Si when she puts her arm around him and, for the first time, kisses him from her own initiative.

Episode 14

Hua Ze Lei overhears Shan Cai talking to herself about being so bold to kiss Dao Ming Si and he teases her about it. Then, he warns her that Dao Ming Feng is a very dangerous woman and might try to attack her friends. True enough, Shan Cai learns that she has gone after Ching Her and Xiao You. Shan Cai confronts Dao Ming Feng and agrees to leave Ah Si alone if she stops all that nonsense. That night, Shan Cai waits for Ah Si outside his house under heavy rain and breaks up with him. She has no choice but to hurt Ah Si because she knows he would not let her go, otherwise. Shan Cai then dropped out of Ying De and went to her family by the seashore. Meanwhile, Ah Si is so desolate that when F3 and Ching Her try to talk to him about it, he tells them he does not give a damn anymore and reverts to the old, mean Dao Ming Si. Ching Her visits Xiao You and they both feel bad that Shan Cai left Ah Si for their safety. F3 and Ching Her then decided to look for Shan Cai.

Meanwhile, life by the seashore is difficult as Shan Cai's parents owed the landlords months of rent, compounded by the fact that her parents have been bragging about their daughter's wealthy boyfriend. Feeling sad, Shan Cai takes a walk on the beach only to be accosted by a man who has mistaken her for a lost girlfriend. They meet again when Shan Cai takes a job at a cafe. Ah Sung is a happy-go-lucky artist who is just waiting for his girlfriend to come back to him and Shan Cai decides to befriend him.

Dao Ming Si has started drinking; he is obnoxious in school, ignoring everyone, including F3. F3 try to cheer Ah Si up by asking him to hang out with them but Ah Si is so upset that he hits Xi Men and soon they are in a heated fistfight. By the seashore, Shan Cai misses Dao Ming Si and checks her cellphone in case he might have left her any messages. She finds that all the messages are from Ching Her. This depresses Shan Cai, making her believe that Ah Si does not even think of her at all.

Episode 15

Ah Sung and Shan Cai talk to each other about their love lives and not giving up on true happiness, while the villagers suspect that something is going on between them, making them doubt that Shan Cai does not have a rich boyfriend in the city. A TV crew shoots footage for a travel show outside the cafe and Ah Sung tries to clown around with Shan Cai in the background. Ching Her is praying to God for some sign on Shan Cai's whereabouts when he sees Shan Cai in the TV show, quickly informing F3 of this holy blessing. Lei tells Dao Ming Si, who vehemently insists he could not care less, so Lei takes Ching Her instead to fetch Shan. They arrive as the villagers are about to attack Shan Cai's family for the money they owe them. Lei pays off their debts and eventually persuades Shan Cai to return to the city with them. Before leaving, Shan Cai sees Ah Sung reunited with his girlfriend, giving her hope about her own fate.

Lei finds a house for Shan Cai and she is able to go back to school, where she would avoid Ah Si as much as she could. Lei reprimands Ah Si to make a clean break with Shan Cai, hinting that it something Lei needs to happen. He scoffs at first but when they accidentally cross paths, he asks to talk to her, waiting for her to apologize to him. She does not and Ah Si declares that it is finally over between them. Shan Cai returns the necklace he gave her, but he angrily throws it into the pond beside them. After Ah Si leaves, Shan Cai hurriedly searches for the necklace in the pond. Lei finds her there and helps her, fishing it out of the water. As Shan Cai takes it, she starts to cry and Lei embraces her. He asks Ah Si to meet him and asks him if he still feels anything for Shan Cai. Ah Si insists that he really does not care anymore, so Lei informs him that he plans to ask her to be hs girlfriend as he has grown to love Shan Cai as more than his friend. Ah Si laughs at him and leaves.

While drinking at his house, Ah Si tells Xi Men and Mei Zhuo the news and acts cool about it until he breaks down in front of them, admitting that he loves Shan Cai with all his heart and he would rather die than not be with her. Meanwhile, Lei and Shan Cai start dating again, which makes Shan Cai uncomfortable, but she knows that Lei means well. When he takes her home, they find that her front porch is decorated by bright lights that resembled the diamond necklace Ah Si had given Shan Cai. They then knew that it was Ah Si's doing and Lei is satisfied that Ah Si still loved her. Xi Men and Mei Zhuo later find him at a pub and lecture him about interfering in Ah Si and Shan Cai and are annoyed that Lei is laughing at them.

Episode 16

Lei leaves a letter for Shan Cai, apologizing for his abrupt departure to Japan to save his father's business. He tells Shan Cai to be true to herself and not give up loving Dao Ming Si. The night before, Lei tells Xi Men and Mei Zhuo about his plan to provoke Ah Si into his senses, wanting his best friend to realize that it is important to fight for what you want while you had the chance. They see Lei off. At the last minute, Ah Si makes it to the airport and promises Lei that he will take good care of Shan Cai.

Xiao Ji visits Shan Cai and tells her they should move forward and leave the past behind. The next day, Xiao Ji drags Shan Cai to a bunch of blind dates. They meet a man named Ching Yong who looks like and is as overbearing as Dao Ming Si. On her way home, Ching Yong grabs Shan Cai into a dark alley and scares her, telling her that Dao Ming Si is his cousin and speaks badly of him. Shan Cai escapes his clutches and bumps into Ah Si. Ah Si asks her for a drink, wanting to talk about their relationship. While at the cafe, Ching Yong passes them and distracts Shan Cai. Ah Si is convinced Shan Cai is only trying to change the subject as always. She tries to explain but it only makes him angry when he hears that she went on blind dates and as far as he knew, he did not have a cousin. Later, Auntie Jade confirms that he does have an ostracized cousin.

Ching Yong follows Shan Cai home and she is forced to let him in when she shuts the gate on his hand. He speaks badly of the Dao Ming family and tells her not to get mixed up with them. Meanwhile, Ah Si and Mei Zhuo find out from Xiao Ji that the blind dates were all her idea and Ah Si rushes to Shan Cai's house to apologize, missing Ching Yong by a minute. The next day, Ching Yong returns to Shan Cai's house and they start being more friendly with each other. Ah Si is determined to find Ching Yong and Xiao Ji tries to help investigate. She learns that Ching Yong had paid a guy to accompany him to their blind date. Auntie Jade accompanies Ah Si to meet Ching Yong and discover that he is a different person from Shan Cai's description. Ching Yong visits Shan Cai again, telling her he lied about being Ah Si's cousin and to leave Ah Si for him. His persistence makes her declare aloud that she loves Dao Ming Si. The next day, Ching Yong finds them all at the university and confesses that Dao Ming Feng paid him to break them up. Shan Cai forces him to take her to confront Ah Si's mom and Ching Yong takes her to the airport. If she wanted to talk to her so badly, he smirks, she should take a plane to New York.

Episode 17

Ching Yong tells Shan Cai that his real name is Yar Men and asks her to remain his friend. He also tells her that being with Dao Ming Si will only cause her grief. Shan Cai is confused about her relationship with Ah Si again, feeling bad that there are too many people trying to manipulate how she feels, Ah Si included. Yar Men falls ill and Shan Cai comes and cooks for him. Yar Men has ideas about love not lasting forever, which makes Shan Cai think. He tries to kiss her but she manages to escape. Walking home, she sees Ah Si and Xiao Ji together at a cafe and sees him smiling. She realizes that Ah Si does not smile easily when he is with her and decides it would be better if she gave him up. She does not know that Ah Si is asking Xiao Ji to give up on him as he will love only Shan Cai. He also seeks out Yar Men and threatens him to stay away from Shan Cai.

Yar Men ignores Dao Ming Si and apologizes to Shan Cai, inviting her to the amusement park. While waiting for a bus, Ah Si catches up with them and asks Shan Cai not to go with Yar Men and declares that he loves her. Speechless, Shan Cai gets on the bus with Yar Men, crying as Ah Si starts chasing after the bus. She realizes that she is willing to risk that their love will last forever and gets off the bus, running back into Ah Si's arms. The two are now inseparable and Ah Si is so happy, he asks Shan Cai to go with him to New York, but she refuses. She makes him lunch but acts like she does not want anyone to see them together, which initially angers Ah Si until she explains that she does not want his mother to find out about them and cause problems again. Ah Si agrees to keep the relationship a secret.

Xi Men checks up on Xiao You, who is already in love with him, but he only sees her as a friend. The next day at school, Shan Cai psychs herself up to call Ah Si like normal girlfriends do and finds that Ah Si was watching her the entire time. They duck out of sight when they overhear Xiao You profess her love for Xi Men who tells her that he can date her, kiss her, and sleep with her, but nothing more. Worried about Xiao You, Shan Cai gets awake when someone tries to break into her house. She screams for help and accidentally presses her cellphone, calling Ah Si, who rushes to her house in his pajamas. The next day, he moves in next door to be able to protect Shan Cai. The same morning, Xiao You visits Xi Men at his house and surprises him by telling him she would not mind just sleeping with him. That night, Ah Si and Shan Cai are unable to sleep, thinking of each other being so close next door. Meanwhile, Xi Men calls up Xiao You and asks her to meet him at a hotel.

Episode 18

Xi Men starts to undress Xiao You, causing her to shake anxiously. He then tells her he was just trying to scare her because he did not think she was that kind of girl. Xiao You tells him she wants it to happen because her family is about to migrate to Canada the next day and she wants something to remember Xi Men by. Touched by this, he ends up holding her in his arms all night. The next morning, Shan Cai cooks breakfast for Dao Ming Si but discovers that he had left his house early. At school, she overhears him complaining about not being able to sleep in such an uncomfortable house, but she is happy nevertheless that he is inconveniencing himself for her sake.

Xiao You calls Shan Cai to tell her that she is leaving and sorry that she could not say goodbye properly while Xi Men sits in the Italian Tomato bakery, erasing all the girls' numbers from his cellphone, except for Xiao You's. Shan Cai is sad that Xiao You is gone but is more bothered that Dao Ming Si has not returned to his house yet. When he shows up, he explains that he still has to go home, sneak off at midnight, and sneak back early in the morning so that his mom's people would not be suspicious. But they find out about them anyway and Dao Ming Feng furiously flies back to Taiwan. Mei Zhuo finds himself friendless as Ah Si is always with Shan Cai, Lei is in Japan, and Xi Men is not interested in partying anymore. On a date, Ah Si and Shan Cai are surprised when none of his credit cards work. After bringing her home, Dao Ming Feng's strongmen abduct Ah Si, who presses his cellphone, calling up Mei Zhuo. Mei Zhuo hears the strange conversation and tells Xi Men about it the next day. They know that something bad has happened upon learning that Ah Si has dropped out of school.

They visit Ah Si's house but are not allowed in. Auntie Jade gives them an invitation to Ah Si's wedding to Xiao Ji. F2 and Ching Her go to Shan Cai's house to discuss the situation. Lei returns from Japan after Mei Zhuo calls him about what happened to Ah Si. F3 confront Xiao Ji about the wedding and she tells them it was the decision of Dao Ming Feng and her parents and they had no choice in the matter. Meanwhile, Ah Si is locked up in his room, his hands bloody from trying to escape. He refuses to eat and has to be sedated. F3 decide to break Ah Si out of the house but are caught by Dao Ming Feng herself. They are without hope when Ching Her remembers Che Che and Mei Zhuo immediately calls her. Meanwhile, Xiao Ji begs Shan Cai to let go of Dao Ming Si, to tell him they have no future together, because neither son nor mother would back down and it may result in Ah Si's death. Shan Cai agrees.

Episode 19

Finally, Che Che arrives from New York, proud of her brother for having the courage to stand up for his own happiness. Xiao Ji brings Shan Cai to Dao Ming Si's house and she is allowed to talk to him with a door separating them. She tries to tell him to give up but Ah Si tells her that if he could give her up the first time they broke up, he would easily give up now also. He convinces her that they will be together in the end, no matter what.

Shan Cai tells Dao Ming Feng that she will wait for Ah Si. If he will not eat, she will not eat. If they will not let him out, she will wait for him for as long as it takes. She faithfully stands outside his house, even when it starts to rain heavily. Che Che confronts her mother about her stubborness, championing Shan Cai to be a better woman, with more integrity than either of them. Dao Ming Feng rages that she does not want her only son to make any mistakes that could hurt his future. Che Che then tells her that her biggest mistake was to accept her own arranged marriage and not fight for her own happiness, a mistake she was going to pay for the rest of her life. Stunned, Dao Ming Feng spends the rest of the night thinking everything over. In the morning, Che Che discovers that her mother has left for New York and the wedding is cancelled. Auntie Jade takes Shan Cai into Ah Si's room where the tired lovers reunite at last.

A week later, Ah Si tells Shan Cai that during his hunger strike, he would regret dying if only because he has never heard Shan Cai tell him that she loves him. He pesters her when she refuses to comply, and almost does not hear when she declares her love for him. She finally repeats her declaration and they dissolve in happiness in each other's arms.

Television Series - Great Teacher

2001-06-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

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Adapted from popular Japanese comics. F4's Jerry Yan and Ken Chu are in Taiwan's hot TV series "Great Teacher." Also starring Xie Zu-wu, Wu Hoi-ying, Xie Ming-zhi and Jia Xin-hui.

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F4's Comicman

2001-03-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

Comicman

HK$115

Thanks to J.R.S.O.A.

Newspaper Articles

2000-12-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

People's Journal Tonight
Sunday, 2 January 2005
Entertainment
page 12

2004's good and bad in showbiz

...The reality talent search resulted to the poularity of StarStruck and Star Circle Quest teen stars, the likes of Mark Herras and Hero Angeles, among others....

...The teen idols were perfect match against the charismatic appeal of telenovela foreign superstars, the likes of Vanness Wu, Jerry Yan, Vic Zhou, and Ken Zhu of F4 fame....

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Singtao
29 December 2004
Entertainment

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Malaya Sunday
21 November 2004
page 11

Here comes the Sean

A lot of peope say the F4 mania is over. That may be so, but for Sean Lim, it is something he has to live with every day of his life - unless he cuts his hair.

Because of his resemblance to F4, Sean is used to people smiling and waving when they see him in malls and other public places. But nothing can compare to the shock he got weeks ago when they traveled to Thailand to shoot the music video for "Wonder Girl," a composition by Trina Belamide that is included in his album. Although Sean could not understand what they were saying, he could make out the word "F4." Even the curious onlookers in Thailand thought he was one of the members of the popular Taiwanese group.

Sean does not consider it a disadvantage to be identified with F4. "I am used to it. Minsan nga, kahit naglalakad lang ako sa mall, naririnig ko, tinatawag nila akong F4," smiles the Multimedia Arts graduate of the College of Saint Benilde. "Sometimes, I even smile and wave back at them."

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excerpts from the Philippine Daily Inquirer
Entertainment
page 4
Tuesday, 19 October 2004

The name changed but not the music

First, they called themselves the Angfourgettables. Then, they became simply called Ang4.

Today, they are known as A4.

Is the quartet of Dyords Javier, Pinky Marquez, Isay Alvarez and Bimbo Cerrudo reinventing itself?

"No big deal," says Dyords, who created the group after midnight 13 years ago by dialing Pinky. "We adopted A4 for brevity, easier recall. And no, we're not riding on the popularity of F4."

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Excerpts from "Tigress, burning bright"
Medium Rare
Jullie Yap Daza
Manila Standard
Opinion
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
page C3

As for the unpleasant memories of that F4 concert staged at Ultra, "rest assured we are taking necessary measures to guarantee security and crowd control."

Internet Articles - 2006 (October 2000)

2000-10-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

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7 November 2006

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LI Bing My breath freezing on the "Organization Department Holds Press Conference

[Yewanru Taipei-Beijing Alliance -- LI Bing and has Zhuxiaotian, Zhou Yu Min (My) pyramid scandal. also heard a scandal, she turned around! Yesterday reporter asked her son to make a film with "Butterfly fly" how to cultivate their feelings? Her gentle tone of the original, instantaneous changes in tone, and she flatly refused, saying : "I do not have to answer these questions!"

And F2 Sex Scandal "School Official Cites Use LI Bing acting class, and greater speed faster telephone interview with reporters yesterday, the original tone and harmony, spoke freely and frankly while filming his new opera "The Mother WAN heart logo" stand, and one asked F2 scandal, immediately refused to answer, then said : "My intention was that he not in the field, the atmosphere very seriously. "

She does not recognize the love and F2, but deep into the drama that easy to shoot "logo Niang", high temperature of 42 degrees Celsius for a long time in the packet tightly shoot costume drama, coupled with the pressure to carry the box office, and a manic-depressive tendencies : "Studios have emotional control, the pain can be excruciating during filming, exactly six months after fixing inextricable. "with the performers. Highest impact on the mainland was once jailed in adjacent encouragement : "I did not experience anything. The little trouble. "" logo Niang "tomorrow night at 8:00 Eastern comprehensive Taiwan premiere.

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20 October 2006

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Launch Grandest Xujo LI Bing accuser a group "with the Organization Department Holds Press Conference Zhuxiaotian James dark" cloud water Bellflower "struggle" Organization Department Holds Press Conference

[Wu strong Taipei -- Xujo (Vivian) and LI Bing came across with Zhuxiaotian scandal. also co-from the movie "cloud water rumors," and not, She wife to Launch Grandest Film Festival next Saturday's ceremony focused on the mainland. According to the mainland's "Sina" reported, both during the shoot because of the "cloud water rumors," and not for Position trouble. Vivian Blue literary agent denied yesterday : "I saw them both one hand, it is really familiar. But where's does not?"

"Sina" (http://ent.sina.com.cn) reported that Vivian. LI Bing shoot at the "cloud water Bellflower" indisputable rankings, the name actress Vivian LI Bing more than three plays. LI Bing won through acting.

But LI Bing is not fuel-efficient lights, last exhibited in the Beijing press conference, Vivian absence LI Bing namely : "I am not a supporter, and I are the first Xujo actress. "

In addition, they have over scandal and Zhu Xiao Tian Chuan, Vivian and shoot him -- "Kuangailongjuanfeng" news, LI Bing shoot in the "Sky" at the hotel and he Jiwen as exposure to the three sensational entertainment. LI Bing only about Vivian said : "I only she and the" cloud water Bellflower "to show off, I only know that she was snatched comic boyfriend, husband. "quite pungent spicy. LI Bing next Saturday to compete in the "A World Without Thieves" Launch Grandest, Vivian also invited to attend. Both interactive attracted public attention.

Being chaos into the vernacular "School Official Cites Use of the recent filming in the mainland, have been very successful in the development of the book album. She said that she will launch in December night in the New album plus selected, famous for the "sad Juliet" which projects will be included. She said : "Mermaid, pirate these presentations, I play a long time ago. "alluding to the recent seem to sing the" Mermaid "Vivian. In "The Castle" album and wearing pirates armed with Protean. Although she is a best-seller writer, but had phrase "snipe (At the`) from all the fighting, "talk about" crane from all the fighting, "she night also inadvertently "1987 (% middle) Subject Jieshe" into "head trip speechless," it is necessary to strengthen the diversity of 1,10.

Zhu Xiao Tian Jia geopolitical women, a lot of scandal.

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4 October 2006

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Zhuxiaotian dragon old strokes foam Xiaoqiang
Senior American soul stuff obstinately going to eliminate affair

Zhuxiaotian just because HU room massage relieve pressure on the mainland newspapers have very deep relations, I did not expect him to not go astray, adding "kungfu" Rays of Light near Xiaoqiang at home with girl old tricks, while Xiao Meimei cold or influenza, Yao beitong occasion and volunteered to entering the house, dragon, which is the therapy massage, Asya think his old tricks than Taiwan's variety show old stem also outdated.

Fortunately, Xiao Qiang is not fuel-efficient lights, in the face of Zhuxiaotian gentleness care offensive, trying to eliminate an affair funny.

Filming pursue Taiwan flavor

Xiao Qiang because not eat NG, a regular OK, is known "Hsiao one", there is a lot of time stuff, such as a ring lights, props for the time, time to play her beautiful masterpiece "fish-scale" and tears from the room Oide shouted "kungfu, you wait a little while," even on the horizon that Zhuxiaotian language : "You so you dare?"

They also take a singing tour in costume version of the "Thunderbolt Fire" Hsiao-Americans across the Taiwan flavor to develop, but also describe the light!

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Source: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT1/3544590.shtml

4 October 2006

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Discharge said Xiao Qiang Zhu Xiao Tian good massage

[United Daily News / Xinhua QIFENG / Taipei --2006.10.04 Role am]

Xiao Qiang (left) has the power to Zhuxiaotian -- privately he will Massage for her.
Photo / mining for gold

Power-class Xiaoqiang, the Hengdian shoot in the mainland "kungfu legend," even the F4 Zhuxiaotian could not escape, she was filmed by the cold hanging 1947, also took the initiative to help her Zhuxiaotian manipulate the feelings are particularly good.

Xiao Qiang soon join "kungfu" Rays of Light, a special treatment from the outside world thought Zhuxiaotian will be jealous, but does not produce a first-class person -- Xiao Qiang, arbitrarily Zhuxiaotian get, the two not only became friends, it's clear that his sister's Xiaoqiang, Zhuxiaotian willing to give her brother.

Xiao Qiang recently contracted flu internal filming fatigue, asked the doctors to the care of agent Hsia Xiaoqiang, the more her day of 1947 for medical treatment, while Zhu Xiao Tian told the same game, doing massage helped Xiao Qiang, Xiao big beautiful women equally grateful heart.

Speaking Zhuxiaotian, Xiao Qiang said : "we are from Taiwan! Shoot particularly easy to play, although this is the first time, but here Xiaotian very kungfu heroes demeanor, the program in the field, he's like a big brother, always bring snacks to thank the staff of the scene. "

Xiao Qiang Zhu Xiao Tian remember lines and also admire the skill, and never NG, nicknamed her "Xiao one" (the first set). Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, friends from Taiwan rushed in from the desktop brought her favorite cakes to accompany her over the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival was originally unable to accompany them because their families and lovers, feeling a bit low, she faced the concern, they moved the minutes said : "The Mid-Autumn Festival this year, I was not alone in the. "

[United Daily News : 2006/10/04 @ Http://udn.com/]

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Ken and F4 news:

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8 September 2006

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Zhuxiaotian was trembling inside to find out about HU

Have Peimin, Yewanru Taipei-Hengdian Alliance -- the mainland yesterday reported "Sina", Zhuxiaotian shoot "kungfu legend," the same night drama actress Hu Jing Bo actually went to massage her! In this regard, Hu Jing Qi Huai : "The other day Bo Assistant actor scandal is exaggerated. "Zhuxiaotian support through brokers to clarify the rationale :" to require companies to Bo who, accompanied by Assistant certain. "

Their son hit Jerry

Play the role of "jellyfish Yinji" Xiao Qiang, a Progressive Troupe from the day before yesterday, by the high-level treatment, she did not dwell only upset that the filming of a large mosquito bite.

In addition to traditional Zhuxiaotian scandal, he joined the Tourism Bureau and F3 "South Korea CD counseling scheme" of the content changes, the Tourism Bureau intends to previously "fit F4" shoot idol drama to hit Yanchengxu (Jerry), son and two in Japan, South Korea, high-profile, I was assigned my idol drama has been replaced chaired Zhuxiaotian food program Wujianhao program is responsible for Taiwan's beautiful scenery. CD producers for the retention Chaizhiping sentence : "The contract includes drama, and so many parts of the planning process must first such negotiation and adoption can make decisions. "

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT8/3463865.shtml, 10 August 2006

Translated with Google:

Zhuxiaotian volumes into play Pa storm
Zhuxiaotian clarify their not play

Fulong /  provide Ms Eagle is a reporter Chu /  Taipei-Shanghai telephone interview.

Star "Brothers legend," the constant negative news, finally yesterday Zhuxiaotian full anti - Attack, "Chu" is a drama script in Georgia on a tribal language associated with Zhuxiaotian Sent to the media, not only to clarify his live very well with drama, but is not mentioned in That the "drama tyrants."

In fact, now Zhuxiaotian volumes into the most beautiful ring fever "show tyrants" storm indeed It is full of innocent. Support for brokers to that because Internet users, as well as some media figure Testing is said to show tyrants is Zhuxiaotian, brokerage firms before deciding positive response. But Yan Georgia, Zhuxiaotian to slap the word "drama tyrants", I am afraid to show 10 , drama, To be eligible.

Drama Pa storm early August the first 10  company denounced known Libaotian joint intervention, He alleged that not only difficult but also the designated lead, but also placement of relatives into theatres, but also Requested the High cars, and so on.

Thereafter storm raging large Libaotian good friend and has cooperative partners have come out to voice Assistance, also was Libaotian once threatened to quit, the latest development is purely for the new opera was the detonation Press speculation. In the process, including Chen, quiet, father, Liu Xiaoqing, Siqin Largest, Zhang Fengyi, Zhang Tielin were selected plays Pa Bang Chan, Look, see signs? This Series name may have been known national treasure class should get to have two of the characters!

Zhuxiaotian to Xinjiang movies for a week extension to the argument that Zhuxiaotian with staff flu Indeed very good situation, the terminal of this back to us with more food and medicines, excess costs also spent two Thousand dollars, and this time with the show Zhuxiaotian exchange, and learn how to prepare a set of eight Star. By Word on conditions in Xinjiang, the center share weal and woe, and for non-ending flow Statement is feeling helpless.

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Film "Tokyo Trial" Opens in September

2006-08-09 11:39:18 CRIENGLISH.com

Taiwan heartthrob Ken Zhu

The historical Chinese movie "Tokyo Trial" is finally set to hit movie theaters on September 1 across China.

Led by director Gao Qunshu, all the cast met the press in Beijing on Wednesday.

Six main theater chains in China will join for the first time to screen the Chinese film.

The movie centers on the trial of top Japanese war criminals at the International Military tribunal for the Far East nearly 60 years ago. Eighty percent of the dialogue is in English and Japanese, adding to the international flavour of the film.

The director revealed he had borrowed 5 million yuan to finish the film when financial problems took place.

He has to shoot TV dramas later to pay back the loan.

The film also attracted leading US and Japanese actors. Gao said he had thought Japanese actors would turn down the opportunity to perform in this historical movie, but they accepted the plot and delivered a professional performance.

He added some Japanese theater chains also have contacted him to buy the screening rights in Japan.

With a reportedly low budget, director Gao Qunshu nevertheless managed to gather a star-studded cast for his movie.

Hong Kong veterans Kenneth Tsang and Damian Lau play a Chinese prosecutor and judge respectively.

Mainland comedy star Ying Da and Taiwan heartthrob Ken Zhu are among the leads.

Source: http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/08/09/60@124561.htm

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Zhuxiaotian Xinjiang cross-wan father

It has Peimin, if the fall of snow shows U Taipei-Beijing Alliance reports -- just his father died of Zhuxiaotian, Father's day will be spent in Xinjiang, the "Brothers legend" investors, "strong media" CEO Yu-Ming know he rejected, saying horses dollars worth 400,000 yuan horse "black pearl" bringing him happy; Qin Yang and father of stroke, and he is still too sick, found lying unconscious. Father's day is full of worry.

Qin Yang worry father

Zhuxiaotian processing End Xinjiang father for whom he returned, he has a low profile, he worried that outsiders have. You always special send him one horse, but also praise him : "He left his father, he also lay down their heart, and now plays his very well. "You always said that a little while ago Zhuxiaotian said :" Every son of a father born in the worship! "to miss my father's heart, into the work force.

Qin Yang had just finished shooting "82 gold," No, wholehearted care stroke father, a father to southern care, acupuncture treatment, but still found lying unconscious, Father's day this year and he and playwright Greg similar to the neighbors relax, do not intend to celebrate a holiday.

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Translated with Altavista Babelfish:

Zhu Hsiaot'ien Xinjiang cross Ma Ssufu

[ Once wore , space if drifted Taibei's - Beijing segment to report ] just lost father's Zhu Hsiaot'ien, Fathers Day will pass in Xinjiang, "Chu Liuhsiang the Legend" the investor, " the media" president You Chienming knew him sadly, delivered value 40 ten thousand Yuan dollars steeds "the black pearl" to tease him to be happy; But Qin the Yang daddy because of the stroke, at present still remained unconscious on the sickbed, Fathers Day filled the anxiety.

Qin Yang worries the daddy

After Zhu Hsiaot'ien processes the father to lose then returns Xinjiang to make a movie, he although the low key, the bystanders all know him to be grieved. Swims always specially delivers him a horse, but also approves him: "After the Zhu daddy walks, a his heart also lays down, now the play develops very much well." Swims always disclosed that, first time period Zhu Hsiaot'ien said: "Each son all has to the fathers plants the inborn worship!" Fondly remembers daddy's heart, changes into the work the strength.

After Qin Yang pats "Eight Two Golds" temporarily not to have the work, the entire heart attendance stroke daddy, leads the daddy to recuperate, the acupuncture and moxibustion treatment to the south, but until now still remained unconscious, this year Fathers Day he and screenwriter concurrently neighbor Zheng Wenhua reaches agreement Hong Kong to relax, did not plan celebrated a holiday.

Source: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/AppleNews/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&loc=TP&PageType=ent&sec_id=9&NewsType=twapple&showdate=20060807&art_id=2801205, 7 August 2006

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Zhu Hsiaot'ien the fat pressure breaks down Li Pingping

Zhu Hsiaot'ien refuses stubbornly to acknowledge storm fat, east racket woods "City of the Sky" when by Li Pingping disliked too heavy, wants him to lose weight!

In the play she carries him in the forest which rains to run, the back is motionless, has partly to support by the arm, but does not slip all of a sudden on physical strength, Zhu Hsiaot'ien the continuously laughter during a performance, was mad Li Pingping scolds him: "You should lose weight!"

Source: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/AppleNews/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&loc=TP&PageType=ent&sec_id=9&NewsType=twapple&showdate=20060803&art_id=2791634, 3 August 2006

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Translated with Google:

Zhuxiaotian father last trip to look around. (Liberty Times)

Bearing in mind the teachings of the father conduct a funeral procession Zhuxiaotian

According to an informed source Zhuxiaotian father Zhu Ming, as a result of liver cancer at 82 on the 11th of this month, yesterday held a farewell ceremony at the Taoyuan funeral management. Wear all the clothes for mourning Zhuxiaotian sour his beard, looked very much in the background, can not help stretch.

Zhuxiaotian father in the party, recalled his father's words : "Be a man, not to gauge the mark, Chengyafuzhiyong, the sort. "Zhuxiaotian age 10, parents divorced shortly after he was brought to the Singapore study, and he and his father are not deep feelings until many years before to meet, but he still remembered his father this saying, Evidently he was very respected father.

Successfully see through his father's things behind, will be more rest two days Zhuxiaotian Fugong film "Brothers legend."

Reporter : Sun Chuang

Source: http://www.mingpaonews.com/20060731/mac1.htm

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Translated with Sherlock:

Zhu Hsiaot'ien (right) yesterday held the father Zhu Yuehming memorial
tablet, the facial expression is being sad.

The Zhu Hsiaot'ien younger sister (is right) holds the father
bone ash, he opens an umbrella in side escorts.

Zhu Hsiaot'ien 30 ten thousand Yuan mourning rituals saw somebody off
father grandfather paternal grandmother still to conform to
simplicity in the world

[ Wu Lich'iang, once wore, group ╱ peach garden
reported ] Zhu Hsiaot'ien obeyed the father last wish, yesterday
morning managed the mourning ritual take the low key simple mode as
the father, the expenditure nearly 30 ten thousand Yuan, was lower
than him to pat "Chu Liuhsiang the Legend" volumes of 32 ten thousand
Yuan pieces rewards. Scene any star light, the first scandal
girlfriend hempen garments have not arrived, the entertainer only has
Yang Ch'eng Lin and the ceramic crystal clear delivers the flower.

The Zhu Hsiaot'ien father Zhu Yuehming farewell type yesterday morning
had high morals in the Taoyuan funeral and burial administration
center the hall to hold, Zhu Hsiaot'ien when nearly eight wore the
sunglasses to ride in a carriage arrives, last week the three life
forces returned him which rushed home for a relative's funeral, kept, is gathering the Hu dregs, offered a sacrifice to, the public memorial ceremony from the family to in the remains cremation process,
fell the tear by no means in front of the person, but the nose
throughout was red. His manager Yao said that, "He also
tranquil." Excavates him manager Ge Fuhung and Chai Chihping, all
accompanies him to deliver the father last the regulation, the broker
company hits the attack and defense war in the scene and the media in,
guards against reporter to enter photographs. Unauthorized biography
Zhu Hsiaot'ien for exempts the tumult, once asked the staff to want
the F4 other three people not to need to arrive, the broker company
"respectively had the work by them" the denial, but three people all
asked the person to wrap have established the meter.

Endures sadly to comfort younger sister Zhu Hsiaot'ien the father the
farewell type suitable common people, the mourning hall is only can
place 60 chairs the small halls, entire field expenditure nearly 30
ten thousand Yuan. It is reported, so the low key reason eliminates
obeys the perishing last wish, but also because is Grandpa Zhu
Hsiaot'ien paternal grandmother also in the world, according to the
folk custom, the Zhu Fu's mourning ritual cannot go to extremes
extravagantly. After the public memorial ceremony ends, Zhu Hsiaot'ien
first arrives the peach garden to revere the big hotel rest, then
arrives the crematory to pick the bone, his facial expression is
exhausted, interviews to reporter, he reluctantly said: "I already
gave you the working space, asked you also to give me the private."
Afterwards, he stands in younger sister Zhu Hsiaojou nearby the body
supports the umbrella, two people place together the Zhu father
bone ash in "the township public natrium", he looked the
younger sister eye socket exudes red, is not sorrowful already, often
pats her shoulder comfort, the sentiment deeply reveals with
nothing left. Zhu Hsiaot'ien estimated tomorrow will start on a
journey Xinjiang the play to register to "Chu"

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Zhu dad friend Lee auntie last respects to the hall

Zhu Xiao Tian Ji father flowers do not appear

The Special Group, has Peimin shows Taipei -- Zhuxiaotian father Zhu Ming on the funeral today in the management of Taoyuan City funeral held yesterday Zhu family cremation relics, still see Zhuxiaotian coming Ji father; Only one full day is a friend who is the named Zhu dad auntie scene respects. She sighed : "I and his (Zhu dad) separated seven years, he's sick, I was watching television will know. "

Brokers that have access
Shortly after 4 pm yesterday, two Zhuxiaotian mother and sister in chief jade to the funeral parlour Mrs Zhu Xiao Zhu dad belongings burned, chanting also can not help weeping tears, told reporters not to ask questions of one another. - Unusual Zhuxiaotian did not come alone signed and sent flowers to his younger sister, was written "no father Dr presume," meaning "no father, I have no one to rely on."
Waiting for 4th consecutive reporters are not Zhuxiaotian coming Ji father, hasten home for the funeral of his trip back to Taiwan, low-key action puzzling. He said the broker sticks to the rationale : "Zhuxiaotian back, once to visit his father. "He expressed the sentiments of a smooth, over the past few days to discuss his father and his family were succeeding generations. As with the original drama channels, will be back on August 1 Xinjiang "Brothers legend," center back, the broker said : "not yet identified, may be subject to Xiaotian home situation. "

Zhuxiaotian and sister jointly send flowers to the funeral hall father.

Zhuxiaotian yesterday did not appear at the funeral.

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Zhu mother yesterday with books and food to communities on either friends.

Zhuxiaotian dad farewell ceremony tomorrow mother has suffered a low profile in absentia

The Special Group, has Peimin shows Taipei --

Zhuxiaotian father Zhu on the funeral tomorrow, tomorrow will be at the "Taoyuan City funeral management" Huaide Chamber has told Zhu Zhu mother Wanglizhen divorced father, has suffered as a result, are Christians, not to attend the funeral on the same day. She said that Zhu dad really good the past few years, "Four years ago the late long overdue follow his liver, can live more than four years, traveling to see his son, he was very happy. "

Wanglizhen 20 that year gave Zhuxiaotian as early Zhu dad with personality-plus, the final divorce. Although Zhuxiaotian with mother, but she wanted to earn money to support their families, then remarry, and his sister were sent to Singapore Zhuxiaotian independent living decade. Although fewer children gather from the number, but have been in touch, she also praising Zhuxiaotian filial piety, but also for the younger siblings of tuition fees.

Christians inconvenience missing

She left yesterday Hsintien residence to residence to friends, thought that she would go to the funeral affairs Taoyuan address Zhu dad, but she said he later remarry, and Christians are not your worship, inconvenient participation; These days, Zhu dad has not conveyed. Her mother said : "He (Zhu dad) succeeding generations, the family will have to deal with another. "Recently Zhu dad into intensive care wards, she went to see him one last time, the two in the performing arts circle Zhuxiaotian to break a shared happy days.

Zhu dad came in the "Taoyuan City funeral management" Huaide Chamber.

Zhuxiaotian him to return but not Taoyuan funeral Ji father.

News: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/AppleNews/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&loc=TP&PageType=ent&sec_id=9&NewsType=twapple&showdate=20060729&art_id=2781992, 29 July 2006

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Translated with Sherlock:

Picture Caption:
Zhu Fu says goodbye to the type this Sunday to hold in the Taoyuan
funeral and burial administration center.

Zhu Hsiaot'ien rushes the father to lose "City of the Sky" the
affiliation scandal to fry again mysterious kisses the play

[ Recreation center ╱ Taibei reported ]

The Zhu filial piety
heavenly father kissed before death once exhorted him to have
to manage the low key, Zhu Hsiaot'ien all obeys, not only low key, but
also did mystically. Day before yesterday he returned from Xinjiang to
rush home for a relative's funeral, Yu Tso before dawn arrived at, but
the broker company used a pretext did not know, but also therefore the
cloth said he first went to Hong Kong to handle matters, the
attempt got rid of the media urgently to stare at the person. When Zhu
Hsiaot'ien does return? Whether yesterday went to in front of the
funeral parlor father memorial tablet to offer a sacrifice to does
obeisance? His broker company and friend complete seal. Zhu Fu at
present put on the Taoyuan funeral and burial administration center
has the temporary memorial tablet, reporter has yesterday defended one
day, all has not seen Zhu Hsiaot'ien this present existence.

Goes beyond the great wall an ultra low key for bit of night before
last and Zhu Hsiaot'ien with rides the country peaceful CX-462 flight
to return a eyewitness to indicate, Zhu Hsiaot'ien goes beyond the
great wall when glances right and left, to be very afraid with the
racket, puts on him which the ash coat, wears the sunglasses, "really
very low key". Before Zhu Hsiaot'ien and Li Pingping cooperates
spreads the scandal "City of the Sky", had broadcast in east woods
play, outside the play two people once are also patted to kiss in the
hotel elevator, let "the day ice love" make a big noise for a while.
The mainland "Sina Net" the day before yesterday reported Li Pingping
straight reprimands this incident is Zhu Hsiaot'ien uses her to fry
the news, but yesterday "Sina Net" also reported Li Pingping issues
the statement, pointed out this is a false news, she and the manager
has not accepted any interview.

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Translated with Google:

No. 1483
July 21, 2006 edition

Libingbing him that night I was Zhuxiaotian design!

Reports / Liuhuiru

"Sky City" to be broadcast Libingbing Zhuxiaotian then burst with the love of old things again attracted attention. (may Mirui Chile)

Postponed for two years "sky city" in Japan and Taiwan launched, male, female and Libingbing Zhuxiaotian year in a hotel in the City to call picture, and thus began the long bygone events burst again attracted concern, not only to uphold Libingbing Taiwan together with Zhuxiaotian publicity, but can not help him back down from its strong : "That night was designed. "

Zhuxiaotian to Xinjiang film "Brothers legend," absent While new movies screening, the production units may also Mirui - "very suddenly" on the grounds that did not have many experiences to Taiwan by her Libingbing in promotional activities at the invitation of a press conference in Yangcheng only one seat overall Lynn cleverly evaded two years ago by the two sides in the three films topic.

However, because the mainland has recently Zhuxiaotian work to be mentioned Libingbing of love, he does not want to harm the woman as an excuse to avoid short : "I'm sorry, really sorry, so long as it is on her, I did not want to talk about. Because I feel that a man should themselves this matter, We can not let a woman suffer. "Although, as shown by the show Zhuxiaotian demeanor, but in Libingbing listening ears, is particularly ironic.

Here two years since the incident, Libingbing omitting any mention of that in his heart to resent the response is written on his forehead, but when Zhuxiaotian "sorry" was certainly, she can no longer help it to collapse, strongly expressed that night was Zhuxiaotian design.

Libingbing bluntly incident as a life experience to anyone, although occurred immediately felt that there was something wrong, but do not want to "interested parties" speculation, it will be no mention. Her broker pro said : "Li Bingbing is not taboo to talk about feelings, but this incident is wrong, broke the news to the media about the process, the media have expressed, so do follow-up. "

After holding news sources, that is a reader claimed at hand Zhuxiaotian and Libingbing video game, and is willing to sell at a high price, just four days later, Taiwan and Hong Kong media published on the same news. Li said that the reason that things are wrong, mainly films as outflow points of time in a year after the incident, if it is purely for the sake of money, so long after the election should not announced; Zhuxiaotian added that he has been repeatedly have happen in the campaign, it is difficult not to let people think is deliberately stir things up.

Libingbing back on the same day, and were originally Zhuxiaotian similar DVD, two living with a hotel, just across the replacement of directors and because the occasion to bring together actors shooting on the day the contents of the communication is often a matter of late, but several performers in good feelings, even if public Louloubaobao would not be surprised; plus Zhuxiaotian style originally Yangpa only that he was unusually warm, sudden kiss, although surprised Libingbing then, but not able to be left behind two very intimate picture.

According to staff reports, Zhuxiaotian hot Libingbing is universally known. At the beginning of cooperation, although there Zhuxiaotian because belittle the actor, and with a sub-Libingbing information for Zhuxiaotian woman was treated in turn, said : "He privately excellent live, like a child, working together is very serious, very cordial, and we get along very well!"

Husband : respect for her
Reports / Liuhuiru

In fact, Li Bingbing so very Zhuxiaotian mainly touched by his caring, center staff said Libingbing was filming sprain legs, the rest of the free Zhuxiaotian will help her massage seems to be healing research; His staff also said that the love story is like the plot into reality, particularly useful for girls.

In addition, a female carrying her injured man behind the idea, because then Zhuxiaotian fat and weight than the current 76 kilograms to heavy, the frail Libingbing so forth back on his back several times 10 to Zhuxiaotian know very sorry, so after the show to help bei, Libingbing therefore he had good.

With several close interaction, Zhuxiaotian often concern Libingbing ever play the physical exhaustion, but also specifically asked Assistant help her buy food, love food, he had to personally do Libingbing ones, and even take pictures free to film "world without thieves," a film scene by scene, to visit the show on both sides expect Libingbing, who can feel the relationship between the two immensely.

We look forward to the original two developments, particularly Libingbing also indicated that cooperation does not begin to know is who achieved fame Zhuxiaotian continent F4, and friends said at the time was the other side of a ridicule, she struggles back to one, specially bought the "Garden" DVD home to see, said : "I will go after this show, feel that they have become like small girls, these four big boys start things. "

According to several brokers said Libingbing forthright personality, then live happily Zhuxiaotian really good, so he never tried and interaction for Zhuxiaotian private residence about to chat or DVD not suspected him, but he did not expect his final evolved into a person, even with a "love" word began to damage the reputation of girls, Let Libingbing then to have great mistrust of people no longer easily make friends.

Li cited Mayi, Li Bing Bing and Cai Yilin, Zhuxiaotian the scandal, there is not the time to record information, the new movie is being made, or stall, she pointed to say : "If the characters show goods, Libingbing audience has long been loved, because she upright personality and a serious working attitude, simply do not have to rely on speculation interest scandals. Love, "" Heaven ice "enormous shadow of Li Bing Bing, and she has been reluctant to Zhuxiaotian with Taiwan, the name was reluctant to talk about or even heard. Old friend type, and whether it is worth it only person to know. But with the Commissioners have thus Libingbing overseas, under the guidance of a work by Carol, another man was selected F4 members joined Zhouyumin.

Terms of the "sky city" in Tungsen exhibition, inevitably bring, Zhuxiaotian broker sticks to the argument is also deeply helpless, said that the incident morning after 800, when the two are frank, not as it is made in response to conceal, so the future will no longer be expressed. For information and speculation that the woman was the design, brokers think about, and a recent Zhuxiaotian publicly "sorry" speech, he explained : "Zhuxiaotian mean, whatever she may say, we have to respect that. "

Yangcheng Lynn to love herself - day ice accident
Reports / Liuhuiru

Yangcheng Lynn and Zhuxiaotian pro-sister look like, the two will be commensurate with brothers and sisters. (Tungsen)

Yangcheng Lynn and Zhuxiaotian commensurate with brothers and sisters, play in the movie is to help assemble his love, but he did not expect his final changing "day ice Love" ends! Yangcheng Lynn recall can not help laughing : "I do not need Zhuxiaotian as matchmaker and he is OK! "

When the female matchmaker Yangcheng Lynn to their ability to feel quite proud to say : "Because staff members are mostly single, private-like when I was helping everyone plays matchmaker. "but his performance was passable, she sister brother love, and real life, often exhausted her efforts to raise comparable, Thus in the "sky city" shooting free, she always chose the most appropriate time to disappear and leave them unattended opportunities.

Speaking of "Heaven ice Love" at the beginning of exposure, Yangcheng Lynn also was surprised when she only find fun only and did not expect the final find herself. Most of the time when she and Zhuxiaotian are to play, did not find Zhu and Li are in love and they have until one year after the incidents are found after exposure, has long been one pair of the original two.

Yangcheng Lynn Zhuxiaotian because shooting with the "Garden" and familiar with, because with the pro-Zhuxiaotian sister look like, the two will be commensurate with brothers and sisters. Cooperation by following the "sky city," Yang Cheng Lynn for the first time abroad, by Zhu Xiao Tian as a pro-brother care, and therefore brothers and sisters to develop strong feelings. Yangcheng Lynn concerts, Zhuxiaotian strong platform, but also show their feelings.

Although Zhuxiaotian been deliberately speculation in Libingbing means, but Yang Cheng Lynn Lee said Zhuxiaotian treat people always sincere, the people will work together by his special care. Yangcheng Lynn also revealed that Zhuxiaotian regular cooking himself, and invite everyone to enjoy, not just Libingbing, including assistants and other staff have also benefited, but she felt deeply harmed because it not only failed to shoot hard and fast, but also to taste the food for the five kilograms of fat.

Asked film "Sky City", has noted Zhuxiaotian with Libingbing mutual goodwill? Yangcheng Lynn, shakes her head said : "Because of the drama and Zhuxiaotian more, three individuals were to play together, it is to disagree. "She said that by that time did not seem to Libingbing Zhuxiaotian calls for signs only limited interaction between theatre and Libingbing argument well, no wonder there" was designed "feeling.

Source: http://news.chinatimes.com/Chinatimes/ExteriorContent/ChinatimesWeekly/newweekly-content/0,3813,170203+95072120+0,00.html

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News: http://the-sun.orisun.com/cgi-bin/hotnews2.cgi?a=ent&b=20060714&c=20060714000539_0000.html, 14 July 2006

Translated with Google:

Zhuxiaotian back towards the father for

14/07/2006

F4 members Zhuxiaotian D father worry, Zhu father in the early hours of liver cirrhosis in Taiwan on May 11 Died of illness when Xiaotian in Xinjiang shooting "Brothers legend," could not see father final Side, he is very sad! Since being forced to play center, work on the losses 50 1 Million Xiaotian only very reluctantly continue to work, the eldest son of his failure to personally handle dead Father figures to help the younger brother to rush back to Taiwan as soon as filming finished hasten home for the funeral.

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July 8 (Saturday), 1:34 p.m.
Zhu Mama

1:44 p.m.
Ken's younger brother

News: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/AppleNews/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&loc=TP&PageType=ent&sec_id=9&NewsType=twapple&showdate=20060714&art_id=2746705, 14 July 2006

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Translated with Google:

Zhuxiaotian father's Xinjiang low drive for show

Lai-keung, Xiewanru, special group shows Taipei -- one morning this week Zhuxiaotian father died as a result of liver cirrhosis, is currently Zhuxiaotian Xinjiang film "Brothers legend," no see his father one last time, the center plans to the leave of absence after the late father say goodbye, it is understood that he leave day, will create drama 500,000 yuan (about 2 million yuan NT) losses, opera producer, said : "If necessary, or will he go back on. "

Zhuxiaotian her parents divorced, he and his sister were sent to Singapore schooling mother, after he returned to Taiwan in the country, work-study self-reliance and feelings of the father weak. Earlier this month, Zhu father was admitted to intensive care wards, the hospital issued a series after notification, he took that to remain in Xinjiang territories Lu Fan depressions time drama.

Their play songs
10 Early in the morning, he received a telephone father passed away, just leave back to the original day Taiwan, but taking into consideration the progress of filming, the last remaining Tingpai day let him emotional adjustment, then back to Taiwan at the end he also agreed to send her father final journey.

"Chu" opera producer recently revealed his frustration, but do not see playing Hutiehua the Chenhaomin his emotional statement completely, really admire his work. Zhuxiaotian broker sticks to the rationale that he has been calm personality that has not seen his father since the last one, simply trick end return.

Zhu father in the hospital during the afternoon of 8 November, this reporter witnessed Zhu Zhuxiaodi drive left her mother's home in Hsintien, on Roosevelt Road is older, see elders go downstairs, Zhuxiaodi considerate to help put things off first, followed by a pedestrian attached to the Yonghe Red States Swimming Pool Water, cool.

7/8 1:34pm
Zhu mother to the family vehicle to swimming. Special group pictures

1:44pm
Zhuxiaodi (right) help elders get things placed after compartments, very sweet.

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Zhu xiao tian yang cheng Lynn Yunnan gets really

Taipei, the Central News Agency

Artists Zhuxiaotian, Yang Cheng-East Lynn to Taiwan TV drama "sky city" went Yunnan Xishuangbanna movies, although both are Aisi beautiful scenery of Xishuangbanna, health, medical, and other aspects of inconvenience for them everywhere. Particularly "lovable leader," has become a breeding Yangcheng Lynn "love" his hands and feet had become almost "red beans ice."

Zhu Xiao Tian said that the traffic inconvenience to Xishuangbanna, time-consuming nearly one day. To fly from Taiwan to Hong Kong and Kunming, the only class of aircraft waiting for the day to Xishuangbanna; After you Spend Fei six hours to film the scene, trip journey down and the bones are almost casual.

Station staff to be the most beautiful tropical Xishuangbanna is to the audience, often to one's liking remote-Lin, got from the owners. To a certain attractions, theatres may drive after a period of very encountered, narrow mountain road, some even parapet Hill Road is not afraid of sending staff to the window to watch. This does not matter, some Car Inaccessible places, everyone has to walk far to reach.

Yangcheng Lynn in Xishuangbanna is fast becoming red beans ice. She said that more mosquito outskirts, enough local influence, almost daily feeding mosquitoes; Washing hands inconvenience for Yangcheng Lynn is the most anguish, although remaining in the river gets pitched a temporary toilets, but all the waste flows river, stink to high heaven, people could.

Is a major health problem. No local hospitals and dispensaries, doctors will have to spend several hours on the journey to the urban area, everyone can rely. Unfortunately, there is a Yangcheng Lynn stomach disorders, in the absence of medical treatment, she could escape, such as drama, keep doing stomach aside rest. This experience allowed her to learn one thing : home Tourism Certain documents to medicine.

The only comfort is worth, loved photography Zhuxiaotian can enjoy the photographs. He always took advantage of free professional Cameras Everywhere to go, and stills division will Discuss Shooting skills. Zhuxiaotian said Xishuangbanna Taiwan so as to facilitate life while, but really beautiful scenery, where the audience was visited by the "sky city" to see the local scenery

Source: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT2/3400112.shtml, 12 July 2006

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Zhu Hsiaot'ien for photographs "Chu Liuhsiang the Legend", is unable
to hurry back Taiwan to visit the critically ill father.

Zhu Hsiaot'ien makes a movie is stranded Xinjiang to be difficult to
search the critically ill father

Zhu Hsiaot'ien the Xinjiang was patting "Chu Liuhsiang the Legend",
actually spread him the daddy because the liver cirrhosis to live the
intensive care unit, the hospital three days ago sends out the
critically ill notice, the news passes on to Xinjiang, Zhu Hsiaot'ien
urgently recalls in France's younger sister, wanted her first to
return to Taiwan, he for caught up with the play to keep the dramatic
team. He penetrates the manager to indicate that, "The daddy supports
me to develop Chu Liuhsiang very much, therefore I now must do am pat
well, completes him to my expectation.

Zhuxiaotian hospital so far from his father, although efforts to catch up with play, but the mood is affected, the broker severe Cheung revealed that three days ago, she received telephone Zhuxiaotian know my father was taken as a result of liver disease intensive care wards, as the hospital was ill informed, then as far as the French Academy was pasta sister recalled Taiwan, let her care for the first time father.
Zhuxiaotian from parents divorced, the mother of brother and sister went to Singapore to study, a question on the decade cultivating his independent personality, he has revealed weak and emotional father, who was assigned fame after, filial piety, he bought a house for the parents, and still less about the feelings between father.

Loss of 2 million a day off
Shooting "Chu" drama "strong media," Yu-ming, general manager of the day before yesterday to discuss Xinjiang and Zhuxiaotian Zhu father's condition, Yu-Ming said : "There will be just before Xiaotian couple good shape, he will be installed as holding back to Taiwan to see his father, who was also general wards father read to laugh, feeling he was happy, yes. "Yu-Ming Zhu Xiao Tian Tan also revealed that his father, the fabric did not fall," he did not cry! is, man, we know he visited the walk will be at least one day lost 500,000 yuan (about 2 million yuan NT), but the greatest affection, he wants to return to Taiwan, we will wait for him. "
Currently, Zhu father is in the state of Chu and intubate, severe Cheung said : "Xiaotian listened to the father too, but he worked hard to overcome personal feelings, after all, are his daily show, and if he is gone, how do drama, we also discussed the current without first taking on his father, Zhu stability say. "

Source: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/AppleNews/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&loc=TP&PageType=ent&sec_id=9&NewsType=twapple&showdate=20060707&art_id=2730479, 7 July 2006

Translator: Sherlock and http://www.google.com/language_tools

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Stars brighten 12th Shanghai Television Festival

www.chinaview.cn 2006-06-19 13:29:16

Xiao Qiang and Zhu Xiaotian

Editor: Mo Hong'e

Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/19/content_4715283.htm

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http://ent.icxo.com/

Number 4 Ken Zhu Xiao Tian

Article: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/AppleNews/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&showdate=20060531&Sec_ID=9&Art_ID=2644013, 31 May 2006

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Ken and Rainie

Ken

Rainie vs. __________

Article: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/AppleNews/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&loc=TP&PageType=ent&sec_id=9&NewsType=twapple&showdate=20060423&art_id=2557264#%23, 23 April 2006

Translated with Sherlock:

After Yang Ch'eng Lin and "the dry elder brother" Zhu
Hsiaot'ien sings in a chorus hugs. Zheng Meng Huangshe

Yang Ch'eng the Lin belt blood fights a decisive battle Chen
Ch'ichen the happy founder to depend on Zhu Hsiaot'ien the strong
monentum to create the talented woman black unlined upper garment
imperial enemy

[ Wu Lich'iang, Zhu Chienhung the ╱ Taibei reported ]

...

The clothing sends variant symptom of a trend Yang Ch'eng Lin quite to
bustle about in 90 minutes, three sets of modelling trade
the clothes also to trade send, two person of mutually modelling.
Originally must arrive Shanghai to hold the post of Sun Yanzi to sing
honored guest's Zhu Hsiaot'ien, changes her platform, two people sang
in a chorus the same year joint performance "Meteor Garden"

...

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"Judgment at Tokyo" Stills

2006-03-30 11:54:31 CRIENGLISH.com

Two lead roles

Judgment at Tokyo (literal title), previously known as the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, is a Chinese produced courtroom drama, which retells the story of 28 top Japanese war criminals being tried from 1946 to 1948. 　　

Shanghai Film Group recently acquired the distribution rights and would release it in China during the coming May Day vacation.

lead actor

Source: http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/349/2006/03/30/60@68899.htm, 30 March 2006

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Zhu Hsiaot'ien was night before last detected and the assistant in the
Causeway Bay supermarket the shopping, leaves when grasps the
altogether seven sacks spoils of war.

Article: http://orientaldaily.orisun.com/ent/ent_a1.html, 8 March 2006

Zhu Hsiaot'ien thin greatly sends
08/03/2006

F4 member Zhu Hsiaot'ien charm threatening, but he is easy to
put on weight, the partner one carelessly then meets the personal
appearance "to explode". But, in front of the Zhu filial piety
daylight on was detected by newspaper reporter that, heartily
"loses weight with the assistant in the Causeway Bay bustling streets
four treasures": The vegetables, the cling wrap, and the tomato
juice, is sure need end of the month holds the show when the port to
be able to have the optimum condition!

F4 four sub- will hold 演唱會 to this month twenty two to twenty on
fifth in the red hall, in order to take to fans unprecedented
新鮮感, Zhu Hsiaot'ien will cause the secret weapon at 演唱會,
because this performance quite will have the difficulty, therefore he
will have to come the port dress rehearsal ahead of time. In order to
ask at 演唱會 to show by the best posture, when washes came the
port propaganda on the other day "zero fans meeting computer" the
declining tendency, the filial piety day finally "was firmly resolved"
reduces the pound!

Night before last ten 1 o'clock, reporter detected the filial piety
day and the assistant make "the goal in a Causeway Bay supermarket to
sweep the goods for this" the type, body civilian clothes discard the
black ultra filial piety day, the as usual person in the supermarket
shuttle, spend the entire hour to select and purchase food and the
daily thing. According to reporter observes, the filial piety day
selects and purchases the goods majority of for lose weight "the high
quality goods", including vegetables, cling wrap, and tomato
juice. The period filial piety day continuously displays calmly, until
has fans to recognize him the true body only then awkwardly to cover
the face, and the assistant prevents fans to photograph.

Seven sacks return home with a full load the filial piety day to be
possible to say in the supermarket return home with a full load,
altogether purchases seven bags of spoils of war. When pay up, he
besides kisses the strength to kiss for moves the goods receives the
silver cabinet, but also puts out 1,000 Yuan great paper money
payment. But unknown he whether does strive for the opportunity
exercise physical strength, only sees his both hands to take bag of
two bags, imitates resembles lifts the dumb bells healthy body!

Zhu Hsiaot'ien and the assistant sweep the goods after the
supermarket, then walks to the opposite taxi stand truncation
gentleman but must rides the child-care worker vehicle, looked like in
the filial piety day life each detail, all ingeniously coordinates him
to lose weight the important matter!

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Article: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&showdate=20060222&Sec_ID=9&NewsType=twapple&loc=TP&PageType=ent&Art_ID=2419458, 22 February 2006

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Zhu Xiaotian man Lianxu the root wooden does not have the expression

Front Zhu Xiaotian near boards only then says goodbye by example sign -like waving the hand to Fans.

Man Lianxu root wooden non- expression Zhu Xiaotian arrives at Hong Kong to pay no attention to the singer fan

F4 members of Zhu Xiaotian yesterday (on February 15) alone arrived at the port from Taiwan, according to knew this him to come the port is prepares to attend on 18th in Guantang Reporter apm hold F4 the meeting. Arrives front the airplane, had nearly 20 Fans to pull the banner to wait for the filial piety day to the airport, the record company also arranged 5 securities responsibly to send and pick up him.

When filial piety airport great hall, only sees wears the sunglasses, face beard he is carrying a LV bag, but actually wooden
port without the slightest show of feeling, also resembles has not awaked resembles walks while wipes the eye, completely does not pay attention to Fans crying out. Front until near boards he only then by regularly to wave the hand the posture to say goodbye to Fans, period he completely does not have hopefully to Fans, really is reveals the big sign status.

Article: http://ent.tom.com/1306/1362/2006216-174945.html, 16 February 2006

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Article: http://www.mingpaonews.com/20060216/mbb1.htm

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Zhu Hsiaot'ien does good deeds when delivers the book will labor

Zhu Hsiaot'ien (center) yesterday held the post of a log
labor to a Taichung childrens home, the belt nearly two thousand Tong
Shuyao which collected on the other day is bestowing for the local
many childrens homes child, Taichung mayor Madame Shao Hsiao the Ling
representative accepts. Except signs, the group photo with the child,
he also especially celebrated for the this month birthday three little
younger sisters lives, cuts a big cake to let everybody share.

Source: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&showdate=20060120&Sec_ID=9&NewsType=twapple&loc=TP&PageType=ent&Art_ID=2348574, 20 January 2006

[Translated with Sherlock 3.6 (v168), Apple Computer Inc.]

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Article: http://news.xinhuanet.com/ent/2006-01/18/content_4065415.htm, 18 January 2006

The star, the contour, the stature are a qualification. Holds a good
public image to need the patience and the perseverance. But even if
makes the great endeavor, also cannot resist the time "the test".

Zhu Xiaotian puts on weight startled presently

Present and past disparity astonishing index: * * *

Recently on-line spreads group of Zhu Xiaotian on 14th the
birthday same day "Knowledge To let Love in Taibei for the new book
Have Strength" to hold signs the entertainers' guild the picture, in
the chart Zhu Xiaotian strictly reissues the body, had, was
very different with the before thin appearance. In order to collect
5,000 children books to donate the childrens home, he specially has
also been day-long.

[Translated with Sherlock 3.6 (v168), Apple Computer Inc.]

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Zhu Hsiaot'ien (front) yesterday held the only 11 bamboos slip
entertainers' guilds in Taibei, attracted the nearly thousand bean or
sweet potato starch noodles participations.

Zhu Hsiaot'ien solicits the book to do good deeds the banquet
with family and close relatives on the eve of one's birthday

[ Zhang Cheming the/Taibei reported ] Zhu Hsiaot'ien
yesterday "the Zhu Hsiaot'ien Delicacy Relations" signed the
entertainers' guild in the Taibei hold new book, the scene protruses
the nearly thousand bean or sweet potato starch noodles, it is
reported, except Taiwan, but also had from Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand
and so on ten national bean or sweet potato starch noodles. Human tide
enthusiastically, also lets he smoothly completes "a log labor" the
task/role, collects contributes the book to two thousand.

Zhu Hsiaot'ien (front) yesterday held the only 11 bamboos slip
entertainers' guilds in Taibei, attracted the nearly thousand bean or
sweet potato starch noodles participations. Zheng Meng Huang absorbs
the new book sale to win the championship the Zhu Hsiaot'ien new book
to link two weeks to mount the inscription on stone tablet and bronze
hall order list champion, today is his 27th birthday, he yesterday
participated in "a log labor association" the activity, said made the
compassion gives own big present, the short several hours, summoned
the bean or sweet potato starch noodles contributed book two thousand,
will give many childrens homes children afterwards. Celebrates
how as for today lives, he so long as the company lets him have a
vacation one day, the low key passes.

Source: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&showdate=20060115&Sec_ID=9&NewsType=twapple&loc=TP&PageType=ent&Art_ID=2337479, 15 January 2006

[Translated with Sherlock 3.6 (v168), Apple Computer Inc.]

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Zhu Xiao Tian when the will labor summoned contributes the child book 5,000 to make public welfare release

Source: http://www.taipeitoday.com.tw/modules/news/, 14 January 2006

[Translated with Sherlock 3.6 (v168), Apple Computer Inc.]

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Event:
Saturday, 14 January 2006
(02) 25796600
1：30 p.m.
Taipei

Source: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&showdate=20060114&Sec_ID=9&NewsType=twapple&loc=TP&PageType=ent&Art_ID=2335041, 14 January 2006

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Zhu Xiao Tian donates the new book to reveal the compassion

[ The Ming Daily special news ] Zhu Xiao Tian "the Zhu
Xiao Tian Delicacy Relations" gives the public welfare association
100 new books "To nurture Cheng Shefu the Foundation", set up as an
attachment he Jixian which to the foundation shelters the workshop on
the other day, was called "carefree ambassador" the mental barrier
size friend happy is worked together with a group.

Source: http://www.mingpaonews.com/20060111/mck4.htm , 11 January 2006

[Translated with Sherlock 3.6 (v168), Apple Computer Inc.]

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Zhu Xiao Tian cross trade writer

Descriptive note: Zhu Xiao Tian releases first book Zhu Xiao Tian
the delicacy relations, purchases in advance when has the good result,
the publishing house represented this book is works as week
inscription on stone tablet and bronze hall order list champion.

Reporter Chen Painien/photography

Source: http://image.udn.com/gallery/show.jsp?pType=star&pid=8701, 11 January 2006

[Translated with Sherlock 3.6 (v168), Apple Computer Inc.]

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Zhu Xiao Tian (left) yesterday and the mental barrier child together compassion charity bazaar.

Zhu Xiao Tian contributes book F4 to ascend again red

[ Zhang Cheming, Wu Lich'iang the/Taibei reported ] Zhu
Xiao Tian publishes the new book "the Zhu Xiao Tian Delicacy
Relations", yesterday he with "nurtured Cheng Shefu the foundation"
the cooperation, with group of mental barriers child charity bazaar
new year's celebration gift boxes. Although he blurted out on the
other day "F4 ever was not an association", but, F4 in March and newly
gathers at Hong Kong red edits the release plan all to
determine that, four people "the synthesis" launches an attack once
again.

The admission ticket end of the month purchased in advance the end of
last year, after the word receives the rising sun to spread the broker
approximately to support oneself the gateway, many bean or sweet
potato starch noodles to F4 whether could again gather the capital
very curiously, now four person of syntheses plans settles, to late
March will be red in Hong Kong holds four booking, end of
this month the admission ticket will purchase in advance; Will
separated more than three year of F4 to gather edits also releases in
March, at present started to record. Receives the rising sun except
the word also to pat "White Great Tower", Zhu Xiao Tian propagandizes
the new book, other two person of work have all been completed,
prepares to rehearse, manager said to the principle, the
possible company to celebrate the new year all to have to work. Zhu
Xiao Tian unifies prepares food and the mood new book, the sales
result is good, he contributes 100 new books back coupling society,
smuggles in "nurtures" in the organic food gift box which the mental
barrier children releases, but only has the first 100 subscribers only
then to have, the charity bazaar obtained donates this foundation, the
charity bazaar special line (02) 82833142.

Source: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&showdate=20060111&Sec_ID=9&NewsType=twapple&loc=TP&PageType=ent&Art_ID=2328577, 11 January 2006

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Event:
(02) 25796600
Tuesday, 10 January 2006, 1:30 p.m.

Source: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&showdate=20060110&Sec_ID=9&NewsType=twapple&loc=TP&PageType=ent&Art_ID=2325838, 10 January 2006

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ELECTRIC SHOW
China dolls making waves
January 08, 2006

LI BINGBING

Who's that girl: She is rumoured to have come between F4's Ken Chu and Sunday Girls' Sato Mai.

Li Bingbing, 29, also posed naked on a magazine cover with Hong Kong's Christy Chung and Hollywood-based actress Vivian Wu, to raise awareness for breast cancer.

She has acted for TV and has appeared in a few movies, including A World Without Thieves, but needs a boost to move up the ranks.

Notable film credits: Seventeen Years (1999), Love For All Seasons (2003), Cat And Mouse (2003), Purple Butterfly (2003), Waiting Alone (2004), A World Without Thieves (2004), Dragon Squad (2005)

Ripple effect: 2/5

Source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story/0,4136,100040-1136757540,00.html

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Zhu Xiao Tian yesterday went to the kitchen, bears oneself first.

He boils the vegetable looks like very the delicacy.

Zhu Xiao Tian resists to give the F4 famous share

[ Zhang Cheming the ╱ Taibei reported ] the word receives the
rising sun to escape the team in advance "F4" from the group team,
yesterday Zhu Xiao Tian attended "the Zhu Xiao Tian Delicacy
Relations" the new book to publish meets time, unexpectedly also said:
"We always are not a team." Let the person unable to restrain to
suspect F4 survives in name only. Zhu Xiao Tian said that, "Has looks
at us to jump the same dance? In the stage we also are independent. We
are the good friend, has the revolutionary emotion." He thought that,
F4 only is as soon as starts "Meteor Garden" in the cartoon role name,
they resolved by no means.

Puts on the underpants to practice the fine jade gal his new book
content is the recipes and makes a debut seven years mood record. He
also mentioned practiced three years fine jade gal's still to
continue, moreover only put on the underpants practice in the home.

Source: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&showdate=20060106&Sec_ID=9&NewsType=twapple&loc=TP&PageType=ent&Art_ID=2316964, 6 January 2006

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Zhu Xiao Tian loves prepares food works as Xiu since childhood release
2006-01-05
23:22:07

Zhu Hsiaot'ien publishes personal first book, today (1/5)
conducts the new book to publish the meeting, first publicly puts on
the apron, is dressing up by a body chef declares a position! Zhu
Hsiaot'ien not only goes to the kitchen in the scene, the Xiu his
confidential new year's dish, a tone has made "four vegetables soup
happy new year's dish", simultaneously also shares oneself the mood
story which starts from 10 years old to fall in love prepares food,
after disclosed oneself actually is several passes through struggles
is only then convinced by the publishing house publishes book(s). Zhu
Hsiaot'ien said that, In the book vegetable, as well as in the book
mood, is he only can in be muddy center holds "the interest"
soberly! He said oneself actually is a simple only man, and he does
the vegetable is same, most likes the nature simplex original taste,
hoped everybody can realize "in together the life from the book with
him the happy Golden Mean".

Source: http://www.taipeitoday.com.tw/modules/news/

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Zhu Xiao Tian
(02) 25796600
Thursday, 5 January 2006, 2:00 p.m.
honest good faith flagship shop (pine high road 11 3 buildings)
the new book publishes the meeting

Source: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&showdate=20060105&Sec_ID=9&NewsType=twapple&loc=TP&PageType=ent&Art_ID=2313859 , 5 January 2006

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Internet Articles (2005)

2000-09-29T13:15:00.000+08:00

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Zhu Xiao Tian steals food in the mainland, is patted to hugs Li Bing Bing to enter the hotel, the sign girlfriend Mayi Sato actually in looked the newspaper only then knew.

...

Article: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&showdate=20051222&Sec_ID=9&NewsType=twapple&loc=TP&PageType=ent&Art_ID=2282788#%23

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Zhu Xiao Tian extremely looks after the household, a load builds up the economical heavy burden.

Mayi Sato

The Zhu little brother also in reads in the country, the appearance blue is astringent.

The Zhu family member usually is used to the public vehicle rides instead of walking.

The Zhu little brother (center) likes mounting Aunt Zhu (right), the mother and child often reach agreement to window-shop.

Zhu Xiao Tian million supports the family rides the public vehicle to prepare food the younger sister Mayi Sato has become
the type

[ group, Zeng Mingchin the/Taibei reported ] does not see for a long time Zhu Xiao Tian, yesterday announced the
beginning of next month will release the recipes to add the mood portrayal new book "the Zhu Hsiaot'ien Delicacy Relations", except the good food, also will not forget the family member which will refer to most loves, his Tanzania receives this year income not to be many, only some five million, but the opposite party person still extremely looked after: "An my year for them million Yuan, because I have the responsibility to them." But this million lets the Zhu family member be possible to result in economical in everyday spending, reporter witnessed, Aunt Zhu although has the star son, leaves takes a seat actually is a public vehicle.

Yesterday Zhu Xiao Tian attended the new book advance notification to be able, did not see for a long time he sedulously
gathered Hu to disseminate the ripe male charm, in the book says is the good food, he proud prepared food is his specialty, but also frequently the affiliation "prepared food the name" to pursue the female student, asked refers to Mayi Sato, he was not willing the loose port, but the conversation disclosed and Mayi Sato truly sentiment as if no longer.

Girlfriend both hands multi-purpose he reluctantly had not said that, "Actually very many people have eaten my vegetable, the only two interesting men and women like this are written by the media, calculated really has also can do pounds, now I really do not have the girlfriend, but is pregnant the happy object." This year 26 year-old he called oneself unmarried, the life also very much along with is popular, including also all only puts on the underpants in the home to eat the thing, asked does not have the girlfriend to be able to have the physiological demand? He smiles was saying that, "Both hands multi-purpose!" The god comes the pen to tease scene reporter ha ha to smile, the one side propaganda worries to kick his foot, suggests him let alone too to be undisguised, he thinks little of saying: "Has not related, so long as has no qualms to the heart, present I think to open very much."

The income goes to school this year for the sister-in-law because the work are not many, finally he also embarrassed saying, five million Yuan all, actually also must provide for the younger brother, the younger sister school expense and the family member living expenses, he said: "The younger sister studies the western-style sweet snack in Paris, the empirical ego 12 year-old younger brother also in reads in the country." On 23rd the evening, reporter then witnessed the Zhu family member and happy ate the hot pot, Zhu Hsiaot'ien afterwards in advance leaves the mat, remained Aunt Zhu, Zhu's little brother and
the friend altogether meal, the Zhu little brother also filial accompanied mother to walk window-shops, two people afterwards also rode the public vehicle to go home.

Article: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&showdate=20051222&Sec_ID=9&NewsType=twapple&loc=TP&PageType=ent&Art_ID=2282732#%23

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The word receives the rising sun young young to deliver the girlfriend the ritual security

[ South forest valley ╱ comprehensive dispatch ] bites dingdong, Christmas day eve, F4 especially to the Christmas dresses up takes to the singer fan the happy romantic atmosphere, word receives Zhou Yumin (young young) the smiling face is brightest, lets the person associate to two people because all has "the love to moisten".

The work celebrated a holiday busily a F4 recently for year each each, very little cooperated, photographed on the other day for the Christmas modelling rare reunion, unavoidably created a disturbance chats, the word received the famous mold Lin Chih Ling's scandal to pass on noisily, the young young discussed the love with big S, no wonder two people smiled in front of the lens do not gather together the mouth, was asked could choose any gift to give the girlfriend, two people also were mystical, resist the response.

But, this year Christmas day, four people all will pass in the work, they represented will really want crazily to play with 35 good friends.

F4 Zhou Yumin (is left), the word receives the rising sun, Wu Chienhao and Zhu Hsiaot'ien puts on the Christmas attire, feels the festival atmosphere ahead of time.

Source: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&showdate=20051216&Sec_ID=9&NewsType=twapple&loc=TP&PageType=ent&Art_ID=2269852

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The strength invites F4 north Zhu filial piety Tientai great egg broken egg Xiu "Snow Wolf Lake" the first performance although not to be perfect, but actually this most newly to nurture the happy location the human spirit, South Korean young Son of Heaven Rain 29, on 30th must open in addition sings, but welcomes to two six years reciprocal time, then is the east wind sponsor unmarried faction to, at the appointed time except Huang Chih Wei, Guan Yingzhei will lead the entire audience to the young boys and girls the unmarried men and women to play outside together the game, has for a long time F4 member Zhu Hsiaot'ien which will make an appearance, also will be the special honored guest which the sponsor
unit strength will invite.

Source: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&showdate=20051212&Sec_ID=9&NewsType=twapple&loc=TP&PageType=ent&Art_ID=2261203

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Source: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&showdate=20051202&Sec_ID=9&NewsType=twapple&loc=TP&PageType=ent&Art_ID=2239071#%23

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Article: Apple Daily, 27 November 2005, http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&showdate=20051127&Sec_ID=9&NewsType=twapple&loc=TP&PageType=ent&Art_ID=2228365#%23

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Source:
18 September 2005
Apple Daily
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&showdate=20050918&Sec_ID=9&Art_ID=2061328#%23

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Ken Chu proves appearances are not everything.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES

POP STOP

Compiled by Ho Yi
STAFF REPORTER
Friday, September 16, 2005, Page 14

Ken Chu of boy band F4 and Taiwanese sex kitten Kelly Lin have emerged as the latest hot couple in showbiz. According to the Liberty Times, the couple has been secretly dating for a while, but the affair was downplayed by friends. "Lin has so many
admirers. This long-distance romance will definitely be the shortest-lived relationship ever," one mutual friend is quoted as saying in the daily.

Chu doesn't seem to mind the ill-intended prediction. Judging from snap shots of him attending a wedding last weekend, the young guy seems to have let himself go with a dodgy mustache and an outfit that should have caught the attention of the fashion police.

Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2005/09/16/2003271930

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Foaming version Zhu Hsiaot'ien brazen beard, with the passing neighbor boy's modelling, is far from.

Zhu Hsiaot'ien (center) runs the wedding banquet to smoke like a chimney, the facial expression is joyful.

Idol version Zhu Hsiaot'ien passing always leads to be mad the image
shows.

Zhu Hsiaot'ien sloppy Kazak tobacco defeat image

[ Recreation center ? Taibei reported ] F4 Zhu Hsiaot'ien always
walks the neighbor boy path, but the boy can grow up, the outlook also
can change, now not only turns the big beard, but also can pull out
the tobacco! Night before last, he holds the post of the photographer
at the good friend wedding banquet, lets dispiritedly "big Hu
Hsiaot'ien" the modelling exposure; Wedding banquet period, his
fragrant tobacco supported joint, the local ruffian taste is full, the
F4 fresh image, ????!

?? distorts night before last six o'clock, participates in
photographer Xu P'inshih Zhu Hsiaot'ien to the crystal China hotel the
wedding banquet, he not only arrives the congratulation, also holds
the post of the wedding banquet photography, but a his appearance,
lets the numerous people stare dumbfounded.

Reporter witnessed, he not only has been fat, on the face also hangs
the big beard; The dinner party carries on one half, his tobacco
addiction has violated, a while curls upwards the foot to pull out the
tobacco, a while stands is pulling out the tobacco, the dispirited
appearance, is difficult to imagine him is commander-in-chief is mad,
one of fresh F4 members.

The assistant called the friend respects tobacco big Hu Hsiaot'ien to
love the Kazak tobacco, is scared, but bridesmaid Su Huilun, Xu Ju Yun
(? ?) the performance but actually is competent for the post.

Zhu Hsiaot'ien in former days the assistant forest had the brightness,
heard this matter to call out in alarm: "He cannot pull out the
tobacco!" Incumbent assistant Zhou Chuni indicated that, "He usually
does not pull out, but if some people take the tobacco to him, he
pulls out."

Their minute pale powder, the coffee color lofty dinner jacket, is
matching partner Lang Linchin and, week rapid boyfriend Li ??, the
picture is pleasant, Su Huilun smiles said: "I and ? ? am first
time work as bridesmaid oh!"

? ? also the port ?? comments the
filial piety day: "His dispirited new modelling and takes up the
earnest expression which the camera photographs, looks like very
gracefully!"

He also said that, Zhu Hsiaot'ien is possible because to wait for a
long time bored, in addition the friend hands over the tobacco on own
initiative, only then thus pulls out the tobacco; As for the sloven
big Hu modelling, he also interpreted that, "He does not meet when the
play does not blow the beard, puts on also along with the nature, the
entertainer, always has is relaxed, but he has not put on weight."

Not come singly but in pairs, the F4 another member word receives the
rising sun, night before last also took advantage of makes a movie the
neutral gear to leave the gate night to swim, but he pulls out the
tobacco, but is drinks, the outlook has not turned the big beard,
although with is F4, whiles away the time the mode is very different.

Source:
Apple Daily
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/News/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&showdate=20050911&Sec_ID=9&Art_ID=2042523#%23

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ELECTRIC SHOW
September 09, 2005

Ken tickles Kelly's funny bone

IS this a heart-breaking time for F4 fans or what?

It's also hands off Ken Chu as he is now reportedly dating Taiwanese actress Kelly Lin.

Apparently, the pair fell in love on the set of a drama, Yuan Dong Guo Ji Da Shen Pan (loosely translated as The Great Far East International Trial) in China, but only started dating after returning to Taiwan.

Kelly, 30, is older than Ken by four years, but is reportedly smitten with him because of his jokes.

However, her friends do not seem to favour the pairing.

They said that Kelly, being an introvert and with her low profile and countless suitors, is the exact opposite of the hard-partying and extrovert Ken.

His dating record is also not a strength.

He is said to have two-timed starlet Mai Sato with Chinese actress Li Bing Bing last July.

Source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story/0,4136,94195,00.html

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S'pore's hosts with the most
Tanya Chua, Stefanie Sun and JJ Lin as tour guides? Who should be so lucky to get such star treatment? Well, if your name is Ken Chu or Jay Chou...

By Chang May Choon
August 05, 2005

IF the Taiwanese paparazzi had followed F4's Ken Chu to Singapore months ago, they would have had a field day.

Because he sneaked out late one night after his album promotions to have supper with our own Tanya Chua.

A romance in the making?

Nah. Tanya, 30, was just being a good host.

Whenever her celebrity friends are in town, the homegrown singer-songwriter will take them to her favourite hangout, Spize, an Indian-Muslim restaurant along River Valley Road.

Brightly decorated, with rock music blasting, it serves a delectable assortment of prata, murtabak, fried rice, fried chicken and Tanya's favourite, Milo Dinosaur (iced Milo topped with Milo powder).

She has been a regular there for three years and visits three to four times a week with friends.

It was also there that she celebrated her triple win at the Singapore Hit Awards last year.

No wonder, then, that Spize is the natural choice when it comes to playing host to her Mandopop friends, who include Malaysian singer Fish Leong, Taiwanese band F.I.R. and, of course, Ken.

Tanya told The New Paper: 'Usually when they come to town, I'll take them to try local food instead of eating at some posh restaurant.

'That's what makes Singapore different from other countries.'

CHEAP TREAT

Prices are reasonable too, she said - about $20 for five people, including drinks.

But the best draw is the relaxed ambience and the lack of star-gazers at this late night eating joint (it opens from 6pm to 6am daily).

Tanya said neither she nor her celeb friends have been approached for autographs there.

'Their verdict is that the food here is very good and they like the atmosphere too. People here are very laid-back and they don't bother you,' she said.

Tanya said that she and Ken met through a mutual stylist friend.

Although they are 'not very close', he called her when he was in town in February, so she met up with him.

'He told me that if I end up in the papers, he's sorry. But no-one followed him,' she recalled with a laugh.

'Idols should have a life too and not be trapped being stars,' she added.

'Let's not be Tanya Chua or F4, and just chat about things like the last movie we saw, music and new gossip.'

Source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story/0,4136,92605,00.html

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"Trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East" Begins to Shoot

2005-7-22 12:53:36
CRIENGLISH.com

A film marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II is currently shooting in Beijing and Tianjin.

The director of "The International Military Tribunal for the Far East", Gao Qunshu, and some of the key cast members made their first public appearance in front of the media yesterday afternoon.

The film will depict the trial of Japan at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East after the World War II between May 1946 and November 1948.

The Chinese judge Mei Ju-Ao, and prosecutor Hsiang Che-Chun in the trial are played by renowned Hong Kong actors Damian Lau and Kenneth Tsang.

Famous Taiwan star Ken Chu and Kelly Lin act as reporters from China and Japan, who are the two main fictional characters in this film.

The international cast s includes actors from Japan, the US and several other countries.

This film will reach completion in October.

CRI Exclusive/ Editor: Chen Jingchong/ Photo: Sina&Monkeypeaches

Source: http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2246/2005-7-22/140@259950.htm and http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/22/content_3252936.htm

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Stars & stripes
By Wendy Teo
July 23, 2005

In the plastic world of showbiz, what are celebrities really like beneath the veneer of glamour and fame? We asked DJs, entertainment industry sources and reporters about which celebrities left the best and worst impressions on them

...

KEN CHU

He didn't leave a good impression on some local media persons when he was in town earlier this year to promote his debut album On Ken's Time.

Mr Dennis had the F4 member, 26, as a guest on his radio show and found him difficult.

'He wasn't really paying attention and he gave one-word replies.'

Because of Ken's indifferent attitude, Mr Dennis ended the chat after less than five minutes.

Ken was supposed to be on the show for half an hour.

The 33-year-old DJ, who received complaints from Ken's fans, told The New Paper: 'What irked me most was that he had the cheek to comment after our interview, 'Why so short?'

'I was very angry at that time.'

Source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story/0,4136,91991,00.html

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Caught on Tape

May 10, 2005 - by Wendy Liu

F4 was the hottest pop band in Taiwan four years ago. Their infamous TV series, F4 Meteor Garden, seared them into the hearts of Asia's teenagers. As pop heartthrobs and TV stars these 21-year-old cuties were a shoe-in as the new Asian idols.

Jerry Yan, Vanness Wu, Ken Chu and Vic Chow are F4, but it was Yan who stole the center stage. First he scandalized Asia with his torrid love affair with their manager and was then caught red handed with Taiwan's sexy model Chiling Lin. Men everywhere drooled in envy while girls cried over Lin's good fortune.

But with all shinning stars, Yan has turned dull. But never fear, another F4 member, Chu, caught the attention of the tabloids in the form of B-actress Li Bingbing. Li's B-list status recently fell away after her role in A World Without Thieves as the female thief - no more standing in line outside of clubs for this kung fu girl. But the girl is no dame and has handled herself poorly in public - most notably when she cried at a press conference after being chastised for dressing too casually. Her sadness was factitious, making the public less than sympathetic.

Last summer Chu and Li were cast as the starring roles in the TV series Castle in the Sky in Beijing. At first, Chu played the nasty megastar to Li's relatively low standing, but in April of this year, things began to heat up. A Taiwanese magazine published photos of the two outside a hotel elevator - lips locked.

The hotel's security cameras recorded Li coming in and meeting Chu at the elevators. She looked obviously unhappy, at which point the make-out session ensued. A kiss does make it all better; Li didn't leave until the next morning.

But while romance was blooming a heart was breaking. As F4 gossip lovers everywhere dug into the hotel photos, Chu's Japanese girlfriend immediately held a press conference with a tear stained face saying her relationship with Chu was over.

A defiant Chu says he has no girl on the side: "We are only close friends. I look at her as my younger sister."

When the media asked Li to comment, the bratty little sister covered her face and refused to answer.

Source:
City Weekend
http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/en/beijing/features/2005_09/S1115692511

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The Manila Bulletin Online
Entertainment

Hero still can’t believe his luck

By LEAH C. SALTERIO

I know a lot of guys would want to be where I am now that’s why I am doing my best in everything that I do," asserts Hero [Angeles], who’s easily recognizable with his F4-ish hair . "Being in showbiz has given me so many opportunities I could only imagine before.

Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/ENTR2005050834283.html

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Sunday April 24, 2005

It’s content, content, content

Now that Singapore has entered the lucrative world of casino-resorts, what form should they take? Three writers reckon the island state can do much better than brash Vegas with subtle Asian style.

VEGAS, baby, Vegas! The line from the 1996 movie Swingers sums up Las Vegas in all its glittery, ticky-tacky glory.

No wonder then that it drew 41.4 million visitors last year, not just gamblers, but also plenty of families and businessmen attending conventions.

Now that the Singapore Government has given the go-ahead for two integrated resorts (IRs) incorporating casinos, the question arises as to what exactly will be included in these mega-complexes.

Gaming, it has been emphasised, will take up only 3% to 5% of the floor space.

Vegas provides an instructive example of what’s possible. The mother of all casino hotspots since 1941 has not aged but has continually refreshed its appeal with non-casino draws.

There are family-friendly resorts like Circus Circus and Treasure Island, and attractions like Freemont Street Experience, a stunning state-of-the-art light and laser show unfolding over five blocks of glass-enclosed streets.

It is an entertainment capital, boasting star fixtures like Celine Dion and Cirque du Soleil.

It has even got hip quotient, thanks to sleek new resorts like Rio and The Palms – which attract megawatt revellers like J. Lo and Matt Damon – known as much for their happening clubs as for gambling.

Vegas has even got culture – the 7,660-sq ft Guggenheim Hermitage Museum. Okay, so the collaboration between two world-respected institutions, which opened in 2001, has sloppily-curated, second-string exhibitions. But, hey, it is a start.

Gamblers pour an estimated US$8bil (RM$30.4bil) a year into the city’s coffers. But the city’s real income is doubled when revenue from hotel, food and beverage and other tourist expenditures are factored in.

That is nothing to sniff at. Singapore’s IRs can draw useful lessons, but instead of offering brash American neon, it should go for subtle Asian class.

That means the perpetual bugbear of Singapore’s arts and entertainment scene – scarcity of talent – is going to bite. Because the keyword is content, content and content.

Vegas willingly coughs up big bucks for top-drawer acts. Caesars Palace is not only paying Dion US$3.3mil (RM12.5mil) a year for three years, but it also built a US$95mil (RM361mil), 4,000-seat Coliseum auditorium for her.

MGM Mirage’s bill for its Cirque du Soleil show, Ka, added up to a US$135mil (RM513mil), 1,900-seat theatre and some US$15mil (RM57mil) more in production costs.

These numbers work out in the end when you consider that tickets in Vegas start from a pricey US$75 (RM285) to top out at a whopping US$225 (RM855). The latter incidentally is the price tag if you want to get up close to Dion’s gold-plated pipes.

The crucial lesson here is that if you have the star attraction, you can charge heavyweight prices because the crowds cannot resist big names.

So what the IRs here need will be arts and entertainment extravaganzas on a par with these attractions, but with an Eastern bent and Asian talent.

Instead of a carbon copy of Treasure Island on Sentosa, how about a wuxia-themed resort with a show choreographed by Matrix maestro Yuen Wo Ping?

Rather than think Western draws like Dion and Cirque du Soleil, why not build a theatre, and a show, around say J-pop idol Ayumi Hamasaki, Taiwan boyband F4 or even Hong Kong legend Sam Hui?

Asia is also an untapped well for performing arts troupes with the potential to offer novel world-class acts.

Japan’s crowd-pleasing dance troupe, the Condors, for example, could be an arthouse crossover on a par with Vegas’ popular Blue Man Group.

Jacky Cheung’s celebrated musical Snow.Wolf.Lake could be a permanent big-ticket draw.

How about Vietnamese water puppets and Indonesian wayang kulit? After all, Broadway’s The Lion King uses puppets to great success.

It would not hurt either to commission the best of Asia’s architectural talents to build something that would rival Frank Gehry’s Bilbao Guggenheim.

Tokyo’s Shigeru Ban and Yoshio Taniguchi, who reconceived New York’s Museum of Modern Art, are talents who could probably dream up something outrageous to put Singapore on the architectural map.

To recap, the additional attractions need to be polished world-class draws. In other words, no half-hearted tourist trap scenarios like, say, Igor’s dinner theatre offerings.

Approving IRs is only the first roll of the dice.

By taking to heart the lessons other destination resorts have to offer, Singapore can load the dice in its favour.

After all, the house always wins. – The Straits Times, Singapore/Asia News Network

Source: http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2005/4/24/features/10745351&sec=features

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Photo Caption: Ken Chu: The last of the F4 guys to have a solo album out.
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Sunday April 3, 2005

Yes, Ken do

The Ringo Starr of F4 has joked about being a ‘B-list’ act, but Ken Chu may be the group’s most accomplished member, writes FOONG WOEI WAN.

YOU could call Ken Chu the Ringo Starr of F4. Like the former Beatle, he is arguably the least popular member of the Taiwanese mega group.

Sure, he sends women into a swoon, but not to the same degree as the other three members – Jerry Yen, Vic Chou and Vanness Wu.

And he knows it. When he went on the Taiwanese talk show Mr Con & Ms Csi recently, he joked about being a “B-list” artiste.

But for all his humility, Chu, 26, may just be the group’s most musically accomplished member, though he is the last of the four to have a solo album out.

His 11-track rock-lite album, On Ken’s Time, is worth the wait. He composed one track called Revival and wrote the words to another one about his idol, Audrey Hepburn, titled Black and White.

A who’s who of Chinese songwriters, from Taiwan’s Wu Bai and Mayday to Singapore’s Paul Lee Wai Shiong, penned or produced other songs on the album.

Taiwanese indie singer-producer Sandee Chen reportedly said she volunteered to work with Chu after she heard him play the guitar at a concert.

The album made its debut at No.2 on the Taiwanese G-Music chart in early January. Record company Sony BMG declined to disclose sales numbers for Taiwan and Singapore.

Chu, who was born in Taiwan but lived in Singapore in his teens with a guardian, was in Singapore recently on a three-day trip to plug his record.

During a phone chat before a press conference at Orchard Hotel, he sounded like his usual unruffled self, even when he revealed that someone had stolen his iPod a few days ago. “People always like to steal artistes’ things,” he said before adding: “It’s okay if you get used to it.”

You could almost hear him shrug mentally, as he shared his thoughts on fame, music and why he has feet of clay.

How did you get this group of A-list songwriters and producers, from Wu Bai to Mayday, to work with you?

It wasn’t me. It was my company. I’ve never asked for too much in these matters. My company wanted me to do something different musically, and got these heavyweight producers.

Who are your influences musically?

I was 11 when I listened to the Beatles. I don’t like modern pop music that much. Everyone has different tastes.

You once talked about the travails of being a pop idol, and yet you would put up with anything for a chance to make music. If you could do it all again, would you still have signed to be part of F4?

If I had known what was going to happen, I probably wouldn’t have. If you know what will happen when you press this red button, will you still press? Of course you won’t. Of course you will say, “Ey, what will happen if I press the blue button?”

In the past two years, F4’s fame has spread to Thailand and Indonesia. Now your management is going to unleash you guys on Japan. What do you make of this?

We’re going to Japan, but whether we’ll be popular there, we don’t know. I’ve never thought too much about this. Whatever the company tells me to do, I’ll do it.

What’s the one thing you always do whenever you come to Singapore?

Sleep. (Chuckles) I sleep quite comfortably in Singapore. Maybe I’m used to it here, so I sleep better.

If I look my friends up, I’ll only add to their troubles. I go on a TV show or whatever, and all the reporters go to trouble my friends and to ring the doorbell of my guardian. I dare not look them up now.

You act, you sing, you cook, you are an avid photographer and you used to work as an assistant on the set of the popular variety programme, Super Sunday. What gives you the greatest satisfaction?

You get different sorts of satisfaction from different sorts of work. When you work in a restaurant, when people think your food is good, you’d feel satisfied. It’s very simple.

You had a reported run-in with your female fans in Singapore two years ago, and another one in Taipei in January.

(Vehemently) That was a totally different thing.

Still, some might say you’re a bad boy.

I’ve never said I’m a good guy. I think my fans know that when I’m off work, I’m off work. I don’t care how other people see me. It’s no use caring. You can’t possibly please everyone. – The Straits Times/Asia News Network

Source: http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2005/4/3/music/10220607&sec=music

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KEN CHU, TAIWAN

Ken’s gift to music is known to most as ‘the most sought after quarter’ 1/4of F4. As fans anxiously waited to see the results of his work, Ken become more determined than ever to produce a quality solo album.

Starting out as the ‘1/4’ in F4, Ken has been in show business for the past five years and thanks to F4’s popularity, Ken was crowned ‘Favourite Actor’ for three years. Not willing to give up his passion for music, Ken’s first Mandarin album, “On Ken’s Time” was released, offering a musical gift for the world to see.

To fulfil his dreams of being a musician, Ken did his best to make his album as perfect as possible. Ken speaks of his first solo album, “On Ken’s Time” – the final solo album from the F4 member indicating that he was “fully equipped” and waited for the songs to be perfect before releasing the album.

On the album, a parade of composers and writers such as Chen San Ni, Yu Yua Tian, Momoko, Yu Pai, Vivian and other musicians collaborated to write songs for Ken.

Source: http://www.tatnews.org/events/events/march/2475.asp#3

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Ken's gift in music is evident to everyone as one-fourth of F4. His fans' anxious anticipation to see a solid work from him leaving Ken aching more than ever to make a quality solo album. To fulfill his dream to be a musician, no matter how hard the task might be, he did his best to make his album as perfect as possible.

Ken has been in show business for the past 5 years, started as 1/4 of F4, the most sought-after quartet today. Not willing to give up his passion in music, Ken's first Mandarin album "On Ken's Time" was released. Ken unleashed his musical gift for the entire world to see.

Source: http://www.mtvthailand.com/Pimf/Artists/KenEng.htm

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The Electric New Paper :

I'm still me
Singer Ken Chu on bad publicity in the media

By Wendy Teo
teowyw@sph.com.sg
23 February 2005

HE was accused of threatening to beat up a fan at a restaurant just a few weeks ago.

But Ken Chu certainly didn't have any boxing gloves out when he came into town over the weekend to promote his debut album On Ken's Time.

In fact, if there's anyone he was beating up, it was probably himself.

And he made it quite clear that he doesn't care what other people or the media think of him.

During our interview with the 26-year-old, the supposed 'bad boy' not only took swipes at his own album, but also his musical talent.

The F4 member said candidly: 'I don't think... this album has quite met with everyone's expectations, so we still don't know whether there's going to be a second album. It all lies with the audience now.'

His don't-care attitude probably stems from the fact that being a celebrity, for him, is simply a job that pays astonishingly well, above everything else.

'This is my work, not my life. But it is work that completes my life. I'm sure I will be equally happy doing something else, as someone working behind-the-scenes, or as a waiter. I never planned to go into showbiz, it was fate. But this job pays very well, it allows me to provide for my family and I'm very satisfied that I can achieve so much at my age.'

He said he never plans ahead, but figures he can't stay on in the line forever.

'I just want to carry on peacefully for now. I will take things as they come.'

That same philosophy applies to the recent bad press that he has been getting.

Besides that unfortunate clash with a fan, Ken also ruffled many feathers when he turned up late for a press conference in Beijing last year.

Ken hadn't been willing to comment on the news ('I've explained myself too many times in Taiwan. I shall not repeat myself,'), but he wasn't about to let it affect him either.

'The media can write whatever they want about me, but I'm not losing a single strand of hair over it. I'm still me.

'You just have to get used to this sort of bad press, crying over it won't help things. No matter how hard you work, you cannot please everyone and get them to like you.'

Indeed, the Ken Chu in popular boy band F4 is very different from Ken Chu the debut singer.

'Everyone wants a fantasy, and F4 is that. When I'm in F4, I'm part of that. It's good to bring hope to people, and I don't mind being the Prince Charming. But when I'm on my own, I can be Ken Chu, even though the audience might not like it.'

During the interview, there was none of the anger that he is reputed for, nor the arrogance that we had tasted before.

And despite his frugal answers during the press conference earlier, Ken was more blunt and forthcoming in a surprising about-turn at the interview.

In another frank admission about his new album, Ken told The New Paper: 'Actually, this album is far from my ideal. But I guess since this is a debut album, you can't start off with 80 points (out of a 100). Otherwise what else is there for you to improve on in the next album?'

Apparently, his album is still too commercialised for his taste.

He had lamented earlier during his press conference: 'I think that music should be very free, without restrictions, and where you can let your creativity just flow.'

But as much as he will prefer otherwise, Ken admits that he still has a duty to the masses not to stray too far from the mainstream.

'The industry is like that. You just have to compromise. Your duty is to entertain, so why come up with something so deep that nobody will understand anyway?'

Ken, who had spent almost 10 years in Singapore before returning to Taiwan at the age of 17, actually had a band while he was in secondary school.

'Every week, we would fork out $2 each to rent a studio to jam. It was an outlet for us to vent our frustrations, and you could get a natural high on that!'

'I play the guitar, but I was never the lead guitarist. I know my talent is limited,' he ended with an honest assessment of his own talents with a shrug.

Ken Chu's album On Ken's Time is out in stores.

Source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,83563,00.html

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The Electric New Paper :

Back off or else

Last week, boy band F4's Ken Chu made headlines when a woman accused him of threatening to beat her up. Not that he seems to care... Meet the Asian Brat Pack - young stars who are successful and brash, says CHANG MAY CHOON (changmc@sph.com.sg)

IT IS all about star attitude these days.

03 February 2005

While old-school celebrities like Andy Lau and Chow Yun Fat carved their showbiz careers out of being savvy PR machines and immaculate role models, the new school of pop idols are embracing attitude with a capital A.

Why pander to anyone when you can just be yourself?

Why suffer in silence when you can easily retaliate - either verbally or physically?

No wonder then that an Asian Brat Pack has emerged.

Its notorious members: Nicholas Tse, Edison Chen, Shawn Yue, Ken Chu and Dylan Kuo.

They are young, cute and rich enough to make girls go ga-ga. But they also have enough bratty attitude to make girls flinch.

Gorgeous, no doubt, but these outspoken bad boys will not hesitate to hurl insults or berate fans in public.

Some, like Nicholas, will even bash up the paparazzi in a fit of anger - only to face the music later.

Who cares about image any more?

Unlike their picture-perfect predecessors, these young ones revel in being brash, impetuous and volatile.

They make headlines for all the wrong reasons - like Nicholas, who apparently slammed a Chinese New Year song put out by his juniors last week; Ken, for giving the cold shoulder to a middle-aged woman who later accused him of threatening to beat her up; and Dylan, for allegedly hitting a woman's scooter and speeding away in his car.

For them, it is always act first, think later, observed Lianhe Zaobao entertainment correspondent Ang Meng Hwa.

'Today's stars are not as smooth and savvy as the older generation,' noted the veteran journalist of 14 years.

'Much like today's youths, they are more direct and self-centred and, for them, it's attitude and freedom of expression that counts.

'If they are angry or frustrated, they will show it, even if they are in the wrong.

'The older generation, however, will keep it bottled up. They may come across as superficial, but at least they are more courteous and considerate.'

Old conservatives may scoff, but the new generation of fans like their bratty idols just the way they are, thank you very much.

BLIND SUPPORT?

It seems like the days of pop idols being role models for the young have gone with the wind.

Today's youths have such resolute faith in their idols that you wonder if their support is blind.

'We accept them as what they are. They're only human, not saints,' said F4 fan Nicole Poi, 23.

'Some of my friends have been ignored by Ken when they call out to him, but they're not surprised because that's the way he is.'

Added Ken supporter, Miss Diana Chng, 23: 'Ken has a thing about privacy. If you disturb him during his private time, he'll give you a black face or may even scold you.

'If his friends or family are around, he may even lose his temper.

'We have learnt to respect his privacy, and we'll remind each other to behave and not get too carried away around him.'

But Miss Chng draws a line at physical violence.

'If Ken was to hit someone, I'd be disappointed. But so far, he has not gone overboard.'

Even if an idol errs, a public apology will do wonders to salvage his reputation.

5566's Jason Hsu, for instance, won sympathy votes from fans when he broke down on TV while apologising for bashing up a reporter two months ago.

Zaobao's Mr Ang said: 'In the old days, arguing was deemed petty. You have to be polite.

'But now, as long as you don't kill someone or start a fire, just come out and apologise, and your fans will forgive you.

'Just don't let it become a habit or your career will suffer.'

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BAD BOY 5

KEN CHU (left), 26

Once an Ah Beng, always an Ah Beng.

And Ken is an Ah Beng, all right - after eight years of studying in Singapore.

Though friendly on TV, the star of Meteor Garden would snap at fans or show his infamous black face if they dare intrude his privacy.

Last week, a female fan accused him of threatening to attack her when she approached him at a Japanese restaurant, though he later denied it and insisted that he 'didn't do anything wrong'.

Ken also incurred the wrath of the China media last year when he turned up 1 1/2 hours late for a press conference in Beijing. He had to apologise.

Apparently, he's still annoyed about the incident.

He told China Times: 'Even after I apologised, some reporters didn't relent. So I told them to stop taking photos, because they didn't respect me.'

Source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,82258,00.html

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http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/hey/story/0,4136,81605,00.html

22 January 2005

F4: One group, four voices

They may be one for all and all for one but Jerry Yen, Vic Chou, Vanness Wu and Ken Chu are out to prove that they are very different on their own - as their solo albums will show.

CHANG MAY CHOON rates the foursome's individual efforts.

KEN Chu sure took his own sweet time.

After 3 1/2 years of sweat and toil, he has finally released his own album, aptly named On Ken's Time.

That makes him the last of the F4 guys to debut as a solo artiste, after they put out two chart-topping albums as a group in the wake of their runaway hit drama serial, Meteor Garden.

But, how does Ken's album compare with the previous releases of his F4 buddies, Jerry Yen, Vic Chou and Vanness Wu?

Will his album be the best, since he had the longest time to prepare for it?

LAID-BACK ROCKER: KEN CHU, 26

FIRST SOLO: On Ken's Time, out this month.

Now more than ever before, Ken seems determined to prove he is not just a pretty face.

In this album, he makes himself out to be a rocker, complete with leather jacket, body-piercings, tattoos and a guitar strapped across his back.

Like Taiwanese alt-rocker Chang Chen-yue, he also formed his own band, Free Bird (whether the name has any remote link to Chen-yue's band, Free Night, is debatable).

Clearly Ken has nailed the right image, but whether he can pull it off is another matter.

What is most impressive about his album, which comprises mainly Brit-rock tunes and love ballads, is the list of names behind it.

It reads like a who's who of Mandopop, including veteran producers Sandee Chan, Francis Lee and Li Wei-song, rockers Mayday, Wu Bai and Tanya Chua, balladeer Chris Yu and celebrity lyricists Matilda Tao and Vivian Hsu.

ON THE CHARTS: Debuted at No 2 on Taiwan's G-Music Chart, one notch below label mate Lee Hom. Sales figures were not available at press time.

VERDICT: There is no denying the quality of music in this album, especially Francis and Wei-song's melancholic collaboration, But I, and Mayday's catchy, boisterous La La La.

But Ken lacks the attitude and edge of a rocker, and his sometimes strained vocals diminish his credibility.

Said You Weekly music reviewer Poh Hwee Cheng: 'Ken is lucky to have so many good musicians backing him up. The quality is there, but his voice is thin, and his singing is only okay.'

SENSITIVE NEW AGE LOVER: JERRY YEN, 28

FIRST SOLO: Jerry For You in August last year.

This debut album that took three years to produce chalked up many first experiences for Jerry, the most popular of the F4 guys.

For one, he actually learnt how to project his voice and do falsettos like a pro - much to the relief of his producers, twin brothers Li Wei-song and Si-song.

The diligent Jerry also took up piano lessons, got involved in the production process and practised hard to deliver a rap and pen lyrics for the first time.

His efforts paid off. Critics all over Asia were suitably impressed by his marked improvement in vocal techniques and his sentimental ballads befitting his sensitive new-age lover image.

ON THE CHARTS: Hogged the No 1 spot on G-Music Chart for two weeks, beating even Jay Chou. It also sold over 30,000 copies in 10 days in Taiwan.

VERDICT: For someone once slammed as the worst singer in F4, Jerry's debut turned out to be a very pleasant surprise.

He managed to hit all the right notes, be it his endearing snag image, his improved singing or his karaoke-friendly ballads.

Lianhe Zaobao's music reviewer, Ng Chin Chin, noted: 'Unlike Vic, who is overtly mushy, or Ken, who is a bit stiff, Jerry comes across as natural in his solo album. His delivery is smooth and he aptly captures the mood of his songs.'

R&B/HIP-HOP WONDER BOY: VANNESS WU, 26

FIRST SOLO: Body Will Sing in August 2002.

Given his American roots, R&B/hip-hop was the only way to go for Vanness, whose beady eyes make him the least pretty of the group. When his first R&B single, My Friend, was released anonymously on radio in Taiwan, many listeners even mistook him for the more accomplished David Tao and Lee Hom - which must be such a compliment to him.

Being the most versatile of the F4 guys, Vanness also dazzled fans with his sleek raps, temperature-raising dance moves and sizzling showmanship on stage, proving that his Body Will Sing after all.

Naturally, music critics were won over, with some hailing him as the next Aaron Kwok.

But, judging by his reported lukewarm sales in Taiwan, many fans still preferred good looks over substance.

ON THE CHARTS: It is not known how many copies he sold in Taiwan, but in Singapore, Vanness hit 10,000 copies in three days.

VERDICT: Vanness scores for substance and versatility, but lacks the requisite fan support to rival the more popular R&B acts like David and Jay.

No wonder then, he has shifted his focus to acting. Recently he even entered a Shaolin temple to learn martial arts, supposedly in preparation for a fighter role in a Hollywood film.

Ms Poh said: 'It's quite a pity, because Vanness has the potential, but no luck. Maybe people still see him as a pop idol.'

PRINCE CHARMING: VIC CHOU, 24

FIRST SOLO: Make A Wish in February 2002 (followed by Remember I Love You in January last year).

Riding on the F4 fever that erupted across Asia in 2001, Vic was the first of the group to release an album.

He has everything to make girls swoon - boyish good looks, a soft, gentle voice and a Prince Charming image.

His CD even came with a freebie - a pillow case printed with his face on it, as if to provide bedroom fantasies for his largely teenage-girls fan base.

The mushy ballads included in his album, like Love Loves You and A Gentle Goodnight, were also tailor-made for maximum goosebumps-inducing effect.

Perhaps the best testament to his pop appeal is that he got to put out a sophomore album - Remember I Love You - last year. Needless to say, it was just as soppy.

ON THE CHARTS: Make A Wish sold over 30,000 copies in three days in Taiwan

VERDICT: His albums may not be the best in terms of production quality or vocal delivery, but Vic did reasonably well in living up to his carefully-crafted image.

Like Ms Ng said: 'His image is of a Prince Charming, and his songs are made to melt hearts.'

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Mga halu-halong hula-hula 2005

FUNFARE By Ricardo F. Lo
The Philippine Star 01/01/2005

It’s the first day of a brand-new year. As we look forward to the next 364 days, we wonder what’s in store for the stars in the movie firmament. So where do we turn for some, well, "signs" of things to come?

As usual, as is this corner’s "tradition," I’m ushering in the New Year with the Halu-Halong Hula-Hula. You wonder, how does your Funfarer make the "predictions?" As I’ve been saying, its easy. Any showbiz-observer can do it, without having to shuffle a deck of Tarot Cards or donning a turban as you pore over a Crystal Ball. All you have to do is dust off your stack of movie magazines and file of clipped movie columns (this one included, hopefully!) and review your taped copies of showbiz talk shows like Startalk, The Buzz, S-Files and EK Channel and, voila, you can be a manghuhula. If you’re enterprising enough, you can make money by preying on the gullible movie denizens.

You may be asking, what’s this corner’s batting average? Check out last year’s Halu-Halong Hula-Hula and see which ones have come true and which ones have not. Did I fall flat on my face? That’s the risk. Kaya nga hula-hula, e, because I could be wrong.

Without much ado, here are my Halu-Halong Hula-Hula for 2005, dished out without batting an eyelash:

The Wide-Awake Items

• "Novelty" stars (no names, please!) will go out of vogue the way the F4 guys did – you know: shine today, fade tomorrow. Flashes-in-the-pan.

E-mail reactions at rickylo@philstar.net.ph

Internet Articles (2004)

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The Electric New Paper :
MEDIAWORKS/MEDIACORP MERGER

S'pore's own 'foreign talent'

Enterprising celebs can choose to venture overseas, yet keep a foothold in local showbiz

08 October 2004
By Wendy Teo
teowyw@sph.com.sg

IT'S a big step of course.

Only a handful of local actors have been courageous enough, or lucky enough, to have taken this step.

...

CONTRACT PROBLEMS

Michelle Saram went off to Hong Kong and Taiwan without the support of a management company here, after her appearance in Aaron Kwok's music video in 1997 gained her instant fame.

She starred in movies like Bullets Over Summer and Skyline Cruisers, and also had roles in TVB dramas A Step Into The Past and Threshold Of An Era II.

But contractual problems soon saw her returning to Singapore in tears.

Yet, with the backing of Artiste Network, she rebounded quickly, scoring lead roles in idol drama Meteor Garden II, and will soon be seen in the idol drama City Of The Sky, opposite F4 member Ken Zhu.

Source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,74460,00.html

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http://www.hkentreview.com/2004/july/0713to0715/0713to0715.html
Hong Kong Entertainment News in Review
Fluff from July 13-15, 2004

Wednesday: Michelle Saram was in Hong Kong for an event promoting Pond's Double White skin color management system. Reportedly, she is Pond's first-ever spokesmodel of Asian descent. The actress/model has been on location in Yunnan province in recent weeks working on the Mainland television drama TIN HUNG JI SING (lit. SKY CITY). The twenty-episode CCTV four-hankie weepie also stars Ken Zhu Hao-Tian of F4 and Li Bingbing.

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http://www.inq7.net/opi/2004/jun/17/opi_csdequiros-1.htm
Reversal of fortune
There's the Rub
Conrado de Quiros
June 17, 2004
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Editorial & Opinion
(excerpts)

One said she had a brother who used to be a Philippine Airlines pilot but who lost his job during the pilots' strike in 2000. His applications to other airlines bore no fruit, and faced with impoverishment, he turned his energies elsewhere. He studied nursing and has gotten a placement overseas. Another said he knew someone from a fairly well-off family who was promised by her father a bigger allowance and a second-hand car if she would take up nursing in college. Her father was certain it would bring her a bright future.

Welcome to the brave new world. I still recall the time in the 1960s when rich Filipino families were distinguished by having amahs, or Chinese maids. Now rich Hong Kong families are distinguished by having "Filipinas," which has become synonymous with housemaids. (No, the Oxford Dictionary doesn't say that, contrary to rumor. But that is another story.) I was about to say the day may not be far off when instead of exporting bands to Asia, we would be importing them. But I remembered we had the Taiwanese teen group F4 last year, and we've had karaoke for years now.

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The Electric New Paper :

Double trouble in China

17 June 2004

AFTER the controversy over Taiwanese singer A-Mei's concert cancellation in Hangzhou, China, over the weekend, F4 member Ken Chu has also had to eat humble pie before the indignant Chinese press.

While in Beijing to promote his new idol drama, Tiankong Zhi Zheng (City In The Sky) recently, he and his co-stars incurred the wrath of the media when they showed up at the press conference 1 1/2 hours late.

Reporters present demanded an apology. Ken and gang duly bowed and said sorry.

At another interview, Ken again had a run-in with a photographer, who was taking pictures of him.

The 25-year-old apparently stopped the photographer, saying he'd rather pose for the pictures later.

When the photographer explained that his editor wouldn't use posed pictures, Ken said flatly: 'Then don't use pictures.'

He later tried to soothe ruffled feathers by explaining that he doesn't like to be distracted while giving interviews.

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Source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,65263,00.html

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http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/eyeoneastasia/story/0,4395,256312,00.html
The Straits Times
June 15, 2004
Chinese mood against Taipei independence growing

Protests against singer A-mei show that Chen Shui-bian's re-election has roused Chinese patriotic feelings, analysts say

By Goh Sui Noi

BEIJING - The student protests against Taiwanese singer Chang Hui-mei's performance in Hangzhou last Saturday indicate that anti- Taiwan independence sentiments among the Chinese are growing stronger, analysts here said.

'The Taiwanese authority's policy, the selling-out of the country by Chen Shui-bian, has violated the traditional Chinese sense of patriotism,' explained cross-strait analyst Zhang Tongxin.

As a result, Chinese nationalism was on the rise and anti-Taiwanese independence sentiments were growing stronger, he said.

Taiwanese President Chen had been provocative, Mr Zhang said, by holding two referendums together with the presidential election in March, and by letting known his intention to revise the Constitution. Beijing saw these as moves towards Taiwan's independence.

Mr Zhang also noted that China's youths were angered by the sale of arms to Taiwan by the US and the suggestion that Taiwan blow up the Three Gorges Dam should China attack the island.

Last Saturday, a protest staged by students at Zhejiang University led to the cancellation of a performance by Taiwanese pop diva Chang Hui-mei, better known as A-mei, for security reasons.

The students carried banners that said: 'We don't welcome Taiwanese artistes who make money on the mainland but support Taiwanese independence.'

These words echoed those of a spokesman for the Cabinet-level Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), who said at a press conference late last month that 'those who come to make money and then go back to support Taiwan independence are not welcome'.

He was referring to Taiwanese businessmen. But soon after the publication of his remarks, as well as a People's Daily article that named Taiwanese tycoon Hsu Wen-long as a pro-independence element, Chinese netizens began urging the boycott of not only Taiwanese businessmen but also artistes.

Lists of supposed pro-independence artistes started circulating on the Internet, and they include big names such as Jay Chou and F4.

A-mei has protested against the boycott, saying that 'I am a singer without any political affiliation'.

She first suffered sanctions by the Chinese government in 2000 after she sang the Taiwanese 'national' anthem at the inauguration of President Chen. She began making a comeback in China about two years ago.

But this time, while the government has not attempted to block her performances here, she was facing protests from the Chinese people.

Mr Li Dongmin of the Social Survey Institute of China thought the students' reaction was to be expected.

People's concern over the cross-strait issue had been greatly aroused during the March 20 Taiwanese presidential election, surveys by his institute have shown, although interest fell slightly last month during the inauguration of Mr Chen.

A higher percentage of respondents also indicated they would not accept Taiwan's independence in a survey after the presidential election, compared with a similar one conducted before the election.

While lauding the Hangzhou students' patriotism, Mr Zhang thought their action was impulsive and irrational.

But he said it was an isolated incident; he feels most Chinese people are rational.

Analysts were not worried by the Taiwanese urging retaliation by boycotting Chinese artistes, maintaining that this would not lead to a deepening of bad blood between the people of the two sides.

TAO spokesman Zhang Mingqing said at a meeting with Taiwanese reporters on Sunday that only a very small number of Taiwanese businessmen would be affected by China's policy targeting pro-independence investors.

Most Taiwanese doing business in China would enjoy the protection of their lawful rights, he added.

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http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2004/jun/07/yehey/enter/20040607ent1.html
Entertainment
Monday, June 07, 2004
Star Circle Quest Grand Finals: Boys’ night out
By Irene Ocampo Curtis
(excerpts)

After talented beauty Roxanne Guinoo got booted out of the top three, Hero and Sandara stood centerstage, hands clasped, before the former was ultimately pronounced the winner. Not that it matters, anyhow, as it’s no secret that ABS’s Talent Center is bent on cashing in on these two youngsters onscreen chemistry. With the guy’s F4 (still selling, it seems) façade and the young lady’s loyal SMS cult, Geny (Lopez) and company are takin’ the Asian invasion to the local level.

(image from http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/h/f/f4.html )

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http://www.asianjournal.com/cgi-bin/view_info.cgi?code=00004906&category=
Asian Journal
from the Philippine Daily Inquirer
Asian movie heaven
2004-05-19 01:03:00(LA) / 2004-05-19 17:03:00(Manila)

HERE'S a fact: Generation Y members were swaying their hands in the air in time with the beat of "Chigi Chigi" (a theme song of "Shaider" in praise for Fuma Ley-ar) long before they began to attempt to keep up with "Qing Fei Dei Yi."

And just like in the hearts of Gen Y, Asian pop culture has found a home in a nameless shop located at 849-A Sabino Padilla St. near Ongpin, Sta. Cruz.

CDs and VCDs from China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea are available at almost half their market prices.

It's a haven for anime buffs and Chinovela aficionados. Each title is a friend that you've been looking for all your life but never really found, well, until now.

The store has the limited-edition release of "Spirited Away," by Hayao Miyazaki, winner of 2002 Oscar for Best Animated Feature (the competitors that year included Disney's "Lilo and Stitch").

A wide range of "Ultraman" reincarnations and anime hits such as "Doraemon" are also available.

All the movies of the Chinese stars you know, and the ones you don't, are all there. It's a place where Jacky Chan and Zhang Ziyi rub elbows with the likes of Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng.

Though the shop owners don't play favorites (as they only categorize their wares according to the country of origin), it's obvious their current bestsellers are F4 series like "Meteor Garden," "Poor Prince" and "Love Storm" -- if we gauge it by the sheer volume of covers prominently displayed on the shelves.

Regular movies like "Magic Kitchen" are priced at P150. But there's a catch. It has, like most of the movies in the shop, no English subtitles. For versions of movies with English subs, the price is doubled.

Meanwhile, VCD series like "Lavender" and "Westside Story" are priced at P40 per disc.

What you'd want to hoard from this shop are the cheap audio CDs of pop idols from our neighboring countries. All albums of F4, some not even locally promoted, are practically a steal at P150. The store also carries albums by 5566, Ambrose Hsu (the male protagonist from "Love at the Dolphin Bay" and "Lavender"), WeWe, Comic Boyz and 4 In Love (Rainie, a member of this all-girl band, plays opposite Ken Zhu in "Meteor Garden").

Soundtracks of Korean series like "Endless Love: Autumn's Tale" and "Endless Love: Winter Sonata" are also available.

A word of advice: Prepare the names of the artists or movies you're looking for before you drop by this place. Though there is a Filipino-speaking assistant, you have to deal with a shop owner who doesn't speak Filipino fluently. That's why having a handy list you can present can save you time and energy.

Patience is rewarded in this shop, as a thorough exploration yields discoveries of music videos and albums of movie superstars like Karen Mok and Nicholas Tse.

If you don't have enough money to buy a whole collection, don't fret, as the shop also rents out CDs to its customers at P10 each CD per day. That means you can borrow the whole series of "Lovestorm" for 26 days at P260. However, first-time customers are asked to pay a P300 deposit.

The shop is open from 10:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m., Tuesdays to Sundays. (INQ7)

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http://www.malaya.com.ph/may10/ente1.htm
Malaya
Entertainment
Monday, 10 May 2004
"Love Storm"

WILL love survive amid the terrifying action and suspense? Find out as the mystery unfolds in "Love Storm," GMA-7's top-rating afternoon Chinovela starring Vivian Hsu and F4's Vic Zhou and Ken Zhu.

Finally Zhao Jia Le (Vivian Hsu) has succeeded in capturing the affection of Lu Ying Feng (Zhou). However their love is constantly challenged by outside forces. After the kidnapping incident staged by Ma Jing Jing, Lu Ying Feng's jealous adopted sister, confusion further arises as Ah Hao, Lu Ying Feng's mafia brother, enters the picture thus causing more problems for the lovebirds.

Meanwhile, kind-hearted Bao Long (Ken Zhu) learns the truth about his painful past that involves Meiyun the pub owner. But amid all his troubles is his deep commitment to protect Jia Le from the turmoil caused by Lu Ying Feng's mafia connections.

With all the confusion going on, Jia Le is faced with a difficult question: Is love really more important than lifelong friendship? Find out as the plot thickens in "Love Storm".

"Love Storm" is the latest romantic drama of F4 members Vic Zhou and Ken Zhu. Vic just released his second album and is currently filming the drama series "Mars" in Japan and Taiwan. Ken is set to release his first solo album this year and is also scheduled to film the television series "City of Love" in China.

Don't miss the exciting episodes of "Love Storm" on GMA-7, Monday to Thursday at 4-4:30 p.m. and every Friday at 3:30-4 p.m.

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The Electric New Paper :

Hot and spicy present for Ken?

By Chang May Choon
changmc@sph.com.sg

24 April 2004

IF Michelle Saram had her way, she would pack some chicken rice and laksa in her luggage when she goes to Yunnan for filming next month.

It's not for herself, but for her co-star, former F4 member Ken Chu.

The couple are slated to play lovers in a new China-produced drama entitled Tian Kong Zhi Cheng, loosely translated as City In The Sky.

Filming will start early next month and is expected to last four months.

Michelle, 30, met Ken briefly on the set of Meteor Garden II, where she played the love interest of Ken's buddy.

When asked for her first impression of Ken, Michelle exclaimed: 'It's been so long already!'

Almost two years, to be exact.

But when we persisted, memories came flashing back.

'Oh, he speaks English!' she said in an excited tone.

'That is very imporant, because communication won't be so difficult.'

Although Michelle speaks Mandarin, she said she communicates better in English.

She also recalled having 'good discussions' with Ken about Singapore food, which he has developed a liking for during the eight years he spent studying here.

SIMILAR TASTES

'We also share the same taste in music, like lounge music, acid jazz and jazz,' she added.

When asked to choose a present for Ken, she thought for a moment, then said: 'I'd love to bring chicken rice or laksa.'

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Source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,58787,00.html

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http://www.malaya.com.ph/mar22/ente1.htm
Malaya
Entertainment
Monday, 22 March 2004
Prepare for "Love Storm"

TWO of the hottest Chinovela stars that captured the hearts of thousands of women all over Asia can now be seen on GMA-7. Vic Zhou and Ken Zhu, members of the ultra popular F4, are reunited in GMA-7's newest Chinovela offering, "Love Storm," which premieres this Monday, March 22 at 4 p.m.

Ken Zhu is 26 years old. He was born in Taiwan and was raised in Singapore. Ken was discovered while working in a Japanese Barbecue restaurant. Aside from acting on television he was recently featured in the movie "Sky of Love" opposite actress Gigi Leung.

On the other hand, Vic Zhou, 23, was discovered when he accompanied a friend to an audition. He has acted in several television dramas and have also released two albums. Despite his hectic work schedule, he continues to study in a technical school in Taiwan.

In "Love Storm" Vic Zhou plays a gangster while Ken Zhu is a computer game developer. In the story, lead character Zhao Jia Le (played by actress Vivian Hsu) witnesses how her aunt defied customs and traditions to be with the one she truly loved. This idea was implanted in young Jia's mind thus even as a child she vowed to only marry the guy who will give her true happiness.

Jia believes that the man of her dreams has finally arrived when she accidentally meets Lu Ying Feng (Zhou). She throws caution in the wind and surges forward just to be with him. But in doing this, Jia unknowingly hurts Wan Bao Long (Zhu), a childhood friend who has nurtured a hidden love for her from a distance.

GMA-7 brings you this romantic comedy-drama that is sure to once again tickle the legions of F4 fans throughout the country. "Love Storm" airs on the Kapuso Network from Monday to Friday starting March 22 from 4 to 4:30 p.m.

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http://www.malaya.com.ph/mar19/ente1.htm
Malaya
Entertainment
Friday, 19 March 2004
F4 comes to Kapuso Network

THE phenomenal F4 - Jerry Yan Cheng, Vic Zhou Yu Min, Ken Zhu Xiao and Vanness Wu Jian Hao - joins GMA starting this Sunday, March 21 at 11:30 a.m.

The four will be featured in new show called "Meteor Fantasy Paradise," a weekly show in Taiwan which features the F4 members getting up close and personal with their fans. The show's Philippine version will be hosted by our very own Sex bomb Dancers.

Watch these four handsome guys interact with their fans, play games, clown around during tapings. Fans will get to see the real persona behind those attractive faces and winsome smiles as they let their guards down in this newest GMA program.

"Meteor Fantasy Paradise" features two exciting segments: "Meteor Laugh Garden" and "Call Me Mailbox." In "Meteor Laugh Garden," fans will reenact classic scenes from their television show. In "Call Me," Jerry Yan Cheng, Vic Zhou Yu Min, Ken Zhu Xiao and Vanness Wu Jian Hao will answer their fan mails on air.

For its initial telecast this Sunday, "Meteor Fantasy Paradise" will also have a sneak preview of "Love Storm," a new Chinovela that will premiere on GMA on Monday, March 22 at 4p.m. "Love Storm" stars Ken Zhu and Vic Zhou.

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http://www.asianjournal.com/cgi-bin/view_info.cgi?code=00002962&category=
Asian Journal
from the Philippine Daily Inquirer
2004-01-15 06:36:00(LA) / 2004-01-15 22:36:00(Manila)
(excerpts)

Two members of the popular Taiwanese group F4-Vanness Wu and Ken Zu-performed before a full house at Philsports last September. Unruly fans broke down the barricade at the open field exit during the F4 concert called "The Event," resulting in injuries to eight people.

Rumors are flying thick that the F4 will be back in Manila for the fourth time to perform in a concert on Feb. 14. Last November, the two other F4 members- Jerry Yan and Vic Zhou-joined ABS-CBN artists in the network's "Happy 50 TV" concert at The Fort Open Field. Less than a month later, all four members of F4 were back for a show at the Philsports Arena in Pasay.

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http://www.asianjournal.com/cgi-bin/view_info.cgi?code=00002831&category=
Asian Journal
from the Philippine Daily Inquirer
Poe phobia
By Rick M. Abcede
January 9, 2004 03:54:00(LA) / January 9, 2004 19:54:00(Manila)
(excerpts)

If popularity were the only basis, four of our next senators would come from the Taiwanese singing group F4. "Dao Ming Su for Senator!" has a nice ring to it.

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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/dav/2004/01/04/feat/the.2003.apples.and.lemons.awards.html
Sun Star Davao
Sunday, January 04, 2004
The 2003 Apples and Lemons Awards
By Jinggoy Salvador
(excerpts)

(image from http://comicfamily.mymuch.com/)

2003. Oh, what a year it was. The poor Pinoys sang to the tune of F4 even if they don't understand a single word of the song (much like the political scene), Kris A. hugged the headlines like it was of national concern (what a waste of time and space), SARS news went overboard (at least something fashionable came out of it. Think: designer masks. Local tourism boomed as well) crippling Asia's economy and tourism and a double integer and pasta song and dance craze gyrated everyone's waist, hip and spine (in every social class, mind you).

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http://www.asianjournal.com/cgi-bin/view_info.cgi?code=00002704&category=
Asian Journal
from the Philippine Daily Inquirer
2003: Bombshells, boy bands, breakouts, breakups
2004-01-01 00:13:00(LA) / 2004-01-01 16:13:00(Manila)
(excerpts)

Stunners, intrigues

THAT was the year that was. Like Philippine show business itself, it was full of stunners and intrigues and laughter and sadness.

'Meteor' power

The land was also rocked by another bombshell, which kept on returning like an old song-the Taiwanese boy band called F4, from the Taiwanese soap "Meteor Garden."

First came Vaness Wu and Ken Zhu in September; they sang three songs each at the muddy Philsports field, and the huge crowd loved them.

Then came Jerry Yan and Vic Zhou in November; they sang three songs each at the Fort open field, and the huge crowd loved them.

Then came all four young men together in a show at Philsports again, and the huge crowd loved them still, no matter that it was the day after Christmas.

Will the "Meteor" power ever fall?

Bigger, lesser

Other foreign stars-far better artists than F4, and lesser celebrities than F4-came to town, but their audiences were not as huge as the F4 multitude: Mariah Carey, Mandy Moore, Duncan Sheik, Ronan Keating, Boyz II Men, Michel Legrande, Dionne Warwick, Stephen Bishop, and Michael Buble. [INQ7]