Happy Lunar New Year 2011!

Seems like ages since I actually updated on anything. Many things happened since I last update. And it did cross my mind whether to continue on this blog as I felt like I was so busy to even do anything for the past few months. Well, the main reason is because I'm finally living in Hong Kong now for university. I was always out that I don't even have time to go online for updates on TVB and Cantopop etc.

However, after thinking, I decided that I will not desert my blog. Hahaha...I have too much relationshop and memories with it. It contains and preserves parts of my memories that I believe years later when I read them back, it will mean a lot to me. Also, I still do love HK and Cantopop alot. What more? I'm actually living in HK now! Which makes it much more meaningful to blog.

Well, so far in the 1 month I've been in HK, I've been to 2 events. First is the JSG Music Awards 2010 and also I met Charlene Choi last week in Tsim Sha Tsui. I've decided I'll skip on updates for JSG and update on Charlene instead. Hehehe. So stay tuned!

And of course, A HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR 2011!!!!!! MAY ALL OF YOU HAVE GOOD HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND A SMOOTH YEAR AHEAD!! GONG XI FA CAI!

Sharing: Super Trio CBML Special plus JSG

Hi all! While finding for time to update on the Linda event under pressure of assignments and coming exams, let me share some treats with you all first.

Download links to Super Trio episode featuring casts from Can't Buy Me Love and also Jade Solid Gold episode featuring Joey Yung, Susanna Kwan, Mimi Chu and Denise Ho etc.

Super Trio Game Master (Can't Buy Me Love special feat. Charmaine Sheh, Moses Chan, Susan Tse, Lee Heung Kam etc)

Download:
Option 1: http://www.sendspace.com/file/6s4ifl
Option 2: http://www.fileserve.com/file/xWRNP7g
Option 3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E3X3542Z

Jade Solid Gold (Feat. Joey Yung, Susanna Kwan, Denise Ho, Mimi Chu etc.)


Download:

http://www.fileserve.com/file/TddPQdx


Download Links credits to http://asianuniverse.net

Review: Joey Yung Airport (空港) EP 2010

Its been awhile since I wrote a review on an album. This time, I'm writing one because if I don't, I feel its a waste to many Cantopop listeners to miss out listening to this EP. Of course, I am a Joey fan, however, this review is written from a very unbiased point of view because its so good that even by not being a fan, you cannot deny that its a good release.

Track List:

01. 空港
02. 破相
03. 飛
04. 綠野仙踪(“百老滙”廣告歌)
05. 星圖

Departure:

Opening the EP with the concert theme 空港 (a metaphor for 'Airport'), the sound of guitars and drums playing to a light rock genre surprises as rock is not a genre frequently associated to Joey. The beat attracts one to listen on and although being rockish, the song sounded refreshing and relaxing at the same time, thanks to Joey's vocals for creating a balance. 'Airport' gives a magical feeling of lightness and happiness and at the same time not missing out on heavy musical substance. Moving on to the lyrics, Wyman Wong did a great job in penning and creating the 'Airport' methaphor. An 'Airport' in the context of the song, being a place in the heart of each of us where we have the sense of belonging and existence. A place, where we hold on and look forward to whenever we are away. Thus, giving birth to the concert theme; the Hong Kong Colliseum, being Joey's 空港 this November.

On Board:

Slowing things down with track 2 is 'Disfigured'. The familiarity with Joey songs return as listeners are presented with a conventional Joey Yung rated ballad. 'Disfigured' might be the favourite among listeners as it brings back the feeling of old Joey Yung ballads (which she lacks in recent years) similar to 摩登時代 (modern times), 流淚眼望流淚眼 (teary eyes watching teary eyes), 心淡 (dull heart) and 習慣失戀 (used to heartbreak) among others. Ballads can be considered to be Joey's forte as she posseses the art of homogenizing the lyrics into the potrayal of the song. Her voice speaks the lyrics which enters your heart and you could naturally experience the painfulness of the song. This is definitely a different level of singing which stretches beyond beautiful vocals.

Cruising:

Track 3 'Fly' presents another ballad and just as one reduces their expectation and interest to another ballad, the song surprises with its unconventional arrangement and ad libs. Ad-libs are rare in Cantonese music which makes the song sounds more special and Western. Joey presented the song and ad-libs in a more soothing, airy way in contrast to a powerful emphasis. Definitely makes you feel like floating (flying perhaps?). An excellent sidetrack to the EP.

Vacation:

Track 4 'Wizard of Oz' brings back happiness as Joey sings to another breakthrough melody. A rare or one could say uniquely arranged melody by Hanjin. This song showcases Joey's versatility and her ongoing improvement in singing fast beat tracks. The melody and Joey's mood put into the song makes you feel like dancing. It brings back the happiness from the previous mellow melody from 'Fly'. The song suits the atmosphere and theme for Broadway electronics Commercial this year. No wonder this Queen of Cantopop is the sweetheart of advertisers!

Homecoming:

Bringing an end to the EP is 'Star Map'. A groovy, soul and R&B influenced music. Another song that rarely comes from Joey. A very good addition to the EP, showcasing her versatility in genres and styles. It brings a beautiful conclusion to the EP. This singer could really put on anything and never stops leaping forward to bringing her career a step further. Impossible, truly is nothing.


The end of track 5 felt like the end of track 1 of the EP. One of the reasons for recommending this EP is for its smoothmess of flow and unequivocal balance. Credits to the production team for the track arrangement. A succesful and remarkable collaboration with Joey this time around.

A suitable metaphor I would use to describe this EP is a 'plane ride'. Listening to the EP is similar to a cycle we take which forms the subheadings Departure-On Board-Crusing-Vacation-Homecoming. A sense of excitement from departure, to feelings of melancholy from leaving, followed by an enjoyable vacation and a warm welcome home. The EP forms a vicious cycle attracting listeners to repeat and repeat and repeat plays without wanting to skip any tracks. Moreover, skipping a track leaves a sense of guilt for spoiling the beauty of the flow. Good Job JY, you exceeded my expectation and impressed. Definitely seeing you at your 空港 coming November.

Recommended Tracks: 空港, 破相, 綠野仙踪

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Preview of Title Track 空港

Jade and the Pearl Premieres in Malaysian Cinemas Tomorrow

Yups, the movie I've been anticipating since early this year is to going to premiere in major cinemas across the nation tomorrow (earlier than Hong Kong)!!

翡翠明珠 Official Trailer *minor spoilers*



I love how the subtheme fits into the trailer! Hurry up Raymond, Sa, Joey and Cho Lam fans, go grab your tickets now and enjoy the show!! HEHEHE.....

Joey Yung New Commercial & Song: 綠野仙踪

Hi!!! I'm back for an update! Well, actually, I have an update which I haven't posted up because the pictures from the event is in another storage device and I don't have it with me now. I'll probably post up that delayed event update when I get hold of the pictures.

Anyway, I started classes again today. So depressing...HAHAHA...Luckily, Joey plugged a new song and its a funky fast song to cheer me up! Joey never stops venturing into different styles and genres for her song which is a good thing. Such a versatile singer. The title of the song is 綠野仙踪. I've got no idea how to translate this...Wizard of Oz something?? Hahaha...Its the commercial song for Broadway Electronics. I'm just starting to listen to it a few times. And I would recommend watching the Broadway CM first before listening to the song. Somehow it makes the song sounds better...LOL. Maybe that's the power of Joey's song and her commercials...Here's the download link to share and also the commercial and also the making of the commercial which was filmed in the Phillipines!! I'm so jealous of Joey!! I want to swim with the dolphins and let them kiss me too!!! HAHAHA....

Download MOOV/CD Version:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/mv98we
http://www.mediafire.com/?ge3af7ybbq1mgij

Broadway CM1: Swimming with Dolphins



Broadway CM2: Safari Adventure



Broadway CM3: Beach Party



The Making Of (Jealousy!!!!hahahaha)



Besides this song, there is another ballad that will be releasing soon. The ballad MV is filmed in 3D and Joey is honoured to be the first HK singer to film a full 3D MV! Since there isn't a high quality version of the song and also the MV yet, I'll leave that to a later post.

Besides songs, I'm looking forward to the movie 'The Jade & the Pearl" starring Raymond Lam, Charlene Choi, Joey Yung and Cho Lam. They are attending functions in China for the premieres in early August. I wonder if Malaysian fans will be lucky enough?? *Fingers cross* Here is a trailer for the movie:



Well, the storyline seems decent enough. And the subtheme of the movie inserted into the clip at Joey's sad life part suits the scene a lot. Haha....I prefer the second half more than the first half of the silly parts. Hope its a good movie! Looking forward to it!!

And I already bought tickets for Big Four's coming concert!! Hope its a good concert~ 19 more days to it!! Stay tuned for updates on it!

Joey Yung 2010 New Mandarin Song(added MOOV version) + Birthday experience

I'm still halfway through my exams...Suffering!! LOLS...Anyway, Joey released a new mandarin song about 2 days ago. The title is 信今生愛過(roughly translated as 'believe loved cameby this life?'). Its a ballad. I've played a few times. Sound quite okay so far. Have to listen more and wait for the CD version to know. Anyway, here's the DJ version for download:


http://www.sendspace.com/file/c5m3zj
http://www.mediafire.com/?mknmthgdnym

I will post the CD version once its available.

*MOOV Version Added

http://www.sendspace.com/file/kn9ugm

On the other hand, I attended the Joey Birthday celebration live conference today. Although it was a very short video conference however it was much fun!! Joey's very humorous as usual. As I'm not supposed to reveal much of the details of the event, thus I'll just briefly update on some information. I managed to ask Joey when will her next album be released and she said September. Since she's releasing a mandarin number, I think it will be a mandarin album then. Which means cross fingers she will come to Malaysia for promotion.

Joey also mentioned that her concert will be at the end of November this year. I'm planning to see if i can make it. Hopefully its after my exams! And also when asked how many shows will there be for the concert, she humorously answered, "erm...hei ma dou yao yat cheung geh" (Erm...there's at least 1 show).

After today's celebration, I'm starting to miss Joey again. LOLS. She's very much into charity now, telling us enthusiastically she brought her HK fans to do charity this morning. HAHA. Although we didn't know what to answer aftet that and just responded with an "Oh." Probably she was dissapointed with that answer. HAHA.

I'm still very stressed up and busy with exam preparations. Will update here more often once I'm in my semester break again!!! See ya!! Enjoy the song~

Joey Yung talks about kissing Raymond Lam

Seems like ages since I last updated. HAHA. Past week, Joey was filming in Beijing with Charlene Choi, Raymond Lam & Wong Cho Lam etc. And she's finally back this week and during Yahoo! Commercial awards function yesterday, she spoke about her experience filming a kissing scene with Raymond for movie Emerald and the Pearl.

I personally could not imagine Joey with Raymond!! HAHA...I'd rather see Joey with Cho Lam! LOLS....I usually like Ming Pao/On.CC news clips as you can hear the interaction between Joey and the reporters. Its hillarious when Joey wanted to describe a 'passionate, fiery kiss' but could not find a suitable word for it and used body gestures instead. LOL!

Looking forward to the movie! I'm finally done with my assignments for the semester! Yeah!!! However, I'm having exams coming soon! Saddening...Have to start studying soon!

P.S Joey hasn't been singing for quite some time now because she's still resting her throat. She got a growth on her throat which caused her voice to become hoarse. However, she said she's feeling better already after doing acupuncture in Nanking. However, we'll see her singing less for the coming months. I feel its a good thing to rest her vocal chords since she's going to have a major concert in HK Colliseum coming November! Rest well Joey!

Sharing Multimedia: Sherman Chung 給自己的信(Mandarin Version)

Its finally out today~ I've been waiting for it since Sherman mentioned that she was recording it on her Weibo!

After a few listenings, I'm starting to get used to the transformation from Cantonese to Mandarin. And its getting better after each play. The mandarin lyrics is quite similar to the Cantonese lyrics...The lyrics are quite straightforward and easy to understand though.

Download the song (CD Version) : http://www.sendspace.com/file/lcqbia

Happy listening~!

Star Wars at Eason Duo Concert

I couldn't refrain from writing this post up although I'm very busy...LOL. Well, okay, I'll make the post short!

Eason recently had his Eason Duo in HK colliseum and during the final night, friends from the entertainment circle came to watch him, including HOCC, Joey Yung, Wyman Wong etc. And during the concert, some fans caught a Star Wars Jedi in action! LOL.....

And here's a video of Jedi in action!

Lesson number 1: When watching a concert, refrain from sitting beside Joey Yung aka Joey Skywalker so as to avoid your head being chopped off by a light saber.

Miscellaneous: Joey carrying a backpack to concert...looks so student like...HAHAHA

Lesson number 2: To look young, carry a backpack!

Alright, enough jokes and stalks from my side...back to my assignments! Hope you enjoyed the Lessons of the day post and feel enlightened with knowledge after reading it!

P.S: the light saber isn't cheap eh....I once wanted to get one and the price was around a thousand Malaysian ringgit/2000HKD. The blue one they're using is the Anakin version if I'm not mistaken.

Hong Kong Artiste current trend??

I wanted to write this post up yesterday. However because I was too caught up with uni work, so only decided to write this after midnight, which means sacrifice some time off my sleep. LOL.

I recently realised that there's a current trend between Hong Kong artiste going on now with Sina's Weibo. What is Weibo?? Well, its similar to Twitter only just a little more interactive. Well, basically, a chinese version of Twitter. I came to know about it through Joey because her facebook got banned....and Twitter was banned for China, so she created one on Weibo. From there, I first realise many other HK singers are there. In fact, almost the whole HK singing community is there. Among them are Kenny Kwan, Vincy, Sherman, Andy Hui, Hacken Lee, Leo Ku, Gigi Leung, Denise Ho, At17, Eric Suen, Stephy Tang, Miriam Yeung, Hins Cheung.....................

From Weibo, you can actually see them communicating with each other which are sometimes really hillarious. For example, sharing thoughts on food, ideas, bickering, arguing, joking with each other etc.

Recently, the trend has extended to not only singers but also industry people such as music producers, lyricist (Wyman Wong registered 2 days ago), composers, managers (Mani) and also TVB artiste!!

Among TVB artiste who were first active users include Myolie, Bosco, Sharon Chan, Leila Tong, Kingdom Yuen, Joe Ma and Bowie Lam. And now the trend has spread to Michael Tse and also most recently Christine Ng. I was lucky enough to be on Weibo when Christine registered (well, actually Sharon helped Christine to register an account coz she probably didn't know how...LOL). Christine started posting messages on Weibo and I randomly commented on one and surprisingly I received a reply from her! Here's how it went:

伍詠薇 回复 @Ivyryc:我真的超搞笑， 改變不了！多謝你來玩！ (3月27日 16:49)
我的评论：“就係鍾意你㗎人好搞笑！哈哈。。yeah!”

Translation: Christine posted something funny,

so I told her: Your're humorous. That's the reason that I like you! Haha...Yeah!

Christine replied: I really am extremely humorous, my character can't be changed anymore! Thank you for coming to play in here!

And after that Christine's following messages were really funny such as calling Bosco handsome guy, grumbling that some artiste hasn't greeted her on Weibo when others did (which Sharon commented, asking her to hit his 'pat pat'(backside) when she sees him)...LOL. And Sharon, Myolie and Christine seems to be good friends having nicknames for each other. Recently, Christine has been commented to have been poisoned by the Weibo addiction...Hahaha..n all the artiste are making fun of her about it.

Well basically, that's Weibo and I'm predicting more artiste will be joining the community soon! So, for those who has some basic Chinese character literacy(you don't need a lot...you can actually guess the buttons), join Weibo to know more of your idols and see how they interact with their peers and maybe interact with you too! haha...just click any of the links below and click the buton 注册 to register an account!

Here's a list of Weibo page suggestions to start with:

My Weibo page(add me after you register!! LOL): http://t.sina.com.cn/ivyryc

Joey Yung: http://t.sina.com.cn/joeyyung

Miriam Yeung: http://t.sina.com.cn/lovemiriamyeung

Myolie Wu: http://t.sina.com.cn/huxinger

Sherman Chung: http://t.sina.com.cn/chungsherman

Michael Tse: http://t.sina.com.cn/tsetinwah

Leila Tong: http://t.sina.com.cn/leilatong123

Christine Ng: http://t.sina.com.cn/misseng5

Bosco Wong: http://t.sina.com.cn/boscowong

Mani Fok: http://t.sina.com.cn/manifok

Bowie Lam: http://t.sina.com.cn/1350537007

Kingdom Yuen: http://t.sina.com.cn/kingtan

Hins Cheung: http://t.sina.com.cn/hinszhangjingxuan

Denise Ho: http://t.sina.com.cn/hocchocc

Nancy Wu: http://t.sina.com.cn/hudingxin

Andy Hui: http://t.sina.com.cn/xuzhian

Vincy Chan: http://t.sina.com.cn/1708580067

Khalil Fong: http://t.sina.com.cn/1707679453

Gigi Leung: http://t.sina.com.cn/gigileungwingkei

Kary Ng: http://t.sina.com.cn/karyng

Sammul Chan: http://t.sina.com.cn/chankinfung

Leo Ku: http://t.sina.com.cn/1511484000

Wyman Wong: http://t.sina.com.cn/wymanwong

Joe Ma: http://t.sina.com.cn/joema

Hacken Lee: http://t.sina.com.cn/hackenlee

Justin Lo: http://t.sina.com.cn/teenfanmily

Fiona Sit: http://t.sina.com.cn/fifififi

Eric Suen: http://t.sina.com.cn/sunyaowei

I'll stop here!!!! If not the list will keep going on and on..............Leave the rest for you guys to find out or ask me if you wanna know if your idol is on Weibo! LOL....I'll let you know if I know!!

P.S. All Weibo URL above are confirmed to personally belong to the respected artiste

Update:

Received another reply from Christine today...LOL

伍詠薇 回复 @Ivyryc:知道！ (23分钟前)
我：我又來啦~~~早點覺吧Miss 5！！健康生活．．．哈哈哈

Translation：

Christine said she was tired so I said: I'm here again~~~Sleep earlier Miss 5!! Healthy lifestyle...HAHAHA

Christine: Alright!

P.S. She's really cute! And I think I did a typo, but she understood my message anyways...LOL

The Emerald & The Pearl, 翡翠明珠 synopsis

The synopsis of the movie! So far the storyline sounds interesting....sounds like a typical ancient love story but it should turn out interesting with the casts...Looking forward to it! And at least something to distress on!!! Considering my state of mind now, cramped with assignment work!!! HELP!!!!

Joey Yung 'Summer's Eve' Commercial

Recently, more money making for Joey as she is the spokesperson of Summer's Eve feminine hygiene wash. Here's the CM:

I wonder what Joey as a female artiste hasn't endorse...LOL. She really is a commercial queen. A list of commercial that I can think of now that she endorsed/endorses includes:

1) H2O+~, Hong Kong
2) McDonald's (current)
3) Mioggi BB Cream (current)
4) Broadway Electronics (current)
5) Mei Sam Mooncakes
6) Citizen Watches (current)
7) Reebok Hong Kong (current)
8) Coca-cola (current)
9) Nissin noodles
10) Visa Card
11) INSE Kitchen appliances (current)
12) Unicef
13) Bird's nest drink
14) Slimming centre
15) Asia Games Expo (current)
16) Nikon
17) Property development company (where My Pride was the themesong)
18) YCMD winter clothings (current)
19) Lingerie brand, China
20) HKMTR
21) Summer's Eve female hygiene (current)

She really already made a fortune for her to live comfortably for the rest of her life...LOL...how I wish I can achive that too by the age of 30!! LOL

我的故事。我的歌 - 容祖兒 Joey Yung - My Story, My Song

Here's a TVB music documentary on Joey Yung. Well, probably this will be something closer to a Joey Yung Documentary compared to the Perfect Ten Documentary which I mentioned on the Perfect Ten Boxset post. I haven't watched it myself. Will do that later tonight^^

Edit: I just finished watching it and I have to say I enjoyed it more than I expected. Because there are some chapters from the documentary that I would like to highlight:

1) Joey visiting Ron Ng, Roger Kwok and producer Poon Ka Tak to talk about their filming (love Joey+Ron's humour)

2) Joey, Ah Sa and Paisley's gathering. Talking a lot about Joey's habits and trying to think of matchmaking her which ended up with people like Brad Pitt...HAHA

3) Joey talking about her mum and also her teacher Roman Tam which was very touching to look back at clips of Roman giving her singing lessons

4) Joey talking about dancing and some clips of her rehearsals

Here's the part with Ron beginning from around 6:30 into the clip! Love them both..haha

Download Links:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/cv9zgt

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E0DD7FKZ

Links credit to noasian @ Popularasians

Back to Uni, waiting for April

Finally started university again today! First day of lecture and already reached late because had to guide my mum on how to reach the highway to Penang!! Worse thing is, once I stepped into lecture hall, my new lecturer was talking about punctuality and how particular she is on this.....really PAISEH..luckily I was so far up I don't think she'll remember my face(hopefully).

I already bought A-mit Live in Malaysia concert ticket last week!! I wanted to get the PS2 ticket at first but when I went to Sungei Wang to purchase, nice seats for that tier was already taken. So ended up getting PS1 ticket. 3rd row! So considered not bad. I think her concert ticket will get sold out soon because ticket sales started on 11am and I bought mine around 2pm. In 3 hours, nice seats for PS2 already fully taken!

Concert is on 24th April and I got an assignment due on 27th!! And also I hope Charmaine come early in April!! HAHA...better if come on my birthday! LOL

Raymond Lam & Joey Yung's New Year MV

The MV Joey and Raymond filmed with the Mannings Commercial girl is out! They sang the song 'Hei Hei Yeung Yeung'

Here's the video and also the mp3 download with and without the greetings at the end.

without greetings: http://www.mediafire.com/?yjdy2jjlomz
with greetings: http://www.mediafire.com/?mxm2mjqd2dm

Here are some TMO or filming clips too!

Ivy: I just got back from Japan yesterday night. And honestly, until now I still feel tired. Hahaha...sitting long haul flights really kills me. I can't sleep at all in the plane. I envy those who can. LOL. I ended up watching the movies Poker King and The Dark Knight. But I didn't finish The Dark Knight!! Gonna go youtube for the rest of the part I missed. LOL. Will share some pics here after I am fully rested and the photos are edited =)

Happy Lunar New Year and Valentines!

An early Happy Lunar New Year and Happy Valentines to everyone!!

I'm leaving for Japan in awhile!! May the new year be filled with happiness, success and health to everyone!! Have fun and to the singles, enjoy collecting red packets!!

I'll try to go online if I can in Japan! Haaha...will be bringing my netbook there. If not, then wait till I'm back!!

P.S Since the original e-card I embed did not work, so I just made one with whatever pictures I could find from my laptop!! Hahaha...took like 20 minutes to make it!

ChoFung?? JoRay??....

So far, there are Charray, Rayda, Fungyi.........and now....ChoFung?? or JoRay???

Picture source: Little BB's Blog

Its funny when Raymond joined EEG, I was just waiting for when EEG will pair him up with one of their singers. I was predicting Raymond will pair up with Vincy probably for some movie since Raymond and Vincy seems to collaborate the most in EEG. However, turns out EEG sets Raymond up with Charlene and Joey instead! Hahaha...And the funny thing was, I was just thinking what about Ray and Joey and the next day, I read news of them going to film an ancient movie together. Not much information on the movie is out yet. Except that there will be a four sided relationship between Raymond, Charlene, Joey and Wong Cho Lam...HAHAHA....I'm imagining Joey and Wong Cho Lam now..LOLS...it sure will be funny to see them..one so tall..and one the opposite^^

Anyway, the pictures posted above looks quite nice! They are from this little girl's blog. I think its a TVB CNY MV based on what the little girl said. All these while, I felt that Joey looks more like an elder sister to Raymond although she is a year younger than him. However, the pictures above looks quite sweet...like a family..SURPRISINGLY...HAHA.. Its funny too when the little girl said that Joey and her sang together and when Raymond aririved they all laughed until their tummy ached (wonder what jokes Ray cracked)...I guess filming the MV above is a hint for TVB to promote the ChoFung/JoRay couple soon..LOL....or maybe to try to make them more comfortable with each other's company first.

I remember a video of Charlene and Joey...Charlene said that Joey asked her about filming movies. She asked Charlene how could she differentiate love in acting and not put real feelings towards your costar? So Charlene said you need to know how to differentiate them between filming and real life. Joey then said, I'm not as experienced as you! If you see me falling for Ray, please help pull me away! LOLZ...NO! I hope that never happens! LOL. I can't imagine rumours between them two...thinking of it already make me cringe! Found the video:

P.S Excuse me if I wrote anything jumbled up or weirdly because really sleepy now..haha...just got back from early reunion dinner! Goodnight!

Charmaine Sheh: Skinz Infinite 30 Seconds Commercial

Finally managed to record down the advertisement today from TVB8!! Haha...Enjoy!! Charmaine looks really lovely and elegant in here. Her image in the commercial suits the product positioning- targetting women above 25 years of age.

Really looking forward to her April function!! Hope I can see Charmaine again after Astro Wah Lai Toi Awards 2008 which is the last time she came for a promotional function in Malaysia!

Charmaine Malaysia Mystery: Solved

The mystery into what brand of skincare products that Charmaine came over secretly to Malaysia to do photoshooting has been resolved. HAHAHA...I was flipping through the newspaper and saw the advertisement for the product! Below the page, there was some event dates and times...at first I thought its some promotional events with Charmaine in it!! However, sadly its only a products promotion.

However, there is good news!! Charmaine will be coming to promote the product in April!!! So stay tuned!! Yay!! Very happy, and hopefully I will be able to go without any interference!!! HAHAHA...Jessie...time to 'fat fai' my PHD Skills again^^

Some pictures of the product and photoshoot:

SKINZ Infinite

I prefer the blue one! HEHE...because my favourite colour is BLUE!

Joey Yung Perfect Ten Live Boxset review

Hi everyone!!! After much delay, here's my review finally!! Sorry!! Before that, hopefully with this review, interested buyers can further know the contents inside the boxset, judge whether its worth it or not to purchase it and also how to enjoy the boxset^^. If I'm not mistaken, the boxset should be available in stores around Malaysia around next week. The retail price should be ranging from RM110-RM150 for the special edition boxset version(the one I will be reviewing).

First, exterior and interior of the boxset.

Slide the cover off from the boxset and the discs are displayed in seperated flaps

You can pull the flaps out like drawers

The visual documentary booklet

I guess most people interested in buying this boxset will be because of the Perfect Ten Documentary. However, if you are expecting to see Joey's life, growth, hardships, facing rumours and stuff...well you are moving in the wrong direction. I myself at first was expecting the documentary to be running along these lines. The documentary instead is a complete different thing. It is indeed titled 'Perfect Ten' Documentary and not 'Joey Yung' Documentary for a reason.

When I first got the boxset, I started by watching the documentary which is a wrong move. It seems like the stacking drawers of the boxset has its reasons. The correct way to watching is definitely by first listening/watching the Perfect Ten Live concert then continue with the documentary. The reason for this is because the documentary is actually a complementary of the concert! For example, during the concert Joey talks about how her chinese teacher during school actually wrote her a note asking her to stop dreaming of becoming a star. Then, in the documentary, that particular note is shown and further elaborated. Many other situations are discussed such as the venue of the karaoke competition, her first studio recorded song etc which are all complements of the concert and the documentary. Thus, this is what I mean by how it is a 'Perfect Ten' documentary and not a 'Joey Yung' documentary. For a real Joey Yung documentary, I guess I have to wait until Discovery Channel interviews her like the ones with A-Mei and Zhang Zi Yi. HAHA!

Now on to the concert itself. This concert is not an extragavant one. No acrobatic acts, energetic dancers, flashy lights etc. The only dancer you will see is Joey. However, for someone who likes instrumental musics such as brass, saxaphone, drums....those big band and jazzy style of music, then this concert will very much be of your interest. In my opinion, this concert is solely on good quality live music and vocals. Not much special effects. Only quality music and voice.

What to look out for in the concert:

1. Listen to Joey's songs from a whole new perspective. Most of the songs she sang that night are slightly modified including 'mei chi', 'tou', 'and mad about you'. My personal favourite is the new rendition of 'On the treadmill'. I love how the song is made into a more mysterious feel....it reminds me a little of 'the pink panther' music.

2. Listen to Joey's first ever studio recorded song from her first signed record label 'dai yat ji ngoh siong cui' (first time I want to get drunk)

3. Listen to Joey sing acoustically such as accompanied by only a single guitar or the piano for the whole song!

3. Listen and remember what Joey say during the concert and continue straight after with the documentary!

As to the visual documentary, it contains concert rehearsal, the concert and backstage pictures of Joey. It also contains Joey's written thoughts on the song she sang that night (in chinese of course!).

So in my opinion, is it a worth buy? If you're a Joey fan then 100% yes because the whole thing; the concert, documentary etc were all planned in the first place because of her fans. You can feel this by just watching the beginnning and ending of the concert where 'be true' aka fan club song is played. As one who just want to watch and enjoy good live music, then this is something you should invest in and I believe it is well worth every cents you spend on!

Downside: The cover holding the contents are quite loose and if you're not careful, the whole thing may slip off. So just be careful to hold the boxset upside down when bringing it around. HAHA.