Joey Yung at JSG, Erica Yuen felt the results were unfair

credits: Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net/forums/

Date : 4th January 2009

Source : Oriental Daily

Joey Yung at JSG, Erica Yuen felt the results were unfair

Joey Yung was the hot pick for "Most Popular Female Singer" and now that she lost out Netizens went crazy. Erica Yuen openly stated that the results were unfair, as she questions the acceptability of the awards. Joey generously said: "Even so I will still continue to work hard, won't affect my hard work." Demonstrating the style of a Big General.

"2008 Jade Solid Gold Awards Ceremony" came to an end, there has been rumors going around that because Miriam Yeung signed to be Mr. Hong Kong's host, JSG presented the "Most Popular Female Singer" to her, tampering Joey Yung's 6 wins in a row dream and only got "Asia-Pacific's Most Popular Female Singer". Thousands of Joey fans exploded as they all emailed the newspapers and exploded online: "JSG is really an unfair Award Ceremony", "This year, Joey's hard work definitely deserves to win". Even Erica Yuen did not like the results, she exposed on her blog: "Miriam Yeung Most Popular Female Singer of 2008? Oh my God, Sorry Joey Yung!"

Denise Ho Afraid good friend (Joey) is disappointed

As to Miriam's improbable win, Joey calmly said: "Don't say that, this is a happy thing, don't use this topic. I always see Miriam, I already see that I have put out a lot of hard work and the awards have already been revealed. I will continue to work, it will not affect me continuing to be hard working. (Is the results reasonable?) Actually don't mention if its reasonable or not, having an award is an honor, I am willing to accept any type of award."

As for Charlene Choi, towards her rival Miriam Yeung's award being questioned, she said: "Each channel has their own mechanism, can't use not reasonable to speak of it, Miriam is a hard working singer, her success is pretty good, I am also happy for her. As for Joey, in the past few years she went beyond Hong Kong and even toured the United States and Canada." As for Joey's good friend Denise Ho only said: "I also was afraid that she might be disappointed, but I saw that she was okay."

EEG's CEO Ng Yue also felt pity for Joey, said: "Disappointed and surprised. In these 5 years, Joey had always won fairly. In 2008, it is the year in which she had the most confidence. Which female singer was able to hold 16 concerts in a year? Even Chik Chak gave the Gold Award to Joey, Joey definitely deserves "Most Popular Female Singer Award", I also told Joey not to be discouraged, we all feel pity for her. In many people's hearts, she is the "Most Popular Female Singer", the justice is in people's hearts."

JSG's Producer Recognized Results were Improbable

Mani Fok also strongly supports Joey: "I respect the results, but disappointment is definitely present. Since Joey's many years of debut, her 2008's success is the best. 16 concerts breaks all self records, including her tour in Canada, that makes 20. This is her 10th year since debut, she had always put in a lot of effort, hard work, time and spirits."

JSG Producer (Poon Yue Gai) who was soaked in alcohol accepted an interview during the celebration, asked if he felt the results were fair? He said a bit drunk: "Fair, Improbable. (Improbable?) Its deserved, Joey as the Asia-Pacific winner is a good one. (Joey even felt ashamed of it?) Her standards are just high, I think she's pretty ok, her mandarin songs are sang very well."

Ivy : Saw this article and I was like OMG at the JSG producer part!! Slip of tongue under the influence of alcohol???.....I saw Erica Yuen's(famous for her 'freedom of speech' previous blog postings) blog entry and she indeed stated the above. But the article left out, "Sorry Kay!".

If I were Joey reading this article, I think I'll cry. Because I'll be touched by the support of the people around me and also I'll cry because my friends and fans are worried over me. I think Joey responded to the questions well. I feel sad for her too because it is indeed pure hard work performing 20 concerts in a year. Her hard work in dancing for Starlight, causing her to risk herself sitting on a wheelchair for the later half of her life!! But she still insisted on dancing and continuing her World Tour into 2009(Macau in March and Singapore in mid April...Hohoho). Also, I've never seen a singer able to sing 20 minutes of fast songs non-stop in her Power Medley and yet maintain such strong vocals throughout! Kay even cried when watching her perform it........(Power Medley is in my Imeem Playlist) I bet majority of those protesting out there must be audience from Starlight around the world!

Besides, I think this year Joey had the most confidence in winning the Favourite Female Singer. In interviews she was like "I have confidence!" Compared to the last 5 years, Joey actually worked harder in 2008. No wonder she has so much confidence! As Mani said, respect the results but there is dissapointment. Also as a fan, I hope Joey don't get discouraged(which I'm sure she wouldn't) too as we recognise her in our hearts. Stay Positive Joey, Like How You Always Were! I'll also let this issue stop as Joey herself hopes her fans won't get unhappy and dissapointed. Also reading through the article, they didn't bash Miriam. Maybe I should say she's a victim here too? How would you feel winning something and so happy over it then the next day people say you don't deserve it? So back to the point...TVB what are you thinking!!!??? All blames go to TVB!! Haihz...let bygones be bygones.

OK, stop talking about unhappy stuffs and back to happy stuffs..LOL. First, to V(and anyone out there interested in the song) here's download link to Joey's 'On The Treadmill'. Also I uploaded the 'Rock Version' from Chik Chak too.

On The Treadmill（跑步機上） Sendspace

Rock Version(Live) at Chik Chak 2008 Sendspace

And Rachel, on Cho Lam and Joey knowing each other since young? They are actually primary school classmates and being in the same choir...And Cho Lam mentioned many boys had a crush on Joey but he daren't because Joey's scary coz she's too tall! Haha. Here's a clip on it.


BTW, I watched Episode 1 of Sweetness In The Salt. And I must say, I love it so far!! Tavia is just so so cute!! Love her character and how it developed! Also love Raymond Wong in it too!! Can't wait for episode 2!! This rages me more for TVB warehousing it!! Tavia can LEAD a series OK!!!?? Have to tell TVB that! LOL.

P.S Suddenly news about Oriental Sunday posting pictures of Charmaine on obviously some negative issues circulated....What a mood spoiler.

Sweetness In The Salt Synopsys

Source : Astro On Demand

SWEETNESS IN THE SALT
Premiering 5th Jan - 6th February Mon-Fri, 8.30pm

NIP CHI YUEN (Ma Steven), who works in the anti-smuggling camp, is determined to wipe out the Tau's Fort, which is the stronghold for salt smugglers. He pretends to be a down-and-out scholar. TAU SING SUET (Yeung Yi), daughter of the chief smuggler, sympathizes with YUEN and puts him up in the village. Later, they even become fond of each other.

During an anti-smuggling operation SUET is badly hurt and has since been separated from YUEN and her family. Fortunately she is saved by WU TING HIN (Wong Ho Yin), son of salt merchant WU KIN (Kwok Fung). HIN takes her home. One day, SUET is horrified to see the dead bodies of her parent being hung on the wall of the city tower, and that the official standing on the top of the tower telling the public not to sell smuggled salt is none other than the man she misses day and night. She is heartbroken, and her love for YUEN turns into hatred that moment on.

HIN finds a job for SUET at the salt company his family runs to help her get over her unhappiness. To repay him, she devotes herself entirely to the job. As time goes by, HIN starts to fall in love with her. However his critical illness making him hesitates to express his love for her. SUET's real identity comes to light when her younger uncle reappears out of the blue. HIN, for fear that his family will report SUET, proposes to her.


Producer:
Lee Tim Shing

Scriptwriter:
Lau Chi Wah & Kwan Chung Ling

Starring:
Ma Steven (馬浚偉) Yeung Yi (楊 怡) Wong Ho Yin (黃浩然) Kwok Fung (郭 峰) Tam Siu Wan (譚小環) Ngo Ka Nin (敖嘉年) Chan Shan Chung (陳山聰) Tseung Chi Kwong (蔣志光)

Charmaine@Joe Ma's Blog

Credit to Joe Ma TVB Blog.

Joe updated his blog on the Guangzhou Awards. And he posted some pictures with Charmaine in it^^ I think he posted a few but this is a clear one with Charmaine in it. Joe really is too tall....Hahaha. Not much news of Charmaine bacause she's on holiday....haihz...can't wait till Palace Scheme!!

This morning when I went to news sites, the HK media are either bashing Miriam while supporting Kay and Joey. Then some mentioned indirectly that the results were 'surprising'. Poor Miriam....Bad Bad TVB!! I wouldn't want Miriam's career to be affected because of all these negative rumours. Its not her fault!! Not winning Best Female avoided Anita's fans to bash Joey. And all the negative rumours on Miriam made the media forgot bashing Joey on her receiving Asia Award....but I guess Joey's humility in her speech paid back as media said "Joey's hard work all these years are finally recognised" to my suurprise! Usually they prefer writing something negative.

Another person badly hit was Bosco....News of him singing off key and exagerating in singing circulated on news sites. This is worse than Charmaine's incident as Bosco is supposed to be singing well in a Major Music Event. This news was in Msia's local newspapers while Charmaine's one wasn't published. Phew....

P.S Sweetness in the Salt tonight!! Ah Yi Ah Yi!!! Hehe... HK people has to watch a mainland production instead....TVB is getting on my nerves!!

Joey leads the way

Joey Takes "Asia's Most Popular Female"

4th January 2008

Source : Oriental Daily

Queen of Cantopop Joey Yung lead the way yesterday at the annual 2008 JSG award ceremony. Reaping 3 awards and among them the sacred "Asia's Most Popular Female" which have been defended by Kelly Chen the past few years. As for Joey's normal award, "Most Popular Female" was taken surprisingly by Miriam Yeung, breaking Joey's 5 year streak. This raised many eyebrows of possible setup by TVB as Miriam's performance wasn't too outstanding this year. When Leo Ku took "Most Popular Male" his tears fell like rain, grasping the heart of the audience as he thanked his rumored girlfriend and aid Lorraine.

Miriam retakes "Most Popular Female" after 7 years.

The third report card of the music industry, "2008 JSG Award Ceremony" ended full of emotions and joy. Joey Yung lead from start to finish, taking the first golden song "On the treadmill". As she sang, all singers stood in respect and even Eric Tsang danced for a bit, and the atmosphere was indeed warmed up quickly. As Eric announced Joey's second award "Best commercial song", he personally stepped up the podium and escorted Joey down. When the third award came around, "Asia's Most Popular Female" the fans couldn't take it anymore and all shouted with excitement in a wave, lifting long-prepared banners such as "You are my pride". Joey, full of surprise, kept her humble nature and said, "I feel ashamed at getting this award, as I haven't been satisfied with any of my mandarin albums since I have entered the music industry. I will continue to be a singer that will bring pride to Hong Kong."

Leo Ku cried as he took "Most Popular Male"



Eason takes "Asia's Most Popular Male"



Kay Tse takes "Golden Gold Song"

Translation Credits to Dangero at JG.

Ivy : I was actually very disappointed with the result at that moment! Maybe it came as a shock that Joey won Asia's Most Popular female. I was on conversation with a group of J-fans when the award was announced. And we were so shocked at her win! Not only us, but Joey herself. Honestly, Joey looked very mixed feelings when she won it. When her name was announced for the award, she practically 'sanked' into her seat. Joey mentioned before that she will feel guilt if she were to receive this award this year and she has more confidence in the Most Popular Female Award. The result was she got it. And Joey's speech revealed how unprepared she was. And when she was asked to sing, she said "Oh No...I didn't practice this song!" Luckily she got through it well further into the song as the front part of the lyrics was totally out...LOL.

Watch it in HD at Youtube! Cool new HD function^^(also take not of the delay in the clip...) :


After that, Most Popular Female Award was announced. I think Joey was already prepared to not get this award after receiving Asia. And we were all expecting Kay to get it!! But instead, Miriam's name was announced!! OMG...the response was shocked, surprised, dissapointed, unbelievable!! LOL. As the article said, Miriam only released an album this year and got like 2 plugged hits. While Joey held her Starlight Concert, released an album, attended the Olympics, filmed the Olympics MV, filmed Last Paradise and had 5-6 plugs. My feeling was, how insulting it was to Joey. All her hardwork couldn't compare with that. Don't get me wrong. I am a fan of Miriam too. I just feel that its not her year. I always hope that when an artiste receive an award, the public and the artiste herself should feel that she deserves the award. Seems like the results left Joey feeling she don't deserve the Asia one and Miriam receiving it causing questions of an arranged result. Just imagine in 2006, Charmaine working so so hard filming Maiden's Vow, Dance Of Passion, Glittering Days etc and end up Charmaine winning favourite while Myolie wins best actress. The situation now is quite similar to that. I think I'd rather Kay wins...LOL. But TVB's rule is that if you win Popular Female you can't win the Gold Song Award.

Anyways, Congratulations to Joey for winning 1st Gold Song: On The Treadmill, Gold Commercial Song : Lucky Star and also Most Popular Asia Female Singer. Maybe her Starlight World Tour and Olympics Functions etc helped support her win the Asia award. These are all major awards and I'm very proud of her winning the Asia awards. Joey should not feel guilty of herself as she always underestimate herself outside of HK. Also when Joey sang On The Treadmill and Eric asked the other singers to sit, it was so nice of them to stand up and not sit instead waiting for Joey to finish her song, respecting her. I saw Wai Si and a few sitting down while Kay and Miriam stood up. Kay then asked them to stand. So Sweet^^ Look at the after celebration with her fans :



Going back to others. Sussana Kwan won Gold Most-Improved singer. OMG!! What is TVB thinking? Its kind of insulting to Sussana winning this. Most Improved??? Sussana doesn't need improvement! She's not even a newcomer! She's a veteren singer with 20-30 years of singing experience! No wonder Jade Kwan thought she won the award instead and created such an embarassing moment! Watch the video! LOL. Poor Poor Jade!!! How awkward!

Next is Myolie, winning recommended Newcomer....RECOMMENDED newcomer??? Not even in top 3!! She lost to Linda who won silver! And then Myolie didn't know she has to sing after receiving an award??? She was like, "I have to sing??" And her live singing was not up to par...maybe she didn't practice! Her voice was covered at certain parts. Then Bosco. I really think that Bosco should not enter the music industry. When he was singing with Eason, he sang really badly. I feel pity for him. He's trying too hard. Cho Lam was picked to sing with Leo and he is realy up to par. Cho Lam's singing standard is really high. End up, Bosco won Silver Newcomer while Cho Lam left empty-handed....Injustice!!! Raymond got a gold song award and Congratulations to him!! Nothing much to say for Raymond as he is indeed a talented singer. Another pity...Vincy and Charlene!!!! They are there to warm the bench!! Especially Vincy!!! Poor girl! Hope this year will be fruitful for her.

This year JSG Awards, Paco will be kissing and loving TVB...LOL. While Mani will be in a headache now to start helping Joey release more Mando tracks and promote her in Asia. EEG focused Joey too much to HK only all these years. Its about time EEG fulfill Joey's wish all these while that is promoting her in Asia. Hope Joey don't pressure herself too much...btw...promoting in Asia?? Hahaha...Joey, come to Malaysia more often then!!

CRHK (Chik Chak) Awards 2008

CRHK awards was held on 1st but Astro WLT only aired it last night. Joey looked great that night to my surprise. Haha. She rarely chooses the 'best' dress during events but that night she looked exceptionally good. The only thing is that her eye make up made her eyes looks small. Kay was the focus that night winning 10 awards.....Joey only won 2 awards that night....I have nothing againts Kay as this year is a fruitful year for her and her song "hei dip kai" is very popular this year, so she deserved it this year.

Lucky thing, Joey won the Gold Female Singer Award to her own surprise! Joey said in interviews after the event that she thought she's gonna get Silver coz she went online to read insider's speculations....Hahaha....CONGRATULATIONS to Joey! 2 Golds in a row and also 8th consecutive years in Top 3!! That's a record! Also, love Joey's speech!! Her speech became the talk of 903 radio station the next day.

Also regarding Kay-Joey...I can see they are very supportive of each other and no disputes. Before Kay went up stage, Joey held her hand and encouraged her and they hugged each other a lot during the event. Poor Vincy and Denise....they didn't get any awards...haihz...nvm its another new year this year! Also, Myolie won silver newcomer and during her speech the audience laughed...I'm not sure why......

Top Ten Hit Song : No.4 On The Treadmill (its a rock version of the song and I feel it sounds very nice and interesting compared to the original version!)

Gold Female Singer Award 2008(lovely speech and also humorous when her song starts playing even before her speech ended....she has to yell 'stop!' btw TVB/Astro version cut offed this part of her singing)

And 903 DJ's praising her and talking about her memorable speech the next day^^

Looking forward to watching JSG Top Ten Award tonight! From speculations, Joey is the favourite pick this year. If she wins the Best Female tonight, she'll beat Anita Mui's record for winning 6 times consecutive. Joey kept stopping the reporters teling her this as she says nobody could replace Anita Mui. Which is true, Mui Jie is a legend!

P.S Charmaine updated her blog with a video. Post title "New Year Wish". Do go and support her blog! http://blog.tvb.com/charmainesheh In the video Charmaine wishes to be happy and one of the way to make her happy is her blog position being in No.1...so fans you all know what to do!!

Singing to the Wrong Key Charmaine Sheh dare not enter Music Industry

1st January 2009

Source : On.CC

Charmaine Sheh attended a new year coundown event last night. Charmaine sang two songs during the event but then unfortunately she entered the song in the wrong key and flung the song. Charmaine had to cover it up with her smile. When asked will she follow Linda Chung and Myolie Wu's footsteps entering the music industry, she responded that singing is not her forte, and it is more to her interest. "Let them do the singing!"

Added Captions from on.cc**

Although Charmaine Sheh flung her singing, but she still has many fans.



Both of them seems to be on talking terms, maybe Charmaine is asking for singing tips from Ah Sa.



Charmaine Sheh has to depend on her smile to cover up for flinging her song.

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Ivy :.....reporters taking advantage to get on Charmaine. No big deal entering the wrong key as Charmaine is not a professional singer. Just unfortunately it happened and giving reporters an advantage. Luckily Charmaine is not in singing industry, if not the doggies would be much happier...

*Added

I hate the captions. I always hate them when they create negative captions based on pictures. BTW, Charmaine looked great and I love her boots. Wow she's all Black that night.....Not too fond of Charlene's bottom though...too baggy. Haha.

Happy New Year 2009!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!!!!!

Wishing all of you a prosperous, healthy and smooth New Year Ahead!!! Stay positive and be happy!!

P.S Changed to a new banner to mark a New Year ahead!! Hope you all like it!!