Scoop Starbiz Review & Metro Hits Awards 2008

Charmaine's Part on Scoop Starbiz Review 2008. This year, Charmaine's part in Starbiz Review focuses on Kevin-Charmaine-Niki. ( I hate the way they put up this clip!! Just take it with a pinch of salt....)

A little hosting by Joey and 'Mai Shuet Jie Jie'!! Feels like a little girl talking to her idol! Haha....

Anniversary Awards part(focusing more on cleavage????).......poor Sonija...

CONGRATULATIONS to Joey for becoming the big winner, winning 5 Awards including "Metro Radio Hits Female Singer Award", "Metro Radio Hits Stage Performer Big Award", "Metro Radio Hits Big Singer Award", "Metro Radio Hits World Singer Award" at Metro Radio Music Awards!!

After the Metro Awards, there were rumours of Joey and Denise ignoring Kay during the awards. Haihz.....why couldn't the reporters write something positive but always try to make up negative news? Anyway, here's a news article responding to this.

Rumours of Joey ignoring Kay

Louis Cheung, Square and Jason Chan all attended an event yesterday and they all said they had to work on Christmas Eve. However, Louis insisted that he wanted to spend some time with his wife and son on Christmas Day. When Louis was asked about reports that his wife, Kay Tse, was being ignored by more senior singers, Denise Ho and Joey Yung, during the Metro Awards celebration dinner, Louis said: “This isn’t very likely because I am good friends with Denise and Joey. Often, we will go out to have meals together and, also, Joey will text me to tell me to offer Kay some support, to help relieve the pressure on her.”

Miriam Yeung was also asked about the rumours about Kay being ignored by Denise and Joey and her reply was: “I don’t think so, I didn’t notice that happening, they are good friends. However, I know this news story exists and it’s probably just to help sell more newspapers, so it doesn’t really matter”. Vincy Chan also defended Joey by saying: “The rumours aren’t true, the three of them are good friends and Joey and Denise are really supportive towards Kay. Previously, Kay had said that Joey was recommending her album to other singers to listen to. These rumours are just to help sell more newspapers. Everyone, don’t believe it!”

Translation credits to Rsung.

Ivy : Miriam is right. Selling more newspapers.....Since Astro Wah Lai Toi will be airing the award on 31st Dec so I'll be on the lookout...let's see how true are the reports...hahaha. But owh, they were talking about the celebration dinner not the award ceremony...but I saw many pictures of them together during the dinner...LOL. Also, very nice of Louis wanting to accompany his wife. Hope Kay gets better soon. Seems like her punctured lung affected her singing. She's been complaining of having phlegm while singing. Poor Kay, she couldn't sing well that night. Really understand her feelings going through this as a singer. Reporters should just leave her alone and not create more negative rumours!

Charmaine's TVB Blog Post : 28th December 2008

TVS Awards - Most Popular Hong Kong/Taiwan Actress

Earlier, I attended TVS Awards in Guangzhou with Joe Ma. I'm very happy that I could win the Most Popular Hong Kong/Taiwan Actress for my role in Maiden's Vow. I really thank the mainland fans for their support. In the coming new year, I will continue to work hard. Hopefully there will be more fresh productions for you guys to see.

I wish you all a smooth year ahead. Thank You!


---more pictures available at Charmaine's Blog-----

Original Blog Post from Charmaine Sheh's TVB Blog.

If translations are reposted, please credit me and Charmaine's Blog.

Ivy : Charmaine posted more pictures of the event in her blog so do check them out!! I think most of you are all in holiday mood. Haha. So am I....I'm already on holiday for some time now so not much difference actually....

I hope Charmaine could win something in the coming Astro WLT Drama Awards for her role in Maiden's Vow too! But I have to see the nomination list first. Which will be revealed on 17th January. Ron Ng will be coming to Queensbay Mall, Penang on the 17th of January 2009 to do the launch of voting. Astro may not nominate her for Best Actress Category in Maiden's Vow but instead for Drive Of Life instead. Anyways, Charmaine's acting in both series was great and also a breakthrough!

P.S Looking forward to Palace Scheme next year!

勝雪鹽棧(Sweetness In The Salt) on Astro On Demand

YEAH YEAH!!! Astro On Demand will be airing Sweetness In The Salt after Pages of Treasures finish airing next week!! Hate to say this, but seems like TVB will be warehousing this series!! Instead, TVB will air a mainland series at the 8.30pm timeslot(unconfirmed news). If its true, so bad of them to warehouse Tavia's series!! They don't think that Tavia could lead a series yet!!!???

Anyway, I'm glad that AOD chose to air it because I've been anticipating this series for quite some time. The series started filming early this year and Tavia spent lots of effort filming this series. I'll rant rant rant if AOD choose to follow TVB airing a mainland China production!! AOD is airing Maggie Shiu's Taiwan series now and I didn't even watched an episode yet! LOL...because I HATE DUBBING!!! The way they dubbed Maggie's voice...I couldn't bare listening to it! The same way as I couldn't watch "Carry Me Fly and Walk Off" and also "Qian Long Xia Jiang Nan" both of Charmaine's dubbed series until now. Furthermore, Benny is in it and all those kissing scenes between them....*uurrgh!!* feel like slapping *****......Hahahaha.

Opps...back to Sweetness. Hehehe. Ok I'll pay full attention and support Sweetness in The Salt! After all, Tavia's first leading role! Yeah! GO GO GO!! And AOD!! Don't you dare re-schedule and air something else besides Sweetness!! I'm going to Uni in Feb and if there's any changes, I'm going to miss Sweetness!!! SUPPORT TAVIA YEUNG!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

From Charmaine :

Credit to sehseh for the screencap!! As BBS loads like snail for me....or I should say it almost couldn't load at all!!! So I couldn't even post a comment/reply to Charmaine....BTW...very cheeky of Charmaine to ask us fans to get drunk!! LOL....Hope she enjoyed her Christmas & hope all of you did too!


Wishing All Of You a Merry Christmas!! Enjoy your holidays with family and friends!!

p.s Catherine said she saw me on JiaYu Channel with Tavia!!! I missed it.....I'm not sure if its an ad for the H20 promo or the program itself!! I have to be on the look out now. Haha..hope there's repeat!!

Joey pronounces "Sheh Si Man"

I was watching an old interview clip of Joey when browsing around Youtube and found a clip where Amigo the interviewer and Joey mentions Charmaine! Haha. I feel that the way Joey pronounces Charmaine's name 'Sheh Sze Man' is very funny. Haha. Maybe because usually people call Charmaine 'Ah Sheh' rather than 'Sheh Sze Man' so when they talk using her full name it sounds a bit weird. Hahaha.

Charmaine is mentioned around 3 minutes into part 2 of the clip but I'll post up both parts up here so that it won't be a broken interview for those who want to watch the full thing. The interview should be around the time where Joey just completed filming 'On the First Beat'.

Part 1

Part 2

In the interview, Amigo and Joey were talking about incomes and he said that there were reports that Joey only needs to sing 4 songs at an event and her pay is $400,000. So he asked her how true is this?

Joey mentions that usually just cut it to half. Because she said that part of the income goes to the company(Blood suckers EEG!!!..LOL) and also to the manager(Mani!! No wonder you're so rich!)
So Amigo said usually when artiste become famous, their tax is also very high. I'll post Charmaine's part in dialogue.

Amigo : Usually when an artiste starts to become famous, then paying tax becomes a headache. They'll feel, Wah, paying tax is really serious. TVB, Sheh Si Man leh, have reports saying that she has to pay over 1 million dollars of tax.

Joey : Ng Hai Ah Ma????(Is it so????)

Amigo : Yes. So I'll ask you a question and you have to answer me honestly.

Joey : Ok ar....

Amigo : So actually is her tax higher or yours??

Joey : Ermm...let me think. Seems like Sheh Si Man's is higher!!

Amigo : Ng Hai Ah Ma???(Is it so???)

Joey : HAHAHA.....

Amigo : Singer get to claim!!!??

Joey : Yes! Claim! And also my mum hires an accountant to manage the accounts and also because after my expenses so here and there, the sum is just somewhere there(not as high).

Ivy : Poor Charmaine!! Why artiste don't get to claim like the singers could? Hahaha. But seeing from another point of view, this means Charmaine earns a lot. Kekeke....I think TVB still takes part of their artiste's endorsement pay, but maybe not as high as EEG! Thinking of Raymond earning from both sides...Wooo no wonder he's so rich. 'Siu Ye Zai' now become even richer!! Hahaha.

Charmaine's Schedule

Tsuen Wan Plaza [The Tale of Despereaux] Welcoming 2009 Miracles

Date : 31st December 2008
Venue : Tsuen Wan Plaza Main Entrance
Time : 10pm-12.30am
Artise Appearance : Charmaine Sheh, Bowie Lam, Charlene Choi etc etc.

*Added* Qing Yuan Estate Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Date : 1st January 2009
Time : 11 am

New Year Celebration(property broker event)

Date : 1st January 2009
Venue : Dongguan
Time : 3pm

Ivy : Some updates on Charmaine's upcoming schedule. Charmaine seems to have a very relaxed year this year. Seems like she's starting to give her body the rest it needs^^

Astro Wah Lai Toi Drama Awards which I thought was cancelled this year has actually been delayed. No official release for now. But one thing is for sure is that there will be one for 2008! The official release should be out around January. I'm predicting Astro will do something grand for its 5th year. I hope my prediction is true! Also looking forward to promo events or I should say "pulling vote" events that are held before the awards. Last year it was Myolie Wu, Angela Tong and Michael Tse in Penang. Wonder who will come next year...Hehe hope are the ones I like!

Shopping : Citizen Eco-Drive

I went shopping today and bought a watch! Hahaha. I was looking for a watch for quite some time and then the other day I was flipping through 'AstroView' and saw a Citizen ad in it. Found a scan of it. See below!(scan credit as watermarked) I think its Citizen Winter Collection 2008 judging by the white backdrop behind Joey.

My current watch is a Casio and I was thinking of getting either Citizen, Seiko or Guess. But then after considering, I changed my mind on considering Guess because they produce mostly fashion watches which I feel is not worth the money(I'm looking for quality watch rather than fashion watch to invest in..hahaha). You can have many fashion watch but you must have one good watch. LOL. I wouldn't want a watch which would not last too long. My Casio watch is good. I've been using it for around 4 years and I haven't changed a single battery and also the time is still very precise with only I think few seconds difference! I also wear it while I swim!! It's a diving watch so no problem. But then, I caused scratches to the watch so that's why I want to get a new one. Citizen or Seiko is more trustable and also its Japanese technology and also value for money. Haha.

So OK, I saw the ad on AstroView and the new models looks nice! Plus, its Eco-Drive technology! So I'm thinking I'll get Citizen because of Eco-Drive. If I get Seiko, it will be ordinary battery operated watch. And also to see it in another different funny way(but of course, not seriously!..LOL), I support Joey more to Miriam! Hahaha. BTW, if you're wondering what is Eco-Drive, here's a short description :

"Eco-Drive, solar powered generating system, meaning that there is no need to ever change batteries. 150 Days power reserve when fully charged. It's also Eco-friendly as there is no need to change and dispose off batteries."

Meaning that the watch does not need batteries. It uses light(solar power) to operate. And light keeps charging it. Pretty cool! At first, I wanted to get the Gold leather stripe one where Joey is wearing in the ad. But then the retailer I went didn't order the gold series because he said its harder to sell gold watches(hmm..I thought gold is 'in' this season). So he showed me the silver one and I tried it on. It looks good actually! Its like a mixture of Sporty Watch and also Fashion Watch. Looks classy too!



The features of the watch are good too.

1) The whole watch is made in Japan. Unlike Casio where its Japan technology but cased in China. Citizen used to case in China too but they are starting to change to fully Japan made.
2) Sapphire Crystal Glass! So no worries of scratches as the Sapphire Crystal is supposed to be scratch-proof!
3) White Mother-of-Pearl Dial!
4) Chronograph!
5) 3-years warranty(M'sia, Brunei, Singapore), 1-year warranty Worldwide!

But then, price not so good! Hahaha. So after bargaining a little by my mum(quite pro) so got it at a better price! YEAH! But still, big big hole in pocket! So SEI YE PAT PAT!! Don't so MEAN!! Like Ah Long 'zui shou'!!! JKJK...Eventually, my mum bought it for me and said 'Advanced Birthday Present! THANK YOU MUMMY!!! OMG~~Ivy sounds like a watch-addict! Haha..seriously I love shopping for watches...LOL. Also camera and sunglasses!! Oooh...one thing in common with Charmaine! Yeah! She loves watches too!! OK...off to experience this new technology~~~

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