Recently, in EEG and Shaw Brothers’ joint collaborated film The Jade and the Pearl starring Charlene Choi (Ah Sa) and Raymond Lam are involved in a square of love, but in real life both expressed that they absolutely cannot accept it. Ah Sa frankly said a friend of hers experienced this type of relationship and eventually had to accept ‘as long as the man knows where home is’, making Ah Sa feel helpless. She said: “In this kind of situation, no matter how much I love the man, I will still immediately leave heartlessly. Perhaps because I’m a Scorpio, when I love someone I will give my whole self to love him, but at the same time I hold a strong strength. I want to be my other half’s only one and I have to be his only one.”

A Listener is enough

Raymond has not been in a relationship since college, he basically expressed he won’t start a confusing relationship. Although he has always hoped for a romantic relationship, when he thinks about his tight work schedule then he will naturally take a step back and does not have to the courage to start. He joked: “Before I talked about girlfriends with Ron Ng and we joked that in this industry, we want a ‘maid’ (Ah Sei) more than a girlfriend!”

After Ah Sa’s 4 year marriage with Ronald Cheng ended, she began to have a new view on love. She expressed that she is currently living comfortably and is not forcing anything or causing tensions. However when asked about starting a family, Ah Sa said with hesitation: “I don’t know either, after one marriage experience, both of us has learned mutual trust and to keep a promise, but in reality that really caused a lot of problems. So I will not deliberately wish for it anymore. (Do you really enjoy the single life now?) I enjoy everything, now I am not afraid that anything will affect me because I’ll go talk to someone about it, but do not need any comfort. It is enough to have a listener, I know I can get better slowly because I have never forced myself into a death path, commiting suicide that kind.”

Body like an old granny

Raymond and Ah Sa have been in the industry for more than 10 years, though they do have the fame and wealth, but behind the scenes they really sacrificed a lot. Raymond said: “Actually I’m quite contradictory. Before I really wanted to earn more money, so my family won’t have any worries or burdens in life, but eventually I discovered that I missed a lot of time!” As for Ah Sa’s health getting weaker in the past year, she said: “For my current illness, it is hard to get better, before I would never miss any public events that I attend alone. But there was one time I was going to fly to Shanghai for an event, when I reached the airport, I really couldn’t hold it anymore and had turn around, singing and filming are my ideals, but if my health is not good then I can’t do anything. Now, my body is like an old granny, so now I do want to rest more.”

Although some people say how many ten years are there in life, to the entertainment circle artists like Raymond and Ah Sa, money is not what they currently want to pursue in life, Raymond said: “These days, my work schedule is allocated well, I hope to have more time to spend with my family. Daddy and Mommy are starting to get older, I really hope to take them on a trip around the world next year.” Turns out that since Raymond’s entry into the industry, the further family vacation they have been on is Shantou. If his parents wants to see him, they will just have to fly to the location of where Raymond is doing stage work, their time spent together is just limited to a having a meal.

Having said that, Raymond could not help but blame himself, he said: “My parents don’t need my money, it is not money that will satisfy them, so I want to take Mom out for clothes shopping because when we were young it is Mom who bought us clothes, although it is something small, I believe that will make her really happy! (So little time to see each other, tell your parents to live with you?) Because my parents have business in Mainland, can’t come back to Hong Kong to live, but we do have family meetings, talk about some of our big plans, it is not that we don’t have communication.”

Give up on pursing fame and fortune

Ah Sa said she has intentions of letting go of fame and fortune, taking a year off to rest and recover her health. Although a year time can really change a lot, Ah Sa frankly said ‘can’t worry too much’: “Well fate destined me this occupation, I am dedicated to giving to performing arts, even if I’m done resting, I will continue. I remember last year the most serious was when I collapsed on the ground, it is frighten. I am personally low on blood sugar and often get stomach cramps. Before I faint, I usually know it’s coming, but that time I really couldn’t have guessed. The doctor said that there is no medicine to prevent this too!”

Madly spending money all in one go

Raymond was born to a wealthy family, Ah Sa grew up in a well-off family. Towards money, both of them have the same opinions. Ah Sa exposed that a colleague teased that she’s stingy, she said: “Besides the great cost of buying house and car, I feel that using 10 dollars to buy something is already really expensive to me. Mani always tells me to buy a diamond to hold value, saying that within a year the diamond will be greater in value, but I feel that it’s not necessity!”

But someone who loves her family, Ah Sa frankly said she spends a lot on her family and is absolutely willing to. Earlier Ah Sa’s grandfather was seriously ill, while she was busy with work and couldn’t go see him. So to take advantage of time, she broke off her stingy personality and went on a direct flight on a helicopter to Macau hospital to see her beloved grandfather. She said: “Not even a week I spent 50,000 dollars, but my family did not mind! Because I am very close with my family, even if we don’t see ach other, we often talk on the phone. My dad recently even started playing with Weibo, so we can communicate through that network.”

Have always lived in luxury provided by his parents, Raymond recently used his 10 year savings to purchase a 20 million, more than 1000 sq ft luxury home in the Western District and then bought a Maserati sports car for over a million dollars as a way to reward himself. Raymond said: “Haha! Usually I don’t really have the opportunity to spend money, this time I emptying my pockets all in one go, have to start saving all over again!”

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

– by Gadget

Well, sort of.

Kristen Stewart is in Montreal filming, On The Road, and Robert Pattinson stopped by the Canadian set to say an up close and personal hello.

Is this finally the proof that these two are the items? And will they finally stop denying that they are dating?

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There will be a protest in front of the Richmond, VA Federal Reserve building on September 11, 2010. We encourage everyone who feels that 9/11 was an inside job, or at least that the US government used 9/11 as an excuse to crack down on our rights and launch wars of aggression, to attend.

There will be a planning meeting for this protest on August 22, 2010. Show up at 2400 W. Main Street at 3:00 PM. The place is a store called The Happy Corner.

On September 10, there will be a pre-protest banner and sign making night at The Black Hand house. Show up at 7:00 PM at 3112 Woodcliff Avenue.

For more information, visit the Facebook events:

Planning meeting: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142919212406461&ref=ts

9/11 Protest: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147344038625899

9/10 pre-protest banner and sign making: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151514294859252

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I agree with Maureen Dowd that Robert Gibbs should be replaced as the WH spokesman. For that move, she makes a good case:

Gibbs does not see his job as a bridge between the press and the presidency. He sees himself more as a moat. He has always wanted to be an inside counselor to the president. So Obama — who bonded with Gibbs during the campaign, over sports, missing their families and how irritating the blog-around-the-clock press corps is — would be wise to promote him to a counselor. Let someone who shows less disdain for the press work with the press, and be the more engaging face of the White House.

But in my opinion, most of the rest of her opinion piece in today’s NYT misses the mark by a mile.

I don’t believe the left doesn’t recognize the necessity of compromise. Instead, I think the left doesn’t understand why Obama feels the need to compromise in public. It’s not a matter of idealism v. pragmatism as Dowd would suggest. It’s a matter of having sold the American public a bill of goods to win the White House and then taking the proposed agenda and treating it like used goods at a giant yard sale where everything starts out marked down to move for cents on the dollar.

Dowd remarks that the left was quick to defend a centrist Clinton but is not showing the same loyalty to the more progressive-ish Obama. What she continues to ignore by making the comparison is how the left – and many centrists who voted for Obama – feel duped and manipulated. Forgive me for not being grateful for crumbs when you’ve promised me a meal.

I’d be remiss not to comment on Dowd’s remark that Obama and some liberals felt they could live without the public option in health care reform. Although the public option was distorted and demonized early and often and arguably easier for the White House to abandon than defend, it was important. Very. It was the means by which we could control costs and keep the insurance companies honest. It would have provided a benchmark for benefits so that consumers would finally know if what they were getting from their private coverage was a good deal. No one would have been forced to choose it. It just would have been another option in the mix and a good one at that. But instead of explaining to the American people what this really was and why it would work for them, Obama quickly softened his language on the public option until his endorsement had the strength of marshmallow fluff.

Why is anyone blaming the left for wanting Obama to be better? The Administration and its surrogates should be lashing out at the radical right and obstructionists in Congress. They should be chastising the media for perpetuating fabricated controversies like death panels and terror babies. Instead, the meme now is about liberals snacking on their own. It’s absurd.

I know some may think me a bit naive to have expected Obama to be as good as he promised, but I know I’m not alone. And reminding him we want better – we need better – is not a flaw to be mocked by his spokesman or opinion columnists or the press. As voters, we’re disappointed, and last I checked, in a government of, by, and for the people, the people are allowed to have a say.

– by Gadget

Tila Tequila says she was attacked on stage at a concert in Illinois this week.

The unstable former reality star got up in front of a crowd of about two thousand at the Gathering of the Juggalos in Illinois, an event featuring acts such as the Insane Clown Posse and Kottonmouth Kings.

From there, this is what she told TMZ went down:

“I went onstage and immediately, before I even got on stage, DUDES were throwing HUGE STONE ROCKS in my face, beer bottles that slit my eye open, almost burnt my hair on fire cuz they threw fire crackers on stage, and they even took the sh*t out of the port-0-potty and threw sh*t and piss at me when I was onstage.”

Continued Tila:

“These people were trying to kill me.  So then after the last blow to my head with the firecracker they threw at me exploded, my bodygaurd and the other security grabbed me and ran as fast as they could to the shitty trailor.  Since their security SUCKS, the 2 thousand people ran after us, trying to kill me.  They almost got me so they finally reach the trailor, blood all over myself, cant stop bleeding, then all of a sudden, all 2 thousand people surround the trailor and busts the windows!!! 

Even the guys INSIDE with me were shaking!  Their hands were shaking cuz they were so scared!  So 3 guys inside the trailor had to grab a table and push it over the broken windows and grabbed all the chairs they could find so hold the people from outside back.  It was scary as hell!”

Tequila, of course, faked a suicide in June and is in serious need of mental help.

That doesn’t mean this incident didn’t occur (police confirm they responded to the scene, at least) – but that details from Tila’s mouth can’t ever always be trusted.

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Jennifer Aniston has shot back at Bill O’Reilly following his comments about her comments about single motherhood.

Confused?

It started when Aniston said women no longer need a man to have a baby. “Women are realizing more and more knowing that they dont have to settle with a man just to have a child.”

After that, O’Reilly, while supporting single moms, said, “She’s throwing a message out to 12-year-olds and 13-year-olds that, ‘Hey, you don’t need a guy! You don’t need a dad!’ That’s destructive to our society,” he said.

Now Aniston has responded. Speaking to People magazine, Aniston said”Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age. Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth. “And, of course, many women dream of finding Prince Charming (with fatherly instincts), but for those who’ve not yet found their Bill O’Reilly, I’m just glad science has provided a few other options.”

Aniston is promoting ‘The Switch,’ in which she plays a woman who has a baby using a sperm donor.

– by Gadget

Well, sort of.

Kristen Stewart is in Montreal filming, On The Road, and Robert Pattinson stopped by the Canadian set to say an up close and personal hello.

Is this finally the proof that these two are the items? And will they finally stop denying that they are dating?

– by Gadget

Sammy and Kitty Drama Show’s 10th anniversary piece “PRiSON DE BALLET” started two nights ago. Sammy and Kitty played with popular commercial theme song “Sharp Sharp Sharp.” Their moves even resembled indecent movements. Kitty, who plays a prostitute warden, even took the initiative to kiss Sammy, but she got rejected and Sammy even called her “poop.”

In their first show, they invited special guest Hacken Lee to play God’s messenger and he played recent events: “I’m good at saving people. I would save everyone, but won’t save those who are anomalous. Like those who hit the police after drunk driving!” Hacken was obviously making fun of the female who slapped the police when she was arrested and he received enthusiastic applause from the audience.

Source: Oriental Daily
Translation: Kay’s Entertainment

– by Gadget