星光大道第三季: 徐佳瑩 / 青花瓷

This is one very hard song. Normal people don't usually sing this type of songs at KTV. And the people that DO~ they are either professionals or people that are really too full of themselves. XD

徐佳瑩 is neither. She is simply an contestant in an Taiwan reality show. I think the song itself was not made for her. But don't get me wrong, she did a very good job!

The acoustics also made a difference. The acoustics Jay Chou used were much better, but I don't think that One Million Star would go to that much trouble to make it sound the same. ^.^

Compare 徐佳瑩 with Jay's:

Joe Cheng is way over his head 鄭元暢也太過份了吧!

^Honey And Clover 蜂蜜幸運草

I never really liked TW drama actor Joe Cheng very much. In ISWAK, I strongly disliked his character. I mean, Ariel deserves much better! (no offense to ISWAK fans!)

Last week on a reality show, when asked about how his new drama, Honey and Clover will turn out, Joe Cheng stated, Either way, it'll be much better than Wish To See You Again. That hurt! I mean, WTSYA probably isn't very great, but how could he say that? :(

Anyways, when HAC broadcasted this week, I had to smile. ^^ The episode rating was 1.08 (very low)! That is the same with WTSYA's average rating. I think more people would've watched it if there wasn't Fated To Love You. FTLY's ratings rose up to 6.71 last week! So amazing...

超搞笑羅志祥和美滿小S VS. 帥氣王力宏 Xiao Zhu Prankcalling Leehom

The Inside Scoop:
A few years ago, 小S/ Xiao S and 羅志祥/Xiao Zhu prankcalled Lee Hom. Xiao Zhu pretended to be Aaron Kwok (Hong Kong actor that worked with Lee Hom on 'China Strike Force') on the phone. The problem was that, neither Xiao Zhu, neither knew that Lee Hom was at USA. So when they called, it was 4am at USA and Lee Hom was sleeping! So notice Lee hom's sleepy voice and see how polite he is even when he's tired! ^^

I think Leehom knew all along it was just a prank. But he was so polite! ^_^
NOTE: This is a fan made video!

超級星光大道 小康妮Connie Talbot

This was yesterday's One Million Star. I watch this show when I want, sometimes. But yesterday Connie Talbot from the Britains Got Talent came to Taipei! And of course performed in our favorite reality TV show, OMS!

I love Connie! I first watched her on the Britain show, where she was singing Over The Rainbow by Judy Garland. Just 7 years old, she is really talented. ^_^

She actually came to Taiwan to promote her new album, Over The Rainbow.


I think it's definitely worth it! She is so adorable! And her voice is great...so amazing for a little girl. She's always smiling, so kawaii!

See Connie's webbie.

蕭敬騰-小S-你最珍貴-精華合唱版

WARNING:If you read my recent post about Nicholas Teo @ Blackie's Teenage Club, then this will make a whole lot more sense to you!

SECOND WARNING: You have better heard of the popular Taiwan show, 超級星光大道/One Million Star, or else you won't know who 蕭敬騰/Jam Xiao is. Click here for more info.

This is a video from 小S and 大S's TV show, 大小愛吃/ Little Big S. I heard of Jam Xiao from OMS, when he PKed with Aska Yang/楊宗緯. Click here for more info.
He rocks! But seriously, he is in deep need of a haircut.

小S has always loved to do outrageous things, and I'm not a bit surprised she's the one singing.
BUT, I still like 大S better, because she was in Corner With Love!

Nicholas Teo 張棟樑 @ Blackie's Teenage Club

I watched this video tons of times, but I still love it! Nicholas Teo's expressions are so funny! Especially when he asks why they're calling a name- 安娜/Anna, and then the host explains its in Taiwanese- 怎樣/What!!?

When he's asked to make "angry" expressions, I'm pretty sure I've seen them before in Smiling Pasta! ^_^ Nicholas Teo rocks!

If you want to see a second part to this video, click here. But in my opinion, it's OK. The girl sings out of tune, but the song is really pretty...if songs can be described as pretty!
Oh, I just checked the comments, and that "pretty" song is: 你最珍貴 by 張學友 and 高慧君 (Jacky Cheung & Gao Hui Jun - Ni Zui Zhen Gui) click here to hear original MV

Rainie Yang (in Protein)

This is a video from a couple years. But I was totally bored, so started watching these shows. This one is really funny. Rainie is talking about how Mike He always messes with her while they're acting, and stuff. It's cute too.

///Translation///
Thanks to Kittenpaw for writing this translation!

Banner Translations---
Down the top left: "Peach Colored Protein" (name of the talk show)
Down the right side in blue: "Yang Cheng Lin" (Rainie Yang)
Down the right side in pink/purple: "Love life of the Ke Ai Jiao Ju (Cute Princess)".

Subtitle translations---
Host 1: But it's also impossible with Mike He?
Rainie: *shakes head* No, not possible.
Host 1: Why?
Rainie: He is very much like...
Rainie: my little brother.
[banner appears in dark blue/purple] "! Mike He is more like a younger brother than a lover/boyfriend?"
Rainie: Really, I don't have a younger brother.
Rainie: But I hear/it seems to me that younger brothers
Rainie: really like to poke fun/mess around
Rainie: and then...
Rainie: purposely say things to induce you to react,
Rainie: that kind of behavior.
Host 1: So he's still using the kind of elementary school boys' approach
Host 1: to treat you—
Rainie: *laughs* Yes, yes.
Host 1: Yes, the type that swat you with their backpack,
Host 1: takes your textbooks to graffiti on, that kind?
Rainie: Yes, sort of like that.
Rainie: For example, like
Rainie: the type to take your powder compact and hide it, that kind!
Host 1: Ahh *nods* Then he really likes you!
Rainie: *shakes hand* No, it's not like that!
Host 1: Well, at least he's pretty interested, I feel.
Rainie: No, most likely not, because...
Host 1: —he acts this way.
Rainie: But...
Host 2: Some guys really do express their affections in this way though!
(in the background) Host 1: Agreed.
Rainie: Well, there's one type of girl, the type who won't get mad
Rainie: and simply ignore him. Then it wouldn't be fun for him.
Rainie: But I'm the type where,
Rainie: if you take my powder compact,
Rainie: I will go crazy!!
Rainie: Because I'd be like, "I need to touch up my make up!"
Rainie: And then I will want to steal it back,
Rainie: but if he still plays around and teases me,
Rainie: and make me NG,
Rainie: and then I will be like
Rainie: "Now I have to make him NG too!"
Host 1: *looks at host 2 knowingly* Well OK,
Host 1: both of them must have gone to the same elementary school! (regarding Mike and Rainie's childish behavior around each other)
Rainie: *laugh* Yes...
Host 1: So that's why you can interact the way you do!
Rainie: Well if that were really the case, I would be a fifth grader...
Rainie: ...and he would be a second grader!

///Time Check 01:00

Host 1: *laughs* It's about the same.
Host 1: Let's hear what Mike He has to say.

(page turns and camera is on Mike)
Down the right side in blue: Mike He discussing Rainie Yang

Mike: I remember once...
Mike: We are filming something together.
Mike: We—
Mike: Well, we were riding a motorcycle.
Mike: On the motorcycle,
Mike: she needs to do a scene where she cries.
Mike: But then, she couldn't make herself cry for that scene.
(on the side panel) Rainie: *looks surprised*
Mike: But she couldn't cry.
Down the right side in blue: Mike He discussing Rainie Yang
Mike: I remember once...
Mike: We are filming something together.
Mike: We—
Mike: Well, we were riding a motorcycle.
Mike: On the motorcycle,
Mike: she needs to do a scene where she cries.
Mike: But then, she couldn't make herself cry for that scene.
(on the side panel) Rainie: *looks surprised*
Mike: But she couldn't cry.

Mike: "Then you should be more serious!
Mike: Every scene, every shoot,
Mike: You should be serious in every one of them!"
Mike: Then as a result, me and her,
Mike: we would argue over this.
(on the side panel) Rainie: Yeah, we did have a fight.
Mike: I feel like, isn't it obvious that I'm not?
Mike: I don't really purposely act this way,
Mike: but then she'd be like,
Mike: well I'd tell her, you can't,
Mike: you can't act like you know more and tell me how to act!

Mike: And we'd fight.
Mike: *laughs* But then the director heard us.
Mike: And then,
Mike: the director—well I forgot what he said precisely—
Mike: lectured that, "If you two want to discuss proper conduct in life,
Mike: then continue this conversation at home,
Mike: don't argue about this now,
Mike: don't discuss this while we're on the set of filming!"

(page turns and camera is back on Rainie)

Host 1: This event seems to be unhappy,
Host 1: Rainie?
Rainie: I have to explain my side of this!
Rainie: That day, at that shoot,
Rainie: I actually already did many scenes where I have to cry,

[banner appears in dark blue/purple] "! She takes everything seriously, but Mike He misunderstood?"

Rainie: and then that day the weather was incredibly cold,

///Time Check 2:00

Rainie: and I'm the kind of person who is affected by cold easily.
Rainie: I try to develop the mood I have to be in for the scene,
Rainie: and it takes awhile [because of the weather].
Rainie: And then I saw that he,
Rainie: —when they film me,
Rainie: he sort of didn't take his part seriously,
Rainie: but when they filmed him,
Rainie: he took his role seriously and acted very well!
Rainie: You can feel the atmosphere well when he was being filmed,

Rainie: but of course the director did tell me,
Rainie: you can't completely rely on others.
Rainie: However, I feel like,
Rainie: other than myself being into the role,
Rainie: I also hope that both of us interact.
Rainie: And so,
Rainie: I talked to Mike about this seriously,
Rainie: And I said,
Rainie: Mm, earlier in the scene, when you were testing out the scene,
Host 1: Tell him to not mess around?

Rainie: Yes, you weren't as good as when we formally filmed.
Rainie: He said *emulates Mike's deep voice* "Did I? No I didn't!"
Rainie: *continues in a deep voice* "I act the same!" Yeah, like that.
(camera cuts to hosts and audience laughing at Rainie's impersonation of Mike's drawling, deep tone)
Rainie: And then I'd tell him,
(camera cuts to hosts and audience still laughing)

Rainie: And then I'd tell him that, really,
Rainie: I feel like, no matter what,
Rainie: I only hope,
Rainie: in later scenes filming me,
Rainie: we will help each other out (i.e. help each other get in character/ role/mood for the scene)
Rainie: similarly, when we're filming you, I'll help you out too.
Rainie: I was not trying to display an attitude,
Rainie: I was really only trying to say,
Rainie: I think it's necessary for actors to help each other out and interact well in scenes.

Host 1: And then he said...?
Rainie: And then he went,
Rainie: "Why are you making me out to be a bad person?"
Rainie: And then I went,
Rainie: "No one is thinking that,"
Rainie, —no... what did he say? —
Rainie: He said, "Why did you think of me as such a scheming and conniving person,
Rainie: as if I purposely cause you to not act as well as you could?"

/// Time Check 03:00

Rainie: But then later,
Rainie: because of that event,
Rainie: my mood was affected,
Rainie: and I felt—
Rainie: Because actually,
Rainie: I actually almost developed that mood [so that I could cry]
Rainie: but it retracted back into me and,
Rainie: I've almost developed and it went away,
Rainie: So that day was a huge strain.

Host 1: So would you still want to work with him?
Rainie: I worked with him again on my MV/music video.
Host 1: Do you feel—
Rainie: *guiltily admits* The filming process for that was also full of arguments...
(camera cuts to Host 2 laughing)
Host 1: It is the same for the two of you that you like to bicker, is all?
Rainie: I guess so... well it is,
Rainie: It is an important element in livening things up on the set!

Rainie: Because a lot of people say,
Rainie: if the two of us didn't bicker that day, then the set would be very quiet and boring.
Rainie: Yeah, but—
Host 2: What do the two of you usually argue about?
Rainie: Usually? Very minor things!
Rainie: Or it'd be that he flicks my ear,
Rainie: or wants to poke at my mole.

[banner appears in dark blue/purple] "! Mike He likes to poke at Rainie Yang's mole?"

Rainie: He really does try to poke my mole!
Rainie: He feels like my mole gets in his way,
Rainie: because he gets irritated at seeing it!
(camera cuts to Host 1 nodding to Host 2 in an "Is that so?" look)

/// Time Check 04:00

Rainie: Yes! And then I'd be like,
Rainie: —and I've already told him!—
Rainie: I get really scared of people poking my mole,

Rainie: because I have a looming shadow from childhood,
Rainie: since I was young, there would be people pointing at my mole and saying,
Rainie: "It's a fly!"
Rainie: So ever since I was little I'd hate it when people get close
Rainie: and point at it like this!
Rainie: But he really actually took a cotton swab and poked at me!
Rainie: *gets into a sneaky position* He'd be like this,
Rainie: *in the same pose* he'd really act like this!
Rainie: And then he'd POKE!

Rainie: And then I'd freak out!
Rainie: And then I'd go,
Rainie: "Didn't I tell you not to poke it?"
Rainie: And he'd be like,
Rainie: *in Mikes deep voice* "You're not getting mad anyways~~~" ß like that!
Rainie: And then I'd immediately ignore him for three days! *laughs guiltily*