1. Feature Pages 44-46

Story by Jonathan Fam

Des-tined for the big time

Desmond now resembles a darker, hotter Qi Yuwu – how’s that for climbing the celeb ladder? He has also muscled his way into Ch 8’s elite club of twenty-something leading men mature enough to romance the likes of Jeanette Aw and Joanne Peh. It’s a group so exclusive (or should we say elusive) that its current membership totals two: Dai Yangtian and Elvin Ng. Well, three now, since Desmond is romancing Rui En in his next drama, Poetic Justice, which starts filming this month.

Poetic Justice 微笑正义 debuts 11 September 2012 9pm on Channel 8.

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小鬼黄鸿升说，“我没有Jam（萧敬藤）喜欢唱歌，没有小猪喜欢跳舞，也没有瑞恩喜欢演戏”。

Categorised in CH, U-Weekly.

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By Han Wei Chou

Who is more popular in Singapore’s social media space – singer Stefanie Sun, actress Rui En or Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong?

Singapore–based firm All The Worlds Entertainment (ATWE) believes their new multi-genre social media aggregating tool, starcount, will be able to provide the answer to that question.

What starcount does is draw data from 11 major social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and China’s Sina Weibo, process it, and assign a starcount score to the various entities in the social media space via a weighted formula in real time – taking into account their popularity and the amount of engagement they generate among social media users.

This processed data is then organised, updated daily and presented in thousands of charts available over the website starcount.com.

So just who is more popular among Singapore’s social media users? Is it Sun, Rui En or the Prime Minister?

According to starcount, Singapore singer Sun is most popular, with the Prime Minister trailing behind at the 52nd spot in its Singapore popularity chart, followed by Rui En in 66th position.

Source: Channelnewsasia, The Malaysian Times

Categorised in channelnewsasia.com, EN, The Malaysian Times.

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The actress shared her thoughts about portraying a reporter for her role in the upcoming drama “Poetic Justice”

Often being painted in a negative picture by the local newspapers, you can’t fault Rui En for developing a a love-hate relationship for her new role as a reporter in the new Channel 8 drama, ‘Poetic Justice’.

The actress, who just wrapped up filming for ‘Joys of Life’, starring Taiwanese idol Xiao Gui, will be immersed in a new production soon and she let on that she is ‘used to the hectic life.’

TV audiences will see Rui En portraying a low-profiled lifestyle reporter in ‘Poetic Justice’ where she will be paired up with Dai Yangtian for the first time.

During an interview with xinmsn, Rui En revealed that she is not close with Yangtian, but looks forward to working with him.

The 31-year-old expressed that Yangtian seemed to be ‘a quiet person,’ and laughingly replied that she is ‘not worried at all!’ to work with him.

‘On the contrary, we might get along well as we are both quiet, [co-starring in the drama together] that would be good,’ the actress shared.

Commenting on the negative news about the actress splashed all over the media in recent months, Rui En faces accusations for ‘putting on a long face’ during the Star Awards 2012 award ceremony. She touched on her experience with reporters and felt that the reporter ‘took things out of context’.

The 31-year-old wonderd aloud, ‘Why do reporters have to be so harsh in their words?’ and added that she developed next feelings when she was told of her role in the drama.

‘I am the one who’s being reported by reporters and now I’ve to understand them and probe deeper into the reasons behind why they do certain things,’ the actress explained.

To prepare for her role, Rui En did her homework and read the autobiography of Mike Wallace, a famous US reporter. She also researched about the profession so as to prepare herself to ‘experience the grievances of a reporter’ for the next two months.

The actress jokingly lamented, ‘I understand that reporters did what they have to do for the job, but sometimes it is really a bother!’

Poetic Justice 微笑正义 debuts 11 September 2012 9pm on Channel 8.

Source: Xinmsn

Categorised in EN, Joys of Life 花样人间, Poetic Justice 微笑正义, xinmsn.

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In an old tenement house at Huaxiang Street live several families who play out the acts in life every day. Han Yongyong is the adopted daughter of Han Jianren, a cook whose love for women and booze forces his wife Liu Daiyu to be the breadwinner of the family. The couple had wanted to adopt a boy after Daiyu failed to conceive, but the child was swopped. Yongyong grew up being raised as a boy. Thereafter, they gave birth to three daughters. One of them, Han Rourou, is the beauty of Huaxiang Street. She is every man’s dream girl, but her heart is set on marrying a foreigner.

Will lovebirds Mingxing and Yongyong end up as a blissful couple? Will Rourou’s heart be melted by Zibin’s accommodating nature and sincere love? Will the antagonistic pair Yiduo and Lianjing be together till their twilight years? As for Dagou and Xiaoyu, will there be a surprise ending for them?

在花香街的一栋旧楼里，住着几户人家，天天上演着生活上的不同戏码。韩咏咏是一个养女，养父韩健仁是厨师，爱花天酒地，养家责任落在老婆刘黛玉身上。当年夫妻婚后不孕，想认领男婴，却被掉了包，于是从小就当咏咏是男孩子带大，过后还生了三个女儿。其中韩柔柔是花香街之花，是众男人追求的对象，但她却一心想嫁个外国人。

花样男女，人间有爱。明星和咏咏是否会情人终成眷属？柔柔会不会被子斌的宽容与真情打动？吵吵闹闹的一多和廉菁会否白头偕老？至于大狗和晓玉，是否会有出人意表的结局？

Joys of Life 花样人间 debuts 26 June 2012 9pm on Channel 8.

For more information, click to access the drama page: Chinese | English

Categorised in CH, EN, Joys of Life 花样人间.

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