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“冰山公主”瑞恩一改形象，入戏太深转性成傻气小妹，势必要让观众吓一跳！

一向给人难以亲近感觉的瑞恩在新传媒8频道贺岁剧《过好年》（前名《全家福》）接受“大改造”，饰演开朗单纯的傻女生“小冬”，从小被陈澍城当孙女收养，本来喜欢陈泓宇，后与马国男艺人金沛晟日久生情。

瑞恩接受新动网专访，谈及这个角色时直言：“观众看到这部戏后，应该会吓一跳，因为跟我以前的角色很不同！刚接到剧本时，我也很不习惯要演一个跟自己性格那么不一样的角色。”

这样傻里傻气的瑞恩，你们见过吗？

她透露，为了调整自己的情绪，她做了以下尝试：第一、改用另一个牌子的香水，第二、把“小冬”喜欢的歌曲（较开朗的歌）录在ipod重复听，第三、找回自己曾失去的童真感觉。

因为求好心切，当瑞恩在牛车水发现一些“小冬”会穿的一些T-shirts，例如，印有美国总统奥巴马画像的宽松T-shirts，她马上把它们买下当戏服。

瑞恩主动为角色增添戏服。

或许入戏太深，瑞恩告诉记者：“我为杂志拍照，结果摆出来的pose居然跟以前很不一样，竟然很有‘小冬’的feel！哈哈！”

是否羡慕同门艺人欧萱频主演大制作？

既然接演了较有突破的角色，瑞恩可曾想过有机会入围来届的《红星大奖》？她回答：“没有。能演这个角色已经很开心。”

瑞恩和陈澍承演对手戏。

瑞恩贵为本地“七公主”之一，7人常被媒体拿来做比较，瑞恩对此也表示：“习惯了”。

而眼见同属一家经纪公司的“公主”欧萱频频主演大制作《小娘惹》和《当我们同在一起》，瑞恩羡不羡慕？

她微笑说：“不会，每个‘公主’都有自己的演艺道路，我不会去跟别人比，只会跟自己赛跑。”

《过好年》预计在明年1月19日起，每逢星期一至五晚上9点，通过8频道播出。

Source: Xin.sg, MediaCorp Buzz & CNA Chinese

Categorised in channelnewsasia.com, Happy Family 过好年, MediaCorp Buzz, Xin.sg.

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Posted: 10 September 2009 1635 hrs

SINGAPORE: MediaCorp’s blockbuster series “The Little Nyonya” and evergreen comedy “Phua Chu Kang” are making their way to the Philippines.

The airing of the programmes, dubbed in Tagalog for viewers in the Philippines, is part of a collaboration between Singapore’s leading media company MediaCorp and TV5, a prominent Philippine channel.

This is the first time a Philippine free-to-air channel has a time-belt dedicated solely to MediaCorp content. The time-belt runs for two hours from Mondays to Fridays.

All in, 520 hours of MediaCorp content will be scheduled in the first year of collaboration. After this, other MediaCorp programmes such as “Metamorphosis”, “Women of Times” and “Under One Roof” will be offered.

Source: ChannelNewsAsia

Categorised in channelnewsasia.com, Metamorphosis 破茧而出.

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By Ng Yan Bo, Channelnewsasia.com | Posted: 30 April 2009 1621 hrs

SINGAPORE: Every school kid falls into one or more stereotypical categories in school.

There’s the popular kids – half the school know who they are, there’s the goody-two shoes who play by the book, there’s the jocks – they spend half their time playing sports and the other half wooing members of the opposite sex, there’s the brainy kids in their triple science classes, and there’s the rebel kids – they spend half their time trying to break all the school rules and the other half serving detention.

The cast of “My School Daze” may be all grown up now and acting the parts of teachers instead of students, but we reckon if we put them back in a classroom, they’d very nicely fill up every category.

Three of the cast members were complete badasses who have fought, cheated or smoked their way through school. And because when there is yin, there is yang, another three of the cast members were so well-behaved they sailed through their education trouble-free. The seventh was a jock while the last two went through school in a daze.

Channelnewsasia.com rounded up the cast at a recent press conference, where they boarded the school bus down memory lane and told us who was naughty and who was nice.

The Goody-Two-Shoes

The bad kids are evened out by the good kids three against three.

Rui En sailed through school with ease, going from Singapore Chinese Girls’ School to Raffles Junior College (RJC) to the National Technological University of Singapore. The naughtiest thing she has ever done? A mini water fight in the RJC canteen. Her only woe? Bad Chinese language results.

“I was my Chinese teacher’s worst nightmare because I was never very good in Chinese. Isn’t it ironic right now that I’m playing a Chinese teacher?” She joked. “So this is a message to all the kids: please pay attention during Chinese because you will get your Karma when you grow up you will end up playing Chinese teachers.”

In contrast, Chen Han Wei learnt his lesson the hard way. He tried to cheat on a test in Primary School but was caught by his father, who was the teacher of his class then, and was caned in front of his classmates. The humiliation caused the father-son relationship to sour for almost two years, but the incident transformed the actor into a role-model student.

“I totally changed, I studied very hard,” he said. “But I was stressed because I maintained my grades at the top three positions in class all through Secondary School. I was like a tutor and I helped a lot of my classmates, I took part in a lot of co-curricular activities, and my teachers and parents never needed to nag at me.

Also on the good student list is Eleyn Kok, who was the “goody-two-shoes, wear spectacles, look nerdy, nerdy Bukit Panjang Government High prefect”. Her most mischievous act was to draw graffiti on the chalkboard – just once – and got caught. “I drew some comics on the board because I was bored, and the only time I was naughty, the vice-principal had to walk past and catch me! But I was just lightly reprimanded.”

MediaCorp Channel 8’s new family drama “My School Daze” features the star-studded cast, with its plot centring on school life in Singapore, revolving around students, teachers and parents.

Chan Han Wei plays a stuffy, traditional Chinese teacher who fails to command the respect and interest of his students, and eventually quits his profession to join his wife’s (Ann Kok) tuition centre.

In contrast, Rui En plays a popular and trendy teacher who gives her students rides in her sports car. She shares a romantic relationship with freelance deejay Terence Cao.

Darren Lim and Cynthia Kok take on the role of typical ‘kiasu’ Singaporean parents who bombard their kid with endless courses and classes.

Catch My School Daze on Channel 8, every Monday to Friday at 9pm.

Source: CNA

Categorised in channelnewsasia.com, My School Daze 书包太重.

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If there is one reason why you should catch MediaCorp Channel 8’s new drama My School Daze, Terence Cao will tell you it’s because Rui En is the hot, sassy teacher you never had. Or at least, he’s never had.

“I wish I had teachers like Rui En back in school,” Terence cheekily told Channelnewsasia.com during a recent press conference promoting the new drama. “If I had female teachers like her, then I’d actually turn up for classes… because I’d enjoy looking at her.”

The 42-year-old actor had earlier revealed that he used to dodge Chinese language lessons to avoid having to hand in homework, as Mother Tongue was his weakest subject and submitting one Chinese composition a year was an achievement in itself.

Still, he reckons if Rui En was his Chinese teacher then, he might have been able to pass his Chinese ‘O’ level exam.

If it’s any comfort at all, Terence is now more than fulfilling his boyhood fantasies of gawking at a hot teacher by ‘dating’ Rui En.

In the all-new family drama starting Wednesday, Terence plays Tan Xiangfeng, a freelance DJ, model and travel writer. He falls head-over-heels in love with sassy Secondary school teacher Zhang Luoyun (Rui En), popular with students for her innovative methods of teaching, but runs into trouble with her career later in the show.

On the other end of the spectrum, Chen Han Wei is the teacher you wish you’ll never have. He plays Tan Xiangchun, a stuffy, traditional Chinese teacher who fails to command the respect and interest of his students.

The 40-year-old, who won the Best Actor Award for his role in “By My Side” at Sunday’s Star Awards said – somewhat woefully – that although it had been his childhood ambition to become a teacher, this role is anything but what he had in mind of himself as ‘Mr Chen’.

“I cannot relate to this character at all because I’m a very modern man – my character in this show is very ‘ah-pek’, you know…”

The drama centres on school life in Singapore, revolving around students, teachers and parents. It also features Ann Kok, Cynthia Koh, Darren Lim, Chen Tian Wen and Lin Mei Jiao.

My School Daze premieres Wednesday, April 29, 9pm on Channel 8.

Source: CNA

Categorised in channelnewsasia.com, My School Daze 书包太重.

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从来没有庆生习惯的瑞恩，今年首次提前在1月23日与粉丝们一起庆祝28岁的生日。生日会 的主题以瑞恩新专辑中的第三波主打歌“穿反”而设。配合主题，粉丝都故意将衣服穿反出席，还特地为偶像群体演唱歌曲。瑞恩也透露，妈妈有希望她能早日成家 的意思，但她却示意，或许永远都不会结婚！

《穿反》的歌词出自瑞恩手笔，提倡活出自我风格的生活态度：“越是想把自己伪装得像理想中的完美标准，越是把不自然及虚伪一一披露。其实只要舒服，即使衣服穿反了，也照样能走出时尚流行。”

为了响应瑞恩一贯的作风——自然、原始、诚实——歌迷们将衣服穿反，并选择未经排练就上场的方式，创意呈现了《穿反》这首歌曲。

瑞恩说，“对一些朋友来说可能上台唱歌没有什么大不了的，但是我的fans是属于比较害羞的，所以这个东西对他们来讲，我知道是比较困难。我没有想过一群朋友可以那么地支持我、那么爱我，其实我的付出就是给你们戏看，给你们歌听，没什么大不了的。所以在这里想说谢谢。”

生日和新年一样，瑞恩没有特别庆祝的方式，也未曾度过非常特别的生日。“平时就和家人吃饭。其实很闷，真的很闷。我的生活是很闷的，就没有什么特别的。我的生日都过得比较平淡，没有特别去庆祝。我就把它当成是一个平常的一天。”

今天（29日）正式过28岁生日的瑞恩坦诚妈妈在她的终身大事上，有点施加压力，但是她却不以为然。“其实觉得没有什么必要，为了做而做，就顺其自然。如果真的没有遇到一个适合我的对象，我觉得没有那个必要去结婚。”

瑞恩说，她一直非常想尝试内心戏较重、另类、深沉的角色，但是或许暂时机会还没到。二月复工后，瑞恩将全心投入新戏《书包太重》的拍摄，饰演一名华文老师，对她来说依然意义非凡。

她说，“大家都知道我之前有考过F9，就是在莱佛士初院时期。在RJ是没有F9的，所以这次觉得还蛮特别的。其实我觉得我还蛮喜欢当老师的；已经 拍了三天，就觉得还蛮舒服的。我有问导演是不是应该注重咬字，但是他都觉得OK。他说如果我特意去管这个东西，可能出来的东西会很假。”

Source: xin.sg & CNA

Categorised in Birthday 2009, channelnewsasia.com, Xin.sg.

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By Ng Yan Bo, channelnewsasia.com | Posted: 25 November 2008 1551 hrs

SINGAPORE: She may be known as one of the ‘Seven Princesses’ of MediaCorp, but there are no airs or graces about Singaporean singer-actress Rui En.

So down-to-earth is she, that she prefers to see herself as a frog. And sings about it too!

In her sophomore album “United Nations”, Rui En says that her second single “Frog” describes herself and people in general – in their yearning for something more in life.

“(The song is) about me, being like a frog, and I’m always trying to get out of my well… I try, but I can’t,” said the 27-year-old in an interview with Channelnewsasia.com.

“We’re all frogs in some ways… we’re all reaching out for more, perhaps for things like money or power. So ‘Frog’ is about that. Sometimes we keep jumping (to peer beyond) but we don’t know why we are jumping, or what exactly is it that we want.”

For Rui En, the extra piece of sky she wants to catch is “freedom”, which she says she constantly tries to create for herself, such as the freedom to express her thoughts and emotions which she did by penning all 11 tracks on her new album despite the slight difficulties she faced in the language.

“I’m English-educated so my Chinese is really not that good,” she said. “When I first started writing lyrics two to three years ago, it was really, really difficult as I tend to think in English and try to translate it to Chinese, and sometimes, the Chinese version just doesn’t feel right.”

Released some six years after her debut album, “Rui En Vol. 1”, the latest release “United Nations” marks Rui En’s return to the music scene with a good mix of both upbeat tracks and sad heartfelt songs such as “Slow Dance”, “Let Go”, “Journey” and “Empty Bottle”, which she says that are reflections of her journey through life.

“The title is a spin-off from the term ‘United States’ – ‘states’ being moods and emotional states. It basically means it’s a collection of songs that has very different kinds of ‘me’ and the lyrics are about everything in life that I feel inspired by.”

But re-visiting music does not mean the Caldecott princess, or frog, is going to give up her acting career. She is currently filming a new Channel 8 drama series “The Dreamcatcher”, slated to air in February next year.

“Acting and singing are closely tied, they’re two very different worlds and I get different kinds of job satisfaction,” she said. “I can’t pick, it’s like asking people to choose between two favourite children.

“Acting – you affect people, and I think that it’s beautiful when you are able to surpass the space or gap between the television and the viewer and actually touch the person, and that is the power of acting. For singing, there are songs people listen to when the going gets tough and I want to be able to have songs that can help people through a rough patch.”

And currently, Rui En the frog is happy as she is, and firmly insists she does not want to be a princess.

“Most people may want to get out of the well but they don’t know what is out there, do they? To me, I think trying to jump out of the well is trying to get rich or trying to attain something that you may not even understand why you need to attain. So, nope, no princesses for me.”

Rui En’s sophomore album “United Nations” is available in CD Rama stores across Singapore.

Source: Channel News Asia

Categorised in 共和國, channelnewsasia.com.

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