Sunday, September 30, 2012

MV-return of the cuckoo


mv by crystin cao

Steven at Lam King Kong's school grand opening




http://v.pptv.com/show/sTYpp1UKdLIVkics.html

Steven and Wayne at Lam King Kong's performing arts school's grand opening
20120929 - Ent. News: 粤夜粤娱乐-Wayne Lai and Steven Ma as guests
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Steven attends good friend's school's grand opening




Steven attends the grand opening of good friend, tvb actor Lam King Kong's (林敬刚),  performance arts school to show support.  

Steven talks about love life and career life going smoothly.
-  happy in both love and career.
-  girlfriend is very considerate and trusting of him
- marriage? maybe in a year or two.







In past interviews, Steven has always named Lam King Kong  (not Taiwan King Kong) among his tvb good friends.  Haiz, though looks better on tv than on print, I still dislike his new haircut.  Does not suit his personality and age.


credit Steven-ma.org for vid and screencaps

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Happy mooncake festival



31分钟前 Wishing everybody a happy full moon festival!

Happy Mooncake Festival to Steven and all!!

Friday, September 28, 2012

Learning behind-the-scenes ropes

2012/09/29 Singpao
学做幕後工作。

Steven Ma's September Mainland tv series has been delayed so he is currently resting at home in Hong Kong.  Steven says: "The filming has been rescheduled to November but I on concert tour in December."   Even though he cannot accept the series because of scheduling conflict, but he still participates in its script.  Steven says that he has big plans in series production so he is presently learning the ins and outs of behind-the-scenes work.

TN: Guess all those months of hardwork and time put into Single Parent 10 Years are all wasted.  Actually, Steven only confirmed what some of us fans have already deduced from the total absence of weibo interactions between Steven and the series producers. 

The concerts will be most probably in December.

weibo: even shorter hair

9月28日 15:17  Another hair cut!


If Steven cuts his hair any shorter he will be bald soon.  Maybe the cutting away of hair is symbolic gesture of Steven shedding his problems for a fresh start.
But I don't like his new haircut or dyed hair.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

news: 9/24/2012



TN: Guess Steven's plan to film and script "Single Parent 10 years" has fallen through. Interested, go to steven-ma.org to read fans' discussion on this speculation of his falling out with mainland collaborators.  Like I had previously said, Steven is just too idealistic with his thinking of other people's agenda toward him.   

related news:  link

Monday, September 24, 2012

Working out to offset the previous latenight meal.

Last night had a meal of late night supper, tonight engaging in a fierce battle to offset its effect, will not become a pig. Haha!   


TN: Steven's response to numerous fans' admonition over late night eating that may or may not cause indigestion and weight gain when he posted his earlier weibo about having a late night snack/supper. The fans' admonition sound like what naggy mothers would say to their 'son'.  And that made me think of Steven's plea in his essay: "Women, let me be bah!"  Here's Steven sharing some info on weibo and there fans admonishing him, though done out of concern. But haiz! Steven's a grown man, ma. Who knows that supper may be his 2nd meal of the day.  

related vid: link

Steven Ma reconciled with former girlfriend


 

 2012/09/24 Steven Ma finds time to attend a function.  He says that he will spend  the Mid-Autumn festival in Hong Kong. He reveals he was very naughty when young, that he wax-burned and burned roaches, but tells everybody not to do what he did.  

Voiceover : So go home for Mid-Autumn Festival meal; should bring girlfriend home to meet family bah. Apparently there was some issue between you two before. Are you two ok now?

Steven: We've reconciled. 

Reporter: So will take her home for dinner?

Steven: No necessarily because she too has to celebrate with her own family.  Will depend on timing. I'll wait until October 1st, the moon chasing day, to have dinner with family.  So will see how it goes.  But we can go somewhere to enjoy ourselves not necessarily have to have dinner together.  Will see. 


[鼓掌][鼓掌][鼓掌]TN: Yay, Steven's back together with Vivian. So that woman in Steven's earlier weibo is indeed Vivian. Good luck to them.   So much drama in their relationship. 

Want to Watch a movie?

Really, really want to watch this movie, who is interested to go (watch it ) together?(but not together[偷笑]

Sunday, September 23, 2012

update Steven's function - living singing

9/23 22:58 Work done, now partaking midnight snack.
Wow! What a cool pix of Steven.


Steven singing Chung Guo Ren (Chinese People)
the moon represent my love

I prefer the tradition rendition of "The moon" than Steven's.  The late Teresa Teng had made this song so much her own (although she was not the orignal singer) that anybody else's rendition (no matter how good) just doesn't give off the same feel to me. Also I've associated this song with Teresa's soft, gentle voice so a male vocal, no matter how well sung,  just doesn't cut it for me.  And that goes for Steven's too.  In fact, male singers should avoid Teresa's songs (esp Moon, 甜蜜蜜)while female singers should avoid George Lam Chi Cheung's songs.

vid source: Jackielhy @ tudou
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credit L-R; bottom:
@ Angus陳Chan 9/23 21:35 
@ torrie_恩 
@source FB:3weekly mag fb 13 anniversary of the weekly 3 stars bright autumn charity dinner. Special performance guests: Kay Tse, Steven Ma and Luo Liwei
 @Paco 9/ 23/23:59

Saturday, September 22, 2012

weibo 9/21 -encouraging words


9/21 21:55 "The journey of life is always capricious, now cold now warm now sunny now rainy, even if the stride has been stable and steady but an astral wind gust* can upset the rhythm. Fall? No problem, stand up and continue to move forward. When one day the wound turns to scab, it will become the best proof of unyielding perseverance.  As for those occasional minor turbulences encountered in the journey of life, think of them as little tests before embracing the light**.    Dedicated to the one I'm fond of (疼)





Weibo fans are taking this heartwarming and encouraging piece for themselves.
But most think Steven wrote it for Tavia.
I think Steven posted it for Tavia and those who needed some uplifting words.
So those of you out there, think positive.  Thank you, Steven.

「人生旅途總是變幻無常,時冷時暖陣晴陣雨,即使步履從來穩健,罡風一吹也能亂掉節奏。跌倒?沒問題,站起來繼續前行,他朝傷口結了疤,自成了堅毅不屈的最佳印證。人生路上偶遇小風浪,就當是擁抱大光明前的小考驗吧。」~送給我疼的妳

罡風=in Daoism, astral wind on which immortals may ride / strong wind
大光明= light / illumination / radiance (esp. glory of Buddha etc) / fig. bright prospects / openhearted 

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

weibo 2012 sep exercise for relief

2012-9-18 20:31 If feeling too energetic or too much pressure, don't think twice, find time to exercise or hit some balls. The easing and happiness will naturally follow.  若自覺精力過盛或壓力太大,那不用多想,抽空去做運動或去打打球,那輕鬆快樂自會隨之而來。[太开心]


weibo: commercial ad


9/19 20:18 Today very happy, if (you ) said I'm "mai meng" (賣萌= sell cutesy) then cutesy I'll be. Here's another pix. [哈哈][哈哈][哈哈]

Translation edited.








9/19 19:56 Today did a commercial for FuLum Group. Lots of lobsters to eat. hehee! [偷笑]










9/19 15:31  Doing a commercial, happy! Thanks, everybody [爱你][馋嘴]







above pix by @michaellam_pl

TN: FuLum Group is a group of restaurants. Per his weibo, looks like today has been a good day for Steven.

Steven hamming it up (mai meng) for the camera.
Don't like 'hamming', don't like Steven smiling with pursed lips,
and don't like his new hairdo.

On the aside, Miu Siu Ching has been very weibo friendly with Steven, responding to almost if not all of his weibo.  An inkling they have a planned upcoming collaboration.




Though similar, I prefer this one (sic 2010 ?) more.

Monday, September 17, 2012

weibo:what not to lose to

9/17 03:43
Can lose to ignorance, do not lose to intellect;
Can lose to malevolence, do not lose to injustice;
Can lose to reality, do not lose to conscience;
Can lose to helplessness, do not lose to humanness;
Can lose to naivety, do not lose to childlike innocence;
Can lose to life, do not lose to fate;

Can lose to agitation, do not lose to cool-headedness;
Can lose to luck, do not lose to effort;
Can lose to others, do not lose to self;


Just like many mainland people Steven also denounces the recent retard acts of fellow countrymen for their anti-Japanese riots causing much damages to own people's property and country.

baidu tvb,
baidu 李毅
 
可以輸給無知,不要輸給理智。
可以輸給不仁,不要輸給不義。
可以輸給現實,不要輸給良知。
可以輸給無奈,不要輸給人性。
可以輸給天真,不要輸給童心。
可以輸給人生,不要輸給命運。
可以輸給激動,不要輸給冷靜。
可以輸給幸運,不要輸給努力。
可以輸給別人,不要輸給自己。

weibo: Steven's plea to keep calm

9/16 15:13 Saw the news, really difficult to fully express my feelings! The stance must be distinct, attitude must be resolute. Those needing defense must be defended but with rationale not chaos. Do not be provoked into civil unrest!  Our stance is toward a situation not people. Do not be own people against own people! Those citizens are Chinese people, the police are Chinese people, all from the same root (tn: Cao Zhi's 7-step poem) how come becoming a civil unrest, consequently, the losses will be even more!  Hope fellow brothers and sisters be calm, be rational. And also hope peace on earth and peace to fellow countrymen!

TN: On recent chaos caused by anti-Japanese protests over the islands.

看到新聞片心情實在難以言諭!立場必須清晰、態度必須堅持、要保衛的必須保衛,但要 理性不要亂、不是被挑釁就變成內亂!我們對事不對人,不要自家人對自家人!人民是中國人,公安是中國人,本是同根生,為何變成自家人的亂,這樣一來,損失 可能更多!願弟兄姊妹們冷靜、理性,也願天下太平、國人平安!

Saturday, September 15, 2012

SM's first day (monologue) on CRHK-Commercial Radio Hong Kong




Topic: Use the heart to get to know a person.

Steven's monologue on CRHK Yat Huin Huin (Circles). Very brief -  topic Don't judge a book by its cover. For instance like he was judged on his appearance when he first entered the entertainment circle. How people presumed from his refined look and cultured (si-man) conduct that he was an overseas student, and that he was from a wealthy family, which of course, was far from the truth.  And another example was this woman he used to work with in a company, how she went about her work with a 'black' face, stern and unsmiling all the time so one day unable to restrain his curiosity he asked her why she never smiled at all. She said what was there to smile about, and people would think her crazy if she smiled over nothing. Steven asked her to smile for him and when she did it was like after the rain out came the rainbow and sunshine.  At that moment in time, he understood that some people are just born with that kind of impassive look so we really shouldn't judge people by our first impression.  We should get to know and not listen to hearsay or gossip to judge them. This way the society will be more harmonious.

Who ever sang the cover of Cyndi Lauper's True Colors did a horrible job.  Don't know why Steven played that cover. 

To listen to the complete program on tudou


Friday, September 14, 2012

weibo disney

Today first time visiting Disney as a visitor, consequently I became a strawberry bear.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Linda Chung's interview segment on Steven.

Eta: March 19 2015 


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9/12/2012 881一圈圈 Linked Circles: Linda Chung's interview segment on Steven.

Linda Chung once contemplated suicide, grateful to Steven Ma for his support and encouragement.
9/13/2012 On.cc Yesterday Linda Chung in her interview revealed that because of filming series she has had a nervous breakdown, luckily she had older brother (gor gor) Steven Ma by her side constantly encouraging her enabling her to get through the difficult phase, as such, she is very grateful to Steven for his help.




vid credit tudou

Steven Ma, he is definitely the one person, since I entered the industry, who witnessed most completely my whole experience. He is the person who most understands every phase of my situation. Because my first series was with him. Virtue of Harmony. At that time, I was still naive and innocent, straightforward and simple young woman. When I first saw him it was like seeing my idol because prior to this, though I didn’t watch many tv series I listened to a lot of Hong Kong songs. At that time, I heard this song of his, (Linda hums the opening bars of the song and Steven’s song came on.) and listened to it often. When I saw him, I thought to myself, idol, oh dear, going to film with my idol. What am I to do? And so anyway, we were happy filming. One day, he and Tsui Jeh, a close older friend of his, and I had lunch together inside the studio.

As we ate, Steven said to me: Kayan, you are truly very ‘guai’ (good girl), very innocent. I really like your kind of attitude, it’s very rare in this industry, you must keep it that way.

I said: I know, I’ll work hard to keep it. I promise you I’ll not change my inner self.

And then after a break of two years (2007 May) we filmed another series together (A Journey Called Life). In that series, could see my person was becoming disheartened. I became increasingly unhappy. It’s like I’d been forced to fit in a colorful, exciting world whereas before I was used to a much smaller and simpler world. At that time I was already sliding toward a state of collapse. But that was just the beginning. (Steven’s song started playing) He saw that I was sick, unhappy and cried often. He often advised me I must love myself, and must voice out my opinions, and not to internalize everything and bottled it up. At that time, I didn’t listen to him because I was already on the onset of a nervous break down.

And then in our next series together, Ghost Writer (2009 Mar-Jun), I’d truly collapsed. For 3-1/2 to 4 months I could honestly say that I did not sleep a wink at all; I was a walking zombie. At this time, no matter what Steven said to me I could not take them in at all. I could only cry uncontrollably. I felt that this would surely be my last series. I couldn't do it anymore. I tend to over think, imbued with that wanting to die kind of feeling.   even contemplated suicide.

And then we did Daddy Good Deeds (2010 Aug-Oct), and he saw a happy Kayan. An awakening Kayan. And become happy again. But he was ever skeptical of my change of attitude. Because this older brother, (Ah Gor), for he is truly an older brother as he has witnessed my growth and he has much affection (sek) for me. In fact, he loves us three sisters: Fala, me, and Tavia. So that’s why whenever he and I met I would reassure him: “Ah Gor, I’m a big girl now, and I’m truly happy now.” He did not fully believe me. I remember one time he called me on the phone, and asked me if I was truly happy. “Yes!”; “Truly?” “Yes!” ; “Truly, truly?” “Yes, Yes!”, Truly, truly, truly, no?” “Yes, truly!” Initially, he was skeptical I've finally found my own brand of happiness. I guess he knew now that I've truly had a breakthrough in my thinking. After having been through so much and have grown more mature, I’ve changed.

Steven in my life, what I admire about him is that he is up-front, straightforward, and very protective of those he loves. He is also a very faithful man. I feel that if he meets people he feels deserving his affection, he will cherish them unconditionally with all his heart. Even if it is not his problem, he will stand up for you.

I remember that one time when filming AJCL, I was very sick but still insisted on going to work. I did not dare to ‘lam’ (collapsed/breakdown) or knew how to ‘lam’ or had the right to 'lam'. So I went to the studio even though I was extremely sick, and all I did was cried. (LC had in the past talked about her hour long crying jags in AJCL and in Ghost Writer. ) but still I would not dare go home. So everybody quietly came over to me and told me to please go home. I said I can’t do that. Because it was only my third year working, and I felt that I did not earn the right yet to collapse (lam). I was very timid and fearful. Out of the blue, Steven said in a loud voice: “I'll be the one who ‘collapsed' (lam) then. Kayan can go home.”

song: 請你留步

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Link: Linda says Steven would make a good father (among all tvb actors) 

link: Steven standing up for Fala - in CSY's Ghost Writer interview

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Steven and his loved ones

9/120:56  Those who love me and whom I love have always been there (for me), have never changed, and moreover have never deceived me. love u all!

So who are these people, esp the young lady next to him. His sister, brother-in-law  and Vivian? (on and off gf?) Edited VV with Sandy Lau and Steven's male assistant?

Do you think she looks like V?
The more I look at the juxtaposition pix, the more they look alike. 
But it's not Steven's style to showcase his gf.
So wedding bells will ring soon?


Edited: Ok, the mysterious lady's identity is solved. The lady next to Steven is indeed Vivian.



related materials: girlfriend's pix 

Monday, September 3, 2012

Steven's sick.

 The long absent old illness suddenly struck me tonight, made me almost passed out in the badminton court, panicking my friend. Sorry, my friend. Friend sent me to the emergency hospital. Saw a young and beautiful female doctor, prescribed lots of medicine. Ai, have to start taking medicine again. So troublesome. [泪]  Don't feel too good right now, so will just upload this photo taken this afternoon. [偷笑]

久違了的舊病晚上突然來襲 害我差點暈倒在球場上 把朋友嚇壞了真不好意思 老友陪我去醫院 看了一個年輕美麗的女醫生 拿了很多藥 唉 又要開始吃藥了 煩 [泪]現在精神不太好 就發一張下午拍的[偷笑]

TN: Steven looks really gaunt in the above pix showing a sunken cheek. Guess the old illness is either low blood sugar or the heart artery problem?  Maybe over exercise training for badminton competition, plus too much work and too much stress?  Wonder how he did in the Changchun badminton tournament?

Do mosey over to his weibo to send your well wishes to him. 

Per Miu Siu Ching's weibo quip (see below) in response to above weibo pretty sure Steven's upcoming HK tv series is a collaboration with NowTV.  About the young and beautiful doctor, Steven was just being gracious to her.

 梅小青LV新浪个人认证 Take care!Take care ya Fatt Dat Gor! Many get rich schemes awaiting you! But unexpectedly encountered a young and beautiful doctor, could it be a blessing in disguise!

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Steven's Dingdong collection

enlarged link
source: steven ma HK fan weibo

To promote  Doraemon/Dingdong exhibition in HK, several artists including Steven were interviewed for a newspaper.

Steven is an avid fan of Dingdong, and has a collection of Dingdong products well over a 100.  Shown above are just a few that he keeps at home, the rest he stores in a public storage. However, his present collection is much diminished when 5 or 6 years ago during a house spring cleaning he donated many to the Peace Corps. His presently most favorite item is an hour timer that 'speaks' in Japanese on the hour to announce the time, given to him by a friend. He started collecting Dingdong limited edition products in the 80's from MacDonald's gas stations, and from convenience stores, but friends knowing his fondness for Dingdong also gave him many as presents.

What Steven most loves about Dingdong is his Magic Portal Door, especially useful in Hong Kong to avoid the daily traffic jams and also for instant traveling, since Steven loves traveling.

The toys shown on the left corner of the articles is a collection set of 9 Dingdong fans gifts gotten through purchases from a Taiwan 711 convenience store. I spent 2000 TWD to purchase the full collection.  I gave the red one to a friend so now there's 8 left in the collection.