Steven Ma Denies Looking Down On Evergreen Mak

Monday April 29, 2013 Hong Kong
Source: Mingpao

Translated by: aZnangel @asianuniverse.net

Yesterday Steven Ma returned to TVB for the costume fitting of new series Property Protector (tentative title) along with Maggie Siu, Tavia Yeung, Evergreen Mak, Natalie Tong and the rest of the cast. Steven expressed he had already promised Catherine Tsang a year ago to participate in a series and plus this series is produced by Leung Choi Yuen, there will be even more chemistry.

Steven disclosed he'll be launching a new album at the end of June, and will be holding his first mini concert at the KITEC in July. He does not plan to invite any guest performers and the proceeds earned from the concert ticket sales will go to charity. "I've been singing for several years, but this is my first time holding a concert. I truly enjoy singing and will keep on singing." It was rumored there will be a new season of Apprentice Chef. Steven frankly expressed Catherine mentioned it when they were discussing the contract, but haven't gotten to the details yet. If time allows, he does have interest to be part of the new season, but the earliest is next year.

It was said Steven doesn't think Evergreen is qualified enough. Steven stressed he didn't make a face at Evergreen that showed disdain. They personally have a very good relationship and are very good friends. Evergreen also defended: "Crazy. We have a very good relationship. I will forever address him as '3rd brother', while addresses me as '2nd brother' (Their roles from Where the Legend Begins). Nobody can incite our relationship. I just laughed off the rumor when I heard it." He also expressed he feels happy having the opportunity to officially collaborate with his TVB Artistes Training class classmate, Maggie Siu.

Steven disclosed the initial plan was for him to come back and collaborate with Bobby Au-Yeung: "We were suppose to be in another modern series, but because of his health condition, they changed the plans and turned it into a pre-modern series."

Tavia Denies Relationship is in a State of Emergency

Tavia laughed and said in all of the series she collaborated with Steven in, they have never had a happy ending. This time, she hopes they'll have a happy ending. It was rumored Eliza Sam has intervened in her relationship with Him Law and now their 'sister-brother' romance is in a state of emergency? Tavia expressed: "Emergency? How so? That's nonsense. I understand the magazines don't have much to report lately, but I don't think 'capturing an affair' is a good wording to use." Tavia said she and Heung Heung are friends, the photos published on the magazine are just from the series. That day, the three of them were on the set, it was not "capturing an affair on the set" at all. The magazines came up with a story just by looking at the photos. Does Tavia have confidence in Him? "We get along happily. He is a person worthy of my trust. I just know that the emergency is I really have to go the restroom, I don't know what the so-called romance in a state of emergency is. (Does Him have feelings for Heung Heung?) I have a very good feeling on Heung Heung."

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 Jaynestars has a similar report translated on its site. The most exciting new is Steven's upcoming mini concert.

related material: crhk Steven's monologue on Evergreen audio

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News:mini concert in July

Steven will release his new album in late June and in July he will hold his first mini concert at Kowloonbay International Trade & Exhibition Centre (KITEC),formerly Hongkong International Trade & Exhibition Centre(HITEC). Steven said that he won't be inviting guest singers as the proceeds from the ticket sales will be donated for charitable purposes

updated 5/5/2013 series Property Protector 守业者 costumes fitting

updated: 5/5/2013

Date: 4/29/2013

Scoop clip 4-29-2013 source: tvbboxnow dl

credit Extra Ent clip to hyn5 @ fortunate city

Steven's character name is  潘家扬  Poon Ka Yong
Tavia's character name is Tong Bing Bing
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TN: Looking at these photos, just can't get myself excited about the series. 

More pix can be viewed on these links:  steven-ma.org weibo; various thread on steven ma baidu;baidu sm; tungstars 

credit pix to:kuangaitvb weibo; steven-ma.org weibo; weibo as labeled

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credit:  hyn5 @ fortunate city
- 30 episodes long.
- In August, there will be location filming in Foshan and Guangzhou for a month.
- This is an investigation series about a family murder case. The male lead is a soldier who returns to his native place. The family runs a silk business. He is the third son. Facing the murder of a family member, the male lead and the female lead investigate the case together.
- Steven Ma will play a military doctor.
- Tavia Yeung will play Tong Bing Bing (唐冰冰), a silk factory worker. Although she is married, the marriage was not consummated. She, Natalie Tong, and Steven will be involved in a triangle relationship.
- Evergreen Mak will play Elliot Yue's son. He will have a romantic storyline with Maggie Shiu.
- Maggie will play a spinster.
- Natalie will play a spinster.
- Yeung Chiu Hoi will play Poon Ka Sing (潘家聲).
- Helen Ma will play Raymond Cho's mother and Tavia's mother-in-law.
- Cilla Kung will play a spinster.
- Lee Yee Man will play a spinster.
- Deborah Poon will play a spinster.
- Fanny Ip will play a spinster.
- Summer Joe Ha will play a spinster.
- Janice Shum will play a spinster.

music album screen caps

Hope you can hear it. (tn: his mom)

credit: steven ma weibo

Updated 3/23 2014 Steven's book - why suicide

source

蓉蓉細語 2014-02-03 16:10 Steven's Family of a Chronic Patient is also stocked in Hong Kong Public library.








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Steven's mainland edition of "Why Suicide?"  is stocked in many public libraries and school libraries across southern China.

credit: A fan accompanied her friend to their school library, since already there she thought she might as well check to see if the library had Steven's book or not. Imagine her elation when she found it did. haha! She wasn't the first to share her unexpected find, many fans have done that too.  So happy for them.

another post baidu sm

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Steven's other books are also stocked in the HK public libraries.

credit info to: 3/23/2014 22:34 weibo

《心照》got on list

A good start to Steven's new song An Understanding -- it got onto Radio Metro Info FM99.7 top 20 songs of the week of 27th. 

Steven Ma Speaks About His New 2013 Music Album

got Jaynestars on April 26, 2013 for article

Property Protector Costume Fitting

Date: April 29, 2013
Tentative title: 《守業者》

English title transliteration  : Property Protector
Producer: Leung Choi Yuen

Time: 12:30
Place: Tseung Kwan O TVB City Studio One

Attending Cast: Steven Ma, Tavia Yeung, Evergreen Mak, Maggie Shiu, Akina Hong, Natalie Tong, Tracy Ip, Elliot Yue, Lee Kwok Lun, Ching Ho Wai, KK Cheung, Yeung Chiu Hoi, Yu Chi Ming, Wai Ka Hung, Albert Lo, Lam King Kong, Chuk Man Kwan, Stephen Wong, Rachel Kan, Helen Ma, Katy Kung, Cilla Kung, Lee Yee Man, Deborah Poon, Fanny Ip, Summer Joe Ha, Janice Shum, Brian Chu, and Kau Cheuk Nang.

Circles: 2013-03-21 Good Brother, Evergreen Mak

Actually I had no intention of uploading this audio but for the just off the press tabloid smearing of Steven reporting that hew displeased with Evergreen replacing Bobby.  Steven might have lamented not being able to co-star with Bobby (like we all did ), since the last time was way back in FOJ 4, and even then they did not share many scenes together, but don't believe he would say anything derogative about Evergreen as replacement.  But the report truly blackened Steven. Ai, Steven, why did you choose to come back to TVB? Why?


So Property Protector has not even begin production but already tabloids are up to their old tricks at creating discord among friends.

related material: crhk audio Steven's other good brother, Lau Kin Kong
No uploaded audio for his other good brother, Dexter Young.

completed 4/26 4/13/2013 Steven promoting album on DBC

2013/04/13 DBC (Digital Broadcasting Corporation) radio program  [大家「真」風騷]
Steven's portion starts at 6:00 @ part 5 into part 6th of the program.

Program archive - only 18 days left to listen link 
Fb link - all time happy happy   Go click on the 'like' buttons.

This is a much more enjoyable program to listen to than Wong Hei et al's program so I'm going to paraphrase this post first rather than Wong Hei's.

- hosts: Spencer Leung (梁思浩), 陳彥行、Jacqueline Chong (莊思敏), Ben張啟樂

Main host Spencer opens the show introducing himself and his co-hosts. Ms. Chan says cryptically that actually she and Xiao Ma Ge (Steven) have had a past relationship.

salient points
Talk about why he turned from singer to actor.  He was planning to quit and had even called up his ex-employee to get back his job.  And then Catherine and Tim Gor called him to audition for DOMD1998

- talk about how Catherine Tsang made him audition for Domd1998. There were many people auditioning for the role including Benny Chan. They all took turns auditioning for Emperor Hong Hei and Wai siu bo.

- What? Even tried for Wai Siu Bo,  come one, no way ba.  At the time, Steven felt he wouldn't be able to do it (cos' he was so green then) but now of course no problem.  When he looked at the playback, so cringe-worthy, so no way would he be picked.

 - To his dismay soon after his audition Tsang called him up to tell him that Tim Gor had picked him for the role. He came up with all kinds of excuses to get out of it but Catherine was someone you can get pass once her mind is made up, so with much trepidation he, like a good boy, called in for work. And to make it worse it was his first ancient tv series and just his luck a Qing dynasty at that. So the makeover crew not only shaved his head bald but also shaved off much of his eyebrows. lol! And voila, came up with a completely different eyebrow shape that he thought made him look so weird. And the make up artist worked on his whole face like making his already tall nose to look taller. Apparently, it was quite a difficult transition for Steven to go from a singer to a Qing dynasty actor.  However, Catherine and Tim gor were right, that series was the starting point of his acting career, and onto being tvb first line actor.

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Talk on indebtedness and gratitude
Spencer: But what I want to say is that based on my knowing them all these years, you were right to trust them. I've said this many times already, if one day just these three words, Tsang lai Zan, asks me to return to tvb to shoot a series, I will return, free of charge.

female voice: Zan jie, you remember that. Don't pay Spencer.

Spencer: Because she is yan si (benefactor) a human debt owe must be paid. So sentiment can't be priced. So both Catherine and Tim gor have this sentiment to call on me to do things for them.  Just shoot one series only free of charge.

Steven: Right now I'm negotiating the contract with Catherine (spencer interrupts: You can trust her) Well, what I want to say is to tell her is that Spencer won't ask for payment.

Spencer: She knows.

Steven:  Oh, really?

Spencer: I've said many times.

female: should let him shoot a 100 over episode show

Steven: This is truth -- Catherine, Tim gor, and another one -- Uncle Choi to me are my tvb benefactor -- the biggest being Catherine.  also need to thank tvb for developing me.

Spencer: So when you see Catherine, tell her that I'll shoot a series for free -- just one. The most difficult debt to repay is yan ching zai -- individual indebtedness, and if you can repay, then you'll do it.

4/24/2013 TV ET report on Steven's interview with Nancy Sit.

4/24/2013 Steven's interview with Nancy Sit on her metroInfo fm 99.7 開心家天 radio program
马浚伟电台接受专访尽诉心情
source: news 粤夜粤娱乐

source: TV ET news [2013/04/24]娛樂新聞報導

pix source: 龍劍飛 4/23 19:49
search steven ma on yue yu site

circles 2013-4-23 Steven from singer to actor back to partial singer

Circles host 梁泰來 chats with  Steven on his journey from singer to actor to partial singer now.
Talks about his early singing career, how he first entered TVB as a contract actor, why he terminated his tvb management contract, and why he agrees to shoot a tvb series in May whether as series contract or just sign contract for just that May series.  And what's his future plan.

crhk 《起來！大龍鳳！》 4/22/2013

商業電台 《起來！大龍鳳！》
過三關 送Air Time嘉賓︰馬浚偉 22.04.20130
12: 30 am -- 1:30 am
hosts: Wong Hei,  Ho Gei Yau (何基佑) Ho Fei Fung (何飛鳳)

Questions on bus lines, Jordan, Cho Cho, noodle flour, GPS, typhoon sirens, one country 2 systems, hair, USB,

Among the 5 new songs Steven wrote: a friendship song (心照), a love song, and a song for his mother. Listening to 心照, I did wonder if Steven wrong a song for Vivian, so happy for her he did.

Intro: This is a CRHK (Commercial Radio HK) program,  "起來！大龍鳳！" hosted by Wong Hei and his co-hosts 杜光庭Daryl Doo and 何飛鳳 .  The segment from 12:30 am to 1:30 am that Steven was a guest is called "Overcome 3 Obstacles, award air-time" (過三關 送 Air Time).  The participants must get over 4 points to be awarded the remaining airtime of the hour, otherwise, they can still attempt to get the airtime by exposing a hitherto unknown to the public an explosive fact of themselves.

Steven picks a host for a question
- He rolls a dice for a question,
- If rolls a 6 he can have one of the other 2 hosts to help him.
- If rolls another 6, he can bypass the question and automatically awarded a point, regardless.
- If he accumulates 5 points and over after overcoming 3 obstacles of 9 questions in all, he gets the remaining hour for his   own use.
- If the total score is below 5 points, his song is banned from airing.
- To get a second chance to have his song aired in the remaining hour, he can expose a hitherto unrevealed fact of himself that the 3 hosts considered as explosive.

Honestly, the game makes the guest seems desperate. Steven didn't do too well in the beginning, honestly I was a bit apprehensive for him, he would totally lose face had he not gotten above 4 pts.

tbc

Updated 4-22-2013 circles: 2013-4-22 Music album

How Steven's HiFi quality music come about?
He new songs are all composed recently just for the album, starting end of last year.

Opening intro: After a 10-year absence Steven returns this year to the music world to plug his new song, An Understanding.  A lapse of 10 years, Steven still persists with his love of music, in June he will release a new music album of hi fi quality.  Among the songs Steven composed and wrote five of them, so just how passionate Steven is for music, we all understand.  What make Lok Lok (hostess) curious is why made Steven decide to invest in a hi fi quality (fa siu dip)?  Let's invite Steven who put in his all into this album after a 10-year absence.

S: At first did not think to make a hi fi album, just a normal album of new songs.  But my album supervisor, Acky (?), he himself is into hi fi album, moreover, his recording studio is also adequately equipped to make one, and he himself also designs superior music.  He has experience and credential to enable me to produce an album of this superior (hi fi) standard. When the idea was proposed to the investors, they were willing to budget for it.  So that how the totally new hi fi album came about.

H: Understand that 5 of the songs in the album are composed by you. 

S: Yes, quite tough.

H: So, are some of them already composed prior to this or are they all newly composed just for this album?

S: They are all newly composed for this album.  The preparation started end of last year.

H: Wow! That's quick

S: Can be considered quick.  The album supervisor puts in most of his time producing this album, and me too. Everyday, we start at 6 pm to begin the recording.  In actuality, can't start the recording at 6 pm right away.  He has to (bo?) mike, choose the mike, and pick the mike for what I use.  It is not until around 8 pm that we can go into the studio to do the recording.  The pre-recording run-thru is like attending a class.

H: Because of high standard?

S: That, and also because I knew nothing about hi fi recording, so he had to explain details to me, not unlike attending a class.  So the actual recording usually starts around 9 pm and lasted into the night around 3-4 am everyday.  This way we can fully utilize our time.

H: After the album is out, can also publish a book on how to produce a hi-fi superior quality music album.

S: That is up to the supervisor.  For me, I can only take care of composing and writing the songs, and my own singing.  I'm grateful that the supervisor is satisfied with my vocal.  That the mike used can fully display my full vocal.  He said that all my singing broke two of his mikes.  If the song is more emotional I might have to sing a bit more aggressively, so he had to adjust the mike to accommodate the loudness.  And have to use different for different style of singing.  The process was very enjoyable.

H: The plugged song is 心照 (An Understanding) , and it is also composed and written by you? And you have a pseudonym as Yi Ngau. (2 Buffaloes). Why?

S. My friends also asked me the same question - Who is this 2 Buffaloes? I said you know him well. Who? Me?  Actually I first took on this name when I shot A Journey Called Life - just to be more low-key because it had been a long time since I wrote lyrics.  

H: Any meaning to it?

S: There is meaning to it. In mainland 'two' ( 二; er) means slightly 'dim' as in dimwitted, not as a derogative but more of an offhanded remark , and ngau (牛, niu) means 'great', 'terrific', 'amazing' etc.  Together 2 buffaloes -- amazing idiot.

H: Thank you, Steven Ma.  Best wishes.

News: Steven Ma and Sharon Chan as celebrity guests in an open house

April 21 2013 at 3pm Steven Ma and Sharon Chan as celebrity guests at 锦绣龙湾 Model Open House in Zhongshan, Guangdong. Steven sang 3 songs namely the themesong of 1998 DOMD, his new song, An Understanding, and WTLB themesong. 

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Steven Ma out shopping

A very trite tabloid reporting -- unbeknownst to Steven, a reporter caught him in act -- First Steven shopped in a department but left empty-handed. His shopping partner was Sandy Lau, his manager. (didn't say who that woman beside him at all - just another shopper who happened to be there?)  Then he went to City's Super to buy grocery and was out within 15 minutes. Many people recognized him.

Steven's striped sweater reminds me of Freddy Krueger's. Lol!
source

circles: badminton friends

Steven's circle of friends include his badminton friends; some are national players, others like him are just amatuer badminton enthusiasts.  

4/17/2013 RTHK - Steven as 「星星會客室」guest

4/17/2013
Audio above if Part 1 and part 2 of Steven's segments combined
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to segment at 29:11 where si-na & popo (grandmas)  call in to gush over Steven.

credit edited audio to 雪韵飘寒 @sm baidu
Source:  RTHK 5th channel 香江暖流 「星星會客室」(Stars Talk) segment.
The whole program lasted 3 hours but Steven only appeared in the last one hour, per above audio. If accessing rthk website, skip the 1st hour, (slide the cursor to the end of 1st hr, the 2nd hr will automatically come on - the program is 3 hours in total w/ news) Steven's segment comes on at 29:49 of the 2nd hour. It continues after the report of weather and other news at 7:00 at the 3rd hour of the program and ends at 12:30 pm.

Updated: 2013 10/19 Steven's weibo photo album

Steven's weibo avatar photo album link
Steven's weibo uploaded photo album link2

link 10/19/2013

link2 removed 10/19/2013

Click 1st two photos to enlarge. For extra large, extra sharp version as to even examine every pore on Steven's face in pix 1 goto sm baidu (lol!) If the magnifier symbol (an encircled +) did not appear, move right or left then back on it until the symbol comes up on the lower right hand corner of the pix.  What a beautiful face to behold!

uploaded misc pix album
source: steven ma weibo avatar photo album

"心照" promo gift pack

sm's manager @Sandy劉玉儀:  2013-04-17 20:00: This is "An Understanding"  (心照) promo gift pack  -- a folder + cd single; practical and thoughtful @馬浚偉

Steven 2013-04-17 22:07 Must thank Micky and her husband, Mr. Chan for the idea and design, thank you!

Words on cover - An Understanding: Music of love and faith.

weibo avatar 2013-4-17

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