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Yes! Steven finally retired his overused shanghai bund medley. Though audiences are mostly different for each concert but yay to his finally revamping his song repertoire with new songs.

His security guards definitely worked hard for their money 'protecting' their subject from overzealous fans.

Putting aside the obvious safety issues, I'm of two minds about singers (not just Steven) shaking hands with fans on or off stage. On the one hand, singer-fans' physical interactions naturally induce and inject excitement into an already heightened, contagious atmosphere of anticipation   - exactly how a spirited and animated idol concert should be. On the other hand, the pandemonium caused can be/is disruptive to audience's overall enjoyment in that their view is being constantly and consistently blocked by the crowds pooling at the the stage (especially irksome to those who paid good money for premier seating). I myself was both irked and distracted by fans constantly rushing down from all directions toward the stage during a performance. But then what's an idol concert without these small bands of zealous fans whipping up excitement, eh? Yes, excitement heightens the atmosphere but can excitement be aroused without the said distractions during the performance? Maybe all physical interactions should be relegated towards the end of the concert? Quite a dilemma!
What say you?

two men over a woman - rotc

epi 16 Lai Shun a confident man

So, how long has Kwan Ho known Lai Shun - months? Definitely less than a year versus her whole life with Man Chor.  So isn't it natural that she would run to her most beloved 'brother', who is most precious to her next to her mom, not necessarily because of romantic love but familial love?  Putting aside the question of romantic love vs familial love, can her ingrained love for Man Chor be so easily overcome by love for Lai Shun, who was but a mere stranger not so long ago? So, in the same concept of "who would you save, your mother or your wife?  Who indeed!

Anyway, if I were Lai Shun faced with this dilemma I would remove/distant myself from Kwan Ho and risk losing her, so that she can have the space to make up her mind - after all, they have just started dating not that long ago. Yes, they like each other,  but their passion I don't see nor feel between KH with Lai Shun, or for that matter, between KH and Man Chor?  This whole series to me is a warm drama  high on familial love and friendship but as an 'unforgettable' triangle love story, it totally lacks the intensity and  romantic passion unlike the similar 讓愛 trope in Sweetness in the Salt Anyway Kwan Ho is still a university undergraduate so what's the hurry to get marry? Is it the time period - what year did this story take place?  Anyway, this is a TVB series - don't ask why, it just is!

ETA: More ROTC news

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ETA: Headline video  I can't dl this video. A more detailed video whereby Steven relates how he was first contacted by Stephen Shiu on wechat (not phone as initially reported)

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source 粤夜粤娱乐20151111  The hosts admire Steven's graciousness at attending the premiere to show support despite that inevitable twinge of disappointment at being left out in the movie.



source: HotTV@Bastille Post

So, per this latest appledaily report, looks like Steven was actually invited by producer Stephen Shiu last year on his birthday (not this year birthday) to photoshoot a funeral and a wedding portrait. Given this extra, defining information, "my last year birthday" (上年我生日) Steven was not an afterthought after all, so I gladly take back what I said about the whole matter about him being slighted, used and discarded. Just two omitted words, "上年", can so effectively change the whole picture and perspective for me. So Helen Ma's 2014 Dec weibo happily declaring that Lai Shun was in the cast is true after all. Now, I'm all right with Steven agreeing to a cameo in the series.

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Appledaily

《十月初五》慈善首映】開拍前撞正馬浚偉生日蕭定一叫佢影「遺照」？
噚晚電影《十月初五的月光》搞慈善首映，張智霖、佘詩曼、薛家燕、商天娥及唐文龍等亦現身銅鑼灣時代廣場，由勞工及福利局局長張建宗做主禮嘉賓，而喺電視中演「司徒禮信」嘅馬浚偉，就以特別嘉賓到場。

會場有一大班張智霖、佘詩曼及薛家燕嘅fans圍觀，張智霖喺台上表示：「好感動，好緊張，好似返番去15年前咁。」佘詩曼就話有少少緊張，剛才謝票時，見到啲觀眾反應喊晒唔開心，反而自己好開心，因為角色感動到佢哋。

張智霖喺台上拎住電話錄低同現場嘅人一齊大叫「十月初五的月光」，當馬浚偉上台時，見馬浚偉塊面好白，佢話：「當大家見到我一黑一白，以為我咩事，其實當開拍電影版，籌備嘅時候，蕭定一打畀我，話想搵我幫忙，當日係我生日，佢就話想我影張『遺照』，佢冇直接咁講呢兩個字，個故事一開始，我已經死咗，如果我唔死，文初點同君好呢!」

馬浚偉又喺台上笑言：「撞正我生日就同我講啲咁嘅嘢，今日就可以報仇，因為過咗12點，就係蕭定一生日，決定要佢影『遺照』，唔係，係影一張合照。」

馬浚偉其後接受訪問，問佢今次喺片中影「遺照」，有冇收利是，佢講：「冇呀!因為唔係怕我死，只不過係阿一打嚟同我講，撞正上年我生日出發去台灣慶祝，阿一wechat叫我幫手，當時我喺機場，阿一話之前冇搵你，係因為你喺片中一開始已經死咗，乜我生日流流講啲咁嘅嘢，阿一話想你喺片中死前影一輯結婚相，之後返嚟冇咗件事，後嚟葉念琛搵我，自己聽到個劇情好感動。」

馬浚偉又話司徒禮信死咗，君好幻想又好、係靈魂出竅又好，畀君好一個鼓勵，解決咗君好嘅心魔，馬仔話出場都過一分鐘，唔係「秒殺」，係「分殺」，唔係計錢，因為同蕭定一識咗好耐。

Fanvid: Movie trailer

ziwei kuang:
Steven Ma World of Drama fanmade Trailer (Korean with CHI & ENG subs)

Revised: YYP episode 1 summary

REVISED

Revised summary write-up is on the currently airing episode nationwide, which is slightly different from that aired on local tv stations, length-wise and story sequence wise.

episode 1 
episode 2

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Tang Ting Xuan makes a late entrance as he struts nonchalantly across the room.

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Episode 1 focuses on Shen Qi Jun (Eric Huang), Jin Yong En (Zhang Meng), and Song Yi Lan (Tang Ling).  Yong En's younger sister (Ai Wei), and her stepmother (Rui Fen) also made their appearances. Qi Jun is the son of a powerful warlord. Yong En is a descendant of a Qing royal family who has now fallen on hard times. Yi Lan's father is a wealthy and prominent business man. Yong En thinks her mother is dead but actually she is alive and kicking as Ting Xuan's stepmother, his father's 2nd wife. 

Qi Jun and Yi Lan arrived at the port from overseas studies. At the port, while waiting to get picked up by respective families, Qi Jun realizes he has been pick-pocketed so he pursues the thief, leaving behind Yi Lan.  Then another man tries to kill him. They fight, and fight some more.  Ah, Qi Jun, the brave hero in white showing off his martial arts prowess.  And our heroine, Yong En, who happens to be at the right time at the right place and having the right mindset saves Qi Jun just in time from being seriously knifed, and for her trouble she almost got hurt but fear not, Qi Jun saves her.  So with that melodramatic chance encounter, these two meet each for the first time. Qi Jun instantly falls in love at first sight with brave little Yong En, not knowing that she is his betrothed fiancée, while Yong En is taken with good looks and heroism.

Next scene - Qi Jun wants to break off his pre-arranged marriage and says so to his father. Yong En wants to get marry just so she can leave her unhappy home because of her abusive stepmom.  And at their 2nd chance encounter, imagine Yong En's happiness when she finds out that the hero is actually her betrothed finance, Shen Qi Jun.  That night she looks at her mother's mandarin duck jade pendent (鸳鸯佩), her heart filled with happiness as to the identity of her fiance.

Next day, Qi Jun and his father are at Yong En's house to officially break off his betrothal with Yong En. Yong En eavesdrops, and much to her dismay finds out that Qi Jun has come instead to break off their betrothal, not to honor it as she has hoped.  Of course, she does not know that Qi Jun is still unwise to her identity as his fiancee.  Imagine Qi Jun's shock when he belatedly finds out that his now ex-fiancee is actually Yong En, the girl he fell in love at first sight.  Ah, the shock! The irony! The humiliation! The regrets! The capricious fates!

Next scene
The 2nd young master of the Tang's family, Tang Ting Liang, makes his entrance.  Scene cuts to Mistress Rui Fen comforting Yong En's father, Mr. Jin, who is distraught over the broken betrothal. Mr. Jin chides Rui Fen for thinking Yong En as a bad luck child, who caused her mother's death. Scene cuts back to the Tang Bank. Tang Ting Liang arrogantly and stupidly offends a bank customer, who though always defaulted on his debt to the bank is nonetheless a powerful man the bank can't afford to offend just yet.  When the customer leaves in a huff, Ting Liang announces the early closing of the bank for the day.

Yong En's father going off to somewhere leaving Rui Fen in charge of the household. Yong En's stepmom, Rui Fen, takes the opportunity to lament her awkward 2nd wife status to him, wanting him to marry her legally. But he ignores her request and quickly escape into the waiting car. As she walks back into the house, she encounters her nephew in the courtyard. Turns out that he has just stolen her jade bangle from her bedroom. He begs her to save him from having his fingers cut off from failing to pay up his gambling debt. Seeing his dire predicament, an evil idea came into her thought. She tells her thieving nephew with a gambling addiction to rape Yong En so that after the fact he can marry her, and elevate his status. Ai Wen sees those two deep in discussion.  Ai Wen and Rui Fen set their sight on Qi Jun.

Next scene
A commotion in from of Tang Bank. Tang Ting Xuan makes his entrance.  He yells at Tang Ting Liang for the outside situation caused by the earlier bank closing.  Ting Xuan also reprimands Ting Liang for his botched handling of  Boss Wang. He explains why the bank can't offend Boss Wang because of the latter's good connection (guanxi) with powerful people.

That night the nephew molests Yong En.

original posted date: 3/20/2013, 11:41 AM
reposted:2012 SM's new mainland series.

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2013 Note: TV direct download episodes are of different length from DVD episodes and currently airing episodes in satellite tv stations. The previous ypp episodic summaries (about 35 minutes) are based on videos recorded directly from local TV stations, hereafter the episodic summaries are based on dvd episodes (40-45 minutes, which are numbered differently from tv episodes.

Brink of Law mv

《馬上浚入偉界》系列之《線人》

tn:  From past personal experience, videos uploaded on youtube with even a smidgen of TV B content are usually deleted sooner or later.

creator: ziwei kuang

馬浚偉 - 黃帝子孫 (經典金曲百年情) (電視MV)

So much potential, not fully unrealised!

12/15/2014 粤夜粤娱乐 ET report Guangzhou tv beauty pageant

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TVB Sales Presentation videos

In the spirit of the upcoming 2014 TVB sales presentation event on, Here's a partial list of Steven's past sales presentation trailers, some of which he ended up not being in the cast.  I'll try to update the complete list, if possible.

2013 Property Protector

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Elaborate on music album

馬浚偉[Cherish]的故事...（官方簡介）
在過去那漫長日子裡，馬仔養精蓄銳，腦海裏滿是音符和大計，正好為今次大碟作準備。大碟共灌錄 10 首全新創作歌曲，由馬浚偉親自作曲填詞的佔五首，更天大面子請來新加坡著名音樂人梁文福老師，為馬浚偉度身訂造全新歌曲。所有歌曲分別邀請到香港及美國洛杉磯的頂尖樂手以真樂器直接演奏錄音，人聲部份不經電腦插件處理及壓縮，及採用美國純手工製造 Audio Beans 超高端發燒錄音器材完成，為求令音場定位更準確，後期混音為全模擬式 (Analog) 混音，而母帶更由 HI-FI 發燒界極負盛名的德國 Stockfisch 「老虎魚」的母帶工程師 Hans-Jörg Maucksch 親自用 DSD 直接數字流母帶 DDP 輸出處理，最後為求令音質更細膩動人，力臻完美，CD 日本印製。

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Footprints interview -- mother

It’s only with faith in God that for the 1st time Steven could finally open up his heart to share this deep-seated secret buried deep his heart all these years, festering the gaping hole preventing his heart from complete healing.

In the previous segment Steven talked about his tough beginning as singer. In this following segment Steven talks about his mother – the most heart-wrenching portion of his interview.

Italicized words in brackets are mine.

H: How did you family see it? Seeing your first step in the industry and down you fell.
S: Always supported me. Always Every time they heard my song played on radio or saw my program on tv, they all very happy. As to whether they were aware of the criticisms thrown at me, of course they did, just that at home they would not talk about it. We’re a family, so all in the heart. In this case, family’s support – silence is greater than spoken words.

H:1997 - Dr. Joe Cheung Ka Yu came into being but in 1999 mother passed away.

S: hai ya, hai ya (yes, yes)

H: Seeing you having 2 favorable years, she must have felt comforted.
S: She loved to watch my show cos’she couldn’t hear, lost her hearing long time ago. Cos’ when I was 6 years old she had this illness. Which is why in my childhood period I did not play much and also had to work outside at an young age because circumstances forced me to grow up fast. My mom had nasopharynx cancer. At the time, the treatment technology was bad, so her treatments (chemo/radiology?) had destroyed many of her cells and nerves including xxx, so very quickly after each treatment she first lost her sense of smell, and then later her sense of taste began to deteriorate, and then she started have relapses (in all 3 relapses) Gradually she lost her senseof hearing, and then her total sense of taste. When she left she had only a blurry vision in one eye. To communicate with her, we exchanges messages on this ‘Magic Slate’ You know the kind that you write on top of the plastic film, and to erase you just lift up the film? Everyday we used that slate to write messages.

H: So though your mother could not hear well but she still liked to listen to Deanie Ip’s Weary (倦), right?

S: Would play 倦 karaoke for her. (tv) She could not hear well but she had the cassette with her. She also liked Siu Fung jie’s songs too. (Paula Tsui 徐小鳳) but later she couldn’t hear anything at all so playing the songs was just for comforting the heart. So we played karaoke songs for her since she could still see images on the screen. But of course she was most happy when she saw my karaoke.

H: Ai! So recently you expressed your feeling your mother, right?

S: yeah!

H: For Mother: Weary! Composed and written by you. Back to the time when your mother passed away, you could not accept it.

S: Because accompanying her all those 20 odd years – when I was 6 I already knew she was sick – so I witnessed her battle against the disease along with my father and my sisters – we all supported her, a very close warm feeling. We saw how courageous mother was.

H: “I’m the relative of a chronic patient.”
S: Yeah, I wrote the book precisely for that reason. We watched her gradually losing her faculties. Sometime having a meal with her, she would suddenly spurt blood. Because of blood vessels inside her nostril would certainly burst. You think that could only happen in movies but it actually do happen in real life. If a thick blood vessel burst inside the nostril the blood would come out through the mouth, so if you sniff the blood rushes into the mouth. And when that happened during meal she would rush into the bathroom but she would say she’s fine but actually it was painful.

S: (4:13) As for her passing, we knew it was imminent. If asked after all these years were we prepared? Yes we were. But why is that when she passed away I was so devastated? All these years, honestly if you ask me have I healed (her death) completely? No. I’ve not. Is it, is it because I did something wrong? No. Was it because I did not treat her well? No. Honestly, I think, I believe, in this world if look for a son who is utterly filial to his parents, his mother, I dare to take the #1 spot. But there’re things that are not up to me to decide. So why did I say after she passed away, I, I

H: Self-withdrawn for half a year.

S: It’s because of a surgery. A week prior to her passing away, all her neck tissues had actually atrophied. Her mouth, her jaw structure; their tissues had actually atrophied. Her mouth was clenched tightly – could not be opened, could not even open up her mouth.. Her jaw was locked tightly together. The doctor wanted to insert a tube into her mouth to infuse nutrition into her but to no avail. Doctor told us to try to pry open her mouth just a few mm then he could give her nutrition. He gave us a few popsicle sticks and told us to slip them inside her mouth in hopes of propping open her mouth. But the thing is her mouth part tissues were all atrophied no matter how we tried still could not open her mouth. The doctor then told us that you had to tell your mother to do a surgery. To cut a hole on her stomach to infuse nutrition into her so she could live. So we wrote the message to her. At the time she still could see though barely.

When she saw a surgery was needed she was enraged and threw a fit. No, no no!! Because she was already in great pain. Cos’ 2 weeks prior she was in the hospital, her whole body suddenly having a seizure. I saw her body turned to a dark hue. The doctor had just stepped out the room. I immediately slipped my hand into her mouth to let her bite. I finally got it that a person can really turn black in less than 15-30 seconds - the lips, the face, because it's her brain having a seizure. Her breathing immediately stopped. So immediately she was given a stabilizing shot. This kind of scene is truly terrifying to me.

H: Wah, your hand was truly tough!

S: 7:05 No problem, I didn't know pain (then). I could only yell out loudly: Doctor, doctor, seizure! Why is that after so many years I still can't completely recovered? My emotion. Actually, that I now have this courage to speak out, to compose the song, is just I want find a release for myself. (let go) Because at that time the doctor warned that if mother did not have this surgery she'd die. Would last only 3 or 5 days. No hope for her to stay alive. So I said to my mother, cos' mom listened to me the most.

H: (sigh) Cos1 you're the only son. And obedient (guai)

S: But she wouldn't. She got angry and threw a fit. "No I won't do it. Just let me die!" I knew she was in great pain. So she refused adamantly to do it. Very angry, truly very angry. Because she's truly in pain. So I said "no, the doctor said you must do it." Hearing that she said: (wrote) I don't want to do it, do you want to push me to my death? You want me to die? I don't want to do it!" So when I saw her speak like that there's nothing I could do. If even I could not persuade her to do it there's no way my sisters could. But at that moment I was bad (soi), but I couldn't control myself and cry. When I saw her anger and her saying I'm pushing her to death (Steven pause to compose his emotion.)

H: So was there a surgery in the end?

S: Just that she said I want her to die

H: Well, at the time, she

S: Of course I knew she was just angry. I knew she was suffering. But when I saw her words I immediately burst into tears. (long pause) But when she saw me crying she could not bear it. (sniffling)

H: You never cried around her?

S: I seldom cry, never in front of my family. Besides my father, I don't cry when at home. And then she nodded her head and said 'fine, I'll do it." She had the surgery that very same day at night. So my family and I stayed back to accompany her. Her surgery ended at around 11:30 pm - midnight. So she was wheeled out on the gurney and the doctor said the surgery was a success. She was still conscious and we held her hands, and asked how she was, and she could nod her head. So I was relieved. So sent her to the patient room and sat with her for a while.

And then we went home to rest cos’ we were tired. (sniff) My father had went home before cos’ he always visited my mom very early in the morning. At around 5 am, my father would visit her so we all could take shift. At home around 5 :30 am, I was sleeping then, my father called me and said “Ah Ma is slipping , come.” I said “huh? What’s the matter?” He said: “Don’t ask, come quickly.” (sniff) Turn out my mother had already passed away at that time. Cos’ at around 3 to 4 am because of acute pneumonia infection cos’ her body was too weak, so she departed just like that. When we got to the hospital, her body was still on the bed., still slightly warm. (pause) But I did not cry Couldn’t. I spoke to her, and then kissed her. (pause) Thereafter, the funeral service, internment , at that time I wasn’t a Christian then. I held this xxx (Buddhist?) service , so went up the hill and other stuff, I did them all. But only I pushed her up the hill. When up the hill, I pressed button to start her cremation. It was brutal but still had to do it. Couldn’t cry. Even when all emotions had been spent still could not cry. “Did I truly push her to her death?” (play chan chin (play Familial Love song)

H: 14:36 I think actually your mother understood you meant well

S: Yes, of course she did. Cos’ my mother loved me a lot, of course, I loved her too . My family at home all told me not to be so stupid to have such a thought. Don’t think that way. I don’t want to but that’s how I received the message. (at the time) Thereafter, I isolated myself.

H: No need to work?

S: Work stopped during that period. So stayed home everyday drinking so that I could get drunk. And only when drunk I could then cry.

H: So your father must be very distressed?

S: I would hide myself so they could not see. I wouldn’t let them see me that way. I wouldn’t let my family see me like that. When awakened would eat something

H: What to do then? For half a year? How did you help yourself get out of it?

S: For the 1st month I was that way, everyday. Would not see anyone. Inside my bedroom, I turned off all lights and closed the curtains. Very dark, could not see anything. Gradually some friends became worried about me. The person who accompanied the most was Tsui jie. (Tsui Yong Yong)

H: Your former manager. She dotes on you.

S: She was very worried about me. Yes, she dotes me, even now our relationship is still very close. She came everyday to keep me company. She just listened to me talk. Because she is a mother so she listened to me from a maternal perspective. Actually not one month but 2 . Not I was numb, did not have interest in life. When people looked me up for work, I said whatever. Didn’t matter. To describe that period with words - truly like living without a heart. 17:30 I should not say this or think this way but at that time I truly thought of just dying. Because I felt like an empty shell. It’s not that I didn’t have people with me, I still had my father, my sisters, my friends, and lots of people I loved but but.. the process all that time she had lived with me.. The place inside my side, she had occupied almost 100% of it. And then suddenly she’s gone , tell me how to replace that? (vacancy left in the heart) (pause) Nothing. Honestly, nothing can, even today nothing can replace that vacancy. Even though now I’m a Christian and there’s Jesus but sorry .to have to say to Jesus, nothing can replace her. At that time I thought of suicide. So my friends started to get scared. So went to see a doctor. I’d a family doctor and diagnosed with depression. I was on medication for a year. Actually did not help much in recovery. Medication was not enough.

H: So what helped you the most?

S: First, my friends. 2nd sports

H: Sports? Badminton

S: Badminton, at that time I had started jogging. To gym. Or on the walking machine. Exercise causing heart rate over 120 beat/hr for 30 minutes the brain will releases endorphin. Can become addictive. Really, can be addictive. People who exercise constantly suddenly don’t for a week they would feel something missing. Another thing that helped was an essay. They recommended an author to me Tong. He wrote this article “Life’s Experiences” talks about a beloved passing away, and how to get through the mourning. …….the pain of losing a loved one is inevitable to all, but I encountered this pain way too early because my mother was only 48 years old when she died. (song play Deanie Ip’s Weary)

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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
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source: TV ET news [2013/04/24]娛樂新聞報導

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BUMPED UP: 2006 Adia Chan interview

reposted from AF archive

An Adia Chan's fan posted the video below on Steven's baidu site.

With Nnadia's recent marriage news, bump up this post as feature.
Nnadia picks Steven as her 1st choice good husband material.

2:30 source

In this talk show, 2006-4-4 part D "娜可不一样" Adia is asked which one among her 5 former tv series leading men including Ekin Cheng, Louis Koo, Julian Cheung, Gallen Lo and Steven Ma, would she choose as friend, as lover, as husband, as good co-star, and as big brother.

She thinks very highly of Ekin - mainly because she is more familiar with him.
Ekin Cheng ==== co-star, friend, lover,
Gallen ===a good big brother
Steven Ma === husband. If Ekin is her runaway first choice for friend, lover, and co-star, Steven is her 2nd choice behind him for those same categories.

Nnadia's comment on Steven's character
- has a strong sense of responsibility
- knows how to take good care of loved ones and family
- makes one feel very secured
- a very well-grounded person

What Adia says:
Won't pick Louis as bf because he is too "shuai", (handsome), therefore, no security as his gf.

On second thoughts, Julian is also a good co-star.

For casual dating, maybe the first four men, but serious dating with marriage in mind, it's Steven, definitely. 


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original post 2010 Oct 4th.

related material:  Tudou: TVB Supermix variety show:  圓月彎刀 Steven/Adia's duet

BUMP UP: YYP -- cctv 8 news report

First published on May 12/2012 now bump up for relevance to tonight last episode.

Steven clarifies rumor on his return to tvb

Steven clarifies that as of now he can't confirm he will shoot a TVB series in May because of conflicting work schedules. He says returning to film a tvb series is just a matter of time, just that he can't confirm when since he has other work committments.

He denies the rumor that he had specifically picked Tavia as his partner in his return tvb series. When asked about the said rumor, Steven says if he returns to TVB he certainly will not specify who his female partner should be, just like he never did when he was in TVB. He believes chemistry can be sparked with just any partner. @2:54

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Steven Ma and Peggy Liu at their LA press conference

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Gist: Steven Ma and Peggy Liu will hold a Christmas concert in Pala Casino and Spa resort concert on the 12/22nd at 7 pm.  Like Steven, Peggy Liu is also a champion of a singing competition - she won the Taiwan Teresa Teng imitator competition in Taiwan.

Transcript on Steven's portion only.

In the press conference, Steven says he had been diligently practicing singing Mandarin songs for quite a while now, so even if audience requested songs impromptu he is well prepared to deliver.  Besides his own themesongs and Cantonese songs, he will also sing some unlikely Mandarin songs that people would be surprised he knew, and what's more, can sing them too.

Steven sings "Happenstance (偶然)" in a cappella.
Steven has often mentioned this poem Happenstance by Xu Zhimo as one of his favorite Chinese poems. Hong Kong singer, Chelsea Chan, later composed the music to this poem, and sang it as the theme song for her movie. link

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