Archive for July 2013

Brief summary:

SAM TONG (Francis Ng) is a successful pilot with a smooth sailing career and has the optimistic ZOE SO (Myolie Wu) as his wife. Unfortunately ZOE suffers from congenital heart disease and since her condition can worsen anytime, SAM takes her traveling around the world. When ZOE knew her condition worsened, she didn't want her husband to witness her passing, but when SAM wanted to turn back, it was already too late. Losing his wife caused a huge impact on SAM, he went traveling alone and met a shop owner MANNA (Michelle Yim) in London. Because of ZOE, SAM had learned how to make cakes and his skills were much appreciated by MANNA, who had a strong interest to hire him.

MANNA's daughter HOLLY HO (Fala Chen) was also greatly impacted by her boyfriend's death from a plane accident. She goes roaming around all over the place to cope with her grief. When the serious and stern SAM encounters the sensible and impulsive HOLLY, naturally the two would not get along. However as fate has it, the two comforted each other on the lost of their partners. SAM decided to end his traveling and joined Skylette Airlines.

JAYDEN KOO (Chilam Cheung) is the celebrity captain of Skylette. Whether if its the personality or the work, JAYDEN is completely different from SAM, which causes several conflicts and disputes between the two. JAYDEN's younger sister SUMMER KOO (Myolie Wu) looks exactly like ZOE, which caused SAM to unconsciously treat her like family. SUMMER also respects SAM like an elder brother, which did make JAYDEN feel good. Meanwhile, ISSAC TONG (Ron Ng) is working at Skylette as well, he admires JAYDEN and developed a close brotherly relationship with him. ISSAC soon develops feelings for his sister SUMMER... ISSAC's good friend ROY KO (Kenneth Ma) is faced with a relationship dilemma. ROY has a flight attendant girlfriend PINK WU (Rebecca Zhu), but also shares a secret with senior flight attendant HEATHER FONG (Elena Kong) and becomes close friends. ROY and HEATHER eventually had an one-night-stand. JIM (Him Law) was initially a swimmer in the HK team, but later goes to study to become a pilot. He also falls in love with for the pregnant COCO LING (Nancy Wu).

HOLLY leaves London and goes to Hong Kong, where she successfully enrolls in Skylette's pilot training courses. The playboy pilot JAYDEN immediately started pursuing HOLLY and at the same time, HOLLY saw a shadow of her late boyfriend in JAYDEN, thus the two quickly became a couple... SAM accidentally discovers HOLLY owns the same Triangel doll that ZOE had, but it was just a coincidence that ZOE gave Triangel to HOLLY before her passing...

My thoughts:

The long awaited drama has arrived. It has been a long time since TVB has dramas with over 40 episodes other than the sitcom. There will be 43 episodes for Triumph in the Skies II. This will be Fala's second last series. The drama will have a heavy focus on relationship according to the reported articles but I hope there will be some focus on the pilot training program. =) Not to mention the series has already garnered a lot of negative responses due to the theme song by George Lam and many requested to revert to the original theme used in part 1 but it was not possible due to copyright issues.

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net

Netizens Upset: TVB Turns Oscar Leung & Mandy Wong's Singing Criticisms into Compliments

TVB's new celebrity singing contest Voice of Stars premiered last night. Oscar Leung, Mandy Wong, Carat Cheung, Benjamin Yuen, Ronald Law, Stanley Cheung and Fred Cheng appeared on the first episode. Eric Moo, Eric Kwok, Sally Yeh and Dominic Chow were the four "star-level" judges.

On the day of the show's recording, Oscar performed Danny Chan's Wait and was heavily criticized by the judges for his poor performance. Eric Moo made the harshest comment -- Oscar got the rhythm confused in his singing and that he basically ruined Danny Chan's famous song. Also, Oscar thought he was familiar with the lyrics, but he in fact he didn't understand the lyrics, therefore he was just singing "blindly". As for Mandy, she performed Love Is the Most Powerful but was completely off-tune and off-key. Eric Moo criticized her voice was dry and narrow. Mandy wanted to push the blame on it being her first time performing this song, but the judges criticized her even more and said she didn't come prepared for the competition.

However, on the actual broadcast of Voice of Stars last night, TVB carefully edited the recorded version and wiped out all of the criticisms the judges made on Oscar and Mandy. TVB practically changed the criticisms into compliments; the company sure loves their "children" to death. In the premiere last night, TVB edited out all of the negative comments that Eric Moo made on Mandy and only left one comment, "you don't really understand your voice, actually you have a female's medium voice and this is your most attractive area." Even the audience was able to hear Mandy singing off-key, but none of that was mentioned. Mandy accepted a telephone interview and responded to TVB editing out the criticisms. She said: "Maybe because they had to shorten the recorded version to an hour long and TVB wanted a positive outcome, so the show highlighted on our hard work in rehearsing the songs."

Oscar accepted a telephone interview as well, he expressed: "Of course its better to broadcast the unedited version. I am willing to accept criticisms. I know I didn't perform too well, but I tried my best. Well, they didn't just cut my part, everybody got some cuts. I am not sure how TVB does their editing."

Eric Moo expressed: "I did what a judge should do. The editing authority belongs to the TV station, I will respect that."

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net

Envies Elder Sister Kathy Chow

Last year, Niki's elder sister Kathy Chow married a French husband (Julien). Since then, Niki got herself a new foreign brother-in-law and lost to her sister in the romantic race. At a glance, Niki seems to have a satisfying life, but she is in fact over 30 after all, if she said she didn't want to be married, she would be lying to you.

"I wouldn't choose to hide my marriage. I want to share the happiness with the people who love me. If I do get married one day, I will definitely let you all know. Witnessing my sister's marriage, I feel ten million of happiness for her. My brother-in-law loves her to death. He cooks my sister breakfast every morning, that is every single morning. How many men can do that? I envy her extremely; I envy that she found someone who truly loves her.

Some people say, when you meet the right person at the right time, it is a lifetime of happiness. Honestly, I hope to be one of those people in happiness. When choosing a boyfriend now, I won't have such high expectations. Just as long as we click and I like him, then its OK. In short, just as long as he's a man!"

TVB's Lucky Star

Many people say Niki is TVB's lucky star. The TV ratings to her series is never that bad. Getting shade from a large tree, Niki was still unwilling to pick up that pen to sign an artist management contract with TVB and be one of their 'biological daughters'.

"I don't think I'm TVB's lucky star. Its just a coincidence that I had two series broadcast in the past two months. I usually just have one series per year. Thanks to audience for supporting me! Many people ask me, why won't I sign a TVB management contract? Actually what's the difference? My relationship with TVB had always been positive. I am not an artist with lots of productions, it had always been quality, not quantity. I still want to release music albums and shoot movies. Miss Lok (Virgina Lok) understands what I'm thinking, we have consensus on our method of collaboration. So, what's the difference from being an actual 'biological daughter'? All in all, in HK aside from TVB, I will not appear on other TV stations."

Hurrying Up North

In the recent year, Niki had just started moving up north (working in Mainland). She claims she started too late, but hopes more people will know who she is!

"In the past years, there has been many artists filming in China. Honestly, its a huge trend, the China population is over a billion and the big country has plenty of resources. If each individual gives me a dollar, I will be rich! I have my eyes on the entire Chinese market, developing up north, will allow more people to know Niki Chow. No doubt, you make good money in China. I can only say, the salary is 10 times more than what you earn in HK. That is no lie, you really get it! Actually 6-7 years ago, I had a chance to develop my career in China, but at the time I was afraid of going up there alone and didn't know anybody, so I delayed on taking action until now. I know I started late.

The work in China has allowed me to make a lot of improvements. I have more people skills. I know recently many people are scolding TVB because of last minute scripts. I actually have never minded, perhaps because I started out as a movie actress. You only get the synopsis, a lot of it was added into the script on the spot. I believe its actually the best to add things in on the spot. When shooting TVB series, I have had it both ways before, sometimes its the complete script and other times its not. Sometimes last minute scripts is more flexible and accommodating. I have never had a bad experience with it."

Epilogue

In the career race, Niki is developing in all three industries (TV, movie, music), that's not hard to see. Although she's been behind in music all along, she will not give up and continue to persevere until she reaches her goal. That's why she's a stubborn person. Niki has already decided to launch her first Mandarin album next year because she carries an attitude of "if you don't try, you won't know you have good health". It's a little rough to, but at least the opportunity for victory is still there!

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