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Saturday, April 19, 2008

Steven Ma Learns to Eat in New Zealand; Kent Cheng $100,000 Past Debts


Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianeu.net/forums/
Source: Takungpao, The Sun, Oriental Daily

Returning from New Zealand to Hong Kong, Steven Ma yesterday along with Linda Chung, Fala Chan, Kent Cheng and Elaine Yiu arrived on the track in a villiage (?) for TVB Series "A Journey Called Life" promotional event, the cast played running games and attacting dozens of young students surrounding them, among the cast "Fat Boss" Kent Cheng and Steven were the most welcomed.

In Steven's visit to New Zealand, he was the guest performer for the "Global Chinese Rookie Competition" 「全球華人新秀大賽」 and sang 3 songs. When he was leaving the stage and was shaking audiences hands, it caused a bit of a chaos. The security had to take over to end it. After the performances, Steven stayed for another two days to enjoy the seafoods and ate a lot of crabs and oysters, also went shopping for honey and snacks. He gained two pounds of fat from all this. He smiles: "In the past I didn't like to eat, but nowadays learned to treat myself a little better, have requests of what to eat and have to eat healthy and rich, but my face has always been chubby, so now have to immediately try to lose those 2 pounds, or else become a 'pig head'."

Fala Chen Works Harder to Keep Fit
Yesterday Linda appeared in jeans and long leather boots, clashing with others who had sport clothing and running shoes, Linda said: "My outfit is the costume from 'Heart of Greed II'. Because I didn't know we had to run and after the promotion I have to rush back to film, so won't have enough time to change." She said that when she was studying, she was a Master Athlete, she did track and basketball and etc. Hard to believe of her. Towards "Journey" ratings were only average, Linda said that the discussions/talks of the series are not bad also some people criticized that her acting was too exaggerated, she feels that maybe because the audience aren't use to seeing her as that type of character, but there's people that notice her she feels happy about it and she will work on improving herself, hope next time will do even better. Since entering the entertainment circle, because of the busy schedule Fala has not really been able to do exercises, she said: "as an artiste, exercising outdoors is inconvenient, I don't like to have stress/pressure when I'm exercising, so usual days I would only work out at home, doing simple exercises to keep fit."

Kent Gor speaks of $100,000's Debts, Tears Up
In addition, Kent Gor yesterday accepted an radio interview, speaking of him in the past he invested in some movies, originally he only would pitch in $6, $7 hundred thousand, but because there were some friends who couldn't pay up, he just did the repayments on his own, results had to pay $11 million, asked why he didn't announce bankruptcy? He said because he wanted to "lift up his head to be a person" in the entertainment circle. For his brave stand-up, he said that he has to thank two women, his mother and wife. After saying that he could not help but tear up (cry): "My mother told me, it's okay son, you didn't go gamble and that you could start over. We came from a poor family, scared?" As for his wife also did not argue with him, just advised him to find a solution, slowly will past through the hard time, Kent Gor also is glad that he experienced failure early, if it he failed in 1997 after then that would be even worst because life would be harder then, but he repaid all his debts before 1997.

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