Saturday, November 28, 2009

Friday Night at TGI Friday's

Met up with Ivan and Eugene yesterday night for dinner at TGI Friday's @ The Gardens, Mid Valley. We waited about 15 minutes before getting a seat in the restaurant. Luckily it is not a long wait.
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After broowsing thru the menu, we decided to share our food as the portion in TGI is quite big. We ordered 2 sets of the 2 course meal. Each set consists of one appertizer and one entree. For appetizers, we had Fried Mac & Cheese and Boneless Wings. While for the entree, we had Red Pepper Sausage & Chicken Penne and Fish & Chips. Aside from that, we also ordered their Brownie Obsession as dessert.
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Thanks, Ivan for treating both Eugene and me a fantastic meal at Friday's. Definitely will go back Friday's to try out other dishes as the service there is good and the food there is not bad.

Fried Mac & Cheese (Irresistible, creamy cheeses and elbow noodles golden-fried to perfection)


Boneless Wings....very appetizing (Succulent crispy boneless chicken breast with TGI Friday's traditional Buffalo sauce)
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Red Pepper Sausage & Chicken Penne (Hot Itallian sausage and chicken served over penned pasta and tossed with creamy roasted red pepper sauce & sauteed red onions and finished with shredded Parmesan cheese)
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Fish and Chips (so so only....... nothing fantastic about this dish)
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Brownie Obsession.....super sinful and sweet..hehe (A warm brownie covered in chocolate-fudge sauce, vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce and pecans)
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Hehe...we finished everything


Nice kitchen signage

One and only group photo for the night. (left-right, Ivan, Eugene & Me)
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Location:

Lot F226B, 1st Floor, The Gardens Mall
Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra
59200 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia.
Tel: 03 - 228 77611
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Raymond Lam replaces Moses Chan in taking pictures of Bernice Liu


Raymond Lam will soon be going to Singapore for stage work and then to Malaysia for his Christmas concert. Yesterday he attended a NIKON event and expressed that he wants to buy a newer model camera to snap pictures at the local area. He even hopes that the advertisers could give him a discount for the camera. Will he take pictures of hot girls with the camera? He laughed: "I'm going to take pictures of Bernice Liu! (Not leaving that for Moses Chan?) If he wants to, then I can let him."

Raymond reveals that in December he will be going to Malaysia for a Christmas show, next year he will start preparing for his first Mandarin album. He hopes for the best. This year he has no series, so no chance for TV King, however he personally has watched Wayne Lai and Sheren Tang's "Rosy Business" and strongly supports them to win the awards. He praises that the two of them are great actors.

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

Monday, November 16, 2009

[Shall We State the Case] Rational and Emotional Love Story



In the new series, “Shall We State the Case”, Tavia Yeung plays a police. She stated that she felt really heroic when she was in the police uniform. She said: “When I was wearing the uniform, I needed to lift up my chest and hold my waist in. I needed to be fit in order to look good. I felt really mighty and brave.” And in the series, she has a love story with Raymond Lam, but she laughed and said she isn’t afraid that rumors would spread about them two.

Kenneth Ma is playing a playboy cop and has a lot of girlfriends in the series, including guest star model Lisa S. He also has a lot of kissing scenes with Bernice Liu. Kenneth said: “This is this year’s best role. I brought my toothbrush, toothpaste and gum to work everyday so that it’ll be convient for kissing scenes.

Series features:

Everything is rational and logical, but love is different! A professor and police woman start a love story that is both rational and emotional. To make it even more interesting, there will be cases in the series that will be solved using physics. It is a must watch series.

Series Synopsis:

Ging Bok (Raymond Lam) is said to be the youngest and talented physicist. He returned to Hong Kong and became university professor. His good friend, Lo Tin Hang (Kenneth Ma) asked him to help the police solve cases using physics. He successfully helps them, and meets CID officer, Tsui Siu Lai (Tavia Yeung). Ging Bok comes from a rich family, is rational and logical; Siu Lai lives a middle class life, is emotinal and uses her intuition. Two people from different world fall in love with each other, they must go through testing…

On the other hand, playboy Tin Hang and his old classmate, Ling Man Ka (Bernice Liu) have been keeping an innocent relationship with each other. Later, Ling Man Ka found out that she’s in love with Tin Hang. But since she knows they don’t have an ending together, she leaves Hong Kong. One day, Tin Hang met Man Ka again. He found out that she will be marrying her boyfriend. Tin Hang then realizes that he does not want to lose Man Ka…

Captions:

-Kenneth Ma and Tavia Yeung will work together to solve cases.
-In reality, Tavia’s mom always wanted her to be a police. Now her wish has come true.
-Tavia Yeung and Raymond Lam will be dating in the series, all with the help of Jazz Lam.
-Raymond Lam will be playing a physicist and will have to remember a lot of hard lines.

Source: tavia.org
Translations: Lee @ www.simplyfungyi.com
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Raymond Lam feels pain paying off over million taxes


Yesterday Raymond Lam appeared at a Christmas event and looked tired. He revealed that he just returned from Shanghai to attend a ribbon cutting event and because of the local temperatures, he fell caught a cold while coming back to Hong Kong. In the recent years, Raymond has been very busy working, he admitted that this year he had to pay off over a million in taxes, quite painful. He said: "Actually my income grows every year, but I haven't done many series lately, so I had more opportunities to go out and earn real money! Next year, I will be even busier, working on a new film and will soon start recording for my new Mandarin album. But what I really want is to open a few more concerts."

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Raymond Lam & Tavia Yeung & Kenneth Ma [Shall We State The Case] Who is Who’s Ideal Lover?

The first news articles about this series had already been described as the “Hong Kong version of Detective Galileo”, even if it is or is not a remake of the Japanese series, the fact that it is targeting the collaboration of Raymond Lam, Tavia Yeung and Kenneth Ma is already worth anticipating. The trio’s last collaboaration was seven years earlier in the series, “Eternal Happiness”! The youngsters of that time have now all gone through and experienced adulthood and can lament that time flies.

Said to be similar to “Detective Galileo”, the producer in fact says that it is merely the characterisation of the leads that are similar, a physicist male lead and a newcomer police officer female lead. Raymond’s detective character is always dressed in a dress suit, with a tie or bow, all combining with his handsome aura for a perfect match. Once filming begins, he has an air of coolness that sets him apart from normal people and Raymond’s dialogue is full of physics terms and concepts. This is pitiful for Raymond, who in his school days was only mediocre at physics and to have to memorize these complex terms wihich are totally foreign to him. It seems that the title of “NG King” may be heading towards him, add oil Raymond!

Tavia, however, has a more relaxed and comfortable time filming, such that you really want to tell her, “this is work, not play”, but each time you see her happy face, you want to join in with the fun too. With her long hair tied in a ponytail and a wardobe of always fashionable checkered shirts, Tavia’s look of a cool policewoman comes right out. Standing next to Raymond, the other anticipated point of the series comes out, that is Raymond Lam and Tavia Yeung are finally playing a couple, since the fateful separation in “Twin of Brothers”. This time, both play male and female lead in this relaxed modern love story, it’s anticipated that they will finally end up together this time round.

But how is that we have yet to see the romantic sweet scenes and we already see the sad break up scene? Detective Lam and Sergeant Tavia were “negotiating” at the piers but eventually it still ended in a break up. Tavia, who is known for her crying scenes, cried extremely professionally, and then inhaled a large amount of the sea water in the air, causing her throat to be both itchy and hurt. Detective Lam, you really are very heartless, really paralleling the heartless and emotionless attitude of Masaharu Fukuyama’s character in Detective Galileo. However, once filming stops, Tavia wipes dry her eyes and blows her nose before returning to the smiling carefree Tavia and jumps down from the box. It turns out that to adjust to Raymond’s height, Tavia must use a wooden box. Though this scene is very saddening and heartbreaking, but the producer has opened up and said that the series is all about love and romance and so I (the reporter) trust the producer’s word and anticipate the scenes to come.

How about our playboy cop Kenneth Ma? Like Officer Tavia, he also has to suffer under the changing weather to arrest criminals and doesn’t have Professor Lam’s luxury of peacefully enjoying the air condition. However, Kenneth has another extra luxury! Just seeing him surrounded by beauties of different countries, it can already be observed that he is enjoying alot of attention from the opposite gender, not to mention that he has intimate scenes with model Lisa S. Though Officer Tavia has a tough time, in the end she gets her happy ending. Professor Lam recieves a Physics award at some award ceremony and still in his tuxedo attire, rushes to Officer Tavia to propose. It seems that the previous depressing breakup scene was just a small climax. But it seems that Tavia is a little afraid to accept Professor Raymond’s marriage proposal, she’s agraid she will be hunted down by the latter’s fans! So it’s better off to be “brothers” after all.

Source: www.tavia.org
Translation: vonnie @ www.simplyfungyi.com

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Raymond Lam shops for famous brand watches



Born with the golden key, Raymond Lam is born tall and handsome. Have been in the industry for some time, he does not have many rumors either, in the last few years the only few rumors he had was with Linda Chung. But, lately there was a sudden burst of new rumors saying that Linda is having an affair with martial arts star Philip Ng, leaving Raymond feeling sour.

Frustrated with love, there is always work to cover the fact! Since signing with EEG to become a singer, Raymond's popularity has been rising steadily and will soon be holding a concert in Malaysia too! Yesterday at 8pm, Raymond was spotted at IFC in Central with his manager and make-up artist leaving the mall. But when they passed by a Rolex watch store, Raymond immediately stopped to do some window shopping. He was so focused in looking too without a single blink. After talking to his manager for a few seconds, they decided to leave. When they walked by the jewelry store BVLGARI, Raymond continued to look through the window, looking at the diamonds, is he planning to buy it for a special someone? But he's currently living on a half mountain (wealthy), coming and going from his house in a famous luxurious car, its nothing to him!

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU