Ekin Cheng Yee- KinNews -December 2004 |
December 3, 2004
On December 5th, 2004 Ekin plans to be present in Nanchang, Jianxi Province for a Maoren underwear promotion. Ekin will also autograph sales during the afternoon. At 3pm he will arrive Caifu public square to hold a rally. The company plans that some famous models together with Ekin will model their new silk line. The models will take the lead to give Ekin a warm and enthusiastic welcome. There will also be a large TV screen broadcasting Ekin's stardom journey. He will also be invited to sing a song.
Besides autographs, still have group photographs, a map game, and an interactive question and answer challenge to win prizes. The program can let Ekin's fans come into close contact with him.
Tickets for the event cannot be purchased. The only way to gain admission is to buy Maoren underwear to obtain a certificate of admission. Currently more than 1,000 people have already obtained entry certificates.
December 5, 2004
Yesterday afternoon at a public square shopping center in Nanchang, Jianxi Province, Ekin attended a "Maoren" activity. Several hundred fans were able to get close to him and were exceptionally excited. Fresh flowers, loud noise, banners with Ekin's name to show support, yelling, tears and applause became the scene. Enthusiastic support for Maoren's ambassador showed full artistic expression. Local famous models in a segment showed the company's new silk underwear line.
Because of Ekin's roles in Young and Dangerous and A Man Called Hero, his handsome appearance, acting and singing skills over the past years has caused him to obtain the support of a vast number of loyal fans.
Maoren is beginning to develop it's market in China. therefore later Ekin will go to other regions to help to publicize. Fans came from as far away as Beijing and Shanghai among other cities because they are loyal supporters of Ekin. They caused reporters to pay attention as they said they would follow Ekin to all of the publicity venues. They also said that they would transmit photographs of Ekin to fans' web sites so everyone can share.
December 6, 2004
In the evening in Nanchang, Ekin wore black and met with reporters in a hotel. Again the crowds surrounded him as reporters vied to catch a second news story. Ekin was very tired, his eyes were bloodshot and he was pale, nevertheless he still dedicated himself to talk with the press. He talked about his pleasure at the ending of 2004 and the outlook for next year.
At the year end Ekin looks back at this year's career developments. He describes it as " quite happy". The cause of the happiness is that even though Hong Kong's entertainment industry is struggling, he produced a new songs and selected older songs to produce a Cantonese language special album, he also filmed 5 movies. If actors are busy then of course are happy. Also the album sales have been good, already passing 20,000. As for movies, besides comedies Protege de la Rose Noire and Six Strong Guys, He with Aaron Kwok and director Benny Chan filmed Divergence. Ekin felt that in recent years the movie roles had become limiting. However, this year he has tried some more challenging roles. For example in Leave Me Alone he for the first time really challenged his acting skills. One person plays two roles, the characters completely different from each other. One of the characters is a homosexual. Currently the movie is playing in theaters and is very popular. It is receiving goo reviews. The director is also very happy and is pleased by his casting decisions. Most recently he is working with Karena Lam in a romantic love story, which in fact just wrapped up filming. Ekin predicts that the premiere will be early next year.
With the arrival of 2005, Ekin hopes to be able to continue to produce albums. He especially wants to record a Mandarin album. All in all things are proceeding on course. The recent three years without an album was unfortunate, but he hopes that next year he can select appropriate songs, and then every year plan to produce an album. In recent years he has mainly concentrated on movies, however next year he still may join a TV drama. The theme would be an air rescue service which helps the Hong Kong police in their work.
The Hong Kong movie business is in recession which causes Ekin inwardly to worry.
"My goal is to preserve Hong Kong movies, hope the writing in the past of splendid movies can continue."
In recent years Ekin's comedy movies have always been followed with interest on the mainland. Acting is a hard profession, but Ekin is optimistic, and also very level headed. Work aside he has his family to mutually support him. This gives him a feeling of stability and enables him to enjoy life's pleasures.
"Human life is painfully short, so I want to be able to enjoy the process and even more importantly be happy."
This is the first time Ekin has been to Nanchang. He was deeply moved by the local fan's warm and enthusiastic welcome. This unexpected warmth, he indicated to reporters, made him feel genuinely happy.
December 10, 2004
Today Ekin was at Harbor City for a Christmas Tree activity for raise money for the Hong Kong Leukemia Foundation together with Chen Baozhi and He Yun Shi.
Every year Ekin at Christmas likes to send christmas cheer to his families home. This year he is happy he has little to do except buy gifts.
He has unexpectedly changed his appearance by having his hair cut short. Ekin indicated that he has already decided to film a drama for TVB. In the past he didn't have short hair, and also he had said that to cut his hair would affect his good fortune. Today he cleared that up saying " having not long and not short hair is really not good, so to cut short is not a problem."
His role will be that of an aviation service team member and so he needs to have short hair. Somewhat later he will receive official training, Ekin likes stimulating activities and he described this role as having that level of challenge. Ekin spoke of needing to carefully check an aviation teacher's licence, because even if though to the eye the demands are strict, may not necessarily be qualified. For this drama Ekin will need to go in out of the airport's restricted areas. He excitedly said," filming this drama will definitely need frequent visits to the airport. It will be a lot of fun. Usually I am not able to enter restricted areas, I just have entered once before." Ekin many years before hosted a children's program at TVB and also has made a drama before.
December 14, 2004
This year Ekin has worked in movies and the music scene, but according to the press his achievement is not ideal. A few days ago the Hong Kong Movie Association published its top 10 home produced movies. None of Ekin's movies entered the chart. This caused the media to once again critize him as "Box Office poison". Also the sales of his first album since returning to the music scene has not seen good sales, the media describes him as already old fashioned.
However in the last few days,news has came out that Ekin has decided to next year join a TVB drama " Zhuang Zhi ling yun". Ekin honestly longs for the TVB drama to carry his career back to a high point. The theme of the drama will be that of an aviation pilot. He willspend time at the airport receiving special instruction. Yesterday Ekin spoke to reporters on the telephone, he talked of the fact that TVB had regularly asked him to do the drama that he owed them. However, in the past he has politely declined, so reporters felt that this decision was unexpected. Ekin said that is was the script's new fresh feel that attracted him. He felt that the portrayal of an aviation service team member would be significant as he would be able to experience for himself the difficulties of such a profession. He also mentioned that the drama has some vwery dangerous scenes and he sees them as a kind of challenge.
December 17, 2004
A few days ago Ekin was in Thailand to film a casual clothes advertisment. This year he has already filmed a number of advertisments including, Canon camera's, Shiseido skin care products, and Seiko watches. Ekin admitted that his income from this was not bad. He joked and said he earned 10 a few places over amount as his reward. Ekin said he really likes Thailand because the life is easy and free and the food is delicious. The only thing that is difficult is being able to recognize Thailand's "shemales". Ekin said that this time he saw the photographer's female assistant, however when he talked with her later he realized that she was a man. He had difficulty hiding his surprise, and wanted to explain that his initial surprise was not discrimination, but that he compared well with very many women. This time Ekin collaborated with two Thai models to make the advertisment. The location was in a bar. During the shoot a dog gave birth to puppies so they had to stop filming for a while. It was also mentioned that Ekin will make a new movie with the Peng Brothers in the new year. It will be a horror movie γι¬Όεγ.
December 18, 2004
Ekin attended the wake of Xiao Sheng, the TVB director who died November 28, 2004. Ekin received his first breaks at TVB because of Xiao Sheng and so he was very sad about his death.
Earlier in the day Ekin had been a Christmas party in Causeway Bay held by his Fan Club. He performed a small mini concert and played games with fans.
December 24, 2004
Last night, Ekin and many famous singers assembled to participate4 in a Christmas concert. All the fans held signs for their idols. The scene was very lively. After the concert Ekin together with Bliss and several other singers boarded a bus and on board sang Christmas songs to help everyone celebrate the Christmas holidays.
December 29, 2004
Ekin's manager Shan Shan was vacationing in Thailand with friends when the Tsunami's hit. Last night she arrived safely back in Hong Kong much to the relief of Ekin and her family. She gave an account of how she was on the 26th floor of her hotel when she heard and felt the big vibrations. Her first thought was that it was a terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11. However when she ran to the lobby she realized the scale of the disaster. She described as the worst thing she has ever experienced. She also said it reminded her of the movie " The Day After". Ekin was very worried when he couldn't contact her. When she finally telephoned Ekin to let him know she was safe , he said he had told her not to take vacation over Christmas. Once he knew she was safe he joked, " So, you didn't have a good vacation then."