Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Joe Cheng, the stylish guy's pheromones; Charms that no words could describes

Work – With 100% of commitment to his character
Q: Any interesting happened during the filming of Honey and Clover?
This series will be very manga like and likes to fool around. Eddie’s character (Sen Tian / Morita) loves to sleep on my (Zhen Shan’s) bed, the director hopes that the both of us will act like we are very, very close and if we didn’t act out correctly, it will look like BL (Boys’ Love). (Everybody in the set laughed out loud).

Q: Then what about the difficult parts?
Avoiding Chang Jun Ning. Ha Ha! Chang Jun Ning is playing the role as a girl who is madly in love with my character; but I was in love somebody else so I have to avoid her. This is very awful! I also wanted to ask the director: [She is already madly in love with me, and I find it hard to understand why we can’t be together.]

Q: During the filming, what you’ve improved the most?
Able to comprehend more and more! Based on my past experience, the things that I’ve learned will be after “5, 4, 3, 2, 1” I will become the character; and I will withdraw myself from the character after the word CUT.

Love life – feelings that won’t be wasted
Xiao Zhong’s love life is something what everyone has been curious to know all along. He said first of all he will look at the eyes; if during the summer (he) will get the chance to see the collarbone, he will finds it very sexy. Xiao Zhong reassured us that he didn’t really set a particular type of girl for himself, as long as her style suits her, then that would be ok! (The reporter) Beauty’s readers keep it up!

Q: What type of girls do you like?
Girls who looks like a student; the physical appearance is elegant plus a bit mysterious, this type will easily attracts me, (I would) want to know more about her, becomes her friend. After we have known each other and happen to be an understanding person too then that would be even perfect!

Q: Are there any particular horoscopes that you like or able to share a good conversation?
If (we’re) talking about friends than they are being group out quite equally. But I did secretly fall of 2 horoscope signs: Scorpio and Capricorn. Feels that Scorpio is very mysterious, wants to know more, Capricorn’s personality is totally different from mine, very interesting.

Reporter: Oh, I’m not in the list, have to find the strength to continue on with the interview.

Q: How will you confess your love?
I will take the initiative to pursue her. Asked for her phone number and will ask her out immediately. During the early stage, will go out in a group, then later on it will be one to one dates. (I) will also give her presents together with my self written card. I think sincerities are very important. It would be best if the presents are something that shares some sentiment memories!

Q: Then what if the girl that you like happens to have someone else already?
I always stumble on this kind of situation (Laughed out loud), will just wait and see how it will go, but have never succeeded from all these waiting…… (By now, all the hearts of the girls, who are on the set, are breaking into pieces) last time (I’ve) been waiting for more than two years, after I’ve passed the passion stage that feeling has turn into friendship instead.

Q: What are the things that you don’t like your girlfriend to do?
Too many guy friends; hope I will be able to know who are they, will have the urge to break into her circle of friends. And also she has to accept my work, able to be considerate and would not have doubts.

Reporter asked again: What if your girlfriend is wearing something that is very sexy?
Still ok, as long as “wears appropriately according to the occasion” that will be good.

Life style – a simple and steady daily map
The editor got wind that that Xiao Zhong likes to go to his secret hideout to have a few relaxing drinks. When asked whether he has a strong alcohol endurance? He laughed and said: [I don’t know, have to ask my friends like Eddie Peng, Dylan Kwok, Mike He.] (Reporter) Really want to find out where is this secret hideout!!!

Q: What are the things that you would normally do?
My daily map is very simple, working, home, restaurant, gym and my secret hideout. I don’t really like shopping; only because of I have something to buy. Like the shampoo that I am using right now, I bought it from the shop in the hospital while filming the scenes in Honey and Clover.

Q: Do you go to KTV and sing?
(I) will go there with Dylan Kwok, Ah Sin, Xiao Mei. Everyone will be very surprised: “Huh? Ah Xin, he really can sing!” and I would say “Yes, so what”, they will feel very proud to have a friend like him, ha ha. I will sing Hiroshima Love, Not Worthy to Remembe, Sound Wave (Reporter: Sings with other female artists?) Hm…… I have gone for drinks with ELLA but had yet to sing together.

Q: What kind of exercise would you do?
Swimming, jogging, tennis are something that I’m very good at. The body must move a lot in order to have better skins. It will be difficult to find someone to play tennis in the entertainment industry; sometimes (I) will play tennis with my old high school friends. (Still closed with your high school friends?) Yes, after going through the crazy taking pictures together stage, everyone will become friends and would normally asked “Zheng Yuan Chang do you want to have a field trip” (Laughed).

Skin care – the well-known techniques for having fair skins
Once my friends knew that I am going to interview Xiao Zhong, they immediately make a request and said: [You must remember to ask him about how he maintains his fair skins.] After the interview then only I realized that Xiao Zhong is born with fair skins and also one of those lazy people who doesn’t really takes care of their skins, my friends… I’m sorry!

Q: Normally how would you maintain your skin cares?
Will be very concern about cleanliness; I will buy some mixed formations of skin cleanser from the salon; visit the salon once a month to have my facial. Previously when I was filming the series, I would drink 2ml of water everyday; other maintenance… actually once I forget, I would totally forgotten about it, and that means I didn’t continue with it anymore……

Q: Any other extra precaution maintenance that you would do?
Skins regeneration, I guess! My skins are quite fair so I’m not concern about getting lighter skin tone; previously there’s a makeup artist who told me that my skin is fairer than the female’s skin! And this time when I went to BALI, I have purposely applied some lotion to enhance the chances of getting a tanned skin.

Reporter: Looking at Xiao Zhong’s tanned and shinning muscles, having this effect without apply oils too! All the girls on the set have once again letting out their amazement.

Q: What are the health products that you are currently using?
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It is good to use those productions as early as possible! To prevent the lines from the neck will be StriVectin. But I am one of those people who will buy it and believes it works and would totally forget about it! Have also bought those related grapes health care and after a few days later I will forget about it again, ha ha ha!

Q: How would you go about persuading those guys, who believes heath products are girly, to use the health care products?
Guys may think that getting all those bottles and containers to apply on your skins are girly. Actually the amount of bottles does not mean it will really works, must be suitable to your skin, some people doesn’t really understand their skin typed and believes that their skin is oily and go and purchase those extra oil prevention products and turn out to have tons of acne instead! I myself have a very lazy technique, if I don’t have to work for 2 days, these 2 days I won’t washed my face, and just let the skins to take care of themselves, of course it must be in a very clean environment!

Q: What would you wear normally?
Something that looks like pajamas, comfortable, cotton kind of sports wears, easy to move around and to wear plus slippers. Would not spend too much money on what I wear.

Reporter: His manager said he spent all his money on 3C’s products!

source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Joe-Cheng-the-stylish-guy-s-pheromones-Charms-that-no-words-could-describes-talk539382.html

The strongest Clover band ever; Joe Cheng + Eddie Peng + Janine Chang are going to sing

Unimaginative fantasy band: The Clover Band
Joe Cheng + Eddie Peng + Janine Chang + Chiaki Ito + Lego Li proudly present [Wishes from the Lucky Clover]

Actor and singer are totally different; the whole cast privately discussing their own recording experience. During the recording, everyone comes up with their own secret weapon to warm-up their vocal, in order to fulfill their dream to become a singer they didn’t take it lightly at all. Whisky, green tea, cough drop, jogging to warm-up body; everything was being used.

Janine Chang will going to sing for the first time, not confident enough to go into the recording studio, been practicing with her part diligently during her breaks. Xiao Zhong, Zheng Yuan Chang, provides his one secret weapon to warm-up his vocal, Whisky, so to bring out his sluggish vocal. Eddie Peng Yu Yan said: “Already 25 years old, what’s so frightening about recording!!”; while AAA member Chiaki Ito who can’t understand Chinese was almost being defeated by the Chinese words pronunciation; can’t differentiate the different sounds for “Yi (third tone)” and “Yì (fourth tone)"

Chiaki Ito who is the most popular among the main cast was being hoped by the netizens that she will be able to attend the signing session and other promotions!! To release the OST of the series, the 5 of them have group together to form the strongest band ever, the unimaginable fantasy Clover band. During the makeup, some complain that the eye liner and eye shadow are not hard enough and the 5 of them started to put on their makeup frantically.

Xiao Zhong, Zheng Yuan Chang was the leader and started to direct the members about their expression and how they should pose. Only for once, in limited season, The Clover Band, forming the band + dance rehearsal to promote the OST and they are going to made their debut during the Taipei’s press conference for their singing and signing session. Fantasy band second image.

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An adaptation from the best selling Japanese manga, 2008 the most popular, college idol series [Honey and Clover will premiere at CTS on 25th May; it combines of Joe Cheng, Eddie Peng, Janine Chang, Chiaki Ito and Lego Li… some new generation artists. The OST will include the opening, ending and other music and will be release on 16th May by Avex.

This OST will include the once in a lifetime performance by the casts of the idol series. The song [The Wishes from The Lucky Clover] was performed by Joe Cheng, + Eddie Peng + Janine Chang + Chiaki Ito + Lego Li. It is a youthful and upbeat tempo song. Other than the upbeat song, Joe Cheng + Eddie Peng + Chiaki Ito will also perform a sentimental song together which is called [Give Me Love], and Eddie Peng will going to RAP for the first time in the song!

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In [Honey and Clover OST], the opening song [The Wishes from The Lucky Clover] was performed by the main cast: Joe Cheng + Eddie Peng + Janine Chang + Chiaki Ito + Lego Lee! And because of this upbeat tempo song, these popular artists have form a band together and named themselves CLOVER, a band that is beyond imagination and full of fantasy, group together to fulfill they dreams of becoming a singer!

While they are recording the song [The Wishes from the Lucky Clover], they were recording their part separately, so during that time their most heated topic will be [How did you do?] they even talked to the producer quietly to find out each other performance. Just when they have the chance to go into the recording studio as a singer and even though they humbly said that [Totally different thing] but they did put in a lot of hard work and sincerity into their practice; and each of them has their special ways to cool with while recording the song.

The song that is performed by the golden 5 members group will be recorded starting from Eddie Peng. As the first person from the band to start off the recording, he didn’t just prepared his cough syrup for his vocal, he even brought along his favorite green tea, fruits and some food for the temple; before he step foot into the recording studio, he has already started to do some warm-up exercises, all of these were well aware by the crew and realize that Eddie is getting very nervous; but after he was in the recording studio, he was at his ease! Eddie was so carefree and said: [Last time, I was very afraid to go into the recording studio, because I’ve had several audition experience before, but now that I’m 25 years old… there's nothing to be afraid of anymore ~!]

While Janine Chang who is going to sing in public for the first time, is one of the girls in the band, when she heard that they are going to perform the opening song, she was really excited and at the same time, lack of self confidence and keep reminding the others and said: [This is my first time going into the recording studio!] and she even laughed and said: [Really, it’s my very first time!]. She is totally lack of confidence about her voice; but when she thought about the excitement when she first heard of the news, she knows that this will not be easy and since they are doing a group song and get to sing together with all her friends, the pressure in getting much lighter. This time Janine will be called as [Great Sacrifice], she even brought tons of cough drops that were normally used by the female singer; she was well-prepared and didn’t treat the matter lightly! When the studio recording people asked them to take a break, Janine Chang didn’t forget to practice her part in the resting area; she really wants to have a perfect performance!

[Xiao Zhong] Zheng Yuan Chang is the most experience among the group, he has already show off his vocal in several of his idol series, and now taking part in the song for this new series, the music is different and he gets to try on a song which is more upbeat plus pop rock kind of style. During the recording, Xiao Zhong said humbly: [Able to form a band together and sharing a song together like this, it really is a very special experience. At the same time I will be very happy because I have put a lot of effort into it as well!] The thing that he prepares for himself to warm-up his vocal will be Whisky. This will help Xiao Zhong who is still very nervous to go into the recording studio to be more carefree and able to follow on with the flow of the music without boundary; maybe because of this after he has finished, people who had heard it will laugh and said Xiao Zhong’s voice sounds very sluggish and a bit drunk!

Chiaki Ito who is one of the member in [AAA] group in Japan, was being known to have the strongest vocal among the band members; but when it comes to the challenge of singing in Chinese words, she who can’t understand Chinese word will say: [So difficult! Almost being defeated by the words!] That is because when she received the DEMO version of [The Wishes from the Lucky Clover] in Japan, she has noted down the pronunciation of every Chinese word with Japanese words, and she has especially travel to Taiwan to record the song, but right when she gets into the recording studio, she got in trouble with the pronunciation! The proper pronunciation for “Yi (third tone)” and “Yì (fourth tone)" are totally different; making Chiaki becomes the member who spend the longest time in the recording studio to get every pronunciation correctly! When it is the time for the Clover band to perform please give this lovable and cute little fairy “Chiaki Ito” loads of support. In the internet, there are already tons of fans doing a partition and hope that Chiaki Ito will going to take part in all the promotions of the series and hoping to see her during the signing session!

The Clover band was form because of [Honey and Clover], not only the casts are exciting but there's also a [time limit] for this great band. So it is really different from other OST released, the main casts are showing their strongest determination, they didn’t just plainly record the song in the recording studio, they even shoot the MV like other bands and takes the time out to practice their dance moves. This is all because they are prepare to have a[time limited] performance on the stage and giving some surprises to everyone! At the moment they will perform in Taipei’s signing session, they will have 2 styles ready for everyone to see, and hope the people who like them will go there and show them your support!

Other than the performance by the main cast, this OST will also include the 2008 highly praised new comer…. Xiao Yu with the song [The habit of thinking about you], this will be after the popular song [Finally saying it]. This new song from Xiao Yu is very touching too and able to bring out the happy, angry, sad excited feelings of the series; should be able to touch every heart as well.

source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/The-strongest-Clover-band-ever-Joe-Cheng-Eddie-Peng-Janine-Chang-are-going-to-sing-talk539275.html

Joe Cheng refused to be part of a love triangle

Taiwanese series [Honey and Clover]’s OST is going to release on May 16th, the ending song [The Habit of Thinking About You]’s mv will have two versions, one version will be Janine Chang falling hard on her senior Zheng Yuan Chang while Zheng Yuan Chang falling for Tarcy Su a [young man and older woman relationship]. Another version will be Eddie Peng, Lego Li pursuing Chiaki Ito, a [pure and young love relationship], just to spice up the love triangle stories.

In real life, Zheng Yuan Chang and the others could not accept a love triangle relationship. All of them said: [Too complicated, must not go through with it.] Chang Jun Ning (Janine) also added: [If realized that (I am) in a triangle relationship, I will immediately break off from that relationship and will not continue with it.]

source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Joe-Cheng-refused-to-be-part-of-a-love-triangle-talk539249.html