Who's on Facebook? Jessica Hsuan!

You’re on Facebook?! we ask. We thought Facebook was for students with too much time on their hands.

“No! I know so many people on Facebook!” said Jessica, sitting up in excitement from the headboard of the bed she was resting on. “I get people coming in and asking ‘Are you really Jessica?’ because I put my picture on there as well. Sorry, but I have to ignore them. I can’t let everybody in!”

Jessica was in town for a short time late last year to film the second season of Parental Guidance, which returns to Channel 5 on May 20, 8pm.

We were chatting on ‘Jessica’s bed’ (that’s what Chua En Lai told us), which belongs to the big house that doubled as the show’s main location for season 2, and also as a cavernous resting place for its many cast and crew members.

Jessica and Adrian Pang have separate rooms on the upper floor in which to lie down and catch forty winks between takes, while En Lai sits down in any corner close enough to a power outlet for his Macbook. The three kids in the show have their own play den in the basement.

So what exactly does she do on Facebook? Jessica told us she’s really into the site’s vampire games – “I get attacked everyday!” – and sending her friends little growing gifts and hatching eggs.

“I’m happy when I get them, so it’s easy to just click click click and make someone else happy,” she said.

But for all the time she spends on the site, she tells us she takes precautions with it.

“For our job, being a public figure, we have to be careful what we put up there,” she said. Heed that, young stars/starlets!

When we caught up with Jessica, it was the last day of filming in Singapore, and she talked a lot about missing the three young actors who play Jessica and Adrian’s wise-beyond-their-years adopted kids on the show.

Through them, her dormant maternal instincts were awakened. “It’s funny because when I was younger I used to dislike kids, but I think it’s a woman thing, you know … as you grow older!” she said, laughing.

That said, Jessica’s not exactly raring to procreate just yet. For this season, she’s had to – spoiler alert – put on a bulbous stomach prosthesis and says it was definitely tough, especially in our hot weather, to carry such weight around.

But life was made easier with the happy cast around her – she has special praise for Adrian and lamented that he was already married. “Lucky Tracie!” she said, referring to Adrian’s theatre director wife, Tracie Pang.

Jessica spoke in awe of Adrian’s ability to tackle a breadth of roles on TV and in theatre. “I’ve seen him on Maggi & Me and PG, which are comedies, and then I went to see a play he was in, The Dresser, and I saw another side of him. He was brilliant in it. And then this year, I watched him in The Pillowman, and there was another different Adrian. I was so impressed,” she said. In the former, Adrian played an effeminate stylist, and then became a sinister detective in the latter. “I really started thinking to myself, ‘I really should work a bit harder on my acting!’”

Not that acting is a cinch for Jessica either. In Parental Guidance, she’s had to take on a manic obsessive character, Ling, whose desire for control and stability is compounded by the fact that she has to live with the constantly bungling James Seto (Adrian’s character).

How different is the uptight Ling from the actual Jessica?

“Well, I am very hygienic, but not as hygienic as Ling,” said Jessica, laughing. Ling, if you recall, is a typical Type A hypochondriac who carried wet wipes with her to sanitize every surface before she touched it.

“Well, Ling is a straightforward person and I am too … oh dear, it’s quite similar isn’t it? Especially when she’s moody.. I get a bit moody sometimes as well,” Jessica said, almost apologetically. “The only difference is that I’m not a lawyer!”

We also saw Ling as an extremely violent person in the last season, but Jessica quickly said she was nothing like that. “Oh dear, I’d never hit my other half like that.”

She’d probably just poke him on Facebook.

Parental Guidance returns for a second season on Tues, May 20, at 8pm on 5!

source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Who-s-on-Facebook-Jessica-Hsuan--talk541109.html

"Send Out Your Love" disaster relief show, Jay Chou, S.H.E. and over 100 celebrities respond

Everyone around the world is paying attention to the massive earthquake at Sichuan, CTV, Ctitv, the Taipei Agent Association and the Taiwan Red Cross are working together to broadcast live the "Send Out Your Love" fundraising disaster relief show on the 18th of May, it will be presented by Zhang Xiao Yan, Zhang Fei, Jacky Wu, Shen Chun Hua, Cai Kang Yong and broadcaster Sally Wu from Phoenix Television, Jay Chou, Jolin Tsai, S.H.E., Jiang Hui and over 100 celebrities will be joining in.

According to people involved, President Ma Ying Jiu, Zhou Mei Qing will appear on the night to appeal to everyone to show your love to the victims at Sichuan.

CTV and the others held the press conference on the 16th in the afternoon for "Send Out Your Love", Zhang Xiao Yan, Zhang Fei, Shen Chun Hua, Cai Kang Yong, Jay Chou, S.H.E., broadcaster Zhang Ya Qin, the chairman of the Taipei Agent Association Wang Xiang Ji, the secretary of the Taiwan Red Cross Chen Shi Kui and the Taiwan head producer of Hong Kong Phoenix Television Su Jing Fen all attended.

Zhang Xiao Yan said, "Watching the news, every mother crying for their own children, each child crying for their own parents, we can understand their feelings as we experienced the 921 earthquake, thus we need to support the victims and reduce their pain, we also have to offer substantive support".

Zhang Fei expressed that originally on the day he and his parents were going to take their yearly trip around the islands, but his parents wanted him to put the fundraising event in first place; being able to gather the energy from the entertainment circle and send out the love and warmth, this presenting job is a holy mission.

Jay Chou, whose already donated 500,000 yuan expressed that this is not the time to be gossipy, the power of the media is very big, this show is a very positive event, he hopes the media can give a lot of coverage to this kind-hearted event.

S.H.E. said, Taiwan has experienced the pain of 921 earthquake, everyone must stand out and offer the Sichuan victims a bit of strength, this show is but a small one, the road ahead is still very long. Besides this, HIM records have mobilized their artists and recorded a charity song "A Better World", they hope they can comfort the pain of the victims.

CTV expressed that there are over 100 celebrities participating in the show, including Jay Chou, Leehom Wang, Stanley Huang, Jolin Tsai, Jiang Hui, S.H.E., Angela Chang, Elva Hsiao, F.I.R., Vivian Hsu, Tao Ching Ying, Xiao S, Aska Yang, Yoga Lin, Jam Xiao, Patty Hou, Blackie's Teenage Club, Bang Bang Tang, etc...

CTV will broadcast it on the night of 18th at 7:30 until 11:30, Ctitv Variety Channel will broadcast from 7:30 to 10:30 on the night; apart from CTV and Ctitv, Hong Kong Phoenix Television, Sichuan Chengdu channel will also be broadcasting it together.

source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Send-Out-Your-Love-disaster-relief-show-Jay-Chou-SHE-and-over-100-celebrities-respond-talk541085.html