In order to film the Christmas and the Chinese new year version of the Pepsi commercial, ZaiZai, with his head of short hair and wearing the co-pilot uniform, he is the embodiment of a heroic and brave pilot, standing in the midst of ice and snow, on camera ZaiZai looks alright. But in reality, the staff around him are all wearing thick, thermal overcoats, only he alone is wearing an ordinary woollen coat. ZaiZai smiled painfully, said: “This time was more difficult than in Jordan. I never thought it would really be this cold. It’s really a good lesson to learn!”

The entire advertisement has “family” as its main subject. It describes ZaiZai as a pilot who was unable to spend the holidays with his parents because of work. Parent and son caring about each other, but wasn’t able to express it. A scene where the mother sending ZaiZai off at the door was shot outdoors under a -25º temperature weather. The shy, bashful mother NG-ed more than 30 times, ZaiZai was so cold his expression became frozen, and could only drink hot ginger tea non-stop to warm himself. ZaiZai said: “But it was a scene shot at night that left the deepest impression on me. It was completely indescribable in words how cold it was.”

To avoid disturbances by fans, ZaiZai’s entire journey was kept under wraps. But there were still many fans from faraway who followed him. The local radio reported about it, making a large number of fans to proceed there after hearing the rumours, and even gave large quantities of heater packs(?), mitts and gloves, thermal bags(?) and food to ZaiZai.

?2004/12/30 Da Cheng Bao?

Credit: grendel of www.vicpower.net

Zaizai loves to wear thick clothes and jackets in hot summer days and yet what he yearns most is snowing days. Although the cover of his 2nd album, Remember I Love You, was set in a snow scene, but it was man-made, not real snow. Earlier he finally got his dream fulfilled and got to experience how it felt when snowing. Earlier Zaizai took a long journey to Harbin to shoot Pepsi's new spring commercial. He got to appreciate blowing snow in the low temperature of 20 degrees below zero.

Dreaming was beautiful, but reality was cruel. Working in snow is an experience not easy for Zaizai to forget.

"It was really, really cold. We shot some snow scenes before in an MV. Ken and I played excitingly with man-made snow in front of the camera. But when we were in midst of snow and ice, it was so cold that I couldn't move at all. You see me looking round-faced and with red nose in the commercial. It was I who had been frozen, a truly icicle made of man."

In the commercial, Zaizai acted as a pilot who couldn't spend the holiday with his family. The role is very similar to the real-life him. After he joined the show business, he spent the past three holidays at work. He saw more of F3 than his family. There was one dialogue in the commercial, - "Sorry, this year I can't spend the holiday with you again!" Zaizai said frankly that, in recent years, this had been the sentence he said most often to his parents. He said laughingly, "Because I'd said it so often, it came out naturally during the filming. I didn't get any NG reading the dialogue!"

This Christmas, Zaizai didn't have to say those words. He unexpectedly got several days of vacation. Zaizai first celebrated with his mother and brother and then returned to Yilan to visit his father. He spent a heart-felt Christmas with his family. As for the gifts he gave to his family, naughty Zaizai said laughing, "I'm their best Christmas present!"

Zaizai, who rarely had a chance to spend Christmas with his family, said laughingly that he himself was the best present to his family.

Translated by laiou2002 at www.vicpower.net

Losing shoes, Jerry Yan roars with laughter

Last night Jerry Yan, Vic Chou, and Vanness Wu arrived in Hk and attracted more than 200 fans to the airport. Thirty security guards were there to maintain order at the chaotic scene. Zai Zai was the first to step out, who died his hair gold, won many praises that he was handsome from fans. Vanness Wu and Jerry Yan followed behind. They had their arms around each other's shoulders and they were seen laughing loudly. It was because Vanness almost made ZZ lose his shoe and Jerry couldn't help laughing. Fans gave them gifts endlessly. ZZ got a candy bar in the shape of a cat which he held onto tightly.

In recent years F4 has gone solo but there's been news that they will be filming movies together next year. Among them, a Korean movie company will be investing USD$4,000,000 (more than HKD$310,000) in a murderers movie. But F4's manager Yao Yi Jun said that they are still in talks with 3 movies but they haven't signed with any of the companies yet.

Vanness thinks ZZ is like a murderer

Vanness revealed earlier there are plans for F4 to film a movie next year. He was asked that if they were to portray assassins, who among the 4 will be the best assassin?He laughed and said that ZZ is most like a murderer. Besides the movie, Ken Chu will be releasing his solo album.

Source: Ming Pao

Credit: Amy of Faithful 4ever

Jerry, ZZ and VAnness will attend tonight's <>. F3 were supposed to arrive today but arrived last night, earlier for rehearsal. They are also here for the release of the Pepsi short film. A member of F4 will also appear in Du Qi Ko's new movie.

In addition, Korean's Cinema Service revealed that it has invested US$4million (HK$30million) to invite F4 as killers for the new movie. Manager Yao admitted that lots of companies have invited F4 to film, over 3 has invited all four. However, its still in discussion, no confirmation as yet.

Next year Ken will release his album in January and will devote most of his time in the singing area. F3 all have movies on hand. Other than <>, another movie wants F4 as <>, some ancient drama has also been considered. Different roles and movies, up for them to decide. The common thing is that it's all action films.

F4's embarking in action films, Vanness is most excited, who has just returned from Shaolin. As for the foursome becoming killers, Vanness says ZZ is most like a killer, as he loves to act out.

F4 will separate for Christmas. Jerry will be spending Xmas Eve in Tian Jing, Ken in Taiwan recording, Vanness and ZZ busy with their filming and commercial work. They can only use SMS to contact each other.

singtao 2004/12/20
Credits to Lilian onlyf4

The author of the fax claims himself/herself as Yi Ting's good friend. In the fax, he wrote : More than one year ago, Zaizai and Yi Ting got to know one another through a friend, both of them had feelings for one another and started going steady. During october, Yi Ting was pregnent, she asked Zaizai what to do, Zaizai got angry and started hitting and kicking her, he used a break-up as a threat and wanted her to abort the child. Yi Ting had wanted to get married with Zaizai and bear the child, but in order not to lose Zaizai, she went for the abortion.

According to the ink, it wrote , Zaizai told Yi Ting, "I'm so popular, it's impossible i get married with you, it'll only affect my career." As Yi Ting loved Zaizai alot, she thought for him all the time, not only she listen to him and went for the abortion, when the author encourage her to cure her injuries and sue him, she still kept the sufferings. However, after Yi Ting did her abortion, Zaizai started chasing Xu Wei Lun and stayed away, hiding from Yi Ting. Yi Ting is now crying everyday. The author even said, "If Yi Ting commits suicide, it's all Zaizai's fault.

This piece of fax had no names nor any ways to contact the author, thus, the newspaper could only get back to Zaizai. He first thought hard, but he couldn't remember that he knew someone named Yi Ting. When he knew about the details of the fax, he could only laugh. Through his manager Ah Juan, Zaizai said, "The crew and i have always recieved letter with death as threats, we are already used to it, but so far, this is the funniest one, that person could go and be a script writer, this definately would not happen to me, too bad he didn't leave any ways for contact, or i'll definately handle this."

Because they got wind that ZaiZai will probably be filming until 2:00am, everyone prepared to go to the bar and drink some wine to keep themselves up. At 17 minutes past 12:00 fans had just gotten to the hotel lobby when their attention was drawn by a car that stopped just in front of the entrance. Two bodyguards first alighted from the car, then it was ZaiZai!!!!!!!!

Zai fans quickly ran back. ZaiZai was wearing a military-style thick blue cotton overcoat, wearing a hat of the same colour. Poor ZaiZai, he was undoubtedly freezing. At his side were more than 10 people following him. ZaiZai was so obviously the tallest in that crowd, so the fans were able to spot him easily.

When I was communicating with them through SMS before, I mentioned that what ZaiZai dislikes the most is seeing fans waiting for him until it was very late, and that he won’t be happy if they were very loud and created a commotion. Besides, ZaiZai will surely be cold and tired after filming outdoors, everyone must maintain quiet and keep calm as much as possible. So everyone was very good, nobody screamed or made a ruckus. Here is the important part:

ZaiZai kept smiling while looking at everybody. He looked so adorable and shy. There was a fan who was standing right smack in the middle, ZaiZai extended his hand to shake her hand, but was prevented by the bodyguard!!!!!! Zai fans wanted to take some photos, but they were likewise prevented by the bodyguards. Sorry, looks like nobody was able to take photos.

ZaiZai looked a lot thinner, but still so gorgeous. He looked fatigued, though, and exhausted, his facial appearance looked unwell. He seemed to be frozen badly (Harbin really is too cold). They said he was in poor condition and he looked so off-colour you just feel sorry for him. Everyone was upset, some nearly cried. When I read this my heart felt like being gripped, wave after wave of aching in my heart. ZaiZai, you really work too hard! He was already extremely cold and tired, yet he was still so graciously friendly to the fans!

There was only about 100 metres from the entrance to the lobby, so the fans were only able to look at him for a few moments before he went upstairs. Two fans followed them upstairs, but were caught by the bodyguards and were personally escorted back down, and even caused the person in charge of the lobby to be reprimanded. To the fans, don’t bother ZaiZai anymore. Let him have a good night’s rest.

They were able to get the room number though, but we won’t announce it here anymore.

They haven’t been able to get in the location where Zai was filming, but from the outside they could see some things used to manufacture artificial snow, so you can all imagine what the commercial would look like. It will undoubtedly be wonderfully dreamy and beautiful all of ZaiZai’s hard work filming it won’t be in vain!

That’s it for now. Zai fans finally gets to see ZaiZai, all the pain and hardship of waiting in the cold -20ºC night is well worth it. We don’t know what their plans are tonight, hopefully they won’t wait until very late for ZaiZai. Safety is still foremost. Hope everything goes well for them!

Report from tina moondance@vicpower.net

Credit: grendel of vicpower.

ZaiZai went to Harbin (Ha Er Bin), China yesterday 12/6/2004 to film his very own Pepsi commercial! (yeah!) From Taipei he first flew to HongKong, made a stopover there and boarded a flight to Beijing at around 3:00pm, then boarded another flight to Harbin. (Harbin is one of the coldest cities in China, and the temperature there right now is about -20ºC.) He will stay there until Saturday and go back to Taiwan then.

Beijing
From the post by Lajiao

19:18:00
ZaiZai arrived in Beijing at around 7pm. He was wearing a grey wool sweater, jeans, and grey-and-white plaid neck scarf. He wasn't wearing shades or hat. Flowersmile (Beijing JM) said that JMs at the Beijing airport walked along with ZaiZai for quite a long way. He is now in the lounge resting. At first, Zhi Xiang Li (Xiao Zhi) didn't allow fans to follow them, and didn't take the gifts that the fans want to give ZaiZai. But he suddenly came out from the VIP lounge and on his own initiative, comes looking for the fans and asked for the gifts! (scartches head in bewilderment...)

So...Vicpower's gift has been successfully given to ZaiZai!

They say...that ZaiZai has become even more goodlooking!

JMs are now awaiting further orders in the airport...

20:40:00
They have just sent Zai off. Flowersmile was full of flattery today! said that Ah-Guan was behind Zai's group to facilitate their documents, and so they thought at first that she didn't come with Zai. Later on, when Ah-Guan went to the restroom, Flowersmile saw the golden opportunity and followed promptly. She said to Ah-Guan, "Juan-jie, you're so pretty! (goosebumps...hehe), and Ah-Guan kept saying, 'Thank you, thank you..."

And Flowersmile grabbed the chance and asked her, what is ZaiZai going to do in Harbin? Juan-jie said this had to be kept secret, but the finished product will be out in a few days...

When ZaiZai first came out and they were on the elevators, Snow (another JM) was separated from Zai by only a person. And so she tried to give him the gift, and said to him, "This gift is from Vicpower" ZaiZai turned especially to look at her, smiled and said to her "Thank you", and extended his hand and take the gift...but was prevented by Xiao Zhi.

But, all in all, ZaiZai was in a good mood today. When he was leaving, he even turned and smiled at the JMs, gestured with the hands to say thanks...causing those JMs at the airport to become completely insane!

Harbin
From the post by vivian_hu

23:53:29
ZaiZai has already boarded the plane to Harbin. Beijing JMs once again followed him for quite a long way. They say that they didn't see any pimples (don't know if he was wearing make-up then), that he's in quite a good mood, and smiled at the fans a lot. He has really slimmed down, and that his eyes are huge! When he was undergoing inspections by the officers they were only about a metre away. All I can say is Beijing airport is better than Shanghai airport.
ZaiZai has already arrived safely at the hotel in Harbin, so everybody can now rest easy.
The temperature in Harbin is -20ºC. ZaiZai was only wearing a short, thin cotton coat, himself looking extremely thin, and kept smiling shyly as soon as he appeared at the airport gate. (er...isn't it COLD???)

Credit: grendel of vicpower and tsinoy

5566 didn¡¯t have time to visit, thus letting a sick child pass away full of regrets. Nevertheless, the entertainment industry still demonstrates warmth and tenderness everywhere. In order to visit a sick child, Jacky Cheung came to Taiwan especially from Hong Kong, and didn¡¯t fail to make an appointment with the child when to meet again next. Guo Pin Chao concealed his private trip to visit a sick child from his management. This kind of charity work in private without letting other people know makes one full of admiration.

The "Happy Wishes Foundation¡± specially helps aged 3 to 18 year old critically ill children fulfil their last wishes. It has helped more than 600 sick children fulfil their wishes since it was established 10 years ago and about one-fourth of them has already met their favourite artists and idols. As long as Jacky Cheung knows that a gravely ill child wants to meet him, he will definitely fly in from Hong Kong to Taiwan. From the moment he arrives at the hospital he is surrounded by hospital staff and personnel, all wanting to get his autograph. But he has always regarded being alone with the sick child as his main purpose, and he has been very low-key as much as possible. After his visits he will make an appointment for their next meeting, giving the sick child more hope and strengthen their will to survive.

ZaiZai Gives Love and Compassion Quietly

The foundation had tried to contact Zhou Yu Min (ZaiZai) before through his management agency. It was a pity that his management agency said that ZaiZai didn¡¯t have the time. But when ZaiZai learned that a critically ill child would like to meet him after just coming back from China, he visited the child in private..and without the management's knowledge. Guo Pin Chao also contributed compassion the next day after wrapping up the busy filming of ¡°The Outsiders¡±.

The CEO of the Foundation Yan Yong Rong said: ¡°The Foundation has already received many help and support. We still respect the artists who cannot come, and we also understand the system of management companies. We absolutely do not blame anyone.¡±

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Mars, directed by 'Meteor Garden' director Cai Yue Xun, summarizes the story: Ling (played by Zhou Yu Min) regards bike racing as his lifelong occupation, but because of family and emotional disputes, he gradually gave up racing, until he met Qi Luo (played by Hsu Xi Yuan).

In the drama series, Zhou Yu Min has many scenes of him riding heavy bikes. He reveals that those were professional racers as his stunt double in the racing scenes. He has a number of fight scenes in the series, but it all went smoothly, suffering only slight abrasions.

His home suffers from a fire, so he gave up on his racing dreams

Zhou Yu Min says that he was planning to buy a heavy motorbike for himself after filming wrapped up. "But then the fire happened, and there’s simply no space to store the bike." But since the fire had already occurred, all he could do is think positively, and hope that his acting career will become more and more successful.

ZaiZai tackles two roles at the same time in the series. Younger twin brother 'Sheng' was only 16 when he committed suicide and died. He indicated that the role of ‘younger brother’ (Sheng) is the most difficult to portray. "Because he virtually never speaks, and a lot of his emotions are bottled up inside his heart." Asked if his disposition in real life is more like the younger or the elder twin? He said it’s a fusion of both.

Working with Da S again, Zhou Yu Min said that the rapport between them is getting better and better. He even joked that he once asked the director to arrange a kissing scene with Da S. When asked how Da S's lips felt like, he only laughed shyly, but admitted in the end that, "It's good lah!"

The screenplay arranged for a male character to have a romantic interest in him. He says he’s not gay, and will not be interested in another man in real life.

Director Cai Yue Xun also has a cameo role in the series, ZaiZai said that director Cai used to act in movies, so his acting’s not bad. "But of course the best in acting is me, Da S is second, and director Cai is third. Hahaha…"

Zhou Yu Min is currently taking up some courses related to movies and films, because next in line will be plans of making a movie. "It's a Hong Kong film, but it’s still in talks." Asked what kind of role he would most like to take on if he’s going to make a movie, he said, "A character with split personality, because it will definitely be so much fun!"

Source: Lian He Zao Bao

Credit: grendel of http://www.vicpower.net

28th of April , Zaizai's air-conditioner wire circuit went haywire and caused a fire, causing a big fire in Mu Shan Wan Ning Jie's 7th floor. Although Zaizai's brother and his brother's girlfriend were saved and no one got hurt, the NT30000 renovations were all gone in just one night. The worse thing was, it continud to rain and rain, 28th of August, the typhoon came, Nei Hu , Mu Shan area were flooded, below his house, the water floods.

Love coup being attacked by the fire, Zaizai wasn't beaten, he started to renovate his house. On the 24th of Sept this month, reporters saw him at Yuan Du carpark with his friends getting up his love car iAudijRS6 and race back to his Mu Shan house.

Zaizai's neighbour said, after the fire and flood, Zaizai spends more money to renovate his house, and he would come back to take a look every 3 to 5 hours, than stay in his friend's house. Yesterday afternoon, reporters went to visit his house, the black scars that were left by the fire were still there, and the workers were busy renovating. House was being burnt within a night, but the renovations cannot be done by a day, it's predicted that it has to be at least till the chinese new year, only than it will be all done.

Zaizai doesn't give up on his love coup, there's also another reason, other than the good location, there's good fengshui too. Zhong Hua Ming Guo's Fengshui master chairman who once went there said that this was a good place. And this would allow Zaizai's career to go higher, after the fire, he would be even more prosperous, bringing love, wealth, and help from great people, money he earns would also be saved.

Zaizai's assistant, Xiao Juan said, after the house is done up, it's still for his family to stay. As to the amount for renovation, she said, "Not very sure, but after the fire, in order not to spoil the environment outlook, a renovation is a must." The company is also helping him.

Source: Taiwan Appledaily
28th Sept 2004

Credit: xiujuan of onlyf4

Though Mars has just be aired in Thailand only 1 week, the feedback of fans has been very good, especially the promoted activiites arranged by Channel3 for fans to attend "Miracle Mars" on 22nd of Oct. There were winners who texted messages almost 100,000 time participating the event. 150 winners who could get in were not only lucky but also had a lot of effort. The fans texted messages around 100-600 times. Oh Gosh!!! Additionally, we have heard that there were tickets on sale at 3-4 thousand baht!

During the event of "Miracle Mars" which fanclubs could be close to Zaizai, there were almost a thousand of fans gathering in clubs. Moreover, the fans made a surprise for Zaizai and 3 other casts. It seemed they were so impressed in Thai fans who offered them with the surprise and such a warm welcome.

Although the event was started at 5 pm, there were many fans waited to get in from 10 pm., was crowded at the hotel. The fans who did not get the pass still needed to participated. Before 4 casts of Mars appeared, there were games about the drama and Zz on the stage and the host of the event was "Bell and Wahwah" of Zhong-gua Mei Mei (China dolls).

At 7 pm, Lai ya yan started the event with her song. She was in a pretty pink dress then 3 casts of Mars stepped up on the stage and that was enough to make the fans crazy!. Zz was in a chubby look made the fans crazy and it was chaotic as the fans were not at their seat and tried to stay as close as possible to the stage. Some fans stood on the chair to take photos.

Then the organizer threaded that if it was still chaotic, 4 casts would leave.(many fans told the reporter,"so cruel" 55) When everything was alright, the event could be started. While the casts was interviewed about the charactors in the drama, the fans shouted "Zaizai". When Zaizai kept an eye on fans,the fans screamed like crazy. Sometimes he bent down his face as he was too shy, but he still looked so cute ^_^. Then, there were games on the stage which the fans also played with the celebities.(um..can't imagine if I was a lucky fan). Finally, 5 luckiest fans took the photos with the stars. As the activities on the stage took quite a long time, the final interview was cut off. The actors and actress of Mars were so tired and needed the rest. (The reporter was so confused what was going on?)

This event, Zz and other 3 casts of Mars made the impressive period to the fans. The last quotation he said before leaving was "Although our languages are different, there were no obstacle between us." That was enough to make the fans cried but next time won't come here alone, pls come here with your brother Ken, Chu Xiao Tian!

Source : Bangkok Today (24/10)

Credit: penny of http://www.f4thailand.com/board

This is in line with 5566 victory, they chose F4 in this project. Sun Xie Zhi imitates Yan Chengxu, Zax plays the role of the youngest f4 member, Zaizai, Wang Shaowei in order to truly imitates Wu Jian Hao in the eye had to paste on a transparent tape in the eyelid and lastly Xu Meng Che with a recently thin body succeeded in imitating Zhu Hsiaot'ien. 5566 imitates F4 and completely do the Meteor Rain MV, not only the clothes are alike, but also including the MV scene, the expression, the movement, the sound is almost alike. Wang Renfu intentionally strengthens the imitation on Zaizai and nitpicking the words in pronunciation. While Wang Shaowei imitates the body of Wu Jian Hao does not stop swaying from side to side, just like Wu Jian. Xu Meng Che besides is like Zhu Hsiaot'ien in more than a huge stature, also uses a silver adhesive tape restraint imagery nose link, pastes on the nose and brings the entire audience's attention.

Chinese Times 10/23/2004

Credit: onlyf4.com

I guess he didn’t really buy a lottery ticket-laiou2002 of vicpower

Zai really has the ability to predict or foretell some things! Ken once said in an interview that Zai can somehow know what's going to happen BEFORE it happens. And that a lot of things that Zai said almost always come true. The last time he did that was during the WoWo presscon in Shanghai. the reporters asked him about China's chances in the overall medal ranking, and Zai said that since the last time China was third, this time he'd go for second place. And he was right!!! Now here's yet another proof of this special gift of his! Hahaha!!!-grendel of vicpower

the problem is he didnt buy the ticket.

Credit: Vicpower

I guess he didn’t really buy a lottery ticket-laiou2002 of vicpower

Zai really has the ability to predict or foretell some things! Ken once said in an interview that Zai can somehow know what's going to happen BEFORE it happens. And that a lot of things that Zai said almost always come true. The last time he did that was during the WoWo presscon in Shanghai. the reporters asked him about China's chances in the overall medal ranking, and Zai said that since the last time China was third, this time he'd go for second place. And he was right!!! Now here's yet another proof of this special gift of his! Hahaha!!!-grendel of vicpower

the problem is he didnt buy the ticket.

Credit: Vicpower

In CTS' idol drama << Zhan Shen >> (Mars), there is a strong destroyer, Xiao Xiao, between Zai Zai and Da S. At each critical moment, Xiao Xiao is either vile-tempered or threatening suicide, so much as to being hit by a car, causing utter confusion and driving everyone crazy. In the drama, Xiao Xiao still has not received retribution but has already been scolded like crazy by Zai Zai's fans. Basically, to the point that everyone is wanting to hurt her.

Zai Zai humorously absolved Xiao Xiao of her crime, "In any case, in the drama, I portray a playboy anyway. Just on Ken Ding beach, I have embraced Da S and Xiao Xiao respectively. Everyone need not be too concerned about it."

The << Zhan Shen >> (Mars) cast expressed that outside of work, Xiao Xiao is a complete "sha da jie" (silly). Sometimes, the director has already shouted, "5, 4, 3..." and is about to start filming, Xiao Xiao will suddenly blurt out, "Director, I've thought about it for awhile but there are still a few issues that I can't think through!" The personnel on the set don't know whether to cry or laugh about it.

During one of the shootings, when Xiao Xiao rolls down from the bottom of the stairs, there were continuous NGs. Xiao Xiao was already badly battered from the falls so the director could not bare to have her try agian. He never thought that when Xiao Xiao watched it, she was extremely unsatisfied, directly expressing to Cai Yue Xun, "Can this scene be filmed again?"

Source: Sing Tao, September 18, 2004

* "dao tie" is almost like giving/putting out rather than receiving...basically being at a disadvantage.

Credit: Sherry (Sweet Dreamz) of Faithful 4ever - http://f4.azn.nu , http://s2.invisionfree.com

As there are many artistes in the school, Xing3 Wu4 Institute's students can get to see the artistes off screen. They say that zaizai will fall asleep in class but when he is awake, he is very lovable and he will flatter the teacher which leads the teacher in sending him home.

As zaizai only has classes on saturdays and sundays, so he did not attend school yesterday. Students aka fans from the school say that, zai wore very normally to school. His clothings are very simple and his fridge always covered his face. He even grows his moustach. All this makes him look very pathetic. Almost everybody in the school also wants his signature. He is very kind. Moreover, the teacher is very good to zai. Has once that even escort zaizai out of the school and zai also treated the teacher for a meal outside school.

Zaizai's rumored girlfriend, Xu WeiLun, has appeared at Xing3 Wu4 twice BUT not to find zai. She is there to film an idol drama. Lin Zhi Ling will also appear at Xing3 Wu4 to model around. This also lead fans there to be very excited about it. Xiao Xiao came Xing3 Wu4 to film a show, when fans approaced her to get her autograph, she was very cold towards them.

Source: Zhi You Shi Bao 17/9
Credit: Eugenia of http://onlyf4.proboards4.com

Zai Zai Vic Zhou, this guy is very intelligent. He's making progress amazingly fast. He's opened up a new acting road for himself. In addition, he takes his work seriously. In CTS' "Mars," Xiu Jie Kai doesn't have a lot of room to show his acting but he's getting more and more steady. He also has a good personality. He has many opportunities in the future.

Da S' way of acting has it's charms. Lai Ya Yan is a "happy girl." God gave her a pretty face and she's funny too. She gets steadier at the end of "Mars."

Source: China Times

only translated parts on Mars' actors.

Credit: Amy of Faithful 4ever - http://f4ever.azn.nu

Source: Xin Wen Wu Bao

Two female movie stars, who relied on a thriller movie to make a debut, Lin Jia Xin (Karena Lam) and Lin Xin Jie (Angelica Lee), in the first half of this year, just starred together in well-known director in Hong Kong, Luo Zhi Liang's movie << Jiu Ming >>. Currently, over a movie titled, << Xu2 Jia1 Hui4 >>, they are secretly competing. On the other hand, two of F4's members, Zhou Yu Min (Vic) and Yan Cheng Xu (Jerry), who have always been considered in the keenest struggle, are similarly going to have a competition over this movie. Yesterday, the reporter visited film group Li Yun Liang's studio and learned that one of the two "after ghosts" along with one of two F4 members will co-star in the above mentioned film, << Xu2 Jia1 Hui4 >>, which will use Shanghai's Xu Jia Hui as the background setting. Two of Hong Kong's well-known directors, Li Miao Xue and Guan Jin Peng will take the positions of director and impresario, respectively.

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According to what movie producer Li Yun Liang has revealed, the principle background setting for this movie will be Shanghai's Xu Jia Hui. It will narrate about a girl, who was grew up in the United States and returns to Shanghai verifying the family's posterity on behalf of her grandfather. When Li Yun Liang accepting this reporter's interview, said, "Personally, I feel that to be able to use a small city district as a setting to film a movie, there's only Shanghai's Xu Jia Hui. Xu2 Jia1 Hui4 not only has a profound cultural roots, it is also Shanghai's trademark business district. It was on this basis that << Xu2 Jia1 Hui4 >> was considered. The script absorbs the essence of following three Hollywood classic literary films: << Mi Shi Dong Jing >> (Lost In Translation), << Nuo Ding Shan >> (Notting Hill), as well as << Luo Ma Jia Re >> (Roman Holiday). We want to create a Chinese version of the story."

Hong Kong's Two Big Directors Ally

Hong Kong's well-known director Li Miao Xue has already been confirmed to be the director of << Xu2 Jia1 Hui4 >>. Last year, Li Miao Xue collaborated with the inland to film the movie << Lian Zhi Feng Jing >> (The Floating Landscape) was the only Chinese movie to enter the competition at last year's Venice Film Festival. Hong Kong's other well-known director, Guan Jin Peng expresses to take up the position of impresario for this film. Although Guan Jin Peng currently has on hand << Chang Hen Ge >> (Song of Eternal Regret), which is about to begin filming and it attracting much attention, upon reading the main plot of the story of << Xu2 Jia1 Hui4 >>, Guan Jin Peng displayed quite a great deal of interest and even happily promised to be the movie's impresario.

If everything runs smoothly, << Xu2 Jia1 Hui4 >> will confirm it's final selection of actors and actress this October and enter the filming stage in December. It is predicted that it will officially meet the inland audience by next year.

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As to sayings "Shu Da Zhao Feng" (being popular invites rumours), Jerry who has released his solo album for the first time, and the media kept comparing him with Jay Chou. At the same time, another good friend, Vic Zhou (Zaizai) was being pulled down the drain as well. Fans who named themselves as Jerry and Zaizai fans, started giving critism at opposite party's website, causing a war between fans, purposely spoiling F2's relationship.

Jerry's popularity was number 1 recently, and his sales won Jay Chou who released his album at the same time too. However, rumours are easily invited when you are popular, earlier on, both Jerry and Jay's managers were saying that their friendship was number 1 and need not worry about the chart's results and it would not destroy their friendship. However, recently, someone put the limelight onto Jerry's other good friend, Zaizai.

Accordingly, Jerry and Zaizai's fansite, continously recieved words of critism from both sites from someone who name herself as Jerry and Zaizai fans, causing fans from both sides to start the war. Yesterday, a magazine place both of them to compare with their events, as if to spoil their friendship.

As to people trying to spoil F2's friendship, management company first talked about the fake report from the magazine and there was no need to reply on it. However, they hope that fans of both sides not be affected by some "ignorant" fans. F4 have always been on good terms and they're fans have been supporting each other always.

In fact, Jerry and Zaizai are on very good terms. At the press conference of Jerry's album "Di Yi Chi", Zaizai, who was on holiday, specially rush back from Yilan to attend it. And Jerry kept praising Zaizai's new show, Mars during his promo events. And both of them would encourage each other in front and off screens.

Other than that, Mars which is lead acted by Zaizai and Da S, after releasing the pictorial book, the Mars OST is released yesterday. They would also be releasing the first part of VCD, theme song LING is sung by He Sou Liang and He You Lun while Zaizai and Da S sang the duet Let Me Love You.

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When Da S and Zaizai appeared, fans downstage were so excited, screams on and on. This mom who was carrying a little daughter , had already queued for 4 hours just to see Zaizai . Fans : "Bringing a kid to come chase Zaizai, Zaizai would like it more."

Da S who was wearing a green westernized suit, looked happy, and joked with Zaizai at times.

This autograph session which was actually supposed to be 3 hours, was changed to a rubber stamping session after Zaizai hurt his hand and was to be in a cast. Celebrity Vic Zhou, " I had nothing to do at home and was bored, so i carried the cupboard. Those which is quite huge, the corridoor at my house is rather narrow, and i drop it when the cupboard got stuck and it fell on my hand."

Even if its a queue of many hours, the thing they are getting is not the idol's autograph. However, just being able to get near their idol, it's already satisfaction.

Source: TVBS

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Zaizai has been in accidents again and again. Recently he broke some bone in his right hand from moving furniture because of Typhoon Aere. First he didn't think much of it, but two days later his palm swollen. He went to see a doctor right away. The doctor told him that some bone had been broken and placed a cast around his right hand. His hand would take about one month to recover. Because it would take about a month to recover, two commercial shootings originally scheduled for Zaizai have to be postponed accordingly.

Endured pain to rubber stamp autographs for fans

As bad things come in droves, the day before yesterday Zaizai was sleeping at home, he fell off the bed by accident when he turned in bed. In order to support his body, he sprained his left-hand thumb. Yesterday Zaizai with his injuries, together with DaS, met with fans in a Mars Pictorial Book autographing session. Because both of his hands were injured, the autographing session had to be changed to a rubber-stamping autograph session. Zaizai even endured pain to rubber stamp almost thousands times.

After the autographing session, he could no longer stand the pain and went to the emergency room at the Cathay General Hospital, accompanied by his agent. He bent his head low without saying a word at the hospital. The doctor on-duty at the emergency room indicated that Zaizai's left thumb was sprained but didn't need to be placed in a cast. After taking some X-ray shots, the doctor did something to temporarily immobilize it. After visiting the hospital, Zaizai, who originally only had one hand bandaged, was with both hands bandaged, looking like a boxer, but also looking like an invalid with both hands paralyzed.

Prayed in temple to end his run of bad luck

Staff indicated that they originally intended to look up a Chinese medicine doctor to treat him with Chinese Tui Na massage. Chinese medicine doctors were off as it was weekend. So they went to the Cathy General Hospital to temporarily immobilize his left thumb. Now it's the month of ghost. Bad things also keep happening to Zaizai. We were curious and asked if Zaizai should go pray in temple to end his run of bad luck. His manager Zhi Xingli indicated resignedly, "Our agency has been praying in temple on regular basis."

Reported by Cai Dunyang and Zhou Hengyi

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With its high rating, yesterday CTS idol drama Mars held a book signing session at Taipei 101. Over thousand fans from Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines and even Australia packed the venue to the brim. Zaizai whose both hands were injured said, "I rather hope that the cast around my right hand can be broken up by shaking hands with fans. It could save me from the torture of cutting it open using an electric saw in the future."

When talking about his injuries in both hands, poor Zaizai kept saying he was so misfortunate lately. The bone of his right hand has already been broken from moving a chest of drawers. A cast has to be placed around his right hand to immobilize it. He never thought when he turned in bed, he would fell off the bed and hurt his left hand and the injury seemed more serious than the right-hand's. Zaizai hadn't gone to see a doctor because of yesterday's function. He said laughingly," If both of my hands have to be in casts, I don't know how I'm going to rubber-stamp today."

Autographing had turned into rubber-stamping autographs. But fans weren't disappointed because DaS who was often played for fool on the set immediately fought for fans' welfare. She teased, "If you're not satisfied, you can kiss Zaizai!" Zaizai was so shy that his face turned red on the spot.

DaS admitted the reason the rubber-stamping autograph session was held at the sleek 101 Banquet Hall was because she was afraid of being sun-tanned. "Isn't that great to hold the rubber-stamping autograph session here? I won't get sun-tanned and every one can be in an air-conditioned place." She also indicated that she hadn't released an album for a long time. With this function, she got to have close contacts with fans. She felt like she had returned to the time when she was young and just joined the show-biz and held album singing and autographing sessions. She divulged that she would soon release a new album and be a singer once again.

Source: cdnnews

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Sep. 5, 2004, Apple Daily of Hong Kong

Vic Zhou (Zaizai) has been stricken with a series of misfortunes. After his residence caught fire, both of his hands are also injured one after another. Earlier the bone of his right hand was cracked from moving furniture. The day before yesterday when he was sleeping, because he was wary of the right-hand injury, he turned and fell off the bed by accident and sprained his left hand.

Went to a emergency room after stamping books

Yesterday Zaizai with his right hand bandaged, together with DaS, attended his Mars Pictorial Book Autographing session in Taiwan. He stamped for about thousand fans. The injury in Zaizai's right hand was serious; the doctor had to put his right in a cast. It will take about one month to recover. Two commercial shootings are postponed accordingly.

Zaizai felt both his hands were rather sore, he went to a hospital accompanied by his manager after finishing the autographing session. The doctor said Zaizai's left thumb was sprained but did not need to be in a cast. But it needed to be bandaged up to stabilize the injury.

Thanks to Laiou2002 of Vicpower

F4 is outstanding. Two nights of concerts can let them earn a hundred million bhat (8160 ten thousand NT), their hard works paid off. On 29th and 30th sept, for consectively two nights, F4 were at Bangkok's IMPACTARENA STADIUM to perforom [Bangkok Fantasy with F4] concert. Not only F4 has high rewards, even the concert tickets were also high. Per concert ticket cost 6000bhat (4900NT). The tickets were selling fast.

At the beginning of the concert, 4 of them appeared as prince charming which lead the fans to go crazy. ..... The interesting thing is that the fans came from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia etc. The countries are known as ten countries allied armies and therefore the 4 of them have to use different languages to send their regards to their fans.

Because recently zaizai has move heavy things around his house, and his right hand had accidentally been crushed by boxes, so at the concert, his right hand was in cast. Therefore, in the whole entire concert, he uses his left hand to hold the microphone. This leads fans to dropped down their tears as they could not endure it. Facing the fans' heartaches, zaizai was touched. So he comforts everybody by saying, ' This happen a few days ago, while I was moving things around my house. As the things were too heavy, it pressed my hand. Still ok lah. It is only some small bone fractured. It will be fine after about 2 months, so everybody need not have to worry.'

As zai was hurt when he was on stage, he became F3's joking opponent. Always not having the talking talent, zaizai was being asked by vanness to say hi to the fans in thai. He learned from the handphone commercial, and started joking by keep saying 'Hello! hello!' This leads fans that were present then to laugh non stop. .....

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Zaizai loved to act as Mars, "beating up people, gambling, picking up girls, racing motorcycles, and shooting pool, I was very comfortable acting out those things!." Especially sliding a pool cue to hit balls has allowed Zaizai to act cool to his heart's content. Zaizai, with a charming smile and pose, says, "My skills are not that great, but my teacher is a contender at the national level. When it comes to sports, the performance isn't that important, but posture has to be 100% correct."

Zaizai went to shoot pool at a pool hall. The story line required him beating everyone else. Zaizai posed his coolest posture and had every one praising him looking cool. Zaizai also indicates that, one the day of shooting the scene, someone came to challenge him. "It was XiaoS. She came to visit DaS and saw me at the pool table. She wanted to have a match with me. It wasn't important who won. They were very funny. What was a scene full of atmosphere ended up that everyone laughed crazily."

Zaizai indicates that he know how to shoot pool but is not very keen on it. DaS and Lan Zhenglong like to go to play halls more than he does. DaS also reveals, "In the drama I had to despise Zaizai shooting pool. But in real life, Lan Zhenglong and I love to shoot pool. XiaoS even makes fun of us being so vulgar."

For Mars, Zaizai has to learn various kinds of skills. Zaizai admits, "My only part-time working experience was to work at an ice shop on my first year in the middle school and earned NT$500 a day. I haven't tried others. That shop was owned by my relative. Wo, it was very tiresome. I don't know why. Whenever I went to work, there were always lots of customers. My hands became so sore from constantly digging out ice."

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F4 has been the spokespersons for S&K (short for Samuel & Kelvin) for several years. F4 are the main promoters in stores in China, HK, and Taiwan. However, recently the big posters of F4 at the Taiwan’s Xi Men Ting S&K store have been taken down and replaced with S.H.E’s.

According to what’s known, S.H.E will be the new spokespersons for S&K. S&K will also be sponsoring their concert in Taiwan in September. Other stores in S&K will be changing their posters successively. S.H.E’s earnings are of course not as high as F4, but the 3’s earnings still reach up to NT$10,000,000 (HKD$2,500,000).

After F4 endorsed for S&K’s fall apparel, the four will officially end their partnership commercial-wise and become the spokespersons for other products under Baleno separately. First was Vanness Wu who will be the spokesperson for I.P.Zone and ZZ Vic Zhou will be the new spokesperson for Kentas (I thought it was Kentex?) Jerry Yan and Ken Zhu will have arrangements later.

In fact, besides F4, Baleno has many other “big star” spokespersons such as Faye Wong and Andy Lau.

F4 and S&K have cooperated pleasantly. The four often wear the clothes of the product they endorse. This time the main reason why the four will be ending their partnership is because the advertising company hopes to have the four become the spokespersons for under products under their company individually so they can expand into the young people’s market even further.

Source: Xing Dao Ri Bao

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Starting from April Pepsi got their 9 stars to film a commercial but F4's Pepsi cans were a great disappointment to Taiwan fans because this year's Taiwan Pepsi cans can only sell Jerry Yan's and Vic Zhou's. Vanness Wu and Ken Zhu's are no where to be seen.

Currently there has been fans that took the initiative and contacted Taiwan's Pepsi's manager to ask when they can buy Vanness and Ken's pepsi cans. The answer they got made fans very disappointed.

Taiwan's Pepsi's manager expressed that portrait Pepsi cans will stop selling before October. Until now, there are still Jerry and Vic cans. Taiwan Pepsi has to clear out their warehouse so for this reason they decided not to manufacture any other portrait cans. The commercial obviously had F4 in it, but cans only have F2. Taiwan's Pepsi's manager said that it's mainly because Pepsi is against surveys in Taiwan using popular spokespersons as the priority choice, involving celebrity's original Taiwan portrait contract. Therefore Taiwan Pepsi can't produce all the stars' cans.

In fact, Taiwan's Pepsi cans are manufactured in Taiwan and then sent to Pepsi's head company factory. If they really wanted to print, the amount of orders are in 10 thousand units. Pepsi estimated that it'll be hard to sell more than 10,000 of Vanness and Ken's cans so they simply didn't manufacture any.

Regarding Taiwan's Pepsi's reply, fans' reactions varied. Some fans question how professional Pepsi's market estimation is and protested on Pepsi's official site wanting Pepsi to re-evaluate F2's portrait cans. They hope that Pepsi can ask for different fans' opinions.

There were also fans that angrily expressed Pepsi isn't respecting F4 fans. Besides the first year when they had F4 on one can, then the second they sold F4 separately. Moreover, Taiwan didn't import. Fans that wanted to collect must ask their overseas friends to buy four cans at once. Even though Pepsi's portrait cans were visible in the Taiwan market this year, but this time not only did they sell them separately, there's only F2. F4 fans that want to collect have to search in different countries, making many fans very disappointed.

Many F4 fans that collect F4 related items can only get Vanness' cans through HK fans. But this year in HK there were no Ken cans making HK and Taiwan fans not know what to do. Pepsi expressed that it's hard to re-evaluate but they promise to do their best to import the cans for fans.

To fans, what's worth being happy about is the event in October will have Pepsi vans for the first time in Taiwan so Taiwan fans don't have to get these merchandised through HK fans.

Source: Liberty Times

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Many went to K One's fans session in which many parents accompanied their children to it.

To compare, the fans session that Zaizai and Da S attended last saturday, however, the fans were reduced to half. At that time, it caused lots of suspicions. Is it that Zaizai's popularity had dipped ? However, the shocking thing was that he lost to K One's popularity.

Zaizai's promo manager, Ah Juan explained, The time for promotion for Mars was not enough, and the announcement date was short, thus, not many fans know about this. Before that, the fans sessions that was held around Asia was counted with numbers of thousands. All his presents were carried back with ten and more bags.

Zaizai doesn't mind that his fans didn't come. He says, many of his fans are students, he doesn't want them to waste time and money, the support is enough when they watch his shows at home.

However, CTS says that no matter is it Mars or "K One's Show" fans session, they would announce it on the website.

Thanks to Liberty Times.
15th August 2004

Credit: Xiujuan-OnlyF4

The day ZZ was interview was the afternoon after the press conference. That ZZ at the time looked more “popular,” unlike his sleepy look at the press conference.

At the time the media only cared about his rumors with Sammi Cheng, neglecting ZZ’s other “bosom friend” Xu Wei Lun. Even though he had already denied that they were dating earlier in Taiwan, but Xu Wei Lun, who has already confirmed her break up with Lee Wei, is only making this rumor heat up more and more.

With Samm Cheng…100% impossible
You went on a trip to Jordan with Sammi Cheng to film a commercial for Pepsi. After coming back rumors spread. Do you two have any room for development?

(Once ZZ heard Sammi’s name he laughed) I think that it’s 100% impossible because my feelings for her isn’t like love. She’s a very diligent and determined person. She’s really an artist with status. I think there are many things that I can learn from her, then why not do it? I hope that I can work with her in the future, besides movies or others, being able to sing with her wouldn’t be bad.

I don’t know why there was news about us having an “older sister younger brother love.” I really am embarrassed. (smiles awkwardly) When filming the commercial, Sammi and I actually didn’t interact with each other as much as the other 3 (talking about F3). I was usually chatting with Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai. I don’t know from which standpoint someone saw us generate interests for each other. (begins to laugh) Ha ha ha, I think it’s really strange. In my eyes should only be respect, there won’t be interests.

(Reports said that Jerry Yan was pulling red strings?) Yeah, I saw the reports. Thought they weren’t bad, they can simply write a drama script. Our self-composing and self-directing abilities have already exceeded my imagination. Moreover there are some good clues to be spread because Jerry has worked with her in a movie before. I once said I really liked her and didn’t exclude an older sister younger brother love. But you can’t associate me with her because of that. I’m a guy, it doesn’t matter what people write, but my feelings for Sammi are respect. Seeing people write like this, I feel outraged for her.

Being a lover…worth 90%
ZZ is many girls’ ideal “prince charming.” But is he really that good? If he has a girlfriend, how many points will ZZ give himself as a lover?

The me now…(thinks) is absolutely qualified. About 80%,(laughs) how about 90%? Actually I have pretty high demands on myself. I will treat my significant other very well. I feel that I have to do my best and give a lot. Maybe I don’t think I’m qualified, but I heard from others that I have a lot of points, so I give myself 90%. However I think I should do it to 100%.

Popular artists are afraid of the paparazzi following them, but ZZ isn’t. But what if he had a girlfriend? ZZ thinks that it’s very “normal….”

Many things shouldn’t be looked at so seriously. To be honest, it’s not like I’m gay (laughs). I’m just a 23 year old guy. I need love to enrich my love world. This is inevitable. Maybe there’ll be a day when the paparazzi captures shots of me dating. I hope that everyone won’t be confounded and give me blessings, not look at it strangely. Also, everyone shouldn't mind what the other’s status is, her identity, compare her with another person. I think love is equal, there’s no who’s more valuable and who’s less valuable!

Doesn’t want to film business movies
ZZ, with an outer appearance like a “handsome cartoon character,” has his own thoughts towards filming a movie. He doesn’t even mind sacrificing his appearance, wanting to act as a “psycho.” And in Johnny To’s new film, his wish is fulfilled…

I want to film a movie that’s not too commercialized. Actually I also like comedy and others a lot. I always wanted to portray the mental type. It seems fun. In Johnny To’s new movie, I think that I’ve recovered from a mental illness but I’m really not. However in the end I really do recover. But I personally hope to act a role where I’m crazy from the beginning to the end. Among numerous comedy actors, I like Steven Chow the most. I would be honored if I can work with him.

Holding a concert…according to situation
Holding a concert is every artist’s dream. With F4’s albums and his own albums, ZZ has already released 4 albums. But regarding concerts, he still thinks that he’s “not qualified yet.”

I think that holding a concert is taking your own songs from the past to the present to share with everyone. However I think that currently still haven’t accumulated these songs. I can’t take all the songs in my albums and sing them

The result will surely not be good. I hope to release more albums in the future and manage things when I have more good songs. I don’t have to rush to hold a concert at this time. A few year later? I hope it’s more according to the situation. The most important is that my singing skills reach a certain level. Right now I think I’m still insufficient.

Doesn’t praise about gifted student…happy if he passes the tests
If he had to pick the most head aching thing, he would be like many student and say…

Education! I admit that I’m not a smart kid. Ever since young my performance wasn’t the best. It was average. Moreover, at the present I have a bigger workload so I there’s no way for me to completely coordinate with school. I’m not God, if the drama crew needs me to film and meets up with exams, I can only prepare a day before. But this isn’t enough for me, but this is how it is. I have to sacrifice some personal things and see how much I can do.

Once I came into this industry I didn’t praise myself for being a university student, gifted student. So as long as I pass exams, I will be very happy. I also think that I’m very good. With all the work I have I am still able to have this kind of performance (keeps on laughing), probably not a lot of people can do it. Therefore I think that I’m not bad. (ZZ’s a Q spirit, good!)

ZZ’s is happiest when…
I think I’m most happy when I’m given time to let me to do what I want to do. Anything is fine. Maybe dozing off, sleeping, or doing nothing. As long as I have private time, I’m happy.

Quits smoking…taking responsibility of his body
Recently there are many issues with artists and drugs. How can stay away from drugs? ZZ thinks…

Being healthy is very important. Many times when your will is inadequate, you’ll choose to do some things that you think will help but it’s actually illegal or will harm you. It’ll keep on dragging you into the drug world and you gradually become too dependent on it. I don’t like this type of things.

Talking about drugs, ZZ unexpectedly asks back…
Do you guys know that I recently quit smoking? I smoked before but after I finished filming “Love Storm,” I don’t know why but I felt that I should take responsibility for my body. I already don’t have a lot of time to take care of my health, why should I still harm myself?

I think smoking and marijuana are pretty similar. I’ve already successfully quit smoking, I believe that I won’t touch these things again in the future.

Source: Xing Zhou Ri Bao

Credit: Amy of Faithful 4ever, http://f4.azn.nu

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When mentioning that he was in the process of learning Cantonese (yay!!) and that he's about to go to HK to film a movie directed by Johnny To, he appeared to be very excited. It seems like he is full of confidence in learning languages.

Source: Lian He Bao

Credit: Amy of http://f4.azn.nu

Zaizai said frankly that he was under a lot of pressure before Mars started shooting. It was because he had never even ridden a stick-*-beep-* heavy-weight motorcycle. His used to ride a scooter around country fields when he was a student. When he read what was written in the script, "an impulsive, insolent man, with a cruel personality like Mars." He was stunned and thought, "I can only ride automatic motorcycles. Those racing heavy-weigh motorcycles must be difficult to ride. What am I going do?"

Zaizai paid for his own training at a driving school. It took him two tries to pass the test. The reason was he ran over the line when he stopped, due to the slippery road from the rain on the day. He raced with the popular Japanese racer rider Norick Abe in the "Fun Fan Run" show. Although he was electrified every time but Zaizai still said confidently, "I have learned about one-fifth of Abe's. That's enough for shooting Mars." The thrilling stunt was shot on a sunny day in March or April. In order to be consistent with the stunt scenes shot in Japan, Zaizai had to wear a heavy leather jacket. Moreover, the scenes required big body movements and stunt postures. Zaizai said he had sweated more sweat than what was in the gas tank.

What he rode was an 1100cc heavy-weight motorcycle provided by Yamaha. Its market price can be as high as NT$ 600,000. Mars crew dispatched more than 20 staffers around the motorcycle to hold it still so that Zaizai could maintain it at a 45-degree angle. The bottom of the motorcycle was anchored by an iron rack. It took almost two days to finish the 7-8 shots. Zaizai grimaced miserably, "It was not only the motorcycle had to be kept slanted, I also had to keep my body in a slant position. My waist felt like almost breaking off after having shot for half a day." During the course of shooting Mars, it had used close to 40 heavy-weight motorcycles. Zaizai himself had used four motorcycles. The production cost was very high.

But there were two extremely dangerous scenes that Cai Yuexun insisted hiring professional stunt man to act for Zaizai. One was that Zaizai, riding at very high speed, had to do an emergency stop when he encountered a semi-trailer. Another one was to slide through under the bottom of the semi-trailer. Originally Zaizai thought about volunteering for the stunts, but the director refused it due to high risk. The stunt man fell amid shooting the scenes. Fortunately he was only lightly scratched. Zaizai, still not completely recovered, said, "Thank god. Luckily it wasn't a serious accident. If it had happened to me, I might have not been able to jump in time. The point is that if the motorcycle had been damaged, we would have had to pay a lot of money."

Source: Shi Dai Ju Xing Wang of Taiwan

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Zaizai who was from a average family was often very generous in spending money, after making more money after being popular, he did not stop when spending money. This time, he exchanged his blue BMW to a new Audi Rs6, as to buying himself a present, and went around Taipei in it. Last month, after the ending of fliming of Mars which went on for the last 6
months, when the others did not even "hong" him, he himself had already taken out a 20 thousand red packet and the post party celebration. He was really generous causing the crew to be suprised.

The crew said, Zaizai gave each department a red packet to let them divide among themselves. That night, everyone's mood was really high, after that, they went to the KTV for the whole night to play with this reward. And, "Shang Cai Kid" Zaizai was at the VIP seat for the whole night.

Zaizai was the most generous among F4, he loves to give treats. He cannot bring too much cash with him, that's because he'll definately spend all on treating people. Other than treating the crew for meals, some
drinks, Zaizai is also generous to his girlfriend. Girls who have gone steady with him, even if she was as skinny as bones at first, they would be fatter when they leave him. And in order to give his girlfriend a romantic feel, he would spend a lot during Valentine's Day and he would still give his girlfriend 99 roses to show his sincerity.

Source : Taiwan Appledaily (28th July 2004)
Thanks to xiujuan of OnlyF4

Vic Zhou specially flew to Shanghai for 3 days to flim this milk candy commercial just before the promo period for Mars. This milk candy company is getting a spokesperson for the first time after 40 years. As the suprised success of results of F4 member Jerry Yan after being spokesperson for another candy company, they specially invited Zaizai to be the spokesperson this time. This is also the first time Zaizai is accepting a China commercial as an individual. Both sides were working hard and sincere about it, and it was a 8-digit sum , thus Zaizai himself is working even harder.

In order to show the effect of the turning in the commercial, Zaizai has to stand on a 360 degrees turning palate and also to fit the angle of the camera. Thus, Zaizai kept turning and turning in the studio, and he has to continously eat milk candies. After turning for over 30 times and crazily eating the milk candies, causing him to say, "Hao Yun Ah..(so giddy)"

And this trip for this commercial was very low-profile, however there were still hundred over fans who got the news and was present, causing the company to be so happy. And after Zaizai goes back to Taiwan, he shall be going into the promo period of Mars, and preparing to go into fliming for his very own first movie.

Source: Udnstars

Credit: Xiujuan of http://onlyf4.proboards4.com

The story began at a racing circuit.

Ling, the main character of the story, originally had a twin brother and they depended on each other. Their personalities were polar opposite but complementary. They were each other's only support in spirit and in life. Ling couldn't sit still and spent his days riding at racing circuits. Racing was his lifetime professional goal. Sheng was quite and always stayed at Ling's side, capturing Ling's flying spirits in drawings. All should have been nice and balanced....

However, because of heavy family issues and love conflicts, Ling lost his alter ego, the only one who understood and tolerated him. The racing dream was no longer important to him. Being incomplete, he did not deserve to race on holy racing circuits.

Until one day he met Qiluo. Qiluo's understanding help soothing and smoothing over Ling's loss. Love replaced family and became Ling's biggest support. Once again, pursuit of his dream was propelled, riding into the boundless future.

At the end, Ling was again at a racing circuit. The start flag was waved, wild blood of Mars increasingly gushing forward.

Credit: laiou2002 of http://www.vicpower.net

Impression of Zaizai, he's still the start image of being good and someone who doesn't talk alot, and always hiding behind his 3 big brothers, being innocent or secretly laughing. Even if he has already changed this time, who has loads to talk about in front of the camera, we are still hiding our facts, " This boy if starting to adapt after being in this circle, thus he has become more energetic." Woah...we are actually cheated by this boy, it's what Xiao Zhi called as "Being a pig who eats a tiger", he's really clever! As he's showing some legs, causing everyone to be smitten by him, oh, let's follow Zaizai strategy and follow him rule by rule.

Great skills at giving out "electricity"

Liking him after having cross scenes with him, it's understandable. And the crew members around, most of them were smitten by him too, that's Zaizai's huge electrifying skills used for! Don't think Zaizai is a shy little boy, his electrifying skills are within being a kid, of harrassing and gentle, it's great! In Mars which is going to be shown soon, there was this scene where he was quarelling with Da S, after finish quarelling, Zaizai look at Da S and said, "Come on, let's hug."(Bao Yi Sia Ma..)yes, it's this sentance, female who were on the set forgot that they were working, they were all electrified by Zaizai that they could not find their way. All of them shouted, "We would want a hug too!" Even when Zaizai came to Shanghai to flim to wowo candy commercial for just a few short days, he electrified a huge group of female workers from the company. With Zaizai's sweetness and clean style, the manufactuere finds that he's the 360 degree best spokersperson for this new product. Zaizai really did not disappoint them, in just a short time, he electrified the Wowo candy crew. "One of the scenes in it was that Zaizai had to potray the image of sweetness and engross way when he eats the candy, this pose to this boy, isn't it his profession? However, this was a disaster to all female crew workers, seeing the engross tiny eyes of his, you would definately faint! Haha, it's predicted that when the commercial comes out, everyone would be buying the sweets on his behalf, to eat and get engrossed at the same time. To feel the same way as Zaizai, thinking of it makes it wonderful.

Cold Jokes, my Profession

Zaizai loves telling cold jokes, that's what everyone knows. However, many think that it's because he's already in this circle for some time, and enjoys the circle, and became like that. Actually, you're wrong. Zaizai himself admitted it, that's the real him! Thinking back, Zaizai was the cold joker in his group of friends. Just that, during Meteor Garden 1, he would tell cold jokes during break time. Whenever he finished his cold jokes, people around him would never give him any reaction, but he still did not stop, and continued. Thus the company told him, in order not to cause any Len Chang happening, they told him to try to talk lesser during events. It would do with the other 3 speaking, so Zaizai at that time would only be the good boy, look as if he had any hardships, however it was a good point, it earned him lots of meals! Not only has he earned lots of meals, even host who had fast reaction was being teased by him till they don't know what to do. Recently, he was wrapping dumplings in a public event. First time wrapping a dumpling, he continued to waste rice, he continued to explain for himself, " You have to wrap more layers, the more you wrap it means that the relationship is deeper." Eating the nice smelling dumplings, the host said, " Whenever i eat dumplings, i would think of my mother." Zaizai followed him and ate a mouthful of his dumpling and said, "oh, i thought of your mother too." Faint right? Zaizai's skills in humour was great. He loves to be proud when he was young, "I'll tell you all something embarrassing, i was very naughty when i was young, i would imitate cartoon characters. There was once when i imitated Superman, wearing my briefs and ran about in the living room. It was a conincidence when a visitor came to my house, the visitor kept laughing when he saw me, causing me to feel really embarassed!" Haha, seems like to have a humorous act, you would have to be thick-skinned first.

Some bad expression at times

If you want to pick a gentle and caring famous boyfriend, i think Zaizai would win all contestants. However, even if he, who has a good temper, would having bad times too. It doesn't mean that being good-tempered means he wont get angry, it's just that you didn't anger him. As long as u slowly observed his emotions and changing of his anger times, it would assure you that you won't see him being sad. First Clue : Don't ever allow him to go hungry. No matter how busy he is in fliming, Zaizai is OK, even if it tires him out when they go on outdoor fliming he still can take it. As long as when it's meal time, give him a warm lunchbox. Zaizai says he loves to eat rice, and its those where he really loves it. As long as the rice is soft and just nice, whatever side dishes he won't mind. However, don't ever give him food which he doesn't eat like tomato, cucumber and bitter gourd and alike stuffs. Everyone have heard it, if you cannot do great dishes, it's time to brush up! Clue 2 : Do take note of the way when you talk to him, even if you don't like him, please use a polite tone to talk to him, that's because this gentle baby feels that, "What is it in this world that you cannot sit down and discuss properly, as long as you use a better tone, it's still possible that we can sit down and talk it out." Thus, girls who have huge and loud voices, please take note, if you don't lower down your tone, Zaizai is not going to bother about you!

Thanks to sohu.
20th July 2004
Credit: Xiujuan-OnlyF4 Singapore

ZZ just attended ¡°Pepsi Blue Legend¡± in HK the other night where his birthday was celebrated early. He received kisses and hugs from Sammi Cheng and Jolin Tsai. Once he returned to Taipei yesterday afternoon he immediately continued to film ¡°Mars.¡± Repairing a difficult jumping building scene. Before he spent almost 20 hours jumping a building, trying to portray twin brothers. For safety purposes, the manufacturing unit added an extra 10 million dollars of insurance for him. It totals up to be 20 million all together.

This jumping scene is a crucial one for ¡°Mars¡± director Cai Yue Xun. ZZ portrays the twin brothers, Chen Ling and Cheng Sheng. Ling sees Sheng fall from the building, which changes him into a bitter and cruel person. Acting as both Ling and Sheng, ZZ has to jump from a 10 story high building. This scene took 10 hours to finish. Because it was night and windy at that time, it was dangerous for ZZ to stand at the edge of the tall building. Staff members grabbed onto the end of his clothes to prevent any possible mishaps.

In order to film Sheng¡¯s falling feature, Cai Yue Xun changed to an interior scene continuing to shoot ZZ jumping from the front. ZZ must jump from a height of 3 stories. Although there is a safety mat and paper boxes, Cai Yue Xun still had ZZ on wires to warm ZZ¡¯s body. When the time came, without stand-ins or wires, he jumped time after time, jumping around 30 times. In the end he couldn¡¯t stand it and shouted, ¡°I don¡¯t have anymore strength.¡± Then work was over.

His brothers, Comic Boy¡¯s Wang Chuan Yi, Cheng Shao Zong and An Jun Can, finished their new drama ¡°Ai Zai Xing Guang Can Lan¡¯s¡± jumping building scenes yesterday. They found a 3-floor house. Cheng Shao Zong said he practiced jumping the other day. ¡°Afraid that I won¡¯t jump good so I practiced first. It wasn¡¯t hard, it was like jumping on a trampoline.¡± He passed after 10 jumps and also twisted his waist.

Source: Lian He Bao

Credit: Amy of http://f4ever.azn.nu

Thursday July 15, 2004
Written by Ye Yixin, Lian He Bao of Taiwan

Mars, the idol drama series produced by Chai Zhiping, has not yet been aired, but a war of fighting for telecasting it has already started. Mars, staring DaS and Zaizai, was originally planned to be aired on the Bada's regular channel, but Bada confirmed yesterday that CTS had come on board, wanting to aired in the weeknight time slot opposite variety shows. Chai Zhiping indicates that she has already sold all Mars rights to Bada, it's not up to her to decide which station to air Mars as it is no longer without her control territory.

Yesterday DaS and Zaizai was on CtiTV's "Kang Xi Lai Le" show for promotion, news of TV stations fighting for the Japanese-manga-adapted Mars came out from behind the scene.

Zaizai plays a role who was badly hurt mentally from watching his twin brother committed suicide right in front of his eyes. DaS plays the leading actress who was raped by her stepfather. The two of them acted opposite each other in an intense scene where, in order to verify if DaS was previously raped, Zaizai deliberately embraced DaS from behind and kissed her provocatively. DaS fought him with all her strength, in spite of her loving him.

After watching the segment, XiaoS shouted loudly, "Why did you say no!" Meanwhile, she asked Zaizai to re-act the part with her. When Zaizai was going to embrace her from behind, he was afraid he might touch some parts that he shouldn't, so he wasn't able to embrace her. XiaoS scolded Zaizai, "Can you act or not!" When they tried the second time, it was XiaoS's turn to laugh out. She said Zaizai was too good-looking, "I really couldn't say no!"

Credit: laiou2002 www.vicpower.net

After Vic Zhou and Xu Wei Lun worked together to flim Love Storm,
they were good friends, and many rumours flying around of them being
in love. Yesterday, someone said that they had secretly been together
for a month. In fact, the both of them have been together for half a
year, during the lunar chinese new year, she even accompanied Zaizai
back to Yilan to visit his father.

Xu Wei Lun, who's the girlfriend of taiwan singer, Lee Wei, both of
them have been together but never openly said about it. Each of them
were playing around, Xu Wei Lun was being said as friendly, be with
guys for leisure. Last year when fliming Love Storm, she
automatically asked both lead male actors, Ken Chu and Vic Zhou out
to sing karaok. However, whenever they went out together, the media
would know. However, this makes people suspect whether is someone
making all these up to pull themselves further up. Vivian Hsu who is
in the show of Love Storm, hinted that someone was doing that and it
pointed towards Xu Wei Lun.

After that, in order to prevent rumours, Ken furthered himself from
Xu Wei Lun, it was only Zaizai who continued to go out with her,
relationship getting more and more close. During the lunar new year,
XWL requested to go back to Yilan with Zaizai, and they started
dating. Management company did not stop them, but told them to keep
it low-profiled.

Past few days, Xu Wei Lun released her pictorial book and she openly
said, "I'm no longer together with Lee Wei." In the end, she became
headlines, and her relationship with Zaizai deepened , no wonder
she's mistaken for being the one who brings rumours.Towards this
rumour, Zaizai have been used to it, " It's not the first time, there
isn't a need to reply to this, normal friends having dinner is
normal." During the mid of the month, Zaizai would be going to
Shanghai to be Jolin's concert guest. After which, he would be doing
promo with Da S for their new show, Mars. Zaizai laughed and said he
don't mind Jolin and Da S working with him, with no reason, they
might be his next new girlfriend.

Source : Singtao

I'm from Jiaxing, so I was fortunate enough to watch the rehearsal. Zaizai started his rehearsal from 11:30 PM last night. I couldn't start sharing with everyone until today due to the time.

Zaizai arrived at Jiaxing around 10:00 PM and checked into the Sunshine Hotel. His room is on 21st floor. He went to the stadium to rehearse around 11:00 PM. Before him, Wu Zhongxian, Aidai, Youngkun had finished their individual rehearsals. Yang looked very cool, without smiling from the beginning to the end. Aidai was said to have caught a cold, but she still rehearsed seriously. Wu Zhongxian joked a lot as usual. When I called him from below the stage, he said to his assistants that see, I'd got fans all over the world.

When Zaizai arrived, he did not enter the stadium at once. Instead he stayed inside the car at the door because the hosts were still rehearsing. Accompanied with him were Zhi Xiangli, Ahjuan, and some assistant. Later on, Zaizai came in, in dark-blue T-shirt with a big number 5 on the back and in a loose blue jean. When he stood in front of me, I had a feeling of seeing some celestial being; he was very handsome, very refined and delicate (even w/o shaving), and rather shy. He bent down his head and looked in need of protection. Whatever the director said, he nodded. I stood away from him only about 1 meter. I watched him quietly. I was very happy and very excited. (The reason I was quiet could be because I was too excited to talk.)

Next was Zaizai's rehearsal. Zaizai went on the stage and greeted Wu Zhongxian when he saw Wu Zhongxian. The two of them joked with each other. One segment of the program will invite a fan upstage to duet. (Don¡¯t know who will be the lucky girl.)

Then it was Zaizai's turn to sing. The first song was Make A Wish, the second Ai Zai Ai Ni, the third I feel you, and the fourth Tender Goodnight. Zaizai was the last singer. Zaizai sang very seriously (absolutely live). He seemed having a hard time memorizing the lyrics. He often stole a look at a piece of paper. Very cute. His female assistant often passed him some drinking water. (I envied her.) I stood below but nearest to the stage. When I called him, he would wave to me. It felt so great!

Zaizai finished his rehearsal around midnight. There were almost no fans. (Fans were not allowed to be inside.) So there were 5-6 people with him, no bodyguards with him, when he left. He He, I followed him out and told him to walk carefully. Zaizai turned and waved to me over his shoulder. He replied that he would. Very nice and friendly.

Some fans asked him to autograph when he returned to the hotel. It really wasn't that Zaizai didn't want to sign for fans. His company wouldn't allow it. Zaizai kept apologizing. I was very moved by it.

I took about 60 pictures during rehearsal. I really want to upload them at once to share with everybody. Unfortunately, I just got the camera and doesn't know how to upload pictures at all. Any one who has the know-how, please post and teach me. I really want to upload these pictures as soon as possible. (Do not worry. Lights were very strong during rehearsal, so I didn't need to use flashlight at all. I didn't shout and scream at Zaizai, neither did I touch him. Because I wanted Zaizai to know that his happiness counted.)

PS: Yesterday Zaizai looked in good mood! Zaizai didn't sing Mama Says. There was almost no Zaizai fans present because of the tight and heavy security at the gates. What I have written is absolutely true. There are pictures to prove it. I hope people who know how to upload can teach me! I definitely will upload them as soon as possible.

Credit: laiou2002 of vicpower.net

This is the schedule that Liberty Times provided.

According to Love Storm's schedule in the past, they should be doing promo at Taipei, Gao Xiong and also television recordings.

1. Taipei
2. Gao Xiong
3. Central part

The dates for promo should be on the 24th, 25th, 31st July and 1st of August. Television Recordings should be on weekends.

Credit: vicpower and to rubypurple of Faithful4ever

Zaizai: Oh, really?

Yongxin: Oh, Yes. Yes. It's great.

Zaizai: So my Chinese has improved.

Yongxin: Oh. Yes. You've improved a great deal.

Zaizai: It's true. Thank you. I feel it myself too. Ha Ha Ha. So unshameful of me. Ha Ha Ha.

Yongxin: Ha Ha Ha. But, I feel this has become one of your individual characteristics. Your birthday is June 9. Many friends wrote their requests in the way you pronounce when they faxed to request songs to celebrate your birthday. You know. For example "Zaizai happy birthday, live a romantic life." They would write "lang man (romantic)" as "lan man".

Zaizai: lan

Yongxin: They wrote it especially in that way.

Zaizai: Oh... I understand.

Yongxin: That's why we say you indeed have much improved. Also many friends, for example some people in Hong Kong, think their Chinese have improved a lot because of you.

Zaizai: Oh, really? Why is that?

Yongxin: It's because they want to remember the lyrics of your songs.

Zaizai: Oh, No. No. Actually they want to listen to my songs very carefully to ensure I don't pronounce words wrong. After that, they proceed to study Chinese hard.

Yongxin (Laugh): Oh. So that they can correct you, saying something like this, "Zaizai, you pronounce that wrong".

Zaizai (Laugh): That's right.

Yongxin: What is the song you like best in the album? Previously I read some news articles that you like a song called Suddenly very much?

Zaizai: That’s right. Suddenly. He He

Yongxin: Why

Zaizai: Because that song is rather... I don't know why. At the time when I suddenly heard that song, I had a strong a feeling for it. It was a demo tape, only piano in the backup, no other music and rhythm. I felt it was such a simple song. I really have a feeling for it. I don't have any peculiar habits when I record in a studio. For example, some people have to sit, some have to keep themselves busy, and some close the windows, some turn off the light. When I was recording the song in the studio, I felt like I should really sing it very carefully since I was so moved by it. So I asked the producer, "Can you turn off the light?" I cried a little bit secretly after I sang it for a while. (Laugh) It's not that I have experienced some of what's written in the lyrics. It's not that. It was the feeling of the song that moved me."

Yongxin: So in the album, the crying tone in the song is particular strong, right?

Zaizai: That's right. A little bit. In fact, I know I cried a little bit in one of the segments.

Yongxin: Oh, Does that mean you didn't sing your previous songs with care? You started singing carefully when "Suddenly" came along.

Zaizai: No. No. That's not what it is. Artists can’t possibly feel most empathized with every song they sing. I sang every song with care, but I was most empathized was this song.

Yongxin: Okay. Let's hear the song. Why was Zaizai particularly moved when he heard of the demo tape? Please listen to Suddenly.

(Playing Suddenly)

Under the guide of his broker, ZZ Vic Zhou arrived at Shanghai Pu Dong Airport in the evening. Although this was supposed to be top-secret, there were still many fans attracted to the airport. ZZ reached the studio at 8am in the morning to put on make-up. His broker ordered, “The media cannot take pictures, fans cannot visit.” As usual there were some fans at the doorway and they were even able to find ZZ’s assistant’s cell phone number. His assistant had to turn her phone off due to all the calls.

ZZ stayed in Shanghai for 2 days this time. He mainly shot for Guan Sheng Yuan’s Wo Wo Milk Candies, which includes a TV ad and picture ads. Maybe it’s because there has been many Taiwan artists endorsing in China lately but they always get pulled into politics. Towards the media, ZZ’s management company chose to be in a “secret” mode. No taking pictures and no coverage.

F4’s Jerry Yan was the first to endorse milk candies. Bao Long went to China before to shoot for “UHA Milk Candies.” Relying on his dimples and mesmerizing smile, UHA Milk Candies sold like crazy in China, especially during this year’s new years. There was a “Jerry Yan selling milk candies” sign that made the product almost sell out. As expected, the company immediately found ZZ, whose popularity doesn’t yield to Bao Long, to also sell milk candies. ZZ will be endorsing for China’s Guan Sheng Yuan’s Wo Wo Milk Candies, having a “hu bie miao tou” implication with Jerry’s UHA Milk candies.

Source: Da Cheng Bao

Credit: Amy of http://f4ever.azn.nu

The commercial will take three days to shoot. From Mr. Tian, the producer of the commercial, we have found out that Zaizai's image will not have a big break-through. He will still appear as a prince charming the commercial. And his mesmerizing eyes will still be the secret weapon of the commercial. The producer will not reveal the contents of the commercial and Zaizai's image in the commercial; you have to wait until August when the commercial is aired.

To keep the commercial secret, yesterday's shooting wasn't open to outsiders. Zaizai fans, who were waiting outside the studio, were blocked by the security personnel and couldn't get close. Further, all the windows were covered by curtains to avoid the contents of the commercial be exposed. What's more exaggerating was that Zaizai's car drove directly to the gate of the studio when he was done with filming for the day. He was blocked by two tall boards on both sides, so no one can see what Zaizai looked like. It was really top-notched security.

Actually shooting of the commercial was already planned when Zaizai was asked to be a spokesperson for the food company in March. But Zaizai had been busy in Taiwan shooting idol series Mars and could not make it. So shooting of the commercial was delayed until now. Reportedly, Zaizai will finish all the shooting and leave Shanghai on July 3. On July 11, he will be in a concert held in Jiaxing Zhejiang. Artists also featured in the concert are Wu Zhongxian, S.H.E., Aidai, Daijun, Yangkun, etc.

Source: Oriental Morning News of China

Translated by laiou2002 of http://www.vicpower.net

Credit: amy of faithful4ever

Because Mars's progress was seriously lagging behind, it had gone through a series of incidents such as DaS's missing and Zaizai's being late. One time there was a rumor that it might be left hanging unfinished because cast members contracts were due to expire. Because of playing catching up, director Cai Yuexun and Mars crew were in low spirits and producer Chai Zhiping has lost close to NT$ 10 millions accordingly. But everything has cleared up after Mars finished filming. Zaizai, DaS and other cast members attended the wrap party. DsS also brought red wine to help celebrating and invited everyone to sing at KTV afterward.

Zaizai be a spokesperson for TV novel

Recently Chai Zhiping has held a competition looking for the Mars of TV novels. She once again invites Zaizai and DaS to be the spokespeople, hoping to raise the creative level of Chinese TV via competition. The first prize is NT$ 1 million. Good novels have a chance to be adapted into scripts. At that time, she probably will invite F4 to work together again.

Source: Apple Daily

Translated by laiou2002 of http://www.vicpower.net

Credit: Amy of faithful4ever

The war of summer idol series is about to start. TTV moved "Say Yes Enterprise" to 9:30 p.m. Monday thru Thursday Mars is to be aired at 9:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. There will go head-to-head with each other to some extent. But Mars come prepared. Various promotion activities are ready in motion. First is the one-million-dollar-prize script competition. Comic Ritz owner Cai Zhiping stresses that the best script selected from the competition will be starred by F4 together again.

Vic Zhou has never sung duet with a female singer. DaS hasn't released an album for a long time. Two of them will be in a recording studio doing their firsts. The good, tacit understanding between them will be fully exploited.

Source: Lian He Bao

Credit: laiou2002 of http://www.vicpower.net

There have been rumors spreading that the original completion date was delayed for one month because the female lead Da S frequently disappears and the progress is slow. Also, both ZZ and Da S had to go overseas to work so they can’t further delay the shooting. There were many times when the news of not finishing was released. But the two leading roles tried hard to coordinate and during the morning of June 22nd they finally finished. Everyone can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

In the last days of filming, ZZ and Da S both acted with their life. First it was ZZ who filmed a scene where he is stabbed. He had to regard the alley a “shui (missing word)” to seek realism. He also had to fall and bump into things to act weak, which resulted in some minor injuries.

At the same time Da S had to shoot a scene where her step dad chases after her. The two were pushing and pulling near the railing of rooftop, a cliffhanger. Afterwards, Da S’ step dad ends up falling off the building. Although they took all the necessary steps to insure safety, but Da S was still very nervous. Fortunately, she doesn’t fall off the building in the story.

After completing “Mars,” ZZ and Da S go their separate ways. Da S will publicize in China. She’ll be attending an advertisement activity as weel as “Cheng Long Bei.” And ZZ and Jerry Yan attended Sinapore’s “Gen-Y Pop Charity Concert 2004” the other night to help fundraise for the kidney foundation. F2 became the highlight of all guests. Yesterday was ZZ’s birthday according to the old calendar so fans sang “Happy Birthday” for ZZ. Jerry also sang “Moon Represents My Heart.” Afterwards, Jerry revealed that his debut solo album would be released during summer vacation. He is currently busy working on the promoting tasks. In addition, ZZ flew to Malaysia yesterday to hold an autograph session for his “Remember I Love You” album.

Source: Sing Tao

Credit: Amy of http://f4ever.azn.nu

The best bet for Philippine-based Zai Zai fans and all others outside of Taiwan is to wait for its expected regional showing by CETV sometime in early 2005 already, or depending on when the drama will first be aired on GTV. The arrangement made on another recent popular GTV pop idol drama "The Outsiders", will also be applied to "MARS".

"The Outsiders" was not shown on any free-to-air broadcast channel in Taiwan such as CTS, TTV, CTV and FTV. It was a cable-only drama shown on GTV.

Credit: edching908 of Tsinoy/Bituin

"Generation-Y Charity Concert" will be held tonite and out of so many celebs like F4's Jerry and Vic and Qiu Ze, they have the most fans right here in today's concert. The organiser revealed that aroundd 500 fans from 4 directions of Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Hongkong, Taiwan called in to reserve tickets and as for Qiu Ze, there are some from Hongkong and Japan.

Baolong Jerry Yan and Zaizai Zhou Yu Min arrived only in June. But fans are so faithful and loyal that they have already prepared everything including airport meeting, booking car to chase, hotel crowding.

As for Qiu Ze, he arrived at Singapore the earliest.

Ever since F4 announced the news of going solo, it has been almost impossible for Jerry Yan and Vic Chou to meet and perform together. Celebs like Fan Yi Chen, Xiao Mei Jiang Mei Qi, Penny Dai Pei Ni, Taiwan GMA's Best groupband's Ah Bao and Brandy along with F2 will be performing at 8pm in Singapore Expo Hall 2 to help raising donation funds for Singapore NKF Children Kidney Foundation. The organiser has hired 30 over bodyguards and security guards, over 10 cops to maintain scene in order in airport as well as in the concert.

Qiu Ze, the earliest 'bird' arrived on the 22 of June in Singapore along with his rockband and music producer. Ah Bao and Brandy then arrived in Singapore on the 24th evening 6:30pm. JY and ZZ will be arriving today by BR 225 EVA Air at 12pm. The next flight after the concert is not confirmed yet. Almost all the celebs have tight schedule.

Jerry will be taking the morning flight back to Taiwan and ZZ will be taking the morning flight as well to Kuala Lumpur.

Organiser overall in charge Wang Jing Shun says that out of so many celebs, Jerry Yan, Vic Chou and Qiu Ze have the most fans. Estimated 500 Fans from HK, TW, M'sia, Indonesia, Thailand have flown to singapore just to support F2. Qiu Ze then has his own fans from HK and Japan. Overseas fans have been trying hard to locate where celebs will be staying so that they can stay in the same hotel as well. They are trying their best to catch the glance of their idols again in the hotel as well.

Wang Jing Shun added that to arrange for Jerry Yan and Vic Chou to come to Singapore for concert performance were not easy. It took almost half a year to invite them over. These two members of F4 have their own work to do.. very busy!

The rest are about gossips of F2 on Pepsi Advertisement which i believed they are posted before already. So I wont go so much further into details for that.

Credit: kEn`kAn of Faithful 4Ever.

Credit: F4NEWBIE of faithful4ver

Chou is also a member of Taiwan’s popular boyband F4. Comprising Jerry Yen, Vanness Wu, Ken Zhu and Chou, F4 catapulted to fame in 2001, thanks to the Taiwanese idol series, Meteor Garden.

Over the past few years, the members have been busy developing their solo careers. Yen and Wu made headlines with their starring roles in Magic Kitchen (2004) and Star Runner (2003) respectively.

Zai Zai will be performing a showcase at Sunway Surf Beach, Sunway Lagoon, Selangor, tomorrow at 8.30pm. There will also be an autograph-signing session after his performance.

Fans who want to attend the showcase can do so by making a RM80 purchase in a single receipt at any Sunway Pyramid outlet (except Giant and Parkson Aktif). You will be entitled to redeem two complimentary tickets to his showcase.

Alternatively, fans can also dine at West Lake Garden Restaurant at Sunway Lagoon Resort Hotel. With a minimum of RM100 in a single receipt, patrons will receive two complimentary tickets.

Or you can purchase one adult all-park ticket to the Sunway Lagoon Theme Park today and get a free entry.

source : http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.as...85906&sec=music

Words in yellow at the top: Chance reserved for you
Blue writing: Program with Yamaha
12/8/2004

As of now, when you buy the car/bike Yamaha Mio (I think Mio is the style or brand of bike)...
150 customers/clients can attend the special Live show YAMAHA LIVE 2004 with the participation of the band F4 in the same flight (I don't really understand this part ) in Bangkok.

The yellow thing on the left: Chosen Raffle Wins Prize

The box in the bottom left:
Gift The special VCD of the band F4 given to all customers who purchase the Mio.

this is chance for Vietnam's fans

150 customs will have chance to attend F4's mini concert in Bangkok.. this concert brough to you by YAMAHA

Time: 20/6 - 12/8/2004

PLZ LOG ON : http://www.yamaha-motor.com.vn FOR FURTHER DETAILS

Well... buying a motorcycle to have chance meet F4... Vietnam's fans are you ready?

Credit: OnlyF4

Both lin265 and ?? report that DaS just announces in her show that Mars has wrapped up in the early morning of June 22, after 5:00 a.m.

thanks to laiou2002 of vicpower

Da S and ZZ are classmates in "Mars." At first they both thought the other was an eyesore. But they become a couple afterwards, holding some of the same views in "Meteor Garden." However, when Da S acted out this scene where she is aggrieved and crying within ZZ's embrace, once Director Cai Yue Xun ordered, her tears were lstreaming down her face incessantly like a faucet. ZZ admired this excellent crying and Cai Yue Xun also praised her endlessly.

Among F4, ZZ is the closest to Da S. There isn't anything that they don't talk about. You can often see them in the corner chatting. When filming "Meteor Garden" ZZ and Da S were already good friends. Filming "Mars" this time, their friendship has deepen. Da S once laughingly said, "Our feelings are deeper than that of brother and sister."

"Mars" is almost done. ZZ finally has time to concentrate on preparing for finals. After exams he'll be heading to HK to film a movie. As for Da S, she plans to take a good rest. Even though "Mars'" progress has been very slow, but one can see that Director Cai Yue Xun's works are indeed elaborate. ZZ and Da S think that the exhaustion is worth it.

Source: Da Cheng Bao

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Imagine, in a day he has to do a lot of activities such as interviews with radio stations, press conference , and lastly a short performance and autograph session. After all is done, he is scheduled to head immediately to Taipei.

Before going to Kuala Lumpur, ZZ is confirmed to perform in Gen-Y charity concert with Mr. Yan in S'pore dated 25th of June, to raise funds for children with sickness.

Source: indosiar.com

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Zaizai, when celebrating his birthday with the Mars crew the night before, talked about the relationship between Sammi and him. It was rumoured that when they went to Dubai to flim the pepsi commercial, both of them had already started to be in love, and that they would send more than ten messages to each other everyday. Every night before they sleep, they even had to talk to each other. Sammi had turn skinny when she broke up with Andy Hui, now after being with Zaizai, her whole face is glowing and shining.

When Zaizai mentioned about this sister and brother relationship, he laughed and said, " Yes, i like Sammi alot, she is very pretty, of course it's good to go steady with her. Every man would be too happy to want it." Regarding of rumours of them going steady, Zaizai didn't say anything. However, towards the sending messages and talking on the phone, he made a clearence, "I'm so busy now, how can i have time to send messages?"

And, Taiwan media actually said that the soft drink company said that Zaizai and Sammi had communications during the trip. In dubai, Zaizai often make Sammi very happy, and he would show her those emotional eye expressions. And their matchmaker, was even Jerry. That's because, Jerry knows that Zaizai likes Sammi, therefore, he helped to pull the red line. Towards this , Zaizai said, " I, having a girlfriend, why would i need someone to help me introduce?"

Zaizai says that what he needs now is a house not a girlfriend. As his house was burnt down previously, he was looking for a new one, And he even joke that his birthday wish was "beware of dry grass and fire"

Thanks to Appledaily.
11th June 2004

Credit: Xiujuan-OnlyF4

Drunk, takes a taxi

ZZ is a Gemini born on June 9th, 1981. It was his 23rd birthday a few days ago. However, this time around ZZ, who looks honest on the outside and in private loves to play, actually took the modesty route for his birthday party. On the evening of June 9th, he and a few of his classmates and friends went to Qian Gui Sogo to sing. There were no signs of his usual friend he hung out with and also his rumored girlfriend Xu Wei Lun. As the birthday boy he was forced to have a few drinks. He got kinda drunk and his face was, as expected, red after singing.

Early in the morning of the 10th, ZZ walked out of the KTV with his face very red. It's not known if it's because he was influenced by Wu Zong Xian who got caught drinking and driving and got criticized by the public, but ZZ, who is known for speeding, held onto the "no drinking and driving" principle and took a taxi home.

ZZ's management company revealed that the birthday party yesterday was really simple and he didn't get any gifts. Numerous friends and classmates that ZZ hasn't seen in a long time just bought him a cake and that's all.

At the end of April this year, ZZ's residence in Taipei caught on fire. Although no one was injured, but his house was all ruined. The 3 million dollars he spent on decorations were all gone. This caused him to be a homeless child. There has been a rumor circulating around saying that ZZ currently used a restaurant as his home. His agency declared this untrue and expressed that ZZ has another house. This issue has been solved.

Source: TW Apple Daily

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Are Zai Zai & Sammi really seeing each other? Yesterday, Zai Zai finally expressed that he doesn't mind dating a girl older than him!

Late last night, the crew of Mars gave Zai Zai a surprise birthday party. They bought him a birthday cake and a surf board as birthday presents. Earlier on, he also celebrated his birthday at the Pepsi press conference in Hong Kong. During which he received a kiss from Sammi Cheng and rumours about them were never ending from then on.

Everyone has been paying attention to this couple. It was rumoured that they send sms to each other everyday and also talked on the phone at least once every night. Sammi who broke up with Andy Hui not too long ago, lost alot of weight and was distraught but ever since dating Zai Zai, she exudes radiance and is more youthful looking too.

Commenting on this, Zai Zai joked about it as usual. He said: "I really like Sammi, she is very beautiful. It would be nice to date her, it's every man's dream isn't it?" His comment does not confirm their relationship but he wants to clarify that he is very busy filming Mars and doesn't have time at all to sms anyone.

But the crews of the Pepsi commerical shoot in Jordan think otherwise. They could see that there is really something going on between the two of them. Given his jovial personality, Zai Zai often made Sammi very happy with his jokes and Sammi's gaze was often unwittingly following Zai Zai's every movement. Her eyes told everyone that she is in love. All the crews knew that out of the 9 super stars, besides Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai being an item, Zai Zai and Sammi are also in courtship.

The person responsible for this rumoured relationship is none other than Jerry Yan himself. He worked with Sammi once on Magic Kitchen and he knew that Sammi is the kind of girl that Zai Zai likes so he match made them. To this Zai Zai said: "I can find my own girlfriend, I don't need anyone to match make me!"

He continued that what he needs most now is not a girlfriend but a house. Some weeks back, he house caught fire because of some leaking electricity from a home appliance. He is now looking for a suitable house to move and he joked that the weather is hot and dry so beware of fire.

Credit: Suz@nne & OnlyF4 if you wish to copy this translation elsewhere

Other than doing charity, fans would also be doing a cake which is of his appearence and also a special magazine dedicated to him, as in reward for growing and results of the past 3 years, putting in effort

Credit: Tai Yang Bao and Xiujuan of http://onlyf4.proboards4.com

“Vic Power,” Vic Zhou fan club, spent 2 months time to create an activity named “ZZ Birthday Loving Project,” which gathers donations from fans from courtiers like HK, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, America and Japan. They were able to obtain HKD$90,000.

Recently “Vic Power” donated 27,600 dollars to China’s Children Foundation’s “Chun Lei Plan” in the name of Vic Zhou. They helped 23 impoverished little girls to complete 3 years of primary school. In addition, they took NT$10,000 (HKD$25,000) to aid ZZ’s hometown Yi Lan. A group in the name of “Taiwan Children and Family Aid Foundation Yi Lan Alliance Support Center” adopted 8 kids that belong to poor families. They are responsible for their daily life expenses. The remaining HKD$40,000 will be donated to Singapore’s “Children’s Medical Foundation” to help children who suffer from serious chronic disease. And at the end of June ZZ will go to Singapore to attend the “Children’s Medical Foundation” charity event.

Learning that his fans are doing good deeds for him ZZ is very pleased. He thinks that fans spending money to help the needed is more meaningful than buying him gifts. ZZ revealed that his birthday wish this year is that the people around him are happy and even the ones that he doesn’t know.

ZZ spent his previous birthdays working and there weren’t many big celebrations. He only remembers the day of his 18th birthday and he celebrated with his classmates. In the end he was forced to drink a lot and ultimately was so drunk and was unconscious. His friends had to take him home.

Source: Xing Dao Ri Bao

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celebsite by Charlene F. Sawit

Any f4 fan will tell you that Vic Zhou is the baby of the group - - although he points out that this is just in terms of age, not attitude ("The other guys sometimes act more immature than me! he exclaims). He's also someone who didn't have any plans of pursuing a career in show business. But we all know the story; the limelight found him anyway, when he accompanied his friend at an audition fot the show Meteor Garden.

When he was cast as the sensitive brooding Hua Ze Lei (totally different from Vic's adorable, "cuddly-and-sweet-you-just-want-to-bring-home-to-mom" real life personality) he was only around 18, and a student. His dad hit the roof, but Vic's proven that he can get good grades and be a famous at the same time - so he's long since made peace with his skeptical father. Meg got lucky when Sony's general manager Roselyn Reyes went to Hong kong where there was a press junket for Vic, and Sony kindly asked us if we'd like to ask Vic some questions - boy, did we ever! He enlightened us on a few things - in between his trademark giggles, of course.

How do you juggle studying and work at the same time?
The company actually balances both for me, because they think that school is important, too. So they fix my schedule so i can do both!

What's a regular school day like?
I'd be staying at home the entire day - and sleep as i wished, and play as many computer games as i wished! (Hmmm, we think he thought the question was "What would your ideal day be like?"

What advice can you give our readers-slash-struggling students on how to study?
I believe that everyone should prepare constantly - on a daily basis, and not just overnight or the night before the exam. And remember, everybody has a weak point - so don't be ashamed to ask questions about what you don't know.

How do you get treated in school by your teachers and classmates?
Everyone is very close and treats everyone very nice. (He starts giggling here, like he realized what a showbiz answer he gave. The translator is also laughing, like Vic cracked a joke)

If you ever needed some advice on something, which F4 member would you ask help from?
I'll go to Xiao Tian (Ken) for advice on any kind of life experience, because he knows a lot of things, and he has a lot of knowledge. But i'll go to Vanness if i have any questions regarding shooting a TV drama, or when we have to dance - because Vanness has a lot of rhythm! And when i talk to Cheng Xu (Jerry), I find that I could always get different, enlightening views from him. A different perspective, because Cheng Xu is a very emotional person.

Barbie Xu commented that you and her get along really well -- did you ever have a crush on her?
While shooting Meteor Garden 1, we already got along really well and treated each other like sister and brother. Actually, i call her Jie Jie, which means older sister in Chinese; she calls me Tiiti, which means little brother. We almost had an official ceremony that would make us become like a brother and sister! I think we get along because both of us are very simple people. (The two friends pair up again in a new TV drama entitled Mars, about a race car driver.

Is it true that you prefer chubby girls?
I never said I like chubby girls, but once mentioned that i had a chubby girlfriend! And i do not object to chubby girls or I don't dislike them, but i think that people at different stages will have different tastes in girls. As of now, I would rather consider things based on an emotional level, o what she's like on the inside.

Oh, by the way ... in case you girls were wondering - Vic's single!

Transcribed from Meg Magazine june 2004 issue

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F4 arrived in Hong Kong to promote a well-known beverage. It was a grand entrance by them because they arrived in a helicopter. Fans were hysteric when they saw them.

News report

Newscaster: Taiwan's F4 came to Hong Kong along with Jay and Jolin Chai to attend a broadcast conference. It is said that the situation was very very very very grand.
Newscaster: Of course. With these nine stars' status, we can imagine the grandour of this event. I really feel for the reporters because I don't know if it is possible for them to capture all nine stars at this event on their film.
Newscaster: That's why we sent our two main reporters to cover this event.

Reporter: Many of the press have arrived at this venue to welcome these nine superstars. They will be here to begin the first of many promo events today under this hot and sunny weather.

Screen shows one helicopter landing of Aaron + Sammi and then, another helicopter landing which was carrying F4.

Narrator: Hongkong's heavenly king and queen (Aaron Kwok and Sammi Cheng) and the group that created a huge chaos at the airport the day before, F4 arrived at the venue in two heliicopters. On the other hand, Jolin, Edison and Jay arrived in army vehicles. To make such a grand entrance in those copters, wonder what do these superstars make out of the experience?

Sammi : Quite good. Quite refreshing. But, when we go to Macau, we also take helicopters to get there. So, the feeling is the same.

Derek (Pepsi's designated host) : But, today it must be special.

Sammi: Of course, today is unique because there is nine of us here.

Derek: Yes. Besides that, to get here with Aaron who is dressed so seductively today.

Sammi laughs.

Ken: Feel that Hong Kong's scenery is really beautiful. The view from the top was really fun.
Derek: Is this your first time?
Ken: No. My second time.
Derek: Any skyscrapers that left a strong impression on you?
Ken: I was looking out both sides (of the window) so, I did not notice any in particular. The view is really beautiful.

Vic: Because the last time we were not able to see Hong Kong's view in such a near distance, so, when saw it a while ago...I don't know. The weather today is great. It seemed that the sea, buildings and land were merged into one. I think that it was a beauty indeed.
Derek: Very poetic (in your descriptions)
Vic: I really think it was beautiful.

....

there's more but zz aint in the interview anymore...

Credit: Amy of Faithful4ever

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Narrator: ZZ was called forward.

Host: ZZ, come. Tell us how you feel today.

ZZ: Today I’m really happy. I smell something fishy.

Host: What are you talking about? You smell something fishy?

ZZ: I don’t know, maybe because I, you know, we filmed the CM for so long and we were trained for some abilities.

Host: Can you feel?

ZZ: I can feel it.

Host: What do you feel?

ZZ: Hmm…(continues to talk but narrator interrupts)

Narrator: Jerry Yan and Vanness Wu bring out a very beautiful cake for ZZ.

Host: ZZ’s bday

-they sing happy bday to him-

Narrator: Afterwards ZZ received a very cute bday gift.

Host: There’s a gift for you.

Sammi (hands him a blue teddy bear): On behalf of your fans, I’m giving this to you.

ZZ: Really? For me? I really like it. Thank you, thank you.

Sammi: Happy bday

Host: Want to kiss it?

ZZ: Kiss?

Host: Kiss, on the face.

-Kisses teddy bear, fans scream-

Host: Do you want to, on everyone’s behalf, to kiss ZZ?

ZZ (to vann): Right now kiss me?
Host: ZZ, do you want Sammi…

ZZ: Doesn’t matter to me, if it’s possible

-Sammi kisses him-

Vann: I think one side Sammi and the other Jolin would be better.

Host: Oh, one side Sammi, one side Jolin. Jolin come on.

ZZ (does a hand thing w/ vann): Oh…Vanness, despicable.

Host: Don’t have to kiss the face, just face touch face.

ZZ: Yeah, face to face will do.

ZZ: Bday wish is that everyone is healthy. Hope that my life could be a bit better because just before something happened at home so I especially can experience myself how the homeless children feel and so I would donate money to them or buy bread and wait for them at the park.

Narrator: Because ZZ’s house was on fire before, ______________. But he just received a kiss from Sammi _____________

ZZ: Rumor with Sammi ah…oh…it’s more than I can ask for. No lah, because she’s really beautiful. I’ve said it before. I thought think there’s anything good to rumor about. Just by looking you can tell that it’s impossible.

Ken: I believe Sammi’s taste.

ZZ: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

*Host of Yu Le Xin Wen Wang talks about poll*

-shows Dare for More MV and shows repeat of previous clip-

ZZ: Rumor with Sammi ah…oh…it’s more than I can ask for. No lah, because she’s really beautiful. I’ve said it before. I thought think there’s anything good to rumor about. Just by looking you can tell that it’s impossible.

Ken: I believe Sammi’s taste.

ZZ: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Reporter: Jay, you and Jolin also are spokespersons for Pepsi, would it give you any pressures?

Jay: No pressures. I think it’s very good because any artist that joins in is a good thing.

Reporter: Have you heard about the rumor about her and Edison?

Jay: Yes, of course.

Reporter: Do you believe it?

Jay: Of course not.

Reporter: Jolin, how do you see this rumor about you and Edison?

Edison: I have rumors with you.

Jolin: I think it’s really funny because it’s probably because everyone saw some photos with some angles, but nothing lah, everyone had a great time together.

-plays some more of the Dare for More MV-

F4+Jay: We are “Nan Chuan Mama” group.

Reporter: What’s “Nan Chuan Mama?”

Jay: Popular in Taiwan, just released an album, everyone please support.

Reporter: Is it an album released by the 5 of you?

-F4 and Jay laugh-

Jay: Someone actually thinks it’s true…that’s…ok I’m going to answer the question that was just asked before first.

Reporter: Can you answer my question? Everyone’s very interested?

Jay: Really? Ok, “Nan Chuan Mama” is everyone here would make. He (ken) will write lyrics, he (vic) will play drums, he (Jerry) will sing, he (vann) will dance.

Host: Ok, ok, lets talk about your new album.

Jay: It’ll be released in July, the style will be the same as before. There isn’t much change.

Vann: I’m gathering inspiration because my 2nd album will be released soon and I’m pretty involved with part of the making and the lyric part. But if I’m at the office for 24 hours I’ll go crazy.
Reporter: When are you filming “______”

Sammi: October, but I think this is a very good opportunity. I will do my best.

-plays some more of the Dare for More MV-

Vann: When filming in Jordan, we all got along very well. Before I though Jay was the (________) type, just like he is now. But now I’m really that I’ve known him better I think that he’s not a bad guy. And I also was able to see like this, I’m very happy. “Nan Chuan Mama” _____.

Narrator: Now that they are friend Jay doesn’t mind what Vann says.

Jolin: Today I dressed a bit too sexy, I also think that. I didn’t know it would be that sexy, but as long as it’s pretty.

Reporter: We also think its very pretty, we were afraid of looking at you.

Jolin: Oh, thanks.

Aaron: We looked.

stopped at 16:50...to be continued....

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ZZ just attended “Pepsi Blue Legend” in HK the other night where his birthday was celebrated early. He received kisses and hugs from Sammi Cheng and Jolin Tsai. Once he returned to Taipei yesterday afternoon he immediately continued to film “Mars.” Repairing a difficult jumping building scene. Before he spent almost 20 hours jumping a building, trying to portray twin brothers. For safety purposes, the manufacturing unit added an extra 10 million dollars of insurance for him. It totals up to be 20 million all together.

This jumping scene is a crucial one for “Mars” director Cai Yue Xun. ZZ portrays the twin brothers, Chen Ling and Cheng Sheng. Ling sees Sheng fall from the building, which changes him into a bitter and cruel person. Acting as both Ling and Sheng, ZZ has to jump from a 10 story high building. This scene took 10 hours to finish. Because it was night and windy at that time, it was dangerous for ZZ to stand at the edge of the tall building. Staff members grabbed onto the end of his clothes to prevent any possible mishaps.

In order to film Sheng’s falling feature, Cai Yue Xun changed to an interior scene continuing to shoot ZZ jumping from the front. ZZ must jump from a height of 3 stories. Although there is a safety mat and paper boxes, Cai Yue Xun still had ZZ on wires to warm ZZ’s body. When the time came, without stand-ins or wires, he jumped time after time, jumping around 30 times. In the end he couldn’t stand it and shouted, “I don’t have anymore strength.” Then work was over.

His brothers, Comic Boy’s Wang Chuan Yi, Cheng Shao Zong and An Jun Can, finished their new drama “Ai Zai Xing Guang Can Lan’s” jumping building scenes yesterday. They found a 3-floor house. Cheng Shao Zong said he practiced jumping the other day. “Afraid that I won’t jump good so I practiced first. It wasn’t hard, it was like jumping on a trampoline.” He passed after 10 jumps and also twisted his waist.

Source: Lian He Bao

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A rare sight on the night of 30 May. 9 super stars appeared, they are not the 9 planets of the universe we are talking about. They are Jay Chou, Jolin Tsai, F4 and 6 other artistes who attended a new commercial launch. And Sammi Cheng even gave her rumoured boyfriend, Zai Zai a kiss.

The 9 Pepsi stars who wore fushion clothings (futuristic/historic) while filming a commerical in Jordan, attended the launch performing their skills they have portrayed in the commercial as martial arts exponents.

In the commerical, Aaron Kwok, Sammi Cheng, Jay Chou, Jolin Tsai, Edison Chen and F4 represents 9 different natural elements and F4 represents "electricity". Which part of their body is electrifying? I believe the fans would think it's their eyes that generate the electricity.

During the launch, Zai Zai whose birthday is round the corner celebrated his brithday with thousands of fans singing him a birthday song. There was also a surprisie gesture from his rumoured girlfriend, Sammi Cheng. She gave him a peck in front of the crowd.

Zai Zai expressed that he was very happy to receive the kiss but he emphasised that they are just good friends and he urge everyone not to think too much about it.

Credit: Suzanne and www.onlyf4.com

Director Liu Jun Jie has an idea for a sequal of "Ji Su Chuan Shuo." However, besides Lee Wei decided on, the other roles are still uncertain. As a result the director opened up a list of names: Lee Wei, Zai Zai, and Xu Wei Lun, an "illusion gold assemble." When Lee Wei recieve a call, a replied, "If the director is ok, then I'll also be optimistic about it." But he still thinks, "The director must be joking."

ZZ, who supports Chen Yu Fan and will be attending a Pepsi activity in HK, also responded through his broker, "Can't exclude the possibility of young people working together." According to reports, after ZZ finished filming "Mars," he also has a movie contract. As for working with her "good friends" Lee Wei and ZZ, Xu Wei Lun expressed, "What's most important is whether or not the script is suitable. I won't exclude the possiblity nor would it be awkward."

Xu Wei Lun was at "Zhuang Qiu Xiao Zi" OST autograph session yesterday. She was asked who she would suppoer, Leehom or Chen Yu Fan? (They both have released an album at the same time) After thinking she said, "I would buy Chen Yu Fan's CD but I'll ask him to buy Leehom's CD for me."

Source: Taiwan Apple Daily

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Kept saying it was a misunderstanding

Zaizai responded via Zhi Xiangli, "DaS is very professional, very easily absorbed into her role. I have been enjoying working with her ever since Meteor Garden. We even chit-chat during the break when the gaffer adjusts the light." When he heard of DaS's disappearance, he immediately cleared it up for her that it was a "misunderstanding."

Mars has been filming since the beginning of February. Cai Yuexun, a Golden Bell Best Director winner, specially emphasizes on quality. Because of filming slowly to ensure quality, the original planned completion date of May is changed; now the leading actors’ parts have to be postponed to June.

At present, Zaizai is almost filmed every day, but Zhi Xiangli said, "But not to the extent as hard as working day and night."

Source: Apple Daily of Taiwan

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Qn:What are individual F4 busy with at the moment?
Vic is doing Mars and he'll be going to Hong Kong to do a movie soon. As I said, Jerry is working on his solo album. Ken will be busy doing City of the Sky and Vanness is working on his album too.

Qn: How do u determine if a person has star qualities?
When I look for a star, I start off looking at ones eyes, because one who has spirit usually has a touch of mysteriousness in his eyes. Take for instance, Jerry has this mysteriousness feel in his gaze, Vic has his unique way of thinking, doubtful yet smart. Vanness is the type you can always get along with; he has this special kind of fortitude. Each of them have their very own flavor.

Qn: How did u choose the 4 of them at that time?
I chose them according to their looks. They have to look quite alike to the characters in the comic and somehow, their personalities must be similar too.

Qn: How What kind of gals do u think each F4 member likes?
Actually, I dont ask about their love life, so I am not very sure what types of girls suit them best. They have unique personalities. I guess they like girls which are modest and understanding.

Qn: Who do u think will have better career prospects in their solo career?
No matter if they continue their contracts with me or not, they're like my kids. Sometimes, kids have their own thoughts. I have to teach them the attitude to learn. Who has the spirit or not? Who can persist in hard times? It depends.

Qn: What are the chances of F4 reuniting? Are there any recent plans?
The four probably wont have any chance to get together to do a serial this year or next year. It depends on whether there is a good script and resources. Its extremely hard to write a script with four characters. Leading roles and supporting roles, its so hard to evenly share the scenes.

Qn: After F4 rocketed into stardom, it seems that you are not trying that hard to find jobs for them. They dont have much movies or albums, however they do a lot of commercials, why is this so?
This is their own preference. They choose what they want to do. We very much look forward to their new album (F4's album), but they have different opinions.

Qn: Why did the lead actor of Mars change from Jerry to Zai?
It had always been Zai. Actually, the role is very difficult and challanging. Zai has to act 4 different roles; a pair of twins, when they were young and when they have grown up. So, we always wished Zai to act in it, coz he's a Aries, easier to handle different split personalities, we believe he will do a very good job.

Qn: After Mars, wat will Zai be doing?
In June, he'll film movie in Hong Kong. According to wat i know, it's a movie by Du Qi Feng.

Qn: After the fire incident, Zai resumed filming soon after, how's Zai feeling now? How's the condition of his house ?
Certainly, he's not in good mood, who will feel good after his house was on fire? They have renovated the house quickly. That house does not belongs to Zai, but his brother's. At times, Zai will visit often to meet up with his brother. Our company has settled some matter for him.

Qn: Wat kind of movie will Zai be acting in Du Ke Feng's movie? is he the male lead or supporting actor?
I don't know, coz we have signed a contract not to reveal anything abt the movie. I'm sorry, wait for the movie company to start filming for more news.

Qn: In wat area do u think individual F4 should concentrate on?
I think they should continue to focus on filming, movies and series. A good script and a good director will be great. I am more desperate than anyone to see them together to do another world tour concert.

Qn:so are you planning for one?
No, because they dont have any new albums.

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Pepsi's 9 Asian super stars will gather once again, this time in Hong Kong on 31 May for Pepsi's Blue Legend Press Conference.Pepsi's China marketing department commented, "2004 is a new course for Pepsi, so we gathered the 9 stars to do a completely new commemoration ad in fantastic new looks. It's the biggest and most multifaceted production in Pepsi's history. The 531 press conference will be held in an innovative way. The brand new packing and the portrait series will be exposed. The slogan is `Blue Legend
I'. The commercial will be broadcasted nationally for the very first
time and there will be a very pleasant surprise for all."

HOW TO GET TWO FREE ADMISSION TICKETS
1. Collect 31 Pepsi/7 Up rings/bottle lids AND the receipt, fill out
the following form, and correctly answer a question on the form, and
mail them to the following address. Then, you may get two tickets
for the press con. on May 31.

2. Receipts must be the original receipts from all the big
supermarkets and convenient stores dated from May 14 to May 24, 2004.

3. The total number of winners will be 100 per day in a first come,
first serve basis, from May 15 to May 24, 2004. The application date
will be based on the postmark on the application envelope. Pepsi
won't accept any applications in person. If there are more than 100
applications per day, the applications which don't win won't be
accepted for the next day's drawing.

After the completion of the Pepsi commercial in Amman, F4 will go to Hong Kong to attend the premiere of the new advertisement at the end of May. At the same time, the four also have new plans.

Jerry Yan's debut album is rushing to release at the end of next month. There are currently only 3 songs left to record. Besides recording, Jerry has taken advantage of his free time to exercise hoping that his originally faint muscles would become even more
evident. Recently, he has been lifting weights to make his muscles firmer. He says that he wants to make his fans' eyes brighten when he releases his album next month.

Today Ken Zhu left for Beijing to shoot his new drama "City in the Sky." After he finishes filming in China, he'll being living in Japan and Yunnan for a while to film. Ken, Li Bing Bing, and Michelle Saram
are prepared to "suffer" in Yunnan. Broker Zhi Xiang Li told Ken he'll have to live in Yunnan for two months. Filming there will enable him to concentrate on sharpening his acting skills.

Besides reading movie scripts, Vanness Wu is also working hard on his album. This time Vanness will act as his own producer, producing his most beloved congenial western style music. At that time, his
appearance will also become very congenial.

Zai Zai is currently filming "Mars" day and night with Da S. Compared to "Meteor Garden," not only does Da S think that Zai Zai has improved greatly in acting, but the two have more privities. Broker Zhi Xiang Li expressed that Zai Zai seeks perfection in "Mars." It'll be a shocker for spectators this summer.

Source: Min Sheng Bao
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Last Friday (May 7), the three of them arrived at noon. The first stop was a Dior store; the two sisters went on a shopping spree of over 100 thousand dollars whereas Zaizai only had several handbags for mommy. Since there were guests of honor, of course it was free and shopping to your hearts' contents. The next stop was a press conference at Ritz-Carlton Hotel. After that, they attended a fashion show at Landmark and didn't stay for long. Bajen heard from Erwu that it wasn't because it was too late, it was because there was another activity.

The two sisters are often photographed by Paparazzi having their nights out. The most notorious one was that they had a wild party until daybreak with Billiards Queen Chen Chunzhen, Fan XiaoXun, and Aya at a private villa. It caused quite a sensation in Taiwan showbiz. This time, the two sisters, of course, would not miss their opportunity of having fun. According to Erwu, after landing, the two sisters immediately called their old friend Chang Zhi to meet at night and said, "We have brought over some good things."

Of course, the good things didn't mean Taiwan's specialty snack, Pineapple cakes. They also kept on asking Zaizai to go out with them. They told him that he was an adult now; it was time for him to get some experiences. But in the end, Zaizai did not go with the two sisters to sightseeing. He slept in the hotel. To be honest, whether the two sisters indeed had something secret, it was smart that Zaizai did not go with them. In case if anything had gone wrong and police had come, men on one side, women on the other side, all the gossip it could have caused would have been so embarrassing.

Source: Next Magazine of Hong Kong

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Christian Dior, which comes from France, organised a huge party at Zhong Huan to celebrate it's new shop opening, around ten over securities was there to maintain order. Dior invited Asia's popular celebrities to attend, it was korea's Boa & Pu Zhi Sier, Taiwan's boyband F4 member, Vic Zhou , Da S, Xiao S...

Among, Zaizai had the greatest charms, not only fans were all outside for him, screaming & cheering at times, he had bodyguards to follow him in the party. During the party, they invited Zaizai to take a photo with Pu Zhi Sier. Standing beside the sexy Pu Zhi Sier, Zaizai seems be become very shy, and not daring to look at the other party straight in the eye.

King of Gambler also brought his daughter , and wanted to take photo with Zaizai. At first, she was rejected by Zaizai's bodyguards, but it succeded in the end. And as she got what she wanted, she said excitedly, " I love to watch Meteor Garden, and likes Hua Ze Lei the most, it was so perfect, he's just like comic, my husband knows i like it alot, and would watch ."

However, Xue Zhi who wore Emilio Pucci and made an appearence at around 11plus, she asked, " Have Zaizai gone?" But, as he have gone, she missed the chance.

Other than that, Zaizai yesterday flew back to Taiwan with over hundred fans seeing him off. Fans at first thought Zaizai had arrived but it was actually Xiao S, and made boo sounds.

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9th May 2004

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Among them, Zaizai had the most fanfare. He not only had over 100 fans waiting silently outside, he was also the only guest of honor escorted and guarded by security guards, the most prestigious of them all.

Zaizai together with DaS and XiaoS attended the Dior party on the night before yesterday. Zaizai appeared as a delinquent bad student. He wore black Dior suit and a pair of brown sunglasses. There were over 100 fans waiting for him outside. The sponsor set up iron fences to keep order. When reporters asked him to pose for pictures, Zaizai posed with his two thumbs up and made young girl fans to scream. Sexily dressed DaS and XiaoS were coquettish and often greeted other guests.

There were over 100 celebrities attending the party, but only Zaizai was escorted by security guards, accompanied by more than 20 guards. But Zaizai seemed not accustomed to bustling scenes, he stayed in the VIP room most of the time. He only came out to watch the show. Afterwards, Zaizai, DaS, and XiaoS left after approximately over an hour.

Zaizai had just arrived in Hong Kong the day before yesterday. After staying less than 24 hours, yesterday morning, he returned to Taiwan with DaS, and XiaoS. There were over 100 fans already waiting at the airport. The three of them still looked sleepy and muddled. But they all had shaken hands heartily with fan. It happened that yesterday Tan Yonglin also returned to Hong Kong after playing golf in Malaysia.

Zaizai immediately started working on Mars immediately after he returned to Taiwan at noon. Zaizai joked that he was a prince for a day in Hong Kong; after returning to Taiwan, he changed back to a normal person and started working hard.

Source: Sing Tao Daily of Hong Kong

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This trip to HK was Zaizai's first trip after his house caught fire. In regards to Zaizai trimming his hair to change his luck, Zaizai laughed and said, " Yes, caused the fire burnt my hair. (Did the other F3 helped?) The 3 of them asked me not to look for them if i am in trouble, they are selfish, haha, As to all the damages amount, i don't know, anyway, everything's gone. ( Whether he would change his house?) No, i'll only re-renovate it, don't know how much it'll spend. " Tomorrow's Mother's Day, Zaizai wishes his mom Happy Mother's Day and he have shopped for Dior's stuffs for his mom including, bracelet & some other girly stuffs.

Thanks to Wei Wen Pao.
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Zaizai and the ASOS sisters attended the Dior party, three of them were all dressed in Dior. The two sisters wore sexy tube-top mini skirts. During the time, the two sisters were very careful when posing for pictures
lest they should expose themselves. On their side, Zaizai looked very eye-catching in formal suit and with shorter hairdo.

When being confronted him with the fact that he trimmed his hair to change luck after his residence was burned, he laughed and admitted: “Right. Because my hair was burned so I change my hairdo.”
After that, Zaizai spoke frankly that all family goods had been burned. Damages are still being evaluated.
The old residence is still in the middle of being repaired and maintained.

Asked if F3 would help him out, Zaizai cracked a joke, “They told me try as much as possible not to look for their help when I run into difficulty. They are quite selfish.” Obviously Zaizai’s mood was much more cheerful. He answered reporters’ questions on the fire with a smiling face.

ASOS sisters frequent Dior stores. After arriving in Hong Kong, they immediately went shopping at Dior’s and spent NT$60000. When asked if he liked name brands, Zaizai said, “not too terribly.” But he would take this opportunity to buy some small gifts for his mother as Mother Day presents.

Yesterday afternoon, the three of them arrived in Hong Kong. Zaizai came out first. There were over 100 fans waiting at the airport, so it was a bit chaotic. Zaizai looked quite exhausted because he had spent the last few days catching up with filming Mars. But he still accepted gifts from fans.

The two sisters came out after him. They constantly said hello to reports and fans, with smiling faces and looked very coquettish. Zaizai used to stay at some hotel in HuangPu in his past visits to Hong Kong. This time, Dior specially arranged him to stay at the 6 and half star Peninsula Hotel. Many fans had heard of it and waited for him at the hotel beforehand.

Source: Sing Dao Daily of Hong Kong

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Mars, which covers unorthodox and disp*t*ble subjects, shot a scene in which Zaizai, without showing any emotions, lighted a cigarette and stubbed the cigarette in An Juncan's palm. An Juncan accepted it with a smile to show that he was willing to do anything for Zaizai with real actions. The plot was strange and perverted, and indeed had baffled Director Cai Yuanxun and Zaizai. It is because those two has become Quit-Smoking Ambassadors after they have successfully quitted smoking. The scene actually required Zaizai light and smoke a cigarette to display the character's cool dispositions and caused the director and the leading male actor to be in a dilemma.

To shoot the scene true to the original Japanese manga would be in conflict with the status of being a quit-smoking ambassador. To skip the scene would make it difficult to display the perverted feelings between Zaizai and An Juncan. Finally, Cai Yueshun got an inspiration. He arranged Zaizai to take a lighted cigarette from an extra by him and stubbed it in An Juncan's palm. As such, it was not against Zaizai's status as a Quit-Smoking Ambassador,
it also didn't affect the plot. The scene was finally completed without a hitch.

Yesterday, Lin Qinli, spokesperson of Dong Foundation, indicated that, when it asked stars to be spokespeople of quitting smoking, the principle of the foundation is to adopt the attitude of complete trust. According to the stipulations of "Smoking prevention and controlling Law" as well as the status of a Quit-Smoking Ambassador, it's better a spokesperson star does not have smoking scenes on and off screens.

Source: DaChenBao of Taiwan

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