Featuring : Nancy Wu

Artist Featuring is a new feature I'm starting on this blog :) it resembles a lot at my usual "talks" where I write random things about everything I think of a certain artists;series, music, personal life, news,  etc. For this first time I want to feature Nancy Wu.

What made me chose her is this article that I read, about her thinking how she wasn't good enough. ->  http://asianuniverse.net/forums/Nancy_Wu_Am_I_That_Bad_t356873.html  I will come back to this later on in this post.

General 
I looked her up on Wikipedia. She was known through her participation in TVB's 18th Annual New Talent Singing Awards competition (Top 4) as well as TVB's 3rd Annual Cover Girl Competition (Where she won many things). Then, she enrolled in TVB's acting class.

I'm always very impressed by actress who actually "learned" acting and went into acting class. They seem to be like the ones who really worked hard for it and really want it. (I'm not criticizing actresses who entered to TVB after winning pageants.. .but in some way, they actors who studied acting do seem to know more about it)

Series 
Series I've seen of her ; Ten Brothers (Tong tong), Forensic Heroes III (Eva), Daddy Good Deeds (Wendy), Season Of Love (Chau Sang)

Ten Brothers is one of the series I watched a while ago, but I still remember her character well...because she had my chinese name in it :P She played a stubborn but kind girl in it. Her character seemed quite important since it was one of the only "girls" character in it (since there are 10 brothers; 10 guys) and I think she shared a good chemistry with Jack Wu. So she already left me a quite deep impression then, and even though I haven't watched any of her series from 2008-2011, I recognized her right away as "Tong Tong from 10 brothers" in Forensic Heroes 3. (which is rare because I didnt use to recognize people at that time) I saw her again last year in Daddy Good Deeds.

In both FH3 and DGD, she played the wife of someone. I could see that she made huge steps from Ten Brothers and her acting improved a lot :) Her scenes where she was mad & yelling, were very convincing. Eva, wife of Wayne Lai in FH3, was nice at first, then started to be irritating since she didn't seem to care about her family, but that was the goal and Nancy reached it. In DGD, she was the wife of Evergreen Mak and the sister in Law of Cilla Kung and Linda Chung. Together, they really looked like a real family :)

I recently watched Season Of Love and was happy to see Nancy again  in it. She seemed to have had a more important role and become the center of attention of the 5 episodes of the season since it was her life, that the whole story was around. Was interesting to see the 3 versions of her life, and I think she did well at showing the same character but with a different personality. Must not have been that easy since it had to look like the same person, but yet different. If you get what I mean.. :P
Even if I haven't saw the serie Gloves Come Off, I heard that she played a mute girl in it and used sign language. Once again, impressive :) I'm gald that she won Best Supporting actress for it at the TVB awards last december! It proves that she has the potential to act.

Singing

Another thing I wanted to mention is that..Nancy can sing!! I didn't knew she entered a tvb singing competition at first, so I was very impressed the first time I heard her singing at the New Year countdown. The song was really catchy and I enjoyed hearing Nancy sing it :) 

& when I heard her singing at the Starhub awards, I was like yup, she can really sing! Sorry bout the quality of the second video... its the only good one I found xD Im so happy she sang the themesong of THC cause it's one of my favorite serie:) Plus, heard the person recording (or someone near) saying that she sang quite well, hehe :) Nancy really sings better then I though! (And better then some tvb singers too...:P) 

News (article at top of the post) 

The only news article I want to talk about it the one I posted at the beginning (especially the first two parts..)  I know Nancy had other news/rumors of boyfriends and stuff, but I don't want to get into that, it would be way too long and I don't want to comment on her relationship since I do not know that much about it.. 

So, I felt really sad for Nancy after reading that article and seeing her low self-esteem. I don't like her saying that she is not pretty enough, cause she is beautiful! If not, she wouldn't even be where she is right now. She has all the acting skills that she needs, so soon enough, I believe that she will get bigger roles. I hope so! Quoting her :  "I cannot control the ability of others, so I can only control my own abilities. I will just have to try my best and let the audience recognize I am someone worthy of challenges." 

Love what she said :) She really seems to be really trying, so I wish all the best for her. Nancy, I support you lots!! The article also talked about how she could pair with Wayne, and I agree! She really looked like a great couple with him in FH3 and the two seemed to share a good chemistry. Hope that her pairing with Wayne can be advantageous for her by allowing her to have bigger roles in series :) Looking forward to see more from Nancy!! 

*When I write these kind of things, I sometimes secretly expect that the artist will read it, if ever they randomly google themselves and bump onto my website, haha. That's why I say "you" sometimes, like for "I support you" :P Just ignore it if you're a regular reader, hahahaha xD 

Love Love Love by Linda Chung

So I recently bought Love Love Love by Linda Chung on YesAsia...I have to say, I LOVE LOVE LOVE it :) 

I was so excited when I unpacked the whole thing especially because I saw the little booklet with pictures and a message of Linda :D I thought the note from her was sooo sweet and cute! 

My favorite song of it is definetly Love Love Love. It's so happy and sounds different from what she does usually!! I really hope there can be a music video :) There were also lots of nice pics of Linda :D 

I also love the music video of You're my other half! It different from her usual music videos where she's often just walking and singing :D I feel like it has its very own mini movie behind it :) 

To buy the album : 

 http://www.yesasia.com/us/love-love-love-cd-dvd/1031958099-0-0-0-en/info.html 

http://www.yesasia.com/us/love-love-love-cd-dvd-with-album-poster/1032011986-0-0-0-en/info.html  (with poster)

Evolve by Myolie Wu

For the past month...I've been fangirling over Myolie Wu non-stop.....yess, I've only become her fan recently, I wrote a post about that previously. You can read it here :  http://tvb-perspective.blogspot.ca/2012/08/my-favorite-tvb-actresses-2-myolie-wu.html

So....since then, I've been searching a lot about her on internet and youtube...I already knew she was a singer but never actually really listened to her songs...until, again, last month :) That's why I'm writting this post now...even if her album came out in 2008! And gooshhh I wish I have started listening to her music before that because it's so good! I didn't know she was such an amazing singer. Her songs are so catchy...and I listen to them everyday now :) 

浪漫世紀 (Romantic Century) is my favorite song of the entire album :D I don't even know why I love it so much...I just do xD And my favorite part is when she sings 

我有著你　任何地方都有力氣 (I can stay strong at anything with you by my side)

你令我任何事都撐得起 (You can make me go through anything)

I suck at translation...xD but that's kinda what those two sentence mean :) 

And this song....gosh this song. It makes me so sad everytime I listen to it but I love it so much. At that time, their relationship wasn't public yet...but while singing together, we could feel their love for each other. I mean, they weren't singing it just to sing it for TVB's theme song, they really meant what they sang. At that time. What makes me even more sad is when they sing :

Oh Baby I love you,
I'll love you everyday

......anyways...their relationship ended so I don't want to talk about it any further since I already made a post about it....

So, now, since I'm currently a huge fan of Myolie Wu, more post of her will come soon :) Banners, Icons, Drawings and moree :)

Beautiful Life by Fala Chen - my impressions

This is the package you get when
you buy  Fala's album :) 

This is my first music review! :) I got Fala's album a few days ago, when I wen to Toronto. I originally wanted to buy the poster too, but it was too expensive....luckly, there's a mini poster included in the actual album so I was quite happy! :D Sticked it on the wall on my room. xD

So about the actual music...back then about a year ago, when I first heard that Fala was gonna have an album, I was....intrigued. I mean, I saw some comments that said she couldn't even speak cantonese well, how can she sing? I kind of agreed even if I never really commented about it...and didn't paid much attention on Fala's album news until her MV half came out. I listened to it and I was like, wow, she can actually sing! After I started listening to it, my thoughts changed a bit. When it came to high notes, like in the first song of the album, Fala doesn't do as well....I think she can only sing easy/simple songs. So my favorite song of her stays Half :) The video is posted below if you want to watch the MV! Anyways, I think she can still improve and I'd still support her if she has a second album :)