Thursday, January 21, 2010

My RaiNie "


I remember listening to 4 in Love’s music few years ago. She was merely 16. Four years after the Taiwanese girl band broke up, Rainie Yang Cheng Lin, the youngest member in the group came out with her debut solo album “ Ambiguous”. Rainie has been active in hosting and acting in the past few years, but the now 21-year-old girl insists that her biggest dream is still singing.

Title song “Ambiguous” (Ai Mei), which is also a soundtrack from the Taiwanese youth drama series “Devil Beside You” (E Mo Zai Shen Pang) that Rainie stars recently, became a hit in Taiwan since the series was shown. It describes the ambiguous relationship, ‘more than friends but less than lover’, pretty much like S.H.E.’s “Not Lover Yet” (Lian Ren Wei Man). That’d be a song that many teenage girls can relate themselves.

When I first listened to track 9 “True Blue”, I can immediately sense the J-Pop feel. And I’m right, it’s a cover of an anime song by Japanese girl band, Zone. Rainie did a god job on that song.

The album is not excellent but not a bad one. There are some other good songs such as “Ideal Lover”, “Just Wanna Love You”, “Habit” and “Next Time Smiling”. Her vocal is a bit shaky, however she has a fine voice and room for improvement. Also you can sense her sincerity that she’s taking this seriously.

There are so many female artistes with similar style in the market, whether Rainie can stand up among them will depend on her future albums. After all, this is only her first solo album and her biggest asset is that she’s only 21!

This girl does have courage and the passion for music. Good luck to her!

Track listing:
1.
乖不乖 Guai Bu Guai (Obedient Or Not)
2.
暧昧 Ai Mei (Ambiguous)
3.
理想情人 Li Xiang Qing Ren (Ideal Lover)
4.
只想爱你 Zhi Xiang Ai Ni (Just Wanna Love You)
5.
单眼皮 Dan Yan Pi (Single Eyelid)
6.
习惯 Xi Guan (Habit)
7.
Bu Jian (Not Seeing You)
8.
爱情的颜色 Ai Qing De Yan Se (Color of Love)
9. True Blue
10.
下一次微笑 Xia Yi Ci Wei Xiao (Next Time Smiling)




Who is the boyfriend of rainie yang?


Nobody knows for sure who Rainie is dating but whenever asked the question in interviews, she says "nobody". Also, most rumors, such as the one surrounding mike he, are false.



Ai Mei

Ai mei yang ren shou ji wei qu
shao bu dao xiang ai de zheng ju
he shi gai qian jin, he shi gai fang qi,
lian yong bao dou mei you yong qi

Zhi ne ng pei ni dao zhe li,
bi jing you xie shi bu ke yi
chao gou le you qing, hai bu dao ai qing
yuan fang jiu yao xia yu de fend jing
dao di gai bu gai ku qi
xiang tai duo shi wo hai shi ni,

wo hen bu fu qi
ye kai shi huai yi, yan qian de rien,
shi bu shi tong yi ge zhen, she de ni

[Chorus:]
Ai mei rang ren shou jin wei qu,
zhao bu dao xing ai de zheng ju
he shi gai qian jin,
he shi gai fang qi lian yong dao duo mei you yong qi

Ai mei yang ren bian de tan xin,
zhi dao deng dai shi qu yi yi
wu nai wo he hi, xie bu chu jie ju,
fang yi han de mei li, ting zai zhe li





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Friday, January 15, 2010

" the BEST "



Naked Weapon (赤裸特工) is a 2002 Hong Kong action-thriller film directed by action choreographer Tony Ching and starring Maggie Quigley, Anya Wu and Daniel Wu. Written by prolific film producer Wong Jing, Naked Weapon is similar in theme though unrelated to his earlier work Naked Killer (1992). The film revolves around three female assassins who get close to their targets, primarily through seduction before they kill them.
Having grossed HK$72,828 in the first week of release in Hong Kong, the film quickly dropped out of the top ten best-selling films in the subsequent week

Plot

The movie opens with the assassination of a man of unknown identity. A team of three CIA officers, including Jack Chen (played by Daniel Wu), a rookie, watch through surveillance as a sexy female assassin named Fiona Birch (Marit Thoresen) enters the man's heavily guarded apartment suite and, after having sex with him, kills him by breaking his spine with her bare hands. As she makes her escape in her white Porsche 911 GT3, her car is hit by a rocket. As the officers rush over to extricate her from the wreckage, a woman in a limousine shoots her to death.
The woman in the limousine is revealed to be Madam M (Almen Wong), the leader of a mysterious assassin organization, to which the killed assassin belonged. After the incident, young girls across the globe start disappearing one after another. The only relationship among them is that they are all trained in martial arts or sports. As correctly theorized by Jack, these girls have been abducted by Madam M and transported to an island to be trained to become professional assassins. After six years of gruesome training, only Charlene Ching (Maggie Q), Katt (Anya Wu) and Jing (Jewel Lee) survive and "graduate". The last test in order for them to graduate was a fight for as the latter is killed by Ryuichi, with a sword. The enraged Charlene battles Ryuichi and manages to kill him.
After everything is over, Jack and Charlene's mother, Faye, are at a Chinese temple offering prayers. Faye jokingly says that these things (the gods that she has been praying to) must have been all nonsense in Jack's point of view. But Jack tells her that although he is an atheist he feels peace every time he is in the temple. Faye commends his behavior and says that he should visit the temple more often. Meanwhile, we see Charlene in a Chinese temple praying for Katt's soul to rest in peace and she tells the deity that she wishes to be with the one she truly loves, none other than Jack himself. Jack claims at the end of the movie that there are times when he is sure that Charlene is beside him; the last scene of the movie is Charlene watching Jack rush through the crowd looking for her.
survival/to the death test. Katt and Charlene, being friends, could not kill each other, and so each is accepted as the third survivor. To celebrate Madame M gives them all different wine which has drugs in it. As the drugs take effect Madame M calls her guards who brutally rape the girls, thus (in Madame M's words) making them ready for what was to come.
The three girls are then sent on several missions around the world. During one of her missions in Hong Kong, Charlene coincidently runs into her long-lost mother, Faye Ching (Cheng Pei-pei). Jack, who has been following Madam M's case for the last six years, tracks Charlene down, but Charlene manages to knock him out and escape. Believing that Charlene would return to seek her mother, Jack waits outside Faye's house. However, Jing shows up first and stabs Faye. Jack tries to fend her off but was no match for her. Fortunately, Charlene shows up shortly and kills Jing after a fierce fight. The two then escort the wounded Faye to hospital.

In order to regain their freedom, Charlene and Katt accept a final mission from Madam M. A yakuza boss, Ryuichi (Andrew Lin), has contracted Madam M to eliminate a traitor in his gang. The mission turns out to be Ryuichi's trap to avenge his partner, who was assassinated previously by Madam M's girls. Ryuichi kills Madam M and captures Katt, while Charlene escapes. When Charlene returns the next day to rescue Katt, she watches helplessly through a bullet-proof glass .












Cast:


Almen Wong as Madam M, leader of a mysterious international assassin organization
Maggie Q as Charlene Ching, kidnapped by Madam M and trained to be a professional assassin, Katt's best friend
Anya Wuas Katt, kidnapped by Madam M since young and trained to be a professional assassin, Charlene's best friend
Jewel Lee as Jing, kidnapped by Madam M since young and trained to be a professional assassin
Daniel Wuas Jack Chen, CIA officer on the trail of Madam M and her assassins
Cheng Pei-pei as Faye Ching, Charlene's long-lost mother
Andrew Linas Ryuichi, a Yakuza boss

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