Friday June 16, 2006 Malaysia Star, Malaysia
Delayed celebration
Compiled by LI EE KEE
A beaming Lin Yu Zhong with his award for Best New Artiste.
POOR Lin Yu Zhong. While winners of last Sunday’s Taiwan Golden Melody Awards (GMA) were busy celebrating their victory, this newly crowned GMA best newcomer has to wait until filming for The Beginning completes before he can start uncorking the champagne. The Beginning is the first TV drama collaboration between Media Prima Berhad and MediaCorp Studios Pte Ltd.
At the post-award party, Lin was kept busy with interviews with the various media.
Lin told Sinchew Daily that the win came as a surprise to him.
“It was planned that all the nominees would sit together but as the camera didn’t focus on me, I didn’t think I was going to win. So when they announced my name, I was very emotional but I don’t cry easily.”
After receiving his award, the Sarawakian immediately sent an SMS message to his family to convey the good news. He also received numerous congratulatory messages from friends such as best pal and label mate JJ Lin, who was performing in Shanghai.
“Before his show, he called and gave me words of encouragement. It really meant a lot to me.”
King Leehom
AT last year’s GMA, Karen Mok mispronounced Huang Li Xing’s name as Wang Li Hong (Leehom), causing Wang to run up on stage to accept the award for best Mandarin male singer. It was an embarrassing moment that has haunted Wang for a long time.
At last Sunday’s event, Mok was once again presenting the best Mandarin male singer award.
And this time, Mok got it right. Even Wang praised her. The first thing he said to Mok when he went on stage was: “You speak such accurate Mandarin!”
Later, Wang admitted to Yahoo! Hong Kong that the embarrassment from last year was still etched deep in his memory.
“When I saw Karen, that same awkward feeling returned.”
After being crowned GMA king for the second time, the overjoyed Wang, however, forgot to thank his mum in his speech. He then quickly called to thank her personally.
During the post-award party, an ecstatic Wang helped himself to the free-flowing champagne. Intoxicated, perhaps, he began talking about his former rumoured flame A-mei.
Two nights ago, he caught her show and thought it was brilliant. He sent her an SMS message telling her so. When asked if she had responded, Wang cheekily replied: “You guys can ask her yourself. Asking is the fun part.”
What about his other rumoured girlfriend Shu Qi? Did she send him any congratulatory text messages? Wang, after a long sigh, replied: “I received a lot of text messages from my friends.”
Love wins
It was a great day for Malaysians at the 17th GMA. Lin Yu Zhong picked up best newcomer and the talented Penny Tai received recognition for her composition with the best composer award for her song Crazy Love.
In a report in China Press, Tai explained that the song was a summary of her past loves and served as a reminder to never again love like “crazy”.
“I wrote the song as a closure. But now with this award, it reminds me of my past,” she quipped.
Source:【2006-06-18/Malaysia Star】
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