Compiled by C. ARUNO, ELISHA MARY EASTER and R. ARAVINTHAN
VETERAN Hong Kong singer Wakin Chau (pic) has finally announced that he is fine, days after suffering a fall during a concert in China, Sin Chew Daily reported.
“I had a minor fall. Nothing to worry about. Thank you everyone for your concern.
“Please be careful when it’s raining! All in all, I am very well. Please do not worry!” the Mandopop star wrote on his personal website.
The 63-year-old had a slip after singing at the Hai’an Stars Concert in eastern Jiangsu province last Sunday.
Video footage of the incident shows the rain-soaked floor and the singer grimacing in pain as he struggled to get up before staff members and several concert-goers rushed him to hospital.
Internet users, who had been worried about Chau due to his age, heaved a sigh of relief after the singer reassured the public about his condition.
“Wakin, please be more careful next time. It pains me to see you fall,” one netizen wrote.
> The daily also reported that Hong Kong singer Charlene Choi had made known her dislike for durian when filming a TV programme in Singapore.
Choi, 41, along with her bandmate Gillian Chung, 43, was assigned to work at the 99 Old Trees Durian shop as part of an episode of Girls’ Spectacular Journey.
The avowed foodie has been seen stuffing herself with an array of food in front of the camera but when it came to tasting durian for the first time, she recoiled before spitting out the pungent fruit.
“How is this tasty?” she asked.
On the contrary, fellow Hong Kong singer Joey Yung, 43, the third star in the travel show, gushed about the fruit.
“Fragrant, smooth, soft and carries an aftertaste. It’s so therapeutic when you open the shell,” Yung, an obvious durian lover, enthused.
Her co-stars on the show looked bemused, to which Yung said: “If you understand, you understand.”
In addition to her aversion to the tropical “King of Fruits”, Choi also admitted to disliking watermelon.
“I can’t stand the smell. It makes me queasy.
“I ate it once as a child but puked after that. I never tried it again,” she recounted.
Between watermelon and durian, Choi said she would still pick the latter.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
