Ten minutes after Liyi laid her manicured fingers on the photos, I walked into the office and asked for the same thing. She knows that cruzteng.com readers are waiting for the Hit Awards photos, and hence passed me the disk first. Awwwww…

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Don exclaimed loudly last night, “You bought a new phone!”. I gave him a bewildered look until he continued, “You never blog about it. How I know ah?“.

Ok. My friends and I don’t talk anymore. They rely on this blog to catch up on my latest happenings. If that’s indeed the case, would it be of any interest to anyone that I’ve been gobbling an unusually high amount of fibre since I came back from Hong Kong, because I, erm… haven’t been using as much toilet paper as I should have when I was there?

Back to the phone purchase… I was really happy with my Nokia N95. I got it shortly before my great big fall last year. Yes, it went into the drain with me. It would have entered the operating theatre with me if not for the fact that no electrical items were allowed in there. (I wouldn’t be conscious to take pictures with the 5megapixel camera anyway.) It’s so sturdy that I didn’t blink an eyelid when I dropped it again and again and again and again.

Then, my friends were starting to mock at my dear N95. The paint had started to peel, and there were more and more scratches, no thanks to my chor lor ness. And you know what, my N95 had a life of its own! Five minutes after I told Andrew I was likely to join him in the iPhone club, the N95 refused to deliver any SMSes! I rebooted the phone repeatedly and tried resending SMSes in different parts of the island, but the phone simply refused to work! It was displaying a furious fit of jealousy, I think.

Anyway, I went to a Hello! store the same night. The Singtel people received a call 30 minutes before my arrival, “Cruz Teng is coming just before closing time to get a white 16GB iPhone. Let him cut the queue!“.

I love its sleekness.
I love the downloaded applications.
I love how it sync’ed with my MacBook within seconds.

I hate its keypad.
I hate how I have to totally concentrate while typing SMSes.

The current buzzword between the bestest friend and myself is “Farm”. I meant to say “what the fark“, and the phone corrected the word to “farm” just before I pressed the ’send’ button.

I’m going to chuck this iPhone if I “farm” somebody one more time.

#1: Cruz Teng is plain stupid.
I was walking up and down in Tsim Sha Tsui on Thursday with a bag and two new pairs of Adidas. I was startled to feel a slight strain and began to wonder if my stamina was failing. It was after a full two hours on the streets that I realised I had an unopened bottle of mineral water and a can of Coke in my bag. 1,800 ml of liquid in total. Dumbness.

#2: Cruz Teng isn’t such a shopping freak after all.
Contrary to what my friends predicted, I didn’t return with an additional suitcase in tow. After exploring Central, Causeway Bay and Mongkok the last couple of days, and some last minute walkabout in Tsim Sha Tsui and the airport, I came back with only a suit and two pairs of shoes. The only thing that I was really tempted to buy was a white Gucci bag I saw at HK Terminal 1. I didn’t ask for the price, but estimate it to be about S$2,000. I’m not sure why, but I wasn’t in a shopping mood ley…

#3: Cruz Teng is a jinx. Guarantee, chop stamp, confirm
They discovered melamine in eggs on the eve of my departure. People flocked to the Bank of Asia when a profit warning was issued the day I arrived. Krispy Kreme Hong Kong went bust the very next day. I’m not the only one in anguish. My media friends in HK tell me that the stores will remain in operation until they finish up their current stock of flour and other artery blocking ingredients. It was the first and probably the last time that I pack 24 pieces of Original Glazed doughnuts in Hong Kong…

2001年開始主持五年半的〈全球華語歌曲排行榜〉、也分別在上海、台北和新加坡主持過〈全球榜頒奬典禮〉，我對這個節目和活動是特別有感情的。由北京、廣東、香港、上海、台北、馬來西亞和新加坡電台主辦的全球榜頒奬儀式今天在香港電台舉行。08年天災不斷，華人地區電台投入大量資源救災。因此，主辦方決定以簡單莊重的記者會取代原有奢華的頒奬典禮。

北京台今天下午宴請各台代表。前幾年都和相識的海外DJ坐在一塊兒，天南地北講個沒完。本台高層今年缺席，我就“升格”到了主賓席和各台首席代表打招呼。深深的酒窩便是最佳的破冰道具。:) 之前還擔心會underdress。結果。。。我。。。至少人家會說我尊重大會。哈哈。

下午3點08分，儀式開始。香港電台第二台和普通話台現場直播。大批媒體和歌迷聚集在廣播道的香港電台演播室。剛在〈新加坡金曲獎〉拿下‘最佳本地歌手獎’的蔡健雅和我在一旁，等待一分鐘後上台啟動頒奬儀式並立刻揭曉〈全球榜〉‘新加坡地區傑出歌手獎’成績。

Cruz：
Do you understand Cantonese?

Tanya：
No!

Cruz：
Me too. Ok, we monkey see monkey do.

Tanya：
Ok ok.

香港電台的司儀分別用華語和廣東話主持。其中一人忽然通過麥克風用廣東話和我們兩人講了幾句話。

Tanya：
What did she say?

Cruz：
I have no idea. Oh no! What are we supposed to do?

Tanya：
Phototaking is it? Look in front and smile!

哈哈哈！！！

蔡健雅最終獲頒6項大奬：傳媒推薦女歌手獎、最佳專輯（Goodbye & Hello）、最佳專輯製作人（Goodbye & Hello）、年度廿大金曲（達爾文）、新加坡傑出歌手、最受歡迎女歌手五強。小寒憑〈達爾文〉獲最佳作詞。

Cruz (SMS):
OMG OMG OMG! You’ve just won Best Lyrics with Darwin at the Global Chinese Music Awards!!!

Xiaohan:
Wow. That’s really good news! Thanks for letting me know!

新加坡確實在本屆〈全球榜〉取得重大突破。小寒成為第一位在〈全球榜〉獲得作詞獎項的新加坡音樂人。作曲人已數次獲得區域性肯定，而作詞人在華語水平較高的區域舞台都被認為是處於下風的，所以這是一個重要的里程碑！蔡健雅也成為第一位獲〈全球榜〉製作人以及傳媒獎的新加坡歌手。請各位繼續加油。咱們的孫燕姿已五次獲得〈全球榜〉最受歡迎女歌手、阿杜曾獲金曲、林俊傑曾得五大男歌手、李偲菘曾以〈我要得幸福〉獲最佳作曲獎。我們就差‘最佳男／女歌手’！Majulah Singapura！

〈全球榜08〉七大主要獎項名單：
最佳男女歌手：陳奕迅、容祖兒
最受歡迎男女歌手：羅志祥、蔡依林
傳媒推薦男女歌手：曹格、蔡健雅
最佳製作人獎：蔡健雅

製作單位沒給各地電台代表安排座位，美麗高貴的普通話台台長伍曼儀頻頻鞠躬致歉。沒事兒！我樂得到處串門子。讓我安安分分坐上兩個小時才要我的命。禮拜六剛見了陳奕迅和林宥嘉，我們微笑點頭。。。幾個月前剛到新加坡的曹格和我一同做了一件‘不能給外人知道的事’。。。見到張敬軒，才剛說完‘好久不見’，他就馬上問瑪莉的近況。。。和蔡依林錄音，原以為她會速戰速決，沒想到她居然滔滔不絕。倒是一位之前沒碰過面的男歌手，在三分多鐘的錄音過程中完全沒有看我一眼，給的答案也是極度敷衍的。嗯，你不會知道他是誰，因為那種沒有內容的訪問是不會在空中播出的。

Unless I have to be on air, I generally don’t do breakfasts. And with that ultra comfy bed, I HAD to sleep till noon!

I’m probably going to be labelled a loser for eating so little in Hong Kong, but the thing is I cannot gorge. I have a TV shoot next week. And even if I’m not doing that shoot, I can’t afford to have a triple chin.

The service here is impeccable, I tell you. I had intended to get a blazer, but bought a whole suit because the lady was so nice and patient. She even got me a pair of leather shoes as I was trying on the clothes. And it was the the exact size!

香港之行花絮＃3：

HG is furious. First I took a photo with her 林宥嘉 on Saturday, then I saw her 陳小春 at 中環 today. LOL

香港之行花絮＃4：

I heard Avril Lavigne’s Complicated at three different places this afternoon. And the song is on TV now…