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The 'clumsy' EEG singer Yumiko Cheng left her wallet on a taxi in Shanghai, losing all of her identification cards and is forced to be detained in her hometown until she gets her ID cards back.

She disclosed on Weibo a few nights ago that she carelessly left her wallet on a taxi. She hoped a sincere person would find it and return it to her. She just wanted her Hong Kong ID card and 'Home Return Permit' back, otherwise she won't be able to come back to HK! [TN: 'Home Return Permit' official name is "Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macau Residents"]. Yesterday afternoon, Yumiko left another message on Weibo expressing she found the taxi driver, but unfortunately could not find her wallet. She went back to the location twice to search for it, but sadly came back empty-handed. Yumiko called herself a clumsy person and should really get a good punishment. She expressed the chances of finding the wallet is probably low, but she's still thankful for the help from her friends and fans.

Yumiko disclosed during a phone interview she was terribly busy running around in Shanghai trying to report her losses and do the paperwork. Initially yesterday she and her fiance (Andy) were scheduled to go back to HK together. Yumiko said: "My boyfriend has work, so he had to leave first. My wallet had about HK$10,000 in cash, losing the money is fine, but reporting the losses of my ID card, Home Return Permit and driver's license is really troublesome. There are also my credit cards. Although I took action on reporting the losses fast, but because its the weekend, I'll have to wait at least 5 more days before I can get back to HK. Well, I guess I'm just going to visit my family. (Has your jobs been affected?) I have jobs, but those could be adjusted. The impact is not big."

Yumiko blamed herself for being so careless and now she's suffering a huge consequence. "I will really reflect on myself. I'm always treating the outside world like its my own home. I leave my things lying everywhere. (Andy didn't tell you off?) No, I need to learn a lesson myself because he picked up after me so many times. Haha." Yumiko is walking around without a penny on her, she laughed: "It feels awesome because I can finally rely on men. My parents gave me some money and my boyfriend left me some too before he went back to HK."

Yesterday Dayo Wong walked into TVB City with flip flops and very casual dress for the costume fitting of his new series My Prime Lady. Dayo wasn't used to being at TVB City because its been a long while since he's gone back. He said: "I forgot to bring my parking permit and couldn't even get pass the entrance." Dayo has lost a lot of weight, he stressed he is healthy: "The producer was very worried about me, he asked if I'm alright intently. Actually I'm just keeping fit. I'm currently 130 pounds, which is very normal; it's just my face looks thinner and I still have a belly."

Dayo greatly praised this new series, that the script is very interesting. A few days ago, he met with the lead actress Kate Tsui, the producer and the crew for dinner. Asked if he anticipates a kiss scene with Kate? Dayo said: "I don't want kiss scenes to be the main focus, mentioning it once is enough because it'll get boring if you keep talking about it. When the time comes, if there is a kiss scene, then we'll do it. Actually Kate should not be nervous, there will be enough time to rehearse. Since it's rare that I'm back to shoot a TVB series, then we'll spend more time on it to make it better." The current TVB prime time series TV ratings are very low, is Dayo coming back to rescue the company? Dayo laughed: "They'll die if they rely on me! This series probably won't broadcast until August or January 2014. Relax! TVB is very strong!"

Yesterday Kate Tsui attended an event and when speaking of Dayo Wong, she praised he's very liberal towards money. She said: "Dayo is truly very skinny and he has a skinny face too. The other cast like Elena Kong and Sharon Chan are also very thin, so I'm really working hard to lose weight myself. I'm currently just consuming one meal a day. I spent the rest of my time making my own fruit juices. (Will you pass out?) I don't think so! (Telling Dayo to gain weight is easier?) That's difficult, he didn't really eat anything during our dinner meeting." Kate laughed if there is a chance for her to do a kiss scene with Dayo, she will be honored.

Lately due to TVB new series Beauty At War, lead actresses Christine Ng (Miss 5) and Sheren Tang have been on the headlines. Yesterday it was reported Miss 5 exposed she used to smoke marijuana; she joined the triad; and she's been "the other woman" before. In regards to this, Miss 5 expressed during a phone interview that it is all true, but the article's content were taken from her pass interviews, where she mentioned these facts. She said: "The reporter called me and asked if I'm like this or that. At the time, I was at my hotel room party and even put the call on speaker for my girl friends to listen. They (reporters) just took my past interview recordings and put it together. I basically didn't do any exclusive interview with them."

It was rumored Miss 5 developed a deep relationship with her Beauty At War palace maid sisters, they partied together and didn't even invite her on-screen elder sister Sheren Tang. Miss 5 expressed although she does not have a sisterly relationship with Sheren nor do they have a deep friendship, but they are definitely not on bad terms. She said: "First, I did invite Sheren to my hotel room party, but she's just too busy and didn't have the time. Sheren has a lot to do, she's really really busy. Actually you all shouldn't make it so complicated. Whoever has time, then they're welcome to come, but I did develop a good friendship with the group of palace maids while we were shooting the series. I can really party crazy with them. When I was filming the series, I really didn't get many opportunities to get in touch with my sister (Sheren)."

Miss 5 stressed she didn't pay for the hotel room party, she joked she just has "good benefits" from having too many friends and good people relations. She said the party was sponsored. When speaking of having a lot more gossips because of her increased popularity? She laughed: "Prepared for this, it definitely will be this way! The most important is being able to help the series."

Steven Ma was on Entertainment onShow hosted by Angela Yu and spoke about the reason for his comeback into the music industry. It turns out Steven debuted as a singer 20 years ago. Back then he even won the "Chik Chak 903 Male Newcomer (Silver)" award. When Angela asked why did he withdraw from the music scene? He disclosed the "mystery" behind the newcomer award he won. He said: "Back then there were only two male newcomers, I was one of them and the other was Kevin Cheng. I got the silver award out of luck!" Asked if he's making a comeback this year to celebrate his 'discontinuous' 10 years in the music industry? Steven said: "I'm not launching this album this year (2013) because I had one in 1993 and 2003, nor is it for my 20th anniversary in showbiz. Actually it is because I decided that this is the right time and coincidentally there is an investor interested."

In the past year, Steven has been actively working in Mainland. He once said he can buy a mansion just by shooting 1.5 series. Steven smiled and expressed that is a joke. This year he's not launching an album because of money, "It is because I enjoy singing."

Steven's new plug Tacit (心照) is a song about friendship. The inspiration came from his interaction with his group of athlete friends. He said: "In the past few years, aside from shooting TV series, I've also started playing badminton, so I met many athlete friends. In fact, the athletes have one characteristic, that is they are very straightforward. They never over think and have simple thoughts, so I enjoy being with them."

Steven is returning to TVB soon to shoot a new series with his 'god-sister' Tavia Yeung and 'second brother' Evergreen Mak. When speaking of Tavia being the female lead in one of his MVs 10 years ago, Steven said: "I had no impression on her at all. I didn't know she was Tavia Yeung." Later, the two collaborated in several series and became good friends and god-siblings.

TVB series Bullet Brain has been and continues to be a low rated series. Day after day, there are discussions on the plot -- from Columbo (Wayne Lai) going crazy to Sire Ma calling "Bo Bo" 35 times, even Bao Ping On (Pierre Ngo) has gone crazy too. There was also the science fiction fight scene between Columbo and Ping On. In last night's episode, "Bo Bo" suddenly had the power to read a person's mind and saw right into Mui Mui's mind (Natalie Tong) as she cuts up her affair partner (Geoffrey Wong) with a chain saw and then cooked him in soup. Despite the heated discussions, the TV rating for that episode (Weds. night) dropped to 21 points. Natalie Tong's psychotic murdering scene got 10 complaints too -- shouldn't be airing such scenes during family hours; causes a negative influence on children; the scenes were too bloody and violent; and the handle of the corpse was too terrifying and disturbing.

Producer Lee Tim Shing investigated into the issue as to why this series failed. He said: "The fault is I didn't know the audience didn't like to sit and watch TV. I asked for opinions, some people told me they didn't understand what was going on. I was curious as to why they didn't understand, the character developments should have worked out. I asked again in more detail. It turns out the audience were skipping episodes. If you skipped two episodes, then of course you wouldn't understand what's going on!"

Tim Gor continued: "Working at the same job for so many years, I'll go crazy. I wanted to do something new!" He found a reason from his failure, the audience just don't like this kind of structure for a series. They just aren't used to sitting still to watch TV. During the filming of this series, he and the editor done all of their 'kung fu' to produce this series and didn't slack on it at all. "The cast, editor and I have put our heart into the work, it does not matter whether we lose or not. I can afford failure." However, the audience still favor ethical stories. No Reserves (RB3) is also Tim Gor's collaboration with the Bullet Brain editor Yip Gwong Yam. He expressed this time, the big concept isn't as complicated. When asked if he dares to do another one of these again? He laughed: "Temporarily put it aside first, but I just cannot concede!"

In the series, Sire Ma constantly calls Wayne Lai "Bo Bo", which has been annoying the audience. Yesterday afternoon, Wayne attended an event and when taking pictures, a reporters called him "Bo Bo". Wayne was immediately taken aback, he jumped and laughed: "Don't call me that! Even the dead will come back alive!" Regarding the failure of this series, Wayne said: "Failure isn't a bad thing, one can learn from the negative and bad experience. I'm matured today because of my past failures. I'm very positive, I won't feel unhappy because of this nor will I try to escape from the issue. I don't think this series is bad, and I've done many bad films in the past."

Yesterday Ada Choi returns to work after her postpartum month ended to shoot an advertisement for skincare brand Suisse Reborn. Ada successfully lost weight after childbirth, but expressed she still has to lose 8 more pounds. "My daughter is already 20 pounds. I'm breastfeeding her, but she has diarrhea after drinking her milk, then she'll drink again and the cycle repeats. I'm so exhausted I asked her why doesn't she take a nap first because her mother is just too tired! But when I see her cute and chubby face, it's all worth it."

When speaking of her new series Beauty At War's poor ratings. Last Tuesday and Wednesday, the ratings went down to 20 and 21 points; that's a new low! Ada admitted she does feel a bit unhappy: "We all know about the ratings, but I hope the audience will have a bit more patience and watch the series carefully. When I'm watching, my daughter cries, but I just stick a stuff animal at her. My daughter also thinks Eddie Kwan is me! Because he's covered with the Chinese opera makeup."

Sheren Tang disclosed the script wasn't ready at the time of filming. Ada expressed: "We just didn't have our lines yet, the scenes were all allocated already and there was a synopsis, so we knew what the story was about. Actually, I didn't have to do as much homework. This way, nothing was set up and the outcome is more natural."

Pretty mom Leila Tong is still very fit after childbirth. Her facial shape seems sharper, clearly giving her a more mature and feminine look. When asked whether caring for her son had been too difficult that she lost weight? She said: "When I'm not working, I stay with my son. I love playing with him, it's so much fun. I don't find it difficult at all." Leila's friends says she and her 2 year old little boy resemble more like an older sister and younger brother. Such a cute and heartwarming relationship.

Also a dog lover, Leila has four dogs. She lives with her coffee-colored mongrel hence his name "Coffee", the other three dogs stay at her maternal home. Coffee is not only a playmate to Leila's son, but also his "big brother". Leila laughed: "My son calls him 'big brother' because Coffee is in fact older than him. Also we're just like a family."

Recently, Leila has fallen in love with yoga, she expressed exercising can get tiring, but it can relax one's mind and be a stress reliever. She said: "Yoga made my mind a lot more peaceful and can help regulate stress in my everyday life, so I will continue with this exercise."