Death of Lydia Shum (沈殿霞)

Farewell Lydia Shum! The Chinese Entertainment scene will forever miss this, once lively, cheerful and lovely lady. Best known by all as Fei-fei (肥肥), an on-screen name for her bubbly, and plump outlook, she has appeared in many well-known Hong-Kong flims, as well as many foreign international productions.

Health & death

Lydia Shum had several chronic ailments : cholangitis, diabetes, and hypertension. In 2002, she was admitted to hospital and had 36 gallstones extracted. In September 2006, Shum was diagnosed with a liver tumor and cancer around the gallbladder. Immediately, doctors removed one third of her liver.

Prior to the cholecystectomy done in 2002, she had a history of bile duct inflammation as early as 1978. The inflammation recurred in 1989. On September 22, 2006 the bile duct inflammation had recurred, and 4 days later, the inflammation had complicated the liver and her coma began. She woke from the coma on October 1, 2006. On January 29, 2007 she once again entered the operating room to remove a liver tumor which weighed 2.7kg. On March 8, 2007 the tumor was found to be growing again so she had a cholecystectomy once again.

On November 1, 2006, a 24-year-old Indonesian domestic helper, Triyuliarti Yuyun, was convicted of violating the Hospital Authority Ordinance and sentenced to four weeks in jail. Yuyun entered a ward at the Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong (QMH) on October 1, 2006 where Shum had been receiving treatment, and attempted to take photographs of Shum. Later, it was confirmed that Yuyun was a domestic helper to one of the employees of the local magazine East Week, but she had not been authorized to take photographs of Shum. East Week's senior management did not approve of the action and offered an apology to Shum. Sentencing Magistrate Colin Mackintosh said Yuyun's actions were premeditated and done for financial gain and that the serious infringement of the patient's privacy warranted a custodial sentence. On that occasion, Shum was discharged from the hospital in July 2007.

On October 11, 2007, Shum collapsed at home due to pleural effusion, and was rushed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong for emergency treatment. She was transferred to the QMH later that day. She was discharged from the hospital on October 16, 2007.

Shum was admitted to the intensive care ward at QMH on 22 January, 2008 and checked out on 26 January, 2008. Her mother passed away in Canada while Shum was in the hospital.
She was once again admitted to the intensive care ward at QMH on 2 February, 2008. Her conditions worsened, so on February 19, 2008 - 3 a.m. (local time) her family decided not to let her suffer more. It was decided that her breathing apparatus would be removed from her, her family spent time with her by her bedside till she passed away peacefully at 8:38 a.m. (local time). It is unfortunate that she was not able to say her last words then.

Prior to her death, she was known to be suffering of liver cancer and had been fighting it for 2 years. As part of the treatment for her illness, she underwent Chemotherapy and several Kidney dialysis. On February 20, 2008, Shum's family announced in Hong Kong that Shum will be buried next to her mother in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.


Her Biography

Shum was born in 1945 in Shanghai, China. However, many media reports cite 1947 as the year of birth for Shum.
She made her film debut in 1960, joining Shaw Brothers as a teenage actress (she was 15 at the time). Her stardom began with the widely televised TVB variety show Enjoy Yourself Tonight, first singing with the Four Golden Flowers and played a role as a Shanghai woman in the 1970s. She partnered with Roman Tam in singing from 1971 to 1973.
She has since been established as mainly a comic and dramatic actress, but has appeared in many films in different genres. Kung fu fans will recognize her from her role as Yuen Cheung-Yan's dominating wife in the film Drunken Tai Chi. She also appeared as Richard Ng's wife in the all-star comedy Millionaire's Express and in It's a Mad Mad World in a major role. She took a leave from her movie career in 1997, and hosted a talk show in Hong Kong, along with numerous telethons and variety shows on TVB. She returned to films in 2004 with the comedy In-Laws Outlaws.

Shum starred in Singapore's Channel 5 sitcom Living with Lydia and Cantonese series like Slim Chances. Her performance in Living with Lydia won her the "Best Comedy Performance by an Actress" award at the 2003 Asian Television Awards. She said it was the first time she had acted in an English drama in her 40 year career so far.

Here are two references, if you wish to read up more about her:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Shum
http://batgwa.com/story.php?id=627

New Year Resolution

Here are my New Year Resolution. I'm trying to list things that I can do within my means now...

1) Continue to do facial treatment (I wanna have smooth face!!!)
2) More formal clothes (At least 10-15 more sets)
3) Leather belt
4) Leather shoe ( I'm aiming at Pedro or Aldo)
5) New PC monitor or CPU (My current one is nearing "R.I.P")
6) Driving license (Finally....)

Optional:
1) Dental
2) Lasik surgery (Heard from my friend is about 4K for 2 eyes)

...I'm sorry...

I'm sorry...
I don't know what else to say. But "Sorry"...

French Revolution

Went over to my Godma's house but god dad & god brother not around as they have went to work.

Not much has changed in their house. Just a few new additions, two stingray!!! haha!!! I tell you, they are absolutely CUTE!!! But JUST DON'T STING ME... will do...

Heard that my god dad had a slight stroke last year, but luckily it wasn't life threatening. So, he had a good one year rest, and now he's slowly back to his feet again & slowly going back to driving taxi again... At least that's something good to hear...

Left her house around 1:30pm. Because my Grandma's house got Lion Dance at 3pm, and we were told to be early.

The original plan was this:
- Lion dance from 3pm to 3:30pm.
- Small meal from 3:30pm to 4pm
- Black Jack from 4pm to 5:15pm.
- BYE! BYE! Go meet friends at Chinatown.

But the Lion Dance troops were awfully late. They came at 5:30pm!!! And the whole show was only a miserable 10-15 mins!!! OH MY GOD!!! WASTE MY TIME!!!

After that, i quickly rush down to Chinatown to meet Steve, Jane, Bernice & Sally. They were at this French Restaurant, Les Brasseries, it's a semi-fine dining restaurant besides Ikukan Japanese Restaurant. It's located at the cross junction between Club Street & Mohamed Ali Lane.

Though we only had 5 people, but we were given a VIP room, with our own mirror, Champagne Chiller etc etc.

The assistants were very friendly, and very willing to promote their famous dishes, as well as recommend a few types of wines to compliment the food.

Food was just simply DIVINE!!! The restaurant is very generous with the servings, and you get what you pay for. As for wine, we ordered a glass, and it was half filled! Very generous...

The Manager was very warm & constantly gather feedback from us. And we even received a discount card for our next visit! AWESOME!!!

The photos...

Our Table

Glass, Candle, Flower Basket

Salmon Salad

Pumpkin Soup

Codfish with mushroom & cream sauce

Pasta

Salmon Gravadlax with grains

Pan Smeared Salmon Fillet

Pork Chop with BBQ Sauce

Groupie at ZOUK!

Sorry guys, we forgot to take the photo of the Duck Confit

New Clothes!!!

Went out on 2nd Day of Chinese New Year & meet up with Bernice & Sally.

Met Bernice first @ City Hall. We were supposed to go Orchard Road but 90% of the shops were closed, so we went to City Hall instead. Luckily most restaurants were opened, so we had our lunner (Lunch + Dinner) at Sakae Sushi. Not many people, very cosy & nice.

Ordered alot of food. But we forgot to take photos... (Sorry! We were busily munching away.. ha! ha!)

We were surprised that Zara was opened for business on 2nd Day of CNY, and luckily I bought my $100 Zara Shopping Voucher. HA! HA! It was one of the best times I had shopping at Zara. There were about 6-7 guys (Excluding Male Assistants) at the Male Section at any one time. Thus, I was able to take my time trying on the clothes I fancy, without the need to rush through things. Cause, normally, Zara @ Marina Square would be packed with Shop-a-holics, and the queue outside the Changing Room would be so long that it just simply turns my shopping mood off!

Bought one set of shirt & pants plus a V-Neck T-shirt, after discount, around $150.

Then, we set off to meet Sally & we sat down at New HongKong Cafe to chill...

"Tickle, Tickle..." My itchy finger... Ha! ha!

My fingers just can't resist the temptation... Ha! ha!

Groupie Shot!

The V-Neck Shirt I bought

Ice Kacang!!! My Favourite!!!

!!!Happy Chinese New Year!!!

YEAH!!! LIGHT THE CRACKERS!!! SOUND THE DRUMS!!! BRING OUT ALL THE REDNESS!!! IT'S CHINESE NEW YEAR AGAIN!!!

And it's the Year of the Rat. (My Year...ha Ha! I was born 2 weeks before Year of the Ox)

Here's a Spring Couplet(Chun Lian, 春联) to wish everyone a very Happy Chinese New year.

On my Birthday: 29th Jan

Every year, an unknown fear would strike me, especially on my Birthday, because many unusual, weird and unlucky things would happen to me... Thus, every time my Birthday comes by, I would be extra careful, be it what I say or what I do.

This year's birthday was no exception as well. Throughout the whole day I was very careful, constantly reminding myself to be extra careful in whatever things I do or say...

Thankfully the day ended without much "hic-cups". At night, met up with Ber, and we headed to our "Secret Hideout" haha!

When I met her, she passed me a cake. At first I thought she was the one who bought it, but it turned out to be her guy friends, which really came at a surprise. Because in my option, they don't really like me much. But, what they did today was rather sweet. And it brought a slight smile to my face...

Some photos we took:

!!!Post Birthday Update!!!

HA! HA! I finally managed to grab hold of those "loose" photos which I didn't managed to get hold of...

Here are they: