For everyone who's in a bit of a debacle over the fact that Sun Zhong doesn't allow people to date within his company, I think that Orchids has a very very good point. Most of the Jstars are fairly young, so the chances of breakups and turmoils are extremely high.That would cause dissent and "factions" within Jungiery. Plus, Sun Zhong makes it extremely extremely clear that Jstars aren't allowed to date (and personally, I'd find it weird, even if I was in a perfectly happy relationship to see my significant other in the office every single day) so if you weren't happy with that clause, then you wouldn't join the company. Besides, when you're a celebrity, your private and public life is basically at the mercy of the paparazzi anyways, as unobtrusive as Taiwanese paparazzi can get...

And since Jungiery is so close, I think that for them, dating one another would be like dating family. I know that in AQMFS when Weiru had to kiss Shaowei she kept on saying how weird it was, "like kissing an older brother [or something]." And as for the Pingbi's, well other management companies do those too, and it just encourages the Jstars to be silly, and create that family atmosphere AND keep on their creative toes because it's very easy to fall into a rut if you're not vigilant.

alrite.sorry somkit about that misunderstanding.yeh!good thing that you like osme of their bands!nah,the management thing doesnt really bother me.i think sun zhong is doing a great job

I get u'r point, now i understand why sun zhong doesn't allowed them to have a love affair between jungiery stars.
But if there is love between some of jungiery stars, what would they do?
Keeping their feeling one another?

Well, I know that love/feelings aren't something that you can force, and if two people within Jungiery happen to like each other a lot...well, they are free to do a few things

a) ignore it. they don't act upon it. and yes, it's irritating, but that's the life you signed up for when you agreed to become part of Jungiery.

leave the company. one person, or the other, or both, leaves Jungiery. There may be some penalty that needs to be exacted for leaving the company, such as a termination fee or something else, and of course, it'll be a mar on your personal record for the rest of you... erm.. life, but hey! you'll do anything for love, right?

c) date, and keep it a secret until it's broken out into the world like ZaiZai and Toro's was... and then create a huge scandal.

d) OR just wait until your contract terms are up, don't renew (Sun Zhong knows that he's investing in idols, not necessarily artists that will last a lifetime, so contracts are probably 10years max), and then go and fall in love, if you'd like.

I mean, it's your personal choice what to do, but I think it was pretty unfair for ZaiZai and Toro to break Sun Zhong's trust like that. Cause frankly put, people look badly upon Sun Zhong because he kicked ZZ out of Jungiery, but if it was anything OTHER than dating Toro (like embezzling money, or breaking any other contract terms), the no one would think Sun Zhong wasn't justified. But it's the fact that it has to do with feelings and "gan qing" that everyone looks so lowly on Sun Zhong. Frankly, I think he was perfectly justified and right. You broke the rules, one of the highest rules, and I'm going to have to punish you-- I don't want to do it, but it has to be done.

Here is the March JStar calender!

oooh~ thanks for the march calendar~
i think sunzhong is a very smart business man~ and that's why all the jstars are soo popular and successful. his promoting tactics and skills are awesome. even if you don't like the jstars, you still know who they are.

hey relax okay? although everyone of us is entitled to have our own opinions here, it doesnt mean that u can be so vulgar in it. so please dont say this again in the future, like criticising j stars or whatever. if you want to criticise, go to the critics hangout or put it in a much nicer way. if not, please refrain from using words like those u used in your post.

i am a fan of j stars. although sam is in both 5566 and 183 club, just as long as he can cope with the pressure and everything im sure its alright! if he cant cope, he has all the rights to do so, just as long as he finishes what he is supposed to do. if not, i think its perfectly all right.

Well. You think it's stupid because majority of the current boybands do not classify their lead and back-up singers. Xiezhi and Renfu are the lead singers in 5566 because of their vocal capabilities, whereas Mengzhe and Shaowei (and Xiao Dao) are the back-up singers and/or rappers. This is why 5566 stands out from other boybands- because they are willing to put aside personal reputations for the sake of the overall music. So next time you criticize, think.

Based on what I have seen from J-Star members, I really believe that the members like Sun Zhong and they believe he is a good manager. You see them joke around with him all the time.

Here is a link for a few videos on YouTube of J-Stars members at the company's sport competition back in January 2006. You will see that Sun Zhong gets pulled into doing a few events and he is a good sport about it.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search=%E4%...s&search=Search

cool...thanks for the url... been searching for it....

anyone knows how to save files from youtube.com? there are some files which i wanna save......

You can't save files from youtube. They encode the flash in such a way that it's virtually impossible to manage to download the file off youtube. It involves something complicated like splitting it up and parsing it...and yeah..bad for business.

You're welcome! haha that picture is now my wallpaper. I showed it to my mom the other day and she was like, "Who are all those people?! I only know the guys on the first row." (then she pointed out a couple more that she knew) so I ended up telling her all about them

spazgal420 hey!the calendar is my wallpaper too!thx lots! =D i kept finding parts of the sports thing,thanks for the url!finnaly got the whole videos orchid1223

sigh...thanks for letting me know..... sigh... really wanna save these files... anyone have the files can send to me?? thanks a million....

Well, optimistically, if the user that uploaded the file won't bite your head off for it, you could try messaging them to see if they'll send you the file directly.

From personal experience with youtube though, most users tend to delete the files, because now that they can access them from youtube at any time and virtually forever...there's no need to keep it on their hardrive. But you could always try!

There is a way that you can save the file from youtube, but you won't get anything... you'll still have to be connected to the internet to play the file, the only difference is that you won't have to connect directly to youtube for it. So there's no difference, plus you still have to use the youtube flash player instead of like getting a .rm file or a .mpg and playing it on your personal media player.

yay!i finally got my jstar mag today.theres this magnet like things that come with it rite?

can you get the jstars mag in australia?? or would i have to order online

u can get the mags in Kinokuniya...if u live in sydney, u can find that store on level 2 at the Galeries building on George st, Town Hall.

jstar mags cost different in diff shops and countries.some shops can raise the price by $3 dollars!!!!maybe about...12 australian dollars?

cyndi is not in jstars anymore!thats what they said in the q and a section...

Did anyone see the recent performance of all the J-Stars at the Golden G performance. Each group performed their own songs but that all danced together to the song "gen wo yi qi wa wa" by the Done Oh Lala group. It was really cute.

Please do vote for 5566 at the MAA'06!

We could vote every 5 MINUTES

really?i wanna see!is it on youtube?btw,does anyone know how many magnets we're supposed to get with the jstar mag?

Anyone know what awards J-Star got in the G-Music event?
And which group got them lor...

yeah you have to log in to vote. and i have no idea how to sign up cause i can't read chinese well. hahhaa.

you can download files from youtube. the instruction was posted in the WZBQW thread. go there and read and please dont ask okay? because it will be spamming. i think it has got something to do with the html code. just change a little of here and there then you can download. if im not wrong, its either someone called vicki or vivian who posted the instructions. i cant really remember who though. sorry.

U can register with english, just surf www.mtvasiaawards.com
After that you can go to taiwan section and vote

yes pls vote for 56~ cos this award is HUGE! and right now, 56 is in 3rd place behind jaychou and SHE. remember, you can vote every 5 MINUTES! so get going!

i finally have cable tv =D i think jstars getting more popular now!i only knew jstars this year...then suddenly got so many events.

Hey, who's XiaoAi? She's always on WQYL with the Jstars...is she like friends with MaYi or something (they're both Japanese)?

haha. yepp. go watch WQYL on cannel 56. it rocks my head like wont know what! haha...
i think they got popular from WZBQW. kudos to WZBQW!

yah!wzbqw...i got hooked frm that show lah! lol...now that i have cable tv my parents keeps switching channel "

i've just watched the awards show hosted by Ren Fu and Linda, it's cute funny to see all Jstars dancing Lala's song!

yah!jstars rock!!!!hm.i wonder if any new people gonna join jstars soon...any news?

can you give me the name of the show, or where i can watch it? thanks!

Hey guys, I'm kind of new to this world-- so I was wondering... how did the various J-stars "get discovered"? There seems to be an extremely wide range of ages even within the groups themselves (ex: XiaoJie and QiaoEn).

it's avaible in the download section =)
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/TVB_show2006_-talk214744.html
Jstars appear in the beginning of the 1st part

Well, I can't give you specifics, since I'm also relatively new to the wide world of Jstars... BUT.. I know that KOne was picked up from XiaoDao's management company (he was a former member of 5566) when KOne released a first album that actually did really badly. But I guess Sun Zhong (and maybe even XiaoDao willingly gave him KOne) saw a lot of potential in KOne and signed them on. I'm not completely aware of the specifics, but apparently at the time when KOne first joined Jungiery, there were only 4 members, then one more was acquired-- It makes sense if the last member that joined them was JR because JR is young, whereas the rest of KOne are all relatively in the same age-range.

Xiezhi and Renfu from 5566 were already part of Jungiery even before 5566 formed. Xiezhi was quite well known as a Taiwanese singer (he won various contests or something) and known for being a pretty 'shuai' guy. Renfu went to a special 'talent/entertainment' school in Taiwan (basically for kids who don't want to pursue academics, but rather would enter the showbiz) and he was part of the intial Jungiery group known as Postman (which disbanded and failed miserably).

QiaoEn was with Jungiery before Jstars started getting really famous. Looking at her, she was probably either: a) like renfu and a showbiz school kid OR a model. Most of the various Jstars are all models-turned-performers. Shaowei from 5566 was a model. I think XiaoQiao was a model, Weiru was probably a model too. Mingdao and Yurong were both models. Johnny Yan Xing Shu was a very popular MVP basketball player (really! it's not a scheme because of MVP Valentine), and apparently he was pretty 'shuai' too...so I guess to broaden Jungiery's stretch to ALL aspects of life (like having models and singers and dancers weren't enough), Sun Zhong decided to sign Johnny, I guess (so they could get an athelete). A lot of the younger members of Jungiery (XiaoJie, Mengzhe, JR) are definitely recruits from a showbiz school. Um... Toro was originally a part of another boyband called Energy, but the group had a dispute with the manager, and Toro sided with the manager-- so he left with the manager... therefore he ended up joining Jungiery.

Erm... James from VJ (Victor and James) is actually Jacky Zhu Fan Gang's brother. Jacky won a singing contest...and [insert some consequential events] was signed to Jungiery. A lot of the smaller, lesser-known groups are much more unavailable, in terms of history-- although I'm sure someone around here who has been following Jstars for much longer than I have can tell you. Like, I don't know a lot of the history of LaLa-- although I do know that they're just part of a former/now-disbanded group called R&B. 7Flowers also originally started with 7flowers...but a scandal here, unhappiness there, and then shifting around of contracts, uncompatability-- and we have what you see today!

Actually Qiaoen is spotted by someone when she was standing on a chair scolding someone.

Weiru was not a model but she was spotted when she entered Jacky Go Go Go show. She was later asked to flim a mv with Jay Chou. then she entered Jungiery

Xiao Jie, Mingdao was also similar to Weiru was spotted in the Jacky Go Go Go then went on from there.

Mingdao went on to flim an advertisement and then he entered Jungiery.

Vote for 5566 here, if you're still unsure which link it is.

http://www.mtvasiaawards.com/Taiwan/html/Vote/Taiwan.html

They're pretty much loosing though, so gotta get moving on the voting.

Tried to find the address of Jungiery on their website, but I think my chinese reading sucks too much, so I can't find it at all. Anyone has any ideas?

gosh!!how cool!haha...no wonder qiao en has such a tomboyish pesonality in stars... a lot of stars came from that wo cai show rite?? like...2morrow.wah...

wow....seem like Jacky Wu indirectly help them to get into showbiz.... since nearly all from his wo cai show....

ya loh...now that u speak of it, its kinda true...
maybe on the show, jacky wu helps them to be able to express their fullest potentials...
All hail jacky wu!

kekekeke....hail jacky wu.... reminds me of Jay Chou... he is the one who help Jay in the showbiz too!!!!

5566 won - Best Group, Fave Group, Fave OST and Top 10 Albums of the Year (3rd album). The other 2 awards won by 7Flowers & 183 Club - sorry I dunno.

ooh!!i managed to watch part of the show!!!!!so cool.if i'm not wrong 7f and 183 club got best newcomer or something...

ooohh....anyone have the clip? or is it at the download page? and also anyone have the part where J-stars performe the Dang Ou song i think....

WOW... 183 Club won an award for best newcomer award!!! bravo! bravo! They have not been around for a long time, but they are slowly making waves....,

A lot of the older jstars have some sort of "past"...
I think it yurong also had an album out before joining jungiery, but it didn't go well... so that might also have something to do with him being signed on.
And was mao xian wang before or after mingdao joined jungiery? (i want to say before, but i'm not sure...)
and jia en was in xie jie shao nian before jungiery (right?) no wait.. he was also in xiao guei tou right?
what was that group anyway? must've been really short lived? (I just saw them in the yin wei ai MV

<< the wording's kinda funny ^^;; but um ya a couple of them that broke from R&B settled into other jungiery groups, huai en, anthony and i thnk jia feng were part of R&B and are now in Lala and Xiao qiao and Zai zai (now no longer part of jungiery) are in 7flower (I think zaizai left because there was a rumor or something going around that she was with one of the guys in r&B or someone..., and she just left... at first i wanted to say it's toro, but i don't think it was... it was someone else)

but ya... and to answer the question

both mayi and xiao ai or ai sha i think made their first big appearance in meteor rain in mei zuo pian, and then after that i guess they became really popular, xiao ai comes on WQYL every once a while (they're always picking... or like jesting at her chinese... but it's okay, she's still kawaii doing it ne?) and mayi is a regular on SNTGD. She's also had a past with 56's mengzhe... i think they went out for a while, and for that time, 56 liked to pick on them and so like for a while they were on the same team when they were doing SNTGD, and then when they broke up mayi changed teams lol (aww...) anyway... i think that's about it that i can think of for the moment... oh and mayi was rumored to be going out for ken zhu xiao tian (f4) for a while but ya... (mengzhe's "retaliation" was pretty funny... you can see the clip during one of the shao gong new year '06 specials when they were looking at old clips, but anyway...)

thnx so much for the dl link...but i though here should not allow to post dl link here de....

i think ming dao was jungiery first,then they had him host mao xian wang...i think jiaen was called xiao gui tou...