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Rich, successful, charitable, caring, humble and happy all the time? How does Stefanie Sun do it?
Friday • November 23, 2007
Stefanie Sun is terribly annoying. Not in a simpering, high-maintenance princess way. No, that would make it easy to hate her. Stefanie Sun is annoying because she's just so darn … happy. All the time.
Maybe it's jealousy or jaded cynicism, but show us a person who's always cheerful, and we'll show you a medicated crackpot.
How many people can honestly claim to be happy and satisfied with their lives and not have their noses grow a couple of inches? Well, apparently, Stefanie can.
Even her name is spelt with a "happie" "ie", not a gloomy "y".
We're talking a singer who's got 10 hit albums under her belt, numerous music awards on her mantle, and enough earnings from her various endorsements — from SK Jewellery to New Moon Premium Fragrant Rice — to last her a lifetime, we bet.
In fact, Sun was back in town last month to renew her New Moon endorsement contract for a second year. Funnily enough, rice was what spawned the idea for Dick Lee's theme song for the recent Asean summit, Rise, which was — even more funnily enough — sung by Sun at the event last Tuesday.
We're talking about a pop star who takes time off to work with World Vision to raise awareness about the world's underprivileged children.
We're talking about a recording artiste who has won so many local music awards, she has announced she no longer wants to squirrel away any more. According to Sun, she made the decision to give younger singers a chance and not occupy a slot that they would otherwise have.
"I look at the new artistes, and it can be such a struggle — they don't get the chance or the opportunity," she told Today.
Now, if anybody else had said that, they might have come across as arrogant. Not Sun. In fact, talking to her is like talking to some long lost friend — you want to call her "Stef" even though you've never met.
Hearing it from her, she just sounded so sincere and nice that you almost applaud her generosity.
And that's what many have said about her — that she's just too nice. And it works in her favour. We all love to hear a sob story, or read about the tragic difficulties of a struggling artiste, or report about a star's fall from grace. But it's the kind of thing you read about Carina Lau — not that nice girl, Stef.
Seriously. "Singer found drunk in stairway: Says the public just want to s*** on me". Does that sound like something you'd read about her? No.
Sun has cleverly managed to sidestep all that tabloid sensationalism. How does she do it?
By not living in paparazzi-hungry places like Hong Kong or Taiwan, for one.
While she still makes promotional trips and appearances around the region, her home is still Singapore.
"I think it's quite sad that some artistes in Hong Kong (have) their curtains perpetually drawn," she said. "I'm so glad I live in Singapore! It's very sad that their lives are reduced to that. People like Sammi (Cheng) — every small thing is turned into a big thing."
And even when Sun is involved in a "big thing", the truth is you don't want to associate anything remotely negative with her. Take that incident in Egypt in February this year when it was reported that some unsavoury characters threatened and extorted money from her for four days — at gunpoint, no less. Didn't you think: Really? That sort of thing doesn't happen to Stefanie, does it? The word on the lips of sceptics was "marketing".
"I'm sure there are people who thought it was a great marketing ploy. I'm sorry, it wasn't my intention," she said, her dark eyes lighting up.
"The true story is that we had an unpleasant encounter and it was unfortunately blown out of proportion. I mean all the accusations (about what happened in Egypt) were all true. It was unfortunate.
And maybe the record company also thought it was a fantastic idea to tell everyone. Did the media try to blow it up? I think so. I just say, sh** happens. That's life. Sometimes you can clean up the sh**, sometimes you can't.
"So yeah, it happened, let's just get on with life. I don't know what else to say," she said.
You know what else bugs her? Hawkers.
"I think the hardest part is that people tend to be judgemental and magnify the things you do," she said sighing.
"For example, I like to eat bak chor mee, but when I go to hawker centres to buy it, people go like, "Eh, I thought she earn a lot of money, still want to come here?"
What kind of logic is that? They probably think I can get it delivered to my house or whatever, but I like going to the hawker centre!"
Great. So on top of being successful, charitable and caring, she's humble, too.
She doesn't flash her wealth. In fact, she dismisses talk that she's one of the richest young Singaporeans.
"You know, they always exaggerate! You really have to discount a lot of things you read nowadays, lah. I don't think I'm in the top 10. Maybe like top 1,000 or something.
"What people don't know is that when I started out, I couldn't (command) good rates, and that went on for years."
Still, Sun said she's "very comfortable". "I do admit that I have a few perks, lah!" she admitted with a laugh.
So, Sun may be living the good life now, but, she said, things weren't always like that. "The first seven albums were very hectic. I was pretty much like a factory. Then, there was a highly-publicised sabbatical, but since then, it's been a lot easier to breathe, a lot easier to rethink … what you stand for, what you like. That's the most simple and important thing for an artiste.
"I've been lucky. These seven years, I've had a lot of opportunities, I've met a lot of right people, and I've worked really hard. Maybe that's the formula to success: Meet the right people and work hard.
"But life is unpredictable. Seven years ago, I wouldn't have thought that I'd be where I am, doing what I'm doing. I thought I would be married by the time I was 25, but I'm 29 now … What you wanted 10 years ago might not be what you want now.
"I don't know where I'll be. You just never know … "
Maybe that's the secret to being truly happy and contented. It's either that or a whole lot of premium fragrant rice.孙燕姿真令人讨厌。不是因为很容易令人讨厌的嚣张而讨厌。燕姿真令人讨厌，是因为她生活的太开心了！而且是无时无刻都很开心！
也许是嫉妒的心理，你是否可以找出像她这样天天都很开心的人吗？
世上有多少人能够很诚实的说他很满意他的生活？表面上看，燕姿可以很有自信的说。就连燕姿的英文名是用HAPPIE 的“IE", 而不是GLOOMY 的”Y“。 我们正在谈的是一个已经发了10张个人专辑，拿获无数奖项，拍了无数广告，和代言产品（SK砖石，仁月牌香米），赚取足够的钱养活他下半辈子的女歌手。
其实，燕姿已在上个月回国继续签约为仁月牌香米的代言人。好笑的是，DICK LEE就是因为RICE（米），才会有灵感为燕姿写出ASEAN主题曲《RISE》。
我们正在谈得是一个愿意抽出宝贵的时间，提高世界对比较不幸的儿童的关注的超级巨星，一个已经获得无数奖项的歌手。目前，燕姿也宣布，不想再和其他本地歌手争夺“最佳本地歌手”这个奖项了。
燕姿说，他做这个决定是因为他想给新人多些机会，而不想霸占那个位子。“我看着这些新人，是多么的辛苦，却得不到机会表现，受到肯定。”， 燕姿和TODAY说道。
如果有人说谁或谁很嚣张的话，告诉你，绝对不会是燕姿。
和燕姿说话就好像和一位好久不见的朋友说话一样，可以很亲切的叫她“STEF”，就算我们从来没有见过面。和他聊天时，你几乎会为他的宽容大方而感到钦佩。许多人也说到“燕姿的人真好，真是太好了！”而这些人的赞赏是对燕姿事业上有所帮助的。
我们都很喜欢看悲伤的故事，或者悲惨经历，不断挣扎的艺人的故事，或者也许也会对哪一位艺人，已经不再红了而感兴趣。不过，你会发现，燕姿绝对没有这样的新闻，像“歌手喝醉酒，在楼梯过夜。。。”之类的行文。你应该没有看过燕姿有着这样的行文。
燕姿很小心的掌握它的生活，因此不会出现太多负面新闻。
到底燕姿是怎样做到的？
燕姿的解决办法是不住在狗仔队泛滥的地区，如香港或台湾。尽管燕姿还会到海外做宣传，表演等，他的家，始终在新加坡。
”我觉得有些艺人在香港被媒体说的一文不值，而其并非事实而感到很难过，”燕姿说道。
“我很高兴我居住在新加坡！看着艺人们天天为了避开媒体而东躲西藏，我感到很难过。就像郑秀文，每一件很小的事情，也都回炒得很大！“
就算燕姿遇上了”大件事”，我们也不容易把燕姿扯上一些负面新闻。就拿埃及事件来说，媒体报道说燕姿在埃及遭不良人士勒索，用枪指等等。你们的第一个反应肯定是 ：“真的吗？！”
因为这样的事不常发生在燕姿身上。有人对这件事说是公司在炒新闻。
“我肯定有人会认为这是炒新闻的妙招！不过，很抱歉，真的不是炒新闻。”燕姿说道。
“我们的确遇上了不愉快的事，不过很不幸的，被炒到很大！可能唱片公司也认为把事情告诉媒体是很不错的做法。是媒体炒作吗？我认为是。我会告诉自己，人生中一定会面对不可思议的事。”燕姿说道
你知道燕姿还为什么反感吗？小贩。
“人们常常夸大你所做的事。举例，我很喜欢吃肉搓面，可是当我去排队买肉搓面吃时，有些人就会说：”他不是赚很多钱吗？为什么还来这里？”
“这是什么逻辑啊？你们应该认为我可以要求递送或什么的，不过我很喜欢去小贩中心啊！”
燕姿不会炫耀的的成就和富有。他常常不想回答“你是最有钱的新加坡年轻人”之类的话题。
“你知道吗，他们常常都会夸大！你们应该不要完全相信你所读到的啦。我觉得我不再前10，前1000还有可能。大家不知道我刚出道时有些不平坦，不过还是这样过了！尽管这样，燕姿 还说“我很满意我的生活！虽然我承认我的确遇上一些困难啦！”
燕姿也许现在过得很好，不过一切都不是一帆风顺的。
“前7章专辑的工作量很高，时间很紧凑。我就好像是一栋工厂。 不过我也有高曝光率。不过，休息一年后，感觉更舒服，比较容易呼吸，多一点时间思考你是谁，你喜欢什么。那时对艺人来说最简单，也是最重要的东西。
”我很幸运。这7年来，我又无数的机会，我遇见了许多贵人，我也很努力。也许，就是这样我才会成功！遇到贵人和努力。
不过天有不测之风云。7年前，我更本就看不到现在。原本打算25岁结婚，现在29岁了。以前你想要的东西，也许现在对你不重要了。
也许这就是完美燕姿的秘密，预测可能的和不肯能的。 |
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