#sonija kwok

[la-panda]

[skiddo-xy]

Unique English Hong Konger Names

As a result of British colonization, most Hong Kongers have English names along side their Chinese names. However, since Hong Kong is not exactly an English speaking society, some of the names that parents choose for their children (or they choose themselves) may have unconventional spelling, sound like they're not "real names", or generally appear unusual to native English speakers. Which I find interesting because they follow "English name structures" without actually being English names.

Here are some examples I found as I was scrolling through the list of Miss Hong Kong Pageant winners, given in the format of [English name] - [traditional] / [simplified] ([jyutping] / [pinyin]) - jyutping is one of the most common ways of romanizing Cantonese (the language of Hong Kong) and pinyin is the standardized form of romanizing Mandarin. More under the cut!

Conny Kwan - 關淑芬 / 关淑芬 (gwaan1 suk6 fan1 / Guān Shūfēn)

Loletta Chu - 朱玲玲 (zyu1 ling4 ling4 / Zhū Línglíng)

Freda Leung - 梁仲芬 (loeng4 zung6 fan1 / Liáng Zhòngfēn)

Cher Yeung - 楊雪儀 / 杨雪仪 (joeng4 syut3 ji4 / Yáng Xuěyí)

Shallin Tse - 謝寧 / 谢宁 (ze6 ning4 / Xiè Níng)

Aleen Lo - 羅錦如 / 罗锦如 (lo4 gam2 jyu4 / Luó Jǐnrú)

Middy Yu - 余少寶 / 余少宝 (jyu4 siu2 bou2 / Yú Shǎobǎo)

Kenix Kwok - 郭可盈 (gwok3 ho2 jing4 / Guō Kěyíng)

Halina Tam - 譚小環 / 谭小环 (taam4 siu2 waan4 / Tán Xiǎohuán)

Chillie Poon - 潘芝莉 (pun1 zi1 lei6 / Pān Zhīlì)

Sonija Kwok - 郭羨妮 / 郭羡妮 (pun1 zi1 lei6 / Guō Xiànnī)

Marsha Yuan - 原子鏸 (jyun4 zi2 wai6 / Yuán Zǐjiē)

Myolie Wu - 胡杏兒 / 胡杏儿 (wu4 hang6 ji4 / Hú Xìngér)

Rabee'a Yeung - 楊洛婷 / 杨洛婷 (joeng4 lok6 ting4 / Yáng Luòtíng)

Queenie Chu - 朱慧敏 (zyu1 wai6 man5 / Zhū Huìmǐn)

Shermon Tang - ���上文 / 邓上文 (dang6 soeng5 man4 / Dèng Shàngwén)

Natalle Khor - 許佩琪 / 许佩琪 (heoi2 pui3 kei4 / Xǔ Pèiqí)

Koni Lui - 呂慧儀 / 吕慧仪 (leoi5 wai6 ji4 / Lǚ Huìyí)

Edelweiss Cheung - 張舒雅 / 张舒雅 (zoeng1 syu1 ngaa5 / Zhāng Shūyǎ)

Sire Ma - 馬賽 / 马赛 (maa5 coi3 / Mǎ Sài)

Mizuni Hung - 熊穎詩 / 熊颖诗 (hung4 wing6 si1 / Xióng Yǐngshī)

Toby Chan - 陳庭欣 / 陈庭欣 (can4 ting4 jan1 / Chén Tíngxīn)

Sammi Cheung - 張秀文 / 张秀文 (zoeng1 sau3 man4 / Zhāng Xiùwén)

Hyman Chu - 朱希敏 (zyu1 hei1 man5 / Zhū Xīmǐn)

Carat Cheung - 張名雅 / 张名雅 (zoeng1 ming4 ngaa5 / Zhāng Míngyǎ)

Sisley Choi - 蔡思貝 / 蔡思贝 (coi3 si1 bui3 / Cài Sībèi)

Moon Lau - 劉佩玥 / 刘佩玥 (lau4 pui3 jyut6 / Liú Pèiyuè)

Karmen Kwok - 郭嘉文 (gwok3 gaa1 man4 / Guō Jiāwén)

Bowie Cheung - 張寶兒 / 张宝儿 (zoeng1 bou2 ji4 / Zhāng Bǎoér)

Boanne Cheungcaijiewen (zoeng1 bou2 jan1 / Zhāng Bǎoxīn)

Carmaney Wong - 黃嘉雯 / 黄嘉雯 (wong4 gaa1 man4 / Huáng Jiāwén)

Blossom Chan - 陳熙蕊 / 陈熙蕊 (can4 hei1 jeoi5 / Chén Xīruǐ)

Denice Lam - 林钰洧 (lam4 juk6 fui2 / Lín Yùwěi)

Cecca Xu - 許子萱 / 许子萱 (heoi2 zi2 hyun1 / Xǔ Zǐxuān)

Lovelle Wong - 王敏慈 (wong4 man5 ci4 / Wáng Mǐncí)

I thought this was really fun. It's sort of lke this new trend of Americans stuffing in extra letters to common names, like turning "Jessica" into "Jessieighkah." They almost sound AI generated. List of pageants is from here and I couldn't find a single solid source about Hong Kong names so here's 1, 2 and 3!

[lapsapdrama]

It's a man from your world who won't let me go.    — Back to the Past 《尋秦記》

[tomorrowsdrama]

Omg you guys I just learned there’s a sequel movie to Louis Koo’s tvb drama A Step into the Past.

Y’all don’t understand. I was obsessed. OBSESSED with that drama in my childhood. And it’s with the original cast. Yes, Louis Koo, Jessica Hsuan, Sonija Kwok, Raymond Lam (looking kinda older than Louis). Holy fucking shit balls what the fuck.

Like 2021 is really out to kill me from happiness. Just as I thought it couldn’t get any better, 2021 was like bitch, hold on, REMEMBER THIS?!  If SMAP decides they want to get back together, 2021 is their year! Like come on, y’all already weren’t spring chickens when you disbanded.  Even as a loyal fan I don’t know if I can justify a bunch of men in their 50s dancing and singing.  Who am I kidding, I’d still watch.

I told y’all I was raised on tvb dramas and HK movies in the 90s and early 2000s. Louis Koo was one of my first ever actor crushes (along with Andy Lau, Tony Leung, and Takeshi Kaneshiro) and I thought it was so scandalous that I was crushing on a man so much older than me. This was before tumblr, livejournal, hell, even fast speed internet. Anyone remember dial up? So your girl literally printed out his pictures and glued them into a PHYSICAL JOURNAL and fangirled about him to my friends in our shared friendship journal. Those poor girls. I guess not much has changed in that respect except now I fangirl to a bunch of strangers on a site that’s barely being held together by a bunch of bandaids and rubber bands ahahaha.

This probably won’t mean much to lots of people because tvb’s heyday was waaaay waaaay back then when the concept of an online fandom barely even existed. But yeah, wow. I was taken back to the past (har har) and all the excitement I felt for that drama and cast with just that short trailer. Crazy. It doesn’t even matter if it’s good or not. The fact that it exists and with that cast is enough to make any fan go wild. The nostalgia is real y’all.

[don-dake]

Bonus:

That T-shirt in 2021 ↑↑↑, back in 2001 ↓↓↓

Trailer here: YouTube

[linggluu]

trailer just dropped for the film version of A Step into the Past - Back to the Past .I think it's so exciting that Louis Koo brought the rights to the drama and remade it with THE ORIGINAL CAST ;;;;;; AND USING THE ORGINAL THEME SONG. this truly one of my childhood favorites (lmao every drama was a childhood favorite) and it's so crazy that the drama version was released 20 years ago ;;. Which was also Louis Koo's last drama at TVB before he left.

Also quite excited to see all the old tvb faces like Jessica Hsuan, Raymond Lam , Joyce Tang and Sonija Kwok and even Michelle Saram who was in like 2 tvb dramas.

Can't wait for this release + the film version of A Witness to a Prosecution which recently started filming. It'll be like living 1999-2003 all over again.

[hk01official-blog]

咁《一蚊雞保鑣》真係其中之一嘅經典！ Read more: http://bit.ly/2VAQ4yR 

[michelle-yim]

Michelle in the Chinese drama 民国恩仇录

I never got that far with this one since I need to actually care for the story to commit to any series in Mandarin (which I need subtitles for). From what little I’ve seen of it its a bit bonkers, and I’m not sure if its bonkers in a good way.

Also, this was supposedly set in the Republic of China era (1912-1949)?

Sure, series. Sure.

It also stars Sonija Kwok if anybody wants to sit through some really OTT costumes.

[hongkongdramas]

Here we go again.. I feel like I’m watching Flying Tiger again. Ron Ng’s character being the super strong-headed successful inspector and Bosco W’s character being the good-cop-gone-bad-but-is-good-coz-is-a-UC. How many more times are HK dramas going to keep up with such stuff. Probably is because I just finished 2 comedy dramas (Death by Zero and Al Cuppuccino) and I’m so used to laughing out loud and then suddenly gone all serious here in White War makes me feel so bored out.

Ohhhh! Kenny Kwan!!! Haven’t seen him in a longgggg time. Is it On The First Beat that I saw him act..? If I rmb correctly, he was playing Sonija Kwok’s brother or sth... anyway, he was sooooo amazing here. The emotions he displayed at moment he went berserk in jail and when he went home to receive bad news from his family was amazing. I wasnt expecting him to act that good given how he came out from the music industry. Man these hk people really are talented...

One other thing is I’m so glad the plot took a different path from what I was expecting. Expecting a typical undercover adventure from Jun Hin’s point of view and probably how he eventually take down the gang, it was fresh to actually have the plot take a turn at focusing on how Jun Hin’s turned bad and end up on the wrong side of the law. Even though eventually the plot went back to him being good all along, that secret was kept mum till the end which I totally didn’t expect it.

Omg who is this Chrissy Chau. She was so so cool. There is this really amazing charisma on her that made her really outstanding. Also, she really looked unique and her voice was so special. That was what made her so captivating throughout this show imo.. at the start when she first came out, I find her abit overdressed and her fashion was too much. But towards the end, her dressing toned down abit which was so much better.

That Ga Man girl... well, I just want to ask one thing. Did her makeup artist slap all the white powder all over her face before shooting...? Lol

To conclude, there wasn’t anything fresh in White War. It felt like the plot and action has been made over and over again all the time. Nothing to be amazed at and I’d rather go back to those original old undercover action dramas like Line Walker (the one w Raymond Lam and Charmaine Sheh okay..). One thing I was displeased at White War was the weird Thai and Cantonese conversations both side of the police had w each other. They made it sound like they could do translation themselves and understand what the other party was talking about... that was like ridiculous.. overall, not a very good drama. Just one to pass time.

[okfate]

選美皇后港姐郭羨妮Sonija Kwok荡花人生感情路

       郭羨妮，香港女演員，同時也是99年香港小姐冠軍，2000年更獲得國際小姐冠軍，一時風頭無量，甚至超過了88年港姐李嘉欣的風頭。本來社會各界對她之後的期望倍增，沒想到之後進入影視行業就開始各種緋聞滿天飛，別人搞緋聞是名氣越來越大，但是她不一樣越搞越遭，導致現在幾乎是沒有太多人能記得她是千禧年港姐。人生如戲，她也許給自己做的是最好的人生規劃，但是她的規劃也許是命運中最不利的一種。後來媒體對她就封了“四大蕩花”的稱號，今天正好是郭羨妮的生日，所以就從八字的角度來看看她的人生感情路，郭羨妮的生日是1974年7月22日。

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[la-panda]

[louisonurmark]

香港女明星- 郭羡妮

郭羨妮（Sonija Kwok Sin-nei，1974年7月22日－），香港演員，前香港無綫電視（TVB）女藝員。她是中英混血兒，曾當過空中小姐；其後參加選美，成為1999年度香港小姐冠軍及於美國拉斯維加斯舉辦的2000年度國際華裔小姐競選冠軍，歷史性成為1990年代最後一位香港小姐，及千禧年代首位國際華裔小姐；更是千禧年代首個國際選美比賽的冠軍，及第二位同時獲得香港小姐和國際華裔小姐冠軍的佳麗。參選時酷似1991年最上鏡小姐樊亦敏，故當時被傳媒稱為「翻版樊亦敏」。

簡歷

郭羨妮其中一名祖先姓氏為Davis，惟到父親一代已採用郭姓。[1]幼時就讀於天神嘉諾撒學校及嘉諾撒聖瑪利書院及後畢業於西門菲莎大學，主修心理學和經濟學。畢業後投考加入國泰航空有限公司任機艙服務員。

1999年，郭羨妮參加香港小姐競選，以大熱姿態獲得冠軍、「最上鏡小姐」、「國際親善小姐」和「千禧才智小姐」獎項。200…

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[littlecloverstar]

Wan Chu performs magic

[asianpin]

Under the Veil - 無雙譜

Watch Online Under the Veil Episode 01

http://asianpin.com/under-the-veil-%e7%84%a1%e9%9b%99%e8%ad%9c/

[jckerrychen]

Jin Yu Yao (金玉瑶之一诺千金)

Starring Sonija Kwok and Tan Kai