Thanks Ting for typing the article Understanding Kit Fresh from a stint as an all-powerful dowager in The Forbidden City, her new Chinese album, Understand, offers insight into a relaxed Kit Chan When the recent second run of the local musical Forbidden City received some bad press from the English media, singer and actress Kit Chan - who played the lead - was perturbed. But when the Chinese media followed suit with more bad reviews, she decided it was okay to laugh. Speaking in English, fresh from a photoshoot at the office of her record label, Ocean Butterfiles, she says: "Two wrongs do make a right. Things came to a point where even fellow cast members were telling me not to bother, since the critics didn't understand what we were doing." But she is glad for the experience and is now busy promoting her latest Mandarin album, Understand. After headlining 29 shows in the second staging of Forbidden City, she hits the road next Sunday in a month-long promotional tour of Taiwan. On the more intimate, cosy numbers in Understand, the 31-year-old Chan says: "I want to leave the stage diva part of me behind. I don't want to do another album of big ballads. Reflective albums are a platform for me to create. R&B is also not me. Some R&B can be sung beautifully, but I do not fall into that category. Neither does she see herself taking on a behind-the-scenes role of producer or star-maker anytime soon. "I don't have the patience for that kind of job. I'm a difficult woman," she says, smiling. Having spent nearly a decade in the business - she hit the Taiwanese market big time in 1994 with the album Heartache - Chan admits to shifting her gears down and aiming for a more "life-enhancing" existence. Since then, she has starred opposite Heavenly King Jacky Cheung in the 1997 musical, Snow.Wolf.Lake in Hong Kong; played the late songbird Teresa Teng in another musical, The Legend, in Hong Kong in 1998; and acted in high profile dramas such as TVB's Healing Hands and Channel U's Cash Is King. "I don't feel I have to prove a point anymore. That would be pathetic," she says, emanating a confidence and poise that usually comes from someone luxuriating in love. Of her 38-year-old Singaporean banker boyfriend, whom she met on a plane trip back from America, she says, " I see a lot of goodness in him. Not to put the men in my past down, but I've never really used the word 'respect' to describe a boyfriend before. But with him, I do." As to whether marriage is on the cards, Chan volunteers a cryptic reply:"It really depends, I want to be proposed to. I guess I want to be surprised." --

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