http://www.asiaone.com/st/st_20060730_35101.html Kit對"恐怖箱"念念不忘...可憐的, 但我記得她一點都不怕耶:) By Wong Kim Hoh Jul 30, 2006 The Straits Times KIT Chan has not been living the pop star life, at least not for the last two years. Instead, she has been chilling. Chan, 34, has been commuting be- tween Singapore and Boston, where her Singaporean banker boyfriend is based. She has also been hitting the books, trying to complete her Bachelor of Arts in Popular Music, via correspondence, at LaSalle-SIA College of The Arts. She has also been working on a book with magazine sub-editor Yong Siew Fern, her best friend for the last two decades. Cathy & Jodie: The Princess And The Flea is now out in bookstores. Part- autobiography and part-fiction, the book chronicles the duo's friendship and their growing-up years in the 1980s as they laughed and cried over boys, clothes and food. Asked what expectations she has for Cathy & Jodie, Chan - who has carved out a very successful pop career in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong - says: 'I'm not going to use sales figures as a yardstick. Experience has taught me never to do that because you're going to be either very surprised or dis- appointed. It's the process that matters.' And the process, she says, has been therapeutic. 'This is a very personal project for Siew Fern and I, and we've dredged up so many wonderful memories.' She returns to work next month, reprising her role as Empress Cixi in the restaging of the hit musical Forbidden City. But fans hoping that she will return to cutting albums and being a full- time pop star may be disappointed. She will perform only selectively and take on good roles in musical theatre. 'I don't think I would ever go back into the full swing of things. Your life becomes very irregular, everyone has to wait for you including your family and friends,' says the singer and actress who adds that she has worked hard enough 'to be in a position to take it easy'. But is it not a 'big sacrifice' to give everything up when everything's smelling roses? 'Aah, but it's not a sacrifice. It's my choice. It's probably a combination of timing and having met the right person.' Chan - who also owns a boutique called Flowers In The Attic at the Heeren - stresses that she is not retiring though. 'Retirement is too final and absolute a word. Anything can change.' Q : An artist here recently made news after she harassed tourists in a hotel. Have you come close to losing your marbles and if so, what was the cause? A : Food drives me crazy, to distraction, to heights of ecstasy and the depths of depression (like when I can't eat something sweet). Good food makes me deliriously happy, and bad food can make me so angry I literally shed tears of frustration. I have mostly a love-love relationship with food, and in honour of that, there is a chapter in our book called, 'You R What U Eat'! Q : As a pop artist, you loathed having to appear on the variety-and-game show circuit. What was the looniest thing you had to do in the name of promotion? A : Putting my hand into this 'mystery box' to do some 'touchy-feely' thing with the biggest rodent ever! The objective of the game was to guess what was in the box. The audience could see the creature, but not me. So, each time I touched it, they'd all be squealing in disgust and fear. What a nice game, right? Q : You're back as Empress Cixi in another staging of Forbidden City. Do you think Kit Chan would have been in her element in a real palace: manipulating, conniving and having eunuchs at her beck and call? A : I hope so. I'm not sure about the manipulating and conniving bit. But ordering the eunuchs and hand-maidens around - oh, I will completely be in my element! No doubt about that! I might even organise the gifted eunuchs into an a-capella group like The King's Singers, and have them put up performances every weekend. Q : You and your best friend managed - over two decades - never to fight over boys and men. Did it involve chest- thumping, hair-tearing and other painful sacrifices? A : It was easy not fighting over men. We simply had very different tastes. But over everything else, there was indeed a hell of a lot of back-thumping, hair-pulling, and the worst must be the under-the-table-thigh-pinching! All these would transpire during all the short intervals in class when the teacher would turn her back to write on the blackboard. Whoever could bear the pain without yelping and grimacing won, I suppose. But oh, all the bruises we suffered! Q : In your book Cathy & Jodie, you wrote a poem and said lingerie defines you. How can a complex person be defined by something as skimpy as a g-string? A : You've obviously not understood the poem, my dear. My collection of lingerie certainly does not begin and end with a skimpy g-string! I have six drawers full! So I am really the sum of all those bikinis and hikinis, boylegs and briefs, corsets and merrywidows, girdles and bodysuits, lacy bras and cotton camis. Now if such a comprehensive collection can't fire up your imagination regarding my complexities as a human being, I don't know what else can. Q : Your best friend describes you as a princess in a secret garden with a charmed life. Really? A : I don't know. You can't really trust a Flea, you know. I can see how everything must appear so big and unreal to it. Q : How did a Singapore-born and bred girl end up with an American accent, even as a teenager? People like that are normally a bit obnoxious and pretentious, no? A : Eh, who say I speak with Amelican assent? I just have a good ear, ok? I try to speak everything properly, if I know the language. Like I've been told I speak Mandarin like a Taiwanese, and Cantonese like a Hongkonger. Q : You said in an interview that you might want to get painted in the nude to remember your youth by. Besides your curves, what else would you want documented for posterity? A : Ohhh. I must have been drunk or just completely deluded. Why would I want to do THAT? You really want to know what else I want to document besides a painting of my posterior? Hmm, how about a semi-autobiographical modern fairy-tale of an unlikely friendship between two girls that survives the turmoil of adolescence and the complexities of adulthood? Q : You passionately snogged Taiwanese actor Chin Han - a man old enough to be your father - to shut him up in the series Cash Is King several years ago. Is that, from experience, the best way to silence ranting, raving men? A : Hey, stop fantasising! That was a TV show! It's not real! Real women use real and effective tactics like turning up the volume of the TV set, calling your best friend on the phone, ignoring him, or just telling him to shut up. --

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