Chilam Cheung Plans to Have Son Educated in England

Chilam Cheung (張智霖) will be celebrating this upcoming mid-Autumn festival with his wife, Anita Yuen (袁詠儀), in Europe. The 42-year-old shared at a Tsim Sha Tsui mooncake function that he would be flying to England in order to film a movie version of the successful TVB series, Triumph in the Skies <衝上雲宵>. Chilam added he also has plans to have his son receive education in England and pick up the gentleman behavior of the locals.

As the spokesperson for a mooncake brand, Chilam attracted a crowd of female fans at the function. One fan even tripped while running excitedly up the stage to greet Chilam. Another woman blushed as she was the lucky chosen one to be fed mooncake by the star.

Since Chilam and Anita will celebrate their 43rd birthdays this August and September, he was told to make a birthday wish. Chilam expressed that he hopes there would be less catastrophic events around the world, since there had been several recently. He will also ask his close friends to set aside their gift money as donations to those in need instead. Chilam denied deliberately purchasing a new car for Anita as a birthday gift, and joked that that she only needs a full-time driver.

Source: Stheadline.com

This article is written by Shirley for JayneStars.com.

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  1. i wonder why he sends his kid so far away. couldn’t he send hims to an international school in hk. i have friends who went to international schools in hk and they are not that much different from a typical abc but w/ appreciation for chinese values.

    1. international schools sound like an artificial environment – you may be keeping it real outside of school hours with family, neighbors and shopkeepers but that team spirit of the classroom might be sweeter in a real local school – dont international schools tend to have more transient enrollment and arent the backgrounds of the parents more scrutinized for calibre of dazzle – that’s unwholesome and damages self-respect to have to be aware who so and so’s father or/and mother is.
      Plus you lose the flavor of HK teachers.

    2. I saw in an interview done with Anita and she mentioned her son already attends international school in HK. There must be other reasons why they want to send their son to England for schooling. Let’s not be too judgemental on others parenting.

  2. The son looks so much like Anita! He can afford to send his son anywhere for his studies. But then again wouldn’t they be separated? He is too young to be independent.

    1. I know they should keep him around to nuzzle along with his grandparents for as long as possible – that previous generation of HKers is irreplaceable for their Cantonese pronunciation ALONE.

  3. I have no idea what he is talking about but if he actually means the leverage of the accent and the sangfroid, he should know that it doesn’t play in America – its actually kind of dismissed if not actually emasculating to have a fey accent – I mean its not the burr of the Scots – it’s … Hugh Grant in Richard Curtis movies or worse it’s Rachel Khoo.

    Or even Ching He Huang – OH GOD. She seems nice and traditional but at least her accent isnt as bad as Rachel Khoo’s.

    I think the thing about English accents is the difference between Stringer Bell and Luther.

    I choose Baltimore over London.

    Andy Lau said he wanted his daughter to grow up in the Canadian boonies so she would have good morals.

    I don’t know if manners is a good goal although I am sure Liang Liang teaches good morals and of course, Wong Kar Wai wouldn’t cast just anyone for a cameo in Grandmaster as he did Chi Lam whom I have never seen in anything else. I just know he is married to the cop’s daughter who burned a new vocabulary into my brain “Jeen GOK” in gold stem, jade leaf.

  4. English manners is no better than Asian. He really needs to be living here (uk) to experience it. Some are even worse than the mainlanders. He obviously has the typical Asian mindset that anything western is better.

    1. wasnt HK a good place to see the face of the English up close and personal – I like how both groups were able to dislike and disdain but when appropriate give credit to each other. I think that’s a good balance. Otherwise you would have natives eager to intermarry and become mestiza socialites. The press makes it sound that mestizo heritage advantages continue to do this day which is not the way HK works. We may lose out by not being likeable but I think we get to keep something as compensation.

    2. at least he is not a girl – I dont care if he dates foreigners but when the daughters ALL do it – it looks bad – because it indicates the minority is weak and has less to offer

      if that is the reality, then so be it

      but unless it’s true love, it looks bad.

    3. Agree – he speaks like some insular rosy-eyed tourist who’s never actually lived in the place.

      UK is not longer the ideal place to live.

      A close childhood friend with dual citizenship who’s lived (studied and worked) there for the past 20+ yrs, has moved back to Singapore permanently, with her Brit husband.

      Their child was attending private school in London … she’s now in Singapore private school.

      1. It just means that your close childhood friend couldn’t integrate into local culture because majority of local people don’t want to have anything to do with somebody from the outside who’s stolen the man and intermarried him, and that’s why she brought her British husband to Singapore where majority of people,particularly women, worship this kind of relationship because she makes them jealous and thus she is seen as high class.

        What’s up with all this western-bashing? Obviously, the UK, despite being the best, is still much better than HK, China and Asia as a whole, because this country is where Asia got all their things from since the British colonization. And I’m not from the UK or Asia when saying this.

        I don’t know why, but it seems that since the media started saying China would be the superpower in 2008, western-bashing is becoming more rampant.

      2. “…is still much better than HK, China…”

        Oops..I forgot to include Sinagapore.

      3. Correction:

        “…he UK, despite NOT being the best..”

      4. By the way nomad 822, I wasn’t disagreeing with you. it is true that Chilam Cheung spoke like a rosy-eyed tourist who’s never lived in the UK. But who could blame him? He is a typical asian guy who has typical asian mindset. How could he know how real westerners’ lives are? One example is that line “…the gentleman behavior of the locals.” Obviusly, this was true, but only when we still lived in the Victoria era. It doesn’t apply to the modern era where it is seen as old-fashioned while being rock and ghetto are seen as cool.

      5. Chilam grew up in Australia. He’s lived the western lifestyle before so u can’t say he doesn’t know what it’s like.

    4. It seems like most Asian mindsets is anything Western is good, which is sad, really!!! If he lives in London, or the US, he will see most of these Westerners are most rude, obnoxious, uneducated being on earth. Manners is something taught at home, starting with the parents, if they have no manners, is it surprising their offsprings lacks manners?

      1. Well, having their child in Brit boarding school also buys them bragging rights, along with the rest of the pretentious HK-Ent crowd.

        Because Brti boarding school used to be the domain of the old Chinese rich in Asia.

        Agree … manners – the last place to learn it is the West. Where the F-word is sometimes more common, depending on which area of the city.

        While I’d say Asians are more blatant with their rudeness, in the West (I am Singapore-Cdn) … rude is more subtle. Being ‘politically correct’ and speaking PC jargon is just going underground with your true feelings/thoughts.
        Sure the West may SEEM to be more civilised about it; but the racism, bad manners etc is all still there … it’s just more SUBTLE (aka hypocrisy).

      2. “MOST of these Westerners are most rude, obnoxious, uneducated being on earth”

        Wow.. talk about an overstatement. Most? I guess I could start posting links about Chinese tourists or even related my own run in with a group on Chinese tourists on a cruise ship… but I won’t. Why? Because they are isolated incidents, and I would hope are a MINORITY in regards general decent people.

        I think you’ll find that ALL races around the world have rude and obnoxious people, just as they all have polite and well mannered as well. No single race has a monopoly on either. People who think they do are actually disclosing a lot about their own personal tendencies.

      3. tvbfanatic,

        It is not an overstatement. It is a fact. Plus, all of you smell like dogs when being wet.

      4. The funny thing is… you have just proven that blind racism is a problem within your own race. So you see, my points about there being similar types of people in all races is correct.

  5. It will sucks for the kid to be in boarding school and be so far away from his parents; assuming they aren’t moving to England with him. Then again, he is rich enough to visit every weekend I suppose lol.

    Also, why do people assume that famous expensive school has higher moral? Yes, school plays a role in a child’s life but family has bigger role. Parents should be more involve in the childhood and raise their kids themselves instead relying on institution.

    Kids who go to “crappy” school can turn out fine, smart, “morally righteous” too. So I wonder if all these parents sending their kids to well-known school are more for themselves, like a bragging rights to say “yea, my child goes to so and so. I’m so much better.” Yada yada yada

    1. or they misunderstand the straits of third culture kids because rachel khoo et al. are uncommonly promoted.

      1. That last comment re Jamie Gao was inappropriate and uncalled for. Have some respect for the dead.

  6. its probably different for HKers but the difference between America and other English speaking countries especially the East Coast of the United States is that it allows you to retain our inner FOB.

  7. If the groove is in the heart, I don’t think you can imitate it:

    The route forced the Japanese to cross 16 kilometres of mangrove swamps and as they struggled through the thick forests the British forces encircled the area of the swampland. Trapped in deep mud-filled land, tropical diseases soon started afflicting the soldiers, as well as scorpions, tropical mosquitoes, and saltwater crocodiles.

    A saltwater crocodile
    Repeated calls by the British for the Japanese to surrender were ignored: the Marines holding the perimeter shot any Japanese attempting to escape, while within the swampland hundreds of soldiers died over the course of several days for lack of food or drinking water. Some, including naturalist Bruce Stanley Wright (who participated in the battle), claimed that the crocodiles attacked and ate numerous soldiers. Wright’s description occurs in his 1962 book Wildlife Sketches Near and Far:
    “That night [of the 19 February 1945] was the most horrible that any member of the M.L. [motor launch] crews ever experienced. The scattered rifle shots in the pitch black swamp punctured by the screams of wounded men crushed in the jaws of huge reptiles, and the blurred worrying sound of spinning crocodiles made a cacophony of hell that has rarely been duplicated on earth. At dawn the vultures arrived to clean up what the crocodiles had left. . . . Of about one thousand Japanese soldiers that entered the swamps of Ramree, only about twenty were found alive.”[2][4]
    When the British eventually moved in on the swamp, they found that of the nine hundred troops that originally fled into the swamp, only around twenty seriously wounded and weakened Japanese soldiers were left. In all, about 500 Japanese soldiers escaped from Ramree despite the intense blockade instituted to stop them.

      1. that kind of BITE – that might be something ethnic to the English and not cultural

        the elan of surrounding the mangrove and calling the Japanese to olly olly oxen free and then shooting any fool enough to abide – that’s so cute, I think it’s their nature and not nurture.

      2. Chi Lam wants his boy exposed to Englishness, right?

        well, does he want kid gloves on – he could read a book on how to be a waiter if he wants that certain savoir faire.

  8. I would start laughing though. I don’t know if that is a really bad thing to do in Chinese but maybe it would be okay amongst fellow Southern Chinese.

    This is very funny as well:

    McLynn’s criticisms of the account primarily stem from his personal incredulity that the “Japanese firepower, which tore such holes in British tanks and armour”, would be incapable of dispatching large numbers of crocodiles at night.

  9. Why doesn’t he teaches those so called good manners to his child…?

  10. Does he plan for his son to take up studies in a errr… like those public school? Live in school dorm? He may come back with a bona fide Queen’s English accent, and hopefully be very chivalrous as well. chivalry is a dying trait and art in men today.

    1. It’s all in the upbringing really. It’s not hard to be courteous to others. My mum was from England and our household was somewhat strict.
      Even so, today’s world is what it is. I was not long ago cursed out by a woman for holding the door open for them downtown Toronto… “I can open my own door @sshole” – I just smiled and carried on 😛

      1. It just means that the British has gone out from the barbaric Victorian era.

  11. am i losing it or what? how come i can’t grasp what Cleo is writing? i mean ok, it’s english but i can’t relate it to the article. 😳

  12. Actually I think study in London is a faster way to make your son spoiled. If he aims other provinces, then it is ok but London, no.

    1. I agree. It’s probably the same for every capital city in the world though

      1. Well, not exactly.

        A semester at the public schools of Washington D.C. might open your eyes.

      2. If the person is f@ck up wherever the person goes is f@ck up. 😀 🙁 LOL!

      1. What were you hoping to find? A peace of tail. 😀 🙁 LOL!

      2. Fish and chips, bangers and mash, cucumber sandwiches, a pot of tetleys lol. Stupid predictive text.

    1. HK university has higher ranking than most of schools in UK :P.

  13. In Hk is way different then England of education i’ve heard on news like before they actually hit the kids with a stick if you actually do something wrong!!!!! is so terrible
    …..<3

    1. No surprise. Canning is still widely practiced in Asia while it will be seen as child abuse in the West.

      1. Caning was practiced in England and spread to the Asian colonies.

  14. Hahaha I live in the UK and it’s quite difficult to find the stereotypical English gentlemen. You have more luck meeting Polish people and other europeans in the UK.

  15. Watch Home Sweet Home – Anita’s interview, then read the title again and it’ll make you immediately agree with Chilam’s decision. xD

  16. >>>Chilam added he also has plans to have his son receive education in England and pick up the gentleman behavior of the locals.

    Ahhh what an un-educated statement. He’s more likely to be mugged in the markets of Leicester or Birmingham..

    1diot

  17. Better yet, he will learn his “manners” from the fans at a soccer match. LOL!

    I am literally stunned by the fact that here we are in the 21st Century but yet someone still can be as insular, ignorant and uneducated as to have the capacity of harboring these bigoted views.

  18. with all the western-bashing, i wonder what would become of HK and Singapore without the heavy influence from the British…

    1. We would not have been addicted to 0pium & other opiates for 100 years.

      WE would not have to pay $15 billion (in todays terms inflation adjusted) in damages during tthe Taiping Uprising to the Westerners.

    2. Then this website would not have existed.. because HK artiste are all doing big business in China. There are not marketing all their wares in UK are they?

  19. It is western-worship bashing, not western bashing. Huge difference.

    BTW, HK would have been nothing if it were for “Red China” as it had prospered in serving as the “Gateway to China”. Prior to that, it was a sleepy fishing town for the 100 years under Brit rule.

    As for Singapore, it was primarily the ethnic Chinese who negotiated with the colonial mater Brit to establish an independent state form Malaysia.

    1. “It is western-worship bashing, not western bashing. Huge difference.” Indeed, totally agree.

    2. It also would have been nothing if it wasn’t governed by the British but I guess u can’t really measure these things can you.

      1. Think about it. The reason why it’s the gateway to China is not only because of its location but also because of its rule of law, free press, low corruption, quality of living, economic freedom and infrastructure – all of which were developed by the Brits during colonial rule. And Hong Kong was a fishing village – but during the Qing Dynasty.

  20. There’s no doubt that London and the Uk still has the best schools/universities in the world. Unlike Hong Kong and Singapore, the educational system allows the student to embrace individuality , creativity and moral values – unlike schools in asian countries which just teach students on how to pass exams.

    1. You have anything to back that up. Otherwise we all f!@%^k. 😀 🙁 LOL!

      1. Anything else to back that up, otherwise we all f!@$%k. 😀 🙁 LOL!

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