^ he looks like Jude Law!

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/19/17/.../183671765l.jpg

who's the guy on the left furan?

i just find him very goodlookin...

anyway, do you want me to make a profile about him on dailymodel? So it would make you easier to see all his pics =p

That's a GIRL!

thank god he's got a normal voice, cuz i just imagine him with a high pitch shriek for some reason...

fur, are u the administrator of that site, dailymodel? i can't get access to that site...

he's donated half of his own liver to his girlfren (now wife) when she suffered liver failure from taking fatal slimming pills! what a guy, huh?

Cruz-ing ahead

By MAK MUN SAN

Andrea De Cruz was given a new lease of life after undergoing a liver transplant. Five years on, she’s embracing life with renewed passion.

TWO Mondays ago, actress-host Andrea De Cruz had a quiet celebration with her husband, actor Pierre Png, at their favourite Italian restaurant.



Andrea De Cruz
Cause for celebration: Andrea De Cruz marks the significant fifth anniversary of her liver transplant.
The occasion: The fifth anniversary of her liver transplant.

Brimming with unbridled joy, she says the first thought that came to her mind when she woke up that day was ‘Five years! Yes!’

On May 7, 2002, Png, her then-fiancé, donated part of his liver to her after she suffered liver failure as a result of taking slimming pills, Slim 10.

It was a headline-grabbing operation followed by an equally high-profile lawsuit.

She sued the distributors of Slim 10 and MediaCorp colleague Rayson Tan for selling her the pills. She won her case against the distributors and was awarded S$1.63mil (RM2.21mil), while Tan was cleared.

The five-year mark is significant as the survival rate for the first five years after the transplant is just 50-50.

“I’ve been waiting and waiting because it’s comparable to being a cancer patient who’s in remission,” the 32-year-old says, beaming.

“I’ve been told I’ve got 20 to 25 years left, which will take me into my 50s. But I don’t think too much about it any more.”

The first five years were full of uncertainties, she confides, with many health scares like food allergies resulting in her being rushed to hospital. In June last year, she suffered a bout of mild rejection and her medication was increased.

But she continues in an excited tone: ‘After the fifth year, you have this new-found inspiration, new-found drive.

“And you think: ‘Hell, I’ve made it past five years already. I can do this’.”

Born-again fighter

Those are not just empty words. These days, the woman is embracing life with the vitality and enthusiasm of a born-again fighter, determined to make up for lost time.

One of her new projects is a spa in Telok Ayer Street in Singapore, which will open next month. It is a joint-venture between her and hairstylist, Henry Leong, who runs Cinq hair salon at the same location.

But arguably her biggest plan is to start a family soon through adoption. She is avoiding having her own kids as the immuno-suppressant drug she is taking can lead to birth abnormalities.

Once the couple can find a break in their busy schedules, they will visit Vietnam and Cambodia to explore their options.

Lawyer and good friend Wendell Wong, 36, says De Cruz has found a “renewed vigour and passion” about living life to the fullest. “Everything is in colour for her now,” he observes.

Her positive outlook is reflected in her looks. Standing at 1.62m tall, she is a picture of health, having lost 3kg from her pre-surgery weight of 52kg.

Decked out in grey slacks and white blouse with a few buttons left sexily undone, her stylish look is completed with suspenders and a necklace.

Her eyes sparkle and there’s a radiant glow to her complexion. Her lithe frame is proof of her rigorous gym-and-yoga regime.

“Everyone tells me I look better after the transplant,” she says. “I do feel better. I think I’ve received a very good liver.”

No one is happier to see her emerging from the shadow of death than Png, whom she married in October 2003.

“I want her to have a new beginning,” he says. But the 34-year-old also confesses he has “this fear at the back of my mind” every day that something may happen to her.

“Andrea is God’s gift to me. I wouldn’t know what to do if she’s taken out of the equation,” he says, his voice choking with emotion.

He then reveals that after the transplant, he started preparing for the worst-case scenario.

He has already chosen the photograph he would use for the obituary should she go first. Two years ago, he booked two niches in a columbarium for themselves.

Morbid thoughts, perhaps, but she says they talk about death “all the time”, but only so that they can make decisions, like having children.

The no-holds-barred rule extends to this interview. Without prompting, she relates Png's reaction when he noticed a Peeping Tom peering into the bathroom of their Bukit Timah condominium.

He rushed out to confront the neighbour, even though he was wrapped in only a sarong and had soap suds all over his body.

“What if the other guy had a dagger? That’s Pierre. He’s very protective of the people he loves and he never thinks of himself.”

She recalls how an ex-boyfriend told her he was not good enough for her and that she needed a “hero who would walk through fire” for her.

“I remembered thinking, ‘Why would I want a hero?' Then soon after, I met Pierre, my hero,” she says, laughing. They met in 1999 through actress Tan Kheng Hua, his co-star on the sitcom Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd. They now live with her 67-year-old mother, two shih tzus and a maid.

When asked if she gets tired of repeating the story of her liver transplant, she replies: “I don’t mind talking about it – it’s a way of educating people on how to lose weight the healthy way instead of popping pills.

She first took the slimming pills in February 2002 while filming the Channel 8 serial No Problem. Her problems started in mid-April and she was hospitalised for a failing liver.

She tells how it was Png’s mother who told her that her then-fiancé would be the liver donor and how she vehemently objected even as she drifted in and out of consciousness.

“She told me she was not going to stop Pierre because she would regret it for the rest of her life if anything happened to me. I was very moved by how magnanimous she was,” she recounts.

The only time she loses her composure during this three-hour chat is when she describes how Png broke down and cried for the first time while driving home from the National University Hospital on the Pan-Island Expressway.

With tears welling up in her eyes, she says: “He said he never realised the intensity of it all until he knew he had to save me.”

Then, she gives a bashful smile as she exclaims: “Aiyo, hao gandong”, which means “very touching” in Mandarin.

Depression after surgery

But behind the heart-tugging love story is her dark, painful bout of depression.

During her first press conference post-surgery, a reporter asked what her message was to people, particularly, the young women who were taking slimming pills.

Her reply then was: “Actually, I would like to put the whole slimming pill issue behind me. So if you don’t mind, I don't want to discuss it right now.”

She indicates that she was advised by her lawyers then not to comment on the topic with the lawsuit pending.

The backlash came fast and furious. Readers wrote in to criticise her for not setting an example after her brush with death.

Then came the lawsuit. She was maligned for suing Tan. Actress Chen Liping, who is Tan’s wife, accused her in court of being “heartless” and “greedy”.

The bad press followed her even during her fairytale wedding. It left many reporters hot under the collar after her wedding planner barred all press except one TV crew from the wedding dinner.

“Everything happened so quickly. There were times when I probably came across as an absolute b!tch,” she says.

“But at that time, the sort of stress was so much to handle and no one knew I was going through depression.”

‘My acting is not good’

The younger of two daughters, she inherited her exotic good looks from her Indian-Irish father, Harvey De Cruz, an engineer who died about 10 years ago, and her Chinese mother, Shirley Tan, a housewife.

Her father travelled often on the job and whenever he returned, he would shower her and her elder sister Wendy, 34, with lots of presents.

But she was dealt a blow at age 16 when, in her own words, “my father divorced us” and remarried.

After Katong Convent, she joined Wendy in Melbourne and studied at the RMIT University.

Her long-time friend Karen Soh, 32, a passenger services agent, describes her as a “helpful and kind” girl who always made an effort to stay in touch despite the distance between them.

In her third year, she transferred to San Francisco State University, where she graduated with a psychology degree. After working for a year as a psychologist in a San Francisco county jail, she returned to Singapore and worked at Mount Elizabeth Hospital for about half a year.

In 1998, she landed the lead role, playing a psychiatrist in Victor Khoo’s movie, Tiger’s Whip, a box-office flop which still induces embarrassed laughter from her at the mere mention of it.

“My forte is in hosting. My acting is really not that good,” she confesses.

She also took acting classes at night at the then-Television Corporation of Singapore.

At the end of 1998, she was asked to host infotainment show Showbuzz, and she quit her psychologist job.

She says this of her first few years in showbiz: “Fame came very fast. It was crazy.”

Until the Slim 10 saga stopped her in her tracks, that is.

For two-and-a-half years after her transplant, she was paid her full salary by MediaCorp despite “sitting on my bum” recuperating at home.

She returned to TV work only in April 2004. Now a part-time artiste managed by the TV station, she has been involved in projects like the Channel 5 infotainment series Global Picnic and Channel 8 drama My Dear Kin.

Apart from popping three pills a day and keeping away from shellfish, raw food, salads and the sun, she appears every bit as healthy as the next person on the street.

And she is adamant about keeping thoughts about her mortality to a minimum.

“If I don’t live the years of my life fruitfully, they will be nothing,” she says.

“If every day I’m going to wonder: ‘I’m going to die in 20 years. Should I have children?’ there’s no point. All I’ll be doing is worrying.” – The Straits Times Singapore / Asia News Network

and yeah..kevin Richard looks better with the goatee...It feels so weird having to call him Kevin Richard instead of Richard kevin...Oh wait....what's his name again???

What's the name of the boy who plays on Cinderella? How old is he?

fendy haryanto as levi
19 years old

I kinda like him. Do you know anything more abt him?

chalid waqid is indonesian or iraqian
read on cosmopolitan magazine...he was born in canberra
half australian-half egyptian
last night I saw him waktu final iraq vs arab saudi
pake t shirt ada bendera iraqnya
Believe me Iraqian boys are so cuteeeeeeeeeeeeee
tak seperti yang di tv

Millanogirl, anymore pics of Fendy?