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Hermione69 | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 10:24 am     She and the other members also made a terrible mistake by throwing immunity challenges pre-"merge". I think they claimed to have thrown one, maybe two. Imagine how different it would have been for the SJ tribe had they not done that. |
Cricket | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 10:41 am     Chiparock, you have the cutest pictures I've ever seen. Where do you find them all? I still haven't figured out how to post pictures. Arghhhh...I follow the instructions, but it doesn't work. Oh well, more practice needed I guess. Your picture says it all...I'm sad too that ShiAnn got the boot. |
Jagger | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 10:52 am     Hermione69 you brought up a great point about them throwing the challenges, I remember Shi-ann saying on the immunity challenge when they got rid of Jedd that she knew how to solve the puzzle but was going to let the others do it themselves. She did not come right out and say she was throwing the challenge, but she impied it. In the end it came back to haunt her, and boy am I glad it did. |
Chiparock | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 10:54 am     Cricket. What I don't copy from other TVCH'ers I find on various websites that DraHeiD steered me to and also click on links found on those sites. BTW, Meggieprice started the "DraHeiD Fan Club" in the General Discussions area. I encourage everyone to join the Club!
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Pottedplant | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 12:52 pm     Shi Ann should have taken her own advice. When she voted Robb last week, she said, a fool talks much, wize men say little. If she had kept her mouth shut, she might not have been voted off. She seemed fairly tight with Ken & Jake, but after her flip flops, they had no choice other than to boot her. I don't think she is as smart as she thinks she is either. Oh yeah I can do a puzzle in my sleep, but then when push comes to shove, she cannot. Loosers lodge must have been fun LOL |
Brenda1966 | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 01:00 pm     I'm so sad to see Shii Ann go. She was bright and was playing the game hard. At least she had intereting things to say (unlike most of her team members). Her biggest mistake was telling the Cop she was thinking of defecting! There's time for friendship after the game. She could have simply told them she wanted Penny out now because she didn't want her on the jury. I'm glad she spoke up at tribal council -- she had nothing to lose at that point. I am surprised that out of all these smart people no one asked "where's our new buff" or "what's our new name"? I wonder what Jeff would have said to a question like that. |
Rissa | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 01:46 pm     I can't help but think that Ken/Jake made a mistake booting her. I totally understand why they did, but...... They know that after last night's vote that they will be a person short compared to CG no matter WHO they booted. If they merge now.. the other team who is OBVIOUSLY much more united will simply pick them off, one by one. Ken/Jake eliminated the one person on their team who had made the most connections with that other team. So when it comes time to start pegging them off, they will most likely start with the biggest competition... KEN and JAKE!! If Shii Ann was still there (and they know she is loyal to THEM, just not to the two women) she would have steered the votes to Erin and Penny. Did that make any sense at all? LOLOL |
Realfan | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 01:50 pm     They did come up with a new name, even though Jeff never asked them to. Chuey Jai, I think it was. I'm sorry to see Shi Ann go. Hated Penny's smug look when SA left. |
Calamity | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 02:04 pm     Rissa, I think you're absolutely right. Shii Ann probably could have bought some time for Jake & Ken. But maybe they're counting on the tribes being equalized again after the next IC and didn't want to risk Shii Ann going over to CG. |
Boodles | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 02:36 pm     I really think her big mistake was not in aligning with Chuay, but in telling Ken she was thinking of doing it. She herself admitted things weren't good for her in Sook Jai. Did she really think Ken would say ok, good luck, no hard feelings? I too am sorry to see her go. She was not my favorite, but she did bring some "spunk" to the show. |
Risa | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 03:26 pm     I'm not sorry to see She <> go and will be looking forward to seeing Penny and Ken go too. |
Sia | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 10:34 pm     I hated to see Shii Ann go, too. She would have been better off keeping her cards closer to her chest, but the time was stressful for her, anyway. Things have a way of working out. I missed the interview, but saw a vidcap and think Shii looked really pretty! |
Sisalou | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 11:34 pm     Boo Hoo! I like Shii Ann and I wanted her to stay. |
Sallycat | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 06:35 am     As to why they didn't question more, I got the impression that was not an option. I think Jeff doesn't chat anyone up until tribal council (if then, except on camera) They know asumptions will be made and plan on them falling in to a hole. All for our viewing entertainment! |
Lyn | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 11:17 am     I felt sorry for Shii Ann - just as she made friends/had some fun, she was voted out |
Cricket | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 04:44 pm     Thanks for the response Chiparock (yet another cute cartoon)....I guess I'm going to have to wander on over and join Draheid's Fan Club. I agree with everyone who said Shii ann probably shouldn't have told Ken she wanted to align with Chuey. Rissa, you have a very good point that they made a mistake getting rid of her. Of course Chuey will knock off Ken and Jake first now. I wonder if that's how Penni manages to stick around so long. |
Spunky | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 09:33 am     And yet when Jeff offered them to switch tribes Shi Anne felt quite sure of herself as a member of her team and did not want to go to Chuey. I think that was another major mistake by Shi Anne. She should have gone to Chuey and discovered how much better the other team was much sooner and she may have lasted longer. (I guess she wanted to stay to boot Robb out). I saw the Early Show videoclip and she hasn't changed much in her view of Robb and her team and still likes Chuey. Too bad she won't be one of the jury. |
Quietstorm4 | Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 08:12 am     I didn't see this anywhere so I thought I'd post. copied from SurvivorNews Shii Ann Huang's CBS.COM chat on 11/01/02 follows. Transcription by Seftor on VOTEDOFF.TV. BY SurvivorNews.net Friday, November 1, 2002 Q: First of all, SA, I want to say you are GREAT! Definitely my favorite and you will be missed. I would definitely split a chicken neck with you some day. I thought you had an excellent final argument at TC. Did you think you had any real chance of swaying Ken and Jake? A: You know, I didn't know whether or not I could really sway Ken or Jake, but I am the Shii Devil, so I wasn't going to leave without stirring it up a bit and *laughs* fighting tooth and nail before going. I tried one last ditch effort to convince them that keeping me over Penny would probably help them last longer with CG majority in the merger. Q: So, SA, how soon after Jeff said that there hadn't been a merge did you have an "Oh, S***" moment? A: *laughs* It was immediate! I had an immediate Homer Simpson style kind of moment: D'oh! Oops, I did it again, so to speak! *laughs* Q: SA, what was your reaction to seeing Penny's big smile when Jeff Probst told you that you were voted off? A: You know what I think that Penny did exactly what I would have done and I was proud of her for smirking in the Shii Devil fashion. I would have done the same thing! Q: Are you really a Shii-devil in person or was that facade just for the purpose of winning the game? A: You know, the Shii Devil is on aspect of my personality that came out strongly in the game, but it's just a game, and there are a lot of different aspects of everyone's personalities that you don't get to see. What you see is what you get in terms of the game. Q: SA - I'm your biggest fan! I'm really disappointed that you were voted out, as you were by far the most entertaining person on the show! I was wondering, just how mean was Penny? She seems like a manipulative sneak! A: *laughs* You know, during the game, Penny did her best to socially ostracize me. I think Ken's comment about how she and Robb treated me really summed it up. I think she was good at playing the game and what she did in the game of Survivor. Q: Why don't Penny and Ken get along? A: I think Ken saw Penny for what she was: fiercely competitive and often a manipulative player and he felt threatened by her. They were both very competitive and I think that's why they didn't get along. Q: I'm from the same town as Robb, and believe he doesn't represent us Arizonans very well. What did you really think of him? A: *laughs* I think you saw how I felt about him during the show. I think I said more than enough about how I felt about him during the game. As a girl from AZ, I know that the population of AZ is much more diverse than what Robb represented. Q: SA, was Robb as bad as we saw on TV? A: *laughs* Robb had a very different strategy than me on the show and I think the show accurately portrayed what happened during the game. Q: What can you say about Clay's mini golf? A: Oh, Clay is so much fun and the mini-golf was fun too! I really like to play and I loved what CG had to offer. They had a lot of entertainment on their side of the island and I really like playing games with the CG members and relaxing for a change. Q: SA, how did you get the Shii-Devil nickname? And do you find it ironic that the Shii-Devil was voted out on Halloween? A: A friend of mine gave me that nickname because he thought that wherever I went, trouble followed, and I think you had a chance to see the horns come out a couple of times on the show. *laughs* I find it strange that the Shii Devil was voted out on Halloween. Like I said before I tried to give Penny the hornd, but I just discovered that she had bigger horns than me!! Q: After seeing the first 21 days, has anything surprised you that was shown? A: No, I wasn't shocked. I think the show is very accurate in the way it portrayed things except for what happened on CG because I wasn't on their camp. Q: Congrats on making it far as you did SA. Tell me, was your strategy to try to win the CG tribe over after you eliminated the SJ tribe? That was sort of risky, don't you think? A: Yes, that was my strategy. I didn't think I had a chance with SJ, so I took a gamble and I hedged my bet by trying to join CG in voting out my biggest threat (Penny). Q: SA, do you wish you had changed teams when you had the chance? A: No, while I loved CG when I finally got to meet them, at that point in the game when the switch was offered, it wouldn't have made sense because we had seven members and they had five. If I'd left, I think SJ would have won any physical immunity challenge and then I being the last to join might have been the first to go. So, unfortunately, it didn't make sense at that point. Q: Tell me your thoughts about the 3 days when the 2 tribes lived together. What was the mood? Were you still wary? A: I was so happy. The mood at the new camp was very jovial. We all felt very relaxed. We thought the two tribes had merged, I let down my guard and really became friends with CG. We remain friends today. It was a nice time had by all. Q: SA, who do you think that you had the strongest bond with? A: On my tribe, my strongest bond was with Jake. I really liked him very much. He's a very nice guy and we're going to stay friends for a long time. On CG, I especially liked Helen and Ted. Helen is a very strong woman, and being a New Yorker, I like assertive, opinionated people and she's definitely that. Q: Did you and Erin ever talk very much, we didn't see you all together very often? A: No, I hardly ever spoke with Erin. She was really Penny's shadow. The whole time we were there, Erin rode on Penny's coattails. Penny worked very hard and Erin just followed. That was her strategy. Q: A couple episodes ago, Brian made some sexist comments, what were your feelings on that? A: Well, having graduated from Berkeley with an English degree focusing on Women's Studies ... I didn't agree with his comments. I think women are just as capable as men at hunting for food or winning immunity challenges. But to his credit, I think he might have been joking ... I did see a smile on his face when he said it. Q: Did either Ken or Jake give you any indication that you were going to be voted out? A: Ken did, Jake didn't, but I understood why they were going to vote me out. I was the biggest threat to them at that point. I'd become friends with CG and it would have been a mistake for them to keep me. Q: Great audition tape, SA - are you interested in making movies - acting or directing? A: I love what I do now. If any opportunities come my way, that'd be wonderful, but I don't have plans of acting or directing anything other than Survivor videos in the near future! *Evil Cackle* Q: SA - was there any good times in your tribe or was it as boring and annoying as it was shown on TV? A: I think what you see is what you get. I had a lot of fun with CG and I had some nice private moments with Jake and even Ken, but as a whole, SJ was not a happy, party tribe. Q: SA, after you were voted off, did you spend the rest of your time in Thailand with the six people who were voted off before you? A: Yes, I spent time on the flip side with Robb. We traveled and had a great time and got to see a lot of Thailand. It was a wonderful vacation and a very memorable experience. Q: Was it difficult finding enough food? You didn't seem to be as weak as people on the other Survivor shows. A: It was extremely difficult to find food. If you notice, all the girls were very skinny on day 21. When I looked at myself on TV it looked as if I had a pumpkin head on top of a stick figure. We were very hungry, even if it looked like we had a lot of food because bananas don't have a high caloric count. Q: Wasn't it great to see Magilla steal all the bananas? A: That was hilarious!!! That was too funny to see the monkey steal everything! I only hope that CG at e all the food before SJ got back from TC! *laughs* The monkey reminded me of some other tribe members who were stealing bananas ... Q: Hi, SA, I once was Captain of a large federation starship ... did you feel like you were in command of the other tribe mates? A: *laughs* I was command until I suffered a mind meld with CG and spilled my guts. *laughs* Q: SA - do you think Ted and Brian were genuine when they asked you to join their alliance, or did you feel they were just playing you? A: I think that they were genuine when they asked me to join their alliance. As genuine as anyone in Survivor can be. Outside of the game, we really enjoy each other. I think on the island, it was part affection and part strategy. Q: Did you have the chance to see Magilla? A: I did and he's every bit as cute off camera as he is on! The camera didn't even add ten pounds! The monkey was the most accurately portrayed character on the show!! *laughs* Q: Did you notice Jeff Probst getting a little irritated with the survivors on the last couple episodes? A: *laughs* I think Jeff is human like the audience and has his own opinions about each survivor, so his reactions are genuine and can tell you a little bit about how he felt about everyone. Q: SA, what did you say to your mom in your final words? A: I said, "Mom, I love you and miss you and I can't wait to see you." Q: SA, how did you manage to maintain your composure despite the fact that most of your tribe mates were ostracizing you? A: That's a good question. I think to be on Survivor, you not only have to have physical strength, but emotional strength, and confidence in knowing who you are outside of the game. Whenever I got down, I would think about all the wonderful people waiting for me back home and occasionally I would chat with Jake and that would make my day, but ultimately, it was the internal strength and determination to outlast the other players that kept me going. Q: What did your Mom tell you when you got home? A: She told me that she loved me and was very proud of me and that no matter what happened I'd made her very proud just by getting on the show. Q: Too bad you got voted off ... what were your other luxury items that CBS had to choose from? A: I think a vinyl picnic cloth, a photo of my mother, a journal and pen, and lip balm ... I don't remember exactly. Q: SA, do you wish you were originally picked for CG by Jan? A: Yes. *laughs* I think that I would have probably enjoyed my first 18 days better at the CG camp. After all, they didn't even have to build their own shelter and they had that cute monkey on their side. Q: How was sleeping in the cave versus your shelter? Did it get cold at night? A: It got colder on the SJ side at night than it did at CG. CG's sandy beach made for a much better bed than the crooked, sharp bamboo shelter that we slept on at SJ. Plus, it never rained on us at CG because of the cave. At SJ, the holes in our shelter would allow rain to pour on our heads when we slept. Q: Robb really seemed to be in pain after being stung by the stingray, how come you had no sympathy for him? A: Robb cried out often about many things, so I never knew when he was really hurt or when he was exaggerating like the boy who cried wolf. It's not that I didn't sympathize with his pain, rather he was pounding the sand with his fists and stomping his feet for about forty minutes and I thought that was a bit of a long time to cry about his foot. But, looking at it now, my comments do seem a bit ... harsh. *laughs* Q: Who were you rooting for, Robb or the stingray? A: *laughs* I think we all know the answer to that! Q: Please describe SJ in one word. A: Penny - manipulative, Ken - competetive, Jake - kind, and Erin - follower. Q: I was so sad to see you go! Why did you jump ship so soon when the merger wasn't a definite thing yet? A: No one knew the merger was a fake. Everyone assumed we were one tribe. I jumped ship because I liked CG so much. I couldn't bear to vote any of them out and my position at SJ was very precarious. So, I chose to gamble on switching tribes. I played very aggressively, and unfortunately, the merge was a fake! Oh, that tricky, tricky Jeff Probst! I should have read the find print! *laughs* Q: The Hut sleepers voted off people who they thought were threats, but why didn't you all think Ken was a threat? A: Ken kept a low profile. He tried to keep his physical strength hidden by sitting out several immunity challenges. Also, on a personal note, I figured Ken would be a target once the merge happened. Prior to the merge, Ken was less of an obvious threat than Robb or Jed or Stephanie. Q: SA, you have a great voice, where did you learn to sing like that? A: *laughs* In the shower! I love to sing in the shower and at karaoke and here's a glimpse at my nerdy past: I was a musical junkie and loved to sing in the choir when I was in junior high school. *laughs* Go jazz hands! Q: Hi SA - did you spend any time with Jed after you were voted off? A: Yes, we got to go on a wonderful vacation where we saw a lot of the wonders of Thailand. We really experienced the Thai culture and everyone was very thankful and happy we got the opportunity to see the sights and sounds of lovely southeast Asia and Thailand. Q: Who was trickier, Jeff or the monkey? A: *laughs* I think that Jeff was trickier, the monkey was hairier, and Jeff was definitely cuter ... and taller than the monkey *laughs* Q: You were so lucky, you didn't have to eat any bugs or yucky stuff. Were you prepared to do that? A: We did eat bugs, we ate those grubs from the food reward auction. And yes, we were prepared to eat bugs as they are very nutritious *laughs* and we were starving!! And by the way, grubs do not taste good no matter how seasoned they are. Q: Out of Clay, Helen, Ted, Jan, and Brian, who was your favorite to be around? A: My favorite to be around ... they were all so nice to be around, but if I had to pick favorites I would say that Ted and Helen were my favorites. Ted because he's just like a big teddy bear and Helen because she and I share a love of gourmet food. Plus, she's a hoot as a person! Q: SA ... what was your best and worst time on the island? A: The best time on the island was hanging out with CG after our assumed merge dinner party, singing and laughing under the stars of the CG camp and making friends with Ted, Brian, Helen, Clay, and Jan. The worst time was feeling isolated out on the beaches of SJ. Q: What does your name mean? A: It means "One Who Rules with Harmony and Peace". Q: Was Jan as drunk as she acted? A: Jan likes to drink wine!! *laughs* She was pretty tipsy, but I think Brian was even more tipsy and proved it when he vomited into the ocean! We had a good time and it was a real party. Q: What item did you long for the most during your time on the island? A: Chocolate éclairs. I dreamt about Cream Puffs and Chocolate Éclairs before going to bed every night for twenty nights. That was the only thing that made me fall asleep peacefully and I don't even like sweets or dessert in real life! That's how hungry I was! Q: What did you think of Brian calling the beach his "kingdom"? A: I think that Brian feels that way about CG ... I think also he was a bit drunk when he made that statement. But, I like his cocky attitude ... no pun intended. Q: What would be your advise for others playing the game in the future? A: Be yourself but try really hard to fly under the radar and don't assume a thing! *laughs* Thank you guys! I've been so lucky and happy to be the first Asian-American on Survivor and I hope you enjoyed watching the Shii Devil in action! |
Niceguy | Saturday, December 21, 2002 - 03:40 pm     You know Shii-Ann and Steph must have really beat themselves up in the loser lodge over not switching sides. Its funny. MB offers them the chance to switch. They have an instant to mull it over and decide against it. Later(after Steph is gone)She-Devil presumes the merge has happened and she gets bopped upside the head again. Shii-Ann received a big education from the game. |
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