IF YOU want to date Ella Chen of Taiwanese girl group S.H.E, make sure you stay faithful.

Ella, 28, revealed she once found a long strand of hair while cleaning her boyfriend's house and went ballistic.

She's currently rumoured to be dating Taiwanese actor Baron Chen, and has been previously linked to Fahrenheit member Wu Chun.

Said Ella: "I can be really bitchy when it comes to love. In the past, I found it very hard to forgive and forget. But I've changed for the better now."

Ella was speaking to reporters at the launch of a special series of stamps here, which features S.H.E.

Also present at the launch last week were her fellow group members Selina Jen, 28, and Hebe Tien, 26.

S.H.E is the first foreign artiste or group to be featured on local stamps.

The trio released its latest album, FM S.H.E, last year. In this album, their eleventh to date, Hebe, Selina and Ella take on radio host personalities and present the songs as if they were presenting one long radio show.

Their latest pop offering has sold 20,000 copies in Singapore and produced two hit singles - Miss Universe and Coastal Highway Exit.

So how does one of Asia's longest-lasting girl groups remain so united and upbeat after seven years in showbiz?

"We feed off each other's positivity," said Ella.

Added Selina: "A happy state takes effort to create. When things go wrong, we focus on something good that we are thankful for, and that lifts us eventually."

Hebe admitted that Selina has always been the pillar of strength in the group as she's "the strongest and most jovial one".

Making up lyrics

The trio also will make it a point to visit the karaoke lounge, in a bid to "sing our sorrows away". Said Ella: "What we like to do is... make up our own lyrics for the song.

"It will sound so funny that we'll end up laughing and our problems will be forgotten."

Hebe, a self-confessed introvert, said that before she joined the group, she would rely on snail mail from her pen pals to "give me something to look forward to".

She said: "In the past, when there was no e-mail, I used to wait faithfully at my mailbox when I came back from school for letters from my female pen friends."

But now that she has Selina and Ella to confide in, she no longer writes letters.

The only frustrating thing about being in the business for so long, the girls said, is being asked the same questions countless times.

Such as whether they fight with each other.

Hebe said: "And when we give an answer that the reporters don't want, they will ask it again.

"I'm always like 'did you hear what we said?'"

But Ella quickly added: "Of course it doesn't happen with the Singapore media.

"Singapore is always so nice to us, you know."

This article was first published in The New Paper.