Post by MYR Admin on Oct 15, 2006 2:36:26 GMT 7
To understand how much my love is for Michelle, I think everyone has to understand what kind of a person I am first (okay I know no one’s interested, but well ). I don’t know what you call people like me, I am someone who has no interest in TV shows, celebrities, songs, etc, not until I was late in my teens? I don’t know who sings what, or what show is airing at my local TV, I don’t know any actors / actresses by name / by face. I am in fact terrible with names and faces in real life as well. Anyway, when my friends are busy chatting away the popular series, hits songs, hottest actor / actresses, I hear nothing but alien languages. I didn’t even know what a ‘music album’ is, I thought it’s like any other photo album. How in the world do ppl keep 'music' in an album?!? *haha* I was 17 when I first listen to any popular songs – de-stressing while studying for my SPM (O-Level equivalent).
As for celebrities, it wasn’t until when I hit 20 that I took interest in celebrities, and that person was not Michelle, it is Jet Li. I know it’s all Michelle’s fans reading this forum, so I shall spare the explanation why I took interest into Jet Li. However, I would like to clarify that my interest for him, for his shows was there, but I was more interested in his person, his thinking, his philosophical mind. Thus, you can say, I’m not really a person who likes any celebrities just simply. To date, I still respect his mind, his philosophy, and I do look forward to read his opinions.
The second celebrity I took interest in is still not Michelle, it is Zhao Wei. She has a total opposite childhood compared to Michelle, but the point she interested me in was her personality - again. She endured a tough time in entertainment circle and was smeared with some waste over a Japan flag issue, but she stood up strong, overcoming the whole heated issue without crumbling and her career is still soaring high in China, thus I respected her for that and still do.
Michelle, you can say I liked her years ago, or you may say I liked her when I hit 21? She can be the first celebrity I was actually interested in, or she may be the last (I’m sure there’s no more celebrities that can beat my love for her). How is this so?
This is because, I vaguely remember watching an actress in Eternal Happiness (I didn’t know what it was called then). I was in my senior year in high school and always manage to catch a few glimpses of the series airing before rushing to my tuition etc. Like I said I seldom watch TV back then, but this girl totally captivated me, causing me to be often late for my tuition. Life was busy, and being the person who seldom uses internet back then, I didn’t get to find out who she is. Plus, I didn’t exactly ask around since I wasn’t interested in celebrities yet. But, yes she carved a deep impression then.
When I entered uni, , I was influenced by my peers into the TVB world, still I only watch series for entertainment sake, no celebrities occur to me at all. Until that is, I got to watch Golden Faith. When I saw Michelle, I immediately recognized her as the girl I had been so interested in years ago. Uni is a much easier place to dig out information, and a friend gave me a little info and 2 pictures of her, which I kept in my computer, but then again, that was it. I do take a look of her picture once in a while and always thought her Chinese name, Ye Xuan, is really nice. I never thought of google-ing for her info on net, because, I only do that for studies, who in the world google for entertainment? Haha, that was what I thought then.
During the time I was undergoing my internship training, I was less busy than usual and got to watch World Finest. I remember it being my 21st birthday, with my whole family on a vacation somewhere else (sad, haha), so I was entertaining myself to the DVD piles my father stocked up. And for the next few nights, I spend them on World Finest drama-thon, the only time I’m not would be working and sleeping.
I was deeply, permanently, infinitely sucked into that drama, and Michelle, from then on lived in my mind. I am sure whoever who has watched World Finest would agree with me about the aftermath, everyone would feel something odd, it’s like something missing when u finished it. I don’t know how to explain it, but initially I thought it was only me, until I found out WF fans chatting the same in forums all over. I re-watched it infinite times, I wrote fan-fictions, I did all I could, and still I could not get enough of Michelle.
And that is because, Michelle has very limited English sites – most of which are inactive as well. There is no news of her at all, at least not English ones, I was starting to go crazy of Michelle-deprivation. I began to search for her list of filmography and bought her series that are available. I don’t think anyone would understand my passion for her, especially not the VCD dealer that I bugged for Michelle’s series. Haha…
Then I encountered her Chinese site, and it did satisfy my thirst a little, and then I ‘saw’ how English educated fans are all deprived of her news etc. I did translations of whatever news she has, and some interesting articles that Chinese fans post, I translated them as well. Because I know as a Michelle fan I would be interested to read them, anything about Michelle interests me, thus I did. I went to many forums and post my translations, sometimes it gets very repetitive, yet I don’t mind cause I love sharing Michelle with all other fans. Then why stop and start this site? Because there is no proper English site that provides proper news and Michelle’s latest happenings.
How deep is my love? Deeper that deep. First, I AM an English educated fan like all of you. Which means, I know none or maybe limited Chinese characters like my own name and one, two, three. Then how did I do the translations? I use tools. Yes, it is VERY time consuming since sometimes I have to find meaning of each word. But I love every moment of it, because as I translate, I understand the news better, I get to know Michelle more. And the more translations I do, the more words I learn, soon, I can do it quite smoothly.
When I heard of Michelle’s autobiography I was totally ecstatic but desperate cause I didn’t know how in the world I could get it since it’s only sold in HK! Yeah, even this Chinese illiterate fan wants her Chinese autobiography so you can imagine how much I like her. I was planning to ask a friend to read it to me, but by the time the autobiography did arrive to me (from YesAsia), I’ve learn enough Chinese to read the whole book myself, asking my mum what these few words are or mean once in a while. Of course, I can’t exactly know every single detail (Michelle’s writing quite deep) but I can say I should’ve at least understood 95% of the book. Oh yeah, it was my first time ever buying anything online too, I was really determined to get the book!
Building the site? I can tell you I know zero about HTML before building a site for Michelle (yes I am serious). I didn’t even know the basic format of HTML is the head and body etc. And I can tell you the first layout looks nothing like what you all are currently seeing (not that the one now is that nice but acceptable). I searched the net, read tutorials, use free codes, did all I could, and came up with a lousy template…
Yuki, knows the best! Haha… She is the one with HTML knowledge. She did the first draft and then from there I slowly edited, and learn with sweet pain. I hated programming, but while doing it for Michelle, it felt wonderful. It became addictive even.
I have to thank Michelle, because indirectly, she has taught me Chinese and HTML, the two languages that I used to know nothing of.
As for her rumors, it did nothing to annoy me off because, I know and I advise any fans who are disturbed by her rumors / gossips – the media / newspaper work circle is very, VERY chaotic. Manipulated pictures, incorrect information, it happens every day, every issue – they just need to publish everything on time, they have no time to verify the truth behind it. I know, because I have had experience in that field, trust me. The so called news – usually differs far from the truth, it’s either we know the truth and don’t trust the news, or we trust the news cause we don’t know the truth.
Of course, I’m not saying news has no reliability at all. It does, but the degree of inaccuracy it can contain, never doubt it, I’ve been amazed when I first experienced it. One day you write this, the next day they publish that. It’s no big surprise anymore. Thus you need wisdom to know how to differentiate. Pictures – I’m sure graphics literate people are even clearer than I am, you know to what depth people can edit it.
Of course, Michelle has too much negative news / rumors for it to be all categorized as inaccuracy / chaos / miscommunication – thus I can tell you the rest that are not, are created by people who need to keep their jobs.
As for celebrities, it wasn’t until when I hit 20 that I took interest in celebrities, and that person was not Michelle, it is Jet Li. I know it’s all Michelle’s fans reading this forum, so I shall spare the explanation why I took interest into Jet Li. However, I would like to clarify that my interest for him, for his shows was there, but I was more interested in his person, his thinking, his philosophical mind. Thus, you can say, I’m not really a person who likes any celebrities just simply. To date, I still respect his mind, his philosophy, and I do look forward to read his opinions.
The second celebrity I took interest in is still not Michelle, it is Zhao Wei. She has a total opposite childhood compared to Michelle, but the point she interested me in was her personality - again. She endured a tough time in entertainment circle and was smeared with some waste over a Japan flag issue, but she stood up strong, overcoming the whole heated issue without crumbling and her career is still soaring high in China, thus I respected her for that and still do.
Michelle, you can say I liked her years ago, or you may say I liked her when I hit 21? She can be the first celebrity I was actually interested in, or she may be the last (I’m sure there’s no more celebrities that can beat my love for her). How is this so?
This is because, I vaguely remember watching an actress in Eternal Happiness (I didn’t know what it was called then). I was in my senior year in high school and always manage to catch a few glimpses of the series airing before rushing to my tuition etc. Like I said I seldom watch TV back then, but this girl totally captivated me, causing me to be often late for my tuition. Life was busy, and being the person who seldom uses internet back then, I didn’t get to find out who she is. Plus, I didn’t exactly ask around since I wasn’t interested in celebrities yet. But, yes she carved a deep impression then.
When I entered uni, , I was influenced by my peers into the TVB world, still I only watch series for entertainment sake, no celebrities occur to me at all. Until that is, I got to watch Golden Faith. When I saw Michelle, I immediately recognized her as the girl I had been so interested in years ago. Uni is a much easier place to dig out information, and a friend gave me a little info and 2 pictures of her, which I kept in my computer, but then again, that was it. I do take a look of her picture once in a while and always thought her Chinese name, Ye Xuan, is really nice. I never thought of google-ing for her info on net, because, I only do that for studies, who in the world google for entertainment? Haha, that was what I thought then.
During the time I was undergoing my internship training, I was less busy than usual and got to watch World Finest. I remember it being my 21st birthday, with my whole family on a vacation somewhere else (sad, haha), so I was entertaining myself to the DVD piles my father stocked up. And for the next few nights, I spend them on World Finest drama-thon, the only time I’m not would be working and sleeping.
I was deeply, permanently, infinitely sucked into that drama, and Michelle, from then on lived in my mind. I am sure whoever who has watched World Finest would agree with me about the aftermath, everyone would feel something odd, it’s like something missing when u finished it. I don’t know how to explain it, but initially I thought it was only me, until I found out WF fans chatting the same in forums all over. I re-watched it infinite times, I wrote fan-fictions, I did all I could, and still I could not get enough of Michelle.
And that is because, Michelle has very limited English sites – most of which are inactive as well. There is no news of her at all, at least not English ones, I was starting to go crazy of Michelle-deprivation. I began to search for her list of filmography and bought her series that are available. I don’t think anyone would understand my passion for her, especially not the VCD dealer that I bugged for Michelle’s series. Haha…
Then I encountered her Chinese site, and it did satisfy my thirst a little, and then I ‘saw’ how English educated fans are all deprived of her news etc. I did translations of whatever news she has, and some interesting articles that Chinese fans post, I translated them as well. Because I know as a Michelle fan I would be interested to read them, anything about Michelle interests me, thus I did. I went to many forums and post my translations, sometimes it gets very repetitive, yet I don’t mind cause I love sharing Michelle with all other fans. Then why stop and start this site? Because there is no proper English site that provides proper news and Michelle’s latest happenings.
How deep is my love? Deeper that deep. First, I AM an English educated fan like all of you. Which means, I know none or maybe limited Chinese characters like my own name and one, two, three. Then how did I do the translations? I use tools. Yes, it is VERY time consuming since sometimes I have to find meaning of each word. But I love every moment of it, because as I translate, I understand the news better, I get to know Michelle more. And the more translations I do, the more words I learn, soon, I can do it quite smoothly.
When I heard of Michelle’s autobiography I was totally ecstatic but desperate cause I didn’t know how in the world I could get it since it’s only sold in HK! Yeah, even this Chinese illiterate fan wants her Chinese autobiography so you can imagine how much I like her. I was planning to ask a friend to read it to me, but by the time the autobiography did arrive to me (from YesAsia), I’ve learn enough Chinese to read the whole book myself, asking my mum what these few words are or mean once in a while. Of course, I can’t exactly know every single detail (Michelle’s writing quite deep) but I can say I should’ve at least understood 95% of the book. Oh yeah, it was my first time ever buying anything online too, I was really determined to get the book!
Building the site? I can tell you I know zero about HTML before building a site for Michelle (yes I am serious). I didn’t even know the basic format of HTML is the head and body etc. And I can tell you the first layout looks nothing like what you all are currently seeing (not that the one now is that nice but acceptable). I searched the net, read tutorials, use free codes, did all I could, and came up with a lousy template…
Yuki, knows the best! Haha… She is the one with HTML knowledge. She did the first draft and then from there I slowly edited, and learn with sweet pain. I hated programming, but while doing it for Michelle, it felt wonderful. It became addictive even.
I have to thank Michelle, because indirectly, she has taught me Chinese and HTML, the two languages that I used to know nothing of.
As for her rumors, it did nothing to annoy me off because, I know and I advise any fans who are disturbed by her rumors / gossips – the media / newspaper work circle is very, VERY chaotic. Manipulated pictures, incorrect information, it happens every day, every issue – they just need to publish everything on time, they have no time to verify the truth behind it. I know, because I have had experience in that field, trust me. The so called news – usually differs far from the truth, it’s either we know the truth and don’t trust the news, or we trust the news cause we don’t know the truth.
Of course, I’m not saying news has no reliability at all. It does, but the degree of inaccuracy it can contain, never doubt it, I’ve been amazed when I first experienced it. One day you write this, the next day they publish that. It’s no big surprise anymore. Thus you need wisdom to know how to differentiate. Pictures – I’m sure graphics literate people are even clearer than I am, you know to what depth people can edit it.
Of course, Michelle has too much negative news / rumors for it to be all categorized as inaccuracy / chaos / miscommunication – thus I can tell you the rest that are not, are created by people who need to keep their jobs.