7 More Days...
I was just watching a documentary on NatGeo - "Made In Hong Kong". Its about 3 aspiring actors (well, 2 dudes and 1 dudette) going to HK to try to break into the movie industry.
1 of the dudes is a 15 (15!!!) year old from a Beijing martial arts school. Alas, no success for our intrepid teenager (he looks really boyish - no surprise if you are 15 - but much older, at maybe 20 - does this make sense?).
His hero is Jackie Chan, and he did manage to meet the man himself! Definitely thanks to the docu-producer I guess, who probably secured the meeting to spice up the show.
The story ends with him going back to his village, where the last shots had him tilling the fields. It ends with text across the screen saying "He returns to his village as a hero ... as the boy who met Jackie Chan".
So, that's enough to make you a hero in a village in China!
The incident reminded me of my visit to HK back in 1999. I had been bored during the trip, but things got better when I chatted with the dude manning the counter at Tower Records. He told me where Beyond's bandroom is (the supposed "2nd storey back block" which is also the title of their first album after Ka Kui's death).
So I excitedly sprinted to Mongkok, where I managed to find what I think is the bandroom. The apartment block was pretty rundown, old for sure. Nothing to mark the unit which I think is the right one, is indeed their bandroom. I was at a bit of a loss - I knocked on the gated up closed-door, but no reply. No one walked past or anything, so I had no one I could confirm with.
I eventually randomly wrote something on a random slip of paper I had in my wallet, and randomly inserted it below the door.
I don't know what I had hoped they would do. I think I might have left my hotmail email account behind, but if so, they did not understand my note (which is not surprising given my illegible writing), or they did not bother (in which case, I will voodoo them!), or it was not their bandroom altogether.
No way of knowing I guess - but anyway that was the best thing that happened on my HK trip then haha!
1 of the dudes is a 15 (15!!!) year old from a Beijing martial arts school. Alas, no success for our intrepid teenager (he looks really boyish - no surprise if you are 15 - but much older, at maybe 20 - does this make sense?).
His hero is Jackie Chan, and he did manage to meet the man himself! Definitely thanks to the docu-producer I guess, who probably secured the meeting to spice up the show.
The story ends with him going back to his village, where the last shots had him tilling the fields. It ends with text across the screen saying "He returns to his village as a hero ... as the boy who met Jackie Chan".
So, that's enough to make you a hero in a village in China!
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The incident reminded me of my visit to HK back in 1999. I had been bored during the trip, but things got better when I chatted with the dude manning the counter at Tower Records. He told me where Beyond's bandroom is (the supposed "2nd storey back block" which is also the title of their first album after Ka Kui's death).
So I excitedly sprinted to Mongkok, where I managed to find what I think is the bandroom. The apartment block was pretty rundown, old for sure. Nothing to mark the unit which I think is the right one, is indeed their bandroom. I was at a bit of a loss - I knocked on the gated up closed-door, but no reply. No one walked past or anything, so I had no one I could confirm with.
I eventually randomly wrote something on a random slip of paper I had in my wallet, and randomly inserted it below the door.
I don't know what I had hoped they would do. I think I might have left my hotmail email account behind, but if so, they did not understand my note (which is not surprising given my illegible writing), or they did not bother (in which case, I will voodoo them!), or it was not their bandroom altogether.
No way of knowing I guess - but anyway that was the best thing that happened on my HK trip then haha!
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