THROWBACK: 祝你生日快乐，朱孝天 (F4)
Time is but a happy friend as nostalgia kicked in when Jen told me about F4 gracing this year's Chinese New Year wherein they will be singing Meteor Rain on an event in China(?). Looking back, I don't know anyone who didn't get hooked with Meteor Garden then, and mind you if you do not know San Chai, Dao Ming Si, Hua Zi Lei, Xi Men and Mei Zuo, you probably lived under a rock. I still even have this CD that my good friend Joseph has lend me then, and I doubt I'd ever get to give it back. Not that he would really mind, I know he'd be glad to at least make his friend happy, right? Right?
We, Jen, Reg, Joe and Lhen, ended up tweeting and
reminiscing our high school lives, love lives, puppy loves, how relationships
ended, how we've all moved on from that era; how high school still is the best
among our academic existence. And we all agreed.
It may be sad that some of us, high school buddies, only get
to see each other on wakes/funeral and some short encounters on PUVs but I am
so positive that we would still find time to meet on a happier circumstance. Who
knows, 2013 might be that year.
And Ken!! Ah right, he was my favourite F4 guy because he
seemed like a gentleman and he can play the guitar (that's a major plus man
points, for me. Ha.) It was a curious thing that we get reminded of our Meteor
Garden addiction prior to Ken''s birthday. Jen tweeted me, "OH MY!
Birthday ni Ken ngayon?" and I did check the date and it was January 15th
and heck yes, it really was his birthday. Talk about, yet again,
connections.
The F4 era:
- Before the Koreans ruled primetime, Meteor Garden was the bomb. They have started it all. The madness, good and bad.
- I was so delighted to own the same phone unit that Xi Men has back then, which is the good ol' smartphone of its old age, Nokia 3310.
- My acetate/background? A Xi Men photo, of course.
- We learned to sing in Chinese (Can't Lose You? Qing Fei De Yi? Yes?), and learned to read a few Mandarin characters.
- We had group of friends as inspired by them. I had C4, short for Cute Girls 4, which is lame for a name but sounded cool back in high school, okay. haha GLJ2 (ring a bell?) but I swear the friendship that we had is real.
- Magazines, stickers pads, stationary, memorabilia to name a few. To know every random detail about a cast, then, is a must.
Belated happy birthday to the awesome Ken Zhu! After all these
years, lol, I cannot believe I still have that soft spot in my heart for you.
Not that it's a bad thing, though. Perhaps we don't really get rid of our
fangirl tendencies. Again, not that it should be bothersome to have the F
tendency. We all have that, whether we are aware or not. As humans we have
feelings and we appreciate good things and we have different means of blurting
it out. Others go beyond normal and mine, I'd like to believe is in balance.
Whew, so much for being on the front line of the defensive team, but that is
the truth. We all mature, in time. ;-)
Admit it, you miss them as well. So here are some eye treats for you...
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