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September 30, 2005
Brushes with Fame
Who would've thunk? I went to school with a star.
The other day, I ran across a former college classmate on Friendster. I remember that he was in my college's Blue Grass Club, was in some drama productions, took some Mandarin Chinese classes, took voice lessons from the same lady that I studied with, and, if memory serves me right, was in some cheesy acapella group. Normal, normal. I knew he was starting a pop star career in Taiwan, and I saw his first album in China when I was studying abroad. Still, he wasn't that big or anything, so I didn't think that much of it.
Running into his Friendster profile raised my curiousity, though. So I did a little google search to see what this guy had been up to. Woah. In the last five years, the guy has really been topping the cheesy Chinese pop charts. This year he even won "Best Male Artist" at the Chinese Music Awards. I also noticed that he had been in several movies, including "Legends of Tekken" and a recent entry to the Berlin Film Festival. He even released an album in Japan.
Holy sh*t! What the heck have I been doing since college?
Check out him and his cheesy (yet virally catchy) pop music here:
Hip Hoppy yet still very Poppy "Fang Kai Ni de Shin" Music Video
Too bad I didn't try to force myself to hang out with the guy when he was a budding Taiwanese pop star. Then I could be kicking it high style with my famous friend and his famous friends in Taiwan. Now I'll never meet Faye Wong and Zhou Hua Jian! Why can't I be more superficial and force myself to network more effectively?
Why did I even bother going to college? It was wasted on me!
Posted by Emarrific at 11:28 AM | Comments (4)
