Weibo Fever #5: More Jacky Concert News -- Jacky and Friends!

Jacky’s ½ Century Concert is currently taking place at the Hong Kong Coliseum – he will perform a total of 20 shows and all 190,000 plus tickets are sold out!

Almost every night since the HK leg of Jacky’s concert tour started back on 4/15, his friends and fans from the entertainment industry have attended one of his shows. It’s been great following Jacky’s concert on Weibo and seeing the various pictures that his friends have posted.

Below is a gathering of recent behind-the-scenes “updates” from Jacky’s concert….enjoy!

Note: All pictures credited as listed

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April 24th @19:48: Vani’s Weibo

陪了阿哥半小時，他剛化好妝，第九場演出一定要成功 妹妹急趕回電台開工了！

Translation: Accompanied Brother for half an hour, he just finished with his makeup. The 9th show (in HK) will definitely be successful – Sister is rushing to get back to the radio station to start work!

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April 24th @00:25: Vani’s Weibo

今日壓軸微博！！請各位熱烈鼓掌 歌神與@吹神 之「世紀合照」!!勁chok！超強！！十級震撼 特別鳴謝動作指導~Eason
Translation: Today’s weibo climax!! Please put your hands together – God of Songs (Jacky) and Eason’s “Photo of the Century”! Extremely chok! Super strong!! Shocking to the 10th level! Special thanks to action director – Eason!


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April 24th @11:39: Bernice Liu’s Weibo

琴晚看了一個show,遇到 @吹神,thanks 歌神學友 !!

Translation: Yesterday, while watching a show, I bumped into Eason! Thanks to God of Songs Jacky!



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April 23rd @00:11 Kevin Cheng’s Weibo

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April 23rd @22:59: Vani’s Weibo

「頭號學友粉絲」@吹神 來了！表情極度浮誇並於後台瘋狂呼叫！

Translation: “Number one Jacky fan” Eason Chan is here! His expression is extremely ‘exaggerated’ plus back stage, he has been shouting like a mad man!



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April 23rd @22:35: Vani’s Weibo

有個人對學友很體貼，為阿哥出場前整理衣服

Translation: Someone is being very considerate of Jacky, helping him fix his outfit right before he is to go out on stage.



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April 22nd @22:58: Vani’s Weibo

阿哥實在太「堅」！！！講完。
Translation: Brother is absolutely “solid”!!!! Enough said.





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April 22nd @01:31: Vani’s Weibo

哎喲梁光！ 阿哥一定是為賀你加入商業電台24週年所以今晚特別改Rundown多唱了「暗戀你」和「藍雨」！！ 不過你要上班，所以唱了給我聽

Translation: Aiya, Liang Guong [TN: name of male in the picture, a colleague of Vani’s]! Brother must have wanted to celebrate your 24th anniversary with Commercial Radio, so he especially changed the rundown tonight, adding the songs “Secretly in Love with You” and “Blue Rain”!!! But you had to work, so he sang it for me…haha!

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April 19th @03:25: Vani’s Weibo

刘伟强 劉大導演 你為學友演唱會拍攝之影片和卡通動畫水準超班超正 出心出力 剛剛又再來撐阿哥，灰常感激你 送你照片留念 不過不知為什麼這合照我把你的臉拍成奶白色！莫非因為你真的是「牛奶強」！！

Translation: To Andrew Lau – Director Lau! The mini-movie and animated cartoon that you produced for Jacky’s concert are super high quality and awesome! You obviously put a lot of effort in it. Plus you just came to support Brother again – extremely grateful to you! Sending you this photo as a souvenir gift – but not sure why when I took this photo, your face came out white as milk! Could it be because you are really “Milk Keung [Andrew]!!!

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April 19th @01:14: Vani’s Weibo

名符其實「友」「米」！學友感謝各方友好及歌迷以白米代替鮮花賀他的演唱會，目前已籌得7000公斤白米！ 送給聖雅各福群會的眾膳坊食物銀行，幫助貧苦大眾！

Translation: Now this is truly ‘have rice’ [TN: play on Jacky’s Chinese name]! Jacky thanks all his friends as well as fans for giving rice instead of flowers to celebrate his concert – currently, there have already been 7000 kilograms of rice raised! A gift to the St. James Settlement Group’s Food Bank to help the poor and hungry!

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April 19th @00:54: Vani’s Weibo

學友1／2世紀演唱會第五場結束後會見媒體，經紀人陳太突然說不如由我幫阿哥主持記者會啦！由於事出突然 所以入行以來首次素顏加工作人員Look當主持人！街坊到不行！頂自己唔順

Translation: During the media conference after the 5th show of Jacky’s ½ Century tour, manager Mrs. Chan suddenly asked that I help Brother host the press conference! Because of the suddenness of it, this was the first time since I entered the industry that I hosted without wearing makeup and also in my ‘employee look’! Very casual! Can’t stand myself!

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April 17th @17:31: Vani’s Weibo

今晚要上班！契爺要代我好好照顧阿哥啦！

Translation (by me): Need to work tonight! Godfather, please help me take good care of Brother!



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April 16th @20:55: Vani’s Weibo

強大的JC Team!Good show!

Translation: Big and strong JC Team! Good show!




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April 16th @06:17: Vani’s Weibo

蔡一智 @我係雪芳 @容祖儿 限時專送歌神合照！

Translation: To Calvin Choy, Xuet Fong, Joey Yung – Immediately sending your picture with the God of Songs!



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April 16th @00:09: Vani’s Weibo

祖兒待學友完show後迫不及待穿上傳說釘上十一萬顆水晶，重十公斤的「歌神戰衣」！！重的腰也不能挺直了！阿哥見狀都笑了 @容祖儿

Translation: After Jacky’s show ended, Joey [Yung] couldn’t wait to try on the outfit that has100,000 crystals sewn onto it – the “God of Songs battle outfit” that weighs 10 kilograms [approximately 22 pounds]!! The outfit is so heavy that Joey couldn’t even stand up straight! Brother saw her and couldn’t help but laugh.

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April 15th @01:25 Vani’s Weibo

學友香港演唱會首場開場，發哥的出現令紅館後台造成小騷動呀！工作人員全部變Fan屎 還向發哥自薦做保安員帶他去座位坐，阿哥見狀笑説：「怎麼反而沒有人帶我！我不是應該要出場嗎？」 P.S這合照其實是發哥主動叫我和阿哥跟他一起拍的！嚇死我！

Translation: Jacky’s HK concert opening night, Fat Gor [Chow Yun Fat]’s appearance caused a bit of a stir backstage at the Coliseum! All the workers turned into fans and even recommended themselves to him as bodyguards to help him get to his seat! Brother Jacky saw this and laughed, saying: “Hey, why isn’t anyone volunteering to help me get to the stage?! Isn’t it time for me to go on stage now?” (Oops…) P.S.: This photo is actually one that Fat Gor voluntarily told us (me and Brother Jacky) to take with him! Scared me to death!

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April 14th @20:10 Vani’s Weibo

我快要瘋了！看誰來撐阿哥！ 賭神vs歌神！ 阿妮開心到暈！！！

Translation: I must be going mad! Look who came to support Brother! God of Gamblers versus God of Songs! Vani is so happy, about to faint!

Weibo Fever #4: Some More Jacky Sightings!

Just wanted to share some more Jacky posts from Vani’s weibo (to find out who Vani is, check out my earlier post here). She visited Jacky in Suzhou where he held his concert last week.

Note: All pictures credited as listed.

March 18th @ 14:39: Vani’s Weibo

為了阿哥，我第一次來到蘇州

Translation (by me): Because of big brother Jacky, this is my first time in Suzhou. [Yay!]



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March 18th @ 15:50: Vani’s Weibo

學友哥綵排中
Translation: Big brother Jacky at rehearsal



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March 18th @ 17:22: Vani’s Weibo

學友個唱 從頭到腳都Bling Bling

Translation: Jacky’s concert: ‘Bling Bling’ from head to toe!




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March 18th @ 17:36: Vani’s Weibo

歌神演出前要小睡 浴袍很舒適

Translation: Before the God of Songs performs, he needs to take a nap first (shhh). The robe is very comfortable.



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March 18th @ 19:55: Vani’s Weibo

阿哥出場了！ 他不是不高興，而是剛咬了一口蘋果，不許笑

Translation: Time for big brother Jacky to go on stage! (Yay!) He isn’t unhappy – he just took a bite of an apple, so is not able to smile.



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March 19th @ 13:51: Vani’s Weibo

人在香港寫昨晚在蘇州看學友的心情。昨午一直在後台陪阿哥，突然一聲巨響，原來那套壓軸穿的水晶歌衫跌在地上，我隨手想執起，竟然拿不起來，後來才知木衣架原來承受不起重量已爛掉了兩只！在看阿哥穿起對我來説像千斤重的歌衫跳唱十首歌時，我眼睛都濕了~他可以不用這樣的，但他一定給歌迷最好

Translation: I’m in HK right now writing about my feelings upon visiting Jacky in Suzhou. All afternoon yesterday, I was backstage keeping big brother Jacky company when all of a sudden there was a huge crashing sound. I saw that the outfit (made of crystal) that Jacky wears near the end of the concert had fallen on the ground, so I figured I’d pick it up for him – to my surprise, I could barely lift the suit! Later on, I found out that the wooden hanger used to hang the outfit could not bear the weight of the suit and had broken into 2 pieces! Watching big brother Jacky put on the outfit that, to me, felt like it weighed a thousand pounds, then seeing him dance and sing 10 songs while wearing it – my eyes became wet with tears….he doesn’t have to go through all that, but he wanted to give his fans the best performance possible!

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My comments: First of all, thank you to Vani for the exclusive ‘behind-the-scenes’ look at Jacky’s concert in Suzhou! I definitely enjoyed all of these posts!

As a die-hard Jacky fan, the last post about Jacky’s outfit really moved me – in fact, I felt tears well up in my eyes too when I read the last sentence! It reminded me of Jacky’s 2007 concert when he had to cancel a few performances during the Hong Kong leg of his concert (VERY RARE occurrence) due to illness as well as the one time in 2005 when he had to cut short one of his “Snow Wolf Lake” performances in China because his voice had cracked during one of the songs and he knew he was not feeling well. In both instances, he was very upset at himself for having to put his fans (and the regular audience who bought tickets to watch his performances) through all that – but because he wanted to be fair to his fans and give us the best performance possible, he decided to cancel the performances rather than do a mediocre job (plus he has high standards / expectations for himself).

Jacky is a true professional, but not only that – he’s also the rare type of artist who is genuinely concerned about his fans and the impact that his performance has on us (his fans). As he said during his concert, he enjoys performing for people who like to hear him sing – well, I just want to say that we (his true fans) appreciate everything he does and his efforts will never go wasted with us! I am proud to be a fan of an artist who cares so much about us and would go such great lengths for us! Support you forever, Jacky!!!

Weibo Fever #2: Jacky Sightings!

My idol Jacky Cheung does not have a Weibo account and he is never going to open one (so to all those Jacky imposters on Weibo: might as well quit while you're ahead because us true Jacky fans already know you are fakes!). Anyway, since Jacky isn't on Weibo, it is rare for me to see news about him on Weibo, but luckily, he has friends who keep us dedicated fans up to date...LOL!

Just wanted to share some "Jacky Sightings" from Weibo this week. Both posts are from Vani Wong’s weibo – she is a DJ for Commercial Radio (Chik Chak 903 station) and has been a good friend of Jacky’s for almost 2 decades. In fact, she refers to Jacky as “big brother”.

Jan 5th: Vani’s Weibo

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忽然收到學友哥的短訊，除問候我之外還用了「完全」、「還可以」幾個字去形容上海站巡迴演唱會的演出，那我大可放心了！ 若非演出成功和滿意，心情不錯，他是不會主動發短訊給我的，阿哥永遠都這樣

Translation (by me): All of a sudden received big brother Jacky’s text message, in addition to seeing how I was doing, he also used the words ‘complete’ and ‘not bad’ to describe his performance at his Shanghai concert – on hearing this, I feel very relieved! [hehe] If he wasn’t satisfied with his performance or felt that it was somewhat of a success – and therefore in a good mood – he would not send me a text message like that on his own accord. Big brother (Jacky) is forever like that!

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Jan 4th: Vani’s weibo

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大愛歌神Bling Bling Look!聽學友哥唱歌真幸福

Translation (by me): Big love – God of Songs Bling Bling Look! Listening to big brother Jacky singing is truly a blessing! [love]