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Extraordinary Surprise 2009 IIIb: People behind the surprise

貓貓/CherTheCat: Like I mentioned in a previous post, she was one of first that I spoke to. She is also one of the few that are close to $1 and at the beginning, one of her many nicknames were 神貓. The reason behind that name was because she was able to get $1 to give her hints on the upcoming shows. She is also very famous for her 看後感 especially on 昇. On an unforgettable night at the ending of October, she was extremely depressed. I couldn't understand it at that time because she was out meeting with the girls for the first time at a Karaoke room to view 畢打together. It was the mid-autumn festival show, it was a happy show with a lot of warm scenes and the starring roles were at their best. When the bomb finally hit, I knew why she was feeling so bad. The shock of it was at the time very hard to grasp. Fortunately, she pulled herself together and decided to open her blog as a branch to $1's blog, a tearoom to his back garden. Hence, the birth of 懶洋洋的貓貓茶室which is a wonderful place to read all the after-views and stories that a number of writers contribute almost daily since its conception. I never had a chance to say thank you to her for the memorable night when Muse visited. She lovingly said she would stand by me, and make sure I don't faint that morning. I still recall her first comment that night to me after Muse was online. It was "(扶住CharChar)你除咗"你好", 無嘢講啦??" I tried to be helpful and brave when I told Muse that 貓貓 is still waiting for something that $1 promised her. Anyways, I thought I would be able to meet her in person at the ending of November, when she would take her vacation, but due to unforeseen circumstances, she decided to forego the plan to come to Vegas, so… still waiting for the right timing.
電電/AC Circuit: She lives in Toronto, and I really think she should have the nickname AI. Amazingly, I don't think she sleeps! She is very knowledgeable about computer stuff (to a computer idiot like me, I think she's God!) She taught all of us how to install the Mixpod on our blog, which is really cool. She takes beautiful photos of sceneries and there was one of a flower that she mentioned that she had to lay on the ground to take and almost had a guy stepped on her. Her MV of 211 will forever stick in my mind. I believe that is why we had that first conversation, I had wanted to make a MV also (given up) and she did such a beautiful and poignant video. Not only was she technically a genius but when she made the layout design for the memorial card, wow, a creative genius also! It was beautiful! Of course, she was one of the gals laughing at me about the Muse visit and I remember that she sent me an email about the time change and laughing about 貓貓 busting me for not sleeping yet. 電電 has a wonderful sense of humor! She is so nice! Once, I had asked her to help me locate someone living in Toronto and she did it like within 15 minutes and then I recall the time we were joking about her watching some supposedly scary show and ended up laughing so hard that I thought she was crazy. I think that I have an affinity with her is because she also lives outside of Hong Kong and have that sense of humor that we are use to here in the states (even though she lives in Canada).
To be continued with others... in the near future.

Extraordinary Surprise 2009 IIIa: People behind this suprise (Revised)

I am writing this now and the episode I’d just finished viewing was 297. Many things have happened since that first real conversation. Life is full of cause and effect, everything happens for a reason and such. Reflecting back to September, if a post was not posted on 賞昇 blog one fateful evening, we wouldn’t be where we are today. From there, 幕後一員 invited the fans to his blog and the emotional magnet has far more exceeded even my wildest imagination. I still sometimes shake my head when I think about it, I mean this feeling of closeness with these gals that were thousands of miles from me. I have never met them, in fact I don't even know their real names but because of 畢打自己人and 一員, we were all brought altogether forging a friendship and that could perhaps last beyond the finale of this show.
There are so many names that have become very familiar to me over the last few months and I want to attempt to write down what I remember about each and every one of them. The show has a little less than 2 months left and once it over, I am not sure that we could sustain what we have now, the hustle and bustle of over 1000 post per day. However, I really do believe that many within this group have built a relationship that is beyond the show. I know that I have. Due to the time difference between Hong Kong and Las Vegas, I have to stay up pretty late to be able to interact with these lovelies. I think that’s why I got the nickname “AI”. 
I thought I could do this within one post, I thought wrong! Hah! I will probably need at least 6 sections... The brief notes behind the names are just some of the most memorable moments. There are so many tidbits and special moments that have happened on一員blog, I probably won’t be able to list all (my memory is not that good).
$1/幕後一員: Truth be told, actually I am a little afraid of him especially when he is serious. I think it is because my Chinese is so awful and I am afraid that when I ask him something, he might take it the wrong way. I remember the first time that I asked him about whether 包公 would be the go-between for 賞and 大哥 because to me, he seems like he could be the one to say something to大哥 about how 賞賞 really feels about him. $1 response (maybe I was too sensitive) was something like: With your comment, do you think that you might be preventing others from enjoying the show? Now, he doesn’t remember this… thank God. But from that point on, I know I shouldn’t to guessing what the show or the characters would do. It was actually fortunate because where the show is at right now, there are speculations aplenty. Now, the most touching part of this man to me was when he invited Muse to come on his blog to say hi to everyone. He asked her to give me the first hug! Wow! I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the comment. If you know what an ear to ear grin is, that was what was on my face! Then my second thought was, “Hey, wait a minute! You, $1, was suppose to hug Muse. Is my Chinese that bad that $1 mistook my meaning? Oh… what did I do now? Muse is so busy… and now it felt like I was impinging on her rest. But everyone on the blog was so deliriously excited and happy. Stupidly I sat there worrying about imposing on both of these wonderful people. I had to get 貓貓 to get me out of this train of thought (I don’t think she really understood what I was going thru either but that’s another story). Now, he doesn’t call me by my “name”, he calls me “AI”. A joke between us (that’s how I look at it) is that I have to report the time when I see him. Recently, he purposely turned off his comment function. Of course, amazing Muse asked him whether the function would be fixed later that night because she wants to read the after-views. He couldn’t say no to her. So cute! The other day $1 mentioned the possible letdown after the show is over. His feeling is legitimate but I don’t think he realizes the “bond of friendship” that has been forged is pretty strong and that many of us really think of him as a friend instead of someone that will give us hints and tidbits about the show. If he took a minute to remember his “離卜出走” in late October, he should realize that many of us care for him as a friend. Like石頭 said, “情係真”.