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Drifting, wandering in circles until the present, the minute hand and the second short hand are racing under the bezel. Seems like you have achieved a future that you dreamed of.

Your present days should be happy, feeling carefree – receiving applause, being cheered on, and feeling loved. Your life has jumped through hurdles in this obstacle course.

When did you learn to stop repeating, to stop saying that perplexity in your heart, and be speechless after tied up the feeling of touched? Encountering good beings by fate gets rarer, yet you want them to come to fruition. The more you anxiously seek for the better, things get worse with more mistakes that you made, and almost forgot your most wanted fruit that you planted.

Sing to the song of blissfulness – have tears sink down your eyes and abjection after countless times of disappointments? Melody dissolves your panic, embrace this moment – a picture with no regrets, love is something that makes you feel contented, with a smile, even in sorrow. Heartwarming is not far away – it may bloom in the next second.

How many passersby would pay you visits in a lifetime, or how many, maybe countless, of things that you were frenzied or missed out? You can’t dissuade the world from rotating every second.

It is rare to laugh, to hold your stomach, and to grin. You are tired of climbing to the summit, searching for the answer. Drained your whole life, your heart and soul – just to have a taste of love for a second.

Can you relearn from the start? Can you? Being with the lesson of trialing. Unlock the shackle in your heart – the course becomes wider. You'll encounter more good beings by leaving it to fate – the results will come when they are supposed to. The more you anxiously seek for the better, things will only get worse, and absurd wishes made you planted the wrong seeds for the fruit that you long for.

Sing to the song of blissfulness – have tears sink down your eyes and abjection after countless times of disappointments? Melody dissolves your panic, embrace this moment – a picture with no regrets, love is something that makes you feel contented, with a smile, even in sorrow. Heartwarming is not far away – it may bloom in the next second.

From yearn for nothing, to eager - till you are eager for the entire universe, but in the end, you just wanted to be saved. Devote yourself to possessions – and forget that you and I have nothing to begin with.

Sing to the song of blissfulness – have tears sink down your eyes and abjection after countless times of disappointments? Melody dissolves your panic, embrace this moment – a picture with no regrets, love is something that makes you feel contented, with a smile, even in sorrow. Heartwarming is not far away – it may bloom in the next second.

Imagine that someone that isn't far away can sing it with you.

Would you wake up from the dream and make another choice, or be a dreamer with boiling blood? Would you let your dreamland collapse, or you would not be fear of death and die supporting it?

When you deal with setbacks... remember… standup and try again... be mettlesome… Even if you are losing by half time – please find a reason to fight back, would you?

There are hundreds, thousands of beliefs in this world -- did you find the one that you wish for? How can we all live the same way – achieve the same results? An inspiration that you cannot tell others – often time it is more exaggerated than reality. You can be different – not the same. Come, climb over the defensive wall – scream all over and shatter the glass ceiling.

Would you leave and make another choice, or stay, persist, and replant the flower of perseverance? Would you retreat from a crisis, or sacrifice everything to fight until the end of the finale?

When you deal with setbacks... remember… standup and try again... be mettlesome … Even if you are losing by half time – please find a reason to fight back, would you?

There are hundreds, thousands of beliefs in this world -- did you find the one that you wish for? How can we all live the same way – achieve the same results? An inspiration that you can’t tell others – often time it is more exaggerated than reality. You can be different – not the same. Come, climb over the defensive wall – scream all over and shatter the glass ceiling.

La la la… la la la… la la la… La la la… la la la… la la la… La la la… la la la… la la la… La la la… la la la… you still have the other half of the battle to fight.

There are hundreds, thousands of beliefs in this world -- did you find the one that you wish for? How can we all live the same way – get the same thing? An inspiration that you can’t tell others – often time it is more exaggerated than reality. You can be different – not the same. Not the same. You can be different. You can be different. You can be different.

Please put away – put away your worship. Look clearly – unambiguously examine the gods and spirits from all sides. ‘Stupidity’ is when you fully believed in what you saw. ‘Ignorance’ is when you fully believed in what you heard. ‘Crisis’ is when you thought who you love loves you. ‘Danger’ is when you are murdered like a prey – without any smell, being Slain silently, being Slain innocently.

Follow the indicators – indicators will someday be obsolete. Be clear – figure out everyone’s morbidity. Stupidity is when you fully believed in what you saw. Ignorance is when you fully believed in what you heard. Crisis is when you thought who you love loves you. Danger is when you are murdered like a prey – without any smell, being Slain silently, (Don't let the world – let the world shape you) being Slain innocently. (Don't let the world – let the world) Do not – do not die in your devotion. Do not – do not die in your devotion.

Being Slain silently. (Don't let the world let the world shape you) Being Slain innocently. (Don't let the world let the world shape you) Being Slain silently. (Don't let the world let the world shape you) Being Slain innocently. (Don't let the world let the world) Do not – do not die in your devotion. Do not – do not die in your devotion.

Hong Kong Musical Beyond, Really Love You―Dream it possible  

Doing a musical in Hong Kong is bound up with 4 hurdles: (1) who can compose prepossessingly;

(2) who can write great lyrics outpouring the composer’s feelings and thoughts;

(3) where to find a group of gifted stage multi-talents who can act, sing and dance at the same time; and

(4) where to find the big bucks who will invest in an expensive production since musical is an intricate art consuming loads of supports.

I beg to differ that up to now, there has not been any single musical from Hong Kong which can compete or match the standards of an international show.

The famous stage producer Ko Chi Sum made a number of small-scale musical works in Hong Kong and his prescription seems to follow the celebrated musical Mamma Mia: using the music pieces of a popular band or singer and interweave the songs as strands in the rug. The product is small but pleasing. This is a clever approach as popular songs can almost guarantee the good ticket receipts for a musical.

Ko recently produced a musical Beyond, Really Love You. In 80s and 90s there emerged in Hong Kong a band called Beyond consisting of 4 young men with uncommon and appealing character. Their songs pursued higher spiritual meanings and values such as the key issues surrounding the world like poverty and discrimination. They challenged the social prejudice and barriers of Hong Kong at that time. They evolved from an underground rock & roll band into Cantorock superstars. Their songs such as Amani, The Glorious Years and Truly Love You had captured an entire generation, impacting even now the boyhood and girlhood in Hong Kong and the Mainland China. Sadly, at the peak of their career, the band leader Wong Ka Kui fell off a stage in Tokyo and finally passed away. However, the music of Beyond is always unforgettable―they have stood the test of all time. Their talent, sensuality, charisma and wisdom endeared them to millions, as did the humility and human kindness that these young men demonstrated during their golden days.

The musical by Ko is however not a biography of Beyond. It is simply about the conflicts of 2 members King and Victor in a boy band. They rocketed to stardom from street buskers. Their different visions on music cleaved themselves from the group. Would all be able to team up and rework again?

What strikes me tremendously is the successful performance of 4 newborn stars: Bosco Ng, Michael Chan, Oscar Tse and Wayne Ip. They are green but powerful. There is a wonderful aura of innocent energy in what they did. Their acting and singing are all natural, unpretending and spontaneous. I can feel they have worked extremely hard but showed no sign of physical and mental exertion. The free spirit of the youth is really what matters. It is like what Kenny Rogers said, “Well, I don’t think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.” The carefreeness of these 4 performers is owing to the beauty that they sang because they loved to; not because they were calculating some monetary return.

HOCC Memento Tour 2013