11 Suspected SARS Cases Turned Out to Be Influenza.

If Those 11 Suspected SARS Cases Turned Out to Be Influenza.

Those people were just sick with Flu. Which is good. Tan lines on your face would be a bad bad thing for self esteem. Eventually I just gave up on wearing masks anyway, because it caused me to have sinus problems, and I would take them off and somehow manage to whack it in my eyes with the rubber band. I was told was far more dangerous. To be honest when I calculated the risks it didn’t seem too high. I just never left my neighborhood which had no reported cases.

A funny side note is all these illegal car racers who risks their lives and others every time they hit the road were walking around all covered up in masks and stopped going out and would tell me off for not wearing one. I was like “dude, you drive 200 km down windy roads off the side of cliffs!”

Here is a picture of me and my friend wearing our fashion masks.

They actually were utterly useless in terms of preventing infection. But I thought I needed to bring some humor to the situation because I was so depressed about the whole thing. In March I had to stay home for ten days because I had “flu like symptoms” and the blood tests and the chest X-rays came back inconclusive. The doctors just told me “We don’t know if you have it or not. Stay home and call us if it gets worse.” I was seriously worried. I had been sick a year before, and went through the whole, “Okay, if I die, I don’t have many regrets” thing for the second time in eight months. It really sucked.

And I loved the fact I got uninvited to a wedding in California and my plans to go to New York had to be cancelled. At first, I didn’t want to go because I thought maybe I could catch it on the plane, then I thought maybe I didn’t want to go because I didn’t want to be the idiot who brought it to another country. By the time I realized those things were both highly unlikely, I realized no one wanted me to come over, and they didn’t want me to stay at their places because not one of them replied my email about if it was okay for me to stay at theirs. Anyway the plan was to go over to try and get some funding for the film, and I don’t think it would have worked real well, as I am saying “GIVE ME MONEY PLEASE!” the party on the other side of the table is thinking “CAN THIS WOMAN KILL ME?”

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How to Get to Leslie Cheung

Leslie Cheung Search Words

During the height of the SARS crisis in Hong Kong, Leslie Cheung, one of our biggest and most long lasting stars committed suicide.

I adored Leslie as a child and teenager and as an adult was impressed with his Passion Tour Concert and his range as an actor.

After he died,I found myself feeling he was a quietly forgotten hero in the history of Hong Kong films (he was in 56), and never got his due in the West and probably didn’t even get his due in Hong Kong until he passed away.

What materialized was an unexpected compulsion to contribute to this truly talented and utterly exquisite man’s legacy -especially for other English speakers.

As some of you already know. Around that time I was asked by my doctors to voleentarily isolate myself because I had possible symtoms (fever and chills), as well having to cancel my trip to the US due to none of my friends wanted to risk their lives to have me on the couch.

The combination of rather inexplicable events propelled me to spend my time creating a Leslie Cheung Memorial Website. It consisted of photos I took of his make shift memorial at the place of his suicide and my experience of attending his wake.

I religiously recorded the memorial events in Hong Kong and Asia and collected a host of tribute articles from all over the world.

His fans left messages, near and far: Poland, Scotland, Germany, USA, Canada, France, England, Italy, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, and a few I can’t remember.

After a while the site got hijacked by a bunch of Leslie fans, who sat at home unbeknownst to me, creating artwork, poetry, translating articles and lyrics, which I of course was more than happy to put up. My little site became a community.

Today, I printed out the search items that lead some people to the site. The majority are Leslie Cheung related; there is no surprise in that.

There were a few that I found interesting to say the least. Some made me laugh. Some made me wonder. More than a few left me a little sad and I hope even though those people weren’t always seeking Leslie Cheung stuff, they found some solace in the site.

Here is a list of my favorites:

Bangkok Tonite Website
HK Tai Seng Porn
Pictures + Women + Wearing + Helmets
Blue Sequined Suits
Hong Kong Subway Ghost Boy
Funeral Photos
Oriental Funeral
Funeral Banners
William Holden Cheung
Translate Je Taime (“I like” in French)
British Soap Stars Fall of Balcony
Beautiful words to say to someone when you know they are leaving this world
Killed himself/herself Memorial
Tong Tong Loves Gor Gor
Missing Leslie
The moment I wake up I say a prayer for you

The two which left me most curious to the exact circumstances before the person sat down to type are:

“Leslie Cheung’s teeth” and “Leslie Cheung + Acid” (??)

I can only hope that everyone who came regardless of reason had a nice trip.