Lee Hom's " Forever 1st Day " Album Diary

00/12/09~00/12/15 @ Part 27

Dear Friends,

This week it has been drizzling little more than mist everyday in Hong Kong. The water collects on the windshield magically, or as if by condensation, the roads shine black like polished leather. Yet there's no reason to carry an umbrella, because the people never seem to get wet.

This is the week of the premier for "China Strike Force" ("China White" outside of Asia). In two more days, I'll be sitting at an outdoor drive-in theater watching my movie debut in front of a predicted crowd of 3,000. I hope my fans are able to get enough tickets, I know they've been hard to get.

This week in Hong Kong is comprising of two main categories of events. First, continuing promotional activities for my new single, "Take Your Time". Second, beginning promotion for my first full length movie, "China Strike Force", also known as "China White".

Because this is the week of the premier, I am busy these days with promotion for the movie: magazine, newspaper press conferences, and movie-related fan gatherings. All of this promotion is really making me excited to actually see the movie on Friday, 12/15. It should be action-packed entertainment.

Anyway, as most of you know, I've been going through a lot lately. Along with my first movie experience came a lot of business baggage that I had to deal with. The most aggregious of which was the failure of Norika Fujiwara and my duet to come through due to...ahem, technical difficulties. I've learned through this experience that there are some things that are best just left alone, unsaid, and in the past. Even though in this instance, at the request and the support of the movie company, I had already written the song with Coolio and had finished recording the instruments, even though I had put a lot of time and heart into the song...I can let it go.

However, the redeeming point here, is that my English solo track "China White" is to be the theme song to the movie in the release outside of Asia. This song (self-written and produced) will also be available on the "China White" soundtrack which is being released by SONY in January. I hope you all like my title track...it's like nothing I've ever sung before!

One last very important note for this week. I have decided that I will take a temporary break from writing this diary after the end of 2000. Although it is very important to me and to the fans to continue, I would like be completely free from other committments and emersed in production for my new album beginning in January. Although reluctant to take time off, I figure, my news every week would be something like "I recorded the drums track for song "Untitled #7" today...blah blah blah. Boring stuff to write in a diary anyway!

I'm looking forward to seeing my friends and fans in Singapore and Malaysia at the beginning of next week when CSF begins its promotion tour.I'm also looking forward to seeing my "long time no see" friends and fans in Taiwan on 12/31, when I will be doing a countdown new year's concert in Taipei. It's been too long since I've been in Taiwan and I really miss you all!

To all my fans, thank you so much for your continuing support for my music...and now my movies! I love you all very much!

Yours,
Leehom Wang