Last fan group visit in Hengdian 6/16/2012

Waoh, such speed! Just yesterday Steven weibo about scheduling fan visit with his assistant and the fan group visit happened instantly, almost.  Many fans were unhappy about their being left out from this secretively/privately arranged fan group visit.  I can understand both views, on one side the visit was obviously hastily arranged because Steven is wrapping up his work in Hengdian, his Tang Ting Xuan scenes are done not sure about his Lai Fu's, so time is of essence getting the group visit ready. And even then the group was of a good size.

On the other hand, irate left out fans after having missed the other earlier group visits are naturally bummed out to have missed the very last one in Hengdian as the next series will be filmed in Shenzhen, far away from Hengdian.

Fan visit on Yuan Yang Pei, Hengdian 5/27 day 2

May 27 2012 Day 2.

Only 13 fans remain at Hengdian for day 2 fan visit. Having presented their gifts to Steven on the first day, the remaining brought another gift to present to Steven. They had already thought of this gift the first day but because of time constraint and the wet blanket rain, they decided not to. But today with today's bright, beautiful sunshine and lots of time to spare, they finally bought the watermelon, 4 of them actually.

They took a long time to finally find the place that Xiao Qiao told them.  When vik甄  presents the watermelons to Steven, he and crew members all laugh uproariously. Why 4 watermelons? Well, because Steven is the 4th Brother, of course. (make sense? right?) vik甄 and  浚家小龍龍, (a SM fan Hengdian employee) holding the watermelons go inside Steven's resting area. Director Wong is there so Steven introduces them to him.  After that Steven has to shoot a scene so the fans stay back to watch the filming from the sideline.  The scene is about Tang Ting Xuan and his mother being viciously pursued by bad people. There Steven was in his 3-piece suit having to repetitively carrying his 'mom' on his back and running down the lanes not once but several times before the actual take went through. And that was only one take of the scene that consists of several other takes, never mind the ngs takes in between.   The fans see first hand just how tedious and arduous filming is and their hearts go out to Steven seeing his drenched outer vest - can only imagine his drenched dress shirt, while copious sweat run relentlessly down his head.(re below pix)

Fan visit on Yuan Yang Pei, Hengdian 5/26 day 1

Disclaimer: All pix and videos are credited to their owners in various sources: sm baidu, steven-ma.org; and various individual weibos.

Talk about spontaneity and expediency, the fan group visit on 5/26-5/27 to visit Steven on Yuan Yang Pei filming set in Hengdian was set up on a spur of the moment spearheaded by Steven-ma.org and sm baidu.  On May 20, (designated by mainland netizens as 520-I luv you day) on weibo if searched under Steven's name 馬浚偉 was heavily loaded with Steven's pix overtly or stealthily taken by Hengdian tourists during their visit there,  some of which much to their delight, Steven reposted on his weibo to celebrate his own weibo Piggy Family Day.  So enticed by such joyous SM sighting happenstance, steven-ma.org weibo on behalf of the piggies fired up with anticipation, asked Steven if they could visit him at Hengdian, to which 20 minutes or so later Steven replied thus: 

5/2014:23 Of course can. Contact Xiao Qiao. (tn: his assistant)  //@思浚堂 5/20 14:00  Steven,  little piggies beg to visit you, ok or not?

SM fan group Hengdian 2/28/2012

what a cutie pie ! source link

Nanjing SM fan with hubby and daughter.

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sources: random weibo SM fans.

Steven Ma and fans on yy.

To listen live to their interactions: dl www.yy.com

then type in password for SM baidu site: 580968

What a pandemonium with fans clamoring for Steven's attention.

                                                            

                       

 Steven with loyef colleagues.

Generously as always, Steven also treated about 140 people from the LOYEF to dinner tonight.

 More pix (blurry) uploads here source weibo

weibo 2/27/2012 eve of LOYEF production

馬浚偉 2/27 13:40 ： Tomorrow is the last day of of LOYEF. Reluctant to part but more than that, truly cherish the 4 of our newly established relationship. @香港徐小明 @哈斯高娃的微博 @演员王会来 @何彦霓 @高发的微博 @攝影大管 @吳天瑜 @吴樾 @演员谢苗 @徐冬梅咖啡妞 @黃建群-Lindsey@江道海Kth @张竞达 @安娜amyxiaobao @秦鹏飞NO1 @bobo吳寶玲 @胡军 @佘詩曼Charmaine @楊啟榮Tango

 @攝影大管：Steven truly treated the whole troupe to dinner. Thank you, Ma ge

Fan group visit at hengdian 2/28 - updated

2/23 16:48  Steven: Hahahaha! Come ba！ Also, have to say this cute little piggies. I welcome you all to visit on the 28 but please, please don't give me stuff. Just your being here with your heart is enough Remember ya! @馬浚偉baidu :Those who want to see 4th Brother face to face at Hengdian 2/28, please sign up quickly. 


2/28 is the last day of LOYEF production in Hengdian. Don't know if Steven is going to Manchurian to shoot on location or not.
About 30 fans estimated plan to visit Steven at Hengdian on this coming Tuesday!

Steven sermonizing fans

Steven's long 'sermon' to fans.

video source: steven fan da hai 2005
Click on Hengdian LOW videos tag to watch other video clips.

So what do celebrity idols and their fans talk about?

In Steven and fans' case, Steven talks philosophy while fans listen quietly. lol!

Listen to the video or read my loose transcript below.

Because the translation is verbatim, some sentences are fragmented per Steven's stream of thoughts.

Listening to the video, I feel Steven's Mandarin nowadays has regressed comparatively.  

On Steven's books.
Steven: Of course, one person's effort is not strong enough, but whatever one can do, then do it. That goes for you all too. I hope our fanclub or the fans who like me would not look down on their own ability to influence.  If you think you are insignificant, then you are truly insignificant. But if you affirm your own existence worth, you knew you did something today that influenced others, maybe a person or 10 people around you, and so moved by you they in turn try to influence someone else. Teacher Tang had said that if the world is less me then there is no another me on earth. It is the same for everybody. Don’t minimize your effort.  All these individual efforts combined together can make an impact.  

So I often will through my work, because I’m an artiste, like in a magazine interview, or newspaper, or on tv program, I would sometimes bring up this kind of topic.  Of course, it is up to them whether to report it or not. Because they thought this topic was boring. (Fan: HK media is very batgua -gossipy)  So I decided to write my own books instead.  For sure, there got to be people who would want to read them.  Doesn’t matter how many.  At least in mainland China, the book (tn: Why suicide?)  has sold  at least close to 20 -30 thousand copies.  Though not consider enormous but still this kind of social book is usually not very popular. 20,000 people – not bad at all. Say that reader has a family of 4. 4 x 20,000 will extrapolate to 80,000 people.  It is very important to share books.  I’ll not force people to buy my books but to pass the books  around to other people to read. That’s what books are for – to be circulated among people. That way the positive thinking and ideals can be disseminated. Whether good or bad ideals they are all disseminated through people.

So our fanclub fans, you all must have this kind of spirit. Understand? Haha! Because I feel the lacking in myself so I read a lot and converse a lot with the seniors and veterans. A person’s moral character and what inside, be it character or thinking. China has these traditional moral precepts that now to present day people seem very old fashioned but they are all very real. We should in this era preserve these Chinese traditional ideals.  Fans too must preserve them.

Haha! So boring! (tn: laughing at himself) In Hong Kong if I talked about things like these they would ignore me. If I talked about this to them, they would say there Ma Zai goes again. But some are ok like Wenweipo, Takungpao and Mingpao, in their interviews they still let me touch on this subject. (TN: I can imagine reporters rolling their eyes at Steven and hiding their yawns.)

Teacher  Tang Jun Yi (唐君毅 ) has a book entitled:  Experiences of life. (人生之体验) . A really good book. I’ve read it many times  already.  I’ve brought it along with me on this trip. … (tn: he expands on the book.) One statement  -- Do today well, don’t worry about the yet-to-come (tn: future - wei lai) why, because they are yet to come. Concentrate on doing today well, retrospect on yesterday to influence today and prepare today to influence tomorrow because tomorrow is still unknown.  And extrapolate today to a week to a month to a year. What you do this year will sure to influence next year and 10 years down the road or the lifetime. I’m interested in reading contemporary philosophy books. (Fan: How about self-enrichment books?)

Self-enrichment books? Like in the past I had also read books like Chicken Soup series or how to be a millionaire. (Fan: no no, I meant books written on how people improve their life quality.)  I don’t read these kinds of books anymore. Presently it is 2005, in 2003 I started studying the Chinese history, contemporary philosophy and Teacher Tang’s books, and Ma Ke Si.  I read their books to understand to understand the whole China’s psyche and beliefs, to understand the revolution of thinking. And also read book on Cultural Revolution. Maybe should not touch on this here. (tn: politics)  Actually I’m interested in all books that concern China but books on like how to be successful, I seldom read.  Of course, they are beneficial to read and learn from them. But I feel we have to start from bottom basic, to first take care of our inside, here (heart) and here (mind) and if we do, we would naturally understand. I have to keep this notion in mind that the more I study the less I know. (Fan brings up The 80/20 Rule or discussion.) That 20% of population use their heads to do things while 80% others use their bodies to do things.  And fan praises Steven to have high EQ and IQ. Upon hearing that, Steven jests that he is floating in the air as he tiptoe.
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Steven's favorite maxim: Virtue is not alone, it will have neighbors

Source: Fantasia - Condensed excerpts

Steven likes to recite poetry, writes on the side, and waxes poetic on life philosophy. Naturally, those who like him see him as interesting and witty; whereas, those who don’t, a frivolous show-off. 

“I don’t commit crimes. I’m only doing my own thing. I’m not bothered by how other people see me.”

True, philosophy discourses are not a crime in itself, but problem is, entertainment circle has no use for culture pretenses.

“In this world, there must be someone who approves of me, but, probably won’t be from the entertainment circle.”
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 “I don’t harm people or commit crimes. All I did was walk the path I choose. Ups or downs, I’m the pilot. Why do you care?”

True. There are just too many eyes in the entertainment circle.

He has never minded how people see him, much less compromise his principles. For instance, 2 years ago, during an interview with a certain magazine, he was effusively dropping quotes from the works of contemporary Confucian scholar, Tang Jun Yi, and learned scholar, Professor Lu Wei Luan. Although never attended any of their classes, Steven kept referring them as Teacher Tang and Teacher Lu. The reporter insinuated that he was being a voluble show-off. Today, he is still Teacher Tang here and Teacher Lu there, showing no sign of embarrassment.

“I revere them so why can’t I address them as “teacher”? Just like those who believe in God, bible quotes flow freely from their mouth, too. So are they showing off, too? I believe there must be people of like mind as me. But those who identify with me will most likely not from the entertainment circle.”
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“A lot of people said I act older than my age,” he smiled wryly. “But really, I do find it hard to communicate with the younger generation artistes. They always gathered together to either play video games or discuss anime. I dread engaging in such trivial conversations.
 

Personality is inborn, but how it is molded depends greatly on one’s life experience. Steven matured early, having to cope with his mother’s cancer and entering the workforce at the age of 16. The horror in entertainment circle is nothing worse than losing one’s own self identity.

“During the 15 years in showbiz, my personality basically has not changed much. But that, in the past, I didn’t dare to speak out. But I dare now.”

“The entertainment circle is very superficial, and very capricious. Turns of event are not within our control. But still, we make our own opportunities.”

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There are several reasons why I uploaded the video, least of which is to showcase Steven's Mandarin, which after a 1 year or so in China was really good then, sadly it has regressed but hopefully after his 4-month stint there has now improved.

Second, Steven comes across as an eloquent conversationalist who speaks intelligently, confidently and smoothly without even grappling for words to express his thoughts during that lengthy 9 minutes or so monologue, and in Mandarin at that.

Third, Steven is no frivolous celebrity but comes across as a thinker and observer of people, who reads a lot and strives for self-improvement, and delves in philosophy.

Fourth, Steven takes his role model as a celebrity artist very seriously, and he sincerely wants to give back to society through words and deeds .

Fifth, Steven wants to make a difference to society. His book, "Why Suicide?" is stocked in many school libraries in China. And some readers have written to him (from weibo) to thank him because reading that book have changed their perspective on life.

In this video, Steven was serious but if you go through the tagged thread , Hengdian LOW Steven was very playful with his fans, turning them into giggling, happy teenagers, especially in the video where he learns to speak Shanghainese. (Those fans are from Shanghai)

Updated: Hengdian Day 2 - 11/13/2011

Condensed and Paraphrase~~~~~~

So we waited and waited by the site where we saw Steven yesterday. Cola Jie called to say Steven was still the other site filming. But we decided to wait anyway.  By 5 pm we were getting anxious.  Cola Jie called again to say Steven was still being held up there filming. She told us that Steven would meet us at the hotel.  So we all dashed back to the hotel to wait for him at the lobby.  Slightly after 5 pm, we saw Steven looking tired came into the hotel. Seeing us he quickly came to us.  He had been filming a fighting scene nonstop. His scene which should have ended by 10 am was prolonged until now. He said: "You all are still here ya? Unfortunately, I don't have much time. Later I still have to meet with the directors."  He told us that he could not talk too long with us as he still had a meeting with the directors afterwards.  Never mind, we had just wanted to give him our presents, and were happy just to have seen him today.  Pretty soon, he left to go up to his bedroom.  We were sad to see him leave so we unwillingly dragged our feet to leave the hotel too.

Finally really have to leave now.  As we were walking outside the hotel, Hui Hui at this moment noticed an unanswered phone call on her cell so she listened to it.  Just when she was about to return the call, there was this van that stopped behind us.  It was Steven’s!! And Cola Jie was inside it!! She told us that Steven was right now taking a shower, and that he would see us in the lobby later on.  He knew that 3 new fans had come.  And just that one encounter, and them coming from so far away is not easy.  So he squeezed out a time to see everybody, and to take pictures with the new fans. At that very moment hearing it, we were all so touched.  There’s one fan who cried outright at being so touched. 

So we excitedly rushed back to the hotel lobby to wait for Steven. After a while, Steven came down looking much refreshed than before. He had changed into a new set of clothes: denim jacket and wearing the same cap as day 1. As to his pants and shoes I forgot. It was quite dark inside in the lobby as the lights were dimmed. Steven first took pictures with the Day2 fans. Those of us Day1 fans instinctively did not join in.  We are all very self-disciplined little piggies. And then Steven sat down on the sofa and asked if there was anything to sign? Steven said he was waiting for Director Tsui they all to come down. So still had a bit of time to chat with us. So they (day 2 fans) handed out their pictures to Steven to sign. After the signing we chatted amiably until the directors came down.

We chatted quite a bit with Steven; talked about LOYEF, and asking him to have more Mainland events, and asked him to release a music album. Steven said there will sure be be opportunity to. And then we asked Steven to sing a song, sing Dai Nui Fa. (PITNOL) Steven asked us to join so we did.   Steven: “世显永伴长平合葬 ……” (Sai Hin buried with Cheung Ping...)  

This moment seemed so surreal but yet it is real. In the past I never even dared to imagine being able to sing with Steven in person.  I said: "4th Brother, I loved this line "世显永伴长平合葬" the most”.  Hearing that Steven unexpected sang that line again. Made me so touched by his act. Then he sang A Little Story with Zhen Zhen. It was good. 

After singing, we chatted with Steven again until Director Tsui and co. came down to the lobby. And so we had to say goodbye to him.  Hui Hui and Zhen Zhen would leave the next day but Ka Ka and I would take the bus to the train station to catch the 11:37 pm train. Ka Ka got off at Hongzhou at around 12 am while I sat in the train for another 4 hours before reaching Ningbo. This trip was full of pleasant excitement and very memorable for the rest of my life. 2011 was truly a happy year. Could see Steven thrice in 2 months. Steven is as handsome as before and as nice as ever towards us. Hope 2012 will be a good year to Steven.

See video on their interaction @  hengdian video

baidu essay by lam lam 

3rd Fan visit - UPDATED with YY snippets

UPDATED WITH TRANSCRIPTS FROM YY. Steven chatting easily to his fans.
audio YY

40min ago Little piggies came a-visiting. Some came before; others first time! Beijing, Guangxi, Shandong, Punning etc....all came! The weather is so cold, those came from far or near, all have heart! To show my thanks, have dinner with them! Thank you for your coming faraway here, thank you!

Hengdian fan visit 2 11/26

A group of fans visited Steven on 11/26, but they only convened as a whole at Steven's hotel after he finished work at around 9 pm.

The first group comprised o 4 girls who had a hengdian guide to take them to when Steven was filming on a very remote mountainside. Steven was surprised to them there but chatted with them anyway. See his monk pictures. First time seeing Steven in person they all said he looks better in person than on tv, and one said he was really tall. Then another of fans assembled together and with the help of another Hengdian guide went up the mountain to look for him, but unluckily for them Steven had moved to another shooting location. So they moved towards that site but again wrong site, tough luck, one fan (浚家99) @Steven on weibo and said they were lost, never thinking that Steven would actually get to see her post, never mind actually responding it see steven weibo response. So this group listened to Steven and went back down the mountain especially when through phone with the 1st group they discovered they had earlier visited Steven at work. They did not want to cause trouble for Steven with too many fan visits.

Fan group visit 11/26

So the 2nd group of 12 little piggies went to visit Steven at Hengdian over the weekend.

Will translate later post pictures first.
goto sm baidu 1 sm baidu 2, sm baidu 3;

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Day 1 Hengdian fan visit part 3

continued from: hengdian day 1 part 2

I asked Steven how “cart noodles” looks like?

Steven said: Cart noodles” is when you can choose your own noodles, whether the thin or the thick kind. And then you can choose different stuff as add-ons. Like my most favorite pig skin, fishballs, etc anything I want to add on.

I said: sounds like ma-lat soup
Steven: Ai… I heard that Prosperous Father has a scene on it (cart noodles)
Fan: This year?
Steven: No, should be next year. Maybe after New Year (tn: most like on CNY)
Fan: Looking forward to it
Steven: It’s actually quite funny to watch…

Steven chatted amiably along as he autographed stuff.

Fan: Your workload is heavy?
Steven: Not too bad
Fan: 4th Brother is tired? Want to rest first before signing?
Steven: no, that’s ok. Feel better doing it now.

While chatting with Ms.蓝婧 (radio host) Steven brought up his idols, Brigitte Lin Chin Hsia, and Vivian Chow. And when he was about to sign for Xiao Ran (小然), he exclaimed: “A..Wei Yi Ran! Wah! Such a beautiful name, real or fake?

Day 1 Hengdian fan visit part 2

Fan99 Hengdian Chinese essay part2 baidu
Fan99 Hengdian Chinese essay sina blog

Steven came out for the 3rd time.

During the waiting interval, we discovered that Steven took the time to update his weibo! The post was our group photo with him. Steven wrote: All little piggies have safely arrived at Hengdian for their group visit!  Thank you for your bouquet of flowers, DVD and message book...of course, most important for your warm affection and your continued support! Thank you to you all!

This weibo entry was truly very moving. Every word brought out tears. Holding on to my phone I read the post repeatedly, and thinking Steven is so nice! Soon, the sky got dark quickly.We all still waiting outside the yellow ribbon.  Occasionally, we could hear Steven's voice drifting over.  During this time, Ke Le jie came out to chat with us for quite a while.  She first inquired our general background and then we chatted about Steven.  Ke Le jie was very nice and we all liked her.

one pen ma - thank you column to fans

Fans' Group Visit

Last week (tn: 11/12 -11/13), a group of fans visited me in Hengdian. Actually, much earlier prior to their visit, they had already started arranging for this visit online.

An artist having supporters is of course happy, but in my heart, they are actually more like my brothers and sisters from different places.Perhaps we may have the fate to have met each other once, or perhaps we have never me, if fact, those in faraway places, whether we have the opportunity to meet or not during our life time is still unknown! So I have always treasured every person who silently supports and loves me. Actually, what they have done for me; their efforts and thoughts expanded on my behalf; and every blessing sent to me from faraway places, I can feel them all and will store them in my heart. Today, through this column, I want to say a few words to each and every one of the visiting friends:

Little piggies, thank for your support all this time. Your visit warmed me deeply. Your friendliness, good manners and self-control left a good impression on me. Also, thank you for your gifts, but still the same words from me, don't waste your money on me,your support for me is already enough! Thank you to you all!

TN: Well, what a touching thank you letter from Steven to his fans. Like me, I guess Steven too was impressed by how his little piggies fans behaved when the passers-by so impolitely grabbed his person to take pictures with him without first politely asking his permission to do so. Of course, as celebrity, Steven would be happy to oblige but a little politeness from them would be much appreciated.

fans visit to hengdian day 1 essay

恋霖99 video on tudou 
Video shows how tourists eagerly rushed to take pictures with Steven right after he finished taking the group picture with his little piggies. The tourists quickly separated him from his own fans without waiting his approval to have his pictures taken with them, like he is an onsite attraction/prop. Poor Steven, poor little piggies to have their meeting cut short. I find the tourists quite rude with their impoliteness, and sense of entitlement. But I guess I can understand the tourists excitement at accidentally meeting a celebrity, regardless of who the celebrity is so long he is a celebrity. lol!  And then there is that poor little piggy bemoaning that when they can have pictures taken with Steven.

Journal by baidu 恋霖99 @ sm baidu.

Have been back from Hengdian three days now but still feeling restless and unsettled, kept thinking about 4th Brother. Recall his warm smile, and his attractive voice, recall his hearty laughter and recall his thoughtfulness towards us… has been 3 days now but still can’t immerse myself in my work, no motivation, no mood to do that. The images of our chats with 4 ge swirled constantly in my head… that 2 days were so surreal. Sometimes even wonder if it had all been a dream, cos’ it was just too beautiful!

November 1st when Steven went joined the LOYEF troupe in Hengdian we were all so very happy because we could now visit him in Hengdian. Baidu organized a visiting fan group. After group discussion, the 1st visit date was set at Nov 12 and 13 these two days. Because we didn’t have Steven’s assistant’s cellphone numbers, we didn’t know where Steven would be on these days. Baiud organizer had tried ways and means to find out. Finally, found a person who could direct us on this visit – Zoe Jie. (a mainland reporter, weibo) Luckily because of Zoe jie, we got to successfully meet Steven. On the eve of the visit, Nov 11/11, confirmed there were 13 fans going on the visit. On 11/11 evening, received Zoe’s phone call that Steven would be filming onsite at 邢州王府 (palace) in the 清明上河图 sector tomorrow morning between 10 am – 2 pm. Because a fan could only make it to Hengdian at the latest 1pm, I urged all fans to assemble at Hengdian as early as possible or else might not make it.

fans visit to hengdian 1

source: sm baidu 99

The two women besides Steven are not little piggies, just some random passers-by who requested to take pictures with Steven. None of the little piggies took pictures with Steven when he came out in his Liu BingZhong costumes because passers-by rushed to take pictures with him while poor polite piggies stood aside. A fan said: What about us?  We don't have solo pictures with 4 Ge? Steven got to be proud of his well-mannered fans.