"It's been 2 years since I came to Taiwan and during this 2 years, I nearly wanted to give up but I told myself not to give up and must continue to perseve and is you all who give me the support." Yesterday Vanness said this on his celebration party at the crowdest area in taipei "Xi Men Ding". As he saw the place packed with fans, he uncontrollably revealed these words. Vanness's manager Liu Tian Jian revealed that he will give 888 0000 more to promote Vanness's album. After a whole full 12 days of promotional tour, with lots of fame, Vanness is back in Taiwan. Many fans who can't get into Xi Men Ding yesterday cried. All the people who are there to watch movie even looked out to see who is here. Liu Tian Jian continued to said that SM Entertainment, a Korean company contacted him and wished to have Vanness in Korea to start his entertainment career. - Ming Sheng Bao[16/09/02]
Vic had gone through quitting school, rumours with a sales girl and these 2 months, other than filming Meteor Garden 2, he is writing his book, writing some songs and drawing some arts. Vic got the least news lately and many people are curious of his latest movement. After experiencing so many unwated events, now Vic has started to be very obedient. His latest new try on is writing songs. When he is free from filming, you will see him sitting in one corner writing. Vic wanted to be a song writer soon! The caring Vic, upon seeing the busy Vanness and the stressful Jerry, will always suggest that he go out to buy something for everyone. He will definately buy some food back especially his favourite fried chicken cutlets. Vic revealed that he might be releasing his book next month. Regarding his drama, school and love life, he will give all the fans a satisfactory answer. - Lian He Bao[26/09/02]
F4 appeared in Beijing yesterday and cause a big chaos in the airport. Because of the crowds, the plane delayed in touching down. For F4's safety, they use secret path for them to leave airport. However, there's still bunch of fans going after their van along the way. Tonight the [5.27] concert that F4 will be attending will be strongly guarded. The other singers that are coming is Tao Zi, Jolin and Harlem Yu. The concert was delayed from May till now and this is the first time all the Taiwan singers meet in this concert and because F4 attended this concert, the Dong Feng is very anxious and even hired over 200 guards to look after them. Vanness and Ken who arrived in Beijing yesterday first were shocked to see the chaos and many reporters were quarrelling. Tao zi immediately save the whole situation by saying, "We are all here to help our "Shi Di"(brothers) so please take care of them!" When Vanness and Ken appeared, they did not seem to be smiling and so many reporters began to say that they are tired. Both of them explained that because they film the drama till this morning and therefore not enough sleep. Jerry and Vic are still filming!" They promised all that they will sing live this time and not putting CD. According to the authority, all the tickets are sold out. - Lian He Bao[28/09/02]
"Ah Xu, I love you!" "ZaiZai, I love you!" These are the shoutings we can heard at the [5.27]concert in Beijing yesterday. F4 fans were shouting and screaming throughout the whole concert. There are over 100 people using the Neon light to form out a "Xu" word. When Tao Zi, Joling, Karen Mok and Harlem appeared together, the concert was bring to another high point while F4 is the strong point of the 2nd half of the concert as they have solo performance and then come out together finally. When Tao Zi asked the fans "What you want to say?" The whole audience crowds shouted, "I love you!" Jerry replied, "I love you all too!" This drive the fans crazy. When F4 came out together at the end, all the fans gone crazy and some even fainted. F4 used the "Keep up" hand signal to encourage the fans and lastly with a "Thanks" they ended the concert and claimed that they will be going back to Taiwan today for the filming. - Lian He Bao[29/09/02]
F4 is not the billionaire! But they have chances of becoming one. Regarding their payment this year, because of the 4 ads they have got, there's rumours of them being a billionaire lately. F4's company revealed that it is just a misunderstanding. This year, F4's performance definately hit over billion but when it is divided among the 4 plus all the other fees, the 4 of them only got over 10 million. From last year's 1 million till now a 10 million, the 4 guys still live a normal lives. Jerry jusy bought a house. For Vic, he only spent 10 thousand to buy a second hand BMW. For Vanness and Ken, both of them used the money to buy some musical instruments. The company revealed that F4 did earned more than last year because of their 8-digits payment ads, books, album and other side stuffs but they are still not billionaire yet. - [29/09/02]
Ken, after so many ads, took a beer ads and went to Mongolia to shoot the ads, from day to night, drink lots of beer. He suffered a lot while shooting the ads as many sudden events cooped up. The first day is a very hot weather while the second, the weather started to turn cold and even have a heavy downpour. However Ken saw how the Mongolian live and even enjoyed having a big feast of lamb with them. - [01/10/02]
Jerry is very popular in China and his latest ads totally attracted all the fans in China. Jerry's hairstyle, clothings and even shoes had become the ideal pattern of all China girls' future boyfriends. There's one group named themselves Jerry China Fan club actually quarrel with some other groups on the net regarding F4's latest concert in Beijing. Other girls started to doll their boyfriends just like Jerry. When Jerry saw his own ads in Beijing, he also find it special. He find that the ads is more like a coffe ads rather than a hair ads. Not only the fans, some singers also started to doll their hairstyle like Jerry. - Lian He Bao[02/10/02]
Vic finally returned to school! Last semester because of the work load and all the jobs, Vic had to quit school but during this month, he worked hard and managed to pass an exam and attend a business school now. For this retest, Vic did not sleep well nor did he eat well and he had reduce a total of 3kg weight. Vic's quitting school had cause a big news and all the fans are very worry for him. He is very guilty to make so many people worry for him and therefore this month, other than filming, he will stay home to study for his retest. Many crew members accompany him for the exam and seeing Vic's mostache, we can see how hardworking is him. In July, when Vic is in Spain for the filming, he grow fatter until 75kg and when discussed for his solo pictorial book, he is too ashamed and don't even want to shoot. This time for the retest, even Vic's mother also encourage him a lot to study. Because of the workload, Vic finally slim down by 3kg. Vic admit that his result has never been good and he did not study hard enough in the past but he did treasure the time when he is with his classmates and teachers. This time round, he will plan carefully his time schedule and tried not to skip lessons. Since Vic's pictorial book is coming out, many people will tend to compare him with Jerry. Vic revealed that the selling results can't be as good as Jerry because his pictorial book is selling too good. However he still hope all the fans will support his pictorial book. - [07/10/02]
Vic went to Japan lately for his filming of the pictorial book which will be releasing in November. He even faced some trouble when searching for the place as his scene. The shop owner does not recognise Vic and even rejected their request to shoot in the shop as the crew did not requested earlier. One of the crew member remembered that F4 has just finish shooting the Pepsi can ads and therefore took out one can and show it to the boss to show him that Vic is a super star and only this time the boss accept their request. Vic actually do not wish to do any pictorial book as he felt that he do not have Vanness's body built and do not know how pose like Jerry. Especially when now he has just turned back into a student, he wish to put more effort in his studies. Meteor Garden 2 is not yet finish and now he has to shoot for his pictorial book therefore Vic is slightly worried over his studies. - Zhong Shi Bao[11/10/02]
Meteor Garden 2 will be show in Taiwan in November, lately they film one graduation scene and just this scene has already use over 100 people and the crews even set up the red carpet for F4 to walk on it. Though the weather is very hot, but it did not seemed to affect F4's fame. Over 30 Hong Kong fans came all the way from Hong Kong to see their idol. Whenever the director shouted "Ka"(meaning stop), all the fans will start rushing up to F4 to take their autograph. Jerry seemed to be a bit taken back by these fans and kept on going to toilet. F4's mother Cai Jie even got a famous actor cum host to act in Meteor Garden 2 as F4's principal. Because of the machine problem, he has to act the 3 minute speech scene for 7 times to get it right and perfect. - Lian He Bao[14/10/02]
F4 will be going into the Korean entertainment circle. Because of Meteor Garden's popularity in Korea, there has been lots of invitation for F4 to go to Korea for performance and ads. During Beijing's trip, a famous director even told F4 that ever since the start of Korea's drama shown there, many people are more to the Korean drama rather than Chinese show, but only F4's Meteor Garden can fight with them, he claimed that the future lies on F4's hands. F4 is so popular in all Asia country and the most difficult countries to go into are Japan and Korea but they successfully enter the circle. F4 has become the proud group of all Chinese. F4 is also invited to Korean's Awards Ceremony as guest in November. However the company revealed that F4 lately is rushing to finish their Meteor Garden, preparation to 2nd album, preparation to their concert, Vic's pictorial book and also Jerry is not feeling well lately. Now all of them hope for a rest. - [17/10/02]
Japan famous author wanted Vic to act in Japanese drama. According to what they say, they claimed that Vic looked a lot like the famous Smap member, Kimura and all the japanese girls are really attracted to Vic. Lately Vic is always linked to Japan, not only he went to Japan to shoot his pictorial book which will be start pre ordering on 19th October but also that his poor prince DVD will start selling in Japan. The author to poor prince comics is really very amazed by Vic's style in acting poor prince. He felt that Vic has a beautiful face like all comics character. Vic, when shooting in a glass making factory in Japan, wore a cloth around his head in a very hot temperature, he is very impressed of himself. - [17/10/02]
Jerry's birthday which is on 1st Jan has not arrived yet but a website in China named BBS.HINET.COM.CN has already started asking for donation from all fans to plant a Jerry's wish plantation in China. Jerry's manager Jiang Yi Peng revealed that Jerry agreed to this plantation, ever since Jerry is famous, he has recived lots of gifts from the fans. Jerry wish that all the fans will not waste money on that and donate some of the money to do charity. - [18/10/02]
Ever since F4 is famous after shooting of Meteor Garden, they became very famous stars and their house are also situated around Taipei. Jerry who always say that he is very poor is actually staying at a very expensive estate and is staying in the best view apartment. As for Vic, he is staying for family style, which is just the 2nd floor of a particular car shop. The car shop is actually owned by his uncle. Ken is also staying in a very expensive estate which cost him few thousands a month for his security. Because of Ken's friendiness, all his neighbours like him a lot. He has not become arrogant after he become famous. Though Vanness always spend a lot on sun glasses but his flat seemed to be the cheapest and most simplest among the 4. His house is very small and only has a bed, a cupboard and all his stuffs are put under his bed. - [18/10/02]
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