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| Taken from The World's Cinematography book ( The Gioi Dien Anh) |
| Oneself's Story |
| English Name: Dicky Cheung Birthday: Feburary 8, 1965 Birth place: Hong Kong Height: 5'7 Weight: 132 lbs Blood type: O Family: mother and 2 younger brothers Most memorable event: Winning TVB's 1984 singing and acting contest Favorite color: white, yellow, and beige Favorite food: fruits and Japanese food Favorite actor: Donald Chow / Chow Yung Fat Favorite work: "Wong Fei Hung Returns" Most admirerable people: People who don't give up easily. |
| Cheung Wai Kin |
| Cheung Wai Kin, right now is an actor and a singer, who has a lot of fans in Taiwan, who loves him. In 1995, Wai Kin's album "Dreamlover," was sang in Mandarin, and the album has been sold and bought by many people (Kathy: Including me). By this opportunity, Cheung Wai Kin has written a book about his life. At the beginning of the story, he wrote,"Finally, I had finished writing my story. It was very difficult for me to write the story. But I am happy with my results. Deep inside my heart, I have a dream, that I had held a long time ago, now it has come true. I still remember the hard steps that took me to get the results that I have now. The steps that I took, I had courage, sweats, and tears in them. It is very hard to tell a story about your life to somebody else, but I can't keep it quiet any longer. Hope you guys will have time to read about my life in the past and my life in the present day. Now, let's take the time and look back to see how Cheung Wai Kin took the steps that he had went. (Kathy: This article is similar to a newspaper, so start reading from the subtitle that says "Young Years" down at the left corner.) |
| Young Years Remembering back, I had a "colorful" young years. And during those years, I had wonderful times and sad times too. The year when I was in 8th grade, my dad left the family. Without my dad in the family, I still lived a happy life, just life was harder. My mom accepts a job, baby-sitting babies for people, to find money and raise my two younger brothers and me. At that time, my mom is very tired because she has to take care of me, my two brothers, and three other babies. In the middle of the night, my brothers and I would wake up, and help my mom change the babies diapers and rock them to sleep. Thanks to this, all three of us brothers are very experience at taking care of babies and kids. Living in that kind of life, I was force to growup early because there were no more other choices to choose...I found a job when I was still a teenager, to take care my two younger brothers. The Difficulties In Young Years I started out to be a singer in a lounge, but it wasn't any good. The audience were not excited or interested about the songs that I sang. They only liked seeing the girls dance and liked seeing funny plays. The audience didn't like how I dressed because I was always dressed nice, that is the reason why I got paid less than the other performers. Everytime when I perform, I always feel nervous and scared that I will have to go off stage, or worse, is that the audience wouldn't like my performance and they would throw ash trays at me. Everybody knows that people who goes to night clubs are not polite. To me, every night arriving at these places, is a risk of my life and accidents can come anytime. |
| In the year 1984, I joined a contest. This contest had brought me to the Entertainment Circle. In the contest, from the beginning to end, the audience had cheered me on, and I had won first place for both singing and acting. I consider that when I received my prizes, was the happiest moment of my life. But still...life was harder for me. After "15" minutes of fame, the happiness faded away. I went back to the lounge to sing everyday, like the old times, and I was paid alittle bit more than usual. I had no other choice because it basically came down to survival. After signing the contract for TVB, I received little acting parts in their movies / series. Every month, I get paid 3,500 HK$, and the cost of the rent on our family's apartment, alone, cost 4,000 HK$. Plus, I have to support my two younger brothers and their schooling (one of them is studying in Canada), and I have to pay income and taxes...Also, there are hundreds of other thing to do. The lounge that I was working in, was closed (Kathy: Meaning it is closed forever). While at that time, I needed money. When I have a difficult situation around me, after that one, there always will be another harder and challenging one for me. One day of working, I sing two times. From 9 A.M. to 7 P.M. I work at the Film Industry, after that I would be tired, but I still have to call a taxi to go to China to perform (sing). At that time, I felt very bored. Everytime I come by a difficult situation, I always feel like I don't want to do anything anymore... Love Story It is a person who is Catholic, to me, God is the most important one, then family, money, friends, my career, and last...is love. In the past, I use to have three girlfriends. The first person was not an artist, the second person is Elvina Kong Yan Yin, and after her, was Jessica Hsuan. When I knew Jessica Hsuan, my career was high, like it was at the top of a hill. At that time, I was very happy and that made her love me. Jessica was filled with happiness when she is beside me because I always know a way to make her smile. But then I started to change when my career was going down hill, and at that time, Jessica's career was the opposite of mine. I became quiet, didn't like to talk, didn't laugh or even cry. I was like a tangled guy. At first, Jessica could stand it, but when I had kept that going for too long, she began to express a source of sorrow. Jessica told me that I was not myself. I was not the guy that she first met. |
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| She said that she wants a boyfriend who is happy, open-hearted...About the seperation among us, I gradually, little by little, kept away from her. I had a decision, that is to break up with her. Actually, the suggestion or breaking up with her, was just that I want to see Jessica's reactions to it, but when I did it, I was astonished because she didn't oppose or anything. And then we seperated. Our relationship had dragged on for three years, and now...our relationship...has been cutted right there...and...had been faded...away. Elvina Kong Yan Yin and I were still young when we were couples. I was twenty, and she was only eighteen years old. Two of us had just started out career, and we were still new to our new jobs. So we both were always together, side by side, to help each other. Not long ago, after we met, Elvina became famous and a lot of people knew her, and at that time, I was still an actor, who was not been recognized yet. Elvina's family did not liked me. They said that they didn't understand why she chose me - they also said that I won't have a good future - when there were many other rich men pursuing (pursue) her. Between us, we began to seperate, little by little, because about the salary we get every month. My salary was only some thousands, when I needed to use that money to take care of myself and my family, and Elvina's salary, it was more than ten thousand HK$. When ever we go out to a restaurant to eat, Elvina always wants to pay for our meal. When ever we arrive at the restaurant, people usually ask "Excuse me Miss Kong, how many people are eating you?". They would never ask "Excuse me Mr. Cheung...". At that certain time, I felt embarrassed and wasn't happy at all. The reason why we seperated was that Elvina wanted to get married with me. At first, she was worried about my career, she didn't wanted to follow me forever in this condition. But after that, Elvina said that she doesn't want to marry a person who is rich. She just needs a person who can defend her, protect her, and they would be positive that they can give her a comfortable life...Those are the ones that I can't give or have. Elvina and Jessica gave me two different feelings. Elvina is a person who I had grown up with, and Jessica is a person who I can live with for the rest of my life. |
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