DIAOness Updates: The Rooftop promos, Shanghai Film Festival and Lang Lang!

It's been one week since Jay left Singapore on 9 June 2013 and I hope he had a good rest because starting from the 12 June, he has been to event after event, mostly related to The Rooftop but also a special one with Lang Lang and other celebs at Qing Hua University.

Promo in Taipei on 12 June 2013

Playlist of the event:

Part 1, introducing Jay and Li Xinai:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA0k29oByUk&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ62KVH_36gCcX01yli3lK0H&index=1

Part 2, introducing Kenny Bee, who plays Xinai's fierce father in the movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NShYxymmFuQ&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ62KVH_36gCcX01yli3lK0H&index=2

Part 3: Interview with actors on stage: 
Jay explains that the movie is different from Secret; Kenny Bee is usually very nice but in the movie, he has to be very fierce. He has worked with Jay before in Initial D; he feels that Jay is a very meticulous director who pays attention to the smallest details.
Xinai says she is very happy to be there. 
Jay tells how Will Liu chanced upon her at the traffic crossing and as it turned out, her look was exactly what he was looking for, to suit that era.
Xinai is from Xi-an and she's very grateful for the opportunity she was given.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0N5koRXnBY&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ62KVH_36gCcX01yli3lK0H&index=3


Part 4: Fun with rice dumplings, big and small, real and false
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apVoOcToiTk&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ62KVH_36gCcX01yli3lK0H&index=4

Part 5:  Xinai
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnpcNqOeAfY&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ62KVH_36gCcX01yli3lK0H&index=5

Part 6: Questions from reporters:
Jay: We held many auditions. I was a little anxious about her lack of experience but after a while, realised she looked the part.
Kenny: At first, Eric was supposed to be her father but the look was not right.
Xinai: I felt very lucky and wanted to work hard. I didn't think too much about the fact that Jay was the director. Of course, I know who he is. He could be strict and demanding.
Jay: I have to be critical as a director.
Jay: Feeling a bit stressed about performance at box office. Competing with myself. Xinai is a strong character herself, despite looking very young.
Re GMAs, he's very happy to have been nominated. He hopes to win the Best Album award.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Jbv79q_m4&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ62KVH_36gCcX01yli3lK0H&index=6

Some pics from the event:

Jay signing posters:

Jay and the Giant Bak Chang!

Jay and Xinai, posing primly:

 Jay, Xinai and Kenny Bee:

Whatcha thinking about, Jay??

 Autographed poster belonging to my lucky friend!

 He looks quite satisfied here....

LOVE that smile and DIMPLE!!!!!

Jay in Shanghai

He had a promo in Shanghai on 15 June:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iH-wnADuEPo

Wang Xueqi and Xu Fan were impressed by Jay's directing. Xu Fan was also mesmerised by Jay in concert. :)

He then attended the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival


On the red carpet with Li Xinai, Wang Xueqi and Xu Fan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsYr84pyzQM&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ5E31LsVKCjpkyVRmBJW7U8&index=2

The Rooftop related promo shows:

Jay also performed at a Qinghua University event with Lang Lang, Lin Dan and other stars:


Performing Snail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7HEDejebHA&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ5cqVaYVEMrSvqVRGJIriie

Dao Xiang:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwh8qaFCHLQ&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ5cqVaYVEMrSvqVRGJIriie&index=2


News clip about the event in English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K8H-wkvmwC0

Stunningly beautiful magazine cover in China!

And scans:

 

Another HAWT mag cover...omg...!

Somebody shoot me now....look at those cheekbones....!

Jay's been looking really dapper!

I'll end with the latest trailer, which has new scenes...making me even more excited for this movie!
Lol...the part where Xinai is in the car with LZG reminds me so much of the Bella/Edward car scene! (I'm a Twilight fan too.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evkP_uuX0iY&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ5E31LsVKCjpkyVRmBJW7U8

And a nice pic of Lang Zi Gao with his car:

My thoughts:

I'm very impressed with Jay's manner and decorum at all these events so far.
Very calm, collected, yet with some humour and always keeping the focus on the movie and his work.
The new scenes are interesting but I'm waiting to hear what the rating will be.
Someone told me it might be R18 but to me, a PG13 is more likely, if not General.

One more thing I just have to do before signing off....


*FANGIRL SQUEAL*

Omg....Jay looked SOOOOO HANDSOME in all the events and the magazine covers so far!!!!!!

*faints*

OPUS JAY SINGAPORE: Epilogue/ Bye bye Jay and crew!

One week ago at this time, I was rocking away in DIAO Heaven at the SIS, at my very first full-length Jay Chou concert.
How time flies!
My fellow Jay-fan friends and I have been suffering Jay-withdrawal symptoms but assuaging them by keeping our App chats and Facebook posts alive with loads of pics, memories and swooning over His Royal DIAOness.

Here, I would like to pay special tribute to the members of the Jay Chou Singapore and Malaysia fanclub who have been totally ACE with their Jay-mania and without whom this fangirl would have probably never gotten the chance to see Jay so up close and take another group photo with him at the airport.

Aren't they cute here, doing the Rooftop pose outside the SIS? :)

And here they are from the front:

And here they are on Razor TV!
http://www.razor.tv/site/servlet/segment/main/entertainment/91666.html

Needless to say, the final night's concert which I attended with them was the most fun EVER, as we occupied a significant portion of the seats and stood out so colourfully with our beautiful PINK teeshirts, which were specially made for OPUS JAY.
Hehe...someone asked me before the show if they could buy a tee too!
Of course we were also wont to stand up during the concert as Jay's music took hold of us and cheer and scream the loudest as well! Simply AMAZING!

Anyway, the next big thing for the fanclub was the airport send-off for Jay and his entourage the next morning at Changi Terminal 1.
True to form, about 50 members (including yours truly, of course, who was super thankful Jay was leaving on a Sunday morning and not Monday!) dutifully turned up and....got to see not just Jay, but his whole crew as well!
Yup, his choreographer (Xiao Mai), musicians, stage manager, dancers...they were all inundated with requests for photos and autographs by the enthusiastic fans as they were all as familiar to us as Jay himself, thanks to the fact that he does not have weibo but uses his friends' weibo to tweet his messages. :)

Lol...they were really nice and accomodating as they posed and chatted with us, no doubt enjoying the attention and warmth that was showered on them.
Which they truly deserved as OPUS JAY would not have been possible without all their hard work and dedication as well.
Jay knows that and he always makes sure his entourage are well taken care of and he has absolutely no diva-esque behaviour nor demands (unlike some celebs who will make all sorts of outrageous requests like a certain brand of mineral water, must have their own chefs, yadayadayada...).

All too soon, Jay arrived to check in (doesn'the look so DIAO??):

We were instructed by our club admins not to scream but to ask Jay nicely as he approached us if he would take a group photo with us. We complied and to our utter delight, Jay nodded with a murmured consent, walked into where we had made a space for him and.....and voila!

Post photo-taking...a lucky and quick-thinking member got this amazing shot!

Jay had two different poses! Love his thumb-up sign!!

Look at the happiness on our faces!!!

LOVE that adorable left cheek dimple!!!

After that, he gave us a small wave and proceeded to the premier check-in entrance, where all of us gathered outside the glass partition, trying to peep in for some final glimpses of him...lol!
Amidst lots of "Bye bye" and "Thank you" from all of us, Jay half-turned and waved again (yaay!) as he went on to hand his passport to the immigration officer...and disappeared from our view.

After which we did the usual 'take a photo from Jacky's camera' thingy to satisfy ourselves before the admins uploaded a proper photo for us. ;)


Jay's musician, Huang Yuxun took a shot of us preparing ourselves prior to Jay's arrival and uploaded it onto his Facebook page, with very nice comments about how polite and well-behaved, yet warm we were!

We were all over weibo as well, with many fans being very envious of our group photo with Jay!

And the very first paper to come out with a review of his concert was The New Paper, with a report by Tan Kee Yun:

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Showbiz/Story/A1Story20130607-428299.html

Other newspapers and mags:

 And with that, our wonderful OPUS JAY in SINGAPORE came to an end. 

But there's no end to the Jay-mania as we prepare for the release of The Rooftop!

Let me end with an awesome mag cover of His Royal DIAOness for his Rooftop promos...omg! 

Le swoon....

I'll be posting some Rooftop updates next!

Cheers!