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Director Chou celebrates birthday with 250 fans
by kelvin@multistars - 15th January 2005
The day after tomorrow Jay is going to be 26, yesterday he stealthily booked the red floor square at Xi Men Ting in Taipei, he celebrated his birthday with 250 while he was ill, the fans took turns to go onstage to give presents to Director Chou, like officials in a kingdom offering gifts to the emperor, Director Chou cares most about the GMAs, his birthday wish didn't leave the subject: "This year I directed Nan Quan Mama's "Family" MV, so I want to win the best music video director award!"
Every year Director Chou always celebrate his birthday with his fans early, he, who is going to be 26 on the 18th, chose to hold his birthday celebration yesterday afternoon at 2, spending it with 250 selected lucky fans.
Director Chou, who is very low-key with his private life, was even low-key with his birthday celebration, not only was the process of the event rejected to be public, when the fans entered the venue they needed to verify their IDs, even only being able to take pictures in set times only.
Recently it has been cold, Director Chou, who often catches the cold, this time once again follows the trend, he who has illness wore sunglasses, with a beard, a black sweater made him even cooler, but Director Chou was often teased to laugh out loud by the fans' responses.
Especially when they were playing the game of testing the tacit agreement with the fans, the presenter asked Director Chou: "What animal do you want to turn into the most?" Unexpectedly a fan shouted on purpose: "Pig!" Making Director Chou, who had a cool face, can't help but laugh.
The programmes for the birthday celebration were plentiful, not only were there matches for voting for MVs, giving of presents, playing games, cutting the cake, etc... there was also artists' funny congratulation VCR from Director Chou's company.
Landy Wen imitated Director Chou singing "Dad I Have Come Back", Director Chou said the appearance was like Ailing Ye, among them the most cruel was Vincent Fang, he deliberately said: "Jay Chou earns 3 hundred million a year, yet only donates one million to relieve the afflicted people!" Director Chou's facial expression caused the whole place to laugh.
Devon was the mystery guest at the birthday celebration, not only did he deliver the cake, he also offered up the sports car model that Director Chou loves the most at the moment as a present.
When cutting the cake Director Chou made public two birthday wishes, the first was to wish his fans health, the second didn't leave the GMAs he cares most about, but this year the award Director Chou is aiming has changed, he wants to win the best music video director at this year's GMAs with the identity of the director of Nan Quan Mama's "Family" MV, to prove his artistic talent does not lose to his director good friend Kuang-Sheng Fu.
Fans from around the world came to celebrate Director Chou's birthday, making him happy, he saw a fan participating in a wheelchair, he especially helped her stand to take a photo together.
There were so many presents from the fans it piled up to a mini mountain, among them the most special was a fan gave a receipt for donating money to the South Asia funds, making Director Chou feel very gratified.