Drafted

As anyone who has been reading my blogs of late knows, I'm going to Hong Kong and, while there, will participate in commemoration activities for Leslie Cheung.  I have met a number of fans through Alive Not Dead, an English-language Leslie Cheung fan site and Facebook.  The local group, Red Mission, is organizing a number of public activities for this year's fan commemoration, including a public showing of Leslie's last concert tour, the marvelous Passion Tour.As part of this public showing, I was drafted to edit a letter Red Mission wanted to send the fashion designer, Jean Paul Gaultier, who designed Leslie's costumes for the Passion Tour.  Now it appears that I will also be proofreading English translations of some lyrics of songs that are part of that show.  Although I am extremely busy with trip preparations and working full-time, it has been very gratifying to be able to contribute my language skills to this effort.I am very much looking forward to visiting Hong Kong, meeting a number of Alive Not Dead artists and fans and meeting with a plethora of Leslie fans.  It appears that I am something of a minor celebrity (or perhaps that should oddity) among the Leslie fans.  A number of them have expressed the desire to meet me.  I guess they want to take a look for themselves at a middle-aged gweilo from the wilds of North Carolina who would and could declare herself a fan of their beloved Gor-Gor.  While this may not be my 15 minutes of fame, perhaps I have been granted 5 minutes of celebrity in Hong Kong.  I suppose this puts me on par with some minor Cantopop singers and a few failed actors as far as Hong Kong celebrity goes.