Meeting a celebrity

Today marks the first day I have ever spoken to and stood inches so close to a celebrity. A Hong Kong celebrity and I didn't even know his real name until I googled it a minute ago, his name is Chris Lai. All I know is he is one of the cute actor that I have seen in a few TVB drama series. See if you can recognise him? :)You can't? Well I know it's too dark. This is the BEFORE photo that came out too dark, unfortunately. But with my extremely limited Photoshopping skills, I managed to make it a little bit viewable in the below version. Maybe now the face can be seen. Any Photoshop 'experts' willing to lend their skills to improve the photo, please let me know.

I think I should explain in order how it came to be me taking photo with Chris Lai (Yeah..now I'm tossing his name about like I know it so well) Ding and I were having buffet lunch at Hard Rock Hotel because he won a voucher. The food wasn't really good and variety was limited but well it's almost free, so what the hey right? Anyway, we were halfway through our meal (btw, the cafe wasn't packed at all, 2-3 tables tops at that time after a big group left) Then I started noticing 2 bodyguard-ish type of fellas standing near the glass door just watching the space. Not that they look like bodyguards, just they were in black and had earpieces so they looked like they were there for a purpose. There was another small group of 3 person that were seated a couple of tables away and I figured this group is probably the one the 2 guys are watching over. But I couldn't make out who they were. One lady held a walkie-talkie so she's not the star. The guy with his back facing me turned out to be Chris Lai shown above. When he turned around to greet another Hong Kong actor whom I don't know his name also but appeared in a number of shows before, maybe my eyes popped out. Then I got excited and told Ding, I finally know why there are security in the restaurant because I recognised this guy as one of the actors in Moonlight Resonance & Heart of Greed. We were chatting excitedly and joking about taking pictures with them but were afraid the security would tackle us to the ground. (they looked unfriendly) They were watching the door not letting anyone come in to disturb the actors having their lunch. And I said, let's do it, let's take photo with them. Ding waved the waiter over and asked if we could take a photo with them, the waiter proceeded to ask the security, the security says we should ask the actors ourselves after they finish eating. So we waited...and waited. Finally I asked Ding to go settle the bill first then we will approach them. Then Chris Lai was getting ready to leave and I was thinking "Oh Shit, he's leaving", I scrambled up and signalled to one of the unfriendly-looking security that I would like to take a photo.. what happened next was a bit blur to me. All I know was that Chris Lai passed by and I blurted out to him asking if it is ok that I take photo with him, which he so kindly obliged. OMG, his skin is so smooth and I am so envious and he is so tall. So there you go, that's how it came about. (The other actor, he somehow disappeared but never mind).

** Btw, when I came home, my dad was telling me that there were some Hong Kong celebrities at Gurney Plaza earlier today promoting something. And I showed him the photo and said, does one of them resemble him? Hahaha... ok, he wasn't sure but the look on his face was precious when I explained who the person in the photo was.