Picture: Hacken squatting and singing on stage, was dragged by housewives to take photos. To struggle would have made a scene. It's not surprising that Hacken is embarassed.
The atmosphere during Chinese New Years in America's gambling city (Las Vegas) was very lively. Yesterday (HK time), Las Vegas hotel Wynn held a banquet to welcome in the new spring, with Hacken Lee, Dao Lang and Rene Lau as performing guests. Hacken's performance won the applause of all 3000 guests present compared to Dao Lang receiving only silence, a marked difference of heaven and earth (Chinese saying). Also present was Henry Cheng, whose friendship with tycoon Joseph Lau was estranged when he became caught inbetween the affair of socialite Rosaline Wong and Joseph Lau [during which Rosaline claimed she had attempted suicide]. Henry and Joseph bumped into each other before the show but sat seprately away from one another, acting like strangers.
Las Vegas' Wynn hotel held a banquet at 8pm (12pm in HK) with 200 tables and about 3000 seated guests. The MCs for the night were Eric Tsang, Louie Yuen, Sherming Yiu and Cutie Mui. Singers performing included Hacken Lee, Dou Long and Rene Lau. Celebrities who came to watch included Cheng Yu Tung and his son Henry Cheng, Joseph Lau and girlfriend, Charles Chan and his wife, Choi Chi Ming and his wife, Kally Kwong, Natalie Ng, Jerry Lam, wife Lily Hong, etc.
Dou Long sadly gets no applause
Henry Cheng and Joseph Lau became estranged over Rosaline Wong last year, and both were present at this performance but largely ignored each other. Henry Cheng's father and Joseph Lau kept their distance, whilst Henry Cheng sat by himself, talking with other friends. As for the performances, first up was Dao Lang who sang his "2002's first snow" except the response was cold with no applause from the audience. It appeared the audience would rather to take pictures of the New Year backdrop behind him than with Dao Lang himself. During the song and pauses, all that could be heard was the sound of people cutting up lobsters on their plates. So after the second song, Eric rushed onstage to annouce that it was time to draw for prizes. That caught the audience's attention. The disappointed Dao Lang left the stage quietly.
Hacken's fans go wild
As Hacken stepped up on stage, he received a huge welcome, completely different to that received by Dao Lang. Once the housewives saw Hacken, they rushed forward, crazily screaming and taking photos. Hacken squatted down and seeing that, some housewives flew to the side of the stage and grabbed onto his pants legs to take photos. During the photos being taken with the housewives, the embarassed Hacken could only be good and not move whilst letting his fans take their fill of photos. Hacken put much hard work into performing his 3 songs, including 一生不變 - never changing in this lifetime, 合久必婚 - inevitable marriage and 天水、圍城 - City surrounded by heaven and water. The audience clapped loudly and there were female fans that gave him flowers.
Perhaps seeing the the audience's response to Dao Lang, when Rene Lau came out she walked off the stage to shake hands with the audience. When she got to Henry Cheng's father (tycoon Cheng Yu Tung) , he didn't even look at her, a complete difference to his appreciation of a sexier 'leopard-girl' act last night. After Rene got back on stage, she used Mandarin to announce "Last night I went to the casino to gamble. And I lost over US$200."
