It's strange how seeing people you personally know becoming famous. I'm not talking about those famous ones whom you become acquainted with. I'm referring to friends whom you see transitioned from everyday people to becoming someone who everyone knows.
Yep, so far I have had two of my friends becoming singers in the Mandopop scene. One of them, a JC friend, is real famous, not just in Singapore, but across the chinese markets. The other, well, took part in the current Project Superstar. He was the one who lost to the visually-impaired guy in the final round (go figure who it is)...what a pity. He was my secondary school cum JC friend; I just ran into him a couple months back in Sentosa, when he obviously was not famous yet.
And voila! Now almost everyone knows him. Hehe...I don't know, somehow it feels weird to be friends with a star. Apart from the everyday people who hog me for news and numbers, I myself found it a little tough to reconcile that difference.
Why do I say that? Well for starters, I don't want people to say that I want to hog their limelight. More importantly, I would hate to think that they themselves may become suspicious of my intentions. I mean, the last thing I want is for them to think that I'm friends with them because they are now stars. Which was why I refused to call or sms the second friend I mentioned, while he was still in the competition. Call me silly. I only sms him that very night when he lost the competition, to give him some encouragement.
Perhaps that's why stars always comment that they lost friends after becoming well-known. Of course, it could be that some stars become suspicious of any so-called friends who had never so much as acknowledged their presence, but now have started to find time to call and chat after they gained fame. And on the other hand, there are those who are like me, who don't wish to send the wrong signals to the friend-stars, that we are those with motives. Bless them.
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