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| About Goodbye Leslie Goodbye Leslie was started on April 2nd 2003, the night after Leslie Passed Away. Three photos were taken near midnight at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, and I wanted it to share with others. I posted them on a page and placed a link in other Leslie Cheung sites. The response was huge, and the server was shut down. I paid for a server thinking after a week or two, I could cancel it. The next afternoon, I returned to the memorial in the day, and took a few more photos. I put them together as a photo letter to Leslie. Those are the photos seen in Memorial. I added a guestbook for those who wanted to leave messages, and also a message board for those who wanted to say more. And on April 8th I attended the wake, hoping to put more photos on the website. After that I started collecting news stories for myself. Knowing the links will be removed after a while, I pasted them onto the site as a scrap book for myself. In May, I attended the Leslie Cheung Film Festival. The program was so beautiful I decided to put the main pages on the site. It seems a perfect companion to the photos I already taken. Soon after I bought the URL www.goodbyeleslie.com, so people could come back easily in the future. This is how it started. I never meant to make a huge website for Leslie, but as time wore on, new visitors continued to come, and people started posting links of Leslie sites and multimedia stuff and lyric translations onto the message board. Again, I pasted them in and started the "Leslie Cheung Lyrics in English Project." Soon people started to send me translated articles, requests, gave me ideas such as light a candle for Leslie, filmography, donated DVD jackets which grew to "Legend this is your life". Asked me if I could put depression information links up for those who might need it and sent personal collections of autographs and photos and things they have done, which lead to the fan art section (scroll down on news). The response is still huge, the site grew to over 100 pages and I have never switched back to the free service. I don't know when, but at some point I started to see this as a piece of art and a captures the way we lived during SARS. I knew this site was a little different because it show cased my own work. Then I started wanting to make it a historical record of the grief we all went through when this man left us. A grief that shocked most of us, who were grown up, had very fulfilled adult lives, and would never imagine sitting at home crying after he was gone. But we did. I am still thinking about this. There is more I want to say about who he was. It's been over two months since he left and I still haven't found the words to describe who he was to so many people. I just hope the site and the collective words and thoughts allow the world a glimpse. Yes, this is all about Leslie but it's also about the death of Leslie during SARS. Thank You For Your Time. Yan Sham-Shackleton June 13th 2003. |
| Goodbye Leslie's Contributors and Friends. See the people who made this site. Yan's Article on April 1st 2003. Goodbye Air, Innocence and Leslie. |
| Words and Photos by Yan Sham-Shackleton |