YEAR ENDER REPORT

hi there
happy new year
here's the year-ender report hehehe f4 made it on the top list!!!

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mitch, ur moderator!

posted by rica, from f4_phils

F4 Made it to Most Yearender surveys, reviews and rewinds!!!!!
From the Phil. Daily Inquirer section C, D and E



Page C1:

The 2BU! Yearender Reader Survey - The Best and Worst of 2003

Best Band: It's a tug of war between F4 and Parokya ni Edgar

Best Brand: Getting Jerry Yan as image model was a great move. Bench is the brand of the year.

Best Shop: While a majority of 2bu! readers say they now prefer shopping in tiangges and bazaars, Bench and Rustan's U were voted shops of the year.

Best Male Model: So what if he has yet to hit the catwalk? Jerry Yan was voted best male model by F4 fans...err, 2bu! readers.

Best Salon: Bench Fix is again salon of the year.

Best TV Actor: Jerry Yan. Yeah, this guy has a huge group of die-hard fans.



Page D1:



2003's Top Fashion Picks by Jason Doplito 2bu! Correspondent

F4, the metrosexual, chandelier earrings and the LV Murakami bag earned the best buzz in 2003



F4

From ultra-flat, straight ironed hair to flower printed shirts, this Taiwanese boyband is responsible for spawning hundreds of generic looking boys with beautiful hair and well-styled quirky clothes. Never mind if the overkill singing of their hit refrain, "Oh baby, baby, baby, my baby, baby,..." is enough to send even the most sane person to reach out for the scissors and shear the hair off the guy who sings it.



Page D2:

Getting Jiggy with It - Yaparazzi by Tim Yap



1.The Louis Vuitton Launch Party

2.The Gucci Gathering

3. ABS-CBN's Happy 50 Celebrations

from a star-studded (a definite understatement) ball for 500 to an open field concert with the Taiwanese and Filipino pop sensations attended by 50,000, ABS-CBN proved that they're indeed the country's largest network simply by throwing the biggest parties "kapamilya" Parties!

4. The Met's Terno Ball

5. Tessa turns 40

6. Greenbelt's Rock and Royalty

etc......



Page D4:

The Intriguing Personalities of 2003 by Jason Doplito and Pam Pastor



Kobe Bryant, Madonna and Britney, Bennifer, Sadako, Mahal & Mura, Paris Hilton, Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Friends and ......



F4. Thanks to ABS-CBN's relentless promotion, "Meteor Garden," became a hit a few days after it reached Philippine Soil.

Chinovela rose to poularity, along with F4, the collective name of the four leading men of the series.

Names like Dao Ming Si and Hua Ze Lei rolled off the tongues of Filipinos as if Mandarin was their native language. The TV shows flourished and the music started to take over. CDs, VCDs and other merchadise started selling like crazy. And now, three concerts later, fans still can't get enough of Jerry Yan, Vic Zhou, Ken Zhu and Vanness Wu.





Page E1:

The Acoustic Flowering by Maui V. Reyes



...... This year's biggest music phenomenon, however, came in the form of a boyband made up of four Taiwanese actors that ABS-CBN exploited so much, the once-beleaguered network is now once more in the black.

January...February....

September - The Itchyworms! released their new single "Buwan" ....F4 (or at least Ken and Vanness) came over for an overpriced, so-not-worth-your-10,000-peso-per-ticket concert. J.Lo and Ben....

…October…

…November/December

...Michael Jackson got arrested for child molestation (shock, horror!), while really, really rich kids got to watch two more F4 concerts -- ABS-CBN'S 50th Anniversary party had Jerry Yan and Vic at their gig, and Dec.26 saw kids lining up outside the Ultra as early as 8 a.m. for F4's show.