HK Actor-DJ Lawrence Cheng Played Xmas Songs On Radio In August To Get Back At His Bosses For Putting Him On The Graveyard Shift

According to Lawrence, some listener had written him a letter chiding him for not taking his job seriously. “If you don’t like doing this programme, please don’t do it, I really need music during the graveyard shift to help me,” wrote the angry listener.

Lawrence said reading the letter felt like someone slapping him across the face.

“[This meant that] There were people listening [to his show] for them to want to scold me like that. I [didn’t realise] I came across that way to people. I thought to myself, “I have four hours, I could do whatever I wanted…. Why did I have to be so lazy!”

From that day, Lawrence started to write his own radio dramas, and he set his heart on doing it well.

It took about another three, four months before he received another letter from that listener, who gave Lawrence that much-needed wake-up call. “Lawrence, after the 4am news, can you help me play a song? Thanks!” read the letter.

Lawrence said he was so touched by what was written, his tears started to fall. “[The letter writer] finally acknowledged [my work] and wanted to dedicate a song. It showed he was [still] listening to my show,” he said.

Lawrence added that he was on the graveyard shift for nine months and he credits his time there for setting the foundation for his career. “I finally understood my own work attitude and its something I realised deeply [from that experience],” he said.

A year later, Lawrence became his station’s programme director, and movie offers and TV hosting gigs started pouring in.

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