Update 18 March 2017: I've edited the info about Michael/Barbara concert in Singapore. I don't think it was in 8 April 1985, for Barbara already cut her hair by 6 April 1985. Hence, some premises for this article have been revised accordingly. I have also added some newspaper clippings here and there.
I am somewhat reluctant in writing this, but I thought I’d
give it a go. The reason for my reluctance is because bringing up the past can
disturb the present. But… I just have to write this.
I am new to MB (since September 2015, that’s considered
still new IMO), though I’ve been a fan of Michael and Barbara separately. When
in late 2015 I realised their unfulfilled potentials as a couple, I was rather
devastated. Then I tried to balance myself by thinking that Michael and Barbara
would, just as Michael said, just share a friendship or, again as Michael put
it, brotherhood, instead of unrequited love. I even wrote it as such when I
wrote a post during Barbara’s commemoration
last year. That Michael and Barbara might have had a thing, but they doused it
off. And that’s that. But it was just a vague guess…
Upon receiving some old photos of MB from Hannah and Cynthia
last December and January, I became more certain about one thing: something did
happen between Michael and Barbara in 1983-1984, and it was quite big that it
almost changed MB’s relationships with their official significant others at
that time. Thus, this post is about how I came to that conclusion. With all due
respect to Kent Tong and Jaime Chik, particularly Jaime who has been a very
amazing wife to Michael… allow me to write up my speculations here.
