Hi I’m Jam Hsiao
Welcome to my home
Six floors above the ground
And two floors under
So there are eight floors in total
I love staying at home
I have to spend time with my dogs
Since I am very busy
I try to stay with them as long as I can
I have had them before I became a singer
Six dogs and four cats
Ten is a perfect number
Many of them are strays I rescued from streets
I adopted them over the past decade
It was “cardboard snowball”
And now it’s “thick cut toast”
They are free
No chains
No cages
I moved here three years ago
The pond is the first thing you see coming through that gate
The ground floor is an open space
And red is the prominent color in here
Including the piano, it’s customized
And it has my name on it
When I have people over for dinner
I can play for them
And I find that people seldom sit on a couch
They prefer talking around the table
So I don’t have a living room on the ground floor
And in the back is the kitchen
The cooking area is separated
Further back is a garden
There is not much luxurious decoration in my house
Most are just ornaments
And art
And animal figures
This is Koirabbit
By painter Fu-Chun Tsai
She’s very young
Same age as me
I adore her works
As I am a rabbit in the Chinese horoscope
One floor below is where I keep my toys
I like buying like basketball player toy figures
Michael Jordan
The Bulls big three
And some also from movies
My favorite is Leon
From “Léon: The Professional”
And the little girl
The big Michael Jordan (figure)
Is a gift from Show Lo
He left it at my door the first time he visited
The toy came before he did
And after I became a singer I don’t got much chance to go shopping
So many of the stuff are my childhood desires
The bottom floor is a garage
It’s connected to the driveway
And I go home directly to the garage
So there is a see-through corridor
Where you can look at the paintings
And on the same floor
There is a shoe wall
I don’t have a shoe cabinet
Because if I did
I might have had over one thousand pairs of shoes
So I limit myself to that wall
Once the wall is full
I have to get rid of some shoes
Just a few days ago I gave away some fifty pairs of shoes
And now I still have more than one hundred of them
I love doing sports under here
The second floor is a relaxing area
On one wing there is the study
Sometimes you just need to be quiet
Who is being bad?
Or if you need to yell at someone
Take him to the study
No I don’t, just kidding
On the other side is my studio
It’s the place where I write songs
I get my ideas together here
And then
When I’m all organized
I start editing on the computer
The drums
The piano
Keyboard
Saxophone and guitar
My earliest contact with music dates back to my middle school years
The very first instrument I ever wanted to learn is jazz drum
But we couldn’t really afford it
So I dropped that after about two months
I was a rebellious kid
But I always know that I love music
Later I sang at a restaurant
And I took part in One Million Star at 19
And released my first album when I was 20
Things changed in just a few years
I had a dream
Of me moving into a villa
It’s kinda curious
If I want to be something
I can always seem to do that
Life is fine either way
Before our house had no door, no window
And the walls were broken
And no thief would visit our house cause there was nothing to steal
So maybe I really wanted to have a dream house to myself
I can feel people’s admiration
I am able to buy stuff I want
By myself
I know what I have to do to get here
So I’m very happy