Wong Ka Kui came from a small middle class family.  His childhood wasn't filled with materialistic satisfactions, but he played the common games that kids played during that time, like flying kite, jumping boxes and capturing grasshoppers. 

From primary to secondary school, he admits that he had bad grades especially in math, a class which he was absent quite often.  Upon finishing his secondary school, he immediately joined the working force, holding miscellaneous jobs, one after other, but none of the jobs lasted long.  Sparkles flew upon a normal life when he fell in love with music, with persistent nature.  Influenced by friends, Ka Kui began to take notice of the pop music scene when he was 12 or 13 years old.  Then it was the emergence of David Bowie.  Bowie's unique and strange appearances, along with his magnetic voice, captured Ka Kui's hear, initiated Ka Kui's undying link with music. 

Close friends of Ka Kui knew him as a very stubborn person, unwilling to admit defeat.  He began playing guitar when he was 17 years old.  At first it was only a hobby, but then he joined an amateur band, playing rhythm guitar.  Once the lead guitarist had harsh critism on Ka Kui, claiming that his guitar playing skill was too horrible, and that he would never amount to anything in life.  This attack fired up Ka Kui's persistence nature.  He sworn to practice hard, and made his immediate goal to be able to play better than the lead guitarist.  Ka Kui's dream finally came true.  While working, he also jammed with friends in a band.  In 1983, Ka Kui and Sai Wing, along with other friends, formed a band and entered the guitar competition sponsored by the Guitar Magazine.  They eventually won the "Best Band" award, and thus began the name of Beyond in the music scene. 

 For 10 years, with voices of approvals and disapprovals, Beyond remained as they were, providing their persistence and strength in surviving.  After Beyond was formed, they've made a few movies aside from working on music.  Movies which all 4 of them were involved with including Gut Sing Gung Chiu, Happy Ghost Saves Happy Ghost, Black Maze and Beyond's Diary.  Ka Kui alone was involved with "Lung Munh".  Cheung Chi Leung (the director of "Lung Munh") explained, "I am very stubborn when it comes to castings.  I only find the person who I think will be right for the role.  Some had suggested that I invite all  members of Beyond as cast members.  In fact, if I wanted to, it wouldn't be difficult to do so, but I didn't want to." 

"I didn't want to focus on just one person from the band, and use the rest of the members as "backgrounds".  Of course, I had thousands of reasons to want to do so, but I couldn't convince myself.  If I'd done it, I'd have used the fame of Beyond." 

"At that time, I was looking for a young rebel, who had changed his ways already, but remains to have his own ideals of the world, which differs from the ideals of the older generation.  Among the market at that time, trying to find such a personality who weren't hateful, Ka Kui fitted the character very well,"  Cheung explained his reasons for casting Ka Kui. 

Cheung remembers Ka Kui as a very energetic young person, who works hard and thrives for improvements.  "Usually, after listening to my explanation of the scene, he'd sit aside and start meditating.  He really wanted to distinguish himself from all the other experienced actors, but didn't want to take over their place in the process.  I remember there was this one time when I was shooting a scene with over 1000 feet of film.  Ka Kui was the second to the last person to speak.  We did around 10 takes and was done without much difficulty.  But Ka Kui said to me afterward he was actually very nervous, felt like his heart was popping out, because he was afraid that if he made any mistakes, the 800 to 900 feet of films prior to him would've been wasted.  Although the pressure was great, he still managed to give a solid performance, and seemed to be a very mature person." 

With Ka Kui passing away, "Lung Munh" became his very last file.  Cheung said, "Ka Kui mad this movie because he wanted to try something new aside from his music.  His greatest achievement remains to be his contribution to music."  Indeed, in Ka Kui's life, music was the most important thing.  Once a reporter asked Beyond an interesting question:  If you win the lottery, what would you do?  Ka Kui gave a very serious answer, "I will undoubtedly spend it all onto music by starting a studio for non-mainstream music, and support new musicians.  Note that I said musicians, not singers.  I will respect the local musicians." 

Beyond doesn't believe in closing the door and whine about nothing.  Ka Kui once said, "The origin of creating music comes from the daily lives.  We like to pay more attention to the world trends, and bring upon new forces in creating music." 

What resulted was the song "The Glorious Days", which was dedicated to Mandela, the human rights leader of South Africa.  They also went on a trip to Kenya in 1991, starting their African Journey.  "People often think of Africa as being poor and pre-modern.  What we take for granted here can be very precious materials there.  The world is progressing.  It is sad to see that these people's lives are coming to a halt and not progressing with us.  If only we can all give a little, they might be able to join us to a better tomorrow," said a pre-30 years old Ka Kui. 

Unfortunately, he didn't join us into a better tomorrow.  It's undeniable that the departure of Ka Kui has a significant effect on Beyond.  What will happen to the future of Beyond?  Beyond's past agent, Chan Kin Tim, and Lau Cheuk Fai, a lyrists who'd long been working with Beyond, both believed, "Beyond is a very "durable" band.  They're creative, have their own style, and are comparable to other "big bands".  They can very well be as long lasting as the Beatles." 

"With Ka Kui's departure, someone important from the band missing, there's certainly some effects.  But actually, the rest of the 3 members have always been involved in the music production, only that their style might be slightly different.  If they are willing to continue, they should be able to survive." 

This should be Ka Kui's wish also.  Ka Kui's life has come to an end, but his spirit remains.  Beyond will need to face a new turning point, a new beginning.  Here's to wish that Ka Kui's undefeatable sprit will always remain in the musical community.