Source: CCTV.com

08-05-2008 18:29

Well it all started when I left my hometown of Hamilton and moved off to the big city of Toronto. Since I was very young I think I was always fascinated by things Asian, but perhaps since I was a boy especially about martial arts. But moving to Toronto is when the big change really came about. The reason I moved was to attend university and attended the University of Toronto ( U of T ). This is the same university attended by Doctor Norman Bethune, the famous Bai Chu An Dai Fu.

Bai Xiong on his college days(cctv.com)

Note here in this picture the BAI XIONG just to my left !! Polar bear in English. Actually I really love animals and my favourite animal is the wolf.favourite animal is the wolf. My major was Land Survey Science, similar to Civil Engineering.

One of my housemates named Wai was a Chinese Canadian and he was the very first person to teach me to use chopsticks!! It really drives me crazy when people here look at me and say “wow, you can use chopsticks so well” as if it were some amazing feat!! I’ve been using chopsticks to eat for now for more than 16 years now and actually even if I’m back to my mothers house in Canada I will ask for chopsticks at home to eat food with. What a GREAT invention and I really love eating with chopsticks. Another one of my housemates was named Faith and he was from Hong Kong. Faith is still my great friend to this day and I do visit him sometimes in Canada. Wai used to cook Chinese food in our house and sometimes he drove my house mates and I crazy with somethings like really smelly and stinky dried fish or something. But we all loved him.

In my second year of university came the next great thing to TOTALLY change my mind and interest me in Asia………..I’m not sure if you can guess what that is but think what is the one thing that can REALLY change a man’s mind??? Of course it must be a woman!! My very first real girlfriend was a Canadian born girl who was half Asian (from her father) and half British (from her mother). I think that from that time forward I “fell in love” with Asia.