Hmmm... where to begin... well, my first home was some where in North York but I don't remember anything about that place. I do know that my sister was born before we moved to Scarborough, at McCowan and Finch. This is pretty much where most of my memories start from.

I don't remember which school I went to initially (Adersley or something like that?) but I do remember switching to Percy Williams Public School after it was built. I was there from senior kindergarten to grade four until my family and I moved to Markham. For grade five, I attended James Robinson Public School until my family and I packed up all of our belongings and moved to Richmond Hill, where I have been living up to now.

Since the local school in my area was not constructed yet, for grade six, I went to Charles Howitt Public School and then Roselawn Public School for grade seven. This continued until near the end of the school year where I transfered to Doncrest Public School after it was completed. Actually, let's back up here for a bit. It was at Roselawn where I met up with Nitin again. I also got to know Jason Nadler and Alan Wong, people who I still keep in touch with even to this day. Funny thing is that they were all in a different class from me and that I don't keep in touch with any of the people who were in my class in grade seven.

Alright, now Doncrest... went there for the end of grade seven and all of grade eight. It was here that I met most of my closest friends, people who I still talk to now and hang around with when we have time. Sheesh. That's more than ten years when I think about it. Anyways, it was here that I was in the same class as Nitin, Jason, and Alan. Neerav Monga came into our class partway through the school year. Brian Fu was in a different class. How did we meet each other... oh yeah, through all of the Chinese guys. That's one thing I always did throughout primary school; always tried to make friends with the Chinese people first. I guess it's just natural when you don't know anybody in class. Oh and how could I forget this! Brian and I use to go to the same Chinese classes back in like grade one, two, or three!

After primary school, I went to St. Robert Catholic High School. I went there because I heard that their computer program was better than most schools (and if that is true, then it's a big joke because everything I learned there was covered in like two weeks at my university computer class). Unlike most people, I don't really look back at highschool with great fondness and stuff. Most of the people I hung out with back then were pretty much Chinese people who recently came from Hong Kong. Since my Cantonese wasn't the best and I get self-concious about it, it doesn't come as much of a surprise that I was known as the more quiet one. Even though my five years at high school helped improve my Chinese, there's only two people I still talk to from St. Robert; Alan Wong, who I was friends with from Doncrest, and Ken Siu-Chong, who I didn't really know very well in high school but we were in the same program and classes during university. Oh and just in case you're wondering, reason why high school was five years is because in Ontario they have a fifth OAC year (Ontario Academic Credit, I believe). Most people usually stay for the fifth year but I kind of regret doing that now since that makes us a year behind everyone else in the world. They are getting rid of it now though, which is a good thing, in my opinion. Not really necessary.

For my post-secondary education, I went to the University of Toronto. I originally went in with the intention of doing a Computer Science specialist program, but I ended up coming out with a major in Economics and English, and a minor in Computer Science for a Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in five years. Word of advise: make sure you completely understand what your program is about (such as know exactly what Computer Science is about; it's not just pure programming as the upper years have quite a bit of theory and very little programming) and always have a backup plan so you don't end up taking an extra year or two if you have to make a switch. For bonus information, I was originally going to do an East Asian Studies minor but I switched to an English major in my final year. I had to cram like seven credits of English in one year, 2.5 of them in the summer (recommended is a maximum of two credits)!

Well, considering that I pretty much graduated from university, not much has happened. When July 12th hits, I will be on a plane to Japan where I will be teaching English for AEON at their Tokuyama branch. I'm not sure what I will be doing afterwards, but I may teach in Japan for a year or two and then come back to Canada to do Teacher's College. After that, who knows? Go teach English in Hong Kong? Maybe go back to Japan? Stay in Canada? Conquer the world with an army of wiffle bat wielding monkeys? Only time will tell.