I think the perfect place to begin is to describe myself and that way when I get into the really messed up parts of my life, the stuff that no one knows about, you won't think that I'm some kind of freak but more of a innocent victim of circumstance...
I'm first and foremost a family person...not to say I have a wife or child, but my immediate and extended family are my life...I'm fortunate enough to be part of a family that can be called a clan, hell we have enough people and professions in my family that we could start our own little country and be pretty well off...I don't know many people outside of Utah that can make such a boast, and while other people may consider our size and diversity a hinderance, I have found a strength and peace that can only come with the knowledge that wherever I am, whatever I'm doing, I will always be near family...
I guess what I'm best known for, other then my Hobbit good looks, is my love for movies and all things 'geek'...well, before this turns off most women, allow me to say that I have no love for anything FOB, I hate bubbletea, anything with the words "dance dance revolution" in it and the TV show "The View"...what I do like is the traditional testosterone male oriented subjects... except for Politics, and Business, and World Issues...okay, i'm only partially interested in World Issues, but that is because most of it is political in nature and then I get irritated, wish the world was a simpler place and then I change the channel...
I was born in Woodstock, Ontario where my family and 3 other Chinese families constituted the entire Asian population...and funny enough, I think we were related to them and so it was kind of weird...in any case, my family was there for about 2 years before we moved to the wonderful of Scarborough...I have no recollection of Woodstock, and when people ask me, I always say that the Borough of Scar is my hometown...we lived initially in an apartment at Kingston Rd and Eglinton...my only memories of that apartment is riding my bicycle, training wheels on, up down the hallway and feeding my best friend, Tommy the Bear, as many french fries and green peas as possible...we were there for a year or two before moving to what I consider home, Brimley and Steeles...
It is here that I have the best of memories...I lived close to my grandparents and to my cousins...I had a great time in Elementary school, I went to a school called Banting and Best Public School, which was named after the discoverers of Insulin and its use in the control of Diabetes...The school was located next to a little shopping complex that, when you were younger, had everything you needed...a Max convenient store for your slurpies and sugar fix, a fast food eatery for your weekly fix of burgers and fries and a hair salon that had a super hot secretary who had a habit of bending over to get files (I think the boss put the needed things on the bottom shelves just so she would have to bend over to get them)...School was good for me...I did decent to very well in most of my subjects, with the major exception being French...I got to be part of the school's volleyball team, where only the coolest guys got to play on...I never played, but I was there just in case somebody didn't show up or was too injured to play....I remember our grade 8 teacher was about 5'3" but had the largest chest and most awesome cleavage a puberty driven young male could ask for...I had my first love at that time...Corinne Wong...that is name I haven't said outloud in almost 10 years...she was what you would call the cute, studious type...she wore round glasses, had very naturally curly hair for a chinese girl...she was an artist, and loved to draw and paint...when I close my eyes and try to envision her face, all I see is her smile...it is by far the most simple yet expressive smile I've ever had the pleasure of viewing...it was one of those things, that when you were lucky enough to make her smile, you knew that your day was complete...I was so smitten by her, that instead of using my savings on new bike I always wanted, I instead went on the graduation camping trip, where I got to spend a total of 5 min with her, as she was constently surrounded by her female friends and I was one of 3 guys who went...she was special though...for graduation, we went to Cullen Gardens which is where the famous Market Village is right now...we danced the night away, and our last song was "Water from the Moon" by Celine Dion...that would be the last time I'd ever see her again...to this day, I have no idea what happened to her...she just disappeared, she never returned my calls and when I went to her home, she was never there...the only thing I have of hers is a little wooden name marker she made for me when we graduated...I still have it, I keep it on me as a reminder of the good times...I have 2 pictures of graduation, and there is one pic that has us lined up against a wall, awaiting our group photo...and there I am, waiting patiently looking to my righ, in the hopes of seeing her, and there she is looking to her left, at me...the only bad memory I have of Banting and Best was being suspended for a crime that I did commit...sorry, I wish I could say I was innocent, but not this time...when all my friends went to Albert Campbell for high school, I went to Dr Norman Bethune CI, partly because I was being punished for my suspension, partly because it was a free school bus ride, but more importantly because it was 'supposed to be a better school'...I don't know about that, but it is there where my life began to take on a new meaning...it was a time of discovery, another suspension (although this time I was totally innocent but got screwed over) a firm resolution and the time of my Unicorn...
But I'll save that for later....
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