First Dawn

My apologizes for my tardy update. I’m alive and well, thank you all for your sincere concerns. Happy Valentine’s Day and Happy Chinese New Year! It happens once every 57 years that Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Years land on the same day which means most people will only live through it once.

The New Year 2010 didn’t ring in the way I wanted to. My grandma (mother’s side) had a recent stroke. While she was heading outside for fresh air one fateful day, she collapsed in the hallway of the hospital dislocating her shoulder and hip as a result. She needs hip replacement surgery. Later that week we received that dreadful phone call from my aunt telling us that grandma is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and she is already at the intermediate stage of the Alzheimer’s disease because diabetes has sped up the process. My mom is of course the most worried one, flew back to Hong Kong for a month to take care of her. She was afraid that by the time she returned to Hong Kong, her own mother would have already forgotten who she is. But thankfully she still remembered my mom as her eldest daughter. I hope it’s not the last time my mom has a chance to see my grandma and take care of her.
From the memories that I had with my grandma, she was tremendously generous. She welcomed us into her apartment when we went to Hong Kong to visit. During that time, I have ample time and opportunity to sit down and really get to know my own grandmother. But I was too selfish in my own endeavors back then to even care. My mom called me the other day from Hong Kong, she told me that my grandma was lying in the hospital bed and the second she stepped into the room, my grandma reached inside her pocket and pulled out a few Red Pockets. My grandmother said, “Before I forget, I might not be here by then… but here’s some money for Elson (my brother) and Kelton’s wedding when they get older. This was a person whom maybe most of a stranger than a mere acquaintance yet she still never forgotten about me and my brother in when Alzheimer’s was degenerating her brain. I long ago considered as not a significant role in my life, it was blood relation that made it count. lying on the hospital bed
Tough times never last but tough people do. I’ll persevere. These things I don’t have a control over, now let’s work on something that I can control.
I know I’m not perfect but I’ll keep trying…

He was former president of our departmental student association for management students at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. He was named Co-op Student of the Year in 2008, worked as a teaching assistant. He has worked co-op for Fortune 500 (meaning, his GPA is extremely high), and this year he was selected for a prestigious internship at New York's Clinton Foundation which thousands apply every year for the internship in which only the elites will be selected. He plays the guitar really well while he sings. I heard his mother talk about how proud she is to have a son like him. It brought a smile to my face to see a mother so proud of her son. I hope one day I can make my mom and dad proud too…
Oh how I wished I could’ve redone first and second year of university.