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Favourite Holiday/Best Trip:
Christmas getaways. My wife and I still visit and spend our vacations in Canada every year – watching numerous ice-hockey games, needless to say.
Personal Mantra:
My vision always has been to create unique, “Wow!” experiences.
Inside Scoop:
I play in a hockey league called “R66, The Rock.”

Fun Fact:
I was a digital pianist in a local Japanese rock band during university.
Crazy Quirk:
A carnivore – the rawer the better.
Secret Indulgence:
My very own dark chocolate cakes and moist cheesecakes.
Favourite Movie:
“Stupid is as stupid does” …Forrest Gump.
Funniest Moment:
Our attempt to give Odie, the family puppy, his first allergy vaccination at home. I was holding Oldie’s neck on a table while my sister was distracting him with a cookie. My grandma, a retired nurse, gave it a shot but pinched my hand instead of Odie’s neck - I yanked, my sister screamed, and my grandma squirted the vaccine into my sister’s mouth. Odie took the cookie and ran.

Favourite Past Time:
Would you believe push-ups? It’s true. My workout is the best part of every day. I do push-ups all the time, and pull-ups. It’s weird, but push-ups are relaxing.
Secret Indulgence:
Sci-fi movies. I like the combination of ideas and action, and it’s fun to think about different possibilities for the future. 
Fondest Memory of Canada:
Sometimes I really miss the cold and the snow. Whenever I get back to Canada, I like to go snowboarding or skiing. When it’s August in Macau, I’ll remember doing a face plant in a snow drift, and even though it might not have felt so good at the time, as a memory it’s great. 
Best Trip:
I get really excited about every new place I go. I’ll read up history and travel books, watch documentaries, and whatever else I can get my hands on...and drive everyone crazy talking about it all.

Fondest Memory of Canada:
Summertime in YVR.  You can watch outdoor movies like “The Goonies” at Third Beach, see your favourite band play at Malkin Bowl, dance your heart out at Squamish Music Festival, and bike along the seawall around Granville Island—all in one weekend!
Inside Scoop:
I am a total adrenaline junkie and daredevil. Next up on my bucketlist: hang gliding.
Favourite Tunes:
Epic, feel-good mixes on 8tracks.com and take-away shows on blogotheque.net/serie/concert-a-emporter/
Funniest Moment:
First day of school in Canada. I brought a brick cell phone-shaped water bottle to class and everyone thought I was the coolest new 5th grader in town.  ParknShop freebie - 1, $$$ Stussy sweatshirt - 0. 
Personal Mantra:
Live, Love, Laugh (and laugh some more).

Favourite Pastime:
I love to travel to off-the-beaten-path places around the world.
Fun Fact:
I snort when I laugh. I can't help it, it's involuntary.
Secret Obsession:
I absolutely LOVE the rock band AC/DC.
Best Trip:
Borneo. Seeing orangutans and proboscis monkeys in their natural habitat while cruising down the Kinabatangan River with my family was priceless.
Most Frequented Websites:
CNN.com, EdmontonJournal.com, and other news websites. I'm a bit of a news addict, probably left over from my days as a news reporter.
Favourite Quote:
From Robert Frost's poem, The Road Not Taken, comes this gem: "Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.”

Secret Obsession:
I am addicted to fantasy sports. I have likely spent more than 1,000 hours "competing” and, sadly, have only won once.
Favourite Tunes:
I'm from the mean streets of Oakville, Ontario, so of course I am a huge hip-hop fan.
Best Trip:
Hands down, it was my trip to Kenya. The migration of the wildebeest across the Masa Mara is life-changing.
Favourite Movie:
Shawshank Redemption. I can't believe it didn't win the Oscar.
Favourite Quote:
It's all good in the hood.

Future Adventure:
To travel from Russia into Scandinavia would ping! my interest meter.
Special Talent:
None that I am aware of, yet. But ask my parents -- they might say otherwise.
Best Trip:
Historic Route 66 from Santa Monica, Calif., to Chicago, Ill., with interim stops at fascinating places that mostly exist in memory.
Fondest Memory from Canada:
Clean air…good health…no flu.
Must-Have Item:
Blackberry (I’m probably on it right now, as you're reading this).

Special Talent:
I play violin, but four strings sometimes isn’t challenging enough, so I also play the 23-string Chinese guzheng.
Proud Achievement:
I can fly. Really. I have a photo from my trip to Thailand to prove it.
Secret Indulgence:
T-bone steak. I have been known to settle for lesser cuts, but the tender loin section of beef is where I prefer to sink my fork.
Favourite Movie:
2012.
Fondest Memory from Canada:
Autumn on Vancouver Island is warm, quiet, and uncrowded. My favourite moment is walking with my family through a tree tunnel of colourful falling leaves.

Future Adventure:
I dream of going on a 10-day silent retreat to get in tune with my inner chi.
Inside Scoop:
I raised five orphans from my university years in Paris. My oldest child now has two daughters. I’m just a young grandmother!
Crazy Quirk:
I stop myself from over-thinking whenever I can. I practice daily the teachings of The Power of Now.
Best Trip:
My visit to different orphanages in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Cambodia, and Vietnam was inspiring.
Guilty Pleasure:
I love a glass of Champagne Ruinard with black chocolate tart, made by my lovely husband.

Proud achievement:
I made two gorgeous and amazing kids!
Special talent:
I am a phenomenal mama in and out of the kitchen!  I can do hotpot, chocolate fondue and all items with the words 'instant' in front!
Fondest memory of Canada:
Skating on Lake Chateau Louise and sticking my tongue out to eat the falling snowflakes.
Favorite pastime:
It is a joy to lie on a patch of nice freshly cut green grass and watch my babies sleep on top of me, breathing in sync.
Nickname:
Baby One. (My kids are Baby Two and Baby Three.)