I was born in Hong Kong so that I can be a Hong Kong resident. I studied in Hong Kong but I am different with the native Hong Kong children because I always went back to China with my parents since all my relatives are in China. However, during the 1990s, a lot of Hong Kong people still think China was terrible and dirty. They hate to go back to China and I always get laughed at by some of my classmates or friends because I am a little mainland Chinese boy. It is because of my family and realizing what mainland China could offer that I build up really strong patriotic ideas when I am in Hong Kong. So I am kind of different with the normal native Hong Kong children.
When I was 17 years old and after my open exam in Hong Kong, I chose to come to the United State to continue my studies. I finished my TOEFL exam and I get accepted at De Anza College, one of the community colleges in San Jose, California.
I was very scared at first since I have no friends and family in the United States. Luckily, I met a lot of new friends in the school and they helped me in settling down in the U.S. They drove me around and taught me how to open a bank account. They also helped me subscribe to a cell phone service, look for an apartment, buy furniture and other needed assistance to get settled properly. However, since this is the first time that I left my family and I got a lot of freedom in the U.S. because no one controls me at all, I wasted a year to play and party with my friends. After that, I knew I needed to transfer to a better school and though I started to work hard on my studies, it was already too late.
At that time, I want to transfer to USC to continue my studies; however, my GPA was only at 3.5 and it is not enough to transfer to the Marshall School of Business. So I transferred to UC Davis to continue my studies. However, this is the worst choice in my life since I wasted another year time until I found out that the program in UC Davis was not that good. I then chose to transfer to CSUN.
I work really hard when I started at CSUN and this is already my last semester in the United States. I will finish my 5-year education in the United States after this Fall semester. After that, I will return to China in January, 2011, and begin my next step in my evolving educational and personal lives. I am prepared to start my MBA program in Beijing Tsing Wa University. Concurrent with the start of my MBA program, I will join the Board of Directors of one of our family owned companies, China Digital TV Holding Co. (STV), which is a listed company...
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