My name is Hung Kwan Wong. I was born and raised in Hong Kong, as widely known, a former British colony in Asia. Hong Kong is a very small city, mainly composed of three parts: Hong Kong island, Kowloon and New Territory. However, this little place has a lot of fun and exicting things, many world records can be found there, the recent one is SARS infected rate! My family consists of a younger brother and a younger sister, Fai and Ping, my parents, my grandmother and my lovely dog, Bobby, a very mean Yorkshire Terrier.

I finished my high shcool education in Aberdeen Baptist College in 1986. I continued my undergraduate education in National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 1988. After graduating BA from the University in 1993, I came back to Hong Kong to work as a marketing officer in a local well-known watch retailer called Kowloon Watch. My main duty was to perform some regular marketing functions and helped the company to launch retail sales outlets in mainland China. I was responsible for several projects which aimed at expanding sales outlets inside various department stores) from Shanghai to Xiamen.

After working a couple of years, I felt a need of change. A thought of continuing education had burgeoned in my mind. I can not help but say life is unpredictable. You can never imagine what the next move will be. I got an approval from the US Immigration and Naturalization Services Department (INS) for my immigration application to the US some years ago. I was shocked by the letter since I completely forgot I had sent this letter simply for testing my luck. After a brief time of consideration, I decided to accept the offer, and start my new life here in the United States. I first enrolled in the Dicison Information and Science Department's M.S. program in University of Florida in 2001 after passing the GRE examination.

First arrived in Florida, the very green landscape here really impressed a city dweller like me. Everything is green, everything is fresh. Everyone is nice. University of Florida is such a huge campus. But this is not always a good thing to the students, need to walk a long way from one place to another and lack of parking space is annoying. Paying fifty dollars for a decal for every semester can not guarantee you can enjoy what you have paid for. Believe it or not, some students need to get out at 6:00 am in the morning to scramble for a precious parking place. However, both Florida and UF are gorgeous for living and studying.