I remember singing for Alan during one of his rehearsals and seeing his happy reaction. Alan has always supported the people around him. It’s one of the things that make him so popular.

I remember driving with Leslie down to Canberra and back one afternoon. Leslie rarely had the opportunity to drive in Hong Kong and was keen to drive while in Australia. On the way back to Sidney, the crew slept in the back of the car while Leslie and I sat in front. Leslie drove and we chatted. From what I can remember, his English was perfect. That chat meant a lot to me.

Six months later, I was teaching English at an English conversation school and one of the people working with me there told me about a poster she had seen at her secondary school. TVB was looking for a Caucasian who could speak Cantonese. She gave me the phone number and I called. The person who answered was a freelance agent. I wasn’t confident but the agent couldn’t find anyone else and consequently introduced me to the producer at TVB. The producer pulled out a script for me to read and indicated that I should read a few lines of English dialog for her. After several minutes of being too nervous to speak, I finally spoke the dialog and she reluctantly took me on.

TVB was a lucky break for me. It wasn’t planned. It just happened. So to answer the question, getting into the industry wasn’t hard, but advancing in the industry has proved very difficult.