Robert Huang

I came into existence in January 16, 1946 according to the lunar calendar, a constructed reality for the convenience of recording the passage of time from the perceived reality of the movements and changes in the environment, the sun and the seasons. It was 1946 02 17 according to the Gregorian Calendar. Regardless, I did come into existence simply because of a boy, my father, without formal education and left home at the age of ten met my mother.

My father in his struggles to become an adult could have many different paths. For instance, he could have become a soldier, a religious man, a criminal. Yet, the journey of his struggles made him an administrator stationed in Guangdong where he met my mother.

With the civil war raging in China, he arranged the passage of my mother, me and my sister to go to Hong Kong to stay with my maternal grandfather for safety with the plan for our return to Guangdong when peace returned. He went to Taiwan instead.  As such, we united with him after two years in Hong Kong.

I had to learn Mandarin, my first language was Cantonese to attend elementary school. Subsequently, I got my Industrial engineering diploma through the education system of many examinations. I worked for a couple of American subsidiaries while I learned the opportunity and emigrated to Canada.

I landed in Canada in 1970. For Canadian experience and job security, I obtained an Electrical Engineering degree from University of Toronto and worked for TELUS, a telecommunication company for  twenty five years. I married and divorced, and married again. I have one son from the first marriage and one daughter from the second. After leaving TELUS at fifty three year of age, I have been reading and studying basic science subjects, working on my golf games, traveling. I have hiked to the base camp of Everest, the peak of Kilimanjaro. I have visited many countries in all 7 continents, the Antartica and the Northwest passage. The most memorable one was with my grown son and daughter learning to be sailors on Pickton Castle, a tall ship, racing from Boston to Prince Edward Island at 2017 after my first chemotherapy for my hairy cell luekaemia. My trip with my wife on the 92 feet Schooner, Maple Leave around Haida Gawii was also a height light in my existence.

I am 80 years old now and have had chemotherapy twice. Luckily, My existence is extended with full remission because of science and personal fitness.  But, the end is nearer with each passing day like all biological entities in existence.

I do not know exactly what are the stimuli that have triggered my desire to write my essay and spend my money to establish this web site, just like the stimuli that have triggered me to quit my job early, climb mountains, travel, sail and many feathers that I encountered. However, I, like all humans, do wonder what is about, like the song sang by Peggy Lee, Is that all there is?

If anything, it could have been one of the stimuli for me to do what I am doing with my easy and my website.

There is nothing special about me. I am not a writer and poorly trained in language and words. Nor I am a learned scholar, scientist, philosopher or any words for a label. Nobody in this complexed world has acquired all the knowledge to be authoritative in my view. New knowledge and changes are constant. My attempt to write about existence in words is but an attempt to share what all the stimuli received in my life and the essay is the response.

It serves nothing more than as an external stimuli for anyone interested in reading it.

Robert Huang
黃振亞