My name is Adam Wong. A young Chinese man living in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. I moved here from the People's Republic of China in the summer of 2009. I attend Carleton University, where I major in Civil Engineering. As the story starts, I'm walking out of the Police Station in downtown Ottawa where I had to clear my name due to an unfortunate...
Mellow Yellow 16 – Susan Sinks Ms. Shagnasty with a Yellow Torpedo Susan told us the following story in a number of different e-mails. I took the liberty of editing these letters to make the story easier to read. Ms. Yin poked her head into Susan's office. "Dr. Wu. You don't have any patients scheduled for the rest of the day and I've caught up all the...
Chapter 9: The Honeymoon (Hong Kong) The flight was uneventful the rest of the way to Hong Kong. I noticed that Melinda was a little annoyed every time one of the cabin crew addressed her in Chinese. “I speak Vietnamese, not Chinese and they insist on talking to me in Chinese. That Japanese lady two rows ahead gets the same treatment. She has to talk to th...
I have been asked, what happened between Syd Poole and Lily Poon after they met on that Chinese New Year in 1997? (Mellow Yellow 16) Theirs is a true love story crossing racial and cultural boundaries. I don't make any apologies if you find this story is a little slow-paced. That is the way people make love in the Far East. Please enjoy the story of how Syd...
We came home from the movie and sent Tanya's babysitter on her way. It was still too early to go to bed. Melinda suggested that I go and get any e-mail that had come in, especially if it was from Susan. Melinda had started to share with me her "girl talk" from her friend in Hong Kong, especially since Susan began an affair with a white guy. Melinda said that...
Man, foursomes are simply the best. Trust me on that one. My name is Derek Saint-Augustine. A young Black man of Haitian descent living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. I attend Carleton University, and I've lived in Ottawa since 2009. I moved there from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. My folks sent me to Ontario because I got in a lot of trouble in Chicago...
Part 1: Susan Wu discovers an eager recruit for her clinic Cynthia-Dawn Yang had never been one of those Chinese students in your school whose homework was always prepared and perfect and went home to practise the piano for hours. She got by in life depending more on her good looks than on her abilities. It was rumoured that she had only graduated from high...
Author's Note: This story continues the saga from Mellow Yellow 20. When the Crown Colony of Hong Kong reverted to the Peoples' Republic of China in 1998, Syd Poole lost his job as the Reunified Hong Kong Administrative District Office Vehicle Supervisor. The new masters of Hong Kong were reluctant to employ someone identified so closely with the hated form...
First of all - China is fucking expensive. I don't care if you're enjoying cheap clothes made in China at Walmart, but let me tell you, as a visiting American university student? This place is expensive! I am a business student at the University of Chengdu. I purposely picked here because I figured the world will belong to China in a few years, might as we...
On the cellphone, Yuri had told Min-jin she was close to Yokohama. Min-jin stood on the train station's platform, waiting for his former girlfriend, holding a won bill in his hand. The won bill was a gift Min-jin hoped Yuri would cherish. People around the world savored holding foreign currency in their hands. To the average person, holding foreign money...