(3/3) My Dad always wanted me to be a doctor, regardless of the fact that I couldn’t stand the sight of blood! But I’m afraid that I didn’t meet his expectations because I did Arts instead! Later, I transferred to Law, followed by a Masters in Conflict Resolution. Now...
(2/3) Australia took some getting used to. There were many foods that I’d never seen before – avocados, mangos, zucchinis… and it was strange to come from a small, mountainous village to a flat city like Melbourne. There were also cultural differences. For example, in...
(1/3) Both my parents worked in the same textile factory from the age of 13. Mum was a weaver, Dad worked with yarn. Our town in the North of Portugal survived entirely on the textile industry, but once companies started moving offshore for cheaper labour, everything...
(3/3) My ex-wife and I got married in Melbourne. We had a child together, but separated soon after his birth. Then, when he was 3, she abducted him and went back to Singapore. She said she did it because she felt homesick. Luckily, Australia and Singapore are...
(2/3) I always loved soccer growing up. I wanted to play professionally. When I came to Melbourne, I got involved through my club as a volunteer for the 2008 Homeless World Cup, an event organised by The Big Issue, where homeless players from 52 different countries...
(1/3) When I lived in Malaysia, there was heaps of rural space for a kid to run around in, but when I was 2, my family moved to Singapore, where it was all high rises. I never really settled there, mostly because school was so regimental. Every day, it was just books...
