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I will never forget the day when I uttered my first words on the radio back in 1985 as a 15 year old freshman at Northfield Mount Hermon school. I was awful!  But I loved it anyway.  Lite did I know then that WNMH would be the spark that would ignite a career.  Most of the clips in this section are from my late teens and early twenties so have a bit of mercy (and a sense of humor!).tl

APTV: I will not deny it, I was an obnoxious and arrogant putz on the air at WNMH.  While I don't sound very appealing, the experience at WNMH allowed me to get comfortable in front of the microphone at a relatively young age. I've archived a bunch of my early shows as well as some that also feature my then high school girlfriend Abbe (who I wonder how she could have put up  with me given how obnoxious I sound on the radio!).

CNN International:  A few months after graduating NMH, Abbe and I ventured off to Taiwan with Alex Graf to study Chinese.  While in Taipei I picked up an internship at the leading radio station on the island (back then) which just so happened to feature English news and American top 40 music.  Back then, I wanted to be a DJ but they didn't have an internships open on their music side so they put in the newsroom where, once again, I found my calling.

E*TRADE Financial:  After I came back from Taiwan in 1990, I went to USC for one miserable semester.  I was so unhappy that I dropped out the first chance I could and told myself "if this is college, then forget it, i'm done!"  I then took four months to produce the first nationally syndicated radio program about Asian American life.  Asian American Perspectives was made available on the NPR satellite syndicate in 1990 something for which I made no money but thoroughly enjoyed producing.

CNBC Asia:  I was 20 years old, living in a rat/roach infested apartment in Hong Kong's Wan Chai district, working 6 overnight shifts a week and making barely enough to cover rent -- and I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!  Ahh, to be young and just starting out.   Better yet was the news I broadcasted.  Back in that incredible summer of 1990, I will never forget one of my headlines: "The TASS news agency reports that the Soviet Union has ceased to exist..."

LA 18 KSCI TV Los Angeles:Thanks to the kindness and generosity of Mary Wang I was given the break of a lifetime.  Mary is a longtime family friend who also ran the Chinese BBC World Service in London in the 80s and 90s.  She gave me the chance to spot report from California and to report from throughout rural China for the 10-part "Postcards from China" series.  The work I did for the BBC in the early 90s still stands as the high point of my journalist achievement.