Biography

I was born in Hong Kong. I spent my high school years at SKH Tang Shiu Kin Secondary School. I moved to the UK when I began university seven years ago. I did my undergraduate degree in Mathematics at the University of Bristol. Then I did Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge. I then decided to go back to Bristol University to do a PhD in Mathematics, under the supervision of Professor Trevor Wooley. My research revolves around the use of the Hardy-Littlewood circle method in analysing diophantine equations and inequalities. I am currently in my fourth year of research. See my academic CV here. Right now I’m exploring my career options after my PhD.

After watching the veganism-promoting documentary film Vegucated in Cardiff during the UK Green Film Festival in May, I decided to become a vegan for the rest of my life. My sources of motivation for this life change are four-fold:

  1. I cannot condone and support any more animal cruelty exercised solely because of mankind's cravings for meat and dairy.
  2. The raising of livestock causes massive pollution to the environment.
  3. Raising livestock for food is a colossal waste of food and water. So many more people could have been fed, and most hunger would have been eliminated, if everyone on planet Earth followed a plant-based diet.
  4. Following a meat-and-dairy-based diet increases the risk of heart disease and cancer, and a whole host of other diseases.

So far, the results of switching to a vegan diet have been generally positive. I have more mental clarity and vitality than before. I also become more compassionate towards all living beings (humans or animals). A slight problem that has arisen was that I felt hungry more often. Having had time to adjust to the new types of food, now I'm returning to normal in terms of the number of meals eaten each day.

This brings us nicely to an event which I have organised in mid-July. Vegucated is a really empowering and comedic documentary that convinced me to go vegan. It was shown in 13 cities across the UK, but Bristol, one of the greenest cities in Europe boasting a high concentration of veggies, missed out. Having stayed in Bristol for 7 years, and liking its strong vegetarian presence, I decided to host a FREE premiere of Vegucated in Bristol. For further information about the event, please go to this webpage.

Vegucation of any sort does not seem to extend to many university students. Hence I decide to do another couple of free screenings in November, when students will have returned to their university studies and have a chance to get 'Vegucated'. You can choose to go to the screenings on 1 November or 6 November.