Between four careers: business consultant, manager, engineer and academic.
Between six languages: english, mandarin, cantonese, hakka, malay and japanese.
About Edward
Full name: Edward C.T. Ho
Birth place: Perak state, Malaysia
Languages spoken:
English, Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka), Malay. Edward has completed an
elementary Japanese courses with Education Information Institute (supported by
Japanese Consulate) in Melbourne and is currently studying for Japanese Language
Proficiency Test (JPLT).
Place of residence: Doncaster, Australia (link to Australia cities lifestyle survey 2008),
Ipoh, Malaysia and Miaoli, Taiwan.
Contact details: See contact page
Interests: Most things including reading, traveling (I've lived in Germany, UK, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, worked and visited in most parts of USA, Western Europe and East Asia), photography, movies, sports especially squash and badminton.
Edward's father was born in Da Ma Village, Da Bu province (link to Da Bu Municipal
Office), Guang Dong, China and migrated to Malaysia in 1940s.
Edward was born and raised in Perak state of Malaysia, with sojourns to United Kingdom for study. After graduation Edward worked and lived in Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and most recently Australia. Edward finds Melbourne a good place to live and decided to take up residency there for a while.
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Notes: Some facts about Melbourne and Australia. Melbourne was rated as the world's most livable city by various studies, for example, The Economist Intelligence Unit Most Livable Cities Ranking Survey (2004) & (2006) . United Nation's Human Development Index Ranking (2008) consistently rates Australia as one of the top ten countries to live in the world. Global competitiveness studies by World Economic Forum - Harvard Univeristy (link to Growth Competitiveness Indicators (2004)) and IMD World Competitiveness Scoreboard (2008) reviewed that Australia is one of the world's top ten most competitive nations. On the same year, Australia was ranked by the Legatum Institute as having the highest prosperity index in the world. |  |