I knew that I wasn't a person to sit down at a desk from nine to five. "I didn't know what I was really looking into. His college degree was in business so he was thinking of trying to find something in the economic or banking sectors. "We started to date and kept it up as we started our careers." "I think she thought I was kind of funny because I don't write Chinese and I spoke in American English very fluently and in terribly broken Cantonese, " he says of his now wife, Annie Cheng. Besides, he had met a nice girl in college and they had fallen in love. It was 1981 and Lim had decided to stay and find his first post-education job in Hong Kong, rather than move back to America.
Early childhood in Hong Kong, but also exposed to the American lifestyle while I was still quite young," he recalls.
"Being very American-Chinese, at that time I had enjoyed both worlds.
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He hadn't yet begun his professional life and skipping across oceans, between the East and the West, was already commonplace in Lim's life.
Then - due to an illness in the family - Lim had to return home to Hong Kong where he decided to finish his education. After that, he found himself finishing off high school in New York. Hong Kong Tourism Board Director Michael Lim has always been a man of two worlds, which is why it is no surprise to find him succeeding in his current role.īorn in Hong Kong, Lim left when he was 10 years old to go to secondary school in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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