Personal Info: Australian citizen. Born in Tianjin PRC.
        Married with two sons: a family photo
        (this website and others are designed by my wife DanDan, some contents may be out of date.)

        Personal Interests and Activities

          Rollerblade-Tennis.
          I would like to promote a new combined sport, rollerblade-tennis (or inline-tennis). I believe you can have more powerful shots as you're smoothly turning into the ball and put more body weight into your shots. Of course stopping is a bit of problem, so the rule is to allow second bounce for the drop shots :-) Mixing tennis with roller blading together is a great fun!! Have a look some of my own inline tennis action shots taken in Dec 1994. I'd like to find out who else in the world is also interested in this new game. My best inline-tennis partners are my cousin Ray Young and Dr. Dave Matthews, we played in Brisbane and in Canberra back in 94-97 (we would like to claim that we invented this game --- challenge :-)). We share other hobbies like ice/inline-hockey, ski and tennis.

          Ice-Hockey/Roller-Blading/Snow-Ski.
          I started ice-skating when I was 5 years old and my father taught me some basic skills. Now I'm teaching my older son (since 4 years old, now 6) roller blading and he is doing well (nice turn etc), here is some of the inline-hockey actions:
          Jie is defending, Jie is fighting back (avi file) ,
          `Blance': family match (Jie-Mum vs Chen-Dad), Chen-Dad attacking (avi file) ,
          Here is some advanced stuffs (spins and jumps ). And of course I love Ice Hockey and was a member of Brisbane Ice Hockey team for a few years. Down hill Snow Ski (red/black-runs) is also my favourate. Many people don't know it's possible to ski in Australia, in fact, there are a few snow moutains in the down-under. If you would like some information on Snow Ski in Australia, simply to have a look at this link sno-info. Guess what, I did Snow Ski in Singapore, of course indoor, at the SnowCity. 60 meters long and 10 meters wide blue-level slope is interesting enough if you really miss ski/snow. Sat night and Sun morning usually have sessions for experienced people. My most recent real ski trips was at Innsbruck (Dec 2001) and Vancouver/Whistler (March 2002) and tried carving ski -- really enjoyed it.

          Tennis.
          I was very fit and played better when I was 20 kg less and had a few club level trophies in Australia in 90s, pound of being the captain of an A-grade fixtures team for the University of Queensland (UQ) Tennis Club for a few years and played in the North Conference University Games in Townsville as a member of UQ representative team back in 1993. Currently, I play #1 singles for the NUS staff team at various competitions, like Singapore Civil Cup, Inter-Tertiary, Inter-Clubs etc. I try my best to fit tennis game in my daily schedule and hope to get back to my athletic shape in near future :-). This is particular hard for a family man with young children, but it's not impossible, guess how many people on this tennis court (again Jie at 7 starts to show the talent on the far side of the court)? (the answer is 5, one is well hidden in my wife). Jie at 8 is improving fast and I train Jie as my new tennis partner who I would love to lose to :-) ... At age 9 (2007), Jie finishes runner-up in singles (128 drews) and won the doubles at the HEAD Junior Pesta Sukan Tennis Championships at KTC. Currently Jie's national ranking is #3 in singles and #2 in doubles for the U10 age-group (Singapore is a small country though) and Jie has received HEAD sponsorship at age 9.
          Ivan Lendl was my favoriate tennis player. I believe that Lendl started the modern power tennis era and has the best forehand/backhand-topspin-pass ever. Recently, surely not only me, all attentions are at the perfect Federer. Of course, I also like those Aussies (Rafters, Philippoussis, Hewitt) and the asian tennis star Michale Chang. Although Chang's later 90s results are disapointing, we have to give this guy a full credit because of his remarkable and historical achievements. I watched Chang's first round match at the Singapore Indoor'99. Also in 1999, my wife and I went to London watched Wimbledon. In 2000, I went to Stuttgart watched the Masters Event, the German Indoor, again I saw Chang won his close first-round match (3rd set tiebreak). Recently, I took my older son Jie to Australian Open in Melbourne (2006) and went to Wimbledon (2007) with Jie again.

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