Alan Campbell:  

Life After promoting punk rock bands (I was ahead of my time - punk bands people hated then - and now your kids listen to - can you picture them groovin to Boston, Foreigner - yikes!) around Vancouver in my 20s, finally wised up and went back to school at 29. After two years at Langara, I graduated in journalism (any lunkhead from Killarney could have passed Langara with a bit of effort) and headed to Asia in 1994. I have been here ever since. I worked at the South China Morning Post newspaper in Hong Kong for 6.5 years as a reporter and was then editor of a golf magazine for two years. Between 2002 and late 2007 I was in the crazy city of Shanghai where I worked as a sub-editor (foreign experts they call us here - the key word "foreign") on the Shanghai Daily newspaper. Still write loads of golf here - China a fascinating place - but overcrowded, too polluted, too much spitting -- and beware, they are coming to Vancouver to buy and mow down your East Van childhood home. The Cantonese in Vancouver soon a footnote in history - Mandarin wave taking over. After working in Beijing for a year for a news service during the Olympic year - I got married and moved back to Vancouver after a six-month honeymoon through Asia. Life back home proved a difficult adjustment and the marriage didn't work out - but no worries - it was great to be back around my aging par...Expand for more