Hello, my name is Kelvin Wong.
I starting blogging… opps, I mean writing somewhere in 1997 when the Internet was firmly entrenched into our young minds and when it was hip to have a personal home page. Having a home page then was the domain of the computer saavy (we don’t call it IT then). It was also a good chance for me to pick up some html skills. However, most importantly, I wanted to share my coming out experience as a gay man in Singapore with the other people.
I had just gone through about 2 years of my own coming out process and have had a great burden of guilt, shame and fear lifted off my mind and life. I wanted to share those experiences with other gay people who had the same guilt, shame and fear that I had. I also wanted to show them that accepting oneself as gay can be a happy thing and that they are not alone in that struggle, especially in Singapore. I believe that I was one of the few and only visible Singapore gay men who was out enough to have my coming out experience posted on the web, as I received many letters of thanks and made some friends from it.
That’s why the first 2 posts in this blog was back dated to year 2000 as I had made some changes to my writing at that time, even though I only created this site in 2005.
In fact, the miracle of my home page was that I had only these 2 writings for about 5-6 years of its existence.
I had wanted to write more, but updating my web page was a hassle and I had become involved with some activities in the gay community and a lot of my thoughts ended up being posted in email lists instead. I started heartland, which is a gay Buddhist group and ADLUS, which is a gay sports group, both in 1999 and also got involved somewhat with People Like Us and got myself really busy for some times.
Although I continued to write and make my opinions heard in those list, I had always wanted to talk about many other things besides just gay issues. I still want to continue sharing my thoughts and experiences of the coming out process, as it never ends with just calling yourself a gay man. Also there are many other topics that I want to talk about like my own journey and views in Buddhism, socio-politics (although I am not very good at expressing them or getting them right), about nature, environment and animals (which are mostly neglected in our rat race) and others like cultures, travels, etc. Of course, it also provides a good place for me to look at my thoughts and writing throughout the years and see how I might have grown or regressed!
And then… blogging became a common language. So I started to blog in my LJ, but didn’t feel that the interface was too user friendly (but it has improved a lot since then) and at the same time, I was interested in open source portals and thought about hosting my only web space to play with these technologies. It was via LJ that someone introduced WordPress and I was impressed by how well designed it was. Paid for my web space, loaded WordPress and that’s how you end up reading this! 
What happening at this moment
Currently, I am working as a Windows Server specialist (admin lah!) in an investment bank in situated in Orchard Road. Having been in the banking industry for 7 years and doing computer support for more than 10 years. I had an MSCE, because it has expired as I had not upgraded to Windows 2003 yet.
Currently, I am is still moderating the heartland list, but have extracted myself out of ADLUS, which is run by an bunch of exciting people. I was the vice-president and then secretary of People Like Us. I also started a new list called CACTUS, but its rather low lying, but he is making big plans for it later.
For sports, I was running with the SAFRA running club for about 10 years, but knee injuries prevented me from continuing for too long. But before that happening, I ran in a number of SAFRA’s sheare’s bridge run (10 km and 21 km), the 21 km Terenganu bridge run, Singapore biathlon and 2 marathons, plus numerous other running events.
I am currently practicing Chen and Yang style Tai Chi under the mentorship of Wu Ah Gan around Holland V area and I hopes to devote more time to it and become good enough to teach others in the future.
I love diving and am currently an advanced diver. I have clocked about 50 odd dives so far and have my own set of dive com, bc and regulator. The most frequent place where I have dived is Pulau Dayang/Aur, its easy and relaxing, although the journey there is not. I have also been to Rendang, Lang Tengah, Udang Oil Riggs (my fav!) and Tiomen. I will definitely plan to dive in Sipandan, layang layang, Bali and Palau (if I have the money).
I also certified board sailing at level 2, although I have give up my board and sail, due to lack of time and money (more $$!!)
Have recently gained interests in taking better photographs and would like to enrole in a photographic club to better his skills and maybe some award winning entries! 
I have a technical certificate in French from my FSI years, did my German in Goethe Institution, self-learned Thai and Japanese and I plan to pick up Hindi and pali
Some basic information
Name: Wong Heng [王兴]
AKA: Kelvin
My Chinese name is one of the easiest to write as a kid growing up, although the alternative form of it is 王興, which is more complicated than most of my class mates. It was given by my Cantonese mother, as such it has a Cantonese sounding name, although my dialet group is Hainanese. Also my name did not follow my dad’s family naming convention, as most of the rest of my cousins and half-brothers have 3 character names, with the 2nd being determined by the family almaniac, of course.
My mom, when I was young, actually when to see a numerologists and he calculated that my name is lacking in something and that I had a short or unfortunate life because of that. So a 2nd character was added to my birth name with a deed poll and that’s why my official name in my NRIC and passport has @ Wong Yew Heng [王耀兴]
More to come…
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