Joey was born in Hong Kong but grew up in Australia. In many respects, he had a typical upbringing that one would expect in a westernized civilization which he soon worked out wasn’t that civilized. (It could have been worse, of course.)
Anyway, he had to suffer school and studied all kinds of rubbish but was inherently the creative type, mainly into visual arts. He wasn’t interested in creative writing during school and wasn’t good at it. Actually, he wasn’t interested in school. In any case, he knew the world was mostly unhelpful to those who wished to pursue a life in creative arts and thus made the practical choice of doing something else, albeit with a degree of bitterness.
Despite all the above and refusing to accept defeat, he practiced various forms of visual arts in his own time. As for writing, it was only after leaving school that he developed a penchant for it, partly to amuse himself.
In terms of “real” work, he has been/is an engineer, kitchen hand, law clerk, graphic designer and slush reader/editor.
Joey was born in Hong Kong but grew up in Australia. In many respects, he had a typical upbringing that one would expect in a westernized civilization which he soon worked out wasn’t that civilized. (It could have been worse, of course.)