- I think coming back here,
it brings back a lot of memories.
Everything is the same, the environment is the same,
the buildings the same, the trees are the same,
but it's not the same.
I'm not the same.
I'm not the same guy anymore,
I wasn't that teenager anymore now,
I'm a grown-up adult,
from where I was to where I am today,
so things stay the same,
but a lot of different now.
People change, I have changed.
I have grown, I have matured.
- [Man] Can you believe it?
- Not that I don't believe it.
I think it brings up a lot of emotions in me,
a lot of gratitude in me,
so if you see there,
that right there, that balcony, second floor?
That was my home.
The one bedroom apartment, right there.
And you see that balcony, you see that door?
That's my mom's bedroom,
'cause I would sleep in the living room,
my mom would sleep in the bedroom,
and we had a sleeping bag.
I slept on the sleeping bag for many, many, many,
many months, when I first moved here.
I think one of the greatest things
that I've learned from my mom,
even though she never said it,
is when my mom and dad first got married,
actually, my dad had an affair, after a couple months,
and my mom was thinking about divorce,
but then she found out that she was
actually pregnant with me, Dan Lok,
so she decided not to go with an abortion,
she decided to quote-unquote stay in the relationship,
although my dad wasn't around a lot, then,
my mom thought, you know what?
She would sacrifice, and wait 'til I grow up to be
a teenager, before filing for the divorce, and she did.
She waited at least 16, 17 years before filing for divorce.
So we immigrated to Canada when I was 14,
and after a few years, about two years later,
when I was 16, then, officially they were separated.
So my mom sacrificed so much for me, so much.
Coming here, because she knew that
I was getting into a lot of trouble in school,
that I couldn't stay in that kind of environment anymore,
that she decided to immigrate to Canada,
so that I have a better environment to learn
my English, to have a better future for myself,
otherwise I would end up being
probably in a gang or something.
Maybe even in jail, who knows, right, in Hong Kong,
'cause I was getting in so much trouble,
so she sacrificed so much, so much for me, so much for me.
As a housewife, who's never worked,
who couldn't speak a word of English,
she still couldn't speak much English,
moving to here, just staying here,
really just full-time caretaker,
taking care of me, and that's it.
That was her job, that was her purpose,
and to sacrifice all her youth,
when she could have go find another man,
or get married again; she didn't.
She just sacrificed everything for me, everything for me.
I think that's what the biggest
thing I've learned from my mom,
just unconditional love.
I think a lot of my personality
absolutely comes from my mom,
because she is very soft-spoken,
very gentle, but when I pick up a lot of traits from her,
'cause keep in mind, I was living with her all these years,
right, as I was growing up.
So of course I picked that up from her.
Problem was, when I got into business,
with that kind of personality, I got killed.
I got taken advantage of, people scammed me,
people took advantage of us, and I left us into debt,
in the business world, it's not so kind, right,
it's a dog-eat-dog world, so I had,
my mom rubs off this very kind, gentle personality,
which I have, but I later on develop,
I need that toughness, I need that mental toughness,
I need that edge, in business, the business acumen,
so I develop that from my other mentors,
my business mentors,
so then I have the two Yin and Yang, right.
So, I could be, I always say,
I think someone who is a warrior,
someone who is a true martial artist,
someone who is a high-performance person
that you could on this hand, on left hand,
I could have a, holding a crying baby,
on my left hand, right, gently,
and the right hand, I could choke on my enemy's throat,
and I can rip his throat out, at the same time.
I think you need that Yin and Yang,
to be successful in life.