User:Kentserph/TSE KWONG YAN (KENNETH TSE)

Tse Kwong Yan was born in January 1973 in Kowloon, Hong Kong to Tse Cheuk Man (father) and Chan Yuen Ling (mother). His name was given to him at birth by his grand-father, Tse X X. His younger brother, Joey, was born eleven months after him. In 1983, his family immigrated to the United States due to the uncertanty of Hong Kong's future in 1997, when the Communist China takes over. The family landed in Chicago's O'Hare Airport on August 28, 1983. When Kwong Yan applied for his social security card, his name was changed to a more common American name of Kenneth. This ws a name that was given to him coinsidentally by both his aunt (Chan Yuen Fun), the younger sister of his mother and his uncle (Albert Lee), the younger brother-in-law of his father. His family lived in Chicago for three months before moving to the suburb of Skokie, where Kennneth (Ken) went to fifth grade (Jane Stetson School), middle school (Old Orchard Junior High School) and  high school (Niles North High School). He graduated from Niles North in 1991 and went on to attend Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana to study in the field of pharmacy. In 1996, he graduated with his pharmacy degree. Unlike his peers, Ken voluntary decided to join the United States Air Force with a three-year commitment. Ken was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in May of 1996 and began his military career at McClellan Air Force Base in North Highland, California (just north of Sacramento). During his first year, he was the staff pharmacist at the outpatient clinic on base. The following year, Ken was promoted to First Lieutenant and became the Officer-In-Charge of the clinic pharmacy. On his third year, Ken was promoted to be the Associate Chief of pharmacy services. Ken decided that this will be his last year with the military during his two-week vacation to visit his parents. That was when he met his future wife to be, Lan Le, at a Vietnamese concert in Chicago on June 28th, 1997. Their first date was July 3, 1997, when they went to Taste of Chicago. After he left the military in July 1999, Ken worked as a staff pharmacist at Osco Drugs in Chicago. Ken and Lan dated for five years and were married on june 29, 2002 at XX Catholic Church. The couple lived in Chicago for 6 months before deciding to move to South Florida, where Lan's mother and sisters were living. They bought a house in Boynton Beach and lived there every since.