Andrea Eng 伍慧芬

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Monday, March 01, 2010

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Lessons Learned
2009 was significant because after visit to
Barbados I was introduced to the principals and works of the Global
Heritage Fund. Tina, you will love this & sorry, I haven't had
chance to catch-up yet but as you can tell, I'm running a little behind.
I am so excited at having encountered this charity. Now I am thinking about philanthropy on a completely different level - globally. What a fabulous way to start the decade!

Their tagline is Preserving Heritage Globally. i like that.
Changing lives locally. Who can argue with that?

They're re-built walled cities. Contributed Archaeological conservation expertise as well as keeping the next generation off the streets by investing and donating computers and contributing
to U.N. certified Heritage sites. On 4 continents they're working on 13 project currently and completed 6.

The foundation was founded in 2002 and they have accomplished so much results with the influence, money and relationships they have harnessed. My introduction and host at recent gathering in
Sausalito, California was through fellow Barbados guest, The Lynfords. Tondra has become a good friend. I am blessed, i know, to have wise counsel in my somewhat unorthodox life.

Here is recent article from November 2009 Viewpoints Magazine (p. 18 & 19) chaired by another new friend, Dr. Frieda Granot of the Sauder School of Business. She is the first to publish the story of the
fourth-generation Lalji Family written by a former Crofton House School Head Girl, Faaiza Lalji. Her father Amin is one of my mentors in business and his brother Shiraz Lalji in London has been a generous host. This family contributes significantly to society, around the world and has a social conscience.

I love success stories like these.

That's it for 2009. The year has been an incredible education in Life. Here's to another successful decade. I keep learning. Thank you to my teachers and guides. - 太太

PS - By the way, anyone looking to let beautiful home in the French Quarters of Shanghai?

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Barbados

My Storybook Life

Barbados was divine. 太太 was generously entertained at uber exclusive private villa that Mariah Carey stayed in the week before. Simon Cowell leased the same place for $1 million over Christmas. 20 full-time staff keep the place going. Gobsmacked!

Swam with giant turtles and had the whole Carribean Sea to ourselves.
Some pictures arrived from talented photographer-guest from New York.

Introduced to an intimate group of international decision makers on this trip including the Vice-Chair of the Global Heritage Foundation. Hoping Ivy will share with me details of the wine certification course...so i can study up and be part of the conversation next trip. Some of these residents have amassed a handsome collection of impressive wines and libations in this neck of the woods.

Here are some of the impressive wines that Aj shared with us. The 1978 Petrus was ok. The magnum of 1985 Petrus was much better. Doesn't he look happy & super fit? Twice he had us over to his palatial villa.

Jean-Georges, the creator of Market at Shangri-La arrived with his wife and daughter. US ambassador who has recently joined the Temasek - GIC board and B.S. Ong and his stylish entrepreneur wife Christina also joined the crowd.

This is a storybook life.
太太 so privileged to be a guest. This is a glimpse into the world of comfort and ease. But then these people work at a fast and hard pace so they also play hard too.

What a great place to practise yoga! Total serenity.

Tina, i'm almost ready for that walk with you. Have a few loose ends to take care so we can connect before summer ends and 太太 returns to San Francisco for more yoga training and connecting with new friends. More again soon.

- 太太

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO | Dana Flynn : Laughing Lotus Founder

With Dana Flynn, 'the Janis Joplin of Yoga' in front of Laughing Lotus Jivamukti yoga with Keith and Dana at Laughing Lotus in San Francisco made visits special

太太 practises with Clara [Teacher to the Teachers] in Vancouver who introduced me to Dana when Dad had a flat at Miller Place

At my first class with Dana, I was startled to hear 'Vancouver, Go Back to Level 1' - but it was exactly the kick-in-the-ass it took to get myself to a serious yoga practice. She is an amazing being. Check her out - 太太

Saturday, November 01, 2008

BC Business Magazine cover story - Andrea Eng

< Double click the cover to read the article

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Andrea Eng by Malcolm Parry

I never met Andrea Eng during the 1980s, when she was at the epicentre of commercial real-estate sales activity here. But I knew plenty about her. I was editor of Vancouver magazine at the time, and Andrea’s photo appeared regularly in the columns we ran about doings around town. When our reporters and photographers came back from charitable, political and business events of any magnitude, there she would be, seemingly floating among the assembled heavy hitters.

And always smiling. Not the rivetted-on beam of the national beauty queen we knew she’d been, but the half-surprised smile of someone who might have had just found out that everyone else’s eyes were on her. She was arresting, no question about that, even in black and white flash photographs taken in crowded rooms. But when photographers had the advantages of time and studio lighting, they portrayed her as more than arresting. Hypnotizing may be the word for it.

It’s a cliché to say the camera loved her But it was true. So did the magazine art directors who decided what to do with the photographs they’d commissioned. Their decision, inevitably, was to run them as full pages or double-page spreads and, where possible, on the cover, too.

Andrea had eye appeal. And, again, not just the kind you see on a beauty pageant runway. I can’t recall anyone saying “glass ceiling” then. But even if they had, the photos of Andrea radiated the impossibility of that term having anything to do with her. You simply knew from her style and expression that here was someone who could set a goal, achieve it and then set a tougher one.

One knock you sometimes heard then, and even occasionally today, was that Andrea promoted herself better than she did her employer, the Collier Macaulay Nicolls s realty. Well, whoopee-do! As if hundreds — thousands — of like-aged ambitious men didn’t do exactly the same as they scaled or sidestepped the challenges of a business world that depends upon the best succeeding.

By the time I met Andrea in 1991, she was surrounded by friends like Stanley and Eva Kwok, developer Ron Shon and Max’s Donuts president Danny Gaw as then-B.C. lieutenant-governor David Lam urged them to continue raising funds for the Dr. Sun Yat-sen classical Chinese garden. Within months, I found her hobnobbing with then-HSBC president Bill Dalton, then-Hong Kong governor Chris Patten, 60 Minutes TV reporter Mike Wallace, architect Bing Thom, B.C. finance minister and later premier Glen Clark, then-premier Mike Harcourt, future mega-developer Ian Gillespie, future mega-chef Rob Feenie, Golden Properties owner Geoffrey Lau, Dexter Properties owner and UBC chancellor Bob Lee, architects Bruce Kuwabara and James Cheng, Gordon Capital founder Jimmy “The Piranha” Connacher, musicbiz mogul Bruce Allen, and former Stikeman Elliott lawyer Frank Sixt, who rose to be right-hand man to Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing. Meanwhile, Eng moved to Hong Kong herself to scout and undertake deals for the latter's son, Richard Li.

I would see her sometimes during her visits to Vancouver. Sometimes she would entertain some of the above dignitaries and others in her Shaughnessy home. Always, she would be decorous, but with the friendliness no one can feign. It was impressive to see, and would doubtless have satisfied Emily Post or her teachers at Crofton House private school for girls. What was more impressive was that she was as hospitable and acted just the same in every way when the only visitor was me.

And adaptable? Once, when a photograph was needed for the newspaper, and the best light conditions pertained beneath the window of her off-kitchen washroom, Eng unconcernedly plunked herself down on the closed toilet seat, smiled at the camera and created the same hypnotic spell she had a decade earlier.

--- Malcolm Parry 2008

Friday, August 08, 2008

BC Business - WHO WHAT WEAR

August issue of BC Business magazine

featured on the WHO WHAT WEAR page 23

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Real Estate Superstar - Ian Gillespie

I am proud to have been an investor in North America's most successful developer for over a decade now. Nowadays he doesn't need my funding but I maintain a small investment as a private investor in Westbank so that we can continue our longstanding business relationship and friendship.

Photo by Stuart Dee

Changing Vancouver's Skyline

太太 Bamboo Network | Real Estate Fund Manager.com

Monday, August 14, 2006

BC Business - August 2006

WHOWHATWEAR p. 23 August issue of BC Business magazine

Photo by Peter Holst

Shek-O is Hong Kong's 'Tycoon Village'

The location of this spectacular residence is what really earned Andrea's respect amongst the top level land developers and tycoons in Hong Kong. No one else had ever been able to secure agreement amongst feuding heirs over the proceeds of sale of this waterfront adjoining one of Hong Kong's best private golf courses.

Andrea Eng did this transaction for the heirs of the Bank of China head in Hong Kong.

So its Andrea's range in being able to develop profitable investments in both East and West which make her highly sought. Especially amongst Billionaires! One of the world's top CFO's says Andrea has more experience than most CEO's in North America.

Photo by Robert Carpa

Pavilions on Queen's Quay in Downtown Toronto

One of my proudest professional achievements having developed 500,000 sq ft on the waterfront of Downtown Toronto.

The penthouse of this project was featured on the cover of Canadian Interior magazine in 2001 as "CANADA's BEST".

>> Cover Story, CANADIAN INTERIOR MAGAZINE

The team achieved 80% sell-out on the first day of pre-sale in a difficult market.

>> Details

Filminute UK

Photographed here in Fall 2005 at the Tate Modern in London celebrating their collaberation on Filminute.com

Moses Znaimner

Women Who Make It Happen -
Carmen Ruiz y Laza, Patricia Dunn and Andrea Eng

Media guru MOSES ZNAIMNER caught up with Andrea in ~June 2006 to promote his IdeaCity06.

Hosted by Eric Savics pictured here with Nancy Parry (aka Mrs. Malcolm Parry Vancouver Sun)

Sunday, July 01, 2001

Best of Canada

>> CANADIAN INTERIORS MAGAZINE Cover Story July| August 2001

Monday, November 01, 1999

Dotcom 1.0

Once again she demonstrated her out-of-box dealmaking skills when Andrea Eng became actively involved and brought one of the world's first Domain Registrars in San Francisco and inked deals in Asia with Asia's leading media entities.