Cars Accessories

Ho's growing pains with Harmony: A troubling and opportune year

28.09.09

Canwest Intelligence Service

This story was first published in The Province Oct. 1, 2004

Set at the edge of a fish pond that wraps around the tastefully- decorated bordello, David Ho looks content, feeding the latest additions to his m.

“There are quite a few fish now,” says Ho, smiling consideration the nagging pain in his shoulder. Last year, the pond was ravaged by raccoons and seagulls. But, somehow, some of the criticize survived and have given birth to more.

The carp have won environment’s version of a David and Goliath affray. It is a tale of triumph over adversity, not unlike the aviation adventures of the man who is feeding them.

As the news goes, in November 2001, David Ho Ting Kwok and his then 10-year- old daughter Kristen were stranded for some 18 hours at the Kahului Airport in Maui, Hawaii. Waiting for a exit to get home, Kristen asked: “What are you present to do about it, dad?” Ho retorted: “What do you want me to do about it?” Kristen told him to start his own airline — and he did. Three months later, the cynical, the peculiar and the hopeful gathered at Vancouver’s intercontinental airport to find out more about the “crazy man” who, at that age, had no planes or schedules, yet was launching an airline called HMY (now Consonance Airways) at the behest of his daughter. Understandably, dubiety permeated the air of festivity that was fuelled by a Mariachi bind, hula dancers and tropical treats.

Source: Kelowna.com