Sharon Cheung / Yi Jie Communication Company Limited CEO
Paint Crisis Into Opportunities
As you grow, you experience more of the world. All these new people you met and glamorous events you went to are silently dragging you into this boundless social network, the swirl of society and the midst of the crowd. Gradually, solitude and self are obliviated.
Sharon Cheung, the former anchor at i-Cable News, spent 11 years of her life running around newsrooms. In 2000, she reported at a Beijing press conference and triggered the former Communist Party head Jiang Zemin, who hit back with the well-known comment of “too simple, sometimes naïve”. Jiang’s temper did not just fail to deter Cheung from repeating her question, instead, it had her risen to fame in no time. Despite the heydays in journalism, Cheung chose to leave the industry to further study at Oxford University. After that, she joined Media Asia Group for another eight years, before founding her own communication company. Today, she is also a book author, a brand spokesperson, and a lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Although she has planted a strong and fearless image in our minds, she had her moments of darkness and negativity in life. Trying to walk out of depression, she picked up the paint brush after twenty years, and began to fill her canvas up with strokes of colours and emotions. In the end of last year, she gathered all her paintings together and decided to hold an exhibition to raise funds for a non-government organisation. Once again, there she was turning crisis into opportunities, and misfortune into success.
Now, if emotions was a party crasher, would those who lost themselves in the midst of the crowd still remember their way out?
