My name is Leona Luong. A young woman of Vietnamese descent living in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. I currently attend Algonquin College, where I'm taking up Police Foundations. In 2012 I will transfer to Carleton University. It's where my fiancΓ© Derrick Jean-Renald is currently studying Criminology. In fact, we met while I was visiting my cousin Ashley Luong at Carleton University. Derrick is one of Ashley's friends. A big and tall Black man of Haitian descent who became her protector and play-big-brother after she was nearly assaulted by a White guy named Hank O'Malley at Carleton University. I guess White guys don't take rejection very well when Asian chicks dare say no to them.
I've been living in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario, ever since I moved there from my hometown of Ha Noi in North Vietnam. That was three and a half years ago. Since then I've become a Permanent Resident of the Confederation of Canada, and I like my life here. The Canadian Capital City is a quiet place for the most part. Of course, bad things can and do happen anywhere. Take my cousin Ashley for example. She's a nice and easygoing Canadian gal of Vietnamese descent. Friendly and without a care in the world. Definitely not the type to attract trouble. And yet one night, she and her Jamaican boyfriend Leonard Johnson were attacked by this White guy named Hank O'Malley and his Irish buddies. Ashley dated Hank before dumping him for Leonard two months and I guess macho Irishman Hank couldn't stand to lose his Asian girlfriend and trophy to a Haitian guy of all people.
For some reason, even though interracial dating is pretty common across North America, people always stare when they see a Black man with a woman who isn't Black. Hank and his buddies did more than stare at Ashley and Leonard. They attacked them right on campus. The police got involved and Hank got arrested and thrown out of Carleton University. I don't know why White guys feel that Asian girls are their private property. We're free to date men of any race. Just because a lot of Asian girls date White men doesn't mean every Asian lady is genetically designed to worship men of European descent. Sorry, White guys. This Asian diva prefers Black men. I met the handsome Derrick through Ashley and Leonard. Derrick is Haitian and I wasn't sure he'd be into me. Most Haitian guys I met in the City of Ottawa are either dating Black women or they're chasing chubby White women like their lives depend on it.
Well, I guess I should have known better than to believe in a stereotype. The same way that not all Asian women worship European men, not all Black guys in North America chase Black women or White women. Some Black men happen to like Asian ladies. I still didn't think Derrick would be into me, though. I stand five feet six inches tall, and I'm skinny as hell. I don't have a big butt or large breasts. My roommate Shawna Walrond sometimes teases me by saying I am built like a trapeze artist. I wish I were a trapeze artist, because then being short and skinny would come in handy. Instead I'm a short Asian chick with a flat chest and a flat butt. Sometimes I envy Shawna Walrond. She's around five-foot-eleven, with dark brown skin, long Black hair and pale brown eyes. Shawna attracts all kinds of guys. She's currently dating this Venezuelan guy named Enrique Lopez.
Shawna Walrond, my roommate and bully, finds my attraction to Black men ludicrous. She constantly tells me that there is no way in hell that a self-respecting Black man would date a short, skinny Asian chick with no chest and no butt. If I were built like Shawna I'd definitely attract the Black men that I adore. I noticed that even when Black men dated White women and Hispanic women, they went for the ones who were built like Black women. As in chicks with big boobs and big round butts. Sometimes I seriously wish I could shut Shawna up. Then one day, fate provided that opportunity for me. Derrick, my cousin Ashley's best friend, asked me out on a date. He took me to the Silver City Movie Theater in Ottawa and we watched the movie Thor. Truth be told, I only liked the parts where Black American actor Idris Elba was shown. The rest of the movie sucked. Still, I really enjoyed sitting so close to a sexy Black stud like Derrick. Even though Thor isn't a scary movie, I acted really scared during the fight scenes so Derrick would put his arm around me. He did!
After the movie, Derrick took me to the Saint Laurent Mall where we dined on some delicious food from Manchu Wok. Yes, Asian chicks eat Chinese food, even though what Americans and Canadians call Chinese food isn't what folks in the Republic of China eat. Not by a long shot. While Derrick and I sat and ate, a fat White guy walked past us with his tall and skinny Asian girlfriend. The Asian chick, who looked Japanese, shot me a look. I looked at her defiantly. People who aren't of Asian descent often confuse Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean folks. The truth is that we look nothing alike except maybe to supremely dull Western eyes, and we have a history of conflict with each other. Japanese folks consider themselves superior to other Asians, and we can't stand their uptight asses. I flipped the Japanese chick the bird, and she huffed and puffed before walking away with the fat White guy. She can have him. I'm having dinner with a big and tall Black stud who looks like an NFL player!
Derrick and I talked about school, and life in general. I was starting to consider Ottawa home since most of my family members lived there. My older brother Jacob Luong is engaged to this Belgian chick named Madeline Des-Pres. He likes blonde-haired and blue-eyed women from the heart of Europe. Jacob recently graduated from the University of Toronto with his MBA. Madeline is an immigrant working at a fast food joint. I told him she's a gold digger but he doesn't listen to me. My bet is that White chick is only interested in marrying him because he's got money-making potential and because she wants to get her papers in order to stay in the Confederation of Canada. Guys can be so dumb when it comes to manipulative women!
Anyhow, all those thoughts went out of my head when Derrick gently touched my hand and looked into my eyes. Oh, my God. This young Black man is so handsome. With his curly Black hair, dark brown skin and full lips, he looked good enough to eat. I could tell he was about to ask me something meaningful. My heart fluttered. Derrick is going to ask me out and I am definitely going to say yes. Sexy and intelligent young Black men like him don't stay single for long in a City like Ottawa where most of the guys of all colours are dull and ugly. All they do is eat fast food and watch hockey. Derrick is from the City of Montreal, Quebec. A place teeming with good-looking, educated Black men. As Derrick opened his mouth to speak, a voice interrupted us during my magic moment. The voice of my roommate Shawna. The big-booty Black slut I despised walked by us and stopped, flanked by Enrique, the skinny Hispanic guy she was dating. Upon seeing my skinny Asian self with a good-looking Black man, the Black bitch must have done a double take.