As a student at Wah Yan College Kowloon, a conservative Catholic secondary school, he often got into trouble and was a constant source of headaches for his father, who was a teacher there.
他出生於香港，是家中獨子，中學就讀保守的天主教九龍華仁書院時，因為調皮不愛唸書，讓他在院內任教的父親感到很頭痛。