Her life is like a TV drama. Blogger Candy lost her parents when she was a child. She learned to cook at age nine and has to care for two chronically ill family members. But the 23-year-old waitress says: "I work hard and never give up."

With a smiling face and long hair, Candy is one of the 16 bloggers chosen by HKFYG to inject positive energy onto the Internet.

Her blog contains a lot of articles about her life - from her teenage mother being kidnapped by her drug addict father, to getting addicted and giving birth to her. Her father left them when Candy was born; and in 2001, when Candy was 13, her mother died of a drug overdose.

"After my mother died, I tried my best to live. No social workers gave me counseling. And I had to support this home by myself. Since I was a teenager, I've had to take care of all the big and small family affairs," she writes in her blog.

Only in recent years has Candy begun to gradually forget the sadness left by her mother's tragic death.

"I didn't forget that totally. I only feel that when a person chooses to survive mentally, they should strive to live well and be positive in life! People should not survive only to live with pressing, continuous sorrow," urges Candy. "Whatever problem I face, I stand up quickly and continue to walk my way. I think people can do it if they really commit to a positive way of being!"

Candy's positive attitude has touched and changed many of the 160,000 visitors to her site. One such visitor was inspired to leave the following comment on Candy's site: "I realize now that each person has a different story," he wrote, "I used to think that I am no good, but actually I am not that bad."

(HK Edition 01/08/2010 page1)