Very Rough Profile

Linda Ling Ting was born into a very strict Asian culture and upbringing, which helped her become the woman she is today.
The 26-year-old, sports fanatic, shop-a-holic, video game playing Ting, or “TingLing” as her friends call her, was born in Brookfield, Wis., on Sept. 27, 1980 to two Chinese immigrants. Ting grew up in a very structured and incredibly strict environment, which instilled many of the values she still lives by today.

Ting and her older brother, enter name, lived very frugally throughout their entire childhood. Ting’s parents moved to the United States in the early 70s and always believed it was necessary to save all the money they could. Although her father is a chemist for Miller Brewing Company and Ting’s mother a biochemist, they never flaunted their wealth and even refused to allow cable television in their home.

The Hollister-clad Ting felt she was always pushed and pressured by her parents to be the best in school and at anything else she would participate in or she wouldn’t survive.

“If I brought home an A-minus on my report card from school, my parents would yell at me,” Ting said. “Small things like that have led me to always feeling pressure in my everyday life. Even in relationships and friendships I feel pressured to be accommodating and the perfect girl.”

Through all of their faults Ting’s parents were not a bad influence on her. They taught her to work hard now so she could taste the sweets of her success later in life. Being the youngest girl, Ting was the more spoiled of the two children. The extent of her spoiled life was limited only to materialistic things. “I got more stuff than my brother did, but my parents were always more strict on me because I was a girl,” Ting said.

Ting inadvertently uses some words wrong partly because she only speaks fluent Mandarin at home and never developed good grammatical skills. She also drives a Toyota Camry because her parents taught her that in Asia people work harder and take more pride in their work than they do in America.

She may have been taught that life was based on work and not fun, but Ting still loves to enjoy a nightlife of going out to Milwaukee bars and hanging out with her friends and boyfriend of one year, Brady, who she met at Kennedy’s in Milwaukee. It is not uncommon to see Ting stumble into work on a Friday morning with her brown hair frizzy, a redness surrounding her brown eyes, slumped posture, moving slowly and completely hung over because she was out a bit too late the night before with her friends.


I have to call her and acouple of other people tomorrow to add some more detail to the story.