My parents had always been good to me, and they
allowed me to make my own decision at a very young age rather to stay in Hong
Kong with a more stressful life and perhaps a limited future, or to move on to
America with the other two sisters to seek out new challenges. I remember that I
had chosen the later, but it seemed like it was so long ago that it was the
beginning of my novel life.
I was moved from place to place and finally
settled down in Plano, Texas with my oldest sister and brother-in-law. I've
lived there ever since. I have been naturalized as a citizen of the United
States of America in April, 2002.
The Foreign Kid
It wasn't exactly the best thing to walk into a
highschool surrounded by a bunch of ignorant kids that spoke a different
language from your own, but I managed to pull out of it and somewhat assimulated
with an extremely short period of time. It wasn't till when I get into college
did people say that my accent was undetectable. However, being bilangual put me
in a disadvantage - I wasn't really adept at either languages, and as the
chinese old saying puts it, I'm just "half a barrel of water".
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The Amateur Violinist
I showed my interest in picking up an
instrument at 8th grade, and it was the violin. It was a relatively quick
process for me, since I started playing for my highschool's string orchestra
from 9th grade to 11th grade, and had made the all region orchestra in a
rather competitive region during 10th grade. However, partly due to a busy
work schedule, and partly due to the depreciation of my practicing at home,
I had ceased to play the instrument. However, I have learned lots of theory
and skills throughout the experience, and have met my dear friend that still
sticks around, whose name's Steve Hsu.
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The Composer
It wasn't until I started with my contact of midi
softwares and midi synthesizers had I began to get completely preoccupied with
music compositions all over again. I started writing my first piece in the year
of 1996 (15 years old) and finished it in a mere few days. Midi had made my
composing life a lot easier and helped with my early "trial and error" music. Up
to this very day, I still haven't had any music theory class nor any formal
education of music composition what so ever. It was midi devices that had
allowed me to self-teach composition.
Please visit my
music composition
page if you are interested.
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Breadwinner
During high school, I had gone through weeks
that I would have regular high school classes from 8 till 4 and work at a
grocery store or a fast food restaurant for 40+ hours a week, because I
never really did care for the high school education. It was great that I had
made my own money largely for all car insurance and half of my college
tuition needs, but I really didn't have much fun in high school. I remember
nightmares of hearing the beeping code from the grocery checkout lane or
dreams about serving people ice cream at the drive thru window. I was stuck
with these two jobs for about 2 years.
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You know you need to quit your job when you
realized that you can make one of these suckers in 10 seconds, and a whole
banana split in 30 |
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