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About Me

Self-Driven

  • Proactive learner with an eagerness to expand knowledge.
    • Developed various programming projects through persistent independent studying and research.
    • Deeply pursue ongoing interests in cultures, history, and languages (e.g through a constant self-motivated study of Cantonese, French, and German).

Resilient

  • Persistent determination to overcome, adapt, and solve problems.
    • Quickly adapted to a sudden move overseas by training in volleyball during the afternoon and attending virtual class in Canada at night (8:30pm-2:30am due to the time difference), which was maintained for the whole year.
    • Continuous resolve, troubleshooting, and reflection when encountering challenges, including debugging attempts during the design of my projects and pursuing my goals to the end.

Perseverant

  • Relentless pursuit of my extracurricular interests while upholding high academic standards, through strong time management abilities.
    • 7 years of consistently adhering to additional rigorous training regimens alongside regular team practices to ensure maximal performance as a competitive volleyball athlete.
    • 9 years of consistent and diligent violin practice that brought me to participate in the countrywide Canadian Music Competition.

Teamwork/Collaboration

  • Firm belief in the value of devoting oneself to the success and collaboration of the team.
      Through my extensive time as a key player to my teams, fully recognize the symboiotic relationship between the individual athlete and the collective unit.

Some of My Hobbies and Interests:

Volleyball

Volleyball

It's true when they say one only learns to cherish something once they're on the brink of losing it. Before Covid-19, volleyball was just another sport that I played unambitiously. Yet when the world fell silent and competitive volleyball in Canada shut down for an indefinite period of time, I suddenly became keenly aware that the sport had already become an irreplaceable part of my life without my realization. This eventually evolved into a newfound gnawing desire and insistent drive to reach higher stages and play varsity volleyball, as the notion of leaving the competition in a few short years manifested itself then to be both distressing and unbearable.

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Chinese Poetry

Chinese Poetry

My profound interest in learning languages and studying history started as a fascination towards ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy, which my mom instilled in me since a young age. However, this inevitably made me privy to the countless cycles of destruction on its artifacts and architecture the country has seen, and the further I delved into this part of China's history, the deeper my ache grew for such an unspeakable loss. Somehow, my own personal study of ancient Chinese poetry became an outlet for me to reach out to the dying pieces of a nation's history, and become part of the efforts to retrace, rebuild, and reconnect a nation to its roots, even if it were just one person at a time.

A Project I Recently Started
Violin

Classical Music and the Violin

I started playing violin when I was 8. Over the years, I have become enamoured with the instrument and the rich history of composition, where the pinnacle of artistic skill and expression is saturated with such poignant and raw emotion and philosophy. After passing the final RCM Violin Level 10, I set my sights to the annual Canadian Music Competition with participants from across the country, in which I competed during May of 2023 and only just fell short of the score necessary to advance to the next round. Looking back, my musicianship had improved by leaps and bounds during that time frame, I had my first taste of high level music competition, and I was given the opportunity to experience the gathering of so many talented musicians in celebration of the beauty of classical music. I consider the CMC to be a culmination of this long journey I've had in companionship with the violin, and it is far from the end.