Twenty Facts about Me

1. If I could spend my entire life in one place I would pick the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2. I like mangoes with sweet rice. I also like lanzones, rambutan, mangosteens, mangoes, peaches(only the canned variety), raspberries (only when interspersed with layers of chocolate cake and icing), coconuts, and bananas (on my cereal or deep fried).
3. I believe in kindness, beauty, truth and in the Protestant work ethic.
4. I really think that Solidworks 2005 is God's gift to all product designers of the world.
5. I think that Andy Warhol and his ilk are douche bags. The same goes for their design counterparts (i.e. Karim Rashid).
6. Mathematics is beautiful if I understood it. Human expression, especially of the visual kind is simply sublime.
7. When I was in kindergarten I wanted to be a baker because I thought their hats were cool. When I was in fourth grade I wanted to be an architect because it was a way to bridge the gap between fulfilling my asian parents' need for a utilitarian (i.e. lucrative) profession and my desire for artistic expression.
8. I am neither a baker nor an architect. I am a product designer. And it will take at least five pages to completely explain the nuances of such a profession so I just say "I'm a mechanical engineer who hasn't taken thermodynamics, or differential equations and instead I make art."
9. Indie music makes me happy. Sigur Ros, Broken Social Scene, Xiu Xiu. Joy!
10. I hate lazyness, idealogues and sanctimonius people. Also conservatives.
11. I love my brothers, Gabriel and Z. Although sometimes I want to bash Gabriel's head in for being an obnoxious 8 year old.
12. I lived in a third world country as a child. We did not have running water, phone lines and had very unreliable provider of electricity.
13. I collect turtle figurines.
14. I once pulled three straight all nighters: wrote two 5 page papers, studied for two midterms and prepared two oral presentations during spring quarter of Freshman year. At the end of the three days I called faculty members the "faculture" and babbled incoherently about the evils of socialism.
15. I think that Cuba is a fascinating country.
16. I went to the worst high school in the entire universe.
17. I designed parts for a fully automated colonoscopy machine the summer of my junior year.
18. My first impression of Americans when I immigrated to America: "Man, these people are tall."
19. I like to go "surfing" on the Path trains.
20. I once had a pet hen named Magnolia who was blind on one eye cause another Hen pecked it out while they were fighting for attention from the coveted rooster of the brood. I raised her ever since she hatched from the incubator. When she was too old to be of any use, my grandfather cooked her for our New Year's dinner. He told me it was her most noble way to die.