15 Things

1. I realized that the best thing that has ever happen to me is to be born to the world.

2. I believe all persons should endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

3. I struggle constantly to maintain fine balances between hope and despair, passion and reason, breadth and depth, work and play, inferiority complex and superiority complex, and left and right brain usage.

4. I doubt a lot, and I sometimes discover that things are not as people say they are.

5. I never allow my schooling to interfere with my learning.

6. I believe it doesn’t matter how many years you live, what matters is how you live the years. Similarly, it doesn’t matter how much I’ve experience, what is important is what I make out of an experience.

7. I am highly ambitious, but I currently achieved only a small fraction of what I can dream of.

8. I am spiritual, but am never religious. I find applied philosophy a more viable option compared to anything divine and supernatural in nature.

9. I wished I am more Type A.

10. I found that I have been battling with “resources constraint” all this while.

11. I am an empiricist. I make my own assumptions and believed in them, unless I am proven wrong.

12. I hate obliged affection and behaviour.

13. I shed tears of empathy.

14. I believe generalists will rule the future.

15. I enjoy moments of solitude.


About

Name: Aaron Lo Chee Seng

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Schools: SMK Taman Bukit Maluri (Class of 2006), Sunway University College (Class of December 2007)

About me: I have a problem writing succinctly. I get paid to play the piano although I am nowhere near Bill Evans. I play the violin but occasionally slides to the wrong note while doing the glissando. I love the intensity of the Puccini operas, especially O Mio Babbino Caro and Madama Butterfly but can never sing one. I enjoy Liszt, Chopin, Wagner and John Williams but have yet to master their craft to be in the same league. I craved to play the saxophone and cello, but I don’t at the moment. I think broadway jazz and jazz trio are the greatest invention of all time, with the rock genre and partisan politics being the worst. I write “emotionally-driven” songs and orchestra pieces but have yet to decide what to do with them. I am a K.I.S.S. minimalist but occasionally favor complexities. I redesign products that I find ugly but have yet to materialize them. I draw buildings that I have no idea how to build. I am into deconstructivism, modernism, post-modernism and high tech designs, and I adore Daniel Liebeskind, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry and Richard Rogers, but will never go to my dream architecture school – The Cooper Union, being a non-American. I will someday - but have yet to - understand the philosophy of man vs machine and the concept of mind, body and soul. Learning and understanding how electronics and machines work turns me on but the process of constructing them turns me off. Oh, did I mention that I have a serious problem writing succinctly?

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