Curiouser and curiouser - who is she?

Do you suppose she's a wildflower?

Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

Basic information

A unique girl who likes awesome things

Most people who know me prefer to refer to me to be 'unique' (which I take as a compliment). In both good ways and bad ways, my friends agree that I'm not the type of person who can be simply classified into one characteristic. I have discovered a marvelous way of description on myself, which this margin is too narrow to contain - and so which I will substitute by describing in the form of introduction on my favorite things.

My favorite things from <Sound of Music>. While Maria prefers raindrops on roses and whiskers of kittens, I would like to introduce some of my fields of interest - reading, photography, psychology/neuroscience, and music.

Reading

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

Roald Dahl, Matilda

Oddly, I am one of the rare people who enjoy reading side of the cereal box. Though I sometimes suspect myself to be dyslexic when being tired of comprehending text, it is a great joy for me to refer to classic texts conveying dynamic plots. Some of my favorite authors are Bernard Werber and Rick Riordan; I love to follow the adventure, playing to be naive as Alice - 'feeling rather glad there was no one listening, as nothing sounds at all the right'. I also try to share ideas on books by participating in book club activities - also engaging in  Facebook page for bookshelves of KMLAians.

Photography

Dandelion from below. Picture taken in school.

Red flowers of spring. Picture taken near home.

Basketball hoop on a sunny summer day. Picture also taken in school.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

To capture the moment of the fluid in the present, I find photos effective as a way of deliberate expression. I enjoy taking pictures of portions of my daily life, which I plan to share on this site, too.

Psychology & Neuroscience

Have you ever wondered why you oversleep sometimes? Or did you have days you were feeling so blue, and couldn't quite figure out why? Maybe there were moments when you crammed the night before the exams, hoping for better memory. Perhaps you wondered if AI could ever think like human beings, or if the thinking works in the same mechanism. All these concerns are related to the role of the brain in the human body. My fields of interest are psychology and neuroscience. I wish to understand the complex compound of sleep and memory, and all there is intertwined to compose what the brain does for our daily lives. Combined with philosophy - the humane understanding of humans - I'd like to understand what the organ 'brain' means, anatomy performed in a realistic and human perspective.

Music

I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.

Niccolo Paganini

I'm no Paganini, but I enjoy listening to and playing some music. I play several instruments, but the violin is my favorite of all. Hilary Hahn is my favorite violinist, but I also enjoy the music of Twoset Violin and MozART.

It is one of my future goals to study the history of aesthetics and connect the relationship between sculpture, fine art, and music, which were previously put in a hierarchy by the sequence of their development. Classics may sound boring, but it is one of my goals to uncover the value hidden the pleasure derived from the display of art and to create them in a modern way.