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Linguistics student at
Nanyang Technological University who reads Wikipedia in my spare time but rarely had an occasion to make edits until
HG2052 came along.
Fun facts:
- Born in
Penang (like fellow Singaporeans
Khaw Boon Wan and
Wee Chong Jin ), the first birth in the then-newly opened
Pantai Hospital Penang
- Born on the same day as
Anne Frank , and also
the Philippines ,
modern Russia and
George H. W. Bush
- Late succumber to
smartphone s, proudly resisted getting one until
2015
- Voracious reader; favourite
Shakespeare plays include
A Midsummer Night's Dream ,
The Merchant of Venice and
The Winter's Tale ; other favourite books include the
Sherlock Holmes stories (favourite being
The Adventure of the Speckled Band , and including
The House of Silk ), the
Tintin comics, the
Narnia books, the
His Dark Materials trilogy,
Roald Dahl 's stories, a few
Arthur C. Clarke novels (
Rendezvous with Rama ,
The Fountains of Paradise and
A Fall of Moondust ), and
The Great Zoo of China ,
Alice in Wonderland and
Through the Looking-Glass ,
Gulliver's Travels ,
Watership Down ,
To Kill a Mockingbird and
My Family and Other Animals
- Could have dabbled in
medicine or
law but chose
linguistics , with absolutely no regrets
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This user understands the science behind
climate change and makes efforts to mitigate the problem .
This user is a
dog lover.