Stick man sitting

Welcome to Me! . . . I guess.

Literally took this man 3 YEARS to make an about page.



The Basics

Just a 20s something undergrad from the U.S. midwest. When I was on my high school's news magazine, I would spend hours working on their WordPress site and creating designs for pages. After finding out about Neocities from a LOVEWEB episode and a year to get myself acquainted with html, this website had filled the hole left from my time as a student journalist. I have also always wanted to learn how to code something, and this site has been the most reliable motivator, outside of when all my friends from grade school were into scratch.



My Hobbies

Photography

  • My Camera: Nikon 3400D
  • I started taking pictures using my mom's iPad. I know exactly which photos were taken on it because the iPad had a leather case that would rarely align with the lens. Eventually, I got my mom's hand-me-down phones, but wouldn't get an actual camera till around my 13th birthday. My grandmother gave me her Sony Cyber-shot (don't remember the model), and I started getting into photo editing: even took a class on Photoshop in highschool. A quarter into my senior year of high school, I would occasionally take photos for the school's news magazine using their Nikon cameras. This brought me to buy my own off ebay.
  • I have always been a travel photographer, but in the past few years, I have tried getting more into portrait. Sometimes, I'll just go out on a walk somewhere basically play Pokemon Snap with the wildlife.

Cooking

  • When I was 7, I bragged to my friend that I could scrabble my own eggs, and his disbelief led me to invite him for moring eggs.
  • After reproducing enough receipes and consuming cooking content for fun, you get a base for what tastes go well together and stare into the fridge blankly for a half minute less.
  • I've kinda started treating looking for receipes like how music people look for new music. I play the daily on FoodGuessr, look at 2-3 receipes before making something, and I talk shop at a cooking club.
  • Bought an old bread maker from GoodWill for $10 and have never looked back.

The Ones I Don't Have Much to Say About

  • Drawing: Always loved drawing and grew up in a artsy/creative friend group. Mainly doodle now, but wanna get better.
  • Reading: I never really developed the discipline to read on my free time, but I have been able to naturally bring myself to read whenever I'm out somewhere and have down time. I wanna actually read this at some point, but one of my favorite books is The Alchemist.

My Likes

  • Kerupuk Udang (Shrimp Chips): There's almost no good shrimp chips in America. Costco chips are scheiße and those fry shaped ones are complete scheiße.
  • Kacang Disko (Disco Peanuts): Imagine battered and fried peanuts. I don't get why we don't have this and kacang goreng bawang putih (fried garlic peanuts) in America.
  • Murtabak Manis (Sweet Murtabak): It's like an IHOP specialty if the people running IHOP stopped lying about their specialties being breakfast food. I actually made a business plan for a murtabak manis breakfast food truck for a project in high school and no one questioned why I'm selling a dessert for breakfast.
  • Chowder (the show): Feel like no one talks about this show, outside of when Lil Nas X did his music video for Panini.
  • Mahjong: Learned it from my Chinese step-mom (not sure which version). Rarely get to play it, but always a good time.
  • Civilization 6: My dad was a civ fan and he gave me pirated versions of the 4th and 5th games when I was younger. I'm still waiting for the right cue to switch to Civ 7 (67 haha).
  • Fountain Pens: Way less pressure needed to write, refillable ink cartridges, and they're just fun to write/draw with. Haven't mess with the flex nibs yet.
  • Coin/Bill Collecting: I still collect, but I have been slacking on casing my coins. Got money from countries all over the world. My favorite is the Taiwanese 10 New Dollars (2011-2023) because they have an effect on the back that shows a different image depending on the angle you're looking at.