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[edit] About me
My name is Ryan, and I'm located in Singapore, the sunny island south of Malaysia. My interests include reading, writing, sketching, cats, design, video games, and coffee.
Currently, I am attending Raffles Junior College, having recently graduated from Raffles Institution, Singapore.
Unofficially, I like to think of myself as a creative and artistic person, and am desperately trying to write well enough to call myself a writer.
If there is anything I should know, leave a comment on my talk page or drop me an email!
[edit] On Wikipedia
I have, to date, created seventeen articles, expanded a few articles, cleaned up several, and tweaked more than I can count. While the articles I've worked on cover a wide range, I tend to hang around the same few topics:
- Singapore-related articles
- Articles on secondary schools in Singapore
- Articles on Mandarin singers
- Numerous computer game-related articles
- Music and animation
Articles I have created:
- Tao Nan School (October 13, 2004)
- Corrinne May (November 10, 2005)
- Peggy Hsu (November 11, 2005)
- Ocean Ou De Yang (November 16, 2005)
- Ramly Burger (November 20, 2005)
- Swallowtail Butterfly (film) (December 23, 2005)
- 11:11 (January 24, 2006)
- Amos Kwok (January 31, 2006)
- West Grand Boulevard (April 5, 2006)
- Dawn Yang (April 24, 2006)
- 100 Words (June 14, 2006)
- Mrbrown (June 20, 2006)
- Standfast (August 19, 2006)
- Figments of Experience (October 9, 2006)
- Sing to the Dawn (October 17, 2006)
- The First Intimate Contact (November 1, 2006)
- Linda Liao (November 15, 2006)
I am currently on a one-editor crusade to clean up articles on Singaporean actors! Currently done are:
[edit] Languages
I speak, read, and write English fluently, having grown up around mountains of books. I can also speak passable Singlish, the local variant. Chinese, my mother tongue, is more of an ordeal for me. I can understand and speak it well enough, but I can't grasp some of the more complex idioms and phrases used (when I say Chinese, I mean that I speak Mandarin, because I can't speak a word of my native dialect, Hinghwa, a dialect so obscure the only people who know about it are those who have eaten Hinghwa noodles). I studied French for two years before dropping the subject due to time management problems. Given a dictionary and enough time, I can read and write passable French, but communicating verbally is another thing altogether. In addition to these three languages, I also know smatterings of Malay, Japanese as well as Tolkien's famous conlang, Quenya.
