100 facts you did not know about me

Since my co-founder Jun Loayza wrote a post about the same topic, I figured I need to write one too just to be cool. I mean, people have a lot of different opinions about me, but few can deny that I'm a pretty unique/weird guy, so I'm sure I can beat Jun in being more interesting:

1. I can write different things with both hands at the same time


2. I have a scar with 26 stitches on my lips because it split in two when I ran into a metal trashcan at the age of 3


3. My father has been a diplomat for Taiwan for over two decades


4. My mother has Master's Degree in Chinese literature


5. I was born in Taiwan, but grew up in South Africa (6 years), Taiwan (7 years), Kansas (5 years), and California (5 years)


6. I started my high school chess club and I spent 4 hours a day learning so I could coach the team


7. My high school chess club won the State Championship in my Junior Year, and won the championship for the next 5 years. They also finished strong nationally.


8. I secretly admire my girlfriend's workaholic discipline and how everyone likes her (schools, jobs, guys)


9. I tutored chess, violin, Chinese, English, and Math to over 12 students between the ages of 8-20


10. I can play the violin at the back of my head


11. I can beat many of my friends in chess without looking at the board (shout the moves)


12. When I was little, my dream job was to be a factory worker in a ramen factory


13. When I was little older, my dream job was to be either an actor/singer, or a professor at anything


14. I thought I was going to be a Biochemist during high school. I applied to schools with chem majors


15. In South Africa, my favorite pet dog is named Icy


16. Icy was smart enough to press the doorbell when she was locked out of the house on accident


17. Before I was 17, I was constantly working to be accepted by others. I was a pushover


18. When I was small, I felt that I had an obligation to be happy because people around me are sad. When I cry, I do it secretly and shamefully


19. A huge chunk of my education was derived from business podcasts


20. On my iPod Nano, there are no music but 4 gigs worth of podcasts


21. I graduated from UCLA with a degree in International Economics in 3 years while running my businesses to save my parents money


22. I became a devoted Christian when I was in 10th grade, after rejecting a church invite from a friend six times.


23. I brought Jun to the Way of the Sub


24. I once lost 13lbs in 3 weeks after declaring that I wouldn't shave until I lose 10


25. I am a co-founder of Bruin Consulting from UCLA


26. I once rejected sex from one of the most attractive girls I know


27. I became an entrepreneur when I was 18


28. My first business was on eBay, when I "coincidentally" won 2 football tickets by drawing myself from a raffle


29. I started four businesses, one non-profit, and one student organization before I was 22


30. My goal in life is to make people around me successful


31. I can beat Jun at Super Smash Bro Melee


32. I used to be called Eric


33. My best friend when I was in South Africa was called Luwazi, although I don't know how to really spell it


34. I put ice cubes in my fried rice


35. I have eaten an eight-by-eight at In'N'Out and thought it was nothing


36. I met my girlfriend at Aikido Class


37. In middle school, I was obsessed with martial arts and would spend hours a day practicing/reading about it


38. I was a heavy Starcraft and Diablo II player


39. There is nothing in my life that I truly regret up to this point


40. I have about 1500 friends


41. I am heavily involved in the green/sustainability movement


42. I was one of the 100 young leaders in California that was invited to the Governor's Global Climate Summit


43. I took a dump in a bush outside my college apartment once and wiped with leaves because I lost my keys


44. I look smarter than I actually am. I was impressed by a guy when he said he is as smart as I seem to be.


45. I had the worse phobia for earrings until I wanted to prove to my girlfriend phobias can be overcome by love


46. I joined the debate team the first year I came to the states. Got slaughtered without knowing much English, but made it to varsity my junior year


47. I literally eat four times faster than some of my friends


48. I used to write string quartet music and perform in a group call BoPo MoFos


49. My first relationship was opposite attract. She was pessimistic with low self esteem


50. I have global expansion plans: LA, SF, Shanghai, Beijing, Taiwan, London, Argentina, Brazil, Dubai


51. I used to be addicted to this online pure text strategy game called Utopia


52. I have very awkward body language


53. My violin's name is Marian. I named her after a Danish girl I liked in high school.


54. I had one of the most important epiphany's in life from Diablo II


55. My favorite movie is Brave Heart. It made me cry ever watching it the 4th time.


56. I think I am pretty impressive for my age, but am always shocked when others think I'm impressive


57. I created a business analysis system in college called Octalysis


58. I prefer living in a triple than a double. I would pay a bit more for a third roommate


59. I have never smoked cigarettes or done drugs


60. I can only bend down to touch my knees


61. In South Africa, my family received a certificate from the government, stating that my family is honored as the equivalent of white people. Maybe not so honorable.


62. When I was in 5th grade, I led a team to clean the restrooms used by kids with special needs. I can confidently say that I was the No 1 poop cleaning expert in my school (being a pushover in everything else)


63. I feel that a leader should take care of the grunt work while the team focuses on what they are best at


64. I can make a strange eagle cry noise that no one I have ever met can reproduce


65. One of my new hobbies is to hulahoop and DDR at the same time


66. I can beat the entire Mocap Boxing game in arcades within 2 tries


67. When I was younger, I was obsessed with ninjas


68. My brain makes connections between things that most people think are random


69. So far people seem to think that I'm a good leader


70. I realized that Twitter has the potential to take over my life


71. I swam varsity for my high school team


72. I shaved my head twice, one for swimming, the other because of girlfriend


73. I have a $8 budget a day for food until my startup generates good revenue


74. I took Spanish for three years, but didn't learn much


75. I am trying to really learn Spanish


76. I am into promoting acupuncture


77. I love my girlfriend a lot and am stunned by how beautiful she is over and over again


78. I am not a sentimental person. I only look forward, not back


79. I am trying to lose 20 lbs. I starve myself sometimes for that


80. The first thing I check out when seeing a girl is her hair


81. The most important physical trait of a girl to me is her eyes


82. I look for non-emotional girls who share the same interest as me


83. I am a co-founder of Future Delivery TV


84. I have my own reality show called Living the Startup Life


85. I speak in explanations, not in sentences


86. Jun says I look like a Panda, but I think my animal would definitely be Dolphin


87. I do not care about living a luxurious life, but I want to make the largest impact possible


88. I think it is better to live in a small house and eat well if I did become wealthy


89. I often needed to do penalty problems till 3AM in the morning when I was in third grade because I just moved from South Africa to Taiwan


90. I have about 7-8 best friends in this world, all separated by geographic area


91. I made hundreds of people motivated and level up in real life


92. I wrote a Chinese novel that is 190,000 words with three years of effort, and only 20% done


93. My dream vacation is to fish and play chess at the same time with an attractive and smart woman


94. I am a typical O blood type Taurus


95. I once faced death and smiled, thinking that I lived a good life


96. I like to sing, but sing horribly


97. The worse drink that I ever had was a Durian Smoothy


98. I believe that one day I will be the leader in one or more industries


99. I am appreciative of my teammates: Jun, Jason, Alesha, Jason, Joseph


100. I'm not sure if creating this list is a good return on investment in time or not