User:HistoryManiac
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[edit] Basic information
My Real name is Lee Shei Pin. By paper, my nationality is Malaysian and I currently resides in Singapore, Jurong West. I've never lived in Malaysia nor have I treated either country as my own. To complicate matter, my mother is a Korean. So please do not regard me as a Malaysian, Korean, or Singaporean especially even if I get citizenship. I hate being associated with Singaporean because of Singaporean typical mindset and ignorance. Not that I am insulting anyone though. As with the non-typical people, I admire them for thinking intellectually and able to analyse and give know what is important.
I am trillinguistic in English, Mandarin and Korean.
My standard of English is average. Not comparable with native English speakers (English people, North American, Australians) but better than most people whose main language isn't English. To be precise, I can understand clearly and use, but my usage of volcabulary is limited. Not very "poetic". I speak English with a notable Singaporean accent.
My Standard of Mandarin is somewhat average standard in Singapore. That is actually poor. Unable to understand many proverbs and idioms and even common words and phrases. Failure to recognise many characters. Thanks to the peer pressure in my school, my mandarin is better than average schools. Nevertheless, poor in the world's standard even if somewhat good amoung teacher's view and even if better than amoung some of my peers. I do not have any Malaysian mandarin accent and my father doesn't have that accent too, my accent could be regarded a Singaporean mandarin accent, distinguishable from Taiwanese accent and Beijing accent.
My Standard of Korean is really poor. Can be considered worst than kindergarden. I could understand 30-70% of a conversation, but unable to speak Korean. I feel awkward to use it as well. However, my accent do not sound like a person learning a new language. Sounds quite close to Seoul accent but not quite pleasant because I'm not fluent. Reading is a very simple task through the phoenics of Hangul, but in most case, I don't understand the meaning.
I am currently studying in Nan Hua High School. Previously in Juying Primary. I am currently 16(birtdate: 12 February 1990), so please don't blame me for naive comments I make because my views can be limited by my age.
[edit] Currently
Playing Rakion
Absorbing random knowledge through wikipedia
Listening to Classical and game music.
Researching about history
In school
Studying for [GCE O level examination[GCE]] and Preliminary examination.
[edit] Discontinued "Current doings" that maybe continued
Reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Editing/creating LF2 chars
Playing M.U.G.E.N
Reading King of Fighters 2002 comics
Visiting forums
Playing Age of Empires 3
Creating digital artwork
Completing Riviera
[edit] Current Obsession
Everything about Final Fantasy VII.
Mainly Advent Children, its music and the game.
[edit] Hopes
To grow stronger in God and get closer to him.
To be able to reunite with old friends in Junior College.
To be able to have some secondary school friends in Junior College
To do better academically, especially in Sciences and Maths.
To do better in music, complete Tifa's Theme soon
To go Junior College and not ITE or Polytechnics
To get a significantly better system to play Age of Empires 3
To complete my modification of LF2 chars someday
More friends would play Rakion
To finish reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms
To read the Chinese Romance of the Three Kingdoms
To be able to speak Korean quite well
To visit relatives in Korea.
To know more about history than I currently know.
To own a future game console when I becomes an adult.
To visit more countries
To open a conglomerate company someday.
[edit] Interest
General Knowledge
History, Military, Siege, Siege engines, inventions, technology, culture, Asian(excuding Southeast Asian), European, Middle East. Time Period:5000BC-1600AD
Science (Varied), especially Zoology, general physics, meteorology, geology, astronomy
Romance of the 3 Kingdoms
Varied and random Knowledge
[edit] Music
Suprisingly, unliked other teenagers, I don't like pop songs. I am okay with pop songs but I hate techno/trance, disco and euro music. I don't like rock songs.
The very fact that my choices of music aren't even songs, they are just music.
I like classical music, preferably orchestral pieces and piano pieces. My all time favourite includes Beethovan's Symphony no.5 (1st movement), Sonata no.8 "Pathetique"(1st movement, Allegro di con brio e molto), Sonata no.12 "Moolight Sonata" (1st movement and 3rd movement).
Mozart's Turkish March. Chopin's Etude in C minor (Revolutioary Etude) and etc...
I also like game music which is very varied.
Synthesized pieces includes "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" & "Age of Empires 2" Eg: Staff Credit(Zelda)
Rock pieces includes "Dynasty Warrior 4 & 5", "Guilty Gear X", "The King of Fighters", "Final Fantasy" Eg: Here We Go(DW4), Theme of Lu Bu(DW4), Opening(DW5), Elergy of Battle(DW5), Swordmen in the Plain(DW5), Esaka(KoF), Tears(KoF), J-E-N-O-V-A(Final Fantasy VII)
Sentimental pieces, "Final Fantasy", "Dynasty Warriors 4 & 5" Eg: Melodies of Life(FF9), Opening (FF7), To Zanarkand(FF10), Encyclopedia(DW5), Long Time Ago(DW4)
Orchestral/"Epic" pieces, "Final Fantasy", "Age of Mythology" Eg: One-winged Angel(FF7)Including the rock remix>, Have you met her Thunder(AoM), If you can use a doorknob(AoM), Opening Theme(AoE3)
I am able to accept most kind of game music except techno. As long as it isn't a song excluding chorals.
I learnt piano since 1996, taken ABRSM grade 1 practical exam at 1998. Taken ABRSM grade 1 theory and scored 91%. Stopped piano at 1999 due pressure from a school teacher. Restarted learning at 2004, Taking ABRSM grade 2 practical exam at later the same year with a score of 98%. In 2005, I took my ABRSM grade 2 practical in July, scoring 132/150 points, a distinction. Is currently taking Grade 4.
[edit] Contributions
Most are minor edits here and there, don't intend to do anything major.
I've done editing work on Nan Hua Secondary School. That is adding the Chinese school song, giving an introduction to the school song as well. Removed opinionated views. I've also removed misleading section in it. Now known as Nan Hua High School.
Added more details in Sephiroth(Final Fantasy VII) page from in the Advent Children section.
Corrected the part regarding Geostigma in Cloud Strife article at the Advent Children section.
Edited a small section in Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War as the sypnosis contained some wrong information about the story.
Added a note that 卧龙 is Zhuge Liang's Taoist name.
Removed crap from Zhuge Liang's article.
Added a note that the Chu Ko Nu literally meant Zhuge Crossbow, with reference to Zhuge Liang.
Minor standardised naming edits in Yi Sun Shin article.
Added that barley could be puffed in Puffed grain article. Seperated non-grains that could be puffed.
[edit] My Heroes
Reading histories, I absorbed knowledge of people. Here are some of my heroes in history that I respect.
Zhuge Liang - The greatest strategist and genius of the Kingdom of Shu. His intelligence and strategies always marvelled me. Worked wonders and had a great impact in East Asia, such that many people said that any Chinese who don't know him isn't a true Chinese.
Yi Sun Shin - The greatest admiral and general of the Chosun dynasty. His turtle ships, naval tatics and strategies had change the course of history in East Asia. Even when left with 12 of 300 ships after he was reinstilled his title, he still cut off 300 of 500 Japanese ships. He was a great man.
Will be adding more.
