Tell us something about you that most people don't know about.
Ans: I went to a local primary school so for five years I studied only in Chinese. After Grade 3, I stopped attending the school's English class and used the time to read myself. So for three years, the only English education I received every week was two hours of tuition with other expat kids in my school. When I graduated from primary school in Grade 5, I decided to skip Grade 6 and start secondary school. So… for the first year or two in SSIS, my grades struggled. But now English comes much more naturally to me than Chinese does!
What's your superpower?
Ans: I think my superpower would be trying to be happy, or trying to make others happy. Like, I really put a conscious effort into it because I believe in trying to make myself positive and making happiness contagious. I mean, of course, everyone has their moody moments. But I've been trying to keep mine to a minimum, or to keep them to myself so my negative energy doesn't upset others. My parents practice yoga and they believe that, you create an aura of energy for yourself. So I want to create positivity and surround myself with positive thoughts as much as I can. I think it's just small things I do. And everyone can do that. But I think it's my superpower just because I really believe in it and it's something I think I try hard to do well.
What was a defining moment of your life?
Ans: Well, there's many different moments that I think changed me. I think one great transition I went through is... When I first came to this school, it was a very different environment than what I was used to. So I wasn't very good at making friends and everything. I tried to change myself to fit in, but that didn't really work, because it made me very self-conscious and very unhappy with everything that I did. In Grade 10, when we had to do our personal projects, which is a part of the MYP curriculum, I decided to start a show choir CCA (co-curricular activity) to raise awareness for teenage suicide and self-harm. I had recently become aware of these issues and how they were affecting people around me. But also, it was a good opportunity for me to take up leadership roles. And that decision, pretty much changed the rest of my high school career because it made me remember that, I liked organising things and I liked helping people. So after that, I started participating in everything that came my way or just creating my own things. And it made me feel so happy, just being active and busy and really involved. It made me feel special because my little efforts could really make some sort of a difference, no matter how small. And everyone should be able to feel that way. That wasn't really a moment, more like a whole period of transition, but it's really made me see clearer about who I am and what I want to do.
Share a quote with us that you believe in/shares your ideologies of life.
Ans: "Half the world will always be in darkness, while the other is in the light. There are always two sides to the same story." My mother told me this back in Grade 7, and it's stayed with me every since. I used to be very self-conscious, so I spent a lot of time doubting myself, worrying what people thought of it. So this really reminds me that no matter who you are, there are people who love and support you, so that's what you need to focus on, instead of the destructive and unkind things people may say or think about you.
Ans: I went to a local primary school so for five years I studied only in Chinese. After Grade 3, I stopped attending the school's English class and used the time to read myself. So for three years, the only English education I received every week was two hours of tuition with other expat kids in my school. When I graduated from primary school in Grade 5, I decided to skip Grade 6 and start secondary school. So… for the first year or two in SSIS, my grades struggled. But now English comes much more naturally to me than Chinese does!
What's your superpower?
Ans: I think my superpower would be trying to be happy, or trying to make others happy. Like, I really put a conscious effort into it because I believe in trying to make myself positive and making happiness contagious. I mean, of course, everyone has their moody moments. But I've been trying to keep mine to a minimum, or to keep them to myself so my negative energy doesn't upset others. My parents practice yoga and they believe that, you create an aura of energy for yourself. So I want to create positivity and surround myself with positive thoughts as much as I can. I think it's just small things I do. And everyone can do that. But I think it's my superpower just because I really believe in it and it's something I think I try hard to do well.
What was a defining moment of your life?
Ans: Well, there's many different moments that I think changed me. I think one great transition I went through is... When I first came to this school, it was a very different environment than what I was used to. So I wasn't very good at making friends and everything. I tried to change myself to fit in, but that didn't really work, because it made me very self-conscious and very unhappy with everything that I did. In Grade 10, when we had to do our personal projects, which is a part of the MYP curriculum, I decided to start a show choir CCA (co-curricular activity) to raise awareness for teenage suicide and self-harm. I had recently become aware of these issues and how they were affecting people around me. But also, it was a good opportunity for me to take up leadership roles. And that decision, pretty much changed the rest of my high school career because it made me remember that, I liked organising things and I liked helping people. So after that, I started participating in everything that came my way or just creating my own things. And it made me feel so happy, just being active and busy and really involved. It made me feel special because my little efforts could really make some sort of a difference, no matter how small. And everyone should be able to feel that way. That wasn't really a moment, more like a whole period of transition, but it's really made me see clearer about who I am and what I want to do.
Share a quote with us that you believe in/shares your ideologies of life.
Ans: "Half the world will always be in darkness, while the other is in the light. There are always two sides to the same story." My mother told me this back in Grade 7, and it's stayed with me every since. I used to be very self-conscious, so I spent a lot of time doubting myself, worrying what people thought of it. So this really reminds me that no matter who you are, there are people who love and support you, so that's what you need to focus on, instead of the destructive and unkind things people may say or think about you.