If you could travel to one place in the world for a week (all expenses paid), where would you go?
I’d probably go back to Thailand. I love Thailand. There’s a spot up in Koh Samui where we went for my senior trip. It was on top of this mountain and the views were incredible. Beautiful people, beautiful place, and fucking incredible food. But I’d probably do Antarctica. That’s my last continent. Gotta get ‘em all. To get there is pretty expensive. So, having that for a week would be pretty cool.
If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for?
I’d do time travel. I think that’s kind of underrated. But like, being able to go rewind and fast-forward (not like going back and showing up in the 1940s. Just being there while everything else is happening and you screw up the timeline). Being able to go back and re-experience things and being able to slow down time because that the one thing nobody has control over. It’s the one thing you can’t get back or take away. Being able to make sure that no matter what happens, I’m able to use my time to the best and never run out of time. I think that would be the best superpower.
What do you think it means to live a good life?
To experience things. I think that’s what a good life is. You get a lot of people who say a good life is having success and a bunch of people around you. But you have to experience the world. You have to have some travels in your life. Otherwise, you don’t really get to know yourself. You don’t really get to experience the world and who you are as an individual. Having a good life involves going around, meeting people, talking to people, experiencing things, and most importantly being kind.
What is something you work on in your free time?
So, I do a lot of stuff working on my body. A lot of working out. You and me are both proud Planet Fitness members. But I’ve started doing yoga. Trying to get more into that. Rugby definitely breaks your body down (played for about 17 years). So, trying to find the next challenge is always important.
What emotion do you experience the most?
Probably anger. That’s pretty constant for me. But it’s not like a “I’m mad at somebody/something” sort of anger. You gotta have some kind of motivation to do things in your life and keep moving. Even getting up in the morning to go to the gym. You have to be a little angry to do that. It’s an anger than comes from the need to get to the next thing. To move on and continue improving. Anger can sometimes be seen as dark. It’s a positive for me. It’s honestly just motivation for me to get better.
Describe the color orange to someone who is blind
I’m trying to think of how people describe scents to me. I would say warmth. Like when you stand out in the sun on a beach day. Like you feel the warm sand. That’s how I would describe the color orange visually.
If there was one thing you’d want people to know about you, what would it be?
Besides being Chinese? Ok
Life has never been very stable for me. I do have a hard time meeting and connecting with people. It’s a struggle for me to go and attach to people/ meet people because my entire life nobody stayed around very long. So, it’s a hard thing for me to do (make human connections).
There’s a lot to me that looks on the exterior but does not exist within. People connect what I look like to their own lives. I’ve only actually been in the country for a couple of years. There’s this whole other world that I’ve existed in that doesn’t matter once I come here. Having people understand the world that I come from and the world that I live in would be the thing I’d want them to know