My hobbies are cooking, bird feeding, gardening (I'm growing corns, tomatoes, and basils in my backyard), and playing piano. The first 3 hobbies just started when I moved to California. I started learning to play piano since I was about 4 years old. My parents' intention originally was just to pull my brother and me away from watching too much Japanese animations during the weekends. And everything just started from there. My brother and I were very bored and in agony back then, but our parents didn't let us quit unless we agreed to quit school and everything else in our lives...so, that never happened. I kept playing and was about to take the exam for Performance Diploma (about a year or so after finishing Grade 8 from Trinity College of Music, London). Unfortunately, everything was put on hold when I had to come study in the U.S. at the age of 18. And since I couldn't carry my piano all the way from home, I didn't get to play as much. Instead, I joined the school quartet and orchestra at The Madeira School, and later went to CMU and minor in music so that I could get a chance to play again. My brother moved to California in 2003 and bought a state-of-the-art electric piano so that every now and then I have something to play with when I'm bored. Once in a while we just get together and play 'duet'.