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hi everyone happy New Year this is my
first speaking video of the year the
previous one was a travel Vlog so I
thought that I would make a 50 facts
about me video I've typed a list of
things on my phone so I'll be reading
off that um so let's get started the
first one is I was born in South Africa
but I grew up in Pakistan Paris and
Dubai and a few years ago my parents
moved to Tokyo so that also kind of
feels like home for me the first foreign
language I learned at school was U when
I lived in Pakistan but unfortunately I
forgot how to speak most of it my
favorite drink is tea I love ulong tea
chamomile your
mut I love a lot of tea um I can't eat
spicy food except Kim because it's so
delicious I have IBS endometriosis
scoliosis hyper hydroa but I'm despite
the pain and discomfort I'm really happy
um I sell customized shoes I draw on
shoes and decorate them they used to
sell really well when I was in high
school but I got a bit busy now but I'm
still making them I used to have
hamsters I really love small animals um
big animals kind of scare me so hamsters
were perfect for me these days I'm
getting really into minimalism so I've
been researching a lot and decided I
have way too much clitter especially if
I want to move in the next year I don't
know what to do with all of my books I
really love music and I've started to
learn to two languages because of the
music so Vietnamese and Mongolian if you
ever wonder why I'm learning those is
because of their music I'm really
interested in Vietnamese hip hop and
Mongolian pop music um I have Instagram
you can follow me on this link here I'm
a Christian and sometimes I go to
Chinese or Korean church cuz I find the
way they worship is um kind of different
from the Western Afric church I'm used
to and I find that really interesting I
worked in in a Korean restaurant for
about 2 years parttime so that really
helped me to practice my Korean and
learn more about Korean cuisine my
favorite color is gray I love gray um oh
yeah since learning language is like
Chinese and Japanese and Korean the
writing system is much faster than
English or it takes up less space than
English so most of my University notes
are written in like Chinese characters
or Korean or Japanese just because it's
faster I mix American and British
spelling so sometimes I get marks taken
off from my reports because um when I
lived in Dubai I went to an American
school so I kind of have the American
spelling inra in my head but my
university is South African so we use
British spelling so it kind of mix the
two I've been on a TV show it's called
travel story from Adam TV in Korea um
the link is in the description so you
can check out that it's a few years back
though but it was a nice experience my
major is information design so I'm
graduating this year
and this is my business card uh a yearo
that's my old logo though so I've
updated that I need to make new business
cards what is next when I was in high
school I had really short hair like
pixie cut and it looked completely
different from how it is now um I'm kind
of a control freak I want everything to
be organized and planned out well but
I'm really trying to work on that this
year I designed merchandise for One
Piece once and it's being sold in Tokyo
Tower at the moment which is exciting my
favorite sounding language U favorite
language based just off how it sounds is
Vietnamese um I have a diary where I
write one page in Mandarin Chinese every
single day and I did a diary in Japanese
last year for the whole year 365 pages
of Japanese so maybe I'll do a video on
that later but it's a bit personal since
it's my diary the place I find most most
beautiful in the world is halat in
Austria I went there once for a holiday
and it was extremely beautiful and
peaceful my phone
froze no it's because I have hyper
hydroa which is sweaty hands so my phone
glitches a little start okay um I've
been in a magazine four times or been in
four different magazines either for um
like the shoes I made or fashion or
articles every I'm always hungry all the
time but I can't eat a lot at once so I
eat little bits many times throughout
the day um I go to a huge amount of art
exhibitions and Design Gallery Tokyo is
a really good place to um always be able
to visit exhibitions I get cold easily
so very easily so I love the warmth um
yeah maybe cuz I grew up in the desert I
never go to the gym I've never been to a
gym it's kind of scary
I don't like working out no most of my
really close friends I either met online
or they are still online
acquaintances um quite you know close to
me where I'm living I have quite a few
good friends but people really close to
my heart are people who I've known
online for many years um this year I'm
trying to keep track of my language
learning hours so I've got a little book
where I track how many hours I spent on
each language for the whole year and at
the end of the year I'm going to
calculate those and see which language I
spend the most time on I keep
sketchbooks every time I'm on holiday I
have a special Sketchbook which I draw
in I don't know where it is now I'm very
sentimental so I would keep everything
and I used to scrapbook a lot but not
with minimalism I'm trying to um scale
down and you know little bits and Bobs
and keeping try to keep the memories in
here um I'm really interested in blind
and deaf people and I really want to
figure out how through design design I
can help um specifically buy
people I collect socks and buttons I
have a huge collection of socks you can
check out the video on my channel of my
sock collection um I counted once at one
point I had over 500 language books and
then I scal down and now I'm down to
maybe 3 or
400 language books that's not including
design books I have a big book
problem wouldn't say I believe in aliens
but I do think there is intelligent life
forms out there so I like to read about
you know aliens and UFO stories
yes um I want to learn how to make 3D
art on computer it's a bit difficult for
me but that's one of my
goals um I've interned in Japan twice I
just finished an internship and it was a
really great experience to get to know a
Japanese office um my dream is to to
live either in Singapore Hong Kong or
Tokyo for a long time my dream was to
live in South Korea but it's way too
cold I really I can't handle the cold
but um I'm thinking Singapore is quite
nice and warm so perhaps I'll move there
one day I love black bean anything like
black bean milk black bean tea Black
Bean Bread so I'm really happy to be in
Japan cuz I can eat that whenever I want
I don't eat any Seafood it kind of makes
me nauseous it's like I'm eating the
ocean and it's really strong so no
seafood and people are like okay can you
eat shrimp or can you eat tuna it's
still Seafood no thank you oh yeah in
middle school I didn't have a lot of
friends so sometimes I would eat lunch
in the
bathroom Okay moving swiftly on I'm
allergic to preservatives so I get
really bad stomach AES if I eat a lot of
stuff so these are actually one of my
favorite Japanese candies
they don't I don't think they have
preservatives or at least it doesn't
give me stomach aches and it says it's
got 100% fruit material those are great
my favorite food is f Vietnamese F it's
so good I had it twice this week and
probably four times this month so far
it's amazing one of my most embarrassing
moments I was um doing an interview for
an internship in Japan my very first
interview ever and as I got out of the
door I bent to put on my shoes cuz you
take off your shoes in Japan and my
pants ripped right in the middle and
everybody could hear there it was like
and luckily I was on my way out and not
in and I just I was like pretend nothing
happened nothing happened and I just
walked out super embarrassing needless
to say I didn't get the job and I never
went back there again oh yeah when I
lived in Dubai I really thought I would
become a fashion designer so I wrote to
a whole lot of fashion designers Betsy
Johnson was one of them and Dre Acra and
Derek Lamb and Derek Lamb and remra
replied and they sent me some of their
you know DVDs and stuff and remra
actually drew a sketch on a piece of um
fabric which I really treasure I have
way too many notebooks and planners and
journals and planning apps and stuff I I
love writing and I really need to do
something about my notebook collection
I'm a co-founder of of Wiki Tong you can
find us on YouTube if you search Wiki
Tong or go to wiki t.org we work to
promote language diversity and language
rights so if you're interested in
languages which you probably are if
you're watching my Channel please do
check out Wiki tongues if um you want to
hear what different languages sound like
or if you want to get involved in our
project um and lastly I collect Maps
this is not my bedroom it's actually my
in my parents apartment in Japan but in
Petoria I most of my walls are filled
with different Maps hope you enjoyed the
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time bye considering I just spoke about
minimalism previously um this is a book
I would highly recommend it's by
Dominique La so she's a French French
author but it's been translated into
green Shand which means living simply
and um I've just obviously studied
through this since it's still a bit
difficult but this book is extremely
great if you're interested in living
simply and becoming a minimalist and
over here is a green tea brand that I
really like from Japan oot so if you're
ever in Japan I highly recommend this if
you are interested in tea