What’s up guys?
Today I’m going to do the 50 Facts About Me video just
so you can get to know a little bit more about myself.
So it’s just going to be a fun one and I’m going to start right now:
1.
First fact is I have a hitchhiker’s thumb which means my thumb bends
90 degrees back this way.
I’ve had this my whole life and I didn’t know
it was a weird thing until I saw a video saying Jessica Alba has a weird thumb and she has
a hitchhiker’s thumb as well.
And I was like, “Wait, everyone’s thumb can’t do this?”
2.
My hair has been all the colors of the rainbow literally from red to orange to yellow,
green, blue, purple, and silver and gold.
I’ve just always loved to dye my hair.
In high school
I used to buy those box dyes from Target and do my own hair.
In 2014 I learned how to
bleach my hair so that’s when I started to go crazier with more pastel colors.
3.
I’m currently 25 years old.
4.
In the Chinese zodiac I am year of the horse.
5.
I’m classically trained in piano and I’ve been playing my entire life,
since I was like five or six years old.
6.
If you guys know anything about playing piano,
I took the Royal Schools of Music exam, and I passed Level 8 which is the last level.
7.
But what I discovered I really loved to do was play and sing pop songs on the piano.
So in high school I started a YouTube channel where I just recorded myself singing cover
songs.
8.
I also played flute from when I was in fifth grade throughout high school.
I was in band, marching band, wind ensemble, all of those things.
And I also played piccolo for two of those years.
9.
I’m a singer and songwriter, and I have an album out on iTunes and Spotify,
which I’m pretty proud of because that was like my little personal project.
10.
The only sport that I did in high school was swimming.
So I was on the JV swim team
my sophomore year, and I was probably the slowest swimmer on the team.
But that was also the most fit I’ve ever been in my life
because I swam everyday and I was so muscular.
11.
I love to dance, do yoga, and zumba.
12.
I also danced on a few hip hop teams from when I was in college to a few years after
college.
I think I was probably on four or five different teams, both competitive and exhibition teams.
13.
I went to school at USC, University of Southern California,
and I studied business and communications.
14.
I really love Wicked, the broadway musical, and I know the words to all the songs.
If you ever see me and you know the songs too, we can totally duet.
15.
I really love pastel colors.
16.
I exclusively use Muji pens, because they’re the best.
17.
I’ve traveled to 17 countries so far, in my life,
18.
and one of my goals in life is to travel to all seven continents of the world.
19.
One day I want to write a book.
20.
I’m Chinese American
21.
and my Chinese name is Xu Aileen, but it really sounds like Aileen ‘Su’.
22.
I speak Mandarin, Cantonese, basic Spanish, basic Italian,
and of course English is my first language.
23.
I know how to sew.
24.
I have multiple crease eyelids which means I have so many creases on my eyelids
that my eyes are never the same shape.
My left eye is smaller than my right eye,
so if I take photos I’m always showing this side, because this side is always smaller
when I smile.
Can you tell?
25.
My favorite animals are turtles and elephants.
I love turtles because
26.
when I was young, I had these two pet turtles and they grew from the size of a quarter
to this size and they were so huge and I had them for so many years.
27.
I really fell in love with elephants when I went to Thailand
and I got to meet them face-to-face.
They were so awesome.
28.
One day I hope to volunteer at an elephant sanctuary.
That’s just something that I want to do once in my life.
29.
My favorite Pokemon is Squirtle, and in my car
I have a little Squirtle bobblehead right there on the dashboard.
30.
Out of all the elements, I really love water.
I really like to be around bodies of water,
and water makes me feel so calm and peaceful.
31.
I am a Libra, my birthday’s in October.
32.
My Myers-Brigg personality type is between ENFJ and INFJ.
When I took the test in high school and college I would get ENFJ,
but I think after college I’m more of an introvert, so I’ve become more of an INFJ.
But basically I think I’m around the middle of extrovert and introvert.
It really depends on the people I’m with and the life stage that I’m in.
33.
I love chocolate and my favorite types of chocolate are Milko bars
and Ikea’s hazelnut chocolate.
If you haven’t tried Ikea’s chocolate, it’s amazing.
Don’t judge it until you try it.
34.
I really enjoy interior design.
I really like clean, very refreshing spaces.
35.
I have a younger brother named Elvis.
He’s three years younger than me,
and I love him to death.
36.
I also have a lot of cousins.
I probably have 20-something or more cousins.
I grew up with most of them.
They feel like my huge family of brothers and sisters.
37.
When I was young, I was super duper shy and timid.
I was the kid who was
so scared to raise her hand in class, too scared to talk.
38.
My favorite drink is water, and I’m not kidding.
I love water.
39.
The only bone I’ve ever broken in my body is my thumb.
In high school
I fractured my thumb by falling off of a scooter, and I had to wear a cast
all on my arm up to here for at least a month.
40.
That summer I went to a rock festival called Warped Tour and I crowd-surfed
for the first time, with my cast, riding the people.
I also got my cast signed
by the band Matchbook Romance and few other small bands that were there.
41.
My first internship in college was at the TV channel E!.
I worked on the set of E! News in the wardrobe department.
I got to sit on set with Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancic when they were filming the
show.
42.
My favorite movie of all time is Moulin Rouge.
I’ve probably watched that movie
twenty times or more in my life, and I’m still not sick of it.
I just love the soundtrack so much
and I love its romantic style.
Moulin Rouge was directed by Baz Luhrmann which is why
43.
I also love the movie The Great Gatsby with Leonardo DiCaprio.
That movie is just
so beautiful, visually.
There was a scene where they show flowing curtain drapes.
Flowing fabric is one of my favorite textures in the world.
It just makes me so happy.
44.
I used to go to Chinese school every Saturday morning with my cousins.
After Chinese school,
45.
we would take kung fu lessons, so I also used to do kung fu as well.
The thing is I was never really good at sparring but I loved to do performance kicks and stuff.
Honestly I’m more of a dancer than a fighter.
46.
Also when we were kids, my cousins and I got together, and we learned
the whole choreography to N’SYNC’s “It’s Gonna Be Me” and we performed it at a family
party.
It was like the coolest thing ever.
We still talk about it now because we put so much effort.
Every Saturday we would practice, watching the music video over and over
to learn all the moves.
It was really fun.
I really, really wish that we still had the video
but I haven’t seen it in years.
47.
The first CD that I ever purchased was Britney Spears: “Baby One More Time”, and
48.
when I was young, my first dream job was to become Britney Spears’ backup dancer.
That was my goal.
49.
I also used to pretend to be a radio host and DJ when I was young.
I had this little toy recorder-radio thing, and I used to record myself talking into it
like,
“Hello, this is the Aileen show.”
And I would record a song when it came on
on the radio and like, “Oh my god, this next song is so great!
Blah, blah, blah.”
And I would record that song and have all these tapes: Aileen’s favorite songs, Aileen’s
mixtape.
I was like the queen of mixtapes back then.
50.
My favorite cuisines are Japanese and Italian foods, and I think I could
live off those two cuisines for the rest of my life if I had to.
Even better was when I went to Japan
and we had Japanese-Italian fusion pasta.
It was SO good, oh my goodness.
Alright, those are the 50 facts about myself.
I feel like I shared a lot of myself with you guys,
but at the same time I could also share so much more, so let me know
if you’re interested in hearing another 50 more facts about me.
Or if you don’t care, that’s fine too.
Also: I’d love if you guys could share one random fact about yoursef in the comments
because I’d like to get to know you guys a little bit more.
Alright, thank you for watching.
I’ll see you in the next one.
Bye!