I
am a travelholic and a very lucky person who has been given
opportunities to travel in 20+ countries by the age of 24. That's
something I would have never expected to happen. Everything just
happened. Just like how I first started working in IT industry in Poland
after university but ended up as a location scout in Southeast Europe.
When chances come in life and interest me, I would just take them.
The Nerdiness In My Blood
Back in my high school days, I was quite a nerdy person in class. Writing "hello, world" was my major source of enjoyment. (Though,
somehow, I manged to complete my Graphic Design degree in England with
an upper second class honour. Achievement unlocked!) When
I first started my multimedia study in university, I already have a bit
freelance working experience of API projects for big names, so I
thought I would choose the UI/UX study path without any doubt.
Plan and mind changed.
After
my first year in university, I felt like university wasn't quite for
me. So, I took a short break, applied for my first adult passport, and
went travel alone, in Siberia.
I
am an adventurous person deep in my blood. All the crazy happenings in
Siberia just opened up my world. I found out I enjoy listening to
people's stories.
I
went back to university and changed my study path. I've got the chance
to study film photography, storytelling and cinematography in my second
year and that basically changed my life. I've finally found what I love
doing! I enjoy writing script and visualising the script by any visual
means, like photography and videography. I want to be a storyteller!
**Throwback - I believe I am probably the only person who actually enjoy writing personas when doing UX design back then. (Seriously, who would give a fuss on persona in school projects? Well, I do.)
Travel Makes Me Learn And Grow
The
more I travel the more I learn and the broader my perspective becomes.
I've learnt that travel is not all about beautiful landscape or tourist
attractions. People, culture, history there also matter, all these
factors come in a package.
Travelling
in exotic destinations, like Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Chechnya,
gives me an odd mixture of fear and excitement. Through travelling, I
developed cultural awareness and received chances to meet loads of
amazing people around the world! This also landed me my very first
freelance location scouting job somehow, another long story tho.
Works I Do For Living
Right
after my uni, I worked as a IT Analyst for 2 years (Yes, please imagine
me in the IT Crowd) and started to work in video production by chance.
There was a time I was into commercial photography for travel magazines,
then moved into backstage and video production management, e.g.
production set design for TVCs, overseas crew arrangement. Eventually, I
landed in location scouting particularly. Wooffff...what a journey.
Been
back in my hometown Hong Kong for 2 years so far, the time I spent in
TV broadcasting industry helped me to gain in-depth knowledge about
video production, like the industry standard and ability to adapt new
production trends. Not to mention pressure management...fancy to get an
emergency call from the Master Control Room at 1 a.m.? You should
consider working in broadcasting then, especially in the newsroom.
Last But Not The Least: My Resting B*tch Face
Don't
get me wrong because of my resting b*tch face, that's just my
expressionless face. I am a nice person in general. Trust me.
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Oh wait...
Is there actually someone who finished reading this and not thinking I am an egomaniac?
You must be an awesome person then!
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