User:Dubliner

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Dubliner is the username of a Hong Kong wikipedian, S C Tony Ling.

[edit] About myself

• Born on 17 October 1985 at St. Paul's Hospital, Hong Kong
• Paternal family being "rich peasants" in Panyu supporting Kuomintang; all murdered by the Chinese Communist Government during land reform in the 1950s except my father who escaped to the British Colony of Hong Kong
• Maternal family being Malaysian Chinese in Sibu, Sarawak, with ancesters from Gutian (古田, Bàng-uâ-cê: Kŭ-chèng), Fujian
• Lived in Quarry Bay on Hong Kong Island ever since birth
• Received education at St. Margaret Mary's Kindergarten (Happy Valley), St. Joseph's College Primary School (Wan Chai) and St. Joseph's College (Central)
• Currently a final year medical student at the University of Hong Kong
• Professional pianist/accompanist
• Amateur choir conductor
• Self-taught tenor, singing at Hong Kong Voices, a local leading chamber choir
• Baptized a Roman Catholic in 2006
• Speaks fluent Cantonese, Putonghua, English; also speaks basic German
• Basic understanding of Hók-ciŭ-uâ (福州話) and Latin
• Now reside at RC Lee Hall, the University of Hong Kong

[edit] Qualifications and Awards (excerpt)

Academic

• Grantham Scholar, 2002
• HKU Foundation Scholar, 2003

Music

• DipABRSM in piano performing, 2003

[edit] Interests

• Music, especially on composers such as Bach, Alessandro Scarlatti, Mozart, Mahler, Shostakovich and Schoenberg. Also interested in various "pop" musicians such as Yann Tiersen, Benjamin Biolay and Françoise Hardy.
• Botony, currently planting a Lavendula pinnata, a Cupressus macrocarpa, a Rosmarinus officinalis and a Rhododendron nudiflorum.
• Graphic design, designed a number of posters, flyers and booklets for Hong Kong Voices and RC Lee Hall, HKU.
• Backpacking, travelled to Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Berlin, Weimar, Erfurt, Munich, Hamburg, the Bavarian Alps, Füssen, Salzburg and Berchtesgaden in May to June 2006