About

I am Zhu Liang, INTJ, software engineering, street photographer.

I love blogging and developing meaningful things.

I love shopping and travelling to wonderful places.

I am fascinated by Tessellation and Islamic Patterns.

Contact me at zhuliangg11(at)gmail.com.

More about me:

The Good

• Patient: I am very very very patient with things.
• Independent: I like to be independent as much as possible. If something can be done without getting help from others, I will do it on my own.
• Task-oriented: I am good at completing specific tasks given to me, however I am not good at guessing the requirement.
• Quantifying: I like quantified things, such as rankings, scores, points.

The Good/Bad

• Joke: I like to joke about things and sometimes people take my jokes too seriously and I get into troubles.
• Contradictory perspectives: I like to consider things from different stands(perspectives of people from different backgrounds), even if some of them are contradictory to mine.
• Perfection, forever: I like things that are perfect or work forever, without the need to amend them. e.g. time format as 29/Apr/2014AD.
• Own principles: I follow principles that I could justify by myself, and expect others to follow them as well.
• Protect the weak: I find it natural to help the weaker party or side, regardless of the situation.
• Challenge: I like to try things that I’m not good at as a challenge.
• Commitment: I don’t like to be committed to something.

The Bad

• Ontological arrogance: I demonstrate ontological arrogance, according to someone who talked to me.
• Myopic: I am not good at getting the bigger picture or thinking of long-term goals.
• Over-promise, under-deliver: I have a tendency to give a promise that sounds great and later procrastinate and deliver something less impressive or miss the targeted deadline.
• Pretend to be good: I find it hard to admit that I am not good at something even though I know it.
• What I want: I don’t know what I want, that’s why I keep delaying the decision.

The Interesting

• I am interesting enough for you to read until this part of the page 🙂
• I got an E grade for General Paper (GP, a subject for comprehension and essay writing) during high school prelim exam for having “disturbing thoughts” against the elderly in my essay, but eventually I got an A for the A Levels GP, during which I argued why economic progress is more important than human rights.
• I suggested CSS fixes to stackoverflow and phabricator.
• I got myself a granted patent (US9984148B2) on visualization when interning at IBM.
• My handle, paradite is a portmanteu of paradise and parasite. Depending on your personality and mood, you may read it as different words.