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      Ngai To

      Chemical Engineering with a bit of Programming on the side.

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“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”

- Gary Provost

I like to read.

What I’m currently reading:

-Conversation with Friends by Sally Rooney

Here are some books I’ve read.

Fiction

  • Normal People by Sally Rooney
  • Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks
  • Feed by M.T Anderson
  • The Name of the Wind by _Patrick
  • Red Rising by Pierce Brown
  • Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
  • 15 Dogs by Andre Alexis
  • Turtles All the Way Down by John Greene
  • Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card
  • Origin by Dan Brown

Less-fiction

  • 12 Rules of Life by Jordan Peterson
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
  • The Drunkard’s Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
  • Unlocking the Atom by David Phillip Jackson
  • Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos

No-fiction (I actually enjoy these ones)

  • Practical Electronics for Inventors by Scherz Monk
  • An Introduction to Interfaces and Colloids by John Berg
  • Process Dynamics and Control by Dale Seborg et al.
  • Excel 2016 VBA and Macros by Bill Jelen and Tracy Syrstad