Hey 👋😀 I'm Sabian (SAY-be-in)

こんにちは！セイビエンです。
안녕하세요! 세비앤 입니다.

I'm a Vancouver-born half-Filipino guy who grew up on console games, PCs, and loves programming, STEM, cognitive science, and more

I have 3 passions:

• Understanding how things work
• Making things better
• Uplifting people

And I make damned sure everything I do brings these to life

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What I do

• My personal website
• A UX design project I led
• Some other projects I've done

What I value

• Clearly understanding, defining, and measuring outcomes
• Creating, integrating, and multiplying real value
• Designing, simplifying, and implementing automated systems

How to contact me

If you want to chat, or you know someone who might want to talk with me, then here's my info:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Pick My Brain

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Fun facts about me

I...

• Seem to improve at most things even without actively practising them
• Completed 230+ anime series/movies, which includes 4,541+ individual episodes. This does not include dropped series or series I forgot to track
• Watched 45+ movies, and 97+ TV shows, which includes 4,852+ individual episodes. Again, this does not include dropped series or series I forgot to track
• Have listened to probably every piece ever composed by Thomas Bergersen (Two Steps from Hell), Audiomachine, Eternal Eclipse, Jeremy Soule, and David Chappell
• In Shotokan Karate many years ago, went from white belt straight to blue belt (skipping green) in a single exam, earning the fittingly-coloured envy of my green-belted peers
• Experimented with various martial arts from Pankration, to Karate, Krav Maga, Taekwondo (TKD), Brazilian Juujutsu (BJJ), Arnis (FMA, Kali, Eskrima), Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA; medieval weapons), and many others. Overall, my favourites are BJJ and HEMA, but I enjoy them all
• Completely changed as a person at least two entire times since 2019, in terms of self-awareness, mindset, communication skills, business experience, physique, and more

Some of my all-time favourite things

Anime movies (that are unrelated to anime series)

• Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke)
• Kimi no Na wa (Your Name)
• Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away)

Anime series/worlds (including related movies)

• Toaru/Raildex
  • Toaru Majutsu no Index (A Certain Magical Index)
  • Toaru Kagaku no Railgun (A Certain Scientific Railgun)
  • Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator (A Certain Scientific Accelerator)
• Terra e (Towards the Terra; To Earth)
• Made in Abyss

Movie series/worlds

• The Matrix
• Harry Potter
• Lord of the Rings

TV series

• Merlin (BBC's The Adventures of Merlin)
• The Blacklist
• Mr Robot

My Theme: A Place in the Stars - David Chappell

Music (Orchestral)

• The Streets of Whiterun - TES V Skyrim Soundtrack - Jeremy Soule
• Victory - Two Steps from Hell
• Hymn of the High Seas - Antti Martikainen

Music (Electronic)

• Illuminate - Duumu
• Funk Transmission - Uppermost
• Till It's Over - Tristam

Music (lyrical, English)

• Heroes Fall - Hidden Citizens
• Hands Held High - Minutes To Midnight - Linkin Park
• The Search - NF

Music (lyrical, non-English)

• 얼��들 - AKMU (Melted - Akdong Musician)
  • MV with visual storytelling (No lyrics necessary to understand)
  • Lyrics
• 上白石萌音「懐かしい未来」(Nostalgic Future - Mone Kamishiraishi)
  • MV with visual storytelling (No lyrics necessary to understand)
  • Lyrics (These were not easy to find)
• Om Tare Tu Tare Ture Soha - Ballad from Tibet
  • Song clip from movie
  • Movie
• Wolf Totem - The HU

Videogame stories/worlds

• Final Fantasy X
• Mass Effect
• The Elder Scrolls

Bonus

• Final Fantasy X Ending
• Astartes animations
• The Great Dictator Speech - Charlie Chaplin + Time - Hans Zimmer