Christopher Brandon Teck Yong
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Christopher Brandon Teck Yong

Volunteer, paintor, writerFrance
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Christopher Brandon Teck Yong

Volunteer, paintor, writerFrance
About me
Passionate about climate, environment, and sustainability, democracy and anything related to knowledge and philosophy. I am vegan, a feminist, an animal lover. I value my health, desire beauty and yearn for truth and justice. After a gap year which enabled me to discover Europe (more than fifty cities), I am ready for new challenges ahead. Previously I worked in the luxury industry with a crossover on arts and culture. I also have experience as a teacher in different subjects. I tutored and gave courses to students in difficulty. Note 1: I am not interested in marketing and advertising jobs. Note 2: I am partly disabled. Mottos in life: never stop, peace and love. INTERESTS AND THINGS I LIKE: • Classical music, opera, and ballet music (Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Brahms, Dvořák, Wagner, Debussy, Tchaïkovsky, Richter, Rossini, Bellini, Maria Callas...). Provided that it is beautifully composed and played correctly of course. • Philosophy (Plato, Pythagoras, Epicurus, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, GWF Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein) and poetry (Pindar, Ted Hughes, J.A. Baker, Georges Seferis, and so many more), • Reading novels in their original language or in translations, collecting books, writing, • Animals, • Art, drawing, painting and sculpture (Italian renaissance, grotte Chauvet, Rodin, Da Vinci, Dürer, Caspar David Friedrich, Turner, abstract, Mondriaan, Anna-Eva Bergman, Joseph Beuys, Ai Weiwei,...), creating, painting, and collecting artworks, • Mathematics (number theory,…) • Architecture (Renzo Piano, daylight architects such as Hiroshi Sambuichi, Campo Baeza, Jørn Utzon, Henning Larsen), • Archeology, • Cinema (Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, Wong Kar-wai, Keira Knightley, Alicia Vikander, Kôji Yakusho), theatre (Shakespeare, Sophocles, Beckett), • DIY, cooking healthy and nutritious, i.e. vegan, vegetarian and plant-based. • Cycling, running, fitness, hiking, walking, golf (not into professional sports), • Reforestation and biodiversity, climate change mitigation, • Plants, • Classical strategy games (chess, go), • Astronomy and physics (Newton, Einstein), • Medicine, • Fighting injustice and bureaucracy, democratic principles, feminism, • Pacifism and Gandhian non-violence (अहिंसा), admirer of Wangari Maathai, Dalai Lama, Hibakusha, WWF, Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd Global, • Atheism, • Yoga, • Tai chi chuan, • Meditation, • (My) tattoos. • Languages and linguistics.
Work history
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    PaintorOn my own
    FrancePart Time
    Independent practice bearing ecoconsciousness.
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    WriterOn my own
    EuropeFreelance
    Unpublished and unpublishable.
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Skills
  • Analytic
  • Leadership
  • Creative
  • Verbal Communication
  • Polyglot
  • Detail Oriented
  • Determination
  • Empathic Listener
  • Art Criticism
  • Precision
Education
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    Master in CommunicationCELSA - Sorbonne School of Journalism
     - Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
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    Master’s Degree in Social Science and HumanitiesÉcole Normale Supérieure, rue d'Ulm
     - Paris, France
    French Literature.
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Awards
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    English Score C1 AdvancedBritish Council
    Core Skills Test, Speaking Test, Writing Test.
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    Boursier Excellence-MajorAEFE
    French scholarship for top international baccalauréat students.