Hello! As you know, I'm Stem. I'm 14 years old - born in 2011. You may think, but isn't that too young to be on the internet? Well in actuality, it's perfectly fine! I remember creating my first youtube channel when I was 6 (yes, six) and it was terrible! LOL. I think I just uploaded mostly reposts or shitty gameplay footage. I have a few youtube channels now, but I never really upload on there. It just doesn't interest me that much. But I can always start again! Anyway, here's the About Me.
I'm from Queenstown, New Zealand, which looks like this. Looks beautiful, right? Well actually I'm quite used to this view and the place gets too touristy for my liking sometimes, hence why you'll see my hesitation for some places in the Travel Itinenary page. New Zealand as a whole is a fantastic place, but I hate Queenstown simply because I love Kiwi culture, which Queenstown has hardly any of. Plus the place has absolutely terrible urban planning, which you'll see a theme of me critiquing all throughout this website.
I have a whole page on my favourite artists, but that only lists, well, my favourite artists. For a bit of further depth, I prefer rock music, specifically
grunge, prog and classic rock. I don't really go to concerts, but I did go to the Pearl Jam concert in the photo above, hence why I picked it.
Do I play instruments? Yes! I play drums, guitar, and a teeny tiny bit of piano. If you want me for your band, you're gonna have to live near me,
I'm sorry. Oh and if you want a list of the artists I like the most, that would probably be Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Beatles, King Crimson and Metallica.
I'm really into geography & history! The world is an amazing place and I love to learn about it. I'll tell you some of my favourite fun facts.
Yeah, so I find the world fascinating. It's a great place to know about.
I'm into aviation! It's a bit of a new interest for me, but it's quickly become of my favourite things to know about. For preface, I'm not really into the military or propeller planes. I'm exclusively into airliners and commercial aircraft. I also haven't flown a plane before, but I would definitely love to. I've only flown on one airline - Air New Zealand, and I've only flown it international a single time, on a Boeing 787 to & from Rarotonga. However it doesn't mean I can't enjoy aviation. My favourite plane is the Boeing 747 (in the photo). I would prefer the Airbus A380 but it doesn't really have a lasting, iconic legacy that the 747 has. But my second favourite plane is the A350 - similar to the 787 but I think it's a modern and beautiful plane. I haven't really travelled around that much, but it is certainly on my bucket list to travel the world. Where would I go? Put simply, places like East Asia, Africa, and South America.
One of my favourite things to do is programming! This whole website was coded by myself using HTML and CSS. However I also enjoy experimenting on Scratch and occasionally Python. I've been coding since I was a kid - I started out on scratch making operating systems, but they never really turned out very good. I also made a ton of simple games. Recently I've tried improving my scratch skills and I made a game with a main menu and other cool features. I also followed a tutorial and made a generic platformer! However it's not too special cause I didn't really "Code" it myself. And now, I've learnt HTML and coded this whole website! Thanks to a simple Neocities tutorial and my DIT class, I've learnt a pretty good amount of HTML and I'm super proud of myself for it! If you like programming I would totally talk to you.
I think, as you can tell, I'm interested in city planning. One time, I got an AI to roast my reddit account. It told me all I did on reddit was just argue about urban planning. Which yeah, I talk about urban planning but I don't argue about it. At least, not that I think of. Anyway, I am very, very adamant that the perfect city is one that is easy to get around, highly walkable, and has good public transport. And it's also friendly to all walks of life. If you are into urban planning, I'd love to talk to you! It's a fascinating topic but hard to write about.
When it comes to videogames, I like to play city building and sandbox games. Minecraft and Cities Skylines are two of my favourite games.
I also like to do speedruns of the original Super Mario Bros; while I don't have an official time on the leaderboards I am definitely
capable of getting a time of mid-4:58.
I have ARFID, so essentially I struggle to eat even simple foods.
Unfortunately, it limits me a lot when it comes to everything to do with food. It's also hard to explain to everyone and is just a total nightmare.
I also have dyspraxia, where I tend to struggle doing simple tasks like riding a bicycle or tying my shoelaces. I love bikes but i've never properly been able to
ride one.
Here's a Q&A that may determine a few things about me, maybe:
So yep, that's me! You can scroll up to the top of the page and go view the other pages on this website. I hope you learnt a thing or two about me!
P.S., you can contact me here.