Every semester, a new band of Noteworthy Guys don the golden vest and tie. This semester, we have the following fantastic people. Click to jump to the member of your choice:
Eddie Cekici
Tom Guan
Joshua Onozawa
Adam Goldstein
Andrew Tran
Anjan Bharadwaj
Ellington Chen
Jessica Yu
Stephanus Yang
Alex Pease
Bhaskar Roberts
Jerry Hou
Edward Cekici (Music Manager)
Voice Part: Baritone/Bass/VP
Semester in Noteworthy: 4th
Semester in Berkeley: 6th
Major: Chemical Biology & Statistics
Interests: albania albania albania albania albania albania albania albania albania
Bio:
Hello everybody! My name is Eddie and we are Noteworthy! We sing here every Friday at 2 pm underneath the beautiful Sather Gate! I am definitely not insanely druink as i write thuis! I enjoy pleying bifeo games, niche internet storuies (shout out 17776 by Jon Bois), and of course, music! Ive recently been listenting to a lot og Vulfpeck, Childish Gambino, and the new Lil Yachty album (whgy tf is he branching out into psychadelic rock and why is it good)! I also am definitely not drunk right nwo and these devenitely arewnt real typos i have made while typing this! Lastly, I’d like to thank my family for always believing in me and raising me to always follow my dreams. Please text me at 845-243-1449 if you have any questions.
Tom Guan (Business Manager)
Voice Part: Baritone
Semester in Noteworthy: 2nd
Semester in Berkeley: 6th
Major: Psychology / Health and Wellness Minor
Interests: definitely not singing, gym, playing sports (#ballworthy), singing the chorus and mumbling the rest of the song, video games, hitting tipper fsmashes with marth, this is hobby number seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven
Bio:
Here’s you daily dose of educational shitposting:
One day I was playing basketball (we were running 3’s) at the gym. We were playing 1’s and 2’s, first to 11, and the other team was up 10-3, so if they made one more bucket, we’d lose. We knew we had to get some stops and hit our shots, so my teammate said to us, “guys, if you think we are good, let’s prove it now.” 10-3.
So, you might be asking, “did you comeback?”
I’d answer, “Of course not. 11-3.”
As a Psych major, there’s a good amount of theories and concepts you should memorize. My personal favorite theory is the theory that is centered around a universal response to extremely shocking and surprising events that makes you feel like time is slowing down significantly and/or freezing. It’s called the “Tocemul Caldon Theory”, and there’s growing research on what exactly happens in the brain when we perceive the world in “slow/no motion” (here’s a brief video explaining it, I swear on my life it isn’t a rickroll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VUGeMaffhg)!
Joshua Onozawa
Voice Part: Tenor 2
Semester in Noteworthy: 3rd
Semester in Berkeley: 3rd
Major: Economics Major / Data Science Minor
Interests: Music, streaming, money, street fashion, ignoring responsibilities and chasing short term pleasures, cats.
Bio:
The organism in question has a diverse palate, known to consume Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese cuisine. It also displays a fondness for auditory stimuli, often curating playlists of city hop music to accompany its nightly walks. At midnight, it can be found streaming music and discussing recent trends in the comfort of its walk-in closet, mindful of its slumbering roommates. Its penchant for financial gain and aptitude for data science are key aspects of its nature, though its sleep deprivation is a notable side effect of its nocturnal habits.
Adam Goldstein
Voice Part: Bass
Semester in Noteworthy: 2nd
Semester in Berkeley: 4th
Major: EECS
Interests: besides the obvious singing: programming things that sometimes work, hitting/shaking/scraping things arguably musically, DIYing things that temporarily barely work, and cooking things that taste solidly mediocre
Bio:
No clue what to write But haikus are pretty fun So bio over. Except apparently I have to write more than this, so here’s some more text about me that I definitely wrote, and not a bot, and is totally 100% about me, and not a bot: I was born in the year 2006 in a small town near the Czech Republic, and I moved with my mother to a country town called Minsk. It was a big country, which was not my favourite in this review but I guess I should mention that the other three countries that I was born in are in Eastern Europe, which , like I said before, are very hard on me and I have a lot of emotional baggage as a result . That said , there was a pretty cool school that I got to attend there, and I also got to live in a pretty cool place: I’m talking about the Czech Republic. My English skills aren ‘t the best, but I do know how to use Google translate and do basic word searches . Also, I’m still pretty happy about how my friends got to know me from this blog .
Andrew Tran
Voice Part: Tenor 2
Semester in Noteworthy: 2nd
Semester in Berkeley: 4th
Major: Chemical Engineering
Interests: Baking, Sleeping, Eating, Impressionistic Pointillism, Anti-Disestablishmentarianism, Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Bio:
Most nights I don’t remember my dreams, but the nights I do at least remember that I was dreaming it’s always because my dreams were fucking wild. Like I’m talking HBO budget fantasy adventures. I’ve had many dreams where I have magical powers and some of my friends are with me in like a super squad. But I also had this dream when I was a kid where I got shot out of a cannon and woke up my parents because I was crying in my sleep. Idk wtf happens to me maybe it’s sleep apnea or maybe I’m just whack but what the actual fuck is going on inside my head.
Anjan Bharadwaj
Voice Part: Tenor 1
Semester in Noteworthy: 2nd
Semester in Berkeley: 6th
Major: CS
Interests: Singing of course, running, setting records on Mario Kart Wii, snackpassing with friends, trying to go viral on twitter, cooking, watching basketball but being bad at playing it
Bio:
I tried using GPT-3 to generate a biography but it ended up stereotyping me so hard based on the input prompt that I gave up on that, so here goes nothing:
Hi, I’m Anjan, and I’m one of the few CS majors on campus who showers regularly. I like to sing (a lot of karaoke which isn’t the best because I always go a little over my limit and lose my voice which sucks when we have rehearsal on Saturday mornings but oh well). You can usually NOT find me:
- holed up in Soda working on cs assignments, because I don’t go to lecture/disc 😀
- near the kitchen in my apt, because i’ve developed an unhealthy habit of spending my life savings at chipotle and/or taco bell
- in most libraries (apart from main stacks, I’m built different fr)
Instead you’ll find me in the RSF 25/8 because im #swoleworthy
Ellington Chen
Voice Part: Baritone
Semester in Noteworthy: 2nd
Semester in Berkeley: 2nd
Major: Marine Science and Integrative Biology
Interests: You 😉, haha jk… or maybe 👀? 👉👈👁️👄👁️, anyway… i like toitles, I thought I was going to write something not cringe 😢
Bio:
People often ask me how. How? Like this: boots and cats and boots and cats. Eerie eerie. Shpow. Schmeee wkawkawka. I would have written a better bio but it’s 11:30 and this is due at 12:00 and I’ll get a late fee if I submit this late. Have you ever heard of the best way to cook a chicken. But Ellington wants to play Mario Cart as we are hosting our first Beerio Cart night, so he gave this form to me, Jessica, to fill out. What shall I write? Well, today I learned that he is pro at Mario cart, but have no knowledge of Pokémon (just like me). Go Smooth Again! Also although he usually has deep voice (in sharp contrast with his visual and physical appearance I assume), he actually does have the ability to produce high pitched screams, as he’s doing it rn when someone threw a turtle shell at him in Mario cart.
Jessica Yu
Voice Part: Tenor 1
Semester in Noteworthy: 2nd
Semester in Berkeley: 6th
Major: Econ + Demography (minor)
Interests: singing, arts and crafts, casually walking, procrastinating, sleeping, visiting museums/art galleries/themed parks/amusement parks, thrifting, world travel
Bio:
The first non-male and soprano to ever become part of Noteworthy (go Tenor 1). Noteworthy’s human tuner when no whistle tuner is around.
I am a very practical and pragmatic human being so a creative writing assignment like this bio is, honestly, a time-consuming task for me. Reading my teammates’ masterpieces gave me a huge ton of stress (shout out to Big Jorn, I will never be able to write anything as creative as The Story of Big Jorn). But fortunately, through 14.5 years of being a student I have mastered the art of B.S.-ing! I have got to here, easily exceeding the word limit set on the google doc where this paragraph is required to be submitted through. But I do feel like my bio would look better and make me look more obviously part of this group if it is longer, so hence I added this additional line. Damn, this space is actually quite neurodivergent-friendly, exactly suitable for racing thoughts and impulsivity caused by ASD and/or ADHD :O
Stephanus Yang
Voice Part: Tenor 2
Semester in Noteworthy: 2nd
Semester in Berkeley: 2nd
Major: Chemistry
Interests: testing bathrooms on campus, stealing from GBC, plotting my revenge against Zoom Video Communications, Inc., Shellshockers.io, eating curry, eating other people’s curry, eating other people, Starbucks grande iced white mocha latte light ice with almond milk and three pumps of white mocha and two ristretto shots
Bio:
Unlike other stories, this one begins at Costco. At the ripe young age of two, baby Stephanus Yang was bought at the Costco food court on accident when a dyslexic man wished to buy a mocha smoothie but couldn’t read the menu and bought baby Stephanus instead. Originally, he planned to return him but because the product was four years expired, the total was a mere 99 cents and was all that the man could afford that day. And so he kept the baby.
Before reaching the city of Berkeley, Stephanus embarked on various adventures through the universe, traveling to exotic countries such as ProcrastiNation, Taylor Nation, and most notably of them all, Constipation. Through these journeys, he has independently increased the nation’s GDP by 2000%, catapulted the creation of three different nonprofits, helped third-world countries become three-dimensional countries, and contributed to the massive conspiracy theory that is climate change.
These days, you can find Stephanus lecturing about the dangers of Safeway $5 sugar cookies in the rooms of Evans Hall and Stephens Hall. At only 20 years of age, he has become the youngest professor at the UC Berkeley campus and the first undergraduate student to win a Nobel Peace Prize. If you are looking for an internship, job opportunity, or just looking to coffee chat, you can private message him at his wikipedia page below.
https://bit.ly/stephanusyangwikipedia
Will Bassett
Voice Part: Tenor 1
Semester in Noteworthy: 2nd
Semester in Berkeley: 14th
Major: JD Candidate (Law Student)
Interests: 1. nothing but also nothing
Bio:
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something to think about…
ya ever wonder why birds never evolved to have fingers? i feel like even if they can fly, picking stuff up would be useful. the same thing goes for humans though, why didn’t we evolve to be able to fly? it would be so nice to fly to the classes that i theoretically go to (i’m adding this part cuz i need 300 characters)
Alex Pease
Voice Part: Bass
Semester in Noteworthy: 1st
Semester in Berkeley: 2nd
Major: Chemistry
Interests: 1. nothing but also nothing
Bio:
Hi! I’m Alex, a first year chem major at Berkeley. This is my first semester in Notew-
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Hi! I’m Alex, a first year chem major at Berkeley. I’m from Maryland and this is my second semester in the UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus. I sing Bass 2 even though my lowest note varies between like a C# and F# depending on the day and I love choral music. My favorite piece from last semester was movement 6 from Angel Island, and my favorite vegetable is broccoli. My favorite cooking utensil is a whisk and my favorite donut flavor is raspberry-filled. I love the SATBness of chorus where we get to hear notes above an A#4 and occasionally have very cool 8 part harmonies. I’m excited for our concerts this semester on April 8th at 8 PM in Hertz Hall with the UCBSO and also on April 29 at 8 PM in Hertz Hall with the other choruses.
Bhaskar Roberts
Voice Part: Tenor 2
Semester in Noteworthy: 1st
Semester in Berkeley: 6th
Major: Computer Science PhD
Interests: Maybe graduating sometime
Bio:
A few years ago, I was driving alone on the highway at cruising speed. The road was straight and the sun was hot, and the moment felt right to sing my heart out. Car singing is way more fun than shower singing because in the car, I really let loose. So I was reaching the climax of a favorite Broadway showstopper, belting with all my heart, when I glanced out my right window. There was a car driving alongside me, and inside was a woman staring at me with an expression that said, “Does he think the car is soundproof?” We locked eyes, sharing the moment when I realized that she was watching me not realize that she heard me. We both looked away quickly. It was awkward for both of us.
There has to be a moral to this story somehow. Maybe it’s that singing should be emotive without inhibition. Sing for yourself and sing from the heart. Or maybe the moral is that you should never make eye contact with people because if they’re already looking at you it’ll be twice as awkward as not making eye contact. Yeah, I think that’s the moral.
Jerry Hou
Voice Part: Baritone
Semester in Noteworthy: 1st
Semester in Berkeley: 6th
Major: Chemical Engineering, Theater Minor
Interests: Video Games, Theater, Chemical Engineering, Calligraphy, Voodoo Dolls
Bio:
I’m in a life improvement phase right now. Here’s my favorite tips.
You know when you take photos when you hang out with your friends, and you look back at the photo afterwards and you’re thinking “Damn, I look like rubbish in this photo”? STOP. STOP THINKING THAT. You look hot and sexy. If your friend asked you if they looked good in that same photo, of course you would say they look amazing. So why do you not do the same thing to yourself?? “Treat others the way you want to be treated” my ass. Try reversing that. Give yourself the same respect that you give other people. BE COCKY. It’s hot and shows confidence to other people. Hooray!
Don’t feel pressured to ever wake up super early in the morning and start your day. Some people can get up at like 5 and finish their day early. It doesn’t work that way for everybody! Everybody’s biological clock is built differently, and we each have different optimal sleep cycles. So if you’re trying your best to start the day at 5 but can never seem to wake up energized, it’s probably not because you’re “unproductive” or “lazy”. You just genuinely aren’t made to do it. If you’re more awake and energized during the later hours of the day, OWN IT. Good for you! Good job!