About Me

  • About Me: I'm sharing my thoughts as honestly as I can and sometimes, maybe, a few poems, rhetorical arguments (mostly satire), opinion-editorial articles, and literary insights. Be warned: I'm a hopeless romantic dipped in bitter cynicism. I love satire. Juvenalian satire.

College

  • School Name: California State University - Fullerton
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 1997
  • Attended: 1993 - 1997
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): English
  • Greek: ΣΤΔ
  • Organizations: InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

Books

  • Favorite Books: The Bible, Starship Troopers, Chronicles of Amber, Honor Harrington Books, Hornblower Books, Dune, Persuasion, The Prince, The Book of the Courtier, The Art of War, Hamlet, Rhetorica ad Herrenium, De Oratore, Green Eggs and Ham
  • Favorite Authors: Jane Austen, Robert Heinlein, Cicero, Quintillian, Jonathan Swift, Addison & Steele, and Alexander Pope
  • Favorite Genres: Rhetoric, Sci-Fi, Political
  • Favorite Characters: Horatio Hornblower, Honor Harrington, King Josiah, Sam
  • Favorite Quotes: "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." ~Robert Heinlein
  • Recent Reads: Starship Troopers, On Basilisk Station, Dune, Because they Hate, David Eddings' Belgariad and Malloreon, Canticle for Leibowitz.

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Battlestar Galactica (new & old), Star Trek: DS9 + TNG, Stargate SG-1, Extras, Father Ted, Everybody Loves Raymond, Hercules
  • Favorite Channels: Sci-Fi
  • Favorite Reruns: Star Trek: TOS, Stargate SG-1, The Outer Limits, Hercules
  • Most Addictive Show: Battlestar Galactica (new); Stargate SG-1
  • Favorite Episode: "Window of Opportunity" (Stargate SG-1)
  • Characters you relate to: Gen. Jack O'Neill, Col. Tigh, Robert Barone, Garak, Odo, Worf (TNG), Ens. Kim (VOY), Joxer the Mighty
  • Favorite Theme Song: Extras theme song
  • Show I Secretly Watch: Xena: The Warrior Princess
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: "Covington Cross" from the early 1990s. Which I think the idea could go cable today seeing the success of "Hercules" and "Xena."

Video Games

  • Games I Play: Oblivion, Space Rangers
  • Favorite Characters: A Knight what else is there?
  • Gaming Alias: Elberion the Elf
  • Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Digger
  • Most Addictive: Morrowind, Battlefield games
  • Favorite Soundtrack: Morrowind

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Mr. Unprofessional
  • Nationality: Chinese American
  • Religion: Christian (protestant)
  • Heroes: Darth Vader, Han Solo, Corwyn & Random of Amber, King Josiah, Jonah, Jairus, Peter and my buddy Trevor
  • Interests: Collecting swords, fencing, meeting cool people, listening and talking, jazz, annoying my students, eating good food. ;)
  • Expertise: Rhetoric, Writing, Poetry, Medieval & 18th Century Literature and History, British Literature and History. The Napoleonic Era military history (naval and land).
  • Occupation: Education/training
  • Industry: Education/Research