About Me

  • About Me: I have grown to enjoy a good adventure in life. I hope to experience the same in this blogosphere. Friendship is important to me. Relationship is definitely a bonus. The key is to reach out and make a connection. I appreciate the company of people who understand the art of conversation, have the courage to express their unique ideas and inspire passion in others. Let the journey begin!

Travel

  • Places I love: California, home sweet home!
  • Places I've been: Not enough places. The world is still waiting for me out there.
  • Dream Vacation: Europe with the love of my life!

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Good Cooking = Fine Cuisine. I love all kinds of food.
  • Favorite Dishes: Wendy's 99c Menu
  • Favorite Desserts: Blueberry Mini Tart with Mascapone.
  • Favorite Drinks: Green Apple Martini.
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Nachos.
  • Best meal ever: Chef's Menu at Spago.

Style

  • Prized Possessions: A pair of white Armani jeans couture I bought the day after he was shot.

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Amy Winehouse, Green Day, Evanescence, Nine Inch Nails, Sherryl Crow, Matchbox Twenty, Maroon 5, Nelly Furtado, Rihana, Beegees, Beatles, Queen, Nirvana, Johnny Cash, Bette Midler.
  • Favorite Albums: Back to Black.
  • Favorite Genre: House/Techno/Trance
  • Favorite Songs: I'll Survive and Hurt (Johnny Cash version).
  • Favorite Lyrics: Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley version).

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Arrested Development, Entourgage, Will &; Grace, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Weeds, Ugly Betty, Absolutely Fabulous, Three's Company, Queer As Folk, Six Feet Under, Seinfeld, Friends, Sex in the City. Bravo's reality shows, Asian soaps, British comedies.

Books

  • Favorite Books: Sula, Beloved, On the Road, Catcher in the Rye, Notes of a Native Son, Uncle Charlie's Blues, Matewan, Flowers for Algernon, Jane Eyre, Pride &; Prejudice, Memoirs of a Geisha, the Monkey King, Dreams of the Red Chambers, Tom Jones, Portrait of Dorian Grey, Importance of Being Ernest, Lady Chatterley's Lovers, the autobiography of John Adam by David McCullough, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Tacitus' History, Machiavelli's the Prince and Thich Nhat Hanh's writings on Buddhism.
  • Favorite Authors: My ultimate author is John Steinbeck. He lived, breathed and represented the spirit that has defined California. Among his books, these are my favorite: Grapes of Wrath, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, East of Eden, Winter of Our Discontent, Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle, Cup of Gold.
  • Favorite Characters: Tom Joad
  • Recent Reads: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown.

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Half Nelson, The Way We Were, Lion in Winter, Grease, American Beauty, God Father, Rashomon, On the Waterfront, Taxi Driver, My Beautiful Laundrette, Beaches, Dark Habits, Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Seven Samurai, Happy Together, Babel, Magnolia, The Departed, No Country for Old Men, Into the Wild, Bad Education.
  • Favorite Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando.
  • Favorite Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almoldovar, Clint Eastwood, Sean Penn, Paul Thomas Anderson.
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Priscilla Queen of the Desert
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: Fuck Me Gently with a Chainsaw
  • Movies I can watch over and over: The Way We Were

Video Games

  • Games I Play: Tiger Woods PGA Tour
  • Consoles: Wii

High School

  • School Name: Saugus High School
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 1989
  • Attended: 1986 - 1989

College

  • School Name: Columbia University
  • Status: Grad
  • Class of: 1995
  • Attended: 1993 - 1995
  • Degree type: Masters
  • Major(s): International Relations
  • Minor(s): Souteast Asian Studies, Finance