CURRENT MISSION

To change the world through myself, because I am just the awesome!!

ABOUT ME

Once a student, once a teacher abroad, once an operations man in the Caribbean. Now a Navy Engineer, and the adventures will continue.

PHILOSOPHY

Originality died ages ago. What one should be concerned about is how you take what was done and create something truly Authentic out of it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Originally, I just helped a previous host Jimmy show the C-surfers around town: to the club, bars and local food faire. Now I am ready to be a full on host.

Interests

Non-fiction reading, Weightlifting, Policy not Politics, lots of movies, investing,candid photography...et cetera

• dogs
• culture
• photography
• dining
• partying
• clubbing
• politics
• movies
• reading
• investing
• snorkeling
• world cup
• teaching
• engineering

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: In brief here are a few I like off the top of my head, "The Godfather Trilogy (Yes! I liked the 3rd one), Gentlemen Broncos, Evita, RENT (stage & cinema), Ronin, The Good Shepard, Motorcycle Dairies, Yossi & Jagger, Waiting, American Pie's: Beta House, Metropolis (original silent B&W and anime adaptation),Edge of Seventeen, all of the Miyazaki Collection: Porko Rosso, Kiki's Delivery Service, Spirited Away, Hairspray (the original and the new musical), Pulp Fiction, Avatar...etc."

Musical Inclinations: I really don't know anymore. I am usually very eclectic; I find that it has become a generational detriment to desire one genre over another. It tends to lead to irrational pretentiousness; which is something I recently witnessed in previous 'Emo' trend and now even more so in the rising 'Hipster' trend (damn fixie-bikes).

As for reading:
What is Thinking - Heidegger
History of Philosophy- Hegel
Symposium - Plato
Broken Screen: Expanding The Image, Breaking The Narrative
LOTR
Chronicles of Narnia
Harry Potter collection
Imperial Earth
Fox in Socks
Green Eggs and Ham
The Art of Worldly Wisdom - Baltasar
The Art of War - Robert Greene (plus the rest of the collection)
On War by Von Clausewitz
The Prince and Discourses on Livy- Machiavelli
The Modern Gentlemen - Mollod & Tesauro
Collected Short stories from Edgar Allen Poe
How to think like a Genius

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

2010 US Presidential Inauguration
UN invitational simulation think-tank
Bocktoberfest in Shiner,TX
Every Coop party 'ever' in Austin TX
Eating deep-dish pizzas and hot-dogs in Chicago (and watching a friend freak out because there is no Dr. Pepper only Mr. Pibb...LOL)
Surviving 13 21st Birthday Parties
Getting initiated into a fraternity
Coordinating LGBTQA diversity programming development at my Student Union.
Getting out of New Jersey.
Piggy backing on catamarans in the British Virgin Islands; plus snorkeling and tanning there too.
Watching the World Cup in Beijing with a bunch of crazy Dutch students, and leaving for America the same night still half drunk watching the rest of the game from LCD terminal screens all the way to the gate GO SPAIN !!

Teach, Learn, Share

Cultural insight to local Southern Chinese Culture and a little bit of the language.
I can also talk endlessly on the cultural significance of cinema in 'Western' Culture.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Mexico, United States, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United States

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