Interests:
Reading and writing, especially funny stuff. Contemporary fiction by Tom Wolfe,
Don DeLillo, Thom Jones, Annie Proulx, John Updike, Haruki Murikami, Irvine
Welsh, David Sedaris, and Woody Allen. Classics by Miguel de Cervantes, Jack
London and Franz Kafka.
Yoga and Vegetariamism. I believe in flexibility of body and mind. Yoga is a
way of life.
Music. Electronica. Classical. Bands such as The Killers, Muse, Coldplay, and
She Wants Revenge. Gatecrashers CDs.
Roller booting. I miss zipping down Venice Beach.
Languages: Spanish and Mandarin.
Studying. Behavioural Finance, Philosophy, Psychology, and creative writing.
Favorite DJs:
Pete Tong
Chris Liberator
Dave the Drummer
Commander Tom
Sven Vath
Sasha
Carl Cox
Moby
Frankie Bones
the beautiful Sandra Collins
Mike Hotwheelz
Keoki
Favorite Books:
A Man in Full- Tom Wolfe
Underworld- Don DeLillo
Naked- David Sedaris
Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes
The Castle- Franz Kafka
The Best American Short Stories.
Non-fiction:
Plato
Epicurus
Epictetus
Marcus Aurelius
Confucuis
Baruch Spinoza
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bertrand Russell
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Erich Fromm
Viktor Frankl
Edward Gibbon
Arnold Toynbee
Favorite Food:
Indian and Thai
Favorite Movies:
Pulp Fiction
Snatch
Silence of the Lambs
Gladiator
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Interview with a Vampire
Heat
Goodfellas
Casino
Run Lola Run
Lost Highway
True Romance
Freaks
A Clockwork Orange
Natural Born Killers
The Matrix
Favorite Magazines:
The New Yorker
The Sun
Writers Digest
Yoga Journal
Favorite Quotes:
"Know thyself!"- Oracle at Delphi (Socrates' motto)
"The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest
flight of human wisdom."- Count Leo Nikolavaevich Tolstoy
"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is
untrue."- Antisthenes (Founder, Cynic School of Philosophy)
"Make haste slowly."-Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus)
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."- Marcus Aurelius Antonius
"Dogma is less useful than cow dung."- Mao Zedong
Aspirations:
Peace of mind
World Travel
Success in literature and finance
Spending time with family and friends