Think differently, love deeply and be happy. I'm new to Syracuse, recently moved out here from SF for medical school. I want to date someone who I can appreciate and be happy just to be around. The city is hibernating in the cold so I figure trying this online dating would be fun. I'm hesitant to share too much here so feel free to contact me to get to know more.

I studied Molecular Biology and Art at Berkeley, took some time off traveling, doing research, business ventures, working weekends at farmers markets, having fun. Recently moved to Syracuse from Cali for medical school. Spend most my time studying, painting, reading, or working out.

Anything Physical (sports, etc..) - Strength! Yes, I have a 6pack and a rugged chest but I don't train for size or looks, it comes with the game, the number game: 340 bench 460 squat 1100 leg press 290 cleans 315 push press. I used to play football and boxed in college. I'm running tough mudder in Boston come may. I'm not too roided up looking just naturally strong. I love climbing mountains. Climed in Yosemite this past winter break. MLK weekend went up and climbed Marcy, tallest peak in NY, -43 F -65 w/ wind chill. I used to sail back in the bay, and play soccer. Now its mostly weightlifting, some basketball and swimming.

Cooking- I have developed a great taste for food and became quite skilled to nourish my appetite. I am certain that I could have even made a career out of it. Also I have a need to because I haven't found too many good restaurants in Syracuse, and I cook better than I can order so haven't been eating out much. Would be fun to check out some restaurants with someone.

Painting- I studied painting and sculpture with Richard Shaw, Craig Nagasawa and Squeek Carnwath at UC Berkeley. My dad is a talented painter as well. I had a studio in SF for a year after college. I continue to paint, mainly in oils. I love texture and color that I apply to develop conceptually complex concepts in striking visual form.

I get mistaken for Troy Polomalu all the time. I have long hair and am athletic. I have not been out in Syracuse without at least once getting the reference. Polomalu is my badass cousin so it's understandable

I'm well read. I would highly recommend these titles and authors:
Hermen Hesse, Siddhartha, The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Narcissus and Goldmund, Damian, Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, Goethe's Faust, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from Underground, Demons, Anton Chekhov, Dr. Zhivago
Oscar Wilde,The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Lord of the Rings, The Metamorphosis, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, Jack London, Into the Wild, White Fang, The Sea Wolf, Last of the Mohicans, Mark Twain, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hucklberry Fin, Slaughter House 5, One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest, Emperor of All Maladies, Of Human Bondage
Lord of the Flies, A Tale of Two Cities, Don Quixote, The Black Swan, Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Upton Sinclair, Of Mice and Men, Poems of Jacques Prévert, Walt Whitman,
The Great Gatsby, Silas Marner Edgar, Allan Poe, Langston Hughes, Moby Dick
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Nitzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil,
Hafez, Rumi, Ahmad Shamlou, Omar Khayyám, Ferdowsi, Sadegh Hedayat, Nima Yushij
Will Durant, Hippocrates, Plato, The Republic, Aristotle, Sophocles, Prometheus Bound, Divine Comedy Nicomachean Ethics Ovid's Metamorphoses, Virgil's Aeneid, Cicero, Homer, Iliad, Odyssey
Kant, Wittgenstein, Noam Chomsky, Keats, Bertrand Russell, Hegel, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Haruki Murakami, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Paradise Lost Dante's Inferno, Umberto Eco
The Art of Happiness, The Art of War, Tao Te Ching, Candide, Far from the Madding Crowd, Thoreau,
Charles Darwin, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Heart of Darkness, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Tocqueville, Gulliver's Travels, Ulysses, Portrait of a Young Man as an Artist,
Stories form the Bible and Torah, the Quran, The Satanic Verses, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Emperor of all Maladies, 101 Memory Drive,
Les Misérables, The Count of Monte Cristo

The movie list is gonna be even longer, I love Artistic well acted well written movies and am a big cinema buff :)

Music: I like a diverse amount of music, and listen to different stuff depending on what I'm doing. I enjoy classic rock, classical music, jazz music, 2pac and good quality rap - 0 patience for fake hip hop that's commercialized or meaningless, some mixed style genres of electronic, african music especially from senegal

1. Color - light is an amazing phenomenon
2. Music - without music is life would be a mistake
3. Knowledge - the uncontemplated life is not worth living
4. Love - nothing in our world has meaning without love
5. Friendship - to give of one's self for the joying of giving
6. Gravity - my greatest enemy
7. Creativity - revolutionary evolution

The Singularity, Life and Science, My next work of Art, The human body and Medicine, all the medical knowledge that I am continually learning

Depends on the Friday, either going out or hanging out with friends, or studying for a test

I write poetry

want to have some fun and have an open heart