Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

Maybe I'm still young.

But I don't think so.

I get very antsy sometimes thinking about all the stuff I want to do and the lack of time and ability to do it all.

I believe in true love, though no one ever sent me roses.

I'm very much an idealist.

I'm very much a recluse.

My absolute favorite word in the English language is:

cal·li·pyg·i·an [kal-uh-pij-ee-uhn] adj. having well-shaped buttocks.

True facts. That's some Merriam-Webster shit right thurr.

The plan is to find some sort of internship with the Brit magazine Front, and then right after the internship ends, blow all my money on an InterRail trip across Europe. I wanna see the world!

One of my greatest dreams is to someday retire to a life of humanitarian asceticism, Kazakhstan or Mongolia or Tibet or Nepal somewhere. After my brilliant career in the French Foreign Legion of course. (Can anyone say, "Legionnaire Cheng"?)

Currently I'm working on my bachelor's degree in Sociology and Communication Arts.

I'll tell ya what I'm really bad at: filling out information about myself.

And also this damned personality tab says I'm "less experienced in love". I think I resent that a bit. "Less Scientific". I think I take issue with that. I wasn't a biochem major for three years for nothing. There's certain things you can only know with your brain, but there's other things you can only feel with your heart. And baby, I'm all heart.

Umm... that I'm Asian? That everything about me just screams "Gryffindor"?

This looks like a job for Captain Obvious, I believe.

Go ahead, use your adjectives and labels. At the end of the day, I'm not any of those wonderful things you think I am. I'm a complete bastard.

I absolutely love T.S. Eliot and I enjoy Ogden Nash. I also like Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Sometimes I think James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man and F.S. Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise are eerily similar to my life in certain respects. Musically, I like the Airborne Toxic Event, but I listen to a lot of different things depending on my mood, John Prine, Feist, Of Montreal, Jack's Mannequin, Sugarcult, and The Pogues, just to name a few. My newest obsessions are rockabilly and female singer/songwriters. So far as television shows go, the only thing I really watch regularly are certain comedic shows like Community, SNL, and Workaholics, although my newest obsession is HBO's The Newsroom. I'm also a big fan of Shintaro Katsu as Zatoichi and the classic Cantonese bullet ballet "Exiled", so far as English-speaking movies though, Boondock Saints series, and then mostly older classics like the Bridge over the River Kwai and Shoes of the Fisherman.

I must confess that I'm a bit of a comic book nerd. I love a lot of Vertigo comics, my absolute favorite being Hellblazer. I only like certain comics though, they have to fit within a certain idea of aesthetics.

I recently found out that Hellblazer is ending its run and re-issuing it as "Constantine" to fit within the new 52 universe. I do not know how I feel about this other than terribly upset that Hellblazer is ending.

Ummm, mostly just the one thing, my laptop.

Aesthetics and beauty, in philosophy and other intellectual/artistic pursuits (literature, music, visual art, performance art, fashion, sculpture, architecture, &c., &c.) as well as in life in general, with the people around me. I'm also fascinated by Jungian dream interpretation and symbol study. Lastly, I'm a bit of a nerd when it comes to martial arts. I practice a little bit mostly for physical and spiritual health purposes, I don't really "feel like a badass" or anything, but I enjoy the serenity of the choreography and the peacefulness that comes with the discipline and self-confidence.

Oh yes. Also, what is "Soul"? I think a lot about intangible indescribable qualities. I feel like it's a bit of an exercise to wrap your head around something abstract and try to feel it with your heart. Right now I'm a bit obsessed with Dada, but it's the most elusive creature yet, I think.

Whether or not I'd ever feel passionate for another person again. Whether or not I'd ever get angry and mean and vicious in a fight with a significant other. I'm awfully curious about this mythical "make-up sex" phenom, I don't believe it exists, or at least maybe not much different than regular sex? But I wouldn't know.

If I'm really "less experienced in love". Maybe it's true? Maybe it isn't? Why do I care what some computer program says I am?

If I'm not kickin' it with a few close friends, I'm probably watching netflix and playing video games, catching up on my reading.

Derping around. Derp derp derp.

I'm a fairly odd fellow to most people, but the truth is that almost all actions I take are guided by a fairly flexible set of rules and principles. While I cannot disclose all my rules, I can say that I admire Miyamoto Musashi's Dokkodo, the ideas of wabi-sabi, John Bridge's "How to Be a Gentleman" series, and Thoreau's Walden.

I'm very fond of over-using the phrase, "A gentleman never tells."

Sometimes people don't really understand me, because they'd think I were more complex than I actually am. The truth is that I'm almost completely free of artifice.

Also I refuse to take pictures of myself. Not much good can come of it, and I generally look like shite when it happens. I mean, pictures of for preserving memories right? What kind of memory is it to be taking a self-pic in the bathroom?

See, I know I'm a crazy kind of cute, the kind of crazy that sings along to eighties romantic ballads and dance terribly, (I swear it's only bad when I have an audience, lol) the kind of crazy that will surprise you in a good way. So why not take a chance? Might be the best decision you've ever made. I'd encourage you to message me you feel like this is an opportunity that you can't pass up. I'm not terribly shy, but I am not used to taking risks, so I have no idea how likely I am to reply. I should probably be honest and go ahead and say that I am pretty selective for the most part and I'm only likely to reply if you're attractive. That's the way it is, sorry. I should probably also clarify that I'm not looking for a svelte supermodel, but a real intelligent and compassionate person with interesting things to say would be pretty awesome. People aren't merely the sum of their individual qualities.

Definitely message me if you've read a good bit of my profile and feel like you can change my mind on anything, or teach me anything. I get stuck inside my own thoughts sometimes and lose myself for a while, so it's nice every once in a while to hear from another valid perspective.

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE message me if there's a test that's really interesting and good that I haven't taken. I'm addicted to these damned personality tests, even the bad ones.