So you want 500 characters eh, okcupid?

I knew I was special back in 1991 when I was still 11 years old. With only a piece of paper, I constructed an origami model of two buildings, one set on fire, the other with an airplane. It will be 10 years later when I would burn that origami model in fear, but in 1991 I only found amusement in what I created.

Early in high school I can play a guitar left-handed. I have already registered a score of 300 at a local bowling tournament. I can paint. I can breakdance. I am fluent in Spanish, Nihongo, French, Ilokano, Cha-cha-cha, Rumba and Salsa. Sometimes, I can guess what you’re holding by picking the first thought that comes to my mind.

With all these gifts, fame came early. I travelled the world. I loved and was loved. But there is always a price to pay for fame and fortune, and I would rather not talk about those years that came after, those events that occurred, those horrible things I did.

Suffice it to say I survived that dark chapter of my life. Now I am a successful programmer, the writer of an open source program that can generate your biography based on keywords you enter, such as origami, guitar, bowling, cha-cha-cha, and MILLIONS. The software has been downloaded by MILLIONS, and despite it being free, rich and poor alike have donated MILLIONS for their gratitude.

Granted, I will be the first to admit that these achievements are no match to those of Hugh Gallagher, a man who once defended an Amazon village from an army of ants using only a hoe and a glass of water.

But at least I graduated from college.

Earning money as a freelance web developer, growing beans from the garden, developing blisters from playing the guitar.

I'd like to say that guitar thing, but what I really want to learn is how to make arrangements of well-known songs, like this rendition of Closer by Jordan Hilario (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG-RAcVqKtg). Cool di ba?

They don't. I blend in. Like a spy, not like wallpaper.

I'm mostly a movie guy. Here's a list: Aliens, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, District 9, The Princess Bride, Tremors, Rescue Dawn, The Last Exorcism, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Back to the Future, Terminator 2, Predator, The Lord of the Rings, Groundhog Day, The Descent, Aladdin, Let Me In, Abyss, WALL E, The Little Mermaid, Up, 28 Days Later.

As for TV: The Wire, Friday Night Lights, The Amazing Race, Scrubs, Boardwalk Empire, So You Think You Can Dance, Survivor, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Generation Kill, Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Burn Notice, BBC Planet Earth.

Music: Fingerstyle Guitar, Heronymusic, Third Eye Blind, Aimee Mann, Snow Patrol, Collective Soul, Pete Yorn, Eric Lugosch, Fall Out Boy

Books: I read a lot of Stephen King. Most memorable were It and Needful Things. Right now I'm halfway through Under the Dome. Ok so far...

I read Two Towers and Return of the King but not yet Fellowship of the Ring.

I read Queen of the Damned but not yet Interview with a Vampire and Vampire Lestat.

And I have the 2001 volume of the The Onion. That's the one with the 9/11 issue. Such fun!

I'd like to keep all five senses. Let's add sense of humor, so we have six!

Where to head in Baguio in the event of a zombie apocalypse.

At home. But on Thursday nights I'm dancing!

I didn't notice for some time that my height here in okcupid was 5' 6". Now I'm two inches higher!

you can help me fix the audio-in in my Ubuntu. Skype always crashes. Huhu!