Can we just pretend that we've known each other for a long time?..
Like, maybe we are long lost friends, we knew each other a long time ago and just lost touch with each other and recently found each other again?
That way we can feel comfortable with each other, but still have that funny "butterfly effect" feeling of discovering someone new..

I like the feeling of being in a comfortable relationship.

I was born and raised in Montreal then went to study for 6 years in Tokyo to do a PhD.
Came back to Canada some time last year and travelled around extensively since then.
I spent 4 months travelling throughout South-East Asia. I went to Bali then Thailand, after to Laos and Cambodia, then finally to Vietnam.
I had an awesome time, backpacking by myself.

About myself..
I'm curious about most anything, and like to try/do/eat most anything I haven't done before.

opening jars?..
disposing of spiders..
Though I don't kill them, I just capture them in a cup and put them outside. Sound strange? yes I would rather go through the effort of doing that than killing it. I just hate mosquitoes and spiders eat mosquitoes so you know.. "the enemy of my enemy.."

My height and my eyes..
I'm pretty tall, taller than most.
and some people have told me I have nice eyes.
They are usually blue..

Books:
Anything from Isaac Asimov, Uplift series-David Brin, Ender's Game, Incognito-David Eagleman, Fooled by Randomness-Nicholas Taleb, A short history of nearly everything-Bill Bryson, The drunkard's walk-Leaonard Mlodinow, Blink-Malcom Gladwell, God is not great-Christopher Hitchens, P.G. Wodehouse, plus so many more...

Movies:
Star Wars and sci-fi in general, Blade runner, Aliens, Matrix I, LOTR, Lost in Translation, Usual Suspects, Yojimbo(Kurosawa) and some Japanese cinema, Chungking Express(Wong Kar Wai) and Hong Kong movies, also like B&W movies from the "Golden-Age" like The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Jimmy Stewart's movies are pretty good too..

Shows:
John Steward & Steven Colbert, Q.I.(Steven Fry), Extras and The Office(UK) (Ricky Gervais & Steven Merchant), Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Scrubs, Louie(C.K.), Family Guy,
[I sometimes watch Japanese Dramas too: Long Vacation, GTO, Trick, etc.)

Music:
Coldplay, Black Eyed Peas, Jack Johnson, Beastie Boys, Linkin Park, Loco Locass(cause I know one of the guys..), 1 Giant Leap, Passion Pit, Some Japanese bands as well (Funky Monkey Babys, etc.)

Food:
I'll eat just about anything, Love Vietnamese Pho, Souvlaki (who doesn't), I usually make my own sushi, Last week I tried to make "Banh Mi" Vietnamese sandwiches myself.. I guess my speciality is Chinese food, I can make a few dishes including General Tao chicken.. (If I cook it for you then you know you're special because it takes a while to make)

1) Computer & Internet (has permeated our lives now)
2) iPod & music (I like to take walks listening to music)
3) My passport (I like to travel)
4) My camera (I like to take pictures when I walk or travel)
5) Coffee (I like to hang out in a cafe just reading, writing, studying, talking with friends, people watching)
6) Food, Oxygen, Warmth, Gravity Atmospheric pressure (can all of those count as one?)

I like to travel to see new things and find new experiences..
so I'm often thinking about where I would like to go next.
I have been to many countries in Europe and Asia, but never to South-America.. so maybe Matchu-Pichu? Brazil, or I would like to go to the southernmost point of the Chile..

I also do a lot of introspection.
I think about myself and how can I make myself a happier, better person. Like why did this happen or how could I have handled that better?..

maybe just reading or studying in a 2nd cup..

I'm not such a cool guy or else I would already have a girlfriend..

I'm usually a very open kind of person, and if you ask me I'll probably answer just about anything.. even "politically incorrect" type of questions.
but as to what I would write on this kind of forum here..

most important is just...
someone who "gets it".
do you?