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Alen

What is ageless in their reach into the past, and timeless in their ability to affect the future?

About Me

"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. THE WORLD YOU DESIRED CAN BE WON, IT EXISTS, IT IS REAL, IT IS POSSIBLE, ITS YOURS." Ayn Rand

My Interests

I once loved to play basketball, and enjoyed throwing around the football. I once loved watching movies and enjoyed reading a good book. Now, nothing I read is fiction, everything I read is real. I no longer have a life or for the matter, any interests. From the famous words of Dante's Inferno, "Abandon Hope All He Who Enter"----------Welcome to Law School.

I'd like to meet:

The glory of a next Augustan age, Of a power leading from its strength and pride, Of young amibition eager to be tried, Firm in our free beliefs without dismay, In any game the nations want to play. A golden age of poetry and power, Of which this noonday's the beginning hour.

Music:

Trance - Acosta or Oakenfold, Hip/hop - Eminem or Notorious B.I.G. , Classical - Beethoven the Immortal, or Mozart the Genius, Classic Rock - The Rolling Stones or Def Lepard, and Chino Music - Jackie Cheung or Jay Chou

Movies:

Gladiator, Rounders, Scarface, The God Father I and II, Meet Joe Black, A Few Good Men, Goodfellas, Heat, Scent of a Woman, The Hurricane, Braveheart, Band of Brothers, and the list goes on...

Television:

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, to do what we really want.

Books:

Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, The Alchemist, The Mysterious Stranger, Da Vinci Code, Memoirs of a Geisha, A Civil Action, The Rainmaker, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, "Against the Gods: The history of risk management"(suprisingly an interesting book), and "JFK: The Biography" (Our former President could read 1500 words per minute, drink even TC under the table, graduated from Harvard, and is even more promiscuous then my friend, Jimmy! Who can blame him, no one could resist Marilyn Monroe)

Heroes:

John F. Kennedy, Ayn Rand, Michael Jordan, and most of all: the hardest working, honest, and compassionate man I know - My Father. Combine all the qualities of these great men, and you have all the treasures I will one day possess.