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lovelydrift

About Me

Hi, my names Paul and I'm a beer sculling, hard punching, cheech and chonging, Jäger bombing, jungle raving, smooth talking, hard partying, noodle slurping, crab walking, easy going badboy. I'm 27 and I get paid to be witty, smart and to pretend to be busy within the confines of the home finance industry. Put simply, if you have a consumer mortgage with Westpac, you can call me God. I will turn your water into wine. I love music and martial arts, of which I currently practise Kendo. (My Kendo journey blog is @ http://lovelydrift.livejournal.com/ ) I like playing squash and other sports, to party and enjoy good times with some of the funniest and coolest people on the planet. For real. I also love food and wine, bring on the 5 Michelin Star restaurants, bring on the Alain Ducasse degustation, sm0rebr0d, porcini, hakaal, surf and turf, chorizo, foie grais, linguine, wagyu and other delicacies of the world. With so many things to love in life, how could it possibly be dull? How I ask you?

My Interests

Kendo, motorcycles, Drum and Bass, gym, travel, the world game, history and culture, squash, fast bikes, rich girls, fine wine, cheap thrills, good friends, wicked tunes, partying till the sun comes up then more, verbal art, Trumer Pils, getting loose, fine wining and dining, Peoples Republic of China, meeting new people, anime, history, Giorgio Armani, beautiful women, Koei, pork and vegetable dumplings, Ralph Lauren, Sushi and Sashimi, Adidas, chopsticks, long grain rice, procrastinating, fermented bean curd, the sun, the moon, Itto-Ryu, the ocean, the 4 seasons, ying and yang, life, ISI (ah baking goodness), beer, Zen philosophy, Hong Kong B-grade and wire-fu movies, watching time pass by, being uncouth, her holiness Mary Jane (god bless her soul), good times

I'd like to meet:

You if I haven't done so!

Music:

Drum and Bass is my first love, when I go out to party its nearly always a drum and bass gig but I'll listen to anything that sounds good. In no particular order: Andy C, Smashing Pumpkins, Calibre, Aphex Twin, Patife, Beat Smugglers, Nutone, The Dilinja Escape Plan, High Contrast, It Wasnt The Poison (respect), Fierce, Krafty Kuts, Shimon, Lowrider (respect), London Elektricity, Asian KungFu Generation, Friction, Swollen Members, Alix Perez, Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts, Marky, Scratch Perverts, Noisia, Cyantific, Vivaldi, F.Porto, Upbeats, Uknown Error, Kimi Galla , Sepultura, AI, Digital Underground, XRS, Renegade Hardware, Slipknot, Pendulum, Gangstarr, and many more.

Movies:

Battle Royale (best movie ever!), Fist of Fury, Raging Bull, Once Upon a Time in China II, most of Kurosawa's films, Scarface, Schindlers List, Shaolin Soccer, Casino, Predator, Zatoichi (Kitano edition), Internal Affairs trilogy, The Lost Boys, Groundhog Day, Vampire Hunter D, Back to the Future Trilogy, Ninja Scroll, Indiana Jones trilogy, Wild City, Event Horizon, Hayao Miyazaki, Terminator Trilogy, Matrix, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Enter the Dragon, Bram Stokers Dracula, Taxi Driver, all Tarantino movies, Butterfly Effect, Tora! Tora!, Star Trek - First Contact, The Quiz Show, American Beauty, Young Guns 1 & 2, Interview with a Vampire. Most of my favourites are action or gangster or sci-fi.Favourite Movie Directors: Kinji Fukusaku, Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Stanley Kubrick, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Andrew Lau, Hayao Miyazaki, Tsui Hark, Quentin Tarantino, John Woo, Wachowski Brothers, Mamoru Oshii, Stephen Chow and others.You might be able to tell from all the names, yes, I am a huge Japanese cinema fan.

Television:

Free to Air: Dont get to watch it on a regular basis but when I do any cooking shows (IRON CHEF!!!!), documentaries (wildlife or history usually my favorite), motor sport programmes are usually what I watch.Anime: Naruto, Initial D, Bleach, Peacemaker Kurogane, Hellsing, Cowboy Bebop, Grand Teacher Onizuka are just some of my all time favourite series. Huge fan of most Robot/Meccha, Seinen and Shonen genres of anime. Anime is also good because it helps me learn Japanese. (Which I am currently studying)

Heroes:

Confucius, Anton Lavey, Soichiro Honda, Bruce Lee, Lance Armstrong, the person who had the guts to eat fermented beancurd or century egg for the first time in history, Andy C, Eiga Naoki, Keichi Tsuchiya, Friction, Jet Li, Harada Satoru, The Dalai Lama, Mick Doohan, Noriyuki Haga, Siddhartha Gautama, Joey Dunlop, David Jefferies, Mochida Moriji, Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow and Rocco Sifreddi. Theres more but I'll leave it for now.

My Blog

Me, now, and whats been happening

It's been an eternity since I last logged on and heres a quick update for you all, just to let you know I'm still alive and as good as can be! 1) It's offcial! I'm fighting for SA in the 2007 Australi...
Posted by LD on Mon, 14 May 2007 11:04:00 PST

Merry Festivus

Heres a quick breakdown of my xmas celebrations:Xmas Eve (Sunday): Played squash in the morning, afterwards thought it would be a good idea to eat a lot of food, went to the Central Markets and ate tw...
Posted by LD on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:46:00 PST

Buddhism's Eight-Fold Path

The eight requirements in Buddhism to eliminate suffering by correcting false values and giving true knowledge of lifes meaning have been summed up as follows:1 - Right views (understanding): You must...
Posted by LD on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:02:00 PST

Action

Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people and its rewards are tangible. The cultivation of the spirit is elusi...
Posted by LD on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:21:00 PST

Ultimate Truth

In the search for ultimate truth, it fails to dawn on us,It is we who have not found it. Ultimate truth exists. If we think deeply and reflect carefully, We shall realise that we ourselves have our ex...
Posted by LD on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:05:00 PST

Sunday 17/12/06

I've just come back from lunch at Grumpy's Brewhaus, they serve some of the best wood-fire oven pizzas in Adelaide there, as well as some very well brewed beer (its a microbrewery). They even let you ...
Posted by LD on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:28:00 PST

Friday 15/12/06

Friday night after work, I and 5 others had the pleasure of of being entertained by Bill and Elleni at their apartment in the city. Tasty plentiful food, lots of fine wine, some extra curricular enter...
Posted by LD on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:54:00 PST

Saturday 16/12/06

Waking up Saturday morning 8:30am to prepare for the end of year Kendo SA Shiai (tournament) extremely hungover, I wasnt looking forward to doing it but I did anyway. More info about how I went in my ...
Posted by LD on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:28:00 PST

I wasnt going to go but I did!

I wasnt gonna go to this years Enchanted but I did and I raved to the absolute best of my ability! Massive respect to the one like Johnny for hooking me up with a ticket, bigups to Patch and MPK who p...
Posted by LD on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:03:00 PST

Weird Al Jankovic

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (born October 23, 1959) is an American musician, satirist, parodist, accordionist, and television producer. Yankovic is known in particular for his humorous songs th...
Posted by LD on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:21:00 PST