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About Me
Experiment with this like it's different because it is. They make the norm, and it's not what I live. Just logical, efficient and completely on time, True direction comes from inside the mind. And everything else is just accessories, That is my recipe for life, invest in me.
- The Grouch :: Simple Man
I am an Atlantic Islander. My family is from the Acores, small islands where life is simple, people work incredibly hard, and family and heritage are of absolute importance. I have a OMIS Major from Santa Clara University and am a full time Sr. Systems Engineer. I am a Founder and the CTO of TJO & Associates, Inc. a Tax and Accounting practice based in San Jose, California. I am also a recreational photographer, practice Krav Maga and enjoy weight training.
My background and heritage, family, friends, education, hardship and loss, all have crafted and forged who I am today. If you want to learn more about me, just learn more about the people around me.
Who I Want to Meet
Anyone and everyone. Creative, intelligent, and open minded people. A nonconformist. Someone willing to bet their bottom dollar on it. Your greatest hero and your greatest villain. A visionary. Positive peeps. Peter Griffin. Someone that won't settle for less.
Photography
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Music
Living Legends, Eligh, The Grouch, Murs, Scarub, Zion I, Felt, Dr Dre, Aceyalone, People Under The Stairs, Haiku, Atmosphere,
Junk Science, Wordsworth, The Gift of Gab, DL Incognito, Jedi Mind Tricks, Will Tell, De La Soul, Goodie Mob, Jurrasic 5, El-P, Outkast, MF Doom, Scarub, Akon, Mobb Deep,
Aceyalone, Sage Francis, Sole, Slug, Souls of Mischief, Hieroglyphics, Panacea, Tribe Called Quest, Deltron, Johnny Cash, John Legend,
Carlos Vives, Bob Marley, Nelly Furtado, Nujabes, Muse, Chronic Future, Velvet Revolver, My Chemical Romance, Alkaline Trio, Hot Hot Heat, The Killers,
Hard-Fi, Blink 182, Rage Against a Machine, System of a Down, Disturbed, Green Day, White Stripes,
Gorrilaz
Movies
Collateral, Memento, Dazed and Confused, Three Kings, Training Day, The Basketball Diaries, Swingers, Made, Trainspotting, Il Postino,
Cidade de Deus, 2001 - A Space Odyssey, The Usual Suspects, Donnie Brasco, Matrix, Fight Club, Oceans 11, Apocalypse Now, Das Boot, Requiem for a Dream, American History X,
Reservoir Dogs, Blade Runner, Full Metal Jacket, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Platoon, Ronin, Heat,
Almost Famous, Being John Malkovich, T2, Matrix, Rocky, Bus 174, Salinui Chueok (Memories of Murder), Fulltime Killer, The Corruptor, Lost Highway, Being John Malkovich,
Akarui Mirai (Bright Future)
Books
Pivot, Good to Great, The Warren Buffet Way, Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran A Spiritual Treasury, Built To Last, The Art of the Start, The 21 Indespensable Qualities of a Leader, The Red Badge of Courage, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Great Gatsby, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World
Quotes
Personal
"It's not only our strengths which make us interesting, it's also our weaknesses. Everyone needs a few vices."
~DeeJay Mendonca :: 03:20:2007
"Get over the past, yesterday will never come back.
Live for today, don't lose the present,
Or tomorrow never comes until it's too late."
~DeeJay Mendonca :: 01:17:2007
"The best investment a man can make is in the welfare of another human being."
~DeeJay Mendonca :: 04:03:2000
"Winners use circumstance as a reason to try harder, losers as an excuse to give up."
~DeeJay Mendonca adapted from Pivot by Alan Zimmerman :: 02:11:2006
"I have Countless People to Meet, 1,000 Books to Read, 100 Countries to Visit, 10 Hobbies to Pursue, 5 Jobs to Do, 3 Lives to Live and only a Single Lifetime to do it all. Television and Sleep can wait."
~DeeJay Mendonca :: 01:16:2007
"Ambition without patience, prudence and direction is akin to a rocket without guidance, swift to self destruct."
~DeeJay Mendonca :: 11:01:2006
Favorite
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
~Khalil Gibran
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to
adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
~George Bernard Shaw
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.â€
~Khalil Gibran
"Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love."
~Khalil Gibran
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
~Sir Winston Churchill
"You can never get ahead if you are too busy getting even."
~Unknown
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
~Kahlil Gibran
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first...When you learn to live for others, they will live for you."
~Paramahansa Yoganada
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art."
~John Ruskin
"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy
you find in them a harness and a chain.
Would what you could meet the sun and the wind
with more of your skin and less of your raiment,
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean."
~Khalil Gibran : The Prophet::On Clothes
"Effective interdependence can only be built on a foundation of true independence."
~Stephen R. Covey
"Man cannot discover new oceans until he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
~Source Unkown
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
~Albert Einstein
"We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time."
~T.S. Eliot
"The explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference
in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory."
~Occam's Razor Principle
Musical::Movies
"I toast the man and woman
who they know belong together,
Cause for all I know I could be searching
This earth forever."
~Eligh : Intrusive Lady
"Life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back."
~Han : Fast & The Furious Tokyo Drift
"They say people are in your life for seasons
And everything that happens is for a reason.
In Jesus, and one day we'll see him
till then, walk in his footsteps and try to be him."
~Kanye West : Heard Em' Say
"Stay if you wanna love me, stay
Oh don't be shy, let's cause a scene
Like lovers do on silver screens
Let's make it yeah, we'll cause a scene."
~The Killers: Indie Rock & Roll
Heroes
Mae and Pai (utmost inspiration in life), my brother Serf, my cousins and family
Contact
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Age :: 28
Hometown :: San Jose, CA
Status :: Single
Orientation :: Straight
Body Type :: 6' / Body Builder
Ethnicity :: Atlantic Islander
Education :: Post Graduate
Occupation :: Network Engineer
Friends
Life is a Gamble
*LIZ*
DEZ!RE
Marcus
Fernando
Cris ;)
Linda
Jefferson
Brian
Docta Dre
E Man
Long
Mickey Featherstone
Johnny Oyster
Adrian
Walt Flannigan
Non-Dough
Rudy
Dan
Derrick
Mauricio
Sogol
Calendar
02:18:2006 London:Lisbon
06:15:2006 Germany WC06
08:10:2006 Los Angeles
11:23:2006 London
12:08:2006 Los Angeles
01:20:2007 San Francisco
01:27:2007 Lake Tahoe
04:10:2007 Italy
click on images for pictures
Schools
School :: Palma High School
City :: Salinas, CA
Attended :: 1992-1996
School :: Santa Clara University
City :: Santa Clara, CA
Attended :: 1996-2000
Degree :: Bachelor's Degree
Major :: Operations and Management of Information Systems
School :: Santa Clara University
City :: Santa Clara, CA
Attended :: Currently Attending
Degree :: Master's Degree
Emphasis :: Management
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