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About Me

I've recently been contracted to come to Yemen to start an airline. Similar to the whole airline startup experience I had here in Hong Kong, but this time in a region that I've never been to. The work hours here are surreal (working from 8:30am to 2:30 with 1 or 2 hour breakfast and lunch breaks. Oh, and don't mention time to pray). I've taken time to visit the area and do a bit of travelling to neighboring countries like Turkey, Lebanon, Israel. It certainly is different to anything else I've seen.
I have an extensive list of key interests: 1) martial arts (especially Muay Thai and Wushu weapons) 2) flying airplanes and racing motorcycles, 3) travelling (anywhere and everywhere. Anyone wants to go with me to Pyongyang?), 4) the arts (dancing, theater, museums). Life is boring without enjoying the finer things.
I consider myself adventurous, intelligent, open minded, and successful at accomplishing any task. Yet I also recognize that I've been given many opportunities that few others in this world have had, and thus I cherish the opportunity to share.
I love to travel and have been to many exotic places in the world: Yemen, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Thailand, China, Vietnam, Ecuador, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, all over Western Europe and North America. One day I'll open up a little cafe out in some mountain in Africa, cater to backpackers who want to hear my travel stories.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I'm interested in finding a queen to help me rule my tribe. She must be beautiful, intelligent, passion and adventurous.

Music:

Countries I've been (thanks Anna):

Movies:

Fight Club, Good Will Hunting, K1 fights. Soon, I'll put my own video clips in this section.

Television:

National Geographic (especially the documentaries on Martial Arts).

Books:

White Man's Burden, Assassination of Pablo Escobar, The Economist, How to Make Money in the Stock Market during good times and bad, and a whole ton of other books.

My Blog

Lebanon

I wrapped up my project in Yemen at the end of May and decided to take advantage of the free travel to go to Lebanon. I was advised against it by some of my colleagues who cited the country's instabil...
Posted by david on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:19:00 PST

Shiloh, Shibam, and Thula

My birthday was good. I had a very pleasant surprise in the morning, then went to an investor conference learning about all the various investment opportunities in Yemen from the president and the min...
Posted by david on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:22:00 PST

Al Mukallah

One of the perks of this project is that I get to fly first class on any of my client's flights. The sad thing about it, besides the long hours, is that not all of the flights are reliable (guess that...
Posted by david on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:28:00 PST

Sanaa, Yemen

Alright, so I've been here for a week now. I think I've seen almost all of what Sanaa (the capital of Yemen) has to offer. There's not much in terms of nightlife, but the city and region around it is ...
Posted by david on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:16:00 PST

muay thai match

I'm sitting here seeing the sunrise across the pool for my third full day here in Yemen. I give my highest recommendations to anyone who has an interest in broadening their horizons and to learn about...
Posted by david on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:57:00 PST

Chinese New Year

So here's how my Chinese New Year started off: Went over to my parents place and did the usual, gave them a present to start off the new year, they gave me a "hong bao" (Mandarin) or "lai sze" (Canton...
Posted by david on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:50:00 PST

ode to my brother and his good friend Ronald So

hey mom and dad, i changed my flight with no problem so lucky, ronald must have done this. god bless and may he rest in peace. here is my flight itinerary, thanks mom and dad...
Posted by david on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:33:00 PST

Oscars

Tell me, how does a film win the Best Motion Picture academy award with little mention of its obvious basis or replication of a Hong Kong film (Infernal Affairs)?
Posted by david on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:18:00 PST