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*ricardo*

Time is an illusion, and lunchtime doubly so.

About Me

I was born on February 17, and share a birthday with Michael Jordan , Denise Richards , Paris Hilton , Lou Diamond Phillips , Billie Joe Armstrong , and Harisu .
http://www.myspace.com/rickwilliams http://www.myspace.com/aaughrecords http://www.myspace.com/brownpeacemusic

My Interests

Travelling...
I've been to the following places:
Philippines (September 2006 - May 2007; also 1997, '98 and '99), South Korea (Apr - August 2006, May - December 2007), Japan (1992 & 2006), China (Sep - Oct 2005), Hong Kong (Sep - Oct 2005 & Apr - May 1992), Hawaii (Aug 2005 & Jul 1989), Saipan (2001-2005), Singapore (1992 & 97), Taiwan/Russia/Thailand(1992), England/Germany/Holland/Australia(1991), and many more...

I'd like to meet:

people that like to travel to or have been to obscure/cool places, like Iceland, Mongolia, Pitcairn Island, Norway, Madagascar, Fiji, Uzbekistan, Antarctica, etc.

Music:

beatles, johnny cash, beck, robert johnson, sarah vaughan, ella fitzgerald, bebel gilberto, the pogues, smashing pumpkins, oasis, midnight oil, coldplay, buena vista social club, danielson, sufjan stevens (illinoise/the avalanche), michael roe & 77s/ 7&7is, lost dogs, the choir, daniel amos/da/DA/swirling eddies/dr. edward daniel taylor, the violent femmes, yoko ono, sonic youth, red hot chili peppers, radiohead, U2, north korean propoganda broadcasts

Movies:

true romance, bullets over broadway, radio days, sweet and lowdown, catch me if you can, the aviator, ed wood, leningrad cowboys go america, stuck on you, dumb and dumber, raising arizona, blues brothers, chungking express, 6ixty9ine, autumn moon, dead alive, shaun of the dead, 28 days later, night of the living dead (the original), blair witch project, alien, rocky (1976) & rocky balboa (2006)

Television:

seinfeld, friends, the office (u.s. version), family guy, the simpsons, american dad, law & order, NYPD blue, M*A*S*H, prison break, doctor who, monty python, pimp my ride, saturday night live, conan o'brien, dave letterman, daily show with john stewart
Radio car talk, le show with harry shearer, thistle & shamrock with fiona ritchie

Books:

david copperfield, great expectations & nicholas nickleby by charles dickens, life on the mississippi, a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court by mark twain, the time machine, war of the worlds, the invisible man by h.g. wells, the martian chronicles, fahrenheit 451, dandelion wine, the october country by ray bradbury, the jungle by upton sinclair, biggest elvis by p.f. kluge, the rum diaries by hunter s. thompson, on the road by jack kerouac

Heroes:

bob dylan, johnny cash, jose rizal, nelson mandela, thomas jefferson, malcolm x, richard pryor, muhammad ali, abraham lincoln, robert kennedy, mark twain, charles dickens, upton sinclair, george orwell, h.g. wells, jules verne, ray bradbury

My Blog

rock*paper*scissors free download

http://www.archive.org/details/rock.paper.scissorsHere's the details:1. Stuck In A Thai Restaurant (With The Kimchee Pizza Blues Again)-a dream I had where I was eating pizza in a Korean restaurant ba...
Posted by *ricardo* on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:14:00 PST

Thoughts on teaching and living in a foreign culture

Well, this probably goes with teaching anywhere.I was in the supermarket last night looking for a certain type of salad dressing, when suddenly I had the distinct feeling I was being stared at. I look...
Posted by *ricardo* on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:18:00 PST

pirated Chinese DVDs

It seems like even though pirated dvds are illegal in the Philippines, they pop up all over the country and especially, it seems, here in Cebu. The current craze is dvds with 8 or 10 films compressed ...
Posted by *ricardo* on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:00:00 PST

Top world music picks

These are some good international artists and albums I've heard over the last 10 years. I highly recommend these albums, buy them and if you're dissapointed with any of them I'll take them off your ha...
Posted by *ricardo* on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:37:00 PST

Columbus Day?

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a US Protectorate Territory in the west Pacific, is not only the last US insular area to recognize Martin Luther King Day as a government holid...
Posted by *ricardo* on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:24:00 PST

End-of-the-month blues

It's the end of another month at my school, which means lots of tests to grade and reports to write. One of my first-grade level students, Eunice, gave me a Saipan keyring since she heard I used to li...
Posted by *ricardo* on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:11:00 PST

wandering around Seoul......

I really enjoy Seoul, today I spent about 4 hours in this really cool coffee shop talking with a friend and drinking jasmine tea. Afterwards we went and had some really good Vietnamese noodles. Both t...
Posted by *ricardo* on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:01:00 PST

A month in Korea

Wow, time flies... seems like just the other day I was getting dropped off at O'Hare. I remember being really nervous about my flight for no reason, like was my ticket actually there at the Korean Air...
Posted by *ricardo* on Fri, 19 May 2006 10:20:00 PST

Hi from Seoul

Just a note to all and sundry to let you know I've arrived safely in Seoul; just met some of my co-workers and am waiting to be shown my room so I can crash & get a few hours of sleep.
Posted by *ricardo* on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 04:45:00 PST

Going to Korea

I've decided to go to Korea to work as an English teacher. After many delays (I first thought about this back around January) I'm just about ready. A few weeks ago I had to send some documents off via...
Posted by *ricardo* on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 07:32:00 PST