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Andrew

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Update: Callme or text, cuz mylaptop's broken so the phone works better4me rightnow! I never really was good @replying to a msg anyway! Well, maybe if u get my attention w/good conversation, haha******************************************************** ************************************************************ Hey there!So I was born in Baltimore,where a nursing student met an aspiring MD and surgeon, at Johns Hopkins University. We then moved to Seattle, when I was about3. I ended up going to Western Wa. U, like a lot of the other bad HS students! Ive studied Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin; used to teach the2nd grade @Korean Academy & wrote for the Int'l Examiner (iexaminer.org) back in the Seattle area. Now, after San Jose,Berkeley, Daly City, N Berkeley, and various parts of Oakland, I am in San Francisco! No matter where I am though, I endeavour to find great conversation and unusual, challenging perspectives-and a dance studio! Igrew up with dance classes, and have been back in it for a couple years now, trying many different styles &loving the freedom that comes from comfort and belief in oneself. Mymom the ballerina/therapist/journalist/enterpreneur is from Surigao,so I've been back to the Philippines 6times now(!!)including donating computers to rural schools& even working one trip; for 4months in a "pool" hall, w/my ever-so-coveted title (moniker??HMM!) of "Huy,Cleaner-upper Boy!Come here,I am berry many thirsty,isang SanMigLite!!" Ganun sila, haha. Well,as u might have gleaned by now, I enjoy chatting and examining.I dissect anything, from literature to television, Hip-hop or comicbooks for meaning and inspiration. Someday,uwill see inyour child's course catalog a class entitled "Marginalized Lit: The Correlation between Early Rap,StarTrek, &the X-Men;"-I swear it! Ok,we'll just have 2see 'bout dat 1. Well,who am I really??Hmm...might be a writer, a teacher, or an interpreter...or just that guy who gives somuch of his heart he doesn't know when to do for himself; but like many others, is learning ever-so-much everyday. Btw,where I work!Rei.com Newamericamedia.org

My Interests

Telling ppl StarTrek is about America w/black president who has an Asian American role model-a JA!-or that the X-Men is about accepting homosexuality; learning bout newcultures thru volunteerism &attending events, learning languages, or just talkin 2strangers; learningnew choreography, sports history, classic hiphop, understanding music &its lyrics as the artist intended it, Cirque du Soleil was breathtaking...shoes,finding that perfect gift for someone w/o having anyspecial occasion in mind, sorting &categorizing, comicbooks, toycollecting, physics, fashion,skiing, baseball, maps, traveling, walking, testing mymemory, playing "Name That Tune!" in order 2remember &appreciate music-OUR past, learning about public transit, helping emotional friends(!!) analyzing Art or the media for symbolism or discriminatory portrayals, debating, coordinating colors, cleaning, learning my history,the X-Files, the bizarre realm of surrealist painters, online shopping, climbing, volunteering 2meet ppl &see performances 4free, breakdancing, exploring/wandering, reading, environmentalism, grammar, being goofy, and…babies! Haha

I'd like to meet:

Light pierces the water, seeming to dance just below the surface of return, playing with the precarious perspective of the ambivalent soul. The value of a continued existence, the meaning of life, is found, recognized; and so oxygen courses forth once more, sparking life, enabling and perpetuating our beautiful expression...someone passionate,giving, environmental,real, curious,sociologically aware, scientific, silly, creative; free of drugs, religion, &any racial fetish; having shed the colonial shackles w/fluid gender construction beliefs, and a curiosity to explore, like "Let's turn LEFT here,cuz I've neverbeen down this street." Sometimes, that's the only "rationale" uneed, that it's NEW. Let us see all we can, learn more &expand. For now, just wanna get back to dance classes, find someone with a dang Orig Nintendo (Dr.Mario!) &maybe find too that special girl who knows her old school hiphop, Transformers, SciFi...something like that! But above all,keep laughing &thinking! Note: check out profile b4 sending msg,pretty please!Otherwise, I'lljust ask what you had noticed anyway.

Music:

Lyrical agility,verbal gymnastics...tellme a story! Move me-either physically or emotionally.True Art stirs the soul...oh, what "rap" once was! Dammit

Movies:

Fletch! The Notebook, The Game, Legend of Suriyothai, 8Mile, T2, ThumbWars, Negotiator, K-Pax, Castaway, Evolution, Unbreakable, X-Men2, Hulk, Office Space, Usual Suspects, Transformers, Identity, Debut, Intolerable Cruelty, Elf, the Matrix

Television:

StarTrek, El Juego de la Vida, SportsCentury, Darating angUmaga, SouthPark, Playmakers, NYPDBlue, Family Guy, Sanford ySon, All in theFamily, GetSmart, oldTransformers

Books:

WhiteLove:History of thePhilippines

My Blog

Writing exercise: What does the phrase "Monkey Smashes Heaven" make u think of?

I like the phrase "Monkey Smashes Heaven," since many of our ppl were paraded about during the turn of the century as "monkeys," supposed 2drive feeble minds 2think that we were incapable of self...
Posted by Andrew on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:06:00 PST

Well, bday wasnt ALL bad,cuz on the following wkend, went 2LV!

On a positive note, I WAS able 2go 2the Las Vegas annual StarTrek fan convention the wkend AFTER my b'day! Actresses&actors sharing inspiration, anecdotes, &silliness, answering questions &...
Posted by Andrew on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:30:00 PST

I must be disappointed bout past bday still, cuz THIS came out...

Hmm, got a msg from someone I don't hear from very often, asking of myrecent birthday, and...it seems I'm still saddened and a touch angry about the whole business, as demonstrated in my reply herewi...
Posted by Andrew on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:26:00 PST

REI's holiday award of bigotry disguised as humor...wow,what a novel approach...

So the other day, we the happy denizens of REI held our annual "holiday" party, and it certainly was a blast hanging out with the co-workers and management in a completely different context.   HO...
Posted by Andrew on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:16:00 PST

A flood then came, massive murky waters determined to disrupt and devastate...

Early Saturday morning, in the middle of the night really, el 9 de Febrero...about this some of you already know-a flood in my building...a brand new complex, and yet the fire prevention sprinkler bur...
Posted by Andrew on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:52:00 PST

To discuss those calendars and magazines of half naked girls...

The initial reaction is the anticipation and feeling of large breasts squished against my bare chest, legs intertwined endlessly, the front of my leg brushing delicately across the smooth flower...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:28:00 PST

A new direction? Growing to articulate the true nature of aspiration...hmm

I don't think I want to be a "journalist" anymore...so much as a writer, sociologist, observer...it is simply entirely too ridiculous to frame my thoughts and feelings as correlated to recent hea...
Posted by Andrew on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:24:00 PST

Mypic onfront page of the Philippine Daily Inquirer! (7/15)

Ok,so too tired to go into TOOmuch detail,but as I was writing a friend, I realized this should be a blog!   Here it goes...came back from the Philippines last Sunday,donating computers to poor ...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

5 items I cannot live without...

In my bedroom, you will find...newspapers in which I've been published, science magazines, comics,music,my wrist bands,writing projects&inspirations scattered across various surfaces,classic toys ...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

History lesson from sequel 2Transformers movie

Remember "The Five Faces of Darkness?" A five-part mini-series "TV movie," ready??Eons ago, Cybertron was a factory built by Quintessons to manufacture robots! There were two product lines: military h...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST