the jester-in-exile
- Age: 31
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Aquarius
- Zodiac Year: Horse
- Industry: Engineering
- Occupation: engineer wishing he was a writer/ full-time weirdo
- Location: Chaos Central : National Capital Region : Philippines
About Me
frustrated writer/ burned-out engineer/ law student (yeah, finally!) ... biker lusting after a Honda VTX (next life?)... coffeeholic... mountaineer... casual PC gamer.. anime fan... environmental advocate... politically-incorrect closet activist... arts, literature and culture proponent... travel addict... part-time journalist.. self-confessed lunatic... would like having Neil Gaiman's Death over for coffee and conversation... will reach 135 lbs only in a next life... accident-magnet (but manages to survive to see another)... cheapskate (nya ha ha)... hates crowds... avoids malls like the plague... loves good books... likes looking at tall, slim, pretty chinitas sporting short hair (does nothing but look)... finds smart, witty, and articulate women "edible"... is allergic to kikayness... hates gratuitous cuteness... detests boredom-inducing things and people... despises people of pretense... is turned off by bad grammar... interested in body art (and bodies as art -- nya ha ha)... likes odocs above all other forms of street food... merlot above all red wines... and other bits and pieces of trivial nonsense...
Your hand has been replaced by a rubber stamp. What does it say?
Live Free and Ride.
Interests
- coffee
- literature
- art
- music
- politics
- history
- philosophy
- wine
- food
- motorcycles
- travel
- mountaineering
- extreme sports
- photography
- technology
- skin art
Favorite Movies
- Before Sunrise
- Before Sunset
- Braveheart
- Sakay
- My Sassy Girl
- (Jeon is pretty!)
- Dekada '70
- Brocka films
- Legends of the Fall
- LOTR series
- With Honors (for Moira)
- Autumn in New York (for Winona)
- First Knight (for Julia)
- Final Fantasy films
- The Matrix
- The Animatrix
- The Godfather
- Crouching Tiger
- Azumi 1&2
- The Remains of the Day
- Gladiator
- Saving Private Ryan
- The Passion of the Christ
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- the Highlander series
- Star Wars
- Bond films
- the Desperado series
- Jerry Maguire -- usually good films but mindless entertainment is fine too
Favorite Music
- Vertical Horizon
- Goo Goo Dolls
- Jars of Clay
- Matchbox 20
- Third Eye Blind
- REM
- Deep Blue Something
- Live
- Pearl Jam
- Dido
- Evanescence
- Rivermaya
- Bamboo
- Wolfgang
- PnE
- E-heads
- Barbie
- Kitchie
- Sugar Hiccup
- Imago
- Slapshock
- Battery
- Green Day
- Sting
- Jimi Hendrix
- Eric Clapton
- Louis Armstrong
- John Coltrane
- Nirvana
- Metallica
- Rage Against the Machine
- Beethoven
- Bach
- Chopin
- Handel
- James Horner and others
- Kevyn Lettau
- Phil Collins
- Tori Amos
- Paula Cole
- Lara Fabian
- Sarah McLachlan
- Tupac
- Coolio
- James Brown
- Vienna Teng
- Anggun
- Ayumi Hamazaki
- Nobuo Uematsu
- Yo-Yo Ma
- et al
Favorite Books
- Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke)
- Les Miserables (Hugo)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
- El Filibusterismo (Rizal)
- The Alchemist (Coelho)
- Contact (Sagan)
- Sho-Gun (Clavell)
- Twilight
- Tales
- Exiled (j. e. manansala - ha ha)
- work by Poe
- Frost
- cummings
- Neruda
- Basho
- Dostoyevsky
- Gaiman
- Marvel comic books (especially Ghost Rider)
- Tom Clancy
- Robert Ludlum
- Eric van Lustbader
- Mario Puzo
- Dan Brown
- Douglas Adams
