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About Me

Nationality: Chinese American
Religion: Losing My
Interests: Asian American organizations, improv comedy, acting, computer geek stuff
Expertise: Not killing people, making people laugh unintentionally
Occupation: Radiologist
Industry: Medical

Favorite Albums: "Welcome Interstate Managers"
Favorite Genre: I'm borderline between alternative and pop. 80's New Wave is good too.
Songs I hate: Slow love songs
Guilty Pleasure: "Weird Al" Yankovic. Or Britney Spears

Favorite Books: Tricks of the Trade, The 100 (out of print :(), Watchmen, Azumanga Daioh, The Tipping Point, Uncommon Knowledge, The Foundation Trilogy (the ones from the 50's, not the overly long 80's sequels), The Invisibles (if you can make it through all 7 volumes)
Favorite Authors: The Onion
Favorite Genres: Graphic novels - the literary equivalent of a one-night stand
Recent Reads: Freakanomics, Musical Improv Comedy, The Laramie Project, V for Vendetta, American (the Book - Jon Stewart), The Show (Roland Lazenby), Cromartie High School (Vol. 6)

Favorite Cuisine: Japanese - or a steakhouse. Or Southwestern. Or anything else.
Favorite Dishes: Sashimi, steak (between rare and medium rare). Brie, black pitted olives
Favorite Junk Foods: Right now - the Jalapeno Burger at Carl's Jr.
Favorite Restaurants: My favorite one in Chicago used to be "A1" - until they closed it. The best part about it? "Grazing stations"
Foods I hate: Raisins

Favorite Soundtracks: "This is Spinal Tap"
Movie Quotes I say all the time: I'm a nerd, but I'm not THAT nerdy. Sorry, no Monty Python quotes from me...
Movies I can watch over and over: Die Hard. We used to have the laserdisc playing in the residents' lounge during call. The great thing about Die Hard is that you can walk in at any point in the movie and say, "oh yeah, this is the scene where..."

Games I Play: Karaoke Revolution, Singstar, the Dynasty Warriors series
Consoles: PS2, PC
Favorite Characters: "Fall-from-Grace" from Planescape: Torment. That was an awesome game.
Gaming Alias: That would be telling, but if you see a "Jhemon," it's got to be me.
Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Q*bert, Gauntlet ("Warrior needs food...badly"), Mortal Kombat, Archon II
Proudest Achievements: Solving "Trinity" without any hints. That's old school.
Favorite Soundtrack: Ultima III, M.U.L.E., Arcanum

Favorite Shows: Half of the shows on "Adult Swim," Lakers games
Favorite Channels: Cartoon Network
Favorite Late Night Talk Show: If I'm up late, it's not for watching TV :-)
Favorite Episode: Off the top of my head, the last episode of "The Big O" - which none of you saw
Show I Secretly Watch: That's a secret.

School Name: Harvard University
Status: Alumni
Class of: 1990
Attended: 1987 - 1990
Degree type: Bachelors
Major(s): Engineering Sciences
Minor(s): Pre-Medical
Greek: ΦΒΚ
Organizations: AAA, CSA, East Wind, Concrete Abstract, Harvard Computer Review, WHRB (college radio)

School Name: Gaithersburg High School
Status: Alumni
Class of: 1987
Attended: 1984 - 1987
Sports: Karate
Organizations: Every geek one you can think of - chess club, math team, Physics Olympics, Chemathon, academic bowl, etc. Plus, student government.