Goals
- Write a non-depressing book about the environment
- Backpack Europe
- A mountaineering expedition in the Himalayas
- Industrial design graduate program (?)
- Speak fluent Spanish
- Speak, read and write fluent Japanese
- Get my scuba license
- Sky diving in 2009
- Go to Bhutan
- See the great pyramids in Egypt
- A house in San Francisco
- Run the L.A. Marathon
- Dog sledding in Alaska
- See the Northern Lights
- Canoeing in the Baja region
- Backpack the Appalachian Trail
- Learn to fly a plane
- Learn swing, salsa, and belly dancing
- See a Shakespearean play at The Globe Theatre in London
- Hike along the Great Wall of China
- MAD drawing skills
- Fly a hot air balloon
- Open a funky little restaurant in an ocean side town (?)
- Learn to build a snow shelter
Hobbies
- coming up with new ideas!
- research and brainstorming design phase
- making things
- running
- hiking
- camping and backpacking
- rock climbing
- !travelling!
- reading
- seeing live music
- theatre
- design books
- photography
- watching anime and reading mangas
- watching adventure and fantasy films
- throwing themed dinner parties
- youtube.com :)
- Arrested Development
Interests
- Post-colonial Theory
- Philosophy and Critical Theory
- Biology and Zoology
- Neuro-science
- Psychology
- Marine Biology
- Financial Literacy
- Environmental Issues
- Social and Political Issues
- Films: animation, short films and commercials
- Business
- Literature and Mythologies
- Modern art
- Impressionism and Expressionism
- French Revolution
- Code poetry, browser art, and internet art
- Architecture
- World History
I like...
- nice people :)
- magical stories and adventures
- falling asleep to the sound of rain
- nutella
- scent of butter on a burning skillet
- sleeping in after a long week
- the cool blue morning light between 6:30 and 7 in the summer
- reading a good book while wrapped up in a blanket on a cloudy day
- how the forest smell sweet after a few hours of rain
- a good camp fire
- camp food :)
Proudest Moments
- 2001 : First furniture!
- July 2000 : Scaled the top of Mt. Henry.
- 1998 : First handmade book.
- 1994-1995 : My sister and I wrote a novel about a time traveller named Thomas Barren (roughly inspired by Snoopy's arch nemesis from the Peanuts Cartoons). We wrote the first two chapters on our old clunky 1991 PC.
- 1992 : My sister, our neighbors, and I put together a puppet show for our family with elaborate sets of finger puppets.
- 1991 : We made our own Christmas Tree from construction paper.
- 1991 : Made my own toys :)
- 1990 : First animation! A 5 seconds animation on a hundred something pages of a flip book.
- 1987-1989 : My friends and I started a neighborhood ghostbusting service ^__^ The members were: Willianty, Marina, my little sister and I. We had a few cases. One about a ghost prowling a burnt down barn across the street from our house. Another was about a myth that the bathroom at school was haunted (it used to be an old colonial outpost--scary huh?) and a third case involved suspicious phone calls.
- 1986 : Embroidered an elephant on a handkerchief.
- 1985 : Learned to ride a bike!