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Profession: English Teacher, Associate Professor, Kyushu University
Age: 42
DOB: March 4th, 1962 (The Year of the Tiger)
Sign: Pisces
Lucky Number: 7
Hobbies
- Skiing (Used to work at Sugar Bowl Ski Resort in Norden, California. At present like to ski at Ontake in Nagano, Japan.
Playing Guitar
- People Watching
- Languages (Japanese, Italian, French, and Bahasa Indonesian--In that order)
Traveling (Have been to Canada, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesian, Fiji, France, Italy, England, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, and The Neatherlands.)
Computers (I have an iBook G4 at Home and a Dell at the Office)
- Teaching (I am a TESOL teacher at Kyushu University)
Favorite Movie Stars
- Al Pacino
- Robert Deniro
- Meg Ryan
- Bridget Fonda
- Linda Fiorentino
- Keanu Reeves
- Cameron Diaz
- Johnny Depp
Favorite Movies
- The Matrix
- Something about Mary
- A Few Good Men
- Scent of a Women
- French Kiss
- Dune
- Chocolat
Favorite Musicians
- SuperTramp
- Steve Miller
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- U2
- ZZ Top
- Pink Floyd
- Outback
- The Grateful Dead
- Jeff Beck
Favorite TV Shows
Favorite Books
- Siddhartha
- On the Road
- The Social Animal
- Your Erroneous Zones
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Favorite People
- Gorby
- Ghandi
- Nelson Mandella
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Paul Newman
- Einstein
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift"
Some Favorite Quotes
- "Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are
responsible for doing."
-- John Dewey
- "Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community"
--Albert Einstein
- "For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better
information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which
I once thought right but found to be otherwise."
(from the closing speech at the Constitutional
Convention of 1787)
-- Benjamin Franklin
- "However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion, or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family."
-- Gloria Steinem
- "What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should
make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in
few words, that he should explore himself."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a
language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a
most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a
new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson