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ABOUT ME:
I enjoy reading and watching documentaries about engineering marvels-- like the Swiss building of the longest railroad tunnel through the Swiss Alps at 35 miles long. And, the Russian ambitious building of the 64 mile railroad tunnel under the seabed of the Bering Strait to connect Russia with Alaska (as an economic and energy corridor, at 65 billion dollars budget).

My hobbies revolve around writing, music, movies, photography and technology. I'm not into competitive sports except as a spectator, but I could bowl, play volleyball and table tennis, and swim. I am mild-mannered, happy, creative, intuitive, sincere, funny, philosophical, spiritual, but open minded and independent.

I don't stereotype people and I wouldn't like to be stereotyped either. Johnny Carson said, "You can't please everybody." He was right. Going along that quote, I find everyday not too hard to live through. There's a difference between mockery and levity. I do understand everyone has a right to his opinion, but I think it should only be up to where it's not deliberately offensive as to mock. In the workplace, people constantly flaunt their talents, skills or achievements for personal marketing and better networking, but that's not even bragging. It's just how the world is set to move in a highly commercialized environment amidst stiff competition. In real life, the key is acceptance, if there has to be harmony. And change is always part of the equation, whether we like it or not.

I admire those who sacrifice their lives for freedom and for their country; they are my top heroes. I have high respect for those who manage their relationships with utmost devotion and unwavering loyalty. I believe in God, in forgiveness and miracles; in democracy, equality, freedom and justice. I am neither superstitious nor too religiously fanatical. I am not old-fashioned either, except during Thanksgiving. Yes, I've got traditional values, including optimism. I am honest with myself; I cry once in a while. For peace and understanding, I look to nature and I often find it there.

MY OWN QUOTES:
I can't be any more than what I am, and any more than what I can become, for how we love is all there is to life, to sustain each other in goodness and in strife.

I value time and friendship and the silence that comes with waiting.

Nothing is more fulfilling than realizing your love has grown in a person you hardly knew.

It's better to be loved than to be lucky. Being loved requires and provides maintenance while being lucky is only happenstance.

INTERESTS:
Life, liberty and happiness. Music, movies and humor. Poetry, photography and art. Science, health and medicine. Philosophy, history and law. Computers, technology and design. Sports, travel and entertainment.

MUSIC:
Beyonce Knowles, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, Donna Summer, Bonnie Raitt, Renee Fleming, Eva Cassidy, Mariah Carey, Sheryl Crow, Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Kady Malloy, Pink, Annie Lennox, Sara Bareilles, Natasha Bedingfield, Norah Jones, Katharine McPhee, Kelly Clarkson, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Andrea Bocelli, Michael Buble, Adam Lambert, George Michael, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Elton John, Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Burt Bacharach, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana, Van Morrison, Tom Waits, Joe Cocker, Nazareth, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Journey, The Beatles, The Eagles, Simon & Garfunkel, Herb Alpert, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, George Benson, Earl Klugh, John Tesh, David Sanborn, Yo-yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Bach, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber

MOVIES:
It Happened One Night (1934), Gone With The Wind (1939), Rebecca (1940), Casablanca (1942), The Lost Weekend (1945), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), All About Eve (1950), An American In Paris (1951), From Here To Eternity (1953), On the Waterfront (1954), Marty (1955), The Bridge on The River Kwai (1957), Ben-Hur (1959), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), In The Heat of The Night (1967), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Patton (1970), The French Connection (1971), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather II (1974), The Sting (1974), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Annie Hall (1977), The Deer Hunter (1978), Ordinary People (1980), Terms of Endearment (1983), Amadeus (1984), The Last Emperor (1987), Silence of The Lambs (1991), Unforgiven (1992), Schindler's List (1993), American Beauty (1999), The Pianist (2002), The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King (2003), Million Dollar Baby (2004), The Departed (2006), No Country For Old Men (2007)

TELEVISION:
House MD, Lost, Friends, Grey's Anatomy, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Office, 60 minutes, Raising the Bar, Law and Order, Millionnaire, Jeopardy, American Idol, Travel Channel, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Biography Channel

BOOKS:
Pride and Prejudice (Austen 1813), Self-Reliance (Emerson 1841), Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas 1844), Wuthering Heights (Bronte 1847), Walden (Thoreau 1854), Leaves of Grass (Whitman 1855), Madame Bovary (Flaubert 1857), Great Expectations (Dickens 1861), Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky 1866), Far From the Madding Crowd (Hardy 1874), ANNA KARENINA (Tolstoy 1877), The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway 1926), The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner 1929), Brave New World (Huxley 1932), The Hobbit (Tolkien 1937), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (McCullers 1940), Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell 1949), The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger 1951), To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee 1960), Catch-22 (Heller 1961)

HEROES:
Jesus, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, Martin Luther King Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Pope John Paul II, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Louis Pasteur, Alexander Fleming, James D. Watson, Francis Crick, Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey