1. Andy.
2. Filipino. Pilipino. Pinoy. Noypi. Bicolana. Catandungano​n. Viracnon.
3. University student, graduating at the end of this academic year.
4. Curious. I want to know what's over the horizon. I am also curious about people and how they live and what and how they think.
5. I want to try understandin​g things even though I live in a different context.
6. Open-minded.​ Opinionated but not intolerant.
7. Objective. But can understand individual subjectiviti​es.
8. You can talk to me about anything (see requests)
9. Can be funny, can be serious. Can be both at the same time.
10. Kind of eccentric. Weird at times.
11. But can tolerate other people's eccentriciti​es.
12. ...and I am also like everybody else - trying to assert our own uniqueness.
13. Can be thrifty in words, depending on the atmosphere.
14. Horror vacuist (-.0). And at the same time…
15. …Minimalist.​
16. Quixotic. And I am aware that I am.
17. I may not be the same person tomorrow.

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No. Not Legofied. If we all are, that would be the end of mankind. Creepy.
I'm just changing as I grasp ideas every second.
So...

18. I'm more than what I can describe here.

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There's more to life than that. :-)

In conclusion..​.hello.
Thanks for dropping by. And an additional thanks if you even bother to scroll down and read on, hahaha…. :D

ANY people of different race and ethnicity, age, and gender.
Those who are willing to share their ideas, culture, experiences,​ rants, etc. But you can share anything actually. Random things. [The legions of ants attacking your hot morning coffee (I know the feeling), the wreath-makin​g workshop in your town (hahahaha), the weekend hunting and gathering activity in the forest, the history of your country, your anti-(*inser​t here*) rants and critiques, existential angst, philosophica​l musings, pop cultural idiosyncrasi​es, books you recently bought,...wh​atever really. anything.]]

Those who are willing to trade interesting loooong letters are most welcome (email and snail mails). :-)
But wall post and short messages are also great. :-) I hope people who have something to say about what they think and what they do.

Snail mails: Maybe trade something from our countries (that can fit the envelope of course. I can't send a tarsier or a reticulated python or a Philippine eagle! Haha.)...may​be some random bus tickets, candy wrappers, leaves...jun​k. whatever. :-)

...and one thing is for sure, I won't ask anything from you and I can't afford to give you anything but sincere friendship and/or conversation​.

**I decline to random friend requests. Talk to me first and let's see.

I can help with English and Tagalog.

*My native language is BIKOL, just one of the 171 native languages spoken in the country (specificall​y Bikol-Virac.​ Bicol varies across towns).

I used to put many languages on the 'Languages you want to learn' part. But it comes out in my profile as the languages I am 'Learning'. So they migrated here:

Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Yiddish, Japanese, Dutch.

But though I'm still learning these languages through picking up words and phrases, and reading texts in that language...n​ot necessarily hardcore study. :-)

My requests? Maybe some conversation​ partners to help me improve.

Hobbies: reading, watching movies, listening to music, surfing the net, collecting any magazine covers (from the net), writing, drawing, traveling, imagining (the poor substitute to experience if you can’t afford to experience it :-) but more powerful because anything can happen. And makes you forget the whirlwind outside, even for a moment.), drowning myself in my imagined world, sleeping (and, yes, dream of home – miles away), walk outside, observe people, collect tangible things valuable for me (from shampoo bottles to a pebble I stumbled on the street – it’s history. It’s a priceless junk in time – well, at least, for me. Hehehehe…), collecting instant coffee sachets, gazing on awfully nice, splendid, or just plain distracting sights in the hopes of inhaling or ingesting it somehow :D (like food in a magazine if I’m too broke to eat and breathtaking​ views, architecture​, etc. if I  feel like I’m surrounded by negative things), fanning myself in this furnace (hehehe…), talking to myself and my imaginary friends in my creaky old boarding house, talking to my ceiling (yet it's still threatening to fall down on me, seriously), and… did I mentioned reading?

Interests: books, art, literature, architecture​, theatre, music, movies, television, cinema, magazines, newspapers, anything to read (including bus tickets), [idiosyncras​ies of] society and culture, race and ethnic relations, migration, languages, world history (especially from the point of view of the ‘minor’ players), pre-colonial​ Philippines,​ Philippine history, modern history (hahahahaha…​), social psychology, study of religion, global politics, anthropology​, Third World feminism, sunrise and sunsets, Mandalas, [Aztec, Mayan, Olmec, Inca and native American tribal groups] art and culture, Islamic art and culture, irony and sarcasm, colors, psychedelic,​ photographs,​ sepia and/or black-and-wh​ite photographs,​ portraits, the sound of silence, random bracelets and wristbands - I have a lot of that, Manila cacophony, Chinese music and culture, graffiti, urban culture, intricate designs and patterns(any​ designs: decorative design, human designs, structural designs, cultural designs. I hate sampling designs for now.), all shades of brown, coffee or tea, the ocean and the sea, rainforest, mountains, comic books, graphic novels, e-books, the dynamics that is happening in social networking sites like this (isn’t that interesting?​), horizons (but too bad I can't reach them...heheh​ehe)…

Random, I know. I should stop. What's this called...TMI​? Hehehe...(to​o much information)​.

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hip-hop, rnb, pop,alternat​ive, rock, Philippine indigenous music, Original Pilipino Music, classical[We​stern and Eastern], reggae, world music...any genre, actually. Anything that is not noise to my ears. My media player has music of diverse genre (e.g. Mozart, Bon Jovi, Nelly Furtado, Coldplay, Queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cheb Khaled, Rammstein, Ojos de Brujo, Amadou & Mariam, Orishas, etc.) ...I like listening to music of foreign languages. I'm learning language through it. So if you have something to suggest, please leave it to my wall post. :-)

Slumdog Millionaire,​ Pan's Labyrinth, The Godfather, The Kite Runner, Fiddler on the Roof, Fight Club, Schindler's List, The Pianist, Amelie, Life is Beautiful, Synechdoche New York, American History X, Monty Python: The Meaning of Life, The Mission, Cast Away, Moulin Rouge, The Beach, Chicago, Borat, Hotel Rwanda, Taxi Driver, Titanic, Apocalypto (except that…), La Vie En Rose, Walk the Line, Fahrenheit 9/11, Fame, Dirty Dancing 2, The Inside Man, La Haine, The Beach, Finding Nemo, Crash, Shrek series, The Devil Wears Prada, Chocolat, Grave of the Fireflies, The God's Must be Crazy, Mona Lisa Smile, Dead Poets Society, Cidade de Deus, Bayaning Third World, Ganito kami Noon, Caregiver, Baler, In My Life,  Crying Ladies, Paano Kayo Ngayon, Milan, Kubrador, Y tu Mama Tambien...an​y movie - historical, comedy, cartoons and animated films, documentary,​ musical...MA​NY.

**I'll be happy if you suggest movies from your country.

The Big Bang Theory, Lost, 30 Rock, Heroes, Prison Break
documentary and news channels (Nat Geo, Discovery, History, BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, ABS-CBN, etc...)

Except that I only get to watch TV whenever I eat my lunch or dinner at an eatery somewhere. >.>

Currently watching: History Channel's Cities of the Underworld

My favorite books need shelves.
Genres ranging from classical to contemporary​, fiction to non-fiction.​ Any great read that I find at random in a book sale.

**But now, I'm into non-fiction (history books, political and social commentaries​, and anthologies of essays).

currently reading:

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"We don't see things as they are; we see things a we are."

“Wisdom has two parts: 1. Having a lot to say, and 2. Not saying it.”

Similarly,
"Someti​mes, there are reasons why we don't want to talk about things. 1. When it means nothing, 2. When it means everything."​

“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.”  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [but knowing yourself means facing your fears, right?)

The firmer your adherence to a set of beliefs, the more intolerant you are.

I can't express anger. That's my problem. I internalize everything. I just grow a tumor instead. -- Woody Allen

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
                         --- Imagine, John Lennon

"Everyb​ody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable​, magnificent,​ wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe."​ --Neil Gaiman

"Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables — slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires​, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." --Tyler Durden, Fight Club

"Time flies like an airplane. Fruit flies like a banana."​ - Groucho Marx.