I'm a mediocre painter, a decent photographer, a good actor and a great musician. And after two years I'm older, a few orders of magnitude smarter, and most importantly, BACK.
Favourite genre of music: All good-sounding music.
Favourite photographer: Tanveer Bains and Brent Kyono
Favourite style of art: Da Vinci's sketching style
Operating System: Lion/Windows 7/Ubuntu
MP3 player of choice: I use Spotify on my laptop...
Shell of choice: Turtle
Wallpaper of choice: Mac OS X Lion space background + Wheatley & Space Core
Skin of choice: Tanned
Favourite cartoon character: Simba
Personal Quote: "What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I have become through my own efforts. There will be a thousand princes, but there will be only one Beethoven." -Ludwig van Beethoven
Favourite Visual Artist
Leonardo da Vinci, HR-FM, Paulina Lee
Favourite Movies
Inception, Downfall, 不能說的秘密, The Pianist, 50/50, 500 Days of Summer, 伊尾島からの手紙
Favourite TV Shows
The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Mythbusters, The Colbert Report, Anderson Cooper 360, Modern Family
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
YouTube Symphony Orchestra, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Frederic Chopin, Camille Saint-Saens, Valentina Lisitsa, Vampire Weekend, Belle and Sebastian, The Zolas, The Reign of Kindo, Jim Guthrie,
Favourite Books
Freakonomics, 1984, Candide, Animal Farm, The Giver, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hamlet, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Catcher in the Rye, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Favourite Writers
Douglas Adams, George Orwell, Voltaire, Lois Lowry, William Shakespeare, Stephen Dubner, Steven Levitt, J.D. Salinger
Favourite Games
Jak and Daxter, StarCraft 2, Super Smash Brothers, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC
Tools of the Trade
IBM ThinkPad 2002, Macbook Pro 2011 Triple Boot, Nikon D90 (DX AF-S NIKKOR 18-105mm lens, AF NIKKOR 50mm 1:1.4 D lens, Holga lens kit) Yamaha Clavinova, Yamaha classical guitar, Squier Stratocaster, my voice.
Other Interests
Tennis, piano, guitar, singing, beatboxing, freestyle rapping, people-watching, forensics (as in speech/debate), parliamentary debate, policy debate, student congress, humorous interpretation, extemporaneous speaking, Bollywood dance, B-boying, acting.