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Michel's Musings
Created on 2004-01-31 03:09:17 (#2064350), last updated 2009-09-27
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Basic Info| Name: | Michel |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 12-26 |
| Location: | Bloomington, Indiana, United States |
| Website: | I'm on Mugshot.org |
BioWho am I? I've been dreaming about this world which doesn't exist in my memory... Who are you? Wait! Am I apart of you...? Or not...? Where is this? Who am I? Who brought me here?
(Pokemon: MewTwo Strikes Back)
On a more serious note.. actually, the opening scene of Pokemon (the movie) really impressed me the first time I watched it, and still does until now. It's just a pity that the rest of the movie.. does not show the same level of philosophical sophistication. Though such Socratean ponderings should probably not be called 'sophisticated', knowing the philosopher's confrontations with the sophists..
I am who I am, an elusive definition that follows quantum mechanics: the more precise one tries to define it, the more it changes. As we all change from day to day, with each new experience, each book we read, each friend we make..
Been to several countries - was born in France, started primary school there before being uprooted to Jakarta; then moved to Singapore, then England where I stayed until I finished my undergraduate degree in computer science (after first taking a detour to read medicine for one year at Cambridge).
Translate my geek code here:
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GCS d s--:- a-- C++ UL+++ P--- L++ E- W++ N+ o-- K- w
O- M+ V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t+ 5++ X R tv b++ DI++ D++
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More on my Friendster profile... FN/LN Michel/Salim
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absinthe, accents, acid jazz, alanis morissette, alcohol, alternative rock, anime, art, balzac, beauty, billie holliday, black and white photography, blini, bloomington, books, bubble baths, cafes, car racing, cars, cats, caviar, cheesecakes, chicago, chocolate, classical music, coffee, computers, cooking, cowboy bebop, creole jazz, diana krall, dim sum, doonesbury, ds9, duke ellington, early jazz, ella fitzgerald, escargot, europe, film noir, films, fine dining, fog, france, french, frente, google, gourmet, graduate school, history, humanism, humor, ice cream, indiana, indiana university, internet, iu, jakarta, japan, jazz, john coltrane, jokes, judaism, karting, kendo, kieslowski, kiwi, lambda, latin jazz, libraries, literature, london, lounge music, love, mac, manga, manhattan, maupassant, merlot, metal, miles davis, mist, monty python, movies, murakami, music, my family, my friends, mythology, myths, native american music, new orleans, new york city, norah jones, novels, nyc, open source, orientalism, pancakes, paris, passion, pasta, pelmeni, photography, politics, port, reading, relationships, religions, romance, romance languages, russia, sake, sambucca, samurai, sci-fi, science fiction, serial experiments lain, sigur ros, single malt scotch, skiing, sorbet, soul, speculative fiction, squash, star trek, stolichnaya, strawberries, sushi, tea, the pillow book, tofu, tori amos, traditional jazz, travelling, unitarianism, unix, userfriendly, world cinema, writing
Schools:
Sekolah Kristen Karunia - Jakarta Barat, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta, IndonesiaAnglo-Chinese School (Independent) - Singapore, Singapore, Singapore (1996 - 1997)
Concord College - Shrewsbury, England - Shropshire, United Kingdom (1998 - 1999)
University of Cambridge - Christs College - Cambridge, England - Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom (1999 - 2000)
University of York - York, England - North Yorkshire, United Kingdom (2000 - 2003)
Indiana University - Bloomington - Bloomington, IN (2004 - present)
Indiana University, School of Informatics and Computing - Bloomington, IN (2005 - present)
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