Friends, Activity Partners

Jun 2003

Arcadia, California

U.S. Department of State; Department of Commerce; Shakespeare Theatre; D.C. Superior Court; Lehman, Lee & Xu (Beijing)

http://profiles.friendster.com/722668

HEI - Graduate Institute of Int'l Studies, Geneva 2007-09; Peking University 2002-03, Chinese language & cultural study; International Baccalaureate Diploma 1999

University of California - Los Angeles, Attended 1999 - 2003, Class of 2003, Bachelor's Degree, Economics/Int'l Area Studies

student - Master in Int'l Affairs

GLIFAA, Boren Forum, GMCW, St Paul's Episcopal Church (K Street, Washington, D.C.), Reel Affirmations Film Festival, Eagle Scout

cooking, eating, trying new foods, swimming, rowing, Jim Beam or gin & tonic, theater with with either sugar-coated or tragic endings, frequent-flier miles, listening to & singing choral music. Nerdy stuff: international trade, regional security, British Victorian history, Chinese Republican-era history, Second French Empire, aviation industry, Oxford Movement

Heir of Redclyffe; A Separate Peace; Jane Eyre; Charlotte's Web; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Orthodoxy; BCP 1979; cookbooks

Life is Beautiful, Ever After, Fah yeung nihn wah [In the Mood for Love], Le Chateau de Ma Mere, Gattaca, Cinema Paradiso, Le Huitieme Jour, Love Actually, Pride & Prejudice, Indochine, Saving Face, Yeopgijeogin geunyeo [My Sassy Girl]

Musicals, choral, country rock, some pop. I like these people, but I don't really have a big CD collection of any of them: Palestrina, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vaughn Williams, Orlando Gibbons, Healy Willan, Celine Dion, Cranberries, Jacky Cheung, Faye Wong, Green Day

ER, Frasier, Will & Grace, The OC, Desperate Housewives, and Vicar of Dibley (whenever PBS is nice enough to show it)

I used to think that working in the "real world" would give me rootedness and contentment. And yet, there's so much in the world I still want to see and do. My road trip through Tennessee and holidays in Bali and Hong Kong in the last two years reminded me that there are so many places I still have to see. So now, I'm in Geneva for two years. Who knows if my wanderlust will work itself out of my system someday.

I appear conventional usually because I find the tried and true comfortable. For many ideas important to me, however, there are contradictions. I'm generally an idealistic person who tries to look at the world from an internally consistent viewpoint. When that doesn't work--as it does a lot of times--I try to give a cynical chuckle and move on. Though I can't always be loyal to my ideas, I try always to be loyal to friends.

I enjoy time outdoors in the water, especially swimming and rowing. I like to spend time with friends, cook, read (history and news) and wander around new places. One of my life's passions is music. I see operas when I can and enjoy very much the Anglican chant and English hymns on Sundays. Musicals are harder to get to, but maybe I'll do a jaunt up to London soon.

(1) Nice people
(2) Fun people--Anyone up for canoeing?
(3) People who share my passion for music like musicals, choral music or even my guilty pleasure, country rock
(4) People with compassion for their fellow man and concern for the course of this world
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