Alex

Chen

Male

Bellevue

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E-Proctor Board, TAS cohead, Recycle-a-Bicycle, being asian

The outdoors. and life, especially biking, water polo, running, and wrestling i swim now too, don't I. gizmodo's pretty sweet, as is the BBC, and oh, fountain pens.

m-flo, Coldplay, Imogen Heap, Fort Minor, Moby, Norah Jones, Enya, Lifehouse, The Postal Service, The Shins, Mango Pirates, Savage Garden

Lion King (the play is much better), Harold and Kumar, Rat Race, LOTR, Minority Report, The Interpreter, Sin City, Forrest Gump, Mortal Kombat (despite the horrendous special effects), City of God, and oh my god, Garden State was sooo good, Juno, Fig

The Grapes of Wrath, Curious George, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Cider House Rules, The Prince, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Fahrenheit 451

“One night at dinner, my sister-in-law told him, ‘I don’t see how you can be a Christian and put poison on food.’ That was the clincher.” -sister of deceased farmer Jim Stiegel­meier http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2008/04/farmbill?currentPage=3 "But fashion is a creature of man's mediocrity, a certain level of life, the vulgarity of equality, and to denounce it means admitting that mediocrity can create something (whether it be a form of government or a new kind of hairdo) worth making a fuss about." -"A Letter That Never Reached Russia", Vladimir Nabokov "The centuries will roll by, and schoolboys will yawn over the history of our upheavals; everything will pass but my happiness, dear, my happiness will remain, in the moist reflection of a streetlamp, in the cautious bend of stone steps that descend into the canal's black waters, in the smiles of a dancing couple, in everything with which God so generously surrounds human loneliness." -"A Letter That Never Reached Russia", Vladimir Nabokov "People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power." -President Bill Clinton, at the 2008 DNC "For over two decades, he's subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy - give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is - you're on your own. Out of work? Tough luck. No health care? The market will fix it. Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps - even if you don't have boots. You're on your own." -Barack Obama, on Presidential Opponent John McCain, at the 2008 DNC

I love beauty.