First generation Asian-American in San Francisco, CA. Suffering from diaspora syndrome. Former child from the 'hood displaced a neighborhood dominated by middle-class Asian families and the elderly. Currently an indifferent, sixteen year old junior at Abraham Lincoln High School. Interested in art as an expression without the pretension. Interested in media as a tool, an access to education. Influenced by the enigmatic, the mundane, the omniscient, the obscure, and everything in between. If there is one word that describes me, it is: evolving.

Authors: Vladimir Nabokov, Lao Tzu, Kurt Vonnegut, Zora Neale Hurston, Norton Juster, e.e. cummings, William S. Burroughs

Music: Robert Johnson, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Sarah Vaughan, Bessie Smith, John Coltrane, James Brown, Nina Simone, Curtis Mayfield, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder, Lou Reed, Lee Scratch Perry, Frank Zappa, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Jef Lee Johnson, Kool Keith, Parliament Funkadelic, Junior Kimbrough, The Stooges, Public Enemy, Gil Scott Heron, Bad Brains, Too Short, Wu-Tang Clan, Bjork, E-40, Aphex Twin, Aaliyah, The Coup, Buckethead, Charley Patton, Fats Waller, Gang Starr, Ahmad Jamal, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, etcetera.

Film: Akira Kurosawa, Abbas Kiarostami, Jean Luc Godard, David Lynch, documentaries, Iranian cinema, blaxploitation, kung-fu flicks, Steve Buscemi

Aspires to take an active role in society as either a journalist, much like Christiane Amanpour, or some other variable involving travel-- as long as I see something.

I consider heroes, such as Christine Wong, to be those who have fought for freedom in the past, the present, and most importantly, the future.