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First Name

Pierre Tito

Middle Name

Aquino

Last Name

Galla

Nickname

Pierre

Birthday

02/16/1978

Location - Country

Philippines

Location - Town/City

Santa Rosa, Laguna

Hometown

Baguio City

Home Page

http://jester-in-exile.blogspot.com

Favorite Writers

Victor Hugo, Ranier Maria Rilke, Alan Lightman, Carl Sagan, Tom Clancy, Jose Rizal, e. e. cummings

Favorite Literary Works

in no particular order:, Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke), Les Miserables (Hugo), The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas), El Filibusterismo (Rizal), The Alchemist (Coelho), Contact (Sagan), Sho-Gun (Clavell), Einstein's Dreams (Lightman), The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven (Poe), Acquainted With the Night (Frost), "since feeling is first" (cummings), The Saddest Poem (Neruda), "Wrapping the rice cakes" (Basho), Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky), American Gods, The Sandman series (Gaiman), The Jack Ryan series (Clancy), The Jason Bourne series (Ludlum), The Nicholas Linnear series (van Lustbader), The Godfather series (Puzo), The Robert Langdon series (Brown), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (Adams), The Harry Potter series (Rowling), High Fidelity (Hornby)

Interests

coffee, literature, art, music, politics, history, philosophy, wine, food, motorcycles, travel, mountaineering, extreme sports, photography, technology, skin art

About

frustrated writer pretending to be an engineer... biker lusting after a Virago (next life?)... coffeeholic... mountaineer... casual PC gamer.. anime fan... environmental advocate... politically-incorrect closet activist... arts, literature and culture proponent... travel addict... part-time journalist.. self-confessed lunatic... wouldn't mind having Neil Gaiman's Death over for coffee and conversation... will probably reach 135 lbs only in his next life... accident-magnet (always manages to survive to see another)... cheapskate (nya ha ha)... hates crowds... avoids malls like the plague... loves good books... likes looking at tall, slim, pretty chinitas sporting short hair (does nothing but look)... finds smart, witty, and articulate women "edible"... is allergic to kikayness... hates gratuitous cuteness... detests boredom-inducing things and people... despises people of pretense... is turned off by bad grammar... interested in body art (and bodies as art -- nya ha ha)... likes odocs above all other forms of street food... merlot above all red wines... and other bits and pieces of trivial nonsense...

do not be fooled -- i am a grouch, and yes, i am insensitive. thank God i still have friends.

some fiction work on:

http://tales-from-the-tambayan.blogspot.com
(Tales from the Tambayan)

http://tales-from-the-tambayan2.blogspot.com
(Exiled: More Tales from the Tambayan)

http://terms-of-the-tambayan.blogspot.com
(Terms from the Tambayan)