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| User: | chubbypanda (2457580)  Diverging Paths
The Wanderings of Chubbypanda |
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| Name: | Chubbypanda | |
| Website: | The Epicurious Wanderer | |
| Location: | Irvine, California, United States | |
| Birthdate: | 01-01 | |
| Bio: | I am an American of Taiwanese extraction in my late twenties. I was born in the Silicon Valley area of Northern California and moved to Orange County to attend college. I graduated from the University of California, Irvine, with degrees in both Computer Science and History. I am currently an IT professional in Southern California. Cooking is a major passion of mine. My cookbook collection is in the dozens and still growing. I love experimenting with new ingredients and cuisines. During my daily commute, I design new recipes based on the ingredients I have available at home and inspirations I've drawn from my cookbooks. At night, I get to test my ideas and eat the (hopefully) tasty results. In addition to cooking, I enjoy studying food history, which tracks the transmission of agriculture, cooking techniques, and eating habits in order to analyze the movement of people and ideas across regions. I’m also interested in Asian trans-nationalism in the 1900s and in East Asian history. I concentrated my history studies on these three areas when I was in university. I've recently become enamored with the cultural phenomena of food blogging. To read my reviews of restaurants in California's Orange County, and other locales, please visit my food blog, The Epicurious Wanderer. To offset my love of food, I try to keep myself in shape through a variety of activities. I enjoy hiking and biking on the weekends. During the week, I play racquetball, lift weights, and do light cardio. I'm also into martial arts. I'm an eight-year practitioner of the Kashima Shinto Ryu school of Iaido, which like Battou-jutsu is the art of drawing and cutting with the Japanese sword. I've also had training in a variety of hand-to-hand styles, including kung-fu, karate, taekwondo, and aikido. Other hobbies of mine include video games on both PC and a variety of consoles. I prefer RPGs and RTS games, but also enjoy FPS games, which I’m horrible at. In a previous life, I worked in the video game industry on a couple of very well-known titles, and for one very notable company that is also located in Irvine. I’m also a voracious reader. The genres I get most of my reading from are history, food, psychology, fantasy, sci-fi, and political science. I like to watch Asian films, dramas, and anime, but am not fanatical about them. Oh, and I like writing long LiveJournal profiles telling complete strangers lots of boring facts about myself. | |
| Pictures: | over 3800 public | |
| Interests: | 35: anime, biking, books, cats, computers, cooking, family guy, fantasy, flirting, food, friends, girls, hanging out with friends, hiking, history, iaido, kittens, manga, martial arts, movies, music, porn, racquetball, reading, sci-fi, sex, sleeping, south park, sushi, swimming, tea, tennis, video games, women, writing | |
| Schools: | Redwood Middle School - Saratoga, CA (1991 - 1994) Saratoga High School - Saratoga, CA (1994 - 1998) University of California - Irvine - Irvine, CA (1998 - 2003) | |
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| Mutual Friends: | 38: alphajager, automath, brdblk, brightblade317, buhfly, chef7, chengdugirl, chucklesblack, cmzero, crayola_smiles, crazymadhats, dangerish, dragonblink, elonweis, hadrianthegreat, jaglasser, jenni_marie, jismay, jpathomas, kenlin, lexybeast, maetenshi, meridiuschick, mrquiettime, myristic, ninjafuzz, nyasa_lovebird, ozymandiasism, scout1222, semajim, slurpee, thecakeblog, theoni, triskellion, turdlog, verbalkint4, vy427, waldensian | |
| Also Friend of: | 4: constantlygrow, shadowed_1234, shanalou, uniforall | |
| Member of: | 12: add_me, addmeback, bush_sucks, culinarydelight, democrats, la_eats, oc, paidmembers, sushi_shop, vancouver_eats, veggie_recipes, vegrecipes | |
| Account type: | Paid Account | |
