Profile details - stephen: Stephen Wang - My profile

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Vital Stats: stephen

Member for: 1050 day(s)
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Birthday: November 22, 1975
Location: Beijing
Languages spoken: English, Mandarin
Interested in meeting people for:: Friends, Activity Partners
Bloodtype: AB
Chinese Zodiac: Rabbit
Astrological Sign: Sagittarius 11/22-12/21
Smoking: Don't smoke
Alcohol drinking: Occasionally

About Me

I'm the official [alive not dead] nerd. Welcome everyone and feel free to drop a line in my guestbook!

I'm online about 23 hours a day, do alot of computer programming, and watch alot of movies and anime. I'm lucky enough to have help create companies over the years that take advantage of all of these things. Some people might call m a bit anti-social while others think I'm very outgoing. It depends on what time of the day you reach me -- I can be super-focused on my work or I can be the life of the party when I'm happy. I try to be happy, level-headed, and I DO enjoy meeting new people if they're also nice, happy, interesting people.

Born in Ohio, grew up in Maryland and Los Angeles, then moved out to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend college at U.C. Berkeley. I was lucky enough to catch the dotcom boom after I graduated and, being already an online nerd, did a couple of online companies with friends. Eventually, my adventure led to China, Hong Kong, and now in Beijing...

Background

Hometown: Columbia, Maryland and Alhambra, California => San Francisco Bay Area
Occupation: Internet entrepreneur
Companies: Alive not Dead, Xiaban.com, Rotten Tomatoes, Design Reactor
Schools: U.C. Berkeley, Atholton High
Affiliations: Cal Wushu, Alpha Phi Omega
Hobbies and interests: Anime / Manga, Fine Arts, Video Games, Computers, Water Sports, Raquet Sports, Winter Sports, Martial Arts, Music, Concerts / Clubbing, Films / Movies, Travelling, Theater / Acting

Favorites

Favorite Music: Smashing Pumpkins, Sublime, The Specials, Beastie Boys, Green Day, 80's U2, The Pixies, Violent Femmes, The Smiths, Elvis Costello, David Bowie, late Beatles, BT, Daft Punk, DJ Shadow, The White Stripes, The Strokes, Jay Chou, Muse, Gorillaz, M-Flo
Favorite Movies: The Graduate, Yi-Yi, Roman Holiday, HK Jet & Jackie movies, Moulin Rouge, Network, Wong Kar Wai films (esp. Days of Being Wild and Fallen Angels), Hero, Do the Right Thing, Laputa: Castle in the Sky (and all Studio Ghibli / Miyazaki), Swingers, Band of Brothers, Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ... Did I mention The Graduate?
Favorite Tv Shows: Heroes, The Simpsons, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Bleach, Full Metal Alchemist, Death Note, Mushishi, err... "This American Life" on NPR?
Favorite Books: Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Pastwatch (and all Orson Scott Card), A Suitable Boy, Gitanjali, Interpreter of Maladies, Haruki Murakami (esp. Norwegian Wood, Sputnik Sweetheart, Kafka on the Shore), High Fidelity, About a Boy, How to be Good, Catcher in the Rye; I'm a pretty voracious reader
Favorite Faves: Korean BBQ