Even more hugely, more catastrophically late for the Mixer...

[acinonyxjubatus42]

Well, I sorta have an excuse....namely that I was off on holiday 
during the time this started. And of course, as you do, you start 
replying. And then promptly forget about it.

So Wendy, if you think you're late...you can always point to me if 
anyone accuses you of being a procrastinator!

And of course, I had written so much that I eventually thought : 
what the heck, let's just post it. Even if everyone's forgotten wot 
the hell this is all about, and wonders if I'm some kinda egomaniac. 

So here we go!



Name: Jeremy Goh


Also known as: In real life, nothing else, really. I resisted all 
the incurably evil attempts to dub me Jez, J, Jezza. I seem to have 
acquired two nicknames online, however – Aci (short for Acinonyx 
Jubatus, my favourite animal) and Pruffy (short for Prufrock, which 
is the eponymous hero of my favourite poem). 


Age/Sex: 27 / Male


Birthplace/Livingplace and feelings about same: Born in Kuching, 
Sarawak, Malaysia. I prefer to say that I'm from Borneo, because I 
have little in common with the country I seem to live in 
(and "Borneo" just sounds more exotic - especially when I mention 
headhunters). Kuching's a nice little city, with the distinction of 
being one of the wetter places to plonk a city down (average 5000mm 
a year, or about 200 inches) and a great place for floods (300mm in 
one day happens once every a year or so, it feels) and those 
fantastic thunderstorms that inexorably sweep down across the 
floodplain bristling with fury. Otherwise, it's a boring place.  

Currently living in an incredibly boring town called Bintulu, 
Sarawak, Malaysia. I'm here for the money – if I had a choice I 
would be out of here, fast. There's no outpost of civilisation 
(coffee places like Starbucks, bookshops, proper cinema etc) here, 
so I am planning to get out of here to places more conducive for 
life, and intelligent conversation. I've lived for some time in 
Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, London and Oxford before, and 
dammit, I miss civilisation. And friends. I'm another of those who 
needs millions of people to find a handful of friends. Funny how 
there are so few friends I've made since university, though. 


Family Life: Single, and there's no hope of changing that status 
until I get back to civilisation
 *gloom*


Personality: Myers-Briggs – INTP. In other words, Ravenclaw by 
definition. Though have Slytherin sympathies  Am a uber-geek too at=
 
things I love (weather, HP, football (soccer to Americans), golf 
etc) 


Words friends have used to describe you: Annoying know-it-all git, 
person you should never play Trivial Pursuit or Scrabble against, 
intelligent, curious, dreamy, wino, foodie, footy mad, swallowed an 
atlas.


Words you have used to describe you: Intelligent, insatiably 
curious, passionate about interests, good golfer, bookish, mad about 
footy, trivia god, oenophiliac.


Things you do when not staring at the computer: Drink wine. Oh 
waitaminute, it's in the plural
.alright then : Read books 
(especially love my atlas!), read / think about my favourite 
subjects (Joyce, Camus, mathematics, philosophy, materials, the 
brain/mind relationship), obsess about natural disasters, earth 
sciences and meteorology, play golf, play football, cook, wine-
tasting (hic!), staring at the sky (clouds are cute, and when it's 
not cloudy I try to look for stars like Fomalhaut and Achernar). 


Comfort foods: Foie gras, mango, arugula, black truffles, crème 
brulee, and I know they're not technically food, but I think of wine 
as food – Ch. Lafaurie-Peyraguey, Ch Leoville-Barton (can't afford 
Lafite and Yquem all the time, you know
) Oh yes, I'm a foodie and 
wino snob.


Education/Work: Went to school in Singapore, then read Engineering 
Science at Oxford. Got first-class honours (somehow managed to get 
that in between the partying and the idyll of college life), got a 
Masters. Sadly failed to find enough money to do the DPhil (a PhD at 
any other place). Still remains an elusive dream, because of a lack 
of money. But I can still dream!

Currently working as a technologist (engineer who does horrible 
things like optimisation etc) at a gas plant.


Language skills: English. I'm monolingual and proud of it, because 
I'm a contrarian in some ways. Everyone nags at me to learn the 
local languages "because they're useful" and I say : sod off – I'll 
learn a language for the right reason - when I *want* to learn, not 
just because they're useful!


Technical know-how: Ooh. Plenty of hardcore engineering and 
mathematical programs. Enjoy playing around with statistics. 
Enjoying boring people with statistics and facts. Some of us have to 
make do with the only evil we can inflict on others :-)


Favourite HP book: PoA. I have *never* had so many "Oh My God!" 
moments in one book before.


Favourite HP character(s): Hermione, Tonks, Luna. Hermione's 
obsession with academic results mirrors my own (I actually miss 
having exams, which were dreadfully enjoyable); Tonks is the kind of 
person I like having around to cheer me up with something witty; and 
I simply like geek girls like Luna. 


Favourite HP line: "I'm going to bed before either of you come up 
with another brilliant idea to get us killed – or worse, expelled." 


Watching/Avoiding the HP movies?: Love them! I even transcribed 
Parseltongue. Seems to have some vague sort of logical grammar, 
actually. Need larger dataset to decipher it :-) (Thought : I want 
to create a Parseltongue script! Maybe something like Linear B gone 
squiggly)


Into HP fanfiction? Not really. 


Books you'd recommend to just about anyone: anything by Albert 
Camus; the HP books, naturally; The Consolations Of Philosophy – 
Alain de Botton; Ulysses – James Joyce; Zen and the Art of 
Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M Pirsig; High Fidelity – Nick 
Hornby; My Family And Other Animals – Gerald Durrell; The 
Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy (all 5 books) – Douglas Adams.


Favorite TV shows: all old ones – I can't bring myself to watch much 
TV these days other than documentaries and sports. Blackadder, 
Goodness Gracious Me, Whose Line Is It Anyway? Top Gear, Red Dwarf, 
and perhaps too many cartoons
. Somehow I always end up on 
Discovery / Animal Planet / Nat Geo.


Favorite Movies: The Shawshank Redemption; The Fight Club; About A 
Boy; High Fidelity; The Lion King; 4 Weddings and a Funeral; all the 
Wallace and Gromit cartoons; Trainspotting; The Hours; Talk To Her. 
I'm sure there are more! And the HP movies too, of course...


Favorite Musical Artists: Groove Armada; The Streets; Chicane; U2; 
Oasis; Counting Crows; and many, many more. But when I hear the next 
one on the radio, I'll remember them...or more likely these days, 
Classic MTV / One Hit Wonders on the music channels. 


One thing about your life you'd change if you could (sorry, but you
may not say "lose weight"): I'd want my best friend to still be 
around (he died in 1997 of a rare viral infection in NY). 


One thing about your life you wouldn't change even for an advance
copy of Book 7: The friends and my brother (who I consider to be a 
great friend!)


Philosophy for an easy life: Always make sure that you have wine 
glasses and a corkscrew ready at a moment's notice.

(I love my wine, if I haven't mentioned it 
 oh, never mind)


How you found HPfGU: Can't remember! I've been lurking for 3 years 
now!


Active at other HP sites: Not anymore
. Used to.


Your most rock solid Book 6 or Book 7 prediction: Dumbledore and 
Hagrid will die.


Take a moment to wave to members of the fandom you have personally 
met: None!


ADD A QUESTION OF YOUR OWN AND ANSWER IT: 
Name the one people you would most like to meet.

Albert Camus. When I read his biography, I had an unshakable feeling 
that I would be great friends with this man. His writings have a 
mixture of sensual beauty and intellectual ideas that I value very 
highly, and his personality and intelligence would make him a 
fascinating person to have a conversation with on matters like life, 
love and football.

Of course, everyone who's replied has been interesting in their own 
way, so I know a lot more people I'd like to meet! Now to get out of 
this place