DeadbyDawn
7th February 2008 - 08:48 AM
I totally missed out on this thread when I first joined five months ago, back in Sep, last year. If I had found it then, I would have posted straight-away, cos I think it's cool if everyone did the same. I think I did put some info about my "interests" in my Profile when I registered. Anyway, here's the rest:
Name: Ronnie Lee Page, single (never married) male
Age: 31
Nationality: Australian, (from Adelaide, South Australia)
Height: 5'11", Weight: 170 lbs
Hair: Light brown, Eyes: brown
Occupation: Freelance Communications Consultant (Writer/Editor), born into considerable wealth, but work my butt off, all year round, to earn my own, which luckily, is plenty enough, by anybody's estimation.
I have always travelled a lot all over the world (to every continent, save the Antarctic

) ever since I was only a kid. That has helped me both live among and learn about diverse nations, peoples and cultures, all my life. I feel highly fortunate and the better off for those experiences. Though, paradoxically, I've not mastered a foreign language as my second language, behind English. This often frustrates me, cos I'd love to be able to speak, not one, but several different languages. Alas, I'm too lazy and complacent in my English-speaking ways, to even seriously try anymore. Being in Japan, on and off, for most of the past year, has sort of rekindled, indeed almost made it mandatory, that I make an effort at Japanese, for starters. My Spanish used to be quite outstanding when I was a teen dating an older, sensational senorita from Barcelona. My grip over Spanish sank south soon after that swell love affair ended.
My passions have been (and still are); extreme metal music like death metal, thrash, grindcore and hardcore. I'm unabashedly an extreme-metal-first fan with
Death Metal (and Grindcore is runners-up) being my greatest pride n joy in ALL music. I also love the Blues and blues-rock. The one and only Stevie Ray Vaughan (RIP), being my biggest blues hero of all time.
I absolutely love playing and watching lots of competitive outdoor sports. Football a.k.a soccer, tennis, hockey (both field and ice versiona), squash, rugby, cricket and Formula One races are some of my favourites. Also fishing, sailing, kite-flying (sadly, I haven't been able to do much skiing so far, though I definitely wanna do more of that in the future)... I keenly follow international politics, fashion and cultural news. I'm no self-congratulatory atheist, I reckon I do believe in some God, raised a Protestant, though I'm no church-goer and a staunch believer in religion being a purely private concern and having no claim to lord it over in the political or social spheres, i.e. a non-negotiable, eternal separation of religion and state. I find most organized religion intolerant, bigoted, very subversive and stifling of individuality and personal freedoms of thought and conduct. I always thought nobody ever needs religious rituals and dogma in order to lead an honest, moral life and be a good human being. But I have nothing against religious folks, anywhere, as long as they don't get overly preachy, judgemental and infuriatingly try to foist their values and beliefs upon the rest of us. My politics is rather left-wing, the dreaded L-word in the States

in that on a lot of the perennial hot-button social issues, certainly in the U.S, I'm what you'd call a 'liberal'. That's how I have mostly voted in my own country and that's what my beliefs are.
Gosh, I'm shot my mouth off, as usual. This has gotta be maximum disclosure by a new member