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I was born one muggy day in Selangor some decades ago. I am old enough to remember Dungeons & Dragons and ThunderCats running across my TV screen but not nearly old enough to have caught the original run of Happy Days.

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Mostly WikiGnome and WikiFairy stuff. No major write-ups as yet.

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+I was born one muggy day in [[Selangor]] some decades ago. I am old enough to remember ''[[Dungeons & Dragons (TV series)|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' and ''[[ThunderCats]]'' running across my TV screen but not nearly old enough to have caught the original run of ''[[Happy Days]]''.
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-  |info     = This user practices '''[[Sanshou]]''' and dreams of '''[[Takedown_(grappling)|throwing]]''' people.
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-I am a [[Malaysian Chinese|Malaysian-Chinese]] male currently pursuing a second [[academic degree]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. I was born in [[Selangor|Selangor Darul Ehsan]] nearly three decades ago; I am old enough to remember ''[[Dungeons & Dragons (TV series)|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' and ''[[ThunderCats]]'' running across my TV screen but not nearly old enough to have caught the original run of ''[[Happy Days]]''.
-==Interests==
-I am interested in matters pertaining to [[religion]] and [[history]], particularly that of [[Malaysia]] and [[China]]. I am also keen on understanding the impact [[colonialism]] has had on modern day [[Ethnic groups|inter-ethnic]] relationships and [[geopolitics]] as well as [[post-colonialism|post-colonial]] responses to such legacies.
-As my penultimate [[Wikipedia:Userboxes|userbox]] indicates, I also practise [[martial arts]] although my understanding of fighting systems, most of which was gleaned at an informal level, is generally more broad than deep. Other than sanshou, I am also a sometime exponent of [[Five Ancestors|Five Ancestors Fist]] and [[Muay Thai]] though to regard myself as anything more than an armchair enthusiast would border on the spurious.
-I have a propensity to employ [[semi-colons]] when I write. The [[Dash (punctuation)#Em dash|em dash]] is another [[punctuation mark]] that I cannot do without. As a matter of precision I prefer the elegance of [[pinyin]] over other, more clumsy forms of [[Romanization#Chinese|romanization]] from Chinese but at the same time I hold a low opinion of [[Simplified Chinese]]—both are products of the [[People's Republic of China|PRC]].
-The ''[[Zhuangzi|Book of Zhuangzi]]'' the the most important book I have ever read. I am happy and proud to be a [[Third Culture Kids|Third Culture Kid]]. (Whahey, out of one [[Salad bowl (cultural idea)|salad bowl]] and into another.)
-==Anti-Simpsons==
-I have come to loathe all post-''[[Futurama]]'' episodes of ''[[The Simpsons]]''—the staff writers have just stopped trying (See: ''[[Jumping the shark]]''). Thankfully, [[Seth McFarlane]] is there to take up the comedic slack, along with [[Matt Stone]] and [[Trey Parker]].
 ==Contributions==
-Mostly [[Wikipedia:WikiGnome|WikiGnome]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiFairy|-Fairy]] stuff; no major write-ups as yet.
+Mostly [[Wikipedia:WikiGnome|WikiGnome]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiFairy|WikiFairy]] stuff. No major write-ups as yet.
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+*[http://www.economist.com/research/StyleGuide/ ''Economist:'' Style Guide]
-'''[[Asia]]''' and '''[[Australasia]]''':
+*[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,2941,00.html ''The Times:'' Style Guide]
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+*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide ''The Guardian:'' Style Guide]
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+*[http://ec.europa.eu/translation/writing/style_guides/english/style_guide_en.pdf European Commission: English Style Guide] (PDF format)
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-For the purposes of tabulation (cf. final userbox), [[Hong Kong]] and [[Macau]] obviously do not make the cut—as both are [[Special administrative region (People's Republic of China)|SARs]] and not [[Country|countries]]—but the [[Republic of China]] does. Also, I regard the [[Constituent country|constituent countries]] of the [[United Kingdom]] as distinct and having been to [[England]], [[Scotland]] and [[Wales]] the [[Union Flag]] above would therefore represent a total of three countries visited.
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