User:Christopher Sundita

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I am Chris. I am 26 years old and I reside in the Pacific Northwest.

I discovered Wikipedia during the course of a debate in 2003. My first edit to Wikipedia was in September of 2003. But I wasn't active until the summer of 2004.

I became an Administrator on July 13, 2006. If I could help you in some way, please contact me on my talk page.

I have been using the internet and online services since 1993 at the age of 13. I first logged on Prodigy with a 2400 baud modem. I later used CompuServe and remember asking if they have this "new" thing called the World Wide Web. In the mid-1990's, I logged on a variety of BBSes. The one I logged on the most was ProStar Plus, based in Auburn, Washington. They later became Fox Communications and ProStar went defunct.

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I graduated from Pierce College Ft. Steilacoom in June 2006 with an Associate in Arts & Sciences degree. I was accepted to the University of Washington, however I am going to work for one more year. I will be attending UW in the fall of 2007 with junior standing, studying linguistics.

I have a blog at http://salitablog.blogspot.com. It is about Philippine languages. Go check it out!

My primary interests are languages and linguistics. I speak four languages rather well. English & Tagalog are my native languages. The other two languages I am conversant in are Spanish & French (especially Joual).

I am also very much into Catalan, which I have been casually studying on and off for many years but only started to study it seriously since 2001. I have also studied, at one time or another: Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and more. I am trying to learn German Russian at the moment.

The language families that interest me the most are Romance languages and the Austronesian Languages (particularly the ones in the Philippines).

In 2002, I wrote a grammatical outline on Tausug (spoken in Sulu). I intended it to be a four-page reference article to be used by me and whoever else was interested, but it had grown to an 80-page monster. So, during 2003 I was working with a friend on getting it published. By the end of 2004, it was finally published as a book under the title In Bahasa Sug: An Introduction to Tausug. In the future I hope to write more books like this.

I'm also an avid genealogist - I am of Philippine (75%) and European (25%) ancestry. My Filipino ancestors came from regions where the Bikol, Tagalog, Cebuano, and Ibanag languages are currently spoken. My European ancestors came from England (Cornwall), Switzerland, Germany, Ireland, and Spain.

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This user lives in the state of Washington.

This user grew up in the state of New Jersey.

This user is an undergraduate student majoring in Linguistics and minoring in Anthropology.

This user is of Filipino ancestry.

This user is of multiple ancestries.

This user does weight training.

This user is Roman Catholic.

This user is owned by one or more cockatiels.

This user maintains a blog.

This user is opposed to online censorship.

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This Tireless Contributor Barnstar is presented to User:Christopher Sundita for his contributions on Philippine language-related articles. Presented by --Jondel 07:58, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Until the age of 15, I was an Air Force brat, so I have lived in the following places:

• Luke Air Force Base (where I was born) and Glendale, Arizona (1980-1985)
• Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines (1985-1987)
• Clark Air Base, Philippines (1987-1989)
• McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey (1990-1994)
• The state of Washington (1994-present)

I have visited:

• 21 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and Guam
• 11 Philippine provinces and Metro Manila
• Osan Air Base and Kunsan Air Base, South Korea
• Tokyo and Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan
• Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

I really want to visit:

• Montréal and Québec City in Canada
• Barcelona and Madrid in Spain
• Other countries in Europe like Portugual, Ireland, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, France, etc.
• Iceland
• Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China
• India
• The Philippines - again!
• and more...

I guess that's all I can think of for now! Thanks for reading. :)

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