User:Sixtybolts

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Userboxes This user comes from Malaysia. 中華 這個用戶是華人。 This user is ethnically Chinese. This user lives in the United Kingdom. M This user is an alumnus of the University of Manchester. BA This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree. en This user is a native speaker of English. en-mg This macha's Manglish banyak terror wan lar, dei. en-gb This user can speak British English. en-us This user can speak American English. ms-3 Pengguna ini boleh menyumbang dengan taraf yang baik dalam Bahasa Melayu. zh-1 該用戶能以基本的中文進行交流。 该用户能以基本的中文进行交流。 散手 This user practices Sanshou and dreams of throwing people. This user has set foot in 14 countries of the world. According to the Political Compass this user is: Economic Left (-3.63) and Social Libertarian (-3.74)

I am a Malaysian-Chinese male currently pursuing a second academic degree in the Britain. I was born one muggy day in Selangor nearly three decades ago; more specifically, 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.

Contents 1 Interests 2 Anti-Simpsons 3 Contributions 3.1 Text 3.2 Images 4 Countries Visited 5 External Links

[edit] 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 inter-ethnic relationships and geopolitics as well as post-colonial responses to such legacies.

As my penultimate 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 Fist and Muay Thai though to regard myself as anything more than an armchair enthusiast would border on the spurious.

As far as styles go, mine could be said to be a mélange of influences, most of which have their roots in British journalism. This means I prefer to: omit full stops after abbreviations and letters in an acronym; italicise titles of publications and works of arts (in keeping with the style of the The Times but contrary to the counsel of The Economist and The Guardian); use a lower-case -s after plural contractions, eg, CDs; follow genetives ending in an s with -'s, eg, Abbas's, unless plural, in which case an apostrophe would do. And so the anal retentive list goes on.

I prefer the precise elegance of pinyin over other, more unwieldy forms of romanization from Chinese but at the same time I hold a low opinion of Simplified Chinese—both are products of the PRC.

The Book of Zhuangzi is the most important book I have ever read. I am happy and proud to be a Third Culture Kid. (Whahey, out of one salad bowl and into another.)

[edit] 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.

[edit] Contributions

Mostly WikiGnome and -Fairy stuff; no major write-ups as yet.

[edit] Text

See: Contributions (Sixtybolts)

[edit] Images

[edit] Countries Visited

Asia and Australasia:

Malaysia	China	Hong Kong	Macau	Taiwan
Singapore	Thailand	United Arab Emirates	Australia

Europe:

United Kingdom

Belgium

Czech Republic

France

Portugal

NB: For the purposes of tabulation (cf, final userbox), Hong Kong and Macau obviously do not make the cut—as both are SARs and not countries—but the Republic of China does. I regard the constituent countries of the UK as distinct and, having been to England, Scotland and Wales, the Union Flag above would therefore represent a total of three countries visited. As the UAE is geographically placed in Southwest Asia I chose to categorise it as an Asian country rather than use the ill-defined term "Middle East".

[edit] External Links

• Economist: Style Guide
• The Times: Style Guide
• The Guardian: Style Guide
• European Commission: English Style Guide (PDF format)

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