There are some themes running through this cornucopia of information.

• Family is important: mom, dad, bro.
• There is the search for meaning and purpose, as well as connection with history. Vehicles: poetry, religion, history, film. Reviewing old photos helps me to reconnect with my personal history. And what about my place in Filipino and Canadian cultures? In my family tree?
  
• The need for Play is represented by board games. But that's all. When I was a child, this was a huge part of my life: toys, Nintendo, staging mock rescues, the neighbourhood detective agency. These were the embryos of vocations. But the one that was watered and nurtured the most was . . .
• Computers and technology. I have had a lifelong fascination with electronic gadgets and especially with PC's. Today they allow me to enjoy a great degree of control over my "information space".
• Sharing tips. I love sharing tips with people. "Tips" is too small a word -- I love to get excited about new tools and ideas, and I love getting other people excited over them. I love "the hype". I love comparing the pros and cons of things, reading reviews: books, movies, board games, pens, digital cameras.
  
• There is definitely a part of me that is very visual -- designing and organizing workspaces and theater sets, producing statistical graphics, drawing comic books and reading them. Both left-brain and right-brain visual.
• There is a musical part of me, but it has been steadily dying over the past decade for some reason.
• For want of a better term, I need to "dance", literally. I need to move in amazingly balanced, Bruce-Lee-ish ways. Today I express myself in this way through Hacky Sack; in the past I have done so through floor hockey, volleyball, and mountain biking.
• And I like to do "impressive" things. I love doing things so well that people are impressed -- or if there's nobody around, I love impressing myself. Doing things so professionally, so unexpectedly well -- I sit back and look upon my work with relish. In a word, competence!

I will summarize these these threads of my life as follows:

• Mom, Dad, and bro
• Remember where you came from and where you're going
• Play
• I love technology
• Spread the hype
• Say it with pictures
  
• Impress!