Only my closest friends on this forum know my real name. My initials are F.A.
I'm a Filipino-American, born in Hawaii, raised in California, worked in Japan for a few years, and now I live in New York, where I currently attend medical school. Before med school, I graduated from my university with double BS degrees in Biology and Chemistry, and a minor in Japanese.
I'm a member of several forums, and have been registered at some for much longer than I've been here, but I only have about 4-5 posts on those forums. On other communities, I have 0 posts. GBAtemp is the only one in which I ever became really active.
I lurked here for about a year before actually registering. I joined when DS piracy was in its heyday, but I've since shifted to home console gaming (mainly PS3) and am pretty much a legit gamer. Even when I want a Japanese game, I import it rather than pirating. I most recently just got
Ni no Kuni: Shiroki Seihai no Jouou.
I'm engaged to my girlfriend of 15 years (she's not 15 years old, I mean we've been together for 15 years
), but since she's also a med student, we neither have the time nor the money to plan a wedding for at least another few years.
I love good food from cuisines all over the world and there's nothing that I won't try at least once. If I don't like it the first time I try it, there's a high likelihood that I'll give it a second chance. I really love sushi.
I've been playing video games since 1985. I own (or have owned in the past) an Atari 2600, Atari 7800, NES, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy, N64, Dreamcast, XBox, PS1, PS2, PS3, 360, Wii, DS Lite, PSP and a 3DS.
I'm a huge fan of zombie lore. The shambling, clumsy zombies of the 60's have a special place in my heart because they scared the crap out of me when I was a little kid, but I think I'm a bigger fan of the sprinting zombies that have emerged in what I like to call the "Zombie Renaissance" of the past several years.
Game series I love:
Resident Evil,
Fallout,
GTA,
Dead Space, any
Final Fantasy that was made before XIII,
Dragon Quest,
Borderlands,
Metal Gear Solid and
The Elder Scrolls.
Games/series I own and would love to get into, but haven't due to a huge backlog and lack of time:
Max Payne,
Deus Ex,
Mass Effect,
Batman Arkham Asylum/City,
God of War,
Uncharted,
Red Dead Redemption,
Assassin's Creed,
Diablo III,
Starcraft II...there are others, but off the top of my head I can't think of them. Of all the games I have on my shelf, more than half of them are still sealed in the original plastic.
One hobby that I recently got into is lasers. I collect extremely powerful lasers--the kind that can light matches on fire and pop balloons from across the room. PEWPEWPEW is one of my many passions.