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Name: Alan
Country: United States
State: Massachusetts
Gender: Male
Interests: Girls, hanging out with friends, watching movies and anime, listening to music, goofing off on guitar, recording shit I like, snowboarding, lifting, singing/screaming along with heavy metal/hard rock/punk rock stuff and having everyone give me a disapproving look, telling sick jokes and making bien tai comments and having everyone give me a disapproving look, beating the crap out of annoying people and having some people give me a disapproving look and the other half giving me a pat on the back...
Expertise: Fuck you
Occupation: Researcher
Industry: Engineering, Science
Message: message me
AIM:  TMastr3000
MSN: TMaster3000@hotmail.com
ICQ:  169497403
Member Since:
2/12/2003
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| it's been a while hasn't it?
so what's going on these days... my life is simple. i work, i go to the gym, i hang out with friends, you know, the basics. i've been going to more and more yoga classes, and started going to a kickboxing class too.
i thought i'd write about a new tattoo i got a couple months back. it's hard to see clearly in the pic below, but i don't really have any pics of it (my friend snapped this one because he wants to get something in the near future and liked this font i guess).
it says catalyst, with an ouroboros (a serpent consuming its own tail) encircling the end of the word. it covers the inside of my right forearm... if you can't tell. so what's up with that?
well, i'm at a weird place in my life right now. a lot's going on, but it all feels very stagnant. it's like progress itself has become a constant. getting caught up in my career and all my short and long term goals, it's easy to forget who i am. i remembered back to when i was a naive, pure undergraduate freshman. i wanted to be a great scientist and do this and that and be remembered among the masses of insignificance in the grand progression of time almighty. i wanted to be so great that i inspired others to do great things, to be remembered not only by tangible things that i created or did, but also in the minds and hearts of others. from there, i came up with the idea for the tattoo. the ouroboros signifies the cyclic nature to this life of inspiration, each person catalyzing the greatness in others, and allowing others to catalyze their own greatness.
i've wanted to get this tattoo for a while now, but finally got around to it because i was feeling lost in the aforementioned stagnancy. i'm concluding my postgraduate job as a scientist soon, and am moving towards going back to medical school. i felt like med school is such a beaten path that it was easy to lose sight of what was important to me. i felt so average and blahhh. there are so many doctors in the world, there are so many scientists in the world, but everyone dies and that's that. so i wanted to remind myself of my personal life philosophy, and had this inked on my arm where i can see it at all times. to remember that no matter what i do with my life, as long as my actions can inspire others to be the best they can be, then i will have led a good life.
and on that note, i'll be moving to south korea before the end of the year to teach english for one year 
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