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Age: 32
Gender: Male
Country: United States
State: Illinois
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I am interested in the following health related topics: breast cancer

A little bit about me:A latest fashionable man like to beat the old diseases and fight for man kind. I have a brave heart to accept all the disease from all the people allover the world and to make them smile.

Hobbies & Interests

Oil Painting and Pencil Sketches
I have included my first oil painting and a sample of the paintings from the subsequent years. The images shown here will surely have lost quite some amount of its image quality compared to the originals due to a compromise made to make the image files smaller. But they are still viewable.
Cartooning

I enjoy pencil sketching, cartooning scribbling, etc, etc. I also spend a lot of time experimenting with digital graphics tools.

This is one of my cartoon features which was published in the 1996 CET college magazine. It is mainly about some common events in and around the Engineering college.
Web Design
Some of the home pages that I have designed. The aim was to design for low bandwidths, typically 28.8 kbps modems and hence all pages including the images are less than 50KB. This also reduces the amount of freedom in implementing the design.
Animation
I like motion picture and animation a lot. See some of my experiments with Macromedia Flash™ and the scripting available.
Music

Music takes another slice of my time. I was interested in music from my boyhood days. I was a member of the church choir and have sung solos in many a public function and competitions. Unfortunately my laziness got the better of me and I couldn't complete my guitar training.The thrill and satisfaction you get from performing arts is quite unique and addictive.

Here I had included a couple of Christmas songs that I sang. Since it is my first try on sound recording using computers, the file sizes were reduced drastically for easy download (~50KB) compromising on the quality! (Download them first and then listen)
Magic
Magic is one of my favorite hobbies, especially parlour magic. It is an extension of my interest in human thinking patterns. Illusions are created mostly with words, looks and sleight. I have also developed a few tricks with sleight of hand and card forcing.
Adventure and War Games

I am also very much interested in Adventure games and RPG (Role Playing Games). We used to create our own adventure games and play in groups since computer games were not available.
My favorite computer games are "Fallout", "Baulder's Gate 1 & 2", "Medieval", "Might & Magic", "Ultima 7", "Diablo", "Sim City", "Ceaser 3", "Dune", "Commandos",etc.

One of my recent hobbies is playing War games. We started playing back in 1996 when we had to design the game and the terrain ourselves. Nowadays we get computer simulations of almost all the historic wars easily. My favorite war games are "Sid Meier's Gettysburg" and "Steel Panthers 3".
I also play the non-computer war games like "D.B.A." and "D.B.M". Find more about our local wargame group at http://www.indiawargamers.com. I once played at a war gaming convention in Atlanta and it was a great experience.
Snooker and Pool
I am still an novice but I like this game a lot.. I am still trying to learn from books and put in lots of practice.
Basketball
Basketball is my favorite outdoor game. I used to spend my evenings at the Medical college court or the Engineering college indoor stadium whenever possible. I made a lot of friends as well and participated in some state level competitions.