User:Ikan Kekek

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Allow me to introduce myself; I'm a man of wealth and taste!

Just kidding!

I'm a native Manhattanite and musician who spent two years of my childhood in rural Malaysia (Ikan Kekek is the name of a Malaysian fish and a children's song I learned to sing there) and traveled a great deal in Southeast and other parts of Asia with my parents and on my own, and during my time in graduate school, spent four straight summers as a student, tourist, and musical competitor in Italy, France, and Hungary. Though I've traveled a good deal in Asia and Europe, I have yet to visit Latin America, Africa, Australia, or Oceania - so much to see, but not enough time each year, as I cannot travel except in the American summer, given my teaching schedule. In the longer term, I would like to visit Samarkand, Bukhara, Isfahan, and various other places with beautiful mosques I learned about while I was a student in a public Malay-language school in Malaysia, but at least, in the summer of 2010, I fulfilled a longstanding wish to visit London, and also took a great side-trip to Northern Ireland. A return trip to Indonesia is projected in the medium-term future.