Weight-training keeps me in touch with my body and is a good counter-point to my intellectual pursuits. I choose to work out at home. I used to belong to a gym, but grew tired of the egotism, cliquishness and disdain that many of the serious bodybuilders had for anyone who didn't possess the "perfect" body type.

I see bodybuilding (or body shaping) as an act of creation. One of the greatest benefits of weight training is that it teaches one that with self-discipline and hard work you can transform yourself. The same determination employed on an intellectual or emotional level can have life-altering effects.

As you can likely tell from the photograph, food is not important to me aside from needing it to survive. My tastes are simple. All that I have to offer on the subject is that the best fish & chips are to be found in White Rock.

When I lose track of time and forget to eat dinner to the point where it is too late to make anything, I fall back on the staple of the artistic peronality, take out Canadian-Chinese (or American-Chinese, as the case may be) food.

I don't have the patience and love of food that is required of a good cook. The only meal I'm good at is breakfast: bacon & eggs, pancakes, waffles, french toast and freshly squeezed fruit juice.

Some of my favourite flavours are mint, cinnamon, licorice and vanilla. I also have a weakness for pure milk chocolate, which I keep in the freezer. (It stays crispy that way.)

It's said that taste and smell are closely related. Some of my favourite scents are lavendar, vanilla and orange/mandarin.

Another cool place to enjoy a meal is Granville Island.