Immanuel A. Magalit
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Government |
| Occupation | Organizational Development |
| Location | Quezon City, Philippines |
| Interests | Books, fiction in prose or verse (the longer the better), history (my interest weakens around the 16th century and completely disappears by the beginning of the 20th), science (especially biology and physical geography), mathematics, photography, chess, go, running, swimming, Baguio City, mountains, pine trees, beaches, dawns, sunsets, and the ukulele |
| Favorite Movies | The original Star Wars trilogy, Fiddler on the Roof |
| Favorite Music | Beethoven's 9th and 3rd; Mozart's 39th and 41st; Bach; pop and jazz of the 70s and 80s |
| Favorite Books | The Bible, Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and Space Trilogy, Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Murasaki's The Tale of Genji, Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters, Fitzgerald's translation of The Iliad, Milton's Paradise Lost, The Aeneid, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Cervantes's Don Quixote, Moby Dick, the MR James translation of Hans Andersen, Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, MacDonald's Phantastes and The Light Princess, Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Zahn's Star Wars novels, Michener's Chesapeake, C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis's Miracles, C.S. Lewis's The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis's Preface to Paradise Lost, C.S. Lewis's Allegory of Love, Edwin Bevan's Symbolism and Belief, Attenborough's Life on Earth, Botkin and Keller's Environmental Science, Atkins's The Periodic Kingdom, Kline's Mathematics for the Nonmathematician, Boorstin's The Discoverers, Keegan's A History of Warfare, Pratt's The Battles that Changed History, Howarth's A Brief History of British Sea Power, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Pachman's Modern Chess Tactics, Reti's Masters of the Chessboard, Kmoch's Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces, Shuzo Ohira's Appreciating Famous Games, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, National Geographic magazine |