10 SemiInteresting, Somewhat Fun Facts About Me

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10 Semi-Interesting, Somewhat Fun Facts About Me
or how I learned to stop worrying and love the
library

• Jeffrey Voon
• jeffvoon_at_shaw.ca

LIBR 500 Foundations of Information Technology
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Background (The boring stuff)

• I was born in Vancouver on September 11, 1980
  (now a very strange day for a birthday)
  
• Ive lived in Richmond for my entire life (so Im
  used to flat land,
  
• and live in constant danger
• of being flooded)

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School is Fun!!!

• I graduated from H.J. Cambie Secondary School in
  
  
• Richmond in 1998
• (Go Crusaders!)
• Next, I graduated from UBC with my B.A. in
  Political Science in May 2002
  
• (I wanted to be a politician, but
• I couldnt be that corrupt)

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Working can be fun

• Ive worked in a wide variety of odd jobs, such
  as
  
• A drafting/engineering assistant working on
  AutoCAD
  
• An academic peer tutor
• Assembly line machine work at an injection
  molding plastics company

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sometimes

• Plus
• A part-time disc jockey for weddings and parties
• A direct sales cutlery demonstrator, salesman and
  team leader
  
• Cashier at a really, really busy farm/produce
  market in Richmond

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This past summer

• I went to Montreal and Quebec City for my Uncles
  wedding

My parents, my brother and I at Montreals
Botanical Gardens prior to the ceremony
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And more importantly, to watch some womens
tennis

• I was this close to ANNA KOURNIKOVA!!!

• And Kim Clijsters, just to name a few

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Miscellaneous Interests Music

• Ive played the piano since I was five years
  old
  
• and the guitar for nine years as well, plus I
  write some songs
  
• So you could say Im somewhat
• musically inclined

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and more music

• I also listen to many kinds of music, depending
  on my mood, including
  
• RB/Soul Babyface, Brian McKnight
• Jazz Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Miles Davis,
  Charlie Parker
  
• Emo/Indie/Pop-Punk/Alternative Rock Lifehouse,
  Something Corporate, Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard
  Confessional
  

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Miscellaneous Interests Sports

• I love to play golf and tennis, as much as I
  can
  
• I won the 1998 Galiano-Gulf Islands Invitational
  (our annual, ultra-competitive, take-no-prisoners
  golf tournament for family and friends!)

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My Religion

• My religion (or obsession depending on who you
  talk to) is following and supporting Manchester
  United Football Club
  
• This entails waking up anywhere from 4 am to 7 am
  on weekends to watch or
  
• listen to matches and do lots
• of screaming and praying

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Reading is fun!!!

• My favourite author is Ralph Ellison, who wrote
  Invisible Man, plus countless other essays and
  short stories
  
• Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I
  speak for you?
  
• - Ralph Ellison

• Ralph Ellison photo from the PBS American Masters
  website http//www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/d
  atabase/ellison_r_homepage.html
  

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Looking into the crystal ball

• In the future, I hope to
• survive the MLIS program and graduate from SLAIS
• find a cushy library job and use my newly
  acquired skills as a well-trained information
  professional
  
• win the Galiano-Gulf Islands tournament again
• travel to England to watch my heroes (Glory Glory
  Man United!)
  

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