Television

  • Favorite Shows: The Simpsons, Scrubs, The Daily Show, Good Eats, Family Guy
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Conan!
  • Favorite Episode: Simpsons Episode 5F05: "Lisa the Skeptic" Back when The Simpons was at its height, it could balance humor, satire and emotion just right, and this episode is one of the best. And hey, it guest stars Stephen Jay Gould out of all people.
  • Favorite Theme Song: Perfect Strangers
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Anything canceled by Fox

College

  • School Name: University Of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 1999
  • Attended: 1995 - 1998
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): Electrical Engineering
  • Minor(s): Computer Science

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, The Incredibles, High Fidelity, Taxi Driver, The Conversation, The Godfather, Something About Mary, Office Space, Shawshank Redemption, City of God
  • Favorite Directors: Marty, Neil LaBute, Todd Solondz
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Cinema Paradiso
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Thai, Indian, and everything else
  • Favorite Dishes: Duck with chili sauce
  • My Original Recipes: Take a frozen chicken breast, wrap it in foil, stick it in your toaster oven for 30 minutes, and you've got Bachelor's Delight Chicken. Don't screwer up by gettin too fancy there, city boy!

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Led Zeppelin, The Pixies, Radiohead, The Wrens, The Hold Steady, Wilco, TV On The Radio, Van Morrison, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Al Green
  • Favorite Albums: Achtung Baby, OK Computer, The Meadowlands
  • Favorite Songs: The Humpty Dance
  • Favorite Lyrics: "You were right about the stars. Each one is a setting sun." - Wilco Or anything by The Postal Service
  • Guilty Pleasure: Toxic
  • Band I wish I was in: I wish I was Jimmy Page

Books

  • Favorite Books: Midnight's Children, The Sun Also Rises, I'm Just Here For The Food
  • Favorite Authors: Ernest Hemmingway, Simon Singh, Simon Winchester

Video Games

  • Games I Play: I have recently been introduced to the game of COUNTERSTRIKE! It is the only game I need to survive. There once was a game named Burnout, and a game named Mariokart, and a game named Puzzle Fighter before that. But I am now slave to the COUNTERSTRIKE!
  • Consoles: COUNTERSTRIKE 64
  • Favorite Characters: COUNTERSTRIKE!
  • Gaming Alias: COUNTERSTRIKE!
  • Servers I Play On: COUNTERSTRIKE!
  • Favorite Classic Arcade Games: COUNTERSTRIKE!
  • Most Addictive: COUNTERSTRIKE!
  • Proudest Achievements: I once killed someone on COUNTERSTRIKE!
  • Favorite Soundtrack: COUNTERSTRIKE! Concerto for violin
  • Clans: COUNTERSTRIKE!

monsur

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    • Name: Monsur
    • Country: United States
    • State: New York
    • Metro: New York City
    • Birthday: 6/16/1977
    • Gender: Male
    • Member Since: 11/15/1999
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Memories (4)

  • janetha
    I remember taking CS173 with Monsur. It was fun!
    • Posted 9/22/2006 3:02 AM
    • by janetha
  • chrischoi@revelife
    Monsur's one of kindest people i know. he always attracts girls like mosquitos to a blue lamp. If there was a statue of monsur somewhere, i would change the inscription "Monsur" to "Mansur". cause lets face it, he's the man.
  • dave
    I remember when Monsur liked big chested girls... oh wait he still does.
    • Posted 3/21/2006 7:55 PM
    • by dave

Chatboard (1)

  • Mary
    hi monsur! wow, check out all of chris' comments... lame~
    • Posted 5/8/2006 5:32 PM
    • by Mary