Something about myself

["Dino Rampage" <dino_rampage@hotmail.com>]

I guess by now some of you must be wondering, "Who the hell is this Dino 
Rampage guy?? He's always full of questions!!" I suppose a short 
self-introduction is in order. I suddenly realised that this may not really 
qualify as dinosaur-related, so my apologies to those who think this e-mail 
is meaningless.

My real name is Ivan Kwan, and I'm 20 this year. My birthplace and country 
of residence is (and will always be) Singapore, a small island state in 
South-east Asia (and I can proclaim nwith nationalistic fervour to be the 
safest, cleanest, most beautiful, least corrupt, most technologically 
advanced country in this region) You should really come visit this lovely 
country at least once in your lifetime...

Well anyway, back to myself. I've been crazy over dinosaurs since I was a 
little kid, and I dare say I'm the only person on this island who hasn't 
grown out of a passion for dinosaurs (and in fact, all things prehistoric) 
> From a kid who went ooh and ah at those animatronic dinosaurs at the 
exhibitions and at The Land Before Time, to the pre-teen who clapped and 
swooned over Jurassic Park and the Dinosaur World Tour, to the young adult 
who engages in prehistoric art in my free time, dinosaurs have always been a 
part of my life.  Right now, paleoart is my main focus. Drawing dinosaurs 
always makes me excited; there's the part about colouration, feathers, 
dermal covering and all that, but my art is still quite crappy. I can't do 
shadows, I can't really do scaly textures, and my dinosaurs always look flat 
and 2-dimensional. Worse still, I cannot do backgrounds or scenery, and all 
my drawings are mostly a profile of the head from the left side!! Still, I 
try.

While I love dinosaurs in general, the folowing are areas where I'm 
especially interested in:

Theropods, especially coelophysians, torvosaurs, spinosaurs, carnosaurs, 
tyranosaurs, ornithomimids, dromaeosaurs, troodontids and oviraptorosaurs, 
sauropods (especially diplodocimorphs, brachiosaurs & titanosaurs), 
ankylosaurs (which I can never draw well), iguanodonts and hadrosaurs, 
pachycephalosaurs and my favourite dinosaurs of all time, the ceratopsids. 
My other fields of prehistoric interest include the Ice Ages, terror birds, 
and the Pliocene and Pleistocene fauna of Eurasia & Africa.

Well, before I get accused f talking too much, guess I'd better stop now. 
Before I go, I'd just like to say one thing: this list really rocks!

P.S I know this wasn't very dinosaur-related, and I apologise :-)

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