Lion Profile
| Name: Ryan Tong |
| Major: Asian American Studies |
| Year: Long Beach Alumni |
| Hometown: Oakland, Smokin |
| DOB: 1/10/84 |
What part of the lion are you?
- The head
If you were a lion, what would they name you?
- AHHH!!!! Because that's the sound people would make when I bite them.
If you can design your own lion, what colors and style would it be?
- Black, like my heart. Also Malaysian because it would be misleading.
What do you see yourself doing in 10 minutes?
- Emailing hung back with this questionnaire, so he doesn't make one for me, then probably going to the bathroom to take a piss because the corner of the mesa structure is not around.
What do you see yourself doing in 10 years?
- Taking rich CEO's and corporations to court for messed up things they did to the poor. And if I loose the case firebombing their corporate offices.
What interest you in lion dancing?
- The cultural ties, and the way hung grabs my waste.
What made you come out for the team?
- The good English spoken skills. We done spoke good.
Favorite quotes:
- I have a lot, List them all haha!
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives us the test first, the lesson afterwards. -Vernon Sanders Law
Lightning is the sky bleeding flowers.-Ntozake Shange
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. - Mark Twain
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. - Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. - Socrates
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. - Albert Einstein
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think. - Shakespeare
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then we go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. - Mark Twain
Three great requirements for a happy life are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. - H. L. Mencken
Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich or raping the Earth or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs. - Maher
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, we know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. - Omar N. Bradley
Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. - Anonymous
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. -Benjamin Franklin
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. -Albert Einstein
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.- Edward Abbey
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them. - Tom Krause
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. -Lao Tzu
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. -Jimi Hendrix
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
Voltaire. François Marie Arouet (1694-1778)