According to the ‘what type of Christian’ are you quiz, I’m a classical liberal. I lean toward classical liberalism in economics and politics (leaning more toward Smith and Mill than Ayn Rand as a basis for economic and civic libertarianism). Still, most of the Classical Liberal philsophers were Christian, so  the religious element shouldn’t be a surprise.

What’s your theological worldview?
created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Classical Liberal. You are a classical liberal. You are sceptical about much of the historicity of the Bible, and the most important thing Jesus has done is to set us a good moral example that we are to follow. Doctrines like the trinity and the incarnation are speculative and not really important, and in the face of science and philosophy the surest way we can be certain about God is by our inner awareness of him. Discipleship is expressed by good moral behaviour, but inward religious feeling is most important.

I’ve done both of Kenny Sia’s quizzes. Here are the results.

Congratulations myrick, you are…

mr brown of www.mrbrown.com
Like that ad for Toys ‘R Us, you are that kid who doesn’t want to grow up. Except you do. And now you’re just a big overgrown kid who doesn’t want grow up. You have a warped yet addictive sense of humour. It takes skills to poke fun at serious things and you have no problems doing that. Your peers look up to you and yet you’re humble about everything. You are an infantile.

Which Singaporean Blogger Are You?

Congratulations myrick, you are…
Jeff Ooi of www.jeffooi.com
You are humble, mild-mannered yet wise. Your knowledge is vast as an ocean, but when confronted with an issue you are passionate about you are tough as a mountain. You have an aura of style, quality, excellence surrounding you that cannot be denied. In a way, you are a rebel, but that’s because you are always willing to help out your peers by challenging authority without asking much in return. People respect you. You are a natural born leader, people stop to listen when you speak, and follow you wherever you go. You also have a little bird.

Which Malaysian Blogger Are You?

I’m now curious as to which Shanghai blogger I am. Can you help Kenny?

I don’t read books.

Ha! Chris, Phil, Matt… the madness ends here! I stomped out that silly book-tag meme with a clever lie.

Actually, it required far too much introspection. I felt a need to explain ‘why’ each book was important to me. That was taking pages and pages of text… for each selection.

So, instead, here’s the short-answer version. I may go longer later (and I may give Alan the third part of the Singapore beer bar reviews too… heh, heh, heh.).

Number of books I own: About 1,300 give or take a couple of thousand (ed: the bottom range of that estimate is a 700 book deficit. Please fix that before you go to bed and never, never again, blog after Friday-night beers… and what the hell was that Ostrich post about?!?).

The last book I bought: North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula by Paul French
< 30 word review: Cheem! Focuses on economics, not missiles. Reason for collapse of economy – read Hayek, you’ll figure it out by yourself. (ed: Cheem? WTF? When the hell did you start using Singlish?)

Last Book I Read: The Coming Collapse of China – Gordon Chang
<30 word review: Hyperbolic. Gets the main faultlines. Misses mark on deflation and internet; scores on banks and SOEs. Reason for expected collapse – read Hayek, you’ll figure it out by yourself.

The complete works of George Orwell
<30 word review: Inspired me. Did journalism instead of real career as result. Glad I didn’t sleep on streets of Paris & London, but seemed like a good idea in my twenties.

The Complete works of P.J. O’Rourke:
<30 word review: Discovered in Korea from “Seoul Brothers” essay. Not PC. Helped wash away seven years of liberal arts education and relativism. Critical, judgmental, opinionated, refreshing.

See no Evil – Isabelle Vincent:
< 32 word review: Was Lat-Am nut as undergrad, loved her coverage. Planned to emulate, ended up in Asia. Met at grad-school lecture – she autographed book. Hung out at pub discussing Sub-commandante Marcos. Hottie. Iconoclast.

Please Kill Me - Legs McNeil;
< 30 word review: Sorry you limey losers – punk was American. Not that the Republicans would ever admit it. Honest, self-critical look at rise and fall of non-movement. Plus, Ramones!

The Tick Omnibus – Ben Edlund
< 2 word review: “Keen!” Read it in late 80s, haven’t yet stopped saying “Keen.” Obviously it influenced me … no one else says that.

Passing on the tag to the co-Asiapundits.

I’ve just been inspired by something I’ve read on Protein Wisdom.:

Fact:  Ostriches are classified as dangerous animals in Australia, the US and the UK. Numerous incidents of people being attacked and even killed by the bird are on record worldwide. Large male ostriches can be very territorial and aggressive and can kick very powerfully during an attack. An ostrich will easily outrun any athlete.

CHRIS: Excellent, I shall abandon my plan for a shark farm and will instead raise ostrich and genetically engineer them to be my evil army. . .  Lisa, do ostrich have hooves or are they web-footed?

LISA: They have claws.

CHRIS: Interesting, when they attack do they make a fist or simply claw a pound of flesh from their enemies?

LISA: I believe sir, that they have the option of doing either.

CHRIS: Excellent, that’s so much better than sharks – the shark farm was a stupid idea anyway, sharks couldn’t attack my land-based enemies.

LISA: I thought you were thinking of an army of cats?

CHRIS: No!!! That was last year. I then decided I wanted an army of nefarious porpoises. Then I decided on sharks.

LISA: Hmmm?

CHRIS: Yes you see.. cats do not follow orders, but having a dolphin farm would raise suspicions..

LISA: Especially if you have a sign saying “nefarious porpoise farm.”

CHRIS: I wouldn’t have a sign! But people would see dolphin farm and think: ‘why is he farming dolphin, people don’t eat dolphin?’ That would seem a bit too…

LISA: Fishy?

CHRIS: No! … No! No! No! Dolphins aren’t fishy.. they’re mammalian!

CHRIS: But an ostrich farm would raise no suspicions at all.