Name - Don Umali/ドンウマリ.
Full Name - Jun Doniro Intal Umali. If you want a translation of my name, it's "The junior squire that departs," and "iro" really is different form Irene, meaning that I really was named after my grandparents on my mom's side as in Donato and Irene, though I don't know what Intal means. I'll hopefully find its meaning soon.
Aliases - Bata-kun/バタくん, Starchild and Haikyou.
Nicknames - Da Last Don, Big Don (though I'm not really big and I'll show you why in just a bit), Senpai.
Board names - the same, even if there is no dash (and early on, I used other names, but I don't use them anymore).
High score initials - B-K for Bata-kun if I have one of the top three scores, DIU if I don't and in the case I don't know what place I am in, I just use the former.
Birth date - 1982/7/26. So, I'm a Leo born in the year of the dog and the ruby is my gem stone. From what I have learned, I have the same birthday as a lot of famous people and they include Kate Beckinsale, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Dorothy Hamill, Roger Taylor, Helen Mirren, Mick Jagger, Stan Kubrick, Blake Edwards, Jason Robards Jr., Vivian Vance, Gracie Allen, Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung and George Bernard Shaw. Type up their names when you're in Google next time if you don't know who these people are. In the animation/comic world, Yanagisawa Michiyo-san, who plays as Curry-pan Man in "Anpan-Man", and other various characters, has the same brithday as me. In the video game world, "The King of Fighters's" Jhun has the same birthday as me.
Birth place - San Jose, California, U.S.A.
Current place - Milpitas, California, U.S.A. and it's near by San Jose.
Height - it varies. I'm as short as 5' 5"/166 cm, but I'm as tall as 5' 6"/170 cm.
Weight - it varies also. I'm as light as 105 lbs./47 kg., but I'm as heavy as 120 lbs./55 kg.
Three sizes - hi-mi-tsu.
Nationality - Pilipino.
Blood type - O (the typical Pilipino blood type).
Status - single and I plan to stay that way most likely.
E-mail address - [email protected].
AIM screen name - Shin Bata kun (the best way to contact me, as I rarely and I mean rarely use the others).
Yahoo - don't use it anymore.
MSN - don't use it anymore.
ICQ # - don't use it anymore.
IRC - Bata-kun, though I don't use it anymore.
Alternative IRC - Beat-kun (as in the beats you hear in music as well as the mechanical bird in the "Rockman" series).
Languages I can speak well, somewhat or barely - English, Tagalog, Japanese, Ainu, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish, etc.
Fighting style - I have taken aikido and I know a bit about some other arts.
Favorite color - blue, my childhood color.
Favorite flower - cherry blossoms and violets.
Hobbies - animation, comics, music listening, etc.
Favorite music - Eurobeat, Pilipino/Japanese/Chinese/Korean pop, rhythms and blues, jazz, soul, techno and the like, i.e. rave.
Favorite sport - I don't have one, though I can play well in just about any sport. I'm not that much into sports anymore.
Favorite food - any food that's good, especially Pocky and Gummy. I also like having a strawberry and banana crepe with vanilla ice cream.
Favorite drink - orange juice now these days.
Favorite animation and comic series - "Love Hina", "Ranma 1/2", "Cardcaptor Sakura", "Ruroni Kenshin", "Kodomo no Omocha", "Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou", "Taiho Shichau Zo!", "Sakura Taisen", "To Heart", "Ex-Driver", "Happy Lesson", "Kore ga Watashi no Goshujin-sama", "Fruits Basket" and so forth.
Favorite game series - "Justice Gakuen", "Garou Densetsu", "Final Fantasy", "Puyo Puyo", "Rockman", "Para Para Paradise", "Metal Slug", "Eternal Fighter Zero", and so forth.
Specialty - like Robin Williams, I can imitate voices well.
Thing I treasure the most - myself being faithful.
Thing I hate the most - close-minded people who have no etiquette and drinkers/smokers.
Likes - besides my hobbies, relaxing moments.
Dislikes - losing in competitions, hard work, especially school, reality, lots of things.
Personality - it varies. I can be happy in one minute and then peeved off in the next. Though I was popular in school, I don't like talking to people, face to face, in general. I may be smart, but I am pretty lazy.
Jobs over the internet - up to this point:
Anipike - various editorial positions. - Retired.
Anime Densetsu - reviewer/moderator. - Retired.
Anime-Influx, along with other groups - editor, translator and advisor - Retired.
Martial Media Board - moderator.
Where to start? I quitted college for quite a while now. I jump from job to job, but I really want to start a game company. My best subject was physical education and science was my worst subject. Up to this point, I've completed half a year of Japanese or a full year, depending on what system you're under.
I hate people taking my stuff, especially my clothes. I also don't like people holding back in games because I would think that the person does not know how to play the game. There are times I don't like people buttering me up. I don't like people touching me. It's mainly because I had a real tough life to live through and a person touching me makes my flow distracted for the lack of a better word. Wow! I sure hate a lot of stuff, huh? The one thing I am scared of the most is messing up in life and that will take a while to explain. Oh and I can be hydrophobic.
I have a hard time getting up in mornings. Every morning, I would try to get up, but I have a force saying that I want to go back to sleep. It's a hard battle every single day.
Now these days, when I think about games, I fall back on the old times and don't think about the new times. Well, somewhat. I mean, I report on the latest news bits after all.
How did I get into Japanese animation and comics? I was aware of various series like "Sailor Moon". However, I did not really become a fan until my junior year in high school; there were various series I was introduced to and some of those series include "Ranma", "Tenchi" and "Eva". Since then, I blossomed at a quick rate. I watched and read a lot of series. I even study series I have not watched or read yet. As for clubs, I was the alternative officer back in high school (meaning that if a certain someone was absent, I took over his or her duties). I have been in a few other anime clubs in college.
Oh! Why the title "Bata-kun Official Site"? I blame it on Tamura Yukari-san's site. =P
Last update - 2006/11/5