My name is Thomas William Charles Oppenheim and I am a 15 year old agnostic Jew living in Ballarat, Australia. I attend a private school called Ballarat and Clarendon College, where I am in year 9. I have a brother,
Charlie who is 12, two sisters, Sarah and Rebekah, who are 20 and 17, a mother, Ruth, and father, Peter. I also have two grandmothers who are 84 and 88. My 84 year old grandmother, Louise Wright is Canadian, and my 88 year old grandmother, Herta Oppenheim, is German ! Myself, however, along with my brother, father and sisters, are all Australian born. My mother is Canadian which makes me of German and Canadian descent.
My Hobbies.
My personality traits are more charactaristic of the studious type. Hence, sport and other physically orientied activities will not feature prominently on my list of favourite past times. I do enjoy playing cricket but I prefer to: read, programme, listen to Jazz, play the Alto Saxophone, create web pages and play chess.
Favourite Authors
John Wyndham and Stephen King.
Favourite Movies
'The Shawshank Redemption', 'The Fugitive', 'Dumb and Dumber'and 'Reality Bites'.
Favourite TV Shows
'Seinfeld', 'The Simpsons', 'Hey Hey It's Saturday !' and 'Heartbreak High'.
Favourite Jazz Artists
Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderly, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, John Coltrane, Oscar Peterson and Sonny Stitt.
Favourite Compositions
'Round Midnight.(Thelonious Monk). Lover Man.(Davis/Sherman/Ramirez). Ko-Ko.(Charlie Parker). Parker's Mood.(Charlie Parker). Shaw 'Nuff.(Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie) Con Alma(Dizzy Gillespie) Dizzy Atmosphere.(Dizzy Gillespie) Flamenco Sketches.(Miles Davis) and The Nearness of You.(Hoagy Carmichael).
