Hi everyone! I hope you're having a wonderful weekend.

I'm a Chinese-American guy working as a software developer from home for a large corporation. You know, the dream? Totally living it.

I will be visiting some friends in NYC from October 13-16 for my birthday weekend! Obviously I will be spending some time with them, but I know I'm going to have some free time, and I'd like to spend it meeting someone new! I'm hoping you could show me around some cool spots, maybe some hole-in-the-wall places that no one else knows about? This is also only my second solo trip to the city, so we could also cross some things off of my tourist bucket list.

Here's some information about myself:

• I'm 28 years old and have been graduated for 6 years with a computer engineering degree. I got my current job October of last year!

• I used to have a cat back home, but now there's a big dog. I have a few pictures which are available on request.

• I love cooking and trying new recipes!

• I took 4 years of Mandarin Chinese in high school and am also very slowly teaching myself to read and write Japanese.

• I play a lot of games! Board games, video games, tabletop RPGs, if you've heard of it, I've probably played it. I own a PS5, PS4, PS2, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo New 3DS, PC, and Mac. Can you guess where my paychecks have been going? 😅

• I'm currently reading Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness. My favorite book series are the Gentlemen Bastards by Scott Lynch, the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (have you seen the Amazon series yet??), every single book from Brandon Sanderson, the Dune series by Frank Herbert (LOVED the movie, can't wait for part 2), the Greatcoats by Sebastien Castell, and the Riftwar Saga by Raymond E Feist.

I'm ideally looking for someone that also likes to read sci-fi/fantasy, plays a decent amount of video games, or likes to keep up with the tech world. I've found it's difficult to keep up a conversation without having at least one of these things in common. 😁

This doesn't need to be anything more than a platonic thing, but I'm single and I hear the women in NYC are good at flirting. I'll list my physical stats here:

• 5'10

• 210 lbs (mixture of muscle and fat, I've been going to the gym regularly since the end of July but I'm still working on shedding the pounds)

• Short, spiky black hair

• Dark brown eyes

• Glasses

• Tend towards comfort more than fashion for clothes, but can clean up nicely when motivated

If you're interested, let me know, along with a description of yourself at least matching my level of detail.

I am open to PMs on Reddit (my chats don't work well), but I also use and prefer texting, Kik and Discord. I would like to chat for a bit before we meet up so I can be sure you won't take my kidney as a reverse birthday present. Thanks for reading! I hope to see orange envelopes from you soon!