Alexei Valchuk

You could call me a thrill-seeker — I do jet skiing, wakeboarding, windsurfing, snowmobiling, and quadracycling. And I’m also thinking about buying a boat to go with the wakeboard.

I look at the city freaks these days and recall the days when I myself used to be one of them. The time when I used to walk around in yellow shoes, wide pants, and with red dreads, is now long gone. I don’t feel like being a freak anymore.

Somehow, I’m now going through this stage when I want a new car, some nice tuning, and I want to express myself through this car. I don’t even know where I get all this from…

I’m an optimist of sorts.

Lack of confidence is when you don’t know something, but feel that it’s exactly what someone’s about to ask you. That’s the way it happens to me.

The most rampant homophobes tend to turn into gays later on in life. Someone who particularly dislikes gays is bound to wind up becoming one of them. It must be some kind of complex.

Complexes come from the fear of what others going to think about you, the fear of them getting the wrong impression, the wrong image, different from what you would like it to be. If you’d grown up on an uninhabited island, you’d have no complexes whatsoever.

Before, I used to be more of a metrosexual than what I am now. That’s where this whole idea of having a nose job has come from. Everyone around keeps trying to persuade me otherwise, saying that it’s my “thing”… My wife says she fell in love with my nose (smiles). So for now I’m still deciding.

Moscow is my birthplace and it is also where I found my place in life.

As a kid, I used to dream of becoming a businessman like my dad. It was the perestroika that triggered the rise of business, and I used to spend a lot of time in my dad’s office. Naturally, you look at your dad, you want to be like him.

I’d like to be a bear — he’s big and kind.

The thing I fear most is closed doors. What I actually fear is that when I open these doors, a Rottweiler will jump out at me. It did happen before (laughs). Every time I took my doggie for a walk, I’d open the door, and there would be a Staffordshire jumping at me, at my dog. Ever since then I’ve had this fear. I don’t like it when the doors aren’t made of glass. And I believe that Moscow is no place for big dogs.

I’ve got a parrot, his name is Roman (he’s a Yellow-crowned Amazon). He screams like hell, bites everybody, and talks, just a little bit. I also have a dwarf hamster, Rhino — for the kid. Pets contribute to the overall atmosphere of a flat, complementing its interior design.

I like observing other people and trying to guess what they could be thinking about. I like watching a person’s reaction in different situations. I like analyzing the images girls choose for themselves, whether this or that image suits her or not, but always abstain from any judgements.

The person of the future is exactly the same as a modern person, but with more future problems and fancy new gadgets.

The food from McDonalds does contain unbelievable amount of cholesterol and it makes you fat too, but experience shows that it’s an awesome hangover cure.

The world class event I’d like to get a chance to watch live is the Russian national football team winning the World Cup.