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valerie

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

subconsciously realises thinking too much about too many things is bad for state of mental health. wants to think everyone/everything is nice and world is rosy but am somehow always proven wrong, hence extremely cynical. likes people very much, but also likes to be left alone. has bad memory and will forget/forgive most things. is bloody dao to strangers. would like to be more spiritual, knowledgeable, patient, and above all, wiser.extremely klutzy, walks into random things in random places. idealist. jaded. pragmatic. has occasional vicious mood swings. can function on little sleep in bitch mode. loves her freedom and independence fiercely. extremely contradictory. sometimes bites. DOES NOT LIKE TO WRITE ENDLESS ESSAYS EVERY SEMESTER.

My Interests

travelling, reading, shopping, film, theatre, musicals, slacking, hanging out, being busy, having fun, solid powerpacked conversations, procrastinating!, SLEEPING

I'd like to meet:

hopefully one day, my Maker. i've got lots of things to ask Him! in the meantime, all my long lost friends. hopefully some from nursery or kindergarten too!!! hahah! and maybe all the philosophers/writers whose works i can't seem to understand. Pinter, Beckett, Derrida, Kant, Freud, Bentham, Descartes, Foucault, Nietzche, Sarte, anyone wanna come bust my brain?

Music:

i am fickle, basically no b(r)and loyalty.

Movies:

Lord of the Rings, Forrest Hump, Star Wars, ET, Dead Man Walking, Apollo 13, Sense and Sensibility, the little mermaid!! (*blush*)

Books:

The Picture of Dorian Grey, Mister God this is Anna, the English Patient, Harry Potter(s), To Kill a Mockingbird, the Little Prince, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, The Handmaid's Tale, Man and Boy, The Hours, A Doll's House, Grapes of Wrath, Charlotte's Web, the Lord of the Rings, Dragonlance series, most stuff by Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Enid Blyton!, Louisa M. Alcott, Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, most kids' books!, fairy tales, legends and myths etc.Would like to read (at moment): Lolita, Catch-22, Heart of Darkness, Invisible Man, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Salman Rushdie's books.Would like to complete reading: Ulysses, Crime & Punishment.