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吉なMallory

On to something new again

About Me

mallory --
[noun]:
A lewd street performer
'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.comTHE SURFACE STUFF: Name: Mallory I'm 22 years old. I am a senior at Soka University of America, in Aliso Viejo California. (thanks Vishal for the reminder :P ) I'm majoring in Behavioral Sciences and I'm studying Japanese. I haven't decided on my post-graduation plans yet. Looks like I'll be working in event planning (trade shows) for at least a year- although future plans may include returning to Japan or grad school for a PhD in research on cross-cultural or personality psychology. I just came back from my semester abroad in Sapporo at Hokusei Gakuen University. I already miss it-- I think I miss myself in Japan. Here's to my last year of undergraduate at Soka- I hope I can find what I was looking for.THE GOOD STUFF: I'm funny, at least people laugh at me. I'm loyal and honest. I'm intelligent, dependending on the audience. *cough* There's more good stuff , but if I put more, chances are, I'll sound full of myself. Instead, I'll just hope we're good enough friends to know that you already know I've got alotta good to balance out the er... *see below*THE CAUTIONARY STUFF: I'm *gasp* insecure. Then again, who isn't? Despite my attempts at being out-going, I have to put in alot of effort because I actually have a tendency to be shy. I have a loud mouth and a real knack for making an ass of myself. This habit has become exponentialized since I went to Japan, as I was constantly screwing up culturally and grammatically. "I took a shit," instead of , "I received socks."

My Interests


Cool Slideshowstaking away something new from every encounter.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who will challenge me, and maybe Murasaki Shikibu, Sacha Baron Cohen, Margret Cho, The Marque De Sade, Maya Angelou, Jim Henson, Daisaku Ikeda, Gandhi, Dave Chappell, Martin Luther King Jr., Jon Stewert, Nelson Mandela, Edger Allen Poe; My friends back in Sapporo, new friends here in Cali and old friends across the nation from my past that I've lost touch with. I would like to meet pretty much anyone as long as they're really interested in talking and not upping their buddy list. I use this place to keep in touch with friends and family. div style="text-align: center; margin-left: auto; visibility:visible; margin-right: auto; width:450;"

Movies:

Pan's Labyrinth, The Power of One, Night Watch (the Russian movie, sequal- Daywatch), MirrorMask, Syriana, Laurence of Arabia, Braveheart, I heart Huckabees, Fight Club, Ever After (the cinderella version where she wins the prince over with her mind!), The Last Unicorn, Rudy, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Memento, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (yes- white and nerdy am I), Labrynth, Disney movies- especially Aladin, Lion King and Mulan, The Mission, Office Space, Big Fish, Indiana Jones (all of them),*Updated* Serenity (fun!), Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, My Sassy Girl (Korean), Austen Powers (International Man of Mystery), Garden State, Donnie Darko, Crash and number 1 top movie of the moment BABEL.

Television:

I love TV, it rots, or enhances my brain ( is your glass half full or empty?) Currently watching LOST, Daily Show, SCRUBS, House M.D., Grey's anatomy, Law and Order SVU, Day Break, South Park.

Books:

America The Book: Democracy's guide to inaction by Jon Stewert, Kokoro by Natsume Soseki, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, Watership Down by Richard Adams, What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, The Hundred Secret Senses and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, The Big Sleep ( I reallly want to read more of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe 1930's detective series), The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Plundering Paradise by Michael D'orso ( although about the Galapagos- this sustainable development meets the lives of everyday people novel motivated Justine and I to make our Peru learning cluster!), Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, East West by Salman Rushdie (I wanna read more of his works), The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, and anything by Haruki Murakami-- especially Kafka by the Shore or The Elephant Vanishes, Autumn of the Patriarch and Chronical of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; just to name a few of my favorites. I believe I already mentioned Harry Potter as an obession of mine, yes? I also love to read anything my good friend, Jason writes. This stuff usually unnerves me, and I like it.

Heroes:

Anyone who tries to make a difference in someone else's life

My Blog

A Tempest

"You realize you're yelling," She curtly said. A nonpulsed bead of sweat He did shed. In irritation's passion, They stumbled ahead. Flinging insincere blame, Protecting pride instead. Draining love'...
Posted by Malora-ha-ha-ha on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:36:00 PST

selfish

Selfish Suicide Letter (written in a brief moment of weakness) Why does one write a suicide letter?  In an attempt to explain your grim decision?  How can you justify ending your life? ...
Posted by Malora-ha-ha-ha on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:32:00 PST

My Favorite Quotes

A few of my favorite quotes from TV Shows and Movies.  Notice your quote didn't make my list, feel free to add it in comments.     Scrubs Dr. Elliot Reed: Oh, Dr. Cox, does this l...
Posted by Malora-ha-ha-ha on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:37:00 PST

Messy Confession

Burking heated bedroom, stifling mess, Fighting standard progression to symbiosis. Refuse to be like that- common like the rest, Can't deny; against this gravitation, I am powerless, Won't lie; this e...
Posted by Malora-ha-ha-ha on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:05:00 PST

Narnia Rap Challenge

Now I don't know if any of you have heard of the Narnia rap battle that has swept the internet. Way back in December of 2005, recently turned hit an miss (unlike the classic oldschool episodes) Saturd...
Posted by Malora-ha-ha-ha on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:08:00 PST

Aloha

Just got back from my first ever trip to Hawaii and I can see why it's a tourist pow-wow- a favorite fantasia among heavy and light travelers alike.  Hawaii's freaking awesome.   From t...
Posted by Malora-ha-ha-ha on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:43:00 PST

Advice

Tunnel vision too easy, Preferred over the peripheral Thoughts certain to earn someone's teasing. Pray for a painless distraction, To conceal soul's disquietude from disparaging eye But does dissipati...
Posted by Malora-ha-ha-ha on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:58:00 PST

The Great Sauce Packet Dump

I'm not sure if any of you heard about operation FTB, but I thought I'd share the brilliant story with you all. In small Marion, Indiana, a group of local boys who often satisfied their late night cra...
Posted by Malora-ha-ha-ha on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:03:00 PST

Morning's Avowal

Still impractically awake in this smug bed.Cool concrete pressed against my foreheadto ease my feverish surmise.A memory of last night's emprise.Morning sun through thin curtain's veilday's avowal tha...
Posted by Malora-ha-ha-ha on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:54:00 PST

Diana's Night Light

Diana's Night Light   Oh Wondrous Sight! That Lurid, ashen light, Complete in the shadows Cast by the leaves of the fig tree I hide, quiet.    Of the great eye, God watches His childr...
Posted by Malora-ha-ha-ha on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:08:00 PST