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Ruby

I am here for Friends

About Me

i think that 'i' messages are crucial to positive communication.
i sometimes space out at walls.
i love everything about tea.
i went through a 'bagenta' period when i was four.
i grew up without a television.
i learned that the word for story in hindi is kahani.
i often fail at accurately expressing myself.
i reside in a basement with many friendly spiders.
i fall in love with words.
i have pink sneakers.
i use violence only to fix appliances.
i love watching birds.
i enjoy conversing with strangers.
i am excrutiatingly normal.
i believe that hot cocoa is an art.
i like impressive eyebrows.
i am not a proficient speller.
i become emotionally attached to innanimate objects.
i take pictures with a manual focus.
i believe that food is love.
i am religiously confused.
i lack creativity in profile-writing.
I edited my profile with a cup of tea !

My Interests

going out to coffee, being spaced out with my friends, looking at beautiful things, looking at ugly things, the horrific state of our current educational system, looking at bugs, farmers' markets, dim sum, lying in bed staring at sunlight, meeting new people (in reality, not virtuality), making up words, playing board games, going to toy stores, chocolate, tea, foodstuffs, making silly lists.

I'd like to meet:

Pippi Longstocking, Pooh Bear, other childhood friends.
This is Paulo. He lives in my basement and eats goldfish. Other friendly folks live upstairs. They eat Ahn's Burgers. They are nice people to meet.

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Music:

iTunes eight-ball: Put your iTunes on random, then ask it each question before going to the next song.

What do you think of me, iTunes?
"Power to the People" -Public Enemy

Will I have a happy life?
"Rude Boy Klassick" -Mistah English w/Dedra

What do my friends really think of me?
"City Life" -Stroke 9

Do people secretly lust after me?
"My Oh My" -Aqua

How can I make myself happy?
"Bring the People Together" -Live

What should I do with my life?
"For What It's Worth" -Buffalo Springfield

Why must life be so full of pain?
"Sympathy for the Devil" -The Rolling Stones

Will I ever have children?
"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" -The Beatles

What do you think happiness is?
"Ruby's Arms" -Tom Waits
(BEST. ANSWER. EVER.)

Will I find love?
"Up the Ladder to the Roof" -Diana Ross and the Supremes

What's my guilty pleasure?
"Rebel Rouser" -Duane Eddy

What kind of girls/guys do I like?
"Burn Hollywood Burn" -Public Enemy

What's my worst fear?
"Tribute Poem" -Kayo

What song sums up my mp3 player?
"Hot, Hot, Hot" -Samuel E. Wright

What kind of person is my hero?
"Bugle Call Rag" -Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

Who am I?
"A Lo Cubano" -Orishas

Movies:

yes.

Television:

no.

Books:

amy tan, molly ivans, jane austen, terry pratchett, bell hooks, langston hughes, j.r.r. tolkien, sherman alexie, david sedaris, astrid lingren, a.a. milne, shakespeare, mark twain, studs terkel, ursula le guin... i like a lot of books.

Heroes:

people who improve the world without getting any credit.

My Blog

airports are all the same

greetings from the taoyuen airport! i have half an hour before my flight boards and i am board. almost a pun, except that i try hard not to take after my mother regarding that particular habit.today i...
Posted by Ruby on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:24:00 PST

i buy film every couple of days

i have, of course, been taking a lot of pictures since i got here. usually in my vacation pictures there are lots of shots of birds. but in taiwan, not only are the birds not very interesting looking...
Posted by Ruby on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:17:00 PST

speak chinese ya idiot!

i think that if americans/westerners weren't so anal about keeping sidewalks clear we'd have a much better food culture. i had my first conversation with a no-english-at-all speaking person today. i;v...
Posted by Ruby on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:14:00 PST

Confucious say he do not work on mondays

There're some huge temples in the northeast part of the city and i thought that it would be fun to go take a look at them. Despite having two maps with me, i was pretty much lost the entire way there ...
Posted by Ruby on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:13:00 PST

today was the first time i was cold in this country!

last night roz took me to the night markey, which is a crazy many-streeted area packed full of stores and carts and stalls selling stuff. the big attraction for us was the amusing t-shirts with englis...
Posted by Ruby on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:09:00 PST

Most spectacular advancement in human history

The most amazing thing about Taiwan is that their garbage trucks sing. As they drive down the street, they play music (like an ice cream truck!) and everyone runs out with their garbage and recycling ...
Posted by Ruby on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST

Hola from Taiwan

Hello!I am in Taichung after about 20 hours of transit, all of which went rather smoothly with only a few moments of staring at things in confusion. People here are so friendly, they tell me what to d...
Posted by Ruby on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:58:00 PST

"A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world."

Awesomness news ever!I went to FAIRYLAND. I've been babysitting my parents' neighbor Sophie, who is a marvelously good-natured 18 month-old lady. After discovering that she had never been to Fairyland...
Posted by Ruby on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:17:00 PST

it's fun to stay at the

keith and i talking about how we are both ridiculously out of shape."maybe we should join the Y or something""if you can call the ymca the Y, i can call barnes & nobles barnes""no! it's totally differ...
Posted by Ruby on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:38:00 PST

And all that the Lorax left here in this mess was a small pile of rocks, with one word...UNLESS

I just read the story of the lorax half a dozen times (minimum) to a sleepy one-year-old. I like that book. I can read it in monotone without hardly looking now. I'm glad she fell asleep after the six...
Posted by Ruby on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:14:00 PST