Jade - ProfilesArchive

About Me

i'm going back to NYC early may 2007!!! friends, message me if you can meet up there!
For my blog, concert videos & my so-called obsession with photography and travel clicky here -- My Multiply Site
life: art. music. fashion. travel.
23 years old, living in toronto... looking to meet crazy artists and musicians in the area. i work in the music industry (hoping to still get into it here!) and am a freelance writer and retired rock publicist.
i adore exporing new places and seeing different cultures - backpacking!!! here are some of my pics from new york, manila, boracay, davao, sydney, okinawa, hong kong, macau, thailand and singapore. I MISS OZ!!! just finished my asian sabatical: indonesia-malaysia-thailand-vietnam-cambodia-singapore... new york in a week! oh, and definitely CUBA this year. can't wait!
saving up for glastonbury 2009 (anyone wanna meet up there?) and would want to visit china, ireland and spain to discover my heritage :)
My Multiply Site

My Interests

fantastic music, exotic food, VH1, fashion (Chloe! DVF! Missoni! Pucci! Balenciaga! Marc Jacobs! Michael Kors! Gucci! Prada! Hermes!), the beach, clubbing (though yes, outgrown this already), travel, extracting intellectual conversation with seemingly unintellectual people

I'd like to meet:

anyone else who shares the same passions as i have and has an unabashedly horrendous need for a lesson in pop culture.

Bear Suit from John Mayer Has A TV Show

Music:

muse, the editors, snow patrol, imogen heap, franz ferdinand, the futureheads, arctic monkeys, the arcade fire, the killers, pretty girls make graves, copeland, mae, further seems forever, the dead 60s, rise against, maximo park, architecture in helsinki, the postal service, DCFC, surfjan stevens, coldplay, aerosmith (YES, i still love em), U2, american football, 311, coheed and cambria, modest mouse, my chemical romance, the ataris, panic! at the disco, fall out boy, hard-fi, ok go, kasabian, the used, taking back sunday, stereophonics, juliana theory, something for rockets, stars, kaiser chiefs, bloc party, something for kate, the observatory, the academy is, keane, boy kill boy

Movies:

anything that starred Gene Kelly (my husband in my previous life) and Audrey Hepburn (me in my previous life)

Television:

still obsessed with SATC, but now moreso with LOST, Despareate Housewives and THE O.C., Grey's Anatomy, One Tree Hill and Ghost whisperer... and I'm fuckin' in love with Ari Gold of ENTOURAGE! many a sleepless nights during DVD marathons.MTV, VH1, and the Travel Channel... oh how i love thee!

Books:

Books by Isabel Allende and so many more... i'm a bookworm, i am i am!!!

Heroes:

everyday heroes, my mum (all together now... awww!)

My Blog

Vans Warped Tour 07 in Toronto!!!

Ohmygod I'm going to get to catch VANS Warped Tour in Toronto this year! *faints* I hope they add more bands to the lineup... Sucks that I'm missing Taste of Chaos, Taking Back Sunday & The Used (Marc...
Posted by Jade on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:52:00 PST

Jade's ambitious Southeast Asia in 45 days itinerary (as of 12.10.06)

Finally, after weeks of revisions, I have come up with what I think my life on the road will be like from March 1 to April 14, 2007. Five countries in 45 days. I would've made it longer if...
Posted by Jade on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:54:00 PST

wanderlust

just came back from a lovely trip to okinawa, japan last week. for a full recount of the trip and a lot of pictures (230 to be exact), click on the pic below. okay, so i know it doesn't look an...
Posted by Jade on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:24:00 PST

my new ORIGINAL myspace layout

i was bored and didn't feel like sleeping yet so i made an entirely new myspace layout. the basic one was pretty boring and i likee this one coz the lines are still very clean. all the ima...
Posted by Jade on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:18:00 PST

anyone know BIG DAY OUT 2007's lineup???

for my australian friends, or just people in the know... does anyone know who's playing BDO in 2007, the dates and when the tickets go on sale??? heard several rumors that the killers is definite, as ...
Posted by Jade on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 04:24:00 PST

My 5Takes Page!

oh. my. gulay.you can now watch my semi-finals audition tape by clicking on : Jade Maravillas' 5Takes Profileso far, ALL the other 25 finalists are awesome. i'm so scared just thinking about how i sta...
Posted by Jade on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:21:00 PST