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*nikkicheal

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm currently residing in Taiwan where I've been forced into exile due to me not paying overdraft charges on my NatWest Young Savers account. They tracked me down to a kibutz north of Tel Aviv, but I gave them the slip and travelled via monkeytrain to Istanbul where I jumped a banana boat bound for Mumbai. I then took 24 camels across the Himalayas as payment for my board and lodgings and ended up in Tibet. I milked a lot of cows for a few years before I lost the sensation in my fingertips, I then had to escape with a band of travelling knife-jugglers in the dead of night ending up in Macau. I sold nuts and made the shoes at the knife-juggling circus and after 13 months, they let me loose offering just a lilo and a bottle of 7up. I finally made it to Taiwan where I'm now living in a 24-hour internet cafe alongside errant teenagers insistent on playing World of Warcraft all day and night. I sometimes sweep the floor and they let me use the computers, usually at 3am when they're not busy but it means I can still monitor NatWest's website and will eventually bring it down using my sword of Scarrion and a Force 8 potion...
Click on any of the artwork or use this link to view my online gallery at www.nikkicheal.co.uk

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Someone who didn't play World of Warcraft... failing that, Colin Farrell down a dark alley or a Tim/Tim celebrity sandwich involving Tim Burgess and Tim from Spaced...

Music:

The Smiths, Morrissey, Johnny Marr, The Shins, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Go! Team, Regina Spektor, Belle & Sebastian, Lamb, Rufus Wainwright, Mercury Rev, Beth Orton, Jeff Buckley, Portishead, The Libertines, Turin Brakes, Colin Hay, Depeche Mode, The Divine Comedy, Martha Wainwright, The Fratellis, Bob Dylan, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, The Futureheads, T-Rex, Doves, Eels, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Janis Joplin, Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, The Killers, The Who, The Charlatans, The Zutons, Oasis, Richard Ashcroft, Coldplay, The Basement, Arctic Monkeys, The White Stripes, The Ramones, Paul Weller, The Stone Roses, Ian Brown, The Clash, The Jam

Television:

In Taiwan it's shit, it's all in Chinese

Books:

Are a life-saver...

Heroes:

Morrissey, Morrissey, urm, Morrissey... oh and Johnny Marr, Julian Opie, Roy Lichtenstein, Mark Rothko, Anthony Gormley, Viktor & Rolf, Mario Testino, Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard

My Blog

Dead Pufferfish & Ribs - No, Not A Chinese Menu Item...

Well I'm sorry I haven't posted for a while, time does get away from you doesn't it? What with our busy social lives and important jobs... hmm. Errr, what can I say? OK I'll start off from near enough...
Posted by *nikkicheal on Sun, 06 May 2007 10:11:00 PST

Nikki Cheal - Digital Artist - WIN My Artwork!!

After much procrastinating & frivolous internet misuse, I have now got my act together and I can now proudly present my NEW website showcasing lots of spangly features, such as;NEW Affordable ArtworkP...
Posted by *nikkicheal on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:09:00 PST

Multiple Choice

Sorry we haven't posted for a while, we've had distractions; we've been working, discovering the internet's evil side (geekishly Facebook and Myspace sap all available free internet time), we've been ...
Posted by *nikkicheal on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:44:00 PST

Teaching Children Can Sometimes Be Disturbing

Oh yeah, and I forgot to tell you something funny... OK so I'm teaching kids on a one-to-one basis and at some point in the lesson we do reading and phonics which helps them with their er, reading and...
Posted by *nikkicheal on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:57:00 PST

On The Run From A Taipei Hospital

In my continuing life saga of encountering nice and not so nice Taiwanese people, yesterday was a bit of a mixed bag...I had an odd day yesterday, I went to the big department store near our house to ...
Posted by *nikkicheal on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:56:00 PST

Celebrity Sandwiches

I've been searching the internet this morning because a) I'm supposed to be preparing lessons and it's a good distraction and b) because I wanted to find out if Celebrity Sandwiches were something oth...
Posted by *nikkicheal on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:41:00 PST

Big Trouble, Little Children

I'm in an odd mood today, I don't know if its because I've had less sleep than the normal nine hours we manage to fit in nowadays, or it's because it feels like there's an earthquake on the way, I've ...
Posted by *nikkicheal on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:55:00 PST

This Week In Taipei

Well this week hasn't been that interesting I'm afraid, so don't expect too much from me. Apart from the Fireworks Near-Death extravanganza that finally ended the Chinese New Year celebrations (it's o...
Posted by *nikkicheal on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:13:00 PST

Safe In Beijing

So we've arrived in Beijing safe and sound, if a little lighter, both in our bags and our bodies! I'm so sick of packet noodles that I gave up eating them, luckily we had the soup and the hot chocolat...
Posted by *nikkicheal on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:08:00 PST

All Work & All Play

It's now after the Chinese New Year and all is now open and fully functioning again (including BUM equipment you'll be pleased to know... thanks Thorn for the pic), that is, until tomorrow and there's...
Posted by *nikkicheal on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:30:00 PST