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CHOW MEiN

Because all gold, in view of her, is a little sand, and before her, silver is to be accounted mire.

About Me

Hey everyone :]. I'm Charmaine and I like to dream, sleep, write, and wonder. Writing is one of my passions, though--I could sit at a computer and type meaningless babble for hours on end, or I could open a blank notebook and scribble away. I also like to think a lot (not "logically", mind you--more so the opposite). I like to think freely about life in general, pretty much. The basic things: existence, love, friends, religion, etc. Drawing's okay. It's a "hobby", you could say. But I don't like how judgmental people can get with artwork. When you think "art", you immediately think of something "beautiful". But to me, writing is my piece of "art". Writing can attract the eye without images. It can stir the mind and touch the heart without visuals. It can provoke thought with simple characters repeated over and over again. So... that's just a tidbit about my views on things.
More random tidbits:
  • I've hardly read in my youth
  • I like the color green
  • Tennis is another one of my passions
  • I'm officially an Anteater
  • I like to write poetry and prose
  • I'm generally friendly to people
  • I like snowy owls
  • I listen to oldies and am proud of it

    • My Interests

    Writing, drawing, piano, tennis, reading, traveling, hanging out with family and friends

    I'd like to meet:

    Anyone, really.

    yo, charmaine!

    get your own here.

    Music:


    Chicago
    Crosby, Stills, and Nash
    James Taylor
    Beatles
    Stevie Wonder
    Eagles
    Carpenters
    Earth, Wind, and Fire
    America
    Sade (well... she's probably 1980s...)
    Hall & Oates

    Keane
    The Fray
    Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Madonna
    Michael Buble
    Kelly Clarkson
    Green Day
    Jimmy Eat World
    Rascal Flatts
    Nickelback
    Jason Mraz
    Selena
    Josh Groban
    Justo Lamas :]
    Black Eyed Peas

    Movies:


    Spirited Away
    Howl's Moving Castle
    Laputa: Castle in the Sky
    Kiki's Delivery Service

    The Breakfast Club
    The Devil Wears Prada
    October Sky
    Man of the Year
    A Perfect Day
    Pride and Prejudice
    Hitch
    Serendipity
    It Happened One Night
    Coach Carter

    Television:

    Throwdown with Bobby Flay
    Dinner Impossible
    Ugly Betty
    $40-A-Day
    Project Runway
    Fresh Prince of Belair

    Books:

    The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
    The Christmas Box Trilogy... by Richard Paul Evans
    The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail: A Play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
    A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans
    A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
    Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
    I Remember Mama by John Van Duren
    The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

    ...just about all the books we're forced to read for our English classes over the year (or summer)

    by the way, the best manga in the world is the prince of tennis by takeshi konomi.

    Heroes:

    God, Jesus, Mother Mary, my parents

    My Blog

    Senior Schedule

    1 - Biology AP - Iwanaga 2 - Rhetoric AP - Moran 3 - Spanish 3 Honors - Sorenson 4 - Journalism 2 - Roubian 5 - Calculus 2 AP - Tobar 6 - Girl's Tennis (which I WILL make *fighting spirit*!!) ; 2nd se...
    Posted by CHOW MEiN on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:22:00 PST

    Hiatus

    Out for lunch. Will be back shortly.   -CHARMAiNE
    Posted by CHOW MEiN on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:48:00 PST

    Ode to Motherhood

    Ode to Motherhood (poem)by Moi :]... and it's about my mother, apparently.__________________________ My dear.(No--that won't do.) My beloved dearest.(A little better, but not quite.) My beloved sanctu...
    Posted by CHOW MEiN on Mon, 08 May 2006 08:35:00 PST

    Easterrrr~~

    it's Easter--and Jesus has resurrected... :] as did i... XD... welps, i'm back on MySpace ^^... that has been a GRUELING Lent process (probably the hardest in my lifetime), but i've tried what i could...
    Posted by CHOW MEiN on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:01:00 PST

    Hiatus

    Hey guys--I'll be back soon. Don't go away now, you hear? xDCHARMAiNE.
    Posted by CHOW MEiN on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:08:00 PST

    St. Joseph Fiesta Pictures~~!

    wheee, this is from the st. joseph fiesta on oct. 24, 2005 xD... if you're a st. josepher, you may just see yourself here :P! if you want to see more, just msg. me ^^. thanks!hrm.. i'm going to show s...
    Posted by CHOW MEiN on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 05:54:00 PST

    sometimes life is just a tough game.

    sometimes life is a tough game. once you serve and double fault, there's no turning back. you want -you would give anything- to erase that mistake, just so you can win that extra point. but you don't,...
    Posted by CHOW MEiN on Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:35:00 PST

    good-bye vacation, hello homework >0< !!

    hey everyone :D! wheee, i'm back from las vegas, the JP morgan chase, and ensenada, mexico!! ^^ the trip was awesome O-O!!! i'll post up pictures as soon as i can. anyways, at las vegas (monday - wedn...
    Posted by CHOW MEiN on Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:23:00 PST

    Hi. My nmae is charmaine. And I am prefcet

    Supposedly, the title should have been: "Hi. My  name is Charmaine, and I am perfect." As you can see, I made a number of mistakes. But so what? After studying for about four weeks in M...
    Posted by CHOW MEiN on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

    Crystal Eyes

    What do you see beyond my eyes,my crystalline telescopes,my looking glasses?I see a sky,overlooking a deep forest,heralding the moonat the dead of the night.I see a poolof a transient azure,a pale hop...
    Posted by CHOW MEiN on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST