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Sumiko

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About Me

The opportunity for my most recent trip to Asia (2006) came about when my mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer. As any who has met my mum will know her passion for life and travelling is what makes her the 'special' person she is ; ) , as such we decided to embark on the trip of a life time. I travelled for the first 3 months with my family around Nepal, Tibet, India and part of Thailand before going our separate ways (Ali and I around Thailand, Malaysia and Borneo and my parents around Myamar, Cambodia and New Zealand). We kept an online journal of our adventures, if anyone would like to read about some of the mischief we got upto on our travells check out http://machikosdiary.spaces.live.com/ and click on May to read from the start.The slide show below shows just a handful of pics i took on the way..

My Interests

I have just returned from a four month trip around Nepal, Tibet, India, Thailand, Malaysia and Borneo which was amazing! and presented me with plenty of opportunities to indulge in many of my hobbies...scuba diving, rock climbing, canoeing, rafting, trecking, photography, parasailing... When i'm not travelling i do as much capoeira and Mauy Thai (Thai Kick boxing) training as i can mangage with Ali which is great fun, as i have an excuse to beat the shit out of him (not that i need one). I love snowboarding, so am looking forward to winter. Untill then the xcape in glasgow is awesome, but unfortunately pretty expensive. I also love playing (beating Ali at) squash, running, canoeing, mountain biking, swimming, climbing, hiking and pretty much everything outdoors.

I'd like to meet:

Ok Go - Here We Go Again

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Music:

As far as music is concerned i love a bit of everything (apart from that hard core house and drum and base shit!!). Rodrigo Y Garbriela, Bueno Vista Social Club, Nina Simon, Rat Pack, Bright eyes, Lit, Easyworld, Eberg, Joanna Newsom, Tom Mcrae, Jim Bianco, Sparks, David Bowie, The avalanches, Mr Scruff, Muse...you get the gist.

Movies:

Movies...I think all Wes Anderson's movies are brilliant, one of my favourite and probably his most famous, being 'Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'. I love Johnny Depp...I mean i love movies with Johnny Depp in them, teehee. I have say i am definatelt more into my foriegn movies than Hollywood. Ong-back and Tom Yum Goong are great Thai movies, and then of course you have all your Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Flying Dagger style ones, basically anything with lots of fighting (skilled fighting, not the hollywood wank) and anything with Tony Ja

Television:

Don't really do TV...lifes too short

Books:

Anything and everything really...am currently having to read loads of wank for uni but at the same time am reading an incredible book about Tibet called The Story of Tibet A must read!! The last books i read were the difinitive collection of Roald Dahl's short stories which is good fun...if a bit sick! Previous to that i read the Dalhi Lama's book 'A life in exhile' which is definately a must read for anyone who hasn't yet.

Heroes:

The Dalhi Lama, Tony Jaa...

My Blog

Sad news

I figured that this was the easiest way of letting the most people know that my mum passed away yesterday. Those of you that know her will know that she has been suffering from terminal cancer and al...
Posted by Sumiko on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:42:00 PST

Check out this video: cool flips/acrobatics with Capoeira

cool flips/acrobatics with Capoeira
Posted by Sumiko on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:10:00 PST