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::. alice .::

Death twitches my ear, 'Live,' he says, 'I am coming.' - Virgil

About Me



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Random Things About Me


I am a Third Culture Kid: born in Japan, raised in the Philippines.
I love traveling and learning about different cultures & languages.
One of my goals this year: "Be sillier!"
I climb on kitchen counters. I have trouble getting back down.
I get annoyed when fortune cookies don't tell me my fortune.
I love to dance. I don't need to be drunk to dance on bar tables.
I love debates. I'd love for you to convince me to change my opinions.
I ask a lot of random questions. I suffer from an insatiable curiosity.
I have a hard time admitting that the microwave is pretty handy.
I believe there's nothing worse than being ordinary
I am spiritual but not religious. I believe most in happiness.
Money doesn't impress me. - class, wit & intelligence do.
I've been called a "Lil Asian Martha Stewart" for making teddybears.
I don't buy brands. I appreciate fine things but that's all they are: things.
I believe in utilitarianism. I love philosophy & psychology.
I like practical & logical people. I could learn a thing or two from them.
If I can learn something new or think of something I haven't thought of before, it's a good day.

My Interests



Seriously, don't piss me off. *innocent smile*

I'd like to meet:


I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. - Anais Nin

You, if you agree that it's "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
(Chinese proverb)

Music:

Favorite Bands
Snow Patrol
Oasis
Death Cab for Cutie
Imogen Heap
Massive Attack
Paramore
The Pierces
Mogwai
Tool
Maroon5
The Bravery
Muse
She Wants Revenge
Modest Mouse
Spoon
Jimmy Eat World
Guster
Ani DiFranco
Aimee Mann
Garbage
NIN
Circa Survive
Gorillaz
Arctic Monkeys
Radiohead
Foo Fighters
Portishead
Shivaree
Fiona Apple
Marilyn Manson
Trivium
Avenged Sevenfold
Mindless Self Indulgence
(hed)pe
Finch
Stars
The Magic Numbers
The Rolling Stones
The Faint
Lostprophets
King Crimson
UNKLE
Jimi Hendrix
The Killers
The Rifles
Bob Dylan
Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Janis Joplin
Andrea Bocelli
Ibrahim Ferrer
Basement Jaxx
Prodigy
John Coltrane
Frederic Chopin
Tchaikovsky

Movies:

Favorite Movies
Closer
A Lot Like Love
Original Sin
London
Pan's Labyrinth
Snatch
Love Actually
Sin City
I Heart Huckabees
Boondock Saints
The Life Aquatic
Spanglish
Princess Bride
Braveheart
True Romance
The Usual Suspects
About Schmidt
The Story of Us
Annie Hall
V for Vendetta
Trainspotting
Cecil B. Demented
Shaun of the Dead
Lilo & Stitch
Monsters Inc
Gone with the Wind
Mulholland Drive
A Few Good Men
American Beauty
An Affair to Remember
Robinhood: Men in Tights
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Legend
Miyazaki films (no dubs!)

Books:

Favorite Authors
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Franz Kafka
Italo Calvino
Isabel Allende
Vladimir Nabokov
Milan Kundera
Alice Munro
Margaret Atwood
Edgar Allan Poe
Salman Rushdie
Albert Camus
Friedrich Nietzsche
Roald Dahl
Benjamin Hoff
Thich Nhat Hanh
Shusaku Endo
Leo Tolstoy
Haruki Murakami
William Styron
Stephen King's Dark Tower series
Shirley Jackson

My Blog

Friends and Lovers.

Over the years, my definition of a good relationship has changed drastically. Even more so my definition of love. Actually, I'm not sure if the typical relationship would give me much satisfaction. T...
Posted by ::. alice .:: on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:31:00 PST

Honesty.

The toughest kind of honesty is to be honest about who you are. It's so much harder to open up to the people you care about by telling them your thoughts and emotions than it is to tell them the trut...
Posted by ::. alice .:: on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:43:00 PST

The course of true love never did run smooth,

Ahhhh, Love...Sometimes you get lucky and the other person loves you back. Sometimes you're not that lucky and you fall in love with someone that'l...
Posted by ::. alice .:: on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:33:00 PST

Playing the Devils Advocate.

To argue a point, we must understand the opposing opinion as well, no? (If you care for my opinion, read to the end.)Snowby Galenne When had it happened? It had snuck up on me when I wasn't looking& w...
Posted by ::. alice .:: on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:41:00 PST

Opening to the Magic.

This is a topic that I've been wanting to write about for quite a while now. I could never find the right words for the task. Fortunately, I found this article online. I did not write this. (Though I ...
Posted by ::. alice .:: on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:31:00 PST

Random Thought: On Symbolism

Why is it that in school we are taught to interpret and analyze stories/books for things like symbolism and the relationship between events, people, and such but many of us don't think to do the same ...
Posted by ::. alice .:: on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:08:00 PST

Third Culture Kids.

Japanese by blood but raised in the Philippines for 15 years of my life...I'm not quite Japanese, not quite Filipino. Apparently, they now have a word for kids like me. Are you a TCK too? From the Fac...
Posted by ::. alice .:: on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:49:00 PST

Whether or not you believe in Global Warming...

So, last semester, for my final Public Speaking class, I chose the topic of Global Warming. I swear, what this guy talks about is exactly what my speech was about! I have my speech on video, too (my ...
Posted by ::. alice .:: on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:04:00 PST

Aestivate.

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert CamusOne step forward, one step back.Then again, stepping back doesn't necessarily mean you're going...
Posted by ::. alice .:: on Wed, 30 May 2007 12:21:00 PST

"Araby" by James Joyce

Araby by James Joyce   NORTH RICHMOND STREET being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood...
Posted by ::. alice .:: on Fri, 18 May 2007 09:38:00 PST