People. They're are fascinating - how they think, behave, dress... I people-watch a lot! Shoes are also a passion of mine, along with clothes. I love music! My friends make me who i am so they're pretty damn important to me too.
myself, to see how others see me. Also, Captain Benjamin Briggs... and Kate Bosworth because I want to shout at her and tell her to eat something!
Tell Me About Yourself, The Updated version^
Name: Claudia Gabrielle Bilham Parker
Birthdate: 30th March 1988
Birthplace: Westminster, London
Current Location: Westmill, The English Countryside
Eye Colour: Green
Hair Colour: Brown
Height: 5 feet, 6 inches
Are you Right or Left handed: Right
Heritage: An eclectic mix of North (Lancashire) and South (Surrey) England
What Shoes Did You Wear Today: Flip flops and gold pumps
Weaknesses: Shoes, Surveys and Shiny things
What are your main Fears: Puppets, Ventriloquist Dummies, Clowns, Mimes, Thunderbirds Dolls and the like. Hateful things.
Likes: Listening to the rain, Stating the obvious and Riding in cars with boys
Dislikes: Arrogance, Foolish people and Kate Bosworth
Perfect Pizza: One that's been cooked properly...
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Surviving Fresher's Week without getting into debt/hospitalised
First Thoughts Waking Up: Craaaaap.
Best Physical Attribute: My Eyes
Normal Bedtime: about 11pm
Most Treasured Memory: How my Grandpa smelt
Pepsi or Coke: They both taste the same to me.
McDonald's or Burger King: McDonald's
Tea or Coffee: Neither, but Coffee when pushed. Tea is pond water, heated.
Favourite Drink: Fruit Juice, or White Wine, or Bacardi & Coke depending on where I am.
Favourite Colour: Green
Any Brothers or Sisters: One brother, Barnaby.
Best Quality: I don't dwell on bad things, I just get on with life. 'Tis the best way.
Worst Quality: I don't suffer fools gladly and as such can be rather intolerant.
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla!
Do You Smoke: Urgh. No.
Do You Sing: Badly.
Do You Shower Daily: Yes i do.
Have You Ever Been In Love: No, can't say I have.
Finest Achievement: So far, I would say getting to Nottingham Uni
Do You Want To Get Married: Hell yeah, I want the whole nine yards! We're talking major dress, bridesmaids, colour schemes...
If so, Where? In a big, grand stately home/country hotel on a late summer afternoon...
Do you Believe in Yourself? Most definately
Do you Get Motion Sickness? Violently. Just walking to the car sets me off.
Do you Think You Are Attractive: Well, having been voted the Class of 2006's "Late Bloomer" I obviously wasn't once upon a time...
Would you Consider yourself Healthy: I think so, despite an only just balanced diet and a shocking lack of exercise.
Can you Cook: I can follow a recipe.
Do you Get on With your Parents: Marvellously.
Do You Like Thunderstorms: Love them!
Do You Play an Instrument: Saxophone, and Grade 1 Piano!
What is your Favourite Food: I love all Carbs equally
What is your Most Commonly Eaten Food: Pastaaa. Or Sarnie and Buffness.
What is your Favourite Item of Clothing: Jeans
Have you Ever Been On Stage: Indeed I have.
Have you ever been Dumped: Yup.
Have you ever Stolen Anything: Not intentionally
Have you ever been drunk: Haha, oooh yes.
Have you Ever Been Beaten up: Nope
Have you got any Tattoos: No, but maybe one day
How Do you Want to Die: Peacefully, when I'm old.
What do you want to be When you Grow Up: Happy. But, being rich would be a bonus.
How Many CDs do you Own: loads, but most of my music is on the old laptop...
Is your name Rory Van Millingen?: No, but if I married him I would be Claudia Gabrielle Bilham Van Millingen! Amazing.
In a Boy/ Girl:
Eye Colour: Light, with dark lashes
Hair Colour: Brown
Hair Type: Longish, but CLEAN. I cannot stress cleanliness enough.
Height: TALL!
Weight: More than me, but less than double me
Clothing Style: Indie meets Preppy meets 'Posh Boy' - Fi knows what I'm talking about...
Finally:
From the Past, Have you got any Regrets? I don't dwell on things, remember? *tuts* Fool.
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In no particular order: snowpatrol, editors, the kooks, we are scientists, fall out boy, panic!, the libertines, dirty pretty things, the dead 60s, the good the bad and the queen, aqualung, the raconteurs, starsailor, the killers, foo fighters, the guillemots, lost prophets, the automatic, coldplay, jose gonzales, jack johnson, justin king, the goo goo dolls, muse, stephen fretwell, the claxonsidlewild, jeff buckley, jet, modest mouse, james morrison, the strokes, boy kill boy, the zutons, kasabian, scott matthews, pendulum, erol alkan (thanks to the greatness of Benicassim), justice, hot chip... Also the school song. And CHEESE - isis wednesdays rock my little Nottingham world!
So many... but Dead Poet's Society, The Breakfast Club, Billy Elliott, Donnie Darko, Mean Girls, The Notebook and Dirty Dancing are naturally all favourites. Films by Pedro Almodovar are pretty damn great too. I'll watch scary ones too, but only if there's someone with me who I can hide behind.
ONE TREE HILL!! LOST, The OC, Popworld (from back in the day with Simon and Miquita). Also Supernanny, and BBC period dramas - gotta love them...
The Color Purple - Alice Walker, The Lovely Bones - ALice Sebold, The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger, Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden, and all those psychological ones by Patricia Cornwell and the like.
Manolo Blahnik, Audrey Hepburn, Tamara Mellon, Betty Boop, Supernanny Jo Frost and the person who created mascara.