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Vénérable Mo

I find ecstasy in living --the mere sense of living is joy enough

About Me

Hmmm, this is the part where I have to sell myself to those who have nothing to do but to stalk on other people's profile...:p well, I was a exchange student from France at UCI... I talk a lot and really fast, I take naps and I have a strong addiction to chocolate, ice-cream, papillotes... I can totally kick your ass in Mario Kart 64, Donkey Konga and Wii bowling. I am fascinated by Surrealism. I'm a graduate student at Lyon II in France, (hopefully) getting my master's degree in June... (I still can't believe that such a lazy bum like me went that far...) What else: I'm a very bad liar and my brothers say my laugh is half-way between an ogre laugh an a hyena laugh... Go figure. To put it in a nutshell:

My Interests

travelling, taking naps, eating frogs, hang out with my friends, reading poetry late at night... my boyfriend's curly hair and "beauty seeds" (bisous mon cheri)!!! :p, art exhibitions, shopping of course, learning foreign languages (Farsi and written Cambodian during summer break)

I'd like to meet:

people who do NOT think that French people are lazy, always go on strike, or go with the syllogism "I've been to Paris= I've seen France= French people are rude and never smile" (that's true, that's what most people think!)People who enjoy life and who do not spend their time going through mid-life crisis in their early twenties, people who are not scared to live out their dreams. People I can have a good time with, people who make me laugh..., people that are willing to eat my mom's frog legs with me

Music:

Manu Chao, Tryo, Aznavour, Tete, Raphael, The cardigans, thievery corporation, si sé, amélie's soundtrack, Romeo and Juliet's soundtrack, zazie, olivia ruiz, Emiliana Torrini, Pink martini, Lily allen, Yann Tiersen, Bob Sinclar, The Too Many DJs series, Red hot chili peppers, U2, Emilie Simon, Muse, Gorillaz, Nouvelle Vague, M, Serge Gainsbourg, Air, Iam (especially l'école du micro d'argent), Daft punk

Movies:

L'auberge Espagnole, Il postino, La vita è bella, Leon, Vertigo, le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, Tesis, Jeux d'enfants, Last tango in Paris, Edward Scissorhands, la Strada, Primer, Un chien andalou, American History X

Books:

The Alchemist, Nadine Gordimer's short stories, Les Fleurs du Mal, Calligrammes by Apollinaire, poems by Victor Hugo, La Peau de Chagrin, Sophocles' tragedies, poems by Neruda, Wide Sargasso Sea, Twelfth Night, Grimm's fairy tales, books by Zola, the Allegory of the Cave by Plato, Candide, Persian Letters by Montesquieu, Une Vie (Mauspassant), books by Stefan Zweig, poems by Primo Levi, Asterix and Tintin comic books, shorts stories by Poe, Miguel Street by Naipaul, A streetcar named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, La Peste, L'étranger

Heroes:

My mom, Loubna ma maplv :D, my wise grandpa whose daily hour-long meditation and amazing life I admire