Mayou

Full-time-part-timer (part time law student, part time researcher, part time writer, historian, daugher, ate, girlfriend,bum, etc.)Phrases that would currently best described me: Crazy over Coelho, Sitti Addict, History Buff (this is a perennial description), Brown and Proud- I defy color, Fixing my Fixation on Coffee, Late-RiserI’m fond of: spending time with my true-blue buds and my evil siblings, bonding with cousins till the wee hours of the morning, babysitting for Chuchai&bringing her to her fave fastfood place(jadidi, haha!), watching sunsets, looking out for rainbows, hanging out in our veranda,dancing to Beyonce’s latest hits to shred off excess pounds, reading a good historical-fiction novel or any courtroom drama,sleeping like a log,watching too many Hollywood flicks and art films which include Gabriel Gael Bernal (I like his butt), learning to speak French and Spanish fluently, crabs with corn and a slice of “Better than Sex” Chocolate Cake from Gayuma, arguing with my no.1 listener and critic, ;)They Make me feel Sexy & Sensual: candlelight dinner,lighted scented candles, champagne&red wine, wine glasses& hourglass, walking barefoot & feeling the fine grains of white sand underneath my feet, sundresses & strappy sandals, old spice aftershave scent&Hugo Boss, Fly Me to the Moon being sung by Michael Bubble, Diana Krall’s sultry voice, the music video of the Look of Love, La Vie en Rose, Autumn Leaves, Brazil’s Samba dancers, hot baths, steaming iron (my allusion for something), black tops & red stillettos, bellydancing&dark nights with Enya, bay windows & staircasesI’m Fascinated With: cornucopia&Greek mythology, Ammon& Isis, unicorns&mermaids, four-leaf clover tattooe, ambigrams, anything aquamarine, blue-green, silvery or purple, (from purple bottles of perfumes to purple flowers), Disney movies & princesses, Boo, Sully and Mike of Monsters, inc., rainbows&pots of gold, fairies&magicwands, clamshells&colored pebbles, starfishes&stargazing, crescent moon&velvety black skies, ice castles&figure skating, dusk&dawn, butterflies&robins, nursery rhymes&voodoo chants,swarovski crystals&diamondsWhat Makes Me Cry: the song “Somewhere Out There” by Linda Ronstadt and Peabo Bryson, Bridges of Madison County, the song Love Affair & the word itself, Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook (The novel is way better than the movie, especially the love letters of Noah and Allie) Mayou doesn’t deny and in fact, she’s proud that: She’s a geek to the core, clumsy at times, a morena, a daredevil; She wears geeky glasses at home and doesn’t ride a bike or play volleyball, hehe! She’s super scared of dogs and mice, eeeww! She had her first puff of cigarette at sixteen and had her first real kiss at seventeen. She’s trying to be good at: memorizing, waking up early, dressing up quite fastAfter everything that has been said, still, “what is essential is invisible to the naked eye.” – The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery