girl, unblogged
www.myspace.com/girlunbloggedwhoo hoo. down to one job (for now) ;) can clean out my fishtanks!Mood: accomplished
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Girl Unblogged
- Oxford, UK
- Last Login: 10/6/2009
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Music Player
Interests
General
I'm a web designer and love what I do, so I'm pretty geeky I guess. I used to work freelance (which meant I could bunk off during a sunny day and work all night), but am now work in a big glass building like a real grown up, and have actual nights and weekends off. I could go into details about what I'm most passionate about..but I think you'd be a bit bored ((blush))..I am also seriously addicted to my camera and camera phone..I'm happiest outside on a sunny day taking pictures in town and knowing what I plan on doing in photoshop with them later on. Good things happen when i've got my camera. :)
Beyond that, you'll have to get to know me. I'm not telling you all the weird stuff i'm into just like that! :P
you need keywords? designchaple.com, ilovedust.com, Manga/Anime, Poser 3d, Ben's Cookies, mystica.org, social networking infrastructure, social interfaces in web applications, content managment, red wine :), perfume. One day I'll make my own perfume, but for now, i'm "shopping" for the right mix.
Music
Ecclectic: placebo, joni mitchell, air, cat stevens, La Roux, goldfrappe, alif tree, bran van 3000, dylan, buddha bar, nina simon, sinatra, pattie smith, leonard cohen, juliette and the licks, pj harvey, billie holiday, amy winehouse
Movies
Pactical Magic (a big fave of mine!), Bound, Fifth Element, Garden State, The Company of Wolves, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, High Society, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Shrek :), Monsters Inc, Pi, What the Bleep Do We Know, Howl's Moving Castle, Girl, interuppted (obviously), Lilo and Stitch,Television
Scrubs, House, CSI, My Name is Earl, Everybody Hates Chris, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Futurama.Books
It's been a long, long while since i actually read for pleasure..two post grads will make sure you spent a LOT of time reading very dense topics. Books i need to own:- The Secret Garden: this was my favourite book as a little girl. I loved how the character just willed herself to be different, and the compasion and acceptance she got from others that enabled her to do that. There's a lot in this story on healing, from emotional as well as physical illness..but obviously i didn't get all that as a nine year old..maybe at ten i did ;)
- Chocolat: church vs chocolat, but also about tight communities accepting the new and different.
- Beloved: haunts me still
like i said, it's been a while since i read for pleasure isntead of knowlege. I still have half a dozen books i could be reading to enable my super-web-misstress status...and am working my way through..but you didn't want to know about those, right?
Heroes
In no particular order:- Maddona: for being fearless. I love her for having a unique face too. You can characterize just her eyes and lips and it's still obviously her, and that's something that the cosmetically "enhanced" crowd just don't have.
- My (paternal) Grandma:, for being fearless, giving, nurturing, good, and standing up for what she believed in always, no matter what the consequences. I never got to know her as she died when i was little, but i hope deep down that if she met me she would like the person i am.
- My (maternal) great grandma:, for taking risks and thumbing her nose at convention. Also for showing that non of the conventional beliefs about "age" are true if you don't believe them to be.
- Oscar Wild: just for being so witty and special.
- Mary Magdalen: for giving jesus a decent run for his money, leadership wise.
- Ishtar: Becaus sometimes you need to send your cheating boyfriend to hell, but then miss him so bring him back for 6 months a year.
- Hilary Clinton: well, she really did put up with a lot to get to where she is! That's willpower.
There's probably more..but those are just the ones i think of if pressed.
Details
- Status: In a Relationship
- Here for: Networking, Friends
- Hometown: Oxford, Uk
- Height: 5' 4"
- Ethnicity: Other
- Zodiac Sign: Aries
- Children: Undecided
- Smoke / Drink: No / Yes
- Education: Post grad
- Occupation: Freelance Web Designer
Schools
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Oxford Brookes University
- Oxford, S
- Graduated: 2006
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: Electronic Media
2004 to 2005 -
Oxford Brookes University
- Oxford, S
- Graduated: 2004
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Master's Degree
- Major: Computing
2002 to 2003 -
Oxford Brookes University
- Oxford, United Kingdom
- Graduated: 2002
- Student status: Alumni
- Major: BSc Cell & Molecular Biology
2000 to 2001 -
University of Surrey
- Guildford, HC
- Graduated: N/A
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: Biochemistry
1997 to 2001
Networking
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everything from brochure sites to installing and customizing content management systems for commerical use, working around bespoke system code, e-marketing, SEO, accessability and comparability issues, etc.
Companies
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Taylor and Francis
- Abinbgdon, Oxfordshire UK
- Web Designer
Bumper Stickers
Blurbs
About me:
quirky, phoebe type, geek girl. :)Um..I hate having to describe myself..people just are, you know?
I'm come from a pretty mixed background: racially, nationality, religiously..you name it. I grew up in the Arabian Gulf (or Parisian gulf if you get offended over such things) before coming to the uk. I speak arabic pretty well. I'm part chinese. I've traveled a lot. People in England think i sound American. I don't. I have a weird mixed up accent, but it's mine :).
On the downside, i guess i don't even fee like i fit in anywhere properly. i'm very slow to make friends, but I'm very loyal to those who persevere. =)
I'm also the person most likely to get approached by strangers and dogs, lol :).
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Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone sincere, for real, with an open mind and original point of view is always welcome to message me. I like genuine people who live to please themselves (and maybe family) rather than "cool" people who live to impress others.I would really like it if more people just let each other be whatever they are in that moment instead of needing everyone to be..dress..think..act like them or expecting them to remain frozen and unchanged forever.
From the photoblog:
My more updated stuff is on Flickr
Latest Blog Entries
- Feb 21, 2007 5:32 AM Stolen
- Feb 5, 2007 11:06 AM The Mirror
- Feb 2, 2007 1:44 AM Blood diamond
- Oct 10, 2006 10:41 AM Snickr: myspace/flickr integration
- May 3, 2006 11:05 AM My domestic potheads
Comments
Mar 19 2009 4:32 PM
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Feb 8 2009 12:34 PM
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!!!!
Dec 19 2008 3:43 PM
P-P-P-Peter
Nov 28 2008 4:31 AM
Nov 26 2008 1:11 AM
Nov 20 2008 2:55 PM
did your grandma pass? :(
i love and miss you, princess! always.
Nov 6 2008 1:32 PM
P-P-P-Peter
Oct 29 2008 10:35 AM
Oct 22 2008 10:23 PM
LOVE you my samhain goddess!!
ok, here's what i've decided i'm gonna look like from now on... :P
(yeah right.)
Sep 25 2008 12:32 AM
love you my oxford mistress!
;-) :P
Sep 11 2008 9:08 AM
Sep 11 2008 9:06 AM
I LOVE YOU!
Aug 24 2008 4:55 PM
"The Dead Girl"
I LOVE YOU!!!
i'm taking an islam class and now i'm muslim. HA, kidding! about the muslim part anyway!!
xo
cutting-edge spinsta
Aug 20 2008 1:30 PM
Aug 13 2008 11:52 PM
Aug 1 2008 12:56 PM
Jul 10 2008 12:54 AM
loved chatting, beauty...
xoxoxo fjords worth ;-)
ali
Jul 8 2008 10:27 PM
i know exactly what you mean about missing and not missing the insanity. totally.
i love you!! and i will send you those pics ;-)
Jul 8 2008 9:41 PM
i have other photos from the party that are MORE shocking than that one but would go against myspace rules if i put them up :|
i can send them to YOU though ;-)
I MISS YOU!!! LIKE HELL!
(why does it show harpo as still online when i see him very clearly just nappin on the floor by my bed???)
xxxxxxxxxxoooooooo
ali
Jul 8 2008 9:03 PM
why do you feel cold? is it cold outside (like the louis armstrong song) or cold inside, like my mom's house, or are you cold like you're done with people? i'm done with people if they laugh at my beardlessness.
:(
Jun 26 2008 10:14 PM
i love you so much...you should marry me one day, be my straight bride in norway! (don't think i've forgotten!)
xoxoxo
ali
Jun 25 2008 9:55 AM
Jun 13 2008 2:12 AM
by Lynda Hull
Whole years I knew only nights: automats
& damp streets, the Lower East Side steep
with narrow rooms where sleepers turn beneath
alien skies. I ran when doorways spoke
rife with smoke & zippers. But it was only the heart's
racketing flywheel stuttering I want, I want
until exhaustion, until I was a guest in the yoke
of my body by the last margin of land where the river
mingles with the sea & far off daylight whitens,
a rending & yielding I must kneel before, as
barges loose glittering mineral freight
& behind me façades gleam with pigeons
folding iridescent wings. Their voices echo
in my voice naming what is lost, what remains.
Jun 10 2008 2:32 PM
May 31 2008 10:36 AM
sara is helpin me w/ that last class, that goddamn Speech!!, and then you know what my reward is!! YOU are a huge part of that reward! don't give up on me, please! i know how patient you've always been with me, and i'm so grateful. you are so warm, sweet, and full of empathy and love...
chat-date? phone-date? lemme know!
can't believe im up so late...wait, yes i can!
love, love, and more love to my sweet, dear friend,
ali