Who I am, as of 8th August 2012:

• Boy-cut-but-not-quite
• Big glasses
• Not particularly brilliant...
• ... But learning to accept it
• Not particularly pretty...
• ... But learning that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
• Finally have realized I'm too idealistic for my own good...
• ... And am learning to beat up myself less
• College sophomore... woo... hoo
• Just read Harry Potter - highlight of the year
• Finished piano at Grade 8
• Blogging at a part of the web that no-one in real life should find...
• ... But they're allowed here
• Am still very, very scared of leaving childhood behind...
• ... (Will I never learn?)
• Pining for a job
• Not driving. Yet
• Now a sucker for Chinese movies...
• ... The good ones - like some of these
• Discovered Vienna Teng and life was never the same again
• I own two toy cameras
• And four Moleskines (squeal! squeal!)
• And four Frankies
• And more than ten NYLONs
• And expanding all of these collections is a given YES YES YES
• I want to read The Fault In Our Stars quite badly
• And wrote some 40,000 words of fiction to general praise and encouragement
• And will never be cured of wanting books and books and books and more books. Ever
• And will never stop wishing that people would ask me what I want for my birthday
• Still holding onto the hope that I will learn not to procrastinate...
• ... But that means growing up...
• ... And I don't want to
• And oy. The most unassuming guys are the nicest
• My biography might as well be written by every Sleeping At Last song
• And I only want a turntable because I've just inherited my dad's entire collection (including some really rockin' ones, go Pa!). That's the only reason why I want one
• Lee Chong Wei taught me that getting a Silver, a B, or a Merit is okay ...
• ... He's my hero.
• Two of the most beautiful people of the blogosphere
• That's why I'm pining, not only for Italy and Greece and Austria and Corfu now, but Iceland as well
• I dusted off very old dream and started designing and writing my own magazine...
• ... and I want someone's help with it - someone very specific
• Lists of classics and other books to read is very much in order before I grow too old for this kind of thing
• One of the best things about seventeen was Chatimes and long talks with my sister
• In spite of myself, I wonder if everything will smooth out after all the kinks of adolescence and teenagehood
• And I learned that being a prodigy means you miss out on truly understanding what you're supposed to be doing
• I stopped trying to be the person I wanted to be...
• ... And in doing so, I realized that I person I really was wasn't half terrible
• If life is going to be like this, the way I feel right now, then I am looking forward to living
• Because it doesn't matter what I'm doing as long as I am satisfied and self-fulfilled
• Either that, or I'm just a ruddy homebody. It might be the latter.

(Fin)