UPDATE: Chapters 17, 18, and 19 of Shizuka na Sonata have been edited. 18 and 19 are major edits, so you will need to re-read them. I've slowly been going back to all of my previous chapters and have been editing them.

About Moi:

Age: I'm 22. I go to college.

What I do!: I'm a graphic design major. I'm also finding myself.

Who I am: I'm just about the biggest loser/nerd you'll find. I love anything Japanese, I speak French, I speak Creole, I speak Japanese, and I have a natural knack for learning languages. I play piano (self taught), I sing, I wanna play drums and the viola and the harp, I draw, I read, I write, I swing on swings, I would kill for seafood and mangos, but I don't eat land meat, and I laugh at the worst times. I'm the biggest kid you ever did see.

I love just about any Asian language and just about anything that comes out of Asia.

I'm a pyro, so if you give me any flames, be assured that I wanted them in the first place.

I'm a closet pervert.

I'm quiet, and I'm a little broody, but get me started and I'm witty and fun to be around :

I play video games or piano the other times when I'm not studying or doing something religious or writing fanfiction.

Games I love: Ico, FF12, Grandia II, Project Justice, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, DDRRRRRRrrrrRR

Muzzacs I love: Mostly underground bands or calmer music. Bela Kiss, Killswitch Engage, Muse, Dance Gavin Dance, Daft Punk, Imogen Heap/Frou Frou, Coheed and Cambra, Does it Offend You, Yeah?, La Roux, etc. And on the other hand, I love J-pop/rock bands such as: Asian Kung-fu Generation, Gackt, Malice Mizer, Pierrot, Dir en Grey, Ayumi Hamasaki, Do as Infinity, Minmi, Namie Amuro, etc. And then I'm obsessed with classical music like Ralph Vaughan Williams, Faure, Rachmaninoff, etc.

About Me and Music

So, a lot of people have asked me about my musical background, given that I am writing a story that is music-based. First of all, I have you guys know that a lot of research tends to go into my stories before I go ahead and post a chapter. If you find something in depth in my stories, 9 times out of 10 it has been researched before it was posted. If you really want to write a good fanfic or a good story, you must realize that you must research what you write so that it's credible. The other option is that if you are fictionalizing what you research, make it extremely believable. Aside from that, there are a couple of other things about my musical background.

I'm self-taught at the piano. I don't know all musical terms, but I tend to put a lot of effort into research just so that I know what I'm doing. It's pretty self-fulfilling. Unfortunately, I tend to have a lot of trouble with my fingering techniques because I was never formally trained.So I think that, at one point, I would love to get in some formal lessons so that I can be even more proficient.

As far as 'absolute' or 'perfect pitch' goes, I think I have it, but I'm not sure. I'm naturally in tune with sound and I have the ability to compose music. It's like second nature to me. Also, I am able to listen to music and play it on the piano without the use of notes. As in, I can make a mental study of music and replay it. Sometimes it takes me a couple of days, sometimes a couple of weeks, and from time to time it may take me a couple of months, only because it's difficult for me to understand how to get proper fingering. I know there are other criteria to meet in order to establish whether or not a person has perfect pitch, though.

Despite that, I'm not that skilled at the piano. I've only been playing for 8 years, so there is so much that I have yet to learn. My fingers aren't fast, but they can be if trained well...argh!

Anyway, music--sound--is something that I love and appreciate. It's something that I understand but not completely. There's really no way for me to explain it, but I have a connection to it. It's literally saved my life when I went through the most difficult times, and I think that I would be lost without it. There's a beautiful connection between mind and music that I want to convey through Shizuka na Sonata as the chapters progress. Music is my soulmate.

Me and Deafness

Ah, I've actually been asked a lot if I know sign language, if I'm deaf, etc. No, and no. I don't know sign language, and I'm not deaf. In all honesty, I'm just very easily intrigued by things beyond my scope of understanding, deafness being one of the things. I do know a deaf person (she's in my class), and over time we've come to communicate with each other quite a bit (because my GD class is like one big happy family, seriously). Anyway, I would actually really, really love to learn sign language. I love it so much!

Will be updated if needed.