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I am: Female, just in case the ‘queen’ didn’t give it away.

Likes: Embroidery, Knitting, Painting, Reading, Writing.

Dislikes: Music, Excessive Television watching, Gambling, skiing.

Interested in: Philosophy, History, Politics, Religion, Literature, Art, Criminology, Linguistics, Languages, and Genetics.

Not interested in: feelings, psychobabble, Spirituality, conspiracy theories.

Quotations: “Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different” Samuel, Lord; “Where there are two Phd’s in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.” Samuel, Lord (again);

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” C.S Lewis.

Favourite food: Roasted meats, Crème Brulee, Raspberries, Potatoes, panna cotta, sorbets, butter scotch ice-cream, borscht.

Least Favourite Foods: Capsicum, Squash, Rice, excessive chilly, cream puffs, anything from Breadtop, jackfruit curry, alcohol.

Favourite Authors: K.A Applegate, Isobelle Carmody, Anne Bishop, Jacqueline Carey, Agatha Christie, Theodore Dalrymple, J.K Rowling.

Least Favourite Authors: Stephanie Myer, Steven Herrick, Phillip Gwynne, Morris Gleitzman…

Books I have read: Soul by Tobsha Learner, Rama the Steadfast by Valmiki, The Bhagavad Ghita, The Pillow Books of Sei Shonagon, The Analects of Confucius, and Machiavelli’s ‘the Prince’, The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau, Getting Into Character by Brandilyn Collins, Ovid’s Metamorphoses (As Translated by Arthur Golding), The Forest of Thieves and The Magic Garden an anthology of Medieval Jain stories, The Dhammapada.

Books I am reading: The Gathering Storm by Winston S Churchill, The Histories by Herodotus, The Peloponnesian Wars by Thuycidides, The Complete Odes of Pindar, Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock, The Reformation: Europe’s house Divided by Diarmaid Macculloch, Love Songs of Vidyapati .

Books that I want to read: The Illiad and the Odyssey, Virgil’s Aenied, The Anabasis and Cyropaedia by Xenophon, The Invasion of Gaul by Julius Ceasar, Pliny and Livy, Horace, Plutarch’s ‘Parallel lives’, The Shahnameh, The Baburnama, The Tale of the Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, The Story of the Stone or the Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong, The Arabian Nights (Hussain Haddawy Translation), the Tale of the Heike.

I Studied: Religion, 18th & 19th Century Literature, Textiles, Art, Renaissance and Modern History. Arabic.

I am Studying: The Society and Individual in Asia

I will study: Asian Studies (for my BA if everything goes to plan, scheduled to begin in 2010)