I'm a nineteen-year-old second year undergrad. I lived in Toronto but I just moved out for school :(. I took living there for granted because now I realize how much I miss it!

I love "Titanic". It's really captivating... because, well, us fans of the movie have an understanding: we all feel the same way. I just can't get past how and why it affected us all that way. Perhaps it's because that kind of love is hard to find, and we are all hopeful to find it someday for ourselves.

My amateur writing career stemmed from french literature (especially in the 19th centure), which I loved to study during my last highschool years. I think I first started writing when I was fourteen, but I was only into absurd humour, blue humour, graphic humour, and parodies with the occasional Freudian slip. I only started writing more serious stories beginning with my current project here on FF.net.

Hobbies: Guitar (I've been playing since Sept. of '99), snowboarding (since winter of '99), occasionally composing music, I love trying new foods--seriously, just throw it on a plate and I'll eat it. I believe I'll get cultured that way.

Goal: Survive post-secondary education. Or just life in general. Live in every continent for at least a month. My lifelong goal is to acquire cultural taste!

Dream: Obviously to get rich and famous. I don't care if people say that money can't buy you happiness--it does! If you're generous with it; there's no greater happiness than giving a gift as opposed to receiving one. But that's just me--I'm sure I have not experienced enough life yet to change my opinion on that. As for fame, I'm not sure yet how to go about it but I'm working on the plan...

Favourites... (in no particular order)

Movies: Pineapple Express, Gladiator, Ben Hur, Fight Club, Gone with the Wind, Walk the Line, Primal Fear, The Great Escape, Basketball Diaries, Saw I and II and III, The Patriot, Cinderella Man, The Pianist, Million Dollar Baby, Air Force One, the Indianna Jones series, Blood Diamond, The Departed, The Prestige, Schindler's List, Heavyweights, The Shawshank Redemption, the Scary Movie series, Freedom Writers, Not Another Teen Movie, Troy, Barnabas, Christmas Vacation, Cast Away, Forest Gump, Edward Siscorhands, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, the Rocky series and... Titanic! 'Cause even though I'm not much of a romantic, I have to admit that it's an EXCELLENT movie.

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio. I know it's cliché (for someone who likes Titanic), but I can't deny the truth: the man's got unbelievable talent! (watch What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Basketball Diaries, Titanic, Romeo & Juliet, The Departed, The Aviator, Revolutionary Road) I think he's depicted nearly every from retarded to a confident womanizer, from a vulnerable, neurotic and angsty to careless and free. He's bound to win an Oscar sometime soon! Edward Norton, James Franco, Mel Gibson, Mark Walberg (Marky Mark, ja!), Joaquin Pheonix, Tom Hanks, Al Pacino, Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone (Itallian Stallion!), Robert DeNiro, Hugh Jackman, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger-RIP, Jack Nicholson, Paul Giamatti, Sean Connery (James Bond, his Golden Years), Jim Carrey (who's Canadian!), Clint Eastwood, Michael Landon-RIP, Russel Crowe, Adam Sandler, Johnny Depp, Steve McQueen-RIP, Ewan McGregor, Charlton Heston...

Actresses: Kate Winslet. She truly is an absolutely amazing person and has so much to give with her talent. She also has a wonderful personality and I really admire her. Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, Vivien Leigh-RIP, Amy Adams, Julie Andrew, Drew Barrymore, Meg Ryan, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julianne Moore, Reese Witherspoon, Goldie Hawn, Keira Knightly, Amy Smart, Anna Farris (she does the funniest facial expressions in Scary Movie I, II, III, IV. I love her.)

Music: I've been pretty mellow in terms of my musical preferences lately. Change of season, perhaps?

TV shows: I don't watch very much but when I do, I normally look for these: Kenny vs Spenny, Family Guy, South Park, Desperate Housewives, Seinfeld (I cannot choose between any of the characters which one is my favourite... they're all too good characters), some reality TV shows, interesting documentaries. I also enjoy discovering things on the Discovery Channel, ja know.

I love: a good blizzard/snow squall/winter storm; a good lightning storm; seeing/meeting crazies on the street; random occurences of revelations on life (you know, that feeling you get when suddenly everything clicks and you FINALLY understand), when expressions like "I'll tell you when you're older" or "in time..." or "You'll find out when you're older" begin to make sense. I love a crisp day at the ski hills. I love autumn for the cooler, crisper weather (yeah, so I like crisp things), and the changing colour of nature.

I dislike: sleeping in later than 9:00. Because I feel like I've just wasted half of my day waking up later than that. I don't very much like getting screwed by large organizations and companies. It's happened one too many times lately. Finally, there are only a few foods I hate: Ring-a-loes (don't know if that's spelled right...), brussel sprouts and asparagus. I find back pain quite annoying.

A few quotes from whatever:

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" - Gandhi

"If I have seen farther than others, it's because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." -Isaac Newton

"To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree possible." - Darwin, The Origin of the Species

"How did the lens, retina, optic nerve, and all the other parts in vertebrates that play a role in seeing suddenly come about? Since natural selection cannot choose separately between the visual nerve and the retina. The emergence of the lens has no meaning in the absence of a retina. The simultaneous development of all the substructures for sight is unavoidable. Since parts that develop separately cannot be used, they will both be meaningless, and also perhaps disappear with time. At the same time, their development all together requires the coming together of unimaginably small probabilities." - Dr. Ali Demirsoy, Inheritance and Evolution

"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; or you can live as if everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante

"Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go." - Kate Winslet

"...I'll think about it tomorrow." - Scarlett from Gone With the Wind

"I'll kill him though, in all his greatness and his glory, although it is unjust. But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures." - Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

"A man can be destroyed, but not defeated." - Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

"On fait pas comme on veut dans la vie; on fait comme on peut." (In English: We do not do what we want in life; we do what we can.") - Rose-Anna Lacassefrom the novel Bonheur d'occasion by Gabrielle Roy

"I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit, where's the Tylenol?!" - Clark Griswold, Christmas Vacation

MY STORIES (yes, plural, though only one is present for the time being...)

I am working on the first of what will become a series of books (I'm hoping three). Just a note, the titles of the following books are subject to change. For now, they will be numbered 1, 2, 3.

Titanic: A Life Journey (book I): Focuses on everything from the tragedy of the Titanic up until when the states officially enter the First World War. It's obvious what will be exhibited here beginning with the tragedy, but there will be a lot of "firsts" the characters experience, a lot of discoveries and a lot of life. The ending will be "partly cloudy" (if that makes sense) and an overshadowing of book 2.

Titanic: A Life Journey (book 2): This is from the point where American men are beginning to get drafted, until the end of the war. There will be a bit of a follow-up to that marking the 10th year aniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. This book looks more into developing the complexity of most of the characters. The main ones will experience an evolution and Jack will have some sort of revelation at the end that will have an impact on him and his relationship with Rose. You will see some of the tough times that our main characters experience, how they pull through (if at all) and how they change as a result. Can't tell you more than that, but stay tuned.

Titanic: A Life Journey (book 3): This is the period which follows the characters' evolution and ends basically when it seems like there will be a new story to tell (ie. someone else's life...). I want to give out a feeling of prosperity vs. loss in this one. I have some ideas planned, but that's as much as I can say concerning this book for now. It's the last of the series.