Memage
Since there are more new people reading my lj, this one which has come around again seems entirely suitable (in this iteration, it came via ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
pxcampbelland rflong)
Comment and I'll...
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.
pxcampbelland rflong)Comment and I'll...
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.
1. We're fellow Liberty Hall alumni, and if there's a better writing environment than LH anywhere on the net, I'd be surprised. Mike's a wonderful person.
2. Ireland. I love Ireland (I've visited, oh, eight times, I think?), though mostly the edges rather than the middle bit and Dublin has never really won me over.
3. That you take my critiques well even when they tend to the harsh, because of this odd antipathy I have towards fay stories and animal companions...
4. The posts that most stick in my mind are the whole "joy of libraries" ones. It's great that you love them so. Posts that begin "I am off into town after lunch to pick up a rare book from 1911 for my library..." give me hope that there are still people out there who know and love books, and that the book is not dead yet, not by a long way.
5. Difficult. I'm a naturally private person and I respect the privacy of others, so I tend to the "if you don't want me to know you won't tell me" school, rather than the "if I want to know I'll ask". Meaning that I don't like to ask people personal stuff, and by extension I don't even think about it. I mean, I know very very little about most of my ljfriends (and I suspect the reverse is true), and I don't have any kind of a problem with that.
6. I think you know, given the one you chose for this comment :) I make no bones about "Hero" being one of my all-tmie favourite movies. And if Yi Qin is ever filmed, it will be Zhang Ziyi who I'd choose to play her (Yi Zhang is indeed named in honour of her) (and yes, I know that's Maggie Cheung in that picture). I do like the Wonder Woman one, though 9even though I've never been a fan of the comics character).
1. I friended you because, uh, we're like, married or something.
2. I associate you with the colour "warm russet".
3. So many things to choose! Your intelligence, though, wins out.
4. I still rememebr the first time we spoke on the phone, and I knew then I loved you. (aaaahhhh).
5. I'm really not sure there's anything more I want to know about you than I already do...
6. The Modigliani one you started off with, before (clearly) snorking various others from around the internet...
Like, should I worry deeply that among your newly added userpics, there's one of Toots?
2. The Far East. It's an area I've hardly travelled to at all (one trip to Japan) and your comfortable ability to amble round Hong Kong, Japan or Vietnam pretty much at will is highly enviable.
3. You come across as supremely relaxed and capable, doing things that many people (probably including me) would seriously stress out about. I assume it's the "third-culture" upbringing.
4. Talking about getting hold of Irn Bru in New York. I've never actually drunk Irn Bru, but have loved their adverts for years.
5. This is the one I'm ducking for everyone. How about - do you think the quality of life in the rising economies of the East is better than the (arguably) declining economies of the West?
6. Having looked through, probably Tiger. I am thinking I need to put some userpics together sometime...
But talking about the local people is where it becomes difficult. Because there are a lot of things here, like strong family structure and community, that I'm sure do make life better, and there's also (in certain countries) the booming economy factor, which certainly helps with morale. But I think if you were to ask most average people what they wanted, they'd pick the life in the West, because it has more obvious comforts (for now), although I'm not sure they'd really be happier living there.
2). Australia. A place I have never been; I'd like to go but I would want to spend so much time to do it justice (it is, after all, unreasonably vast, even if much of it is empty). My main target, as well as the obvious (Uluru, Great Barrier Reef) would be Kakadu National Park. Ideally watching storms offshore, striding across the ocean on legs of lightning.
3). You radiate an aura of gentleness.
4). I remember one of the first things I read you say was about how you don't feel that you "fit in" in Australia, culturally speaking.
5). Given the answer above - where do you think woud be the best place for you to live?
6). The current default, your "rainy chic".
Thank you for calling me gentle, I've had other people say that to me before so even if I don't feel it you must be on to something.
I think the objective best place would be England, and I'd love to visit there, but I won't actually move there because of factors like difficulty in immigrating and my partner not wanting to go overseas. I was thinking of making a bid for NZ more recently, but now I think I'll probably be here forever, searching for the rare people that I connect with like I've always done.
I never thought anyone would notice I'd labelled her rainy chic! My little joke. ;)
Answers later.
2). The Philippines. Interesting to see that there is something of a theme runnign here, in terms of geography being a major factor in my way of thinking about people... interesting, in the light of my comments above to musingaloud.
3). You can turn your hand to a such a cool range of things - from reviews to poetry to fiction to non-fiction.
4). The publishing credit you have in "Hope Away From home", which I think is such a fantastic idea.
5). I'd love to know more about your background - I really don't know much beyond that you're Filipina but live in the Netherlands, and from the name I'm assuming a mixed-culture marriage. Again, I'm fascinated by multi-culturalism and by the experiences of people trying to survive in a culture that's not their own, while also trying to retain cultural roots.
6). The "taking a breather" one. Where was that? Those look like limestone outcrops across a canyon, and quite a sizeable one, but there isn't enough detail for me to guess where it is from the vegetation..
#6 that was taken in the south of France. It was one of the most memorable days. We'd spent the day in Montpellier le Vieux and towards the end of the afternoon, we decided to stop and visit the caves. Coming up out of the caves there was this viewpoint that looked out across to the backside of Montpellier. It was a spectacular view and a wonderful restful note at the end of a day filled with so many breathtaking sights.
1). I'm pretty sure I friended you after you friended me... I've noticed a few times ercently that people I don't know have added me to their flist. I check about once a week or so for this, and then go browse their blog, and unless there's a very good reason not to, I add them back - my flist is still manageable at the moment by doing this. I'm not sure if you linkde to me because of ra_log or not.
2). I haven't really associated you with anything in particular yet, but I think I shall henceforth associate you with orange VWs...
3). You have exactly the right attitude to critiques (and critiquers).
4). Um, no real memories as yet, I'm afraid...
5). Where do you live? One of the weird things about LJ is that although (as noted above) I'm not concerned about not knowing people's family background, I do like to know where people are. Particularly odd given that I have moved around enough times in my life to be well aware that who you are doesn't have much to do with where you you are (it can do, but it doesn't have to). I guess I'm just geographically focussed...
6). The default, for the intensity of that bluuuuuuue.
"Virtually the center of CA" must mean, what, Fresno?
1). Because I know you. Or in spite of the fact that I know you. One or the other.
2). I associate you with indecision. or do I? I'm not entirely sure...
3). You're fun. That, and you look exactly like Audrey Hepburn. At least, you do in those userpics...
4). Um, Oktoberfest, a few years back at Akeld Manor, where we had brougth back "real" Mexican food from the US like tamales and chile rellenos, and you joined us for breakfast as Robin managed to do different things with them for several days in a row.
5). How did you and Dave meet?
6). ah3. The hat is de trop, and likewise the necklace.
I met Dave when I helped out with someone who ran a video production company. He was very much an arts student with no maths ability whatsoever, and Dave was desperately trying to make a bagful of random receipts match up with a scribbled list of purchases for his accounts. I thought he was cute, but then I was a bit desperate at the time and thought that about most ambulatory carbon-based lifeforms. Got to know him better when he and the other bloke and their mate set up a football fanzine, and started going to watch Coventry City on the back of it. First got together after a night in the Freemason's Tavern after the first issue came out, 20 years ago last Wednesday! We were ver ver drunk...
And... *fun*?!
(Anonymous)