"I wish - for your sake, Leonard - that I could be happy in this quietness."
- The Hours




My name is Nicky.

I live in New Zealand. (Therefore I use British spelling.)

I am Chinese.

I was born in 1983.

Recently done with uni and into the rat race. I majored in law (for livelihood) and philosophy (for interest).

I used to write reviews for student magazines, and don't really anymore. But am still prone to making wanky comments on film/music generally.



Favourite things:

Bands/Artists: Placebo, Radiohead, Interpol, The Mars Volta, Muse, Björk, Tom McRae, Massive Attack, Faye Wong, Marilyn Manson.

Films: Loggerheads, American Beauty, Donnie Darko, The Hours, Gone With The Wind, Unbreakable, Velvet Goldmine, Requiem for a Dream, Memento.

Books: The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Life After God by Douglas Coupland, Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, JK Rowling's Harry Potter series, wuxia novels by Louis Cha (Jin Yong).

TV Shows: The Joss Whedon trinity: Buffy, Angel, Firefly; Arrested Development, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica (new), Boston Legal, Carnivàle, Doctor Who (new), Gilmore Girls, Hikaru no Go, Heroes, House M.D., The O.C., The Office (UK), Queer as Folk (UK and US), Red Dwarf, Scrubs, Smallville, Supernatural, Tru Calling, Ugly Betty, Young Americans.

Other stuff: Androgyny, intelligence, cats, pretty little goth boys, beauty, a sense of whimsy, correct use of apostrophes, "Mr Billowy Coat, King of Pain".



Contact:

Email: obsessive24[at]gmail[dot]com

LJ: obsessive24.livejournal.com


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