Brief Introduction About Myself

Ahh well, I guess that now I’m in a much saner time zone, I guess I’ll start with a proper blog. I suppose that yesterday was a good example of how impulsive (?) and spontaneous (?) I am. Cant believe that I actually signed up for a blog. The only other time when I signed up for a blog was with blog-city.com That was about one or two years ago. It was sort of fun, but the trouble was, that I tend to forget about some things for a while and after a while, my account there was gone. I mean, just look at my deviantart account. I havent updated the journal there since June!

Anyway, let me just introduce myself. I’m marina. I’m currently about a quarter of a century young and right now am working as and IT Trainer in a secondary school. Dont let the title fool you though, absolutely and positively nothing glamourous in my job 🙂

I guess I’m pretty much an average person. I suppose that alot of people think of themselves that way. However, I’ve people describe me as a good listener, loyal, sarcastic, eccentric.

I love a whole phtetora of hobbies, like music – I love listening to music as well as trying to create music. Have been trying to learn the piano/keyboard but unfortunately due to time and material constraints, I’ve stopped for a while.

I love art. There are many different types of arts that I enjoy, performance art, sculptural art, digital art. To be honest, I am not good at art though. In fact, I hated art while in high school. The racist teacher that I had, was partly the reason for it. But slowly the love began when I experimented with microsoft paint (can you believe it? LOL!) And having friends that nurtured the love further.

Geri started me with the interest of digital photography. And I really appreciated it – Ever since we went to Sentosa Island for a photoshoot. That was a real eye opener. It was like a light just went ping!

I also enjoy riding motorcycles and cant wait for to pass my license. Again learning to ride was another whim of mine. I’ve always wanted to do that for the longest time. The desire solidified even more when my best friends Julie, Hema and I went for vacation in Thailand. It was quite difficult to get a public transportation so we rented scooters instead. Even though WE DID NOT have ANY prior knowledge of learning. It was scary, but at the same time quite thrilling to have a prep talk for 10 mins and then go riding along after that.

I wasnt that good at riding, but at least I went to and fro to my destination in one piece. Hema, however, refused to be pillion with me anymore.

Anyhow, I hope to complete my learning till december and get me a Vespa Gran Turismo 200. Green of course.

Finally, but not least, I enjoy technology, the internet as well as self improvement. Its amazing the wealth of information that we could get from the ‘net. However, ironically, I feel that its sort of sad that at the same time, I tend to spend more time at the general mind numbing activities on the internet compared to something educational.

Well, I’m glad to say that I *did* learn a fair amount from the net and thats the beauty of it – to learn at one’s own pace, own time and I dont have to dress up for it either. I dont know if its just me, but sometimes I reminisce at the first time when I was using my first Packard Bell computer which was running win 3.11 – that was in ’96 – got my first connection at the end of that year and got addicted to mirc.

And now? I worship flash, photoshop – fluent in website creations, heck, I can even do animations and create 3d projects. This for a person who flunked Art and never did well in school. My site might give you an idea of what I can do.

I guess I’ll end my self whoring at the moment till the next post. Thanks for reading and take care 🙂