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Hi! My name is Carina Nguyen.
This is my profile, I hope it does not bore you o(^_^)o



PAST: I was born with the name Oanh Kim Phan in Sai Gon, the capital of Vietnam. In Vietnamese, the word "oanh" means the oriole bird. I came to the United States when I was three and have been living in San Jose, California. I went to Vietnamese School for six years, and after I graduated, I became a volunteer teacher there at the Trung Tam Viet Ngu Van Lang Vietnamese School. My students were soo adorable and I miss teaching them ;_; I was also was a hospital and library volunteer for three years for the Kaiser Santa Teresa Community Hospital and the Santa Teresa Branch Public Library.

PRESENT: I am currently a sophmore attending the University of California at Davis (U.C. Davis) for my second year. I am mostly taking science classes this year because I plan to major in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior. Yup! I am triple majoring, NOT!!! It is just one major o(^_^)o My classes this academic year include Chemistry, Biology, and Physics. I am living in an apartment with my friends.

FUTURE: Future!?!?!? What future!?!? I have a future??? Hahaha...o(^_^)o...no, seriously now.... Well, the long term goal is to become a physician, as for the short term goals, I just want to survive college, and most importantly achieve a decent grade point average without getting a nervous breakdown, but that might be impossible because nervous breakdowns are generally the direct result of getting good grades ;(

FAMILY: I love my family very much. I have a mother, a father, and two sisters.

INTERESTS: My most favorite activity is listening to music: Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, American, and British music. I enjoy playing tennis and badminton. I also enjoy watching movies, Japanese animation, and television. My favorite television shows are Spin City, Law and Order, Sabrina, The Simpsons, The Tick, Batman, and Eekstravaganza. Movies I have liked are Clueless, Forrest Gump, Mu Lan, Raise the Red Lantern, and Hong Kong movies, etc...Stephen Chow comedies, serial kung fu dramas.

PEEVES: shopping (except for music), jewelry, makeup; Mexican food; dorm food; pets; dislike teachers who believe in curves, hate teachers who don't believe in curves, midterms, finals, projects, term papers, chem labs, actually any other type of lab for that matter, etc...to make it short, SCHOOL; making web pages; superficial, materialistic, and phoney people; Power Rangers, Big Bad Beetle Borgs, blah, blah, blah...

FAVORITE MUSIC:
FAVORITE SONGS: La La La Love Song, ¤Ñ »P |a, ¤ß ¤Ó 3n, §O ÅÊ, 1Ú ¸Ì ´X µf «s, ¥I ¥X 3\ |h ·R ±¡, 1Ú ¤¤ ¤H, It Might Be You, How Deep Is Your Love, Wind Of Change, too many to think of....
CHINESE: Teresa Teng, Jacky Cheung, Emil Chow, Jeff Chang, Tarcy Su, Faye Wong, Mavis Fan, Vivian Chow, Stella Chang, Grasshopper, Linda Wong, Jimmy Lin, Dave Wang, Alan Tam, Priscilla Chan, Sally Yip, Gigi Leung, Tony Leung, Sammi Cheng, °ª3Ó¬ü
VIETNAMESE: Son Ca, Thanh Tuyen, Duc Huy, Ai Van, Nhu Quynh, Lam Thuy Van, Y Lan
JAPANESE: Noriko Sakai, |w«Ç©`¬ü´f Namie Amuro, Sailor Moon, Oh! My Goddess, Ranma 1/2, Kubota Toshinobu - La La La Love Song, Sukiyaki
BRITISH: Orchestral Maneuvres in the Dark (OMD), Spice Girls, Erasure, The Beatles
AMERICAN: Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Atlantic Starr, Richard Marx, Belinda Carlisle, Bee Gees, Leann Rimes - How do I?, Spin Doctors - Two Princes, Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life, Wallflowers - One Headlight, Duncan Sheik - Barely Breathing, *N Sync - I Drive Myself Crazy, Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me, Lisa Loeb - Stay, Green Day - Time of Your Life
GERMAN: Chumbawamba - Tubthumping, Fool's Garden - Lemon Tree
AUSTRALIAN: Savage Garden - I Want You; Truly, Madly, Deeply

PERSONALITY: I am extremely ironic and satirical. I have a very wry sense of humor, of course I always attempt to be facetious :D I like to make jokes and puns about myself and others. I like to act goofy, quirky, and neurotic. I am also very unsuperficial and unmaterialistic. I value what is permanent and long-lasting, and I disregard what is temporary and unreliable. I dislike those who are hedonistic, superficial, and phoney.

Lemon Tree - Fool's Garden