PROFILE

NAME: Amanda Aayusya

NICKNAMES: Amy (by foreign friends), Ami-chan (Japan version of Amy, Amichi (my best friend Fio came up with this), Korean Tomatoe (because people often mistake me for being Korean, and I think I look like a tomato :P), Sangue (my forum nicknames) and Ami Inaba (my fictional name)

BIRTHDAY: 18 September 1982 (Virgo)

RESIDENCE: Jakarta, Indonesia

FAMILY: Father, mother, little sister and two cats

EDUCATION: None at the moment, but graduated from high school in 2000 and went to UWA in Perth, AU for two months in the 1st semester of 2001 and UNISTRASI in Siena, ITA for six months. Will be looking forward to continue studies in either Japan or Italy.

BLOOD TYPE: O

LANGUAGES: English, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, French and studied Spanish for a while.

NATIONALITY: Indonesian

CELL PHONE: Nokia 6210 --> I have to admit this is sort of pointless ^^;;;

MOTTO: Ikiteru no wa nan no tameni? Dare no tameni? JIBUN NO TAMENI.

SUKI

FOOD I LOVE:
-Hot chocolate with marshmallow
-Plain cereal with strawberry milk, strawberries and banana slices
-Teh Kotak
-Starbucks coffee-based caramel frappuccino
-Neapolitan ice cream with strawberry and cream topping
-Pancakes and waffles
-Karaimono
 
COLORS I LIKE:
-Pink (surprisingly...)
-White (purity)
-Green (I look good in green)
-Black (Used to have an all-black wardrobe)
-Turquoise (particularly fond)
-Beige + red/pale blue (lovely combination)

FRAGRANCES I ADORE:
Diorissimo by Christian Dior
Acqua di Gio by Armani
Cherish by Revlon
Alive by Impulse
Moonflower by Body Shop
Jasmine by The Healing Garden

BOOKS I READ:
- William Shakespeare's plays
My particular favorite is A Midsummer's Night Dream
- Jane Austen's works
I'm fond of Sense and Sensibility, Emma and Mansfield Park)
- Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
One of the most intense stories I've ever read
- The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter series
I'm a sucker for fantasy fics
- Io speriamo che me la cavo
An anthology of Italian elementary school students' school essays compiled by Marcello D'Orta. This book shows that Italian kids can make the same grammar mistakes as foreign students of Italian language. Very funny!
- Novecento by Alessandro Baricco
Originally a theatre monologue that is later on made into a film by director Giuseppe Tornatore called "La Leggenda del Pianista sull'oceano". A very touching story.
- Romance novels by Judith McNaught, Jude Deveraux and Julie Garwood
Their romance novels aren't cheesy. I even get to learn about things like the 1820's English society, reincarnation and past lives and add many, many new vocabs to my knowledge
- MANGA
Oh yes I do read these too... =P
 

KIRAI

Kiraina mono mo takusan aru yo!!!

I usually complain a lot about the POSTAL SERVICE HERE IN INDONESIA. It's so sloooooooooooow. Totally unreliable. Would you believe that a friend sent me a package from the head post office of Jakarta to my address also in Jakarta and THEY CAN STILL SCREW UP THE DELIVERY?! The package got lost in the way, while it contains very, very valuable stuff from a very special friend. GAH. Makes me want to throttle them.
What more, TWICE already they make me PICK UP A DELIVERY AT THE POST OFFICE and CHARGE ME A VERY HIGH TAX which I don't know the purpose of!!! One day I'm going to send them a really, really massive FART BOMBS. Trust me, my fart bombs are far worse than any other types of bombs. It shatters the universe. Not just planet Earth. The universe.

Another thing I complain about is the price of J-Pop goods and Japanese magazines here. They're all very expensive. I know that J-Pop CDs are in fact very exclusive so they are more expensive than regular CDs but the magazines are just expensive ass. Kino charges the magazines at a very high price and it usually comes late. It doesn't matter which method you subscribe to the magazines, it's ALWAYS late. I really hate it. But I have no other choice but to order and subscribe from Kino... unless I want to make my mom lash out on me for pestering her with questions like, "Mom, who's going to and coming back soon from Singapore/Japan?"

The stupidity of ex-high school "friends". I hate them. The lot of them. They're nothing more than a bunch of spoilt brats and ugly jerks. Cheated on the final exam of the high school, and got the higher scores than me while all they did in class was put make-up on their silly faces, comb their rotten hair and pluck eyebrows in the middle of maths class. They should just really go to hell. I seriously mean it.

There's a reason why I don't write much about my own life in the Tomatoe Diary. The main reason for that is I really don't have anything to tell about my daily life. I don't want to bore people... ANZI, I do not want to bore myself with the stories of my daily life when I'm already so dead bored living it. Other reasons are: I'm obsessed with other things and when I'm obsessed I can't stop talking about the things that I'm obsessed with. You could say that my obsession is my life. Makes a pretty damn good a reason for me. =P Or maybe I'm just crazy.

Wait... I am, actually.

Anyway, since this is my profile page... I might as well say that my daily life basically consists of an uncertain sleeping time, which makes waking time uncertain as well (I've had insomnia for the longest time). I usually have breakfast/brunch/lunch (depending on the time I wake up) I get up from bed and I just take a shower and either I go straight online or watch some TV shows on the Korean, Mandarin, and Japanese TV channels that I have on my cable TV.
I have Japanese lessons three times a week (it used to be everyday) and since I'm on chuukyu III (intermediate III) my teachers expect me to speak in Japanese in class. If my friends who can speak Japanese call me we also speak in that language. So you can say that 4 out of the 24 hours in a day I usually speak that very, very difficult language.
After Japanese lessons, I come back home, have a snack, watch TV and go online again. Then I cram in my homeworks for a couple of hours and then I go online again.

I don't interact much with my friends... one's lost in Jordan, one's so busy she doesn't even have time to talk with me about idle things, the others... keep talking about F4 and I'd rather not risk my mental health by making conversation with them. I interact only on the Net with my online friends and sometimes I do get calls from my new friends, whom I'm not exactly too familiar with... yet. So, there's really nothing interesting about my life. 

It's like that. Nothing interesting at all. Which is why I always talk about other things in my blog.........

I collect many things. One of the strangest things I ever collected must have been labels from bottles of mineral water, juice, and any kinds of drinks. I still have many of them right now. I started collecting them when I was in Italy because the labels are so nice. One day I'm going to scan them and show this particular collection.

A more "normal" collection of mine is videotapes. People ask me why I prefer videotapes instead of VCDs. Well, I just have many bad experiences with VCDs... and so far, videotapes safer to use for me even though I realize they need extra care otherwise the tape will be ruined.
Ever since my mom purchased the VCR, I've used over than a hundred tapes... but now that I've re-organized the contents of the videos, labeled them accordingly and catalogued them, I count (at present) 25 tapes consisting of J-Entertainment stuff, 18 that of K-pop (including the ones for the NON STOP sitcom), around 20 for old football games, and various TV recordings. I'm also collecting films in DVD and VHS forms. This number will definitely accumulate as I now have more sources to get recordings. I just hope I don't run out of videos... ^^;;; I'm beginning to run out of videos even as we speak. ^^;; Komatta.

Perhaps due to the fact that I've been living and working in an environment where magazines are involved, I'm also so very keen on collecting magazines. I want to have magazines from many different countries so that I can compare the way magazines are made in different countries according to different cultures. That's why my house is full of magazines... and my room's full of Japanese magazines. I like magazines better than newspapers... somehow. I know not all magazines are practical to carry around, but I just like it better. I also prefer reading PRINT magazines to online ones... because it has a more REAL feeling...
Anyway, to check out my magazine collection...
MAGAZINE LIBRARY

You can look at my avatar list to find out who are my favorites at the moment. Actually I've used more avatars than that... including that of the Korean singer Bi and Japanese singer/actor Naohito Fujiki. (I will add those ava icons soon if I have more time).

Before the Asian males invaded my life, there had been a long list of European and even American men in my list of favorites (read: obsession). Filippo Inzaghi and Francesco Coco the Italian footballers, Thadeus Ragan the Southern American model, Rahul Khanna the Indian ex-MTV ASIA VJ... now the only two Caucasian males that I pay more than a few seconds of attention is Craig Parker who plays Haldir in the LOTR movies, and John Mayer, the very, very talented singer/songwriter from the US. Musically I adore a lot of people like Tiziano Ferro, Alex Britti and Neri Per Caso, but it's not the way I crazily, blindly obsess over the J/K-guys.

In real life, I've never had a smooth relationship with any of the guys I've ever been with. That Italian mammone, for example. >___< I do like to have male friends, though. Just as friends. I have lots of them. I find friendship with male is fascinating. It's different from being friends with females... I'm not saying that I don't like being friends with girls... but it's just different. Both are fun, I suppose. But guys don't rant and complain as much as girls do. ^^;;; Nyahahahaahahaha...

If anyone's interested in finding me a guy... (Huahahah! I wish!!) please choose someone with eyes that are deep and soft, and chiseled features. And please... NO JOCKS!!! ^^;;; Hahahahaha...

I can't believe I have the guts to share pics of MYSELF with anyone... but here I am doing exactly that... Well, don't freak out when you see the pictures. It's not bad... ;) I'm a pretty good photographer. =P Hehehehe...

OF MY QUARTERS...
These are pictures of various parts in my room. As you can see the room's all pink... I have shelves everywhere because my mom thinks it'll help me organize my things better (in truth, it really has no effect whatsoever). ^^;;; But I'm a neat person. Sometimes I can be obsessive compulsive. When I do clean and tidy up my room, I clean it very, very well. Perfectly. I took pictures of the room right after I cleaned them because I wanted to capture the neatness. =P Hehehehe...
 

OF MY PETS
Yes, me have pets. I had dogs when I was a kid. We had six. Now we have cats. I have two. The one who's bigger, blacker and more adult-looking is called Nera (it means "black" in Italian). He's a male cat. But we thought he was a 'she'. But the name already stuck. Otherwise he'd be named Nero. The smaller one, who's whiter, and who looks cuter, is Omittchi. He's also male. Much younger than Nera. Mitcchi belongs to me. Nera to my sis. Mittchi's naughtier. They both like to play around biting each other but they're really much like me and my sis. ^^;; Really, really like brothers.

OF MY... MYSELF!
Oh yeah. This is me. Ahahahahaa. I placed the pictures of myself in chronological order so that you can find out how my HAIR. The first two pics were taken in Italy. Then you see me in Indonesia. The last one is taken this year, 2003. These pics include my friends, from Italy and also from Mubesu. I wanted to put this very, very silly pic of me and Fi-chan but you can't really see our faces, so it won't really show anything of us. =P Oh, there are two pics of me and my sis, Priska, as well. We look totally different. What do you think??

OF MY BOYS
I just want to show you some of the avatars I've used so far in forums. ^_^ Some I made by myself but some are made for me. I'm currently using Takashi Tsukamoto for my avatar in the KG Forum and Junnosuke Taguchi's avatar in the JE Forum. The next avatars I want to use are of KAT-TUN and Andy of Shinhwa.





 

Well, I hope you enjoyed the pics. I'll share more... PERHAPS. ;) Right now, I think 29 pics are already plenty, ne?? ^^;; Oh yeah, PLEASE DO NOT STEAL MY AVATARS! I dunno who might want to steal it but please don't use it. I'm just showing it not giving it away. Thanks for the understanding and cooperation.

I don't know yet what I want to do in the future. Well, surely these days I'm thinking a lot about going to university (because I'm already two and half years behind my friends). But it's just so hard for me to decide what I want to do in the future.

I would love to work at a magazine, like my mom, like what I'm doing right now, as a full-time journalist... but when I think of journalism, I always get intimidated. I prefer writing novels and fictions... ^^;;; (A dreamer, yes... that's me). Then again I'd also love to write screenplays and stage plays. Ever since I joined the theater in junior high school and ever since I fell in love with European cinema, I've always wanted to write scripts. I just love writing, period.

However at this moment, I really don't want to think about that. Of course I have to think about it but I won't give it a serious thought at the moment. I'm just so totally confused already with all the problems in my life... so I'll just take this matter slowly, one thing at a time... step by step. :P Hehehehehe,,, sounding really dramatic here.

Carpe Diem.

(I don't know why I wrote that. Just feel like it. ^^;;;)