This homepage was created January 1st, 2000.

The Fav ABC's Page should give you a pretty good idea of what I like, but in case you're still wondering... lol* 

• Name(s):  Rena, Lena, Reina, Lenarena, Renalena, Renarin  
  • ^^;; basically,  the problem w/my name has to do with that whole Asian thing... it's the R's and L's... hehe =P
• B-day: 10/01/82 
  • B-day flower (October 1st): autumn snowflake (it's a tiny white flower that droops down like a bell)
  • B-day flower (October):  cosmos
  • B-day stone:  *opal*  
• Occupation:  full-time sophomore Yalie in Berkeley college

• Family:  mom, dad, and Mika (my very cute 12 yr old sis =P)

• Likes (to list a few...):
  • ~The Arts~
    • Music:  piano, carillon, a lil composition and singing
    • Visual art:  pottery, crafts, photography, linoleum prints, glass work, mixed media work, basically the hands-on stuff =)
    • Other:  the tea ceremony
  • ~Other stuff~
    • Sports: badminton, bowling, swimming, skiing, running, dancing (though i'm horrible...)
    • Books and authors:  The Book of Tea (Okakura Kakuzo), everything by Roald Daul =) and you better not make fun of me!!, The Girl With the White Flag, Futari (Akagawa Jiro), Tonari no Totto-chan (Kuroyanagi Tetsuko), Einstein's Dreams (Alan Lightman), R.W. Emerson
    • Manga and anime:  Kodomo no omocha (Obana Miho), everything by Miyazaki Hayao (esp. Totoro)
    • Films, movies, and dramas:  Amelie, Shall We Dance, Futari (the film version), Long Vacation, Okane ga nai, Odoru daisousasen, Furuhata Ninzaburou, Good Will Hunting, Princess Mononoke, Titanic (though i'm yet to see it completely... =P); Run, Lola, Run; most Disney movies, Ghost, Dirty Dancing, and more that I can't think of right now...
    • Food:  Japanese food, Italian food (though the dining hall pasta is giving me second thoughts... ^^;;), Turkish food, APPLES! , MANGOES, Japanese grapes (those grapes that pop into ur mouth when u squeeze them; green on the inside, purple on the outside), tropical fruits, Asian pears, clementines, and most other fruits =)
    • Random:  collecting postcards, traveling, pictures x3!, candles & incense, the sky (esp. taking pictures of it), the outdoors,  Pingu, Tarepanda, Snoopie, etc. etc.

• Dislikes: 
  • conceited, self-centered, shallow, untruthful, and mean people
  • liver, other weird inside parts, and globbery goo of animals... if u know what hagis is, u know what i mean...ugh >_<
  • finals...sleep-deprivation...procrastination and other phenomena related to mass-cramming... though it seems like i can't get out of some of those habits... =( ... 

rena.sasaki@yale.edu