I wasn't planning on putting an About Me page up, since I figured nobody cares. So why did I end up putting one up after all? I don't really know actually...








ABOUT ME




GENERAL
Name: That is something I don't hand out on the Internet. At least not anymore. Online I go by the name Tingeling, or Ting for short.
Age: 19 and working on it. I'm an -83er.
Nationality: Swedish.
Family: Mom, dad, brother.
Pets: The noisiest parrot you'll ever meet and the most wonderful cat, Merry, you'll ever meet.
Friends: I'm a best-friend type of person. I've always preferred one close friend to lots of friends. These days though I have one best friend and one semi-best friend. Mitten and Kolibria (no, those are not their real names). Plus I have my fellow-SP3Ders of course! SP3D, tja la la la la!
Occupation: Student.
Three biggest interests: Lord of the Rings, Internet, Disney. In that order.
Favorite computer program: Adobe Photo Shop. I love this program! Thanks to this program I can make all the desktop wallpapers I want, not to mention a billion avatars!
What I do: Drive (a lot), talk (even more), surf the Web, watch TV, read, chat with friends, work with Adobe.
What I don't do: Drink alcohol (useless thing to do), smoke (also useless thing to do), drugs (the superlativ of useless-thing-to-do).
Typing speed: According to my Swedish teacher, 2000 words per 90 minutes.
Favorite color: Blue.



ME AND INTERNET
Internet connection: Broadband.
E-mail domain: Hotmail and weathertop.zzn.com.
Favorite search engine: Yahoo, or Google when I'm searching for images.
Web community things: Am a proud member of Lunarstorm, DisneySites and NeoPets.
First launched my website: April 7th. I think.
Favorite website: That variates. I'm not so stuck-up that I'd say "my own". Go look at my links page and find some of my favs!
Relation to pop-up windows: Kill 'em!
Opinion on downloads: I know it's illegal, but I've downloaded music. And to be completely honest, I can't see how the music makers suffer from it. They have enough money.
Chat service: MSN.
Best friend online: Tracey.
Second best friend online: Ezika (Loke).
Favorite online abbreviation: Lol (laugh out loud).
Internet dislike: Creepy 40-something year-olds who use chat-services to pick up young girls!





ME AND LITTERATURE
First written language: English.
Second written language: Swedish.
Age I learned to read: Four.
Favorite authors: JRR Tolkien, Stephen King.
Favorite books: "The Lord of the Rings" (JRR Tolkien), "It" (Stephen King). "I Miss You, I Miss You" (Peter Pohl and Kinna Gieth), "Gone with the Wind" (Margareth Mitchell).
Reading right now: "The Lost World" (Michael Chricton).
Favorite book series': "The Lord of the Rings" (if you count it as a trilogy instead of one book), "the Clan of the Cave Bear" series (Jean M Auel), "the Little House on the Praerie" series (Laura Ingalls Wilder).
Books I have in both Swedish and English: "I Miss You, I Miss You" ("Jag saknar dig, jag saknar dig" in Swedish), "the Lord of the Rings" ("Härskarringen" in Swedish).
Books I hate: "The House of the Spirits" (Isabelle Allende).
Books I warn people about: "Interview with the Vampire" (Anne Rice). I've tried to read this book numerous times, but I can't get through the first half.
Must-reads: Other than my favorite books mentioned above, "Sleepers" (Lorenzo Carcaterra), "the Old-Girl Network" (Catherine Alliot).
Favorite litterature era: Romanticism
Favorite poem: "The Raven" (Edgar Allen Poe).



ME AND MOVIES
Favorite movies: "The Fellowship of the Ring", "Sleepers".
Least favorite movies: "Cast Away", "Idioterna", "Marvin's Room", "Summer of Sam", "the House of the Spirits".
Favorite directors: Steven Spielberg and Lasse Hallström.
Favorite composer: John Williams. The man's a genius!
Favorite movie soundtracks: "Jurassic Park" (Williams) is my all-time favorite, other favorites include "Jaws" (Williams), "E.T." (Williams), "Schindler's List" (Williams), "the Fellowship of the Ring" (Howard Shore) and "the Lion King" (Hans Zimmer).
Favorite movie songs: "May it Be" (Enya), "Unchained Melody" (Righteous Brothers).
Favorite genre: Action and drama.
Movie I strongly connect with my childhood: "Top Gun".
Last movie seen at the cinema: "Lilo and Stitch".
Movies I reccommend: Other than my favorite films, "Saving Private Ryan", "Scream", "T2: Judgement Day", "Liar, Liar", "Dumbo".
Actors I find overrated: Brad Pitt, Salma Hayek, Keanu Reeves, Lisa Kudrow.
Actors I find underrated: Leonardo DiCaprio (never mind his looks, the guy can act), Jim Carrey, Bill Pullman.
Favorite Swedish films: "Jägarna", "Jalla, jalla".



ME AND TV
TV equipment owned by me: A small TV ready for retirement and a VCR in the same condition.
Favorite channel: Kanal 5.
Favorite English speaking TV show: "The Tonight Show".
Favorite English speaking TV series: "Dawson's Creek", "the X-Files".
Favorite Swedish TV show: "Parlamentet".
Favorite Swedish TV series: "Svensson, Svensson" which unfortunately doesn't air anymore, "Expedition: Robinson" (what you in America renamed "Survivor").
Favorite soap: "Sunset Beach" which is unfortunately off the air as well.
TV series I boycott: "Friends" in seasons 8 and 9 (aka "the Jennifer Aniston Show").
Hours spent watching TV: About 1-2 per day.
Number of video tapes I own: I stopped counting after 258.
Overrated on TV: "Mad About You" (aka "Helen Hunt is Mad at You").
Underrated on TV: "Sunset Beach".
TV guide of use: Aftonbladets TV tidning.



ME AND DISNEY
Number of Disney films I own: 32.
Favorite Disney film: "Dumbo", with "the Lion King" second.
Favorite Disney characters: Donald Duck, Dumbo.
Favorite Disney songs: "Go the Distance" (Michael Bolton), "Reflection" (Christina Aguilera).
Favorite animator: Andreas Deja.
Reasons why I want to kick the Disney company: They left out the amazing song "If I Never Knew You" from "Pocahontas", they're ruening the classics by releasing a zillion crappy sequels.
Disney movies with a special place in my heart: "Dumbo", "the Little Mermaid", "Lady and the Tramp", "101 Dalmations", "Sleeping Beauty".
Disney theme park of choice: Disneyland.
Favorite voice actors: James Earl Jones (Mufasa), Jeremy Irons (Scar), Tom Hanks (Woody), Kevin Kline (Phoebus).
Favorite Swedish voice actors: Anders Öjebo (several), Myrra Malmberg (Wendy, Jasmine, Megara), Johannes Brost (Copper), Tommy Nilsson (John Smith), Peter Jöback (Aladdin), Sofia Källgren (Belle), Dan Ekborg (Genie, Hades).
Disney songs that are better in Swedish: "En värld full av liv" ("Circle of Life"), "En helt ny värld" ("A Whole New World"), "Snart är det jag som är kung" ("I Just Can't Wait to be King"), "Färger i en vind" ("Colors of the Wind").
Disney movies I don't like: "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame", "the Black Cauldron", "Pinocchio", "Oliver and Company".
Favorite Disney website: DisneySites Messageboard



ME AND "THE LORD OF THE RINGS":
Favorite book: "The Return of the King".
Favorite Fellowship member: Merry, with Pippin and Legolas on the bubble.
Least favorite Fellowship member: Sam, he just annoys me.
Favorite book chapters: "A Conspiracy Unmasked", "the Ring Goes South", "the Uruk-hai", "Floatsam and Jetsam", "the Palantír", "the Battle of the Pellenor Fields", "the House of Healing", "the Scouring of the Shire".
Favorite race: Hobbits!
Looking most forward to seeing in the TTT movie: The battle at Helm's, the battle at Isengard, Gollum.
Looking most forward to seeing in the RotK movie: The battle of the Pellenor Fields, Aragorn playing E.R. doctor, the whole Mount Doom sequence.
Things I'm sad they're leaving out in the movies: The scouring of the Shire.
Wants to throw palantírs at: Arwen if she takes part in the battle at Helm's, Sam, Gandalf.
Favorite LotR locations: Buckland, Minas Tirith.
Favorite non-Fellowship characters: Éowyn, Faramir, Denethor.
Favorite actor quotes: "He's a fantastic guy! He's cool like an Elf, has the heart of a Hobbit and is crazy as a Wizard." (Orlando Bloom on Peter Jackson), "It's not us who are small, it's the others who are large" (Billy Boyd on Hobbits and others), "For Merry, losing Pippin is like losing his strength, the other side of his personality" (Dominic Monaghan on Merry and Pippin), "He's a very talented actor. He asks me for advice a lot and he laughs at my jokes. He's a very talented actor." (Sir Ian McKellen on Orlando Bloom).
Question about the trilogy: Was Gimli the only Dwarf present at the battle at Helm's?



ME AND TRAVELLING:
Previous destinations: Los Angeles (used to live there), South Carolina, Hawaii, Rome, Baia Domizia (about 120 km south of Rome), Mallorca, Crete, Teneriffe.
Destinations I'd like to have: Middle-Earth.
Best trip so far: Rome in September 2001.
Best holliday memory: Visiting the Vatican Museums during above mentioned trip to Rome.
Worst holliday memory: Having an inflammated ear in Hawaii when I was around 5, finding out about the September 11th tragedy when we were in Rome.
Funniest holliday memory: My previous best friend and I reading "the Old-Girl Network" out loud to each other in Bia Domizia (the book is really funny, and people were staring at us like we were UFOs), the whole long Rollo story plus the whole long Sir Magnus med Munnen story (both from our trip to Rome in September 2001).
Place I'd most like to revisit: Hawaii, since I was too sick to be able to appreciate it when I was there.
Things I'd like to see: Cheop's Pyramid, the Great Wall.
Travelling method of choice: Airplane.
Favorite vacation occupation: Lying on an inflatable raft in a pool.
Upcoming vacations: The female side of my "clan" are going somewhere in Greece this August.
Favorite abroad food: The pepperoni pizzas in the US.
Holliday coincidence: Turns out both me and my buddy Mitten have stayed at the same hotel in Mallorca. And it also turns out we stayed at the same hotel in Crete the same summer.

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