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About » Téa, Who’s Many Things
I’m a woman in my early 30s, currently living (miserably) in Taipei, Taiwan. I am Taiwanese by blood, Thai by place of birth, but New York City is where I feel most at home- followed by, perhaps, Southern California if only because I lived there for about 5 years and I certainly felt more comfortable in my own skin there than I ever did here.
I am rarely the kind of person others assume me to be, possibly for the same reason as to why general autobiographies tend to be really difficult for me to write. It isn’t because I don’t know what to say, but because I’m never sure which part of me to include. I’ve always been the girl who didn’t quite fully belong anywhere but had her foot in many doors. Someone once described me as a polymath- a jack of all trades. Unfortunately, I think that also makes me a master of none.
Sometimes, I envy the people who can confidently categorize themselves and say I’m a web developer or I’m an architect. For me, I always had to think about how I would formulate my answer and perhaps look at who I’m talking to. Do I say I’m a magazine editor or I’m a designer or I’m a teacher or maybe even I’m a professional Tarot and oracle card reader or something else? Because I’m all that and some more.
With me, there’s hardly ever a simple, straight answer to even simple questions like what my name is, where I’m from, when my birthday is, how many siblings I have, or what I do for work. Seriously. And no, I’m not part of the mafia.
All that aside…
I have a really low tolerance for idiots, narrow-mindedness, and inconsiderate people. On the other hand, I find intelligence, a wide sense of humor, and an understanding of sarcasm attractive.
I’m perpetually busy, and boredom is a foreign idea for me. While I love to sleep, I constantly wish I didn’t have to so that I could have more time to do whatever it is that I’m currently absorbed in (whether life responsibilities or interests).
One of my greatest addictions is strong mints (I love Fisherman’s Friend in Super Strong Mint) or minty nasal inhalers and ointments.
I have a thing for shoes, both on me and on others. I also have a thing for bags and purses. I should say I have too much of both, but that would be hypocritical as I’ve also been known to say you can never have enough of such things.
I enjoy writing, all kinds of games (video, casual, and cards/tiles), reading (fanfictions, novels, and even manuals), anime/manga, painting, fiddling with Photoshop, creating graphics resources, creating websites, reading Tarot cards and various other oracle cards, a lot of geeky things, and being attached to my Mac. One of my dreams is to finish a book and get it published.
I’m a scrabble fanatic. I play often at the Internet Scrabble Club and my record high score in a game is 568 points. I also sometimes invent words and use them too (though not in a scrabble game of course).
I have tons of unhealthy habits like sleeping at the crack of dawn, staying up for days at a time, smoking, neglecting my outstanding health problems for much longer than I should, and indulging in food that can’t possibly be good for me. To my defense, I am finally trying to change a lot of that.
I have an intense and irrational fear of cockroaches.
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