My name is Maria, and I'm a negative person ^.^ The reason? Just wanna protect myself from disappointments. Yup, I wasn't used to be negative, I chose to be one after I say bye-bye to the age of the Innocent. I think you need to know that in advance so in the future you won't get surprise with my negative comments.
I'm a Indonesian passport holder. Born in Indonesia, breath her air and only hers until 18 years old, before decided to try Taiwan's. Gosh Mandarin with it's 5 different tones is one of the most difficult languages in the world! But it's the first happiest time I ever had!
I was lucky enough to be able to spend the next 5 years in Tung Hai university as an architecture student. Working as an architecture designer in Taipei for almost 4 years gave me the chance to study MA Degree of the Environment in Chelsea College of Art&Design, London. That is my second happiest time.
Happy time never last long. I applied a work in Singapore, a very beautiful country that was built with "sweat and blood" and COMPETITION! I'm sure they're plenty other good stuff in Singapore, but too bad ... I'm already a negative person by then.
And here I am now, in Yilan, with my husband, pressing down all desires ...
I like kids on certain ages, but only for couple of hours in a whole years! Little kids are usually innocent, like a piece of white paper, who accept anything you'll write on them. That's why one of my dream is to become an author of children picture books. Being with them makes me feel that I'm a Discovery Channel ... that I'm special. I think human, at least me, needs this kind of feeling, being different, to prove that they are really exist. I like being with elderly too ... they are my Discovery Channel. ^.^
My fantasy (yup, it's a fantasy now, not a dream) was to become an ambassador's wife, because that will give me chance to stay in different places. I love traveling. Indigenous cultures are always fascinating me. It'll be great if I can spend a year or two in different countries. But traveling needs hell lots of money, so I have to be happy with reading books or watching documentaries instead.
That's pretty much everything about me. Nice to meet you! ^.^
hey Maria! Thanks for the introduction, which did enable us to know you better :)
ReplyDeletebtw, i don't think you are that negative than you think. To me, what you do is merely trying to be realistic. It is true that when people lay lower expectation toward something, people more or less can avoid dealing with disappointment. Sometimes I am also the follower of such philosophy. Anyways, it is natural that people try to find some ways to protect themselves from anything that they think may hurt them :)