Okay...here goes...I'm not sure how I want to introduce myself...basically I'm madly in love with literature, music, fashion, food, movies and TV...

Born and raised in a faraway land called Malaysia...still living there, though...

Currently awaiting my graduation ceremony...BA in English Literature, 2nd Class Upper...

Favourite authors: Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Preeta Samarasan, Kiran Desai, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Bharati Mukherjee, Anita Desai, Tash Aw, VS Naipaul, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys, Harper Lee, Nawal el Sadawi, Chinua Achebe, Khaled Hosseini, Truman Capote, Mulk Raj Anand, Nick Joaquin, Vikram Seth, Anita Nair, Shyam Selvadurai, EM Forster, Sarita Mandanna, Wayson Choi, Manju Kapur, Buchi Emecheta, Elias Khoury, Sapphire, RK Narayan, Rani Manicka, Monica Ali, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Salman Rushdie, Hanan al Shaykh, A Samad Said, Frederick Douglass, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Edgar Allen Poe, DH Lawrence, Isabel Allende, Marianne Villanueva, Emily Bronte, Amrita Pritam, Che Husna Azahari, Saratchandra Chatterjee, Somerset Maugham, Leo Tolstoy, Indra Sinha, Tunku Halim, Chuah Guat Eng, Margaret Atwood, Francoise Sagan, Amy Tan, Amitava Ghosh, Ashoka Colombage, Anton Chekhov, Catherine Lim, Naguib Mahfouz, Ahdaf Soueif, Gustave Flaubert, Louisa May Alcott, Agatha Christie, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens...okay, I know that's a total mouthful, but hey, you're talking to a real nerdy bookworm LOL

Favourite poets: John Keats, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, WH Auden, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Rabindranath Tagore, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Khalil Jibran Khalil, Khayyam, Rumi, Hafiz, Mirza Ghalib, Sylvia Plath, Ahmad Ramy, Wole Soyinka, Ibrahim al Naji, Christina Rossetti, Shirley Lim, Thomas Hardy, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson...

Favourite playwrights: William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Tennesse Williams, Huzir Sulaiman, John Patrick Shanley, Maurine Watkins...

...crazy, as always, over ballads and pop songs...I fancy myself some underground rock as well...Evanescence, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Will Young, Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, Kelly Clarkson, Celine Dion, No Doubt, Kylie Minogue, Christina Aguilera, Lily Allen, Coldplay, Matchbox Twenty, Katy Perry, Dido, Kelly Rowland, Gwen Stefani, Daniel Bedingfield, Spice Girls...

...golden oldies...Simon & Garfunkel, Edith Piaf, Diana Ross, ABBA, Aretha Franklin, the Bee Gees, Billie Holiday, Barry Manilow, Pink Floyd, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Tyler, Olivia Newton-John, Val Morrison, Samantha Sang...

classic Tarabeyat...Oum Kalthoum, Fairuz, Abdel Halim Hafez, Asmahan, Muhammad Abdel Wahab, Nagat el Saghira, Aziza Jalal, Warda, Laila Mourad, Sabah, Wadih al Safi, Farid al Atrash, Laure Dacache, Mayada al Henawi, Nathem al Ghazaly, Ziad Rahbani, Etab, Marcel Khalife, Oulaya, Fayza Ahmad, Hani Shaker...

vintage filmi...Hindi-Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi and Punjabi oldies...Lata Mangeshkar, Geeta Dutt, Mohammad Rafi, Noorjehan, Asha Bhosle, Mahendra Kapoor, Shamshad Begum, Mukesh, Suraiya, Kishore Kumar, Hemant Kumar, P Susheela, S Janaki, PB Srinivas, Jikki, TM Soundarajan, P Leela, Vani Jayram, ML Vasanthkumari, Sandhya Mukherjee, Surinder Kaur...

contemporary Arabic pop and modern Tarabeyat...Majida al Roumi, Asalah Nasri, Thekra, Latifa, Angham, Julia Boutros, Pascale Sakr, George Wassouf, Walid Taufic, Cheb Khaled, Kazem el Saher, Amr Diab, Ehab Tawfik, Raja Belmalih, Sofia Sadek, Najwa Karam, Nawal al Zoghbi, Diana Haddad, Elissa, Marwan Khoury, Joe Ashkar, Wael Kfoury, Asmaa Lamnawar, Sherine, Nancy Ajram, Amal Maher, Carol Samaha, Diana Karazon, Yara, Arwa, Amal Hijazi, Tamer Hosny, Waed, Darine Hadchiti, Jwana Malah, Rowaida Attieh, Myriam Fares, Fadel Shaker, Hisham Abbas, Wael Jassar, Jannat Mahid, Grace Deeb, Abir Nehme...

Bollywood pop...Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu, Shreya Ghoshal, Sonu Nigam, Ila Arun, Alka Yagnik, Sunidhi Chauhan, KS Chithra...

...totally dig biopics like "Capote", "Lady Sings the Blues", "Mrs. Henderson Presents", "My Week with Marilyn", "The Iron Lady", "L' histoire d' Adele H", "Sophie Scholl", "La Vie en Rose", "Monster", "W" and "Kawkab el Sharq"...romcoms like "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Amelie", "Green Card", "Bridget Jones' Diary", "Midnight in Paris", "Vicky Christina Barcelona" and "Love Actually"...historical pieces like "Tea with Mussollini", "Gosford Park", "Shakespeare in Love", "Bright Star", "Schindler's List", "Babette's Feast" and "Changeling"...faithful adaptations of literary pieces like "La Anam", "Sense and Sensibility", "Ladies in Lavender", "Chicago", "One True Thing", "Slumdog Millionaire", "Infamous", "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", "Brokeback Mountain", "Kondura", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "Romeo and Juliet", "Misery", "Rashomon", "Vanity Fair", "The Namesake" and "Devdas (the Dilip Kumar version)"...sensitive films like "Notes on a Scandal", "My Brother Nikhil", "Crash", "Adaminte Makan Abu", "Piravi", "Closer", "Rossassa Taysheh", "Fashion", "Secrets and Lies", "Before the Rains", "El Secreto de Sus Ojos", "We Need to Talk about Kevin", "Mouna Raagam", "Page 3", "Blue Valentine", "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close", "Miral", "La Historia Oficial", "The Piano", "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" and "The City of Your Final Destination"...and virtually EVERY film by my favourite directors, Satyajit Ray, Nadine Labaki and Spike Lee...

obsessed with haute couture...Christian Dior, Elie Saab, Zuhair Murad, Reem Acra and Georges Chakra...

all-time favourite TV serials...Desperate Housewives, Queer as Folk, Glee, As the World Turns, Alles was Zahlt, EastEnders, Midsomer Murders...

forever in love with Archie comics...

favourite pairings include: Andrew n Justin from Desperate Housewives; Brian n Justin, Michael n Ben, Ted n Blake and Brian n Michael from Queer as Folk; Kurt n Puck, Kurt n Sam, Kurt n Blaine and Kurt n Dave from Glee; Luke n Noah from As the World Turns; Deniz n Roman from Alles was Zahlt...

currently working on my first Puckurt fanfic...