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Hi. :) My name is Twinkle. I'm 22. A Pisces and born on the year of the Tiger.

I like sushi, rain, doodling, and wearing skirts. I like rearranging the contents of my bag and having lots of conversation over coffee. I name most of my stuff, and there are days when I get incredibly sad. But I am happy for a lot of things, like walking around in socks or singing in the shower. I also like tea in the afternoons.

Totally random: these are what's in my bag (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdelosreyes/2367033936/), most of the time. :)

If I can start from the beginning, I would have liked to be born during the 1960s. My favourite colors are red, blue, brown and black.

I'm a bit of a geek: I like Star Wars, X-Files and solving sudoku puzzles. I also love old board games and other mind/brain games.

I love Tintin! I also love Batman and MAD comics. Online, I like A Softer World and Cyanide and Happiness.

I LOVE to write in my journal. I collect lots and lots of pens in different colours because you can never have enough! :) I also love love LOVE mixtapes! And I have a tin can full of stickers, ribbons and laces, threads and yarns to stick in my journal. I also make friendship bracelets.

I am into photography, too :) I love black and white films, and polaroid, too. I like writing letters and receiving them.

I ALSO LOVE ART! Gustav Klimt is love. I also like Egon Schiele and Matisse.

Jazz - Frank Sinatra, Chet Baker, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Dave Brubeck, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bill Evans, Django Reinhardt, Thelonius Monk

Classic Rock - The Beatles, The Who, Eric Clapton, The Doors, Queen, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, The Smiths

Poetry - anything written by Stephen Dunn, Billy Collins, Margaret Atwood, Mary Oliver, Eavan Boland, e.e. cummings, W.H. Auden, W.B. Yeats and Charles Bukowski

Novels - anything written by Haruki Murakami, Milan Kundera, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss

Young adult - anything written by Stephen Chbosky, John Green and Louise Rennison

Essays & Humor - anything written by Alain de Botton, Nick Hornby, David Levithan and David Sedaris

My all-time favorite books are: 1) The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 3) The History of Love 4) Everything is Illuminated 5) The Bride Stripped Bare 6) Essays on Love 7) The Unbearable Lightness of Being

I love foreign films and classic films. I want to collect films under the Criterion Collection.

Some of my favorite films are: - all Wong Kar-Wai films - Before Sunrise - Before Sunset - Amelie - Closer - A Very Long Engagement - The Life Aquatic - The Squid and the Whale - Crash - Lost in Translation - Love Actually - Thumbsucker - Trois Couleurs

I love watching reality shows like American Idol, Project Runway, Top Chef, or Top Design, Amazing Race and Survivor.

I also love cooking shows and shows about interior decorating or design.

Some of the more popular shows that I absolutely love: 24, Prison Break, Lost, Heroes, CSI: Las Vegas, House, Grey's Anatomy, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Sex and the City, Spongebob Squarepants, and The 4400

I like writing journals, making scrapbooks, writing letters and making friendship bracelets.

I love vinyl LPs, mixtapes, mix CDs, postcards, stamps, vintage wallpapers, stickers, polaroid 600 film, black and white film, notebooks, journals, stickers, stationery, pins and buttons, bangles

Please note that I am living in Manila, Philippines. Postage and/or air mail from here takes about two weeks, more or less.

I try to send my swaps ahead of time so you won't have to wait very long, nevertheless if my swap hasn't arrived to you two weeks after the deadline, kindly send me a message. ^__^