Full Name: Islinda. That's all you need to know.
Nicknames: Issy (not by choice I assure you), Is (short and sweet, IRL)
D-O-B: 11th October 1981
Parents: A very sarcastic, shrewd Malay mum and a puzzling but loving Chinese dad. Both extremely knowledgable. Dad crazee about footy.
Sibs: One 11-year-old brother called Irfan who spends his days cooped up in his room, anti-socially drawing Spawn-like cartoons.
High School: Northland Secondary School (some of the best years of my short short life)
College: Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Taking a dip in Mass Communications)
Some Good Friends: Oh, go here.
Pet(s) and Names: I think I used to have black goldfish who spent most of their days floating upside down.I called them all Blackie. Blackie1, Blackie2..original, huh?
Previous Jobs: CD shop where the Backstreet Boys rule the roost, KFC [I know what they do with coleslaw!] and a gasoline station [do you know people can't pump oil unless you authorise them? It's a power thang].
Hobbies: Anything to do with music, since I live, breathe and eat it, writing, reading, surfing for weird info, setting up even weirder webpages, playing pranks on 7-11 employees, photography, sarcasm, going to the airport to people-watch.
Collect: Suede collectibles, South park collectibles, good photographs (by other people), toenail clippings, posters and interesting quotes.
Best Advice Ever Given: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Words or Phrases you use too Much:

  • "Sick, man!"
  • "Fuck you."
  • "You one seeck amigo"
  • "Oh God"
  • "It didn't explode the last time I used it"

A Non-Sport Game in Which you Excel: Playing with people's minds
A Non-Sport Game Which You Enjoy: Playing with people's minds
Dream Car: Any car which I can sit on the hood.
Coolest Experience: Meeting Suede
Scariest Thing You've Ever Done: Meeting Suede
Little Known Talent I Possess: Pissing people off
Special Skills or Talents: Being able to write, understand most people, able to bullshit my way through most sticky situations.
Character Traits I Look for in a Person: Insanity, a very durable, tough sense of humour, the ability to put up with my mood swings, and the ability to swicth from serious mode to insane mode. Somewhat similar musical tastes are very VERY important. No Barry manilow lovers please.
What I Want to Be: Less ill-tempered, more tolerant of other people's existence. Would like to try various careers as a camerawoman with a documentary company that travels, a film-maker, a novelist, a cynical journalist and a lone photographer.
Future Goals: To travel as much as possible, and to finally be happy with myself once and for all.
Denomination: Have no idea what this means.
Place of Worship: HMV and Tower Records.
Fave Music: Veering dangerously from Brit indie to classical to heavy metal to break beat to extreme dance to electronic a la Depeche Mode
Groups/Singers you Enjoy: Bernard Butler and Suede (um, duh?).
Fav Color: Black and shades of blue.
Fave Food: Italian, Western, Oriental and anything with cheese in it.
Least Fave Food: Vegetables. Accounts for my size.
Fav Vacation: Would like to spend a few years in the UK, and maybe a few months in Europe visiting musuems and old bridges.
Fav Subject: How commercialised music has become.
Fav Sport: I don't really mind watching a bit of football now and then (my dad has been a Man U fanatic since 1965) but otherwise all sports bore me.
Other Sports: Boat-paddling, cloud watching while lying down in a strawberry field.
Fav Actor: John Malkovich, Tim Robbins, and Edward Norton
Fav Actress: Jaeane Garofalo, Jodie Foster.
Fav cartoon: South Park, The Simpsons, Cow and Chicken, Jonny Bravo, Daria
Fav Movie: Oh, go here.
Fav Music Videos:
  • "The Wild Ones" - Suede
  • "Sugar Water" - Cibo Matto (great synchronicity)
  • "Setting Sun" - Chemical Brothers
  • "Enjoy The Silence" and "Home" - Depeche Mode
  • "Stay" and "Change Of Heart" - Bernard Butler
  • "You Don't Care About Us" - Placebo
  • "This is My Time" - 3 Colours Red
  • "This Is Hardcore" - Pulp
  • "Driftwood" and "Writing To Reach You" - Travis
  • "No Distance Left To Run" - Blur
  • "Moving" - Supergrass
Fave Animal: Cats cats cats cats!!!
Fav # : 4 and its multiples.
Fave T.V. show: Daria
Fav Month: October, June and December (holidays)
Fav Holiday: All that allow me to laze at home, alone. With money.
Fav Part of the Newspaper: Comics. What do you expect me to say, the fucking Dow Jones report?
Fav Things to Wear: Black tops with baggy jeans, and mostly black stuff.
Famous Men you find attractive: Bernard Butler, Richard Oakes, Nicky Wire, Murphy Karges, Dave Gahan , Andy Fletcher, Mat Osman, Steve Hewitt, Ed O Brien, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton
Famous Women: Now I'm not bisexual, but there are some pretty good-looking women. Jodie Foster, Elizabeth Hurley, Sonia Couling (MTV VJ) and Jaeane Garofalo.

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