I really, really wanted to kickoff this blog with a rant...but I figured that it would be way too random and disorganised. Also, I'm very likely to start off with a rant about a subject that I'm extremely passionate about and it'll really suck for it to be buried under all the subsequent posts that I plan to make.
I wanted to do a general introduction thing, but honestly, no one cares. This is the internet. No one cares for who you are in the cyberspace until you actually create content that interest them. Don't even try to deny it. There is, of course, a very rational explanation for that. The inability to see the other person, hear the other person and even sense the other person creates that sense of detachment. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is also why people say things they regret on the internet -- They often forget that their target audience is a living, breathing human being with thoughts and feelings.
Still, I am all about the formality of things if it doesn't prove to be overly unnecessary. Well, that notion itself is subjective, isn't it? Some say that being polite in a restaurant is unnecessary. They would be wrong, in my definition. I consider certain social norms completely necessary to facilitate conversation and to "prepare" the audience as willing receivers of information.
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Yes, there are things I would keep private, as I am not the kind of person who likes throwing personal information around as if other people should care about it. There is also the matter of internet security and all that, but that's common sense...which is sadly uncommon these days.
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Well, what would people ask first when they meet someone new? Their name? It's in the "About Me" section at the bottom of the blog. Don't be lazy. ......Oh, fine then. My name is Skylar Cheng, and that's an English name that I just adopted recently.
No, I do not live in China, although I was born there. I was raised on the sunny, tropical hell known as Singapore where the weather doesn't change, the people don't change --- nothing ever changes. "Oh, your English is not bad!" you say? Most Singaporeans are bilingual, you imbecile (I'm kidding), because it is necessitated in our education system. *Ehem* You have to study and take exams for your Mother Tongue until you manage to pass the corresponding paper in the GCSE "O" Levels. And, for you non-Commonwealth countries, that would be at the age of 16 and at the end of Secondary School. Thus, I am fluent in both English and Chinese, and to the utter disappointment of my family, I am much more proficient at the former.
I am currently 20 years old and I feel like I am entering my midlife crisis with how much the "2" devastates me. I will be attending my first year of University in a month's time. Yes, I am a year late, and that's because I voluntarily changed from the Science stream to the Humanities stream. That's another story by itself. I will be attending the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and taking MA (Hons) International Relations. No, I don't consider it a "meme course".
Oh, right, I am a girl. Wow, how surprising. Skylar is a girl. And no, if you ask me if I got that name from Pokemon Black/White/Black 2/White 2, the answer is NO. Skyla is one of my least favourite gym leaders and Winona is much better. Skylar just seems to go well with the meaning of my Chinese name in a sort-of poetic way, with my Chinese name having "dove" as a character and "sky" being part of "Skylar".
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That segues quite well into the less general information.
I am a girl but I have strong distastes towards gender norms. And before you agree and tell me "gender norms don't exist" or "I don't abide by gender norms", rethink those statements and slap yourself. Gender norms DO exit and I DO abide by them...time to time, but I don't think they should. It's not that I take a very feminist view about things, not at all. I dislike gender norms on the grounds that it is a very old-fashioned thing, a notion that humanity identified itself by since we were cavemen.
In some ways, Haruhi Fujioka (Ouran High School Host Club) and I share some similar views.
Like other girls, I use cosmetic products from time to time...although I will NEVER use makeup. After all, if I had to mask my entire face under makeup for you to talk to me, then you aren't deserving to talk to in the first place. I am also completely confident in my ability to charm people that I meet for the first time (i.e. people I don't need to constantly be around).
Yet, like a guy, I game and I gym. I enjoy MOBAs as much as RPGs, from Overwatch and Smite to the entire Elder Scrolls series. I started gaming with an FPS and played the first 2 games of Halo. I like trying out new games on Steam and I currently loved playing Dead by Daylight as a Wraith. I love to "bing-bong-bing" cloak to annoy friends. I have thousands of hours in Indie games like Necrodancer, Undertale, Binding of Isaac and much more. In other words, if you want to tell me that girls can't play games, I will challenge you to one. I can't wait to see you admit your loss.
I take things very seriously, even in gaming. I have a habit of getting pissed off at people who claim to know things, but don't. I have played all the Elder Scrolls main series games and I know the lore like the back of my hand. I make sure to know the lore of every game I play. I make sure to resolve every question I have about the world and record it in a little book. I make sure that I defend my favourite anime characters with facts and logic as if it were an actual debate. In fact, it blows my mind that people are content with not knowing things. ...No, really, I want to understand why you don't want to understand.
It doesn't mean I have no sense of humour. In fact, I seem to have all of them. Dirty jokes, lame jokes, witty jokes, I have them all. I will be the judge of which you are deserving of.
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Is that enough? I did cover the most important parts of me and here is a small list, in case you want to check:
General Information: My name; country of residence; age; level of education
Deeper Information: I'm probably stereotyped as a tomboy; I like to game; I like to learn new things and be good at them; I allude to being an anime fangirl who is quite aggressive and competitive
I'm sure I'll reveal more in later posts, whenever I'm ranting, but I think this is enough for now.
These anime quizzes tell me that I'm a Kuudere...ok then.
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