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I am currently studying to be a Prosthetist and Orthotist. I'm a licensed Physical therapist and I just passed my nursing licensure exam.. I'm a true Chocoholic :) I have an MIRC channel on Dalnet called chocoholics, the topic is the channel pledge of allegiance: 'I pledge allegiance to chocolate, to all forms thereof and all flavor pairings insane or otherwise. I love my cat haphap and her ornery son Boo-blue and the alleycat Pus, whom my little sister is desperate to adopt. Wish I can convince our parents to let us adopt him.

I have an eclectic taste in music. I love J-pop (utada hikaru,ripslyme. I love the Beatles, Tori Amos, Jason Mraz, Fiona Apple and a lot more. I have the annoying habit of playing my current favorite tune on a loop, which drives my sister insane.

I enjoy books of all types as long as it is well written. I love Mercedes Lackey and I adore short story collections like Sword and Sorceress and Catfantastic(but it's difficult to get them locally)I collect old cookbooks (printed in the 70's etc). I have duct-taped copies of The Book of Lists due to over-reading. :) I also love science fiction. (Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Spider Robinson and Piers Anthony etc) I've also been looking for the copy of Prostho Plus by Piers Anthony that I misplaced, which I stole from my long suffering sister.

I like japanese films (shall we dansu, gakkoII, linda linda linda etc) and anime (12 kingdoms, my neighbour totoro) I like stephen chow, jet li and chow yun fat films.Like my music habit I also tend to be obsessive about films and watch them repeatedly , I've had my Grosse Pointe Blank Phase, my God of Gamblers phase etc.

I know it's a long shot but if anyone can burn and send me a copy of :

• Gakko(1,2)

• Shall we dansu(the original Japanese version not the Jlo one)

• Linda,Linda, Linda

• Run Lola Run

I would be eternally grateful.

Any film from your country (subtitled in English) would be appreciated :)

I love films I used to sneak off and cut class to watch film festivals,CineEuropa (European Film Festival), Eiga sai (Japanese Film Festival) etc etc.

I love to cook!! I have a fairly extensive repertoire of viands but I gravitate towards baking..(cause I'd rather smell like butter and chocolate than onions) :) I am now deep into making bead accessories( helps keep me from devouring all the goodies my swap-friends have sent me, not that I'm complaining :) keep them coming om nom nom nom nom. ).

I like Top Chef, Iron chef, Kitchen Nightmares, Hell's kitchen, Project runway etc. I enjoy House M.D., Numbers, CSI,Law and Order(svu, etc etc), Ugly Betty, Monk... I have often wished that Food network would develop smell-a -vision, although a teleporter link would be an even better feature.

-CHOCOLATE!!!!! :) (please pack them in ziploc bags or zipper baggies away from other items, so they won't bleed into the entire package if they melt :) thank you.)

• rubber stamps(birds, butterflies, flowers,fairies, cats, monkeys) cartoony ones and super detailed ones are both nice :) Marine and Wildlife ones would be awesome..Inkadinkado ( https://www.inkadinkado.com/shop/pc/viewCategories.asp?pageStyle=h&ProdSort=0&page=11&idCategory=7 )

• Looking for an Octopus rubber stamp ( cute and super detailed like these : http://bp1.blogger.com/jpVF-kjwsiI/R2iIOFZXvvI/AAAAAAAAAKo/ySg2HnCxp6k/s400/octopusStamp.jpg or http://www.iloverubberstamps.com/2fishwater/55octopus_lg.gif

• I would like sea turtles and jellyfish rubber stamps too.

• multicolor stamp pads

• embossing powder

• scrap booking stuff

• beads

• stickers

• unique snack items

• Haribo Gummies

• sour candies

• salty snacks

• baking ingredients (sprinkles, edible glitter, recipes)

• cookie cutters(monkey shaped dragonfly shaped etc)

  Books:

• Prostho plus

• catfantastic.

Movies: Shall we Dansu, Linda, Linda Linda,and Gakko2.

Monkeys I like monkeys (stamps, stickers, everything monkey)

Oh and CHOCOLATE!!!!

Beading materials: - adhesive for pearls and crystals

• perforated screen findings for earrings and rings, glass beads

• closures.

Studio ghibli items - My Neighbour Totoro (rubber stamps etc.)

• Sanrio items Kawaii stuff (stickers, rubber stamps, etc) I love anthropomorphic food :) especially desserts Nyanko stuff :)

Dentistry related stuff for my sis, like tooth shaped accessories or craft stuff.(http://www.girlzlyfe.com/catalog.php?item=47) elephant and sheep stuff would be appreciated too.

• anything from AMD etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?userid=1443&order=§ionid=&page=4 especially the watermelon tourmaline rondelle, flourite, blue topaz, peridot, teardrop beads and the pink chalcedony. (Just tell me what you want in exchange... I love love the items there)

• anything Martha Stewart

• meyer glass glitter and clear glass beads

Like music/movies/books. I obsess about colors in phases. I've had my black phase, purple phase, green phase, orange phase, pink phase, cream phase... I'm in my peacock colors phase right now.:) I'm pretty shade specific and I loathe neon. I like pastels and shades wherein there's barely any color saturation and I also like deeply saturated shades... I guess my color preference is mood dependent :).

To all my lovely swap partners, thank you for making my life richer (my dentist too) and for making my weighing scale groan. :) These are items that my swap partners have sent that I absolutely loved:

• Brach's cherry cordial nougat

• Chase's Cherry mash

• m&m's Premiums Mint

• m&m's Premiums Raspberry Almond

• velvet creme popcorn

• Sebastian fine filled chocolate

• Elmer's Quality Chocolate

• Turin Kahlua truffle

• Cinnabon Cinnamon mousse pecan cluster

• Piers Antony books

• Butterfly stamps

• Dragonfly stamp

• uber cute Monkey stamp

• Fairy stamp

• assorted stamp pads

• watermelon shaped and flavored gummy (miette)

Thank you for reading my super long profile, I hope it's not too broad or too limiting... If you think I need to make a few changes, just give me a shout out!! I have not figured out how to add pictures/graphics yet, but when I do I'll try not to get over excited about it. Oh and one last thing... I'm going to quote another swapbot member: "If you like it, I'll like it" I'm looking forward to swapping with you all. :) Sigh I've been flaked on a Halloween goodies swap(was super looking forward to that) my partner is partially suspended and the swap organizer deleted her account. :(