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Name: Niamh (pronounced Neev).
Age: 17
Country: Australia (I live in Western Australia. YEAH, SUMMER!!!)
Family: Mum and Dad (divorced, with new partners), and a younger sister.
Pets: My dog Taffy, the step-dad's dog Sasha, and the cat Bella. There's also two 狗 at Dad's; Butch and Zac.
General and 随意 Info about me:
I'm average height with green-hazel eyes and dark blonde hair.
I'm quite smart, and enjoy school, and I'm planning to start 大学 in late February.
I like to spurt 随意 facts out whenever someone mentions something in conversation (e.g. if someone mentions a certain animal, I'll randomly say a fact about that animal off the 最佳, 返回页首 of my head).
My birthday is American Independence Day!! According to MalloMar, that's a win even though I'm not American :)
Friends:
I have 3 good 老友记 that I've been 老友记 with for 5 years now, and I can really trust them, then there's a heap 更多 that I can easily talk to, but don't trust as much simply because I don't know them as well.
Favourite Books/Authors:
I 爱情 The Hunger Games, the Divergent trilogy, Harry Potter, Cynthia Hand's trilogy "Unearthly", Jodi Picoult always writes some interesting books, and I am currently 阅读 the Mistborn series.
Favourite TV Shows:
I 爱情 The Big Bang Theory (I have two posters of it :D). I also like HIMYM, Bones, Castle, Winners and Losers (Aussie 显示 for what is probably the majority of 你 who haven't heard of it) and Once Upon a Time is growing on me (who am I kidding? Almost finished the first two seasons in about a month!)
Favourite Movies:
Too many!!! Ugh, Rise of the Guardians is really good, and I 爱情 The Avengers movies. The Ice Age 电影院 are good as well. There's just too many to name!!!
Favourite Bands/Singers:
Again, too many!!! I really enjoy listening to Muse, and I 爱情 Birds of Tokyo (local but nationally 流行的 band) (on the side, I saw these two perform a few weeks 以前 when 缪斯 hit Aus. BoT was Muse's opening act. It was awesome!!) I also like The Cab, OneRepublic, The Script, Enya, Mumford & Sons, and many others.
Got this as a poster after the 音乐会 :D
Favourite Animal:
The African Painted Dog!! OMG, I 爱情 them so much! They're so cute as an animal, but it's not just that which makes them so awesome. They have a very diverse pack structure, and they all care for the sick and elderly, rather than just leaving them to die. They're efficient hunters, and although their methods of killing prey (something along the lines of going for the gut and blood vessels rather than the throat) are portrayed as unethical, it's actually been studied and 说 to be less painful for the prey and a quicker kill than what the lions do (suffocate, I think?). They're just such an interesting animal, and the semi-local zoo had some 小狗 last year, and I got to see them!!! *fangirl squeal*
An African Painted Dog, with some 小狗 in the background
My Hobbies:
I 爱情 to read. I can be absorbed 由 almost any fiction book aimed at young adults, and also some adult fiction.
I also like to do puzzles. Word puzzles, maths puzzles, doesn't matter, I 爱情 all of them (except cryptic crosswords. I don't get those...)
I like to draw, but often can't find either the time 或者 the motivation to do so. When I do, I spend ages on a particular drawing, until I think it's done.
I am also quite musical, and have been playing the flute for 6 years (hence my username, hajirah4 :P). Throughout high school, I was a main member of the Celtic Band. I joined in 年 8, when it started, and have left now that I have graduated, although I do like to 加入 in when the guys tell me about gigs. I also play the penny whistle, am a beginner at both 钢琴 and 吉他 (my sister just gave me hers, coz she don't want it no more!!), and I want to get a ukulele after 圣诞节 :) I sang in the school choir, up until I graduated almost 2 months 以前 :)
The Celtic Band. I'm the one towards the left in the black and white dress.
Future Career Aspects:
I want to work somewhere in either physics 或者 chemistry. I have been told that I am smart enough to handle engineering, but that kind of bores me. There's this one job that I really like the sound of though: mining companies tell 你 what they need a chemical to do, then 你 go to the lab and actually try to make that chemical!! That'd be awesome for me: combining my chemistry smarts and my liking for puzzles and problems, and earning money for it!!
Random info about my life right now:
你 may have seen on the club 墙 that I have to 移动 house this weekend, into a much better area of town. Nowhere near the stupid loud highway, and the internet is apparently 3 times faster there than it is where I am now. Also, where I'm moving is a 10 分钟 walk from one of my 3 good friends' house :D
I greatly dislike my step-dad, simply because he is a bigot (racist, sexist, anti-religion, etc. all rolled into one), lazy, pessimistic and an extremist (leaves for somewhere early, yet still speeds as though he's going to be late, just as an example).
I go on holiday with my family about 4 hours north every January, and I'm really looking 前锋, 期待 to this summer's holiday.
I'm going to Sydney just after getting back from up north (literally, 2-3 days after) for a 5 日 holiday with Mum, sister, aunt and grandparents.
Anyway, sorry for rambling, and thanks for 阅读 :D
