This is Twiss
So I've added a bunch of new people (welcome!), and figured I'd do an intro post type of deal so that you can understand where I come from and what you can expect to see in my LJ (well, maybe, my posting fluctuates a lot).
Feel free to comment here with some basic info about yourself, like... your name (or nickname), age, where you live, and other things it might be interesting for me to know now that I follow your LJ :)
spookykat totally inspired me to do this xD;
My name is Tove, I'm 25 years old, and this is what I look like:
I live together with my boyfriend, Christian. We've been together for 8 years. We are huge Disney dorks
(Taken at Captain Eo in Tokyo Disneyland).
Christian loves photography (our bathroom doubles as a darkroom), so I follow suit and play around with lots of toy cameras. My favourite one being my yellow blackbird, fly
I really should try to take more pictures...
I grew up in a small - can't even call it town, because it isn't - place called Sofiemyr, about 20km east of Oslo. I'm an only child and most of my childhood was spent watching films over and over again, making up games in my bedroom, and running around bugging the hell out of my grandfather.
I have my grandfather to thank for becoming a gamer. He bought me a SNES when I was 9 (or something like that) against my parents' will, because he couldn't stand to hear me cry about it anymore. I guess he spoiled me a bit, but gaming is now my #1 hobby, and I'm not sure it would be if it hadn't been for him.
I have a rather large family, but I feel disconnected from all of them. The only one who really ever talks to me at family get togethers is my extremely religious uncle. I'm an atheist, but I haven't been able to break that to him yet.
Primary school was relatively painless for me. I had plenty of friends. Things took an ugly turn for the worse once I entered secondary school, though. All my friends belonged to a different school district, so even though we'd attended the same primary school, we were off to different secondary schools. It was terrifying. I ended up being bullied a lot, and it led to teenage drama in the form of depression and self harm. No LJ is complete without it :P I got over it, and eventually made a bunch of new friends~! My years at secondary school had a teenage film ending as I got to take revenge on all my bullies by being cast in one of the lead roles of our senior year school musical. It was about the Spice Girls, I played Baby Spice. Our first performance was at the senior school dance (to give a kind of teaser of what the musical would be like), and I really didn't want to go. I'm so glad I did. Seeing the faces of my bullies go from evil smirks to expressions of honest surprise and guilt is something I'll never ever forget.
I applied for art school to get me through my years at upper secondary school. Partly because it's what my best friend wanted to do, and partly because art school meant no advanced math classes. I have dyscalculia, numbers and me do not mix. Art school didn't make me a better artist, but it made me appreciate art a lot more. I love visiting museums and art galleries, and I find art history deeply fascinating.
I joined a student society at the University of Oslo while I was still in secondary school. It was called AnimeAften and was your basic university anime club. I made lots of friends there, and it's also where I met Christian. It made me interested in learning Japanese, so I signed up for after school Japanese classes. Wanted more, and after a bit of back and forth with University classes, I ended up studying Japanese at University.
My studies made it possible for me to live in Japan for a while. The school was terrible, but the experience was well worth it. It was strange and scary being off by myself in a country so far away, but I did pretty good. Amongst my many discoveries, one of the more surprising ones was to fall deeply in love with Tokyo Disneyland. I've been there a total of four times now (+ two visits to Tokyo DisneySea). I am a huge Disneyland dork, I follow just about every Disney blog out there and I hope to one day be able to visit all the parks, and maybe even go on one of the Disney cruises.
I do miss Japan a whole lot. The culture, the people and the food.
I started working at Edderkoppen teater, a private theatre in Oslo, when I came back home from Japan in autumn 2008. It pretty much changed my life. It gave me my first real job experience and taught me much about Norwegians, what goes on behind the scenes at theatres, and general social drama :P The parties in the basement of that theatre is something I'll never forget, and I hope I'll be able to stay in touch with all of the wonderful people I worked with there even now after I've quit. I was manager of one of the two coat check teams, so I had a little team of people working for me. It was actually quite emotional to leave, and my old co-workers still contact me and say they miss having me around the theatre ♥
I hadn't touched a drop of alcohol before I started working there. Oh mandatory wine tasting course, if you knew what you'd lead to :P I hadn't really made a conscious choice not to drink, but it was just something I wasn't interested in. I've never been with "the cool crowd", so I missed out on all the awkward underage drinking and home parties. Fine by me.
I don't smoke, and I don't wear make-up. I am addicted to chocolate and video games, though, so it's not like I'm completely without any vices.
I graduated from the University of Oslo with a BA in languages last year. Spent the months following my graduation frantically looking for jobs, completely lucked out and scored myself a job at a translating firm in Oslo. I've been working there since January, and I can't believe it's been six months already. My official title is Translator trainee, and I translate IT related texts. Everything from web site content and software, to games and marketing texts. It can be quite stressful (lots of deadlines!), but I think I'm doing fine. The social aspect needs a bit of work, though. I'm terribly socially awkward, I still struggle with confidence issues because of being bullied in secondary school... but I'm fairly certain no one at work hates me, so I don't think I've got anything to worry about 8Db hope I get to know people a bit better in the next couple of months.
There are lots more I could talk about, but I won't bore you...
I guess I should clarify some things that I know I'm going to post about;
Kaizers Orchestra - my favourite band in the whole wide world. They're a Norwegian rock band with a pretty unique image and sound. I've seen them live eight times, and hope to see them again soon.
Gacharic Spin - a japanese all girls band that I've been obsessively following since before they even started up. They're just now really getting started, and I'm having lots of fun following their progress and seeing what they're coming out with.
Cinemateket - Norwegian Film Institute's cinema concept. They have their own cinema in Oslo where they screen a selection of old films, films relating to current events, or whatever else they set as a theme for that particular month. They have a monthly event called Troll i eske where they screen an unannounced film. You don't know what you're going to go see, but you're guaranteed it's a new film and that you'll be amongst the first in Norway who get to see it ;D Basically a "secret" preview of a film that will be released for regular cinema distribution over the next couple of months.
Other places you can find me:
Twitter
Goggle+
tumblr
So I guess that's it! A not so short entry on where I come from~ want to know anything else? Just ask! :)
Feel free to comment here with some basic info about yourself, like... your name (or nickname), age, where you live, and other things it might be interesting for me to know now that I follow your LJ :)
spookykat totally inspired me to do this xD;
My name is Tove, I'm 25 years old, and this is what I look like:
I live together with my boyfriend, Christian. We've been together for 8 years. We are huge Disney dorks
(Taken at Captain Eo in Tokyo Disneyland).
Christian loves photography (our bathroom doubles as a darkroom), so I follow suit and play around with lots of toy cameras. My favourite one being my yellow blackbird, fly
I really should try to take more pictures...
I grew up in a small - can't even call it town, because it isn't - place called Sofiemyr, about 20km east of Oslo. I'm an only child and most of my childhood was spent watching films over and over again, making up games in my bedroom, and running around bugging the hell out of my grandfather.
I have my grandfather to thank for becoming a gamer. He bought me a SNES when I was 9 (or something like that) against my parents' will, because he couldn't stand to hear me cry about it anymore. I guess he spoiled me a bit, but gaming is now my #1 hobby, and I'm not sure it would be if it hadn't been for him.
I have a rather large family, but I feel disconnected from all of them. The only one who really ever talks to me at family get togethers is my extremely religious uncle. I'm an atheist, but I haven't been able to break that to him yet.
Primary school was relatively painless for me. I had plenty of friends. Things took an ugly turn for the worse once I entered secondary school, though. All my friends belonged to a different school district, so even though we'd attended the same primary school, we were off to different secondary schools. It was terrifying. I ended up being bullied a lot, and it led to teenage drama in the form of depression and self harm. No LJ is complete without it :P I got over it, and eventually made a bunch of new friends~! My years at secondary school had a teenage film ending as I got to take revenge on all my bullies by being cast in one of the lead roles of our senior year school musical. It was about the Spice Girls, I played Baby Spice. Our first performance was at the senior school dance (to give a kind of teaser of what the musical would be like), and I really didn't want to go. I'm so glad I did. Seeing the faces of my bullies go from evil smirks to expressions of honest surprise and guilt is something I'll never ever forget.
I applied for art school to get me through my years at upper secondary school. Partly because it's what my best friend wanted to do, and partly because art school meant no advanced math classes. I have dyscalculia, numbers and me do not mix. Art school didn't make me a better artist, but it made me appreciate art a lot more. I love visiting museums and art galleries, and I find art history deeply fascinating.
I joined a student society at the University of Oslo while I was still in secondary school. It was called AnimeAften and was your basic university anime club. I made lots of friends there, and it's also where I met Christian. It made me interested in learning Japanese, so I signed up for after school Japanese classes. Wanted more, and after a bit of back and forth with University classes, I ended up studying Japanese at University.
My studies made it possible for me to live in Japan for a while. The school was terrible, but the experience was well worth it. It was strange and scary being off by myself in a country so far away, but I did pretty good. Amongst my many discoveries, one of the more surprising ones was to fall deeply in love with Tokyo Disneyland. I've been there a total of four times now (+ two visits to Tokyo DisneySea). I am a huge Disneyland dork, I follow just about every Disney blog out there and I hope to one day be able to visit all the parks, and maybe even go on one of the Disney cruises.
I do miss Japan a whole lot. The culture, the people and the food.
I started working at Edderkoppen teater, a private theatre in Oslo, when I came back home from Japan in autumn 2008. It pretty much changed my life. It gave me my first real job experience and taught me much about Norwegians, what goes on behind the scenes at theatres, and general social drama :P The parties in the basement of that theatre is something I'll never forget, and I hope I'll be able to stay in touch with all of the wonderful people I worked with there even now after I've quit. I was manager of one of the two coat check teams, so I had a little team of people working for me. It was actually quite emotional to leave, and my old co-workers still contact me and say they miss having me around the theatre ♥
I hadn't touched a drop of alcohol before I started working there. Oh mandatory wine tasting course, if you knew what you'd lead to :P I hadn't really made a conscious choice not to drink, but it was just something I wasn't interested in. I've never been with "the cool crowd", so I missed out on all the awkward underage drinking and home parties. Fine by me.
I don't smoke, and I don't wear make-up. I am addicted to chocolate and video games, though, so it's not like I'm completely without any vices.
I graduated from the University of Oslo with a BA in languages last year. Spent the months following my graduation frantically looking for jobs, completely lucked out and scored myself a job at a translating firm in Oslo. I've been working there since January, and I can't believe it's been six months already. My official title is Translator trainee, and I translate IT related texts. Everything from web site content and software, to games and marketing texts. It can be quite stressful (lots of deadlines!), but I think I'm doing fine. The social aspect needs a bit of work, though. I'm terribly socially awkward, I still struggle with confidence issues because of being bullied in secondary school... but I'm fairly certain no one at work hates me, so I don't think I've got anything to worry about 8Db hope I get to know people a bit better in the next couple of months.
There are lots more I could talk about, but I won't bore you...
I guess I should clarify some things that I know I'm going to post about;
Kaizers Orchestra - my favourite band in the whole wide world. They're a Norwegian rock band with a pretty unique image and sound. I've seen them live eight times, and hope to see them again soon.
Gacharic Spin - a japanese all girls band that I've been obsessively following since before they even started up. They're just now really getting started, and I'm having lots of fun following their progress and seeing what they're coming out with.
Cinemateket - Norwegian Film Institute's cinema concept. They have their own cinema in Oslo where they screen a selection of old films, films relating to current events, or whatever else they set as a theme for that particular month. They have a monthly event called Troll i eske where they screen an unannounced film. You don't know what you're going to go see, but you're guaranteed it's a new film and that you'll be amongst the first in Norway who get to see it ;D Basically a "secret" preview of a film that will be released for regular cinema distribution over the next couple of months.
Other places you can find me:
Goggle+
tumblr
So I guess that's it! A not so short entry on where I come from~ want to know anything else? Just ask! :)