I hate to be categorized, yet I often find myself reasoning virtually anything around me... Therefore my range of knowledge is rather scattered. If you have to put a label on me, I'd say I'm a slightly left-brained designer, who needs to try harder at bringing her thinkings into reality.

*I just realized that I've set my username wrong. I meant "snoire", which was supposed to be the hybrid of "snow" and "fire", without my least favorite consonants.

My major is architecture. I fell in love with it when I was in high school, and got admitted into a, supposedly one of the best, architectural school. However, for the last three years, I haven't got as much enjoyment as I'd expected, so now I am seriously considering a withdrawal. I do have some concise plans for the college-free life, but I'd rather not broadcast when everything is still just the little movements of my brain cells.

close my eyes and listen to my heart, and reminding myself to always try to step back, and realize how little I actually know.

How is one supposed to know? First I'm not the other people, and even if I could venture a guess based on what people tell about me, who can say that's the first thing they actually notice?

I always went blank when asked what's my favorite book. Books have been my best friend for the majority part of my life, I can't even begin to describe all the knowledges, joys, inspirations, philosophies, life experiences... that books have given me. Sure, some books shine more than the others, but I feel that I can always find some shining spots in a book that will help to enhance myself, which makes it extremely hard to cross off any book from my "favorite" list. All I can say here is that I enjoy reading books in Chinese more than in English; it's my mother language, after all.

Movies are much easier to put fingers on. My favorite movie, without a doubt, is the Matrix series: Matrix, Reloaded, Revolution, Animatrix. Sure the series may not have the best character portrayal, nor reflect any major social issues or the most "editorial", but I've watched them for so many times, and every time I was able to squeeze out something new to think about, more than I could for any other similar ones like Avalon or the Truman Show.

Then here comes the favorite list: Sound of the Music; Spirited Away; Pagumogonimus Pyongsong Battle; Shrek series; Detective Conan movies 3,4,5,7,9,and 12; the Simpson's movie; Disney's 2-D cartoon movies; Harry Potter movies (because I love the books too much; the movies themselves are just so so); Amelie; Death Note; the Star Wars series; C.Nolan's three IMDB films; Twelve Angry Men; Gattaca; Good Will Hunting; Dead Poets Society; the Talented Mr. Ripley; Ocean's 11; Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump; Leon; Fight Club; Silence of the Lamb; Perfume; Sin City; Scent of a Woman; Speed; Click; and Fifty First Dates.

When it comes to music, I don't really care, as long as the melody sounds good, or the emotion is depicted clearly, or when used properly, and preferably more than 5 years old.

I'm not too picky about food, but when I dine out, I do tend to like it better when I can't figure out how the chef cooks it; it's just more fun.

~ air
~ water and food
~ mom
~ the heart that lets me feel things
~ the brain that lets me think things.
~ the hands that let me do things.

how to efficiently improve the things around me?

in my room, watching Friends or some other movies, fingers soaking in needlework, and brain wondering about stuff (such as how a fit-all portable moving wheel should look like, or how to enhance the shadows on the hair when drawing portraits, or how should my dress look like if I lived in the woods with squirrels, or what Monica would be like if she lived in the woods......)

I watch Friends when I don't feel like doing anything; I must have watched it at least hundreds of times, every episode. Now the show no longer have meanings anymore; it's become the background music when my mind wonders.

you are willing to encounter in real life some time