THIS IS ME
Photography is my favorite. I love taking pictures, and I
love browsing other photographer’s work. I like landscape pictures, and some
portraits. Pop-art is one of my favorites, it’s one of those CREATIVE art,
always has some meanings through the painting; and it’s always with different
colors to make the painting glow. Gothic, I’m not really a gothic person, but I
do admire gothic art, and gothic architecture. Tattoo and Graffiti are a type of art, they
are creative, and I would very much like to call it Special Art, I do seem like
I love tattoo and graffiti, and yes, tattoo and graffiti are my best favorite
art.
Image 1: The writer, Kalila Snow Jan.
Me is a simple, casual
and crazy person. My name's Kalila Snow Jan.
I'm still a baby who’s just turned into an adult. Sometimes
I think, although I'm physically 18, mentally I'm mature enough to be 22. I
don't really think age is a big issue, I make a lot of friends with people who
are younger than 10 year-old, older than 45 year-old. I love being young.
"Where are you from girl?" I am always asked. 'I'm
from China.' my usual answer. 'Are you serious? But you don't look Chinese!'
Everybody says the same thing after my answer every time. I am not kidding here,
people. I am from China.
Now I live and study in Malaysia, have to stay here for 3
years to finish my degree. I study photography and graphic design which I
really enjoy to study. I've already been living here in Malaysia for 4 months,
I'm getting used to everything now, just don't really like the weather here,
too humid for me, cause I grew up in north.
As I said, I’m a crazy person. I’m crazy about life, art,
music, dance, new things, socializing, traveling and partying! People say I’m a
vibrant, fun, energetic, nice, sociable, cute, interesting and open-minded
person. They basically pointed everything on me. I’m a not-giving-shit person, some people
judge, some people give advices; I choose to be friends with people who give
advices. I get nervous sometimes, but always have a Kalila-awesome way to cover
my jitter. I'm not a detective; I don’t like exploring and touching people’s
private things. I hate to be a part of people's little dramas. And I hate
gossiping around.
My philosophy, don’t
ever give a shit, be myself; shit happens, don't worry, be happy.
People like things and hate things, so do I.
I don't care that much about the food; I basically eat
everything when I'm starving. I drink everything when I'm thirsty. I also drink
alcohol, but I'm not a drinker, I don't like alcohol's taste, and it makes me sick
sometimes. I like watching TV and different awesome movies, I like reading
books too although I don’t read that much. Sometimes, I love cooling myself
down, chilling at my own place and listening to some music and songs I like. I
have a lot of hobbies, I play the guitar and the drums, I love dancing. I
started dancing when I was little, a ballet princess does not suit current me,
but little princess Kalila. I can’t do ballet anymore though.
Image 2: Me dancing at Sanlitun, Beijing.
I love dogs and
wolves, especially wolves; I grew up with a lot of wolf-fairytales, I think
wolves are the coolest animal in this world although I’m a little bit scared of
them. I love wolves and dogs, doesn’t mean I’m a dog-person, I like cats too; I
always find cats mysterious, they are quiet all the time, and they all have
these beautiful, colorful, charming and big eyes. People always like
flying-creatures, such as birds, owls and eagles; I like crows, bats, owls and
eagles, I find crows charming because their beautiful black feather; I find
bats mysterious because they hide
Image 3: Wolf
howling
in the caves and god knows what they do every day; I find
owls cute because they have such huge eyes at night; I find eagles sexy because
they fly in the sky, and the way they hunt makes them look even hotter!
Since I’m studying to go on this art path, I’d very much
like to talk about what type of art I like.
Photography is my favorite. I love taking pictures, and I
love browsing other photographer’s work. I like landscape pictures, and some
portraits. Pop-art is one of my favorites, it’s one of those CREATIVE art,
always has some meanings through the painting; and it’s always with different
colors to make the painting glow. Gothic, I’m not really a gothic person, but I
do admire gothic art, and gothic architecture. Tattoo and Graffiti are a type of art, they
are creative, and I would very much like to call it Special Art, I do seem like
I love tattoo and graffiti, and yes, tattoo and graffiti are my best favorite
art.
Image 4:
Photography.
Image 5: Pop-art
My favorite colors, -black, is a permanent color, it doesn’t
get dirty, and it always suits everything. –Hot Pink, a passional color. Life
needs boring daily schedules, and also needs a little bit of passion; black+hot
pink is a great mix! –Green, means nature, trees, grass and it gives you a
different fresh feeling.
Music is a part of my life too; I dance, jump and get happy
because of music.
I prefer Rock’n Roll
type of music, not all those gangster rap songs. Dubstep, is my favorite, it is
a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London, United
Kingdom. Its stylistic
Image 6:
Skrillex live show - Dupstep DJ
origins are dub, grime, 2-step and drum and bass. There are
several great Dubstep musicians, Skrillex, is a young, successful, and great
American DJ, I really do like his mix. Modestep, is a band from the UK,
includes a drummer, a Chinese guitarist, a DJ, and a vocalist; their music is
great.
I love nature, although I hate bugs, I guess it’s because
bugs look weird to me and ugly. Nature is a part of my life too, sunlight makes
me feel happy; rain, thunder and lightning make me feel emotional and imagine,
I always have all these weird stories and fantasies on my mind when it’s
raining. Snow is my favorite! When it just snowed then sunlight comes out
afterwards, it always makes me have this little voice on my mind “wow! Life is
great!”
Well, this is me, at the moment. People change by the time,
I might change my style, mind or my favorite stuff in the future, and god knows
what will happen. Just let time tell.
References
Image 1: The writer, Kalila Snow Jan.
Image 2: Me dancing
at Sanlitun, Beijing.
Image 3: Wolf howling, http://sport-wallpaper.com/162_howling-wolf-moon.htm
Image 4: Photography,
http://www.cherrybam.com/photography-graphics.php
Image 5: Pop-art, http://nailsbystephanie.blogspot.com/2011/03/trend-pop-art-graphics-inspired-photos.html
Image 6: Skrillex live show – Dubstep DJ, http://www.dubstepeden.com/2011/06/08/skrillex-the-mothership-download-mediafire-zshare-zippyshare/
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
What do you want to be when you grow up?
This was one of those simple questions used to be asked when
we were little.
Now, my question is, “what did I want to be when I was
little?” I wanted to be a cop, like my cousin, so I can save the world. I
wanted to be a doctor, so I can invent a type of pill to make humans immortal.
I wanted to be a teacher, so I can pass on my knowledge to the kids.
Time goes by, I’m gradually turning into an adult; recalling
what I used to want to be makes me think I was a truly LITTLE girl. Things all
changed, they are totally different from when I was young; cops are not upright
and brave heroes anymore, doctors can’t actually do anything to make human race
immortal, not many teachers really do care about passing on their knowledge.
So, what is my dream now?
A dream of an 18 year-old, what do you expect it is? A
pilot? A famous TV actress? Or a lawyer?
My dream is simple and casual; I want to be a traveler. There
are always a lot of questions for a traveling dream; how are you going to get
money for your trips? Do you want to travel in your whole life? What if
something bad happens to you? These are
always good questions for travelers, I love adventures, and I love enjoying
myself everywhere in the world.
Image 1: Cartoon tourists
Image 1: Cartoon tourists
I want to be an actress, because I don’t only have to be
myself in my whole life; I want to be a movie director, because I love watching
movies and I love stories; I want to be a photographer, because I love taking
pictures and I love art; I want to be a graphic designer, because I will feel
proud of myself if I see people wearing or using the design I designed.
Actually I still have a lot of different occupation dreams for my future, I am
greedy, I want to experience all of the occupations I want to be, and I will.
Let me answer the questions have been asked when I told
people I wanted to be a traveler. Being a traveler isn’t only traveling the whole
time, we need to settle down somewhere in the middle of the trip when we are
running out of money; god never stops you when you truly want to do something, it
might sound really hard to settle down somewhere suddenly, but it might be fun
if you tried. Settling down and looking for a job to save some money for my
next trip is what I’m going to do when I have no more money to travel; what do
I want to do while I’m settled down? I want to be anything, a photographer, a
graphic designer or a worker in a shop; I don’t care whom to be, as long as I’m
still alive to experience all the different occupations in this world, includes
cleaning bathrooms. People might think cleaning bathrooms is not a good job, whereas
I don’t think so; defining something good or bad depends on how you regard it.
Bad things happen all the time, we just have to let ourselves convert the way
how we think it is, bad things might lead us to a beginning of a good thing.
Do I want to travel in my whole life? This is the best
question, it’s pretty hard to answer too; traveling is a part of life attitude,
I’m not sure if I want to travel in my whole life, but I’m sure I want to
travel in my entire young life. I think adventures are all designed for young
people, if you don’t go ahead when you are young, you might not have a chance
to go ahead when you are old. Life is a mysterious thing, you don’t know what
might happen in the future, you don’t know if you are going to change your mind
next minute; I never expected a husband, a bunch of kids or a love family, but
I believe I will change my mind someday.
What if something bad happens to you? Like I said earlier, defining
something good or bad depends on how you regard it. Bad things happen all the
time, we just have to let ourselves convert the way how we think it is, bad
things might lead us to a beginning of a good thing. If I die in the middle of
the trip, I will still think it is worth to die while I’m traveling; it might
sound crazy, but I think it is; I don’t want to die without doing anything
valuable in my life.
So do what you feel like to do, do what you want to do when
you are still young and still alive; nobody wants to regret their whole life
when they are in the coffins.
Dreams will come true if you chase them.
I’m still in the university studying for my future; I just
started my life adventure. I study photography and graphic design, which I
really like to study. I don’t expect I will become a famous photographer, or a
brilliant graphic designer, but I want to. I’d like to study some other things
too, like Music Production, Filming, Acting and more. Chasing your dream =
being hardworking, no chasing no dreams.
Some people want to ask me why I chose to study photography
and graphic design since I want to be a traveler; well travelers are not always
travelers, I’ve met a lot of travelers in my life, they all had different
majors when they were back in their universities. I‘ve traveled alone couple of
times in my teenager life, I really did enjoy it.
We learn a lot when we are traveling; we learn different
cultures, we learn socializing, we learn different languages, we learn how to
save, we learn how to take care of ourselves, and we learn how to survive.
My life adventure has just started, I just started my degree
class this year, still have 3 more years to go, everybody has plans when they
are about to start their university life, so do I.
I have several plans for my future when I finish my degree;
first of all, I want to keep studying; campus life always makes me feel young,
and we are young, we are supposed to study, aren’t we? I know none of my
parents will pay my tuitions to support me to keep studying, so I should depend
on my own, be supportive to myself! Studying hard for now to get an online
scholarship is my first plan; even though my scores can’t be accepted in the
future, I still have another plan for me to do when I graduate, find a job as a
photographer, graphic designer or a teacher who teach photography and graphic
design to save some money for a trip to Europe. I haven’t been to Europe yet, and
I really want to go to Europe.
Image 2: European flag
Image 2: European flag
Europe isn’t a big place, but a super expensive place; transportations
and food cost a lot, so it’s going to cost a lot of money for me to travel
there, but I have a better plan-hitchhiking.
I have never done hitchhiking in my life, but I’ve met a lot
of hitchhikers; some people think hitchhiking is a dangerous activity, I don’t
think so, hitchhiking is the exact type of adventure I want to try in my life.
I’ve met an Israeli hitchhiker while I was traveling in China, he told me some
really interesting stories happened to him while he was hitchhiking in Russia,
stories are stories; they won’t become your true stories if you don’t start an
adventure. Hitchhiking is becoming my most wanted dream.
Image 3: Hitchhiker
Hitchhiking
(also known as thumbing, tramping, hitching, autostop or thumbing up a ride) is
a means of transportation that is gained by asking people, usually strangers,
for a ride in their automobile or other road vehicle to travel a distance that
may either be short or long.
What’s the benefit of hitchhiking? First of all, it does
save some money for you to travel the world, although it’s not easy to
hitchhike around the world; transportations are becoming extremely expensive
nowadays. It does give you enough time to enjoy the nature. And you don’t know
who’s going to take you to the place where you want to go; it makes you know
more about how to talk to strangers and it makes you have to know how to
survive.
Some people love road trips, they love driving all the way
to the place they want to go; and some of them don’t really like hitchhikers,
they would rather die than picking up a hitchhiker on the road, which makes me
think it is a ridiculous thought.
Here I am, studying degree class in a university in
Malaysia, and still have 3 more year to go. I also made plans for me to do in
these 3 years of my university time.
We have vacations every year, what do people want to do when
they are on vacation? Some of them want to renovate their house, some of them
want to party every day and every night, some of them want to travel; well I’m
one of those people who want to travel, I am not a stable person, I always want
to go on the road.
The first place I want to go is “All over Malaysia”, I
always think, since I am already living in Malaysia, why don’t I make a trip
here? There are two parts in Malaysia which is interesting.
Image 4: Malaysian flag
Image 4: Malaysian flag
Malaysia is a
country that consists of thirteen states and three federal territories in
Southeast Asia with a total landmass of 329,847 km². The capital city is Kuala
Lumpur while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government The country is
separated into two regions — Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo — by the
South China Sea. Malaysia borders Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and
the Philippines. Located near the equator, the weather is characterised by
tropical climate. Malaysia is headed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and
politically led by a Prime Minister. The government is closely modeled after
the Westminster parliamentary system.
After Malaysia, there is definitely going to be Thailand,
Singapore, Philippines and other south Asian countries for me to go for my
other vacations in these 3 years.
Well, this is my dream, a will-come-true dream, and my
personal development plan, being a traveler and wandering around the world;
which people think it does not really relate to what I am studying right now,
but it actually does relate to everything; because I can be anybody I want, and
I can do any job I want, as long as I have money to travel, and as long as I
experience.
I want to see this
whole world because I am already existed in this world.
References
Image 1: Cartoon tourists, http://www.travelettes.net/how-not-to-look-like-a-tourist/
Image 2: European flag, http://www.enna-europe.org/ennaws/news/read/1:270:Member_states_report_on_the_social_dimension_of_the_Europe_2020.html
Image 3: Hitchhiker, http://mobilitydigest.com/ask-the-reader-getting-from-jfk-to-newark/
Hitchhiking: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchhiking
Image 4: Malaysian flag & Malaysian introduction, http://www.worldmapfinder.com/En/Asia/Malaysia/
