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Misa

5 May 2011 by Joel Francis Serra

Identify

1 What do people call you?

Misa.

2 Where did you grow up? Where are you living now?

Tokyo and still in Tokyo.

3 What decade were you born in?

1984

4 What have you been doing today?

Relax time.

5 Is there anywhere you would rather be now?

Maybe with my friends and family.

6 What do you do with your life?

I am a yoga and pilates teacher.

7 How do other people describe you?

I smile all the time. And people say I always eat sweets!

8 Do you have any daily rituals or routines?

I wake up at 5am every day and study. I walk and then work then get home and do yoga or pilates before eating with family and friends.

Define

9 What are you passionate about?

Study, yoga and pilates, talking and meeting new people.

10 What is your vice?

Sweets, every time sweets!

11 What is your favourite meal?

Kakiage (tempura vegetables).

12 What is your favourite drink?

Hot spiced Japanese wine.

13 How do you relax?

Walking and sunshine.

14 What would be different if you had more money?

More study and I would buy more books and go to university.

15 When were you saddest?

When a good friend lied, and now it is hard to trust.

16 When were you happiest?

Now, every day is number 1!

17 Do you have a favourite emotion?

Big laughter.

18 What would you like to change about yourself?

A magic stomach so I can eat more but stay thin – I like to eat.

19 Would your seven year old self be proud of the person you are now?

Yes.

People

20 Where do you know your best friends from?

Work, school, music events, my old job in fashion and teaching yoga and pilates.

21 How have your parents influenced you?

If I can forget the feeling then everything is ok.

22 Where and with whom do you feel like you belong?

Everyone near me with sunshine or a starry sky.

Perspective

23 Is the world the way you expected it to be when you were a child? What is different?

It is different. I thought all the world was freedom but now I see many wasted time in labour and work and less freedom.

24 Is there anything you know now that you wish you knew at the start of your life?

I can do anything.

25 What do you most look forward to in the future?

Study more pilates and yoga, getting married, having three childrena dn being able to eat sweets and stay thin.

26 Do you want to be famous for anything?

A yoga and pilates teacher.

27 What do you fear?

For me, and family and friends to not be healthy.

28 Do you feel like you have a purpose in life? If yes, what is it?

I like to help people.

29 What is love to you?

Warm.

Belief

30 How have humans evolved?

Harder to be happy.

31 What do you think happens to us when we die?

I come back as me. But as a different person.

32 Would you like to see into the future? What particularly?

No, I like surprises.

33 Does immortality appeal to you?

No, we decide a time and live to that time.

34 What question do you want an answer to?

Why am I able to try so many activities but others are not?

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Wendy

29 April 2011 by Joel Francis Serra

Identify

1 What do people call you?

Wendy.

2 Where did you grow up? Where are you living now?

A small village and now I am in a slightly bigger city.

3 What decade were you born in?

80s.

4 What have you been doing today?

Cycling through Barcelona and getting sunburnt.

5 Is there anywhere you would rather be now?

No.

6 What do you do with your life?

Balance travel, work and cnnections with family and friends.

7 How do other people describe you?

Friendly, open-minded and enthusiastic.

8 Do you have any daily rituals or routines?

I drink coffee.

Define

9 What are you passionate about?

My boyfriend, my family, my work – but not my thesis.

10 What is your vice?

Finishing my thesis!

11 What is your favourite meal?

Tapas in Barcelona.

12 What is your favourite drink?

White wine.

13 How do you relax?

Meet up with girlfriends.

14 What would be different if you had more money?

I’d travel more.

15 When were you saddest?

No really sad memories, more happy ones.

16 When were you happiest?

When my boy friend came back from Japan.

17 Do you have a favourite emotion?

Happiness.

18 What would you like to change about yourself?

Nothing.

19 Would your seven year old self be proud of the person you are now?

Yes.

People

20 Where do you know your best friends from?

Uni and friends of friends.

21 How have your parents influenced you?

Family is very important.

22 Where and with whom do you feel like you belong?

Barcelona.

Perspective

23 Is the world the way you expected it to be when you were a child? What is different?

It is more competitive.

24 Is there anything you know now that you wish you knew at the start of your life?

Realise that every person is special.

25 What do you most look forward to in the future?

Having a family.

26 Do you want to be famous for anything?

In the way I treat people.

27 What do you fear?

Nothing.

28 Do you feel like you have a purpose in life? If yes, what is it?

Yes.

29 What is love to you?

Caring without limit for the other person.

Belief

30 How have humans evolved?

We corroborate better.

31 What do you think happens to us when we die?

We disappear into nothing.

32 Would you like to see into the future? What particularly?

No, there would be no purpose to live if we knew what was coming.

33 Does immortality appeal to you?

No.

34 What question do you want an answer to?

An answer to my application!


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Kirsten

28 March 2011 by Joel Francis Serra

Identify
1  What do people call you?
Kirsten, Sten or KB.
2  Where did you grow up? Where are you living now?
I grew up in the wilderness and now I live in the centre-left of the suburbs.
3  What decade were you born in?
The decade that fashion forgot – the 80s.
4  What have you been doing today?
Eating as much raw fish as I can.
5  Is there anywhere you would rather be now?
There are many places I’d rather be.
6  What do you do with your life?
Watch it. Nervously.
7  How do other people describe you?
Australian.
8  Do you have any daily rituals or routines?
Only work.
Define
9  What are you passionate about?
Reading and writing.
10  What is your vice?
Burgers, chips, pies, nachos, big sandwiches, gherkins.
11  What is your favourite meal?
Gotteli’s favourite pasta.
12  What is your favourite drink?
The first sip of cold beer.
13  How do you relax?
Thoughtfully, with Xanex and Katherine Heigl.
14  What would be different if you had more money?
I’d own things.
15  When were you saddest?
Usually straight after I’m happiest.
16  When were you happiest?
Alone in narrow streets and floating on my back in the salty Adriatic.
17  Do you have a favourite emotion?
Hopefullness.
18  What would you like to change about yourself?
Almost everything concerning the way I relate to people.
19  Would your seven year old self be proud of the person you are now?
My 10-year old self would be disappointed but my 7-year old self would understand.
People
20  Where do you know your best friends from?
School, work, raves.
21  How have your parents influenced you?
I can’t buy junk food without guilt.
22  Where and with whom do you feel like you belong?
In my garden.
Perspective
23  Is the world the way you expected it to be when you were a child? What is different?
It is better, richer and more magical.
24  Is there anything you know now that you wish you knew at the start of your life?
If you move away from home, you’ll never be happy, but if you stay you’ll never be content. Change always comes with a loss.
25  What do you most look forward to in the future?
Summer.
26  Do you want to be famous for anything?
Yes.
27  What do you fear?
Conflict, failure and rejection.
28  Do you feel like you have a purpose in life?
Yes.
29  What is love to you?
The thought of someone else makes you smile to yourself.
Belief
30  How have humans evolved?
We are ruled more and more by feelings.
31  What do you think happens to us when we die?
The world continues.
32  Would you like to see into the future? What particularly?
Yes, but not my own future, just the distant future.
33  Does immortality appeal to you?
Absolutely not.
34  What question do you want an answer to?
Am I ok.

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Jan

14 March 2011 by Joel Francis Serra

Identify
1  What do people call you?
Jan
2  Where did you grow up? Where are you living now?
Sittard and I am now in Maastricht.
3  What decade were you born in?
The 80s.
4  What have you been doing today?
Cycling through Barcelona
5  Is there anywhere you would rather be now?
No, it’s fine.
6  What do you do with your life?
Staying happy.
7  How do other people describe you?
Enthusiastic.
8  Do you have any daily rituals or routines?
To eat and play Tap Zoo (iPhone app)
Define
9  What are you passionate about?
Work, my girlfriend and cycling.
10  What is your vice?
Getting angry when girlfriends do not clean rooms.
11  What is your favourite meal?
Steak, broccoli, potatoes and salad.
12  What is your favourite drink?
Apple juice.
13  How do you relax?
Cycling.
14  What would be different if you had more money?
Little, I might buy time.
15  When were you saddest?
When I feel alone.
16  When were you happiest?
Riding an ostrich with the Rabanos.
17  Do you have a favourite emotion?
Happiness, it is everyones of course?
18  What would you like to change about yourself?
A better knee so I can run.
19  Would your seven year old self be proud of the person you are now?
Yes, I think so.
People
20  Where do you know your best friends from?
School, uni and work.
21  How have your parents influenced you?
Study long and hard to get the best jobs.
22  Where and with whom do you feel like you belong?
At home.
Perspective
23  Is the world the way you expected it to be when you were a child? What is different?
Absolutely different.
24  Is there anything you know now that you wish you knew at the start of your life?
That I should learn more languages.
25  What do you most look forward to in the future?
Starting a family and my work.
26  Do you want to be famous for anything?
Not famous, but as a renowned medical specialist.
27  What do you fear?
Sometimes animals, humans we can predict, but this is harder amongst animals.
28  Do you feel like you have a purpose in life? If yes, what is it?
Achieving the things in my future.
29  What is love to you?
There are too many kinds of different love for one answer.
Belief
30  How have humans evolved?
We make discoveries.
31  What do you think happens to us when we die?
Oxygen stops going to the brain and without energy, the brain will not work and we will stop thinking.
32  Would you like to see into the future? What particularly?
No, it would make you unhappy.
33  Does immortality appeal to you?
In a way, yes, but realistically, no.
34  What question do you want an answer to?
Why am I here and where to next.

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Scally Wag

6 March 2011 by Joel Francis Serra

Identify
1  What do people call you?
Scallywag
2  Where did you grow up? Where are you living now?
I grew up in Kograh and don’t really know where I live now.
3  What decade were you born in?
1986
4  What have you been doing today?
I ate salad, drank coffee and bought toilet paper.
5  Is there anywhere you would rather be now?
Doing a walking tour of Barcelona.
6  What do you do with your life?
Travel.
7  How do other people describe you?
Happy all the time apparently.
8  Do you have any daily rituals or routines?
Shower and check facebook.
Define
9  What are you passionate about?
Languages, travel and communities.
10  What is your vice?
Overthinking, taking things personally and talking without thinking.
11  What is your favourite meal?
Potatoes.
12  What is your favourite drink?
Water and pulpy OJ.
13  How do you relax?
Listen to music.
14  What would be different if you had more money?
I’d save it or spend it on people.
15  When were you saddest?
Any type of family drama.
16  When were you happiest?
Sharing experiences with people.
17  Do you have a favourite emotion?
Humility and accomplishment.
18  What would you like to change about yourself?
Patience.
19  Would your seven year old self be proud of the person you are now?
Bloody oath!
People
20  Where do you know your best friends from?
The world.
21  How have your parents influenced you?
In ways I’m still discovering, they were travellers as well.
22  Where and with whom do you feel like you belong?
I can live anywhere as long as it’s with friends.
Perspective
23  Is the world the way you expected it to be when you were a child? What is different?
It is better, but crueler.
24  Is there anything you know now that you wish you knew at the start of your life?
Not to take life so seriously.
25  What do you most look forward to in the future?
More of the same.
26  Do you want to be famous for anything?
I’m pretty happy being the underdog.
27  What do you fear?
I’m not fond of dying so am a bit afraid of that. I’m also afraid I’m not going to experience everything I should.
28  Do you feel like you have a purpose in life? If yes, what is it?
Yes, it’s out there I’m sure.
29  What is love to you?
A headache… I guess unconditional.
Belief
30  How have humans evolved?
We have evolved for the better but not in every respect.
31  What do you think happens to us when we die?
Reincarnation, I’m going to be a bird.
32  Would you like to see into the future? What particularly?
At times… I’d like to know what’s around the corner but finding out is half the fun.
33  Does immortality appeal to you?
No, I’m happy to die. Even today I’ve had a brilliant life.
34  What question do you want an answer to?
Why am I here and where to next.


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