About Clare

I’ve always hated these kinda pages. Mostly because I find it hard to write about myself when half the time I’m still scrambling around to figure out who I actually am. But well, this so far I do know:

My name is Clare, and I was born on the 5th of September, 1987 in Singapore. I was raised a single child, given the best of everything and in general had more opportunities than the average person. Like the stereotypical spoilt brat that you always want to stab in the movies, I never really appreciated it and squandered a lot of those opportunities on silly superficial things.

I used to travel to some new country every year, for 2 weeks or so. Places I’ve been to in the world include (off the top of my head) Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, China (most areas), Japan, Australia (Sydney, Gold Coast Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin, Adelaide, Melbourne), New Zealand (South + North), Japan (Tokyo region), Malaysia, Philippines, France (mostly Paris), the UK (London, Sheffield, Leeds, to name a few). Of course, I was under the age of 10 when visiting most those places, but hey, who’s keeping track? =) Places I want to visit someday include: Italy, Belgium, Egypt, Tibet, USA (California, LA, Las Vegas, Boston, Florida, New York in particular), and the UK (again).

When I was young I would dream of being a vet. This desire was fueled mostly by my love for animals. At one point in time I was the proud owner of 13 hamsters (unfortunately, I ran out of space to keep them and they kept inbreeding, eww). At the same time there was also a large jurassic-era fishy type thing (Arowana, some chinese expensive fish that you keep for… ummm…. Good luck or something, I have no idea). It grossed me out because it ate stuff like small goldfish or frogs. There was also a farm of mealworms (Science project, and boy did they stink. When they progressed into their larvae stage before turning into beetles, I decided that was the end of said science project), a sparrow with a broken wing (that was simply adorable, and lived in the garden after its’ wing healed until it died a couple months later), the occasional cat from the neighbours, and two dogs (a rottweiler and a shih tzu). It was le amusing, since tiny male shih tzu developed a crush on female rottweiler and was underfoot all the time. I still love animals, but I no longer think of being a vet, despite me being offered a place in Vetinary Science after high school.

These days, I study Dentistry at the University of Western Australia. The course is interesting at times, and seeing patients is probably one of the most enjoyable parts of Dentistry. Sure, maybe I inflict some short term pain >:) But still, for the most part you know what you’re doing short term will improve their self image or prevent them from future pain/ take away any current problems. And that goes a way in making what I do enjoyable, for me. And I don’t have to deal with my patients well, dying on me (hopefully). Some days, I wonder whether I’m in the right course. Engineering and Journalism were also on my mind, after graduating from high school. But for the most part, I`m here now, and I will enjoy what I do.

When I was a teenager, I suffered from a bad case of teenage angst. Like 101% of the teenagers out there, I suffered from acne, didn’t like the way I looked, felt self conscious about my braces, listened to trashy backstreet boys style music and resented my parents for being what I thought was overprotective and overbearing. Moving overseas, living by myself for the past 3 years (well, aside from the roommate which moved out and the stint at the student dorm) has made me appreciate my family so much more for the chances they have given me and well the trust and belief they had in me to let me live here by myself :\ I’m still a spoilt kid in many ways but I hide it better these days ^.-

ummm… to be continued i guess