So who are you now?

[Kraig]

Starfishy started the thread "so who were you in high school" so now lets comment on who we are now... today!

I am now 24 (3 short years away from my 10 year high school reunion!). I actually ended up moving out just before I graduated high school (when I was 17) and have lived on my own since - I currently reside in Yaletown.

I work full time during the day for an International IT Consulting company. In my spare time I am working for Twisted as the Marketing and Promotions Manager - something I love doing. I am also spinning more and more now and are going broke buying rekkids!

I am definitely an extrovert that tell it like it is. My friendships and family are extremely important to me. -- Those that know me know what I mean. My legal status is still single.

I am now 6'0-6'1, 175lbs, medium defined build (although I need to hit the gym BIG time), tanned, brown hair w/blonde steaks and light brown eyes...

There ya have it. Werd.

[*STARFISH*]

im 19 going on 20, and i live at home which i absolutly hate :319:
i go to sfu, was on the cac and snowboarding team, but have yet to do anything this semester... im in 3rd year applied science, majoring in communications and minoring in geography.
i despise it there and am working on a portfolio right now in hopes to go to ryerson or emily carr.. if not im going to go on an exchange program down in the states. more than anything i need to get away from vancouver for a bit.
im in desperate need to find myself... because everything in my life has changed drastically within the last year.
i work at starbucks and im a wannabe dj :silly:
im single :kimmie:.. sort of a drifter/loner... and i spend alot of time reminissing about times when things were easier.. more than anything im just busy and stressed - but who isnt? :)
uh.. im 5'4" and 1/2, 115lbs, typical asian build, red pixie mullet hair, and brown eyes.

w00t!

edit: i decided to add more stuff :319:

[MC Hammered]

I graduated with honours status and was driven to go to UBC and design a biodegradable plastic and retire at age 35.

UBC sucked, I went to BCIT, started 2 businesses at the age of 23 and 25 which have since failed and lost about $750,000 in the process.

Now I'm halfway to social security, manage an IT division for the BC Government, pray for snow daily and wish that I was 23 again.

My goal is still to retire by age 35.

[Mamacita]

Good post Kraig!

I am 20 years old I just had my birthday last week. I currently work as an administrative assistant for a financial services firm, that my dad owns. Im going to school in January to take the canadian securities course. In my spare time im either with my boyfriend of almost 4 years, I do a bit of modeling and I work for twisted being a go go dancer.

I value love and friends but most importantly family. I moved away from home at 18 to live downtown on Georgia and Bute and in September 2002 I moved back home where I currently live in the British Properties in West Vancouver.

well thats me in a nutshell...

oh yah and i smoke lots of weed :trippin: haha

[Kraig]

^^^^ You should add Monica that you you tend to disappear from those friends you value when you are drunk without telling them or saying bye!

[Mamacita]

^^^^^^ hahahaha yes yes that would be be, random random me :284:

[vesperstina]

i'm this average built girl, with long dark brown hair, it's kind of cut like betty paige or 'isobel'. i run the track to get my cardio in shape for ultimate in the spring. i go to the library regularely with my mom, it's like our church. yeah, i live with my mom and sister. <3

want to do so many things, with so little time, and so less effort. like become a northwest coast textile designer, paint, busk for a few days, travel around north america, go on that run for a year in central america, go to film school, become a teacher. i'm signed up at langara, so that's my chosen path right now.

it sounds like i got a job at hollyburn country club doing relief work at their daycare! i really need a job. so i can get my record collection going again, and start buying things again.

i've done so much the age of 19, and i want to do so much more
i'm a lil scared to do it on my own, but it'll come to me.

[LoveKat]

i am now 26 and one year away from my high school reunion which i probably will not attend.

i left home during my final exams, living off of odd jobs and student loans until i discovered my passion for helping others.

when i was 20, i took an after school volunteer job doing clerical work for a youth organization and that changed my life.

i spend my time surrounded with film, friends, poetry, literature, art, and happiness.

i am a healer with my reiki level one and hoping to teach in a couple of years. i am also a student at langara studying psychology and philosophy for fun (i love to learn) and am working for a software company to pay my bills until i am experienced enough as a healer to take in revenue.

[c.tard]

to make this quick and short..

i turned 17 yesterday. i'm graduating in june from jhss (in surrey). i still don't quite know what i want to do afterwards so i'm planning on taking a year off to work, save money for school and other things.

i spend way too much time on my computer and on the phone.. :P i have a bf of just over 10 months now. i can be such a bitch sometimes too. but its just me. i'm sick of being so nicey nicey to everyone :P so i'm nice to those who deserve it.

umm, ya that's me.

[~lazee_grrl~]

i'm 18...and i live at home..and i love it here..=)..i took a semester off and am gonna go to cap college in january..taking university transfer arts...no clue wut i wanna so yet..
i work at plaza of nations..i swear that place is haunted..
lately..i am found with my nose in a book...but usually..i go out and have fun!..having all ur friends in skool when you are bored is not fun~..oh..and my friends and family (including the pets) mean the world to me..
i'm 4'10" and 1/2!!..<--that 1/2 really does make a difference!...yeah..wutever~

[stabmyhead]

Here's a collection of what others have to say about stabby:

NinjaBoy: "I saw lilo and stich yesterday... you remind me a lot of that little girl in the movie..."

Prozak: "Stabmyhead, you're fucking awesome. I love you. No really, you are the shit. You always say what I was gonna say and you're just enough of a bitch..."

Sonik: "leslie is the best raver in the world. she completes me... she's always up for shit talking."

Cubed: "Stabby is an anime cyborg sent from the future to rid the world of all the dumb people."

Dj4Mula: "Stabby kicks ass when it comes to relationships. She should have her own column in the paper."

Form: "stabby...lighten up...you're like the mean doorman at Hotel Hell"

Sun Goo: "did I ever tell you that you're my hero? that you're the wind beneath my wings? and I'm talking about the ones on my maxi pad"

Aura: "stabby is one of my ED heroes because she is adorable and talented and her flight attendant picture ROCKS!"

Mateo: "You're stabmyhead right? You're bitter!"

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From those you can draw your own judgement.... Ishkur had this great description that basically said I was the live action shoujo anime girl.

[MC Hammered]

^^^^ Leslie... you are like Dear Abby without the fluff.

You are da best.

[Guice_39]

I'm 18 now, working full-time with my dad's electrical company. Hard construction shit sucks but its a job. Planning to go back to school in January, probably at Cap college, I aint stressin nothin yet. I've been smoking crazy amounts of weed the past 2 1/2 years, but now lately I've been cutting down......its just not the same.

I hang around with different groups of friends every night, I grew up with many groups so I make a point to chill with them all. Most of them are older though, half way through high school I started chillin with people 1 and 2 years older than me, I like it better. Older people are better to hang around with but I never forget my orginal group of buddies that are my age, I still see them as well.

I've been raving for 2 years and thats kinda dying off, not that much but its also not tha same, so I'll just get real hammered and go to parties and dance my ass off. I go clubbing evey once in a while too, most of the time with my older buddies although I don't like that fact of spending that much money. So I like to keep it old school drinking and blazing with a bunch of friends at someones place gettin hammered for $10-20 at the most.

I play soccer and have been my whole life, I love the game and I'm real good at it. I played metro soccer all my teen years except for when I was 17 I went up to U-21 and play in that league this year as well, next year I'll be going up to Men's league.

Don't have a girlfreind at the moment but I wouldn't mind one. She couldn't just be any chick though, somethin special must be invovlved, I wouldn't fuck with any relationship unless it was worth it, and by worth it I mean I would really have to care for her. But I still don't mind being single cause I know all the stupid bullshit that comes along with relationships too.

BTW, I curently reside in Burnaby but, its only half a block down from East Van, I was born in Eat Van (right on top of commercial drive) and lived there for some time. My parents were both born in Italy but moved and grew up in East Van, majority of my friends were born and live in East Van, and were always hanging out and chillin in East Van.........so I represent East Van all the way.

Also as you can see below I drive a 93' Cadillac STS, pearl white, leather interior, just got a nice cd player with 2 6 1/2'' and 2 6X9'' speakers all wired to a pioneer amp. Got 2 12'' Phoenix Gold subs ready to go in as soon as I find a nice amp, 17'' chrome niche rims on it. Its a pretty nice car but right now its gettin touched up in the shop...........so for now it sucks not driving.

[SkoTtY]

Where do i start? Well i have lived in so many homes I cant even count. At 17 I moved out form my moms due to lack of intrest. I moved in with one of my buddies. WE WERE BROKE. The place was a dump. So then after that I moved in with another buddi, and his parents. His parents were very wierd people. I didnt care i was finnaly in a good home where i was able to persuie my life. i started going to school again. Alwell I got a full time job at END OF THE ROLL. I hate it, but it pays the bills. After almost 2 years i moved out my that place. I am still at end of the roll, and now i live with my mom again. It is much different with her now, she doesnt treat me like a kid. She lets me do my own thing. Which i like. I finnaly bought a car, so now living in coquitlam(BURNT) but having a car allows me to be with me PEEPS in DITCH. Now, still at end of the roll, I am the wearhouse manager. I have changed so much in the last few months, it hard to explain. All that matters is that i an finnaly HAPPY. See you all the SEXY SEXY. Be there.

[Moon]

hmmm i'm 19 going onto 20 soon.. back in school now at UBC after taking a year off from school working as a cook and did some kitchen management as well since my parents owned the place. i'm a music dork who spends wayyy too much time on the computer, record stores and the turntables playing around with tunes when i should really work uh working on earth ocean sciences? bleugh.. lately i've been a lazy slob but i'm getting back into fitting in regular weightroom time in my schedule.... uhh yeah there you have it i guess in a nutshell? hehe

[M!SKA]

I don't really want to write this because I'm in a transitional stage right now and I don't know who I am.

I'm 19, 2nd year at Kwantlen, work part time at the movie theatre, still live at home. I'm a watcher, an observer. I've been blessed/burdened with a gift of empathy; I can feel people.
I like to dance, I love music, and I'm a sucker for the theatre, though I would rather be in a play than in the audience.

I have adapted a philosphy of living day by day, and unfortunately this has left me with absolutely no motivation to do anything. There are always ideas crossing my mind of what I would like to do with myself, but none of them ever become a reality because I don't work towards them :(
But I'm working on getting over this, and finding a new way to live my life, hence the transitional stage.

I am constantly changing. My friend Matt said to me last night that I am a completely different person from when he first met me.

[SkoTtY]

Thank you all for sharing!

[rawb]

i try not to define myself. my eyes look forward and not back into my head.

[Bitchin]

I'm 17, trying to graduate this year though the school I went to last year FUCKED me over. I'm just in the progress of learing how to drive, my goal is to learn how to drive well within the month... and maybe drive gretta! I have no idea what I am gonna do in the furture with my life. I plan on moving to Toronto or Montreal next year. I hope learn some more languages when I'm out there in school. I think I wanna do something with my life that involves languages cause I have a serious interest in them. ummm... At the moment I am single and sorta abut not really looking.. uh.. yeha..

I have no idea wut else to say about -right now-

[Joanne]

I'm 19, jobless and a student.

I'm a very to-myself, kind of person, in that I don't usually let a lot of people get too close to me. if I don't like you, you will be aware of it. I prefer the company of several really close friends as opposed to big groups. I don't drink and prefer staying home or watching movies on my weekends than going clubbing or partying. I have a boyfriend of almost 8 months, who's an absolute sweetie and I get to see almost everyday since we go to the same school together :)

I'm going through somewhat of a quarter-life crisis, in that I'm trying to decide which path to take in life. I've recently gotten a long-awaited acceptance into 2 nursing programs (which I know a LOT of people are actually trying to get into), but I'm also trying to work my butt off to get into grad school for psychological research. basically, my plan will either be to pursue a career in pediatric or maternity nursing or be a researcher in the field of biological or forensic psychology.

well, I guess that about wraps who I am... :)

--Joanne :P

[Sammy Skillz]

cool thread you started kraig...everyone gets to know each other a little better :)

well...if i was asked this 3 months ago...i would have come up with a totally different answer.

3 months ago, i was a sheltred West Van brat who thought he knew it all.

Living by myself...in a whole new city (toronto) has really put everything in perspective. My priorities have all changed and even though it's only been a mere 3 months...i can't help but feel i have changed...for the better.

I'm 19...and i graduated from Sentinel Secondary in west van in 2001. I couldn't decide on what to do after high school...i got accepted into Sciences at UBC but the more i thought about it, going into sciences was only something i'd do to please my parents. I realized early on that i could never live up to my parents standards and above all...could never live up to my older brother who always seemed to be a few steps ahead. I thought about it it a lot and decided that UBC was not what I wanted. I decided to work full time at the Gap and Gap Kids in Park Royal. I needed a job badly...and work was work. I started off as a fucking sales associate...selling clothes i would never be caught dead in for the most part. I hated it. One day i had brought my sketchbook to work and my photography portfolio...and i had left it on the table in the staff room by accident. During her break, my store manager happened to flip through my sketchbook and portfolio and later approached me and offered me a promotion and raise if i would let her train me in Visuals Merchandising. she said she had liked my work and saw potential. So after a month of being hired, i was promoted to Visuals. I did all the window displays and instore displays for gap and gap kids. It was at this time that i discovered that art or design was what intrested me. I had hated working at the gap but now i was finding that i loved it because i was doing something i liked.

Looking back, i think my crayalo frescoes and wall-drawing tendancies forshadowed what i am today. Everyone kept persisting that i apply to an art school. I had thought about it...but figured i didn't have enough talent to get in. I just didn't believe in myself. and then one day i was talking to my friend's mom and she said "you need to get into art. it's what you love and you're good at it. you're gonna go far. the only thing stopping you is YOU. if you can't believe in yourself then you're going to come to a dead end"

so whatever...i decided to apply to Ryerson in toronto for photography. I compiled my portfolio in a day and didn't think much of it because Ryerson only accepts 50 people each year out of all of north america. I had no chance. So i applied to SFU and UBC...got into both.

it was months before i heard back from Ryerson. everyone kept telling me i woud get in. I wnted to believe it...but i couldn't. Anyone who knows me, knows that i set up a lot of safety barriers just to protect myself. Not belieing in myself was essentially a safety net for a potential refusal...by not having any expectations, i wouldn't feel bad if i got rejected. finally the letter came in the mail...and to my surpise... i got into Ryerson.

So here i am...at Ryerson...in photography...in a new city. It scares me living in a new place having grown up in west van all m y life. where do i fit in? it's all so different here. and even scarrier than living in a new city by myself, is the fact that everyday, i learn something new about myself. I'm no longer dependant, i've matured quite fast , i have new priorities...etc. i'm a new person, really.

back in vancouver, i didn't get along with my parents. I never had...and thought i never would. but moving 100s of miles away has strangely brought me closer to my parents. and i really like it..

The most important people in my life right now is my family and my friends...especially my best friends...caitlin and aki. and the most important things going on in my life: work (i do visuals in Toronto's Eaton Centre for gap, gap kids and banana republic) and of course school. I'm the biggest stress case and perfectionist...and at times i find everything so overwhelming. It's like i'm in the eyes of a tornado and everything is rushing by me so fast and i can't keep up and at times i wish i could just be swept away as well...but that's when i fall back on my family and friends and they keep me grounded. and for the time being, i feel happy...i supose. I just feel really empty all the time...like a peice of me is missing and i know that it's back in Vancouver.

SOOOOOO...with all that said and done...i'm sammy...and i guess i'm one big contradiction.

I'm stubborn....yet really flexible
I'm an asshole at times...but really nice
i'm intimidating (or so i'm told)...but really approachable
i'm really mature...but so fucking immature that it's not even funny
i'm a pessimist...but i'm still an optimist
i'm a manic depressant...but overall quite happy
etc etc

hopefully in the future i'll become some famous music video director or fashion photographer or magazine photographer or something. hmmm who knows.


and that concludes my fucking book.

[Timdareez]

God damn thats a lot of info people

Here's Mine...

I'm 21 but some say i act like a 18 year old
I'm Horny !
I've always been a horny kid all my life
I dont' rave that much nemore.....
I smoke hella chronic
I work at A&B Sound sellin audio/video .. and i hate it :P
I drink when i can
I smoke 24/7 :(
I keep gettin my licence suspended GOD DAMNIT !!!
I wanna fuck every girl on f&k hahahah
I wanna have sex 24/7
I'm Chinese born here
Reez = Rice in Italian
I try to spin ( Breaks )
I'm a lazy fuck who likes to ill and chill
I go to clubs whenever i can (rnb hiphop, top 40, disco, breaks )
I live in Burnaby
I drive a piece of shit Honda Civic
oh and finally ..... I'm HORNY !!!!!!!!! mmMMMmmm SEX mMMMMm !!

[waimea]

My name is Julien, I turned 20 just over a month ago...

I lived on Commercial Drive for the first few years of my life, after that I moved to Kits where I lived until a year ago

I went to Kits highschool in the French Immersion program where I became fluent in French and finished there in 2000. I started working full time immediately after highschool at Mercedes-Benz where I still am today. Started off washing and parking cars, did that for almost a year and then was promoted to Warranty administrator. That didn't work out too well for me so my boss was nice enough to try me out as a Service Advisor rather than fire me, which is going fairly well so far. I plan on going back to school, but not until I get some time to myself and figure out what I would like to take. I have so many different interests, and I love to learn.

I moved out of my mom's house almost a year ago and I live downtown in the west end. I work way too much (60 hours a week), but in the small amount of spare time I have, I enjoy music of all different types and sounds etc., being in the company of my close friends, and thinking about someday going back to the place where I spent the best month of my life (the North Shore of Oahu, in Hawaii) where I can thoroughly enjoy my favourite sport... surfing!

But yeah, that's about it for now - great idea for a thread, it's nice to read a little bit about everyone!

peace

[Kelster]

i'm 18 FEMALE from richmond (ASL WUUT)

i graduated last year from highschool, and i'm now taking science trasnfer courses at langara
i work part time in a shitty clothing store, but i make enough money to support my drinking and shopping habits
i just got a jeep, my first vehicle, that i'm still learning to drive (standard)
i know shit all bout computers, but i'm always on here wasting my time
i live at home, where i get whatever i want and get called princess by my parents
i'm one of those people that never shuts up bout being single
actually i just whine bout anything and everything i can whine about ...but i do really hate being single, i think
i try to work out (lift weights and cardio) everyday, in fear of becoming a fat useless reject
i really like candy btw... pocky is the shit! actually all japanese candy kicks ass
i'm pretty bitter, pessimistic and thoughtless at times...but i'm also a good friend, just picky with who i'm friends with

people think i'm a bitch, but i think i just don't tolerate as much bullshit as a lot of you people do...i think me being straight up about my thoughts and feelings has a little to do with it too

i dunno what else...but there's more to me

[desiRAWR]

I am still me.
Just maybe a little older, wiser, wealthier in experiences.

Just the basics: I'm 21. Live in aldergrove. I've actually lived out here my entire life, in the same house. I still live with my parents and I'd love to live on my own but I just wouldn't have enough money to do everything (own car, go to school, pay rent). I was doing general studies at Kwantlen for a few years after highschool but it was just a waste of money. I THINK I'd love to do radio broadcasting still so I attended BCIT's night school program last semester...However, I'm still not 100% sure what I want to do with my life. I have to be involved in music though, of course. My plan right now is to take a few radio courses in January, and apply for the day school program for next september. I plan on being in school full time next september anyways. I have been working at the same retail store (SAAN) for three years and I'm third in command though (though I should be 2nd in command. grrr). I'm the floor supervisor there.
I have a wonderful boyfriend who I've been with for over a year (and Krista basically introduced us! YAY Krista!) after a long trail of stupid ex boyfriends within the past 2 years. hmm. what else do you need to know about me? I'm way more interesting than what this post says:).

ps. I am simply just ME:D