Who Am I?

My legal name? It’s boring and I actually don’t like it. Fortunately, I do go by a few fun, descriptive names: Pattern Weaver, Rominjn Wind, Silent Prophet and, most recently, Nikita.

The three most important things I want people to know about my being are that I am a paradox, I am full of infinite colorful happiness and I plan to change the world.

What the heck do I mean by paradox? Well, I don’t really know, actually. That’s just part of being a paradox haha. It’s more of a intuitive understanding of who I am. I guess I mean that my personality is made up of a lot of values, thoughts, actions and reactions that seem to contradict but actually co-exist quite well.

Other than these three things, here are some standard bio info:

 

Born In: Yangon, Myanmar (grew up there for 8 years before immigrating to the U.S. on an airplane)

Hometown: Brooklyn (New York City), NY

College Major: Natural Resources: Ecological Design and Community Development

Aspiring Professions: Urban ecological designer, writer, teacher

College Involvements:

• Wilderness Instructor Leadership Development (Training to be an outdoor trip leader)
• Orientation Leader
• Campus Tour Guide
• Eco-Rep (Peer environmental educator)
• Program Director of Ecological World Cuisines housing program
• President’s Commission on LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) Equity
• Research Assistant at LGBTQA Services

Hobbies and Interests:

• Reading books on cultural theory, social justice, ecological design, making things, spirituality, mythology, medicinal and magical herbalism, naturalist skills and living in the wild, wilderness survival and personality theory
• Writing inflammatory, polemic essays that are in the realm of cultural critique
• Watercolor landscape painting
• Thinking of the design patterns, social and physical infrastructures, and values of an equitable, sustainable global community
• Rock climbing, hiking, kayaking, rafting, canoeing
• Badminton, volleyball, soccer (football)
• Going to queer-themed dance parties
• Bright, colorful fashion
• Cities

Music:

• Anything that makes me want to fly or save the world with superpowers
• Anything that makes me experience a sad ending of the world as I know it and then a lonely beginning of a new world or that makes me reminisce an old world
• Anything that makes me enter the fantasy world where faeries and magic abound
• Anything that resembles urban funk
• Celine Dion, Dido, Keane, The Cranberries, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Death Cab For Cutie, Delerium, Enya, Fleetwood Mac, The Carpenters, Katy Perry, Chairlift, Feist, Celtic Woman, Loreena McKennitt, etc.

Television:

• Heroes
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• The Daily Show
• The Colbert Report
• Family Guy
• Futurama
• South Park
• CSI: Miami
• Nova
• Discovery Channel

Movies:

• The Craft
• Wanted
• Zeitgeist, Zeitgeist: Addendum
• Latter Days
• Howl’s Moving Castle
• What Dreams May Come
• Into The Wild
• The Devil Wears Prada
• House of Flying Daggers
• Hero

Books:

• The Power of Myth
• My Side of the Mountain
• The Mists of Avalon
• The Sound and the Fury
• The Book
• Way of the Peaceful Warrior
• Life of Pi
• The Myths and Gods of India
• From Eco-Cities to Living Machines
• Nature’s Operating Instructions
• A New Earth
• Web of Life
• He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know
• Ishmael
• My Ishmael