What was the happiest moment in your life?

When I was a little over a month away from turning 20, my (then) best friend picked a star from the clear night sky and placed it in my heart. 

Despite the events that unfolded after and despite the way things ended, I didn't know then that what will happen would happen. So, it would be that moment in time when I thought the promises of forever will always hold true - that was a pure, untainted, happy memory.

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Do girls just want be with good guys or do they prefer bad boys?

It really depends on the girl. I can't generalize everyone into the same category because different people like different things (or guys in this case). And it also depends on the definition of 'bad boys' I suppose (I'm way over-analyzing this but I'm looking at all aspects). Bad boys in a sense that the boy is not the nerdy, follows the rules to the tee type but still generally a good person OR bad in a sense of sleeps around, shoplifts and gets stoned every once in a while. (I wouldn't mind the first type of bad boy myself:)
I remember watching THS: Denise Richardson a few years back. E! was telling the story on when she was married to Charlie Sheen (known bad boy) but they finally got a divorce because he wouldn't change. They (the E! reporters/narrator) say girls (like Denise Richardson) are attracted to bad boys (like Charlie Sheen) because girls like to think that they'll be the one that'll change the guy to 'be a better person'. That usually never works out but I do suppose we do get one or two 'success stories'.
I myself am a firm believer of not changing someone to how I specifically want them to be like. If that someone wants to be changed because he (or she really) thinks that they want/need the changing, then that's fine. But generally people don't like it when their partners try to change them and hence the creation of the saying, "Accept me for who I am or not at all."
There could be girls that couldn't care less about changing their man and like them bad for the thrill of it. I can imagine that. We see it in movies all the time anyway.
Or girl and boy are both bad. That happens. Match made in heaven...or down below.
In other cases (like myself), girls look for those 'clean cut' man. They like knowing that the guy has a good background, good education, is a family man, and all the likes. You can imagine what I mean, right?
I must say though, I can't deny that I've been tempted by the idea of going out with the bad crowd having lived my whole life in a good, healthy, squeaky clean environment. Makes me imagine how it'll be like to let my hair loose and jump on the first Harley that rides past me. But yet again reality pulls me back and holds me to the ground. 19 years of lifestyle really can't change much in a single day. Still, a girl can dream:)

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Do you like to answer "yes-no" questions?

Sure. Simplest form of question there is, yes? And the questions only require a one syllable answer (easy peasy!) unless it ends with "...and explain why." Better yet, occasionally when we're to lazy to voice out words, all we have to do is either nod or shake our heads (which of course generally means yes and no respectively unless there's some culture in the world which uses the same gestures for the opposite meaning) or sometimes the answer yes and the nod (vice versa) go hand in hand. Must be out of habit really.

Do I like to eat? Yes/Nod nod
Is food good? Yes/Nod nod
Have I eaten today? Yes/Nod nod
Fussed about what I eat? No/Shake shake
Try everything at least once? Sure! Nod nod nod nod nod nod (adventurous girl, yeah;)
Live to eat? Err...eat to live:D

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What made you decide to pursue your current course/degree?

Most people don't know this about me unless it's someone who knows me very well but the one job that'll make me a happy camper is to be a teacher. That's where my greatest passion lies, teaching! But then I thought of doing something else first-a doctor, an engineer, a lawyer, an architect can become a teacher (whether they make good teachers is a different story) but the converse might not be true.

So, why Engineering? Mostly it had to do between the choices the scholarship offers. Engineering, Accounting, TESL, Medicine, Dentistry. Didn't see myself in the medical line, would love to be a teacher (will be sometime in my life!) but I want to teach one of the sciences, not a language, don't like accounting since high school, so Engineering it is. Well, if I had to choose between anything really, Engineering would have to come out first. Among other things, I get to learn how things around us work. That's some pretty interesting stuff!
Funnily enough I remember when I was little (about 10?) my sister once told me that I'd make a good engineer (I liked twiddling with things. I didn't even know what an engineer was at that time!). She might've just been saying it to make a small kid happy or she really could've meant it.
Being in the line now, I'll make sure I become a good one:)

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What is your idea of an ideal date?

Date with a stranger, with your boyfriend/partner/fiance, with your husband.
Obviously when you enter into different parts of a relationship, the 'definition' of a date changes. I often hear married women complain their husbands aren't as romantic as they used to be when they first started dating. May it be perhaps since they're now married, men tend to think 'the woman is already theirs' (for lack of a better phrase) so they don't have to make much of an effort? I can't be sure what the exact answer is having never ask a married man that before (I'll make a note to do that when the next opportunity arise).

*NB men: Despite what some may say, we DO like to be surprised with a single stem of rose every once in a while (well, not rose per say or any sort of flower for that matter but you get my drift).

Having said that, I shall come to a conclusion that the vast majority of relationships works in this manner: The 'deeper' in a relationship you are, the less 'ideal' the date becomes, i.e. the more 'familiar' one become with one another, the less one would feel for the need to impress. Fair enough I suppose. On a first date, who wouldn't get blown away when your date says he knows the best pizza place  (you're thinking , "Must be that place on the corner street!") and flies both of you out to Rome? (Got that one from an episode of Friends) By the 10th date, it could just be trip down to the pizza place at... the corner street.
Ramble, ramble, ramble. Yes, I know I haven't answered the question but I do have a point here. Since these definition changes when you're in different parts of your relationship, I'll describe my ideal date in  all 3 parts (I'm a sensible woman. I know not to expect too much. Really?! Lol). Then again, it all depends on where we are. If we're in the middle of the city, my ideal date can't possibly end with a stroll by the sea under the moonlight, or can it?

With stranger: Cliche as it may sound, presents me a single stem of whatever type of flower (I don't have a favorite one...yet) when we first meet. A nice dinner with a chance to get to know each other would be good. After dinner, walk in quiet contentment (we really don't have to talk all the time; I enjoy the silence every now and then) under the moonlight AND depending how the date went, a soft, gentle kiss with the sound of the waves lapping behind us . OR screw all that! A fun day out to the theme park! Let's get to know each other over a ride on the roller coaster! Wheeeee! 

Hmmm...No, no. My REAL IDEAL date would have to be something out of the norm or something I haven't really thought of. I'd like it if my date surprises me with something totally unexpected or something out of the ordinary. I love surprises! I really wouldn't mind my first description of a date (dinner and such) but then again, most dates is exactly that, eh?

For now, just a date wherever is ideal enough as it is (I really should get out more but then again I have my books and uni assignments buried right up to my armpits).

With boyfriend/partner/fiance: We really don't have to do something fancy-schmancy ALL the time...only sometimes. So, ideal date now would have to be a meal we both cooked then after, put on a movie and snuggle on the sofa

(Why is the TV blank??!)

OR walk down the beach and watch the sunset

OR lie on the grass somewhere and look at the stars together.

With husband: Now being married and we're both busy, busy, busy with work and all (probably have little tots running around as well), a nice evening with just us two would be nice. Maybe even a romantic getaway for the weekend!

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Did you have any nicknames when you were younger? What about now? Are they still the same, or have they changed?

Funnily enough, nobody outside my family has ever come up with a shorter version of any of my three names: Siearra Celastra Sarina. That does make it rather difficult when it comes to putting names on class/club/societies' t-shirts since they usually only limit it to 6 letters and both Siearra and Celastra are 7 and 8 letters each (I've only used Sarina when I was 9 years old and younger). Only 2 of my friends call me Si (short for Siearra) though it wasn't something that caught on. I remember once in high school one of my closest friend tried out Arra but that didn't work out. She only called me that for the first 2 days when she first thought of it, I think. Lol.
In my family, I do of course have a nickname. 2 in fact. Dad calls me by one, mum and sis by another:) Both the names remain the same since I was a little tod.

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If you could suggest one Disney/Pixar movie for someone to watch, which one would it be, and why?

O! I like this one. Disney/Pixar movies are my favorites...you know there's always a happy ending in the end.
Since I just watch this one recently (for the umpteenth time), I'd say National Treasure (for now at least). You get to learn a lot of interesting history ("...daylight savings wasn't established until World War I. If it's 3 p.m. now that means that in 1776 it would be 2 p.m."), it's fun watching them solve the riddles and puzzles (The Freemasons among our Founding Fathers left us clues [takes out one-dollar bill] like these. The unfinished pyramid, the all-seeing eye. Symbols of the Knights Templar, guardians of the treasure. They are speaking to us through these.), and the script is funny and witty ([after finding treasure in the treasure room]
Abigail:[seeing Riley cry softly, staring into the distance] Riley, are you crying?
Riley: Look. Stairs. [sighs])
AND my favorite:
Ben Gates: You know, Thomas Edison tried and failed nearly 2,000 times to develop the carbonized cotton-thread filament for the incandescent light bulb.
Riley Poole: Edison?
Ben Gates: And when asked about it, he said "I didn't fail; I found out 2,000 ways how not to make a light bulb," but he only needed one way to make it work.

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What would you do if you found yourself caught in the middle of an argument between two of your close friends?

Depending on what they're arguing about, I would, I suppose try to reason with them if it's about something trivial. It could be a simple misunderstanding that needs a third point of view.
If it's something personal I would let them sort it out themselves. They might not want others interfering in their matters.
As a friend, I'll try to be as supporting as possible without taking sides (or at least try not to take sides...some people really aren't budge-able even when they are in the wrong).

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