Hi I'm Rowena and I'm from Singapore. I am currently an undergraduate psychology major in my senior year at the University at Buffalo. I plan to go to graduate school sometime next year and would love to take small trips to explore new places when I have the time to! :)

Coffee junkie. Lover of the quaint and quintessential. I make a hobby of finding beauty in the ordinary and in dissonance. Intrigued by the enigma of the human mind and its complexities. Voracious reader. I dance on sidewalks (when I think there isn't anyone watching), rock it out on the drums and keyboard, write the odd poem, prose, maybe two. I love nature, science, philosophy, and holding insightful conversations over good food.

Interests

Neuroscience and Psychology. I love research. Would-have-been-marine-biologist in another life. Enjoys dancing, reading, quaint cafes, theme parks. I play the piano/keyboard and the drums. I also love water-related activities like swimming and scuba-diving! I have a weakness for Thai and Japanese food!

• books
• beauty
• dancing
• dining
• coffee
• japanese food
• reading
• piano
• drums
• scuba diving
• swimming
• biology
• neuroscience
• psychology
• science
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Love listening to a wide variety of genres. Some include: Bon Iver, Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie, Iron And Wine, Muse, MGMT, My Chemical Romance, Stars, and The Shins. I enjoy ambient/post-rock music from Explosions in the Sky and Sigur Rós. I rock it out to the likes of David Bowie, Deep Purple, The Scorpions and Queen once in awhile :) I also like listening to Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean songs too.

Movies: 500 Days of Summer, Into the Wild, V for Vendetta, The Notebook, Inception (seriously anything by Nolan), Lord of the Rings, the X-Men and Batman series

Books: I love classics like The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1984, and Animal Farm by George Orwell, and I enjoy books by Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, J.D. Salinger, Milan Kundera, Oscar Wilde, Vladimir Nabokov, and Henry David Thoreau. I love Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - I believe it can be enjoyed from both a child and an adult's perspective! I also enjoy books from Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson and Neil Gaiman.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have scuba-dived in Australia and some off-shore islands in Malaysia and Thailand. I love marine life and I believe our oceans are one of the last frontiers of human exploration. I would love to dive in Hawaii and the Great Barrier Reef sometime in the near future!

Teach, Learn, Share

I make relatively tasty home-cooked Japanese food. I could probably give some good book recommendations and teach you some rad dance moves or how to play the piano/drums if you'd like! :)

I would like to learn your language and get some good food recommendations!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, China, Czech Republic, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States