Blast from the Past

Hey guys! It's me, Elida from 3 years ago.

I love, love, LOVE books. I spent most of my sports day in Grade 7, finishing off the last book from the His Dark Materials trilogy. My free time is usually occupied by reading (obviously!), watching YouTube videos, making Vlogs, watching Dr. Who, refreshing my favorite RPattz fansite (spunk-ransom.com btw) every 5 minutes just so I'm constantly updated, waiting for the new fiveawesomeguys, fiveawesomegirls, vlogbrothers and vloglovers video.

My routine is simple. Survive school, listen to the teacher, get into the work, leave school as soon as possible, get my homework done, watch videos and read. Oh, and wait for my friends from Malaysia to get online so I can video call them through MSN Messenger or exchange comments with them on MySpace.

During the weekends, I'd go to second-hand bookstores and buy books in bulk. The minute I got home, I'd switch on the webcam and start rambling on about the books I bought. A little bit like missxrojas, or Rosianna:

I don't expect you to watch it in its entirety, but you get the jist of it. I guess this is the perfect time to introduce to you, Rosianna. My role model. I told myself that when I was her age, I wanted to be just like her. I wanted to read the same books, do the same things, aspire to go to the same college, and above all, be just as smart as her. This was made easy, obviously, because I loved all the books she loved. She wanted to be a writer, I wanted to be a writer. She loves dinosaurs. I love dinosaurs. We have so much in common.

Now, my YouTube crush (I hope by now you realize that YouTube was a big part of my every day life)  started off being Charlie McDonnell.

I pretty much decided that he was the perfect guy for me. So much so, that I managed to convince my mum to fly us all the way to London for a YouTube Gathering so I could meet him. And meet him I did. He was tall, lanky and awkward which roughly translates into AWESOME. Coincidentally, he dated Rosianna very early on. But seriously now, how cute is this guy?

Then it slowly evolved into having a crush on basically every single guy on fiveawesomeguys (yes, including Todd, I added that because Todd is totally not my type, but he totally was at one point). Obviously, my three favorites were Charlie, Alex and Johnny. I think it was the British accents. Yes, it must have been.

Now, before getting together with any guy, my one requirement is that he not be shy in front of the camera because I expect us to do things like this:

Also, my most favorite long distance couple in the world... Liam and Min:

Since they left the channel, it's virtually impossible to find any videos they posted for each other or about each other, for that matter. That makes me really sad. I thought they'd never break up. They were the strongest vloglovers. But oh well, all good things come to an end. 

Now, for the people who I admire the most. The people who inspired me to be a Nerdfighter. My favorite author and his brother... John and Hank Green:

I miss 13 year-old Elida. sadface.