~Resthaven

What do you really want to know about the author?

Do you want to know her shoe size? Her level of education? Or what she ate for breakfast on the night of June 11th? If not for my random sense of humour, my constant appreciation and exercise of malapropisms and spoonerisms, or insanely loud voice, many people may know me as Ally (or Allycat).

Precisely. Quite vague.

Let me introduce myself to you, the interested/bored user. My name, as dictated on the Home page, is Aleisha. 

I created this site because I was bored (as you probably were before visiting this site). Like every successful entrepreneur, I spotted an opportunity and exploited it! Except, the opportunity presented itself to me in the form of reducing my procrastination and not for poetic expression. Here is the (somewhat accurate) lifecycle of this website:

2005: I started placing appraisals of my (at the time) favourite cricket player James Michael Anderson (still fast-bowler for England and Lancashire County) on the site through graphic representation and vivid written descriptions. It wasn't until later that year that I realised (after a presentation of youthful poets) that many other young poets wanted a portal through which to express themselves, poetically. For some reason, the idea of using this website as that portal did not dawn on me when I came to this understanding. Still, I continued to use this as a supposed James Anderson fact-file for other potentials... in fact, the page was titled "James Anderson Admirers".

2006: After the commencement of University, I became consumed in my studies - too consumed to remember to update my website (which was last updated during the holidays of 2005). By the time I reconciled my schedule to include time to update it, I was dissatisfied with the content of it. I felt it was a waste of potential (especially considering the number of other James Anderson fan-pages per se out there). Since 2005 was the end of my school years, I decided to dedicate a few pages to CLASS OF 2005 pictures and sent the link to fellow classmates for them to view and save should they want to do so. Towards the end of the year, however, I (yet again) became bored with the theme adopted and thus, remembering the brilliant idea I had in the previous year, initiated a poetry portal!

2007: My poetry portal was a great success amongst the youngsters and even my lecturers - as one of them left a comment in my guestbook remarking his appreciation of my work. I decided that this site lacked something redolent of my character: humour. The page titled "Side-Splitters" crammed in with humorous lines which ought to send you (bags packed) to Timbuktu! It made me laugh so hard, a little pee came out.

2008: When one enters the realm of University, as many people know, one experiences changes: physical, psychological and behavioural. In accordance with those changes, I became less obsessed with colour and more intrigued with elegance, whilst still maintaining my random sense of style. The black layout is supposed to represent the elegance and the colours within the heading representing the youthful outlook adopted by my site and I (who has protested to ever wanted to grow up). It was also during the season of autumn that I realised that users/readers (such as yourself) know little about the principal writer/web-creator, which gave me the initiative to construct an "About the Author" page (previously titled "Simple Me?" but this could not coexist with the newfound theme of random elegance). And through the marvels of time management, I have achieved the impossible: to have time to manage my site with enough time for studies, research, and leisure reading - so go me! Also, with the onset of certain currently unmentionable factors, a page dedicated to none other than Mr. Benjamin Barnes (lead actor in Narnia: Prince Caspian, with additional roles in exciting pictures such as Stardust, Dorian Gray, Bigga than Ben, and another movie whose name seems to have escaped me) because he intrigues me so much! This page has not yet been disclosed as it is still under construction.

2009: The year of scandal! Or at least pronounced scandal... I changed this site from one of global expression to one of personal expression. Everybody needs a haven. I especially needed one due to the radical, unexpectedly difficult changes that my life had undergone. Towards the middle of the year, my enigmatic persona needed clarification, in all paradoxical interpretations of this situation. What I honestly needed was something to be proud of that I made myself. Sure, graduation did suffice - but to what extent does that satisfy the soul in the sphere of my undomained reality? I would love for others, such as yourselves, to delve into my word and have a blast! Of course, mind the boulders...

Moving along, perhaps you'd like to hear a little about the author herself - and why she always refers to herself in the third person - which is no reason at all.

Basic details:

Name: Aleisha (pronounced: Ah-lee-shah)

Nicknames: Ally, Alooshki, Ally-banally, Ally-wally-sally, Allycat, piglet, DD (or double D - 'day-dreamer'), and others which are safely rooted under the Coral Reef

Age: 21

Current occupation: University student/daydreamer/permanent employee of the Midcyru-Kyralia-Lur Monarch/confidant of Great A'Tuin, the Only

Besides, I'm sure you're more grateful in knowing at least 1% about the author now! Or maybe you felt better off before reading this insipid piece...in all fairness, this malarkey is anything but insipid...