About

My name is Karin, though if you know me from the internet only, you probably know me by the name Kay (pronounced as the letter 'K', not the German 'Kai'!). I am a 23 year old woman, currently living in the Netherlands. Late 2008 I graduated from the NHL in Leeuwarden (communication and multimedia design), and obtained my BA degree in multimedia.

As for my personal interests, I'm quite fond of music. I think the phrase "I listen to everything" is a little lame, seeing as it's impossible, though you can find the most random music in my music collection. From Bolivian folk (Los Kjarkas), Russian rock (Mumiy Troll), Gypsy music from all over the world, Greek composers (Stamatis Spanoudakis), mainstream pop (Rihanna, Nelly Furtado), indie/alternative rock (Death Cab for Cutie, Mew), Spanish singer-songwriter (Fito y Fitipaldis), reggae (Bob Marley, Matisyahu), Putumayo's excellent Turkish and Arabic groove albums and not to forget, a whole load of Japanese music, from reggae to oshare kei. The complete picture can be found on my last.fm account.

Currently, Japanese music plays a big role in my life. Next to working a lot for the website JaME, I also run a concert organization company, JRock NL, with my colleague, and we're responsible for organizing various Japanese rock music concerts within our country.

I'm always eager to learn new things, and also like to read a lot (wikipedia is my best friend). I'm very interested in languages as well, and have been learning six. My latest language infatuation is Spanish, which I have been studying for around two years.

As for my porfolio, originally I started the domain mithredat.net in September 2006, mithredat.com came later in August 2009. You're currently staring at its second version, made in XHTML & CSS. The graphics have been made in Photoshop. Many thanks to Cynthia for hosting the website while I was experiencing domain problems.