User:Switisweti



I'm a very nice person. Even my sweat is sweet &#8212; and I tend to sweat a lot! That's why my friends call me Switisweti (pronounced like "sweety-swaty") &#8212; meaning "sweet sweating one". It's an expression from Sranan, first used by a Surinam colleague of mine.

Just like many Wikipedians, I have a sock puppet. Mine is called HAJARS.

Switisweti in short
My real name is Adam Vogelaar. I live in Amsterdam Zuidoost, Netherlands.

To practise my skills in English I choose to visit and edit the English Wikipedia rather than the Dutch one. After a day of work at a nearby carpet retailer I like to read about all kinds of things in books or on the Internet, especially about current events, politics and historic people. I'm a self-taught historian and I spend many hours studying in the local library or watching the Discovery Channel.

My father was Chinese, but I know almost nothing about the country, its language or its culture, as he died when I was still a baby and I was raised by my Dutch mother. She lives with me in my flat and currently I take care of her.

Some people say I look like Pavarotti, but I don't regard them as my friends. Still, my colleagues often ask me to sing for them, which I refuse.

Switisweti's Internet hotspots
Some of my favourite places on the Internet (apart from Wikipedia of course!):
 * Geen Stijl ("Disgraceful"), a Dutch weblog that covers news items in a cynical and humorous way.
 * Micheal Moore, my true American hero.
 * Open Directory Project, all kinds of previewed, categorized weblinks.
 * Internet History Sourcebooks Project, a comprehensive set of historical texts.
 * Hyper History Online, a great synchronoptic representation of world history, including timelines of events and lifelines of important persons.
 * Reportret, a gallery of reconstructed portraits of key figures from world history.
 * The Brick Testament, the Bible in Lego bricks.

Switisweti's Wikipedia initiatives
Articles that I started:
 * Synchronoptic view
 * Russell Shorto
 * Lange Frans & Baas B
 * Het land van (song)
 * Fietsvierdaagse

Switisweti's Wikipedia favorites
Some of the articles I liked reading:
 * 9/11 conspiracy theories
 * Fantastic Four
 * Neuro-linguistic programming
 * The Incredible Hulk (TV Series)
 * The Simpsons

Switisweti's contact info
You can contact me by posting at my talk page.

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