... My name is Natasha Malyutina. I was born in the nice city of Kharkov. My best times passed by in it. There I went to school, fell in love... There I met my best half... My parents still live there. I love this city. Because it's my hometown.

... I recall my childhood in small bright flashes. First, when I was punished for not eating well in pre-school. Second, when I was accepted into the USSR Pioneer organization which was a great honor for the kids back then. The entire high school seems like an uncontrolled set of small pictures of different colors. But the most important picture is receiving a Gold Medal, an award for high grades in high school, and the tears of pride shed by my parents.

... Then I studied at the Kharkov National University and was extremely proud to have entered the Maths Department where I considered geometry to be the science for the chosen people. This comforted me up until my graduation. I didn't have the spark to pursue scientific career, neither did I have the thrill of being a math teacher in school. So only one path laid before me - something else.

... Being a TV show owner didn't stick. It should've but it didn't. Then I found myself being part of a newspaper editorial staff and finished my run being a movie review columnist.

... Then my fate made a turn and now I live in a quiet nice little Southern California city of Laguna Niguel near the ocean... being an artist...

When my favorite team wins, Adobe Photoshop, red color, professional dancers, coloring books, animated cartoons, fairy tales, collectible figurines, detective stories, small groups of close friends, Tiffany's style and Art Nouveau, Rammstein, punk rock, figure skating, tennis in general and Roger Federer and Novak Djokovich in particular

Plastic foam, when it's too hot, sphinx cats, boiled onions, acid pink and green colors, 3D animation and graphic, puppet or muppet cartoons, sweet cake with hot tea, bayan sound, country and raggie music, karaoke, crowds, celebrating my birthday on some other "convenient" day, piercing, sitting with my back turned to exit/entrance, sugar substitues and any weapons

See my parents more often, speak German and Finnish, visit all well-known places around the world