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Nous sommes des nains assis sur les épaules des géants, afin de pouvoir voir plus loin qu'eux, non que cela nous soit permis de toute manière par l'acuité de notre vision ou par la hauteur de notre taille, mais parce que nous sommes soulevés et enlevés vers les hauteurs par la grandeur de ces géants.
— Bernard of Chartres
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My name is Chavdar Likov. I was born on February 7, 1986 (1986-02-07) (age 22). I have been working on Wikipedia since November 2004 and I have gained a lot of experience. I also have an extensive range of other interests beside Wikipedia, which is one of my primary hobbies. Most of them contribute to my actual work and dedication here, though I am mostly involved with literary and music articles.
Аs an uploader, I aim for practicality and "straight-to-the-point" approach. Meaning that I am most likely to scrap huge amounts of material that I feel are redundant or overburdensome. When I see a messy article I tend to do big and substantial edits just to put some sort of direction of the article into further developping. I don't say everything is perfect, but I have progressed with time. Wikipedia has grown with me too, so I just like to thank those editors, who have shown respect and understanding.
Тhe biggest satisfaction for me is to see an article turning full-fledged. I consider my work here as one of my greatest personal achievements. I have around 8,000 edits, since I came here, which puts me somewhere in the first 2000-3000 editors in frequency of edits. Of course, quantity doesn't mean quality, but I let my edits speak for themselves and I think I have put my mark on Wikipedia. I want to say concluding this that I am honoured to be part of this project and that I'll be part of it in many years to come.
[edit] Biography and education
Jack of all trades, master of none.
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"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try."
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Since August 2004, I am enrolled in the subject of Library and information science in Sofia University, Bulgaria and I will graduate hopefully around June 2008. Before that I earned my high school diploma, September 1999 to May 2004, in the local French High School so I am fluent in French. However, I don't have much oppurtunity to practise the language, which is a shame, because I don't want to forget it. As for Russian, during my elementary education I studied Russian so I can speak and understand moderately well. In fact I can't speak very well at all, but I read Gogol and Checkov in Russian and surprisingly for me and my old Russian-speaking grandmother, I was understanding quite well. As a long-term linguistic goals in life I want to master these three languages and also to achieve some fluency in Chinese and probably Japanese and Hindi.
I'm living in Sofia with family: my dad, Yordan Likov, who is an architect and who in part of his architectural Studio 17,5 has designed the Mall of Sofia; my dad is currently working on various other projects including such Malls in Varna, Plovdiv and Bourgas. My sister Iva also lives with us and is bachelor of history and master in tourism. My mother Elena lives and works abroad. She is master of economics and is Eastern Europe Representative for Broadcast Music Incorporated in the field of intellectual rights and property.
I tried to find a job after I finished high-school and entered university, but not with much success. I had some endavours working as a translator through 2005, but at this time it was difficult for a first-year student to find something suitable and employers weren't taking me seriously. Not that I was taking myself seriously, either. So, I decided to concentrate on my favourite past-time habbits - reading and listening to music in order to develop a quality outlook on life and my place in it.
I was working from March to November 2006 in a data processing agency as a technical editor and coder of news. I quit it due to my failling health as during the summer in a short time I developped tendinitis and after unsuccessful treatment, subsequent duodenal ulcer that nearly cost my life with hematemesis and couple of painful blackouts, getting head injury afterwards.
Also I hated this job very much and wanted to concentrate on different things beside working, including my reading habits and applying for the program Work & Travel USA. Thus, from June to October 2007, I was in this program, resided in Belgrade, Montana and worked full-time in the nearby cities of Big Sky and Bozeman.
From November 2007 to April 2008 I worked as school librarian in a local school for general experience. Not a bad job, but not one that I will continue for life, especially considering the miserable payment and lack of subordination from the staff.
I don't plan to stay interminently in Bulgaria, because I want to find new and exciting challenges in life, through travelling and experiencing life everywhere, in continuing my future development. As of now, I am applying for a master's degree to several British universities in the field of the book publishing. I expect to depart for UK sometime in September or October 2008. I want to create a musical band there and start a career in music. It depends how well will I perform on the exam session and whether I will be able to finish in time my diploma work.
[edit] Interests and hobbies
As main interests, I'm reading many books and I want to work with literature, or even some artistic lurches towards creative writing. But it's too far away to be certain at this point. I also have loads of e-books, which I intend to read once I buy suitable device. Among the genres I love are space opera/science fiction and historical fiction. These genres also reflect my love in cinema (historical dramas and science fiction movies) and human sciences (futures studies and human history). I am also well-read individual in fantasy fiction and classic literature.
I had some writing inspirations in the past, having several short stories, centered around the fantasy fiction as I was heavily influenced in my teen years and I also wrote for a fantasy magasine and had a web-site running, devoted entirely on the genre. Since then, I am not writing anything as at the moment I'm just enjoying books and I think I'd like to write something meaningful when I'm a fully developped and experienced individual. Some of my most favourite authors are Robert Graves, Stephen Pressfield, Conn Iggulden, Robert Jordan, Raymond Feist, Ernest Hemmingway, Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, Nikolay Gogol, Franz Kafka, Herman Hesse, John Steinbeck, Joseph Heller, Bernard Cornwell, Dan Simmons, Peter Hamilton and many more.
I should note that I love humanity and I am heavily interested in cultural anthropology and anthropology in general. Recently I have read the works of renown anthropologists of past and prsent like Jared Diamond, Richley H. Crapo and Franz Boas.
I'm big fan of music, but my social status in a relatively developping country is forcing me to download music rather than buying it. Nevertheless I have about 100 original CDs and I'm big fan of rock 'n' roll and particularly alternative rock, Britpop and British Invasion bands. I am also fairly cognizant in classical music, folk music and jazz music. Some of the most influential bands and artists in my life include Radiohead, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., The Kinks, Supergrass, Oasis, The Verve and also the likes of Charlie Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Dave Weckl, W. A. Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Giuseppe Verdi, The Battlefield Band, The Chieftans, The Dubliners and many, many more, with whom I wouldn't want to bother you.
My love of music pushed me to take drum-sticks and try to learn drumming in 2004. I want to buy a proper drum kit, because any proper progress in this area cannot be achieved without proper instrument. As a drummer I sport the open handed drumming, coming to this approach on my own, instead of borrowing from other drummers. In my drumming I am mostly influenced by Steve Upton, Mick Avory, Phil Selway, Brad Wilk and John Bonham. Most recently, I bought a bass guitar and it's on my next agenda of learning. My favourite bass players include Colin Greenwood, Tim Commerford, Michael "Flea" Balzary, John Paul Jones and John Entwistle. Musically I am incredibly influenced by the likes of Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine and Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
Most recently I started writing lyrics. Many times before I have structured sort of texts and poetry in my head, but I've never tried to write them on the sheet. My love and infatuation with a certain girl became catalyst to my desire in expressing my feelings in written form, so I took the pen. Although, I am just in the infancy, learning how to walk, I have a couple of lyrics that are probably good enough to be composed in song form, with only a few love songs. In this field I am mostly influenced by Nick Cave, Ray Davies, Noel Gallagher, Thom Yorke and Anthony Kiedis, whose craft for song structure and poetry is something I can only admire and tremble upon.
I also heavily enjoy animation and animated sitcoms. I love from classic tv series like Looney Tunes, The Tex Avery Show and Tom & Jerry to middle-age period like Johnny Bravo, Cow & Chicken and Dexter's Lab to the newest ones like South Park, Drawn Together, Family Guy, Robot Chicken and many more particularly featured by Cartoon Network's adult swim and Comedy Central. My love for animation is so great that I consider it the best and superiour form of comedy, ever. Probably in a different place or time, I would love to work on such a project.
My favourite computer games include real-time tactics as Commandos series, Desperados series and Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood, role-playing games as Baldur's Gate series, Icewind Dale series and Knights of the Old Republic series as well as grand strategy games like Total War series, Empire Earth series and Age of Empires series.
[edit] Song of Nature / Falling Star
Two of my finest poems:
The sun is shining up at the sky I can see, touch and sense this rift
Dazzling rays singing songs Sailing from a shore to one adrift
From every creature to smallest fly I set beside this one quiet shore
Started singing not after long I begged the people for some more
The ocean joins in singing too I watched the falling star on sky
Crystal waves storming down It made me wish I'm one that flies
The salty water is pretty cool Thinking of future coming for sure
Every turn shakes the ground At last my feeling's getting purer
Birds are humming in the forest The falling star has shiny trail
They are joining in the peace It shines so much, I see the tail
Sounding like a beautiful choral Mountain silent like starstruck
Whistling too is gentle breese It made wish I had more that luck
Clouds encircled everything around I wish in life I had more of a luck
Storm is shaking Mother Earth But yet, I don't give much of a fuck
Pouring water makes whistling sound This world is here for me to be seen
All is here, there's no dearth Oh, whatever the hell that means
Water slowly stopped from pouring The falling star is up at the heavens
Clouds dissipate from sky It's slowing now, but again it fled on
The nighttime song - oh, so luring It rised again now, making this mark
Raising now up and high When it's down, it'll be getting dark
The nature's song is nearing end The falling star now has melted away
All have taken up their part The dark will see the light in the day
You were there and saw it friend I wish so much to be a star that flies
A song giving joy to heart And when I fall, I'll leave trail on skies
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