ABOUT ME:

My name is Esther (tho I prefer Lana).

I am a scientist.

I’m from Estonia.

Life's all about meeting interesting individuals who you come across in ways that you'd never expect. Like the time I was on a flight back from Tokyo, I noticed a really pretty looking chubby Slovakian girl who seemed to be traveling on her own. In the waiting time before the flight, she wouldn't look at anyone, wouldn't smile and she had a face as sour as anything. Then, on the plane, I just happened to sit next to her and thought, here we go - eleven hours of silent irritable treatment. Instead, she suddenly became this amazingly animated joyful human being and we talked, and laughed the whole way back. People make judgments way too quickly. We're too obsessed with technology, phones and computers and shit, to talk to each other face to face these days. Put the thumbs down, and let's talk people! Stop using your latest 7300 flip phone GPS and have a proper conversation. So Marta, if you are reading this, get in touch (your number went in the washing machine along with my jeans but I'd love to hear from you).

I guess I'm an old fashioned kind of girl, woman, whatever. I only got a mobile phone last year. But I'm not going to be one of those people who prop themselves up and need to fill every silence by getting out their mobile phone and texting or listening to messages of calling their BFFE's. Put the props down. Just be yourself.

So PM me if you hate global capitalism, love drinking maté tea like one inspiring Argentinean Revolutionary I met or quite simply if you're bored of not being listened to and want change!

P.S. Anyone interested in fighting tuition fees and other injustices not just in the U.K but worldwide can get hooked up to BATTLEFRONT - check it out - Young campaigners doing Young politics for Young people!!! There’s a protest march coming soonish which yours truly will be going on. Back it or jog!

LIKES: Your mum.

FAVOURITE BAND: Blondie, Sleater Kinney, Le Tigre, Chromatics.

T.V SHOWS: 2 Broke Girls.

FILM STARS: I hate Orlando Bloom.

DREAM DATE: Dalai Lama, actually wait, no because it'd have to be a vegetarian meal then, wouldn't it? OK the Dalai Lama in an Aberdeen Angus Steak House.

What made you decide to dye your hair? I had always wanted to dye my hair. The first colour I did my whole head was red, and once I went red I wanted to go pink.

If you changed your hair colour now what would you change it to? Maybe I would grow out my natural colour. I would like to have hair when I’m 30 (lol). Or maybe I would go red again. I liked that.

What’s your earliest memory? Going hiking with my mum and seeing a white owl, I wasn’t even two years old.

What TV shows did you watch as a kid? I liked Rugrats, Hey Arnold, pretty much all of the original nicktoons and shows on Nick. Powerpuff Girls and Courage the Cowardly Dog, Sailor Moon, Pokémon… The 90s had the best cartoons for kids. i would also rent the 80s cartoons all the time, Rainbow Brite, Care Bears, Popples.. the animation in the 80′s was so cool.

What was your favourite childhood game? The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, that game was like my life.

What posters did you have on your bedroom wall as a kid? I had a really cool Zelda poster, and I would make collages of that stuff, like elves and shit.

When you were little what did you want to be when you grew up? I knew I wanted to make electronic music when my dad took me to his friend’s house and showed me his synthesizer. I think I was four. I also thought about a job in the science field as it always interested me.