Dariane Nabor

Over the years, I’ve googled myself many many times. Everyone has googled themselves.  If you haven’t, you really should.

Some people are lucky enough (or unlucky enough) to have a common name such that when they google themselves the posts about them are sprinkled in the first half-dozen pages. My name is quite unique, if I do say so myself. When you google my name, just about everything that comes up is really about me. This fact is equally awesome as it is terrifying.

I’ve been meeting a lot of people as of late and I decided last night to google myself again just to see what those people would see if they did a search. As usual I was embarrassed by the kinds of things that come up. So instead of leaving it alone for you to go discover for yourself, I’ve decided to entertain you with a list of my most interesting Google results.

5. Student Film Projects

More than a year ago, the ever-talented Jerome Villarin asked me to be a part of a couple of his projects at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. They were a lot of fun to make, not to mention it was well shot and edited. My acting, on the other hand, was absolutely atrocious (as was my hair). We even shot the projects as I was concurrently enrolled in acting classes. Dariane = EPIC FAIL. Of course, you can find the videos online via YouTube.

4. Latin American Student Association of UCLA’s Salsa Troupe

When I first got to UCLA, the first organization I got involved with was the LASA Salsa Troupe. I had no prior experience with salsa dancing, so I took what I thought were salsa dance classes. Those classes turned out to be rehearsals to audition for the dance troupe. By the time I found out I figured I committed enough time to it, so I might as well audition. I don’t know how it happened, but I ended up being the only freshman on the team that year. Videos of our performances are found on various video sites.

• Dance Marathon 2006
• Maggie’s Pub 2006
• Festival Latino 2006
• Maggie’s Pub 2007
• Festival Latino 2007 below

My involvement in the troupe led to my involvement with the main club, and I became part of the Publicity committee. This meant I ran the website. Traces of my early attempts at creating and maintaining one for this organization is still visible on the web. I’m very thankful that the current Publicity Director moved away from my boring prehistoric Wiki to a prettier flash site.

3. Delano High School Class of 2005

Somehow back in high school, one of my duties as a member of whatever class committee was to create and maintain a class website. It proved

virtually useless. This was when I was first dabbling into coding and website design.

One of the more embarrassing pages on the site is a superlative page from when our class was in middle school.  I was voted “Teacher’s Pet” among other things. Some of the other titles on this list include “Cutest Dimples”, “Most Quietest” (along with “Most Friendliest”), “Loudest Person”, “Most Annoying” and “Most Fobbish.”

2. Bruin Life Yearbook 2001

One time while I was sitting on Bruin Walk, a friend of mine randomly asked me what I thought of Spring Sing that year. I completely forgot she asked me this until I googled myself and found my quote on the internets. My quote was apparently in the Bruin Life Yearbook which was then digitized at some point.  My quote?

“[When he performed], Burt Bacharach stole my heart, ” said second-year undeclared student Dariane Nabor.

I’m sorry dear Michael, my boyfriend. Looks like I don’t have a heart to give you to begin with cuz Mister Burt Bacharach has it in a large pile in a backyard shed with all the other hearts he abducted at various points in his career.

1. Renegade Rip/Motley View Article

This is the FIRST thing that comes up when you google my name, and it is definitely the most embarrassing. Back in high school, I signed up for this (awesome) journalism workshop. At the time I was gung ho about going into journalism and I wanted to immerse myself in whatever I could. One of our assignments was to interview a classmate and write about them in an article. This article is the one about me.

The worst thing about this article is the horrible picture of me. I look bald with my hair pulled back exposing my ginormous forehead, plus the glare off of my eyeglasses and the symmetry make me look like a freakin’ alien. Then the article goes on to say that I “stay connected to my culture through UFO.” If someone didn’t read to the end, they wouldn’t know that UFO stands for the United Filipino Organization. What a way to further my image as an extra terrestrial. [On a side note: I wouldn't mind an image as an extra terrestrial if I looked like Morena Baccarin. Just sayin'.]

Another thing I’d like to add to this post on my blog about googling myself is that on the same website with the article about me, you’ll find an article I wrote during the workshop about how teens use blogs. How meta.

Have you googled yourself before? What are some of the more interesting or embarrassing results that come up? Please, do share.