that 24 things meme +

1. I cannot stand it when the floor towels are in a mess heap. They should be neatly laid, all the time, even after you step on them to wipe your feet.
2. Ditto about the sink, the surrounding area must be dry, never mind the looming decomposing dish-heap within it.
3. I like to read cheem things like classics and business/history/art/non-fiction/non-bestsellers, but also alongside the seemingly unintelligent chick-lit and magazines, which as long as they are actually also secretly intelligent, I secretly enjoy more than the academic stuff.
4. I like laptop keyboards more than desktops', and I like laptop mice more than the external kind.
   
5. Otherwise I actually need wrist-rests when using a desktop keyboard and mouse.
   
6. I sleep with five pillows, and no bolsters.
7. I make silly mistakes with other men after I have been dumped. Twice.
   
8. I used to like this girl in school, who has since turned into a boy. Actually I think so have the other girls, somewhat.
9. I was not artistic till my later years, it is not true that art must be developed only as a child.
10. When I used to stay with my parents a lot more, I would go into my roomwhen I reached home, to rest and hide for a long time, before coming out to make the conversation for the day. Not all women will start talking immediately from living room to kitchen upon reaching home, as some believe. I am a Martian cave-girl.
11. I only started to enjoy Archie comics when I grew up, like in my teens. I still do, just that I have stopped buying them in recent adult years.
    
12. I talk loudly, and so do my parents, in fact we could have conversations with doors and storeys in between us.
    
13. This week, on separate occasions, both Calvin's mom and my mom have asked us individually for the first time, when we are getting married. It actually sounds better coming from them than from well-meaning but over-enthusiastic friends.
    
14. I already have a flat, in mine and my parents' names. I think the fact that I am so used to staying alone, and the fact also that I actually stay alone even, is weird to others.
    
15. I have never had a pager. This is weird for many people my age.
16. I only started IRC and the like, somewhere in 2000! I was already in uni.
    
17. My mental sums suck but I teach maths to secondary school students rather well. I have been doing so since 1997.
18. My specs have a degree only for my left-eye, and the other is perfect. My left eye is both long-sighted and astigmatic.
    
19. I don't watch tv unless I am sick, depressed, or unwell, and need to do something unintelligent. And if I do I don't watch anything Chinese or Korean etc., I cannot take it.
    
20. I have developed this habit since I moved to this flat, of only opening the letter box once a week or so, because the box is located away from my stairs, in another wing of the block. Anyway, I don't like to read mail - what is the point unless I have money to pay them bills?
21. I only pay bills when I have both money and time, not when they are due, because that is simply not possible.
    
22. I no longer wear a watch, haven't been for years. I will get paint on it anyway.
    
23. I have not had a stupid POSB account for almost ten years, and I will not even try.
24. There are years in my life that went by without me remembering anything much. They disappeared and I can no longer recall them. They were perhaps around 1999, somewhere. I now see it as the onslaught of depression, only I didn't know it then, till I hit me full-blown in around 2000-2001. I think.
    
25. I have no brothers and sisters, and I am very glad I don't have to share my parents' love.
26. (Oh, I am done! with the 24 things. I could actually go on, that is how mad and inane I am):
27. I had mood swings even as a kid: There was one day I avoided my friends who usually came over to my house to play together. I was about five or six years old. I would lock them out, and ignore them as they knocked on my door asking me to let them in. I went into a daze, and simply pretended they weren't there.
28. I have a weird scar on my left hand, resultant from scraping a corner of a wall in JC, whilst I was running around from point A to B. Yes, kids run, yes, I grew up late.
29. I hate learning anything hands-on through formal lessons. I learnt the keyboard and guitar through watching, emulating and playing with other people. I quit playing the organ through my organ teacher when I was eleven (I started when I was about four or five), citing stress as the reason.
30. I hate relatives, and all manner of extended family gatherings.
31. My ah-ma is probably Peranakan, she wears a sarong kebaya and used to make nonya kueh, and they all speak Penang-Hokkien and Malay on that side of the family, even though we are actually Teochew.
32. I don't have a driving license. The only time I took my basic theory exam, I failed. Needless to say, I hardly studied, and those years were the ones they reduced the percentile of people actually passing. It was 2001. Hah.
33. My psycho-motor skills are terrible. But my peripheral vision is excellent. Should I still learn to drive when I finally have the money to?
34. I hate small cars, especially the Malaysian Kancil, the Nissan March, the Subaru Viki. They should all disintegrate and cease to exist, with their drivers and their stuffed toys too.
35. I don't eat artificially coloured or (when I can) flavoured food because of my eczema, and I don't eat dairy because of my gastric problem.
36. I like potatoes.
    
37. I like beer.
    
38. My personal casette tape collection from the early 1990s includes: the Pretty Woman soundtrack, Roxette, and Def Leppard.
39. I meow at cats when I am passing, something which H used to scold me about, saying that if I kept meowing at them they will follow me after all, which by then I will proceed to shoo them away, so what is the point? Now I just meow at Slinky the cat downstairs.
40. I still talk about my dog as if she still exists. Dog has been gone almost ten years. I have known her since 1993. She is a brown mongrel. I like mongrels.
    
41. I was only photogenic when I was about sixteen to nineteen years of age. Okay, perhaps actually for a smaller margin of years.
    
42. I used to write my poetry on scrap paper and envelopes, before the days of blogs and the proliferation of typewritten handwriting. I still have them.

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