24 Things
May 27th, 2006 | Published in general | 23 Comments
Just because I’m away doesn’t mean I should pass up a meme - only that I do it much later.
1. At different points of my life I played First Clarinet, was a section leader, played First Trumpet, and also found time to sprint, try to be house captain, and debate too. I used to be a pretty good, pretty obnoxious athlete. 2. These days, I’m a bum in equal proportions.3. I speak a lot of Mandarin and dialects at home, and am always surprised by how people seem shocked to hear that.
4. I’ve had 6 boyfriends, two of them serious, before I discovered. I only wish I could have been a better person with them.
5. I’m an asshole, a liar and a cheat, who can’t stop hurting the men and women who have loved me.
6. Food is such an important part of my life that if I have an unsatisfying lunch I feel as if my entire day has gone to ruins. Conversely, to have a mindblowing experience at dinner is like…
7. I’m a family person - I wouldn’t know what to do without my parents and my brother around me.
8. I want children of my own. Soon. That seems to be a potential problem.
9. When I was studying for my A Levels, a good friend bought me a ticket to see Radiohead in concert in Sydney, as a gift (and incentive). Seeing Radiohead ‘live’ made me weep, but my God, what a gig it was.
10. I actually did pretty well for my A Levels, strangely enough.
11. My brother is the rockstar that all the girls love, but I have to listen to him sing in the toilet.
12. Z. and I have parted amicably. In front of the fucking Taj Mahal. She says I have to return her the 750 rupees it cost to enter it. For the same reason, I have been to the Taj Mahal, but haven’t been inside (by the time we were done, the place had closed..).
13. I must be one of the rare breeds of people who takes to drama so fondly that they think it necessary to fall in love at the Angkor Wat and break up at the Taj Mahal, with the same person.
14. I may be obsessive-compulsive. My greatest fear is being made to eat with my hands and then denied a good 5-minute washing routine. If I don’t get to wash my hands properly before taking an examination, I just can’t do it.
15. When I was growing up I wasn’t interesting in having friends.
16. A good proportion of my closest friends and lovers belong to the Malay/Indian/Others races, and the one time I was with a Chinese person I felt strangely out of place.
17. This year, I almost lost forever somebody who means the world to me.
18. My father told me I was going to be a writer when I grew up. I believed him. He also told me that I would go to Harvard. I should have believed that, too.
19. In my wardrobe, there’s still a national red blazer and white skirt, with the state crest on it, a leftover from a conference I had to attend a long time ago. The one pictorial evidence which remains of that, is of myself in that getup, with a national flag draped around me, at the lobby of a United Nations building. I thought it was funny.
20. My ex-boyfriend is funny, talented, and very very smart. He’s still one of my closest friends.
21. The photo of me in my current passport is the most unflattering picture I can remember having taken. Luckily for me it expires in a year.
22. I have a natural talent for sleeping. Not just regular sleeping - I once took leave from junior college at 11am because I felt sleepy (of course I said I was sick), went home, and slept from noon to 6pm the next day.
23. I don’t know what it means to go on a diet or watch my weight because for most of my life, no matter how much I ate, I was always fairly skinny. Now - I think I may have to start worrying.
24. My PowerBook’s name is Natasha. The iPod is Nina. They’re a pair of hot Californian pornstars (Um). Nina is about to be replaced even though she still looks great and sounds, um, awesome. Such is life in this treacherous business.
