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From ci’en.

Once you’ve been tagged, write a post (corrected as per notchy’s instructions) with 24 weird facts/things/habits about yourself then tag 6 other people.

1. I had awesome sex last night. :)

2. When I was 8 or 9 years old, I seriously contemplated running away. I packed a little suitcase full of clothes and my “life savings” (read: no more than about S$10 maybe) and cycled off to a little park nearby. I was smart enough to think about bringing an umbrella, a few changes of underwear, soap, a jacket and a little pillow, but I hadn’t actually thought about what I would do once my money ran out. I didn’t even stay long enough to get anyone worried about me. Pfffft.

3. When I was 13, I ran away again. And again, when I was 17. Those times I made sure that I stayed away long enough for them to worry.

4. I’ve been having a startling number of death-dreams lately. First, I dreamt that I was sitting somewhere, with one wrist and one forearm slit, watching the blood flow slowly out, and that the idiot who was with me waited till I’d passed out from loss of blood before bringing me to the hospital. When I woke up, I realised that the doctors had missed out one cut, and I could feel the blood still seeping out from near my elbow. In the second, I was already dead and planning my funeral. It had something to do with drawing converse sneakers on my coffin.

5. I barely even wear my converse sneakers – I love the colour but they give me a blister sometimes so I always have to pre-plaster my toes before I wear them.

6. When I was in primary school, I used to will myself into being sick so that I wouldn’t have to go for stupid field trips where mosquitoes always made a buffet out of me. I’ve extended this mode of getting-out-of-engagements to meetups with “old friends” that I really don’t see the point in meeting anymore. I never understood the logic behind keeping old friends just because you’d been friends for so many years, yet I always abide by it.

7. A few months ago, I broke up with my parents. I think the saddest part about all this nonsense is that I don’t actually miss them.

8. I have this nagging fear that I’ll never be able to get a decent job that I like enough to stick to. Having grown up in the culture of overachievers, I’m surrounded by people who are going to be doctors and lawyers and dentists and accountants and ibankers and god knows what else, but I would honestly, truly, completely be happy doing squat.

9. I didn’t bother studying very hard for my A levels because of 2 things: A) my girlfriend of the time had just cheated on me with a friend of mine (this person is no longer my friend), and B) I knew that my parents couldn’t afford to send me overseas because my brother had taken all the funds, and I didn’t want to get accepted anywhere that I couldn’t afford to go, since I knew it would only make me resent my parents even more. I know it’s a stupid excuse, but teenage logic is rarely ever logical.

10. I have a habit of sounding like an angsty teenager when I talk about my parents. Most other times, people tell me I’m mature for my age – strangers have been overestimating my age since I was 9 (someone thought I was 13). That, and when I’m doing the chicken dance. :)

11. One evening, when I was 2, I had a craving for chocolate. My dad insisted that it was too near dinner time, and that I couldn’t have it, so I asked him instead for water. The moment he opened the fridge, I pointed and started yapping, “Chocolate! Chocolate!” They should have known how I’d turn out if that was me at 2 years old.

12. My toes are so long that they make my feet look like hands. I’m super self-conscious about them. (And I hate that all my shoes look like dragonboats.)

13. Somedays when I’m thinking about my cats, I miss them so much that I start meowing imaginary conversations with them. Then I’ll go downstairs and look for the cats that live in the area to meow at them instead.

14. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t such a giving friend. I hate it when people take me for granted, but I always figure that putting myself out there is better than waiting (in vain) for someone to call me out for a drink.

15. I’m currently saving up for a fish-eye lens, so if any of my friends read this and don’t know what to get me for my birthday (which is still very far away, yes, but just KIV ok?), I’m accepting cash donations. Very happily.

16. Yes, I would go anywhere with you.

17. I used to be so obsessed with the idea of owning a horse that I pretended my bike was one, and I named him Thunder. If he was a horse, he would have been chestnut brown and not as smelly as all the real-life horses I’ve come into contact with.

18. I was actually petrified of meeting my girlfriend’s friends when we went to Hong Kong in February – I figured they would think I was too young, too stupid, too strange, too fat, too anything, and that she’d start to see me through their eyes. I get terribly insecure sometimes.

19. I’m terribly insecure about the strangest, most irrelevant things.

20. I count very slowly – back in the day when we used to write essays by hand and count to make sure we had over 300 words (think primary school), I would always take forever to count the words, and I’d get increasingly frustrated when I saw my friends pens going blipblipblip as they counted at 6x the speed I was counting at.

21. I’ve probably told at least one lie to every person I know. It’s normally inconsequential and mostly for the fun of it – I like to see what I can get away with. (No, don’t come asking me what the lie I told you was. I doubt I can remember.)

22. I’ll be seeing my mom for the first time in maybe 3 months this week. I’m nervous as hell.

23. I never used to see the problem with running around the house topless when I was about 6 or 7. My brother did it, my cousin did it, my friends did it – why should I get scolded? A couple of years later, it dawned on me that they were all boys.

24. I haven’t had much to say lately because nothing much is happening in my side of the world. When nothing much happens, I always worry that the world’s going to come crashing down on me. It has a tendency of doing so.

Ballsy, poppy, one little twit, notchy, yi, and porcorosso have been tagged.