25 Random Facts About Me

I suppose at the rate it was spreading, it was only a matter of time before I got tagged, and I have. This Facebook viral exercise is currently so hot even Time had something on it. So here’s my 25:

1. I have a phobia of lizards.

2. Since Y and I moved into our own place, I’ve been making a slow and uncomfortable peace with lizards because I now feel any lizards in our place are “my responsibility” as opposed to “the freaks in my mother’s house.”

3. I love making lists and ticking them off. I maintain three to four at any one time and average a new one every two days.

4. I learnt to swim from a soldier in the Malaysian Air Force who taught swimming in his spare time. I wonder where he is now.

5. Even though Y drives me so ridiculously mad sometimes, I cannot imagine my life without him.

6. I went to Chinese schools from age 6 to 17.

7. I have a black belt in Taekwondo (does it become past tense if you haven’t practised in 10 years?).

8. I competed in Taekwondo very, very briefly at state level when I was 15.

9. I stopped because my dad decided it was too much trouble to ferry me to Cheras for training. (He sent his three daughters to Taekwondo for self-defense, not for a sporting career.)

10. I played the trombone when I was in high school.

11. I wish I can sing and act and dance.

12. Y and I have been married for almost four years. Can you believe that? We got married one month before my 23rd birthday.

13. When I was 9, my teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said an author of children’s books. I became a writer. Close enough.

14. I went for cello lessons when I was in high school. It lasted four months. I think.

15. I can’t decide between living in Malaysia and Australia.

16. When we first met, Y wanted four kids. He even had names picked out for them. I thought it was cute even though I didn’t want four kids. Now I have trouble convincing him to have even one.

17. I regularly wonder if Y will cheat on me one day. And how I will react when I find out. I’ve made him promise to tell me if he does.

18. I believe that if a man is going to stray, he will do so no matter what you do or how hard you try to stop him.

19. People who start their day grumpy annoy me, especially if it affects everyone else around them.

20. I intensely dislike people who pretend to be all pious in church but are totally un-Christian when their fellow churchgoers aren’t looking. I’m not talking about minor details, I mean serious, major, home-wrecking, how-dare-you-pretend-to-be-religious stuff.

21. I blame it on two of my somewhat-estranged relatives, who are the biggest and most disgusting hypocrites I know.

22. I need to constantly feel like I’m doing something or, better still, several things because I’m easily bored.

23. If I could be a champion athlete of any sport, I’d choose tennis.

24. I’ve been watching tennis since I was 10 years old but only took it up when I was 24. I wish I started earlier.

25. I’ve moved 5 times in the last 4 years.