And see what happens… The end product will be a mega-hit, I can tell you.

What would your album look like if you were in a band? Follow the directions to find out:

1. Go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random.
   The first random Wikipedia article is the name of your band.
2. Go to www.quotationspage.com/random.php3.
   The last four or five words of the last quote is the title of your album.
3. Go to www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days.
   The third picture, no matter what it is, is your album cover.
4. Use Adobe Photoshop, or similar, to put it all together.

The Proust Questionnaire, appropriated by James Lipton and Vanity Fair – how could I resist?

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
   When my ambitions and actions align with the greater cosmic ideals.
2. What is your greatest fear?
   Death – that’s easy enough.
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
   Bitchiness. I’ll admit it now – there is little chance that I haven’t spoken badly of you behind your back.
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
   It varies with each person.
5. Which living person do you most admire?
   Pastor Kong Hee, which, coming from me, is strange.
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
   Procrastination.
7. What is your current state of mind?
   Too small to adequately respond.
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
   Good looks.
9. On what occasion do you lie?
   When asked, “How are you?”
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
    My waistline.
11. Which living person do you most despise?
    Anyone who bullies.
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
    Gentleness.
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
    Self-deprecating humour.
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
    ‘Fuck’ – even once is too many for a person who wants to eliminate it from her vocabulary.
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
    Jesus, as doi as it sounds.
16. When and where were you happiest?
    I cannot remember – I take my moments of brief happiness for granted.
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
    Wit, as well as the gift of languages – I would like to charm in many tongues.
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
    The belief that I am always right… Or closer to being right than others.
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
    My give-receive relationships with Vanessa, Christopher, Joachim and Valerie.
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, who or what would it be?
    Definitely myself.
21. Where would you most like to live?
    Paris, San Francisco, or Seoul.
22. What is your most treasured possession?
    My Roger Federer cap.
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
    When I have nothing left for which to live.
24. What is your favourite occupation?
    Wedding planner.
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
    I look unapproachable.
26. What do you most value in your friends?
    How they seem to like me more than I like myself.
27. Who are your favourite writers?
    Jon Favreau; the writers behind Brothers & Sisters and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
    Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jughead Jones and Tintin.
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
    I don’t know.
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
    JPII, although I must acknowledge John Cusack’s answer.
31. What are your favourite names?
    Andrea, Daniel, Dimitri, Kate, Obi-Wan.
32. What is it that you most dislike?
    Homophobia, racism, vanity, bias, irresponsibility, inefficiency, bigotry, lizards, bad manners, fake accents, people reading over my shoulder – all of which bug me equally.
33. What is your greatest regret?
    Nothing, really.
34. How would you like to die?
    Conveniently and without fuss.
35. What is your motto?
    Sometimes, ‘What would Jesus do?’

A break from work and simultaneous space filler from Davina, both much-needed…

Instructions:

• Go to Google Image Search.
• Type in your answer to each question.
• Choose a picture from the first page.
• Use this website to create your photo mosaic.

Questions:

1. What is your name?
2. What is your favourite food?
3. What is your hometown?
4. What is your favourite colour?
5. What is your favourite movie?
6. What is your favourite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favourite dessert?
9. What is one word to describe yourself?
10. How are you feeling now?
11. What do you love most in the world?
12. What do you want to be when you grow up?

Even I have trouble completing my own sentences.

1. My ex-boyfriend/girlfriend is:
   Sitting at my desk, playing a computer game (it’s a semi-short, but complicated, story).
2. Maybe I should:
   Resume packing my suitcase.
3. I love:
   Spending a quiet day at home.
4. I do not understand:
   Why I’m still friends with you.
5. I lose:
   My temper easily.
6. People say I’m:
   “An intolerable cruelty”.
7. Love is:
   Fortunately, more than the usual bells and whistles.
8. Somewhere, someone is:
   Having sex.
9. I will always:
   Have an undeservedly high opinion of myself.
10. Forever is:
    Shorter than you think.
11. I would never want to:
    Compromise my values.
12. I think the current United States President is:
    A surmountable prelude to the next one.
13. When I wake up in the morning:
    I brush my teeth and make my bed at the same time.
14. My past was:
    Integral in shaping my present.
15. I get annoyed when:
    My friends fail to overcome their shortcomings.
16. I have low tolerance for people who:
    Underestimate others.
17. Parties are for:
    Those who have a more interesting social life than me.
18. My dog is:
    Non-existent.
19. My cat is:
    The same.
20. Kisses are the best when:
    They are chaste.
21. Tomorrow:
    I will fly back to Singapore.
22. I really want:
    To change the world.

There’s nothing like a meme to kick-start the brain into action…

1. What time did you get up this morning?
   9.17 am – the drilling and pounding from the construction site across the road (or wherever – the noises emanate from everywhere) woke me up.
2. What is the last film you saw at the cinema?
   The Birdcage on DVD (Nathan Lane is fabulous).
3. What is your favourite television show?
   Currently showing – Brothers & Sisters, The Office
   Defunct – Ed, Queer as Folk, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Will & Grace
4. What do you usually have for breakfast?
   I don’t eat breakfast.
5. What is your middle name?
   Danielle.
6. What foods do you dislike?
   Durian, tomato, lettuce, eggplant, broccoli, bitter gourd, kangeroo.
7. What is your favourite CD at the moment?
   The Swell Season, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová
8. What car do you drive?
   I can’t drive.
9. What is your favourite sandwich?
   I don’t have one.
10. What characteristic do you despise?
    Procrastination, of which I am a serial offender.
11. What is your favourite item of clothing?
    Yoga pants.
12. If you could travel anywhere on vacation, where would you go?
    Paris, Rome.
13. Are you an organised person?
    To the point of suffering from OCD.
14. Where would you retire?
    I don’t know.
15. What is your most memorable birthday?
    My 23rd, because I can’t recall anything past this year – memory loss comes with age.
16. What are you going to do when you finish this meme?
    Watch Great Teacher Onizuka (Sorimachi Takashi is da bomb).
17. Where is the furthest place you have been?
    Siem Reap – it’s not geographically the furthest, but I felt most removed from the first-world surroundings to which I was accustomed.
18. Where are you now?
    Sydney.
19. When is your birthday?
    April 9.
20. What is your shoe size?
    UK 41.
21. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone?
    Dad – he called about my biometric passport.
22. How many pets do you have?
    None.
23. Any new and exciting news?
    I’m going to Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Francisco in December – my first time travelling to the United States!
24. What did you want to be when you were little?
    A famous person.
25. How are you today?
    Same old, same old.
26. What is your favourite flower?
    White roses, yellow irises, saffron calla lilies.
27. What are you listening to right now?
    Street noise.
28. What is a day to which you’re looking forward?
    November 28, when I fly back to Singapore.
29. What is the last thing you ate?
    A slice of birthday cake.
30. Do you wish upon a star?
    No.
31. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be?
    Orange, only because ‘crayon’ makes me think of this.
32. What is your favourite soft drink?
    I’m more enthusiastic about juice now.
33. What is your favourite restaurant?
    Novus.
34. What is your hair colour?
    Black-brown.
35. What was your favourite toy as a child?
    Lego.
36. Diamonds or pearls?
    Diamonds. 
37. Summer or winter?
    Winter.
38. Chocolate or vanilla?
    Chocolate.
39. Coffee or tea?
    Coffee.
40. Sweet or salty?
    Sweet. 
41. When was the last time you cried?
    Sunday.
42. What is under your bed?
    Dust.
43. What did you do last night?
    Photoshopped.
44. What are you afraid of?
    Death, lizards.
45. How many keys are on your keyring?
    Eight.
46. How many years have you been working at your current job?
    I don’t work – I’ve been a mediocre undergraduate for three years.
47. What is your favourite day of the week?
    Saturday.
48. Do you make friends easily?
    So-so.
49. Do you like to find out stuff about your friends?
    I am a typical kay-poh.
50. Do you want your friends to respond to this meme?
    Yes.

Because I cannot turn Christopher down…

• People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs and replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.
• Tag five people to do this quiz; those who are tagged cannot refuse. These people must state who tagged them and are disallowed from tagging the person by whom they were tagged.

1. Do you have secrets?
   Yes.
2. Would you fall in love with a younger male/female?
   I already have – Gerard is younger by two months.
3. Do you enjoy going to school?
   Yes. I am a major nerd.
4. What would you do with a billion dollars?
   Repay outstanding loans, especially to my parents who have heavily (and foolishly) invested in my university education.
   Donate a sum to worthy causes.
   Buy tons of things.
5. Would you love your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend again?
   Yes.
6. Which is more blessed – loving or being loved?
   Loving. There’s nothing like unrequited love.
7. List out your 15 favourite songs.
   City Of Blinding Lights, U2
   One, U2
   Broken Sonnet, Hale
   Always On Your Side, Sheryl Crow feat. Sting
   I Could Not Ask For More, Edwin McCain
   Kissing In The Rain, Tori Amos
   Love Song, Sara Bareilles
   Happy Everafter In Your Eyes, Ben Harper
   Time, Billy Porter
   No Other Love, Heart
   Sexyback, Justin Timberlake
   Release The Stars, Rufus Wainwright
   Be Be Your Love, Rachael Yamagata
   Kissing You, Des’ree
   Collide, Howie Day
8. If you are single and your crush is attached, what would you do?
   Wait patiently for Roger Federer to break off his engagement to Mirka Vavrinec.
9. Is there anything that has made you extremely happy?
   Barack Obama becoming the 44th President of the United States – I’m still riding on that high.
10. What makes you angry?
    Stupidity.
    Ignorance.
    Bad manners.
    Know-it-alls.
11. How would you see yourself in 10 years?
    Hopefully closer to my idealistic goal of changing the world… Seriously.
12. Currently, who are the most important people to you?
    Mum, Dad, Vanessa, Christopher, Gerard, Kay-Lene, Gen, Davina, Tina, Joachim, Valerie - the list goes on.
13. What is the most important thing in life?
    Graciousness.
14. Are you single or attached?
    Attached.
15. What is your favourite colour?
    Red.
16. Would you give all in a relationship?
    Yes.
17. What would be the first thing you say/shout when you reach the peak of Mount Everest?
    “WHEW!”
18. What are you doing now?
    Relishing post-semester bliss.
    Yawning. 
19. Do you prefer coffee or chocolate drinks?
    Coffee.
20. Tag five people.
    Kay-Lene
    Davina
    Amy
    Eliss
    Joachim