What better reason?

Few like memes as much than I do.

1. Were you named after anyone?
   Not to my knowledge.
2. When was the last time you cried?
   Three days ago.
3. Do you like your handwriting?
   No. I write fugly.
4. What is your favourite lunch meat?
   Chicken (luncheon meat, be damned).
5. Do you have kids?
   No.
6. If you were another person, would you be friends with yourself?
   Yes.
7. Do you use sarcasm?
   Yes, but often with disastrous results that involve crickets chirping overhead.
8. Do you still have your tonsils?
   Yes.
9. Would you bungee jump?
   It ranks high on my ‘bucket list’.
10. What is your favourite cereal?
    I don’t know.
11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
    No.
12. What is your favourite ice cream?
    Again, I don’t know.
13. What is the first thing you notice about people?
    Their clothes – in first or last encounters, what they were wearing is all I remember.
14. Red or pink?
    Red.
15. What is your least favourite thing about yourself?
    Stammering and speaking too fast when I’m excited or nervous; my arrogance is a close second.
16. Whom do you miss most?
    No one? That’s not the right answer, is it?
17. Do you want everyone to complete this meme?
    Why not?
18. What are you listening to now?
    The whirring of my fan.
19. What are your favourite smells?
    Coffee, hotel lobbies, Estée Lauder’s White Linen, alcohol on a person’s breath, cigarette smoke on my clothes.
20. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
    My mother.
21. Do you like the person who sent this to you?
    It’s more of a ‘copy and paste’ initiative, but I do like her.
22. What are your favourite sports to watch?
    Tennis, soccer, American football, baseball, volleyball, cricket (I’m determined to figure it out), extreme winter sports – if you can’t do, watch.
23. What is your hair colour?
    Dark brown.
24. What is your eye colour?
    Black?
25. Do you wear contact lenses?
    No. I had LASIK in 2008.
26. What is your favourite food?
    I don’t have one.
27. Scary movies or happy endings?
    Happily ever after, please and thank you.
28. What is the last movie you watched?
    The Hurt Locker.
29. What colour is the shirt you’re wearing now?
    Army green (with a red star – it’s a Communist China T-shirt).
30. Summer or winter?
    Winter.
31. Hugs or kisses?
    XOXO.
32. Who is most likely to respond?
    Kay-Lene, because her blog needs a break from the melancholy!
33. Who is least likely to respond?
    Too many to count.
34. What book are you reading now?
    I’m struggling to complete three books – Like the Flowing River, My Life in France and Train Man.
35. What is on your mousepad?
    A shark (or a UFO with teeth, apparently).
36. What did you watch on TV last night?
    SportsCenter Asia on ESPN.
37. The Rolling Stones or The Beatles?
    John, Paul, George and Ringo.
38. What is the furthest you have been from home?
    Either Las Vegas, or the Grand Canyon.
39. Do you have a special talent?
    Yes.
40. Where were you born?
    Singapore.

Leave it to chance

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.

Les confidences de salon

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?’

Reprieve

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?

The syntax of a sentence

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.