8 random facts/habits

I was tagged by Magenta.

1. Each blogger must post these rules first.
2. Each blogger starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. Bloggers that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they've been tagged, and to read your blog.

1. I like to sleep
2. I sleep weird
3. Although I like sleeping, I always stay up late
4. I like to read
5. At any given time, I would be reading more than one material
   
6. Maybe because of that I can barely remember anything I've read (or maybe I'm just plain thick)
   
7. I am having trouble fitting into my skinny pants
8. I am getting fat (or maybe I expand a bit in this hot weather, sour grape sour grape lalala)
   

I tag:

GM
Fatin
Kudo

3 sudahlah.

Tagged! (yes, again)

I've been tagged by Lucius Maximus, whose blog I visit rather religiously for its down-to-earth commentaries on the recent election. It's not exactly high brow the things he's tagging me for, but as I'm not exactly as smart as Ipretend to be sometimes, it is befitting I reckon.

So it's about what's in my wallet.

An introduction to my wallet. It's a grey Mandarina Duck, a birthday gift from the ever generous Tall Dane (who's out travelling in Argentina at the moment, luv, remember what I said, don't drink too much, wink). It's from the same collection as my sling bag which I bought in Venice, under the influence of the Tall Dane aka Evil European Slave Driver (as I am the Cheap Asian Labour to her) which I bought before realizing that I was quite in a deep financial shit (full realization came when I got back to London, but that's another looooooooong story). She got it in Turin. Hmm, just realized that my Ducks were all bought in Italy where of course, things are much cheaper.

So what's in the wallet that I really treasure?

1. £5
2. RM 200, not in main wallet compartment. Emergency money.
   
3. $6 US (from my travel to Vietnam. I can't remember why it's there in my new wallet, as it was not there in my old one)
4. 50 Kroner from Christmas with the Jorgensens in Denmark. Why do I still have it? I reckon it's because it has an image of Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) whose adventure in running a coffee plantation in South Africa I really admire. I admire her spirit and her courage and her sense of wonder. Such an inspiration.
5. Student cards from various institution I was privileged enough to attend.
6. 4 credit cards, because I'm deep in debt.
7. 1 debit card, which balance I monitor closely because of a traumatic year.
8. My Malaysian Driving License, which would expire in May this year. Also for some reason my L license. Thank you to first boyfriend for giving me a refresher driving lesson. I still keep the spare key to your car. Do you want it back? Do you still drive the ABF?
   
9. Youth hostel card. Because I travel cheap.
10. My Malaysian ID. Because I'm used to carrying it back at home and it made itself useful whenever people want to check my age. Specially here where I look about 12 years old.
11. A Nectar card. For shopping for groceries at Sainsbury's.
12. My Malaysian SIM card.
13. 1 Danish Krone which came with the wallet. The Tall Dane said that in her culture you shouldn't give a wallet as a present without putting some money into it.
14. Some passport photos of moi. A passport photo of my mom in black and white in her youth, which people sometimes confuse with me.
15. A ring from an ex. It's still there because I just moved it from one wallet to another without thinking much. Now that I see it again, perhaps I should ditch it. I'll try to remember it the next time I'm near the Thames.
16. The warranty card for the wallet.
17. And of course, some receipts! I am a girl after all as dear Enche Lucius has kindly pointed out.

Whom should I tag?

All those in my blog roll. You know who you are, although of course some of them probably don't even know they're there. Take Farish Noor for example. I don't think he'll write about the content of his wallet on The Other Malaysia any time soon. Or the Perlis mufti come to think of that.

Hmm, OK lah. I tag:

GM

47

Magenta (or have you been tagged already?)

Kristian (because your blog is so dead)

Ila of Yorkshire

Have fun people! Happy Easter to all!

The Weakest Link

I haven't done this tagging thing for quite some time (mostly because I don't really get tagged anymore), but thanks to The Kimster whose level of acidity seems to get better when he bitches about work, I'll do it. Anyhoo, it's not as banal as some of the other tags I've seen lately and would probably worth half an hour of my life to spend on it (ok ok it's not like I have anything better to do).

THE LINKING TAG: The rules

1. List out five favourite links - the links can be of business sites, affiliate links or whatever that suits the blogger.
2. Tag five more people to share their links, so hopefully, at the end of the tag, we would be able to share good links with each other.
3. The links MUST be clean. No X-rated sites (which basically put my blog out of the running).
4. List out only FIVE links.
5. You MUST tell FIVE people you choose.
6. Provide the link back to the person who tagged you.
7. Obviously, it should be an active link.

So folks, the following are the five links I visit regularly:

1. The first one would be BBC Weather London for obvious reasons. I now bitch about the weather rather regularly too so I reckon I'm assimilating rather well into the culture here (that and drinking copious amount of Coke at the pub that I could sometimes feel like it's burnt a hole through my insides, Coke can taste rather corrosive after the 3rd pint).
2. I visit BBC News for some updates on what's happening in the world. It's even better when I'm feeling down, and reading about those terrible things happening elsewhere makes me feel like I don't really have a problem actually. Not that I rejoice the misfortunes of others, but my troubles could barely compete with what the Burmese people are facing right now. And that makes me feel grateful.
3. Like the Kimster, I occasionally go into facebook to check on updates of my mates. Am not acting like my life depends on it, but mainly because I went through that phase with Friendster, which I only visit these days if I receive a message or a comment.
   
4. I also visit shoebox for a good laugh. Such wit and wisdom! Ok the wisdom bit is arguable but you get my drift.
5. From shoebox, I'd always click on the icanhascheezburger link because those cats sure make me laugh all the time.

The 5 bloggers who are lucky (or unlucky, depending on how you look at it) to be tagged by me would be (drumroll please):

1. Shazlin
2. 47
   
3. Kish
4. Mooke
5. Idlan

I'm lazy to further customize the entry from this point forward so I'm just gonna put what The Kimster wrote to end his. Besides, it's funny.

Share this link with five people and you will receive a large fortune in your life in the next two weeks where an elephant will appear at your front door bearing gifts from The Right Honourable Mahmood Dawood IIV, from the family Dawood in northwest Africa who just died, leaving behind a large amount of money which we are trying to disburse. So can you help us and provide your bank account details?

Failure to share this link will (or rather, might) result in Samy Vellu losing his Parliamentary seat in the coming general election (some will argue this is not necessarily a bad thing).

Tagged by Kish

Seven things to be done before I die
1. travel all around the world
2. get my pilot license
3. master at least 2 other languages
4. take up life drawing classes (an excuse to see naked men on a close range)
5. build something
6. learn philosophy and religion (maybe theology) in an objective manner
7. learn how to feel again

Seven things I will not do, even if it kills me.
1. hurt other people purposely
2. stop thinking
3. abuse animals
4. let other people tell me how to live my life
5. stop reading
6. stop being curious
7. impose my values on others

Seven things I do when I'm away from the public.
there's a reason why i do things when i'm away from the public, and airing them here would defeat the purpose.

Seven fave sentences/quotes/expressions
1. it's funny...
2. you know what's funny...
3. don't you think it's funny...
4. i'm hungry
5. ... or maybe i'm just greedy
6. bloody hell
7. carpe diem

Seven songs
1. tender by blur
2. daughters by john mayer
3. anything by p ramlee
4. old lagu raya (old eid songs)
5. november rain by guns and roses
6. anything by coldplay
7. old Malay songs


Seven things I'll make you wish you didn't do if you did.
1. litter in front of me
2. tell me to do things and use the excuse 'because you have to'
3. tell me not to question things
4. tell me to accept things without further explanation
5. be disrespectful to my values
6. use my conscience and moral values as weapons to inflict guilt
7. lie