sensibility

Afnan's tag, yo.

1. Do you believe in love at first sight?
Sure, why not. then i can break into song a la Kylie Minogue ("baybee when i saw you,for the first time i knew-we were meant to be in lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ve"), with funny looking back-up dancers in the background.

2. Have you ever felt stupid? Why?
Why, what an excellent question. Yes, i've felt stupid too many times, in fact. i have exceeded the quota for number of times one should feel stupid. why? for a varying range of reasons, some quite obvious, others more obscure. who would have thought that a 2 dollar australian coin could make me feel stupid?

3. Where is the place that you want to go the most?
Oh give me a hooooome, where the buffaloes roaaaam, where the deers and the antelopes plaaaaaaay....where seldom is heaaaaard, a discouraging woooord, and the skies are not cloudy all daaaaaay.

4. If you can have one dream come true, what would it be?
I'd want the pelampung dream to come true, that'd be good(i blogged a bit about a certain pelampung dream some time ago. if you can't remember and can't be bothered to look it up, good on you. it's not worth looking up, seriously. and i'd want the dream that made me snort hari tu to come true too.

5.Do you believe in seeing a rainbow after the rain?
It'd be so much more fun to answer this question in a literal sense, rather than the silver-lining metaphorical sense. Yes, i believe in seeing a rainbow after the rain. In fact there was this one time me and my sister saw two rainbows at once after it rained, which was fantastic, save for the fact we were stuck in a traffic jam at that time surrounded by depressed drivers.

6. Do you like being who you are today?
Aisy. i'm tired of these questions. can i answer them with things i did today? my exams are finished, yo.

7. If you win $1 million, what would you do?
I borrowed dvds and went on a mini-shopping stint avec ma camarade de chambre, Jia Yee. My last paper was for french tadi. did you know that in french, potatoes are called pommes de terre, which litterally translates to 'apples of the ground'? it got me thinking, why are potatoes named after apples, why not the other way around? then i realized that wah, the french are very pandai. it's so much prettier to say 'apples of the ground' rather than 'potatoes of the tree', no?

8. If you meet someone you love, would you confess to him/her?
Bring on the movies! the food! the chick lit! God, chick lit would be good now. oh oh! Bring on the Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak album, yeaaaaa!


9. who are the top 5 people in world you would like to meet?

ho-ho, i dug this up from one of the drafts back in march, when uni first started.

"And to be honest, I think I’m still suffering from culture shock, in a sense. For one thing, suddenly there’s mat salleh everywhere. And, for some reason that may seem stupid and bizarrely wacko, I am intimidated by them. And I detest the fact I am intimidated by them because that seems to insinuate that I subconsciously consider them superior to asians. And that’s just fucking dumb, because they’re not. We’re equal, maybe in different ways, but we are. Aren’t we? And there’s that paranoia of racism. Not open, I-hate-you-because-you’re-asian-and therefore-not-pure sort of racism, I mean, the subtle, sub-conscious kind. Like serving caucasian patrons better in a restaurant. Or behaving more warmly towards mat salleh as compared to non mat salleh.

Chop, recap here. It’s only a paranoia. I’m not saying it’s actually happened. ok?

I feel irrepressibly dorky next to those confident aussie people. I’m the awkward asian dweeb. A.A.D.".

i wonder if my perceptions have changed.

10. What are the requirements you wish from your other half?
Who are you people and why are you so happening?

I swear, if anything fuels the fires of ‘the grass is greener…’, it would be facebook. with facebook, you feel like life is one big party where everyone already knows each other, but for some reason you’ve missed out on an invitation.

Damn these online networking utilities.

11. Which type of car do you love the most?
This obligation to please people, it gets tiresome every once in a while. please your uncles and aunties, please your cousins, please the salespeople, please the people on the street handing out brochures, please your tutor, please yourself.

12. Please put one quote below.
'I'm not a vegetarian because i love animals, i'm a vegetarian because i hate vegetables'. i read that quote in the papers or a magazine and i can't remember who said it, but i thought it was amusing.

13. If you have faults, would you rather people point them out to you, or would you rather they keep quiet?
i'm sorry afnan, i'll make it up to you with a better tag response next time, betul!

14. What is the most important thing in your life?
I'm going to have croissants for breakfast tomorrow.

15. Are you a shopaholic or not?
Azrieal and I endured a sales promo talk at the supermarket just now, all in the name of obtaining a free paring knife.

16.What kind of electronic device/gadget that you own do you like the most?
Apparently the uni had electric devices that detect mobile phones installed in the toilets at the exam building. just in case we were thinking of going to the toilet in the midst of an exam to call up people and ask for answers.("Hi shao, it's me. how do you calculate the purchases when doing budgeting?you don't know? you're not sure? go look it up in the notes in my accounting file. CEPAT! i only got a couple minutes before one of the facilitators start looking for me).

17. If you had the chance, which part of your character would you like to change?
Pancakes and ice cream sound good at the moment.

18. Are you a family woman?
The guy handing out pamphlets just now called me "ma'am". My external reaction as he held the pamphlet to me was "no, thank you". my internal reaction was "hoi ingat aku tua ke ape, ape ma'am-ma'am!".

19. If given the chance, would you want to see your future?
The flashes from the trams as they pass by our apartment remind me of Back to the Future.

20. Will you get married?
We'll see.