I find the '25 random things about me' note going around facebook interesting and a good waste of time, but do not wish to publish it there. So here goes:

1. I have a huge thing for brown eyes, I can melt in them like ice-cream on a summer's day. I have gushed about it before, nothing new =p I don't like eyes that are too big, cos I think they are too honest-looking. And I find inner double eyelids and long eyelashes mesmerising.

2. I'm on my fourth life. I almost died by way of drowning in a sea off Thailand, getting smashed by a falling flower pot and getting run over by a steamroller-esque vehicle in chinatown.

3. I wanted to be a doctor when I was young but realised I was afraid of blood and internal organs and whatnot. I still squirm when I see operations with all those reddish squishy internal organs on TV. How can they show that man?! And always flashes unexpectedly in advertisements somemore.

4. I am intrigued by left-handers. I used to have a year-long crush on a secondary school classmate who was a left-hander, my ex bf was a left-hander, my dad is a left-hander.

5. The first channel I turn to when I switch on the TV is Discovery Travel and Living. Love cooking shows and travel shows, better still are food travel shows. It has bred a streak of wanderlust in me, and I would especially love to wander to Europe!

6. I am afraid of most animals except dogs. I used to love dogs so much that I read and re-read this 'Dog breed' book cover to cover till I could remember hundreds of breeds. I especially love big dogs like golden retrievers, collies, and huskies =) Haha, bet you didn't know I am afraid of almost anything else if they come too near me - fishes, birds, rabbits. Oh no please I hope they never touch me.

7. I absolutely love seafood and my ex bf was allergic to seafood. Haha.. talk about a bad match.

8. My dream house is a penthouse with full-length windows that overlook the big city lights from fifty storeys high. My other dream house also has full-length windows, one side overlooking the sea, one side overlooking rolling hills.

9. My idea of a perfect sunday is lying on the beach, playing with sand and soaking my feet in the sea. I could sit and watch the ebb and flow of the waves for hours at end. It's just so natural and beautiful, and peaceful too. When the waves crash in they seemingly want to cling on to the shore, failing everytime. Yet they calmly continue, again and again, in a rhythm that seems to say 'let it be, let it be'.

10. I wanna go to Labrador Park and go into the old tunnels of Pasir Panjang Fort.

11. I always read before I sleep, even when I'm already tired. It's like a ritual that doesn't take a day off unless I'm half-dead.

12. I smoke, drink, gamble and do drugs. Well I have to smoke about what I learn about drug regulation, it's my job, haha.

13. I can't cut straight. I'm just a total loser with a pair of scissors.

14. I have a hyperacidic stomach which I make use of from time to time when I need an MC to pon quizzes. But it's improving and I'm turning to everyone else's old standby now, the headache.

15. I enjoy eating out, jogging, and going to the movies alone.

16. I've been thinking of getting a tattoo for some time now but I'm afraid my parents will knock out, or knock ME out and transport me somwhere to get it removed.

17. I love rain. Yet another thing that I'm so obsessed about I've blogged about it before. I liked it when the skies darkened and the whole corridor in school got cast in the shadow of the clouds, when the winds would rustle the leaves and carry them in swirls. Then come the descending droplets from above. To me it's magic.

18. I was born a catholic and went to sunday school with all the KC girls and St Pat's boys for 10 years. When you're a kid its quite fun, but it became a total burden as I grew older and started to have my own ideas. I am now a free-thinker leaning towards atheism. I simply believe in karma.

19. I want to lay my butt on whatever rollercoaster I can lay my butt on. But I have a phobia of viking ships.

20. I'm a pillow-whore. I have a head pillow, a leg pillow, a hard bolster, a soft bolster, and some kind of small pillow or soft-toy. Ideally along with a queen-sized bed and quilt.

21. I wish to own a sleek black car and drive it along ECP on a rainy night with the one I love. I always have visions of this and I know it'll happen one day.

22. I'm a sucker for the hand-written card, hand-made present, goouttamyway to surprise you kinda person. Who's intelligent and insightful and witty and sporty too. Haha.. Even if I make these choices on a high-tech machine for a robot like this, it may not be able to produce it =p

23. I just went to the toilet at my workplace and saw those two guys I think are hmm, not bad. One can speak nice cantonese and the other has nice stubble. They both look to be in their thirties and hold high positions. Not bad not bad. Haha.

24. I used to play the electone, guitar and tried to play on a saxophone my brother brought home for me. I wanna self-learn the piano and guitar again cos I think playing an instrument with feeling can be a very rewarding experience. Especially since I have so much emotion to let out.

25. The idea of working in the private sector is not appealing to me. Cos I cannot accept toiling my life away to earn money for a company. I need to do something meaningful. It reminds me of a quote that goes something like this - 'when you are gone, it doesn't matter how much you achieved, how much you earned.' What I would like to see when I look back on my life, is how many people I have impacted in positive ways, how many souls I have made happy.