goggles gone

Rules of the game:

1. Post 5 weird/random stuff about yourself.

2. At the end, list the names of 5 people whom you want next to do this, and leave a comment "YOU ARE TAGGED!" in their blog and tell them to read your blog for rules.

Ok so here goes:

1. i enjoy listening to some Chinese songs (currently playing on com: ji4 de2 by A* Mei) even though more often than not i don't know what they are talking about (though i know this one means 'remember'...) and singing them whenever possible (shui hai ji de shi shui xian shuo yong yuan de ai wo...)

2. i have nearly drowned at least three times (those that i can remember)

3. i can identify the average species of bird that you spot locally. [for example: that family of birds that congregate at the tree outside of my window are Yellow-Vented Bulbuls (pycnonotus goiavier) and those black-and-white birds that often appear in the bushes next to the arts canteen green tables are Magpie Robins (copsychus saularis)] [Ok lah, just the english names, i'm not that bo liao, the latin ones i had to refer to my guide book to obtain...]

4. i am not afraid of crowds, but have an extreme aversion to them, particularly in enclosed spaces (e.g. crowded lifts)

5. i don't eat papayas because of the multi-sensory sense of association that i have of them with vomit [as in taste (like vomit), smell (nauseating), sight (that paleish orangey tinge), touch (mushy) and hearing (the mushy sounds when chewed).

5 people ah... wah so many, i'll just stick with three...

I pick: Mei Si, Maicie and meimei.

Hey wait a minute, i hear you ask, are not they all the same person? *jialat!*

Weeell, not fully, since the person in question has exhibited so many split personalities that one tag alone does not do the little community of people residing within her mind justice...

*whaaaatttt*

Oh, and anyway, back to the topic of this post.

Before MEETing today, and inspired by the clear weather that has finally come back after weeks of rain, went for a swim at school, since i was headed there anyway to do some sep stuff. Unfortunately, i just lost my pair of goggles, which are probably either somewhere in the deep recesses of my room or in the lost-and-found of the src pool from the last time i was there. But i couldn't locate them in the former and couldn't be bothered to inquire at the latter. So i decided to try and swim without them today, and see how things would go.

Turns out that my eyes are not as sensitive to the chlorinated water as i thought, still was able to keep eyes open, and could still see (albeit very blur images only - can't count the number of times i langga the lane divider, and almost langga other swimmers as well) Only side-effect was red eyes afterwards. Furthermore no worries about reverse-panda eyes appearing on my face due to goggle-tan lines...

But still feels weird leh, so will still buy a new pair.