the title of this meme didn’t make sense to me, really – when i was tagged by the sheepwoman. the 25 things you never want to know about me are pretty much the things i never want you to know about.

the meme will probably look like this:

1. i —– —- —— ——- ——- —– ——.
2. my —- —– — —- — ——- —— — i —– — — — — ——.
3. i —- — —– ——- —— —.
4. i —- ——– — ———- —-. — ——— ——— — —– —-, —- —– — —– —–.
5. —– — — — i —– i — — —- —- —.
etc etc.

until i saw how mooke did hers (she tagged me as well), i realised it’s a mere list of 25 things. then again, i probably can’t even think of 15 things, let alone 25. and yes, senor corporate sellout, i have been thinking about this on the car during my daily commute. probably boleh la kot dua puluh lima. because of you two, beta mencemar duli blog beta dengan entry picisan ini. heh.

1. i wear two and a half shirts for work a week – one on monday and wednesday, the other on tuesday and thursday. friday is worn monday (but with a different jacket/sweater/cardigan), and it goes on.
2. i didn’t inherit the kesukanan gene – my dad played rugby for school and my late mom was a sprinter and state hockey player.
3. on that note, i learnt the offside rule not from my dad, but from my mom.
4. despite my chosen career, i have fainted/nearly fainted as a result of observing medical procedures. twice.
5. i can pig out on whipped potato, never mind the fried chicken, every time i go to KFC.
6. i still don’t eat greens. okay, i do eat some (carrots, salad, mange tout etc) – but not sawi/kangkung/bayam or anything that resembles a tree.
7. i hate durians. with a vengeance. since i was three, i hasten to add (nothing to do with being away from home, eh).
8. since we’re on the subject of fruit, i used to only eat bananas and apples. now the repertoire includes grapes, oranges and strawberries. and kiwi fruit. i don’t eat manggis, duku/langsat, ciku and nangka.
9. there was a period in my life when there was no one in sheffield to jam with, i could play rhythm guitar along with metallica for the entire duration of their two-and-a-half-hour show on DVD.
10. i hate heights.
11. when i was in primary school, i used to secretly fancy girls who were prefects. prefectorial crushes ended when i was in first form.
12. i only made prefect in upper sixth.
13. i could recall by heart all the piccadilly line tube stations from heathrow to kings x (in order) when i lived in london for three months in the summer of 1990.
14. when i was sixteen, i once acted in a 20-minute sketch onstage. the entire sketch was in french. and no, i don’t speak the language.
15. i wouldn’t be here in sheffield today (or know any of you lot!) if my dad had accepted a job offered to him when i was four, as it would’ve meant all of us living in eskilstuna, sweden.
16. i have been driving for 22 years, but i have only driven in central KL once in my entire life.
17. i am a hypocritical animal lover, as i still eat meat and wear leather shoes.
18. the last A grade i ever received in a test was in my first winter term exam at medical school. it was downhill from that point onwards.
19. the last film i saw with my entire family in a cinema was jurassic park at sentosa PJ in section 17. the cinema has since been burnt to the ground. arson, apparently.

for nos. 19 to 25, i once did a meme of six. there you go, twenty five.