In Minus TwentyThree Degree Weather & The "6 Things" Game

In Minus TwentyThree Degree Weather...

• Your car refuses to start, just like a student who refuses to go to school because going to school in this kind of cold is crazy.
• Your joints freeze, and you're most likely to get arthritis 20 times faster.
• Sitting on a cold, plastic toilet seat is the last thing you want to do but need to do it because #2 has been bothering you.
• You desperately want to drink something hot, but ironically end up scalding your tongue.
• You flail your arms and walk in circles to keep circulation going in your fingers and toes.
• Smoking a cigarette is an illusion for warmth.
• Rubbing your hands together for warmth is useless because your gloves are on.
• The boogers in your nose literally solidify.

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The "6 Things" Game

So I already got tagged by Ches and Sana to do this.

"Those who get tagged must post 6 weird things about themselves in their blog and state the rules clearly. At the end of the post, you must choose 6 other people to tag."

Weird Thing One
I can understand leet. Please ignore my leet and see me ice-skating on REAL ice.



Some of my friends were expecting me to fall down. But not today! Because I have experience from...

BRUNEIAN WAX SKATING.

None of my friends would believe that there was such a thing called "wax" skating.

I couldn't believe it either when I first tried it out back in Brunei. There was so much friction between the skates and the wax surface I thought I could smell something burning.




Weird Thing Two
I'm in Chemical Engineering.

Weird Thing Three
I was told that I talk in my sleep. I wonder what I would be saying...




Weird Thing Four
I bought these two albums right after Primary 6 in 2000.


Maybe it is a little embarrassing, but everyone's gotta' start somewhere. As of today, the Britney Spears CD is lost (not intentionally). I remember that CD came with a bonus disc with some of her earlier videos. "Oops I did it again...~"


Weird Thing Five
I had a somewhat traumatic and somehow comic experience with snoring.

It happened when I was in the US with my family in `99. We (the entire family) spent one evening sleeping in the living room of a friend we visited in San Diego.

We took our rest after spending almost the entire day sight-seeing. I was expecting to get some good sleep...
UNTIL...

My dad started snoring.

I tried to ignore it.

BUT THEN...

My brother started to snore as well.

I really tried my best to ignore the Snore Duo.

But it was impossible! Their snores somewhat got me irritated so much I started crying.

And then Mom wakes up to my crying and asks me what's wrong.

I tell her, "They're snoring so loud!!!"

She replies by saying "Hainako it's only snoring" then goes back to sleep.

Now that I look back it. It's so hilarious.

Hainako - Tagalog slang for "Omygoodness"

Weird Thing Six
I used to watch The Bold and The Beautiful a lot, for almost 4-5 months.


And this woman is my favorite character.

And I find it crazy that this soap opera is still going after 5000 episodes.

I also think this woman is pretty. She's from Everybody Loves Raymond.



And I tag thee; Conan, Teo, JD, Amilyn, Kevin Loh (I doubt he'll rise to the task) and Jasmine Yap!

Actually six weird things feel incomplete. So...


Weird Thing Seven!
Sometimes I talk to the two cats that live in my house right now. But only when no one is looking.

Emo Fo Sho

So Ches and his friend Sam have created their emo music lists. Now it's my turn!

Perhaps the word EMO has won the award for 'Most Over-used Word of This Decade'. I personally think this word has been misused and abused the way the word GAY has been used. I remember calling some things 'GAY' just because it didn't appeal to me...

You know, like calling a question on a Math assignment GAY because it was hard to solve.

I remember Jonan telling me the word GAY was being misused.
While Jason, still says GAY in every other 5-6 sentences in conversations.

Anyway, according to Ches (The Meaning Monkey), emo music allows you to emotionally wallow.

So here's my list and some reasons why I picked them, and why I find it emotionally wallowable ( if that has any meaning =P ).

My Emo Salad Bar Music List

Bent - Swollen
I don't really understand the lyrics to this song. But I admire the hypnotic set of beats and arrangement of wailing strings. This is actually a head-nodder for me, but can make me feel real down and anti-social real quickly. It doesn't take much to get me out of a bad mood though!

Emilianna Torrini - If You Go Away
Perhaps the most depressing minimal ballad I have ever heard. This song was played in an old Christina Ricci movie titled 'Pumpkin'. Long story short, I feel that this song could probably drive someone so love-lorn to suicide.

Evanescence - Hello
"Don't try to fix me / I'm not broken". This line really speaks to me.

Roger Sanchez - Another Chance (Afterlife Remix)
I remember crying a little to this track because my close friend went away.

Linkin Park - Krwlng [From Reanimation]
I really enjoyed this extended, cinematic version of the original. Back in my early teens, I always imagined myself as a human experiment trying to escape from some shoddy scientists in a dark, light-flickering-on-and-off laboratory. If that wasn't bizarre enough, by the last chorus of the song, I imagined myself literally crawling for help because the shoddy scientists shot me with leg-paralyzing needles.

Relient K - Which To Bury, Us Or The Hatchet
"I tried to move you, but you just wouldn't budge
I tried to hold your hand but you'd rather hold your grudge"
Amazing lyric in my opinion. This song is quite typical of a quote-unquote 'emo song', but whatever. I was drawn to this one by it's melody and somewhat "I don't hate you, but right now I just don't like you" lyrics. After listening to the Relient K album I ended up making up "Kiss me now, I'll kill us later".

Well that's all I could think of at the moment.

This has been sort of fun. This post has sort of called me to re-evaluate my tastes in music. I'll talk about that tomorrow.

And lastly, I don't think hip-hop and rap music will ever have anything emo to talk about. Ne-Yo's "So Sick" is a slight exception though.

I believe Eamon's "I Don't Want You Back" is probably the weakest song in terms of lyrics. Just saying the "F-word" 33 times will not get the point across. It will only make you sound like a baby, and get you shot, if you're talking to the wrong person.

Okay I'm done rambling with that song.