Q

So recently I’ve been going on about either books or just straight off the tangent. Was planning to go into Franny and Zooey but I thought I’d save it for after Rei does one on Catcher.

In an attempt to fulfill the self-indulgence quota of online journaling, and to introduce some form of cosmos (Greek: order) (ah, words) into this space, let’s do one of those primary school favorites!

1. Are you in a job that you truly enjoy?

Starting next week at Resorts World and I’ll probably like it (a lot more than office jobs, I’m sure). I’ll much prefer unemployment though.

2. If you could do any job in the world what would it be?

Food reviewer and part-time mattress tester. Although I still stick by my dream of unemployment.

3. If you could be a character in a novel who would you be?

Charlie of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. For obvious reasons. Realistically though I’m much more of an Augustus Gloop (fat boy who can’t stop eating) or Veruca (SQUIRREL I WANT SQUIRREL!) Salt.

On a deeper level, because Charlie has almost no characterization besides being incredibly obedient. I can never imagine casting myself as someone else, so with someone character-less it’ll just be like possessing his body. And his chocolate paradise.

4. When it comes to spending time with those you love, do you think it should be about quality or quantity?

Quality. Always quality. I suck at the quantity part but I’m very fussy about quality.

5. Is there a job/career you wanted but realized you couldn’t possibly do for one reason or another?

Is this meme deliberately jabbing at my hopeless wishes to be unemployed forever? Because unemployed forever is what I wish for but can’t. Bastard meme.

6. If you could live anywhere in the world or out of this world where would you live?

Suspended in the middle of the universe, wherever that is. The point of singularity where everything else expands outwards from (although.. this may not actually be the case. Okay cosmo-geekery for later).

7. Which skill would you like to learn?

To play the saxophone. To master the dead languages.

8. What made you laugh today?

HAHA Theron: “IT FUCKING MEANS LITTLE MOON… I need to lie down.”

9. If there was one charity you could give a huge contribution to, which charity would it be and why?

SPCA. I don’t know I feel more for animals than anything else. Maybe because it’s so hard for them to articulate their suffering and they are so clueless.

10. What are your views on the smoking ban in public places?

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I don’t really care. Unless they smoke near my hair.

11. Why do you blog?

It just happened and I haven’t stopped since. Seven years.

12. Do you have a favorite author?

Amelié Nothomb, bitches.

13. Can you play any musical instruments?

The recorder, the tambourine and the uke. I’m planning to learn the Jew’s Harp next.

14. What would your ideal car be?

A Volkswagen with a really sick audio system.

15. Describe yourself in one short sentence.

Are you kidding me.

16. What do you look for in a spouse/other half?

Intelligence.

17. Worst meal you’ve had?

WASABI ICE CREAM FOREVER. Celine Ong.

18. What do you do to relax in the evening?

Some after-meal dessert.

19. Do you get along with your siblings?

Considering the years I’ve subjected her to psychological experiments and torture, we’re alright

25. Do you you have any regrets?

Yes like anyone else, but I actively make sure I don’t do anything I’ll regret, and I’m good at justifying my decisions/getting over things.

26. Put your iTunes on shuffle and list the first 6 songs.

– wannapunch!, Shuta Hasunuma
– Academia…, Sia
– what the world will never take, Hillsong
– If you were an Alien, The Brunettes
– Tahquamenon Falls, Sufjan Stevens
– Title and Registration, Deathcab

27. If you could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?

Those I really want to are fictional, unfortunately, or dead. Maybe Stalin.

28. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 23, give me line 17.

‘run after him, shouting, “Dear Little Beggar, Dear Little Beggar!”‘

29. What do you think about most?

Seriously? Food.

30. What does your latest text message from someone else say?

Nat: Just walked past some h&m adverts. Seem like they advertising boho eh

31. Do you sleep with or without clothes on?

Used to without but now with. Just not.. everything.

32. What’s your strangest talent?

If I rely directly on instincts, I can predict time to the exact minute. And this is after a few hours without checking the clock.

I believe that everyone has this ability actually if they trust their instincts enough. It’s like how you’ll set the alarm to 7 and wake at 6.59pm. Despite relativity and different experiences of the same time period, our biological clocks have gone through time for so many years it’s impossible not to be incredibly attuned to it.

33. Women…. (finish the sentence); Men…. (finish the sentence)

Women are humans; men are too. Attempts at psychologically dividing them are illusory and arbitrary.

34. Ever had a poem or song written about you?

Yes. I was traumatized.

35. When is the last time you played the air guitar?

I’m guessing with the mugs when we reach that embarrassing point of non-alcoholic drunken chaos.

36. Do you have any strange phobias?

I’m equal parts fascinated and terrified by aliens.

37. Ever stuck a foreign object up your nose?

Ew no, I don’t even stick my finger up there. It is truly horrific.

Celine on the other hand, stuck earphones up hers and amplified music through her mouth.

38. What’s your religion?

Christian.

39. If you are outside, what are you most likely doing?

EATING. Why my life like that. Or doing social inappropriate things.

40. Do you prefer to be behind the camera or in front of it?

In front of digital, behind film.

41. Simple but extremely complex. Favorite band?

Starfucker, but many others come close.

42. What was the last lie you told?

Z: “You’re getting prettier and prettier!”
Me: “No la, no la.”

43. Do you believe in karma?

I have serious doubts about criminal justice, still can’t fully understand divine justice, and have even more trouble trusting karma.

44. What does your URL mean?

Rictusempra. The Perpetual Tickling Spell, as in the Harry Potter series.

45. What is your greatest weakness; your greatest strength?

Pride; everything else.
swidt.

46. Who is your celebrity crush?

Matthew Gray Gubler I guess? I’m not a very celebrity crush type person.

47. Have you ever gone skinny dipping?

No because that’s sexual harassment. Why I think that would stop me I don’t know.

48. How do you vent your anger?

I’m really lame. I just get slightly quieter and not show anything. Then I’ll cry when no one is around. Seldom though.

OR. As Cleo likes to remind me, what I shared during CME in primary school:
“I was so angry I knocked over the fan!”
Teacher: “Then what did you do after that?”
“I picked it up.”

50. Do you have a collection of anything?

I used to collect Pokemon cards, batteries (before Arthur Weasley made it cool) and watches.

51. Do you prefer talking on the phone or video chatting online?

If I’m wearing pants, video. I gesticulate and emote a lot even on the phone and without an audience that’s a phenomenal waste of energy.

52. In your opinion, what makes a great relationship?

Respect, trust and genuine concern. Oh and fun.

53. How did/could someone win your heart?

Impress me deep enough which is not very easy because I am deceivingly brilliant.

54. In your world, what brings on more creativity?

Integration. Of everything. Science, arts, ideas, people, nature. Creativity is how much your mind can merge varied or even divisive topics.

55. What is the single best decision you have made in your life so far?

Taking Drama in St. Nicks.

56. Why did you break up with your last ex?

I’m not good at showing people how much I like them.

57. What would you want to be written on your tombstone?

“They are lucky to have her up there.”

58. What is your current desktop picture?

Minimalist Pokemon. Currently Cyndaquil.

59. If you could press a button and make anyone in the world instantaneously explode, who would it be?

I wouldn’t touch the damn button. Also, is this what’s behind Spontaneous Combustion? Scientists have been on this for decades.

60. One night you wake up because you heard a noise. You turn on the light to find that you are surrounded by WEEPING ANGELS. The Weeping Angles aren’t really doing anything, they’re just standing around your bed. What would you do?

The Time Lord has taught me to locate the one without another angel staring at it and stare back and NOT BLINK.

Although if you want to get Doctor Who technical, this situation is highly implausible.

61. You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What is that power?

Change color of things. I don’t trust myself with serious extraterrestrial powers. I’ll either kill myself or everyone else.

62. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?

I’m good at blocking out or getting over things that upset me, especially if they were a past event. So if you ask me now there’s really nothing (I can remember).

63. You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice. (let’s say that you are both single and available) Who might it be?

All the musicians I like are sexually unappealing.

Pete Quaife of the Kinks? He is also dead.

Damn I love talking about myself.