Day 1 ;

Day 01- A recent picture of you and 15 10 (since I actually describe in detail and all hahaha!) interesting facts about yourself.

Buka puasa with my 6A2 mates @ Manhattan's! :)

So, here is day 1 of my blog challenge! :)

 I hope to get this through .. *crosses my fingers*

1) I'm a pure indie.

 Honestly, I don't really know if there is such a term and what definition does it carry haha. But, to me it's mean that I'm as indie as I can be. IN EVERYTHING. Take music for example. I will never listen to a band/artiste/genre/etc if it's the "current trend". To me, I create that trend. Yes, I'm an annoying hipster like that. And when it's starts to get mainstream or famous or basically when EVERYONE around me starts to check that certain music out, I'll drop it as fast as I pick it up. And this applies to tvshows, movies, games, apps etc. Well, most of it anyways. But if it's really good stuff, then I'll hang on to it no matter what. Like, Switchfoot. Now that is a combo of mainstream + indie which is hard to come by these days! ;) Yeap, I'm selfish (?)  like that. 

2) I pick up people's gelagat.

Oh this is quite cool & maybe a wee bit creepy. (If I may say so myself :p)  I sorta "collect" little characteristics or mini traits of people I come across or close friends that I know. And that can be in many forms ; catchphrase/favourite words, little habits, style, pet peeves, gestures, basically anything about them that I like about them and make them mine. I know it sounds creepy but in my naive mind, I'm trying to be indivisualistic as I can be. Perhaps, it's caused by my 'indie-ness'. LOL. Take the Korean aigoo and omo and ottohke or Daphne's cheese in every word possible hehehe or clasping my hands to express my excitement (?) like Dara or CL, or pausing and looking up into the blank air for ideas when I speak like GD or crosses my legs and act as poise and composed as possible like my lovely TOP and well, you get the drill.

3) I find washing dishes extremely therapeutic. In fact, I LOVE IT. 

Other than making sure all the dishes and forks & spoons etc super squeaky clean (cuz I'm a perfectionist like that), it actually calms me down and allow meself to get some thinking time. Usually, I will go through the day and analyze it, like what I should have done and whatnot.  Cleaning makes me happy in a way. Like, I'm "washing away" all my stress, all my crazy thoughts and how I'm reducing from getting flustered over the day or the week. It just takes away all that, even if it's for a fleet moment. And that applies also to (spring) cleaning and organising anything from my school files, book shelfs, tables etc. Another plus point would be that I can avoid awkward moments and unnecessary small talks (at parties) which I honestly despises. It's not even troublesome at all. Like I said, I LOVE WASHING DISHES. :) Then again, if the conversations are rather alive and not actually a bore, I wouldn't really bother with the dishes hehehe.

4) I find myself  rather contradicting in person.

Well, if you must know, I'm a Melancholic - with a teeny bit of Phlegmatic in nature. So, technically I'm naturally pessimistic. However, that doesn't necessarily equals to being a negative person - it just meant that I can foresee the consequences or the so-called dark side of a situation and be prepared for that. But then again, if I'm not careful and then allow myself to dwell in that, yes, then maybe I will rather negative in character. Since I realised that, I learn to NOT let it take over my life and let it be a dark and gloomy one. Instead, I choose to ALSO look on the bright side of things... I don't succeed every time of course, but I don't fail all the time either. Hence, I contradict myself. Like I could be saying how this certain issue is not an important matter to me and thus shall not affect me (my effort of being positive) and then five minutes later, I could crititise / complain non-stop about the matter. And this may go on for quite awhile, back and forth trying to convince myself. Yeap, I do realise that I'm a rather conflicted soul so I TRY not to burden another with such moments of justifications/debates within my analysing/critical-thinking mind if I can help it.

5) I've been listening to every single detail in a song/music.

So, I've managed to finally purchase the Ultimate Ears 100 that I've been yearning for awhile now. And that helped me a lot in picking up every tiny detail that goes into a song. I don't know if many of you do this, but I recently picked up that habit. It's quite cool to hear every note, and beat that plays a HUGE part in making up the song. Plus, it helps with my playing and provide me with new ideas to experiment so that I can learn a thing or two. That way, I can enhance my skills, and improve my guitar-playing. I can't really put my finger to it but hearing the bass line in a song or picking out that little cowbell ring in a tune somehow makes me smile because most of us tend to overlook those little elements in a song. I would just go, "Wow, they actually had THAT in this track? AWESOME!" and grin away like I'm high on something hahaha. (So, don't be surprised when I do that.)

6) I actually listen to meaningless dance/clubbing tracks.

As much as I adore indie stuff like The Reign of Kindo, The Temper Trap, Primary, Tablo, Bon Iver, Sienna Noble, Brooke Fraser, (enter band/artiste that most people/your friends have never heard of),  I do appreciate (enjoy) other genre as well. And that includes meaningless dance tracks. Like HIGH HIGH by GD&TOP, Gangnam Style by Psy, Turn Up The Music by Chris Brown, Take Over by Mizz Nina and so on. Any good upbeat, catchy dance-y track, I most probably would love it. That is because sometimes, I don't want a meaningful, thinking song y'know? But some good beats to get me movin' and to just enjoy the song, really!

7) I find Facebook utterly pointless that I lost count of the time I deactivated my account.

Case in point : I deactivate it (again) today. I don't know if it's the annoying sharing of photos or what, but I honestly couldn't care less about people's life anymore. And for those close friends that I do, I will actually have real conversation with them anyways so yeah, no point for me to actually have it. To me, their mundane, uninspiring post is annoying to the max so to deal with that, I deactivate. Case closed. Gao tim.

8) I have a fetish for glass jars. 

So far, I have a few of them and I plan to have more to organise my stationery mostly. Like, my paper clips! or to keep origami stars or cranes <3 And they do come in all shapes and sizes. Tiny ones to tall ones. At times, I would buy a food product JUST to get its adorable jar after I'm done with it. Yup, I'm "interesting" like that. Baby food jars are the cutest! Oooohhh, and those Ikea ones as well! :D

9) I also have a fetish for war films or anything related to war ; documentaries, movies, non-fictions. 

I'm a huge History geek. So, war films naturally becomes my fetish. I'm not sadistic like that. No, I don't find joy in seeing people suffer, in case you're wondering. It's just that, whenever I watch anything related to war, I always thank God that I need not go through all that and count myself blessed. And it helps me understand people more, be it the victims or the oppressors. It also helps me understand the past more, about the grandparents' generations and their trials & tribulations as well as their predicament, appreciate everything more. Their sacrifice and the bloodshed to defend one's country and it's nation and it's tale. And through all these, I get to obtain a glimpse of that.

10) I eat with chopsticks and a porcelain bowl whenever I want to get in touch with my Chinese/Asian side.

You see, I could never associate myself with anything Chinese 'cuz honestly, I don't really see myself as that. That's because being born in Malaysia and being educated in a co-ed, national school since primary, technically means I don't know much about Chinese history and couldn't read Pinyin. Mandarin skills is almost zilch other than the fact that I can count to 10....which is nothing really. But, I can speak fluent Hokkien.. and am proud of that fact! (I don't get how not speaking Mandarin make me less of a Chinese and be called a banana : yellow outside, white inside instead.) Of course, I have come a long way from there... I'm more keen to pick up Mandarin and Cantonese and reading Pinyin and memorising them characters as I go. I'm getting a bit better and more comfortable each day. Sejarah in secondary and pre-university also helped increased my knowledge on Chinese history, though not a lot. But, I can never truly say that I'm Chinese cuz I don't do what most Chinese would do. I don't have that so-called Chinese pride. Maybe it's cuz I wasn't brought up in an environment where I'm supposed to quiet and demure and ladylike. Instead, I'm the exact opposite and don't really appreciate or understand the love for karaoke hahaha. I often joked that if I were to so-called return to China, I highly doubt that they would even call me Chinese lol. So, if people were to ask what am I, I would proudly say that I am Malaysian first, and Chinese second (even if may sound cliche to you).

So there you go, 10 interesting facts (for now) about me. It's hard to list cuz I don't really find myself THAT interesting anyways. :p 

*I'll update more facts if I can come up with it or feel up to it ;)*