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Oyceter ([personal profile] oyceter) wrote2004-05-24 09:09 pm
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Meme thing

13 Random Things You Like
1. cartoons
2. the way my rats stick their little pink noses through the bars of the cage whenever I walk by
3. the boy's squishy tummy
4. the inflatable frog that just arrived from my sister in the mail
5. public libraries
6. that smooth feeling on your skin after getting out of the shower
7. the smell of soy sauce cooking
8. the internet
9. the way Link sidles in Zelda: Wind Waker
10. soy cappucinos
11. the smell of books
12. sharpening pencils (corollary: having a beautiful new freshly sharpened pencil)
13. playing Taboo

12 Movies (that I like?)
1. Moulin Rouge
2. Spirited Away
3. Lilo and Stitch
4. Chicken Run
5. Nightmare Before Christmas
6. Hero
7. His Girl Friday
8. Gilda
9. Lord of the Rings
10. Talk to Her
11. Beauty and the Beast
12. Tonari no Totoro

11 Good Bands/Artists <-- well, ones I like anyway. Because I realize I have no taste in music
1. Flogging Molly
2. Del Amitri
3. Sting
4. Wu yueh tien (May Day)
5. Sun Yanzi
6. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
7. Beatles
8. Beach Boys
9. Pogues
10. Bon Jovi (hee, eighties!)
11. Dixie Chicks

10 Things About You...Physically
1. I am 5'4" (tall in Taiwan, short here)
2. I have size nine feet, so I can never buy shoes back at home. Plus, I get all sorts of comments like "9?! That big?!" from incredulous shoe salespeople.
3. My front teeth are vaguely rodent-like (overbite), but I will never admit it out loud
4. I have fallen arches
5. My eyebrows fade out about halfway through
6. Seemingly permanent post-nasal drip (ugh, need to see doctor)
7. Unsymmetrical eyes
8. Permanent glasses (can't see a thing without them)
9. Hair is in rather shaggy state now (due to being too cheap/lazy to get it cut)
10. All fingers and toes intact (I ran out of things to say)

9 Things You're Looking Forward To?
1. Getting a new job with medical insurance (actually, this is more hoping than anticipating)
2. Watching the commentary on Restless
3. Eating an artichoke in the next few minutes
4. Summer!
5. Going to Hawaii ^_^
6. Moving to the new apartment (washer/dryer inside!!)
7. Getting my S6 Buffy DVDs
8. The boy coming home (an hour? hopefully... I am getting bored)

8 Favourite Foods/Drinks
1. Shrimp -- but it has to be very fresh and boiled/steamed so it doesn't turn crispy. Best with heads still on ^_^
2. Steamed fish, Chinese style, with head and lots and lots of soy sauce and oil and ginger and scallions
3. White corn
4. Pearl milk tea
5. White peaches
6. Broiled hamachi jaw (mackerel? I forgot -- hamachi kama shioyaki, anyway)
7. Eggplant with soy sauce and ground pork, the way my mom makes it
8. Moon cakes filled with do sha (er, red bean jam?) and egg yolk

7 Things You Wear Daily (every day)
1. Glasses
2. Underwear
3. The necklace my mom gave me
4. My watch
5. Lotion (now I'm stretching....)
6. Something on the bottom
7. Something on the top

6 Things That Annoy You
1. People who talk to me when it is obvious I do not want to be disturbed
2. Stupidity
3. Waking up to the sound of leaf blowers (actually, this goes beyond annoyance into blow-my-top impotent rage)
4. Bad cell phone reception
5. Having to be social
6. Shelving books in the store

5 Things You Touch Everyday
1. My laptop
2. A book
3. Light switches
4. Eating utensils
5. My sheets (mmmm)

4 Shows You Watch(ed)
1. Buffy
2. Angel
3. Firefly
4. Good Eats (the only one I can still watch live, sniff)

3 "Celebrities" You have a Crush On
I don't.

2 People on LJ You Have Kissed
1. The boy
2. Der. Me?

1 Thing I Am Going to Do Now
Eat my artichoke!

[identity profile] yhlee.livejournal.com 2004-05-25 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Awww...little rat noses!

And mmm, squishy tummy. Although on my boy, of course, and not yours. =)

[identity profile] onetwomany.livejournal.com 2004-05-25 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
the smell of books

Oh, God yes! I have a friend who works in the National Library of Australia, and she took me down into the bowels where all the books were kept once. The smell was amazing - almost like you could inhale the knowledge and stuff.