um, instructions!
1/ Copy this whole list into your journal.
2/ Bold the things that you have in common with me.
3/ Whatever you don't bold, replace with things about you.
the list!
01. Places hold a lot of significance in my memories - the imagery of a situation evokes so many emotions.
02. I walk very fast.
03. I still believe that there is worth in everything as long as you look hard enough and learn from every process(:
04. it would be nice if i could speak in a less convoluted manner, or get my ideas across decently, if nothing else.
05. i collect chocolate wrappers!
06. i am very publicly a cheesecake fan, a chocolate fan, and a good-books-good-music fan.
07. i wish i could stop getting distracted at times.
08. i have developed a terrifying tendency to procrastinate. O:
09. i write between the lines on foolscap sheets. it just so happened that one fine day in primary school, i saw someone who didn't write on the lines - like what we got forced to do in those (ahem) penmanship classes - thought it really cool, and decided to follow suit.
09a. because i like being random and occassionally doing weird stuff like this, i had to put in a 09a stating that my handwriting changes ever so often.
10. I am constantly predicting how people will respond to me.
11. I can't stand being ignored when I don’t want to be, obviously.
12. I want to be needed, or at least be someone people can turn to.
13. I am constantly thinking about things in great depth but I have trouble articulating my thoughts verbally.
14. I'm quite a bit of a sappy and romantic.
15. It's easy to lose faith in the world & to be cynical, but I believe in the challenge to never lose faith in every aspect of humanity.
16. exchanging ideas with other people can get quite exciting for me - except when i realize how woefully inadequate i actually am.
17. i have always wanted to visit spain / argentina! maybe venezuela too - but perhaps only because it sounds like argentina. i'd also like to go visit london again haha. (:
18. I have a lot to learn. who doesn't? xD
19. i like the feeling of being in a huge auditorium, but they can also scare me at times.
20. it's interesting to listen, and i think that's more important than talking at times.
21. I like owning my books. I buy more than I borrow - or should i say i hardly borrow. O:
22. I wish I were more normal!
23. I hope I will change someone’s life for the better in the course of my own.
24. i like the rhythmic tapping of fingers on a computer keyboard, though the same on a piano keyboard is decidedly more satisfying.
25. I hardly ever have a single, definite favourite piece/composer/author etc.
26. good movies can really resonate with me, because i am hm, easily touched?
27. There are also a lot of books I'd like to read someday but I know I won't be able to read them all.
28. I love singing.
29. i have a tendency to be so obsessive-compulsive about getting everything in order and perfect that it gets irritating at times - both to others and to myself.
30. I have an idea of what I want to do with my life but it is mostly a vague plan that keeps changing every so often.
31. i'm someone who finds it rather exciting to challenge conventions, but who probably won't do it unless i'm utterly sure of my ability to stand on my own two feet.
32. i wish i could find the right words to say at the right times.
33. I've never been to outer space! not that i really wish to, though.
34. I love playing in the rain. jumping in puddles jumping in puddles jumping in puddles!
35. I want to be happy.
36. i have way too much pink stuff.
37. I keep typing 'haha okay' in msn conversations.
38. I have brain cells I never use. I'm sure.
39. i take time to grow into things.
40. i think i sound rather ambivalent at times.
41. i used to be awesome at coming up with and following timetables. somehow i have most mysteriously lost that ability.
42. i daydream a lot, and i probably think too deeply at times, though it gives you such a good feeling once you resolve things. (:
43. it'd be nice to have two kids.
44. i can be both noisy and quiet at the same time, depending on who i'm with.
45. I am so nosy about people I care for.
46. I keep all the letters I've received from my friends.
47. I think sleep is a waste of time, but once I do I never want to get up.
48. i have crazy ideas at times.
49. I believe in love.
50. words speak to me best.
51. being busy motivates me, but it can get a little irksome at times.
52. I am always trying to read people. or get to know them better, at any rate.
53. I never make my bed. But I do lie in it.
54. I wish I had more self-control.
55. i am an animal person. except maybe cockroaches.
56. I love pretty harmonies in songs.
57. I don't have a paying job right now.
58. i quite desperately want to organize all my cds and music tracks!
59. bits of melodies can get stuck in my head for an excruciatingly long period of time.
60. oh, i think the word 'tintinnabulation' is pretty. just like how i love the sound of the name 'claire'.
61. I sometimes wonder how my life would have been different if I had done a number of things differently.
62. Google is my friend!
63. I never leave messages on an answering machine.
64. My smses to everyone are insanely long!
65. I absolutely cannot stand second-hand smoking.
66. i like elaborate prints on teeshirts!
67. I spend on food really impulsively. espeically if it's yummy food. (:
68. i love my parents a lot, even though i can be downright bratty at times. :D
69. I have never cried while reading any poem, but
70. Strong, vivid imagery in poetry truly makes all my hairs stand.
71. i can't draw, period.
72. I cannot multitask well; I will inevitably neglect all tasks except one. (eg. I won't listen to any music that's playing at all if I'm working)
73. i like people who can speak both to my mind and my heart. rather unrealistic, actually, but still.
74. i keep most things to myself, except to people i'm really very close to.
75. I really, really love classical music.
76. High notes (sung) thrill me to a quite scary extent.
77. Pointless conversations bore me easily but I try really hard not to show it.
78. essays are fun to write if only i had the time to fully flesh things out.
79. Celebrity gossip doesn’t interest me much.
80. I can be very annoying.
81. i like the thrill of finally grasping complex concepts, hee. (:
82. my ideas take eons to develop.
82. I love some song lyrics.
83. I remember lots of things for a very very long time.
84. Teachers really influence my life & inspire me greatly.
85. I am really thankful for my primary school.
86. i am easily amused and tickled (in all senses of the word)!
87. I love it when people really listen. (And I love it when I can tell that's what they're doing.)
88. I have never read chicklit before.
90. I adore (good) love poetry.
91. i get emotionally attached to a lot of things, and i can't let go of them easily once that bond forms.
92. I want to be a good person.
93. I am very thankful for the few who have decided to be part of my life.
94. My close friends are really really awesome.
95. One small thing can make me cry.
96. this meme took me way too long, sigh. my english comprehension stares me in the eye.
97. words don't come to me easily, espeically if i am exceedingly picky and want every word to mean exactly what i want them to mean.
98. Rain (like little drops of water from heaven, not the singer) makes me happy. i love the smell of rain, in particular.
99. I really love hugs.
100. I spend way too much time on the internet.
okay oops that was long. :/ ohwell, was awfully glad for today - the awesome improv with brenda was side-splittingly funny, haha. i mean, how often do you hear of an indian pepper plant that makes allusions to the green rgs blazer? i like how everything is coming together though, am awfully glad and thankful for all these people. :D yay okay now to running and sprinting the last lap together, go us! (:
and now, let the scary mug-for-eyas period commence. O: