101 Facts About Me

1. I take a lot of pictures of myself, so many that it outnumbers the pictures I have of other objects
2. I usually shop for stationery when I’m stressed
3. I also like finishing my stationery, especially my pens, because for some weird reason it will make me feel that I’ve done a lot of studying
4. Currently working and studying at the same time
5. At once stage, I held down 3 jobs
6. I started working at The Cheesecake Shop in East Victoria Park in March 2004 and still working there
7. I am still in my first job
8. I dream of writing a book of my own some day
9. I have really funny joints, so much so that I can do this:
10. My fingers cannot straighten properly, they are bent the other way around when I try to straighten them
11. I also have a weird tongue. It is not straight:

    

12. Speaking about weird body parts, I can bend my fingers way past what is normally considered straight
13. Same thing goes for my knee joints as well
14. Someday I would like to study architecture and jounalism
15. Writing is one of my greatest passions, followed by reading and taking photographs
16. I am a procrastinator, which definitely isn’t doing me any good
17. I am a habitual multi-tasker. I bask in the joy of being able to do multiple things at once
18. I once touched a fresh sheep’s brain and a pig’s heart
19. I used to be deathly afraid of cadavers, now I don’t mind seeing them and bits and pieces of them
20. I stayed off meat when I first saw a cadaver because the human flesh resembled meat so much
21. I used to have long hair, but I cut it because I needed a change





22. I am a slight dyslexic. I cannot read my 0’s properly. Too many zeros in a number and it starts shifting around
23. I am a slight hypochondriac. I always think I have some condition or another
24. I have an artsy side to me that rarely comes out due to my busy, busy schedule
25. I have never been clubbing before. Well, once if you count going to Margeaux for 1 hour
26. I don’t like the taste of beer, but the one beer I will drink is the Carlsberg imported from Denmark. Talk about fussy
27. I can tell the difference between filtered water and tap water
28. I am a bag kind of girl. Give me bags and I’ll adore you
29. I was born prematurely and was underweight, but I’m not so underweight now
30. I love gardening
31. I have a very big extended family
32. I am already a grandaunt, but I’ve never met my grandnieces or grandnephews
33. I am very prone to accidents and mishaps, hence I’ve coined the term “Kristine Moments” in my blog whenever I do something dumb
34. My writing has been published on Xfresh and I’ve won their 1st blogging contest
35. I’ve won 2nd place with my team members for a national website designing competition
36. I used to be in the school choir when I was in primary school
37. I used to be in the choral speaking team in primary school
38. I like uniformity and routines
39. I like making lists and ticking things off while I get them done
40. I like Justin Timberlake’s music
41. I like R&B music and have begun paying attention to the lyrics
42. I like *N Sync
43. I like worship music
44. I have begun liking Chinese music
45. I can read novels like people drink water
46. I type very fast, approximately 90 words per minute or so
47. I can’t draw to save my life, I once got a D for art in high school
48. I started blogging when I was 15 years old
49. My writing changes with my mood
50. I like baking and cooking
51. When I was younger, I used to want to wear braces
52. I got my first stitch in my mouth when I was 20 years old, because I had to remove my wisdom tooth
53. I have no other stitches on my body
54. I can’t drive very well, although I am now off my P plates
55. I have put some videos on YouTube for the fun of it and it has gotten 3500 hits and counting. The video was for one of our assignments for rehab and we were role playing an amputee having a rehab session with the occupational therapist. Look for “gazooie” on YouTube
56. I collect things to do with cows
57. I have not been to Europe before and am currently saving up for a holiday there
58. I have not been to China either and am currently saving up to go to do a placement there in 2008
59. I’m usually the calm one when it comes to exams and assessments. 30 minutes before the thing, I freak out and my digestive system gives me the shits. Literally
60. I like being punctual and always am obsessed about punctuality
61. When I make coffee, I gave put the stuff in the cup in the following order: coffee, sugar and creamer
62. I do not watch horror movies
63. I collect books by Jonathan Kellerman, John Grisham and Kirsty Brooks
64. I like books with pink covers. They usually have nice stories. Don’t ask me why
65. I have been to America, Mexico, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Hawaii and Australia
66. I want to visit the UK someday
67. I secretly harbour the desire to one day drive a manual sports car
68. I have only owned 2 handphones in my life and both are still in working condition
69. I study Occupational Therapy, if you didn’t already know
70. I’m an introvert, but when I warm up to people, I have this REALLY crazy side
71. I am an iFsJ by the Jung Personality Test
72. I like things to be organised into itty bitty categories
73. I coloured my hair for the Leukemia Foundation twice
74. I prefer Snickers to Mars Bars
75. I used to do ballet, up to the 3rd grade
76. I used to play the piano, up to the 3rd grade
77. When I was younger, my head was too big for my body, now its the other way around
78. I was born prematurely, and weighed 5 pounds 2 ounces
79. I have a fascination with sparkly and colourful things, combined or seperate
80. I have very good visual memory when I link it with emotion
81. I used to go to Calvary Kindergarten in Damansara Heights, Malaysia
82. I used to go to Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Sri Petaling or SSP for short
83. I used to go to Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (Perempuan) Sri Aman, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Ask me for the translations
84. I’m born an aquarius and I act like an aquarian. At times
85. I am what you would call partially multilingual. I speak and write fluently in English, Malay language. I can understand and speak bits and pieces of Mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkien
86. I am of a Hainan descent
87. I do not speak Hainanese
88. I used to swim so much, now my shoulders are very wide
89. I have 1 brother
90. I met Michelle Yeoh once at the old Subang Airport cause my flight was delayed
91. I like monochrome things
92. I like the colours black and white paired together
93. My favourite pizza is Hawaiian thick crust from Dominos *slurp*
94. Contrary to the belief, I am a bit of a nerd
95. I used to wear glasses all the time
96. I now have discovered the joy of contacts and only wear glasses at home
97. I used to be deathly afraid of poking my eye out with contacts, now I can’t live without them
98. I can switch accents between the Aussie accent and Asian accent depending on who I hang out with
99. My handwriting can differ at different times. I’m not talking about when I’m in a hurry, its the actual writing style itself that differs
100. I have no fixed way of holding my pen, it depends on my mood
101. I can copy a lot of people’s writing style