From the desk of the Amazing ‘Ainur…

assalamualaikum w.b.t and kia ora…

hello, people…something new happened to me this afternoon…i got tagged!!!…by my dear friend soya…thank you, soya…i’m flattered and honoured…i have an assignment due this coming monday that i have no intention of doing…i know i should do it but i want to write this entry first…because this is waaayyyy more interesting than the topic of my research paper…now i don’t know how this whole thing works but as i understand it i have to write a blog about six weird things about me?…and then i have to "tag" six other people?…is that how it works?…assuming that the answer is "yes, ‘Ainur", i’m gonna try and give this my best shot…okay…here goes nothing…

six weird things about me:

1- if i like something, i don’t just "like" it, i get obsessed with it…i don’t simply become a fan of that thing, i become a fanatic…sounds scary, doesn’t it?…now that goes for actors, singers, authors, FOOD and almost everything else…if, for example, i like an actor…chances are i’ll watch every single movie or series he’s in, know his middle name, know the names of his parents and siblings, know which high school or college he attended, know his qualifications, favourite food, nicknames, past jobs…basically his whole life story…i’m that way with food too…once, when i was in ipba, my best friend, zue, asked me to try her "ayam halia"…i liked it so much that that’s the only dish i’d order when i went to scud…for lunch and dinner…for, like, half-a-year…my current obsession is toasted bagel with butter…i’m waiting to see how long this one would last…

2- everyday, before i go to bed, i’ll read at least two pages from two of my favourite novels…here in nz, that means ‘pride and prejudice’ or ‘to kill a mockingbird’ (i left my other favourite novels at home in penang) …everyday…without fail…i’ll just pick a page, randomly, and start reading…i’ve tried to kick the habit, but you know what they say…old habits die hard…i can now proudly say that i know these beautiful stories by heart…jane austen and harper lee will be proud of me…

3- i don’t drink plain water…at all…i can’t swallow them…that means i don’t drink mineral water or tap water or the water from water coolers…i’ll drink them if they are cold (like ice cold) but if they are the room-temperature-type water, i won’t…simple as that…i just can’t swallow them…my throat can’t accept plain water…i know they are supposed to be good for you, and i have tried to force myself to drink them, but my efforts so far have proven to be fruitless…i avoided plain water like the plague…still do, actually…

4- i like going to class…i do…seriously…even if the class sucks…the lecturer sucks and the classmates suck even more…i’ll still look forward to going to that class…i even like the whole "pre-class" rituals…like reading hundreds of pages of lecture materials, doing tutorial assignments, preparing questions to ask to my tutors (although i usually don’t ask them), choosing which tee-shirts and scarves to wear (serious stuff here…your shirt and scarf have to match…)…i love those stuff…note: loving those stuff doesn’t in any way mean that i do them…you understand…sometimes laziness gets in the way…i love classes in general but that doesn’t mean that i attend all of them…in fact, i sometimes make up the most ridiculous of excuses to get out of it…i’m a professional class-skipper…and i’m proud of that fact…

5- i love to watch guys with curly hair…i’ve been doing this since i was a little girl…they don’t even have to be good-looking…i don’t do anything else to them, i just watch them…their hair, to be precise…discreetly, of course… harmless fun…it is my opinion that guys with curly hair are better looking than the ones with straight hair…i don’t care if their curly hair are unkempt, i’ll still watch them…i sound like a sick pervert, don’t i?…my first favourite footballer was Emmanuel Petit…a Frenchmen…gorgeous curly locks…brilliant football player…Roger Federer’s hair is gorgeous too…JOHN MAYER’s hair is beeeaaauuuutifuuullll….i love his hair…my MEDIA lecturer had a really, really lovely curly hair…but he’s my lecturer, so i pretented not to notice his hair…i still looked but i didn’t do it often because i felt guilty…sometimes, in class, when i get bored (lectures sometimes have that effect on me) and about to fall into a stupor, i search the hall for guys with curly hair…i count them and sometimes, when i feel like it, i put them into categories (e.g. brown, blond, shoulder-length, tied in a ponytail, unwashed, etc)…

6-  i like to hear stories about chaos, catastrophes and destruction…when things go bad…like volcanic eruptions, landslides, typhoons, car accidents, plane crashes, wars, the occasional fire drills, collapsed cameras (and cameramen), flying roofs, conspiracy theories (i don’t always believe them because they are usually rubbish, but i read them anyway), scandals, etc…for some rather perverted reasons, i seem to like hearing stories about this sort of stuff…doesn’t mean i like them…in fact, i feel bad that they happen…but i like knowing about them…make sense?…i follow the kennedy family saga till this day…the idea of a cursed family is very attractive to me…i follow the wars in the middle east and africa…there’s this whole "sharks attacking human" thing going on in australia now that i also follow…or celebrity divorces…i enjoy reading about the occasional environmental disasters…like melted glaciers or bush fires or sinkholes…important stuff, right?

so…those are six weird things about me..it took a lot of courage for me to write them down…i had to go through a lengthy process of soul-searching before i could write this list…i don’t understand why i do what i do…habit, i guess…i sometimes think i’m weird…none of my siblings are like that…not one…thank God…so i’m going to tag my friends now…let’s see:

1- zue  2- nada  3- syada  4- nisa  5- aini  6- ana

so here are the rules:

"Rules & Regulations:Each player of this game starts out by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. After you do that, leave them each a comment letting them know you tagged them and to read your blog!"

good luck guys…hope you have fun listing six weird things about you…and thanks, soya…

‘ainur rahmah ellias

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