Staring at the tag...

Yes...i have been tagged. And for those readers here who do not know how it happened (because you do not read my bro in christ - Shen's blog)...Tagged means i need to share 5 things most people do not know about me....

HONESTLY....that is quite hard...LOL...i mean...after so many years in CG and church...all those games of sharing something about each other, fellowship time etc...abit hard leh...=)

i thought long and hard...long and hard...then long...then forgot about the hard...HAHAHA...until Shen drop a comment on my chat box...HAHAHA...to remind me...=P

Convicted...and simply coz i love this bro of mine, i'm willing to play along..hee...so the hard became harder...producing the following products:-

1) A hotel door latch-lock in HK was once broken in because of me

When i was young, about 4 to 7 years old, my dad was often posted to Hong Kong to work. So my mum would bring me over to visit. We stayed in hotels.

If i recall from the story my mum told me when i was older, was that i was left in the hotel room because i was tired from the boring things to do in HK (kid mah...no toys no fun...also it was always the same area we visited...)..so they left me inside to watch smurfs on cable. I was to latch the door from inside to be super safe and open it when my parents got back. You know the U shape one, that slides along a ball, usually gold colour? so that even if someone has a key to open the door, it is jammed by it after a certain distance?

So yes, guess what,...i fell asleep with the TV switched on super loud! My parents came back, but couldn't come in completely. They couldn't look into the room either given that small gap...so they kept trying to call me. But i was fast asleep and the TV was loud.

So they panicked. Thought something had happened to me, like i fell down and lost consciousness, etc...so they called the hotel to break open the door latch...

After all that drama, and noise...I WAS STILL ASLEEP when they finally got in...Hahahaha...i never knew till my mum told me when i was older.

2) I was in the local papers 3 times

Two times in Lianhe Zaobao, one was a feature on people and their pets, my primary school partner was on internship there and was to do a story. So she called me if i was ok to do it. there were photos of me bathing my 'now-passed away' sausage dog and me kissing my land tortise that is still alive today..haha...think this was when i was in sec 4.

The other was just a quote on a story covering the pre-univeristy seminar in JC times.

Last was a big pic of me..in the Forum section of the straits times when i was in university. It was at the auditorium when Lee KY came to have a forum. Dunno y the photographer pick me...as a general picture. article had nothing to do with me.

3) my hair morphed

I had very very straight hair when i was young. It's the type no need to comb and it just 'wraps around my head' straight and flat.

Now...you know me lah..natural curls...and look like a rooster/ pineapple top in the morning....

4) I could have died

This one my mum told me too. I remember being admitted to hospital i think in sec 1/2 for dengue fever. I was checked in immediately after the blood test. I recall taking a nap...since there was nothing to do. After all, i was not prepared to check in, so didnt bring anything to read.

then i recall waking up periodically,...but couldn't wake up fully...it's like the heavy sleep feeling...i was surrounded by many people...i kept phasing in and out. Couldn't say proper words, without drifting unconscious again. Felt people lifting my hand and talking around me...

It seems that the same afternoon, my fever hit dangerous levels at that point and i was being monitored. Possible brain damage/ death if it didnt subside. =S

Well I'm here....so...but..the brain damage bit...hmmm...now..that explains some things..hahaha

5) I was not squirmish when young

I spent many primary school recess breaks catching grasshoppers and dragon flies with my bare hands in my school field with a friend. (with out harming them)...keep them in a jar/ plastic bags with holes and leaves for the rest of the day, before releasing them when i'm going home.

had to hide them under my desk..there was once, the grasshopper in my bag kept jumping...so almost got caught by the teacher, coz of the noise and that it fell on the floor...

I caught toads at East Coast Park too...learn from my dad...who would bring me...i enjoyed it...released on the same night. never brought home. =)