Five on a Friday

This Friday tag came from Paris Beaverbanks. It's a good thing I remembered today is Friday, days can pass me by sometimes and I forget what day of the week it is! So anyway, here are the five questions I have to answer on a Friday after I've gotten is, so here goes:

1. To watch or to participate?
I pick to participate. God knows life is short enough, I'm not going to sit by the sidelines and watch it go by. However, if the doing includes either frying something in hot oil or bungee-jumping, then I pick to watch.

2. Malls, catalog shopping or Internet?
MALLS!!! Even though they start to look the same no matter where you go... but nothing beats trying on the stuff you want to buy for yourself. Besides, I enjoy people-watching and I enjoy seeing how malls structure their displays so as to entice me, the unsuspecting consumer, to spend more than I normally would.

3. A bath or a shower?
Shower, please. Besides, I'm not supposed to be soaking in really hot baths now that I'm pregnant. But lately, I've been taking a sort of bath-plus-shower thing here in the hotel. The problem is the shower stall is small and I always feel constricted while inside there. So I've switched to sitting about in a shallow pool of water for a bit and then rinsing it all off with a blast from the shower. Makes me feel a lot cleaner.

4. To talk to people by telephone, in person or by email?
Erm... really depends on how well I know the person and how clued-in the person is on tech stuff. For Mum and Dad, it's phone/person for sure. They don't even know how to reply SMSes, what more email! For friends, I don't mind any form of communication mentioned above. Perhaps it's because I spent most of my Uni years typing away on a keyboard and making friends all over the world that I've yet to meet via email/chat and so, I don't feel that email is as cold and impersonal a medium as others do.

5. Typing or writing?
Typing. My handwriting has gone to the dogs. LOL Unless I'm giving cards or personal msg, then I write.

As I don't know many people online yet who keep a blog, I'll just tag less than five people. (Okay hor, PB?)

• Shortcake Baby
• Andie Summerkiss

TGIF, everybody!

Five! Five things about me! Mwahaha! *thunderclap*

Yes. I loved the Count in Sesame Street. I think it was because I was raised by a Maths teacher.

Anyway, this is my maiden tag! *hurray* It came from an old friend, Paris Beaverbanks. She keeps a great blog, so do hop over and say hi to her!

Name 1 thing you do everyday:
~ I tell my Dear Hubby that I love him. (All together now: Awwwwwwwwwwww....)

Name 2 things you wish you could learn:
~ Mandarin - so that I can learn about my own culture. It's terribly embarrassing that I am quite clueless about my own people.
~ Reverse park beautifully - still cannot after all these years. I must go in, out, in, out, in, out before I manage to get the car lined up properly to get in the space. Blur case betul.

Name 3 things that remind you of your childhood:
~ Getah! It's skipping rope made of linked rubber bands. I was pretty good at getah, I was small (then! I haven't been small since!) but I sure could jump.
~ Half-boiled eggs with soya sauce & pepper and buttered roti bakar. Yum. That was breakfast.
~ Kiki bubble gum, mee siput and the home-made ice lollies (my fave was the asam boi flavour)

Name 4 things you love to eat but rarely do:
~ Tofu. Because Dear Hubby can't stand the texture of tofu and I'll have to eat the whole lot if I ever make any.
~ Rice porridge with pork spare parts. Dear Hubby flatly refuses to even look at it and I don't have any kaki to eat that with.
~ My mother-in-law's roast lamb. Standard fare on a Sunday afternoon in their English home. Sigh. Mouth watering now.
~ Bak chang that my mum makes. No one makes it like mum does.

Name 5 things that make you feel good:
~ Cuddles from Dear Hubby
~ Liverpool whacking the living hell out of a) Man U b) Arsenal c) Chelsea d) Everton e) All other teams. That doesn't happen as often as I'd like.
~ SALE! Any sale!
~ Seeing old friends and talking rubbish with them
~ When I make people smile and laugh and feel happy. When I was a child, I realised my greatest gift was that I could always make people smile and laugh. This made me really sad for a bit because it then occurred to me that my only career option was to be a clown (but Mum wanted me to be a lawyer!) and I wasn't sure then how much clowns made (sure less than lawyers hor) and if they could ever afford an imported car. Kids!

I shall tag... erm, erm... RoyBoy! Here you go, bestest-westest fwen from Uni!