Sent to me by Esther via Friendster (it rhymes!):

Nervous habits?
Peeling my fingernails or the skin around my fingernails - quite disgusting
Biting the end of the pen that I'm holding
Heavy breathing

Are you double-jointed?
What the heck is that?

Can you roll your tongue?
No

Can you raise one eyebrow at a time?
No

Can you blow spit bubbles?
Yes . . . another extremely disgusting habit of mine

Can you cross your eyes?
No

Tattoos?
Definitely not!

Piercing - and where?
None of them, so that makes the answer to the second part as "no where"

Do you make your bed daily?
Yes of course . . . unless I want to get screwed by my platoon mates

Which shoe goes on first?
I don't really notice; neither do I really bother

Speaking of shoes, have you thrown one at anyone?
Of course not . . . I'm not about to get charged. Neither do I want to damage my property on someone not worth my time

On the average, how much money do you carry?
Thirty dollars. Minimum ten, maximum fifty. And that's not counting that I don't have an ATM card (my mother keeps it).

What jewellery do you wear?
None, unless you consider my army ID tag aka Dog Tag

Favourite piece of clothing?
White Giordano's polo shirt; size L, which stretches down to my thighs when I tuck it out

Do you twirl your spaghetti or cut it?
I just eat it directly. Like how you eat your instant noodles

You ever eaten Spam?
Luncheon meat, yes. The type of luncheon meat called Spam, never

Favourite ice cream flavour?
Chocolate

How many cereals in your cabinet?
Three types

What's your favourite beverage?
Coffee and tea! Not the upmarket kind, though. Just the simple coffee shop ones

What's your favourite restaurant?

Do you cook?
Unfortunately no.

How often do you brush your teeth?
Once every day in the morning, when in the right sense I'm supposed to be doing it RELIGIOUSLY when I wake up, after every meal and before I sleep, since I am wearing braces.

Method of drying hair?
Wiping it aggressively with a towel

Have you ever coloured your hair?
No. I think I look disgusting. I look bad enough sporting a GI-style haircut. Don't even talk about coloured hair.

Do you swear?
Why not? Look at my blog and count the number of swears inside

Do you ever spit?
Yes, only in camp, because the phlegm is getting in the way while running, or while out in the field. No choice, okay?

Animal?
Fish

Food?
Everything except chilli padi and lactose-based products (e.g. milk, butter and cheese)

Month?
August . . . ha-ha because it's my month

Day?
Book-out day!

Cartoon?
Ninja Turtles . . . that was in the past

Shoe brand?
New Balance

Subject in school?
Music!!!

Colour?
Black

Sport?
Cycling

TV shows?
High Notes on Arts Central

Thing to do in the spring?

Thing to do in the summer?


Thing to do in the rain?
Sleep. The weather's the best . . . so cooling

Thing to do in winter?

The CD player?
Elgar Symphony No. 2 in E-flat major (London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Edward Elgar)

Person you talk most on the phone with?
Everybody usually spends an equal duration with me on the phone

Ever taken a cab?
Yes . . . especially when I'm late . . . and I'm always late

Do you regularly check yourself out in store windows and mirrors?
No.

What colour is your bedroom?
A creamy kind of white

Do you use an alarm clock?
The alarm clock's inside my cellular phone

Window seat or aisle?
Anything. If there's a seat, it's fortune

What's your sleeping position?
From the head of the bed to the foot of the bed, back on the mattress, head facing upwards, never with the head facing the pillow

Do you use a blanket even in hot weather?
Of course not

Do you snore?
I don't know

Do you sleepwalk?
Never before

Do you talk in your sleep?
Once this scary incident happened, as told by my section mate in BMT, Ghim Chuan:

He said that he awoke in the middle of the night to see me staring at him, face ashened, muttering, "Canteen" over and over again. Then, without warning, I just dropped back onto the bed again. The night proceeded calmly thereafter . . .

Do you sleep with stuffed animals?
No

How about the lights on?
No. But the lights on the corridor are bright enough to disturb me at night

Do you fall asleep with the TV or radio?
The computer, to be precise

Coke or Pepsi?
No preference

Oranges or apples?
Oranges. I have a bit of difficulty eating apples as I wear braces . . . have to gnaw at the fruit from the side of my mouth

One pillow or two?
One.

Deaf or blind?
Blind. The ear is the essential tool of the musician, and nothing must ever happen to it

Pools or hot tubs?
Pools. Larger and more space and freedom to manoeuvre about

Tall or short?
Short - being tall, I always have to hunch when talking to people who are below my height . . .

TV or radio?
Radio

Beach or pool?
Pool. At least I can see what's going on underwater

Tic-tacs or certs?
What the heck is this?

Sunrise or sunset?
Both

Hamburger or cheeseburger?
Both

Morning or night?
Night

Sports or news?
News

Indoors or outdoors?
Indoors

Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?
No difference . . . they’re still day offs

Cake or ice cream?
Ice cream

Spearmint or peppermint?
Peppermint

Bath or shower?
Shower . . . I don't have the luxury of a bathtub

Book or movie?
Book. Most of the time, movies made from books / true accounts never accurately portray the original.

Green or red apples?
Both

Rain or snow?
Rain. When it snows you have to do extra work, like sweeping the pathway

Nike or Adidas?
No preference. I don't even wear them in the first place

When was the last time you took a shower?
This afternoon, at about 1:00pm, before I left the house

When was the last time you cried?
When I was still in primary school . . .

When was the last time you talked on the phone?
This afternoon, trying to find out where Wilfred and the others were

When was the last time you read a book?
This evening, on the MRT train back

Punched someone?
Never before. Then again, I've punched people verbally with stinging criticisms and sarcasm

Where do you see yourself in ten years?
Living in a home for the destitute
Busking away at an Orchard Road underpass as a street musician

How many kids?
Don't intend to have any at all . . . my brother, eight years my junior, has been a constant pain in the ass . . .