No lists. I don't like lists.
I don't feel like writing anything today. Been wrestling with several issues lately and feeling blue.
So, lucky for me, I have some questions to answer...
I got my first "real job" at 19. I was in university, had a pretty relaxed timetable, needed something to keep myself busy. A friend of one of my uncles gave me a job as a part-time accounts assistant in his company. Coz although I'd taken pure science subjects in secondary school, I'd also taken accounting as a 10th subject -- and scored an A1 in it ;)
Well, I realised good and early that accounting is SO NOT MY THING. Staring at columns of numbers every day and tallying 'em up? No way, man. Made me cross-eyed. And my balance sheet would never balance. Grrrr! What do they call it a 'balance sheet' for if it won't balance?!!
So, I quit after four months, extremely grateful that I had chosen to do a degree in Law and not Accounting. Obviously that had been a stroke of genius on my part. I do have my moments, you know.
My second job was with Dad, as a clinic assistant. I used to spend the 3-month summer breaks helping him out in the clinic. Registering patients, ushering them into Dad's office, standing by while he examined them; assisting in gastroscopies, when Dad would insert a fibreoptic tube down a patient's throat into the oesophagus & stomach -- he would hold the tube out for me to take a look: "This is the oesophagus." "This is the duodenum." "This is the stomach." I never could figure out how he knew which was which, when they all looked like a pink mass to me; helping to secure the proctoscope in place during rectal examinations (yes, you've heard enough, haven't you?! *very wicked laugh*)...
My third job was an editor at a small publishing house, right after I graduated. I was earning RM1,300 and although others said that was too little, I was thrilled simply to be earning. Then my results were released and I allowed others' comments, advice & suggestions to erode my adamant refusal to sit for the Bar exams. So I quit to go back to studying. Stupid move coz I'd never wanted to practice law anyway. I failed the Bar (or CLP -- Certificate of Legal Practice, as it's called here) and never bothered to re-sit.
My fourth job was with the newspaper, as a journalist. Joined them right after my failed attempt at the Bar exams. Spent a wonderful four years there, then quit in Oct last year... and here I am ;)
Haiyo, still got lots of questions. There are so far only two movies I could watch over & over: The Sound of Music and You've Got Mail. Hehehe. What to do, I'm a hopeless romantic!
I hardly watch tv, so that puts paid to the next question. Oh, television shows I used to love? Matlock. McGyver. The Cosby Show. Am trying to think of a fourth but nothing comes to mind at the moment... I loved McGyver coz he was soooooo cool. He could make something from nothing and was so darn smart. Matlock was a detective-cum-lawyer, hands-on and hardworking, which explains why I favour Perry Mason mysteries above Hercule Pretentious Poirot. And of course, Dr Huxtable's family made me laugh. Family values at its best.
Places I've lived... the UK, coz I was born there, not that I remember anything, since I came back when I was four; Kluang, Johor, where I lived till I was seven. Hazy memories too; a very small town called Ayer Tawar (single main road ran right through the town); a slightly larger town (the place where the two main roads intersected was the heart of town); and basically, the Big Bad City: Kuala Lumpur / Petaling Jaya, for the past 11 years.
Vacations have been rather few & far between. The most memorable ones would be a family tripe to Lake Toba in Indonesia, in 1996. Lake Toba's breathtakingly beautiful, and I loved the cool climate. Then there was the Bali trip I took two years ago with friends -- Bali is a shopping haven. I loved it! And my family went on a holiday to Redang Island about 3 years ago. Gorgeous place, clear blue waters. Cherating, which I went to with my housemate Emmy two years ago, pales in comparison.
And if I weren't here, where would I rather be? Hard to say, since I've been to so few places. I don't want to wish myself somewhere I've not been to yet, in case it turns out to be not-so-great after all. I think I long to go to the next world. No more BACKACHE!!!! (plus various other problems, struggles, worries, fears, and hurts)
Favourite food? Don't get me started. I like roast lamb shank and fettucine carbonara. Moist chocolate cake and char siew pau. Mutton rendang and stingray curry. Fried chicken and steamed fish. Cheesy wedges from KFC and McDonald's vanilla sundae cones. Cold Pepsi and yummy cendol. Waffles with double-scoop ice-cream at A&W. Baked cheesecake with peaches on top. Chocolates (WITHOUT NUTS, unless it's Ferrero Rocher. You have been warned! I don't generally like nuts -- in any form!!!). Sweetcorn, cream style, eaten straight from the Del Monte tin. Lettuce, in salad or stir-fried. Eggs fried sunny-side-up or soft-boiled. Cockles in my fried kuay teow. Do you really want me to go on? We could be here all day!