{"id":507,"date":"2005-12-23T03:57:18","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T03:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"2016-08-28T19:55:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T19:55:25","slug":"tag-lag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"Tag Lag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of killing procrastination, I shall do the damn blog memes I was tagged ages ago. One, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/aldatan\" target=\"_BLANK\">Alda<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><b>10 years ago I was:<\/b><br \/>\nI was 12 years and 4 days old. I think we still started our school semester in December, so it was one of those rare birthdays on a schoolday.<\/p>\n<p><b>5 years ago I was:<\/b><br \/>\nI was 17, and was on my 5th day of working at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xfresh.com\" target=\"_BLANK\">Xfresh<\/a>. Yes, we worked Saturdays then.<\/p>\n<p><b>1 year ago I was:<\/b><br \/>\nI was 21 and getting over the Rock The World neckaches.<\/p>\n<p><b>Yesterday I was:<\/b><br \/>\nPassing the flu to everyone in the office who wanted an MC. Eventually made an exit in the afternoon with the intention of sleeping.<\/p>\n<p><b>5 snacks I enjoy:<\/b><br \/>\n1) Mamee Monster Snack (20 sen joy!)<br \/>\n2) Lays Salt &amp; Vinegar chips (they&#8217;re so strong, you simply cannot finish them in one go, which makes it a lot more worth it.)<br \/>\n3) Ear Biscuits (a Chinese delicacy)<br \/>\n3) Ear Biscuits filled with brown paste (I am not sure how to differentiate them, but it&#8217;s also a Chinese delicacy)<br \/>\n5) Twisties Chickadees (it seems less salty than other snacks)<\/p>\n<p><b>5 songs I know all the words to:<\/b><br \/>\nOh, what the heck, I don&#8217;t know the lyrics to most of my 24 GB of songs. I mean, I could sing along to it, but out of nothing, and in sequence, I probably could not.<\/p>\n<p><b>5 things I would do with a 100 Million:<\/b><br \/>\n1) Invent a time machine, buy loads of tin and raw materials that cost a lot more back then, and sell it.<br \/>\n2) Make Africa a self-contained ecosystem with food for everyone.<br \/>\n3) Make the only sexually transmitted disease left infertility\/impotence. Hence, we could all screw around but we&#8217;d never have kids. Want kids? Adopt an African.<br \/>\n4) Buy Bill Gates&#8217; garage.<br \/>\n5) Buy the RIAA and make people aware of different types of music.<\/p>\n<p><b>5 bad habits:<\/b><br \/>\n1) Freeloading!<br \/>\n2) Mining of the nasal and auditory passages<br \/>\n3) Not looking into the eyes of the person who is talking to me, especially if that person has big, engaging pupils<br \/>\n4) Making socially inept first impressions<br \/>\n5) Procrastinating<\/p>\n<p><b>5 biggest joys:<\/b><br \/>\n1) Getting my full scholarship (oh wait, did I even sound joyed?)<br \/>\n2) Making my computers work, by some fluke<br \/>\n3) Uh&#8230; getting recognized from my blog, or from the scene<br \/>\n4) Paying all my dues and buying all that is needed to buy for the month<br \/>\n5) Finishing a collection of whatever it is I was collecting, be it computers, toys, guitars, cameras<\/p>\n<p><b>5 favourite toys:<\/b><br \/>\n1) Transformers!<br \/>\n2) Zoids<br \/>\n3) Lego<br \/>\n4) Rubik&#8217;s Cubes and other puzzles<br \/>\n5) Well, basically any toy that can take on a few forms, or be assembled.<\/p>\n<p><b>5 things I would never wear:<\/b><br \/>\n1) Eyeliner. It&#8217;s all real, you emo punk wannabes!<br \/>\n2) Foundation. I am but too fair!<br \/>\n3) Brown contact lenses. My eyes are already brown.<br \/>\n4) A tongue ring. I like spicy food!<br \/>\n5) A nose ring. I have a sensitive nose!<\/p>\n<p><b>5 favorite TV shows:<\/b> (I don&#8217;t watch much TV.)<br \/>\n1) The Simpsons<br \/>\n2) Futurama<br \/>\n3) Seinfeld<br \/>\n4) Frasier<br \/>\n5) Whose Line Is It Anyway?<\/p>\n<p><b>5 fictional characters I would date:<\/b><br \/>\n1) Lana Lang, Smallville<br \/>\n2) The Pevensie sisters when they grew older, Chronicles Of Narnia (I couldn&#8217;t make out who was who but they were hot!)<br \/>\n3) Invisible Girl from Fantastic Four the movie<br \/>\n4) Orked from Sepet<br \/>\n5) Ruby of ATI Technologies<\/p>\n<p><b>5 people I tag:<\/b><br \/>\nRefer to question above.<\/p>\n<p>How much cash do you have on you today?<br \/>\nRM300, but I owe some people, so I gotta be paying up.<\/p>\n<p>What word rhymes with &#8220;test?&#8221;<br \/>\nRest. Zzzzz.<\/p>\n<p>Favourite plant?<br \/>\nWallflowers<\/p>\n<p>Who is the fourth person on your missed call list on your cell phone?<br \/>\nMy father (I was testing his phone.)<\/p>\n<p>What is the main ringtone on your cell phone?<br \/>\nLed Zeppelin &#8211; Stairway To Heaven, the most overplayed song at a guitar shop, ever.<\/p>\n<p>What shirt are you wearing?<br \/>\nThe Incubus &#8211; A Crow Left Of The Murder T-shirt that I bought from Syefri because he found that it could not fit him.<\/p>\n<p>Do you label yourself?<br \/>\nWhenever I get my hands on a labeller! \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\n<p>Brand of shoes you&#8217;re currently wearing?<br \/>\nMy free Nikes. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Bright or dark room?<br \/>\nI like somewhere in between, nearer to dark.<\/p>\n<p>What were you doing at midnight last night?<br \/>\nBlogging.<\/p>\n<p>What was the last text message you received on your cell phone?<br \/>\nStim-girl telling me some not-very-stim news.<\/p>\n<p>Do you ever click on &#8220;pop ups&#8221; or banners?<br \/>\nOnly when I\ufffdm looking for pages with lots of pop-ups. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a saying that you say a lot?<br \/>\n&#8220;Ooo, what\ufffds that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who told you they love you last?<br \/>\nI can\ufffdt remember who last asked me for a favor.<\/p>\n<p>Last furry thing you touched?<br \/>\nThe fluff on my Santa hat.<\/p>\n<p>How many drugs have you done in the past three days?<br \/>\n5 different types, for sore throat, fever, cold, antibiotics and good old cough drops. \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\n<p>How many rolls of film do you need to get developed?<br \/>\nI\ufffdm digital, baby. I\ufffdd wanna buy a new roll, expose and develop for my project; an infrared lamp. <\/p>\n<p>Favorite age you have been so far?<br \/>\n21! <\/p>\n<p>Your worst enemy?<br \/>\nProcrastination.<\/p>\n<p>What is your current desktop picture?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=427\">This<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>What was the last thing you said to someone?<br \/>\n&#8220;Okay we swap positions now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you have to choose between 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of killing procrastination, I shall do the damn blog memes I was tagged ages ago. One, from Alda: 10 years ago I was: I was 12 years and 4 days old. I think we still started our school semester in December, so it was one of those rare birthdays on a schoolday. 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