Meme time...

Passing on the meme from Ben...

...write a post with 24 weird facts/things/habits about yourself (more or less in chronological order)

1) As a kid my favorite part of fried fish were its eyes.

2) When I was about 5 I backed into a fan which had sharp edges and cut the flesh near my right achilles tendon. My grandma flipped out and staunched the bleeding using ash. Worst part? Having to endure another 5 hours before my parents came to send me to the doctor so that the wound could be disinfected and stitched up. All this was performed without anesthetic.

3) I was still on the pacifier at age 7. Once, prior to embarking on a vacation to Malaysia, I couldn't find the pacifier and insisted that it be found before we could leave. After a frantic and long search it was finally recovered. By this time I had become pretty embarrassed at having everyone wait for me, and so hurled it onto the street with all my might so that I would never be bound to such material weaknesses ever again.

4) My father had a habit of first pouring his beer into a chilled mug and then taking a shower. One night my evil brother dared me to take a sip from it. Dad came back to find an empty mug and his 7 year-old son (me!) curled up in a fetal position sleeping soundly.

5) My first exposure to porn came about when I stayed at my uncle's place in Alor Setar, West Malaysia. It was a video tape with a label that read "Superman"...

6) I once caught a relative making out with her boyfriend. They ended up getting married.

7) When I was 12 someone challenged me to do 100 push ups in the school canteen.

8) When I was 16 someone challenged me to do 30 chin ups.

9) They both made themselves scarce just as I was completing the challenges.

10) When mountain biking was all the rage back in the early 90s a childhood friend and I each bought a MTB of the same make and model. One particularly interesting incident had us biking through Macritchie Reservoir and chancing upon some army dudes practicing section movement in military uniforms with camouflage paint, while both of us waited for it to end while wearing day-glo biking gear complete with spandex and helmets. Surreal.

11) The hottest chick back then was Nonie the MTV VJ. Last I heard she married some rich financial dude and is now a tai-tai.

12) My brother drove while I was the navigator for a little excursion over a Memorial Day long weekend. The journey took us all the way to Boston, MA and back. Total distance? About 2400 miles. Over 3 days.

13) My first Mac was an LC3 (aka the "pizza box" enclosure).

14) During college I stayed in an apartment complex which leased out office space to the local Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual club/society. I never saw anyone entering or leaving the place though.

15) There was this hot chick driving a Subaru SVX who stayed on my floor with vanity plates that read "THEW". No, she isn't Cantonese but Thai, and that's her surname. Hint: in Cantonese it is a vulgar term used for describing the act of procreation.

16) The fastest I ever ran for the 2.4 km test was 9'14" after just 2 trials. The motivating words were "long weekend". I now consider it a major achievement to get under 12 minutes. :p

17) The schedule for the last days of Basic Military Training in my company were ridiculous. A whole day of PT followed by swimming test in the evening. Next day was SOC test and 24 km route march. My OC joined us only for the route march and was incapacitated the rest of the week. Reveille the day after was an unheard-of 9 am. :D

18) I had my driver's license revoked due to someone else's brashness and arrogance.

19) I made it through NS without having to sign an extra.

20) I made my first $100,000 at 26.

21) Two of my favorite double-CD albums are Depeche Mode's 101 and The Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness.

22) It took me 2 days to meet the break-in mileage for my Evo 7.

23) The fastest I ever drove was 280 km/h in a friend's car. There were 2 more gears to go but we decided discretion was the better part of valor and backed off.

24) I survived a number of car accidents but a particularly scary one had me flying over a bump on the road on a rainy night, crashing into the barriers at 140 km/h and walking away with a minor cut on the back of my head. My passengers were shaken up but mostly unharmed, fortunately. Thenceforth I resolved to keep my antics to a safe environment.