Being sick is no fun. Sleeping like a pig. And watching backdated episodes of Prison break, Gilmore Girls and Grey’s Anatomy. Prison Break is just soooo addictive and have I goo-gooo-ga-gaed enough about Wentworth Miller? His name sucks but he is soooooo cute. *wanders off to dreamland*…

One line was just hilarious rom PB:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

……….

Hilarious!!!

Anyway, got this off Raji’s blog. Clearly, I’m bored out of my mind.

I have parents who love me
I have friends
I have faith
I have lived
I have had a wonderful childhood

Before I’m 20, NA
Before I’m 25, I want to do what I want to do.
Before I’m 30, I want to get married and do what I want to do.
Before I’m 50, I want to travel the world and do what I want to do.
Before I’m 80, I want to die peacefully.

Family is foremost
Friends are necessary
Marriage is sacred
Failure is unacceptable
Success is most important

Money is vital
Talk is cheap but good
Thought is important
Time is invaluable
Happiness is unguaranteed

Meme tag from Lalitha

Johnny Ringo’s Nine-Layer Cake: A Meme To Peel Away the Layers of You

LAYER ONE:

Name: Jo
Birth date: Cancerian
Birthplace: India
Current Location: Singapore
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown with highlights
Righty or Lefty: Righty
Zodiac Sign: Cancer

LAYER TWO:

Your heritage: Indian
The shoes you wore today: Heels, of course
Your weakness: If I tell you, I’ll have to kill you
Your fears: I’ll have to kill you too
Your perfect pizza: Chicken Supreme, Italian style
Goal you’d like to achieve: Go to Yale like Rory, only I want to do Law

LAYER THREE:
Your most overused phrase on AIM: lol
Your first waking thoughts: Why didn’t the damn alarm clock go off? I’m late…once again
Your best physical feature: Lashes I guess, everyone just raves about them (prob cos they can’t find anything else to compliment me on)
Your most missed memory: childhood and roaming the world with my parents

LAYER FOUR:

Pepsi or Coke: what kind of question is this. OBVIOUSLY coke
McDonald’s or Burger King: McDonald’s I guess. Burger King is so beefy, ugh!
Single or group dates: Single
Adidas or Nike: OBVIOUSLY Adidas
Lipton Iced Tea or Nestea: Neither. If it’s tea, pls can I have masala chai.
Chocolate or vanilla: OBVIOUSLY chocolate
Cappuccino or coffee: Neither….I get my caffeine dose from coke

LAYER FIVE: (Do/Did you…)

Smoke: Nope.
Curse: Yea but I usually censor them with harmless words like *fish* or *toot*.
Sing: yeah…
Think you’ve been in love: maybe
Want to go to college: yeah
Like high school: ya
Want to get married: ya
Believe in yourself: yes!
Get motion sickness: yeah
Think you’re attractive: I know it’s cliche but beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder
Think you’re a health freak: no but my friends do… it’s just that I find fried food utterly gross, red meat nauseating and it’s unsightly if I don’t see greens among my food.
Get along with your parent(s): yes
Like thunderstorms: nah
Play an instrument: I’m completely tone deaf

LAYER SIX: (In the past month, have you…)

Had alcohol: Duh
Smoked: No.
Done a drug: No
Made Out: ya
Gone on a date: ya
Gone to the mall: ya
Eaten an entire box of Oreos: No
Eaten sushi: yeah of course
Been on stage: hello, I used to be a competitve debator and a public speaker ok.
Been dumped: Ya
Gone skating: Ya
Made homemade cookies: Sorry, I only go to the kitchen to eat
Gone skinny dipping: No
Dyed your hair: Ya
Stolen Anything: no.

LAYER SEVEN: (Have you ever…)

Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: Once
Been called a tease: No
Gotten beat up: No
Shoplifted: no
Changed who you were to fit in: Ya, and I’m not ashamed of it. When you’re in Rome, do like the Romans do.

LAYER EIGHT:

Age you are hoping to be married: 25
Numbers and Names of Children: 2 - One boy: Arjun and One girl - Sonja/Nishita
Describe your Dream Wedding: I don’t think I have a choice on this one and I’m quite comfortable with letting my parents handle it
How do you want to die: In mid-air
Where you want to go to college: Yale Law School
What do you want to be when you grow up: Lawyer someday
What country would you most like to visit: Bhutan

LAYER NINE:

Number of drugs taken illegally: none
Number of people I could trust with my life: myself?
Number of CDs that I own: no idea. one whole box full
Number of piercings: 3 current ones,
Number of tattoos: none
Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper: 5 times i think.
Number of scars on my body: few
Number of things in my past that I regret: some but I’ld like to forget them and live a life without regrets

I’m gonna tag everyone on my blogroll for this meme. Have fun!

I am thinking
about all the places I want to see in Washington, California, Canada and Tokyo. I just cannot wait till next month.

I said
how unpredictable life can be…

I want
a job that I enjoy and love.

I wish
for the best in life.

I miss 
roaming the world with my parents when I was young.

I hear
music [Fonzerelli - Moonlight Party]

I wonder
what would life have been if I had made different choices

I regret
that I didn’t make more friends during undergrad days

I am
Jo

I dance
different. ha ha. laugh all u want.

I sing
in the bathroom. I can’t sing actually. And the walls being thin don’t help.

I cry
rarely. I’m a cancerian for a very good reason; very tough shells.

I am not
forgiving

I write
always. I can’t imagine a life without writing - the one thing I love so much.

I confuse
myself with the myriad of choices and thoughts.

I need
sleep

I should 
exercise

I finish
watching "Wall Street" for the millionth time. Okay, I’m exagerrating but I really lost count.

I tag
All on my blogroll:
Ida, Sam, Wahyu, Ratna, Aisha, Rachel, Raji, Dayanna etc etc…

Have a great weekend!

I love travelling. Can’t wait for the holidays. (What hols?!)

I don’t understand why and how I can do some things sometimes. 

I lose stuff in my own room! 

People say I’m easy to get along with and fun to be around. Though the first impressions most people have of me is usually snob but I don’t make any excuse for that. My well known mantra, as you should know by now, is "it’s better to be a snob than to be a hypocrite".

Love is something everyone has, cos’ someone in this world loves you a lot.

Somewhere, someone is thinking about me! I’m so egoistic I know.

I will always treasure my friends, family and the people that are important to me.

Forever is an illusion.

I never want to die without all my goals and wishes unfulfilled.

I think the current US President is getting what he deserves.

When I wake up in the morning I’m still dreaming and wish I can go back to sleep and finish my dream.

My past was very interesting. Worth remembering from time to time.

I get annoyed when kids scream. Bloody irritating.

Parties are for me me me!

My dog is non-existent. Not a fan of animals.

My cat is also non-existent. Same reason as the last one.

Kisses are the best when it’s with the lovely boyfriend.

Tomorrow I’ll be studying. Hopefully.

I really want to be successful and make lots and lots of money.

I have low tolerance for people who are hypocrites. I’m talking about all those retards who claim and behave as if they’re sooooo nice and then they backstab everyone quietly but surely. I hate "nice hypocrites".

I will tag everyone on my blogroll, including Ida, Sam, Raji, Wahyu, Ratna, Aisha, Rachel, Sines, Lalitha, etc etc.

1. How sometimes you plan and plan and plan and you get so frustrated how things don’t work out and one fine day, it actually does work out without you even intending for it to work out anymore. Like how my initial summer plans to go to US were dashed a long time back and now are confirmed. I’m going to be in California/Washington for 2 whole months. And the best part is that I don’t have to worry about being financially strapped. SUPER excited!

2. How sometimes we can take so many things for granted. I used to think I didn’t have to worry about not having a job after I graduate but now I’m not so sure. Let’s just say it’s hanging in the air because of certain other things I wish to pursue over the next few months. I’m awaiting a response from the firm if they would be so kind as to accomodate my changing needs - or else I’ll soon be jobless. Crikey! So now I’m back to the flurry of job applications and sending out resumes, just to be on the safe side.

3. How you can read people’s blogs discreetly and (sort of) know them in real life. How weird it is to pass them by and feel downright strange because you know more about them than you were meant to. EVEN if their blogs are not personal. Yet, you can’t tell them because you don’t really know them and you just happened to have stumbled across their blogs. It isn’t really your fault right?

4. How quickly alcohol can be your friend and how much faster it can be dumped. Was in a foul mood because I was upset about something which I misunderstood (and because I couldn’t study) so I went with Bab to Boat Quay to down some Hoegardens. Bab has started to call them "whoregardens", albeit affectionately, since they’ve been featuring so often lately. YET once I found out that I had misread the whole situation and that I had been wrong about it all, I went right back home, still quite sober, and managed to study. Hah! How much more ironic can you get?

5. How quickly I get addicted to things online. I’m like a virtual spongecloth for all fads. I can never seem to pry myself away from the fads and the dumbest thing is that they’re usually virtual. I’m beginning to turn into a geek. Yikes. I wanted to be a nerd. Not a geek!

6. Last but not least, how some things are just NOT meant to be. I should now just give up dreaming and thinking about all the things I desire. If it’s meant to be, it shall. I shouldn’t mess with fate or it’ll bite me with vengeance. And everytime I try to twist and turn events around, I lose control of it alll. YET, when I just let things be as they are, they turn out to be perfectly fine. So there - that’s my new goal - DO NOTHING!

Get to know yourself better

Sometimes I wake up with a feeling. A bad feeling about something that may or may not happen that day. And whenever I have that feeling, it usually goes that bad way. Sigh. I don’t like having such feelings because the reoccurences of that feeling point towards a sign for me and that lowers my confidence level going into that dreaded event. Well today was one of those days. I can’t really control that feeling. It’s like if I have that feeling I just bomb whatever I have to do and if I don’t, I really excel. Oh well, I can just hope and pray that I didn’t exactly bomb today’s one. That was in the morning.

In the afternoon, well I took part in one of those experiments you get paid for. Yes, I’m a cheapo who’s got nothing better to do with my time but hey, look who’s getting the moolah! I like taking part in these research experiments or whatever you call them. The benefits seem to be getting better and better each time. Once upon a time, I took part in them only because I would be interested in them, such as personality and communication experiments. These days, I still limit myself to these research interests but I get enticed more easily. Today’s one was good. It boasted interaction with counterparts with college kids in another country and lovely food and drinks, on top of monetary remuneration.

Yet I was unhappy about bombing the morning episode. So I went with Bab to down some Hoegardens. I don’t like beer very much but the taste of apparent/looming failure is very much harder for me to swallow. I must remind myself that failure is just part and parcel of life. But I really wish it weren’t.

Tagged by Deb. Dearie, can you pls fix your RSS feeds thingy? I can’t seem to add you to my blogroll.

1. What time did you get up this morning?
Close to noon. Hey, sundays are meant for sleeping in. 

2. Diamonds or pearls?
Diamonds (are a girl’s best friend)

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
Munich

4. What’s your favorite TV show?
Grey’s Anatomy

5. What did you have for breakfast this morning?
none. lunch straight-away

6. What’s your favorite cuisine?
Indian

7. What foods do you dislike?
Gross stuff (to me) like octopus or monkey’s brain or something

8. What is your favorite chip flavor?
BBQ 

9. What’s your favorite CD at the moment?
Er…I prefer customizing my CDs 

10. What kind of car do you drive?
Mitsubishi Lancer 

11. Favorite sandwich?
Don’t eat sandwiches. I think the last time I ate one was in europe.

12. What characteristics do you despise?
hypocrisy by people who think they’re NICE.

13. What is your favorite type of clothing?
I like frilly skirts but don’t wear them often…too inconvenient. 

14. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation.
Where?
Germany of course 

15. What color is your bathroom?
I think it’s off-white. 

16. Favorite brand of clothing?
Mango…duh 

17. Where would you retire to?
India

18. Favorite time of the day?
Between 11pm and 1am.

19. What was your most memorable birthday?
I don’t know. I don’t have a fav. They seem to be the same anyway.

20. Where were you born?
Some village in India. 

21. Favorite sport to watch?
Football. (Soccer)

22. Who do you least expect to send this back to you?
*shrug*

23. Person you expect to send it back first?
Again *shrug*

24. What fabric detergent do you use?
Dynamo?

25. Were you named after anyone?
No. My real name means "moonlight" in my language.

26. Do you wish on stars?
no 

27. When did you last cry?
When I left Germany.

28. Do you like your handwriting?
Depends. I change my handwriting according to my mood, unconsciously. 

29. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you?
I think so.

30. Are you a daredevil?
Physically? yeah. Emotionally? hell NO.

31. Do looks matter?
Yes they matter but they’re not the be all end all.

32. How do you release anger?
Nothing. 

34. What were your favorite toys as a child?
No fav. 

35. What class in High School was totally useless?
Music. I’m bloody tone-deaf.

37 Favorite movies?
Beautiful life, Matrix, 10 things I hate about you, The Island, Munich, Dude where’s my car, Joan of Arc, Veer Zaara, Swades 

38. What are your nicknames?
Shorty.

39. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
I rarely wear those with laces, usually wear heels. When I do, I don’t untie them.

40. Do you think that you are strong?
Nah.

41. What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?
Chocolate with marshmallows and almonds 

42. What are your favorite colors?
Blue and white 

43. What is your least favorite thing about yourself?
Moody.

44. Who do you miss the most?
My grandpa. 

45. Do you want everyone you sent this to, to send it back to you?
send?

46 What color pants are you wearing?
wearing shorts, surfer shorts. 

47. Last thing you ate?
dinner. Indian stuff.

48. Favorite song?
too many.

49. If you were a CRAYON what color would you be?
white. never used. 

50. Last person you talked to on the phone?
can’t remember. I rarely use my phone. most people deem my phone to be useless.

51. What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
physique

52. Favorite drink?
Coke.

53. Do you wear contacts?
yes.

54. Favorite day of the year?
December days. after exams!

55. Endings happy or sad?
happy ending. i wish.

56. Winter/summer?
winter. I wanna see one! 

57. Hugs OR Kisses?
Hugs.

58 What is Your Favorite Dessert?
Ice cream. 

59. What Book(s) are you reading?
some accnting crap.

60. What is on your mouse pad?
Dad’s company mousepad.

61. What Did You Watch Last night on TV?
A little bit of Pearl Harbor.

62. Favorite Smells?
YSL/Issey Miyake

63. Stones or Beatles?
neither. not a fan. 

64. What’s the furthest you’ve been from home?
I think by distance it would be U.K.

Thirteen Things about Jo I prefer sunsets to sunrises. I suffer from bad withdrawal symptons if I don’t drink coke. I’m obsessed about making money. I had a dot-com that didn’t crash. I’m a typical cancerian - so emo. I’m obsessed about the moon and moonlight. I’m obsessed about a lot of things actually. I do not believe in "true love". I’m freakin’ superstitious. I daydream too much. I love my name. I love the phrase, "love thy motherland". I have a spice girls album (gasp!). Links to other Thursday Thirteens! Nicole Ocean Lady (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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