Sep. 17th, 2005 01:13 pm
20 Random Facts Meme
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toastykittenBecause the millions of other things I might be writing are too mean-spirited and vindictive:
1. I became an English major partially as an excuse to buy more books. Little did I know how boring most of those books would actually be. My particular hatred went out to professors who assigned their own books, and pleaded with us to "buy new" so they wouldn't go out of print. I was particularly gratified to find one of those books on the $3.50 table one time.
2. The only drug I've tried is alcohol. I am such a lightweight that half a margarita will get me pretty wasted. I never really liked the smell of pot or cigarettes, and find it baffling why people still do it.
3. Some of the questions I got asked when I first started dating Mark was, "Does he wear a turban?" "Does he wear a beard?" The most common response among my family was, "Wow, he doesn't look Arab!"
4. The furthest I've been away from home is Toronto, Canada. I hated Toronto, because my sisters insisted on visiting the Chinatown there, and the Chinese people for whatever reason were pretty hostile to us.
5. I remain confused about tips. Do I tip people who open the door for me? Who clean my room? At a buffet? I think the whole system of tipping is fucked up anyway and their employers should pay them an actual wage instead of expecting customers to make it up to them.
6. I feel weirdly guilty at this point in my life because I make enough money to support myself and have some left over to spend as I wish. Seriously, for most of my life, I didn't think I'd be making more than $40k, mostly because I'd never known what that was like. When I was looking for a job after college, my dad suggested that I ask for a lower salary, or that I look for something that would just pay, like waitressing or something. I was like, fuck no.
7. I want to see the whole world. Granted, I have no idea how that's going to happen, but we'll see.
8. When I tell people that I am a Credentialing Coordinator, the most common question that gets asked is, "What's that"? The second question is, "Does that mean you coordinate stuff"?
9. My job has made me even more terrified of the health system, but I don't really have a method of combating it.
10. My college roommates and I used to pick a reality-dating show each quarter to follow. The first one was the Bachelor, second Bachelor 2, then Joe Millionaire, and Joe Millionaire 2 was so bad and awful that I think it finally put me off those shows forever.
11. I am obsessed with the Food Network these days. I like Alton Brown, but I can't stand his show, because it's too damn geeky. I am fascinated by Rachael Ray and her perkiness. I just checked out her new show, Tasty Travels with Rachael Ray, and it's basically $40 a Day without the cash limitation. It's boring. I also love Iron Chef America, which admittedly, cannot live up to the charm of the original. But Jeffrey Steingarten as the fortuneteller critic is hilarious.
12. I have been getting into cooking and baking lately, but I can't budget a week's worth of food practically. I always buy too little or too much, which basically means that I end up having to throw shit out. That pains me a lot, and I make sure not to tell my mom. She'd throw a fit.
13. My family used to go out to dim sum every weekend. My dad, whenever he's at a Chinese restaurant, will try to chat up the cooks and see if he knows them. My parents are very, very social people, and I think it sort of disappoints them that their daughters are so anti-social.
14. When I was in my teens, the way my friends rebelled against their parents was by obtaining boyfriends. This did not work for me because my parents really wanted to see me "get taken care of" and would ask why we didn't want boyfriends.
15. My parents, because they are not very educated, didn't even know what the SAT was. So I didn't get a lot of the stereotypical pressure that other Asians get, and I did well in school, but didn't do as well as I should have, because I was lazy. As long as I didn't get any Cs, I was happy.
16. I cried anyway when I got my first SAT scores, and had to sit around people going, "Oh, I only got a 1300" blah blah.
17. You would think, that having to share a bedroom with four other girls would result in a nightmare of clothes, makeup, and bathroom time. We are not particularly interested in that stuff, so it wasn't much of a hassle.
18. My friends used to be able to sing any of Disney's songs.
19. I really like Hong Kong martial arts movies, no matter how ridiculous they get. I reached my limit with Shaolin Soccer, though. Maybe Kung Fu Hustle will be more to my taste.
20. You know how in ganster/martial arts/action hero movies, there's always a scene where the good guy finally gets the best of the bad guy and has the knife/gun at the neck? And then the bad guy says something like, "Go ahead, kill me" and the good guy changes his mind and walks away? I've always wanted to see a movie where the good guy just says, "Fine" and kills him, instead of letting him be killed by somebody or something else.
1. I became an English major partially as an excuse to buy more books. Little did I know how boring most of those books would actually be. My particular hatred went out to professors who assigned their own books, and pleaded with us to "buy new" so they wouldn't go out of print. I was particularly gratified to find one of those books on the $3.50 table one time.
2. The only drug I've tried is alcohol. I am such a lightweight that half a margarita will get me pretty wasted. I never really liked the smell of pot or cigarettes, and find it baffling why people still do it.
3. Some of the questions I got asked when I first started dating Mark was, "Does he wear a turban?" "Does he wear a beard?" The most common response among my family was, "Wow, he doesn't look Arab!"
4. The furthest I've been away from home is Toronto, Canada. I hated Toronto, because my sisters insisted on visiting the Chinatown there, and the Chinese people for whatever reason were pretty hostile to us.
5. I remain confused about tips. Do I tip people who open the door for me? Who clean my room? At a buffet? I think the whole system of tipping is fucked up anyway and their employers should pay them an actual wage instead of expecting customers to make it up to them.
6. I feel weirdly guilty at this point in my life because I make enough money to support myself and have some left over to spend as I wish. Seriously, for most of my life, I didn't think I'd be making more than $40k, mostly because I'd never known what that was like. When I was looking for a job after college, my dad suggested that I ask for a lower salary, or that I look for something that would just pay, like waitressing or something. I was like, fuck no.
7. I want to see the whole world. Granted, I have no idea how that's going to happen, but we'll see.
8. When I tell people that I am a Credentialing Coordinator, the most common question that gets asked is, "What's that"? The second question is, "Does that mean you coordinate stuff"?
9. My job has made me even more terrified of the health system, but I don't really have a method of combating it.
10. My college roommates and I used to pick a reality-dating show each quarter to follow. The first one was the Bachelor, second Bachelor 2, then Joe Millionaire, and Joe Millionaire 2 was so bad and awful that I think it finally put me off those shows forever.
11. I am obsessed with the Food Network these days. I like Alton Brown, but I can't stand his show, because it's too damn geeky. I am fascinated by Rachael Ray and her perkiness. I just checked out her new show, Tasty Travels with Rachael Ray, and it's basically $40 a Day without the cash limitation. It's boring. I also love Iron Chef America, which admittedly, cannot live up to the charm of the original. But Jeffrey Steingarten as the fortuneteller critic is hilarious.
12. I have been getting into cooking and baking lately, but I can't budget a week's worth of food practically. I always buy too little or too much, which basically means that I end up having to throw shit out. That pains me a lot, and I make sure not to tell my mom. She'd throw a fit.
13. My family used to go out to dim sum every weekend. My dad, whenever he's at a Chinese restaurant, will try to chat up the cooks and see if he knows them. My parents are very, very social people, and I think it sort of disappoints them that their daughters are so anti-social.
14. When I was in my teens, the way my friends rebelled against their parents was by obtaining boyfriends. This did not work for me because my parents really wanted to see me "get taken care of" and would ask why we didn't want boyfriends.
15. My parents, because they are not very educated, didn't even know what the SAT was. So I didn't get a lot of the stereotypical pressure that other Asians get, and I did well in school, but didn't do as well as I should have, because I was lazy. As long as I didn't get any Cs, I was happy.
16. I cried anyway when I got my first SAT scores, and had to sit around people going, "Oh, I only got a 1300" blah blah.
17. You would think, that having to share a bedroom with four other girls would result in a nightmare of clothes, makeup, and bathroom time. We are not particularly interested in that stuff, so it wasn't much of a hassle.
18. My friends used to be able to sing any of Disney's songs.
19. I really like Hong Kong martial arts movies, no matter how ridiculous they get. I reached my limit with Shaolin Soccer, though. Maybe Kung Fu Hustle will be more to my taste.
20. You know how in ganster/martial arts/action hero movies, there's always a scene where the good guy finally gets the best of the bad guy and has the knife/gun at the neck? And then the bad guy says something like, "Go ahead, kill me" and the good guy changes his mind and walks away? I've always wanted to see a movie where the good guy just says, "Fine" and kills him, instead of letting him be killed by somebody or something else.
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