The One About Inori

Gee.

I was tagged by Salihan to do a this. Uhhh..I spent quite a lot of time thinking about 7 things to write about myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve been thinking for days……. Hmmmmm….

Seven things about me:

1. I don’t celebrate christmas. Yes, I am a Christian. But christmas, contrary to popular belief, has got nothing to with Christ. Rather, it has everything to do with paganism, 25 Dec being the birthday of almost every pagan god ever invented. Also, there is absolutely nothing written about celebrating the birth of Jesus in the Bible.   Christ said to remember his death and resurrection but He never did tell us to party, get drunk, get laid, buy presents etc on his birthday. He was not born in December either. If He were, the shepherds minding their sheep in the night would be foolish people – their sheep would have become frozen lamb. And Herod would have been a very foolish ruler – to send the people traveling back to their hometowns for the census would have defeated the purpose since most of them would have froze to death on their way home. I love Jesus and God every single day. Not just on 25 December. I give gifts to my family members and friends for no reason (just ask them!) and I love them every single day, not just on their birthdays, valentine’s day, mother/father’s day etc. It’s just a whole load of BS and the only ones that benefit from all these are greedy money minded merchants. And no, no easter for me either.
2. My favorite subject is Math. I’ve always scored A1 for Math except for my O’levels which I shockingly got an A2 for. I still think that there is a mix up in the papers or the marker is cock-eyed. Hahaha.
3. I love all animals and I can be in the same room with most insects, EXCEPT FOR THE DAMNED COCKROACH. I HATE COCKROACHES AND AM SCARED TO DEATH OF THEM AND WHOEVER DARES TO SCARE ME WITH COCKROACHES WILL MEET WITH MY FURY FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS TO COME! Consider yourself warned. And because I’m afraid of them, the only way I can ever kill cockroaches is by spraying insecticide or hairspray/fabric starch (it stiffens their legs and they will be immobilised!)
4. I can speak English, a little Mandarin and a smattering of Japanese. I went to school learning English and Chinese (which I hated and promptly returned most of it to my teachers) and I have a JLPT3 (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) certificate. I want to go on to do JLPT2. Hope I can do that soon.
5. Damn… I’m only up to number 5??? Err…. I am hopeless in the kitchen. I can’t cook well. Luckily my husband cooks yummilicious food! When I’m alone, I’d rather eat instant noodles, chocolates, chips, fast-food etc.
6. I like challenges in the things that I enjoy doing. This is why my first ever knitting project was a pair of booties which required increasing and decreasing and yarn overs etc instead of a plain scarf. I started my first garter stitch baby cardigan soon after and I got so bored of it I wanted to rip it into a million pieces. When I was younger, my tutor would give me math homework and I would skip the easy stuff, writing “Don’t know how to do” or “Don’t understand” in the spaces but I would attempt the challenging questions at the back and get correct answers. Tutor spoke with my mom and I got a huge scolding for being lazy afterwards!
7. Last one! Okay… I aspire to be a vet. I would love to work in the ER (Emergency Room) department. As I said in point 6, I love to be on my toes. So working as a GP vet doesn’t really appeal to me. I like the adrenaline rush as I save animals from near-death. I also do not advocate euthanasia. I feel the matter of life and death should be in God’s hands. It pains us to see a dear pet suffering, I know. But why don’t more people put to sleep their own friends or relatives when they are in the last stages of cancer? Controversial? Totally. Just because we are superior to an animal gives us the right to ‘decide’ on behalf of God? (I did not say ‘decide on behalf of the animal’. I said ‘decide on behalf of God’.) I do realise that working in ER, I would see many animals being put to sleep due to owners having not enough money, not enough faith, or simply are bastards. This is something I have yet to come to terms with and I hope as I grow in my faith, God would speak to me on handling such situations.

Hmm.. I guess these 7 points would allow my readers (I check my blog stats.. there’s a WHOLE LOT of silent readers out there yo!) to know me a tad better since I seldom ever discuss my innermost feelings in public. I don’t think many know the nature of my work nor know that I do not celebrate xmas.

Don’t be misunderstood. This is all of my own choice and this is my life. I do not force anyone to stop celebrating xmas neither do I force anyone not to put their pets to sleep. I am not trying to influence anybody nor am I trying to pick a quarrel or fight with anyone.

Now for another headache… tagging other people! ARRGHHH.

SE7EN PEOPLE I’M TAGGING:

1. Sasha at knit nutt(Duh, who else can be my first victim? Hehehehehehe!)
2. Lisa at Lushorama’s Knitorama
   
3. Karene at O you of little faith
4. Shazzy at musin’s, bitchin’s, knittin’s and general crap
   
5. CJ at i’m gay. you deal with it.
6. Michelle at Momo4ever (Hi, I know you don’t even know me, but yeah I do read your blog from time to time and since I’ve run out of people to tag, you are tagged. Heeee heee hee)
7. Helen at knittinginperth

Gees!!!! That took me even longer to come up with than the 7 things about meself!!!!!!! Most of my friends either don’t blog, or have blogs not accessible to public. Gargh.
THE RULES:

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.