Eight Little Known Facts/Habits About Me

I was tagged by Casandra and I'm supposed to do this '8 Little Known Facts/Habits About Me' post. However, I'm not going to tag anyone else.

1. I have tinnitus. Yea, I hear a ringing sound in my ear.

2. I once crashed into a taxi. I was running and looking towards the other side of the road and it got in my way. I was still standing but with blood on my arms and hands. You should've seen the taxi, totaled one door and smashed the window. The doctor stitched me up with no anesthetic, cuz he said "it would be cheaper".

3. When I was young I often wondered if my life was an alien experiment and the world was just a large lab to study me. This would explain why certain people look like certain people because only a few aliens were in charge of this experiment and they would just variate little features of their complexion to look different. Didn't fool me.

4. I lived in Johor Bahru for 3 years in my pre-teen years. I've seen the Singapore zoo a few times and we often went down South to amass toys. The exchange rate at the time was about RM 1.50 to SGD 1. Sniff, the glory days.

5. My first crush was in kindergarten. She was in the same bus as me and sat next to me once. I kissed her on the cheek and she was probably shocked and sat somewhere else. Don't worry, I was 5 at the time. If only I had that same reckless courage now.

6. When I was 14, I had a habit of going to Atria just for the fun of it. It was a proper Department Store back in the 90s. A man claiming to be a Psychiatrist wanted me to follow him because he wanted to study "children's sexual behaviour". I was alone having either biked or walked there, I can't remember but I told him, "sorry, my mom's waiting for me" and promptly scooted. People who say life is more dangerous now don't really know what they're talking about.

7. In my professional life I have been a Data Entry Clerk, Store Clerk, Programmer, Database Administrator and Consultant. I am now a Student Counsellor but that's also now been changed to Consultant.

8. In my teens, I used to go to Lareina's house to watch TV. Lame excuse and long story, anyway her father is in the army (Captain or something I dunno but I like to refer to him as 'the Colonel') and he came home once and we were alone watching TV at her house. In shock she convinced me to hide in the toilet and she gave me a pot, for protection just in case. The fact that I'm alive and typing this bears testimony that 'the Colonel' didn't find me and kill my ass. Fin.