Tagged - Doggone It!!!

I've been tagged by my exasperating daughter, Rachel, who said that the only reason she is tagging me is that I have had nothing to blog about currently.

AWESOME PEOPLE I WOULD WANT TO MEET:

1. Oprah Winfrey
2. Sting
3. Anna Wintour
4. Dr Mahathir
5. John F Kennedy ( but he's dead...)

THINGS I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT:

1. My Job.
2. My Exercise Time.
3. Music & books
4. My family & my dogs (ok!!! they are people but I can't live without them. I would place this as no 1 but I have a brat by my side who is droning on & on like this " Mum, you are supposed to name THINGS LA.... THINGS LA.... THINGS LA....")
5. My mobile.
6. My JAMBAN or a clean JAMBAN whenever I am travelling.

I WISH I COULD:

1. Stop being an anxiety freak & a worry wart.
2. Have more time to spend doing the things I love like : Being with my family, travelling, shopping, reading, catching up with my hobbies etc...
3. Tell people I can't stand to F off and not be so nice (contrary to the bitchy name that follows me around, I am actually quite a failure at being a bitch)
4. Have taken risks and follow my heart when I was younger but then, I would not have had Rachel and giving up what I wanted to do was worth it. ( I will share these secret yearnings with her one day...)
5. Give up my job.

I WANT:

1. To retire in a small village in France.
2. To do social work.
3. To travel and cover the parts of the world I haven't before I am six feet underground.
4. To age gracefully.
5. Rachel to be successful and happy and well loved in life.

SONGS THAT I THINK ARE AWESOME:

(as of this minute, cause it changes, depending on my mood)

1. Hips Don't Lie ( yeah, its corny but am trying to shake my booty like Shakira !)
2. Hundred Years - Five For Fighting
3. Walking on the Milky Way - Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark
4. Ole Devil Called Love - Billie Holiday
5. Everything and Anything by Queen.

HOW I SEE MYSELF IN 10 YEARS:

1. Still active and hopefully more settled.
2. Mellowed down.
3. Still needed by Rachel.
4. Having all the dogs I ever wanted and have the capacity to love.
5. Having all the people that I love still with me.

RANDOM FACTS:

1. I hate durians and durians are forbidden in the house. I absolutely gag if I were to even get a whiff of them five doors away and it doesn't matter if you gargle with Listerine before coming near me, cos I can smell them.
2. I can't do without my poo-poo time each morning. If I can't go, I can't eat or think or function as a sane human being.
3. The only time I am not thinking ( and I think a lot as I am an over analyzing, borderlining obsessive compulsive and the most nit picking perfectionist freako that ever exists) and my mind is totally free and exhilarated is when I am running.
4. I can't stand people who are lazy or stupid or ignorant. I can't stand procastinators or liars. I can't stand people who talks a lot but do nothing. I do not suffer fools lightly and I am absolutely horrified with bad customer service.
5. I am a sucker for all things beautiful , an extreme shopaholic and also a reality TV freak.
6. I am a loner and love being alone but yet the thing I feared the most is being lonely. Is there a difference? Yes, I think so.


MISCONCEPTIONS:

1. I am not a bitch. I just look like a bitch but actually am a softie at heart. However, I do stand up for what I feel is right and is very very frank, outspoken, direct and I do not mince my words when I voice my opinions and that might be misconstrued as bitchiness but I am truly not. Just ask my fan club.
2. I cannot live without shopping. I can. Well for a couple of weeks.. which is a long time.
3. I am a tai-tai that do not have to lift a single finger. I am not... I am actually very domesticated and yes, I can do the laundry, mop the floors.paint the whole house single handedly with Chee Kan and cook and I am pretty darn good at it. Just ask Rachel.
4. My bite is worse than my bark. Actually, I bark a lot but I don't bite!!! ( unless bitten)
5. Just because I am a lady I am a bad driver. Bring it on boys. I am actually a lot better and more skillful than a lot of you male drivers out there.

WHO I WANT TO TAG:

1. My sis ( But she was also tagged by Rachel)
2. Kim ( Slim chance as her blog is pratically haunted)
3. Gary ( If he can get his hands on Internet access up inthe hills of Mizoram)
4. Jason ( you're my best hope of getting any response)
5. My hubby ( in faith , for when he eventually start a blog)

Oh! To be young again

..... Not that I am old, mind you. The forties are, after all , the new twenties. With new technology in cosmetology, and tons of choices of wonderful anti ageing, lifting, peeling, whitening and what-not creams available in the market today, ageing might be a thing of the past. You can literally stop time if you have enough moolah.

Me, however, will prefer to age gracefully. Sure, I do my part of slathering on liberally anti ageing creams every night (only when I remember, actually and if I am not too tired and lazy.. which I am most of the time) and sun screen every morning but I will not succumb to cosmetic surgery and end up with stiff smiles and an unnaturally smooth neck.

I am lucky to have good genes and still look pretty darn good for my age. I have people guessing me to be ten years younger than I actually am( come to think of it.. so does my sis and my mom, who, by the way, is one hot funky grandma). So I guess I have to thank her and probably my estranged dad for it. ( I would propbably get slack from my ferocious sis for thanking him, but hey, all our aunties from dad's side still look darn good for their age).

But there are things, which , despite looking younger than your age, you are no longer able to do. Like :
a) Eating with reckless abandon and not put on a single bit of weight.
b) Never having to exercise to keep the flab away. (I , for one is determined to keep my body as trim as possible , hence, people, please understand my obsession with my strict gym regimen.)
c) Purchasing whatever catches your fancy without minding the dollars & cents. ( Currently, drooling over a Gucci bag but have decided to forgo it, in view of the many things that I need to get for the house, not to mention another five more years of college fees)
d) Not having cellulite.. Damn, these things creep up on you.
e) Partying all night long.
f) Packing your bags and leave home for an adventure/romantic getaway/holidays on a whim.
g) Letting go and having reckless fun without a care in the world.
h) Not being able to thread the needle or read instruction panels without your daughter's help.
i) Having boundless amount of energy to do stuff and not having back aches and fatigue after
having done them.
j) Abandoning your responsibilities as wife, mom, daughter... sometimes... when things gets too overwhelming.

But heck, I wouldn't trade my life now for anything else.