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Saturday, September 17, 2005
The power of se7en
Was "arrowed" by tempestblue to this... i took the liberty to add/remove certain categories...

7 things that scare me...
1. Any letters from CMPB (Nothing good ever comes out from them)
2. Babies/Children (Can't stand them.. but somehow they always like to gather around me)
3. Talk to people i do not know (i'm a very introvert-extrovert, or a extrovert-introvert.. still haven't decide which one is more accurate)
4. People asking me about the storyline for Lord Of The Rings (heng the movies finally completed...)
5. Presentations, presentations, and presentations (Jerry Seinfeld has this joke about people rather be the dead guy than to be the person on stage talking about the dead fella.. i totally agree)
6. Listen to all the music i have (Dont know where to start..... 8)
7. NO INTERNET!!

# 7 things that I like most...
1. My Parents
2. My Wife
3. Tony & Tracy
4. Doing my own stuffs
5. My Ringer-Tees (tee-shirts)
6. My Creative Zen NX mp3 player (who needs those white thingies anyway)
7. Work that i enjoy (which will no longer be work... it's been a while since i felt that way though)

# 7 important things in my room...
1. My wife
2. My bed
3. My mp3 player
4. My pillows
5. My Shinchan blanket (Thank you all!)
6. My Fan/Heater (depending on the seasons lah)
7. My inhaler (just in case i need to use it)

# 7 random facts about me...
1. I'm naturally left-handed, left-legged, but was forced to be right-handed. However, i used my left leg as my primary leg when playing football.
2. I don't eat vegetables, if i can avoid it.
3. I like to suddenly close myself off to everything.
4. I was interviewed a few times on TV for BBs/Internet stuffs in its early years
5. I can't stand silence... i hear piercing buzzes when it's silent.
6. I have constantly varying interests.. and can get quite intense into a single subject before i get bored eventually.
7. I am good at rating people with our first encounters.. if i dont like the person the first time, i dont like the person. <- fullstop

# 7 things I plan to do before I die...
1. Visit AngKor Wat or Machu Picchu
2. Figuring out why Nintendo games are so much fun
3. Listen to Cavalleria Rusticana (an opera by Pietro Mascagni)
4. Forgive someone (not my aunt though)
5. Read Don Knuth's The Art Of Computer Programming series
6. Become an ex-Singaporean
7. Strike lottery (who dont want this?

# 7 things I can do...
1. Hate people for life (e.g. my aunt)
2. Ignore people
3. Read on a single subject non-stop till i've ran out of resources to research on
4. Remember songs and lyrics
5. Ignore people totally
6. Direct and straightforward in my interactions
7. Sense obstacles without seeing them..

# 7 things I can't do...
1. Relate to authority figures (dunno how i survive my NS life)
2. Be the life of the party (i'm usually the buddy to the life of the parties)
3. Be more considerate (the most common feedback hehe)
4. Talk to people that i dont know/like/bother
5. Tolerate incompetent people
6. Stand next to my aunt! hehe.
7. Sleep early (i'm still a 4am-no-lifer *anyone still remember that?)

# 7 things I (used to) say the most… (however here no one understand lah)
1. Mai Tu Liao (MTL)
2. Hor Say Bor
3. GNN (Dont even ask)
4. CPE (hehee... this one is company insider joke)
5. Root cause analysis (hehee... this one also company insider joke)
6. Siao Eh!
7. GNNBCCBCBPHKG (this in my secondary school rebellious days)

# 7 things I say the most here …
1. What service?
2. Hey Dude!
3. Gosh! (nod to Napoleon Dynamite)
4. Howsitgoing?
5. Not my area/business/subject-matter
6. No. No. Which part of No dont you understand? No.
7. GNNBCCBCBPHKG (hehe.. since no one here understands!)

# 7 idols (dunno who i crushed on)…
1. Arnold Schwarzenegger
2. The Beatles (4 i know.. but the sum is more than the individuals)
3. Stephen Chow
4. Bob Dylan
5. DJ Shadow
6. Jimi Hendrix
7. Sam Hui

# 7 fave English movies
1. Lord of The Rings (3 lah...)
2. Kagemusha
3. Raging Bull
4. Ikiru
5. The Godfather (3 also.. but mainly the first 2)
6. Unusual Suspects
7. Dances With Wolves

# 7 fave Cantonese/Chinese movies
1. Infernal Affairs (3 also)
2. Kung-Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
3. Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow)
4. God Of Gamblers (Chow Yun Fatt)
5. A Chinese Odyssey Part 1/2 (Stephen Chow)
6. Prison on Fire (Chow Yun Fatt)
7. The Killer (Chow Yun Fat & Danny Lee)

# 7 fave CDs
1. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back...
2. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
3. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
4. DJ Shadow - Entroducing (2005 version remastered even better)
5. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme or Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue (cant choose between these two)
6. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
7. Beatles (EVERYTHING... but if only one.. i'll choose Revolver)

# 7 more CDs (to bring along)
1. Coldplay - Parachutes
2. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme or Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue (cant choose between these two)
3. Love - Forever Changes
4. The Proclaimers - Sunshine On Leith
5. Beatles - Rubber Soul OR (Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion 2)
6. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
7. Nick Drake - Pink Moon

# 7 non-CD albums (bootlegs/mixes/live/mashups)
1. Kleptones - A Night At The Hip-Hopera (OH MY GOD!)
2. 2 Many DJs - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Vol 1
3. Paul Oakenfold's 1994 Goa Essential Mix
4. DJ Dangermouse - The Grey Album (combining Beatles' White Album with Jay-Z's Black Album)
5. DJ Yoda with Greenpeace - 2003 Essential Mix
6. The Beatles Megamix Der Superstars (this is exceptionally yummy)
7. Fatboy Slim - 2001 Breezeblock

# 7 people I'll love to see doing this... dunno who to arrow
1. Sharon
2. Moodyone
3. Stormash
4. Dews Of Life
5. Coco
6. S4Vtec (if he's ever here)
7. Have Mr Brown done this yet?

comments/complaints/questions, please feel free to do so...
 
posted by Jonathan at 11:30 PM | Permalink |


5 Comments:


At 10:07 PM, Anonymous Anonymous

wah biang! Sibeh long ah! I shall do it by instalments.

 

At 1:40 PM, Blogger sharon

dear grand uncle

due to your old age, you have forgotten to mention things that you do not like.

1) 7.30am meeting.
2) sharon's constant nagging
3) make the bed in the morning
4) household chores
5) cook
6) life*#%* medical insurance
7) taking a shower (i think this is a guy thing. my father hates to take a shower as well)

 

At 4:57 PM, Blogger Jonathan

Really old uncle liao..

somemore got repeated items...

tsk tsk

 

At 7:05 PM, Blogger Tempest Blue

Hehe.. come to think of it, 'No Internet' and 'No phone' would come pretty high on my '7 things that scare me' list

"GNNBCCBCBPHKG" ?? POWER word!!! So powderful even I don't understand the last part "CBPHKG" Sifu, can teach me?? haha

:-)

 

At 12:06 PM, Blogger Cocoregina - for the kids we love

uncle haha...now then i see this blog...really Powderful 7 hehe...