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Aiyoh! Super overdue liaoz... was tagged by Emay ages ago but only get to blog about it now... Okie, here goes a few little known facts about myself...

Rules of the game:

1. Each player of this game starts off with ten weird things or habits or little known facts about yourself.
2. People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little known facts as well as state this rule clearly.
3. At the end you must choose six people to be tagged and list their names.
4. No tagbacks!

Ten Little Known Facts about Me

1. I do not know how to burp... (don't laugh!)
   
   
2. I had the embarrassing experience of eating with a group of friends (we were all in office wear) only to later realise that none of us have enough money to pay. We had to, in the end, dig out all our coins while the waiter waited at the side... how embarrassing!
   
   
3. During my social work attachment, I had the opportunity to sit in the cornor's court to read case files on suicide. We would sit at one side of the court to read the case files and sometimes, there were even court proceedings while we sat there to read. At one point, we even became adventurous and decided to have a look at the suicide photos in the case files (boy was that a stupid choice... ended up being quite traumatised by it for some time)
   
   
4. Was stopped by police who suspected me for wanting to steal cars, on the day I went to collect my "A" levels results... Was making my way back to college with a few NS friends. Halfway there, they wanted to smoke. But because they were in NS uniform, they did not want to get in trouble with the military police, so they went to a corner of a multistorey carpark to smoke. Accompanied them but when they saw a police car coming, they took flight, leaving me "blur blur" standing there... no wonder the police suspected I was trying to steal a car... Totally ruined my day but was quite an experience :) The police informed my NS commanding officer but thank God my commanding officer trusted me and told them... "if I put a pen in front of codfishy, he would not even dare to take it! (laughed)"... well made me sound like I am a scaredy cat but thank God he trusted me or I will be in deep trouble in NS. Also remember worrying for a few days if I would have a record with the police.
   
   
5. Had the opportunity to go into prison... to teach IT
   
   
6. Had the opportunity to stand beside president Nathan and I think, the then manpower minister, to demonstrate how to use a handphone camera and mms (when handphone cameras and mms first came out)
   
   
7. During another attachment, had an experience standing in front of an upset person who was holding a scissors and who was about to attack someone with it... the whole ordeal lasted for almost an hour with the psychologists trying to calm him down from the side while me and another person pinned his hands down... I later tried to calm him down by doing deep breathing exercise with him. Thank God he eventually calmed down. I didn't know what came over me to have the courage to do that but now thinking about it sometimes gives me the shivers. Also did not know how did I get the idea to do deep breathing exercise with him. But thank God that I was "saved" by that incident... had been earlier backstabbed by my fellow attachment student who accused me of stealing her research ideas and this would have greatly affected my attachment grades.
   
   
8. Experienced working in a hospital during SARS and also having one of my patient suspected of having SARS. Thank God he is OK and I am OK. But going around seeing patients in our "battle gear" comprising N95 masks, apron, gloves, disposable caps and coat and having to report location and temperature every two hours was quite an experience
   
   
9. Got stuck in a sand mine during a Geography field trip to Kota Tinggi during my JC time and experienced real bad sun burn with double heating since there was no vegetation... there were rumours going around that it was as hot as 40+ degrees celsius. Sat in a dumpster truck and had to drink the red water (filled with iron ore) from the river when our water ran out.
   
   
10. At one point in time in primary school, I had about 70 nicknames

OK now come to think of it... thank God for quite an interesting life so far...

OK, now who to tag? OK, Doreen, Adam, Hwee Kheng, George, Clement and Trina...you're tagged!