Lists

First things first:

"Trials and Tribulations are a staple of every *********'s life'

- Simon Phua

Emphasis mine.

Yes that's what it is: a staple, not just a part.

Yes, the beauty of words.

Second thing next:

I love making lists. I somehow enjoy sitting down with pen and paper - or with fingers poised over keyboard - and creating a bulleted paragraph of the things I need to do before adding the finishing touches with a title. And I get a thrill out of ticking out the boxes I have drawn next to those bullets. Of course, the best part comes when every single box has been ticked.

The latest list I made was the 'Post-Exams Activities' - an attempt at making my post Year 1 Sem 1 break as productive as possible. And it looked something like this:

Ok so i cheated on the boxes for this one, but I guess I made up for it with the addition of those vertical lines labelled with the numbers 1,2,3 circled. A list within a list. Anyway, the lines were not completely ticked cause I took this picture something like a month back. As of 14th Dec 2008, they are :)

Being the list-maker I am, completing a list warrants nothing else but making another!

So here goes the list of 'Things to squeeze into the 2.5 weeks before Year 1 Sem 2 starts"

• Get vitasoy - I've been ignoring a terrible (but unexplained) craving for this drink and I can't wait to get my hands on a packet. I'll definitely blog about drinking it and (hopefully) get some artistic shots on the way.
• Savour some good laksa - Not just those ordinary ones you get from foodcourts or hawkercentres. Something like. Katong Laksa, or the Alexandra Hill Claypot laksa would suffice.
• Memorize every single alphabet (both hiragana and katakana) of Nihon-Ji - Argh. Its so hard. Maybe characters are not my forte but that just means i have to work harder at it!
• Run at somewhere else other than the Mount Faber route - Its getting boring.

Yay! Another list done.

Now, has my fascination to lists festered into an addiction? Well, a random check in Google shows that I am not alone. Yet, it has also told me that I am in danger of becoming a victim of 'list-making dependence'. The latter's symptoms include:

1. Making lists everyday for everything in the world
2. Referring to the list more than once every hour
3. Essentially forgetting or missings tons of stuff once the list is gone

1,2,3. Eh..whoops.